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Updated: June 9, 2025
Who is this coming in first-wicket-down? Not Radley? Yes, by heaven, it is! He has come to see that no rot sets in. Now, Honion, you may well spit on your hands. A laugh trembles its way round the spectators, as Lancaster places his men in the deep field. He is ready to be knocked about. The first over closes for ten, all off Radley's bat, two fours and a two.
As the German steamer in which I was going to New York did not start until next day, I put up for the night at Radley's that haven of shore- comfort to the Red-Sea-roasted, Biscay-tossed, sea-sickened Indian warriors returning home by the P and O vessels where, you may be sure, I met with every attention that my constitution required in the way of rest and refreshment; and, at midday on the morrow, embarking on board the stately Herzog von Gottingen, I passed through the Needles, outward-bound across the Atlantic to the "New World" of promise!
Witness the fact that, earlier in the day, he had deposited his heavy baggage at that house of many partings, many meetings, Radley's Hotel, Southampton; and journeyed on to Marychurch with a solitary, eminently virgin, cowhide portmanteau, upon the yellow-brown surface of which the words "Thomas Clarkson Verity, passenger Bombay, first cabin R.M.S. Penang" were inscribed in the whitest of lettering.
Bid them to Radley's, McPhee, an' send me the bill. Thank Dandie, here, man. I'm no used to thanks. Then he turned him round. "'Preserve 's! I said, clean jumped oot o' mysel'. 'I was but thinkin' you're fey, McRimmon. "Dod, the auld deevil laughed till he nigh sat down on Dandie. 'Send me the bill, says he. 'I'm long past champagne, but tell me how it tastes the morn.
A sudden silence, and every boy sits awkwardly in his place. Radley's tall figure stood in the room: and the door was being shut by his hand. I kept my eyes fixed on him. I was changed. I no longer felt disorderly nor impudent: for disorderliness and impudence in me were but unnatural efforts to copy Pennybet, that master-fool. I dropped into my natural self, a thing of shyness and diffidence.
I was unconquerable! I walked along the corridor, blown out with injured virtue a King among men. We assure you, our beloved subjects, we were Rupert Head-in-Air. I returned to Radley's class-room and entered jauntily. All eyes turned and followed me as I walked to the master's desk. The excitement experienced by each boy seemed communicated to me. Radley feigned indifference. "Well?" said he.
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