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I had been unfriendly to my uncle for years, an' I was seen goin' to his rooms an' leavin' them that evening. My own suspicion was directed to Hull, especially when he an' Mrs. Hull at the coroner's inquest changed the time so as to get me into my uncle's apartment half an hour earlier than I had been there. I'd caught them in a panic of terror when I knocked on their door.
She made her home at her uncle's, near Washington, though most of the time she was in Washington itself, with various cousins and friends; there were always people wanting Katie, especially that winter, when she had such unfailing zest for gayety. They wondered that she should not be more broken up at her brother's absurd move in quitting the army just at the time the army offered him so much.
I had never thought of such a thing," and he rose, with a heightened colour and an air of excited surprise, which left Dr. Owen no doubt as to the reality of his feelings. They were not, however, altogether real, for Will had latterly begun to suspect the true meaning of his uncle's kindness to him. "There is only one thing to be said, sir.
Had it been any one else she would have fought, but in her uncle's drawing gradually nearer and nearer to the centre of all their lives, coming as it seemed to her so silently and mysteriously, without obvious motive, and yet with so stealthy a plan, against this man she could do nothing....
"Yes, sir; I did," replied Rod, "and " He was about to add, "And he knows where I am"; but obeying a more generous impulse, he changed it to "and I have taken pains to avoid him." "I am sorry for that," said the President; "for if he had only met you and delivered your uncle's message you would have been reconciled to that most impetuous but most kindly-hearted of gentlemen long ago.
For, though she was not eighteen years old, the reputation of her beauty was already abroad; and as it was said that she was to inherit her uncle's vast wealth, there were at least three hundred young gentlemen of high degree who desired her now, since no one knew that the Senator had determined to marry her himself.
His uncle's eye travelled beyond him, humanely turning from the last despairing wriggles of his fish. "I don't want to tie her," said Shelton suddenly. The corners of Mr. Paramour's mouth flew up. "You want the forfeiture out?" he asked. The blood rushed into Shelton's face; he felt he had been detected in a piece of sentiment. "Ye-es," he stammered. "Sure?" "Quite!" The answer was a little sulky.
To find me so comfortable under the infliction perplexed and disconcerted him. "This will not make any coldness between us, I hope?" he said, at last. "We will be friends still, dear Juanita?" "Yes," I replied, "we will be friends, dear William. We are a great deal more in our true relations thus than as lovers." "And your uncle's family," he inquired, "shall we explain all to them?"
She sent Arthur's money to Laura: I don't know why this young lady took the opportunity of leaving home when Pen was coming thither, or whether he was the more piqued or relieved by her absence. He was by this time, by his own merits and his uncle's introductions, pretty well introduced into London, and known both in literary and polite circles.
And, in truth, my uncle's garden was perfection; the leaves, washed by the rain, were glistening in the fulness of their verdure, great drops were falling from the trees with a silvery tinkle, the petunias in the beds were opening all their petals and wrapping us in their scent; the birds, who had been mute while the shower lasted, were now fluttering, twittering, and singing beneath the branches.
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