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...minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead run in the direction of Harvard street. A half dozen more joined the troop at Weld, and as History 2 was just pouring forth its hosts, at least thirty men went from among them on the same excited...
...autographs had departed from the breasts of the kleptomaniacs. Thus we find the Duke Alexis and a few of his suite occupy a lonely position at the top of a page. The democratic Dom Pedro is relegated to another lonely leaf. These are some of the woes "that troop with majesty...
...Muse's troop regard its worth...
...troop of merry children, who can never dream...
...talked proudly of the Harvard Washington Corps and the Navy, whose flags are long since food for moths, and whose very names are meaningless to us. For aught I know, he might have been an officer in one of these, and led his troop down from their armory in the top of Hollis, or presided at the clam-chowder served up on the annual cruise of the other. He might have been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd...