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I am not referring to the joys of grandfather and grandmotherhood, and all that "art d'être grandpère" which have been written and sung until one turns a trifle sceptical about them.
Only last week the Dowager Countess of La Ronda, the richest woman in Spain, was taken by these ruffians in the passes as she was journeying from King Joseph's Court to visit her grandson. She is now a prisoner in the Abbey, and is only protected by her 'Grandmotherhood, I suggested. 'Her power of paying a ransom, said Massena.
He had never set eyes on her since. And now, on this day at Wilkins's, he had seen in the restaurant, and he saw again before him in his private parlour, a faded and stoutish woman, negligently if expensively dressed, with a fatigued, nervous, watery glance, an unnatural, pale-violet complexion, a wrinkled skin and dyed hair; a woman of whom it might be said that she had escaped grandmotherhood, if indeed she had escaped it, by mere luck and he was point-blank commanded to believe that she and Rose Euclid were the same person.
"I think often of grandmotherhood myself," my mother replied. "It is a symptom of advancing age, James." I heard the talk, but Helen was far enough from guessing what plans her father was forming for his ultimate satisfaction, and I could fancy her superb disdain at such mention.
It was Louis who had insisted on the cap, which Rachel had thought unnecessary and even snobbish, and which Mrs. Tams had nervously deprecated. Not without pleasure, however, had both women yielded to his indeed unanswerable argument: "You can't possibly have a servant opening the door without a cap. It's unthinkable." Thus in her latter years of grandmotherhood had Mrs.
And as fower the little Seth, yander staaple where it hangs is well up beyond the reach of un. Let a' be, Granny!" The old woman, in whom grandmotherhood had overweighted all other qualities, by reason of little Seth's numerous first cousins, made no reply, but looked uneasily at the rifle on the wall.
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