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His half-uncle, Gineral Johnson, of Awkinso, was a torkey-killer of high celebrity. He was a Deshay on his Maw's side. I s'pose you haven't the torkey in the Dutch country, Mr. Reybold?" "Madame," said Reybold, in a quieter moment, "have you written to the Judge the fact of his son's death?" "Oh yes to Fawquear." "Mrs. Basil," continued the Congressman, "I want you to be explicit with me.
He showed papa the letter; said it was the greatest piece of insolence in the world; that Spindler was an ostentatious fool, who had made a little money and wanted to use him to get into society; and the fun of the whole thing was that this half-uncle and whole brute is himself a parvenu, a vulgar, ostentatious creature, who was only a" "Never mind what he was, Kate," interrupted Mrs.
There must have been on that occasion of the Sing-Sing day which it deeply interests me to piece together some state of connection for some of us with the hospitalities of Rhinebeck, the place of abode of the eldest of the Albany uncles that is of the three most in our view; for there were two others, the eldest of all a half-uncle only, who formed a class quite by himself, and the very youngest, who, with lively interests of his own, had still less attention for us than either of his three brothers.
His half-uncle, Gineral Johnson, of Awkinso, was a torkey-killer of high celebrity. He was a Deshay on his Maw's side. I s'pose you haven't the torkey in the Dutch country, Mr. Reybold?" "Madame," said Reybold, in a quieter moment, "have you written to the Judge the fact of his son's death?" "Oh, yes to Fawquear." "Mrs. Basil," continued the Congressman, "I want you to be explicit with me.
Ants are his favorite food, but Avrillia didn't put up any this summer, so I had to send Yassuh down to the colony to get one of my uncles for him. Poor Uncle," said Pirlaps, looking very sad for a moment, "I hated to do it; but he was only a half-uncle and quite old, and lately he had grown so thin that he was hardly more than a three-eighths one.
Cardinal Fesch, the half-uncle of Napoleon, the Archbishop of Lyons, who had fallen into disgrace with Napoleon for taking the side of the Pope and refusing to accept the see of Paris, to which he was nominated by Napoleon, had retired to Rome in 1814, where he remained till the return of Napoleon, when he went to Paris, and accepted a peerage.
"There are three cousins," said Spindler, checking them off on his fingers, "a half-uncle, a kind of brother-in-law, that is, the brother of my sister-in-law's second husband, and a niece. That's six." "But if you've not seen them, I suppose they've corresponded with you?" said Mrs. Price.
"No use to bother and worry you, Mattie," said he, "you couldn't call it in ten years. Well, I'm your half-uncle Fred's boy Bill and I hope you're a quarter as glad to see me as I am to see you." "What!" she cried. "Not little Willy who ran away!" "The same little Willy," he replied in a tone that made Miss Mattie laugh a little, nervously, "and what I want to know is, are you glad to see me?"
She asked me who he was, and I was rather short with her, poor creature!" and Morley sighed. "I wonder why the man went to church." "I can't say that; but I can guess that when he knew who Daisy was he wanted to speak to her." "What about?" asked Steel eagerly. "About me and the summons. You see, Steel, there is a half-uncle of Daisy Kent's who went to Australia.
Her mother happened to be born here on the Cape; she was a Card. This girl is just stopping over there with that old fellow who keeps the store her half-uncle for a lark. What do you know about that?" "My word!" murmured Marian. "And Ford " "He's mamma's precious white-haired boy this time," declared the slangy Cecile. "Do do you suppose he knew it all the time?" questioned Marian. "Never!
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