“Dear grandpa, don’t you know you sent him out to walk with Pina?”
“Oh! yes! so I did! That was to get rid of the girl while I talked with you,” said the General, in a low tone, then raising his voice, he called to Jacob, who stood waiting at some little distance, and said:
“Here, you, Jake! Go out upon the sidewalk, or around the square, and see if you can find Master Lenny and his nurse; and if you can, then tell Pina to bring him home immediately, I wish to see him before I leave.”
“Yes, sir, I’ll find them. I saw them on the corner watching of a Punch and Judy, not half an hour ago,” said the boy, bowing and leaving the room.
“I do want to see the little fellow, and kiss him good-by before we go,” said the General, apologetically, as he poured for himself a glass of sherry.
“La, grandpa, you talk as if you were going to the antipodes,” laughed Mrs. Hammond.
“I dare say I talk like an old fool, Anna, but I am very foolishly fond of that little fellow.”
“Oh, grandpa, I did not mean to say anything of the kind, and I beg your pardon.”
“Tut, tut, I knew you didn’t. Come, Dick, have you got through?”
“Very nearly. There is time enough, sir.”