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I got her away at last by pretending you would be waiting tea for us. Oh, here she comes," and his face brightened as he hurried to his fiancée's side. Greta had recovered her tranquillity, and when Marcus entered she received his congratulations as happily as possible. Olivia went over to Galvaston House the next day. Mr. Gaythorne was evidently expecting her.
'Mr Squeers, I believe, sir? 'The same, sir, said Mr Squeers, with an assumption of extreme surprise. 'The gentleman, said the stranger, 'that advertised in the Times newspaper? Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, regarding the Academy called Dotheboys Hall at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, added Mr Squeers. 'You come on business, sir.
"Yes," murmured Greta, "let us think." Dangling an end of hair, she regarded Christian with her wide blue eyes. "I can't make any plan," Christian cried at last, "while you stare at me like that." "I was thinking," said Greta humbly, "if they have screwed it up, perhaps we shall screw it down again; there is the big screw-driver of Fritz." "It would take a long time; people are always passing."
Why, but for him he might have been married to 'Melia to-day; doomed to tread in the ways of commonplace, ordinary married life, fated to live and die without once having peeped into Paradise, without ever having looked upon the 'only woman in the world! Greta, of the glorious golden pigtail, the entrancing figure and the bewitching, twinkling, teasing eyes of blue!
He recited with shamefaced rapidity: "It is my sentry-go to-night, And when I watch the moon so bright, Shining o'er South Africa plain, I'll think of thee, sweet Greta Du Taine." Her eyes were full of awe and wonder. "Lor! you don't mean to say you made up that by yourself?" The poet nodded. "Reckon about as much. Like it?" "It's perfect lovely! Better than they 'ave in the penny books."
It was not pleasant to him to know that a girl had shown herself superior to him in anything he considered his province; but he magnanimously forgave her for this, and he said to Martin, after they were in bed that night: "I've pretty much made up my mind to give my schooner to Greta. I believe she thinks it the prettiest thing ever made."
Greta and Minchen had their canal-boats, and Hildegarde carried a great square of gingerbread. "That's the most beautiful thing I ever saw!" cried Greta. In her admiration of the vessel, she had forgotten her wounded dignity. For she had arranged with Hildegarde that, after giving the boys their share of gingerbread, they should walk proudly and silently away.
'You may turn the house out of window if you like, so that you leave me my two quiet rooms; but he only laughed in my face. 'We will see about that, was all he answered, but I shall prove to him that I meant what I said." "Greta will not care for gaiety this winter. You must remember that she has been used to a very quiet life." "That is for her and Alwyn to decide," returned Mr. Gaythorne.
Below the battlement on which they sat, in a railed gallery with little tables, Dawney and Greta were playing dominoes, two soldiers drinking beer, and at the top of a flight of stairs the Custodian's wife sewing at a garment. Christian said suddenly: "I thought we were friends." "Well, Fraulein Christian, aren't we?" "You went away without a word; friends don't do that." Harz bit his lips.
It hangs on my mind, and perhaps on Morritt's. When we returned we took a short drive as far as Barnard Castle; and the business of eating and drinking took up the remainder of the evening, excepting a dip into the Greta Walk. Lady Francis Leveson Gower was the eldest daughter of Charles Greville. Mr. Lockhart writes: "Among other songs Mrs. Arkwright delighted Sir Walter with her own set of
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