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Updated: July 11, 2025
How young the grandpapas have grown, That BUT FOR THIS our souls were free, And BUT FOR THAT our lives were blest; That in some season yet to be Our cares will leave us time to rest. Whene'er we groan with ache or pain, Some common ailment of the race, Though doctors think the matter plain, That ours is "a peculiar case."
How young the grandpapas have grown, That BUT FOR THIS our souls were free, And BUT FOR THAT our lives were blest; That in some season yet to be Our cares will leave us time to rest. Whene'er we groan with ache or pain, Some common ailment of the race, Though doctors think the matter plain, That ours is "a peculiar case."
My Lady Isabel made no response to this. She took a seat and watched William through her glasses. His breathing was more labored than usual. "That idiot, Sarah, says to me to-day, says she, 'Which of his two grandpapas will they bury him by, old Mr. Carlyle or Lord Mount Severn? 'Don't be a calf! I answered her.
Men and women know these things, because their grandpapas and grandmammas have told them so. Ants hatched from the egg artificially, or birds hatched in this manner, have all this knowledge by intuition, without the smallest communication with any of their relations.
For at that rate, he said, the Baltas would be quite right in thinking it a fine thing to eat their grandpapas, because they thought it an ugly thing to put them underground. The professor, indeed, went further, and held that no man was forced to believe anything to be true, but what he could see, hear, taste, or handle. He held very strange theories about a good many things.
O boys, that were, actual papas and possible grandpapas, some of you with crowns like billiard-balls, some in locks of sable silvered, and some of silver sabled, do you remember, as you doze over this, those after-dinners at the Trois Frères, when the Scotch-plaided snuff-box went round, and the dry Lundy-Foot tickled its way along into our happy sensoria?
"Why, grandpapa, what did you do?" "I climbed into a hollow tree." "Of course!" said both children. "Now I'm going to tell you a true wolf story, and that's what few grandpapas can do out of their own experience. "I was resting on the shore of a lake, with my snow-shoes off to ease my sore toes, when I saw a pack of wolves trotting lazily toward me on the snow that covered the ice.
"Long after they have no more nurses or fathers and mothers or grandpapas and grandmammas," with a little smile, which somehow made the corners of Duke's and Pamela's mouths go down. "The use of all those when we are young is only to teach us what obeying means to teach us to listen to the voice we should always obey " and Grandmamma stopped a minute and looked at "us."
I should like you to understand that it was not just an ordinary tea, but a special one; for it was grandpapa's birthday, and, as perhaps you know, grandpapas don't often have birthday parties, so it was a great occasion. It had taken a long time to choose his presents, but at last they were decided. Isabel had made him a blue silk shaving tidy, with "Shaving" worked in pink across it.
"'One rainy day I took my revolver " "Revolver! Grandpapa!" cried Jenny. "Yes, dear." "An American revolver, grandpapa?" "Certainly, dear." "And did he tell the story in English?" "Yes, pet." "But, grandpapa, darling, that grandpapa was seventy-three grandpapas back!" "About that, my dear." "I kept count, grandpapa." "And don't you like good old-fashioned stories, Jenny?"
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