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Updated: June 11, 2025
There was a joy in escaping from bounds, as if an animal had broken out from a menagerie; there was joy in thinking, as you lay beside your burn or under the shadow of a tree, of the fellows mewed up in the hot class-room and swatting at their sums, under Bulldog's eye; and joy in coming home in the evening, tired, but satisfied, and passing the empty Seminary with defiance.
This modern Lucretia might have assumed with more propriety the name of Messalina, since the woman who can be guilty, who can even be accused, of a criminal intercourse with a father and two brothers must be abandoned to all the licentiousness of a venal love. That, if the phrase may be pardoned, is swatting a butterfly with a sledge-hammer!
"And I'm going to get him; as much as anything for the sake of swatting the devil around the stump." "Meaning me?" Galloway shrugged. "Well, here's my song and dance: This county isn't quite big enough; you drop your little job and clear out and leave me alone and I'll pay you ten thousand dollars now and another ten thousand six months from now."
Between gentlemen, you know and ladies' he made a beautiful bow to Alice 'a word is as good as a bond. Then he took out a sovereign, and held it in his hand while he talked to us. He gave us a lot of good advice about not going into business too young, and about doing our lessons just swatting a bit, on our own hook, so as not to be put in a low form when we went back to school.
"But how about the remove? We'd agreed to stay in the Second Fifth till Christmas. It's the jolliest form in the school." "If we put our backs and heads into Trials, we can easily get a remove." "Blow Trials." John turned aside. "Look here, Jonathan," said Caesar, eagerly. "To please me, give up your swatting scheme. We can't spoil the end of this jolly term."
He let out that Myler was on the beer to run up the odds and he swatting all the time. We know him, says the citizen. The traitor's son. We know what put English gold in his pocket. -True for you, says Joe. And Bloom cuts in again about lawn tennis and the circulation of the blood, asking Alf: Now, don't you think, Bergan? Myler dusted the floor with him, says Alf.
She did not, however, have the energy and that fly kept buzzing around her ears. She kept swatting it but missing it each time. The footsteps were those of a man's. She heard boot soles clunking hurriedly up the stairs under her miniature chandalier. Were they Michael's footsteps? No, surely not and yet she hoped they were all the same. There before her, in leather boots,was Hispanic Betty.
It was our affectation to be a little detached from the main stream of undergraduate life. We worked pretty hard, but by virtue of our beer, our socialism and suchlike heterodoxy, held ourselves to be differentiated from the swatting reading man.
I can see 'em now, patting the bump on their beams where they think the brain-patch sprouts, and handing out hunks of con to the Lord about his being right on his old-time job of swatting sinners in their dinners. Yet they'll all of them go right on leading themselves up to be trimmed by the very next holdup that's got the nerve to do them!
The Mistress and the Master went across to the tournament; taking Lad along. Not that there could be anything of the remotest interest to a dog in the sight of flanneled young people swatting a ball back and forth. But Lad was a privileged guest at all outdoor functions; and he enjoyed being with his two deities.
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