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Updated: June 7, 2025
'Different? You mean you don't like Rodman? 'I was not thinking of Mr. Rodman. I mean that her friends are not the same as ours. Mutimer forgot for a moment his preoccupation in thought of Alice. 'Was there anything wrong with the people you met there? She was silent. 'Just tell me what you think. I want to know. What did you object to? 'I don't think they were the best kind of people.
One was studying medicine and beginning to see something more in life than a struggle for mere existence. He was Joseph Rodman Drake. The other, Fitz-Greene Halleck, was a bookkeeper and had but just come from his birthplace in Guilford, Connecticut. He had read much poetry and had written some stray verse.
In this emergency Rodman Wanamaker put at the disposal of the government his splendid air yacht the America II, built on the exact lines of the America I, winner of across-the-Atlantic prizes in 1918, but of much larger spread and greater engine power.
Beyond the sixteen rifled Rodman guns of large calibre and long range, mounted on the river bluff and thrust out through sand-bags, behind the masses of infantry, the pontoon and artillery trains, Carleton stood and saw the making of a bridge in fifteen minutes, in the face of a terrific musketry fire from the opposite shore.
Among the Indians, who have the habit of naming every person from some personal trait, he was known as "the Kingfisher," and by that name I shall call him. The second of our party, who procured the right of fishing the Restigouche, and made up the party, I shall call Rodman, which suits him both as fisherman and in his professional character of engineer.
They entered a house which Rodman did not know, and were passing before the bar to go to the billiard-room, when a man who stood there taking refreshment called out, 'Hollo, Rodman! To announce a man's name in this way is a decided breach of etiquette in the world to which Rodman belonged.
Rodman refuses to accept the yacht after the job is done, what will you do?" "I shall have her myself then, and I can make lots of money taking out parties in her." "Your father was paid for the Sea Foam as the work progressed. He had received eight hundred dollars on her when she was finished." "I know it; and Captain Patterdale owes four hundred more.
You don't catch me helping him again. 'He says Mr. Yottle came to see them to-day. 'To see who? 'Dick and his wife. He heard them talking about us. Rodman laughed. 'Let 'em go ahead! I wish them luck. 'But can't they ruin us if they like? 'It's all in a life. It wouldn't be the first time I've been ruined, old girl. Let's enjoy ourselves whilst we can.
"No doubt," answered Elphinstone, "but that would make the working of it more difficult. I therefore come back to my large-grained powder that removes these difficulties." "So be it," answered the general. "To load his Columbiad," resumed the major, "Rodman used a powder in grains as large as chestnuts, made of willow charcoal, simply rarefied in cast-iron pans.
Montague and Captain Patterdale only laughed, but they were sufficiently interested to go on deck in spite of the pouring rain, and they were followed by many others. "Time!" shouted Sam Rodman, as the gun was fired. "Four, thirty-two, ten," added Frank Norwood; and the figures were entered upon the schedule. The Sea Foam passed the judges' yacht, came about, and went under her stern.
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