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Roger listened, but scarcely seemed to hear. His eyes were on the woman in the chair, and he drew another long breath. With that a man came crawling through the doorway or stooping so low that he seemed to crawl. It was young Rodda, and he ran to his brother Nathaniel with a sob, and clasped him about the legs. "Hullo!" cried Nathaniel. "Why, Hick, lad, what's taken 'ee?"
The park is most lovely; and the rarest plants are here seen flourishing in the open air, in the fulness of bloom and beauty, beside those we are accustomed to see every day. On the whole, however, I was better pleased with the garden at Rodda. The palace, too, is very fine. The ceilings of the rooms are lofty, and richly ornamented with gilding, paintings, and marble.
Then in the waning light he took his hat and started for a stroll around the back defences and out-buildings. His way led through the kitchen, where Jane, the cook the only woman left at Steens was peeling potatoes for the night's supper; and there beside the open hearth sat Hickory Rodda writing by the glow of it, huddled on a stool with a sheet of paper on his knee.
The mosques in Cairo struck me as having a more ancient and venerable appearance than those of Constantinople, while the latter, on the other hand, were larger and more elegant. I also visited the island of Rodda, which is worthy the name of a beautiful garden.
Trevarthen stepped forward briskly to undo the mischief. "We'll have forty of the boys back before daylight: Dick Eva's taken a fresh horse to carry round the warning. Get to your posts, lads, and leave Jane here to cook supper. 'Tis 'one and all' now, and fight square; and if Hick Rodda has been sending his dirty threats to Nansclowan and frightening women, he's a good riddance, say I."
"We'll see about that by-and-by," said Roger grimly. "You've helped do me a favour, and I'll cry quits with you and your brother for't. But I want no more of you or your haveage: yon's the door walk!" "Oh, if that's how you take it," Nat Rodda shrugged his shoulders and obeyed, his brother at his heels. One or two of the men would have interfered, but Trevarthen checked them.
The island of Rodda divides the Nile, and was formerly connected by bridges of boats with both the island of Gizeh and Fustât, now old Cairo.
But at this point one of the infants began to cry, and before he could be hushed the noise of wheels sounded down the road, and Dr. Rodda drove up in his reedy gig. He was a round, dapper practitioner, with slightly soiled cuffs and an extremely business-like manner.
So to-day, with Roger's leave, Trevarthen withdrew five of the garrison and rode off, leaving but four men on guard Roger himself, Malachi, a labourer named Pascoe, and one Hickory Rodda a schoolmaster from Wendron, whose elder brother, Nathaniel, a small farmer from the same parish, went with the expedition. The short day passed quietly enough, if tediously.
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