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But Jack had filled himself so full of facts that when the telegram from the Clerk of the Schools came he was delighted to find that he had got a third, and he declared that I must be a genius to have got a second, but that was only his way of expressing his surprise. The Greats' List was a triumph for St. Cuthbert's, Murray and five other men getting firsts.
'Do you work all day and all night, too, great-great-great-great-grandmother? said the princess, thinking to be very polite with so many greats. 'I am not quite so great as all that, she answered, smiling almost merrily. 'If you call me grandmother, that will do. No, I don't work every night only moonlit nights, and then no longer than the moon shines upon my wheel.
Now, if this mysterious Lady of the Manor this fair Lindabrides of Tony Fire-the-Fagot be so admirable a piece as men say, why, there is a chance that she may aid me to melt my nobles into greats; and, again, if Anthony be so wealthy a chuff as report speaks him, he may prove the philosopher's stone to me, and convert my greats into fair rose-nobles again."
I own I don't altogether understand the taste for frivolities which you have developed since you married. It's harmless, no doubt, but it doesn't seem quite natural in a young woman who has taken a First in Greats." Milly's hands grasped the arms of her chair convulsively. She looked at her aunt with desolation in her dark-ringed eyes.
Beside the latter stood a silver quart pot, full of "strong," a reminiscence of "the old coaching days," when Maitland had read with Barton for Greats.
The panels were covered with the names of Wrykynians who had won scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge, and of Old Wrykynians who had taken first in Mods or Greats, or achieved any other recognised success, such as a place in the Indian Civil Service list. A silent testimony, these panels, to the work the school had done in the world.
And Connie did it, broadly speaking, during the week of Falloden's schools. Sorell himself was busy every day and all day as one of the Greats examiners. He scarcely saw her for more than two half-hours during a hideously strenuous week, through which he sat immersed in the logic and philosophy papers of the disappearing generation of Honour men.
She had spent a year at Somerville, though she had gone down without trying for a place in either 'Mods. or 'Greats, thereby preserving, if not increasing, her reputation for superiority.
Tims yielded. "Stewart said your scholarship was A 1, but he was afraid you wouldn't get your First in Greats. He said you had a lot of difficulty in expressing yourself and didn't seem to get the lead of their philosophy and stuff and and generally wanted cleverness." "He said that?" asked Milly, in a low, sombre voice, speaking as though to herself.
A man may be a good chemist and miss the broad meaning of science altogether, being sometimes indeed more devoid of such comprehension than many a philosopher fresh from Classical Greats. In appealing for a progress from the general to the particular I am not blind to the dangers.
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