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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Look here," says the house master, "there's London Matric. at the end of next term. Hadn't you better give up all this foolery with politics and do a little real work?" The advice was taken, and perhaps we are not sufficiently impartial to offer a valuable opinion on the result. However, the boy was no fool, and the first part of the advice need never have been given.
"Wish I had!" sighed Claire, thankful to switch the conversation on to a safe topic. "It would come in most usefully at the moment. What are you going to do for the summer hols, Cecil? Is there any possibility of " "No," Cecil said shortly. "And the regiment is going into camp, so he will be out of town. I'm not bothering my head about holidays quite enough to do with this wretched Matric.
Lilith Gordon had bragged: "My uncle's promised me a gold watch and chain when I pass matric." Lucy of Toorak laughed: her nose came down, and her mouth went up at the corners. "Do you think you ever will?" "G. o. k. and He won't tell. But I'll probably get the watch all the same." "Where does your uncle hang out?" "Brisbane." "Sure he can afford to buy it?" "Of course he can." "What is he?"
In the middle of the hall the prefect of the college sodality was speaking earnestly, in a soft querulous voice, with a boarder. As he spoke he wrinkled a little his freckled brow and bit, between his phrases, at a tiny bone pencil. I hope the matric men will all come. The first arts' men are pretty sure. Second arts, too. We must make sure of the newcomers.
Thomasina and the elder girls working steadily towards the goal of the "Matric"; Kathleen and her friends dreaming night and day of the "Oxford"; while nearer at hand loomed the school examinations, which ended the term. Rhoda was in a fever of anxiety to acquit herself well in the eyes of her companions on this occasion, and could think, speak, and dream of nothing else.
"I've had the most awful night, doing sums all the time, with the Examiner looking over my shoulder. My head is like a jelly!" Then Tom's voice arose in derisive accents. Happy Tom! who was well through her June Matric, and could afford to chaff the poor victims. "Would any young lady like to explain to me how to find the resultant of a system of parallel forces?" "Tom, you are brutal!
But it will mess up your matric next June," said Dunkerley. "That's what I'm sorry for." "It's scarcely to be expected he'll give you leave to attend the exam...." "He won't," said Lewisham shortly, and opened his first exercise book. He found it difficult to talk. "He's a greaser." said Dunkerley. "But there! what can you expect from Durham?"
"More fun than higher mathematics and Locke on the Understanding, eh, Bland?" "Perhaps they would be glad to change places with us before they are through with it, though," observes Blandford. "Never knew such a beggar for grinding as Bland is turning out," says Harker. "He takes the shine out of me; and I'm certain he'll knock me into a cocked hat at the matric.."
"I'm like that now. I've got a dozen lives like a cat. And one life doesn't know what the other one's doing." He laughed. "Before breakfast I wash down the car of the man who owns our garage. The rest of the morning I coach fellows for the Matric. In the afternoon I swot for myself. You see how I spend my evenings. Brown's been very decent to me.
"Lords, I suppose, or Ascot, or Ranelagh, or Hurlingham, or Henley... They come on in June and July, just as poor High School- mistresses are in the thick of cramming for the Matric. But no doubt you are the exception to the rule! ... You must think you are, at least, to have bought a frock like that!" "Cecil, it was wickedly cheap it was, indeed!
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