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And this great sum has been earned by brains alone, without increase of expenditure, by boldness of initiative, thought, care, and patience; without special knowledge also, at the beginning, for ten years ago Mr. Cookson had no more acquaintance with orchids than is possessed by every gentleman who takes an interest in them, while his gardener the early time was both ignorant and prejudiced.
Hatton and Cookson have factories up at Samba, for it is an outlet for the trade of Achango land in rubber and ivory, a trade worked by the Akele tribe, a powerful, savage and difficult lot to deal with, and just in the same condition, as far as I can learn, as they were when Du Chaillu made his wonderful journeys among them.
"Something!" echoed Mullins. "What of Cecco?" demanded Noodler. "He's as dead as Jukes," said Hook shortly. His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. All pirates are superstitious, and Cookson cried, "They do say the surest sign a ship's accurst is when there's one on board more than can be accounted for."
On the mother's side, also, Wordsworth was connected with the middle territorial class; his mother, Anne Cookson, was the daughter of a well-to-do mercer in Penrith; but her mother was a Crackanthorpe, whose ancestors had been lords of the manor of Newbiggin, near Penrith, from the time of Edward III. He was thus, as Scott put it in his own case, come of "gentle" kin, and, like Scott, he was proud of it, and declared the fact in his short fragment of prose autobiography.
There was the sound of a motor-car on the road, which ran along one side of the garden, divided from it by a high wall. It could hardly be they; for they were coming frugally by the coach. But Miss Cookson went across to a side window looking on the road to investigate.
She hated to feel and know that probably the majority of decent people would say, if asked, as Captain Marsworth had practically said that she, Bridget Cookson, ought to be doing V.A.D. work, or relieving munition-workers at week-ends, instead of fiddling with an index to a text-book on 'The New Psychology. The mere consciousness of that was already an attack on her personal freedom to do what she liked, which she hotly resented.
Underwood, the Director of the well known English trading house of Messrs. Hatton and Cookson. With him we walk down the main business street of the town; a wide shady road lined with shops, hotels, and restaurants and traversed by a steam tram. At the end of this street the road continues to the right, up an incline and opposite to the corner is one of the entrances to the Residency.
Well, it is possible; old Cookson may not be so great a fool as he looks. Anyhow, I am glad for your sake that he did not report you; old Jolliffe would not have been humbugged. He would have said, `Your jacket stinks of tobacco, and jackets don't smoke of themselves. And you would have got it hot, old fellow, for Jolliffe is mad against smoking."
Farrell himself was entirely mystified. 'The only motive I can suggest' he had said to Marsworth 'is that Miss Cookson had an insane dislike of her brother-in-law. But, even so, why did she do it? Why, indeed? Cicely now heard the whole story from her companion; and her shrewd mind very soon began to guess at reasons.
'Shall I set the tea, Miss? Miss Cookson turned from the window. 'Yes bring it up except the tea of course they ought to be here at any time. 'And Mrs. Weston wants to know what time supper's to be? The fair-haired girl speaking was clearly north-country. She pronounced the 'u' in 'supper, as though it were the German 'u' in Suppe. Miss Cookson shrugged her shoulders.
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