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Title: Frank Fairlegh, or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smedley, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1818-1864 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill
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Publisher: London : George Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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y word I cant, replied I. Im good for nothingthis morning. Serve you right, too, said Lawless, for refusing the secondbowl of punch last night. I told you no good would come of it,eh? Positively we ought to be going, interposed Richards; wellbring you some news presently, Faii-legh, that will set you all rightagain in no time. I only wish you may prove a tnie prophet, replied I. Umph! if youll allow me, IU accompany you, gentlemen, saidMr. Frampton : make one of your party, umph! Several of those thus appealed to exchanged glances of hoiTor, andat last Ai-cher, who was rather an exclusive, and particularly sensitiveto ridicule, began,— Why, really, sir, you must excuse— Umph! excuse ? no excuses required, sir ; when youve lived aslong as I have, youll learn not to care in what company you sail80 as its honest company. Noahs great-grandfather found outthe truth of that, sir, when he had to be hail-fellow-well-met withtiger-cats and hippopotamuses in the ark—hippopotami, 1 suppose
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l^T. y, Qn-K>bC^W<. ^^Ui M^. FRANK FAIRLEGH 207 you classical men call it—though, now I come to think of it, he neverwas theie at all. But you will let an old man go with you, theresgood boys, continued Mr. Frampton in a tone of entreaty; not oneof you feels more interest in Frank Fairleghg success than I do. Come along, govei-nor, exclaimed Lawless, taking him by thearm, you and I will go together, and if anybody gets in your way,down he goes, if he were as big as Goliath of Gath. You shall seethe list as soon as anyone of them, for youre a trump—a regularbrick I With a very odd tile on the top of it, whispered Archer, pointingto the broad brim. Now, then, continued Lawless, fall in there. Follow thegovernor. To the right about face ! March! So saying, he flung open the door, and arm-in-arm with Mr.Frampton hurried down the stairs, followed by the others in double-quick time. When they were all gone, I made an eifoi-t to rousemyseK from the state of lassitude and depression

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