Fredericksburg College - Quips and Quibbles Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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Page 94 After Fi ERE they come at last! ' ’ These words were spoken by a little slip of a girl in a pale blue lawn dress, and a big white garden hat trimmed with blue of the same shade. She had been walking impatiently up and down the long garden walk for the last half hour. Now as she heard the sound of wheels on the carriage drive leading up to the house, she turned quickly and ran from the garden, and down the terraces to the gate. Just then the carriage drew up, and out jumped two young men, one of whom stopped to assist a young lady to alight, while the other turned with indisguisable joy to meet the girl in blue. “Oh! I thought you would never get here, and by this time she was kissing the girl who almost lifted her in her arms. Then the four together started up the steps to the old-fashioned country house, which was the home of Sue Lightfoot, who was to entertain there for a couple of weeks the class of 1902. “Clyde Bruce will be here on the evening train. I can ' t think of her as anybody but Clyde Bruce, though she ' s been married for more than a year now,” volun¬ Q UI P S AND QUIBBLES e Y ears teered the hostess, as they went on. “And when is old Mose coming?” questioned Gaston Boyle. “He’ll get here on a night train. ” ’Tis next morning, and the six class mates of five years before are seated in the large, old wainscoted parlor, talking of past, present and future, but mostly of past. Alfred Miller is now a newspaper reporter, and tells many amusing experiences. Five years have changed him but little, only made him more “Sui Generis” than ever. Carrington Mosely has probably changed more than any of the set; he wears a mustache and glasses, and looks very dignified, though he unbends enough to yell, “cut that out now,” to one of Miller’s stories. He has been a college professor for three years now. Clyde Bruce has married a wealthy man, and is quite a society woman, being more dignified than when she giggled at “Shorty’s” breaks in geology. Gaston Boyle has spent the past two years at Union

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QUIPS AND QUIBBLES Past Understanding window and seated herself on the arm of an old-fashioned chair that was near the window. He stood looking at her a few minutes, then came and sat on the other arm; and, after a moment of silence, took the little white hand that rested on the back of the chair in both of his, saying tenderly, “such a soft little hand,” and raised it to his lips. She trembled with joy, yet she was silent. Page 93 ’till he slipped down into the chair and put his arm around her slender waist, and whispered, “sweetheart.’’ Then both her arms went around his neck, and he drew her down into his arms, where she nestled up close to his heart, while he told her the old new story, and their joy was past understanding. S. T. L., ’02.

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QUIPS A X D Q UIB P L E S Page 95 After Five Years Seminary, but time has changed him but little, and he can still laugh and give his own peculiar yell. Nora Willis has been abroad to study music, and now plays even more sweetly than when she was a little girl. Sue Lightfoot has lived at home and is much the same as when she wore two plaits to college and tried to look wise and dignified over hard problems in economics. Now they have planned a boating expedition, and separate to their rooms for hats and so forth, and here we will leave them. Our Patriotic Student Piers PlougJunan on an autumn day Sat in school in bright array; His teeth were white., his eyes were blue , His lips were red of cherry hue , His cheeks were red , his socks—red too! Our country s pride , red , white and blue.