After that a great many came to me and advised and warned me as to what I should do.

I decided to get about fifty of our class outside and then fight it out; that was before I changed my mind.

As soon as I did I regretted it very much, but, as it turned out, the class didn't come, so I was alone, as I wished to be.
You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

The Opera House was partly filled with college men, a large number of sophomores and a few upper class men.

It was pretty generally known I was going to have a row, and that brought them as much as the show.
Poor Ruff was in agony all day.