`` Micky , '' the English professor , now -- if she had called him handsome there would have been some sense in it . He is splendid : big six-footer with magnificent muscles , red cheeks , and curly yellow hair . I ca n't see how he can be contented to sit down and teach mushy English literature and poetry and that sort of thing . It would have been more in keeping with the Old Fellow . There was a rumour running at large in the Academy that the Old Fellow wrote poetry , but he ran the mathematics and did n't make such a foozle of it as you might suppose , either . Ruggles and I meant to get square with the Old Fellow , if it took all the term ; at least , we said so . But if Providence had n't sent Sylvia Grant walking down the street past our boarding house that afternoon , we should probably have cooled off before we thought of any working plan of revenge . Sylvia Grant did go down the street , however . Ruggles , hanging halfway out of the window as usual , saw her , and called me to go and look . Of course I went . Sylvia Grant was always worth looking at . There was no girl in Frampton who could hold a candle to her when it came to beauty . As for brains , that is another thing altogether . My private opinion is that Sylvia had n't any , or she would never have preferred -- but there , I 'm getting on too fast again . Ruggles should have written this story ; he can concentrate better . Sylvia was the Latin professor 's daughter ; she was n't a Cad girl , of course . She was over twenty and had graduated from it two years ago , but she was in all the social things that went on in the Academy ; and all the unmarried professors , except the Old Fellow , were in love with her . Micky had it the worst , and we had all made up our minds that Sylvia would marry Micky . He was so handsome , we did n't see how she could help it . I tell you , they made a dandy-looking couple when they were together .
Well , as I said before , I toddled XXXXX the window to have a look at the fair Sylvia .
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