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Updated: June 2, 2025
"I've got to fix up this damn mess with my grandfather," he said with uneasy conviction. A faint newborn respect was indicated by his use of "my grandfather" instead of "grampa." "You can't," she affirmed abruptly. "You can't ever. He'll never forgive you as long as he lives." "Perhaps not," agreed Anthony miserably.
All this while they were passing elegant shops, and Aunt Madge let the children pause as long as they liked before the windows, to admire the beautiful things. "Whose little grampa is that?" cried Fly, pointing to a Santa Claus standing on the pavement and holding out his hands with a very pleasant smile; "he's all covered with a snow-storm."
"Well, I haven't neglected him, grampa. He has neglected me. He has never been near since that first day, and you know I can't very well go round to Sidmouth, and say to him, 'Please come up to the Hall." "No, my dear, I know you can't, and he is behaving like a young fool." "Why is he?" Aggie asked, surprised. "If he likes sailing about better than coming up here, why shouldn't he?"
If you don't think it's me, grampa said I was to give you this, and then you would know;" and she held out a miniature, on ivory, of a boy some fourteen years old; and a watch and chain. "I do not need them," the squire said, in low tones. "I see it in your face. You are Herbert's child, whom I looked for so long.
"Are you really in earnest, grampa?" she asked, for she still retained the childish name for her grandfather so distinguishing him from the squire, whom she always called grandpapa. "No; I don't know that I am in earnest, Aggie," he said, trying to speak lightly; "and yet, perhaps, to some extent I am." "I am sure you are," the girl said. "Oh, grampa!
"Yes, Aggie, I don't see any harm in your going out with him. I am sure he will only take you when it is fine, and he will look after you well. You like him, don't you?" "Oh! I do, grampa; and you know, it was him who got me out of the water, else I should never have come out, and never have seen grampa again; and he has made me a boat. Oh! yes, I do like him!"
Still, you see, you can't always be going about the country with me." "But why not, grampa?" "Well, my dear, because great girls can't go about the country like men. It wouldn't be right and proper they should." "Why shouldn't it be, grampa?" the child persisted. "Well, Aggie, I can't exactly explain to you why, but so it is. Men and boys have to work.
"What's at thing for, mister?" "You goin a water Mrs Dinkman's frontyard, mister?" "Do your teeth awwis look so funny, mister? My grampa takes his teeth out at night and puts'm in a glass of water. Do you take out your teeth at night, mister?" "You goin a put that stuff on our garden too, mister?" "Hay, Shirley come on over and see the funnylooking man who's fixing up Dinkman's yard."
"I call him grampa, you know, because I did when I was little, and I have always kept to it; but I know, of course, it ought to be grandpapa. He brought me here, and John at least he called him John brought me in. And I have been living, for two years, with Mrs. Walsham down in the town, and I used to see you in church, but I did not know that you were my grandpapa."
Before the one empty cottage the sedan stopped. The Beechams and Miss Joyce went in. There was little furniture in the clean house, but Grandma, dropping down on a wooden chair, looked around her with bright eyes. "A sitting room!" she said. "A sitting room! Seems like we were real folks again, just for a little while. Grampa, you fetch in the clock and set it on that shelf, will you?"
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