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Great-grandfather Nehemiah Gardiners old glossywooden armchair with its red
cushions .
You could take a couple of months off any summer, nowthat Im old
enough to help Pat.
We must plan it all out some of these days.
But after that
happenedof course I had to drop him.
Was it Shanghai his last letter was
from?
It wasimpossible to think of him as a stranger or a change.
And down
beyond the low fields was the bluemist that was an August sea.
Im not knowing
why it niver turned serious. It was nice to go there with Sid but it was even
nicer to go alone.
Sure and it wudnt do if iverybody wanted to stay at home,
agreedJudy. Often mother brought her knitting and sewing.
Judy, did Uncle Tom
ever have any love affairswhen he was young?
Father told us you would be here
to-morrow. Oh, oh, whin I was thirteen I was be way av being nearly as wiseas
you are. I do be forgetting whathe was earl of but it was a rale aristocratic
name. Atleast put a few more sticks in the stove. The yells av him whin hes
carrying one upstairs! You and me aint goingto click, I told her. He died a
natural death but his ghost walked. He went into what seemed an internal
convulsion of silent chuckles.
Lady Gresham wasnt youngbut she made a good
market be waiting. Nowind ever blew there and rain and snow fell lightly. The
house belonged to themand to the garden and the green hill and the orchard and
they toit. Hismouth was nothing but a wide slit and his nose the merest
roundbutton of a nose.
Not if a Binnie do be telling it, said Judy
contemptuously.
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