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This was so manifestly true that it silenced me altogether. "And if you belong to her and she to you, Ponderevo which end's the head?" I made no answer except an impatient "oh!" For a time we smoked in silence.... "Did I tell you, Ponderevo, of a wonderful discovery I've made?" Ewart began presently. "No," I said, "what is it?" "There's no Mrs. Grundy." "No?" "No! Practically not.
On the trip a difficulty occurred between Boyd McNary and Jackson, which never was reconciled both dying in extreme old age. Boyd McNary stopped at Lexington and read medicine, forming there the acquaintance of Mr. Clay and Felix Grundy. The intimacy which sprang up between Clay and McNary was as ardent and imperishable as the hatred between himself and Jackson, enduring until death.
The newcomers, having been audibly noisy on the stairs, showed as hypocritical by an uncalled-for assumption of preternatural susceptibility to the absence of other members of their party acknowledging their necessity to make up a Grundy quorum. There is safety in number when persons are of opposite sexes, which they generally are. "Can't imagine what's become of them!" said Mr.
Numbers of the youthful loungers of London had been waiting impatiently during the last weeks for the arrival of this pale and demure star. Now that she had come their interest in her was keen. Her peculiar reputation for ingeniously tricking Mrs. Bowdler, secretary to Mrs. Grundy, rendered her very piquant, and this piquancy was increased by her ostentatiously vestal appearance.
"Mother used to say it cost nothing to be clean;" then looking round to be sure that no one saw her, she caught up the skirt of her dress and drying her face with it, went back to the kitchen. She would greatly have preferred a seat by a pleasant looking old lady who looked kindly on her, but Mrs. Grundy bade her sit down by her and help herself.
Another of his friends was Governor Blount. John Rhea, Felix Grundy, and half a dozen more helped. But the man who really made Jackson President was his near neighbor and his inseparable companion of later years, William B. Lewis. In a day of astute politicians Major Lewis was one of the cleverest.
"Did she tell you to call her so?" "She told me that was her name, yes, ma'am," said Mary. "Well, Mrs. Grundy is in the but'ry," indicating with her elbow the direction. Mary had no trouble in finding "the but'ry," but on trying the door, she found it fastened inside. In answer to her gentle knock a harsh voice replied, "Who's there?" "It's I. I've come after the milk for Alice." With a jerk Mrs.
Grundy, so that she might be as much affronted by a criminal marriage as she is now by the spectacle of a healthy and well-developed baby appearing unduly soon after its parents' marriage. The power is there, and it means well, though it does disastrously ill. Public opinion ought to be decided upon these matters; it ought to be powerful and effective.
Grundy can be brought to comprehension of such a phenomenon!" murmured Mrs. Chetwinde. It was obvious to Dion that his two friends feared for the result. The Judge had left the bench. An hour passed by, and the chime of a clock striking five dropped down coolly, almost frostily, to the hot and curious crowd. Mrs. Clarke sat very still.
And in these dark days of his life, when he was tormented by the yellow demon of jealousy, and at the same time endured hunger, Lilian Rosenberg was his solacing angel. Utterly regardless of appearances she did not exaggerate when she said, "I am not conventional; I don't care twopence for Mrs. Grundy." She visited him in his garret, and she seldom went empty-handed.
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