At any rate, it happened that on Godfrey's first day at Scoones' he sat next to Arthur Thorburn in two classes which he attended.

Godfrey listened intently and made notes; Arthur caricatured the lecturer, an art for which he had a native gift, and passed the results round the class.

Godfrey saw the caricature and sniggered, then when the lectures were over gravely reproved the author, saying that he should not do such things.
"Why not ?" asked Arthur, opening his blue eyes.

"Heaven intended that stuffy old parrot" (he had drawn this learned man as a dilapidated fowl of that species) "to be caricatured.

Observe that his nose is already half a beak.