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And between each piece of clowning, he would go round with Trotter's hat to collect coppers. Bill was an honest dog, and a fairly big one as well, and when a man tried to ignore the hat, he had a way of drawing back his lips from his splendid teeth which by itself was frequently worth as much to the treasury as all his other tricks put together.
By the way, did you ever see anything like Lady Godiva Trotter's dress last night? People WILL go on chattering, although we hold our tongues; and, after all, my good soul, what will their scandal matter a hundred years hence?
"Miss Trotter's bustle's on crooked!" from the young ladies at Miss Trimmer's seminary who were drawn up to show the numerical strength of the academy, and act the part of walking advertisements.
On the Monday evening he was sitting, after dinner, with Gilmore, who had dined at the vicarage, when he was told that a constable from Salisbury wished to see him. The constable was called into the room, and soon told his story. He had gone up to Trotter's Buildings that day after dinner, and was told that the bird had flown. She had gone out that morning, and Mrs.
In a dim way she did understand that the choice was between going to the devil at once, and not going quite at once; and then, weakly, wistfully, with uncertain step, almost without an operation of her mind, she did not take the turn which, from the end of Trotter's Buildings, would have brought her to the Railway Station, but did take that which led her by the Three Honest Men out on to the Devizes road, the road which passes across Salisbury Plain, and leads from the city to many Wiltshire villages, of which Bullhampton is one.
"I rode two months last year on Bill Trotter's division, sir, and filled the bill then; and I think I am better able to ride now," said I. "What! are you the boy that was riding there, and was called the youngest rider on the road?" "I am the same boy," I replied, confident that everything was now all right for me. "I have heard of you before.
But, as it seems to me, there is even more ground for the likelihood of Newman's suggestion, if one tries to trace the lineage and land of the families of Nicholson in years gone by. I quote the following from Captain Trotter's Life of John Nicholson:
"Trotter's, aside of our court. Go and tell him!" replied he, scornfully. "How would you like any one to steal away one of your brushes?" "I'd give 'em a topper!" "But that's just what you've done to Trotter," I argued. "Well, why don't you fetch him to give me a topper?" he replied. I gave it up. There was no arguing with a boy like this.
Thereupon Reade turned and sighted, from stake number two to stake number three, noting in his book the reading he secured from the rod at number three. Once at number three he turned his telescope backward, taking a reading from Trotter's rod at number two.
"I was strapping our capital around me in a memory belt like we always carried it, when Andy pulls a roll of large bills out of his pocket and asks me to put 'em with the rest. "'What's this? says I. "'It's Mrs. Trotter's two thousand, says Andy. "'How do you come to have it? I asks. "'She gave it to me, says Andy. 'I've been calling on her three evenings a week for more than a month.
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