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As money was none too safe in Spain at that time, Don Fermin leaves his fortune in the Bank of England, and on one occasion, desiring to withdraw a large sum for the purchase of certain estates, he goes to England with a cousin's niece; the cousin was his only relation and was named Juan Antonio.
"The Baron's eyes got fierce and his face hardened, but he stooped and drew the ears of the hound through his hand softly. 'Marmette was my cousin's son, and had lived with me, he said. 'A brave lad, and he had a nice hatred of vileness else he had not died. A strange smile played on his lips for a moment, then he looked at Falise steadily. Who can tell what was working in his mind!
I can't have this Matthews going about the country telling everybody that I allowed him to pay my cousin's funeral expenses." "Then pay them. You have come to me for advice after making up your mind to follow your own course. That's just the way people do when they really want to be advised. I've done it myself, Wesley I've done it myself." The result was, I sent Mr.
Now we shall hear, I suppose, what you mean by your "local preacher"? Annabel brought a shawl and placed it carefully about the girl's shoulders. Then she said to her father: 'Let me sit next to Paula, please. The change of seats was effected. Annabel secretly took one of her cousin's hands and held it. Paula seemed to regard a distant object in the garden. There was silence for a few moments.
When he travelleth he will go ten miles out of the way to a cousin's house of his to save charges; he rewards the servant by taking him by the hand when he departs. Nothing under a subpoena can draw him to London; and when he is there he sticks fast upon every object, casts his eyes away upon gazing, and becomes the prey of every cutpurse.
Pshaw! that's a grand word indeed, I mean, that he might object very reasonably to his cousin's marriage with a foreigner, of whom he can know nothing, except that which in all countries is disreputable, and is said in this to be criminal, poverty." I will speak to him fearlessly " DR. RICCABOCCA. "And frankly.
"There she is!" Then his face became blank. After a hasty glance about the circle of astonished faces, he went on with his fish story. But he was not allowed to go far. It was Phil, taking a cousin's rights, who put the sharp question. "Is your mind wandering, or what? 'There she is! Who is she and where? We don't want to hear your old fish yarn anyway."
"From Rome," she informed me without hesitation, "to seek at my cousin's Court of Pesaro shelter from a persecution to which the Borgia family is submitting me." At her cousin's Court of Pesaro! An odd coincidence, this and while I was pondering it, it flashed into my mind that by helping her I might assist myself. Had aught been needed o strengthen my purpose to serve her, I had it now.
He went toward it. He picked up a roll of what seemed to be green paper. It had been in a crack of the wall that had been made wider by the falling tree. "Oh, look?" he cried. "What is this? Why, it's money!" "A roll of bills!" added Harry, looking over his cousin's shoulder. Slowly Bert unrolled them. There seemed to be considerable money there. One bill was for a hundred dollars.
In that event Parliament would not be so easily pacified as upon the occasion of the former hanging at Haddon; and I knew that if John should die by my cousin's hand, Sir George would pay for the act with his life and his estates. Fearing that Sir George might learn through Dawson of John's identity, I started out in search of Will to have a word with him before he could see his master.
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