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Updated: June 20, 2025
I knew when I had only my own fancy to tell me. But now, try as I may, I cannot make the old fancy and the new sight serve me in harmony both together. I am afraid he sees that I don't understand him. Oh, dear! dear! why did I not meet my good old Grosse, and become the new creature that he has made me, before I met Oscar? I should have had no blind memories and prepossessions to get over then.
'It has brought down a judgment upon us. Go thou and try what thy grosse pièce will do for thee now worship thy god. Go, I tell you, and get help from your money. 'I have no money, M. le Maire, and what could money do here? We would do much better to promise a large candle for the next festival, and that the ladies of St. Jean
From that time forward, whenever he could get out without arousing the suspicions of his servants, he went night after night to the cairn, until he had brought away every coin, and had them all carefully hidden in Rosewarne House. And now, his treasure safe, himself the richest man in the county, Ezekiel Grosse began to feel perfectly happy.
He paused a moment on the wide marble steps of the well staircase as he saw a familiar face coming across the hall. It was the English Ambassador in Madrid, just arrived home on leave, as Edmund knew. He was a handsome grey-haired man of thin, nervous figure, and he sprang lightly to meet his old friend and put his hand on his arm. "Grosse!" he cried, "well met."
It stopped that exercise on the night that Jacques hurled a font of holy water at it, but to keep it away the people of Grosse Pointe still mark their houses with the sign of a cross.
Was it something he had brought from Browndown? We got away encumbered by Mr. Finch, who insisted on attaching himself to Oscar by the first express train, which took us straight to London. Comparison of time-tables, on reaching the terminus, showed that I had leisure to spare for a brief visit to Grosse, before we again took the railway back to Sydenham.
"White, I understand," he said. "White is the fancy of a young girls. But why scarlets? Could you see scarlets when you were blind?" "Almost," she answered, "if it was bright enough. I used to feel something pass before my eyes when scarlet was shown to me." "In these cataracts-cases, it is constantly scarlets that they almost see," muttered Grosse to himself.
These were known as the Colombiere, the Grosse Tete, Tas de Pois, and the Marmotiers; each with its retinue of sunken reefs and needles of granitic gneiss lying low in menace. Happy the sailor caught in a storm and making for the shelter the little curves in the island afford, who escapes a twist of the current, a sweep of the tide, and the impaling fingers of the submarine palisades.
I asked Oscar if he could guess what the letter contained, and why it was not to be given to me until Grosse reported that I was quite cured. "I can't guess at the contents I can only guess at the object of the letter," he said. "What is it?" "The object which she has had in view from the first to place every possible obstacle in the way of my marrying you."
But to the curate Mark was as much above criticism as a martyr at the foot of the gallows. Strangely enough, the first break into this moral fog that was settling down in his spiritual world was, of all unlikely things, the letter from Edmund Grosse.
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