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The niece opened the door for him, and he hastened to his master's room, where he was welcomed by Don Quixote. And soon they were in the midst of a conversation, which took place behind locked doors. As soon as the housekeeper heard Don Quixote turn the key in the door, she realized the urgency of the situation, put on her shawl, and ran to the house of the bachelor Samson Carrasco.
Now his nephew, Clyde, was going with Ellen's niece in a way that vividly mirrored the old time, and they had heard that the colonel, when he came for one of his brief visits in the summer, had somehow put a check to love's beginning. At least, Clyde had seen Nellie only once after his uncle went away, and had speedily closed the old house and followed him.
She had a niece staying with her, the fiancée of a Lieutenant in her husband's ship, a slim thing with blue eyes and a hint of the Overseas in the lazy, unstudied grace of her movements. She spoke sparingly, and listened to the conversation of the others with her eyes always on the distant grey shadow that was the sea. Thus the days passed.
It is good to be devout; but it is necessary to be polite, my niece." The girl rose to her feet and turned towards the newcomers. She moved all of a piece; and shame and exhaustion were expressed in every line of her fresh young body; and she held her head down and kept her eyes upon the pavement, as she came slowly forward.
"You don't think anything amiss of Susanna, Mr Maguire?" "Nothing, nothing; Heaven forbid, dear child! And I think so highly of you for your generosity in adopting her." "I could not do less than take one of them, Mr Maguire." "But I meant a different kind of love from that. Do you feel that your regard for your niece is sufficient to fill your heart?" "It makes me very comfortable." "Does it?
Miss Drewitt, gazing idly out of window, said that she had not noticed it. "Very clever at his business, I understand," said the captain. His niece said that he had always appeared to her when she had happened to give the matter a thought as a picture of indolence. "Ah! that's only his manner," replied the other, warmly. "He's a young man that's going to get on; he's going to make his mark.
Later, he seems to have undertaken to learn the trade of carpenter in the shop of Joseph Hanks in Elizabethtown. When Thomas Lincoln was about twenty-eight years old he married Nancy Hanks, a niece of his employer, near Beechland, in Washington County.
'The young one will have a human tongue, muttered the choleric Indian: 'I want a companion, not a parrot. The poor gentleman never imagined that there could be three parrots in one family; and he naturally concluded, that his choice had fallen on the right niece at last.
'Why do you bring this man here? 'He is a deeply-injured man, Miss Dartle, I replied. 'You may not know it. 'I know that James Steerforth, she said, with her hand on her bosom, as if to prevent the storm that was raging there, from being loud, 'has a false, corrupt heart, and is a traitor. But what need I know or care about this fellow, and his common niece?
I heard of Dalton Hall, and understood enough of Sir Lionel's affairs to know that you were his niece; and as there had been an old difficulty, I thought I couldn't do better than call and see what sort of a person you were, so as to judge whether a reconciliation might not be brought about. I came here three days ago, and that beggar of a porter wouldn't let me in.
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