Besides, New York's the only place in this country worth living in." Such were the relations between the two at graduation time.

Watts, who had always prepared his lessons in a tenth part of the time it had taken Peter, buckled down in the last few weeks, and easily won an honorable mention.

Peter had tried hard to win honors, but failed.
"You did too much outside work, old man," said Watts, who would cheerfully have given his own triumph to his friend.

"If you want success in anything, you've got to sacrifice other things and concentrate on the object.

The Mention's really not worth the ink it's written with, in my case, but I knew it would please mammy and pappy, so I put on steam, and got it.