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Updated: May 15, 2025
In my old home I would have been disgraced by it. The minister would have preached of the destruction that follows the violent man to put him down; the people would have looked askance at me. Deacon Somers would have called me aside to look into my soul, and Judge Grandy and his wife would not have invited me to their parties. Here it's different.
She stared at it as she held a thin spoon aloft. "Look, Grandy," she cried, "it has my honey bee!" He nodded. He scarcely seemed to heed her, already he had risen and was pacing restlessly about the room, peering out the windows, addressing staccato questions in French to Piqueur. He pulled the shabby silken rope at the doorway and a bell trilled somewhere faintly. Margot came running.
GRANDY. "I have been silent for the last hour, principally because I do not feel very well this evening; but I cannot refrain from speaking a word or two before we disperse. A good and wise man says 'Full often, too, Our wayward intellect, the more we learn Of nature, overlooks her Author more.
GRANDY. "The New Zealanders belong to the Malay family: they are a fine handsome race, and possess fewer of the vices of the savage than almost any other savage people. The Missionaries have been eminently successful in the conversion of the natives to Christianity. The first establishment formed there, was commenced in the Bay of Islands, at a village called Rangiona, in 1814.
"'There lay the vessel in a realm of frost, Not wrecked, nor stranded, yet forever lost; Her keel embedded in the solid mass; Her glistening sails appear'd expanded glass." GRANDY. "A most awful situation to be placed in, surrounded on all sides by impenetrable ice, which closeth up the water as with a breast-plate." MRS. WILTON. "Iceland is first in point of distance.
When Lieutenant Grandy did me the honour of asking my advice, I suggested that he might avoid great delay and excessive outlay by "turning" the obstacle and by engaging "Cabindas" instead of Sierra Leone men.
But the postscript begged Margot to tell Bele to stay all he could with Grandy, "If Grandy looks at the chess board tell Bele to put the men on it and shove a man every time Grandy pushes one you must all keep Grandy happy." And the last postscript of all said, "The narcissi are lovely, I have them in my room!" Which was quite truthful. She did have narcissi in her room!
GEORGE. "I never see a rainbow, but I think of the Deluge, because you taught me the texts concerning God's covenant, dear Grandy, and the promise that the earth should no more be destroyed by a flood: but I have often wondered what could be the size of the ark to contain so many living creatures." MR. WILTON. "I believe I can inform you somewhat on that head.
"Louisa's things aren't pretty at all," she babbled breathlessly, "and Josepha's I can't wear but oh, Grandy, aren't Prudence's just sweet!" "They look like Imprudence's," he bantered as he rose. She brought forth other treasures from under her curved arm. "And look! Little chess men and a little chess board. Get a table! I'll checkmate you before even dinner is ready!
Those papers that Octavia had tucked away, smiling to think how Felicia would smile when she found them. Indeed it was Octavia's letter that made everything clear. Dear Daughter: Now that you are old enough to understand and Grandy is himself old enough to be more patient I think perhaps you will be the one who will be able to make him forgive Louisa for going to France.
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