[The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Master of the Shell CHAPTER FIVE 12/24
How could I when I lent Dimsdale my book? Besides, we've not started yet.
I've got about a million lines to write.
Do you know, I'm certain it was Bickers got me into that row about the omnibus; I saw him looking on.
I say, that was a stunning lark, wasn't it? I'd have won too if Riggles had kept his right side. Look here, I say, I'd better do some lines now; lend us a hand, there's a good chap.
Wouldn't it be a tip if old Smiley could write; we could keep him going all day long!" Master Oakshott had, in fact, become considerably embarrassed at the beginning of the term by one or two accidents, which conspired to put off the operation of the time-table for a short period. The doctor had received information through some channel of the famous chariot race on opening day, and had solaced the defeated champion with a caning (which he did not mind) and five hundred lines of Virgil (which he greatly disliked).
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