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Call me a coward, and a fool, and a Tadpole, any mortal thing you like, only shut up about the affair now!" Pembury looked concerned. "Allow me to feel your pulse," said he to Oliver. "Feel away," said Oliver, glad of any diversion. "Hum! As I feared feverish. Oliver, my boy, you are not well. Wandering a bit in your mind, too; get to bed. Be better soon.
"And what business of yours is it what it looks like?" demanded Wraysford. "Come, old man," said Pembury; "don't eat him up! I fancy Greenfield might screw up courage to pull his nose, whoever else he lets off, eh? It's my private opinion, though, Oliver knew what he was about." "Of course he did," sneered Braddy; "he knew jolly well what he was about." "Dear me! Is that you, Mr Braddy?
"Never mind," said Ricketts to Pembury, after the two had been talking over the affair for the twentieth time. "Never mind; and there's just this, Tony, if Wray is only second, it will be a splendid win for the Fifth all the same." "I see nothing splendid in the whole concern," said Pembury. And that was the general feeling. Oliver entered and took his accustomed seat in silence.
Braddy, who as usual felt and looked extinguished when Pembury made fun of him, retired sulkily, and the editor of the Dominican thereupon turned his attack on another quarter. And so the dispute went on, neither party being convinced, and all satisfied only on one point that a cloud had arisen to mar the hitherto peaceful horizon of Fifth Form existence.
"A nice name we shall get, all of us," said Bullinger, "when it gets abroad all over the school." "It's a shame, because one fellow funks, for the whole Form to be disgraced; that's what I say," said some one else. There were, however, two boys who did not join in this general cry of indignation against Oliver, and they were Wraysford and Pembury.
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