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"Good-morning, children," said the pompous Crevel. "Madame la Baronne, I throw myself at your feet! Good Heavens, how the children grow! they are pushing us off the perch 'Grand-pa, they say, 'we want our turn in the sunshine. Madame la Comtesse, you are as lovely as ever," he went on, addressing Hortense. "Ah, ha! and here is the best of good money: Cousin Betty, the Wise Virgin."
"Little Augustus was terribly frightened just before we sailed, his grand-pa told me; one of them impudent workmen who had been sick and out of work for a spell rushed up to little Augustus, who was feeding cakes to his pony and Italian greyhound, and demanded him to give him some. The man's fierce looks was such that Augustus dropped the cakes and ran away to his tutor.
"Say grand-pa, and kiss him, Polly," she said, coaxingly. The little child held back shyly for a minute, for old Oliver's head was shaking much more than usual now; but at length she put her two soft little hands to his face, and held it between them, while she kissed him. "Gan-pa!" she cried, crowing and chuckling with delight.
"No, no!" said old Oliver; "Dolly's going to be a very good girl, and help grand-pa to mind shop till Tony comes home again." This promise of promotion partly satisfied Dolly, and she sat still upon Oliver's knee beside Tony's cot, where his eyes could rest with contentment and pleasure upon them both, though the nurse would not let them talk much.
But it doesn't last if you've got anything in you. It's froth." He nodded. "You're right," he said. "What shall we breed?" "Shire horses," the girl replied. "Great, strong, useful creatures that'll work all day and every day " "Bar Sunday," he said. "Remember grand-pa, please."
"Good-morning, children," said the pompous Crevel. "Madame la Baronne, I throw myself at your feet! Good Heavens, how the children grow! they are pushing us off the perch 'Grand-pa, they say, 'we want our turn in the sunshine. Madame la Comtesse, you are as lovely as ever," he went on, addressing Hortense. "Ah, ha! and here is the best of good money: Cousin Betty, the Wise Virgin."
Susan was very busy, and had been very busy all day over two things preparing the house for the reception of her father, whom she had not seen for so many years, and in teaching her little girl, who was now eighteen months old, to say grand-pa.
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