The applause at this speech was so immoderate that a party of Boston ladies dining with a Chautauqua lecturer in the Clarendon's main dining room, shuddered17 and began looking up time-tables to Stratford.
By this time the serial18 story had grown to the length of seven or eight chapters, and the Scorpions became so engrossed19 in the fortunes of the Kenyons (so, for convenience, they had dubbed20 Kathleen's family) that at the dinner a separate health was drunk to each character in the story, and one of the members was called upon to reply. Falstaff Carter responded to the toast to “Joe,” and recounted his secret investigations21 into the number of members of the university who bore that name. He claimed to have tabulated22 from the university almanac 256 men so christened, and offered to go into the life history of any or all of them. He said that he was happy to say that the only Joseph who seemed at all likely to be a poet was a scrubby little man at Teddy Hall, who wore spectacles and a ragged23 exhibitioner's gown and did not seem to threaten a serious rivalry24 to any Scorpion2 bent25 on supplanting26 him. “I also find,” he added, “that the master of the New College and Magdalen beagles is called Joe. He is a member of the Bullingdon, and if he is the cheese it's distinctly mooters whether any of the Scorpers have a ghostly show; but I vote, gentlemen, that we don't crock at this stage of the game.”
It was decided27 at the dinner that during the ensuing Easter vacation the Scorpions should make a trip to Wolverhampton, en masse, for the purpose of picketing28 Bancroft Road and finding out what Kathleen was really like. And then, after singing “langers and godders” (Auld Lang Syne29 and God Save the King) the meeting broke up and the members dispersed30 darkly in various directions to avoid the proctors.

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n.贴边,镶边;vt.缝贴边;(in)包围,限制 | |
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[经] 罢工工人劝阻工人上班,工人纠察线 | |
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