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At this school Willie Fairbairn lost the greater part of the singing accomplishments which he had acquired under "Bowed Johnnie," but he learnt in lieu of them to read from Scott and Barrow's collections of prose and poetry, while he obtained some knowledge of arithmetic, in which he proceeded as far as practice and the rule of three.
Fairbairn that 'savages are not primitive. Of course they are not; that is of the essence of my theory. I regret the use of the word 'primitive' even in Primitive Culture. Savages, as a rule, are earlier, more backward than civilised races, as, of course, Mr. Max Muller admits, where language is concerned.
But they might have spared themselves their agitation, for Riddell had it all but a catch before the shiver was over, and had returned it to Fairbairn at the wickets promptly enough to make the Rockshire man feel he had had a narrow escape of a run-out.
It was elaborately and skilfully drawn, the work of an artist. "This is a copy made by me. Juan de Maestre left the original document with us for an hour," said Fairbairn, and he allowed Hillyard to speculate for a few seconds upon the whereabouts of that dangerous and reef-strewn sea. "It's not a chart of any bay or water at all.
Happily, the "Yser," the State boat that had left Davis, Fairbairn, and Cleveland high and dry at Basongo, had put in at Dima the day before to repair a broken paddle-wheel and was about to start. I beat the "Madeleine's" gangplank to the shore and tore over to the Captain of the "Yser." When I told him I had to go to Kinshassa he said, "I cannot take you.
"It can't be!" at grips with "If it could be!" and a rising inspiration that "It was!" A man had once tried him out with questions about Alicante, a man who was afraid lest he should have seen too much. But Hillyard had learnt to hold his tongue when he had only inspirations to go upon, and he disclosed nothing of this to Fairbairn.
It would have been easy to send in Fairbairn and Porter last, when they would have no chance of scoring; or Coates, who was a rash hitter, and never was safe until the back of the bowling had been somewhat broken, might have been sent in first. But such an arrangement Bloomfield knew would be fatal for the chances of the school, and it therefore never entered his head to contrive it.
He sat by his bed staring hopelessly at the paper and wishing himself anywhere but head of the school and then as no new light appeared to dawn on the question, and as going back to bed would be a farce, he proceeded to dress. He had just completed his toilet when he heard some one moving in the next study. "There's Fairbairn getting up," he said to himself. "I wonder if he could help me?"
"Of course," replied the captain. At this point they reached Parrett's. Neither boy had any inclination to pursue the unpleasant topic all the more unpleasant because it was the one bar to a friendship which both desired. "Good-night," said Bloomfield, stiffly. "Good-night," replied the captain. Fairbairn was startled next morning while engaged over his toilet by a sudden visit from the captain.
But as she saw who it was it faded again, and she turned away with a look of disappointment. That was enough for me. There was no one but Alec Fairbairn whose step she could have mistaken for mine. If I could have seen him then I should have killed him, for I have always been like a madman when my temper gets loose.
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