Grandmammy had indeed gone, and was now far away, "clean" out of sight.

I need not tell all that happened now.

Almost heart-broken at the discovery, I fell upon the ground, and{38} wept a boy's bitter tears, refusing to be comforted.

My brother and sisters came around me, and said, "Don't cry," and gave me peaches and pears, but I flung them away, and refused all their kindly advances.

I had never been deceived before; and I felt not only grieved at parting--as I supposed forever--with my grandmother, but indignant that a trick had been played upon me in a matter so serious.
It was now late in the afternoon.