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Updated: June 15, 2025
"It's not that at all," said Wraysford, feeling and looking very uncomfortable. "It's nothing to do with that. It's just that I'm not in the humour. I'd really rather not." "Oh, look here," cried Stansfield; "that won't wash. Come to oblige me, there's a good fellow."
"The fact is, he came to me yesterday to borrow another pound for something or another. He said Cripps had been up to the school and tried to make out that there was another owing, and had threatened, unless he got it, at once to speak to the head master." "Did you lend it him?" said Wraysford. "It's a regular swindle." "I hadn't got it to lend.
The sight of Greenfield senior walking down the passage one day, arm-in-arm with Wraysford, and the next day with one arm in Wraysford's and the other in Pembury's, and the day after between Pembury and Bullinger, with Wraysford and Stephen in the rear, struck bewilderment and bitter jealousy to their hearts.
Now Wraysford lost a good second by looking up at the clock; now Greenfield made a bad shot with his pen at the inkpot, and had to dip again, which threw him back half a second at least.
He's been awfully down in the mouth lately; whether it is about the Nightingale, or " The captain gave a howl of rage. "I wish that miserable brute of a Nightingale had been scragged, that I do! Everything's stopped for the Nightingale! Who cares a button about the thing, I'd like to know? Wraysford can get dozens more of them after the football season's over.
"Who calls him a coward?" exclaimed Wraysford, glaring at the last speaker. Wraysford was not a coward, and looked so ready to avenge his friend by hard knocks, that the boy who had insinuated that Greenfield was afraid withdrew his charge as mildly as he could. "I only meant, it looks as if he didn't like to fight," he said.
Good-bye, you sneaking young " "Look here!" said Wraysford, quietly walking up to the blackguard in the midst of this discourse, "if you don't stop instantly you'll be sorry for it." Cripps stared a moment at the speaker, and at the first he held out. Then, without another word, he turned on his heel into the cottage, leaving the three boys standing in undisputed possession of the tow-path.
Everybody cheers, and when they have done cheering they stamp, and when they have done stamping they clap. Wraysford stands disconcerted and flushed with the demonstration, at a loss whether to smile or frown. He knows the meaning of that cheer as well as anybody, and it grates on his ear unpleasantly as he listens.
Then suddenly he added, "But it's not true! I'm certain of it! He couldn't do it! I'll never believe it of him!" Poor Wraysford! It was easier to say the generous words than feel them. Pembury looked in presently with a face far more serious and overcast than he usually wore. "I say, Wray," said he, in troubled tones, "I'm regularly floored by all this. Do you believe it?"
Oliver gave a short laugh very like contempt, and then turned suddenly on his heel, leaving Wraysford smarting with indignation, and finally convinced that between his old friend and himself there was a gulf which now it would be hard indeed to bridge over. He returned moodily to the school. Stephen was busy in his study getting tea.
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