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He too was a Netherlander, but had little in common with the school-boys except his age, a red and white complexion, fair hair, and clear blue eyes, eyes that looked arrogantly out upon the world. Every step showed that he considered himself an important personage, and the gaily-costumed negro, who carried a few recently purchased articles behind him, imitated this bearing in a most comical way.
I might have been one of a class of school-boys to whom she was expounding a problem. At the Point I have heard officers' wives use the same tone to the enlisted men. Its effect on them was to drive them into a surly silence. But Miss Fiske did not seem conscious of her tone.
I should think, when they have once got used to the salt, they must find a pond very tasteless afterwards. They are night-feeders, as school-boys know well. Tank 16. Fish grey mullet. Tank 17. Prawns. If with the fishes we had felt with friends, and with the lobsters as if with hobgoblins, with the prawns we seemed to find ourselves among ghosts.
We were roaring like school-boys now behind him the officer-men shouting to us to stand in our places and prepare to charge. ... He was singing of the Spring again of the warm breath that comes up over the hills and plains even to our little fields.
"Go and flog him now. I should like to see you do it. You can do it easily enough with one hand." "I rather think I could; but I'll not try it to-day." At this point in the conversation the school-boys parted, as they were on their way home, and their roads led them in different directions.
The negro's head was held still farther back than the young noble's, whose stiff Spanish ruff prevented him from moving his handsome head as freely as other mortals. "That ape, Wibisma," said one of the school-boys, pointing to the approaching nobleman.
I can see that doing all by myself I was not truly a law to myself, but only a sort of helpless force. I studied Latin because I believed that I should read the Latin authors, and I suppose I got as much of the language as most school-boys of my age, but I never read any Latin author but Cornelius Nepos.
The vexatious occurrences, of which he had been a witness at the House of Seti, and here also but a few minutes since, he regarded as the consequence of the unbridled license of an ill-regulated imagination, and in stern language he called Pentaur to account for the "revolt" of the school-boys. "And besides our boys," he exclaimed, "you have led the daughter of Rameses astray.
Costigan, who had led the merriment against Simpson at Mrs. Clark’s eating-house, was playing "mumbly-peg" with Texas Tyler. They had been working like Trojans all day at the round-up, but they pitched their pocket-knives with as keen a zest as school-boys, bickering over points in the game, accusing each other of cheating, calling on the rest of the company to umpire some disputed point.
We drank it standing; and after would sit before the fire, havering like two love-sick school-boys over the charms of that dear lady to whom one of us was less than naught, and to whom the other could be but naught whilst that first one lived.
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