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Saurin hit on a way out of the difficulty; he wrote this letter to his guardian: "My dear Uncle, I should like to learn gymnastics, fencing, boxing, and those things, but the regular man appointed to teach such things here is a duffer, and makes it a bore, keeping you at dumb-bells and clubs and such stupid work for ever, just to make the course last out, for the charges are monstrous.
He was roused by John Malbrouck remarking: "Yes, you have lost your bet? Well, what was it? The youth, the childlike quality in him," flushed his face deeply, and then, with a sudden burst of frankness, he said: "I did not know that I had spoken. As for the bet, I deserve to be thrashed for ever having made it; but, duffer as I am, I want you to know that I'm something worse than duffer.
"To see you again is to want tremendously to try something. But you must have an infinite patience, because I'm an awful duffer." She looked round the walls. "I see what you've done bien des choses." "She understands she understands," Gabriel dropped. And he added to their visitor: "Imagine, when he might do something, his choosing a life of shams!
Poor Peter wondered. 'You're clear then as to what in particular I wanted you not to go for? 'In particular? Lance thought. 'It seems to me that in particular there can have been only one thing. They stood for a little sounding each other. 'Are you quite sure? 'Quite sure I'm a beastly duffer? Quite by this time. 'Oh! and Peter turned away as if almost with relief.
"Only a few minutes ago," Jim said, visibly annoyed with himself. "We were diving in a hole with the trees meeting overhead, and the scrub thick all around us hadn't an idea it was working up for this. Why didn't you call us, you old duffer?" "I did but I couldn't make you hear," said Norah, somewhat injured. "Hurry I've saddled up." "You have? You didn't saddle Monarch?" asked Jim quickly.
Had he dared to do so, the Caterpillar would have made things very sultry for him. Also, he informed the Duffer and John that, by virtue of his position, he proposed to prepare no work at all. Each "con" was divided into two equal parts: the Duffer "mugged" up one; John the other. Then the Caterpillar would be summoned, and glean the harvest.
Her hand silenced them, with beautiful finger raised: "Listen! Don't you hear him? His eyes are calling me. It is Christ." The others looked, but they saw only a tall figure moving away. He wore a long black cloak like a priest. "Some foreign duffer lookin' in. Let 'im look," said one of the other girls. "One o' them Egyptian jugglers," said another. "What's the matter of ye, Nell?
He threatens to shut up the cloisters." The announcement brought stillness, chagrin. "What a bothering old duffer he is, that dean!" uttered Bywater. "He is always turning up when he's not wanted." "Take your books, and disperse in silence," was the command of the senior boy. "Stop a bit," said Bywater, turning himself round and about for general inspection. "Look at me! Can I go home?"
Seeing the fellow's actions and realizing instantly the natural error that Tarzan's yellow tunic had occasioned the girl sprang between him and the soldier. "Don't shoot," she cried to the latter, "we are both friends." "Hold up your hands, you, then," he commanded Tarzan. "I ain't taking no chances with any duffer with a yellow shirt."
The Duffer lent him a House-shirt of green and white stripes, and a pair of white duck shorts, and with what pride John put them on, thinking of the far distant day when he would wear a "fez" instead of the commonplace house-cap! Lawrence said a few words.
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