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I foresee that our Etons and Oxfords with their nonsense-verses, college-logics, and broken crumbs of mere speech, which is not even English or Teutonic speech, but old Grecian and Italian speech, dead and buried and much lying out of our way these two thousand years last past, will be found a most astonishing seminary for the training of young English souls to take command in human Industries, and act a valiant part under the sun!
She was to be the Dauntless Equestrienne, and to give her enhancing act a barebacked daring, riding either a pig or a sheep, whichever we found was freshest and most skittish. Dora was dressed for the Haute ecole, which means a riding-habit and a high hat. She took Dick's topper that he wears with his Etons, and a skirt of Mrs Pettigrew's.
Bobs has got my one-and-fivepence lucky you forgot to mend that hole in my pocket, Panther, or he wouldn't have had it. They can tram it home. But Anthea would not be comforted. 'It's all my fault, she said. 'I KNEW the proper way to darn, and I didn't do it. It's all my fault. Let's go home and patch the carpet with your Etons something really strong and send it to fetch them.
Daily he looks around for fresh victims, and finally decides that the weedy offspring of the hated superior classes are the easiest prey. In company with others of his species, he annihilates the boy in Etons on his way to and from school, and the after recollections of the weakling's bloody nose and teardrops are as nectar to him. The cruelty germ develops apace.
'All right, said Cyril; 'but your Sunday jacket is stronger than my Etons. We must just chuck mother's present, that's all. I wish 'Stop! cried the Phoenix; 'the carpet is dropping to earth. And indeed it was. It sank swiftly, yet steadily, and landed on the pavement of the Deptford Road.
As it was quite the correct thing for girls to dance with one another, I made so bold as to ask her for a dance. With the timidity of a boy just out of Etons, or perhaps I should say, of a shy boy just out of Etons, I approached her. "Right-o," she said, "let's see." She puckered her penciled eyebrows and studied her program. "The third after the two next?"
The Ramsays, who had made plans of their own for the following evening, felt a little caught, especially as Bevis looked glum and reproachful. "How could you?" he said to Mavis in an agonized whisper. "How could I help it?" "We were shot sitting," murmured Merle. "Cheer up, Bevis! A dance is a dance, anyway. I hope I haven't spoilt Clive's Etons for him!" Mrs.
My blue serge is green, and the boys' Etons shine like the rising sun. It was a fine day on Sunday, and they fairly glittered going to church. I don't want to give you the blues, but thought I'd better tell you, so that you could write to cheer them up, and also be more assiduous in your attentions to the old man.
Archibald got out his Etons and put his clean shirt ready, and a pair of flashy silk socks with red spots, and then he went into the bath-room. Noël and Jane were whispering on the stairs. Jane came up and Noël went down, Jane knocked at the bath-room door and said "Here's the soap, Master Archerbald. I didn't put none in to-day." He opened the door and put out his hand.
I know that the boy in "Etons" is stiff with a rather silly and sentimental stoicism, called being a man of the world. I do not fancy that the errand-boy is rigid with that republican stoicism that is called being a citizen. The schoolboy will really say with fresh and innocent hauteur, "I am an English gentleman."
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