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Updated: June 14, 2025
It is a mighty great pity that anyone should have a grandfather who ended his days in such a sort as this, but it was no fault of Barnaby True's, nor could he have done anything to prevent it, seeing that he was not even born into the world at the time that his grandfather turned pirate, and was only one year old when he so met his tragical end.
She seemed to have thrown open, for an instant, a little window into a part of her nature he had never seen. "How good them apples smell!" said Josiah innocently. "Last time I had 'em was down to cousin Amasa True's, he that married his third wife, an' she run through all he had.
Please give me a chair, Gerty, nearer to Mr. Flint." She drew near, took True's hand, but looked inexpressibly shocked as she observed how tremulous it had become. "Ah, Miss Emily," said he, "I'm not the same man as when I saw you last; the Lord has given me a warning, and I shan't be here long." "I am so sorry I did not know of this!" said Emily.
After dinner the men sat in the sun and smoked, and Dickie occupied himself in teaching the spaniel and True that neither of them was a dog who deserved to be growled at. Dickie had just thrown back his head in a laugh at True's sulky face and stiffly planted paws, when he felt the old man's dry, wrinkled hand under his chin. "Let's 'ave a look at you," he said, and peered closely at the child.
But, Lord! what were suspicions or even certainty to what Barnaby True's two eyes beheld when that man lifted the lids of the two cases the locks thereof having already been forced and, flinging back first one lid and then the other, displayed to Barnaby's astonished sight a great treasure of gold and silver!
They were held together by a narrow strip of brown linen, and had once belonged to a pair of pantaloons. "I'm going to see if there isn't something inside," said Jennie. "Why, yes, here's a raisin, true's you live. And here, in the other one, O, Dotty!" But Dotty had run into the nursery to show Prudy a muslin cap. "A wad of " Jennie was determined to see what; so she unrolled it.
Did you ever hear tell of Capt. Jack Malyoe, Master Barnaby?" Now I do believe that Mr. Greenfield had no notion at all that old Captain Brand was Barnaby True's own grandfather and Capt.
"True's gospel!" answered Barron. "A skunk ain't got no smell unless he's a mind to." "Well," said she, "I guess it ain't no skunk, anyhow. I kind o' feel it in my bones 'tain't no skunk, smell or no smell." The woodsman looked puzzled. He had not imagined her capable of such unreasoning obstinacy. He began to wonder if he had overrated her intelligence. "Then I give it up, Mrs.
He stooped down, and, taking her hands from her face and holding them in his own, he fixed his eyes full upon her, and pleasantly said, "How are you, cousin Gerty how do you do?" "I an't your cousin!" said Gerty. "Yes, you are," said Willie; "Uncle True's your uncle, and mine too! so we're cousins don't you see? and I want to get acquainted."
During the stormy month of March Fanny spent almost every evening with Gertrude; and she, who at first felt that she was making a sacrifice of her comfort and ease by giving another constant access to her apartment, realised the force of Uncle True's prophecy, that, in her efforts for the happiness of others, she would at last find her own; for Fanny's lively and amusing conversation drew Gertrude from brooding over her sorrows.
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