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And, yes! he had actually got lace round the bottoms of his quaint baggy knickerbockers as well as lace cuffs! The boy could see it, where one of the great boots had sagged down below the knee. Extraordinary boots they were, too. Nothing like "Grumper's" riding-boots.
His wardrobe!!! And nothing else, but if the Haddock wears only Grumper's clothes, including his boots, shirts, ties, collars and everything else, for one full and complete year, and wears absolutely nothing else, he is to have five thousand pounds at the end of it and he is to begin on the day after the funeral!
Her happiness was more important than Grumper's pleasure. "Yes," acquiesced Lucille, "but tell him on Monday morning when you go. Let's have this all to ourselves, darling, just for a few hours. I believe he'll be jolly glad. Dear old bear, isn't he really." In the middle of the avenue Lucille stopped. "Dammy, my son," quoth she, "tell me the absolute, bare, bald truth.
Mere Public Schools boxing and fencing champion, and best man-at-arms at Sandhurst, with a score or so of pots for running, jumping, sculling, swimming, shooting, boxing, fencing, steeple-chasing and so forth. His total patrimony encashed would barely pay for his Army outfit. But for Grumper's kindness he couldn't go into the Army at all.
It appears that he systematically tried to poison Grumper's mind against you presumably with an eye on this same last Will and Testament. He hasn't been seen since the funeral. I wonder if he is going to try to win the money by remaining in bed for a year in Grumper's pyjamas!
Whoever heard of a grown-up wearing a sash? It was a great blue silk thing, wound round once or twice, and tied with a great bow, the ends of which hung down in front. Of all the Pip-squeaks! And yet the big man's face was not that of a Pip-squeak far from it. It was very like Grumper's in fact. The boy liked the face.
No, it wouldn't be the straight thing and decent at all, to propose to her now. How would Grumper view such a step? What had he to offer her? What was he? Just a penniless orphan. Apart from Grumper's generosity he owned a single five-pound note in money. Never won a scholarship or exam-prize in his life.
I could blow them through the key-hole when they are small too." "Thanks," acknowledged Dam gratefully, "and if you could tie some up and a sausage and a tart or two and some bread-and-jam and some chicken and cake and toffee and things in a handkerchief, and climb on to the porch with Grumper's longest fishing-rod, you might be able to relieve the besieged garrison a lot.
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