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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
It is a fine thing to see a young fellow start for the university—at least , such a young fellow as was Alfred Tiptop . To be sure he had been rather a naughty boy at times , but everybody is the same ; and Ave are not quite sure that Leila did not recollect a certain handsome curly-headed boy , AVIIO once put on old wax doll of hers down to roastwith a degree of
kindli-, ness somewhat remarkable , considering the offence . Unfortunately , Alfred had a little money , and the expectation of a little more . Mind , Ave only speak of the misfortune relatively . Money is , with all its disadvantages , a very decent sort of thing , and , despite the many contemptuous assertions of ancient philosophersAve believe thatas long as you have
, , enough of it , it really comes in rather useful and agreeable than otherwise . But a "little money , " like a little learning , "is a dangerous thing ; " and we fear that Alfred Tiptop would have been better off , in some respects , had his income been below even a sliding scale of income-tax . Moreover , your grandmammas and aunts
are dangerous people . Women—especially single women—will spoil boys ; and our private belief is , that there are few boys , who will not consent to be spoilt under such gentle aud agreeable guidance . And so Alfred went to Oxford . He took a few words of great kindliness and greater sense from the Rev . Augustus
Der-Avent , a few kisses and not a few bank-notes from his aunt , and a little trembling tear and an averted look of Leila ' s . We fear , —nay , rather , Ave hope , that the glance of that pure , that tender young face outlived the bank notes , if not the advice .
Leila and' Alfred were cousins , and , even if Mr . James Sheridan ICnoAA'les had not Avritten the " Hunchback , " we should have known that cousins are not always content with their present relationship . Young people are never too young to make love ; " master crows at miss , and miss coos at master , " almost on the nurse ' s knee ; and we cannot well see how such a
pair as Lena and Alfred could have helped thinking of what high and low , rich and poor , are perpetually coming to . As to Mr . Derwent , he had good hopes of Alfred , despite his idleness , and he could not resist the little creature who had once put her arms about his neck , and asked , in the simplicity of tA \ elve years and a white frockAvhether " she mihtn't love dear
, g Alfred . " Verily , there is a mysterious depth in children's words , as well as in children ' s play . As to Alfred , he never dreamed about the possibility of Leila not being his " little Avife , " but we cannot say that his first year
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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
It is a fine thing to see a young fellow start for the university—at least , such a young fellow as was Alfred Tiptop . To be sure he had been rather a naughty boy at times , but everybody is the same ; and Ave are not quite sure that Leila did not recollect a certain handsome curly-headed boy , AVIIO once put on old wax doll of hers down to roastwith a degree of
kindli-, ness somewhat remarkable , considering the offence . Unfortunately , Alfred had a little money , and the expectation of a little more . Mind , Ave only speak of the misfortune relatively . Money is , with all its disadvantages , a very decent sort of thing , and , despite the many contemptuous assertions of ancient philosophersAve believe thatas long as you have
, , enough of it , it really comes in rather useful and agreeable than otherwise . But a "little money , " like a little learning , "is a dangerous thing ; " and we fear that Alfred Tiptop would have been better off , in some respects , had his income been below even a sliding scale of income-tax . Moreover , your grandmammas and aunts
are dangerous people . Women—especially single women—will spoil boys ; and our private belief is , that there are few boys , who will not consent to be spoilt under such gentle aud agreeable guidance . And so Alfred went to Oxford . He took a few words of great kindliness and greater sense from the Rev . Augustus
Der-Avent , a few kisses and not a few bank-notes from his aunt , and a little trembling tear and an averted look of Leila ' s . We fear , —nay , rather , Ave hope , that the glance of that pure , that tender young face outlived the bank notes , if not the advice .
Leila and' Alfred were cousins , and , even if Mr . James Sheridan ICnoAA'les had not Avritten the " Hunchback , " we should have known that cousins are not always content with their present relationship . Young people are never too young to make love ; " master crows at miss , and miss coos at master , " almost on the nurse ' s knee ; and we cannot well see how such a
pair as Lena and Alfred could have helped thinking of what high and low , rich and poor , are perpetually coming to . As to Mr . Derwent , he had good hopes of Alfred , despite his idleness , and he could not resist the little creature who had once put her arms about his neck , and asked , in the simplicity of tA \ elve years and a white frockAvhether " she mihtn't love dear
, g Alfred . " Verily , there is a mysterious depth in children's words , as well as in children ' s play . As to Alfred , he never dreamed about the possibility of Leila not being his " little Avife , " but we cannot say that his first year