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Evelyn, fearful that the traces of her tears were yet visible, drew back; and Aubrey, aware of what passed within her, said, "Shall I join your mother, and tell her of my approaching departure? And perhaps in the meanwhile you will call at our poor pensioner's in the village, Dame Newman is so anxious to see you; we will join you there soon."
Perhaps she sorrowed less deeply over the loss to her pensioner's immortal soul, thus taking holiday from spiritual discipline, than the serious problem involved in subtracting one from the congregation. Would a Sunday-school picnic constitute a bribe worth mentioning?
Bruno was always ready to give Muff battle whenever Paul tipped him the wink to pitch in. The Pensioner's stories were of his boyhood, how he joined the army, and fought the battles of the Revolution. Thus his story ran. "I was only a little bigger than you are, Paul," he said, "when the red-coats began the war at Lexington.
Paul was twelve years old, stout, hearty, and healthy, full of life, and brimming over with fun. Once he set the village in a roar. The people permitted their pigs to run at large. The great maple in front of the Pensioner's house was cool and shady, a delightful place for the pigs through the hot summer days. Mr. Chrome, the carriage-painter, lived across the road.
The next morning the good people of Fairview, ten miles from New Hope, laughed to see an old white horse, with a bundle of hay a few inches beyond his nose, passing through the place. Mr. Smith, after breakfast, started out to hunt up old Whitey. He often found him under the maple in front of the Pensioner's house. Paul was swinging on the gate. "Have you seen my horse?" Mr. Smith asked.
But shall we never, never see them again? Yes, when we have taken the same journey, when we have closed our eyes on earth and opened them in heaven. As the months rolled by, the Pensioner's eyes grew dim. He became weak and feeble. "The Pensioner won't stand it long," the people said. He did not rise one morning when breakfast was ready.
What his change of cheer might bode, he could not guess; but, at the pressure of the old pensioner's finger, the floor, or a segment of it, rose like the lid of a box, and discovered a small darksome pair of stairs, within which burned a lamp, lighting it downward, like the steps that descend into a sepulchre. "Follow," said he, to those who looked on, wondering. And he began to descend.
Evelyn, fearful that the traces of her tears were yet visible, drew back; and Aubrey, aware of what passed within her, said, "Shall I join your mother, and tell her of my approaching departure? And perhaps in the meanwhile you will call at our poor pensioner's in the village, Dame Newman is so anxious to see you; we will join you there soon."
My father and mother parted very good friends: the fact was that she was pleased with the arrangement, as she did not like my father wearing a pensioner's coat, and did not want his company at her own house. When he left the hospital, she insisted upon paying him his rent; and she did so very punctually until she gave up business.
The most striking of these was perhaps the relishing manner in which he remarked on the pensioner's infirmities and failings, as if he were a gracious Keeper making a running commentary on the decline of the harmless animal he exhibited. 'Not ready for more ham yet, Nandy? Why, how slow you are!
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