But I am going to try you another whirl by and by." "You do not hold a grudge ?" "What do you take me for ?" "Shake hands ?" "Of course." Their hands met, but Frank did not fail to note that Rains shook in a manner that was very cold and insincere.
"I reckon Merriwell has come pretty near showing what he is made of," said Hodge; "and those fellows who have been claiming that he has won his popularity by luck had better keep still in the future." "That's so!" shouted the crowd, and several who did so had been saying the most disagreeable things about Frank a short time before.
There is nothing in the world so ephemeral as popularity.

The individual who is to-day a hero may be an outcast to-morrow.

There is nothing harder to hold than the esteem of a set of school-boys.

He who is regarded as an idol in the fall may be supplanted by a rival in the spring, and may find himself unnoticed and neglected.

Having once become a leader in a school, the fellow who has obtained the position must prove his superiority to all comers in order to hold it.