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"Damned nuisance," he said, "finding the place full of boys rioting when I get home on leave. And it's full up now twelve of them, no less. There's hardly a spot in the house I can call my own, and they've spoiled the little lake I made at the bottom of the lawn. That young ass Pat Singleton started what he called boat-races on it " "Oh, Pat Singleton's there?" I said.
He had more pocket-money than any other lad in the school, and was possessed also of a certain effrontery which carried him ahead among boys of his own age. He gained, therefore, a degree of eclat, even among those who knew, and very frequently said to each other, that young Scatcherd was not fit to be their companion except on such open occasions as those of cricket-matches and boat-races.
Ice has its thunderbolts. WINNING boat-races was all very fine; but a hundred such victories could not compensate Mr. Kennet's female hearers for one such defeat as he had announced a defeat that, to their minds, carried disgrace. Their Edward plucked! At first they were benumbed, and sat chilled, with red cheeks, bewildered between present triumph and mortification at hand.
The days of boat-races and pleasant time-passing harbour jobs were gone; it was now work work to get the ship ready for her burden, and, swaying the great sails aloft, to rig harness for the power that was to bear us home.
When we are young we so far resemble savages who are Nature's young people that we attach prodigious value to physical advantages. My feats of strength and activity the clods I thrashed and the railings I leaped and the boat-races I won are they not written in the chronicle of St. John's?
At Venice, in 1491, the princesses of the house of Este were met and welcomed by the Bucentaur, and entertained by boat-races and a splendid pantomime, called 'Meleager, in the court of the ducal palace. At Milan Leonardo da Vinci directed the festivals of the Duke and of some leading citizens.
We want, first of all, a clean heart, and next a strong stomach. Falling from grace is often chargeable to derangement of gastric juices. Oar and bat may become salutary weapons. But, after all, there was something wrong about those summer boat-races. A student with a stout arm, and great girth, and full chest, and nothing else, is not at all admirable.
But it was her long disappearance with Falloden, her heightened colour, and preoccupied manner when they parted at the college gate, together with the incident at the boat-races of which he had been a witness, which had suddenly developed a new and fighting resolve in him. If there was one type in Oxford he feared and detested more than another it was the Falloden type.
Boat-races are held annually between the several Universities, in which the form of the crews is generally very good. If I am not mistaken, some of the Dutch crews that have rowed at Henley represented University clubs.
Ah, to be sure, I remember place by the river very nice villas boat-races, and that kind of thing. Let me see, bishops, and that kind of church-going people live at Fulham, don't they?" "I thought you would have remembered one person who lives at Fulham a very handsome woman, who made a strong impression upon you."
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