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Updated: October 29, 2025
L. Perhaps he thinks he has a right to be consulted. C. Then she might take those children away with her. L. Leaving grandpapa alone. C. The Curate might live in the house. L. Lively and satisfactory to mother. Come now, Cis, why are you so dead set against this plan? It is only because your august consent has not been asked?
I shall go out to the countries where the sand is and tame zebras; and I shall marry Mark and have thirteen children with blue eyes like Meta." Roddy was going to be the captain of a cruiser. Dan was going to Texas, or some place where Papa couldn't get at him, to farm. Mark was going to be a soldier like Marshal McMahon. It was Grandpapa and Grandmamma's fault that he was not a soldier now.
She had been wondering how her young grandpapa had got on with his sprained ankle, and longed to ask questions about him, but dared not venture even on the simplest. It was so easy to forget and ask too much. The day was rather hot, and the couch had been drawn into the shade of a great copper-beech. Mollie lay on her back, gazing up through the silky red foliage at the blue sky.
King, briskly, "and I shall want you to help me, Phronsie." "I'll help you, Grandpapa," promised Phronsie, well pleased, and gravely set herself to the task.
"On the other hand, if you did not induce me to give up my project, you would certainly take away all my courage; and I need it all, I tell you, grandpapa, for what I am going to risk."
"I must make a pavement here, a little higher than the path is at present!" "Come! cheer up! 'Where there's a will, says Grandpapa, 'with God's help there's a way. To work, to work! 'For he who does nothing makes little progress, says also, my dear Grandpapa."
The young barrister did not answer the child's question, but stopped him as he was dragging his grandfather toward the door. "Your grandpapa does not want the watch to-day, Georgey," he said, gravely.
It was saying a great deal on their part: for these English think themselves so much above all other people, that they imagine they are paying a high compliment when they tell any one he has got English manners. The reception he had given me, and this question, of which I heard, gave me such a chill, that I never had the courage to speak to him," was merely looked at with a candle by Grandpapa.
"Yes," said Phronsie. "I do, Polly, and it's to be a most beautiful French doll oh!" And sure enough, Mr. King, who knew exactly what kind of a doll he meant to purchase, and had kept his eyes open for it, stumbled upon it by a piece of rare good luck in a shop where he least expected to find it. "Oh, may I carry her home, Grandpapa?" begged Phronsie, hanging over the doll in a transport.
King, whom he met as he came downstairs with a very rueful countenance. "What's the matter, Percy?" asked the old gentleman, with a keen glance. "Nothing, Grandpapa," said Percy dismally. "Goodness me! Do you carry about such a face as that for nothing?" cried the old gentleman, with a laugh. "You look as if you'd something on your mind, my boy."
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