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Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for.
the Holidays When the Midsummer vacation approached, no indecent manifestations of joy were exhibited by the leaden-eyed young gentlemen assembled at Doctor Blimber's.

Any such violent expression as 'breaking up,' would have been quite inapplicable to that polite establishment.

The young gentlemen oozed away, semi-annually, to their own homes; but they never broke up.

They would have scorned the action.
Tozer, who was constantly galled and tormented by a starched white cambric neckerchief, which he wore at the express desire of Mrs Tozer, his parent, who, designing him for the Church, was of opinion that he couldn't be in that forward state of preparation too soon--Tozer said, indeed, that choosing between two evils, he thought he would rather stay where he was, than go home.