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Grump's room, declared that the practice was an absurd, newfangled, dandified folly, and daily cursed the laundress who slopped the staircase by which he had to pass. Grump, now much more than half a century old, had indeed never used the luxury in question. He had done without water very well, and so had our fathers before him.
Her joy over her restored teeth and hands surprised him; it seemed so freshly childish. "I'll own it's hard on women," he thought, "but what could I have done? What did she expect me to do?" He was quivering, soft, vulnerable. "Did I really mean just that to her and the kids? Just somebody coming in to grump and grumble...." The fire died down while he sat there, but what matter?
I really am more so; but how can I help you out if he never even sees me when I'm there?" And Caroline raised eyes to him that held a hint of wistfulness in their banter. "The old mole-eyed grump never sees anybody nor anything. But let's plot a scheme. This three-handed game doesn't suit me; promise to be good and sit in. I haven't had Phoebe to myself for the long time.
"Exactly. And Mr. Grump?" "Yes, sir." "Why is it that good men don't seem to stay long on some of our ships, especially on the Rapidan?" "I couldn't say, sir." "No? Too bad you didn't take the trouble to find out during all the years you've been here. Possibly I can find out. I'll take passage on the Rapidan this trip. But say nothing about it to anybody, mind.
Great was the astonishment of the young man, and puzzling miners gained sympathy from the weak eyes and open mouth of the Pet as he meandered homeward, evidently as much at a loss as themselves. Unlucky was the spirit which prompted Grump in the selection of his claim!
Armour was always on friendly terms with his competitors. As a matter of fact, he was on friendly terms with everybody he had no grouch and never got in a grump. Socially he was irresistible. He got up close invited confidence made friends and held them. There was never a man he wouldn't speak to.
Eppes, as down here they do that up to the day of the marriage, the first name being thought too familiar until after the ceremony, and even then in public. Grace Marvin, who is engaged to Richard Clarke, calls him Dick, but that is because she isn't ancestral; just accepted, Mrs. Grump says, and she knows, being familiar with the history of everybody in town.
A slight tremor seemed to run through the sleeper; "and no wonder," said the colonel, when he recounted the adventure to the boys; "anybody'd shiver to hev that catamount glarin' at him." Grump arose, and softly went to a corner which was hidden by the chimney. "Gone for his knife, I'll bet," whispered the colonel to himself. "I hope Tom don't spile my mad by firin' fust."
It was only the new superintendent's second day, and to the head clerk he still seemed an unaggressive sort, not much to look at, and, so far, not much to say. A clever man ought to be able to handle him. And yet, as the head clerk was crossing the floor of the private office, the eye of the new superintendent never looked away. Yes, he did have a puzzling eye. "Close the door, Mr. Grump.
'It's a sin and a shame, said a stout man, in working clothes, 'that there wasn't some kind of a fence put around this infernal trap. Where was the Alderman of this ward, that he didn't attend to it? 'Be careful what you say, fellow, said Mr. Grump, turning very red in the face, 'I'd have you to know that I am the Alderman of this ward!
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