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Grizel, he might have seen, was not wearing the tragic face of sacrifice; it was a face shining with gladness, a girl still too happy in his nobility to think remorsefully of her own misdeeds. To let him know that she was proud of him, that was what she had come for chiefly, and she was even glad that Elspeth was there to hear.
No one would have dared to smile at Grizel become an old maid before some of the young men of Thrums. They were people who would have suffered much for her, and all because she had the courage to talk to them of some things before their marriage-day came round.
McQueen for." She looked up suddenly. "I have told him also about you." "Lately, Grizel?" "Yes, in my parlour. It was his parlour, you know, and I had kept nothing from him while he was alive; that is to say, he always knew what I was thinking of, and I like to fancy that he knows still.
David said between his teeth: "We hope there will soon be a child in this house, also. God forgive me, but I cannot bring her back here." "She cannot be in a house where there is a child!" said Tommy, with a bitter laugh. "Gemmell, it is Grizel we are speaking of! Do you remember what she was?" "I remember." "Well, where are we to send her?" David turned his pained eyes full on Tommy. "No!"
Elspeth gives the doctor a look which may mean much or nothing, and he glares at me as if I were in the way, and I glance at Aaron, and he is on tenterhooks lest I have noticed anything. "You may smile, Grizel," Tommy would say, "and now that I think of it, I can smile myself, but we are an eerie quartet at the time.
It binds you to nothing, and oh, it would make such a difference to me." Then Grizel seemed to reply gently, but with the firmness he adored: "I know I cannot change, and it would be mistaken kindness to do as you suggest.
"But you are naturally so impulsive," he said, "it has often been a sharp pain to me to see you so careful." "It was not a pain to me to be careful; it was a joy. Oh, the thousand dear, delightful joys I have had with you!" "It has made you strong, Grizel, and I rejoice in that; but sometimes I fear that it has made you too difficult to win." "I don't want to be won," she told him.
"Hoot, mem! there's the minister at yer elbuck." "I tell ye, ye're but a wheen rouch men fowk! There's no a wuman amon' ye to haud things dacent, 'cep I gang mysel'. I'm no beggin' the minister's pardon ather. I'll gang. I maun see my puir Grizel till her last bed."
The sun made her merry, but she looked more noble when it had set; then her pallor shone with a soft, radiant light, as though the mystery and sadness and serenity of the moon were in it. The full beauty of Grizel came out only at night, like the stars.
He ought to have minded telling her, for it could only add to her indignation; but he was too conceited to give weight to that. "Corp's leg was not broken," said practical Grizel. "I broke it for him," replied Tommy; and when he had explained, her eyes accused him of heartlessness. "If it had been my own," he said, in self-defence, "it should have gone crack just the same." "Poor Gavinia!
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