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Updated: June 21, 2025
She says so few people can see the comic side of things and that it is a great gift and chases away foolish migraines. I think she has a grand scheme in her head for me, and that is what we are saving up every penny for. Grandpapa's people lived in the next county to this, in a place called Dane Mount.
"I said I'd do it, if you scrouged and pushed, and I must," he answered, with the air of a man performing his duty. "This is my Grandpapa's writing-room, and you mustn't come in, Frick Mason."
Ah! my dear Maria, you knew the avenue to grandpapa's affections, when you called your eldest son after him. Present him with the enclosed, in my name, and tell Mr. Temple that he shall have a communication from me in a few days it will be one of business; and I trust soon to have the pleasure of making his acquaintance. "I am, my dear Maria, your ever affectionate grandfather,
She answered a few remarks of grandpapa's with very tolerable cheerfulness, and even when the hall door opened and admitted Uncle and Aunt Roger, she did not run away, but stayed to receive their greetings before turning to ascend the stairs. "You are not going to shut yourself up in your own room again?" said grandpapa.
And then she shouted into the shaking old man's ears: "This is a friend of Simon's, grandpapa." The old gentleman tried to say "Good day" to me, and he muttered: "Oua, oua, oua," and waved his hand. I took a seat saying: "You are very kind, Monsieur." Simon had just come in, and he said with a laugh: "So! You have made grandpapa's acquaintance. He is priceless, is that old man.
So Joel, fortified with his pencil, marched back to sit on the floor in the alcove and take up his interrupted work, and Grandpapa's pen went scratching busily over the paper, and nothing else was heard except the buzzing of a big fly outside the window, venting his vexation at his inability to get in.
"Naughty Pansie, to pull up grandpapa's flower!" said he, as soon as he could speak. "Poison, Pansie, poison! Fling it away, child!" And dropping his spade, the old gentleman scrambled towards the little girl as quickly as his rusty joints would let him, while Pansie, as apprehensive and quick of motion as a fawn, started up with a shriek of mirth and fear to escape him.
After that, his own papa, if he had lived, would have been an earl, but, since they all had died and only Cedric was left, it appeared that HE was to be an earl after his grandpapa's death and for the present he was Lord Fauntleroy. He turned quite pale when he was first told of it. "Oh! Dearest!" he said, "I should rather not be an earl. None of the boys are earls. Can't I NOT be one?"
"Now, you are the very goodest child," exclaimed Polly, down on her knees by Grandpapa's side, cuddling Phronsie's toes, "the very most splendid one in all this world, Phronsie Pepper." "And you'll be all well, Grandpapa?" asked Phronsie, anxiously. "Yes, child," said old Mr. King, kissing her wet face; "just as well as I can be, since you are all right."
His mother said that Grandpapa's funeral was all over, and that the green creepiness came from the green creepers. But Michael knew it didn't. She only said things like that to make you feel nice and comfy when you were going to bed. Michael knew very well that they had put Grandpapa into the drawing-room and locked the door so that the funeral men shouldn't get at him and take him away too soon.
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