Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 56: what you’re looking at

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52 A STRANGE ENCOUNTER, comrades would bear him outin any plan for revenge; but he vowed in his heart that there shouid yet come a day of reckoning between himself and Huntress for the indignity to which he had been subjected before his e€olipanions. He was furious with them for not having come to his release, and he raved over the affair all the way back to his room after leaving Geoffrey’s. But they made light of it, and tried to pass the whole thing off asa joke. This only enraged him the more, al- though he began to see the wisdom of keeping still about it, since he could get no sympathy from them. Tnere is no telling what rash act he might not have eommitted it he had been allowed to go and come ag usual while this fierce mood lasted. But he had wrought hiniself into an excessive perspiration, anc then going out into the chill night air afterward, he had takena violent eold, and for three weeks he was confined to his room with a threatened fever. At the end of that time, although his anger had not abated one whit toward Geoffrey, and he was no less de- termined to have his revenge, he had come to see the wisdoim of refraining from all rashness which might re- bound injuriously upon himself, and he resolved to con- ceal his purpose in his own breast and watch his oppor: tunity to strike his foe down at some time in the future, when the blow would be felt with bitter force. So, upon recovering his usual health, he resumed his studies and his intercourse with his fellow-students as if nothing had occurred to ruffle him, and those who had participated in the hazing of Geoffrey Huntress imagined that the unpleasant affair had biown safely over and be- come a thing of the past. Thus the fall and winter passed. Meantime Gladys was winning golden opinions for her- self at Vassar. Study was a perfect delight to her, consequently excel- lence in every department was but a natural result. The name of Giadys Huntress became the synonym for all that was learned and brilliant in her class, and there was not one who did not predict that the first honor should be conferred upon her at the end of the course. No one appeared to be jealous of her, either, on ac- count of it, for she was a general favorite with both teachers and scholars, always having a pleasant word and a kind smile for everybody. comicloookks.€