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Lady Connie

CHAPTER VI
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And so they take some trouble to sharpen their own brains.

And the cleverer they are, the more tyrannous they are.

And that, if you please, is Mr.Douglas Falloden!" "I wonder why you are so angry with him, my dear Sarah," said Miss Wenlock mildly.
"Because he has been bullying my nice boy, Radowitz!" said Mrs.
Mulholland vehemently.

"I hear there has been a disgraceful amount of ragging in Marmion lately, and that Douglas Falloden--can you conceive it ?--a man in his last term, whom the University imagines itself to be turning out as an educated specimen!--is one of the ring-leaders--the ring-leader.

It appears that Otto wears a frilled dress shirt--why shouldn't he ?--that, having been brought up in Paris till he was nineteen, he sometimes tucks his napkin under his chin--that he uses French words when he needn't--that he dances like a Frenchman--that he recites French poetry actually of his own making--that he plays too well for a gentleman--that he doesn't respect the customs of the college, et cetera.


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