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A few minutes after he was ushered into the handsomely-furnished rooms which formed the lieutenant's quarters; and he felt a pang shoot through him for the moment as the piano in one corner, and some music and a flute upon the table, recalled his own rooms at Draycott's.
No: every cad does that. I'll take my dearly beloved, sanctified cousin for a model, and be very good and saving. I won't waste all old Draycott's military teaching; it would be a pity!" "What do you mean?" cried Richard. "To go over to Ratcham and take the shilling. Perhaps I shall rise from the ranks." "Go and think about what I've said, and come back when you get cool.
I got in such a mess I had to leave Mr Draycott's." "How, Jerry? Why?" "Got wild, sir.
But his face told a different tale, and that night, when he went to his bed, sleep refused to come; and to the accompaniment of his comrades' heavy breathing that being the most charitable term that can be applied to it he once more went over his old life at Mr Draycott's, from his first entering the great coach's establishment up to the morning he had left.
He would get over the river there; but he must avoid the road, where he might meet the police or people going into the town, who knew him by sight as one of Mr Draycott's pupils.
Jerry caught the inspector as he came out of Mr Draycott's study, and signalled him into the pantry. "Then you did nothing?" he said. "Yes, we did," said the inspector, grimly; "we saved our lives, which was about all we could do. I only went for the name of the thing, Mr Brigley thankye, I'll say port. Of course, I went ah! very nice full glass or wine.
They accepted Mr Draycott's hospitality and stayed, eager to be near their son, while longing to hear tidings of the discovery of their nephew tidings that did not come. Jerry stole away more than once to try and make out the exact place where he had seen Richard plunge in, and returned, shaking his head, for it was impossible.
"Draycott's a bumptious, pedantic old fool. Fancies he knows everything. A brute!" "Take a couple of pills, Mark; your liver's out of order." "Put an angel's liver out of order to be here! I won't put up with much more of it, and so I'll tell him. I shall dress as I like, and do as I like, even if I haven't got a handle to my name. Sir Richard, indeed! a pattern for me to follow!
There were times, of course, when a fit of low spirits would set Dick dreaming a little about what might have been, but he soon dismissed thoughts of the past; and in all the months since he had left Mr Draycott's no single scrap of news reached his ears, neither was it sought.
Not quite; for he thought of the absent bath, and then shuddered and listened for the roar of the river, now softened down into a murmur. The idea of going to some muddy pool to wash was too repellent, and, making his way, rested and refreshed, out of the sand-pit, he stood thinking, not hesitating, for his mind had been made up before he left Mr Draycott's.
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