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I told them that he was probably in bed, and they answered that I should fall over if I did not look out. It was all most painfully dull, and I was just going in when the Subby appeared and went into the Warden's house. I could guess the reason for that visit, and waited to see no more. I sat down by the fire and tried to think out what I should say to the Subby, and what he would say to me.
A don seems to me to have the fixed idea that freshers naturally drink too much, at least that was the impression the Subby gave me." "What happened to you?" "I'm gated for a fortnight, and he talked a lot of tommy-rot." "Well, I think it is most frightfully decent of you," I said. "Oh, shut up," Ward answered, "I can't stand that. I have never done anything of the kind before and shan't again.
I determined that he was a most thoroughly good sort, but the idea of his being a don struck me as being absurd. I put him on my side with the Warden and the Bursar, and thought that Mr. Edwardes was in a hopeless minority of one in persecuting me, for I looked upon the Subby as a man who had been born to be neutral.
"I've got to go to the Subby in ten minutes," I said, and Collier's face brightened. "I didn't think you would have to go," Ward remarked; "what an infernal nuisance, and why has he sent for you?" "I tried to rescue the stupid man from Lambert and Webb, and got entangled in his blessed arm. He was as sick as blazes, and I shall hear more stuff about being an exhibitioner," I answered.
We looked at each other, and then I gave up thinking about Lambert and walked back to my rooms; there was a horrid wind, and I shivered in my pyjamas as I went back to my staircase. Lambert seemed to have disappeared altogether, but I met Jack striking matches and groping his way down. "Did you catch him?" he asked. "Just like my luck," I answered. "I met the Subby."
"You took me in all right," I acknowledged, "and I hope you won't hear any more about it." "What did you tell the Subby?" he asked.
"Do you sleep very badly?" I asked, because I had heard several dodges for getting rid of insomnia, and I should like to have done something for him. He blinked at me for an instant, and I think he was wondering what I was driving at, for I suppose it would not do for a Subby to sleep too soundly.
Several other men, including Dennison, were gated for a fortnight, and I had great difficulty in keeping Jack from going to the Subby, to ask him if he would not do something to him.
Marten has been talking to me as if I was a pick-pocket, while you were standing there and thinking yourself a sort of tin hero. If you want to know what I think you are, my opinion is that you're a confounded fool, but since you have done this I must go and see the Subby when I get back to college."
Webb followed, and when I got into the quadrangle he was on one side of the Subby and Lambert on the other. They were persuading him to dance. I tried to seize Lambert, while Ward went for Webb; but as I did so they suddenly released their man, and instead of grabbing Lambert I got my arm entangled in the Subby's.
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