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What he wanted most in life was to be able to make images of beasts and creatures of all sorts, that were like that had that gave out the spirit of Nature; so that by just looking at them one could have all those jolly feelings one had when one was watching trees, and beasts, and rocks, and even some sorts of men but not 'English Grundys. So he was quite determined to study Art?
Ah! don't be cross with me! They WERE English Grundys, weren't they every one?" She looked into his face so hard, that he felt the blood rush to his cheeks, and a dizzy sensation of being drawn forward. "They have no blood, those people! Their voices, their supercilious eyes that look you up and down! Oh! I've had so much of them! That woman with her Liberalism, just as bad as any.
Then three pairs of Italians suddenly launched themselves into space twirling and twirling, and glaring into each other's eyes; and some Americans, stimulated by their precept, began airily backing and filling. Two of the 'English Grundys' with carefully amused faces next moved out. To Lennan it seemed that they all danced very well, better than he could.
All the guests were streaming out from dinner, and he became entangled with a group of 'English Grundys' discussing a climbing accident which had occurred in Switzerland. He listened, feeling suddenly quite sick. One of them, the short grey-bearded Grundy with the rather whispering voice, said to him: "All alone again to-night? The Stormers not back?"
She felt that her husband was gazing at her, and wondered what her face was like; but at that moment the word "Madre!" sounded close in her ear and they were surrounded by a small drove of 'English Grundys. That twenty mile drive was perhaps the worst part of the journey for the boy. It is always hard to sit still and suffer.
Grundys of Fort Hays, was now her own; but her mother had no fortune, and if she had, it would have been shared by the two other children. In the old days her father had laughingly bought and set aside for Marion's own account some government bonds and some railway stocks; the latter at time of purchase being practically drugs on the market. In fifteen years they were at a heavy premium.
The grey-bearded 'Grundy' murmured in a muffled voice: "Dangerous thing, that, to say in an hotel!" And they went on talking, but of what Lennan no longer knew, lost in this sudden feeling of sick fear. In the presence of these 'English Grundys, so superior to all vulgar sensations, he could not give vent to his alarm; already they viewed him as unsound for having fainted.
"And this is the church we went to, with someone kneeling. And this is meant for the 'English Grundys, looking at someone who is coming in very late with an alpenstock only, I am better at the 'English Grundys' than at the person with the alpenstock. I wish I were the 'English Grundys' now, still in the Tyrol.
"You don't think him like Stephen in the Mill on the Floss, who ought to have married Maggie Tulliver." "I believe that is his precedent but it is sheer stuff pure accident as a respectable old householder like me is ready to testify to the Gorgons and Chimeras dire Grundys and all. We must encounter Rock Quay, Fly, if it is only to rescue this unlucky youth." "What is he doing now?
System was probably a habit in the Grundy family, and was so bred in Solomon's bones that it never occurred to him that he could reverse the order observed by the Grundys for generations back and be married on Thursday, for instance.
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