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And the louts come and pound at the great gates, and we pound back again, and shout at them. But this half we only sing in the hall. Come along down to my study." Their principal employment in the study was to clear out East's table; removing the drawers and ornaments and tablecloth; for he lived in the bottom passage, and his table was in requisition for the singing.
Whatever has become of the juniors' eleven in the schoolhouse, Telson?" "Can't make out," replied Telson; "they're an awful set of louts this year; only one or two good men in the lot. I don't think they can scrape up an eleven." "Ah!" said the captain, seeing his chance; "you've lost a good many good fellows. Wyndham, for one, has got up into the second-eleven, I hear."
Most people will answer this question unhesitatingly in the negative. Those employers in particular who are in the habit of denouncing their employes as a set of lazy, drunken louts, will feel quite certain that no work could be got out of them except under threat of dismissal and consequent starvation. But is this as certain as people are inclined to sup- pose at first sight?
It would throw out the worst of the duffers and fools and louts all along the social scale. What is to become of the rejected of the upper and wealthy class is, I admit, a difficult problem as things are to-day.
"'Why, this is nectar! cried the Viscount, having tasted. 'And do you tell me that those ignorant louts poured six hogsheads of it to waste? "'The gutters ran with it, monseigneur! Rhone wine, that even at four livres the hogshead could not be sold at a profit. "'Pardieu! The Viscount knitted his brow.
"He is destroying himself!" he cried aloud; "You see well that he does not know what he is doing." "Silence among the louts at the end of the hail!" said the bailiff sharply. Jacques Charmolue, by the aid of the same manoeuvres of the tambourine, made the goat perform many other tricks connected with the date of the day, the month of the year, etc., which the reader has already witnessed.
Felgate was prepared to hear a peremptory order to go to the field, and had laid his plans for resisting it. "I've just been seeing one or two other louts down below who hadn't turned up. I'm glad to hear you advised them to go when I sent Wake to fetch them. It's a pity they didn't take your advice, for I've had to thrash Hunger.
The truth is, however, that there was among our men a much higher tone of society than among the clumsy louts in the English army, and our service was generally so strict that we had little time for doing mischief. I am very dark and swarthy in complexion, and was called by our fellows the 'Black Englander, the 'Schwartzer Englander, or the English Devil.
Carew thrust fiercely into the press, the louts and loafers giving way. "What, here! Nicholas Attwood," said he, harshly, "come hither." "Do na leave him take me," begged Nick. "He is not my master; I am not bound out apprentice they are stealing me away from my own home, and it will break my mother's heart."
The boy for he was but a boy, one of those many ill-reared country louts who leave the plough-tail for the musket, and, for a shilling a day, experience all the "pomp and circumstance of glorious war" reddened to the roots of his closely-cropped hair. "There, that's quite close enough. You're only a common soldier, Miles, and you mustn't make love to me." "Not make love to yer!" says Miles.
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