"He means to back us up, after all, and pay Bickers out." "What surprises me," said Barnworth, "is that Stafford, the bull-dog, did not invite the intruder out into the square and impress the honour of our house with two black marks on each of his eyes." "I'm just as glad," said Felgate, "it's all happened.

We shouldn't have got Railsford with us if--" "If you'd done your duty, and stopped the row the moment it began," said Ainger; who, with all his jealousy for his house, had no toleration for humbug, even in a prefect whose cause he espoused.

So Railsford's house went to bed that night in a warlike mood..