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"I suppose you feel almost as if she were your sister," she remarked, groping half-unconsciously for an explanation. Grange was holding the gate open for her. He did not instantly reply. Then, "I don't exactly know what that feels like," he said, with an odd shame-facedness. "But in so far as that we have been playfellows and chums all our lives, I suppose you might describe it in that way."
Then at last Nick's eyes opened. He looked Grange straight in the face. "What are you going to do?" he said. Grange's hands dropped heavily from the chair-arms, and his whole great frame drooped slowly forward. He made no further attempt at evasion, realising the utter futility of such a course. "Do!" he said wearily. "Nothing." "Nothing?" said Nick swiftly.
If you have lost this post, I am sure it is from no fault of your own, so you must not be cast down. Tell me about it Or stay! Shall I call Lilias? She is at the Grange, but I could send for her at once." She paused, looking inquiringly into Ned's face, and he hesitated painfully, the colour flushing in his thin cheeks, his eyebrows twitching nervously. "I think not!" he said slowly at last.
Experience taught the farmer one lesson which he has never forgotten: that whether prosperous or not, he can and must promote his welfare by organization. So it is that, as one association or group of associations declines, others arise. In some States, where the Grange has survived or has been reintroduced, it is once more the leading organ of the agricultural class.
It became an institution for the boy to call every morning at Kenmuir, and trot off to the village school with Maggie Moore. And soon the lad came to look on Kenmuir as his true home, and James and Elizabeth Moore as his real parents. His greatest happiness was to be away from the Grange.
Had Jasper the quiet, studious unassuming Jasper been paying court to the fair heiress of Harwood Grange? And how had Alethea received him? The Squire having stepped on in front to open a door, prevented him from asking any questions, and he presently found himself ushered into the hall.
On all of which accounts he resisted his mother's grief, and his own at seeing her grieve, and decided on going down to Monk Grange the next day. Had not Dr. Corfield been ailing at this time, the mother would have accompanied her son.
There was to be a dinner-party that day, the last of the parties which were held at the Grange as proper preliminaries to the wedding, and Dorothea was glad of a reason for moving away at once on the sound of the bell, as if she needed more than her usual amount of preparation.
The farm belongs to some gentleman down in Midlandshire, a baronet; I can't call to mind his name at this moment, though I have heard it often enough. Mr. Carley's daughter Carley is the name of the bailiff at the Grange comes here for all they want." Gilbert gave a little start at the name of Midlandshire. Lidford was in Midlandshire.
"You can do as you choose. I have nothing else to offer you." Grange abandoned the point abruptly, feeling as a man who has lost his footing in a steep place and is powerless to climb back. Perhaps even he was vaguely conscious of something colossal hidden away behind that baffling, wrinkled mask.
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