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"I tell you what," said Fairbairn, who along with Coates and Porter had escaped from the violent applause of the schoolhouse and sought refuge that evening in the captain's study "I tell you what, I'm getting perfectly sick of this everlasting schoolhouse against Parrett business." "So am I," said Porter. "As if they need go into the sulks because our fellows did better than they did!"
William Fairbairn has stated that when he first became acquainted with mechanical engineering, about sixty years ago, there were no self-acting tools; everything was executed by hand.
As the reader has heard, the new captain had already been out once or twice "on the quiet" in the pair-oar, and during these expeditions he had learned all he knew of the art of navigation. The idea of his steering the schoolhouse boat had never occurred either to himself or Fairbairn when he first undertook these practices at the solicitation of his friend.
"Why," replied Fairbairn, who was really interested in the subject, and quite pleased to be drawn out on so congenial a topic, "it's almost as important to get to know the play of your own men as to know the play of your opponents.
'She glided out of the faith, as Principal Fairbairn so expressively puts it, 'as easily and as softly as if she had been a ship obeying wind and tide, and her faith a sea that opened silently before and closed noiselessly behind her. Wherefore let all those who name the name of Christ depart from iniquity!
"All serene." "Had we better write?" asked Riddell. "No; why? What's the use of looking ashamed?" said Fairbairn; "let's go to them. Bloomfield's sure to be in his study." The two boys went accordingly, and found the Parrett's captain in his study along with Game and Ashley. It was rarely indeed that the schoolhouse seniors penetrated uninvited into the headquarters of their rivals.
I drank the water, and struggled back into composure, at least outwardly; being very much surprised at myself. "But what is the matter, Daisy? what is the matter? I have said nothing in the world. Cannot you bear that?" "Major Fairbairn was going to tell us something, ma'am," I said, endeavouring to throw my thoughts off. "That can wait until you are better." "No," I said, "do not wait. I am well.
This was the class of men with whom I associated in early life proud of their calling, fertile in resources, and aware of their value in a country where the industrial arts were rapidly developing." When William Fairbairn entered Manchester he was twenty-four years of age; and his hat still "covered his family."
"You send up all the names," said Bloomfield, "that is, unless Fairbairn wants to report the schoolhouse himself." "No," said Fairbairn, "you send up the list, Riddell." And so Riddell's captaincy received its first undisputed acknowledgment that term, and he sent up his formidable list to the doctor, and with mingled curiosity, impatience, and despondency waited the result.
And without so much as waiting for a reply, he bolted off, leaving his two would-be guests a trifle concerned as to his sanity. The clock was beginning to strike as Riddell knocked at the doctor's door, and began at length to realise what he was in for. He did not know whether to be thankful or not that Bloomfield and Fairbairn would be there to share his misery.
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