human
I suppose we shall have it all opened again now, he remarked,
gpt
I never read the athletic intelligence in the papers,
human
Well, my uncle and aunt do. The names were actually printed in the _Times_, and I shall be greatly surprised if I don't find a letter or telegram when I get back to my rooms. We may as well beat to quarters, though, or the fellows will be waiting.
gpt
You didn't tell me anyone else was to be there, said George reproachfully, suddenly stopping short,
human
I can't come!
gpt
Stuff and nonsense, said Jim;
human
Halliday, said George, hurriedly,
gpt
I'm much obliged to you for asking me, but I have made a rule, as I tell you, never to go out, and I've told you the reason.
human
An utterly rubbishing reason!
gpt
I promised to come with you because I thought there would be only us two; but I really can't come if there are more.
human
My dear fellow, said Jim good-humouredly,
gpt
I know it's very rude of me, said George, feeling and looking very uncomfortable,
human
Of course you don't; so come along. Why, my dear fellow, one would think my friends were all as abandoned wretches as I am, by the manner in which you shrink from the notion of meeting them, but they aren't.
gpt
Do let me off,
human
Not a bit of it. But I tell you what, if you don't like them or me--
gpt
It's not that, you know, but I've no right to associ--
human
Associate with your grandmother! Come this once, and I'll never ask you again unless you like, there!
gpt
Who are the fellows?
human
Two of them are College men--very nice men, in my humble opinion; and, now I come to think of it, one of them, Clarke, is in against you for the `Wigram,' but everyone says you're safe; and the third is an old particular school chum, who is playing in Sandhurst team against us, and whom it is therefore my interest to incapacitate by a howling breakfast.
gpt
I wish you'd let him eat my share as well.
human
I dare say he would be equal to the occasion. Newcome was always a good trencherman.