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They had come from Pilbury Regis with a very small reserve indeed in their poor lean little purses; and though Mrs. Halliss's lodgings might be cheap enough as London lodgings go, their means wouldn't allow them to stop there for many weeks together unless that hypothetical something of which they were in search should happen to turn up with most extraordinary and unprecedented rapidity.
Before the end of the quarter, two things occurred which made almost as serious a difference to Ernest's and Edie's lives as the dismissal from Pilbury Regis Grammar School. It was about a week or ten days after Herr Max's unfortunate visit that Ernest awoke one morning with a very curious and unpleasant taste in his mouth, accompanied by a violent fit of coughing.
Pilbury and Cusack, who at the first alarm had retreated somewhat suddenly to the door, returned as soon as they perceived there was no danger, and were profuse in their praises of the experiment and the experimenter. "Awfully prime, that was!" cried Cusack; "wasn't it, Pil?" "Stunning!" said Pilbury. "Jolly grind that jar bursting up, though," said Philpot, with a troubled countenance.
'Really I like him quite immensely. Not even the afternoon on Wednesday fortnight? she went on aloud. 'You might come to our garden party on Wednesday fortnight. 'Quite impossible, Arthur Berkeley answered. 'That's my regular day at Pilbury Regis. 'Pilbury Regis! cried Lady Hilda, starting a little.
"There's nothing in that empty jar," said Pilbury, laughing. "Isn't there, though?" said Philpot; "it's full." "You mean to say that jar's full of something," said Cusack. "Look here, don't you try to stuff us up. What's the use of saying it's full when it's empty?" "It's full of gas, I tell you," said Philpot. "Don't you talk till you know."
For all that he's quite correct. Mr Bloomfield is a well-meaning man, no doubt, but he certainly is not an all-round man." Riddell then rose, and his rising was the signal for a great demonstration of party feeling. Parrett's of course went against him, and a large section of Welch's, but the schoolhouse, aided by Cusack, Pilbury, and Co., backed him up. He spoke nervously but boldly.
"What do you say to going it steady this term?" asked Pilbury. "Depends on what you mean by `steady. If you mean never going out of bounds or using cribs, I'm not game." "Oh, I don't mean that, you know," said Pilbury. "What I mean is, shutting up rows, and that sort of thing." "What can a fellow do?" asked Cusack, dubiously.
"What a frightful idiot you are, Pilbury!" he exclaimed; "you've spoilt that whole experiment. I wish you'd shut up fooling and get out." "Awfully sorry, old man," said Pilbury, "but you did look so jolly puffed out, you know; didn't he, Cusack?" "Now you've done, you'd better hook it," said Philpot, "you've not got leave to come here."
"Your views about young Le Breton," I must say to him, "are unfortunately only too well founded; and I have been compelled to dismiss him this very hour from Pilbury Grammar School." Ugh how humiliating! the profession's really enough to give one a perfect sickening of life altogether!
"Cut a bit off," said Philpot, trying to stick the substance with a long bodkin, in order to hold it steady. "Why, that's not the way to cut it, you old dolt," said Pilbury. "Here, I'll do it," and he advanced to the saucer. "What'll you do?" "Why, fish it out, of course, and cut it then." "You'd better not try. It's phosphorus." "Is it, though and what does it do?"
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