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But if the invitation should get lost on the way?" "I thought the British post-office was impeccable." "The good Homer sometimes nods," said Ralph. "However," he went on more brightly, "the good Bantling never does, and, whatever happens, he'll take care of Henrietta." Ralph went to keep his appointment with Sir Matthew Hope, and Isabel made her arrangements for quitting Pratt's Hotel.
Some Christmas fairy must have whispered to Grand'mere to grub up the tiny tree and to include it in the stock she was taking into Versailles on the market morning. For there it was, its roots stuck securely into a big pot, looking like some forlorn forest bantling among the garden plants.
If anywhere about that wood you meet my airy bantling, greet him with tenderness. He was a pleasant lad, though now abandoned. And when it comes to your own turn to quit the forest, may you leave behind you such another; no Antony or Werther, let us hope, no tearful whipster, but, as becomes this not uncheerful and most active age in which we figure, the child of happy hours.
The conspirators in holding a party were, on the male side: An insurance adjuster, who was a frat-brother to Carl and Ray, though he came from Melanchthon College. A young lawyer, ever so jolly, with a banjo. A bantling clergyman, who was spoken of with masculine approval because he smoked a pipe and said charmingly naughty things.
Bantling was to go with her to Rome, and she pointed out to Isabel that as he had been there before, as he was a military man and as he had had a classical education he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte-Melville, said Miss Stackpole he would be a most useful companion in the city of the Caesars.
They then washed and claned themselves, and accordingly went to their dinners. Billy himself marched with his terrible whip in his hand, and his long cavalry spurs sticking near ten inches behind him, draggled to the tail like a bantling cock after a shower.
Thy mother, long before she brought thee forth, Took care thou shouldst want neither food nor cloth. Thy father glad was at his very heart, Had he to thee a portion to impart. Comfort they promised themselves in thee, But thou, it seems, to them a grief wilt be. How oft, how willingly brake they their sleep, If thou, their bantling, didst but winch or weep.
The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again. "His name is Alexander Curzon, but mother called him The Seraph, so we jus' keep on doing it too." "Um-hm," assented the old gentleman, "and you what's your name?" "John," I replied. "Oh," he said, with an odd little smile, "and what do they keep on calling you?"
These marks of the unimproved adult are present in all infants at birth. Lady Clara Vere de Vere's little bantling is in a sense not hers at all but the child of some ugly antique race; of a Palaeolithic mother, let us say, who lived before the last Glacial epoch and was not very much better- looking herself than an orang-utan.
Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted.
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