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'In that case I complain to the landlady of your behaviour, and insist on her getting rid of you. You ought to have been turned out long ago. You are a nuisance, and worse than a nuisance. Be so good as to leave the room. Rawcliffe, his shoulders humped, moved towards the door; but before reaching it he stopped and said doggedly 'I can't give notice. 'Why not? 'I owe Mrs. Turpin money.
It belonged to young Greatorex and it came from the doorway of the Vicarage yard. "That yo, Dr. Rawcliffe? I wuss joost gawn oop t'road t' see ef yo wuss coomin'." "Of course I was coming." The new doctor was short and stern with young Greatorex. The two voices, the soft and the stern, spoke together for a moment, low, inaudible.
If Miss Rodney disappeared, it seemed only too probable that Turpin would be off again to 'The Swan With Two Necks. On the other hand, the thought of 'giving notice' to Mr. Rawcliffe caused her something like dismay; how could she have the face to turn a real gentleman out of her house? Yes, but was it not true that she had lost money by him and stood to lose more?
I am vastly honoured to have you under my roof! Cordery is my name, sir, landlord of this old-fashioned inn. I thought that my eyes could not deceive me. I am a patron of the ring, sir, in my own humble way, and was present at Moulsey in September last, when you beat Jack Stringer of Rawcliffe. A very fine fight, sir, and very handsomely fought, if I may make bold to say so.
Rawcliffe, said Turpin, putting his head into the room as the lodger sat at breakfast. 'I'm a man of my word. 'Don't come bawling here! cried the other, with a face of scorn. And at noon the house knew him no more. Miss Rodney, on that same day, was able to offer her landlady a new lodger. She had not spoken of this before, being resolved to triumph by mere force of will.
Restrained from this by more than one consideration, she stood voiceless, her bosom heaving. 'Well, you shall think it over, said Miss Rodney, 'and we'll speak of it again in a day or two. Mrs. Turpin, without another word, took herself out of the room. Save for that singular meeting on Miss Rodney's first night in the house, Mr. Rawcliffe and the energetic lady had held no intercourse whatever.
Rawcliffe, always so called, though his age was nearly thirty, but, as was well known, he belonged to the 'real gentry, and Mrs. Turpin held him in reverence on that account. No matter for his little weaknesses of which evil tongues, said Mrs. Turpin, of course made the most.
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