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"I've got some new material, and am come home saying, 'What's in a name?" "Eh! Is it those very new Brownlows, that seemed yesterday to be the last straw on the camel's back?" "I wish you could have seen the whole scene, Mary. There were half- a-dozen new boys to be admitted, four Brownlows! Think of that!
Everything we could have wished! And so much attached! Speaks so nicely! You are sure there will be no trouble with his mother?" "I see no danger of it. I am sure she must love dear little Esther, and that she would like to see Cecil married." "Well, you know her! but you know she might look much higher for him, though the Brownlows are a good old family.
Wakefield was the less surprised at the sight of the young lady, having been somewhat prepared by her telegraphic inquiry about Allen, which he had not communicated to the Brownlows for fear of raising false expectations. There was a great consultation. Elvira was not in the least shy, and only wanted to be safely Mrs.
You may quite trust him. He lives down here at Stoneborough for his father's sake, or he would be quite at the head of his profession." "Superior to the two Doctors Brownlow?" "I should not say superior, but quite equal." "The Brownlows," said Clement, looking up from his paper, "helped me through an ordinary malarial fever.
Now, however, Cecil, with his heart full of the Brownlows, could not say more of them than Fordham was willing to hear; nay, he even found an amused listener to some of his good stories of courageous pranks. Fordham was not yet up the next morning when there was a knock at his door, and the doctor came in, answering his eager question with
"I am just twenty now; it is rather more than four years since we parted, without even saying goodbye." "Yes, indeed, Rupert. I tried to do you a good turn in the matter of the Brownlows. I hope it succeeded." "It did indeed," Rupert said. "We are indeed indebted to you for your intervention then.
"Well, you know this is the first time you have tried such an examination, and boys never do learn history." "Nor anything else in this happy town," was the answer, accompanied by a ruffling over of the papers. "For shame, David! The first day of the term!" "It is the dead weight of Brownlows, my dear. Only think! There's another lot coming! A set of duplicates.
They say at the hospital the poor people always are happy when they see one of the Mr. Brownlows coming, whether it be the big or the little one." "Not so very little, except by comparison; and I am glad Jock keeps his soldierly bearing." "He is a Volunteer, you know, and very valuable there." "But he has not an ounce of superfluous flesh.
'Then you think Sir Guy will come to the feast? 'I reckon on him to conceal all the deficiencies in the children's singing. 'He won't desert you, as he did Mrs. Brownlow? 'O papa! you surely did not think him to blame in that affair? 'Honestly, Mary, if I thought about the matter at all, I thought it a pity he should go so much to the Brownlows.
"Can't you give poor Jock a kinder greeting?" Whereupon the Elf put on a cunning look of innocence and said "I didn't know it was unkind to say he was like you, Janet." The Evelyn pair had gone- after this introduction of Jock and Sydney- to their own sitting-room, which opened out of that of the Brownlows, and the door was soon unclosed, for the two families meant to make up only one party.
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