Changing Winds

e liked and others for whom he felt neither like nor dislike, but just the ordinary tolerance of temporary encounters and passing life; and there were a few for whom he felt a h

nough to him, was anxious even to be friendly with him. There was something of a flabby sort in Mullally's nature that made Henry instinctively angry with him: his vague features,

the time of the Boer War, and the nick-name came easily enough.

rse-Bearer because Roger was careful. It was he who decided that their pocket-money, with small exceptions, should be spent conjointly, and that no money should be spent unless three out of four consented to the expenditure. ("Damn it, is it my money or is it not?" said Ninian when the rule was proposed, and "Fined sixpence for cheek!" Gilbert replied, ordering Roger to col

m. "We'll all go to Cambridge," he

!" said

e a terrible grimace at the mention of Mullally's name and Gilbert, swift to notice the grimace, pointed the moral, "Well, Quinny, if yo

as at Oxford," s

bert replied. "And that reminds me, if one of us becomes a

his hands. "Carried

d be rather nice to be a parson ... standing in the

where they were sitting. "He'l

und and sat on him until he swore by the blood of his forefathers that he would ne

aked, struggling to th

u've pro

l right

ched his mind for something of a devastating character to say. "Funny a

m because they were his friends and because he loved Gilbert an