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This was a sore prohibition to Emily, who had been discussing it with the other ladies, and was in a mingled state of elation at the romance, and terror at the supernatural, which found vent in excited giggle, and moved Griff to cram her with raw-head and bloody-bone horrors, conventional enough to be suspicious, and send her to me tearfully to entreat to know the truth.
Had not Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft, which we studied hard on that day, proved all such phantoms to be explicable? The only person we told was Griff, who was amused and incredulous. He had heard the noises oh yes! and objected to having his sleep broken by them. It was too had to expose Clarence to them poor Bill on whom they worked such fancies!
The old Rector was gentle, and somewhat overawed Griff by his compassion, and by representations that were only too true; and Parson Frank, with his tender heart torn to pieces, showed symptoms of yielding another probation. The interview with Ellen was granted. She, however, was intrenched in obedience.
Griff and his friend the dragoon, while walking in Broad Street, were astonished by a violent rush of riotous men and boys, hooting and throwing stones as the Recorder's carriage tried to make its way to the Guildhall. In the midst a piteous voice exclaimed 'Oh, Griffith! Mr. Griffith Winslow!
She was about to strike the dog indeed I fancy she did, for there was a howl, and Griff sprang to his defence with 'Don't hurt my dog, I say! He hasn't touched the brute! She can take care of herself. Here, there's half-a-crown for the fright, as the cat sprang down within the wall, and Nero slunk behind him. But Dame Dearlove was not so easily appeased.
Perhaps the chief drawback was that the ladies WOULD say, 'What a darling! affording Griff endless opportunities for the good-humoured mockery by which he concealed his own secret regrets.
There was no objection to the friend, who had stayed at Chantry House and was an agreeable, lively, young man, well reported of, satisfactorily connected, fairly industrious, and in good society, so that Griff was likely to be much less exposed to temptation of the lower kinds than when left to his own devices, or only with Clarence, who had neither time nor disposition to share his amusements.
He showed considerable affection for Clarence after a fashion of his own, which we three perfectly understood, and preferred to anything more conventional. Griff was always delightful, and he was especially so on that vacation, when every one was in high spirits; so that the journey is, as I look back on it, like a spot of brilliant sunshine in the distant landscape. Mrs.
Then she went, and he returned to a room below which had been prepared for purposes of tobacco and soda-water and brandy. "Why, Griff, you're rather out of sorts to-night," said Lord George to his friend, before Frank had joined them. "So would you be out of sorts if you'd lost your run and had to pick a young woman out of the water. I don't like young women when they're damp and smell of mud."
I was resolved, however, that Griff should know how terribly his commission had added to Clarence's danger, and how carefully the secret had been guarded; and the first time I could get him alone, I told him the whole. The effect was one of his most overwhelming fits of laughter. 'Poor old Bill! Poor old Bill! it was as bad as Malvolio himself.
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