Saturday, October 4, 2008

Sir Henry Raeburn Boy And Rabbit painting

Sir Henry Raeburn Boy And Rabbit paintingJean Fragonard Young Girl Reading paintingJean Fragonard The Stolen Kiss painting
the law was the same for an Oxford undergraduate as for any young hooligan; indeed the better the Home the more shameful the offence...
It was not only at Bow Street that Mr Samgrass was of value. At Oxford he showed all the zeal and acumen which were Rex Mottram’s in London. He interviewed the authorities, the proctors, the Vice-Chancellor; he induced Mgr Bell to call on the Dean of Christ Church; he arranged for Lady Marchmain to talk to the Chancellor himself; and, as a result of all this, the three of us were gated for the rest of the term. Hardcastle, for no clear reason, was again deprived of the use of his car, and the affair blew over. The most lasting penalty we suffered was our intimacy with Rex Mottram and Mr Samgrass, but since Rex’s life was in London in a world of politics and high f and Mr Samgrass’s nearer to our own at Oxford, it was from him we suffered the more.
For the rest of that term he haunted us. Now that we were ‘gated’ we

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