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Blandford appeared rather flattered than otherwise by this observation, and told Mr Pillans to shut up and not tell tales out of school. "I suppose Wilderham hasn't changed much since last term?" asked Reginald wistfully. "Oh no; plenty of fellows left and new ones come rather a better lot, take them all round, than we had last term."
Has he been collaring any of your spoons? or setting the house on fire? or what? Who is he?" "He's cheeked me!" said Pillans, brushing the dust off his coat. "Hold him fast, will you? till I take it out of him." But the horse-racer was far too much of a sportsman for that. "No, no," said he, laughing; "make a mill of it and I'm your man. I'll bet two to one on the young 'un to start with."
He managed it very neatly," said Mr Pillans. Horace fired up fiercely. "What do you mean? Who's this cad you keep about the place, Blandford?" "If you don't go I'll kick you down the stairs!" cried Mr Pillans, by this time in a rage. Horace laughed. Mr Pillans was his senior in years and his superior in inches, but there was nothing in his unhealthy face to dismay the sturdy school-boy.
Pillans was master. Mr. Finlayson was a remarkably good Greek scholar, and my husband said, "Why not take advantage of such an opportunity of improvement?" So I read Homer for an hour every morning before breakfast. Mr.
When Pillans got home to his lodgings that night he found his comrade in bed with a severe wound in the shoulder, unable to give any account of himself but that he had been first garotted, then robbed, and finally stabbed, on his way home from the Shades. Mr Durfy did not present himself at Mr Medlock's hotel at the appointed hour next morning.
It had not occurred to him till that moment that his old schoolfellow could be anything but glad to see him, and he didn't believe it now. "Will Harker be coming?" he inquired, ignoring Mr Pillans' presence. "No, no one you know is coming," said Blandford, half angrily, half nervously. "That's a pity. I'd have liked to see some of the old lot.
"You're not obliged to go there," he said, with a curl of his lip, "unless you like." Mr Shanklin smiled at this sally, a demonstration which considerably incensed the not too amiable Mr Pillans. "I'll take precious care I don't," said the latter. Reginald said "Thanks!" drily, and in a way so cutting that Mr Shanklin and Blandford both laughed this time.
Pillans had gone off to play billiards with Mr Medlock, so Blandford and Mr Shanklin attacked the bottle themselves. When it was done, the former rose unsteadily, and, bidding his friend good-night, said he would go home, as he'd got a headache. Which was about as true an observation as man ever uttered. "Good-night old feller," said he; "see you to-morrow."
Man possesses in himself the principles requisite for the regulation of the increase of the numbers of mankind; and where the influence of government does not interfere with their operation, they are sufficient to regulate the progress of population according to the interest and welfare of all classes of the people. EDINBURGH: Printed by JOHN PILLANS, James's Court.
"All very well," said Pillans; "but he called me a blackguard." This simple discovery caused still greater merriment at the expense of the outraged owner of the appellation. "I've a good mind to go after him, and pull his nose," growled he. "Nothing would please him better," said Blandford. "But you'd better leave your own nose behind, my boy, before you start, or there won't be much of it left.
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