has
become the keeper of a national cemetery at the south. "At sunrise, the
keeper ran up the stars and stripes, and ... he had taken money from his
own store to buy a second flag for stormy weather, so that, rain or not,
the colors should float over the dead.... It was simply a sense of the
fitness of things." He deviates so far from his rule as to fall in love
with a Southern girl, whose nearest relative he has nursed through his
last illness. She despises him as a Yankee too much to suspect this; she
will not even write her name as a visitor to the National Cemetery. She
goes to Tennessee to teach school, and Rodman offers to buy the uprooted
vines discarded by the new owner of her cottage. "Wuth about twenty-five
cents, I guess," said the Maine man, handing them over.--Constance
Fenimore Woolson (1880).

=Rodmond=, chief mate of the _Brittania_, son of a Northumbrian, engaged
in the coal trade; a hardy, weather-beaten seaman, uneducated,
"boisterous of manners," and regardless of truth, but tender-hearted. He
was drowned when the ship struck on Cape Colonna, the most southern
point of Attica.

Unskilled to argue, in dispute yet loud,
Bold without caution, without honors proud,
In art unschooled, each veteran rule he prized,
And all improvement haughtily despised.

Falconer, _The Shipwreck_, i. (1756).

=Ro'dogune=, =Rhodogune=, or =Rho'dogyne= (3 _syl._), daughter of
Phraa't[^e]s, king of Parthia. She married Deme'trius Nica'nor (the
husband of Cleopat'ra, queen of Syria) while in captivity.

[Asterism] P. Corneille has a tragedy on the subject entitled _Rodogune_
(1646).

=Rodolfo= (_Il conte_). It is in the bedchamber of this count that Ami'na
is discovered the night before her espousal to Elvi'no. Ugly suspicion
is excited, but the count assures the young farmer that Amina walks in
her sleep. While they are talking Amina is seen to get out of a window
and walk along a narrow edge of the mill-roof while the huge wheel is
rapidly revolving. She crosses a crazy bridge, and walks into the very
midst of the spectators. In a few minutes she awakens and flies to the
arms of her lover.--Bellini, _La Sonnambula_ (opera, 1831).

=Rodomont=, king of Sarza or Algiers. He was Ulien's son, and called the
"Mars of Africa." His lady-love was Dor'alis, princess of Grana'da, but
she eloped with Mandricardo, king of Tartary. At Rogero's wedding
Rodomont accused him of being a renegade and trait