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102 “I’ve learned a lot on those things,” Edward said. “If you want to, Charley, you can sit down on one now, and I’ll coach  you.”

“How cocky all you St. Timothy’s fellows do get!” observed Charles.

“Not a bit like you St. John’s fellows, then, are we?” rejoined Edward.

But after that they ceased to squabble, and when Edward took his brother into the chapel  and pointed out the memorial windows and let  him examine the carved stalls in the choir and  the lofty arches of the nave, Charles admitted  that it was a fine building. “But then it ought to be,” he added. “The same man built it that built ours.—Now let me have a look at some  of your friends.”

So Edward introduced Keating and Lawrence—who indeed had been lurking around in the hope that this opportunity might result—and presented them to Charles.

Charles’s comment afterwards was: “They seem like pretty good fellows, but why are  they so polite?”