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...still breaking. More little fels skip in; proctors heard in the distance...
...still breaking. Proctors approaching nearer and nearer; little fels skip out; Old Fel. breathes, and both he and Fast disappear; proctors chant...
...bound to say were very good, to the theories of good-fellowship which happen to be popular among a certain class of people in Cambridge. So I am going to relieve myself by a lecture on manners, which you had better read if you think you need it, and skip...
...MILTON."SKIP the poetry." Chum's eyes were weak, after the midyear grind, and I was reading the Crimson to him as he sat, with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion...
...these I had waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...