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Updated: July 28, 2025
"Will you," said Lord Colambre, "give your grand-daughter leave to come up to town to you, sir! You would satisfy yourself, at least, as to what resemblance she may bear to her father: Miss Reynolds will come instantly, and she will nurse you." "No, no; I won't have her come. If she comes, I won't see her sha'n't begin by nursing me not selfish.
He was for some time billeted on the unhappy Suffolk, who received fourteen shillings and fourpence a day for his expenses; and from the fact that Suffolk afterwards visited Charles in France while he was negotiating the marriage of Henry VI., as well as the terms of that nobleman's impeachment, we may believe there was some not unkindly intercourse between the prisoner and his jailer: a fact of considerable interest when we remember that Suffolk's wife was the grand-daughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
And she was not a creature made for tragedy, but for laughter and love and 'man's delight. Yet, in the Hindu nature of things, this very matter of marriage was the crux of her troubles. To the Power behind the curtain it spelt disgrace, that the eldest grand-daughter at the ripe age of twenty-two should be neither wife nor mother.
For all these reasons; and because my dearest and beloved grand-daughter Clarissa hath been from her infancy a matchless young creature in her duty to me, and admired by all who knew her, as a very extraordinary child; I must therefore take the pleasure of considering her as my own peculiar child; and this without intending offence; and I hope it will not be taken as any, since my son James can bestow his favours accordingly, and in greater proportion, upon his son James, and upon his daughter Arabella.
"My grand-daughter will return the ring when it suits her convenience." Next day Angelica begged her father to take the ring back for her with a note of apology explaining that she had forgotten it, and expressing her regret. Part of the old gray palace at Morningquest had been a monastery.
She replied to each with courtesy and with dignity. The grandmother was proud of her grand-daughter, and the servants paid the young lady many compliments. The instinctive pride of Jane took instant alarm. She felt that servants had no right to presume to pay her compliments that they were thus assuming that she was upon their level. Alas! for poor human nature. All love to ascend.
"He'll soon be along," they remarked. "He must be awful lonesome." But the old gentleman kept them out of Hades for full five years. He lived alone with his grand-daughter and a stable helper in the tumble-down adobe just to the left of the San Lorenzo race track. The girl cooked, baked, and washed for him. Twice a week she peddled fruit and garden stuff in San Lorenzo.
Then he went on to express the pleasure it gave him to demonstrate before them a case which he declared was not at all uncommon, although hitherto unsuspected by medical men. Behind the chair of the new-comer stood the strange-looking old lady who answered for her grand-daughter, the latter being mute. Her case was one, Sir Bernard explained, of absence of will.
In our way home I made a merit with little Kate, not only by rescuing her hat from the hedge, but by making a little provision of wood under it, of larger sticks than she could gather, which she joyfully promised to assist the grand-daughter in carrying to the cottage.
Smith, "as I believe I should call her by rights, has lived in the forest there, where you found her, these many a year she earned her subsistence by tending bees and making rose-water she was a good soul, but very particular, especially about her grand-daughter, which, considering all things, one cannot blame her for.
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