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If he will not assist his godson you know he is Bory's godfather and allow him something for his maintenance, all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to equip him." The countess' eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence.
Fray Damaso silently looked him over from head to foot, took the letter offered and read it, but apparently without understanding, for he asked, "And who are you?" "Alfonso Linares, the godson of your brother-in-law," stammered the young man. Padre Damaso threw back his body and looked the youth over again carefully. Then his features lighted up and he arose.
One day a young lady, an intimate acquaintance of our family, and godmother to my brother, drove up to the house in which we dwelt; she stayed some time conversing with my mother, and on rising to depart, she put down on the table a small packet, exclaiming, ‘I have brought a little present for each of the boys: the one is a History of England, which I intend for my godson when he returns from school, the other is . . .’—and here she said something which escaped my ear, as I sat at some distance, moping in a corner,—‘I intend it for the youngster yonder,’ pointing to myself; she then departed, and, my mother going out shortly after, I was left alone.
Babette's love and his mother's tenderness had deeply touched his heart; and they, while they had him helpless in their hands, lectured him severely on religion. President de Thou paid his godson a visit during which he showed himself most fatherly.
He told me that the young man is my godson, and he asked me to protect him. I answered that as his godfather I owed him my protection, and I promised to do what I could.
Yakov Tarasovich looked at her, moved his lips, and suddenly striking Foma's knee with his hand, he said to him: "That's the way, my godson! Think." Foma responded with a smile and thought: "But he's clever cleverer than my father." But another voice within him immediately replied: "Cleverer, but worse."
His son Philip, Queen Philippa's godson, vainly endeavoured to succeed where his father had failed. After leading a revolt against the pro-French Count Louis de Mâle, he was defeated by the French in 1382 and died on the battlefield. All these struggles had weakened Flanders considerably.
Unsuspicious, with all his astuteness, of her sacrilegious doubts, Winston proceeded: "In the event of your marriage, you would desire, no doubt, that Mrs. Sutton should take up her abode with you? You would find her useful in many ways, and she would get on amicably with her husband's godson." "I do not think she expects to go with me," answered Mabel, staggered by his coolly confident air.
My godson, little Joey Gurney?" "He's big Joey Gurney now." "Yes, and a fine boy, Joe no thanks to you. His mother's influence was strong enough to counteract any impulses for crime he might have inherited from his father." Gurney smiled sadly at Cappy Ricks' badinage.
After having thanked his fellow citizens, Cornelius proceeded to his old paternal house, and gave directions for some repairs, which he wished to have executed before the arrival of his wife and children; and thence he wended his way to the house of his godson, who perhaps was the only person in Dort as yet unacquainted with the presence of Cornelius in the town.
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