[The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cock-House at Fellsgarth CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 7/25
You know I was so awfully glad to be in the fifteen, and felt I could do anything.
Of course the lucky thing was my getting past their forwards, and then--" And then Corder bunched into a delighted account of the never-to-be-forgotten match, during which the cloud passed away from his face, the light came back to his eyes, and the spirit into his voice. "What business have they to stop me," said he, "or bully me for it ?" "None.
And Yorke, when he hears of it, will report it to the doctor." "No, don't let him do that.
What's the use? If I can stay here it's all right." An hour later, about the time that the young mountaineers were beginning to look out for their second wind on the lower slope, Dangle came across in a vicious temper. He had not come to look for Corder, the sight of whom in the sanctuary of a Classic study took him aback. "That's where you're sneaking, is it ?" said he.
"I'm not surprised." "Not much need to sneak from _you_.
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