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Updated: June 3, 2025
I used to look at you in chapel. You're just as different from me as any one can be, and that's why you're like God to me. I don't want you to be decent to me. I think I'd rather you weren't. But I like to come in sometimes and hear you say that I'm dirty and untidy. That shows that you've noticed." "But I'm not at all the sort of person to make a hero of," Olva said hurriedly.
On the next evening the sun set with great splendour. The frost had come and hardened the snow and all day the sky bad been a pale frozen blue, only on the horizon fading into crocus yellow. The sun was just vanishing behind the grey roofs when Olva went to Rocket Road.
Tester caught it, it passed to Buchan, who as he fell flung it right out to Cardillac; Cardillac draw his man, swerved, and sent it back to Olva. As Olva felt the neat hard surface of it, as he knew that the way was almost clear before him, his feet seemed clogged with heavy weights. Something was about to happen to him something, but not this.
Now, at half-past nine, the company of twenty march singing down the K.P. and gather unto themselves others a murmur is spreading through the byways. "Bonfire on the Common." "Bonfire on the Common." The streets begin to be black with undergraduates. Olva was conscious as he passed with Lawrence through the now crowded streets that Bunning's hysteria had had an effect upon his nerves.
"I'm sure he did," said Olva drily. "Well it won't be many days before you give the show away that's certain." What could have made him tell the fellow? What madness? What ? But Bunning caught on to his sleeve. "No, no, you mustn't say that, Dune, please, you mustn't. I'm going to do my best, I am really. But his coming suddenly like that, just when I'd been thinking. . . . But it's awful.
He climbed to his room, flung back his door and saw that his light was turned on. Facing him, waiting for him, was Bunning. "If you don't want me " he began with his inane giggle. "Sit down." Olva pulled out the whisky and two siphons of soda. "If I didn't want you I'd say so." He filled himself a strong glass of whisky and soda and began feverishly to drink. Bunning sat down.
Olva liked Cardillac Cardillac liked Olva. They both in their attitude to College affairs saw beyond the College gates into the wide and bright world. Cardillac, when it had seemed that no danger could threaten either his election to the Wolves or the acquisition of his Football Blue, had regarded both honours quietly and with indifference.
It has struck nine, and to Olva and Lawrence, walking solemnly through the market-place, it all seems quiet enough. But behold how the gods work their will! It so happens that Giles of St Martin's has occasion, on this very day, to celebrate his twenty-first birthday.
He had never assisted Carfax and Cards in their raiding expeditions, but that was only because he considered such things tiresome and childish. And now, behold, there in his doorway incredible vision! was the creature at this moment of all others! "Come in," said Olva again. Bunning brought his large quivering body into the room and stood there, turning his cap round and round in his hands.
As Olva looked Lawrence in the eyes he knew that it would be well with him if, in his journey through the world, he met again so good a soul. Cardillac joined them and they all talked for a little. Then Olva said good-night. He turned for a moment at the door and looked back. Some one at the other end of the room was singing "Egypt" to a cracked piano.
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