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Updated: June 13, 2025
These base insinuations led to frequent exchanges of taunts and uncomplimentary remarks; and, last of all, matters were brought to a climax by a stand-up fight between Tom Mason, Acton's predecessor as dux, and young Noaks.
"Shame on you, Mr. Noaks," said Mrs. Batch, "making believe you were dead " "Shame!" screamed Clarence, who had darted out into the fray. "I found him hiding behind the curtain," chimed in Katie. "And I a mother to him!" said Mrs. Batch, shaking her fist. "'What is life without love? indeed! Oh, the cowardly, underhand " "Wretch," prompted her cronies.
"Let's kick him out of the house!" suggested Clarence, dancing for joy. Zuleika, smiling brilliantly down at the boy, said "Just you run up and fight him!" "Right you are," he answered, with a look of knightly devotion, and darted back into the house. "No escape!" she cried up to Noaks. "You've got to fight him now. He and you are just about evenly matched, I fancy."
Diggory, peering through an aperture in the pile of forms, saw at a glance who they were Fletcher senior, Thurston, Noaks, and Hawley. "There don't seem to be any one about," continued Noaks, peering into the corners; "yet it's rum there should be such a smell of fusees."
I hope he gives Noaks a jolly good 'impot. That chap is a cad," continued the speaker, as they hurried back towards The Birches: "when he can't do anything else, he chucks stones like he did to-night. The wonder is he hasn't killed some one before now. I don't see how it's possible for the Philistines to show up well when they've got a chap like him bossing the show."
"Confound you!" he cried; "who did that ?" "I did," answered Mugford, half crying; "I thought it was empty." "Thought it was empty! why didn't you look, you young blockhead?" cried the prefect, catching the small boy by the arm, while Noaks and Mouler burst into a roar of laughter.
"I say, have you heard the latest?" cried Maxton, bursting into the reading-room just before preparation, regardless alike of the presence of Lucas and the rule relating to silence. "What about?" asked several voices. "Why, about Noaks!" "No." "Well, then, he's run away!"
"I don't know if you're waiting about here to get some cake, but I'm sure I never invited you to come." "Look here, don't be cheeky," answered Noaks. "If you think I want to make friends with a lot of impudent young monkeys like you, all I can say is you're jolly well mistaken," and so saying he turned on his heel and walked away.
"You tell me this moment where you've been." "In the other field." "What were you doing there?" "Running." There was a moment's silence. Noaks had a strong suspicion that the other knew something about the secret meeting; it was equally possible, however, that he did not.
Noaks and the two inside forwards evidently did not relish this state of things; they had expected an easy win, and began to show their disappointment in the increased roughness of their play. At length, just before half-time, a thing happened which very nearly caused Mr. Blake's followers to break their promise.
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