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And now followed a season of much hard work, each day bringing its varied tasks and we right joyous in our labour, so that ofttimes I would hear her singing away in her sweet voice merry as any grig, or find myself whistling lustily to the tap of my hammer.
Aha, many's the time o' star-time they have winked me and my troubles asleep. Then there's wakings o' bird-time, wi' the sun up, dew a-sparkle and life calling within ye and without, and the birds O the birds, Martin a-filling the world wi' brave songs o' hope new-born like the day! Ah, many's the morn the birds ha' waked me and I as merry as any grig Lord love their beaks and wings!
When I read in the GAZETTE such announcements as 'Lieutenant and Captain Grig, from the Bombardier Guards, to be Captain, vice Grizzle, who retires, I know what becomes of the Peninsular Grizzle; I follow him in spirit to the humble country town, where he takes up his quarters, and occupies himself with the most desperate attempts to live like a gentleman, on the stipend of half a tailor's foreman; and I picture to myself little Grig rising from rank to rank, skipping from one regiment to another, with an increased grade in each, avoiding disagreeable foreign service, and ranking as a colonel at thirty; all because he has money, and Lord Grigsby is his father, who had the same luck before him.
"And I regret it the more, because I have in fact invested my niece's five thousand pounds in this glorious speculation. But don't be cast down," he says, anxiously "in another fifteen years, Mr. Grig " "Oh!" cries Tom, letting the young lady's hand fall. "Were the stars very positive about this union, Sir?" "They were," says the old gentleman.
"You see, Grig dear, you are not married." "I detest the idea that marriage changes our views, Margery; I loathe it." "Mind my daffodils!" murmured Mrs. Pendyce. She was thinking all the time: 'That dreadful letter! What am I to do? And as though he knew her thoughts, Gregory said: "I shall assume that Bellew will not defend the case.
The learned gentleman who does the withering business and who blights all opponents with his gloomy sarcasm is as merry as a grig at a French watering-place. The learned gentleman who weeps by the pint on the smallest provocation has not shed a tear these six weeks.
"Nobody understands her," he said; "she's so plucky!" Mrs. Pendyce stole a glance at him, and a little ironical smile flickered over her face. "No one can look at her without seeing her spirit. But, Grig, perhaps you don't quite understand her either!" Gregory Vigil put his hand to his head. "I must open the window a moment," he said. Again Mrs.
Another dodge for taking eels, which is not in the nature of what is called a "fixed engine," is the movable eel-trap or "grig wheel." It is like a crayfish basket, and is in fact the same thing, only rather larger. They can be obtained from that old river hand, Mr. Bambridge, at Eton, weighted, stoppered, and ready for use, for 7s. 6d. each, and unweighted for 5s.
Both he and his money would have been far safer in Change Alley. If her explanation was acute and probable, her manner of making it had convinced me that my explanation of her gaiety was wrong. Of him she certainly had not been thinking. Then there was only one thing left to account for it. What makes a maid as merry as a grig?
"Not one look of love!" she cries. "Hear me while I declare " "I don't know how to look a look of love," he says, all in a maze. "Don't declare anything. I don't want to hear anybody." "That's right! Don't hear her. Emma shall marry you to-morrow, my friend, whether she likes it or not, and SHE shall marry Mr. Grig." Let her. I'm fierce; I'm furious. I give her leave.
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