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A servant brought in the supper, and they sat down opposite to each other at the board; but even during those first hours of reunion the strange greeting which his return had met would linger in Grantley Mellen's suspicious mind, and, in spite of Elizabeth's cheerful manner, her color would come and go with tremulous fitfulness.
She'll ta'ak she to her mother's at Chorlton, and if ye keep along the straight road for Grantley till ye come to sign-po'ast, sayun' 'To Dessington and Chorlton, then another three-qua'arters of an 'oor 'll ta'ak ye there, easy." The dutiful son looked disappointed, but did not lose his equable and not unpleasant manner. "I thought I was nigher my journey's end than that, marm," said he.
He pressed his hands again to his head and groaned aloud; and He who hears the cry of the child or of the strong man in agony drew near and laid His pierced hands upon him in healing and benediction. The next Sunday the Reverend Hugh Grantley was at his best, and his sermons had a new quality that appealed to and comforted many a weary one who, like himself, was traveling by the thorn-road.
The Rev. Hugh Grantley was a typical Scotchman, tall and broad shouldered, with an eye like cold steel. Not many people had contradicted the Rev. Hugh Grantley, at least to his face. His voice could be as sweet as the ripple of a mountain stream, or vibrate with the thunder of the surf that beats upon his own granite cliffs.
They got through the day rather quietly, and Elsie did not have a single relapse of her nervous tremors. When she awoke from her afternoon nap it was growing dark. She cried out quite joyfully when she saw Grantley sitting by the bed: "It is almost evening at last!" At that moment Victoria appeared at the door. "Come in," Mellen said; "what do you want?"
"Well," said Tom, in delighted appreciation, "I've heard of three of 'em, and that's more than any man I've met can boast of. Ed Dubois cuts my hair when I go to Kingston. He certainly is a prominent citizen in the fourth ward. Jim Kendall runs the weekly newspaper in Grantley I understood it was for sale. Bill Clements is prominent enough up at Groveton.
Percival was called away to town that evening, and was to catch the late train at Grantley Thorpe, where it stopped by signal. There was no need to hurry, as he belonged to the class of persons that catch trains.
It is not everybody's brother-in-law who would find time during his wedding-trip to hunt up even so pretty a New-England village as Grantley, and inquire into questions of board and lodging and schooling. That was precisely what Ham did, however; and Miranda went with him of course. Mrs. Myers, to the hospitalities of whose cool and roomy-looking house he had been commended by Mr.
It seemed to prove more depth of character than one would have expected, that she was in any way able or willing to help her sister-in-law to bear her secret burthen, let that burthen be what it might. The vague thoughts which had troubled Grantley Mellen on the night of his arrival, had died out.
In her preoccupation she had forgotten that he was in the room forgotten that she was not alone with those dark reflections which cast their shadow over her face. "Did you speak, Grantley?" "Yes; how you started!" "Did I start?" she asked, trying to laugh. "I don't know how it is that I grow so nervous." "You never were so afflicted formerly." "No; I don't remember," she replied quickly.
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