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"Well," said Jim, surlily, "what do you want?" "I'll tell you in a minute, old boy. Can I have a chair?" "Can't you see I'm busy?" said Cotton, unamiably. "You look like it, more or less, certainly." "Well, I've no time for any oratory to-night, Philips, and that is all about it." "I'll give you a leg-up for Merishall in the morning if you're decently civil."
If all reports were true, Marsden had not made very much of his life in the way of worldly success, and Romarin, sorry to hear it, had wished he could give him a leg-up. Even a good man cannot do much when the current of his life sets against him in a tide of persistent ill-luck, and Romarin, honoured and successful, yet knew that he had been one of the lucky ones....
The quintette thereupon spread themselves out, but every shop was drawn blank. "Rum!" said Rogers. "Where can the ass be?" "If we knew, Solomon, would we try to find out?" said Sharpe. "I say, you fellows I've got an idea about Grimmy. Didn't Lancaster give him a leg-up for his chemistry the other day? Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it?
"Well," and Lawford smiled a little whimsically, serious though the discussion was, "I've always felt a leaning toward the candy business. I believe I have a natural adaptability for that. Couldn't I find a job in one of your factories, dad?" "You'll get no leg-up from me, unless you show you're worthy of it." "But you'll give me a job?"
"You needn't go telling the mater, but I was off my feed a whole day after the sports. How soon do fellows get money enough to marry? If I get the Swift Scholarship I shall have £20 a-year for three years something to start with. I wish you'd come down and give me a leg-up. I'm afraid that cad Smedley's got his eye on her. His father's only a doctor.
When at length she turned to get in, Tony Cornish was coming across the Toornoifeld under the trees; for The Hague is the shadiest city in the world, with forest trees growing amid its great houses. "Ah!" said Marguerite, holding out her hand. "You see, I have come across to give you all a leg-up. Seems to me we are going to have rather a spree."
"Of course not; no honourable fellow would." "I suppose he thinks he's going to bribe us, the cad. Perhaps he hopes we'll give him a leg-up next election?" "I vote we put on a spurt with the impots and get them all done together," said another. "Paddy shall see which way we go, at any rate."
"Did you preserve a sample?" "No." "My word, you've a lot to learn. Now, weighing the evidence, does anything strike you?" "No." "You're a bright sort of sleuth-hound, aren't you! It seems to me I'm doing all the work on this case. I'll have to give you another leg-up. Considering the time when the quid disappeared, I should say that somebody in the dormitory must have collared it.
"Look here, my young friend," he said, "you're talking rot. Men and women who live down here in wretchedness, and who are fighting every moment of their time to hang on to life, don't want to be talked to about their souls. They need a leg-up in the world, and we've come to try and give it to them. We're here as friends, not preachers. We'll leave you to look after their souls.
"Here have I been slogging away at it all the evening and never got my bat properly under it yet. You might give us a leg-up, Dig." "Bless you," said Dig, "I'm no good at that sort of yorker. I'm bad enough stumped as it is by this Horace. He gets an awful screw on now and then, and just when you think you've scored off him, there you are in among the slips, caught out low down.
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