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`` Do you know , I really think that the real reason he was so cross and sharp with us that last week was because you were going away ; for now the wrench of parting is over , he is quite light-hearted again . You know how he always hates showing his feelings . `` He is so altered now , you ca n't think . He has actually only once been up to the city since you left , and then he came home at four o'clock , and he seems to quite like to have us all about him . Generally he stays at home all the morning and plays at soldiers with baby in the dining-room . You would laugh to see him loading the cannons with real powder and shot , and he did n't care a bit when some of it made holes in the sideboard and smashed the looking-glass . `` We had such fun the other afternoon ; we played at brigands -- papa and all of us .