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Colonel Hodge is another one of Mr. Metcalfe’s opinionated neighbors. Unlike the rest, he has relatively little money, but he has history with and a good reputation in the local community through his involvement with the British Legion and the Boy Scouts. Colonel Hodge tends to be outspoken and critical; he often complains vaguely about socialist politics, for instance, and he makes fun of Mr. Metcalfe’s career in cotton while among his own family. Still, he often functions as a messenger and go-between for Mr. Hargood-Hood, Mr. Metcalfe, and Lady Peabury, and it is he who (with some urging from Mr. Hargood-Hood) suggests the compromise that resolves Mr. Metcalfe and Lady Peabury’s dispute. Within the group of neighbors, gruff and conservative Colonel Hodge serves as a contrast to the stuck-up, liberal Hornbeams.
Colonel Hodge Quotes in An Englishman’s Home
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Colonel Hodge lived at the Manor […] whose gardens, too, backed on to Westmacott’s meadow. He was impecunious but active in the affairs of the British Legion and the Boy Scouts; he accepted Mr. Metcalfe’s invitation to dinner, but spoke of him, in his family circle, as “the cotton wallah.”
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Colonel Hodge Quotes in An Englishman’s Home
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Colonel Hodge lived at the Manor […] whose gardens, too, backed on to Westmacott’s meadow. He was impecunious but active in the affairs of the British Legion and the Boy Scouts; he accepted Mr. Metcalfe’s invitation to dinner, but spoke of him, in his family circle, as “the cotton wallah.”
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