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Therefore he had striven to force on her his half-brother, who would certainly never unite any inheritance to hers; but he much preferred the purchase of her Hainault lands; and had no compunction in throwing over Boemond, except for a certain lurking desire that the lady's contumacy should be chastised by a lord who would beat her well into subjection.
It is the lady dancing with your half-brother." "Eh!" Hunston started a little after these words. They sounded very unpleasantly in his ear. He had evidently been associated with Mathias by the speaker. Now the latter was a strange-looking little being. A stunted man, with broad, square shoulders, and got up to represent the description which Victor Hugo has given us of his creation of Quasimodo.
Edward Walford was the only son of a half-brother of the late Captain Walford. He was an orphan, twenty-three years of age, and held a commission in his Majesty's foot, then quartered in Gosport. He was fairly well educated, tall, passably good-looking, of engaging manners, but those who knew him best said treacherous, unscrupulous, and a gamester.
It seemed that the Inca Huayna Capac, who conquered Quito, had left three sons Huascar the heir, the son of the Queen, Manco Capac his half-brother, and Atahuallpa, son of the Princess of Quito, who had been married to Huayna Capac after the conquest.
So I beseech you, Sir Launcelot, return again to England and sometime see my tomb and say a prayer or two for my soul. Alas, Sir Launcelot, I beseech you by all the love that ever was between us, lose no time but cross the sea in all haste that you may rescue the noble king that made you knight, for he is in peril from that false traitor, my half-brother, Sir Mordred.
He was also given a reversionary interest in Mount Vernon, bequeathed to his half-brother Lawrence. The total value of his inheritance was small, and, as Virginia landed fortunes went, he was left poorly provided for.
"'I will give you my sister gladly, says the king; 'but how is my bride to be made to think that it is I who come to her and win her, instead of you? "'That is easy, says the half-brother; 'with that helmet which he wears he can take any form he will, and he can make himself look exactly like you.
He was succeeded in the estates by his half-brother, Archibald Campbell Fraser, the only child whom Lord Lovat had by his second wife. This young man had mingled, when a boy, from childish curiosity among the Jacobite troops at the battle of Culloden, and had narrowly escaped from the dragoons.
He and I have had a good talk on the way down. We got along fust-rate; hey, commodore? The commodore's agreed to ship second-mate along with me next v'yage I make, if I ever make one." Thankful held her "relation" he was Emily's half-brother and her own favorite next to Emily herself in that family at arm's length. "You blessed little little mite!" she exclaimed.
The family, however, was represented by an heiress only in the reign of Henry II., whose second wife, a daughter of the Duke of Brabant, thought this heiress, with her wide possessions, a suitable match for her own young half-brother Joceline of Louvain.
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