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Amory's in gymnastics; and, altogether, Biffen's House is, thanks to Acton's help, perhaps the most distinguished in the school. A jollier going away for the Christmas holidays had not taken place for an age.
These letters were anonymous, of course; but Biffen's house-paper was freely used. "Anyhow," said Phil, with a gentle smile to me, "the spelling is obviously Biffen's." Acton went on his own way, serenely indifferent to his house, which would have made a god of him on the smallest provocation.
As he watched her uncovering it, he was pleased with the grace of her arms and the pliancy of her slight figure. 'Which is usually your chair? 'I'm sure I don't know. 'When one goes to see a friend frequently, one gets into regular habits in these matters. In Biffen's garret I used to have the most uncomfortable chair it was ever my lot to sit upon; still, I came to feel an affection for it.
While Acton was thus making such strenuous exertions to lift Biffen's out of the mire, Bourne was finding out the whole unpainted beauty of the situation as far as it concerned himself. The experimental footer elevens were chosen in what, I believe, is the usual manner.
Amory's firmly convinced that Biffen's was the most glorious house that had ever existed, and that it would do thanks to Acton, Worcester, and the dervishes great things when the cricket housers came round. "Grimmy," said Wilson, "you'll have to try to get into the team this year. You would last, if your batting hadn't been so rotten." "All right, old man; don't rub that in too often."
Meanwhile Grim's particular cronies, Wilson, Rogers, Sharpe, Poulett, and young Bourne, arrayed in all the glory of mud-stained footer-togs, after vainly waiting outside Biffen's, were seeking high and low for the copper-hunting chemist, who, for many reasons, had kept his afternoon's plan very dark.
Worcester grasped Acton's hand, as the French say, "with emotion." "But the house will have to elect me, you know; perhaps they'd fancy Raven as captain. He can play decently, and they know him." "Well, Biffen's are a dense lot, but I'm hanged if even their stupidity would do a thing like that. They've seen you play, haven't they?" "Thanks.
Corker's had had a bye in the first round and had been drawn against rather rickety houses since, but they were generally fancied to pull off the final as usual, for Bourne was captain, and they had Hodgson and Roberts of the eleven as well. The wonderful progress of Biffen's had thrown an awful lot of excitement into the game.
Under the name of Fleet & Co., this business was shortly set on foot, and Whelpdale's services were retained on satisfactory terms. The birth of the syndicate system had given new scope to literary agencies, and Mr Fleet was a man of keen eye for commercial opportunities. 'Well, have you read Biffen's book? asked Jasper. 'Wonderful, isn't it! A work of genius, I am convinced.
I don't think I used the wrong adjective when I said it was subtle. The only question was could he so manage that Jack would go? And Acton for good reasons was pretty certain that he could. Jack was staidly taking a turn up and down the pavement with Grim when, on passing by Biffen's house, he heard a whistle from one of the windows, and, on looking up, he saw Acton.
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