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I think she liked to see how fond these children had already got to be of her, though perhaps it would have been as well if Quick had not informed us in the middle of tea that he liked her a great, great deal better than his real grandmamma, whose nose was very big and her hair quite black. 'But she's very kind to us too, said Sharley, 'only I don't think she cares much for little boys.
There was something mysteriously sad in her life, I think: grandmother always sighed when she spoke of her, and used to read in the little red book every day. She was only her half-sister, but she said she loved her better than she did any sister of her own. Once I asked grandmamma to tell me about her, but she said, 'There is nothing to tell, child.
But how slow of them all not to have engaged her before. Eh! Alex, what have you to say for yourself?" "I hope for Queen Bee," said Alex. "And Jessie must dance with me, because I don't know how," said Carey. "My dears, this will never do!" interposed grandmamma. "You can't all dance with each other, or what is to become of the company? I never heard of such a thing.
Grandmamma thought it wrong and unsafe, and scolded and coaxed me into a promise that I would not wander in the woods again unaccompanied. But I was missing one evening, and was brought home from the interdicted woods to the drawing-room, where the general was walking up and down with his hands behind him, as was his wont. Grandmamma, seated in her great arm-chair, opened a severe reproof."
"'Different' is a very good word," he said, laughing. "It isn't a very bad one," she returned, "and it expresses a good deal." "It does indeed," he commented. "Look at Mr. Poppleton and Octavia," she began. "Have you got to 'Octavia'?" he inquired. She looked down and blushed. "I shall not say 'Octavia' to grandmamma." Then suddenly she glanced up at him. "That is sly, isn't it?" she said.
Glastonbury did not recognise me, grandmamma, said Lord Montfort. 'These sweet children have all grown out of your sight, Mr. Glastonbury, said the duchess; 'but they are very good. And as for Digby, I really think he comes to see his poor grandmother every day. The duke and duchess, and two young daughters, were now announced.
But leave it to me, I promise to arrange that Augustus shall not be bored." He picked up La Rochefoucauld and opened it. "I see you have marked some of the maximes." "No. Grandmamma and the Marquis must have done that. Look, they are all of the most witty and cynical that are pencilled. I can hear them talking when I read them. That is just how they spoke to one another."
"Yes, she did," chimed in Katie; "and 'twasn't nuffin but moolly's cow milk, and her 'pilled it on my shoe!" Grandmamma really looked relieved. "So this accounts for it! But Dotty, how could you do such a thing?" "I telled um not to," cried Katie, "but her kep' a-doin' an' a-doin'."
'I should think Belinda would have unpacked your clothes by this time, said grandmamma, 'but no doubt you'll find something to do. But, by the bye, they may not have lighted a fire in your room, don't stay upstairs long if you feel chilly, but bring your work down to the library. I went upstairs. In the full daylight, though it was a dull morning, I liked my room even less than the night before.
Grandmamma sat extreme upright, and spoke in those measured tones, and with that nice politeness, which showed that she was excessively put out. "May I trouble you, Charles, if you please, never to name that person in my hearing again!" "Certainly, Madam," said my Uncle Charles, with a naughty look at me which nearly upset my gravity.
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