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Nor can I wholly omit mention of poor Mrs. Primmins, who still calls me "Master Sisty," and is breaking her heart that I will not wear the new flannel waistcoats she had such pleasure in making, "Young gentlemen just growing up are so apt to go off in a galloping 'sumption!
I did not weep enough when my brother died. I know better what death is now! Poor papa! poor papa! Don't die, too, Sisty!" There was no running after butterflies that morning; and it was long before I could soothe Blanche. Indeed, she bore the traces of dejection in her soft looks for many, many days; and she often asked me, sighingly, "Don't you think it was very wrong in me to take you there?"
A full mind is the true Pantheism, plena Jovis. It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door, my son, be able to say, "No room for your ladyship; pass on." Your affectionate father, A. CAXTON. FROM Mrs. My Dearest Sisty, You are coming home!
For perhaps, Sisty, if he had married that great lady, he would have roused himself, been more ambitious, and I could only make him happy, I could not make him great!" "So he has listened to you at last?" "To me?" said my mother, shaking her head and smiling gently. "No, rather to your Uncle Jack, who, I am happy to say, has at length got a proper hold over him." "A proper hold, my dear mother!
"But gentlemen in your predicament must have recourse to artificial means. A certain great lord had a clod of fresh earth, laid in a napkin, put under his nose every morning after sleep. Light anointing of the head with oil, mixed with roses and salt, is not bade but, upon the whole, I prescribe the saffron bag at the " "Sisty, my dear, will you look for my scissors?" said my mother.
Now, with all we get for nothing for our housekeeping, as I said before, we can do very well with L500 a year, and indeed make a handsome figure. So, after allowing Sisty L150, we still have L100 to lay by for Blanche." "Stop, stop, stop!" cried the Captain in great agitation; "who told you that I had L330 a year?" "Why, Bolt, don't be angry with him." "Bolt is a blockhead.
"I believe that is, I I think that they were both attached to the same young lady." "How! you don't mean to say that my father was ever in love with any one but you?" "Yes, Sisty, yes, and deeply! And," added my mother, after a slight pause, and with a very low sigh, "he never was in love with me; and what is more, he had the frankness to tell me so!" "And yet you "
I did not weep enough when my brother died. I know better what death is now! Poor papa! poor papa! Don't die, too, Sisty!" There was no running after butterflies that morning; and it was long before I could soothe Blanche. Indeed, she bore the traces of dejection in her soft looks for many, many days; and she often asked me, sighingly, "Don't you think it was very wrong in me to take you there?"
"It will indeed be a great thing for Sisty," said she, timidly; and then, taking courage, she added "and that is just the sort of life he is formed for." "Hem!" said my uncle. My father rubbed his spectacles thoughtfully, and replied, after a long pause, "You may be right, Kitty: I don't think Pisistratus is meant for study; action will suit him better. But what does this office lead to?"
Go, and let Sisty have some supper; for Squills says that he has a fine development of the mathematical organs, and we want his help. We are hard at work on figures, Pisistratus." My mother looked broken-hearted, and, obeying submissively, stole to the door without a word. But as she reached the threshold she turned round and beckoned to me to follow her. I whispered my father and went out.
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