Oldal 50 [50]
30 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.
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" So is a president!” put in Ceddie. "" The torch-light proces¬
sions are five miles long, and they shoot up rockets, and the band
plays! Mr. Hobbs
took me to see
them."
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on, feeling rather
uncertain of his
ground, ‘ is fre¬
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ancient lineage
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asked Ceddie.
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family —extreme¬
ly old.”
rans satd
Cedric, thrusting
his hands deeper
into his pockets.
‘“T suppose that
is the way with
the apple-woman near the park. I dare say she is of ancient lin¬
lenage. She is so old it would surprise you how she can stand up.
She ’s a hundred, I should think, and yet she is out there when it
rains, even. I’m sorry for her, and so are the other boys. Billy
Williams once had nearly a dollar, and I asked him to buy five cents’
worth of apples from. her every day until he had spent it all. That
“*I USED TO THINK I MIGHT PERHAPS BE A PRESIDENT, BUT I
NEVER THOUGHT OF BEING AN EARL,’ SAID CEDDIE.”’