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Updated: June 18, 2025
What's the good of going round congesting your cerebrums about problems you can't settle? I say let a fellow go it while he's young moderately you know and when he is old he will not regret the same. You fellows swot, and I sit in the orchestra chairs.
And I'll tell you what it is, my fine fellow, I'll trouble you not to come the dude over me. You're insolent, that's what's wrong with you. Don't you crowd me, Mr Herrick, Esquire. Herrick tore up his papers, threw them on the floor, and left the cabin. 'He's turned a bloomin' swot, ain't he? sneered Huish.
He proceeds to do as much work as will steer him safely between the, ah I may say, the Scylla of punishment and the Charybdis of being considered what my, er fellow-pupils euphoniously term a swot. That, I think, is all this morning. Good day. Pray do not trouble to rise.
He believes in any amount of stooping over books, though I am always pointing out to him that it isn't the chaps who swot over books that turn into Generals and things in the end." "When Mamma comes home Grizzel and I are going to school." Prudence said regretfully. "I know we shall hate it, but I suppose we must learn grammar and geography some time."
The amount of their lingo that kid taught me 'We, we' and 'Bong swot' and 'Commong voo potty we' and all and I taught him English. You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old un! It was a treat. "Then one day we got surprised. There was about a dozen of us in the village, and two or three hundred Germans came down on us early one morning. They got us; no help for 'it.
I bin rubberin. Aw, quit yer foolin', Sam, where is he? 'I couldn't tell you just where he is at the present moment, I said precisely. 'Ahr chee! Let me swot him one! begged the man with the pistol; a most unlovable person. I could never have made a friend of him. 'Cheese it, you! said Mr MacGinnis. The other cheesed it once more, regretfully.
In appearance he was on the short side, and thin. He was in the Sixth, and a conscientious worker. Indeed, he was only saved from being considered a swot, to use the vernacular, by the fact that from childhood's earliest hour he had been in the habit of keeping wicket like an angel. To a good wicket-keeper much may be forgiven. He handed Gethryn an envelope. 'Letter, Bishop, he said.
It isn't as if I had to go in for a profession or anything of that kind. I shall spend my life looking after the property, and there's no particular need to swot for that." "I hate loafers," said Darsie in her turn, then once more relented and said genially, "But I don't believe you mean half that you say.
I must swot now Kings of Isereel and such-like so goodby now or so long as we say here LANCELOT." She thought that she must show the letter to Urquhart when next she saw him, and meantime, of course, showed it to James. The eyeglass grew abhorrent over the spelling. "This boy passes belief. Look at this, Lucy. C-e-i-a-ling!" "Oh, don't you see?" she cried. "He had it perfectly: c-e-i.
This fisherman's child, workhouse girl, ancilla of the bordels, with the thin smattering of the three R's she had acquired in the poor institution, set herself, with a wholehearted concentration which a Newnham `swot' might envy, to master modern languages, with Greek, Latin, and music.
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