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He talked till after midnight, and at leave-taking apologised profusely for wasting his friend's valuable time. Earwaker awaited with some apprehension the result of Malkin's visit to Wrotham. But the report of what took place on that occasion was surprisingly commonplace.
Haven't you ever been thrown out, upset, shaken in body, broken in bone, or otherwise involved in mischief?" Lord Wrotham smiled, and let his eyeglass fall with a click against his top waistcoat button. "Never!" he said, taking his cigar from his mouth, looking at it, and then replacing it with a relish "I'm too fond of my own life to run any risk of losing it.
He had only taken half his glass of brandy, but that small amount had brought back a tinge of colour to his face and deepened the sparkle of fire in his eyes. "Good roads for motoring about here!" he said. Lord Wrotham looked up, then measuring the great height, muscular build, and commanding appearance of the speaker, nodded affably. "First-rate!" he replied.
A letter from a clergyman at Wrotham speaks of burnings near that place, and of the bad conduct of the people who interfere with the working of the engines, and seem to rejoice in the destruction. Read all the papers relating to the education of the Princess Victoria, who seems to have been admirably brought up.
I am sure we never dreamed of there being one." "They use the town hall," Dr. English put in. "If we can guarantee a large enough audience, I expect they will favour us at Wrotham." "Oh, what a splendid idea," cried the youngest Miss Bevis; "fancy a real live theatrical company in Wrotham." "I hope it will stay at 'fancy," grunted Mr. Bevis.
Now this custom we know to have been entered on the register of the Royal Abbey of Bec, in Normandy, as one belonging to the Manor of East or Great Wrotham, in Norfolk, given by Ralph de Toni to the Abbey of Bec, and was as follows: When the harvest was finished the tenants were to have half an acre of barley, and a ram let loose; and if they caught him he was their own to make merry with; but if he escaped from them he was the Lord's.
Several of the villagers came out as they passed through the little village street to bob greetings to the young lady of the manor, as they had always called Joan. Wrotham did not boast many county families; there was no squire, for instance.
You are a busy man; forgive my hastiness. Well now, I was going to say that I shall probably call upon Mrs. Jacox. He paused, and gave the listener a stern look, forbidding misconstruction. 'Yes, I shall probably go down to Wrotham. I wish to put my relations with that family on a proper footing. Our correspondence has been very satisfactory, especially of late.
There was no mistaking him, it was the same Reginald Wrotham whose scandals in society had broken his worthy father's heart, and who now, succeeding to a hitherto unblemished title, was doing his best to load it with dishonour.
Helmsley drew further back into the corner where he sat, and restrained the little dog Charlie from perking its inquisitive head out too far, lest its beauty should attract undesirable attention. His nervous misgivings concerning the owner of the motor-car had not been entirely without foundation, for both Reginald Wrotham and James Brookfield were well known to him.
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