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Nothing rested her, as she expressed it, like a visit into the country. Nothing made the dreadful things she had often to encounter in town seem more endurable than the sweet-peas, the roses, the green trees, the green grass, the fragrance and perfume of the country; and when she saw her little niece for she was very fond of Lucy looking discontented and unhappy, Mrs.

I do not need anything more than the bare word of a Champneys that he'll be what a man should be. Milly's niece will be safe in your keeping. Well?" "Let me think a bit, Uncle." "Take until morning. In the meanwhile, please help me get my car under shelter, and show me where I turn in for the night."

Aunt Faith spoke a few words of objection, but the mute appeal of Sibyl's eyes silenced her; she said no more, but sitting down by her niece, took her cold hand and held it in both her own. She had felt sorrow herself, and she could feel for others; she knew that in Sibyl's heart the depths were broken up.

Even though Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, and niece to the Queen of Saxony, as her army were in want of horses, gave up all her own to carry the cannon. The Austrian cannon was of as little help to Saxony as the French troops. Starvation was a more powerful ally to Prussia than Austria, France, Russia, and Sweden were to Saxony, for in the Saxon camp also a cry of woe resounded.

And the result was that she and her niece, and a lot of poor whites, Irish and Scotch, that she had to pick up ''long the river, do all the work. And her niece Sally was mo' than half Union woman during the wah, and up to all No'th'n tricks and dodges, and swearin' by them; and yet, for all that the thing won't work." "But isn't that partly the reason?

A refusal would have delayed and annoyed him just then, in the flood-tide of his hope. "My Dear Mr. St. George," the note ran. "My niece is not at home, and I can not tell how your suggestion will be received by her, though it is most kind. I may, however, answer for myself that I shall be glad to see you at four o'clock this afternoon. "Very truly yours, "MEDORA HASTINGS."

This was the posture of affairs when another sudden alteration was made upon the young Caesar's coming to Rome. He was son to the niece of Caesar, who adopted him, and left him his heir by his will.

"Yes yes yes yes." Little Cherry Blossom was eagerly certain that that was the name. "Mercy on us! Florabel? You don't mean you've got a message from my niece Florabel Tidditt, do you?" "Yes yes yes oh, yes!" The control was just as certain that niece Florabel was on the wire. "I don't believe a word of it." This unusual manner of receiving a message shocked the devout. A murmur of protest arose.

Sutton's return with the physician, she perceived that her niece had not awaited her coming in sentimental idleness. A thick woollen coverlet was wrapped about the prostrate figure, and Mabel, upon her knees on the dusty hearth, was applying the candle to a heap of waste paper and bits of board she had ferreted out in closets and cuddy-holes.

Conroth was forced to put a cap upon her vexation, and bid her niece good-day as sweetly as though she had never dreamed of boxing her ears. Louise climbed the nearest stairs to the summit of the bluff. She felt she could not meet Lawford at this time, and he was between her and the moving picture actors.