You should know I am not the kind of a fellow to preach." "That's so.

Don't mind me.

Drive ahead." "First, I want to ask how it is you happened to let yourself be put back in recitations ?" "Oh, Old Gunn just put me back--that's all." "But you are fully as good a scholar as I am, and you could have gone ahead into the first section if you had braced up." "Perhaps so." "I know it.

You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it." "That's the only way to get ahead here." "I don't care much about getting ahead.

All I want is to pull through and graduate.