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"You stands easy like," he said to Saurin, who was taking his first lesson in an unfurnished room of Slam's house, the fine weather having terminated in a thunderstorm, and a wet week to follow. "Don't plant your feet as if you meant to grow to the floor, and keep your knees straight no, not stiff like that, I mean don't bend them.
He protested his innocence, and was never caught in the act of taking game; but if anyone wanted to stock his preserves, Slam could always procure him a supply of pheasants' eggs, and more than one village offender who had been sent to expiate his depredations in jail was known to have paid visits to Slam's yard.
"Lots of things; you don't know Slam's. I tell you what I'll take you there." "Thank you; that will be very jolly; only don't you think if one were caught, you know eh?" "We should get into a jolly row, no doubt; but there is no fear of being caught. And, as you say, if one does not play cricket, what is one to do?"
Saurin, who was so clever and manly that he must know better than he did, saw no harm. Besides, he was very fond of playing at cards, and though he did not much like the very low company he met at Slam's yard now, he told himself that what was fit for Saurin was fit for him, and it was desirable, beneficial, and the correct thing to see life in all its phases.
He spoke to Crawley, and shook his hand with apparent cordiality when they first met after coming back, because he felt that it would be ridiculous to show a resentment which he had proved himself powerless to gratify; but he hated him worse than ever, if possible. If the breaking up of the boxing-class did not diminish Saurin's visits to Slam's, it had that effect on the other members of it.
Tom Buller entered. "I have got something I want to tell you, Crawley," he said. "I have just found out that Saurin has been taking lessons in boxing." "Oh! of whom? Stubbs, Edwards, or someone equally formidable?" "No; of Wobbler the pedestrian, who was once a pugilist, and who has been giving boxing lessons at Slam's." "Oh! I see, that is what has screwed his courage up to the proper pitch.
The other two visitors at Slam's that evening were Saurin and Edwards. Edwards had never been there before, and consequently his feelings were curiously compounded of fear and pleasurable expectation.
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