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'And now I beg that nothing more may be said about it, said Georgiana. 'I suppose, mamma, you will write to papa? 'You must send him back his watch and chain, Georgey, said Sophia. 'What business is that of yours? 'Of course she must. Her papa would not let her keep it.
"My darling! my darling!" said George, taking the child in his arms, "I am your father, come across the sea to find you. Will you love me?" The little fellow pushed him away. "I don't know you," he said. "I love grandpa and Mrs. Monks at Southampton." "Georgey has a temper of his own, sir," said the old man. "He has been spoiled."
The cook wears better clothes than gran'pa better than yours, even," said Master Georgey, pointing to Robert's rough great-coat with a depreciating nod. Robert Audley stared aghast. How was he to deal with this epicure of five years old, who rejected bread and milk and asked for veal cutlets?
I shall sleep here to-night. Good-by, Georgey; take care of yourself and try and get your appetite in order against six o'clock." Robert Audley left the boy in charge of the idle waiter, and strolled down to the water side, choosing that lonely bank which leads away under the moldering walls of the town toward the little villages beside the narrowing river.
He knew no more until he opened his eyes in a room in his friend's chambers in the Temple. Next day he and Robert Audley journeyed by express to Ventnor, learned on inquiry at the principal hotel that a Captain Maldon, whose daughter was lately dead, was staying at Lansdowne Cottage; and thither they proceeded. The captain and his little grandson, Georgey, were out.
"To stand between two women, claimed by both, like Solomon's babe! A man might as well at once have Solomon's judgement put into execution upon him. You wept for him! Do you know, Georgey, that charity of your sex, which makes you cry at any 'affecting situation, must have been designed to compensate to us for the severities of Providence." "No, Merthyr;" she arrested his raillery.
These are unmistakeable signs in Merthyr, though he has never been in love, and doesn't understand his case a bit. Tell me, do you think it impossible?" Georgiana answered dryly, "You have fallen into a fresh mistake." Exactly. Then let me rescue you from a similar fatality, Georgey. If your eyes are bandaged now..." "Are you going to be devoted to me also, Charlotte?"
He always went loaded with toys and sweetmeats to give to the child; but, for all this, Georgey would not become very familiar with his papa, and the young man's heart sickened as he began to fancy that even his child was lost to him. "What can I do?" he thought.
The tears oozed slowly through the dirty fingers with which he shaded his blood-shot eyes, as he said this. "God knows, I never injured your friend, sir," he said, by-and-by, when Mrs. Plowson and Georgey had returned, "nor even wished him any ill. He was a good son-in-law to me better than many a son. I never did him any wilful wrong, sir.
I believe the man to be a swindler and a thief; and I believe her to be anything low that you can think of. As to their pretensions to be gentlefolk, it is monstrous. The footmen and housemaids would be much better. 'Then don't go, Georgey. 'I must go. It's the only chance that is left. If I were to remain down here everybody would say that I was on the shelf.
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