That was in a place by itself--let him play like that at Queen's Club in December and no Oxford defence could stop him.
So it was argued, so discussed.

Certain, at any rate, that Dune's recrudescence threatened the ruin of Cardillac's two dearest ambitions, and Cardillac did not easily either forget or forgive.
And yet behold them now, gravely, the gaze of the entire company, entering together, sitting together by the fire, watching with serious eyes the clumsy efforts of an unhappily ambitious Freshman to make clear his opinions of the Navy, the Government and the British Islands generally--only, ultimately, producing a tittering, stammering apology for having burdened so long with his hapless clamour, the Debate.
2 Olva liked Cardillac--Cardillac liked Olva.

They both in their attitude to College affairs saw beyond the College gates into the wide and bright world.

Cardillac, when it had seemed that no danger could threaten either his election to the Wolves or the acquisition of his Football Blue, had regarded both honours quietly and with indifference.

It amazed him now when both these Prizes were seriously threatened that he should still appreciate and even seek out Dune's company.
Had it been any other man in the College he would have been a very active enemy, but here was the one man who had that larger air, that finer style whose gravity was beautiful, whose soul was beyond Wolves and Rugby football, whose future in the real world promised to be of a fine and highly ordered kind.