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But the actor who most affected the youth of Joseph Jefferson, whose influence sank deepest into his heart and has remained longest in his memory and upon his style, was his half-brother, Charles Burke: and certainly, as a serio-comic actor, it may be doubted whether Charles Burke ever was surpassed.
"Thank you, your your family " he hesitated. "There's only just Tom he's my half-brother. My mother was left a widow when I was a baby. Later, some years after, she married Tom's father." "Oh then he's not even your half-brother?" "He's no relation at all and much older. When Tom's father died my mother made Tom, manager, and still later he was appointed my guardian."
Malta and Crete remained as the only Christian outposts in the Mediterranean. In this extremity, a league was formed to save Italy. Its inspirer and preacher was Pope Pius V, but Genoa and Venice furnished the bulk of the fleet, while Philip II supplied the necessary additional ships and the commander-in-chief in the person of his half-brother, Don John of Austria.
Then I remember an expedition we made she, I, and her half-brother into those West Woods they two were supposed to be playing in the shrubbery and how we were Indians there, and made a wigwam out of a pile of beech logs, and how we stalked deer, crept near and watched rabbits feeding in a glade, and almost got a squirrel.
When the Emperor Go-Shujaku was mortally ill, he appointed his eldest son, Go-Reizei, to be his successor, and signified his desire that the latter's half-brother, Takahito, should be nominated Crown Prince. To him, also, the dying sovereign made known his wishes. Now Takahito had not been born of a Fujiwara mother.
The offer made to surrender the property was no evidence for a jury whatever it might be in the mind of the world at large. "And what am I to do?" asked Mason. "Take the goods the gods provide you," said the attorney. "Accept the offer which your half-brother has very generously made you." "Generously!" shouted Mason of Groby. "Well, on his part it is generous.
His father, Alexis, was an able man, and made war on the Turks. Peter was a child when his father died, and his half-brother Theodore became the Czar. But Theodore reigned only a short time, and Peter succeeded him at the age of ten , the government remaining in the hands of his half-sister, Sophia, a woman of great ability and intelligence, but intriguing and unscrupulous.
One, an artistic-looking man, bearded, and with long hair, was a noted pianiste, and also the first music- teacher in Villette; he attended twice a week at Madame Beck's pensionnat, to give lessons to the few pupils whose parents were rich enough to allow their daughters the privilege of his instructions; his name was M. Josef Emanuel, and he was half-brother to M. Paul: which potent personage was now visible in the person of the second gentleman.
For, despite the utmost secrecy among the conspirators, the half-breed knew that even at that moment, somewhere to the northward, Pierre Lapierre had learned of his plot. Eight days had elapsed since the mysterious disappearance of Chenoine and Chenoine, it was whispered, was half-brother to Pierre Lapierre.
I moved from Oxford Street to the new "Horseshoe" that year it had just been rebuilt and there I saw a good deal of them, for they came in to lunch there or supper pretty regular. Young "Kipper" or the "Captain" as everybody called him gave out that he was her half-brother. "I'ad to be some sort of a relation, you see," he explained to me.
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