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We're bound to stand by him." "And that's exactly what I'm trying to do. When he's a little difficult, doesn't take things quite as one means them you know?" "Rather! Do I?" "I put it down to all the trouble he's been through. I never resent it. Now I ought really to have got out a holiday tutor for you." "Oh, I say, after I've swotted my head off all these months!
Then there was the summer term, and we swotted more than ever; and it was boiling hot, and masters' tempers got short and sharp, and the girls used to wish the exams came in cold weather. I can't think why they don't. But I suppose schools don't think of sensible thinks like that. They teach botany at girls' schools. Then the Midsummer holidays came, and we breathed again but only for a few days.
"The last time you were here," Stonehouse said, "you'd just come out of the exam. If you really answered as you say you did, there was no reason for your wanting to drown yourself." "But I did. You're such a distrustful beggar. You think I just imagine things. No, I'll tell you what it was I didn't care. There I was I'd swotted and swotted.
As Stanning was the only one of his rivals of whom he had any real fear, Sheen might have replied with justice that, if that was the case, the more he swotted the better. But he said nothing. He looked at the stove, and dog's-eared the Thucydides. "What a worm you are, always staying in!" said Stanning. "I caught a cold watching the match yesterday."
Ef he'd kem up furder I'd hev up with my slate and swotted him over the snoot bet your boots!" Thus admonished Jimmy Snyder, albeit unshaken in his faith in his own courage, sat down. A slight pause ensued.
"By gosh, it's kinder tough," he said, "I wuz jess a dreamin ez I wuz latherin deakin. I'd jess swotted him one in the snout wen ye woke me, an naow, by gorry, I've got tew go an work fer the critter." "An ye better hurry, tew," urged his wife anxiously. "Ye know ye didn't dew the fuss thing all day yis'dy."
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