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"I hope, gentleman," said Brogten, bluntly, "that you're not going to believe that blackguard's word against ours." "And impugned by three gentlemen," said Bruce, who felt how thoroughly he was in disgrace. "Do you mean to deny, Bruce, that you swore at the man first, and then cut his ropes, when he was already stopping his barge?" asked Lillyston.
"Well, no one wants you to talk," interrupted Brogten, one of the eleven, Julian's especial foe. "I say, Bruce, did you see " "I was only going to add," said Julian, with perfect good-humour, heedless of the interruption, "that I couldn't discuss a game I didn't see."
"By no means; only I shall cut things short; he isn't worth playing; I shall haul him in at once." Accordingly, Hazlet was invited once more to one of Bruce's parties this time to a supper. It was one of the regular, reckless, uproarious affairs D'Acres, Boodle, Tulk, Brogten, Fitzurse, were all there, and the elite of the fast fellow-commoners, and sporting men besides.
"What a profound touch that was of Themistocles," said Kennedy, "who rejected the offer of a Memoria Technicha, with the aspiration that some one could teach him to forget. Lethe is the grandest of rivers after all." "I can illustrate what you are saying," said Brogten, "and I believe it to be true that nothing can be utterly forgotten.
"I suppose because he isn't over-partial to our company." "Why not?" said Bruce, who considered himself very fascinating, and quite a person whose society was to be courted; "and if so, why does he come to our rooms?" Brogten might, perhaps, have thrown light on the subject had he chosen. "Well," he said, "I'll give him a hint." "Do; and get him to ask De Vayne."
"I say, Kennedy," said a third, "if I were you or Lillyston, or any other of Home's particular friends, I'd duck Brogten." "Let's wait till we see whether Home does lose the scholarship first," said Lillyston. "If he does, Brogten deserves anything; but I have strong hopes yet."
Bruce, so far from being troubled by his own evil deeds, was proud of a success which supported a pet theory of his infidel opinions. He made no sort of secret of it, and laughed openly at the fool whom he had selected for his victim. "But after all," said Brogten, who had plenty of common sense, "your triumph was very slight." "How do you mean?
Of course he could not tell that this rudeness was but the cover of a real desire for cordiality between them, and now he fully believed that Brogten had intentionally, deliberately, and with malice prepense, formed a deep laid scheme to dash from his lips the cup of happiness as he was in the very act of tasting it.
So vile a malice would have been intolerable to any one, and the thought of it was thoroughly intolerable to Brogten, in whom all gleams of honourable feeling were by no means extinguished, however dormant they might seem.
"For when we in our viciousness grow hard, O, misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes: In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us Adore our errors, laugh at us while we strut To our confusion." "I'm sometimes half inclined to agree with what you were saying about would-be saints," said Brogten, as they left D'Acres' wine-party.
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