Besides, it's such stuff! They say sport brutalises _us_, and then they want to go and contaminate the labourer.

But we won't take the responsibility.

We've got our own vices, and we'll stick to them; we're used to them; but we won't hand them on: we'd scorn the action." The flushed young barbarian, driven to bay, was not to be resisted.
Marcella laughed heartily, and Hallin laid an affectionate hand on the boy's shoulder, patting him as though he were a restive horse.
"Yes, I remember I was puzzled as to the details of Hallin's scheme," said Aldous, his mouth twitching.

"I wanted to know who was to pay for the licences; how game enough for the number of applicants was to be got without preserving; and how men earning twelve or fourteen shillings a week were to pay a keeper.

Then I asked a clergyman who has a living near this common what he thought would be the end of it.