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Unknown to the guards, this Professor himself has but lately been informed by perfection. He has married the littlest, tenderest of sprites who ever sat long hours at an easel before "the souls of old painters who saw God and proclaimed him in terms of Immortal Beauty." The many-crowned Professor has become young, eager, full of pretty and silly courtesies. The stool for her feet, the bunch of far-brought snow-drops Like the lover of Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores...
Leap, the flea, killed Creep, the louse- The monkey that became fastened in a crevice by the tenderest portions of his anatomy, is a more familiar anecdote...
...moose-heads on the wall may take on a sardonic grin, the face of our noted graduate may scowl from the canvas, the dowagers may fall asleep, and the tenderest member of the class become inebriated on the lemonade punch, but the music will not cease, nor the rhythmic footsteps falter. It is a great life. We may become leaders of the world in after years, but only once may we be Juniors at the dance. In later times we shall tell our children and our children's children of the glories of that magnificent ball, when the daughters...
...nature of the game or to any particular fault in the rules we cannot admit. If the game were played according to the spirit and the letter of the rules there would be nothing in it to trouble the most fastidious nature or to excite the tenderest conscience. The difficulty is that umpires have often been willfully or unwilfully blind and partial. They have not fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by the rules. Even allowing for the difficulty of seeing the "slugging," if every man who had been seen "slugging" had been summarily dealt with this present outburst against...
...strange what a warm heart he had, and how he sympathized with the poor and desolate. He never had had any hardship, or any personal sorrow, yet his was the kindest heart and his the tenderest words to the sorrowful. It is the poor who mourn him most of all, and feel that only God is left for them...