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Updated: May 18, 2025
Roger was particularly silent, since his actions in obtaining the study spools had started the whole chain of disastrous events. The boys did not know which cadet would be appointed to defend them until late the following afternoon when there was a knock on the door, and a small, thin cadet, wearing a thick pair of eyeglasses that gave him a decided owllike look, entered the room.
He had a look half pedant, half bully, and he spoke with a one-quarter-drunken, owllike solemnity. "I may take it from the look of things that there are none hereabouts but good Whigs and upholders of government? No Tories no damned black Jacobites?" The excise man hemmed.
In short, it was a statue, sculptured by Lucas, and placed here in 1838, at the expense of Dr. Law, the reverend chancellor of the diocese. Several big books are piled up beneath his chair, and, if I mistake not, he holds a volume in his hand, thus blinking forth at the world out of his learned abstraction, owllike, yet benevolent at heart.
But the owl-public would have none of me, and, owllike, hooted me off the boards. But I've had my revenge of them. I've played a devil's part on the devil's stage for thirty red years. Nune Plaudite." The Latin tag dropped dead at the porches of John Thoroughgood's ears, but those ears pricked at part of Halfman's declamation.
We are happy enough in the dark. We have our batlike sports and our owllike prides, and the full sun would blind us and lose us our way. "Kit sends you her love and blushes as she says it. That is a very daring word for such shy moles as we are, but I will echo it. "Yours for old sake's sake. #Luke.#"
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