human
I hear Holden is not going to try for the Bishop's scholarship, after all,
gpt
Did he tell you so himself?
human
Yes.
gpt
Then, of course, we don't believe it. He'd like us to think so, I daresay.
human
He knows what he is about, though. He got confirmed last week, you know, and that's bound to go down with Winter.
gpt
Winter's pretty well bound to favour Morris, I fancy, though he's not pious, says Pledge.
human
There are three young Morrises growing up, you know.
gpt
Nice rotten state the school's in, says he.
human
Thank goodness, it doesn't matter much to me; but I've once or twice thought of joining the saints, just to save trouble.
gpt
Ha, ha! I'd come and look at you, old man. Fancy you and Mansfield looking over the same hymn-book, and turning up your eyes.
human
But, says Heathcote, who has been drinking in all the talk in a bewildered way, and venturing now, as he sometimes does, to join in it.
gpt
But I always thought Mansfield was really good.
human
Rather, says Wrangham.
gpt
He is one of the elect. It's worth fifty pounds a year to him, so it would be a wonder if he wasn't.
human
Yes, my boy, says Pledge,