If we don't carry it now, we'd much better have left it alone.

I only wish we had." "There's this to be said," said Dangle, anxious to make the best of his mistake; "if we do get three officers to their one, there should be no doubt about our getting properly represented in the fifteen next week." "Ah--yes; we've still that bone to pick with them." As the Friday approached, signs of excitement in the coming conquest were plainly visible.

By tacit agreement the return match between Percy's adherents and Wally's was postponed till after the election.
Absentees at the last election were diligently looked up by their respective prefects, and ordered to be in attendance.

Minute calculations were made by the knowing ones, which decided within one or two what Brinkman's majority would be.

Even in Wakefield's it was admitted that the Classic chance was a slender one.
"I wish it was all over," said Fisher major.