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Harlan, you think too much of your grandfather to do such a thing as that, don't you?" The three of them sat in silence for a while. "I hate to say anything just now, my boy," said the old man, at last. He leaned forward, his elbows on the arms of his chair. "Luke has put it to you a little stronger than I should have done. I don't want to beg you or coax you.
Too big, or too little it is sure to be! With my own dress I am satisfied. And if grandfather asks no questions about it, I shall count it a lucky dress and save it till Boris comes home.
In the courtyard under the fig-tree where his grandfather, who had long since died, had been accustomed to rest, there were broken plates and a poor sick chicken. In the garden of roses and gleaming pear-trees where his fiancée had stood, there was an old woman. The story does not tell who she was. One day a poet sat down at a table to write a story.
He saw the Governor hastening to the road to shake his hand, he saw his grandfather bowed with the sense of his injustice, tremulous with the flutter of his pride; and, best of all, he saw Betty Betty, with the rays of light beneath her lashes, coming straight across the drive into his arms.
"I hope not, dearie; I think not if she will be content to take me for her teacher," Violet said, with a half-suppressed sigh, for she felt that she might be pledging herself to a most trying work; Lulu would dare much more in the way of disregarding her authority than that of her grandfather. But she was rewarded by Grace's glad exclamation, "Oh, mamma, how good you are!
"Why, I heard a grandfather saying back there in the crowd that he was looking for his little grandson. Come along and I'll help you find him." The short man was very kind, for he knelt down and unbuckled the stubborn skate straps and tied them over Sunny Boy's arm. Then he took his hand and led him back into the crowd up to a worried-looking old gentleman.
But I must play the amiable old gentleman for once, and second your toast in honour of Adam. Has your grandfather yielded on the other point too, and agreed to have a respectable man as steward?" "Oh no," said Arthur, rising from his chair with an air of impatience and walking along the room with his hands in his pockets.
"It's my little Dolly's," he answered, in haste; "poor Susan's little girl, who's gone out with her husband, young Raleigh, to India, because he's 'listed, and left her little girl with me, her grandfather. She came on the very last day you were here." "Well, to be sure!" cried his sister, sinking down on a chair, but still keeping the torn little frock in her hand.
On that first evening, the very day on which her grandfather had died, Kate would have been more comfortable had she really found something that she could do. But there was in truth nothing.
He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of thunder: "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to him.
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