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We dined with her, and she was good enough to come down for the night. I'm so sorry not to have been here," she added to her guests, "but we went to Westchester with Mrs. Kame and Mr. Grainger, and the automobile broke down on the way back." Mrs. Holt made no attempt to enter, but stared fixedly at the cigarette that Mrs. Chandos still held in her trembling fingers.
Now I must tell you that Minerva Downs is a difficult place to reach, and that you will have to ride all the way from Townsville 250 miles but that will be nothing to an Australian-born girl 'wid Oirish blood in her. When you get to Townsville call on Mr. Grainger, who lives at a mining town called Chinkie's Flat, ninety miles from here, and Mr. "Very sincerely yours, my dear Sheila,
As a sportsman, he had no intention of shirking the bitterness of defeat. "Mrs. Grainger and Mrs. Shorter," he remarked, "appear to be enjoying themselves." Honora felt her face grow hot as the merriment at the corner table rose to a height it had not heretofore attained. And she did not dare to look again. Mrs. Holt was blissfully oblivious to her surroundings.
And from that vast region only one great artist has spoken Percy Grainger.
"Why should an affair with him ruin it?" asked Farwell, unexpectedly. "There was Constance Witherspoon. I understand that went pretty far." "My dear boy," said Mr. Shorter, "it's the women. Bessie Grainger here, for instance she'd go right up in the air. And the women had well, a childhood-interest in Constance. Self-preservation is the first law of women."
"Bessie Grainger. She had a devil in her, too, in those days, but she always kept her head, and I didn't." He smiled. "I'm willing to admit that I was madly in love with her, and she treated me outrageously. We were standing on the bridge I remember it as though it were yesterday and the water was about eight feet deep, with a clear sand bottom.
Grainger, indeed for Honora had been right in her surmise was standing within ear-shot of this conversation. And Honora, who knew she was there, could not help feeling that she took a rather redoubtable interest in it. At Mrs. Holt's words she turned. "Bessie, I've found a new recruit one that I can answer for, Mrs. Spence, whom I spoke to you about." Mrs.
For a similar reason, some critics are afraid to call Percy Grainger a great composer, because of his numerous and delightful audacities. Yet The Congo is a great poem, possessing as it does many of the high qualities of true poetry.
Grainger quaintly remarks, that "the Duke of Newcastle was so attached to the Muses, that he could not leave them behind him, but carried them to the camp, and made Davenant the poet-laureate, his lieutenant-general of the ordnance."
Waddington's confession to Sir John was about the only statement relating to the Waddington affair which did not go any further. Thus a very curious and interesting report of it reached Ralph Bevan through Colonel Grainger, when he heard for the first time of the part Barbara had played in it. In the story Elise had told in strict confidence to Miss Gregg, Mr.
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