[Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookTom, Dick and Harry CHAPTER NINETEEN 5/22
Come what will, you must stick to us." "All very well," said Tempest dismally; "that's England's affair more than mine.
If knuckling under to Jarman is a condition, I'm out of it, and Crofter is welcome to it." This was all; and it was bad enough.
When the summons to assemble in hall came, I went there in a state of dejection, feeling that the fates were all against me, and that the new leaf I hoped for was several pages further on yet. My fellow-Philosophers, I regret to say, neither shared in nor appreciated my forebodings. "Look at that ass Sarah, trying to look virtuous," said Trimble.
"Just like him, when there's a row on." "I'm not trying to look virtuous," said I; "I'm sick of all these rows, though." "Pity you aren't sick when you're getting us into them, instead of after.
You know you've been at the bottom of every row there's been on this term." This sweeping statement was not calculated to allay my discomfort. "Don't tell lies," said I. "No more we are.
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