But who had won our party could not see, and must wait to learn.


A youth, adorned with a blue and yellow rosette, cried out, in the
hearing of Mrs. Dodd, "I say, they are properly pumped, both crews are:"
then, jumping on to a spoke of her carriage-wheel, with a slight apology,
he announced that two or three were shut up in the Exeter.

The exact meaning of these two verbs passive was not clear to Mrs. Dodd;
but their intensity was. She fluttered, and wanted to go to her boy and
nurse him, and turned two most imploring eyes on Julia, and Julia
straightway kissed her with gentle vehemence, and offered to ruin and
see.

"What, amongst all those young gentlemen, love? I fear that would not be
proper. See, all the ladies remain apart." So they kept quiet and
miserable, after the manner of females.

Meantime the Cantab's quick eye had not deceived him; in each racing boat
were two young gentlemen leaning collapsed over their oars; and two more,
who were in a cloud, and not at all clear whether they were in this world
still, or in their zeal had pulled into a better. But their malady was
not a rare one in racing boats, and the remedy always at hand: it
combined the rival systems; Thames was sprinkled in their faces--
Homoeopathy: and brandy in a teaspoon trickled down their throats--
Allopathy: youth and spirits soon did the rest; and, the moment
their eyes opened, their mouths opened; and, the moment their mouths
opened, they fell a chaffing.

Mrs. Dodd's anxiety and Julia's were relieved by the appearance of Mr.