"If it must be so, I will remain and watch by you," said Reuben, resolutely
I have loved you like a father, Reuben; and at a time like this I should have something of a father's authority.
Nor can it be affirmed that no selfish feeling strove to enter Reuben's heart, though the consciousness made him more earnestly resist his companion's entreaties.
At the station the colonel put some money into Smith's hand and bid him good-by, saying, "Take care of your young mistress,
Reuben, and don't let Black Auster be hacked about by any random young prig that wants to ride him -- keep him for the lady."
Reuben Limbrick answered, "So much the worse for the neighborhood"--and persisted in calling his property, "Salt Patch."
In Reuben Limbrick's time it was called the study and contained a small collection of books and a large store of fishing-tackle.
Reuben Limbrick's relatives, occasionally coming to stay with him, found the place prey on their spirits, and rejoiced when the time came for going home again.
And this was all one knew of Reuben Rosenthall up to the time when the Old Bohemian Club, having fallen on evil days, found it worth its while to organize a great dinner in honor of so wealthy an exponent of the club's principles.
The Bank of England, for example, is the ideal crib; but that would need half a dozen of us with years to give to the job; and meanwhile Reuben Rosenthall is high enough game for you and me.
It was between eight and nine o'clock in the evening when we took up our position in the garden adjoining that of Reuben Rosenthall; the house itself was shut up, thanks to the outrageous libertine next door, who, by driving away the neighbors, had gone far towards delivering himself into our hands.
'It was Mr Reuben Haredale, Mr Geoffrey's elder brother, that twenty-two years ago was the owner of the Warren, which, as Joe has said--not that you remember it, Joe, for a boy like you can't do that, but because you have often heard me say so--was then a much larger and better place, and a much more valuable property than it is now.
But, that morning, Mr Reuben Haredale was found murdered in his bedchamber; and in his hand was a piece of the cord attached to an alarm-bell outside the roof, which hung in his room and had been cut asunder, no doubt by the murderer, when he seized it.
Reuben Hayes," said Holmes, coolly, "one might think that you were afraid of our finding something out."
"I am convinced," said I, "that this Reuben Hayes knows all about it.
"I doubt if that oak Billy Beartup throwed in
Reuben's Ghyll will be fit for her drawin-room floor in less than seven," Cloke drawled.
