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It was not the first time that Rainey had been on a ship, a sailing ship, and at sea. Whenever possible his play-hours had been spent on a little knockabout sloop that he owned jointly with another man, both of them members of the Corinthian Club.
The knockabout was forthcoming shortly after she had demonstrated her amphibious qualities by diving from the rocks and performing water feats which dazed her anxious guardians. Indeed, she fairly lived in her bathing-dress until the novelty wore off.
The first thing Reggie did was to kick a tin and fall into a shell hole, where he was joined by Shorty. "Frightening rooks, son," he remarked kindly, "or rehearsing as a knockabout comedian? About twenty-five yards from here on our left is the German sap party that I am visiting to-night. I like 'em to know I'm coming." "Sorry, Shorty," muttered the delinquent. "I never saw the ruddy thing."
And, I suppose, owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy, she has adopted a protective, motherly attitude towards me. In her great, spacious, kind way, she gives you the impression that she owns Jaffery Chayne, and knows exactly what is for his good. Women's ways are wonderful but weird." He must have thought himself vastly clever with his alliterative epigram.
He dressed himself hurriedly in a neglige shirt with a windsor scad, light-colored, serviceable trousers with a belt, russet shoes, and a tennis hat-a knockabout costume, he considered. His mother, good soul, thought it a special suit put on for her benefit and admired it through her glasses.
As the term went on the ragging became more elaborate. At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance. But they soon wearied of such things. After all, they were real artistes. And Archie Fletcher could not bear being ordinary. But still there was a good deal of sport to be got out of quite common place manoeuvres.
"An hour's knockabout with me will do the child more good than moping in the house, and I ought to have thought of it myself. Come along, Harry Brooks, and play me a match at single wicket. Help me push away the catapult there into the corner. Will you take first innings, or shall we toss?"
It has ceased to be what it once was, what its name implies. If the old school inclined toward the rough too much, then certainly the new inclines distressingly toward the refined the stage that once was so full of knockabout is now so full of stand-still; variety that was once a joy is now a bore.
But he hadn't the faintest idea of the fount of Liosha's motherliness. "Owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy"! Oh, the silly ass! It was not until the end of October that Doria completed her round of country-house visits and returned to the flat in St. John's Wood.
“What do you want to do, Mr. Somers?” “Want to do, sir?” retorted Eph. “I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to slip moorings and chase after that knockabout. What I wish to know from you, sir, is whether you’ll send another marine or two on board, so that I can back up my demand to find my friends?” “I’ll have to ask the lieutenant commander about that, Mr. Somers.”
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