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Even to these compeers he found little to say: a loud lot, imbued with the rowdy spirit of the new day; whereas Nogam was hopelessly of the old school in the new word, he dated though his form was admittedly unimpeachable. And if because of this he was made fun of more or less openly, to an extent that added shades of resignation to his countenance, secretly he commanded considerable respect.
I haven't saw yuh for some time. How's bronco-fighting? Gone up against any more contests?" He laughed mockingly with mouth and eyes maddeningly like Jessie's in teasing mood. Rowdy could have killed him for the resemblance alone. His lids drooped sleepily over eyes that glittered. Harry saw the sign, read it for danger; but he laughed again.
"If anything should happen to Prescott and Darrin just before any of the big games," muttered Ripley, darkly, to himself, "then I'd have my chance, after all! Can't I get my head to working and find a way to make something happen?" "To your seat, Mr. Bristow! You're acting like a rowdy!" Principal Cantwell uttered the order sharply.
The youth gave a yell, which was echoed by some of his rowdy companions, and by the two little schoolboys who had joined the throng in a frenzy of childish excitement, which they thought manly. "The dancing hours! The dancing hours!" they cried, and one who was with a girl suddenly caught her round the waist and broke into wild steps. Others joined in. The confusion became tremendous.
The rowdy young man is not content to paint his tutor's door green: he would like to paint the whole city scarlet. The word which to us best recalls such gigantesque idiocy is the word "mafficking." The slaves of that saturnalia were not only painting the town red; they thought that they were painting the map red that they were painting the world red.
He squawked and came to life clawing viciously. "I'd like t' know where the devil yuh come from," a voice remarked plaintively in a soft treble. Rowdy opened his eyes with a snap. "Pink! by all that's good and bad! Get up off my diaphragm, you little fiend." Pink absent-mindedly kneaded Rowdy's stomach with his knuckles, and immediately found himself in a far corner.
Memories came back to him of the men with whom he had been intimate. His father, the mechanical man who had cogs instead of corpuscles in his blood, Wiggleswick the undesirable, a few rowdy men on his staircase at Cambridge who had led shocking lives once making a bonfire of his pyjamas and a brand-new umbrella in the middle of the court and had since come to early and disastrous ends.
Yo' WOULD go nightriding like a rowdy and a thug! Are yo' much hurt?" He said it easy and gentle, more than mad. But Bud, he flushed up, pale as he was, and didn't answer his dad direct. He turned to his mother and said: "Miss Lucy, dear, it would 'a' done yo' heart good to see the way them trust warehouses blazed up!"
The rowdy members and rowdy scenes have ipso facto attained prominence; but after carefully watching for myself, and taking the opinions of those best qualified to form them, I cannot but think that the generally-received opinion even in Australia is incorrect, and that, taking all the circumstances into consideration, both character and behaviour are far better than one has reason to expect.
The next evening, the evening before Organ-Sunday, every child in Upper and Lower Wood, and above all, in Middle Lot, knew that the quiet Erick all at once belonged to the rowdies; that he was not only going to fight with them in the Sunday battle, but that he was going with the worst rowdy, with Churi and his companions, early in the morning before church.
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