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"You shouldn't take my keys." "Yes, I should," said Glyn quietly. "I tell you you shouldn't." "Then you oughtn't to leave them stuck in your box, as if to invite all the servants to come and have a rummage, when you go out to a cricket-match." "I say, I didn't do that, did I? I had them in my pocket just before I started." "If you did, how could I have them in mine when you came back?"
These thoughts came and went. In the meantime, despite her ape-like study of her companions, she remained where the other sex was concerned a disheartening failure. A further incident drove this home anew. One Saturday afternoon, those boarders who had not been invited out were taken to see a cricket-match. They were a mere handful, eight or nine at most, and Miss Snodgrass alone was in charge.
And they hadn't then invented the new patent steel climbing arms. Since they came up, no one has ever been lost among the glaciers." "You had better prepare then to go," said I, thinking that the idea of getting rid of Jack in this manner was very happy. "But, father," said he, "of course I can't stir a step till after the great cricket-match." "You must give up cricket for this time.
How is the teacher to know whether you are talking about the lesson, or about the last cricket-match? This is a perfectly plain question, and I press you to an answer. There is no practical medium between unlimited license to talk against which you would yourself be the first to protest and an entire prohibition.
And he asked his mother's leave to go to see if he could be of any use to Alick. His mother consented, and resolutely turning his mind from the cricket-match just beginning in the school-yard, George went. He found the poor boy in a pitiable state.
"A matter of opinion!" said Fielding. "How would you like to go over and see the cricket at Fairharbour this afternoon?" She gave him a quick look. "Oh, is that the alternative to the races?" He frowned. "I have already told you the races are out of the question." "I see," said Juliet thoughtfully. "Then I am afraid the cricket-match is also unless Mrs. Fielding wants to go."
A cricket-match, tennis, a racecourse, or a game of polo, show them at their greatest advantage, whether as players or spectators. Their fresh complexions suit the green of the grass and of the trees as naturally as a bed of roses, or cyclamens, or any fresh and healthy flower will combine with the grass and the ferns in garden or glen.
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together,—running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.
In this view I wrote to him yesterday, to tell him that on Wednesday next there would be a cricket-match at Bramshill, one of the finest old mansions in England, a Tudor Manor House, altered by Inigo Jones, and formerly the residence of Prince Henry, the elder son of James the First. In the grand old park belonging to that grand old place, there will be on that afternoon a cricket-match.
Have you travelled over the country, and made yourself acquainted with its trades and manufactures? These are fit things for a gentleman to study, and may occupy him as well as a cock-fight or a cricket-match. Do you know anything of our profession? That, at least, you will allow, is a noble one; and, believe me, there is plenty in it to learn, and suited, I should think, to you.
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