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"She's that sort so I've heard. What does her stepbrother say about it?" "Not much, now. At first he didn't think her guilty, but after he talked with me and the women folks, he changed his mind, I reckon. It's a blow to him, for he thought a good deal of the old lady." "Mr. Sudley!" came a call from the hallway. "Mr. Sudley, where are you?"

Hiram straightened himself and drew a deep breath, and the moon, shining full upon his face, snowed it twisted, convulsed, as it had been when he had fronted his stepbrother seven months before in the kitchen. Great beads of sweat stood on his brow and he wiped them away with his sleeve.

Trapes sighed and shook her head. "The sun sure rises and sets for her in that b'y an' him only her stepbrother at that!" "Her stepbrother?" "Yes!" nodded Mrs. Trapes emphatically. "Hermy's ma were a lady, same as Hermy is; so were her pa, I mean a gentleman, of course.

Money was of very different value in those days than it is now, and five hundred pounds was in its way a good round lump in Sussex County it was almost a fortune. It was a desperate struggle for Hiram to raise the amount of his father's bequest to his stepbrother.

She was hardly sorry, she was certainly not glad; she envied the spontaneous tears of her stepsisters, and she found the lugubriousness of the occasion much alleviated by the presence of her stepbrother Reginald. She had hardly seen him since her childhood. Sophia always spoke of him as she might have spoken of the dead.

Clothed in white, and holding some white roses in her hand, she had, reflected in that silvery-grey pool of glass, a vision-like appearance, as if a pretty ghost had come out of the green garden. "How do you do?" said June, turning round. "I'm a cousin of your father's." "Oh, yes; I saw you in that confectioner's." "With my young stepbrother. Is your father in?" "He will be directly.

She had taken them from place to place, sometimes stopping in small villages, sometimes in great cities, but never for more than a few weeks anywhere. Cousin Dink semed to be a relation of Chester Hunt, and Chester Hunt, as near as Josie could make out, was either a half-brother or stepbrother to Stephen Waller, the father of the children.

"You don't mention your stepbrother, Mark Manning." "For two reasons he doesn't care for my company, and of all the boys I dislike him the most." "I don't like him myself. But why do you dislike him so much?" "Because he is a sneak a crafty, deceitful fellow, always scheming for his own interest. He hates me, but he doesn't dare to show it.

But he could see his stepbrother point with his finger, now to the dead tree and now to the steep, white face of the opposite side of the bowl-like hollow. At last, having apparently rested themselves, the conference, if conference it was, came to an end, and Levi led the way, the other following, to the dead pine tree.

These never failed either the boy or his mother. As time passed it grew more and more clear that Peter was as strong as his poor stepbrother Ivan was weak, and in order to satisfy the people the younger boy was made joint-Czar with the elder. The real power in Russia then, however, was the Princess Sophia, Peter's half-sister, a bitter enemy of both the boy and his mother.