It was eleven o'clock at night, and young Marriott was locked into his room, cramming as hard as he could cram. He was a "Fourth Year Man" at Edinburgh University and he had been ploughed for this particular examination so often that his pare... Read more of Keeping His Promise at Scary Stories.ca

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HOOK was once observed, during dinner, nodding like a Chinese mandarin
in a tea-shop. On being asked the reason, he replied, Why when no one
else asks me to take champagne, I take sherry with the epergne, and bow
to the flowers.

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