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He hated the war, but he'd have hated to know that I was not in it. He took it for granted that I would go ... never dreamed that I wouldn't go. If he'd thought that I wouldn't join, he would never have talked to me about the war in the way he did. My father was a proud man, Mary, as proud as your mother, and I think he'd have died of shame if he'd thought I was funking this.
While he was in the act of thrashing them, they would roar out instances of his funking at football, or shirking some encounter with a lout of half his own size. Come what might, he would make those boys' lives miserable. So the strife settled down into a personal affair between Flashman and our youngsters a war to the knife, to be fought out in the little cockpit at the end of the bottom passage.
She hunted and hounded him out. She told him he was funking. Fancy Colin funking!" "What's Queenie like?" "She's like that. She never funks herself, but she wants to make out that everybody else does." "Do you like Queenie?" "No. I hate her. I don't mind her hounding him out so much since she went herself; I do mind her leaving him. Do you know, she's never even tried to come and see him."
It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. And they can't be happy. Moreover, dying's none so dreadful; it's the funking makes it bad. And in all those places we shall gather. Our district will be London. And we may even be able to keep a watch, and run about in the open when the Martians keep away. Play cricket, perhaps. That's how we shall save the race. Eh?
"Damn you, you're funking it!" "I must tell him myself," he went on. "I must stand up to some one. I can't go on funking things forever...." It was odd, he thought, that he had no feeling for Jimphy. He had not any sense of shame because he had made love to Jimphy's wife. Jimphy appeared to him only in a comic light. Yet Jimphy had professed friendship for him.
Then it'll all come out, and you'll get dropped on for going up the river and going to the pub." "Perhaps he won't ask," said Sheen. "Hope not. Oh, by the way " "What's up?" "Just remembered what I came up for. It's an awful rag. The senior day-room are going to court-martial you." "Court-martial me!" "For funking. They don't know about Aldershot, not a word.
'At least, I said, funking, you know, 'I see it's the same name. And I went on to tell him how I'd been so impressed with my first adventure with him that I'd written to you about it. He held out his hand for the letter. I just sat and watched him. He read the whole thing rapidly, his eyes going back again and again to some parts of it; and then he gave it back to me.
PETER: "You think I want you to go home? Very well! If you go...I go!" I longed to have the courage to say, "Let us both go home," but I knew he would think that I was funking and it was still early in the day. He looked at me steadily and said: "I will do exactly what you like." I looked at him, but at that moment the hounds came in sight and my last chance was gone.
'Is it only to-day that you have thought that? he said wistfully. 'Well, anyway, I'm glad of it. 'Colin, she said abruptly, 'wasn't it funking a little bit, don't you think running away? 'No not with YOU beside me. You'll have other opportunities for seeing whether I've got much of the funker in me. No doubt those brutes will give trouble some time. 'What can they do?
I say, what's all this about your house?" "What about my house?" "Funking, and all that. Sheen, you know. Stanning has just been telling me." "Then he saw him, too!" exclaimed Linton, involuntarily. "Oh, it's true, then? Did he really cut off like that? Stanning said he did, but I wouldn't believe him at first. You aren't going? Good night." So the thing was out.
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