In spite of all my reasoning that it made no difference about anybody coming to see me off, it did make a good deal of difference.

It was a lonely sort of business starting off in that way--especially after seeing Rectus's father and mother come down to the boat with him.
"We didn't think of this until this morning," cried Scott.

"And then we voted it was too mean to let you go off without anybody to see you safely on board----" "Oh, yes!" said I.
"And so our class appointed a committee," Scott went on, "to come down and attend to you, and we're the committee.

It ought to have been fellows that had gone through the school, but there were none of them there." "Irish!" said Harry.
"So we came," said Scott.

"We raised all the spare cash there was in the class, and there was only enough to send four of us.