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“For what, kiddo?” Larry turned his head slightly to
one side. Wasn’t it—a little bit of a
scene?”
“Oh! let me see. Manning; secondly, by some measure or other, she meant
to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial
College; and, thirdly, she was, as an immediate and decisive act, a symbol of just
exactly where she stood, a declaration of free and adult initiative, going that
night to the Fadden Ball. She was nestled
under his bedspread. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. In no way could he be said to
contribute to the gaiety of the little party. " And he led the way to an inner room, in
the middle of which stood a table, covered with a large white cloth. "
"From whom?" vociferated Trenchard. "
"Now, mark me," said Jonathan, "and you'll find I don't do things by halves. "
This sally occasioned a general laugh. "I am a Yale man," said Ah Cum.
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