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"Get rid of that boob chaperon of yours!" gritted Barney. "We're going to have some real talk!" Maggie stepped to the connecting door, sent Miss Grierson on an inconsequential errand, and returned. "You're looking as pleasant as if you were sitting for a new photograph, Barney. What gives you that sweet expression?"
His hand was held out for that acceptance which betokened consent. It was accepted; yes, and more, His arms were next moment around her waist; the heart of the yielding girl beat rarely, the wistful face was turned up as even courting his eyes, the kiss was impressed; why, more, Rachel Grierson was surely Walter Grierson's, and he was hers, and surely to be for ever in this world.
Skirmishers were detached from Grierson's command and drove off the Southern riflemen. Dick heard the rattling fire of their rifles in the deep wood, but he seldom saw a figure. Then he heard another fire, heavy and continuous, in their front, coming quite clearly on a breeze that blew toward them. "Your whole regiment is engaged," exclaimed Grierson.
These things we may leave to development; and with a caution to the reader not to be over-suspicious, we will follow our Nisa, Rachel Grierson, as she proceeds from the house of the merchant-burgess up the High Street, at a period of the evening of the same day when the shadows of the tall lands wrapped the crowds of loiterers and passengers almost in utter darkness; not that she chose this time for any purpose of secrecy, for she had no secret, except that solitary one which every young woman has, and holds, up to the minute of conviction, that she is engaged, after which it becomes a flame blown by her own breath, but simply because it suited the routine of her duties.
"If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters." "Should I? I am glad I was not a week later then." The Admiral abused him for his want of gallantry.
This will call for great energy of action on your part, but I believe you are equal to it, and you have the best and most experienced troops in the service, and they will do anything that is possible. General Grierson is with you, and is familiar with the whole country.
Not only was my mind not there; it did not seem to be anywhere. I was dazed, nor did I feel save once a fleeting surge of contempt for the mob below me with their silly faces upturned to mine. There may have been intelligent expressions among them, but they failed to catch my eye. I remember being stopped by Grierson as I was going out of the side entrance.
"George, you'll have to send for Mrs. Grierson." The matter was promptly arranged, and when Grierson went out with a look of keen satisfaction, Edgar laughed. "I feel like pointing out how far an idea can go. Helen only thought of making me a little more comfortable, and you see the result of it Grierson and his wife united, things put into shape here, four people content!
Halsey, a prominent banker from the other great city of the state, Mr. Grunewald, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and Mr. Frederick Grierson, who had become a very important man in our community.
As for Grierson, it seems to me that's a matter of giving a dog a bad name. Just because his people weren't known here, and because he has worked up from small beginnings. To get down to hard-pan, you fellows don't believe in democracy, in giving every man a chance to show what's in him." "Democracy is good!" exclaimed Perry.
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