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"`Being the boat-race no afternoon school I am pleased. A vast mass on the towpath I being in flannels waited twenty-three minutes for the start. I am small in the world Parson is a conceited ass." Parson turned very red in the face, of course, at this unexpected turn, which, however, his two companions greatly enjoyed. "`Parson is a conceited ass "
His nose jutted from his face like a projection from a cliff beneath a clump of bushes. He had been at Cambridge and he was most ferociously fond of Cambridge. One of the most fearful scenes Rosalie ever witnessed was on one boat-race day when Harold appeared with a piece of Oxford ribbon in his buttonhole.
When Miss Euthymia Tower sent her oar off in flashing splinters, as she pulled her last stroke in the boat-race, she did not know what a strain she was putting upon it. She did know that she was doing her best, but how great the force of her best was she was not aware until she saw its effects. Unconsciousness belonged to her robust nature, in all its manifestations.
Our tutors had walked round to return their guns to the lenders over in the town. We strolled to the house through the fast fading afternoon light, talking of the memorable events in our half-year just closing. "Now, I think," said Drake, "that our boat-race was the best fun of all."
"I can't make it out," said Gilks, looking very miserable. "Fools never can," snarled Silk, turning on his heel. Willoughby reassembled after the eventful boat-race in a state of fever.
The Old Gentleman's friends procured him tickets to several of the more important functions. From the gallery of Memorial Hall Vandover and his father saw some of the great dinners; they went up to New London for the boat-race; they gained admittance to the historic Yard on Class-day, and saw the strange football rush for flowers around the "Tree."
"There's one comfort about this match," said Fairbairn, after a pause, "we probably shall not hear any more of that wretched boat-race now." Whatever induced him to start this most unfortunate topic at this time of all others?
He took an active part in the life of the university, making something of a record us an athlete, winning the silver sculls, and rowing on a 'varsity crew which took the measure of Oxford in the great annual boat-race. He also interested himself in literature and music, but his real passion was science.
He hardly liked not to go now, although he knew it would be hard to avoid letting out the wretched secret which he had promised Gilks and Silk to keep. Besides, uneasy as he was about this, he could not help feeling excited about what Cusack had just told him of the boat-race affair.
Riddell did not exactly know what to say. He could not say that the Parrett's fellows had "pulled together" for the good of the school, so he said nothing. "I'm getting rather sick of it," continued Bloomfield, digging his hands in his pockets. "So am I," said the captain. "You know," said Bloomfield, "it was that wretched boat-race affair which made things as bad as they were.
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