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Updated: May 2, 2025
That's obviously why they pleaded so hard with me to call off the investigation." "M-m-m They're pretty good friends to the Lawrences, aren't they!" "Yes with Naomi Lawrence, anyway. I don't believe Gerald Lawrence is especially friendly with anyone. But the Greshams and Mrs. Lawrence are pretty intimate." "And you believe that the alibi Miss Rogers established for Hazel Gresham is good?"
The arrangement having been made could not be broken, especially as the young lady in nowise made herself disagreeable; and more especially as the Miss Greshams themselves were very fond of her.
That is, when I choose to be an old fool and talk of such matters in a sense different from that in which they are spoken of by the world at large, I may say that the Thornes are as good, or perhaps better, than the Greshams, but I should be sorry to say so seriously to any one. The Greshams now stand much higher in the county than the Thornes do." "But they are of the same class."
After the end of this speech I deliuered Sir Thomas Greshams letters, when as he tooke me by the hand, and led me downe a long court to a palace where there ranne a faire fountaine of water, and there sitting himselfe in a chaire, he commanded me to sit downe in another, and there called for such simple Musicians as he had.
He was very much obliged to Lady Arabella for giving his little girl permission to join her lessons to those of the Miss Greshams. It need hardly be said that the Lady Arabella was on fire at once. Settle with Signor Cantabili! No, indeed; she would do that; there must be no expense whatever incurred in such an arrangement on Miss Thorne's account!
The brother and sister could hardly agree, as Beatrice was dead against the match. Not that she would not have liked Mary Thorne for a sister-in-law, but that she shared to a certain degree the feeling which was now common to all the Greshams that Frank must marry money. It seemed, at any rate, to be imperative that he should either do that or not marry at all.
The latter signification would betoken strength so said the holders of this doctrine; the former weakness. Now the Greshams were ever a strong people, and never addicted to a false humility. We will not pretend to decide the question. Alas! either construction was now equally unsuited to the family fortunes.
Pity his narrowness of mind; his want of reliance upon the God of Good; but remember there have been Greshams, and Heriots, and Whittingtons; and remember, too, that in our happy land there are thousands of almshouses, built by the men of trade alone.
The personages with whose names my pages had been familiar, and perhaps even the minds of some of my readers the Brocks, De Terriers, Monks, Greshams, and Daubeneys had been more or less portraits, not of living men, but of living political characters.
Just where the inaccuracy comes I haven't the least idea but I'm not letting my likes and dislikes stand in the way of a sane outlook on the case. I am convinced that both the young Greshams know something more than they have told. As a matter of fact, there isn't a doubt of it they showed it clearly when they begged me to call off the investigation.
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