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Updated: June 13, 2025
For though it pleased Sterne to anticipate the knife-grinder's innocent confession, "Story? God bless you! I have none to tell, sir!" in a sardonic paraphrase of half a score of volumes, he actually possessed the narrative faculty in an extraordinary degree.
He turned round, and perceived two men on the side of the road, close to his knife-grinder's wheel. They were in their shirts and trousers only and sitting down on the turf. "It would be a very good plan," observed one of them; "we should then travel without suspicion." "Yes; if we could get off with it without being discovered. Where can the owner of it be."
Austin became more morose and misanthropic every day, and at last would permit no one to come near him but his valet and his wife. Such was the position of his parents, when Joey was proceeding to their abode. We left our hero rolling his knife-grinder's wheel towards his father's house. It must be confessed that he did it very unwillingly.
"That will do," observed Spikeman; "her curiosity is excited, and that is all I wish." What Spikeman said was correct. Araminta joined Miss Mathews shortly after Spikeman and Joey had gone away. "My dear Araminta," said Melissa, "such an adventure I can hardly credit my senses." "Why, what is the matter, dear cousin?" "Do you see that man and boy, with a knife-grinder's wheel, just in sight now?"
She then turned over to Joey's account the sum due to him, and arrangements were made with the bank so that Joey could draw his capital out whenever he pleased. After which our hero took leave of Mary, promising to correspond more freely than before; and once more putting the strap of his knife-grinder's wheel over his shoulders, he set off on his journey to Portsmouth.
"My dear boy, As we must now part, at least for some time, I have left you money sufficient to set you up for the present; I have inclosed a memorandum, by which I make over to you the knife-grinder's wheel, and all the furniture, books, etcetera, that are in my rooms at Dudstone, the key of which is also inclosed.
"You see, Joey," said he, "that it is necessary not to mention the knife-grinder's wheel, as it would make a difference in my reception. All gentlemen do not gain their livelihood as honestly as I do; but, still prejudices are not to be overcome.
As soon as this arrangement was completed, they returned back to the copse near to the mansion-house, Joey rolling the knife-grinder's wheel. "You see, Joey," said Spikeman, "the first thing necessary will be to stimulate curiosity; we may have to wait a day or two before the opportunity may occur; but, if necessary, I will wait a month.
Joey fixed his bundle with the saucepan, etcetera, upon the knife-grinder's wheel, and rolled it along the road, followed by the tinker, until they came to a small hamlet, about two miles from the spot from which they had started; they halted when they were fifty yards from the first cottage, and the tinker, having selected a dry place under the hedge, said, "I must stop here a little while?"
And there, there was laughing, story-telling, drinking of healths, and rejoicing, until Pitter Nilken was quite overcome, and offered of his own accord to sing "The Knife-Grinder's Courtship" a song which had been a great favourite in the days of his youth.
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