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"Grantham?" repeated the General, with a movement of surprise; "It is indeed strange that HE should forego such an opportunity." "Still more strange," remarked the Commodore, "that the boat he commands should have disappeared altogether. Can there be any question of his fidelity? the Granthams are Canadians, I understand."
'There's only that one gun boat I expect in t'other channel. "'Only one Phil, do you know who commands it? "'One of them curst Granthams, to be sure. I say, old boy, and his eye lighted up significantly, as he pointed to the opposite wall, 'I see you've got the small bore still. "A knowing wink marked the father's sense of the allusion.
Morris, and the Fosters and the Granthams and Wildermings and their wives and daughters and sons, and one stray general, who stopped over on his way to the West, and who said when he entered, looking so very grand and important, that he didn't care whether he had been invited to the ceremony or not, at which Miss Felicia was delighted, he being a major-general on the retired list, and not a poor tailor who no, we won't refer to that again; besides a very, VERY select portion of the dear lady's townspeople the house being small, as she explained, and Miss MacFarlane's intimates and acquaintances being both importunate and numerous.
Among those who went in pursuit of game were the Granthams, who, like most Canadians, were not only excellent shots, but much given to a sport in which they had had considerable practice in early boyhood.
He paused a moment, and then, as if suddenly influenced by some painful recollection, he struck his hand with startling violence upon the table, and, while every feature of his iron countenance seemed worked up to a pitch of intensity, added with fearful calmness, "May God's curse light upon me if I don't have my revenge of them Granthams yet: yes" he continued with increased excitement of voice and manner, while he kicked one of the blazing hickory logs in the chimney with all the savageness of drunken rage, causing a multitude of sparks to spit forth as from the anvil of a smith, "jist so would I kick them both to hell for having murdered my poor boy."
During dinner the extraordinary adventure of the morning formed the chief topic of conversation, for it had become one of general interest, not only throughout the military circles, but in the town of Amherstburg itself, in which the father of the Granthams had been held in an esteem amounting almost to veneration.
Be they which they may however, I would stake my life on the fidelity of the Granthams still, the cause of this young officer's absence must be inquired into, and no doubt it will be satisfactorily explained. Meanwhile, let a second gunboat be detached in pursuit."
'There's only that one gun boat I expect in t'other channel. "'Only one Phil, do you know who commands it? "'One of them curst Granthams, to be sure. I say, old boy, and his eye lighted up significantly, as he pointed to the opposite wall, 'I see you've got the small bore still. "A knowing wink marked the father's sense of the allusion.
In the doorway of the bungalow a woman appeared, her smile illumined by the sunset warmth. "Come, Gabriel," said she. "We're waiting the Granthams, Craig, and Brevard. Supper's ready. Not one of them will sit down, till you come." "Have I been delaying you?" asked Gabriel, turning toward the woman, with a smile that matched her own. "I'm afraid so, just a little," she answered.
During dinner the extraordinary adventure of the morning formed the chief topic of conversation, for it had become one of general interest, not only throughout the military circles, but in the town of Amherstburg itself, in which the father of the Granthams had been held in an esteem amounting almost to veneration.
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