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...very competent judge) say that the Devil lurked behind the scenes. Percy had no desire to encounter that gentleman prematurely, and stayed away. Billiard-rooms and Carl's were anathema maranatha, and he refused to go to athletic meetings, because he had heard that the horrid sin of betting was prevalent at them. He frequently lectured his classmates on their immorality, and even wrote of their wickedness to the Herald. But, instead of being looked up to as "a superior young man," he was shunned by his fellows, and even the Cambridge ladies could not stand him. They said...
...Soliloquizing.)Yes, 't is a horrid thing, that wretched bell...
Miss Flyrte. - Dear me, no! I don't know anything about horrid old scaly triangles. You know I never remember the hateful old things...
Miss Gusher. - Oh, what very quite too awfully awful dresses those poor creatures used to wear! Such guys as they must have looked! Just fancy me, Professor, with a nasty, horrid, old tunica on, and the most dreadful-looking sleeves, and a palla hanging down over my l-limbs, - why, I should be a perfect fright! And, O Professor! don't you think the girls' stockings must have been...
...WHAT horrid dream is this I have...