Sprinx, and thank her for having done her best; and
to take Eddie such presents as my uncle only knew how to buy for children.
When he went to school, I know he sent him a gold watch. From that time
till now that she is my wife, Chrissy has had no more such adventures; and
if Uncle Peter did not die on Christmas-day, it did not matter much, for
Christmas-day makes all the days of the year as sacred as itself."
CHAPTER II.
THE GIANT'S HEART.
When Harry had finished reading, the colonel gallantly declared that the
story was the best they had had. Mrs. Armstrong received this as a joke,
and begged him not to be so unsparing.
"Ah! Mrs. Armstrong," returned he laughing, "you are not old enough yet,
to know the truth from a joke. Don't you agree with me about the story,
Mrs. Cathcart?"
"I think it is very pretty and romantic. Such men as Uncle Peter are not
very common in the world. The story is not too true to Nature."
This she said in a tone intended to indicate superior acquaintance with
the world and its nature.
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