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As soon as the old woman saw him, she held up her stick, exclaiming "A man! a man! a ropper and murterer! Cot suve us! and keep the door fast polted." They shut the door instantly. "What is all this?" said Angelina, with dignified composure. "A couple of fools, I take it, miss, who are afraid and in tred of roppers," said the postilion; "put I'll make 'em come out, I'll be pound, plockheads."
That evening I talked with my uncle in the Hardingham for the last time. The atmosphere of the place had altered quite shockingly. Instead of the crowd of importunate courtiers there were just half a dozen uninviting men, journalists waiting for an interview. Ropper the big commissionaire was still there, but now indeed he was defending my uncle from something more than time-wasting intrusions.
"Welcome to Llanwaetur, miss! pe pleased to excuse our keeping hur waiting, and polting the toor, and taking hur for a ghost and a ropper put we know who you are now the young lady from London, that we have been told to expect." "Oh, then, I have been expected; all's right and my Araminta, where is she? where is she?"
The most eternal room was a general waiting-room and very business-like in quality; it had one or two uneasy sofas, a number of chairs, a green baize table, and a collection of the very best Moggs and Tone posters: and the plush carpets normal to the Hardingham had been replaced by a grey-green cork linoleum; Here I would always find a remarkable miscellany of people presided over by a peculiarly faithful and ferocious looking commissioner, Ropper, who guarded the door that led a step nearer my uncle.
Nothing.... He hit the table with his dumpy fist.... Der verfluchte Kerl came in the morning like a "tam' ropper," making a great noise, and took him away. His mate was not prepared, his ship was moored fast he protested it was shameful to come upon a man in that way. Shameful!
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