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"But, I say, Marky, just tell us this it wasn't us got you into the row, was it? It was awfully low of me to let it out to Felgate; but we bowled him out in time, just when he was going to send those things to Bickers. Did you see the nice trick we played him? He won't be able to do it again, for we burned the things. Such a flare-up! It isn't our fault you're going, is it?"
"You will get into no more trouble with him than you have got into already for getting up last night after he had gone, and acting in the farce in the Fourth class-room." The culprits regarded one another with looks of consternation. "Did you see us then?" asked Arthur. "You see, Marky Mr Railsford I mean we'd promised to "
Whereupon he rose and made a little speech, partially audible to those immediately round him, but supremely inaudible to the two parties specially concerned behind. "We're going to drink a toast," said Arthur. "I vote we drink the health of jolly old Marky and my sister Daisy; there they are behind, going the pace like a house on fire.
Colonel, you understand that affairs of honor are best settled at once: perhaps it won't be inconvenient to you to arrange our little matters of last night. "'What little matters? says I. 'Do you owe me any money, marky? "'Bah! says he; 'do not let us have any more jesting. I have your note of hand for three hundred and forty louis. La voici. says he, taking out a paper from his pocket-book.
"If I'd have only known he was coming, I could have made it hotter for him," he said; "only he got my head in chancery early, and though I lashed out all I could, he took it out of me. Marky, do you mind feeling if my ribs are all right? I sort of fancied one of 'em had gone."
It was you that insisted on the large stakes, not they. In fact he charged dead against me: and when the two others went away, he told me how the Marky would shoot me as sure as my name was was what it is. 'I left the Countess crying, too, said he. Its my belief, says my friend, 'that that woman is distractedly in love with you.
As it was, it didn't matter a bit, for Miss Violet showed up like a trump as she is, and backed us up; so it's just as well you hadn't come. Violet nodded to me! She's the most beautiful girl in the world. Smedley turned up too; brickish, wasn't it? Bickers of course came, and tried to spoil our sports, but Marky gave him a flea in his ear, and Dig and I howled; so he didn't stay long.
Felgate was in against him rather a decent chap, one of our prefects; had me to tea in his room the other day. He and Marky don't hit it. He was lazy, and didn't bother himself. Fellows said he could easily have licked the School record if he'd tried; but he didn't; and Stafford missed it by a few inches. So that event we lost. Jolly sell, joli vendre.
He told me to tell you so. We've been scrambling about. Can I come in the tandem?" "If he's not coming you can. Has he gone on, then?" "No he was just getting a a specimen," said Dig, hopping up on the saddle, and resolving that Marky should do all the work. "He says he'd sooner walk." "Dear me! here comes the rain," said Railsford, turning up his collar, "we'd better go on.
He does not need to be told of the shouts which greeted the appearance of boy after boy from Railsford's house on the platform steps to receive his prize; or of the grim smile on the doctor's face as a youthful voice from the prize benches, forgetting the solemnity of the occasion, shouted, "Marky again, bravo us!"
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