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refuge was to Shakespeare and the Psalms.
(Sometimes it is true, he thought of trying
the [Esler?] system on the grim
Professor.)

Time rolled on and mountains lowered in
to hills. Last fall David felt secure enough
to accept the Presidency of the Literary
Society. He looks well on the platform
and otherwise also has done much the
the society. The recent success with the
play was due largely to his painstaking
and intelligent rendering of the hero!
lover's part. Ladies were breathless, lunatics
yelled their feelings, as Absolute
and Lydia made love or made up. Oh
wise, smooth psalmist, how you would
have married the niece of the old gentle
man took the aunt or the aunt indeed
if he would have the niece! How two-faced
courtly you could be to the old