14.07.2013 Views

212520_The_Adve ... _Way_Through_The_World.pdf - OUDL Home

212520_The_Adve ... _Way_Through_The_World.pdf - OUDL Home

212520_The_Adve ... _Way_Through_The_World.pdf - OUDL Home

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

496 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP<br />

I need not tell you that he will expect respect from you. He is<br />

your kinsman ; the representative of your grandfather's gallant and<br />

noble race. He bears the name your mother bore. To her my<br />

Philip was always gentle, and for her sake you will comply with<br />

the wishes of your affectionate father, G. B. F.<br />

"I have not said a word of compliment to Mademoiselle. I<br />

wish her so well that I own I wish she were about to marry a<br />

richer suitor than my dear son. Will fortune ever permit me to<br />

embrace my daughter-in-law, and take your children on my knee ?<br />

You will speak kindly to them of their grandfather, will you not ?<br />

Poor General Baynes, I have heard, used violent and unseemly<br />

language regarding me, which I most heartily pardon. I am grateful<br />

when I think that I never did General B. an injury : grateful<br />

and proud to accept benefits from my own son. <strong>The</strong>se I treasure<br />

up in my heart ; and still hope I shall be able to repay with something<br />

more substantial than my fondest prayers. Give my best<br />

wishes, then, to Miss Charlotte, and try and teach her to think<br />

kindly of her Philip's father."<br />

Miss Charlotte Baynes, who kept the name of Miss Grigsby,<br />

the governess, amongst all the roguish children of a facetious father,<br />

was with us one month, and her mamma expressed great cheerfulness<br />

at her absence, and at the thought that she had found such<br />

good friends. After two months, her uncle, Major MacWhirter,<br />

returned from visiting his relations in the North, and offered to<br />

take his niece back to France again. He made this proposition<br />

with the jolliest air in the world, and as if his niece would jump for<br />

joy to go back to her mother. But to the Major's astonishment,<br />

Miss Baynes turned quite pale, ran to her hostess, flung herself into<br />

that lady's arms, and then there began an osculatory performance<br />

which perfectly astonished the good Major. Charlotte's friend,<br />

holding Miss Baynes tight in her embrace, looked fiercely at the<br />

Major over the girl's shoulder, and defied him to take her away<br />

from that sanctuary.<br />

" Oh, you dear good dear friend !" Charlotte gurgled out, and<br />

sobbed I know not what more expressions of fondness and gratitude.<br />

But the truth is, that two sisters, or mother and daughter, could<br />

not love each other more heartily than these two personages.<br />

Mother and daughter forsooth ! You should have seen Charlotte's<br />

piteous look when sometimes the conviction would come on her that<br />

she ought at length to go home to mamma ; such a look as I can<br />

fancy Iphigenia casting on Agamemnon, when, in obedience to a<br />

painful sense of duty, he was about to—to use the sacrificial knife.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!