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Updated: June 21, 2025
My grandad is an amiable man. He don't put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day, when anybody owes him any money." "It seems to me I would rather go to jail than owe him a dollar." "So would I; and I only wish my mother could pay off the mortgage!
And so it will be until this materialism of separation is repudiated: until we turn seriously to the belief that men are truly brothers, not one of whom can be long happy while any other suffers. Come, Grandad, let us give up this God of Moses.
"If you gaze at me so reproachfully, Irene, I shall kiss you now, this instant, under the eyes of every man, horse, and camel." "Well, then, what is the matter? I know something is worrying you. I can read your face like a book." "I distrust Alfieri, dearest, that is all." "But he simply dare not fight us. Grandad knows these Arabs for many years. He says that they depend wholly on a surprise.
"When is she coming, grandad?" Rod at last asked. "She doesn't say, so we may expect her at almost anytime." "I don't want to see her," the boy cried, while tears started in his eyes. "Don't want to see your mother, Rodney!" the clergyman exclaimed in surprise. "Yes, in a way I want to see her," was the faltering reply. "But if she wants to take me away, I don't want her to come.
"I can say no more, sir; I should not have said so much. Oh, Grandad, I wouldn't have hurt you for all the world, yet I had to let you know why I could not do what you had planned and I was fool enough to think I could justify myself to you!"
The lady all earthly blessings on her! does not stoop to Harry Richmond. I have the announcement in the newspapers. I maintain it the fruit of a life of long and earnest endeavour, legitimately won, by heaven it is! and with the constituted authorities of my native land against me. Your grandad proposes formally for the princess to-morrow morning. He maddened me.
What he will make of your grandad!... Why on earth he should have been sent to of all men in the world your grandad, Richie! I was invited to sympathetic smiles of shrewd amusement. He caught sight of friends, and threw up the window, saluting them. The squire returned with my aunt Dorothy and Janet to behold the detested man communicating with the outer world from his own rooms.
I know all about grandad and all the various and sundry uncles and forbears that earned us the name of being bad; it makes darn interesting stuff to tell now and then to some of the fellows who were raised in a prune orchard and will sit and listen with watering mouths and eyes goggling. I've been a hero, months on end, just for the things that my grandad did in the seventies.
I trust, therefore, that ye will never think that your grandad is singing his own praises, or setting himself up as better than his neighbours. I do but lay the facts, as far as I can recall them, before ye with all freedom and with all truth.
My belief is that Grandmother did not fully share her husband's faith in The Second Coming but upon her fell the larger share of the burden of entertainment when Grandad made "the travelling brother" welcome.
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