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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Ask that of the plains of Brutium, of the ruins of Locri, of Metapontum, and of Heraclea! I have burnt all their trees, I have pillaged all their temples, and even to the death of their grandchildren's grandchildren " "Why, you disclaim like a rhetor!" said Kapouras, a very illustrious merchant. "What is it that you want?" "I say that we must be more ingenious or more terrible!
After the school bell rings the streets do get quiet but there is nothing depressing about that; for as you pass along you see at doors and windows the contented faces of busy women. Old Mrs. Walley sits at her up-stairs front window sewing carpet rags. Grandma Dudley at her sitting room window is darning her grandchildren's stockings and carefully watching the street.
Old people enjoined the young never to forget this day and this drink, and a grandmother sprinkled her grandchildren's brows at the edge of the spring with water to secure for them divine protection throughout their future lives.
Hear, hear! say I, but our grandchildren's grandchildren when grey old men will still be trying to settle the Irish question, which can never be settled until there arises a big man strong enough to force his will on the Empire and fortunate enough to be able to hand over the reins of political dictatorship to an equally enlightened and powerful successor.
He then cut off the children's tails, and waited to see whether the grandchildren would be born with at least rather short tails. They were not, as I could have told him beforehand. So with the patience and industry on which men of science pride themselves, he cut off the grandchildren's tails too, and waited, full of hope, for the birth of curtailed great-grandchildren.
I was ninety last birthday, and I forget sometimes my grandchildren's names, but I never forget what took place in that old house one night fifty years ago never, never." "I know, I know," hastily interposed his daughter, "you remember beautifully; but this gentleman wishes to eat his dinner now, and must not have his appetite interfered with.
Why shouldn't I vote as well as you? But the difference between me and the Fury is that she wants the vote this year this month this minute and I don't care whether it comes in my time or Nora's time or my grandchildren's time. I say we ought to have it that it is our right and you men are dolts not to give it us. But I sit and wait peaceably till you do till the apple is ripe and drops.
So, among the many explanations that were offered to the poor old gentleman and lady of their grandchildren's disappearance, though "stolen by gipsies" was suggested, it was not seriously taken up. "There have been no gipsies about here for months past," said Grandpapa.
"'All you would have to do, said Toby pleadingly, 'would be to stir the soup for my grandchildren's dinner, while I knit the stockings. "There came a sound like the smacking of lips out of the darkness within the house. 'Oh! you have grandchildren; I forgot, said the voice; 'how many? "'Six, replied Toby.
On this evening dowager lady Chia gave orders to have several banqueting tables laid in the main reception hall, to engage a company of young actors, to have every place illuminated with flowered lanterns of various colours, and to assemble at a family entertainment all the sons, nephews, nieces, grandchildren and grandchildren's wives and other members of the two mansions of Ning and Jung.
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