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...strayed too far, alas! and found myself, not as I had supposed, within call of the mansion, but in unknown, unexplored forest depths. I called, but I could elicit no response. In dumb despair I hurried through unfamiliar paths, hoping to regain the clearing. In vain! Fate had ordained otherwise. Weary, helpless, I abandoned myself to my tears, and they did not desert me. I wept until I remembered that crying injured the complexion, and then I sat upright and looked about me. The sun was sinking in the west; my heart was sinking in my breast. (There! I never...
...have been devoured. It was a man's voice; and, so great was my presence of mind, even in these adverse circumstances, that I thought how decollete I must look, for the creature had sadly torn my garments and had split open one of my boots. I tried in vain to rise...
Shipkins had taken a "warning" without a quaim; he had unflinchingly forced questionable petitions through the "Registerium;" but when he encountered his angered charmer after the sports, his utmost fortitude failed him. He tried to make amends for his conduct, but tried in vain; and as he went his way, a dropped man, there kept running through his head a couplet of an old song...
Moans my restless heart impetuous in vain...
...students for expressing obnoxious opinions. Either these opinions are well-grounded, or they are not. If they are, is a student to be punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact...