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Natty had no mother, but he had a little sister about three years of age, and a grandmother, who might have been about thirty times three. No one could tell her age for certain; but she was so old and wrinkled and dried up and withered and small, that she might certainly have claimed to be "the oldest inhabitant."
But, though she was lonely and forlorn enough in the city, here she is treated as if she were a goddess, while I am linked to a husband whose head is bald, and whose back is a hump! 'My plight is worse than yours, groaned the other sister, 'for I have to spend my time nursing a man who is always ill and rarely suffers me to leave his side.
They exchanged a few words about the prince's journey, the Fairy Aurora's palace, and the beauty of this sister of the Sun then Petru saddled the bay, for he really had no time to lose.
I never saw my granddaughter in better spirits than on Sunday last; she was with her sister, on horseback, laughing, and apparently in great glee.
Her laugh was slightly nervous too, and it seemed to be intended for Theo, whose conversation with his mother had now paused, and who was occasionally glancing, not without suspicion, at his wife and sister in the corner. Did she laugh to make him think that there was nothing serious in their talk? She called to him to join them, making room upon the sofa.
'Virtue is bold, and never fearful, said the duke: and then he asked her, if she had ever heard of Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the great soldier who was drowned at sea.
His fellow trustees, such as his cousins Roger or Nicholas, his cousins-in-law Tweetyman and Spender, or his sister Cicely's husband, all trusted him; he signed first, and where he signed first they signed after, and nobody was a penny the worse.
"I have looked for you everywhere," she said. "Why did you run away from me before?" "It was my blind sister who was with you," answered Dolores, who knew her voice at once and had understood from her father what had happened. "Where are you going now?" she asked, without giving the Princess time to put a question. "I was looking for you. I wish you to come and stay with me to-night "
"What a pity that we are not rich, to give him a little rest." "We rich! Alas, my sister! we shall never be anything but poor orphans." "Oh, there's the medal!" "Doubtless, there is some hope attached to it, else we should not have made this long journey." "Dagobert has promised to tell us all, this evening."
Meanwhile Baby William was crawling as far back under the couch as he could, growling away, though whether he was pretending to be a bear, a lion or only a dog no one knew but himself. "What do you want him to scare?" asked Ted of his sister. "Oh oh well, chickens, maybe!" she answered. "Pooh! Chickens aren't any fun!" cried Ted.
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