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"Have you been here long?" "Only since yesterday." Why did she seem relieved at my reply? "Do they think me ill enough to have a stranger come to me?" "Almost as polite as the grum brother," I thought; but I said, "You mustn't let me be a stranger to you. I came, I wasn't sent for." She made an effort to rise from her seat, but, unable, turned her eyes toward the windows. "What is it?" I asked.
Humphreys remarked upon "that very sensible, good-hearted man, Mr. Van Brunt, towards whom he felt himself under great obligation." Mr. Van Brunt said "the minister warn't such a grum man as people called him;" and more-over said, "it was a good thing to have an education, and he had a notion to read more."
Buckram, muttering to himself in apparent calculation, 'standin' at livery three-and-sixpence a night, grum, and so on I wouldn't mind, continued he briskly, 'givin' of you twenty pund for 'im if you'd throw me back a sov., continued he, seeing Mr. Waffles' brow didn't contract into the frown he expected at having such a sum offered for his three-hundred-guinea horse.
If I'm near th' eend I'd loike some one to know, I ha' meant no hurt when I seemed grum an' surly, It wurna ill-will, but a heavy heart." He stopped here, and his head drooped upon his hands again, and for a minute or so there was another dead silence. Such a story as this needed no comment. I could make none. It seemed to me that the poor fellow's sore heart could bear none.
I have half a mind not to tell you what I heard said of you, but I believe you may have it second-hand. Fred Vincent was as grum as a preacher all the evening, and when I asked him what on earth made him so surly and owlish, he said, 'It was too provoking you would not come, for no one else could dance the schottisch to his liking. Now there was a sweet specimen of manners for you!
As she unwrapped it and came up to Molly, she saw what she had never seen before that minute, a smile on the cripple's grum face. It was not grum now; it was lighted up with a smile, as her eyes dilated over the cake. "I'll have some tea!" she said. Daisy put the cake on the table and delivered a peach into Molly's hand. But she lifted her hand to the table and laid the peach there.
"The Polly." "Whence came you?" "From Jamaica." "Where are you bound?" "To New York." "What ship is that?" "The Phoenix." Huzza, three times by the whole ship's company. An old grum fellow of a sailor standing close by me: "O, d m your three cheers, we took you to be something else."
The example of the boatswain was followed by each of his mates in turn, and then the summons was deemed sufficient. However unintelligible and grum the call might sound in the musical ears of Gertrude, they produced no unpleasant effects on the organs of a majority of those who heard them.
Buckram, thoughtfully, propping his chin up with his stick, and drawing all the half-crowns up to the top of his pocket again, 'the fust 'spicious thing I heard was Sir Digby Snaffle's grum, Sam, sayin' to Captain Screwley's bat-man grum, jist afore the George Inn door, "Well, Jack, Tommy's sold the brown oss!" "N O O R!" exclaimed Jack, starin' 'is eyes out, as if it were unpossible.
Those who remained yawned, talked, gossiped, consulted their tablets, and, all distinctions else forgotten, merged into but two classes the winners, who were happy, and the losers, who were grum and captious.
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