Have some ?' 'Yes, thanks, very much.

Let us pour it.' And Dolly held the cup while Stuffy joyfully filled it; both very grateful, but rather afraid she had heard what went before the wish she fulfilled.
She proved that she had by saying, as they stood drinking her health, while she sat between them, looking like a middle-aged vivandiere, with her jugs and mugs: 'I was glad to hear you say you would like to have girls at your college; but I hope you will learn to speak more respectfully of them before they come; for that will be the first lesson they will teach you.' 'Really, ma'am, I was only joking,' began Stuffy, gulping down his beer in a hurry.
'So was I.I'm sure I--I'm devoted to 'em,' stuttered Dolly, panic-stricken; for he saw that he was in for a lecture of some sort.
'Not in the right way.

Frivolous girls may like to be called "little dears" and things of that sort; but the girls who love study wish to be treated like reasonable beings, not dolls to flirt with.

Yes, I'm going to preach; that's my business; so stand up and take it like men.' Mrs Jo laughed; but she was in earnest; for by various hints and signs during the past winter she knew that the boys were beginning to 'see life' in the way she especially disapproved.

Both were far from home, had money enough to waste, and were as inexperienced, curious, and credulous as most lads of their age.