White Feather> Chapter 2 Sheen At Home     2012.2.18   qiuyuhong

Tory Burch High HeelOn the afternoon following the Oxford A match, Sheen, of Seymour's, wassitting over the gas-stove in his study with a Thucydides. He had beenstaying in that day with a cold. He was always staying in. Everyone hashis hobby. That was Sheen's.

Tory Burch FlatsNobody at Wrykyn, even at Seymour's, seemed to know Sheen very well,with the exception of Drummond; and those who troubled to think aboutthe matter at all rather wondered what Drummond saw in him. To thesuperficial observer the two had nothing in common.Tory Burch Mid Heel Drummond was goodat games--he was in the first fifteen and the second eleven, and hadwon the Feather Weights at Aldershot--and seemed to have no interestsoutside them. Sheen, on the other hand, played fives for the house, andthat was all. He was bad at cricket, and had given up football byspecial arrangement with Allardyce, on the plea that he wanted all histime for work. He was in for an in-school scholarship, the Gotford.Tory Burch Boots

Allardyce, though professing small sympathy with such a degradedambition, had given him a special dispensation, and since then Sheenhad retired from public life even more than he had done hitherto. Theexamination for the Gotford was to come off towards the end of theterm.

Discount Tory Burch Shoes The only other Wrykinians with whom Sheen was known to be friendly wereStanning and Attell, of Appleby's. And here those who troubled to thinkabout it wondered still more, for Sheen, whatever his other demerits,was not of the type of Stanning and Attell. There are certain membersof every public school, just as there are certain members of everycollege at the universities, who are "marked men". Tory Burch Flip Flops They have never beendetected in any glaring breach of the rules, and their manner towardsthe powers that be is, as a rule, suave, even deferential. Yet it isone of the things which everybody knows, that they are in the blackbooks of the authorities, and that sooner or later, in the picturesquephrase of the New Yorker, they will "get it in the neck". To this classStanning and Attell belonged. It was plain to all that the former wasthe leading member of the firm. A glance at the latter was enough toshow that, Tory burch salewhatever ambitions he may have had in the direction ofvillainy, he had not the brains necessary for really satisfactoryevildoing. As for Stanning, he pursued an even course of life, Tory Burch Bags alwaysrigidly obeying the eleventh commandment, "thou shalt not be foundout". This kept him from collisions with the authorities; while a readytongue and an excellent knowledge of the art of boxing--he was, afterDrummond, the best Light-Weight in the place--secured him at leasttolerance at the hand of the school:Tory burch shoes and, as a matter of fact, thoughmost of those who knew him disliked him, and particularly those who,like Drummond, were what Clowes had called the Old Brigade, he had,nevertheless, a tolerably large following. A first fifteen man, even ina bad year, can generally find boys anxious to be seen about with him.Tory Burch Wallets