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For thirty years he had stood at the Guardian's local threshold, fidelity personified, a watch-dog extraordinary that could not have been duplicated in all watchdogdom. He had but one superstition and but one grievance. His superstition was that he would not allow a customer to enter the office after the clock struck the first blow of five.
With an odd laugh Colonel Gilbert climbed into the saddle again, and although he looked carefully up at the Casa Perucca, he failed to see Mademoiselle Brun's grey face amid the grey shadows of an olive tree. The horse limped at first, but presently forgot his grievance against the big stone that had lain in his path.
However, at the appointed hour M'Slattery, in the front rank of A Company, stood to attention because he had to, and presented arms very creditably. He now cherished a fresh grievance, for he objected upon principle to have to present arms to a motor-car standing two hundred yards away upon his right front. "Wull we be gettin' hame to our dinners now?" he inquired gruffly of his neighbour.
'Well, then, try; and when you've found it, just keep it. Don't part with it. A sentimental grievance is a resource it's a consolation for all the prosaic miseries of life. Now I must go, or I shall be late for high tea. The Ingratitude of Mitchell Since Bruce had had the amateur-theatrical trouble, he had forgotten to have any other illness.
An old grievance stirred him: Why were not he and his strange companions on their way? With only four hundred miles to travel to East Cape, with a splendid trail, with reindeer well fed and rested, it seemed folly to linger in this native village.
Then the king or queen, laying his or her hand upon the Gospels, shall say, "The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. The lords of the articles, by the gradual usurpation of the crown, actually constituted a grievance intolerable in a free nation.
"The judge will let you fish anywhere you like; so that you haven't a ghost of a grievance left." "I'll ask Simpkins to the wedding if you like." "That," said Meldon, "would be a refinement of cruelty, and I won't consent to its being done. Wanting to kill the man was bad enough. I never liked it. But what you propose now is infinitely worse.
Among the molders, and possibly the sheet-iron workers, there was cause for dissatisfaction; but the dissatisfaction spread to where no grievance existed; it seized upon the spinners, and finally upon the marble workers. Torrini fanned the flame there. Taking for his text the rentage question, he argued that Slocum was well able to give a trifle more for labor than his city competitors.
If I straighten the sticks he dies to bend, it'll be a grievance against me and a fig for it! But I like to be at peace with my neighbours, and waft them "penillion" instead of dealing the "cleddyfal" of Llewellyn. At last the tension ceased; they had intelligence of the earl's arrival. His countess was little moved by it; and the reason for that lay in her imagination being absorbed.
Upon the King's return from Normandy, a great council of the clergy was held at London, for the punishing of priests who lived in concubinage, which was the great grievance of the Church in those ages, and had been condemned by several canons.
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