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"I'd adore to. I don't know a bit what it's like, except the hall and the library. It will come as a perfect surprise to me." "A very perfect surprise," said Mrs. Ludlow. Joan sprang to her feet. "Let's go now. No time like the present." "Well," said Mrs. Harley cautiously, though equally keen. "No, no, not to-night. Bear with your aged grandparents.
Their mother could hardly make them kiss their grandparents, and every day the girls would get a scolding. But then Mrs. Haydon was so very busy that she did not have time to really manage her stubborn daughters.
Who knows but people may yet drop cards in the names of the grandchildren whom they only wish for, or may reconcile hereditary feuds by interchanging pasteboard in behalf of two hostile grandparents who died half a century ago? And there is another social observance in which the introduction of the card system may yet be destined to save much labor, the attendance on fashionable churches.
We may abandon all the older customs; our regret for them, as we look back on the days of home cooking, cannot be any greater than the regrets of our parents or grandparents looking back on the spinning-wheel and the hand loom that cumbered the kitchen of their childhood.
So I bid him a affectionate farewell, and we see the woman a lookin' out of the tent and witnessin' on't. But I didn't care. If a pair of companions and a pair of grandparents can't act affectionate, who can? And the world and the Social Science meetin' might try in vain to bring up any reeson why they shouldn't. So I went in, with my mind all took up with the grandchildern.
Soon she learned much about Rod's daily work, what he was fond of most of all, and numerous other things concerning his life. "Have you lived long with your grandparents?" she asked. "Ever since I was a baby. I was left there one dark, wild night by my mother." "And so you have never seen her?" "No. But I have had letters from her, though. She's coming to see me sometime this summer."
This was Gertrude's case. Like Agatha, she had thrown away her matrimonial opportunities. Proud of her rank and exclusiveness, she had resolved to have as little as possible to do with persons who did not share both with her. She began by repulsing the proffered acquaintance of many families of great wealth and fashion, who either did not know their grandparents or were ashamed of them.
I used to retire to my room early on Saturday night, change my shirt and collar and put on my Sunday coat. I waited until all was quiet and the old people were asleep, then raised my window, climbed out, and went softly through the yard. The first time I deceived my grandparents I felt rather shabby, perhaps even the second time, but I soon ceased to think about it.
With a less heroic insistence on the historic method, I leave grandparents out of sight, and begin my gossip with the Queen's uncles. Of George IV. it is less necessary that I should speak, for has not his character been drawn by Thackeray in his Lectures on the Four Georges?
There was much to make Ottery homelike to Coley, for his grandparents lived at Heath's Court, close to the church, and in the manor-house near at hand their third son, Francis George Coleridge, a solicitor, whose three boys were near contemporaries of Coley, and two of them already in the school.
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