They esteemed that a very great privilege.
Belton, as you know, was a very poor lad and had but little money.
After paying his expenses incident to his graduation, and purchasing a ticket home, he now had just one dollar and a quarter left.

Out of this one dollar and a quarter he was to pay for a carriage ride of this young lady friend to the railway station.

This, ordinarily, cost one dollar, and Belton calculated on having a margin of twenty-five cents.

But you would have judged him the happy possessor of a large fortune, merely to look at him.
The carriage rolled up to the girls' dormitory and Belton's friend stood on the steps, with her trunks, three in number.

When Belton saw that his friend had three trunks, his heart sank.