I fancy he wouldn't be sorry." "Not he," said Bloomfield.

"I heard him say once he pitied Wyndham all the bother he had, especially when he was wanting to stew for the exams." "Has any one seen Riddell lately ?" asked Game.

"It wouldn't be a bad thing for some of us to see him, and put it to him, that the school would go to the dogs to a dead certainty if he was captain." "Rather a blunt way of putting it," said Porter, laughing.

"I'd break it to him rather more gently than that." "Well, you know what I mean," replied Game, who was of the downright order.
"You see," said Bloomfield, who, despite his protestations, was evidently not displeased at the notion of his possible honours, "I don't profess to be much of a swell in school; but--I don't know--I fancy I could keep order rather better than he could.

The fellows know me." "They ought to, if they don't," said Wibberly, who was a toady.
"Fancy Riddell having to lick a junior," said Game.