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He watched her without speaking, and unperceived by any but Marty and Grammer, who had drawn up on the dark side of the same holly which sheltered Mrs. and Miss Melbury on its bright side. The two former conversed in low tones. "If they two come up in Wood next Midsummer Night they'll come as one," said Grammer, signifying Fitzpiers and Grace.
'Ah, he's so old-fashioned in his notions that he doesn't think like that. However, he's gone. 'Ah it is only a tiff between you, I dare say. I'll start him in business if he'll come.... Is the cottage at home still in your hands? 'Yes, it is my freehold. Grammer Stockwool is taking care o' it for me. 'Good.
"I don't want that kind of blessing." But after a moment's thought she went and delivered the information; and Grammer had the satisfaction of seeing Giles walk slowly to the bend in the leafy defile along which Grace would have to return. Meanwhile Mrs. Melbury, deserted by Grace, had perceived Fitzpiers and Winterborne, and also the move of the latter.
He crept softly down the narrow stairs that night, alleging, when called to by Grammer, the need of a drink of water. When he returned his hands trembled about the shell. Swiftly it went to the bottom of his small box, his extra clothing, all his little belongings, being packed cleverly about it.
It is concerning a subject which weighs on her mind that unfortunate arrangement she made with you, that you might have her body after death." "Oh! Grammer Oliver, the old woman with the fine head. Seriously ill, is she!" "And SO disturbed by her rash compact! I have brought the money back will you please return to her the agreement she signed?"
I remember in our childhood we had a teacher who used to make us learn by heart the whole book of Sanskrit grammer, which is written in symbols, without explaining their meaning to us. Day after day we went toiling on, but on towards what, we had not the least notion.
If more had been needed to show the Beanish lowness, it would have come after the first supper, for Gramper and Grammer sat out on a little vine-covered porch and smoked cob-pipes which they refilled at intervals from a sack of tobacco passed companionably back and forth.
Charmond's little feet were covered with mud; she was quite unconscious of her appearance now. "I have heard such a dreadful report," she went on; "I came to ascertain the truth of it. Is he killed?" "She won't tell us he's dying he's in that room!" burst out Suke, regardless of consequences, as she heard the distant movements of Mrs. Melbury and Grammer in the bedroom at the end of the passage.
'I should be quite if it were not for my books, and my lab laboratory, and what not. Grammer, I was made for higher things. And then he'd yawn and yawn again." "Was he really made for higher things, do you think? I mean, is he clever?" "Well, no. How can he be clever?
"Ah, Grammer Oliver," said John Upjohn, "it do do my heart good to see a old woman like you so dapper and stirring, when I bear in mind that after fifty one year counts as two did afore! But your smoke didn't rise this morning till twenty minutes past seven by my beater; and that's late, Grammer Oliver." "If you was a full-sized man, John, people might take notice of your scornful meanings.
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