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She caught up a dainty silk blouse from the table beside her and shook it contemptuously. "Do you know Scammel?" "Scammel?" Faith echoed the name blankly. "No; who is he?" "He owns this place," Peg explained. "There's no Heeler in it really it's just a name. It's Scammel we're all swotting to make money for," she added. "And I hate him "
For a time the true state of affairs was hidden from the eye of Grindley senior. To "slack" it this term, with the full determination of "swotting" it the next, is always easy; the difficulty beginning only with the new term. Possibly with luck young Grindley might have retrieved his position and covered up the traces of his folly, but for an unfortunate accident.
"Great Scott!" said Stanning, "swotting?" Sheen glanced almost guiltily at his Thucydides. Still, it was something of a relief that the other had not opened the conversation with an indictment of Drummond. "You see," he said apologetically, "I'm in for the Gotford." "So am I. What's the good of swotting, though? I'm not going to do a stroke."
It's not a bit of use swotting a thing half heartedly." She dragged herself to attention, reproaching herself for damping his interest. Things he was saying dropped into her consciousness like heavy drops of rain falling from the eaves in a light summer shower. Suddenly she gripped his wrist tensely and he looked up in surprise.
And here was no novice modesty in the tackling of affairs; as O'Hara, who would be there, said: "You must have been born in the City; you have the airs, the very tricks, of Threadneedle Street, you Jew". In a day the prelate counted seven hundred and thirteen telegrams from the Terni Cannon foundry, many a diamond dealer, polisher, cutter, the Vulcan Shipyard of Stettin, the Clydebank, Cramp of Philadelphia, the Russian Finance Minister, San Francisco, Lloyd's, metal brokers, the Neva, and one night, the eve of a dash to Amsterdam, he, with O'Hara, Loveday, and five clerks, sat swotting till morning broke, sustained by gin and soda-water.
What that future was to be for Bob was very difficult to plan. Aunt Margaret had intended him for a profession; but the time for that had gone by, even had the money been still available. "I'm half glad that it isn't," Bob said; "I don't see how a fellow could go back to swotting over books after being really alive for nearly five years."
I shouldn't wonder if you weren't rather clever. Why do you hide your light under a bushel?" Pillingshot grunted. "We must find some way of advertising you. Why don't you go in for a Junior Scholarship?" "Too old," said Pillingshot with satisfaction. "Senior, then?" "Too young." "I believe by sitting up all night and swotting " "Here, I say!" said Pillingshot, alarmed.
Harry made arrangements for some reading through the summer preparatory to Oxford. It upset plans made by Huggo. He thought it "uncommonly hard" that he should have to spend the whole summer "swotting." Oh, well, if he had to, he had to. He had an invitation for a month for that immediate time to Scotland. The reading was arranged to start a month ahead.
Then he remarked with twinkling eyes: "Say! Mustn't the fellows at St. Wenford's be green with envy if they think of themselves swotting away in class while we're having the time of our lives in the backwoods? They'll all be back by this time, for the school was only to be closed for seven weeks, the doctor said. Lucky thing fever is in some ways."
"'Brady, by all that's holy, Hartnoll exclaimed. 'By Jupiter, the beggar's asleep. That's what comes of swotting too hard! Brady! "Approaching the chair he called again, 'Brady! and getting no reply, patted the figure gently on the back. "'Be jabbers, you sleep soundly, old fellow! he said. 'How about that! and he shook him heartily by the shoulder. The instant he let go the figure collapsed.
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