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"How in the world did you come here?" twanged the remembered voice. "Colonel Gresham is taking me to ride," was the explanation, "and he's gone upstairs a minute." "Colonel Gresham! Goodness gracious me! Well, you are coming up in the world! Why hain't you been round to see me?" "I'm pretty busy," answered Polly, "I " "Busy! Huh, you must be!
And why should she not say as many words of Mary as she may please? I must tell you all now, Augusta! and I must also beg you not to be silent for my sake. As far as I am concerned, tell it to whom you please. This was the second time your brother " "Mary, Mary," said Frank, deprecating her loquacity. "I beg your pardon, Mr Gresham; you have made it necessary that I should tell your sister all.
Gresham insisted upon their calling their own, Lady Jane Granville was the first person to offer her congratulations. Alfred begged his sister Caroline from Lady Jane, as he had already obtained his father's and mother's consent.
Aint there some place where you kin go an' be quiet an' comfortable, an' not a-woundin' your proud spirit a-watchin' me bake hot rolls for breakfast an' sich? An' then she says she'd begun to think pretty much that way herself, an' that she had a sister a-livin' down in the Sussex Mews, back of Gresham Terrace, Camberwell Square, Hankberry Place, N.W. by N., an' she thought she might as well go there an' stay while we was here.
He was never weary of playing with her, albeit she now and then gave herself not a few airs when he was inclined to humour her. Yet she was in no degree wayward, but always obedient and affectionate to the Lady Anne. Master Gresham returned from Spain, and proceeded again in the course of a few days to Antwerp. I may say here, that I did not note down his comings and goings.
"I can't imagine it!" "It would come pretty hard!" Colonel Gresham shook his head musingly. "It is a shame that those women are not better treated! I'll take them to ride as often as I can you tell them so, Polly!" "I will!" Polly beamed her delight. "It's lovely of you! It will do them no end of good. They stay cooped up in the house too much.
Lieutenant-Colonel H.E. Gresham, who had commanded since 1912, was an ideal C.O. a Territorial of long service and sound judgment, a fine shot, and in civil life a distinguished engineer.
I kept twisting and turning the subject in every possible way, till I made myself perfectly miserable; and it was not till at last I thought that perhaps, after all, the lady who was expected might not be Aveline, that I dropped to sleep. A bright idea occurred to me in the morning. It would be but respectful if A'Dale and I were to ride out to meet Sir Thomas Gresham as he approached Antwerp.
He got out of his cab at the Aldersgate end of Gresham Street, and walked quickly along until he came to a highly polished brass plate on which his own name was deeply engraven. Running up a few steps into a warehouse stored with neat packages of dress goods, he encountered a couple of warehousemen engaged in sorting and classifying a consignment of fabrics just arrived from Bradford.
"Off with him to the stake! to the stake!" shouted the priests as these words were uttered. A female a graceful lady was next asked whether she would recant. "I hold to the opinion my dear husband has uttered," she answered. Master Gresham turned pale when he heard her speak, for he recognised the features of one he had seen but a short time before.
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