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Oh, my, my, my! And then he laughs all over for five minutes. "Sometimes Murkison was serious and tried to talk himself out of his cogitations, whatever they was. "'Boys, says he, 'I wouldn't have this to get out in Grassdale for ten times a thousand dollars. It would ruin me there. But I know you all are all right.

Nell, run and open the door more wood on the fire the pheasants for supper and stay, girl, stay there's the key of the cellar the twenty-one port you know it. Ah! ah! God willing, Eugene Aram shall not complain of his welcome back to Grassdale!" Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gentlemen of Verona.

He stopped, and his breath heaved thick; he thought of their common home at Grassdale of the old Manor-house of the little parlour with the woodbine at its casement of the group within, once so happy and light-hearted, of which he had formerly made the one most buoyant, and not least-loved. In a few minutes the door at the right of the building opened, and Ellinor came forth with a quick step.

"'I don't know how you mean that, Andy, says I, 'but we have been friends too long for me to take offense at a taunt that you will regret when you cool off. I have yet, says I, 'to shake hands with a subpoena server. "One summer me and Andy decided to rest up a spell in a fine little town in the mountains of Kentucky called Grassdale.

We had left Grassdale many miles behind us before the round red sun arose to welcome our deliverance; and if any inhabitant of its vicinity had chanced to see us then, as we bowled along on the top of the coach, I scarcely think they would have suspected our identity. It was not in the newest fashion, of course; but none the worse for that, under present circumstances.

There are painful associations connected with Grassdale, which she cannot easily overcome; and I shall not molest you with my company or interference here: I am a very quiet person, and shall keep my own apartments, and attend to my own concerns, and only see you now and then.’ To return, however, to my own affairs: I was married in summer, on a glorious August morning.

He cultivates literature he loves men of learning, etc. Lord Orrery: Pliny. About this time the Earl of , the great nobleman of the district, and whose residence was within four miles of Grassdale, came down to pay his wonted yearly visit to his country domains. He was a man well known in the history of the times; though, for various reasons, I conceal his name.

'tis no pleasant work, fighting, without pay, at least; 'tis not like love and eating, your honour, the better for being, what they calls, 'gratis!" "Yet I have heard you talk of the pleasure of fighting; not for pay, Bunting, but for your King and Country!" "Augh! and that's when I wanted to cheat the poor creturs at Grassdale, your honour; don't take the liberty to talk stuff to my master!"

Previous to Walter's departure from Knaresbro' to Grassdale, and immediately subsequent to the discovery at St. Robert's Cave, the coroner's inquest had been held upon the bones so mysteriously and suddenly brought to light.

The above narration of Aram's did indeed account to Madeline for much that had till then remained unexplained; the appearance of Houseman at Grassdale, the meeting between him and Aram on the evening she walked with the latter, and questioned him of his ill-boding visitor; the frequent abstraction and muttered hints of her lover; and as he had said, his last declaration of the possible necessity of leaving Grassdale.