"Then, brother," I replied, "you can return to your China, post haste or at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit for so long a travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without money, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of
colleges and rectorships, sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I can wish for."
"I thought it was an Athletic
College," said the Shaggy Man.
He would certainly have been reduced to the ranks had not the Director of the
College hushed up the whole matter and dismissed the steward.
"Is the
college a school of the prophets now?" asked Charley.
There was one particular in which matters between Agatha and the
college discipline did not go on exactly as before.
When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to
college and intended to stay home and teach there was a good deal of discussion over it.
We continued our voyage, and almost without stopping sailed by Surate and Damam, where the rector of the
college came to see us, but so sea-sick that the interview was without any satisfaction on either side.
Josie suspected that Anne was laughing at her behind those wicked eyes; but she contented herself with whispering to Gertie, as they went downstairs, that Anne Shirley would put on more airs than ever now that she was going to
college -- you'd see!
But of how Spenser fared at
college we know nothing, except that he was often ill and that he made two lifelong friends.
In the gray of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical
college.
Close on the heels of that came a violent rattling crash, quite close to us, that shook the ground; and, starting out upon the lawn, I saw the tops of the trees about the Oriental
College burst into smoky red flame, and the tower of the little church beside it slide down into ruin.
It being the winter vacation at his
college, Eustace was allowing himself a little relaxation, in the hope, he told me, of repairing the inroads which severe application to study had made upon his health; and I was happy to conclude, from the excellent physical condition in which I saw him, that the remedy had already been attended with very desirable success.
Once, when just from
college, and when Horrocks the butler brought him a letter without placing it previously on a tray, he gave that domestic a look, and administered to him a speech so cutting, that Horrocks ever after trembled before him; the whole household bowed to him: Lady Crawley's curl-papers came off earlier when he was at home: Sir Pitt's muddy gaiters disappeared; and if that incorrigible old man still adhered to other old habits, he never fuddled himself with rum-and-water in his son's presence, and only talked to his servants in a very reserved and polite manner; and those persons remarked that Sir Pitt never swore at Lady Crawley while his son was in the room.
As possessor of this fief, Claude Frollo was one of the twenty-seven seigneurs keeping claim to a manor in fee in Paris and its suburbs; and for a long time, his name was to be seen inscribed in this quality, between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Master François Le Rez, and the
college of Tours, in the records deposited at Saint Martin des Champs.
This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in
colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age.
