It's those chaps!" No, it was only Fisher minor, who, having waited meekly all this time outside the deserted gymnasium, now ventured, like a degenerate Casabianca, to desert his post and come and see what was going forward in the Hall.
As he tried to enter, a Modern boy, seeing by his ribbon that he was on the wrong side, put his foot against the door and tried to turn him back.

But his little plot dismally failed.

For D'Arcy and Ashby, shocked and horrified witnesses of this scandalous act of corruption, came to the rescue with a hubbub which even made itself heard above the shouting.
"Let him in!--howling cheat!--he's trying to shut out one of our side! Ya-boo! That's the way you elect your men, is it! Come in, Fisher minor.

Let him in, do you hear?
All right; come on, you fellows, and kick this Modern chap out for a wretched sneak--( that'll be seven off their side, counting Wheatfield; and one more to us--bully!) Yah, cheats! turn 'em out!" Amid such cries of virtuous indignation, Fisher minor was hauled in, and his obstructor, by the same _coup de main_, excluded.

Fisher minor might have had his head turned by this triumphal entry, had he not recognised in the ejected Modern boy the gentleman to whom he had lent his half-crown on the previous evening.