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Mr Norton, Hazlet's tutor, who did not expect him to fall into mischief, and thought that very likely Mr Starfish's eloquence might be the operating attraction, granted him the exeat without any difficulty, and on Saturday Hazlet was reclining in a first-class carriage, with Bruce, Brogten, and Fitzurse, on his way to Vyvyan House. A change was observable in his dress.
For instance, there was at once an objection to his dropping the society of the set to which Bruce and Brogten had introduced him. He owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged "debts of honour" hung like a millstone round his neck. To pay these seemed a necessary preliminary even to the possibility of commencing a new career.
"What execrable wash," said Brogten, emptying his glass. De Vayne, surprised and disgusted at the rudeness of the remark, turned hastily round, and, while Bruce as hastily withdrew his hand, raised the wine-glass to his lips. "Stop, stop, De Vayne," said Bruce eagerly; "there's a fly in your glass."
During the first few blows, Brogten was disarmed by intense surprise. Of all receptions, this was the only one which it had never occurred to him to contemplate.
I don't like that fellow Brogten, who is always thrusting himself in my way," said Kennedy. "Heigh ho!" and Kennedy leant his head on his arm, and fell into a reverie, thinking that after all his three years at college might be over almost before he was aware of how much time he lost. "I hope you don't play cards much," said Julian. "Why?
There are some who seem to think that a man must rather enjoy hearing all the low tittle-tattle of envious backbiters. "I knew he must be some tailor's son or other," remarked Brogten. "I say, Bruce, we shall have to cut him at Saint Werner's," observed an exquisite young exclusive.
Except to Bruce, and that under pledge of secrecy, Brogten never betrayed what he knew, and the only immediate way in which he exercised the influence which his knowledge gave him, was by claiming with Kennedy a tone of familiarity, and asking him to card parties, suppers, and idle riots of all kinds, in which Bruce and Fitzurse were frequent visitors.
His speech was interrupted by Bruce, who, with his friends, had instantly sprung at the ropes, and cut them in half a dozen places, while the great heavy horses, frightened out of their propriety, turned tail and bolted away at a terrifically heavy trot. "You big hulking blackguard," roared Brogten, who had been the first to use his knife, "why the devil didn't you move when we told you?
Brogten muttered an angry reply, in which the only audible words were "confound" and "milksops." "Well spoken, advocate of sin and shame; Known by thy bleating, Ignorance thy name," thought Julian; but he did not condescend to make any further answer.
"Because the veins of the eye were bloodshot, and green is the complementary colour," interpolated Kennedy, whereat Owen gave a little incredulous guffaw; and Brogten continued "Well, then, it was that all my past life flashed before me, from the least forgotten venial fault of infancy to the worst passion of youth, only they came to me clear and vivid, in retrograde order.
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