And I know Oswald wasn't going to take the half-sovereign.

Directly you said that about a tip from an old boy I began to feel bad inside, and I whispered to H.O.that I wished we hadn't.' Then Lord Tottenham stood up, and he looked like the Death of Nelson, for he is clean shaved and it is a good face, and he said-- 'Always remember never to do a dishonourable thing, for money or for anything else in the world.' And we promised we would remember.

Then he took off his hat, and we took off ours, and he went away, and we went home.

I never felt so cheap in all my life! Dora said, 'I told you so,' but we didn't mind even that so much, though it was indeed hard to bear.

It was what Lord Tottenham had said about ungentlemanly.