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Usage examples of rodman.

Yesterday I had a meeting with a man named Rodman, a mining engineer, who has been working on the estate.

Richard not seldom envied the easy and, as it seemed to him, polished manner of his subordinate, and wondered at it the more since Rodman declared himself a proletarian by birth, and, in private, was fond of referring to the hardships of his early life.

He was far from having admitted the man to his confidence, but between Keene and Rodman, as he was aware, an intimacy had sprung up.

And he began to talk with Rodman cheerfully, so that Alice felt it must really be all right.

Willis Rodman, and Alfred Waltham took home a bride who suited him exactly, seeing that she was never so happy as when submitting herself to a stronger will.

Mutimer, growing daily more ambitious and more punctilious in his intercourse with all whom, notwithstanding his principles, he deemed inferiors from the social point of view, often regretted keenly that he had allowed any relation between himself and Rodman more than that of master and man.

Experience taught him how easily he might have made the most of Rodman without granting him a single favour.

Alice had a weapon which he durst not defy, and, the marriage being inevitable, he strove hard to see it in a more agreeable light, even tried to convince himself that his prejudice against Rodman was groundless.

It was a new exasperation when he discovered that Rodman could not be persuaded to continue his work at New Wanley.

She thought of no one, cared for no one, but herself, Rodman having become part of that self.

Adela took part against Rodman, she hated her and would not be alone in her company for a moment.

The invitation came from Rodman, who had reasons for wishing to get his brother-in-law aside for a little quiet talk.

Mutimer, upon whom time has laid unkind hands since last we saw her, is pouring tea for Alice Rodman, who has just come all the way from the West End to visit her.

Even the carriage she could seldom make use of, for Rodman had constant need of it--to save cab-fares, he said.

But for her life she durst not cause Rodman annoyance by offering a late or insufficient dinner.