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Identifier: manofpleasure01nevi (find matches)
Title: The man of pleasure
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nevill, Ralph, 1865-1930
Subjects: Characters and characteristics
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thing will happen. Done! said the young fellow, who forthwithopened the window, and shouted lustily. In aninstant the female vendor of china and earthenwareoverthrew her little platform and its contents,dashed her ware upon the ground, gave pursuit tosuch articles as rolled to a distance, and begged thecrowd to assist her to gratify the wishes of theeccentric gentleman up above. In the course of afew minutes the woman appeared and demandedpayment for her goods. The guardian, completelyconfounded, proceeded to suggest a variety ofexpedients for his nephews protection against theimpositions of an unscrupulous public, and paid anumber of debts without a murmur. Entertaining the fair sex was, of course, strictlyforbidden; nevertheless, in old days many a frailcharmer was smuggled into rooms, and even intoCollege itself, as is shown by a quaint design ofRowlandsons representing a coquettish-lookingdamsel being hauled up by a rope to join a partyof roystering undergraduates in a room above.
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AN ATHANASIAN DAMSEL 145 Though hable to be arrested and punished, Cyprians were not unknown at both Oxford andCambridge. The remark of Dr. Glyn, who met one of theseladies, and got into conversation with her in oneof the pubHc walks at the latter place, was veryapt. On leaving her, he inquired of a friend whohad noticed him who she was. * A lady of a sus-picious character, was the reply. I fancied, saidthe Doctor, there was something Athanasian inher looks. How so ? She seemed to be aQidcunque vult. The turf, the road, and the hunting-field werethen highly popular with a considerable section ofundergraduates at both Universities, the resultbeing that the livery-stable keepers at Oxford andCambridge did a roaring trade. IMany of thesemen were characters in their way, and the mostcelebrated of all, the famous Hobson of Cambridge,originated the phrase which is so well knownwherever the English language is spoken, Hob-sons choice. Few know the origin of the saying.The tradition is, that

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