Quotes About Grange

188 National Farmers Union (NFU) 176 , 183–4 , 188 National Front 163 National Grange (USA) 183 National Health Insurance Act (1924) 187 National Health

It was Sunday and, as elsewhere in the world, that day was cursed

Weeded and worn the ancient thatchUpon the lonely moated grange.

Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.

I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange--not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood.

I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well. ~ Bertram Bertie Wooster