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One of Steerforth's friends was named Grainger, and the other Markham. They were both very gay and lively fellows; Grainger, something older than Steerforth; Markham, youthful-looking, and I should say not more than twenty. I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular. 'A man might get on very well here, Mr.
Most unwholesome of all is the work of the runners, who are usually children of seven, and even of five and four, years old. Commissioner Grainger actually found one child of two years old employed at this work.
"It was only," continued Honora, in desperation, "it was only to leave Mr. Grainger and Mrs. Kame there to spend the night. They all said we had plenty of time to go and get back to Quicksands by six o'clock. But coming back the automobile broke down " "Of course," said Mrs. Holt, "it serves any one right for trusting to them. I think they are an invention of the devil."
He knew that Corbett and Lady Corbett and Markham and Thurston and the Hawtreys, and the Rector and the Rector's wife and Colonel Grainger had called repeatedly to inquire for him. He was particularly gratified by Grainger's calling. He knew that Hitchin had stopped Horry in the street to ask after him, and he was particularly gratified by that.
It was with a certain satisfaction that I once more donned buckskin and spurred boots, and noticed moreover how tight my coat was become across the shoulders; yet I dressed hastily, for my mind was already on the road, galloping to Charmian. In the library I found Sir Richard, and Mr. Grainger, who greeted me with his precise little bow.
Thomas Mallard has a very strong liking for Miss Myra Grainger." "Then I like him still more for that." Grainger patted his sister's cheek. "He is a good fellow, Myra. I think he will ask you to marry him." "I certainly expect it, Ted." Although Mrs.
There were to be libraries and reading-rooms, debating clubs, social gatherings. "Stuff and nonsense!" Colonel St. John said, with his cotton-wool eyebrows puffed out. "She'll dip the estate, and then she'll be coming to ask us to pull her out. Worse, she'll only make them discontented." "She'll come out all right," Mr. Grainger said, rubbing his hands softly together.
You saved our lives, really." "Are you going to be in town this winter?" Mr. Grainger inquired. "I, I suppose so replied Honora, for the moment taken aback, although I haven't decided just where." "I shall look forward to seeing you," he said. This hope was expressed even more fervently by Mr. Cuthbert and Mr. Wing, and the whole party waved her a cordial good-by as the carriage turned the circle.
No entrance could have been at once so startling and so unexceptionable as Honora's. "I was sorry not to find you when I called," she said. "I was sorry, too," replied Mrs. Grainger, regarding her with an interest that was undisguised, and a little embarrassing. "I'm scarcely ever at home, except when I'm with the children. Do you know these people?"
"There's nothing wrong in going to the Adirondacks is there, Cecil?" "No," said Mr. Grainger, blinking rapidly. "The Adirondacks," declared Mrs. Kame, "have now become classic." "By the way," observed Mr. Grainger, "I believe Bessie's in town to-day at a charity pow-wow, reading a paper. I've half a mind to go over and listen to it. The white dove of peace and all that kind of thing."
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