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The only consolation which buoyed up the spirits of Eckleton was the reflection that in a short space of time, when the important-looking gentleman in uniform who had come to meet them had said all he wanted to say on the subject of rules and regulations, they would be like that too. Happy thought!
Instead of being, as he had fancied, in the High Street, he must have branched off into some miserable blind alley. More than ever he wished he had not come. Eckleton was not a town that took up a great deal of room on the map of England, but it made up for small dimensions by the eccentricity with which it had been laid out.
It was seldom that an actor of the Higgs type paid the town a visit, and in a play, too, which had positively never appeared before on any stage. Eckleton appreciated the compliment. "Listen," said Fenn's brother. "Isn't that just the part for him? It's just like he was in the dressing-room, eh? Short sentences and everything.
The corps knew all this ages ago. The man seemed to think he was telling them something fresh. They began positively to dislike him after a while. He finished at last. Eckleton marched off wearily, but in style, to its lines. "Dis-miss!" They did. "And about time, too," said Jimmy Silver. "I wish they would tie that man up, or something. He's one of the worst bores I know.
A sudden blaze of light, and he was on the ground, sick and dizzy, a feeling he had often experienced before in a slighter degree, when sparring in the Eckleton gymnasium with the boxing instructor. The immediate effect of a flush hit in the regions about the jaw is to make the victim lose for the moment all interest in life.
While the forwards were scrummaging on the second fifteen ground, the outsides ran and passed on the first fifteen ground over at the other end of the field. Fenn's training for the day finished earlier than Kennedy's, the captain of the Eckleton fifteen, who led the scrum, not being satisfied with the way in which the forwards wheeled.
As somebody wisely observed, a woman's P.S. is always the most important part of her letter. "That kid," murmured Spencer between swollen lips, "has got cheek enough for eighteen! 'Awfully decent chap!" He proceeded to compose a letter in reply, and for dignity combined with lucidity it may stand as a model to young writers. 5 College Grounds, Eckleton. Mr.
He happened to be tent-orderly that day, and it therefore fell to his lot to join the orderlies from the other tents in their search for the Eckleton rations. Hitherto breakfast had been to him a thing of white cloths, tables, and food that appeared from nowhere. This was the first time he had ever tracked his food to its source, so to speak, and brought it back with him.
The question was rendered necessary by the fact that many years before the boiler at the Eckleton baths had burst, and had never been repaired, with the consequence that the temperature of the water was apt to vary. That is to say, most days it was colder than others. "Simply boiling," said the man of weight, climbing out. "I say, did I go in all right then?" "Not bad," said Phipps.
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