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Rosenthall and Purvis were rushing about outside, cursing the Kaffirs and nagging at each other. "Over THAT wall, I tell yer!" "I tell you it was this one. Can't you whistle for the police?" "Police be damned! I've had enough of the blessed police." "Then we'd better get back and make sure of the other rotter." "Oh, make sure o' yer skin. That's what you'd better do.
What I must look for is some one over military age who has left me or been dismissed probably dismissed. When a British subject, of decent education and once respectable surroundings, gets into the hands of German agents, you may be certain of one thing, Dawson, that he has become a rotter through drink." "That's it," cried Dawson. "You have hit it.
They thought they'd rather have a brainy nobleman like your brother than a good old rotter like you. You're " "Oh, hold your tongue, Banstead," cried Austin, rising and putting his hand on Dick's shoulder. "Really, my dear old Dick, you're the right person to stand. They only thought a lawyer could help them but I'm far too busy of course I decline. I'm deeply pained, Dick, at having hurt you.
I agree with you we must lead our own lives according to our own ideals, not according to the world's." "Most people think me a fool," Michael said, "simply a rotter and a drifter, just because I can't settle down to work at a career of my own, while the world's burden is booming in my ear." "Think things well over," Hadassah said. "Don't rush into plans which may prove a disappointment.
Billy Burgess, captain of Wrykyn cricket, was a genial giant, who seldom allowed himself to be ruffled. The present was one of the rare occasions on which he permitted himself that luxury. Wyatt found him in his study, shortly before lock-up, full of strange oaths, like the soldier in Shakespeare. "You rotter! You rotter! You worm!" he observed crisply, as Wyatt appeared.
I shall resist the temptation, however. Dale Kynnersley such is the ignorance of the new generation would have no sense of the allusion. He would shake his head and say, "Dotty, poor old chap, dotty!" I can hear him. And if, in order to prepare him, I gave him a copy of the "Meditations," he would fling the book across the room and qualify Marcus Aurelius as a "rotter."
I have been a rotter and worse than a rotter." The old flippancy had gone and the harsh voice was vibrant with purpose. "My path has been littered with the wrecks of human lives," he said bitterly, "and they are mostly women. I broke the heart of the best woman in the world, and I am going to see that you don't break the heart of her daughter." "Will you be quiet?" hissed van Heerden.
They had the delusion over there that if a man was too big a rotter to do anything at all at home, he'd only got to be sent out here and he'd make a fortune." "I guess things ain't as bad as that now," spoke up Taylor. "They send us a different class. It takes an Englishman two years longer than anybody else to get the hang of things, but when once he tumbles to it, he's better than any of them."
On the high front seat, under an awning, sat the German, F., and I. The body of the truck was filled with safari loads, Memba Sasa, Simba Mohammed, and F.'s boy, whose name I have forgotten. The arrangement on the front seat was due to a strike on the part of F. "Look here," said he to me, "you've got to sit next that rotter.
You won't get it," he whispered back. "It's due to me. You're a rotter." "There's nothing due to you," he replied with a sudden air of relief at the discovery. An abounding idea of happiness to come filled him as he moved beside Roselle down the crowded restaurant. As they went he said: "It's all over; I'm a fool no longer.
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