Grandpa (1912)
Tony is a cross and exacting old man who works on the large dry docks of New York. His pretty daughter, Gertrude, is in love with Captain Jim, whose ship is anchored nearby. While on her way to the docks one day with her father's lunch, Gertrude meets him. They go off for a stroll on the docks and forget all about Tony, who every moment is growing more peevish over the non-appearance of his lunch. When the pair finally turn up, it is way past his lunch hour. This makes him more angry with Captain Jim, whom he always had a grudge in for. The old man forbids him ever to see his daughter again. Jim returns to his ship, but that night he sends a note to Gertrude proposing that they elope. The girl agrees. She and Jim are married and then they wire the old man, who refuses emphatically to forgive them. So they go off on Jim's ship. They return a year later. An old friend sees them and their baby. He rushes off to tell Tony, but Tony wants nothing to do even with the baby. A few more years elapse. Jim and his wife are going on a long cruise and decide to put the little girl, Rosanna, in a convent school. On this cruise the mother and father go down with the ship. The old man hears the news and for the first time he breaks down. Knowing where Rosanna is, he decides to get her and bring her home with him. He goes to the school, but the child takes an aversion to her grandfather. However, she is left in his charge, and in the days that follow the old man does all in his power to win the little one over to him. But he cannot awaken one spark of love in her heart. Breaking down under the weight of remorse, his sobbing attracts the child's attention, and for the first time, goes to him of her own free will and puts her arms about his neck. And the old man knows that he need be lonely no longer.
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