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"'All the same, I went on, 'even without your beard and moustache you might be recognizable. Unless, of course I broke off. "'Unless what? "'You pretend to be Robert. I began to laugh to myself again. 'By Jove! I said, 'that's not a bad idea. Pretend to be Robert, the wastrel brother, and make yourself objectionable to Miss Norris. Borrow money from her, and that sort of thing.
By-and-by he grew calmer, went down to the parlour, ate his dinner, and sallied out to the meadow again. The wastrel had disappeared. Roger asked no questions, but took up his scythe, stepped into the rank, and mowed. He mowed like a giant, working his men fairly to a standstill. They eyed him askance, and eyed each other as they fell behind.
"You don't know how glad I am that we have met, old boy! Now don't let us lose sight of each other By the bye, do you ever hear of Alec?" Alexander, Jerome Otway's second son, had not communicated with his father for a good many years. His reputation was that of a good-natured wastrel. Piers replied that he knew nothing whatever of him.
"Well, he'd be good enough for him with a broken back pity the ould man didn't break it," said Cæsar. "But where is the wastrel now?" "Gone to England over with to-night's packet, they're saying." "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," said Cæsar. A grunt came out of the corner from behind a cloud of smoke. "You've your own rasons for saying so, Cæsar," said the husky voice of Black Tom.
And so on, past Mother Ross's shop, past the Sylvester Arms, to the right by Kirby's smithy, over the Wastrel by the Haughs, to await his master at the edge of the Stony Bottom. The little man, when thus crossing Kenmuir, often met Owd Bob, who had the free run of the farm.
Without whisky," went on McClintock, "your irritability is beyond tolerance. You have said a thousand times that there was no shame in you. Nobody can trust you. Nobody can anticipate your next move. We tolerate you for your genius, that's a fact. But underneath this tolerance there is always the vague hope that your manhood will someday reassert itself." The Wastrel laughed.
And now I have come to ask again for your daughter's hand." "You a wastrel...!" The old man's voice trembled with anger. "I have been. But let us talk calmly, if you please." "Lumberman!" The word was flung out with a bitterness and contempt that cut like a knife. A dark flush rose to Olof's cheek; he was hard put to it already to control himself. "True," he said, slowly and with emphasis.
But his revenue was never sufficient for his needs, and he ground down his wretched subjects with oppressive taxes to furnish him with still more money to waste in his vices. All men marvelled that the Government of India allowed such a debauchee and wastrel to remain on the gadi. But it is a long-suffering Government and loth to interfere with the rulers of the native states.
In this moment he could have stamped upon the Wastrel's face, and ended the affair; but all that was clean in him, chivalrous, revolted at the thought. Not even for Ruth could he do such a beastly thing. So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up. The unequal battle went on.
It was those last words of Davray's that rang in his ears: "You're one of us now. You're one of us." Drunkard and wastrel though the man was, those words could not be forgotten, would never be forgotten again. With his head up, his shoulders back, he returned to his house. The maid met him in the hall. "There's a man waiting for you in the study, sir." "Who is it?" "Mr. Samuel Hogg, sir."
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