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Your chapter of family history is quite interesting, I knew part of it before, in a general way; but you haven't yet told me what brought on Mrs. Carteret's trouble." "I'm jes' comin' ter dat dis minute, suh, w'at I be'n tellin' you is all a part of it. Dis yer Janet, w'at's Mis' 'Livy's half-sister, is ez much like her ez ef dey wuz twins.
And no sooner had I spoken than I saw myself: Zoe was my half-sister and I was proposing marriage to a girl who had no feeling that did not bespeak to her the inferiority of the colored skin, no matter if it were lightened, no matter by whom.
King Giacomo died suddenly from a cold caught while hunting, so it was said; though some averred that he had been poisoned, either by his half-sister Carlotta, with whom he had contended for his throne, or by some mercenary of Venice, who desired his realm for that voracious Republic. But if this latter was the case, the voracious Republic of Venice was not to find an easy prey.
His father, Alexis, was an able man, and made war on the Turks. Peter was a child when his father died, and his half-brother Theodore became the Czar. But Theodore reigned only a short time, and Peter succeeded him at the age of ten , the government remaining in the hands of his half-sister, Sophia, a woman of great ability and intelligence, but intriguing and unscrupulous.
Of our poor hut, by the waterfall which my mother showed to travellers; of the cow-shed where I slept with the cow; of my idiot half-brother always sitting at the door, or limping down the Pass to beg; of my half-sister always spinning, and resting her enormous goitre on a great stone; of my being a famished naked little wretch of two or three years, when they were men and women with hard hands to beat me, I, the only child of my father's second marriage if it even was a marriage.
His family comprised himself, Mary, William their eldest son, and Claire Claremont, the daughter of Godwin's second wife, and therefore the half-sister of Mary Shelley, a girl of great ability, strong feelings, lively temper, and, though not regularly handsome, of brilliant appearance.
You forget; forget two great things. I know my mother's name was Loring, not Calvert. And my father's name was Garrison, not Dagget." "Um-m-m," mused Drake, knitting brows. "You don't say? But, see here, kid, didn't you say that this Dagget's mother was only Major Calvert's half-sister? How about that, eh? Then her name would be different from his. How about that?
I favored purely vegetable remedies, and had been very successful in administering them. So I began life anew, in Worthington, as a Doctor, and aided by my half-sister and her friends, I soon secured a remunerative practice. I was beginning to be truly happy.
He had appeared to Sanda years younger than the widowed Mabrouka; and though she was a dark, withered likeness of him, it was not surprising to learn that Lella Mabrouka was only a half-sister of the Agha, born of an Arab mother. "You know he has had but one wife, my own mother," Ourïeda said proudly.
Corinne observed with a sinking heart the delicate attention which Oswald paid to her half-sister. She saw him next at a review, where he appeared at the head of his regiment. After the march past, he escorted Lucy in a ride on horseback. Corinne noted his kind solicitude, his promptitude when Lucy was in danger, the tenderness with which he supported her.
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