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In the meantime it was storming, and they had been fortunate in finding shelter in these wastes of snow and ice; they were glad to accept what comfort came their way. This enforced delay would find a simple record in Leslie Grey's report to his superiors. "Owing to a heavy storm, etc." They were Government servants.
J'ai conspiré comme le paratonnerre conspire avec le nuage pour désarmer la foudre." But the thunder-cloud was not entirely disarmed; and it burst in a direction which popular passion in Canada has always been too apt to take, threats of throwing off England and joining the American States. As far back as March 14, 1849, we find Lord Elgin drawing Lord Grey's attention to this subject.
If he has no guilty interest in the crime, my connection with it as a witness will not disturb him. Besides, two days of unsuspicious acceptance of me as Miss Grey's nurse are all I want. I shall take immediate opportunity, I assure you, to make the test I mentioned. But how much confidence you will have to repose in me!
Thence she could command a view of the house and grounds in front, and thence she saw that concerning which she had come to satisfy herself, believing that the evidence of her own eyes would fortify her for the approaching trial of separation. Dr. Grey's horse and buggy stood near the side gate, and Dr. Grey was walking very slowly up and down the avenue leading to the beach, while Mrs.
Monday is the first free day I have; and on Monday morning, at ten exactly, meet me on Grey's Bridge just out of the town. I'll bring all the money I can muster. You shan't want I'll see that, Fanny; then I'll get you a lodging somewhere. Good-bye till then. I am a brute but good-bye!" After advancing the distance which completed the ascent of the hill, Bathsheba turned her head.
"Where dad was once goin' to chuck you down for givin' him back talk," said the younger brother casually. To Mr. Grey's relief and yet astonishment, Jim burst into a loud laugh and rubbed his legs. "That's so how old times DO come back!" "And," said the bright-eyed Almira, "there's that old butternut-tree that you shinned up one day when we set the hounds on you. Goodness! how you scooted!"
'Elsmere this is a piece of good fortune! And the two men, after a grasp of the hand, stood fronting each other: Mr. Grey, a light of pleasure on the rugged, dark-complexioned face, looking up at his taller and paler visitor. But Robert could find nothing to say in return; and in an instant Mr. Grey's quick eye detected the strained, nervous emotion of the man before him.
"I am determined to find out Miller's antecedents, and I am convinced you can tell me if you will." Von Fincke shook his head. "You overrate my powers," he insisted suavely. "I have met Captain Miller as one meets any visitor to this cosmopolitan city. My acquaintance extends no further than our meeting at Miss Grey's dinner at the Chevy Chase Club six weeks ago."
I will take good care of that. And now, as I hear sounds of people running up-stairs, we will postpone further discussion. This interview has been prolonged sufficiently more than sufficiently for you." Iredale rose from his chair; to all appearance he was quite undisturbed. Grey's condition was exactly the reverse. He, too, rose from his seat. There was a sound of some one approaching the door.
That attitude may be examined in relation to the responsibility of the Canadian executive, the powers of the Imperial Parliament, the occasions on which these powers might be fitly used, and the bearing of all the innovations on the position of Canada within the British Empire. Grey's policy with regard to Responsible Government was simple.
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