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This he did so cleverly that he soon became a leader among his youthful contemporaries; and withal he was apt at mimicry and impersonation, so that the other boys were accustomed to say of him, "He has his grandfather's wit and the wisdom of his grandmother!" Spotted Tail was an orphan, reared by his grandparents, and at an early age compelled to shift for himself.
Her first great grief had occurred when she was ten years old and Jule, her brown bear cub, named after the cook to whom he bore in the child's eyes a marked resemblance, a slight and necessary variation in the termination of the name taking care of the matter of a difference in sex, came to an untimely end through the instinctive and merciless conduct of Shep's grandparents.
One son, and the widow of his eldest. She went into a convent after her husband's death, but she left her child, her little Mary she must be ten years old now to live with her grandparents." "That is well," said the old man, "that will bring some sunshine into the house." "No doubt, Master. And just lately they have had some cause for rejoicing.
Barine merely sent a message to her relatives that, no matter what tales rumour might bring, she and her mother were unhurt. Dion had received a wound in the shoulder, but it was not serious. Her grandparents need have no anxiety; the attack had completely failed.
With these on their heads, they went, after examination, up the steps to a balustrade where a priest awaited, whispered a few affecting words in their ear about their parents or grandparents, and laid his hand in blessing upon the tall hat.
You meet with her sisters in physical beauty among the Americans of Pennsylvania, where, to a stock mainly Anglo-Saxon, is added a delicious strain of Gallic race; or you see her again among the Cape Dutch women who have had French Huguenot great grandparents.
At various periods in the world's history, men have been amused by strange and differing forms of drollery; what seemed excruciatingly funny to our grandparents does not strike us as being at all entertaining. Each generation has its own idea of humour, and its own fun-makers, varying as much as fashion in dress.
"It will not be for long," said the doctor: "his relations are respectable and well off. I will write to his grandparents, and in a few days I hope to relieve you of the charge. Of course, if you don't want him, I will repay what he costs meanwhile." Mr.
Mademoiselle de Rupt brought twenty thousand francs a year in the funds to add to the ten thousand francs a year in real estate of the Baron de Watteville. The marriage, arranged in 1802, was solemnized in 1815 after the second Restoration. Within three years of the birth of a daughter all Madame de Watteville's grandparents were dead, and their estates wound up.
He has given me the means of bread by work: that is all I have a right to ask from him, from any man, all I should accept." While thus soliloquizing, his eye fell on a letter lying open on the table. He started. He recognized the handwriting, the same as that of the letter which had inclosed. L50 to his mother, the letter of his grandparents.
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