. My life here and there. I heard his gentle, cheerful voice address mygrandmother. Mrs. G., things have come to a pretty pass; even ourlittle granddaughter seems to have learned who really isthe boss, and she has just advised me quite seriously tocome and ask your permission to go for a walk. Andthey both laughed and said other things, farther awayfrom the door, so I could no longer hear. He came outsoon, and telling me grandmama allowed him to go, heinvited me to accompany him. After that I heard thestory of our conversation retailed all over the house,always with more gaiety than I could un
. My life here and there. I heard his gentle, cheerful voice address mygrandmother. Mrs. G., things have come to a pretty pass; even ourlittle granddaughter seems to have learned who really isthe boss, and she has just advised me quite seriously tocome and ask your permission to go for a walk. Andthey both laughed and said other things, farther awayfrom the door, so I could no longer hear. He came outsoon, and telling me grandmama allowed him to go, heinvited me to accompany him. After that I heard thestory of our conversation retailed all over the house,always with more gaiety than I could understand, as Ihad thought it quite a simple matter. Soon, for some reason, my father gave up going totown for his work, and he became a constant inmate ofmy grandfathers office. I did not entirely comprehendwhy this change occurred, but heard that with his hipinjured it was hard for the elderly author to move aboutafter documents, maps, and books, while dictating wasfatiguing his voice and throat. The latter, if anything,. GENERAL U. S. GRANT AND FAMILY AT ELBERON, N. Cantacuzene and Colonel U. S. Grant are the two children. CHILDHOOD IMPRESSIONS 37 pained him more than ever. Therefore, now, my father,who had lived through those war experiences with thegeneral, was going to take off the latters hands all thenecessary research work and give his entire time to thiscongenial task of helping the book forward, thus savinghis father fatigue and strain, whether in explaining whatthe latter wanted to a stranger, who knew nothing of thenecessary references, or in hunting up each date andmap himself. CHAPTER IIMY GRANDFATHERS ILLNESS AND DEATH EARLY that autumn we all moved up to my grand-parents New York house. My grandfather seemedto be feeling quite unwell. Either his hip or throator headaches were to blame; and because of this a newarrangement of the second-floor rooms occurred, and anoffice was installed up there on the lines of the one atElberon, except that a second big
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