WORK AND OTHER DISSIPATIONS
oh, well, to be sure, it can't be as bad as Poler Stacy. The family won't actually see you that way. But, all the same, if an official notice comes home from the dean: "I regret to be obliged to inform you that your son is hereby suspended for a term of three weeks for " Pretty tough in that way, isn't it? All out of a clear sky too. You've got such a good rep. at home, you know.
Fool? Well, I should say so. Yes, all that too—yes, go on, it's good, sound, healthy remorse. But if you know it already why do you ask me? I'll say yes to everything you say about yourself, but, seems to me, that doesn't do much good. What's up to you now is to see that it does not happen again as long as you are a boy at college whose beer as well as his books are paid for by his daddy. How about that business aspect of it, Dick? 'Tisn't quite square, is it?
No, I wouldn't quite say that your life is ruined. There have been worse things in history. You have a chance. "All is not
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