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"'Tis poor Grimstone," exclaimed Robin, rising from his scrutiny, and evidently affected by the loss of his boon companion on more occasions than one; "he was ever after some devilry but his attack upon such as you " "Silence, sir. Did I not before intimate my wishes?" "Well, then," muttered Robin, "his attack must have been purely a matter of plunder.
"Ah," said the man, with a rather peculiar intonation, "I thought maybe your par or mar was comin' down. Ain't Dr. Grimstone got the times the trains go?" "Yes," said Paul desperately, without very well knowing what he said, "yes, he has, but ah, not for this month; he he sent me to inquire." "Did he though?" said the stationer. "I thought you wasn't one of his young gentlemen?" Mr.
Very soon after this incident most important as showing the real situation of various parties, although without any immediate result Alexander received a visit in his tent from another stranger. This time the visitor was an Englishman, one Lieutenant Grimstone, and the object of his interview with the Duke was not political, but had, a direct reference to the siege of Bergen.
"Look out here's Grimstone!" they whispered under their breaths, as voices and footsteps were heard in the hall outside. Presently the door of the schoolroom opened, and another boy entered the room. Dr. Grimstone, it appeared, had not been the occupant of the fly, after all.
"Go to sleep, Solomon, and you, youngster, give us a song yourself," growled Grimstone, who had all the outward bearing of a savage; "the evening is nigh closing, and the birds are gone to their nests. Nevertheless, the song must be right proper: so tune up, tune up, my boy!"
Bultitude recognised that the form and features were those of no stranger he had stumbled upon the very last person he had expected or desired to meet just then his flight was intercepted by his son's schoolmaster, Dr. Grimstone himself! The suddenness of the shock threw him completely off his balance.
Very soon after this incident most important as showing the real situation of various parties, although without any immediate result Alexander received a visit in his tent from another stranger. This time the visitor was an Englishman, one Lieutenant Grimstone, and the object of his interview with the Duke was not political, but had, a direct reference to the siege of Bergen.
He then selected a band of one hundred musketeers, partly Spaniards, partly Walloons to be followed at a distance by a much, more considerable force; two thousand in number, under Sancho de Leyva: and the Marquis of Renti and appointed the following night for an enterprise against the city, under the guidance of Grimstone.
"Well, Mums said your governor seemed to leave you here just like they leave umbrellas at picture galleries, and she believed he had a large-sized money-bag inside him instead of a heart." "Oh!" said Paul, with great disgust, for he had thought Mrs. Grimstone a woman of better taste; "your mother said that, did she? Vastly entertaining to be sure ha, ha!
The two farther walls still stood, the sun shining through their empty windows; but the remainder of the building had collapsed, and now lay in a great cairn of ruin, grimed with fire. Already in the interior a few plants were springing green among the chinks. "Now I bethink me," whispered Dick, "this must be Grimstone. It was a hold of one Simon Malmesbury; Sir Daniel was his bane!
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