The Gilded Age


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We are glad to see you again," exclaimed the Squire heartily, "you are  
welcome Mr. Brierly, any friend of Phil's is welcome at our house."  
"It's more like home to me, than any place except my own home," cried  
Philip, as he looked about the cheerful house and went through a general  
hand-shaking.  
"It's a long time, though, since you have been here to say so," Alice  
said, with her father's frankness of manner; "and I suspect we owe the  
visit now to your sudden interest in the Fallkill Seminary."  
Philip's color came, as it had an awkward way of doing in his tell-tale  
face, but before he could stammer a reply, Harry came in with,  
"That accounts for Phil's wish to build a Seminary at Stone's Landing,  
our place in Missouri, when Col. Sellers insisted it should be a  
University. Phil appears to have a weakness for Seminaries."  
"
It would have been better for your friend Sellers," retorted Philip,  
if he had had a weakness for district schools. Col. Sellers, Miss  
"
Alice, is a great friend of Harry's, who is always trying to build a  
house by beginning at the top."  
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I suppose it's as easy to build a University on paper as a Seminary, and  
it looks better," was Harry's reflection; at which the Squire laughed,  
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