P. G. Wodehouse

“ After about another half-minute, Rand-Brown was all right again, and he got up and went back to the house with Merrett, and O’Hara and Moriarty went off to Dexter’s, and I gave the ferrets their grub, and cut back to breakfast.”
“Rand-Brown wasn’t at breakfast,” said Harvey.
“No. He went to bed. I wonder what’ll happen. Think there’ll be a row about it?”
“Shouldn’t think so,” said Harvey. “They never do make rows about fights, and neither of them is a prefect, so I don’t see what it matters if they do fight. ”

“ We’d better run.”
When Trevor called at Seymour’s that afternoon to see Rand-Brown, with a view to challenging him to deadly combat, and found that O’Hara had been before him, he ought to have felt relieved. His actual feeling was one of acute annoyance. It seemed to him that O’Hara had exceeded the limits of friendship. It was all very well for him to take over the Rand-Brown contract, and settle it himself, in order to save Trevor from a very bad quarter of an hour, but Trevor was one of those people who object strongly to the interference of other people in their private business. ”

“ There were few things he enjoyed so much as exclusive items of school gossip (scandal preferably) , but hot new buns were among those few things. However, he decided on this occasion to feed the mind at the expense of the body. ”