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He had may I guess? some strong reason for avoiding you; and he is a man of some authority in the Company and moving to still greater. He would not know the Indians who actually carried you away; but Factor Rodwell would, and factors are only human, and sooner or later Gerald Ainley will be able to considerably influence Mr. Rodwell's future. Therefore well, Q.E.D.! Do you not agree with me?"
Bundercombe had stepped back with a little shining revolver in his hand which he was carefully stowing away in his pocket. "Sorry to be a trifle hasty, Mr. Rodwell," he said. "I saw the shape of this little weapon in your pocket and it didn't seem altogether agreeable to me. We are not great at firearms over this side, you know." Blanche and Rodwell stared at him.
"Now, policeman, I am going to ask you a question; but pray don't answer it till you are told to do so, because my learned friend may object to it." Rodwell sprang to his feet and objected at once. "What is the question?" asked the Marquis. "We must hear what the question is before I can rule as to your objection, Mr. Rodwell." This was a good one for Mr.
John Rodwell, the factor and his wife, emerged from the store and hurried in the same direction, followed by the Indian who had been bartering.
There is no guarding against their sneaking, underhand ways," he observed. I believe, indeed, he made use of still more opprobrious epithets, with which I do not wish to defile my pages. Even some of his own side laughed at his anger, but still no one thought of rebuking him. "Never mind, we'll beat them well the next turn," answered Rodwell, a big, good-natured fellow, on his side.
In Arabic it has no such significance, and even the lower orders apply it to themselves; although it often has a soupon of "I and thou." Rodwell renders "from germs of life," "from sorry water." To "Johnny Raws" he never fails to show the little rolls which come off the body and prove to them how unclean they are, but the material is mostly dead scarf-skin
The ball was carried on, struck rapidly past him, followed up by relays of Ernest's friends, and finally sent by Buttar, accompanied by a loud cheer from all his side, over the boundary. Such a victory could not have been expected under ordinary circumstances, had even the big boys been the conquerors, but the latter were doubly astounded, till Rodwell sang out "Bravo, young Bracebridge!
No, we don't repeat the error of Crayc Farm and Creckholt. And here we have stout friends. Not to speak of Beaver Urmsing: a picture of Old Christmas England! You took to him? must have taken to Beaver Urmsing! The Marigolds! And Sir Rodwell and Lady Blachington are altogether above the mark of Sir Humphrey and Lady Pottil, and those half and half Mountneys.
Birch's Academy," and what not, became suddenly "Archbishop Wigsby's College of Rodwell Regis." They took down the old blue board with the gold letters, which has been used to mend the pigsty since. Birch had a large school-room run up in the Gothic taste, with statuettes, and a little belfry, and a bust of Archbishop Wigsby in the middle of the school.
It is said that the amount of stone used in the oldest of the breakwaters was five million tons. If the road is taken into Portland the village of Rodwell, at which there is a station, is at the parting of the ways, that to the left leading to the shore at Sandsfoot Castle, one of Henry's block houses that played a part in the Civil War.
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