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Updated: June 13, 2025
The only other Sixth Form boy in the House, Tony and Welch being away at Aldershot, was Charteris, and Charteris, who never worked much except the night before an exam, but worked then under forced draught, was appalled at the mere suggestion of letting his note-book out of his hands.
Awarded the Solar Medal posthumously. Leaving a widow and one son, me!" Astro and Tom looked at each other dumfounded. "Surprised, huh?" Roger's voice grew bitter. "Maybe that clears up a few things for you. Like why I never missed on an exam. I never missed because I've lived with Academy textbooks since I was old enough to read. Or why I wanted the radar deck instead of the control deck.
His work was cut short by serious illness, the long period of convalescence after which he had utilized in working for and passing the Army Interpreter's examination in Turkish as well as the higher one in Arabic and his promotion exam. All of which achievements had been of use in helping him to wring out of the War Office a promise of certain distinguished service in China.
"So you are, I quite forgot," said Ricketts: then turning to Oliver, he added, mockingly, "Allow me to congratulate you, Greenfield, on your really brilliant success. 112 marks out of 120! You could hardly have done better if you had seen the paper a day or two before the exam! Your class, I assure you, are very proud of you."
"Hullo, Jack!" he observed, on reaching the end of the formal document, "those red-tape chaps a' Whitehall haven't given you much time to prepare for your examination!" The mention of this damped my ardour a bit, I can tell you! "Oh, I quite forgot that!" I exclaimed lugubriously. "When have I got to go up for exam., Dad?"
But it will mess up your matric next June," said Dunkerley. "That's what I'm sorry for." "It's scarcely to be expected he'll give you leave to attend the exam...." "He won't," said Lewisham shortly, and opened his first exercise book. He found it difficult to talk. "He's a greaser." said Dunkerley. "But there! what can you expect from Durham?"
Vava went by her orders to the head-mistress's room, but found it empty. As she was coming away she met Miss Briggs, and thought it her duty to tell her that the head-mistress was not there, and was then going to pass on to her classroom. But Miss Briggs stopped her. 'Then you had better wait here for her, she observed. 'I shall miss my exam.! protested Vava.
"Oh, do!" said Loman. "I'm certain to be able to pay then. I forgot all about the Nightingale." "The Nightingale? It must be an uncommon spicy bird to fetch in thirty pound!" "It's not a bird," said Loman, laughing; "it's a scholarship." "A what?" "A scholarship. I'm in for an exam, you know, and whoever's first gets fifty-pounds a year for three years." "But suppose you ain't first? what then?"
From the first they had been drawn together; they were searching in an eager way for the same object; they had both been at a public school and once, when Shafto dropped a word about Sandhurst, Roscoe said: "I was intended for the Army, but I couldn't pass the doctor rather a facer after scraping through the exam.; when that was knocked on the head, I got a post as assistant-master, but I couldn't stick it for more than a couple of years; after that, I was in a newspaper office; then I got badly stage-struck and went on the boards.
In the early morning a great hush pervaded the place. The only sound was the faint tolling of the Almshouse bell. Between the Abbey and the library the sun rose in a blaze of glory. On the last morning of the term Gordon and Tester lolled back in their comfortable chairs. Gordon was trying to learn his rep. for the exam. that morning. "Oh, damn this," said Gordon. "I can't learn the stuff."
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