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"Master Thomas Rover, do you know anything of your brother Richard?" asked an under-teacher. "Perhaps he is having a talk with Mr. Grinder," said Tom. "Oh!" Then the under-teacher noticed that Mr. Grinder's chair was also vacant, and said no more. While the boys were eating, Peleg Snuggers came to the door and looked carefully about the mess hall.
The police had tracked the two men back to a cottage, about fifteen miles distant from Bullhampton, in which lived an old woman, who was the mother of the Grinder. With Mrs. Burrows they found a young woman who had lately come to live there, and who was said in the neighbourhood to be the Grinder's wife.
A barrel-organ below was playing some horrible music-hall air, and every vibrant note was like a hammer on one's nerves. The grinder's bedraggled Italian wife perceiving me at the window grinned up at me with the national curve of the palm. She had a black eye which the cacophonous fiend had probably given her, and she grinned like a happy child of nature.
There was a small empty house up a little alley in the town, to which there was a back door opening on a vacant space in the town known as Grinder's Green.
"Premature blast. Third one this week. Somebody is working against us!" "Never mind that now," cried Job Titus. "We must see to the poor fellows who are hurt." "I guess there aren't many," his brother said. "They were on their way out when the charge went off. Some more of Blakeson & Grinder's work, I'll wager!" They were rushing in to the smoke-filled tunnel now, followed by Tom, Mr.
The child was at first quite terrified by the sight of these gaunt giants for such they looked as they advanced with lofty strides beneath the shadow of the trees but Short, telling her there was nothing to fear, blew a blast upon the trumpet, which was answered by a cheerful shout. 'It's Grinder's lot, an't it? cried Mr Short in a loud key. 'Yes, replied a couple of shrill voices.
Tim this very day has the gratification of amazing half the school with the news of Dr Grinder's approaching marriage and the consequent extra holidays, and of seeing the enthusiastic astonishment of others to whom he retails the latest achievement of the athletic Buck. But he did not always come off so easily.
None of them had joined in the applause that greeted the speeches, and so far neither had they made any protest. Some of them turned very red as they listened to the concluding sentences of Grinder's oration, and others laughed, but none of them said anything.
When the organ grinder's little girl awakened and found that her peddler uncle had gone, taking his basket and the Rabbit she had put to sleep in it without his knowledge, Rosa felt very bad. She was sad as she gathered pennies for her father that day. But at night, when Uncle Joe came back with a new Candy Rabbit, Rosa was happy again. And Madeline was happy with her own Easter toy.
The Grinder's breath came short and thick with consternation. He tried to protest the purity of his intentions, but could only stare at the smiling gentleman in a stupor of submission, with which the smiling gentleman seemed well enough satisfied, for he ordered him downstairs, after observing him for some moments in silence, and gave him to understand that he was retained in his employment.
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