The New Senior at Andover Author:Herbert Dickinson Ward General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: D. Lothrop Co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. THE two young men had watched the performance of John Calvin, the one with a species of hopeless resignation, the other with open amusement. It is a dangerous feat to put a dog either through college or a Theological Seminary, no matter how handsome, winsome or well-trained he may be. If he does not undo you in the presence of the lords of the institution at some critical moment, he will betray you in a thousand other ways, much to your humiliation. Roger Mansfield could have strangled his pet at that moment: but in times of supreme trial the soul waits the final verdict with apparent calmness. Quietly, hardly above a whisper, Roger said: "Down! charge, sir!" For the first time in Calvin's natural history, the dog deliberately disobeyed. He opened his large mouth, gave a mighty yawn, and with a superbly caressing motion pawed closer to Uncle Jim, devastating in his attempts a few more sheets of closely written paper. The terrible man, made more ominous by an unexpected calm, turned himself around slowly and gave the young men a piercing glance. He took in the quiet amusement visible in John Strong's face, as well as the blush of embarrassment that mantled the usually nonchalant theo- logue's cheeks. With one look at the unabashed dog, he said with tremendous sarcasm : " Pray, Mr. Mansfield, let your representative remain. He, at least, knows no better than to interrupt my time and to spoil the work of days." " I am very sorry, sir," began the unfortunate introducer of his cousin's virtues. "You need not be, at all, sir," interr...« less