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Grizzel glanced up from her drawing to the still-life study before her. "He is more the shape of a water-melon," she remarked. Mollie laughed. "Be quiet, Grizzel," Prue said angrily. "How can you speak so disrespectfully of Papa? You should be ashamed of yourself." "I'm not disrespectful," Grizzel answered indignantly. "I think it is a beautiful shape." Mollie laughed again.
"It is worth while being thirsty," she said, as she watched the others revive under the same treatment. "I never knew before what a delicious thing water is. I'd like some more, please." "I wish we were all giraffes," Grizzel said, with a sigh. "I'd like to have a throat a yard long and just sit here for ever letting cold water bubble down its hotness."
Ah Kew let them in with a wise smile and several nods of his head, and soon both Dick and Grizzel were sleeping as soundly as the other four Time-travellers. "It is a green diamond," Mr. Fraser pronounced next morning, "but what its value is we cannot tell until it is cut and polished. Then it will belong to Grizzel, to have and to hold till death do them part.
"I'll put him back in the hollow trunk where Grizzel hid him," he decided, with a twinkle in his eyes. "It might be rather a lark " A sharp sprint brought him up with the other two boys, who were awaiting his arrival seated on the top of a slip-rail, Mollie having gone in search of Prudence and Grizzel. "What on earth have you been doing?" Hugh demanded. "Have you been swimming?"
"A cuckoo in a cage," repeated her elder aunt, Miss Grizzel; "what is the child talking about?" "In a cage!" echoed Miss Tabitha, "a cuckoo in a cage!" "There is a cuckoo somewhere in the house," said Griselda; "I heard it in the night. It couldn't have been out-of-doors, could it? It would be too cold." The aunts looked at each other with a little smile. "So like her grandmother," they whispered.
Grizzel joined the group and answered for herself: "Mollie said the poor flowers would be forgotten. I should hate to be forgotten, so I lifted them all up and buried them. I bought a yard of lovely yellow muslin when I was out yesterday and made a beautiful shroud. That cypress tree is rather big for such a little grave, but it's the littlest in the garden." No one smiled.
They wanted her to stay in bed, but to this Griselda so much objected that they did not insist upon it. "It would be so dull," she said piteously. "Please let me stay in the ante-room, for all my things are there; and, then, there's the cuckoo." Aunt Grizzel smiled at this, and Griselda got her way. But even in the ante-room it was rather dull.
'If you're going out to steal, I'll go with you and help, said Grizzel, 'for I know the whole country round. So, when the thieves heard that, they thought they had found a good mate, and were no longer afraid. Then they said they were off to steal a sheep, only they didn't know where to lay hold of one.
But, oh, Aunt Grizzel, how pretty she was when she was a young lady! That time that she danced with my grandfather in the great saloon. And how very nice you and Aunt Tabitha looked then, too." Miss Grizzel held her very breath in astonishment; and no doubt if Miss Tabitha had known she was doing so, she would have held hers too.
I present to you in due order, my most discreet sister Griselda, who disdains the simplicity, as well as patience annexed to the poor old name of Grizzel; and my most exquisite niece Maria, whose mother was called Mary, and sometimes Molly."
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