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Updated: June 22, 2025
The husband and wife both started it was a heavy, lumbering tread not the soft foot-falls of their gentle little one, that brought music even to their dismal abode: "Some one is knocking, Mary," said the husband, and, as he spoke, the door opened, and a man appeared with a note and a basket. "Is Mrs. Grig here," asked the man.
That remark seemed to grig him a little; he felt oneasy like, and walked twice across the room, fifty fathoms deep in thought: at last he said, which way are you from, Mr. Slick, this hitch? Why, says I, I've been away up south a speculating in nutmegs. I hope, says the Professor, they were a good article, the real right down genuine thing.
She greeted him affectionately, like many women who have grown used to hearing from their husbands the formula "Oh! your people!" she had a strong feeling for her kith and kin. "You know, Grig," she said, when her cousin was seated, "your letter was rather disturbing. Her separation from Captain Bellew has caused such a lot of talk about here.
We soon grow out of vanity!" "In London," said Gregory, "I hear all women intend to be men; but in the country I thought " "In the country, Grig, all women would like to be men, but they don't dare to try. They trot behind." As if she had been guilty of thoughts too insightful, Mrs. Pendyce blushed. Gregory broke out suddenly: "I can't bear to think of women like that!" Again Mrs. Pendyce smiled.
She dismissed shivering, tearful, grateful Prissy with a hug, and a whispered promise that her dear sister Fiddy would be as lively as a grig in the morning; got rid of the doctor and Mrs. Price, and all but routed Master Rowland, succeeding in driving him as far as the next room.
"However!" she added hopelessly. "Oh, she's a merry little grig, you can see that, and there's no harm in her. I can understand a little why a formal fellow like Tom should be taken with her. She hasn't the least reverence, I suppose, and joked with the young man from the beginning. You must remember, Anna, that there was a time when you liked my joking." "It was a very different thing!"
Could he support it? Grig Beemy of course would deny it. And Jube had he not known how Jube could lie? Would he not fear that the truth might somehow involve him with the horse-thief? Ike, with despair in his heart, urged his mare to her utmost speed, knowing now the danger he was in as a suspected horse-thief.
I don't believe the Perkinses know what a rogue it is, but fancy him a decent, reputable City man, like his father before him. As for Captain Grig, what is there to tell about him? He performs the duties of his calling with perfect gravity. He is faultless on parade; excellent across country; amiable when drunk, rather slow when sober.
We've both been about the world, Grig, since the days we fastened on our cuirasses together for the first time, and each thought himself the devil of a fine fellow but I rather doubt if we now know as much of what is really worth having as my boy there just twenty-three years old." "Nonsense!" snapped Captain Grigsby but there was a tone of regret in his protest.
"I guess he didn't half like that 'ere word Popish priest, it seemed to grig him like; his face looked kinder riled, like well water arter a heavy rain; and said he, 'Mr. Slick, says he, 'your country is a free country, ain't it? 'The freest, says I, 'on the face of the airth you can't "ditto" it nowhere.
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