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Grice's, at Butter End. The next time Susan and Bessie encountered Arthurine, she began 'Can you or Admiral Merrifield do nothing with that horrid old Grice! Never was any one so pigheaded and stupid. 'What? He won't part with the land you want? 'No; I wrote to him and got no answer. Then I wrote again, and I got a peaked-hand sort of note that his wife wrote, I should think. "Mr.
"Did the gentleman mean the second daughter, who lived and grew up beautiful, and was, as the story went, the cause of all the scandal? If so, the young person ran away, and died miserably somehow nobody knew how; and was supposed to have been buried like a pauper somewhere nobody knew where, unless it was Miss Grice " The young man stopped and looked perplexed.
He looked once or twice at the letter superscribed by Joanna Grice, mechanically reading along the line on the cover: "Justification of my conduct towards my niece," but not attempting to examine what was written inside. It was only after a long interval of hesitation and delay that he at last roused himself.
The head-master glanced round for a moment to see who had entered the room, and, without taking any further notice of the three juveniles, continued the speech he was in the act of making when they entered the apartment. "I am not going to defend the action of Mr. Grice," he was saying. "We are all apt to make mistakes, and I will tell you candidly that on this occasion I think Mr.
Take time to think before you answer. I warn you once more that I am determined to sift the matter to the bottom." Once more the two prefects protested that they had not the remotest idea who had played the trick on Mr. Grice. Dr.
So that an experienced cavalier, knowing how to lay, as our Scottish phrase runs, 'the head of the sow to the tail of the grice, might get out of the country the pay whilk he could not obtain from the Emperor." "With a full hand, sir, doubtless, and with interest," said Lord Menteith.
De Quincey, however, was undoubtedly right in his opinion that Coleridge's Greek scholarship was not of the exact order. Mr. Le Grice, however, bears valuable testimony to Coleridge's disappointment, though I think he exaggerates its influence in determining his career. It is characteristic of the punctilious inaccuracy of Mr.
On Monday, in court week, I went to him; he was playing at billiards, and would not go with me, but told me to come again the next day; the next day he did the same, and so on daily. I went to his sister, Mrs. Grice, and told her I feared that he did not mean to give them to me; she said she feared so too, and sent for him.
When he came to the farm Mr. Grice was resolved to take nothing less than the whole sum that he had with him. Perhaps this was less for the value of the turkey-cock than for the sake of giving the boys such a lesson as to prevent them from ever molesting his poultry again.
"My name's Matthew Grice," he answered quickly and sternly. "This Bracelet belonged to my sister, Mary Grice. She run away from home, and died, and was buried in Bangbury churchyard. If you know her grave, tell me in plain words is it here?" Breathless as she was with astonishment, Mrs.
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