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Updated: June 14, 2025
But now, she thought, that bitter draught always at his lips had worked into his blood at last. "Are you quite incurable?" she said gently, as she returned from the window to seat herself at his mattress graveside. "No, I shall die some day. Gruby says very soon. But doctors are so inconsistent.
This came from a stout, short, red-faced man, who stopped them, standing in the middle of the pavement. "Well, I thank thee, Mr. Gruby. At this moment I am particularly engaged. That is Jonathan Gruby," said the Quaker to his companion as soon as the stout man had walked on; "one of the busiest men in the City. You have heard probably of Gruby and Inderwald."
Hampstead had never heard of Gruby and Inderwald, and wished that the stout man had been minding his business at that moment. "But as to Miss Fay," he said, endeavouring to continue to tell his love-story. "Yes, as to Marion. I hardly do know what passed between you two, not having heard the reasons she gave thee."
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