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Levi did not seem to notice his scrutiny, leaning forward, now with his palms spread out to the grateful warmth, now rubbing them slowly together. But at last he suddenly whirled his chair around, rasping on the floor, and faced his stepbrother. He thrust his hand into his capacious coat pocket and brought out a pipe which he proceeded to fill from a skin of tobacco.
One was his stepbrother, the other was Sally Martin. Levi's arm was around her, he was whispering into her ear, and her head rested upon his shoulder. Hiram stood as still, as breathless, as cold as ice. They stopped upon the side of the road just beyond where he stood. Hiram's eyes never left them.
Palma always looked ill at ease when Olga and her stepbrother exchanged words, and Regina had long observed that the entrance of the latter was generally the signal of departure for the former. "I came in search of Regina, but chancing to hear the piano question discussed, permit me to say that I prefer to take the matter in my own hands.
He was clean in person and in dress, and diligent in his law practice, but he was not good at collecting what was coming to him; badly as he needed money in those days. He had finally paid off his debts, but the death of his father had left his devoted step-mother needing some help; and his shiftless stepbrother to be expostulated with in letters full of very kindly interest and wholesome advice.
I always liked you, and I think you deserve to be rich." "Thank you!" said Mark, much gratified, for he liked flattery. "I am sure I am very much obliged to you." "Oh, not at all! I only say what I think. Shall I tell you why I am particularly glad?" "Yes, if you like," returned Mark, in some curiosity. "Because I like you better than that young muff, your stepbrother.
One day when the boy was seven years old, the father was about to start for the castle of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, to see his son, a stepbrother of George, who was a valet de chambre to the Duke. Little George begged to go too, for he knew there was music to be heard at the castle. In spite of his father's refusal he made up his mind to go if he had to run every step of the way.
"Well, Mark," he said, "I suppose you'll give up playing billiards now." "Why should I?" "Because your stepbrother doesn't approve of it. You won't dare to go into the saloon after he has forbidden you," he continued, with a sneer. "What do you mean, James? Do you suppose I care that" snapping his fingers "for what Frank says, or even thinks, either?"
"I also licked the Pilgrim and hazed him away from camp and told him particular not to come back," he informed the other defiantly. He did not add, "What are you going to do about it?" but his tone carried unmistakably that sentiment. "And the Pilgrim happens to be a stepbrother uh the widow the Old Man is at present running after, and aiming to marry.
Doubtless we shall continue to live here, as I shall naturally be your brother's guardian." "Don't call him my brother," said Mark. "Why not? True, he is only your stepbrother; but you have lived under the same roof, and been to school together, and this ought to strengthen the tie between you." "I don't like Frank," said Mark. "He puts on altogether too many airs."
One was his stepbrother, the other was Sally Martin. Levi's arm was around her, he was whispering into her ear, and her head rested upon his shoulder. Hiram stood as still, as breathless, as cold as ice. They stopped upon the side of the road just beyond where he stood. Hiram's eyes never left them.
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