. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . alk was of the Gover-nor, whose acts they canvassed with great free-dom. How they had come in late, and the governor had given a malignant glance at hiswatch; and why it was that the governors wifehadnt had the influenza, as well as other re-spectable women, and so kept him at home—formed the staple subject of their discourse. At another table there was a group of Uni-versity men, who had come up a
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . alk was of the Gover-nor, whose acts they canvassed with great free-dom. How they had come in late, and the governor had given a malignant glance at hiswatch; and why it was that the governors wifehadnt had the influenza, as well as other re-spectable women, and so kept him at home—formed the staple subject of their discourse. At another table there was a group of Uni-versity men, who had come up after an examin-ation, and were striving to banish with jollity allidea of the possibility of an impending failurewhen the lists appeared. Their conversation HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. 13 was a curious mixture of erudition and slang—theManichaean heresy and the Chester Cup—the early-Fathers and the barmaids at the Lion—St. Pauland Mr. Buckstone. So he occasionally caughtfragments of conversation to the following effect:— Yes, quite right, Charley. I know I msafe about that passage in Thucydides. Charnellcrammed me about it when I was down in Essex.— ?•7 S? I -V. * A -—-s f ? E_18tfW. Jolly hpnr that, at your rooms the oilier claret.—What a regular brick St. Augus 14 HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. tine was! I should like to have seen him on theloose at Carthage; and old Monica, his mother,dear old lady! I wonder whether she allowedhim a latch-key ? Well, old Simpson, how do you stump Pur-gatory ? Suppose you re asked to show that the I ZASLXLh Mil ft
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