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Dionysia remembered the clerk's kindly warnings; and, as soon as she became aware of it, she said to her grandfather, "Come, grandpapa. People are listening. I will tell you the rest as we are going home."
So long as I had not my curls burnt off, said Miss Helen, pulling one of the glossy chestnut rings into her sight, like a conscious beauty as she was. 'He asked Sarah all about it, said Johnnie; 'and he said we had a very good aunt; and, indeed, we have! climbing carelessly into her lap. 'Then he met grandpapa, and they are walking in the square together. So Mr.
Such was Francis, and this we shall soon see, from the following narrative: Francis, who was about eight years old, was spending the month of June with his Grandpapa in the country. His Grandpapa lived in a pretty house, roofed with slates, and surrounded with a verandah, in which were seats, and between each seat, some flower-pots.
"I just won't have Cathie Harrison tell him," said Alexia, trying to run up over the stairs. "Let me by, Polly, do," she begged. "No, indeed," cried Polly, spreading her arms. "It's bad enough to have one of you up there besieging Grandpapa." "Then I'll run up the back stairs," cried Alexia, turning in a flash. "Oh, yes, the back stairs!" exclaimed the other girls, following her. "Oh, do hurry!
Dear Mamsie! she's afraid of ingratitude if she doesn't try to like it. She shall have the little morning wedding with a few people around, and the gray silk gown instead of the lavender one Grandpapa wants her to wear, for Mamsie always knows just what is right." With that, Polly sprang out of bed, and rushed at her toilet, and after breakfast she quietly captured Mr.
"Oh, I could learn things in those days. Remembering it is the difficulty, dear see if it isn't. I'll give you a nice new ten-dollar bill if you tell me that name to-morrow." Jenny bent her brows and tried so hard to recall the syllables that she almost lost part of the story. Grandpapa went steadily on:
"What did you do in Brittany?" asked Rogron. "I played," she answered, naively. "Everybody played with me. Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories. Ah! they all loved me!" "Hey!" said Rogron; "didn't you take it easy!" Pierrette opened her eyes wide, not comprehending. "She is as stupid as an owl," said Sylvie to Mademoiselle Borain, the best seamstress in Provins.
In this matter she feared her father much more than her grandfather, and therefore she resolved to tell her grandfather first; or, rather, she determined that she would tell the Squire, and that in the mean time Kate should talk to her father. "Grandpapa," she said to him the morning after she had received her cousin's second letter.
May I, Grandpapa?" he cried eagerly. "Why, if your mother says so, I suppose " began Mr. King. "She says I may go, if you think best," cried Joel, hanging to the arms of the big chair and having hard work to curb his impatience. "Oh, Grandpapa, please hurry and say yes."
Lord Valleys, twirling his moustache, regarded the guinea-pig without favour; he had rather a dislike for all senseless kinds of beasts. Pressing the guinea-pig between her hands, as it might be a concertina, little Ann jigged it gently above the pointers, who, wrinkling horribly their long noses, gazed upwards, fascinated. "Poor darlings, they want it don't they? Grandpapa." "Yes."
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