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"For two years, You will have made a hundred thousand francs of your own to live happy on in the Vosges." "I will do as you wish; my honor is yours," said the little old man quietly. "That is the sort of man I like. However, you must not go till you have seen your grand-niece happily married. She is to be a Countess."
She made no reservations, save that she wished her house and personal property at Morningside to go to her grand-niece Olive, adding in the will the following sentence: "I leave her this and no more, that she may understand how deeply I reverenced her true woman's nature, and how dearly I loved herself."
Matters went a little smoother; but poor Mrs. Ludlow had to suffer. Lily spent a month at Saratoga with Mrs. Nicoll and the maid. The old lady was a good deal entertained by the airs and graces and bright ways of her grand-niece. Lily made several conquests; but the desirable offer of marriage was not forth-coming. Mrs.
Without it he had nothing but a fellowship, which matrimony would forfeit, and the scanty portion of a country squire's younger son. The young lady herself was dowerless, for Allsop's fortune was so settled that no share of it would come to his grand-niece, another reason for conscience to gulp down that unhappy impediment of speech.
Lady Tintern had not taken such a boy's attentions to her grand-niece seriously; but if Sarah were taking them seriously, she thought she had better inquire into the matter at once.
Billing, "a grand-niece that any man, living or dead, might be proud of " "Get out," said Mary Ellen softly. "For General John Regan," said Mr. Billing amidst tumultuous cheers, "and when I tell you that no such General ever existed in Bolivia or anywhere else, you'll be in a position to appreciate your doctor." Doyle dropped Gallagher's arm and rushed forward. The crowd, too, astonished by Mr.
At that time the old family Bible, a much dilapidated quarto with the title-page missing, and covered with the striped Virginia cloth so common in old days, was in the possession of George W. Bassett, Esq., of Farmington, Hanover county, who married a grand-niece of Washington.
Still, I will pretend that we are equals, you and I." He talked about his picture-books to a young woman on his right named Jennie, aged four, pale, pretty, the belle in fact, and Mr. Critchlow's grand-niece. The boy's attractiveness was indisputable; he could put on quite an aristocratic air.
Both were descended in direct line from the great Empress, Maria Theresa. Both had greatly loved the Queen Marie-Caroline, of whom one was the granddaughter, the other the daughter. Both professed great admiration for the Martyr-Queen, Marie Antoinette, of whom one was the grand-niece, the other the niece.
The colonel ordered his carriage, and, in company with Newton, drove to the hotel, made a sort of apology a wonderful effort on his part, and requested his grand-niece to accept of his hospitality. In a few minutes Isabel and the colonel were out of sight, and Newton was left to his own reflections.
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