FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94  
95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   >>   >|  
iling afternoon. The summer term had once more come round, and Jack, with his coat off, was sitting in a shady corner of the schoolroom wrestling with a letter to Queen Mab. "I write to her nearly every blessed week," he continued, "and the consequence is I've never got anything to say. I've told her how jolly it is to think that in four weeks' time we shall be at Brenlands again; and now I'm stuck, and I can't get any further." "Have you told her how well you've been doing in cricket this season?" "No." "Well, I have; so it doesn't much matter. Look here! Raymond Fosberton's outside, and wants to see you." "Oh, tell him to go to Bath!" answered Jack, making another stab at the ink-pot with his pen. "I want to finish this letter." "No, come along," answered Valentine, laughing. "You must be civil to the fellow; he's been waiting about for nearly a quarter of an hour." "Do him good," growled the scribe, reluctantly pitching his untidy epistle into a very disorderly desk. "He only comes here to show off. Just because he's in a lawyer's office, he thinks he's a big pot, and all he does is to write copies like a kid in the Lower School." According to his own opinion, Raymond Fosberton had blossomed out into the full-blown man. He wore a light check suit of the very latest fashion, a rosebud adorned his button-hole, and he tapped the toe of his highly-polished, patent-leather boots with the point of a silver-mounted cane. "Hallo!" he exclaimed; "what the dickens d'you want to keep a chap waiting so long for? I can tell you my time's more valuable than yours. Look here! I'm sorry I haven't been able to ask you boys to come and see me before, but nearly every night since I've been here I've been engaged. However, I want you to get leave to come and have tea at my rooms on Wednesday, and after that we'll go to the fair. You know what I mean. It's held once a year in a big field on the other side of the town; there are shows, and round-abouts, and all that sort of thing." "Thanks," answered Valentine, "but I'm afraid we can't go." "Why not?" "Because the rule of the school is that no boys are allowed to go to Melchester Fair. Old Westford is awfully strict about it. Two years ago some fellows went, and had a row with one of the showmen, and it got into the papers." "Oh, rubbish! you can say you're only going out to tea." Valentine shook his head. "Oh, yes, you can," continued Raym
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94  
95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

answered

 

Valentine

 

Raymond

 
waiting
 
Fosberton
 

continued

 
letter
 

engaged

 

However

 

valuable


leather
 

patent

 

polished

 

highly

 

button

 
tapped
 

silver

 

mounted

 

dickens

 
exclaimed

abouts

 
adorned
 

Westford

 

strict

 

allowed

 

Because

 

school

 
Melchester
 

Thanks

 

afraid


Wednesday

 

papers

 

showmen

 

fellows

 

rubbish

 

epistle

 

Brenlands

 

cricket

 

season

 

making


matter

 

sitting

 

corner

 

afternoon

 

summer

 

schoolroom

 
wrestling
 

consequence

 

blessed

 

School