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"Good-morning," said Riddell, who, in the presence of the greater attractions on the table, ran considerable risk of being overlooked altogether. "Good-morning," cried the boys, suddenly roused by his voice to a sense of their social duty. "Awfully brickish of you to ask us round," said Telson. "Rather," chimed in Parson. "I'm glad you came," said the captain. "We may as well have breakfast.
You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe it." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red.
Wyndham did know, and at any other time would have felt reproached by the consciousness of his own injustice. But he was just now so bitterly disappointed that he smothered every other feeling, and answered angrily, "Yes, you have, and I don't care if you have; I suppose it's because I'm friends with Silk. I can tell you Silk's a good deal more brickish to me than you are!" Poor Riddell!
"All tokens of affection, Jim? I'll put them in the middle drawer." "What on earth I'm going to do with 'em all," said their harassed owner, "I'm sure I don't know. Does any one chap use five magnifiers in his life? Never used one yet! I wish the fellows hadn't been so kind it was awfully brickish of them, though, wasn't it? And the Doctor gave me this." He held up a large and solemn looking book.
Then he swung them back to Myra, followed her persistently as she walked along the bank, on past Lawanne's, on towards their own rude shack. And at last Bland shifted. One step backward, and the woods swallowed him. One moment his shoulders and his head stood plain in every detail, even to the brickish redness of his skin and the curve of his fingers about the glasses; the next he was gone.
As it was, it didn't matter a bit, for Miss Violet showed up like a trump as she is, and backed us up; so it's just as well you hadn't come. Violet nodded to me! She's the most beautiful girl in the world. Smedley turned up too; brickish, wasn't it? Bickers of course came, and tried to spoil our sports, but Marky gave him a flea in his ear, and Dig and I howled; so he didn't stay long.
Come along to my room and we'll look through the list of subjects." Arthur, before the task was half over, had recovered his spirits and advanced far in the esteem of his future kinsman. "Awfully brickish of you, sir," he said. "It wouldn't be a bad score for our house if we got all the prizes at the exams, would it?" "Not at all. But we mustn't be too confident."
The very day that witnessed the forming of my resolutions witnessed also the breaking of them. "Hullo, young 'un!" cried Doubleday, as I put in my appearance at the office; "here you are! How are you after it all?" "I'm quite well," said I, in what I intended to be a chilly voice. "That's right. Very brickish of you to have us up. We all thought so, didn't we, Crow?" "Rather," replied Crow.
"Owls be hanged," said Dig, helping his friend gingerly to his feet. "I feel like a poker," said Arthur. "Shouldn't care to run a mile just now." "Nobody wants you to. What you've got to do is to dig hold of the ivy with your hands and let yourself down. I'll go first and take care of your feet." "Awfully brickish of you, Dig," said Arthur. "I'm sorry I'm such a lout.
"And, by the way, Jim, it wasn't half bad of you to send me that order. It was no end brickish, especially after I had left you more or less in the lurch." "What order?" said Jim, looking curiously at Gus. "What's the good of trying to pass it off like that, old man? It could only be you." "I don't know what you're driving at.
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