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Temple did not say your father was here, but grandada must have suspected it when he consented to our coming, and said he would follow us. So that looks well perhaps. He has been much quieter since your money was paid back to you. If they should meet... no, I hope they will not: grandada hates noise.
I don't think he's capable of it, and I'm sure he can't run and double. Grandada will have him fast before a minute is over. I told her to lose no time in going and extracting the squire's promise that Peterborough should have his living, so much it seemed possible to save. She flew back, and in Peterborough's momentary absence, did her work.
Late in the evening my father's yacht was sighted from the pier. Just as he reached his moorings, and his boat was hauled round, the last steamer came in. Sharp-eyed Janet saw the squire on board among a crowd, and Temple next to him, supporting his arm. 'Has grandada been ill? she exclaimed. My chief concern was to see my father's head rising in the midst of the crowd, uncovering repeatedly.
You must not delay to go. Yes, the Countess of Delzenburg shall have your excuses. And no, I promise you I will run nobody down. Besides, if I do, aunty will be at hand to plead for the defence, and she can! She has a way that binds one to accept everything she says, and Temple ought to study with her for a year or two before he wears his gown. Bring him back with you and grandada.
'You'll oblige me by not attending to any matter of business to-day. Give me that book of Harry's to keep for you. 'How d' ye mean, my dear? 'It 's bad work done on a Sunday, you know. 'So it is. I'll lock up the book. 'I have your word for that, grandada, said Janet. The ladies retired, taking Peterborough with them.
I proposed half-earnestly to foil his return by going to London at once. 'That's manly; that's nice of you, Janet said. This was on our walk from the house at night. My aunt Dorothy listened, pressing my arm. The next morning Janet urged me to go at once. 'Keep him away, bring down grandada, Harry. She cannot quit the island, because she has given Prince Ernest immediate rendezvous here.
Late in the evening my father's yacht was sighted from the pier. Just as he reached his moorings, and his boat was hauled round, the last steamer came in. Sharp-eyed Janet saw the squire on board among a crowd, and Temple next to him, supporting his arm. 'Has grandada been ill? she exclaimed. My chief concern was to see my father's head rising in the midst of the crowd, uncovering repeatedly.
'He killed Harry's friend Seneca in the eighty-somethingth year of his age; an old man, and hush, grandada! She could not check him. 'Hark you, Mr. Harry; dance your hardest up in town with your rips and reps, and the lot of ye; all very fine while the burning goes on: you won't see the fun of dancing on the ashes. A nice king of Rome Nero was next morning!
I can't think ill of my friends, said she. 'Dear girl, is it these two who make you unhappy? 'No; but dear old grandada! . . . The course of her mind was obvious. I would rather have had her less abrupt and more personal in revealing it. I stammered something. 'Heriot does not know you as I do, she said, strangling a whimper.
The drift of it was totally obscure. 'I'm off my head to-day, he said to Janet, with a sideshot of his eye at my father. 'You waste time and trouble, grandada, said she. He vowed that he was being bewildered, bothered by us all; and I thought I had never seen him so far below his level of energy; but I had not seen him condescend to put himself upon a moderately fair footing with my father.
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