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Updated: May 29, 2025
Sometimes when he had the money he sought forgetfulness in the society of Crass and the other frequenters of the Cricketers, but somehow or other he could not take the same pleasure in the conversation of these people as formerly, when he had found it as he now sometimes wondered to remember so entertaining as to almost make him forget Ruth's existence.
He got up late in the morning, he lingered over breakfast, and until it was time to go to Brighton he lay on the sofa watching the cricketers and the children playing, shaping resolutions, and striving with himself and deceiving himself. A dozen times, a hundred times, he had concluded he must see Maggie; he had decided he would write to Lord Mount Rorke, that he would go to Mr.
For this year the Wellesburn return match and the Marylebone match are played at Rugby, to the great delight of the town and neighbourhood, and the sorrow of those aspiring young cricketers who have been reckoning for the last three months on showing off at Lord's ground.
They had half a day left off work on Saturday at twelve instead of one so there was only one hour's wages lost they went home, had a wash and changed their clothes, and got up to the Cricketers, where the brakes was waiting, at one.
Ruth especially would often have been very lonely if he had not been there, for it had lately become Easton's custom to spend a few evenings every week with Crass at the Cricketers. When at home Slyme passed his time playing a mandolin or making fretwork photo frames.
He would otherwise have seen that he must produce a wonderfully-telling speech if he was to keep the position he had taken, and had better not attempt one. The three young cricketers were hostile from the beginning. All of them leant forward, calling attention loudly laughing for the fun to come. 'Gentlemen! he said: and said it twice. The gap was wide, and he said, 'Gentlemen! again.
Evan sprang up and cried: 'Gladly, sir, and gladly would he have cast his cockney schoolmate to the winds, in the presence of these young cricketers; for he had a prognostication.
Probably he would not have come down even then if it had not been for the fact that he had made an appointment to meet Crass at the Cricketers. Whilst Easton was asleep, Slyme had been downstairs in the kitchen, making a fretwork frame.
His room did not show the taste Jim's did it was largely garnished with colored photographs of handsome young women, and some of the most celebrated cricketers and boxers of the day. His mantelpiece was covered with pipes and one or two policemen's whistles. He was indulging in a pipe when Jim was announced.
Their aspect was at the same time fierce and dull, they looked like volcanoes that had been drenched with water. The man passed on, the music grew softer and the waxen world pressed more closely round. Kings, cricketers, actresses, and statesmen beset him in vistas. He trod a maze of death that had not lived.
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