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He is a tremendous old Turk in his house, and she is a little mincing woman; and they've made Gus he's one of us, you know a horrid sneak, and think it's all my bad company and Bill's. By-the-by, Cherry, Gus Shapcote asked me if my senior wasn't spoony about 'I nope you told him to mind his own business! cried Geraldine, with a great start of indignation.
Shapcote had in his office? 'Yes, my Lord; he had got the command of poor Gus, because he had lent him money for some debt that Gus was afraid to let his father know of, and made him get the key, and let him out and in. 'You all knew of this? 'Yes, my Lord; but poor Gus was sure that his father would be so dreadful, that we durst not let out a word. Mr. Shapcote makes every soul afraid of him.
"They have not more children than you have." "Five Lambkins to our four, besides Gussy and Killy," said Lance; "though A- which is all that appears of the great Achilles' unlucky name -is articled to Shapcote, and as for Gussy, or rather Mr. Tanneguy, he is my right hand." "We thought him a nice sort of youth when he was improving himself in London," said Clement.
Shapcote had been the infirmary; and the long narrow building opposite, between the Bailey and the cloister, had been the lodgings either of lay-brothers or servants. There being few boarders at the Cathedral school, they had always been lodged in the long narrow room, with the second master in a little closet shut off from them.
'Well, Robin, I sometimes think I should do more good with music than anything else. 'Maybe, said Robina, a sensible little woman; 'but you'll do no good by half and half. If you don't do well in the examination, Felix will be horribly vexed, and you'll always hate the thought of it. 'I tell you I shall be as dull as ditch-water, and as stupid as Shapcote, if I don't have any pleasure.
'We think, said the Dean, who was very old, very gentle, and very slow of speech 'we think, my little fellow, that though there is no doubt that Shapcote did best in the examination, and ought to have the exhibition, yet under the peculiar circumstances, you and Harewood can be retained as choir scholars for another year, so as to try again.
'Fact, Robina; we heard a new fellow was coming who had converted a Cherokee, and that the Bishop had christened him in his war paint and feathers. Mrs. Shapcote sent out invitations to a missionary tea in honour of him. 'What, of the Cherokee?
'And Felix at croquet! 'Alice is teaching him. You never did see such a joke as old Blunderbore screwing up his eyes at the balls, and making at them with his mallet like a sledge-hammer. He and Alice and Robin and that Bisset curate are playing against Bill, two of the girls, and Shapcote Bexley against Minsterham, and little Bobbie's a real out- and-outer.
In went Geraldine, imploring to wait for Wilmet, but all in vain; off went the chair, owner and escort alike in haste, and she was swept along, with Lance and Will with a hand holding either side of the chair, imparting breathless scraps of information, and exchanging remarks: 'There goes the Archdeacon. 'The Thorpe choir is not come, and Miles is mad about it. 'That's the Town Hall. 'There's where Jack licked a cad for bullying. 'There's a cannon-ball of Oliver Cromwell's sticking out of that wall. 'That's the only shop fit to get gingerbeer at! 'That old horse in that cab was in the Crimea. 'We come last in the procession, and if you see a fellow like a sheep in spectacles, that's Shapcote. 'Hurrah! what a stunning lot! where is it from? 'Bembury?
'No, no, of the little brute of a missionary chap, and we made up our minds to tar and feather him before he converted us; but long before we had found out which of the new trebles was the model Christian, old Shapcote had caught us two pitching into one another, because I said Bexley was a snobbish place full of pots and pans. 'And that founded your friendship?
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