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Huntingdon?’ ‘With my son: and possibly, his nurse.’ ‘Alone—and unprotected! But where can you go? what can you do? He will follow you and bring you back.’ ‘I have laid my plans too well for that. Let me once get clear of Grassdale, and I shall consider myself safe.’ Mr.
"Ah, I thought so, I knew so," said Lester plucking the instrument from the bureau. "I knew they could be no Grassdale men. What, did you fancy, they could be? But bless me, Madeline what ho! help! Aram, she has fainted at your feet."
"Pray, Bunting," said Walter, calling his attendant to his side, "do you feel sure that the man we met yesterday at the alehouse, is the same you saw at Grassdale some months ago?" "Damn it!" cried the Corporal quickly, and clapping his hand behind. "How, Sir!" "Beg pardon, your honour slip tongue, but this confounded parcel! augh bother!" "Why don't you carry it in your hand?"
‘Pardon me, dear madam,’ said she, laughingly throwing herself into my arms, and kissing me with playful affection; but I felt a tear on my neck, as she dropped her head on my bosom and continued, with an odd mixture of sadness and levity, timidity and audacity,—‘I know you are not so happy as I mean to be, for you spend half your life alone at Grassdale, while Mr.
The same stream which lent so soft an attraction to the valleys of Grassdale, here assumed a different character; broad, black, and rushing, it whirled along a course, overhung by shagged and abrupt banks.
With those words he turned from the house, and proceeded on foot towards a cottage half way between Grassdale and the Magistrate's house, at which, previous to his return to the former place, he had prudently left the Corporal not willing to trust to that person's discretion, as to the tales and scandal that he might propagate throughout the village on a matter so painful and so dark.
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Lovers' Progress. In the course of the various conversations our family of Grassdale enjoyed with their singular neighbour, it appeared that his knowledge had not been confined to the closet; at times, he dropped remarks which shewed that he had been much among cities, and travelled with the design, or at least with the vigilance, of the observer; but he did not love to be drawn into any detailed accounts of what he had seen, or whither he had been; an habitual though a gentle reserve, kept watch over the past not indeed that character of reserve which excites the doubt, but which inspires the interest.
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.
"We are well guarded now, Madeline," said Ellinor; "I fancy we may go to sleep as safely as if there were not a housebreaker in the world." "Why," said Madeline, "let us trust they will be more efficient than they seem, though I cannot persuade myself that we shall really need them. One might almost as well conceive a tiger in our arbour, as a robber in Grassdale.
"What, in the breast pocket?" "Yes, as he drew out his handkerchief, I saw the barrel of the pistol quite distinctly." "Indeed, I think we had better tell my father as soon as we get home; it may be as well to be on our guard, though robbery, I believe, has not been heard of in Grassdale for these twenty years."
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