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I hope you," he looked hard at Desmond, "will fight on the right side." The boys returned to their room, jubilant because the house-cap was theirs, but uneasy because of the words given with it. As soon as they were alone, Scaife said sullenly "Does Lawrence expect us to stand in with Warde against Lovell and his pals? If he does, he's jolly well mistaken, as far as I'm concerned."
Anyhow, there you have the results of my investigations. If you can make anything out of them, you're welcome to it. Good-bye." "Half a second," said Trevor, as he got up; "had the fellow a cap of any sort?" "No. Bareheaded. You wouldn't expect him to give himself away by wearing a house-cap?" Trevor went over to the headmaster's revolving this discovery in his mind.
It must be worn buttoned by boys who have been less than three years in the school. Small boys are not advised to copy John's tactics. The victory is not always to the weak. The house-cap, only worn by members of the House Cricket Eleven. Lying in bed in the morning when there is no First School is a "frowst." By a subtle law of association, an armchair is also a "frowst."
The Duffer lent him a House-shirt of green and white stripes, and a pair of white duck shorts, and with what pride John put them on, thinking of the far distant day when he would wear a "fez" instead of the commonplace house-cap! Lawrence said a few words.
And then Hans Keller described the man himself, never relaxed, always quivering with mysterious thrills, incapable of sitting still, except at the piano, or at table for his meals; receiving visitors standing, pacing back and forth in his salon, his hands twitching in nervous uncertainty; changing the position of the armchairs, rearranging the furniture, suddenly stopping to hunt about his person for a snuff-box or a pair of glasses that he never found; turning his pockets inside out, pulling his velvet house-cap now down over one eye, now back over the crown of his head, or again, throwing it into the air with a shout of joy or crumpling it in his hand, as he became excited in the course of a discussion!
He seemed far older than when she had last spoken with him, perhaps five years ago; and had grown a little pointed beard; his hair, too, seemed thinner such of it as she could see beneath the house-cap that he wore; his face, especially about his blue, angry-looking eyes, was covered with fine wrinkles, and his hands were clearly the hands of an old man, at once delicate and sinewy.
We didn't know then why he was so anxious to stop us, but at five minutes to four, when we were in Yeo's shop, we saw Tulke in broad daylight, with his house-cap on, kissin' an' huggin' a woman on the pavement. Is that decent enough for you?" "I didn't I wasn't." "We saw you!" said Beetle. A new and heaven-cleft path opened before him that instant.
Confer orationes Regis furiosissimi, when he collared me readin' 'Don Juan." "'Course he kissed her," said McTurk. "In the middle of the street. With his house-cap on!" "Time, 3.57 p.m. Make a note o' that. What d'you mean, Beetle?" said Stalky. "Well! He's a truthful little beast. He may say he was kissed." "And then?" "Why, then!" Beetle capered at the mere thought of it. "Don't you see?
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