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All the morning they heard him firing in the bottom below the house, and at one o'clock he came home, empty-handed. "Why, George!" said his father, "what hast thee been shooting at? I thought 'ee was getting good sport." "I've been shooting at a mark," he replied. "Who be going to shoot now, eh, George?" asked the old man. "No one as I know of," he replied. "Going over to Eggesford, eh, Georgey?
'Mamma, she said, 'as you and papa take it so much to heart, I have broken off everything with Mr Brehgert. 'Of course it must be broken off, said Lady Pomona. This was very ungracious, so much so that Georgey almost flounced out of the room. 'Have you heard from the man? asked her ladyship. 'I have written to him, and he has answered me; and it is all settled.
"My son-in-law has been very liberal to me; but there are others, there are others, Mr. Audley and and I've not been treated well." He wiped away some genuine tears as he said this in a pitiful, crying voice. "Come, Georgey, it's time the brave little man was in bed. Come along with grandpa. Excuse me for a quarter of an hour, Mr. Audley." The boy went very willingly.
He always spoke of his son as "the little one;" always spoke of him mournfully rather than hopefully. He accounted for this by saying that he had a fancy that the child would never learn to love him; and worse even than this fancy, a dim presentiment that he would not live to see his little Georgey reach manhood.
Marchmont, the Southampton schoolmaster, informed Robert that little Georgey was going on very well, but that he was behindhand in his education, and had not yet passed the intellectual Rubicon of words of two syllables. Captain Maldon had called to see his grandson, but that privilege had been withheld from him, in accordance with Mr. Audley's instructions.
I hope I need not say that a decision in my favour will make me a happy man. I am, in the meantime, your affectionate friend, This very long letter puzzled Georgey a good deal, and left her, at the time of reading it, very much in doubt as to what she would do. She could understand that it was a plain-spoken and truth-telling letter.
"I'll tell you what I'll do with you, little Georgey," he exclaimed, after a pause "I'll give you a dinner!" The waiter nodded briskly. "Upon my word, sir," he said, approvingly, "I think the little gentleman will know how to eat it." "I'll give you a dinner, Georgey," repeated Robert "some stewed eels, a little Julienne, a dish of cutlets, a bird, and a pudding. What do you say to that, Georgey?"
But the daughter of a house is compelled to adhere to her father till she shall get a husband. The only way in which Georgey could 'have done' with them all at Caversham would be by trusting herself to Mr Brehgert, and at the present moment she did not know whether Mr Brehgert did or did not consider himself as engaged to her. That day also passed away with ineffable tedium.
She was always crying. I mean the pretty lady; the lady that was dressed so fine, and that gave me my gold watch." "He means the wife of my old captain an excellent creature, who took a great fancy to Georgey, and gave him some handsome presents." "Where's my gold watch? Let me show the gentleman my gold watch," cried Georgey. "It's gone to be cleaned, Georgey," answered his grandfather.
Another visitor comes to the cottage in this bright summer of 1861 a frank, generous hearted young man, who tosses the baby and plays with Georgey, and is especially great in the management of the boats, which are never idle when Sir Harry Towers is at Teddington.
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