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Updated: June 9, 2025
Literary reminiscences do duty for genuine ideas and views, and the assumption of a moderate and grandfatherly tone take the place of wisdom and mature thought. How perfectly in keeping all this is with the fulsome spirit animating the holders of the highest places in German science in large cities!
It was one of those daylight, matter-of-fact kinds of talks, with no nonsense about them, in which things are called by their right names. He confessed his own sins, and took upon his own shoulders the blame that properly belonged there; and, having thus cleared his conscience, took occasion to give Lillie a deal of grandfatherly advice, of a very sedative tendency.
"Is that what would happen to Burke Lawson?" The girl nodded. Then the entrancing mischief returned to her eyes and she became a child once more a creature so infinitely young that Truedale seemed grandfatherly by comparison. "Can't you see how mighty funny it will be to lead them and let them follow on and then some day they'll plump right up on you and find out! Godda'mighty!"
I don't so very much mind growing old, if only it were not so... empty-handed." "But surely you have so much!" "Not very much that counts. Anyhow, I hope some day you will have a great deal more." "You are depressed. You must really get away somewhere at once." He was grandfatherly now, the mood she always loved and laughed at, and her pulses quickened to it.
"Is that the preliminary to asking a favour?" said Max. She broke into a light laugh. "No, I never ask favours. I always take what I want. It's much the quickest way." "Saves trouble, too," he suggested. "It does," she agreed. "I am sure you follow the same plan yourself." "Invariably," said Max. "It's a plan that doesn't always answer," observed Nick, in a grandfatherly tone.
Then there were little pigs and chickens, the various gardens that were all dear to her, where she patted and caressed the plants as if they had been alive. She took him to her own den, a little room where the grandfatherly sermons had once been written, and where hung a copy of that oil portrait which Thornton had seen in the Camberton Hall.
'I can conduct my son to happiness and greatness, my dear sir; but to some extent I require your grandfatherly assistance; and I urge you now to present your respects to the prince and princess, and judge yourself of his Highness's disposition for the match. I assure you in advance that he welcomes the proposal. 'I do not believe it, said Janet, rising.
He may seem a little more venerable than he is; perhaps there may be about him a grandfatherly air that his years do not warrant; he may exact a "Sir" from us that is not given to others of his worldly standing; but there is nevertheless that in his bright and kindly eye there is that in his side-long glance which by a charm of Nature transmutes homage into familiar friendship, and respect into affection.
Trees of beauty are trees of paradise, and therefore not subject to decay by their original nature, though they have lost that precious birthright by being transplanted to an earthly soil. There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush. The analogy holds good in human life.
It was an Algerian horseman, however, muffled up in his dingy white and looking rather chilly, who was riding past the window as I first looked out. We went to the Mairie not the grandfatherly old mayor this time, but a sharp-eyed special commissioner of police. "After all," said he, when we had put our case, "you want to get as near the front as possible." True, I answered, we did.
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