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Updated: June 6, 2025
And he threw down his gauntlet from his girdle. No man stood forth. But an aged woman who was of the crowd let down from her arms a little child, and the child toddled forward and picked up the glove and handed it to the king. Kenric, bending his strong back, took up the child in his arms and kissing its two rosy cheeks, raised the little one on his shoulder, and carried it back to its grandam.
There were the little faces of the children peeping from their bed apart, and here the father's frame of strength, the mother's subdued and careful mien, the high-browed youth, the budding girl and the good old grandam, still knitting in the warmest place. The aged woman looked up from her task, and with fingers ever busy was the next to speak.
M'Iver was more put about at her friendliness than at her ferocity, as he shook his plaiding to order and fell back from her worship. "I've seldom seen a more wicked cat," said he; "go home, grandam, and leave us to our business. If they find you in Lochaber they will gralloch you like a Yule hind."
"I have marked it well," said the thegn, "when I have gone that way, with a heap of queer stones, on a little hillock, which they say the witches or the Britons heaped together." "The same. When Harold leaves London, I trow well towards that house will his road wend; for there lives Edith the swan's-neck, with her awful grandam the Wicca.
To Gopher Prairie the tracks were eternal verities, and boards of railroad directors an omnipotence. The smallest boy or the most secluded grandam could tell you whether No. 32 had a hot-box last Tuesday, whether No. 7 was going to put on an extra day-coach; and the name of the president of the road was familiar to every breakfast table.
"But the prediction the prediction?" demanded Cuthbert eagerly. "I am coming to that," answered Kate. "It is a prediction about the descendants of the Wyverns. My grandam knew it by heart she had a wondrous memory but my mother would never let me write down such things. She loved them not, and said they had better be forgotten. But though I cannot recall the words, the meaning stays still with me.
Like enough hours will pass before Chunk comes back, and I must try to propitiate his grandam." He crawled painfully to the trap-door and, finding a chink in the boards, looked down into the apartment below.
List to what I say follow every word I am going to bring that morning back again, every hap just as it happened. We talked I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything.
Whereto replies the much-offended Malvolio: "That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird." He of the crossed garters disdains such fantasy. "I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion." I took my ticket for Cotrone, which once was Croton. At Croton, Pythagoras enjoyed his moment's triumph, ruling men to their own behoof.
I remember that of old, when we were in disgrace for some prank, our grandam would shake her head at us and vow we should be sent to her sister Dowsabel for chastisement, and stay with her till we learned better manners. So we have grown up in the fancy that these kinswomen be something stern and redoubtable ladies.
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