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"You put your heart into it and all your muscle, too, by gad," he added mentally. "It's nothing but practice," answered Miss Featherweight, with a modest blush. "I am at the piano four hours every day." "Good heavens!" thought Felix, "what a time the family must have of it."
The curate was handy with the gloves himself. A bit cumbrous, but fancied himself as a featherweight, in a skipping, dodging, dance-all-round-you, land-you-one-presently sort of style. Well, the curate johnnie had been handing round printed invitations for this Service. "All Welcome," don't you know? "Come, and bring a Friend." Wauchope had promised, Honor Bright, he'd come and bring a friend.
Pollyooly gazed at him earnestly. Except for his flashing eye, he was not a figure to dread, for what he lost in height he gained in slenderness. He was indeed uncommonly slender. In fact, either he had forgotten to tell Flossie that he was a featherweight boxer, or she had forgotten to pass the information on.
"He must have thought a house was falling on him," whispered Bart with a low chuckle. "Frank's no featherweight," agreed Tom. "I'd hate to have those trench clogs of his come down on my back with him inside of them." A warning "s sh" from the corporal brought them back to the grim business still before them, and they crept along behind him as he wormed his way through the breach.
Both men sprang forward, but it was Craven who caught her as she fell. She lay like a featherweight in his strong clasp, and as he gazed at the delicate face crushed against his breast a deadly fear was knocking at his heart that he had come too late. Convulsively his arms tightened round the pitifully light little body and he spoke abruptly to the man who was scowling beside him.
"Well, anyhow," he said, "you'll soon get it knocked out of you, that's one comfort. Look here, if you do get scrapping with anybody, don't forget all I've taught you. And I should go on boxing there if I were you, so as to go down to Aldershot some day. You ought to make a fairly decent featherweight if you practise." "All right."
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