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This eccentric creature has for many years subsisted entirely upon the bounty of the Etonians, and the inhabitants of Windsor and Eton, who never fail to administer to his wants, and liberally supply him with many little comforts in return for his harmless pleasantries.

What made it all rather worse was that this nice discreet faceless old Etonian was alarmingly well informed.

Not only had he been peddling a pack of lies to me about an eminent man, but - apparently the old Etonian and his friends had had their eyes on McMullen for some time.

He asked for the weekend to think it over, and his Etonian friend bought that.

To an old Etonian the last week in July brings with it recollections of delight that time and circumstances can never wholly efface.

The merits of these worthies are here faithfully related, and will be instantly recognised by any Etonian of the last thirty years.

I had become a genuine Etonian, which a boy is never accounted until he has been once flogged.

I would appeal not only to every old Etonian, but to every boy of the present day.

Thee in thy favourite fields, where the limpid, gently-rolling Thames washes thy Etonian banks, in early youth I have worshipped.

A silhouetted man in bowler hat in Savile Row suit -- old Etonian knotted tie -- umbrella stabs like a sword -- Umbrella with knotted stems of a rose furling round -- then a tear, gash -- rose cut and tossed into -- His lapel.

A debonair Etonian, Steed oozes charm, wit and - when he chooses to -- hard-edged, steely menace.

Even Lij Mikhael forsook his Etonian manners and joined in the delighted examination of the hoard, pushing aside an old greybeard of seventy to take his place at the Vickers gun and triggering off a noisy squabble amongst the others in which Gareth diplomatically intervened.

Robert was a nervous Old Etonian homosexual with a fantastic eye for art.

There was cigar-ash on the lapel of his dark suit, and on the old Etonian tie.

It must be recollected that the Etonians encourage these whims in the poor old man, and never lose an opportunity of impressing Stockhore with a belief in the magnificent powers of his genius.