"The idea of not remembering that I was off-side!" "Pshaw; why, the first time I played against Eustace at Hillton I tackled the referee in mistake for the man with the ball! And threw him, too! And sat on his head!" West grinned.
"And they _did_ say, Blair, that you were feeling aggrieved against that referee because he had called you down for holding.

And I _have_ heard that you weren't such a fool as you looked." "Nothing in it, my boy," answered Wesley Blair airily.

"Mere calumny.

Am I one to entertain feelings of anger and resentment against my fellow men?
Verily, very much not.

But he put me off, did that referee chap.
He was incapable of accepting the joke.