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Old Grannis is an elderly, retired bookbinder who lives in the same building as McTeague and Trina. He is a quiet and somewhat reclusive man who spends most of his time in his apartment, engaged in his bookbinding work. He is secretly in love with Miss Baker, and he confesses his feelings to her toward the end of the novel.
Old Grannis Quotes in McTeague
The McTeague quotes below are all either spoken by Old Grannis or refer to Old Grannis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 17
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After that they spoke but little. The day lapsed slowly into twilight, and the two old people sat there in the gray evening, quietly, quietly, their hands in each other’s hands, “keeping company,” but now with nothing to separate them. It had come at last. After all these years they were together; they understood each other. They stood at length in a little Elysium of their own creating. They walked hand in hand in a delicious garden where it was always autumn.
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Old Grannis Quotes in McTeague
The McTeague quotes below are all either spoken by Old Grannis or refer to Old Grannis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 17
Quotes
After that they spoke but little. The day lapsed slowly into twilight, and the two old people sat there in the gray evening, quietly, quietly, their hands in each other’s hands, “keeping company,” but now with nothing to separate them. It had come at last. After all these years they were together; they understood each other. They stood at length in a little Elysium of their own creating. They walked hand in hand in a delicious garden where it was always autumn.
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