Will you tell Raffles to bring me in the _Times_ when it arrives ?" "I'm afraid papa will be very angry with me," said Rosalind dolefully, as she and Roger walked back across the hall.

"But if he won't stand up for himself some one must.

I'm quite sure he would give the impression, to any one who did not know him, that he had purposely been harsh to poor Hodder." As it happened, Captain Oliphant displayed no anger.

The question of Hodder was allowed to drop, and no further reference was made to his threatened eviction.

Mr Pottinger during the week meekly submitted an agreement to permit him to remain where he was, which the trustees sanctioned unanimously; and when the old man's champions at Maxfield rejoiced in the discomfiture of the man of the law.
Captain Edward Oliphant said nothing in his defence.
After this matters went on quietly, as they will do when one storm has blown over and the next is yet below the horizon.