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"After all, I'm jolly glad I'm coming into your House, because the old Demon is such a ripper; and he and I have been talking things over. He's as mad keen as I am about games, and although the Manorites have not played in a cock-house match at cricket or footer for years, still there is a chance for us at Torpids next term. You'll play, Verney.
"Speaking personally, the mere sight of him is very upsetting to me. Keen as one feels about this match, one can't deny that there is not room in a footer field for Dirty Dick and a self-respecting person." None the less, the absence of their house-master had a bad effect upon the Torpids.
The crown was finally declined January 1, 1870. The Prince was nick-named "King Tom." To "turf," i.e. to kick. Calling over. John Lyon founded Harrow School, 1571. Boys who have not been more than two years in the school are eligible as "Torpids;" out of each house a Torpid football Eleven is chosen.
The weather was so bad that astronomical people said that the sun had got spots upon it or had gone wrong somehow; at any rate we hardly ever saw it, and we lived in a deluge of rain. The Torpids had to be postponed, nearly every footer match was scratched, and the people who had been talking about water-famines for the last two years held their peace.
"May I call you John, when we're alone? And I wish you'd call me Esmé, instead of that horrid 'Fluff." John pondered deeply. "Look here," he said. "You can call me John, and I'll call you Esmé, when we're Torpids. And now, you'd better cut back to the house. I must think this all out, and I can't think straight when I look at you." "May I call you John once?"
Poor Fluff, almost reduced to tears, with a big black bruise upon his white forehead, confessed that he preferred peaceful games like croquet, and intended to apply for a doctor's certificate of exemption. Demanding sympathy, he received a slating. "I play nearly as rotten a game as you do, Fluff," John said; "but Scaife expects us to be Torpids, so we jolly well have to buck up.
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