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Updated: June 12, 2025
My dear Father, We were extremely gratified by receiving, a few days ago, a letter from you which, on the whole, gave a good account of your health and spirits. The day after tomorrow is the first anniversary of your little grand-daughter's birthday.
He went to Queen Anne's Court one evening soon after his return, and told Mr. Nowell all he had discovered at Wygrove. The old man showed himself keenly interested in his grand-daughter's fate. "I would give a great deal to see her before I die," he said. "Whatever I have to leave will be hers.
After I had done so, I began to think it better to return Mrs Oldcastle's visit, though I felt greatly disinclined to encounter that tight-skinned nose again, and that mouth whose smile had no light in it, except when it responded to some nonsense of her grand-daughter's. About noon, on a lovely autumn day, I set out for Oldcastle Hall.
But her grand-daughter's tiger-cat-play drove the old lady nearer to me. She rose and held out her hand, saying, with some kindness "Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage. Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch. And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it."
Unconsciously, the old folks grew brighter themselves, and Grandma Sherwood even went so far as to lay aside the cap she had worn so long that it seemed to belong to her head quite as much as the beautiful grey hair beneath it; and after putting it away reverently in the bottom drawer of the bureau, she took out instead her "best cap," and wore it daily, in anticipation of her grand-daughter's arrival.
Turn out this fellow! do you hear me?" and he broke away from me, and flung into his study in a rage. "He's an ojous horrid monsther of a man, that husband of yours!" said Lady Drum, seizing hold of her elder grand-daughter's arm, "and I hate him; and so come away, for the dinner'll be getting cold:" and she was for hurrying away Lady Jane without more ado.
Such were those of the younger Lepidus, of Varro Muraena, and Fannius Caepio; then that of Marcus Egnatius, afterwards that of Plautius Rufus, and of Lucius Paulus, his grand-daughter's husband; and besides these, another of Lucius Audasius, an old feeble man, who was under prosecution for forgery; as also of Asinius Epicadus, a Parthinian mongrel , and at last that of Telephus, a lady's prompter ; for he was in danger of his life from the plots and conspiracies of some of the lowest of the people against him.
If she missed coming, which happened twice, his eyes grew sad as an old dog's, and he failed to sleep. And so a month went by a month of summer in the fields, and in his heart, with summer's heat and the fatigue thereof. Who could have believed a few weeks back that he would have looked forward to his son's and his grand-daughter's return with something like dread!
If she missed coming, which happened twice, his eyes grew sad as an old dog's, and he failed to sleep. And so a month went by a month of summer in the fields, and in his heart, with summer's heat and the fatigue thereof. Who could have believed a few weeks back that he would have looked forward to his son's and his grand-daughter's return with something like dread!
Give my kind love to Violet, and tell her I am glad she is going on well, and that I am much pleased with my grand-daughter's intended name." There, Violet, what do you think of that? 'Pray make him understand that Arthur wanted a change very much, and will not be long gone. 'Arthur! You cannot feel for any one else!
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