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David Granton was there," Dolly went on; " or, rather, when that scamp pretended he was David Granton; and and you won't be angry with me, will you? one day I took a snap-shot with my kodak at him and Aunt Amelia!" "Why, what harm was there in that?" I asked, bewildered. The wildest stretch of fancy could hardly conceive that the Honourable David had been flirting with Amelia.
And again, there is going to be a week-end House Party at our place. Harry's engagement of marriage with Lady Rosemary Granton is to be announced; and Lady Rosemary will be there. "It would only mean trouble for you, Jim; and, God knows, this is trouble enough." "What do I care for trouble?" he cried defiantly. "What trouble can make me more unhappy than I now am?"
His demise has caused a profound sensation, as it occurred on the eve of a House Party, arranged in celebration of the engagement of his son, Viscount Harry Brammerton, Captain of the Coldstream Guards, to the beautiful Lady Rosemary Granton, daughter of the late General Frederick Granton, who was the companion and dearest friend of the late Earl of Brammerton in the early days of their campaigning in the Crimea and India."
As he was waiting for his train, his attention was attracted by a bill posted up on the walls, containing the following notice: "On the 4th of December, the engineer, James Starr, of Edinburgh, embarked from Granton Pier, on board the Prince of Wales. He disembarked the same day at Stirling. From that time nothing further has been heard of him.
His wife was sitting near, upon a bare boss of rock, reading a volume of poems. Capital variant, that, a volume of poems! Exactly suited the selected type of a cultivated family. White Heather and Mrs. Granton never used to read poems. But that was characteristic of all Colonel Clay's impersonations, and Mrs. Clay's too for I suppose I must call her so.
I've been talking to that girl, and upon my soul I think she's all right. She's a charming little lady. We may be mistaken after all, of course, about young Granton. In any case, it's well for the present to be courteous. A most important option! If it's really he, we must do nothing to annoy him or let him see we suspect him." I had noticed, indeed, that Mrs.
They strongly urged that two other persons at least should be included in the charge Césarine and the little woman whom we had variously known as Madame Picardet, White Heather, Mrs. David Granton, and Mrs. Elihu Quackenboss. If these accomplices were arrested, they said, we could include conspiracy as one count in the indictment, which gave us an extra chance of conviction.
As the yacht worked alongside Granton Pier, before running out, the said Flucker calmly and scientifically drew his lordship's attention to three points: The direction of the wind the force of the wind and his opinion, as a person experienced in the Firth, that it was going to be worse instead of better; in reply, he received an order to step forward to his place in the cutter the immediate vicinity of the jib-boom.
"'Gad, George, my boy, Rosemary may be skittish and lively, but were she the most mercurial woman in Christendom, she has never forgotten that she is first of all a Granton, and, as a Granton, she has kept a Granton's pledge." For a moment I caught the contagion of my father's earnestness. My eyes felt damp as I thought how important, after all, this union was to him.
"I clasped Fred's hand and I thanked him for what he had done for me that day, right in the teeth of the Russian guns. "'Freddy, old chap, you're a trump, I said, 'and, if ever I be blessed with an heir to Brammerton and Hazelmere, I would wish nothing better than that he should marry a Granton.
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