An American girl in London . too, how, by the rules of the Uni-versity, he was not allowed to play marbles on the college steps,or to wear clothes of other than an obfusc hue, which wasexactly the kind of thing that Peter would tell you—audexpect you to remember. He informed us, too, that accordingto the pure usage of Oxonian English he was a Fresher, theman we had just passed being an unattached student, a tosher, probably walking for what in the vulgar tongue mightbe called exercise, but here was ekker. In many ways hewas like Peter, and he objected just as much to my abuse ofthe English cli
An American girl in London . too, how, by the rules of the Uni-versity, he was not allowed to play marbles on the college steps,or to wear clothes of other than an obfusc hue, which wasexactly the kind of thing that Peter would tell you—audexpect you to remember. He informed us, too, that accordingto the pure usage of Oxonian English he was a Fresher, theman we had just passed being an unattached student, a tosher, probably walking for what in the vulgar tongue mightbe called exercise, but here was ekker. In many ways hewas like Peter, and he objected just as much to my abuse ofthe English climate. The second race was very like the first, with more enthu-siasm. I have a little folding card with The Eights, May 22to 28, 1890, and the names of the colleges in the order ofstarting, printed in blue letters on the inside. The order offinish from B. N. C to St. Edm. Hall is in Mr. BertieCorkes handwriting. Im not a sentimentalist, but I liked theEights, and I mean to keep this souvenir. AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON 255. XXIV HE records of my ex-periences in Londonwould be very incom-plete without anotherchapter devoted tothose Miss PeterCorke arranged forme. Indeed, I wouldneed the license ofmany chapters to ex-plain at any lengthhow generously Miss• Corke fulfilled to me the offices of guide, philosopher, and friend ;how she rounded out my days with counsel, and was in all ofthem a personal blessing. Dispensing information was a habit which Peter Corkeincorrigibly established—one of the things she could not believe an important reason why she liked me was because Igave her such unlimited opportunities for indulging it, and shesaid I simulated gratitude fairly well. For my own part, Ialways liked it, whether it was at the expense of my accent ormy idioms, my manners or my morals, my social theories or mygeneral education, and encouraged her in it. I was pleased with 256 AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON the idea that she found me interesting enough to make it worthwhi
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