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...coldest tones she answered...
...girls came down, I resolved on a bold move in the face of the enemy, and asked the fair Miss Ethel if she would go with my detachment, and was bearing her off in triumph when the dragon stopped us with hurried explanations that a cutter-sleigh was the coldest thing in the world, and that Ethel could not bear it; in fine, that she, the Widow Earl, would and should sacrifice herself and ride with...
...abandoned), "but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There was no increased irregularity of attendance at morning exercises, no unusual number of absences, and, in fact, no visible effect upon the other exercises of the College, or upon the order and quiet of the place...