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That slight hardness which was wont to be perceptible in her tone had altogether passed away; she seemed to be cultivating flexibility of voice. Mrs Yule came in, and was all graciousness. Then two callers presented themselves. Biffen's pleasure was at an end as soon as he had to adapt himself to polite dialogue; he escaped as speedily as possible.
Who else should have it?" That afternoon to most of the fellows the eleven seemed an age getting into their sweaters and coats. When Acton appeared first, and it was seen that he was wearing the pink cap of Biffen's on his head there was more than astonishment, there was consternation. Whatever did it mean?
As a rule, the laboratory was empty on half-holidays, and Gus used to work through his tables in solitude, when he tried a little "bottle-washing" as a change from the refereeing, but one afternoon he found no less a person than W.E. Grim, the prize fag of Biffen's, doing something very seriously with a green powder. "Hullo, young 'un! What are you footling round here for?"
On literary réclame, he says much that is true if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame. Biffen, it is true, is a somewhat fantastic figure of an idealist, but Gissing cherished this grotesque exfoliation from a headline by Dickens and later in his career we shall find him reproducing one of Biffen's ideals with a singular fidelity.
"I'll punch your head, Grim; you said you remembered it." "All serene, old man, never mind the cackle." "What about our concert?" asked Brown. "It's going to be great. Does any one happen to have a programme of that awful performance of Corker's house last year?" "Rather!" said half a dozen of Biffen's ornaments. "Did you think we'd burn a curiosity like that?"
When the dust had settled, every one acknowledged that Biffen's concert was going with a bang. I am not going to bore you with a longer account of Biffen's concert.
"A fellow in Biffen's not know what an epilogue is! Tell him, Fruity," he added, with pathetic vexation. "He asked you," said Cherry, hurriedly. "I'm the chairman," said Grim, in a wax, but with great relief. "Explain away, Fruity!" "Oh, every first-class concert starts with one," he said vaguely. "See now, Lamb?"
Biffen's deferential attitude as he listened and replied was in strong contrast with the careless ease which marked Jasper Milvain. The realist would never smoke in Amy's presence, but Jasper puffed jovial clouds even whilst she was conversing with him. 'Whelpdale came to see me last night, remarked Milvain, presently. 'His novel is refused on all hands.
Thus, when Hodgson was given the first cap, there was the general comment that he was pretty sure to annex a cap sooner or later, and might as well have it soon. Acton's turn so said the school would come later, though Biffen's house sneered. "Of course, Hodgson is in the Sixth. What else but a Sixth Form fellow is wanted in a footer eleven?"
He compared Biffen's house to a water lily growing in a muddy pond, and again as a Phoenix risen from the ashes; and he gave us, with circumstantial details, every round of the footer housers, their two eleven caps, and the Perry Exhibition, and darkly hinted at Acton's exclusion from the eleven. He wound up his awful farrago in one glorious burst of solemn fury
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