2012年3月18日星期日

They both turned

The disappointment was still there, but it was lessened. These thingsare like kicks on the shin. A brief spell of agony, and then a dullpain of which we are not always conscious unless our attention isdirected to it, and which in time disappears altogether. When the bellrang for the interval that morning, Mike was, as it were, sitting upand taking nourishment.   He was doing this in a literal as well as in a figurative sense whenBob entered the school shop.   Bob appeared curiously agitated. He looked round, and, seeing Mike,pushed his way towards him through the crowd. Most of those presentcongratulated him as he passed; and Mike noticed, with some surprise,that, in place of the blushful grin which custom demands from the manwho is being congratulated on receipt of colours, there appeared onhis face a worried, even an irritated look. He seemed to havesomething on his mind.   "Hullo," said Mike amiably. "Got that letter?""Yes. I'll show it you outside.""Why not here?""Come on."Mike resented the tone, but followed. Evidently something had happenedto upset Bob seriously. As they went out on the gravel, somebodycongratulated Bob again, and again Bob hardly seemed to appreciateit.'   Bob led the way across the gravel and on to the first terrace. Whenthey had left the crowd behind, he stopped.   "What's up?" asked Mike.   "I want you to read----""Jackson!"They both turned. The headmaster was standing on the edge of thegravel.   Bob pushed the letter into Mike's hands.   "Read that," he said, and went up to the headmaster. Mike heard thewords "English Essay," and, seeing that the conversation wasapparently going to be one of some length, capped the headmaster andwalked off. He was just going to read the letter when the bell rang.   He put the missive in his pocket, and went to his form-room wonderingwhat Marjory could have found to say to Bob to touch him on the raw tosuch an extent. She was a breezy correspondent, with a style of herown, but usually she entertained rather than upset people. Nosuspicion of the actual contents of the letter crossed his mind.

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