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There, do smile a bit; that's my girl now," as a faint light stole into Phronsie's eyes. "I didn't mean you'd really blame me, only" "I couldn't," still said Phronsie, and it looked as if the shower were about to fall again. "I know, child; you think your old Grandpapa does just about right," said Mr. King soothingly, and highly gratified.
"Please let a little good advice satisfy you," Crozier remarked ruefully. "It will seem like old times," he added rather bitterly. "You are too young to have had 'old times," said Kitty with gentle scorn. "I'll like you better when you are older," she added. "Naughty jade," exclaimed the Young Doctor, "you ought to be more respectful to those older than yourself." "Oh, grandpapa!" she retorted.
She stood without flinching, and looked at him, till poor old Tozer let go his hold, and dropping into a chair, covered his face with his hands. She was too generous to take advantage of him, but went on quietly, as if nothing had occurred. "Grandpapa, as I tell you, I have found out something by chance that has to do with the thing that troubles you; but I don't know quite what it is.
Grandpapa and he didn't agree in a lot of things. Papa was a Liberal; and Grandpapa was an awfully hot Conservative. But Grandpapa didn't appoint a trustee, or tie up the estates or anything of that kind. It is simply and solely because I am a woman that these things are done! I am not to be allowed my opinions, in my life, though Papa was quite free to work for his in his life!
A very correct little couple presented themselves a few minutes later at the dining-room door, and after the salute and the curtsey, and wishing Grandpapa and Grandmamma "a very good morning," seated themselves one on each side of the old lady, while Grandpapa read from the prayer-book a few verses of the Bible, the Collect of last Sunday, and two or three prayers for the benefit of the whole family, including a row of neat, mostly elderly, servants near the door.
"Well," said Lord Thrapston, "it's just possible, Aggy, that he may have something to say to it, isn't it?" "I don't mind what he says," declared Agatha. "Eh? Why, I thought you were so fond of him." "So I am." "And as you're going to marry him "I never said I was going to marry him. I only said he might be engaged to me, if he liked." "Oho! So this young Merceron " "Not at all, grandpapa.
Polly gathered Phronsie's other hand in hers, while she clung closer than ever to Grandpapa. "Here's your pocket-book," said Tom, handing the article over; "he hasn't spent much." "Don't, Tom," said Jasper, "joke about it." "Can't help it," said Tom. "Well, now, shall we turn him over to the sergents de ville?" "Turn him over?" repeated Mr. King.
Brandon! it cannot be! it's quite impossible! Can you stand there and tell me that boy is legally married? I never will believe it! The law cannot be so shamefully bad as to permit a boy a mere child to do such absurd things. Grandpapa!" she beckoned to the old gentleman. "Grandpapa! pray do make Brandon speak. These lawyers never will. He might stop it, if he would.
I am going to lie down," said Phoebe. "If grandpapa has anything more to say against me, he can say it to Clarence. I leave myself in his hands." Saying this, she turned round majestically, but with an anxious heart, and walked away to her room, every nerve in her trembling. When she got there, Phoebe locked the door hastily, in genuine terror; and then she laughed, and then she cried a little.
"You don't seem to consider that I gave it up," she said. But he had turned his eyes away. He wasn't listening any more, as he used to listen. The train was passing the City of London Cemetery. She thought: "I must go and see Jenny's grave before I leave. I wish I hadn't teased her so to love me." She thought: "If I die I shall be put in the grass plot beside Grandpapa and Grandmamma Olivier.
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