[Follow My leader by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookFollow My leader CHAPTER THREE 6/16
It'll be rather nice to see them all turn up." "I expect, you know, they'll have such a lot to do, they won't bother about new fellows.
I know I shouldn't." "They might about the awful green ones, perhaps.
Ha, ha! Wouldn't it be fun if old Coote was here!" "Yes, poor old Coote! You know I'm half sorry to leave Mountjoy.
It was a jolly old school, wasn't it ?" The shrieking of the whistle and the grinding of the brake put an end to further conversation for the present. As they alighted, each with his hat-box and bag and umbrella, and stood on the platform, they felt moved by a sincere affection for the carriage they were leaving.
Indeed, there is no saying what little encouragement would not have sufficed to send them back into its hospitable shelter. "Here you are, sir--this way for the school--this cab, sir!"-- cried half a dozen cabmen, darting whip in hand upon our heroes, as they stood looking about them. "Don't you go along with them," said one confidentially.
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