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My angry look changed to a bland smile as I saw the ragged straw hat with the hair standing out of the top, and the grubby face of Shock looking at me with his eyes twinkling and the skin all round wrinkled, while the rest of his face was sour. "Why, Shock!" I cried; "who'd have thought of seeing you? How did you get there?" "Clum up." "Did Mr Brownsmith send you?" He shook his head.
But where land is being farmed he is a dreadful pest, I am sorry to say. You see he eats the crops the farmer tries to raise, and the new mounds he is all the time throwing up bury a lot of the young plants, and in the meadows make it very hard to use a mowing machine for cutting hay. Then Grubby gets into young orchards and cuts off all the tender roots of young trees. This kills them.
The form of an Army Service Corps private emerged from the mist, his cap on the back of his head, his hands in his pockets, and his walk the walk of a free man. I never saw a welcomer sight than that jam-merchant. We stood up and greeted him. 'What's this place? I shouted. He raised a grubby hand to his forelock. ''Ockott Saint Anny, sir, he said. 'Beg pardon, sir, but you ain't whurt, sir?
He solemnly extended a small and grubby hand towards her. Slowly her head came round, her eyes took him in almost uncomprehendingly; she saw the childish face, the little dirty hand, and suddenly there came to her the great gift of the Healer. "Oh! mon bébé, mon pauv' p'tit bébé!" She picked him up off the chair and, clutching him in her arms, put her face on his head and sobbed out her heart.
At first this bored him considerably, but after one day when the Parson took him down to the cove to bathe, and he had occasion to be ashamed of his grubby little legs and feet beside the other's shining whiteness, that too altered. Yet the Parson had said nothing, hardly given more than a look.
"I wrote it," he repeated, his indulgent understanding of her mood lurking in smiling lips and eyes, "on the occasion of a particularly grubby Sunday School picnic: I assure you I shall not soon forget the spiders which came to an untimely end in my lemonade, nor the inquisitive ants which explored my sandwiches." She surveyed him unsmilingly. "But you did not mean that," she said.
And besides, I expect to build on Grant Avenue myself." "And leave here?" "Oh, it's too grubby, it's in the slums," said Nancy. "But I really owe you a debt of gratitude, Hugh, for the Scherers." "I'm told Adolf's lost his head over you." "It's not only over me, but over everything.
He had seen pain in Eleanor's eyes when he had spoken some swift and biting word to her, and then, all repentance, he had tried to kiss the pain from her.... To-night, in this grubby bedroom, smelling of teetotallers and grim, forbidding people in whom are to be found none of the genial foibles of ordinary, hearty men, he felt an excess of remorse for any unkind thing he had ever said to Eleanor.
Why, you've only to look at him. And he thinks no small beer of himself, either, for all he lives in that grubby little house; I shouldn't wonder if he thinks us beneath him. She stared at her sisters, inviting their comment on this ludicrous state of things. 'I quite believe Nancy does, said Fanny, with a point of malice. 'She's a stuck-up thing, declared Mrs. Peachey.
"By making me grubby, you mean?" "By making you anxious and distracted so much of the time; empty." She nodded mournfully. "Yes, I know. You used to warn me. Well, there's not one of my brothers and sisters who does not feel that I carried off the family success, just as I might have carried off the family silver, if there'd been any!