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She stilled her fingers, let her eyelids droop, and said: "Of course, dear Grig, if I can help you in any way Horace does so dislike anything to do with the papers." Gregory Vigil drew in his breath. "The papers!" he said. "How hateful it is! To think that our civilisation should allow women to be cast to the dogs! Understand, Margery, I'm thinking of her.
The archer, however, who had drunk more than any man in the room, was as merry as a grig, and having kissed the matron and chased the maid up the ladder once more, he went out to the brook, and came back with the water dripping from his face and hair. "Hola! my man of peace," he cried to Alleyne, "whither are you bent this morning?" "To Minstead," quoth he.
One of them, deliberate, calm, assured of his way, but with little in his hand; the other a grig that could reel and spin in the night-lights, and flutter to a merry tune. With Mackenzie the rewards of life would come to her slowly, but with a sweet savor of full understanding and appreciation as they were won.
"I hop you are well, from Lynn." And so concluded the bi-weekly letter, with a big tear as usual, for Lynn simply could not write to mother without crying a little, though for the rest of the time she was a merry little grig.
"Appears to have been almost worth while," Sir Charles added, "from what I gather and, confound it, Grig, we'd have done the same in our day." But Captain Grigsby only repeated: "D d kittle cattle!" And so they weighed anchor, and sailed along the Italian shores of the sun-lit Adriatic. These were better days for Paul. Each hour brought him back some health and vigour.
Then, by a sort of inspiration, she thought of Gregory. 'How can I write to him, she mused, 'when my son But she did write, for, deep down, the Totteridge instinct felt that others should do things for her; and she craved, too, to allude, however distantly, to what was on her mind. And, under the Pendyce eagle and the motto: 'Strenuus aureaque penna', thus her letter ran: "DEAR GRIG,
It must have often been a matter of wonder to the candid reader, that the army, the most enormous job of all our political institutions, should yet work so well in the field; and we must cheerfully give Grig, and his like, the credit for courage which they display whenever occasion calls for it. The great Duke himself was a dandy once, and jobbed on, as Marlborough did before him.
Her father looked eagerly upon it, and with tremulous fingers pressed a spring upon the back. It was indeed his sister's likeness, placed beyond dispute by the convincing inscription, "Jane Halberg, to her beloved daughter, Jennie Grig!"
'Hear, hear, hear! cried the lamplighters generally. 'Tom Grig, gentlemen, said the chairman, 'was one of us; and it happened to him, as it don't often happen to a public character in our line, that he had his what-you-may-call-it cast. 'His head? said the vice. 'No, replied the chairman, 'not his head. 'His face, perhaps? said the vice.
And all the while, as like as not, the medicos are right, and in six weeks I shall be reading diamond type as merry as a grig...." "Do grigs read diamond type?" "I may be doing so, anyhow, grigs or no!" He paused an instant, his absurdity getting the better of him. "I may have employed the expression 'grigs' rashly. I do not really know how small type they can read. I withdraw the grigs.
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