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The members of the senior day-room made no reply, but continued, as Mr Kipling has it, to persecute their vocations. Most of them were brewing. They went on brewing with the earnest concentration of chefs. "You're a cheery lot," said Stanning. "But I don't wonder you've got the hump. I should be a bit sick if we'd got a skunk like that in our house. Heard the latest?" Some lunatic said, "No.
On his return from the town he had mentioned the facts of the case to one or two of the more garrulous members of his house, and they had passed it on to everybody they met during the interval in the middle of preparation. By the end of preparation half the school knew what had happened. Seymour's was furious. The senior day-room to a man condemned Sheen.
Then it'll all come out, and you'll get dropped on for going up the river and going to the pub." "Perhaps he won't ask," said Sheen. "Hope not. Oh, by the way " "What's up?" "Just remembered what I came up for. It's an awful rag. The senior day-room are going to court-martial you." "Court-martial me!" "For funking. They don't know about Aldershot, not a word.
Respectful attention from the senior day-room. "I only want to know why you can't manage things of this sort by yourselves, without dragging in men from other houses." "Especially men like Stanning," said Linton. "The same thing occurred to me. It's lucky Drummond wasn't here. Remember the last time, you chaps?" The chaps did. Stanning became an object of critical interest.
But her face was distorted with horror now, and was whiter than the pillow itself. In the day-room, by the light of Ortensia's little lamp, Pina was on her knees, carefully mopping up the water that had run down from Stradella's clothes, and drying the marble floor. Soon after sunrise the Senator came and unlocked the doors of Ortensia's day-room.
Marriott walked into the senior day-room, and, finding no one there, hurled his portmanteau down on the table with a bang. The noise brought William into the room. William was attached to Leicester's House, Beckford College, as a mixture of butler and bootboy. He carried a pail of water in his hand.
We won the gym.!" "Rot! Let's have a look!" This tremendous announcement quite eclipsed the court-martial as an object of popular interest. The senior day-room surged round the holder of the paper. "Give us a chance," he protested. "We can't have. Where is it? Biddle and Smith are simply hopeless. How the dickens can they have got the shield?"
After the constables had retired to their quarters I took my palliasse downstairs to the day-room, and laid it on two forms alongside two six-foot tables which were placed end to end in the centre of the room."
In due course this story found its way to the Buller's day-room, where was great rejoicing. So Caruthers was going to be laid out, was he? How damned funny! Hazlitt's heart leapt within him. His evil little mind pictured Gordon being carried off the field, absolutely smashed up. He gloated. Gordon laughed when he heard of it.
What?" thereby delivering the day-room bound into the hands of the enemy. "Sheen's apologised to Attell." There was a sensation in the senior day-room, as Stanning had expected. He knew his men. He was perfectly aware that any story which centred round Sheen's cowardice would be believed by them, so he had not troubled to invent a lie which it would be difficult to disprove.
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