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Updated: June 13, 2025
If Tom had lost on the way to London his servant and both his horses, he had at least gained some information which might be of more value to him than all the rest of his possessions; for Captain Jack had told him to go to Master Cale's and lodge with him, telling him who had sent him, and had added that he would put him in the way of becoming a proper gentleman of fashion, without fleecing him and rooking him, as would inevitably be the case if he fell into the clutches of those birds of prey always on the lookout for young squires from the country coming up to learn the ways of the world, with a plentiful supply of guineas and inexperience.
"Cards may be more agreeable," said Captain Colepepper; "and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e'er a man that trowled a die Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on 'em!"
"By Jove, yes!" cried Sandal, with a look of abhorrence at Hay, "and I'll prosecute you to get back those thousands you won off me." "I never did " "You've been rooking this boy for months," cried Miss Qian. "Here, Tempest, get a constable. We'll give him in charge for swindling."
"But Hay should be exposed," insisted Sandal; "he's been rooking me, I do believe, for months." "Serve you jolly well right," said Aurora, heartlessly. "I warned you again and again against him. But if there's a row, where do I come in?" "It won't hurt you," said Tempest, eagerly. "Oh, won't it? Gambling in my flat, and all the rest of it. You boys may think me free and easy but I'm straight.
Plainly, two master passions fought for supremacy: an inordinate greed for money and a choleric determination to prohibit any further attentions to his wife. The struggle was brief, for the vehemence of his enmity, triumphant, the hope of immediate emolument was sacrificed, and the rooking of the young man postponed to some future occasion.
Strange times! strange days! when the tradesman can scorn the duchess on account of her 'dirty mind' when a certain nobleman can get no honest labourers to work on his estate, because they suspect him of 'rooking' young college lads; and when a church in a seaport town stands empty every Sunday, with its bells ringing in vain, because the congregation which should fill it, know that their so-called 'holy man' is a rascal!
He seemed to be trying to say something, but nothing came of it. And then, quite calmly, ending a silence more terrible than any tumult of words, another voice made itself heard. "Even so, Mr. Norton." West bent forward and with the utmost composure possessed himself of the shining thing upon the table. "This is my property. I have been rooking you fellows all the evening."
"Have him forward by all means," said Lowestoffe; "a second Orpheus seeking his Eurydice! Have him forward we will save Lord Dalgarno's purse, and ease him of his mistress Have him with us, were it but for the variety of the adventure. I owe his lordship a grudge for rooking me. We have ten minutes good." But it is dangerous to calculate closely in matters of life and death.
"The idea of a Malay, born Mahometan, being reared in the Vatican, hit me as funny." "It would be funny just as a trustworthy Malay would be funny. I have a hundred of them mixed blood on my island, and they are always rooking me. But none ever puts his foot on this boat. To-morrow we'll raise our first island. And from then on we'll see them, port and starboard, to the end of the voyage.
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