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Here he began to throw off his former habit of looking at things from the art standpoint and to take pleasure in natural objects for their own sake. His mother had almost grownup to consciousness in her two oldest children, and his first disappointment in love turned his thought all the more affectionately toward her and his sister, a year younger.
He should have understood from this how much she cared for him. But he rubbed his cheek and declared ruefully: "I'll never speak to you again!" "You will, too!" she sobbed, passionately. "I will not!" He turned to leave her, but paused. His mother, his sister Margaret, and their grownup friends had finished their tea and were approaching from the house.
The palace was very sumptuous and beautiful, just what a palace ought to be; and we were met by a stately lady, rather more grownup than the Princess apparently her mother. My friend the Man was very kind, and introduced me as the Captain, saying I had just run down from Aldershot. I didn't know where Aldershot was, but had no manner of doubt that he was perfectly right.
Ronnie, we will have a Christmas-tree this Christmas. Well, I never!" said Ronnie. "That's not a very wild thing in the way of extravagance, is it? But it's a concession. I have wanted a Christmas-tree each Christmas. But Helen said you couldn't have a Christmas-tree in a home where there were no kids; it was absurd for two grownup people to give each other a Christmas-tree.
"Now the youngest ones all together now!" and Jehosophat, Marmaduke, Hepzebiah, and little Johnny Cricket sang, without the grownup people this time: "Alone in the manger, No crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus Lay down his soft head." And that song sounded even prettier and sweeter than the other, with those little voices singing it around the tree and all its candles.
"I'm glad of that," said Marjorie, "for no matter how hard I try I don't believe I could sit perfectly still in a boat, so I'll be glad to have some grownup go along." "That's my chance," exclaimed Uncle Steve, "I'll take you any time you want to go, Midget, and I'll guarantee to bring you back without a ducking." "Thank you, Uncle Steve," said Marjorie; "shall we go right after breakfast?"
She was roused by a formal visit from a vestryman one of the music committee. Mrs. Tretherick dried her long lashes, put on a new neck ribbon, and went down to the parlor. She staid there two hours a fact that might have occasioned some remark but that the vestryman was married, and had a family of grownup daughters. When Mrs.
"He's wiggling all of 'em!" accused the Kid sternly, and pointed to the Old Man drumming irritatedly upon his chair arms. "He don't want to help the boys, but I do. I'll help 'em get their cattle, Mr. Blake. I'm one of the bunch anyway. I'll lend 'em my string." "You've been told before not to butt in to grownup talk," his uncle reproved him irascibly. "Now you cut it out.
Now take a lay-off if you want to, an' get this nonsense out of your system, then come back here. You know 'at Barbie misses you every minute you're away." "All right," I sez, "I'll try it. I want to leave this place once, the same as if we was both grownup, not as if we had had a child's quarrel.
"Don't say how odd, William; that is not an expression to use when we talk of the wonderful provisions made by the Almighty hand, who neglects not the meanest of his creatures say rather, how wonderful!" "That's very true, sir," observed Ready; "but still you must not be too hard upon Master William, for I have heard many a grownup man make use of the same expression."
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