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"It's from my brother," said Mrs. MacDermott, "but what on earth does it mean? You're here all right, aren't you?" "Yes," he said, "I'm here." He laid a good deal of emphasis on the "I." Mrs. MacDermott looked at him with sudden suspicion. "I've had a top-hole time," he said. "What an utterly incompetent rotter Connell is! He had nothing on earth to do but lie low.
Donovan was in front, and as he stepped on deck he swung his kit-bag back to Peter, crying: "Lay hold of that, padre, and edge across the deck. Get up ahead of the funnel that side. I'll get chairs. Jenko, you rotter, get belts, and drop eyeing the girl!" "Jolly nice bit of fluff," said Jenks meditatively, staring fixedly across the deck. "Where?" queried the Major, fumbling for his eyeglass.
It was no good going to Brodie again for counsel. Brodie had done for himself, proved himself a fraud, an idiot. In fine, a rotter. He must try somebody else. Happy thought. Spenlow. It was a cold day, when Spenlow got left behind. He would know what to do. There was a chap for you, if you liked! Young, mind you, but what a brain! Colossal! "What I should do," said Spenlow, "is this.
Berkeley's face when I told her I'd had a 'grand' time to-night she looked exactly like a frozen fish though just the moment before Mr. Culpeper had called somebody a 'rotter'. I heard him." The Governor dismissed it all with a wave of his hand. "Trifles, trifles," was his only comment. The car had entered the Square, and in a moment it was passing the Washington statue and the Capitol building.
He stepped close, eager, prepared for any wild burst of temper; but she let him take her hands, let him draw her close, bend back her head; hold her closer still, till the warmth and softness of her body reached him, but when his lips came close she said quietly: "Are you a rotter, Bard?" He stiffened and the smile went out on his lips. He stepped back. She repeated: "Are you a rotter?"
God what a rotter I am. Friday Maurice has a new suggestion he says I should write a book he knows I am becoming insupportable, and he thinks if he flatters me enough I'll swallow the bait, and so be kept quiet and not try him so much. A novel? A study of the causes of altruism? What? I feel yes, I feel a spark of interest.
He crossed directly to Anderson and thrust out his palm. "Old man, I want to shake with you," said he. "And I want to apologize for being a rotter." Paul met him half-way, and the fellow went on: "Burns gave us the wrong tip on you said you were a joke that's why we joshed you. But you showed us up, and I'm glad you did."
Said that if I thought he was the sort of rotter who forgot to pay when he lost a bet, it was pretty rotten of me after knowing him all these years, and a lot more like that. "Subside, laddie," I said. Then I spoke to him like a father. "What you've got to do, my old college chum," I said, "is to pull yourself together, and jolly quick, too.
But now, so far from the Rotter, that bunch at a masthead made my heart leap with assurance of a countryman. They carried me, and oh, Margaret! on the stern of that Dutch boy, was written in muckle letters, 'Put me down, I said; 'for our Lady's sake put me down. I sat on the bank and looked, scarce believing my eyes, and looked, and presently fell to crying, till I could see the words no more.
I will! The rotter! Five hundred quid he's had off me for nothing! And, if it hadn't been for you, he'd have had another thousand! I'm beginning to think that my old governor wasn't so far wrong when he used to curse me for going around with Jones and the rest of that crowd. He knew a bit, by Gad! Well, I'm through with them.
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