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'You can do as I told you, replied Mr. Grimston. 'Thank you for nothing, murmured Mr. Sleigh. And the reading of the will proceeded, while he made elaborate notes of its contents in his capacious pocket-book.
A sudden paleness came over her face, and she stopped, and the three exchanged a glance in which terror was visibly written. Master Grimston looked over his shoulder swiftly, and made as though to speak, yet only swallowed in his throat; but Henry said suddenly, in a loud and woeful voice: "It is an evil beast out of the sea."
'Let me have a squint at that indorsement, please, gentlemen, half whispered the unpleasant person who represented my uncle Silas. ''Tisn't an indorsement. There, look a memorandum on an envelope, said Abel Grimston, gruffly. 'Thanks all right that will do, he responded, himself making a pencil-note of it, in a long clasp-book which he drew from his coat-pocket.
"She's after money," Mr. Grimston declared, bluntly. "She's after money, and you'd better let me manage her. It would save you the trouble of the refusal you'll be obliged to make." "Well, tell me about her and I'll see." Mr. Grimston stiffened himself in his chair and cleared his throat. "Diane Eveleth," he stated, with slow, significant emphasis, "is an extremely fascinating woman.
He was asked everywhere to wine; he beat them all at chess; and they invaded him at all hours. "It does little good sporting his oak," wrote his mother, describing how Lord Desart and Grimston climbed in through his window while he was hard at work. "They say midshipmen and Oxonians have more lives than a cat, and they have need of them if they run such risks."
Now, the question of terms was already settled; the only point remaining was, who were to have the prominent parts as agents, and were to be counted as deserving the chief share of gratitude. On April 25th the new Parliament met, and Sir Harbottle Grimston, who had been one of the Long Parliament members, excluded in 1648, was chosen Speaker.
Experiments with carbureted water gas gave the following results, with a consumption of 5 cubic feet per hour: For many years no advance was made upon these forms of burner, but when, ten years ago, it was recognized that anything which cools the flame reduces its value, while anything which increases its temperature raises its illuminating power, then a change took place in the forms of burner in use, and the regenerative burners, introduced by such men as Siemens, Grimston, and Bower, commenced what was really a revolution in gas lighting.
At the first of these sittings, a letter was read from Henry Grimston, Esq., of Whitwell Hall, near York, offering his services for the promotion of the cause in his own county. At the second, the Dean of Middleham's answer was received. He acquiesced in the request of the committee; when five thousand of his letters were ordered immediately to be printed. On the 22nd a letter was read from Mr.
"Did they tell you that Drylands, the big house close to your cottage, was let at last? You'll have some society now. I hear they're people who entertain a lot." "What is their name?" Jimmy demanded. "Something not unlike your own Grimston, I think." Jimmy shrugged his shoulders. "Never heard of them, and, anyway, it probably wouldn't affect me.
'When death had finished Blackmore's reign, The leaden crown devolved to thee, Great poet of the hollow tree. Mr. Nichols, in a note on this, says that Grimston 'wrote the play when a boy, to be acted by his schoolfellows. Swift's Works , xi. 297. Two editions were published apparently by Grimston himself, one bearing his name but no date, and the other the date of 1705 but no name.
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