Re-Creations by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781607428268
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-02T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The morning had opened most favorably in the Copley home, with everybody in good spirits. At the breakfast table Cornelia had informed the male portion of the family quite casually that there was to be a birthday supper and they must all come promptly home and dress up for it, and Harry had given a grave wink at Louise that almost convulsed her.

Carey was in charming spirits. When he awoke, he had found two new shirts and two pairs of silk socks by his bedside “with love from Cornelia,” and a handkerchief and necktie apiece from each of the children; and he came down with uproarious thanks to greet them. Mr. Copley, thus reminded of the occasion, got up before he had finished his first cup of coffee and went into the living room to the desk. When he came back, he carried a check in his hand made out to Carey.

“There, Son, that’s from Mother and me for that new suit you need,” he said in a voice warm with feeling. “I meant get around to it last night, but somehow the date slipped me.”

And Carey, taken unawares, was almost embarrassed, rising with the check in his hand and his color coming and going like a girl.

“Why, Dad! Really, Dad! You ought not to do this now. I’m an old chump that I haven’t earned one long ago. Take it back, Dad. You’ll need it for Mother. I’ll take the thought just the same.”

“No, that’s all right, Son. You earn the next one,” said the father with a touch on his son’s arm almost like a caress.

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