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But it was not in the Third Form only that Diggory began to find friends; for by a lucky chance he was fortunate enough to make a good impression on the minds of the great men, who, as a rule, took no further notice of the small fry than to exact from them a certain amount of obedience, or in default a certain number of lines or other "impots."
Day always sets the same thing. I've known scores of chaps get impots from him, and they all had to do the Greek numerals. He's mad on the Greek numerals. Never does anything else. You'll be as safe as anything if you do them. Buck up, I'll help." They accordingly sat down there and then.
There were about five hundred of them altogether. And I happen to know that every word of them has been given up and passed all right." "Well, I shall keep mine," said Dunstable. "I am sure to want all the lines in stock that I can get. I used to think Langridge was fairly bad in the way of impots, but Forman takes the biscuit easily. It seems to be a sort of hobby of his. You can't stop him."
So the members of "The Happy Family" pursued the even tenor of their way, getting into scrapes and scrambling out of them, feasting on pastry and ginger-beer, turning up in force on Saturday afternoon to witness the cricket matches, and coming to the conclusion that though Oaks and Rowlands might be a trifle strict, and rather freehanded with lines and "impots," yet all this could be overlooked and forgiven for the sake of the punishment which they inflicted on the enemy's bowling.
Linton, to whom he confided it, was inclined to scoff at first, but when he had had the beauties of the idea explained to him at length, became an enthusiastic supporter of the scheme. "But," he objected, "it'll take up all our time. Is it worth it? We can't spend every afternoon sweating away at impots for other people." "It's all right," said Dunstable, "I've thought of that.
They heard, about a mile from home, the school bell ringing for call-over, and groaned inwardly when presently it ceased, and they knew their names were being called over and not one of them there to answer. Parson alone made any attempt to keep up the drooping spirits of his crew. "Never fear. We'll pay them out, you see. And if they do report us we'll only get impots. The beasts!
"Of course not; no honourable fellow would." "I suppose he thinks he's going to bribe us, the cad. Perhaps he hopes we'll give him a leg-up next election?" "I vote we put on a spurt with the impots and get them all done together," said another. "Paddy shall see which way we go, at any rate."
You will tell your house-master that you have been formally caned by me." "My word!" said McTurk, wriggling his shoulder-blades all down the corridor. "That was business! The Prooshan Bates has an infernal straight eye." "Wasn't it wily of me to ask for the lickin'," said Stalky, "instead of those impots?" "Rot! We were in for it from the first. I knew the look of his old eye," said Beetle.
Good-night," said that amazing man. "Good-night, and thank you, sir." "I swear I'll pray for the Head to-night," said Beetle. "Those last two cuts were just flicks on my collar. There's a 'Monte Cristo' in that lower shelf. I saw it. Bags I, next time we go to Aves!" "Dearr man!" said McTurk. "No gating. No impots. No beastly questions. All settled.
La France s'appauvrit parce qu'elle perd en impots improductifs une partie de son epargne, parce que ses fils travaillent moins, depensent plus et boivent davantage, parce qu'ils demandent des salaires trop eleves, et parce que la concurrence allemande, americaine, italienne, anglaise, nous ferme peu a peu tous les marches, et enfin parce que le phylloxera ruine la moitie du pays.
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