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I hope I do well, it would be so jolly to cable out the news to the old pater; and I say, Peg, I don't mean to leave Sandhurst without bringing home something to keep as a souvenir. At the end of each Christmas term a sword is presented to the cadet who passes out first in the final exam. `The Anson Memorial Sword. Mariquita!"
By a desperate effort, however, he contrived to control his voice and said quietly: "Was I not doing better? Was I not improving in my work?" "I should not care to speak positively, but my impression is that you were. Ah, yes," he added as he glanced again at his record. "You were improving. I may even say there was a marked improvement." "And I passed the exam?"
Have I told you that, since the cramming for this last horrid exam. has sent me, to an extent, off my mental equilibrium, I have a constant terror of falling ill? It was that which had given me such a fit of horrors when I saw my bedroom, the night before.
"But beautiful's not a thing you can go in for, like an exam: You're born so, or you're born not so; and you know you're not I mean, you know you're Well, it isn't your fault. Are you going to be sent away for just being not pretty?" "I told you," said the girl, with a little impatience. "Being pretty is of no consequence. I am pretty, of course," she added regretfully.
"Oh, it was topping!" he hinnied. "I stuck on her skirt and jersey and tam o' shanter and took in everybody. I walked down the street, and up the drive to the school door, and prowled round the garden. There was a window open, so in I went and found exam questions all over the table. I thought I'd rag you about them!" "You atrocious imp! Look here! You don't know what a scrape you've got us into.
She said that she could not easily arrange to see him immediately, and that for the sake of his exam. he ought not to be distracted. She would have seen him on the Saturday, but on Saturday George learnt that her father was a little unwell and required, even if he did not need, constant attention. The funeral, unduly late, occurred by Mr.
Franklyn, because in a way associated with his Mary, had come most prominently into his mind. That same association gave him a lead from which to pour out his reply to Mr. Franklyn's rallying, as they sat at supper, upon his gloom. "You remember that day after the July exam, when we went up west together?" he began. Mr. Franklyn remembered; in some gloom shook his head over the recollection.
In other words, he left Loman to open the business as best he could. "I promised to come and tell you about the exam, didn't I?" "Eh? Oh, yes, to be sure. That was last Saturday. Upon my word, I'd quite forgotten." Of course Loman knew this was false; but he had to look pleasant and answer, "Well, you see, my memory was better than yours." "Right you are, young captain.
Yes; after doing splendidly at Dartmouth, heading the list at the passing-out exam, and so at once gaining the rating of midshipman; doing equally well afloat during the subsequent three years and a half, qualifying for Gunnery, Torpedo, and Navigating duties, serving for six months aboard a destroyer, and everywhere gaining the esteem and goodwill of my superiors, here was I, Paul Swinburne, at the age of seventeen and a half, an outcast kicked out of the Navy with ignominy and my career ruined, through the machinations of another, and he my cousin!
I've not had a word with you since you came up on the lawn that day and said you had passed your exam. You simply bolted off, you know." "You got my letter, though, this morning?" George said. He dropped her hand; fumbled in his pocket for his pipe. He was becoming a little nervous at the matter before him. Mary told him: "Well, that was nothing. It was such a frantic letter!
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