[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 14 21/43
'We ought to help him to bear his cross.' 'But if we find her for him, and she's not his grandmother, he'll MARRY her,' Dicky said in tones of gloominess and despair. Oswald felt the same, but he said, 'Never mind.
We should all hate it, but perhaps Albert's uncle MIGHT like it.
You can never tell.
If you want to do a really unselfish action and no kid, now's your time, my late Wouldbegoods.' No one had the face to say right out that they didn't want to be unselfish. But it was with sad hearts that the unselfish seekers opened the long gate and went up the gravel drive between the rhododendrons and other shrubberies towards the house. I think I have explained to you before that the eldest son of anybody is called the representative of the family if his father isn't there.
This was why Oswald now took the lead.
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