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True to themselves, thy children may defy The power and malice of a world combined; While Britain's flag, beneath thy deep blue sky, Spreads its rich folds and wantons in the wind; The offspring of her glorious race of old May rest securely in their mountain hold. On the 2nd of September, the anchor was weighed, and we bade a long farewell to Grosse Isle.
Harsanyi's on the Wilhelm der Grosse; gets in on Thursday." "Harsanyi?" Thea's eye lighted. "I haven't seen him for years. We always miss each other." She paused, hesitating. "Yes, I should like that. But he'll be busy, maybe?" "He gives his first concert at Carnegie Hall, week after next. Better send him a box if you can." "Yes, I'll manage it." Thea took his hand again.
"That woman has actually," Lady Groombridge went on, "been playing cards in the smoking-room on Easter Sunday night with Billy and those two boys. What Groombridge will say, I can't conceive; it is perfectly disgraceful!" "Have they been playing for much?" "Oh, for anything, I suppose; and Edmund Grosse says that the boy from the Parsonage has lost any amount to Billy.
Now, at Grosse Isle was a strange thing called the rolling muff, that all were afraid of, since to meet it was a warning of trouble; but, like the feu follet, it could be driven off by holding a cross toward it or by asking it on what day of the month came Christmas. The worse of the Tremblays encountered this creature and it filled him with dismay.
From time to time, Cassagne, Laporte and Grandvarlet, who were carrying dishes, told us what was going on in the salons. "Ah! my children, if you could just see how gloomy, how mournful it is! The men don't move from the sideboards. The women are all sitting in a circle, way at the end, fanning themselves, without a word. La Grosse doesn't speak to any one. I believe she's taking a snooze.
For one moment she saw Edmund Grosse, and she looked him full in the face very gravely. She did not pretend not to know him; she let him see the entirely genuine contempt she felt for him, and she meant him to understand that she would never know him again. As the season went on Edmund Grosse did not understand himself.
Soon the bubbles of the grape are percolating through his arteries and soon the "Grosse Rosinen" waltzes have mellowed his conscience and soon.... "Berlin spirit, huh!" he is telling his wife a month later "Berlin spirit? All artificial. Just to make money out of the visitors. And very sordid!"
I have known a man, not altogether unlike Edmund Grosse, to cross the street in London rather than pass a priest on the same pavement. Grosse would not have been so foolish as that, but still, it was not surprising that the two men did not get on particularly well.
Il y a dans la troupe une très-grande nacquaire (très grosse timbale). Au moment où le chef veut qu'on parte, il fait frapper trois coups. Aussitôt tout le monde s'apprête, et
"The bread, the butter, the beef, the onions, and potatoes are here, sir," said honest Sam, particularizing each article. "All right; pull for the ship. Mrs. Moodie, we will have a glorious supper, and mind you don't dream of Grosse Isle." In a few minutes we were again on board. Thus ended my first day's experience of the land of all our hopes. A Canadian Song
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