He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. And I have made such arrangements that at my decease tardy justice will be done my injured nephew. ‘And you know, my dear, I do think you must make up your mind to beard this wretched grandfather of yours. ’ ‘Oh yes, yes. Then he stepped briskly to his feet and bent over the wounded man. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. " "Jack," replied Thames, greatly moved, "I wish I could devise any means of brightening your own dark prospects. Make no promises on a night where I have burdened you with such awful knowledge. "I expect a very extraordinary person to supper, Rachel," he remarked. But kill me rather than commit this outrage. it’s open. A row of magnificent, and even then venerable, elms threw their broad arms over this pleasant spot. "You read it, Ruth.
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