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Then, stroking Matilda's round cheek, she inquired, "My love, did you ever in your life feel any pain?" "Oh, dear, yes, grandmamma: to be sure I have; twice. Why, don't you remember, last spring, I had a dreadful pain in my head for nearly two hours, on George's birthday? And last week, after I went to bed, I had such a pain in my arm, I did not know how to bear it." "And what became of it?"
'Never mind what you are; do go and sit down, and take those things off, said Edith. 'Not till you guess what I am. 'Does Dilly know? 'No, Dilly doesn't know. Guess what I am, grandmamma! 'I give it up. 'I thought you'd never guess. Well, I'm a blue-faced mandrill! declared Archie, as he took the goggles off reluctantly and gave them back to La France, who put them under his chair.
When you have got into a tea-gown, you will find me here again." And he rang the bell. Grandmamma would have approved of Mrs. Harrison when she appeared. She is like the housekeepers one reads of in books stately and plump, and clothed in black silk, with a fat, gold-and-cameo brooch fastening a neat cambric collar.
'There are two or three small cottages close to the little house I am thinking of, said Mr. Timbs, 'and the people in them are very respectable. I leave the key with one of them. Then he went on to tell grandmamma exactly where it was, how to get there, and all about it, and with every word, dear granny said her heart grew lighter and lighter.
"Yes or remain in the background, a good deal bored. To obtain the wherewithal to enjoy this rather expensive world, people stoop considerably nowadays." "And you don't think it dreadful?" "I am not a Crusader. Times have changed. One can keep one's own ideas and let others do as they please." "Grandmamma had a maxim like that. She said it was bourgeois to be shocked and astonished at things.
There was nothing to drown the noise the key made when I locked the side-door again, and when I got to the bottom of the back-stairs, I saw a light at the top, and there was Grandmamma in the most awful night-cap you can imagine, with a candle in one hand, and the watchman's rattle in the other.
"Dear Susan," read Miss Fossett, "I shall not be able to be with you to-morrow. Please get me out of it nicely. I can't remember at the moment what it is. You'll be surprised to hear that I'm engaged to be married, I mean, I can hardly realise it. I hardly seem to know where I am. Have just made up my mind to run down to Yorkshire and see grandmamma. I must do something.
"Surely," said little Pamela one day with a great sigh, "surely Grandmamma must know everyfing;" while Duke's breast swelled with the thought that he too, like his father and grandfather before him, would journey some day to those distant lands, there, if need were, like them "to fight for the king."
'I could not help it, said Lucy, sobbing. 'I could not bear to contradict him, but please, mamma, let papa settle it for me. I don't want to go away; I told him I never would, I told him I had promised never to leave dear grandmamma; but you see he is so resolute, and he cannot bear to be without me.
"I never found the person who could resist Queen Bee, except grandmamma. But I am glad you do not take after her, Henrietta, for one such grandchild is enough, and it is better for woman-kind to have leadable spirits than leading." "O, grandpapa!" "That is a dissentient O. What does it mean? Out with it." "Only that I was thinking about weakness; I beg your pardon, grandpapa."
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