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It was the familiar case of a stab at one who has annoyed us; but to point such stabs, the ear of a third person is necessary, and before she had quite realised what she was doing, Miss Ironsyde sharply blamed her nephew to his brother. "The most inconsiderate, selfish person on earth is Raymond," she said as a servant brought her two letters, neither from the sinner.
Beaufort with affectionate attentions, that the poor man began to recover his self-respect, began even to regard the nephew he had so long dreaded, as a son, to forgive him for not marrying Camilla.
Away! for this unhappy princess I will prepare a funeral so splendid that life shall lose its charms, and cold corruption glitter like a bride. Follow your duke! ANDREAS. Yonder they go, with shouts of exultation. LOMELLINO. They are intoxicated with success. The gates are deserted and all are hastening toward the senate-house. ANDREAS. It was my nephew only whom Genoa could not brook.
No one can live upon the great deeds of his ancestors; he must be self-sustaining, not seek for the laurels in the past, but upon the naked field of the future, which lies before him. Sow the seeds of future laurels; fame troubles me but little, and I advise you, my nephew, not to rely upon it. One must begin anew each day, and make fresh efforts for vigorous deeds."
On the Saturday before his death his brother and sister-in-law, a nephew and niece visited him for the last time. He spoke with some emotion of his approaching end. He said he should die about eight o'clock, and that at four o'clock an inquest would be held on his body; he would then be thrown into his grave without service or sermon of any kind.
Old Pendennis congratulated himself and his nephew heartily on the latter's prudence and progress, and was pleased at the position which Arthur was taking as a man of the world.
Alexander found it necessary to submit. In fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in 1664, Cardinal Chigi, the pope's nephew, came to Paris, to tender the pope's apology to Louis.
Tipping; and, as the door opened, the little maid-of-all-work was to be heard whispering her mistress that a young gentleman who said he was her nephew had come and was upstairs with "the master." "Well, I never!" exclaimed Mrs. Tipping, immediately starting upstairs towards the open door of the cobblery.
I was better received by Madam de Merveilleux, sister-in-law to the interpreter, and by his nephew, who was an officer in the guards. The mother and son not only received me kindly, but offered me the use of their table, which favor I frequently accepted during my stay at Paris.
Singing it made trouble, though: because Hart's nephew who knowed German and was a pill hadn't no more sense'n to tell old man Bouquet, coming back to town, what the words meant; and that started old man Bouquet off so the war not being long over, and his side downed that it took two of us, holding him by his arms and legs, to keep him from trying to fight both the Elbogens at once.
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