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Papa wants us to." "Don't you see what I'm trying to get at?" he insisted. "Won't you try to see? Just try put yourself in my place, make yourself think with my viewpoint as a starting place. Suppose you had been a dreamer of a boy with a pirate's daring and a poet's unreal delusions, and you combined the two to produce a fortune, a fortune everyone marvelled at, the lucky turn of the wheel.
Don't you think you had better go home? I will do what can be done, you may be sure!" "I am sure," answered Hester. "But mamma is better; so long as I am away papa will not leave her; and she would rather have papa than a dozen of me." "But it must be so dreary for you here alone all day!" he said, with a touch of malice. "I go about among my people," she answered. "Ah! ah!" he returned.
"Papa, I'm so sorry, so very sorry for my badness, so ashamed of not being obedient to such a dear, kind father," she said, low and tremulously, blushing painfully as she spoke. "Please, I want you to punish me well for it." "Have I not already done so, daughter?" he asked. "I doubt if this has been a happy day to you." "Oh, no, indeed, papa!
When he met her the week before, she treated him with the utmost disdain; now she greeted him with a smile, and said, “I trust you have not come to carry papa away in captivity. If not, you are welcome.” “Nothing of the sort this time, I am happy to say,” exclaimed the Lieutenant, with a bow, “and I hope I shall never be called upon to perform that disagreeable duty.”
'No, papa, you cannot spare me, and what's more, I won't be spared. Then after a pause, she added: 'I am losing hope sadly about Frederick; he is letting us down gently, but I can see that Mr. Lennox himself has no hope of hunting up the witnesses under years and years of time.
I wish he would not order me to take that nasty medicine, that cod liver oil." "But it is to make you strong, my boy." "It makes me sick. I always feel sick after it, papa. Madame Vine says I ought to have cream. That would be nice." "Cream?" repeated Mr. Carlyle, turning his eyes on Madame Vine. "I have known cream to do a great deal of good in a case like William's," she observed.
"I am sure I hope you will be able to help it! I don't know what I should do if you did!" Sam gave an odd smile with his honest face. "Well, you've got a good spirit of your own. It would take something to cow you." "Pray don't try!" Sam laughed, and said, "I did promise Papa to be conformable." "And I was very much obliged to you yesterday evening.
"Papa, I really think I oughtn't to be let go." "And I really think I should not be deprived of the pleasure of having my dear eldest daughter with me on this first sleigh-ride of the season," returned her father, drawing her into a closer embrace. "And it would spoil all the fun for me to have you left at home, Lu," said Grace.
Tell Mother that I call them a double joy, a double comfort! Poor little maid! and he kissed her again, 'will no one welcome her, but the father who is leaving her? 'O Papa! You know how we will love them, sobbed Wilmet. 'I think I do, my dear; and he smoothed the glossy hair; but with love comes joy, you know. 'It is very hard now, broke from the poor girl.
I shan't get tired of them." "I don't believe you will, but you may get tired of the care of housekeeping, with guests for so long a time. But if you do, I shall pick up the whole tribe of you and bundle off for a trip of some sort." "Oh, papa, I wish you would do that. I'd be perfectly delighted. I'll do my best to get tired, just so you'll take us."