See why boys reject their mush,
and why the girls dislike to listen to the exhortations of a mamma,
who requires them to leave undone what she has done herself--and
with sufficient reason too, if her own experience be not wholly
profitless. Well, I must submit. There are advantages, however; I
shall have other pupils to tutor, and it shall go hard with me if
all the grapes prove sour where the vines are so various."
The student of divinity, after these conclusions, prepared to make
his toilet. Very few of these students, in their extreme solicitude for
the well being of the inner man, show themselves wholly regardless
of their externals. Even mourning, it appears, requires to be
disposed by a fashionable costumer. Though the garments to which
the necessities of travel limited Brother Stevens were not various,
they were yet select. The good young man had an affection for his
person, which was such certainly as to deserve his care. On this
occasion he was more than usually particular. He did not scruple
to discard the white cravat. For this he substituted a handkerchief
which had the prettiest sprig of lilac, on a ground of the most
delicato lemon color.
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