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tease him, he received them with true Western cordiality.
He found out his mistake quickly enough, and at the first insult he rose in wrath and ordered them out with such furious looks that they concluded it was best to go.
He helped to support himself during his college course not only by teaching in winter, but by making fires, waiting on table, and ringing the recitation bell.
In spite of these menial services, he was popular in his class and had a number of aristocratic friends,--among them Philip Van Rensselaer.
He was one of the best scholars in his class,--first in mathematics, and so fluent in Greek that to the end of his life he could read it with ease.
He did not wait for graduation.
In May, 1826, the Groton Academy suddenly wanted a teacher, and Elizur Wright was invited to take the position.
The college faculty sent him his degree a month later,--which they might not have done if they had known how little he cared for it. In his school at Groton was a pretty, dark-eyed girl named Susan Clark, who, for two years previously, had been at school with Margaret Fuller and was very well acquainted with her. Elizur Wright became interested in Miss Clark, and three years later they were married.
One day, while he was living at Groton, Mr. Wright went by the Boston stage to Fitchburg,
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