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' Who's your friend ? ' asked a gentleman of me the other day, when your son had been speaking to me, ' Shuttleworth,' was my reply. ^ Not Al- phonso, eh ? the fellow whom every one of that day remembers to have been plucked for his great go at Oxford ! ' Personally your son is unknown, — but the name of Alphonso strikes every Oxford man directly, as connected with that un- lucky go ; so, in plain terms, my dear madam, if you don't cut the name, I must cut the connection; instead of Zack call h...im Jack at once, the last name instead of the first, — Jack Shuttleworth will do, it sounds sporting, — Jacks are generally good fellows." G 4 88 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
" Well, Captain, bat I never heard any- thing about this before." " And never would hear it," he added, " to your dying day, from anybody except Tom Buncombe. People who come to eat your good dinners, and drink your wine, don't say unpalatable thmgs to your face, although they say deuced disagreeable things behind your back ; but I have noticed many a sneer at the name of Alphonso, which meant, ' that will stick in his path through life.' I wish the lad well, and therefore boldly tell you the truth." '* Then, Captain, I will call him John for the future ; and now, as it is past eleven, I must wish you good night." It is unnecessary to state the reasons — there were more than one or two — why Captain Buncombe appeared to take such an especial interest in Alphonso as to inflict this lecture on his mamma, with whom he generally contrived to have the best of the argument ; for Mrs.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' Who's your friend ? ' asked a gentleman of me the other day, when your son had been speaking to me, ' Shuttleworth,' was my reply. ^ Not Al- phonso, eh ? the fellow whom every one of that day remembers to have been plucked for his great go at Oxford ! ' Personally your son is unknown, — but the name of Alphonso strikes every Oxford man directly, as connected with that un- lucky go ; so, in plain terms, my dear madam, if you don't cut the name, I must cut the connection; instead of Zack call h...im Jack at once, the last name instead of the first, — Jack Shuttleworth will do, it sounds sporting, — Jacks are generally good fellows." G 4 88 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
" Well, Captain, bat I never heard any- thing about this before." " And never would hear it," he added, " to your dying day, from anybody except Tom Buncombe. People who come to eat your good dinners, and drink your wine, don't say unpalatable thmgs to your face, although they say deuced disagreeable things behind your back ; but I have noticed many a sneer at the name of Alphonso, which meant, ' that will stick in his path through life.' I wish the lad well, and therefore boldly tell you the truth." '* Then, Captain, I will call him John for the future ; and now, as it is past eleven, I must wish you good night." It is unnecessary to state the reasons — there were more than one or two — why Captain Buncombe appeared to take such an especial interest in Alphonso as to inflict this lecture on his mamma, with whom he generally contrived to have the best of the argument ; for Mrs.
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