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An' the Grotkau the Grotkau of all conceivable bottoms soaking up every pound that should be ours at Liverpool! "I was staggered wi' this folly considerin' the dinner at Radley's in connection wi' the same. "Ye may well stare, McPhee, says the head-clerk.
"To apologise for losing the Swimming Cup." "In a spirit of sincerity or one of scoffing?" It was with no desire for veracity, but as a challenge to fight, that I replied: "One of scoffing." "Good." Radley's grey eyes unveiled some of their gentleness, "you can tell the truth still.
The old doctor kept up a cheery flow of small-talk with me, thinking, no doubt, that this would be a kindness to Derrick: and at last that purgatorial drive ended, and somehow Derrick and the doctor between them got the Major safely into his room at Radley's Hotel.
I leaned farther out of the window and muttered: "Oh, I hope he won't speak to me. I hope he'll pass by. I hate him, whoever he is. O God, make him pass by," for I knew there was a moisture in my eyes. I hurriedly held them wide open, that they might dry in the sun. "Ray?" It was Radley's voice, but I wilfully paid no attention.
What has become of the Frenchman, by the bye?" Dorian shrugged his shoulders. "I believe he married Lady Radley's maid, and has established her in Paris as an English dressmaker. Anglomanie is very fashionable over there now, I hear. It seems silly of the French, doesn't it? But do you know? he was not at all a bad servant. I never liked him, but I had nothing to complain about.
We'll ha' some rag-an'-bone tramp snappin' her up under oor nose, said he; an' he put the wheel over. We were goin' slow. "'Bannister wad like better to go home on a liner an' eat in the saloon. Mind ye what they said o' Holdock & Steiner's food that night at Radley's? Keep her awa', man keep her awa'. A tow's a tow, but a derelict's big salvage. "'E-eh! 'said Bell.
Be it right or wrong, this man with the hard chin and kind eyes had his favourites; and I date from this moment my usurping of Doe's position as Radley's foremost favourite. The way in which he took hold of my elbow, my willing submission of the army to his grasp told me that something was given by him and taken by me. And my eyes, as was to be expected of them, became suddenly moist and luminous.
"But those later books which were found in your hiding place and Radley's room, which are more dangerous and subversive than any that have gone before, are to be cast solemnly out of the place; and, in truth, I think with cause. See, I have brought you one or two to look at, to show you how even Martin Luther contradicts himself and blasphemes.
For might it not be counted among the satisfactory results of his deposition of heavy baggage at Radley's that, for the first time in his life, he was at liberty to regard even his father, Thomas Pontifex Verity, Archdeacon of Harchester and Rector of Canton Magna, in a true perspective?
It being First Period, Doe, Penny, and I were under Radley's stern rule and obliged to sit quietly in our desks, knowing that he would allow no more licence on this exciting day than on any other. Our heads were bent over our work when Bickerton, the junior prefect of Bramhall, entered the room, approached the master's desk, and spoke in an undertone to Radley.
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