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STUDENT LIFE
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There were long marbel tables around which sat the Blanik Knights resting their heads on the tables. clean up. No one stopped her; no one said a word to her; no one awoke.

“Several others also chanced to enter the cave, but that was long ago. Today Blanik is locked. The Knights sleep on, still biding their time. They wait for the hour when Bohemia will have the most enemies, when it will be in the greatest danger. Then a great battle will take place near Blanik. It will be a fierce and bloody fight. The Czechs will battle valiantly against a strong enemy. At the critical moment when the enemy will seem certain of victory, the entrance to Blanik will once more open, and St. Wenceslaus mounted on a white steed will dash out with his Blanik Knights to aid the Czechs. The Czechs will be victorious, and a happy time of peace will then begin for Bohemia”.

As Mr. Jaros finished speaking, Frank, who had been listening attentively, now looked out of the window to see once more the fabled mountain.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit’s tread.

—Bryant: Death of The Flowers.

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