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"Oh, I oughtn't to let you care," she said. "You don't know what a slacker I've been. And I don't want you to find out " "The only thing that I want to find out is whether you care for me." She flushed a little under his steady gaze, then quite unexpectedly she reached her hand down to him. He took it in his firm clasp. "I do care an awful lot," she said, "but I've tried not to.
"I can't understand why he's not fightin'." "Nobody understands. There's something back of it, and meantime people are calling him a coward " "Doesn't look like a slacker." "He isn't. I have sometimes thought," said wise Drusilla, "that it might be his father. He's a gay old bird, and Derry has to jack him up." "Drink?" "Yes.
Things are at stake which involve not only the honor of a nation but the honor of the individual. To call a man a coward in the old days was to challenge his physical courage. To know him as a slacker in these modern times is to doubt the quality of his mind and spirit. 'I pray thee have me excused' is the word of one lost to the high meanings of justice of love and loyalty and liberty "
"Oh, but you could tell me." "Hardly it was given in confidence." "Did he? Oh, Daddy, did he tell you?" "Yes." "And he isn't a slacker?" "No." "I knew it ." "You didn't. You thought he was a coward." "Well, I ought to have known better. He looks brave, doesn't he?" "I shouldn't call him exactly a heroic figure." "Shouldn't you?"
The school was just pouring out from the rep. exam. He heard Foster shouting across the courts. "Caruthers, you slacker, come up to the tuck-shop." "Right-o!" he yelled back; and racing across the green jumped the railings, and went laughing up to the tuck-shop. "I say, Foster, let's have a big tea this afternoon. We had a supper for the A-K side on Saturday. Let's have the rest up to-day."
"Do you think me a slacker?" she asked. "Yes; in this respect I certainly do. If you were prepared to deny yourself anything it would be different, but you're not. You like to call the child your foundling, but personally you've done nothing for her. It's Miss Chadwick who's had the wakeful nights."
"Depress your guns and fire at her hull!" cried the captain, seeing the effect that had already been produced on the enemy. As the Frenchmen's fire grew slacker, that of the English became more and more brisk. Scarcely had a gun been discharged when it was again hauled in and once more sent forth its deadly missile into the hull of the enemy.
Then she abandoned herself to the exhilaration of the furious descent, watching boulder and eddy stream by, while the spray that whirled about her brought the crimson to her face. At length the pace grew a little slacker, and Weston drove the canoe into an eddy where a short rapid divided them from the smooth green strip of water that poured over what could almost be called a fall.
All he considered was that the story of his dealings with Mike showed him, Firby-Smith, in the favourable and dashing character of the fellow-who-will-stand-no-nonsense, a sort of Captain Kettle on dry land, in fact; and so he proceeded to tell it in detail. Burgess parted with him with the firm conviction that Mike was a young slacker.
Even worse than the slacker for the slacker might have latent the qualities that he lacked. Even at the best and brightest, he could only be mistaken for a slacker, once more the likely recipient of white feathers from any damsel patriotically indiscreet. The Colonel's letter brought him little consolation.
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