"Dear me!" he said as his eyes caught the item of news.

"How very dreadful!" "What is it ?" said the rector.
"Dr.McTeague," answered his father.

"He has been stricken with paralysis!" "How shocking!" said the rector, aghast.

"But when?
I saw him only this morning." "It has just happened," said his father, following down the column of the newspaper as he spoke, "this morning, at the university, in his classroom, at a lecture.

Dear me, how dreadful! I must go and see the president at once." Mr.Furlong was about to reach for his hat and stick when at that moment the aged clerk knocked at the door.
"Dr.Boomer," he announced in a tone of solemnity suited to the occasion.
Dr.Boomer entered, shook hands in silence and sat down.
"You have heard our sad news, I suppose ?" he said.