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Updated: June 13, 2025
I don't like the look of it at all, and yet I can do nothing with the girl except let her follow her fancy, until I can show her plainly that she will get herself into trouble in some way or other. But she is ingenious, full of all sorts of devices, innocent enough in themselves, but liable to be misconstrued. You remember how she won us the boat-race?" "To be sure I do.
"Well," continued Telson, too full of his story to heed the interruption, "they stuck Game in the chair, and he made a frightfully rambling speech about you and that boat-race business.
To take a case in point: I can discover no enthusiasm in the nation any thing like so genuine and any thing like so general as the enthusiasm excited by your University boat-race.
Which corkscrew staircase to Honour being inaccessible, the race had to be decided by two unfeminine trifles called "Speed" and "Bottom." Few things in this vale of tears are more worthy a pen of fire than an English boat-race is, as seen by the runners; of whom I have often been one.
Thus, in the matters of which this book is record, it was they who made the Warden invite his grand-daughter to Oxford, and invite the Duke to meet her on the evening of her arrival. They had intended that he should execute his resolve after, or before, the boat-race of that evening. But an oversight upset this plan.
In all our talks you never once mentioned Beamish's. You concluded what I suspected you of was this, and I concluded that the scrape you were confessing was the one I suspected you of." "What do you suspect me of, then?" inquired Wyndham, "if it wasn't that?" "I'm ashamed to say," said the captain, "I suspected you of having cut the lines of Parrett's rudder at the boat-race."
Riddell had often had it pressed upon him. Yes, and now, with a shock that was almost sickening, he recollected that he had had it in his hand that very night before the boat-race. And with the thought there rushed in upon him the whole memory of that evening.
I doubted the blue riband part of the story, and if Dennison ever wore one I think it would only be on Boat-race day, for it takes a tremendous lot of courage to wear a badge of any kind. After Dennison had disappeared, Jack and I saw The Bradder nearly every day. His keenness on the college increased instead of wearing off with time, and he seemed to be exactly the right kind of man to be a don.
The meeting promised to be an important one in many respects. It was the first after the boat-race, and consequently party feeling was likely to make use of the opportunity to let off a little of its steam. Then, of course, it was the captain's first public appearance as the head of Welch's, and that was sure to excite a good deal of curiosity and interest.
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could any where borrow another life to spend afterwards at home! I have often felt a sympathy, which almost rises to the pathetic, when looking on at a cricket-match or boat-race. Something of the emotion with which Gray regarded the "distant spires and antique towers" rises within me.
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