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The Toy Shop - Margarita Spalding Gerry
Margarita Spalding Gerry
The Toy Shop
A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
Published by Good Press, 2021
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EAN 4064066099381
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THE Man was leaving his own front door. On the steps he paused and looked sombrely back. The white pillars of the facade rose before him in stately fashion. They reminded him of the care he was evading for the moment, and he sighed. Though he shut his eyes determinedly, he knew that another grim building just beyond, the usual end of his journeying, demanded him, and he sighed again. This time there was something more than weariness in the sound.
From around the corner of the house, which almost hid from view the white tents of the Home Guard, ran a child. He was bright-faced, and magnificent in a miniature officer's uniform.
Oh, papa-day!
he cried. Never mind the curtains for my stage. You are always too busy now to see my plays, anyway—!
He interrupted himself to fling this in petulantly: But get lots of soldiers—and one company of cavalry. I can't get him surrounded without two more companies—and six cannon!
The child lisped so in his eagerness that no one but his father could have understood him, and his father was so lost in his gloomy thought that he did not know the child had spoken. When the expected reply did not come, the boy looked his wonder.
Papa-day—papa-day!
he cried, giving the man a little push. I want some soldiers!
Startled out of his sadness, the father looked at the child.
Soldiers? All right, son; I'm off for a walk now. I saw a shop the other day.
He walked off. It was not a beautiful street down which he turned. Even the fine width of it suggested an inflated sense of its own importance. There were some good lines in the structure at the first corner, but the building was unfinished,