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"Carry out the letter of the law; there's no alternative. But the Captain swears he's a white man, and that would give him an opportunity to prove it." "How is he to prove it, Grimshaw? We take away the power, and then ask him to do what we make impossible.
And then another sister spoke up and said the hull property belonged to Sister Grimshaw, every mite of it, for he wuzn't worth a cent when he married her she wuz the widder Bettenger, and had a fine property. So, sez she, it all belongs to Sister Grimshaw, by right. Then the sisters all begin to look less dubersome.
"That's my business. I act for the State, and not for you. Are you counsel for these niggers, that you are so anxious to set them at liberty among our slaves? You seem to have more interest in it than that interfering consul. Just let these Yankee niggers and British niggers out to-night, and we'd have another insurrection before morning; it's better to prevent than cure," said Grimshaw.
I observed that old Kate sat on a front seat with her hand to her ear and Grimshaw beside his lawyer at a big table and that when she looked at him her lips moved in a strange unuttered whisper of her spirit. Her face filled with joy as one damning detail after another came out in the evidence. Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody came to the village that day and sat in the court room.
On the schooner Eugenie he sailed with Captain Kellar, his second master, and on the beach at Tulagi lost his heart to Steward of the magic fingers and sailed away with him and Kwaque on the steamer Makambo. Steward was most in his visions, against a hazy background of vessels, and of individuals like the Ancient Mariner, Simon Nishikanta, Grimshaw, Captain Doane, and little old Ah Moy.
A second more and this sweet young life would be blotted out, and the little body, crushed beyond recognition, would be buried deep beneath the waters of the great river, while he would be safe on the lower deck of that steamboat. He could easily spring to it from the upper deck of the Whatnot, as he saw Plater and Grimshaw were about to do. "I promise to see you safe with your friends again."
And I hope you will meditate much upon it, and it may lead you to change your course in regard to Dr. Grimshaw." "Mimmy!" she said, with a wild laugh, "is there a deeper pit in perdition than that to which you urge me now?" Fortune certainly favored the lovers that day; for when Thurston reached home in the evening, his grandfather said to him: "Well, Mr.
And all with their eyes and ears and mouths agape with amazement and inquiry. "In the fiend's name, what's the matter? What the d l's broke loose? Is the house on fire again?" vociferated the commodore, seeing that no one else spoke; "what's all this about, Nace Grimshaw?" "Ask your pretty niece, sir!" said the professor, sternly, turning away. "Oh, it's you, is it, you little termagant you?
He coughed, looked at the man he had saved with a strange questioning, and collapsed. Grimshaw was sobered instantly. They say that he broke the Gascon's arm before the crowd could separate them. Then he knelt down by the dying Negro, turned him gently over and lifted him in his arms, supporting that ugly bullet head against his knee.
At that time you spoke of Cecil Grimshaw with disapproval, if you spoke of him at all, or, if you happened to be a prophet, you saw in him the ultimate bomb beneath the Victorian literary edifice. And so he was. I saw him once at the Alhambra poetry in a top hat!
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