[Dick Prescotts’s Fourth Year at West Point by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookDick Prescotts’s Fourth Year at West Point CHAPTER VII 7/9
Didn't you know Miss Bentley was Prescott's girl ?" "Yes; but it had slipped my memory.
It's mighty hard, when you come to think of it, to remember the girls of so many hundreds of fellows," explained Cadet Douglass plaintively. Ten minutes later Dick and Greg appeared, greeting the ladies. Mrs.Bentley assented to their going around to the north side of the porch, whence they could look up the river to the lights of Newburgh. "We very nearly had an adventure, Dick," laughed Belle. "Yes ?" "We very nearly shook hands with Mr.Jordan.
It was Laura's quick cry that saved me, just in the nick of time, from touching hands with the fellow." Miss Meade then related their experience, and the discomfiture of Cadets Douglass and Jordan. "That's just about like Doug," observed Greg Holmes.
"I'll bet he never thought until Laura called off the signal for the kick." "What's that ?" demanded Miss Bentley. "Pardon me," apologized Greg.
"I think in football terms altogether too often.
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