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I could have done the same, she bent over him with such homely sweetness. 'One comfort, you won't go to these gingerbread Balls, he said. 'I'm not invited, she moaned comically. 'No; nor shan't be, while I can keep you out of bad company. 'But, grandada, I do like dancing. 'Dance away, my dear; I've no objection. 'But where's the music? 'Oh, you can always have music.
As the observation was unnecessary, and was wantonly thrown in by him, she seized on it to escape from her compromising silence: 'I know nothing of Government or its ways. She murmured further, and looked at Janet, who came to her aid, saying: 'Grandada, we've had enough talk of money, money! All is done that you wanted done. Stocks, Shares, Banks we've gone through them all. Please, finish!
Get him to leave the island at once: he can return to-morrow. Grandada writes of wishing to see him. Get him away to-day. 'Is the prince going to stay here? I asked. 'No. I daresay I am only guessing; I hope so. He has threatened the prince. 'What with? 'Oh! Harry, can't you understand?
'So you tell me; like a stage lacquey! muttered the old man, with surprising art in caricaturing a weakness in my father's bearing, of which I was cruelly conscious, though his enunciation was flowing. He lost his naturalness through forcing for ease in the teeth of insult. 'Grandada, aunty and I will leave you, said Janet, waxing importunate.
She answered impatiently, 'Do get him away from the prince. And then: 'I ought to tell you the princess is well, and so on pardon me just now: Grandada is kept waiting, and I don't like it. Her actual dislike was to see Prince Ernest in dialogue with my father, it seemed to me; and the manner of both, which was, one would have said, intimate, anything but the manner of adversaries.
The truth was, that Janet had rigorously schooled him to bridle his temper, and he was no match for the voluble easy man without the freest play of his tongue. 'This prince! he kept ejaculating. 'Won't you understand, grandada, that you relieve him, and make things clear by going? Janet said.
'And, grandada, said she to the squire, who was muttering ominously with a grim under- jaw, 'His private chaplain! and for this once would not hear her, 'Grandada, I shall drive you over to see papa this afternoon. She talked as if nothing had gone wrong. Peterborough, criminal red, attacked a jam-pot for a diversion.
'So you tell me; like a stage lacquey! muttered the old man, with surprising art in caricaturing a weakness in my father's bearing, of which I was cruelly conscious, though his enunciation was flowing. He lost his naturalness through forcing for ease in the teeth of insult. 'Grandada, aunty and I will leave you, said Janet, waxing importunate.
'We saw him landing on the other side of the water, she replied; so spontaneously did the circumstance turn her thoughts on my father. 'Did you speak to him? 'No. 'You avoided him? 'Aunty and I thought it best. He landed . . . there was a crowd. Miss Goodwin interposed: 'You go to Harry's hotel? 'Grandada is coming down to-morrow or next day, Janet prompted my aunt Dorothy.
So do I. She could not even make the man perceive that he was acting to use her poor dear old-fashioned word reprehensibly in frightening the prince to further your interests. From what I gathered he went off in a song about them. She said he talked so well! And aunty Dorothy, too! I should nearly as soon have expected grandada to come in for his turn of the delusion. How I wish he was here!
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