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Mrs. Falchion
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CHAPTER II
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I am going up--for my final--Marmy .-- I wonder--if I'll--pass.' And then the words froze on her lips.
"It was persecution that did it--diabolical persecution and selfishness.
That was the worst day the college ever knew.

At the funeral, when the provost read, 'For that it hath pleased Thee to deliver this our sister out of the miseries of this sinful world,' Big Wallington, the wildest chap among the grads, led off with a gulp in his throat, and we all followed.

And that gold-spectacled sneak stood there, with a lying white handkerchief at his eyes.
"I laid myself out to make the college too hot for him.

In a week I had every man in the place with me, and things came to such a pass that all of us must be sent down, or Valiant resign.

He resigned.


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