Stranica 21 [21]
LITTLE -LORDFAUGUNTLEROY.
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been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had
been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so;
but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could
not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and
had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing
to be carried around the room on his shoulder. Since his papas
death, Cedric had found out that it was best not to talk to his
mamma about him. When his father was ill, Cedric had been sent
away, and when he had returned, everything was over; and his
mother, who had been very ill, too, was only just beginning to sit
in her chair by the window. She was pale and thin, and all the
dimples had gone from her pretty face, and her eyes looked large
and mournful, and she was dressed in black.
‘‘ Dearest,” said Cedric (his papa had called her that always, and
" so the little boy had learned to say it),—‘‘dearest, is my papa
better?”
("tee himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never