"`Mr Coates to move that Classics is a nobler study than Mathematics.' Amendment proposed: `Instead of "nobler" say "viler."' Proposed by Bosher, further amendment: `Instead of "nobler" say "beastlier."' Proposed by Telson--( `Hear, hear,' from Telson)--further amendment: `Instead of "nobler" say "more idiotic."' You see it can easily be worked, and when we've done with `nobler' we can start on the `is' and amend it to `are,' do you twig?
There'll have to be a division over each.

I say it'll be an awful lark!" Little dreaming of the delightful treat in store for it, Willoughby assembled next afternoon, expecting nothing better than a dull debate on the well-worn question of classics _versus_ mathematics.

They were destined to experience more than one surprise before the meeting was over.
Riddell, who had spent a dismal day, not knowing what to do or think, and vainly hoping that Wyndham might by his own free confession solve the bitter problem, came to the meeting.

It was the least wretched thing he could do.

Anything was better than sitting alone and brooding over his secret.
For the first time he received a cheer as he entered and took his accustomed place.