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"I'll just give you fifth-form, or no fifth-form the best licking you ever had." "You'll just not presume to lay upon him the tip of your finger," said Whalley, who was quite as big as Jones, and was very fond of Kenrick. "Not for flinging me down and kicking my hat into the water?" "No, Jones," said Whalley, quietly.
The intelligence was 'passed round' that it was Pendennis's uncle in an instant, and a hundred young faces wondering and giggling, between terror and laughter, turned now to the new-comer and then to the awful Doctor. The Major asked the fifth-form boy to carry his card up to the Doctor, which the lad did with an arch look.
Two or three nights in every week the gloves were brought out, either in the hall or fifth-form room; and every boy who was ever likely to fight at all knew all his neighbours' prowess perfectly well, and could tell to a nicety what chance he would have in a stand-up fight with any other boy in the house.
"They say," he added, "that Thompson is very ill, and that Dr. Robertson has been sent for from Northampton." "Then we shall all be sent home," cried another. "Hurrah! five weeks' extra holidays, and no fifth-form examination!" "I hope not," said Tom; "there'll be no Marylebone match then at the end of the half."
One by one most of the other rebels fell away from them, while Flashman's cause prospered, and several other fifth-form boys began to look black at them and ill-treat them as they passed about the house.
"And so," King was saying in a high head voice to Beetle, whom he had kept to play with before Manders minor, well knowing that it hurts a Fifth-form boy to be held up to a fag's derision, "and so, Master Beetle, in spite of all our verses, which we are so proud of, when we presume to come into direct conflict with even so humble a representative of authority as myself, for instance, we are turned out of our studies, are we not?"
On this occasion he was particularly angry; he had an especial dislike of seeing the two boys together, because he fancied that the younger had grown more than usually conceited and neglectful, since he had been under the fifth-form patronage; and he saw in Eric's presence there, a new case of wilful disobedience. "Williams, here again!" he exclaimed sharply.
This could not have been the case had not those two worthies found a powerful counterpoise in two other fifth-form fellows, Franklin and Cradock, whose excellence was almost solely due to Walter's influence. Kenrick, on the other hand, never interfered in the house, and let things go on exactly as they liked, although they were going to rack and ruin.
"Now," proceeded Ainger, consulting a paper, "the twelve jurymen are to go into the box there." The twelve boys with "Jury" on their papers obeyed. They were a motley crew, some being Fifth-form boys, some Shell-fish, and some Babies. And by the odd irony of fate, the one who had drawn the "foreman's" ticket was Jukes, the Baby. "Now the witnesses go to the back seats there.
"I, a prefect and a very great person in this house, should greatly resent it if a Fifth-form fellow beat me at the jump. Upon my word I'd give him 100 lines." "`Cricket-ball. Clipstone 77 yards. What a poor throw! Felgate is sure to beat that, at any rate." "Not if he can help," said Barnworth.
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