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Now and then he entered on his list a merchant he might have met abroad, whose sons had no home to go to. By this time the Grahams were at sea, fitted out by Uncle Boz. Uncle Boz had had a good deal of money come to him, and it's my belief that he could have lived ten times better than he did, had he spent it all upon himself, instead of thinking only how he could do most good with it.
Laura waited for a moment. "Yes," she said then, "Caroline is one of those I mean." Mrs. Bradford relapsed into silence again, and they sat so for a long time. Then Laura rose abruptly: "Oh, here are the Grahams! Do let us move on." Mrs.
"It is true that Mrs. Hartley told me of the great trouble which fell upon you in the loss of which you speak." "The great trouble yes! That is how Mrs. Hartley would put it. And the Grahams, have they told you nothing?" "Nothing more." A look as of relief passed across his face, followed by a spasm of pain; and he stood gazing wearily through the window.
The Grahams of Glencardine, having been apprised of their neighbour's intention, mustered in strong force, and marched to meet him.
If you take up the proposition of Mrs. Hutchins, you must keep this possibility in mind, for unless you do, you might do not only the Grahams a great injustice, but little Glen as well. It would be a pity to tear him away from a perfectly good home that has been vilified by false accusations made by unscrupulous enemies."
And you make no charge for a first interview. Merton vaguely conjectured that to 'lippen' implied some sort of caress; however, he only said that he was obliged to Miss Maxwell for her kind estimate of his firm. 'Gray and Graham, good Scots names. You'll not be one of the Grahams of Netherby, though? 'I don't like an alias, he said. 'But it seems you are to lippen to.
When they reached Ardnavoir, the ill news seemed to have preceded them, for Reggie looked stormily from an upper window and then came into the hall where Allan and the Grahams were already waiting, and Mrs. Stewart came downstairs accompanied by Tricksy, whose eyes were very big and dark with dismay.
They submitted to the law, indeed, so far as to take the names of the neighbouring families amongst whom they happened to live, nominally becoming, as the case might render it most convenient, Drummonds, Campbells, Grahams, Buchanans, Stewarts, and the like; but to all intents and purposes of combination and mutual attachment, they remained the clan Gregor, united together for right or wrong, and menacing with the general vengeance of their race, all who committed aggressions against any individual of their number.
He had with him the gentlemen of the name of Buchanan, with the Grahams, and other gentry of the Lennox, and a party of the citizens of Dumbarton, under command of Tobias Smollett, a magistrate, or bailie, of that town, and ancestor of the celebrated author.
I hear the Grahams are terribly anxious about it. Cornelia said her father was unable to sleep." "No news yet; but, May, be sure you do not let " "Was it the 'Morning Star'? Is he lost?" Beulah stood crouching at his side, with her hands extended pleadingly, and her white face convulsed.
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