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"Oh, nothin', nothin'. I joked with him a spell ago about a wealthy relation of the Moriarty tribe turnin' up. 'Twas only a joke, of course. And yet, Caroline, I I think I'd ought to say " He hesitated. What could he say? Even a hint might lead to embarrassing questions and he had promised Dunn. "What ought you to say?" asked his niece. "Why, nothin', I guess.
Her sister, Madame Auguie, had destroyed herself; M. Rousseau, her brother-in-law, had perished, a victim of the reign of terror. In 1813 a dreadful accident had deprived her of her niece, Madame de Broc, one of the most amiable and interesting beings that ever adorned the earth. Madame Campan seemed destined to behold those whom she loved go down to the grave before her.
Who would give employment to however able a man with such a career behind him? Jan's imagination refused to take such flights. Resolutely she put the subject from her and began to consider what her own best course would be with Fay, her nephew and niece, and, very shortly, a new baby on her hands. Jan was not a young woman to let things drift.
And then there was always present to him a recurrence of that early caution which had made him lay a parental embargo upon anything like love between his son and his wife's niece. Without much thinking about it, for he probably never thought very much about anything, he had deemed it prudent to separate two young people brought up together, when they began, as he fancied, to be foolish.
Baker, and the infant was received into this family, of which our friend Miss Baker was a child. Miss Baker was therefore a niece, by marriage, of Mr. Bertram. In this family, Caroline Bertram was educated, and she and Mary Baker were brought up together as sisters. During this time Mr.
Nay; but this question you must answer yourself." "Must I?" said she, plaintively. And then she sat for the next half hour with her head against his shoulder; but nothing more was said about it. They both acquiesced in the sentence that had been pronounced against them, and went on together more lovingly than before. The doctor was quite as weak as his niece; nay, weaker.
So there is nothing surprising in the fact that suddenly, in 1692, whole towns and villages of New England were thrown into a ferment of terror by stories of witchcraft. It came about quite simply. Two little girls of nine and eleven, the niece and daughter of a minister named Samuel Parris, who lived in Salem village, began suddenly to behave in a most curious manner.
Flora, she'd come, but she didn't get out to the funeral. This is my nephew, Francis Arms, my sister's son. I s'pose you remember him when he was a little boy." Mrs. Field bowed primly to the young man. The old lady was eying Lois. "I s'pose this is your niece, Esther? I heard she'd come," she said, with sharp graciousness.
"What a declaration to make to the mother of a young lady, and that young lady the niece of the Duke of Mayfair!" "It's not the first time such a thing has been done, Lady Augustus." "I know nothing about that, nothing. I don't know whom you may have lived with. It never was done to her before." "If I understand right she was engaged to marry Mr. Morton when she came to Rufford."
But we do not start," he exclaimed, excitedly; "we remain. Ach Gott, Selina, who does not arrive." Selina, it appeared, was a niece of Mrs. Sieppe's. They were on the point of starting without her, when she suddenly arrived, very much out of breath. She was a slender, unhealthy looking girl, who overworked herself giving lessons in hand-painting at twenty-five cents an hour.
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