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Updated: June 20, 2025
Both gentlemen half rose, the one making wry faces and rubbing his elbow, the other bowing and apologetic. "Pahdon me, Majah! My deah suh, pahdon me! But I was just tellin' this boy about the day in the Wilderness his grandfathah Hynds took a Yankee bullet out of my leg with a paih of silvah scissahs and bandaged it with the tail of his shirt.
When she had finished the song, she perched herself on the arm of his chair, and began ruffling up his white hair with the little hand which wore the diamond. "Well, has it been a happy day for grandpa's little Colonel?" he asked, fondly, passing his arm around her. "Oh, yes, grandfathah! Brim full and running ovah with all sawts of lovely surprises. I'm mighty glad I'm living.
The Little Colonel went dashing around the house, from one room to another, calling out the news in the greatest excitement. "Have you heard it? Papa Jack's comin'! Grandfathah is goin' to stay several weeks longah, but Papa Jack's comin' on the noon train to-day!" Some one else came on that noon train, some one whom Doctor Fuller met in his buggy and took immediately up to Locust.
It isn't a bit becoming," said Rob, with the frankness of old comradeship. "You look like a boy. Why, it is as short as mine." "I don't care," answered Lloyd, her eyes flashing dangerously. "It's comfortable this way, and grandfathah likes it. He says he's got his Little Colonel back again now, and he sent to town for this Napoleon hat like the ones I used to weah when I was a little thing."
She was dressed in white, and she wore a June rose in her hair and another at her throat. Betty walked over and looked up at the picture long and earnestly. "That's my grandmothah, Amanthis," said Lloyd, pausing in her song, "and that's the way she looked the first time grandfathah evah saw her.
"Yes, this is the same harp you see in the painting. Yes, I play a little. I learned to please grandfathah." Then, a moment later, Mary reached the crown of her evening's enjoyment, for Lloyd, in response to many voices, took her place beside the harp below the picture, and struck a few deep, rich chords.
Even so slight a thing as the tone of sympathy in her grandfather's "good morning" made the tears spring to her eyes, but she winked them back, and answered almost cheerfully his question as to how she felt. "Oh, just like the weathah, grandfathah. All gray and drippy; but I'll clean up aftah awhile."
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