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The pretty cottage, and all for me; and what for him? tramp, tramp along the hot dusty roads. Do you see that he is lame? Oh, Sir, I know him; you don't. Selfish! he would have no merry ways that make you laugh without me; would you, Grandy dear? Go away, you are a naughty man, go, or I shall hate you as much as that dreadful Mr. Rugge."
"Grandy," she whispered once, "You stub-stub-stubborn man! Why don't you learn to pretend! Why don't you make believe they're all here?" she waved her hand toward the portraits around them! "I pretend they're proud, proud, proud I'm here! It must have been vairee stupid for them before I came!" The Major was not her only audience.
In a right line over the tops of the mountains, neither is more than twenty miles distant, and from the great height from which they are seen they appear to be almost at the traveller's feet. It is the only point in the world which commands a view of the two Oceans." GRANDY. "I remember a touching description of a funeral in San José, which will not be out of place here: "'While Mr.
When we knew you were coming, your father and I, we used to laugh because you see, I had so many names and a title too and I'd run away from everything just to be with Felix and I'd no way to get at what I owned without going back to Grandy. Besides it seemed to me that what I owned had made all of us unhappy.
GRANDY. "The Gulf of Suez was the scene of the most stupendous miracle recorded in Exodus the Passage of the Israelites, when God clave in sunder the waters of the sea, and caused them to rise perpendicularly, so as to form a wall unto the Israelites, on their right hand, and on their left.
"We will, Grandy dear," said Sophy, with decision; and a few minutes afterwards, "If I can become very, very clever, you will not pine so much after that gentleman, will you, Grandy?" Being a chapter that comes to an untimely end. Winter was far advanced when Montfort Court was again brightened by the presence of its lady. A polite letter from Mr.
She would kiss the top of his forehead audaciously and dance before him with a deep curtsy. "Let's pretend, Grandy! Let's pretend I'm not Felice! Let's pretend I'm a blanchisseuse that's a washerlady. This is a thing that Piqueur's mother learned in France when she was young whenever Margot and I spread our linen on the grass to bleach we whistle this "
They then go shopping, buying umbrellas, India-rubber galoshes, and all descriptions of wearing apparel, which they contrive to smuggle over, notwithstanding the vigilance of the custom-house officers at Reval." GRANDY. "I have read that the fishermen on the shores of the Baltic are remarkably superstitious, and careful not to desecrate any of their saints' days.
GRANDY. "There was at one period great hopes concerning Madagascar. Missionaries went out, and were cordially welcomed by the authorities, although the people, from ignorance, were hostile.
Just as she had seen her grandfather kiss it. "Let's pretend!" she whispered, "Let's pretend I didn't do it! Now let's pretend I'm Grandy!" Pretending she was her Grandfather Trenton was one of their most delicious games. She would tap on the door, delicately, and ask in mincing imitation of the French woman, "Madame, will you see ze Major?"
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