Aminta received it while the earl was at his papers for the morning's news of the weightier deeds of men.
They were the right boys, Weyburn said; his interview with Gowen, Bench, Parsons, and the others assured him that the school was breathing big lungs.

Mr.Cuper, too, had spoken well of them.
'You walked the twenty miles ?' Aminta interrupted him.
'With my German friend: out and home: plenty of time in the day.

He has taken to English boys, but asks why enthusiasm and worship of great deeds don't grow upward from them to their elders.

And I, in turn, ask why Germans insist on that point more even than the French do.' 'Germans are sentimental.

But the English boys he saw belonged to a school with traditions of enthusiasm sown by some one.