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"Clarence," she said, "I shouldn't advise you to take the business altogether out of Grierson's hands. He's honest, so far as you are concerned, and one or two of the hardest things he did were by your orders." "You mean the Milburn and Grainger affair?" He showed a little embarrassment. "Well, perhaps I was hasty then, but they would have exasperated a much more patient man.
"Come on, boss," and then instead of crossing the creek as Grainger had imagined he would, he led the way along the same side, explaining that the myalls, expecting but not fearing pursuit, would do all that they could to make the pursuers believe that they had walked up through the creek for a certain distance, and then crossed over to the opposite side. * "White Mary" A white woman. Wife.
The fellow, one of his best farm hands, had behaved infamously, first of all demanding preposterous wages, and then, just because Mr. Waddington had refused to be brow-beaten, leaving his service for Colonel Grainger's. Colonel Grainger had behaved infamously, buying Foss Bank with the money he had made in high explosives, and then letting fly his confounded Socialism all over the county.
Full of modern and liberal ideas believes in free love and all that sort of thing, and gives Jerry the dickens for practising it." "Oh!" exclaimed Honora. Mr. Cuthbert, however, did not appear to realize that he had shocked her. "By the way," he asked, "have you seen Cecil Grainger since the Quicksands game?" "No," she replied. "Has Mr. Grainger been at Quicksands since?"
I trot about my house my dear little house that you've made so nice for me. I do my marketing, and I go out to tea with the parson's wife, or the doctor's wife, or Mrs. Bostock, or Mrs. Grainger." "I didn't know you went to the Graingers." He thought that was not very loyal of Elise. "You must go somewhere." "Well?" "And in the evenings we play bridge." "Who plays bridge?" "Mr. Hawtrey, or Mr.
I have thought of you only. The fear that I might separate you from your family, from your friends, and ruin your future has killed my pride. He Mr. Grainger meant to be kind. He is always like that it's his way of saying things. He wishes to show that he is friendly to you to me " "In spite of my relations," cried Chiltern, stopping in the middle of the room.
Next she sent for Grainger, the overseer, and having given him the same information, and put a similar sum of money in his hands for distribution among the negroes, she dismissed both the housekeeper and the overseer.
"Well, he played me a dirty trick, perhaps, when he went to Grainger; but if Grainger can afford to pay for him I've no right to object to his being bought. It isn't a reason for turning the man out." "I don't see how he can expect you to refuse a good tenant for him." "I must if I haven't a good house to put him into." "He doesn't expect it, Mr. Waddington.
* A place which the Australian aborigines use for their corroborées and certein religious rites. "Where was she?" said Grainger, whose heart was thumping fiercely as, rifle in hand, he sprang to his feet. "In the middle of the boora ground. She sit up, but all the same as if she sleep -eyes shut."
This marriage had taken place rather more than seven years since, and its sole fruit was the fine-looking boy who accompanied his mother to my office. Mr. Grainger, soon after the marriage, persuaded the Dalstons to leave Rock Cottage, and take up their abode in a picturesque village in Cumberland, where he had purchased a small house, with some garden and ornamental grounds attached.
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