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"It's a pretty safe alternative," Diane smiled, making an effort to speak without betraying her feelings. "Reggie is a good-natured boy," Mrs. Wappinger pursued, "but a regular water-pipe. If you want to get anything out of him you've only got to turn the faucet. It's just as well that he is; because whatever Carli is up to Reggie knows, and what Reggie knows Marion Grimston knows.
"Noble ... impossible ... drag you down," came incoherently from him, when by a quick backward movement he stepped over the threshold into the semi-obscurity of the hail. The act was so sudden that seconds had already elapsed before Marion Grimston uttered the cry that rent her like the wail of some strong, primordial creature without the power of tears. "Raoul, come back!"
"Of course, Monsieur," she agreed, "we must let the subject drop, if you have nothing more to say." He stood silent a minute, looking at her steadily. "I'm afraid I haven't," he said, then. "Nor I," Miss Grimston returned, significantly. Again there was a minute or two of silence, during which Bienville seemed to probe for the meaning of the two laconic words.
Unfortunately, there is very little sure ground to go upon, despite the additional fact of there being another place, Thorpe-le-Street, some miles to the south. With the light fast failing we go down steeply into the hollow where North Grimston nestles, and, crossing the streams which flow over the road, come to the pretty old church.
They did so; and even in the little distance to the door, the Father thought that his visitors behaved themselves very strangely. They peered round from left to right, and once or twice Master Grimston looked sharply behind them, as though they were followed. They said nothing but "Ay" and "No" to the Father's talk, and bore themselves like people with a sore fear on their backs.
"The judges," Sir Harbottle Grimston could say in the Long Parliament, "the judges have overthrown the law, as the bishops religion!" What Hampden aimed at was not the judgement of such judges, but an open trial where England might hear, in spite of the silence of Parliament, a discussion of this great inroad on its freedom.
'And to whom, said Lady Knollys, with an effort, 'will the property belong, in case in case my little cousin here should die before she comes of age? 'Eh? Well wouldn't it go to the heir-at-law and next of kin? said Doctor Bryerly, turning to Abel Grimston. 'Ay to be sure, said the attorney, thoughtfully. 'And who is that? pursued my cousin. 'Well, her uncle, Mr. Silas Ruthyn.
It was not a common thing for him to have visitors in the morning, and he saw with surprise that they were old Master John Grimston, the richest man in the place, half farmer and half fisherman, a dark surly old man; his wife, Bridget, a timid and frightened woman, who found life with her harsh husband a difficult business, in spite of their wealth, which, for a place like Blea, was great; and their son Henry, a silly shambling man of forty, who was his father's butt.
But the ship appeared to be a foreign ship, and no search ever revealed whence the money had come, save that it seemed to have been violently come by. Master Grimston was found to have left much wealth. But Bridget would sell the house and the land, and it mostly went to rebuild the church to God's glory.
"But I've withdrawn them," he interrupted, quickly. "He should have told you that. Mademoiselle," he added, rising, and turning toward Marion Grimston, "wouldn't it spare you if we continued this conversation alone?" "No; I'd rather stay," Miss Grimston said, with an inflection of request. "Please sit down again."
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