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Here we seemed to have left warlike conditions behind us, for the town was agog with the excitement of a cricket-match, between Lord Hawke's eleven and a Natal fifteen. On the cricket-field we met again two of our Tantallon Castle fellow-passengers, Mr. Guest and Mr. H. Milner, who had come down from Johannesburg with the cricketers. We were interested to compare notes and to hear Mr.
She had not told him a word when the yearly cricket-match came on at Lord's between the public schools, though Sam had already gone back to Aldbrickham. Mrs. Twycott felt stronger than usual: she went to the match with Randolph, and was able to leave her chair and walk about occasionally.
"Begging your pardon, sir, no, sir. It wasn't to see the Doctor, sir. It was on the day when everybody was out, gone to the Strongley cricket-match, and there was nobody at home but the maids and me, for Mrs Hamton our housekeeper, sir, had leave from the Doctor to go and see a friend who was ill." "Well," said the Colonel sharply, "what is it, Glyn?" For the boy had jumped up excitedly.
And if in future, he said, his pupils did not work hard, he should be obliged to make them suffer the contumely of sending in word that they would not be able to meet Strongley School in the annual cricket-match. "I regret it very much, young gentlemen," said the Doctor; "but if you will disgrace your alma mater by idleness, I have no other alternative. Duty and pleasure must go hand in hand."
One afternoon he asked for his little gown-boy, and the child was brought to him, and sate by the bed with a very awestricken face; and then gathered courage, and tried to amuse him by telling him how it was a half-holiday, and they were having a cricket-match with the St. Peter's boys in the green, and Grey Friars was in and winning.
"No, Lady Claudia," said Eugene, "you must see us through the great day. I really wish you would. The whole county's coming, and it will be too much for my mother alone. After the cricket-match, if you still insist, the deluge!" "I'll ask Mrs. Lane. She'll tell me what to do." "Good child!" said Sir Roderick. "I am going to stay right away till the birds.
As they were grievously in arrears with a Latin prose, as it was a blazing July afternoon, and as they ought to have been at a house cricket-match, they began to renew their acquaintance, intimate and unholy, with the volumes. "Here we are!" said McTurk. "'Corporal punishment produced on Eric the worst effects.
Nor can we here refer to the incidental pleasures which a cricket-match affords independently of participation in the game itself.
She was not easy to ride, nor did she look so, but he rode her with the ease of long proficiency not long years and his interest in all that goes to make up a day's hunting was as full of zest and youth as I recollect his interest used to be in all that made up a cricket-match in my Harrow days."
He used to walk into the next dormitory and scare the other boys. Oh, but this is impossible!" "I thought you'd say so, sir." "Yes," said the Doctor, "impossible. Why, if it were true the belt must have been lying at the bottom of the well ever since the cricket-match weeks ago." "Yes, sir, and I must have done it then in my sleep; and the night before last I dreamed again what I dreamed before."
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