And even after Peaches does float in will he know me after I've changed my shirt, dirtied my hat, and got me a clean shave twice over?

For one thing, they knew nothing of what was said and done in the Sixth Form studies, and even the prefects themselves never thought for a moment that this little bit of friction in the machinery of Ronleigh College would, figuratively speaking, lead to "hot bearings" and a narrow shave of a general breakdown.

The youth scrambled to a seat as the door slammed behind him; remarked that it was "a near shave"; and laughed nervously as if to assure me that he found it a joke.

It was a terribly close shave, wasn't it?" "An awful close shave, Johnny.

But it was not the mesmeric shave of 1914.