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Who could be his mate for cheerful courage, for skill, the ready mind, easy adroitness, and for self-command? To imitate was a woman's utmost. Matthew Weyburn appeared the very Matey of the first of May cricketing day among Cuper's boys the next morning, when seen pacing down the garden-walk. He wore his white trousers of that happiest of old days the 'white ducks' Aminta and Selina remembered.
Recollections of Lady Charlotte's plain hints regarding the lady present resolved to the gross retort, that her eyes were beautiful. And he knew them there lay the strangeness. They were known beautiful eyes, in a foreign land of night and mist. Lord Ormont was discoursing with racy eloquence of our hold on India: his views in which respect were those of Cuper's boys.
Who could be his mate for cheerful courage, for skill, the ready mind, easy adroitness, and for self-command? To imitate was a woman's utmost. Matthew Weyburn appeared the very Matey of the first of May cricketing day among Cuper's boys the next morning, when seen pacing down the garden-walk. He wore his white trousers of that happiest of old days the 'white ducks' Aminta and Selina remembered.
They were quick to scan and take summary of their object, as the young man felt while observing for himself. Height and build of body were such as might be expected in the brother of Lady Charlotte and from the tales of his prowess. Weyburn had a glance back at Cuper's boys listening to the tales.
'That's English! yes, that's English! when they're at it, my lord sang out. 'To know how to take a licking, that wins in the end, cried Weyburn; his former enthusiasm for the hero mounting, enlightened by a reminiscence of the precept he had hammered on the boys at Cuper's. 'They fall well. Yes, the English fall like men, said my lord, pardoning and embracing the cuffed nation.
I have a German friend in London anxious to wear his legs down stumpier. 'The name of the school? 'It is called Cuper's. Pagnell from the table at midday. Her aunt had a memory for names: what might she not have exclaimed! There would have been little in it, but it was as well that the 'boy of the name of Weyburn' at Cuper's should be unmentioned.
A letter once written by him, in his early days at Cuper's, addressed to J. Masner, containing a provocation to fight with any weapons, and signed, 'Your Antagonist, had been read out to the whole school, under strong denunciation of the immorality, the unchristian-like conduct of the writer, by Mr.
They were quick to scan and take summary of their object, as the young man felt while observing for himself. Height and build of body were such as might be expected in the brother of Lady Charlotte and from the tales of his prowess. Weyburn had a glance back at Cuper's boys listening to the tales.
'You remember Emile, Selina: the dear little French boy at Mr. Cuper's? 'Oh, I do, Selina responded. 'He will work with Mr. Weyburn in Switzerland. 'Oh, that will be nice! the girl exclaimed. Aminta squeezed Selina's hand. A shower of tears clouded her eyes. She chose to fancy it was because of her envy of the modest, busy, peaceful girl, who envied none.
'Johnson's landlord and next neighbour in Bolt-court. Ante, iii. 141. 'Cuper's Gardens, near the south bank of the Thames, opposite to Somerset House.
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