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Three saloon-pistols, with a supply of bulleted breech-caps, were stored in Stalky's trunk, and this trunk was in their dormitory, and their dormitory was a three-bed attic one, opening out of a ten-bed establishment, which, in turn, communicated with the great range of dormitories that ran practically from one end of the College to the other.
"You seemed certain enough just now." "I think it's two and fourpence," said McTurk, with a glance of cold scorn at Beetle. In the hopelessly involved finances of the study there was just that sum to which both McTurk and Beetle laid claim, as their share in the pledging of Stalky's second-best Sunday trousers.
Still Mr. Wontner sat in his chair, and still we waited on him. The Infant's face showed worry and heavy grief; Stalky's, a bright and bird-like interest; mine was hidden behind his shoulders, but on the face of Ipps were written emotions that no butler should cherish towards any guest. Contempt and wrath were the least of them. And Mr. Wontner was looking full at Ipps, as Ipps was looking at him.
"And," said the amateur Shylock, returning to the form-room and dropping at Stalky's side, "if he don't think the house is putrid with it, I'm several Dutch-men that's all... I've been to Mr. Prout's study, sir." This to the prep.-master. "He said I could sit where I liked, sir... Oh, he is just tricklin' with emotion... Yes, sir, I'm only askin' Corkran to let me have a dip in his ink."
Set him up, Beetle. Give me the glove an' put in the gag." In silence Campbell was "rocked" sixty-four times. "I believe I'm goin' to die!" he gasped. "He says he is goin' to die. Put him away. Now, Sefton! Oh, I forgot! Sefton, what did you bully Clewer for?" The answer is unprintable; but it brought not the faintest flush to Stalky's downy cheek. "Make him an Ag Ag, Turkey!"
But now, he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry 'Capivi!" Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin. "And, besides," said McTurk, "he's a Philistine, a basket-hanger. He wears a tartan tie.
"Local etiquette, sir," he replied, too earnest to notice Stalky's atrocious pun. "If a slaver runs slaves through British territory he ought to pretend that they're his servants. Hawkin' 'em about in the Fork the forked stick that you put round their necks, you know is insolence same as not backing your topsails in the old days. Besides, it unsettles the District."
He had sixty men of sorts and his brazen cheek. Mac nearly wept with joy when he went. You see there weren't any explicit orders to Stalky to come in before the passes were blocked: Mac is a great man for orders, and Stalky's a great man for orders when they suit his book." "He told me he was goin' to the Engadine," said Tertius.
'I wish to goodness you'd stop talking! he snapped, and sat down on a chair. Stalky's hand on my shoulder quietly signalled me out of action, but I felt that my fire had not been misdirected. 'I'll answer for him, said Stalky to Wontner, in an undertone that dropped to a whisper. I caught 'Not without my leave dependent on me for market-tips, and other gratifying tributes to my integrity.
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