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If four plutocrats with four sovereigns were to combine, Farnie, by their united efforts, would be saved. And he rather liked the notion of being turned into a sort of limited liability company, like the Duke of Plaza Toro, at a pound a share. It seemed to add a certain dignity to his position. To Gethryn's study, therefore, he went directly school was over.
'Get up, he said. Farnie got up. 'Come on. Farnie came. 'Go and get your machine, said Gethryn. 'Hurry up. And now you will jolly well come back to Beckford, you little beast. But before that could be done there was Gethryn's back wheel to be mended. This took time. It was nearly half past four before they started. 'Oh, said Gethryn, as they were about to mount, 'there's that money.
Ordinarily the tacit agreement between the pair was that only one should borrow at a time, lest confidence should be destroyed in the victim. But here was surely an exception, a special case. With a young gentleman so obviously a man of coin as Farnie, the rule might well be broken for once.
'I don't think he will. He is a good bat, but there are heaps better in the place. I say, I think I shall give young Farnie the tip once more, and let him take it or leave it. What do you think? 'He'll leave it, said Marriott, with conviction. Nor was he mistaken.
And so most Saturday afternoons would find Farnie leaving behind him the flannelled fools at their various wickets, and speeding out into the country on his bicycle in the direction of the village of Biddlehampton, where mine host of the 'Cow and Cornflower', in addition to other refreshment for man and beast, advertised that ping-pong and billiards might be played on the premises.
It was not the former of these games that attracted Farnie. He was no pinger. Nor was he a pongster. But for billiards he had a decided taste, a genuine taste, not the pumped-up affectation sometimes displayed by boys of his age. Considering his age he was a remarkable player.
'What sort of a hole is Beckford? asked Farnie, after the silence had lasted some time. 'I find it good enough personally, said Gethryn. 'If you'd let us know earlier that you were coming, we'd have had the place done up a bit for you. This, of course, was feeble, distinctly feeble. But the Bishop was not feeling himself. The essay in sarcasm left the would-be victim entirely uncrushed.
Farnie, using his out-of-bounds adventures as a foundation, worked up a highly artistic narrative of doings, which, if they had actually been performed, would certainly have entailed expulsion. He had judged Gethryn's character correctly. If the matter had been simply a case for a flogging, the Bishop would have stood aside and let the thing go on.
He made him understand that he went about with him from choice, and that there was to be nothing of the patron and dependant about their alliance. If he were to lend him the two pounds now, things would alter. And to have got a complete hold over Master Reginald Farnie, Monk would have paid more than two pounds.
You know that kid Farnie has left? 'I thought I missed his merry prattle. What's happened to him? 'Gone to a school in France somewhere. 'Jolly for France. 'Awfully. But the point is that now he's gone I can tell you about that M.C.C. match affair. I know you want to hear what really did happen that afternoon. Marriott pointed significantly at Wilson, whose back was turned.
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