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"Look here," he said, "we're in quite enough row for one day, without wanting any more. So shut up, you fellows, do you hear?" "Make him apologise, then," said Telson, wrathfully. "Oh, all serene. Nobody was hurting you," said Cusack. "Do you apologise, or do you not?" demanded Telson. "I didn't say I didn't, did I?"
Telson was quite cute enough to see he had a strong position to start with, and if only he played his cards well he might score off the enemy with credit. He therefore declined an invitation to Parson's to partake of shrimps and jam at tea, and kept himself in his own house till the time appointed for reporting himself to the captain.
You ask Parrett," said he, in tones of manly appeal. "Then you mean Mr Parrett has already punished you?" asked Riddell. "Rather," said Telson. "I'd sooner have had a licking any day than get stopped river-play. Wouldn't you, Parson?" "I should think I would," said Parson. "Well," said Riddell, dubiously, "of course if Mr Parrett has already punished you " "You ask him!" again said Parson.
Parson and Telson thereupon retreated to the sofa, on the edge of which they sat for another five or ten minutes, looking about them complacently, and not attempting to break the silence of the scene.
"Yes; and fancy Messrs. Telson, Parson, Bosher, and Co. being suspended," said King. "They couldn't do it, I tell you," said Bosher; "we'd kick up a shine about freedom of speech, and all that. Anyhow, it would be rather a spree, whether we were kicked out or not. We'd be a `party' you know!" The idea took, and an animated consultation took place.
"What are we to go to Bloomfield for?" demanded Telson, whose temper was still disturbed. "For breaking rules," said Game, as he walked on. "Shall you go?" said Telson to King as the two slowly put on their coats. "Yes, I suppose so, or he'll give us a licking." "I shan't go; he's not the captain," said Telson. "I say, you'll catch it if you don't," said King, with apprehension in his looks.
King, utterly taken aback by these ominous preparations, protested his sorrow, apologised, and generally humiliated himself before the offended schoolhouse junior. But Telson had been looking out for a cause of quarrel, and now one had come, he was just in the humour for going through with the business. "Do you funk it?" he asked.
Indeed, it impressed him so much that, at the imminent risk of being late for the doctor's tea, he pulled up to speak to them. Parson, as became a loyal Parrett, made as though he would pass on, but Telson held him back. "I say, you two," said Riddell, "will you come to breakfast with me to- morrow morning after chapel?"
"What did Mr Parrett do to you?" he asked presently. "Oh," said Parson, gaily, fully taking in the situation so far, "he was down on us hot. He's stopped our going on the river a week, and then we've got to get a permit till the end of the term. Jolly hard lines it is, especially race term. I shan't be able to cox. Parrett's boat at the regatta. No more will young Telson cox the schoolhouse boat.
Of course, I don't care for myself; it's about the schoolhouse." "What's that he says about me?" said King. "`The abominable King," cried Telson, reading with great relish; "`thirty lines for gross conduct with the abominable King." "Oh, I say, this is too much, you fellows," cried King. "Not a bit too much. Just finish that day, Telson," said Parson, handing back the diary.
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