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He could not look at his wife lest he should not have heart to do as he wished. Again the rude soldier came to Griselda. He was even harsher than before, and carried off the child without a kind word to the patient mother. When the little boy was gone, the people said very bitter things about Lord Walter.
This seemed a strange request to Grisdda, but she loved and trusted Lord Walter so truly that she said: "Lord, I am not worthy of this honor. Verily in all things thy will shall be mine. Life is sweet, but I will die rather than displease thee." "Enough, Griselda!" he said. Then Lord Walter turned to the courtiers and the people of the village who had gathered round: "Behold my wife!
The hardwood floors of the wide old halls began to shine like mirrors, the assortment of odds and ends in the attic was relegated to an outhouse, and even the general's aunt, Miss Griselda Grigsby, was turned unceremoniously out of her apartment before the all-pervading soap-suds of cleaning day. As for the servants, a sudden miraculous zeal possessed them.
"Yes, if everything grew little together," persisted Griselda; "but it isn't everything. It's just you or me, or both of us. No, it can't be both of us. And I don't think it can be me, for if any of me had grown little all would, and my eyes haven't grown little, for everything looks as big as usual, only you a great deal bigger.
"He had a good many odd ideas," said the general, "but he is dead now, poor man." "He raised up my dear father when he was struck down with paralysis," murmured Aunt Griselda. When dinner was over the general returned to the front porch, and Eugenia and the puppy went with Bernard to the orchard to look for green apples.
"That's the hitch I'm afraid of! If only she hadn't been so precipitate only waited a bit for him to come back to her." "I don't agree with you," rapped out Gillian smartly. "Women are much too ready to do the patient Griselda stunt. I think" with a vicious little nod of her brown head "it would do Michael all the good in the world to come back and want Magda want her badly.
It was made in the shape of a temple, or a palace Griselda was not sure which. Any way, it was very delicious and wonderful. At the door stood, one on each side, two solemn mandarins; or, to speak more correctly, perhaps I should say, a mandarin and his wife, for the right-hand figure was evidently intended to be a lady. Miss Grizzel gently touched their heads.
And when candles came, and she had helped to undress the Queen and Princess, she went into her own room, and actually practiced on a sheet of paper, "Griselda Paflagonia," "Barbara Regina," "Griselda Barbara, Paf. Reg.," and I don't know what signatures besides, against the day when she should be Queen forsooth!
He seems to have loved her as deeply as he was capable of loving, but discouraged perhaps by the wretched circumstances of the family, he could not make up his mind to marry her. At one moment he was ready to desert her, and at the next to claim her as his wife. Instead of resenting his unpardonable conduct, as a prouder woman would have done, she bore it with the humble patience of a Griselda.
I was then at work upon my burlesque "The Impatient Griselda," and was sometimes at my wits' end for a piece of business or a situation; he gave me many suggestions, all of which were marked by excellent good sense. Nevertheless I could not prevail with him to put philosophy on one side, and was obliged to leave him to himself.
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