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They stared at each other a moment while the brook tinkled through the silence. Then they both laughed at the solemnity of their contradictions. "But there isn't a bit of harm done," went on Madeline. "You see, I knew that first night on the train that you were a gentleman." "Some gentlemen are rotters," said Ted Holiday, with a wisdom beyond his twenty years. "But you are not."
He crawled out of the cabin when we were a couple of miles out of the harbour, and by that time I'd have been glad to see anyone who knew one end of the boat from the other. Old Hazlewood was all right; but the other three men were simply rotters, the sort of fellows who'd be just as likely as not to take a pull on a topsail halyard when told to slack away the lee runner.
"Barry struck me as the best of the outsides today," said Clowes. "He's heavier than he was, and faster." "He's all right," agreed Allardyce. "If only the centres would feed him, we might do something occasionally. But did you ever see such a pair of rotters?" "The man who was marking me certainly didn't seem particularly brilliant. I don't even know his name.
Tollemache and Suarez are best able to form an opinion. What do you say, Tollemache?" "Not a bit of use; they are insatiable. The more you give the more they want. The only way to deal with those rotters is to stir them up with a Gatling or a twelve-pounder." Suarez, when appealed to, shook his head.
In the three months of the winter session the students who had joined in October had already shaken down into groups, and it was clear which were brilliant, which were clever or industrious, and which were 'rotters. Philip was conscious that his failure was a surprise to no one but himself.
"You be quiet, young gentlemen. If you can't 'elp don't 'inder." Foxy's eye was still on the council by the horse. Carter, White, and Tyrrell, all boys of influence, had joined it. The rest fingered the rifles irresolutely. "Wait a shake," cried Stalky. "Can't we turn out those rotters before we get to work?" "Certainly," said Foxy. "Any one wishful to join will stay 'ere.
Almost made your blood run cold not. When they got to discussin' the girls, though, and sayin' how such a one was a "jolly sort," and others was "bloomin' rotters," it made me seasick and it was a relief when they took to whisperin' things I couldn't hear about the chaperons. After intermission they come sneakin' in by twos and threes to hit up their cigarettes.
"That is partly why I say, don't be too hasty," said Sir Reginald. "We can't afford India can't afford to scrap a single really useful man." "Neither can she afford to make use of rotters," rejoined the Colonel. Sir Reginald smiled a little. "I am not so sure of that, Mansfield. Even the rotters have their uses. But I am quite convinced in my own mind that this man is very far from being one.
"By Jove! as to that, my dear Colonel, this trip is just good sport I love it: less danger than playing polo with these rotters. I'll swing over to Udaipur first it's just west of the Pindari camp, been there once before on a little pow-wow then I'll switch back to Amir Khan." "I wish you luck, Captain; but be careful.
"A new servant of your mother's?" he asked, when the man had left the room. "Oh no. It's my man, Martin. Awfully handy chap. Cleans silver, boots and the motor. Drives it, too, when I'll let him, which isn't very often. Chauffeurs are such rotters, aren't they? Regular chauffeurs I mean.
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