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Why, I can just picture how they'll all mourn Uncle Hiram, Uncle Silas, Uncle Nicodemus, and all those other uncles and aunts, with old Granddaddy Grimes weeping harder than any of the rest over the bereavement; for Obed is no longer in the flesh!"
"Gad, what a juicy morsel for somebody!" "Well, she'll make him pay for all he gets, whoever he is!" retorted Betty, vindictively. "You don't like her?" inquired Montague; and Betty replied promptly, "I do not!" "Her daddy and Betty's granddaddy are always at swords' points," put in Major Venable. "I have nothing to do with my granddaddy's quarrels," said the young lady.
She made the picture, forced it upon him, hung it before him; remembering, happily, how he had gone so far, one day, supported by the Principino, as to propose the Zoo in Eaton Square, to carry with him there, on the spot, under this pleasant inspiration, both his elder and his younger companion, with the latter of whom he had taken the tone that they were introducing Granddaddy, Granddaddy nervous and rather funking it, to lions and tigers more or less at large.
I think that I have not felt so utterly lonesome since granddaddy died. And I could not get away to say good-by to him I could have cried, only I didn't have time even to do that.
I began to have an inkling of the man's meaning. I sprang from my seat, caught Mike by his collar, and shook him for a few seconds, until I thought that his senses were returned before I put a question. "Mike, you devil," I exclaimed, "you have found a nugget." "Whoop!" he yelled, springing up, and striking his feet together with excess of joy, "I found the granddaddy of lumps."
He's gone an' hunted up the relatives an' made 'em come across that's what he's done. The dirty, low, schemin' granddaddy of all the foxes in Christendom! Wasn't I the numbskull not to think of it myself?" "'Tain't too late to mend your ways, Gib. I don't see Scraggs nowhere," Mr. McGuffey suggested promptly.
They said that Granddaddy Thistletop and Rosine were so noisy all day that they couldn't sleep. "After the little owls hatched out it was worse than ever, for the old mother said that every time Rosine cooked the dinner it made the little owls sneeze, and so the fairies must go." "I wouldn't have gone," cried Teddy. "Oh, yes you would," said the beetle.
Better, eh? I am dying by inches,—fractions of inches, to be precise." He stopped short, out of breath after this long speech. Braden laid his hand upon the bony fore-arm. "How long have you known, granddaddy, that you had this—this—" "Cancer? Say it, my boy. I'm not afraid of the word. Most people are. It's a dreadful word. How can I answer your question? Years, no doubt.
Then she thought of what Mamsie had said, and slackened her speed. Tom cleared his throat, and tried to speak, but the words wouldn't come nicely, so he burst out, "I say, I wish you'd write to my granddaddy, both of you," and then he stood quite still, and very red in the face. Polly looked up quickly, her pen dropping from her fingers, and Jasper deserted his fourth letter and stared.
He had observed that his brother's week-end visits always happened at places where Betty was, and where Betty's granddaddy was not. So Montague's man packed his grips, and Alice's maid her trunks; and they rode with a private-car party to a remote Jersey suburb, and were whirled in an auto up a broad shell road to a palace upon the top of a mountain.
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