I economized in every way that I could think of--did my own washing, and went without necessary garments--but still I found my summer vacation ending and I did not have the sixteen dollars.
I spent nearly the whole of the first month of my vacation in an effort to find something to do by which I could earn money to pay my way back to Hampton and save a little money to use after reaching there.
Stryver shouldered his way from the Temple, while the bloom of the Long
Vacation's infancy was still upon it.
It is the hottest long vacation known for many years.
Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation. Mr.
"I'm not even going to look at a schoolbook in
vacation," she told Marilla.
His
vacation had consumed nearly all he had earned in the laundry, and he was so far from his market that weeks must elapse before he could hope for the first returns from his hack-work.
"More than half my
vacation gone, and I've only had a week of it!
"What shall you do all your
vacation?" asked Amy, changing the subject with tact.
I did not go home for my first summer
vacation, but stayed in Lincoln, working off a year's Greek, which had been my only condition on entering the freshman class.
His every movement is jealously watched by the police till he comes of age and presents himself for inspection; then he is either destroyed, if he is found to exceed the fixed margin of deviation, or else immured in a Government Office as a clerk of the seventh class; prevented from marriage; forced to drudge at an uninteresting occupation for a miserable stipend; obliged to live and board at the office, and to take even his
vacation under close supervision; what wonder that human nature, even in the best and purest, is embittered and perverted by such surroundings!"
James Morland, before she remembered that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe; and that he had spent the last week of the Christmas
vacation with his family, near London.