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"Certainly," he said: "I found him bullying you and gave him a good punishing for it." "Is that all you remember?" "Yes," he replied, honestly. "Wasn't that all?" "Quite!" she smiled, her eyes half closed. "Except that I went home immediately afterward." "Naturally," said Eugene. "My step-brother wasn't very much chevalier sans peur et sans reproche!
Joshua Wream, his step-brother, many years his senior, professor of all the dead languages ever left unburied, had put a considerable fortune into his hands, and into his brain the dream of a life-work even the building of a great university in the West.
Blest with the healthiest of lungs, my new step-brother had no scruples about asserting himself loudly and peevishly at all hours of the day and night; rending the air with prolonged and impatient screams that wounded the sensitive mother's heart deeply, and irritated the rest of the household beyond endurance.
The General, having passed most of his life in India, where men work or else go home, did not take in the full meaning of this; but he was keen as a ferret, and he saw easily that Jem Agar despised his step-brother with that cruel contempt which strong men feel for weak. "Mother's darling?" he suggested. "Yes, that is about it," replied Agar.
"Pick up that banjo-case again and come on," commanded Mr. Bantry, tartly. "Where's the mater?" Joe stared at him. "Where's what?" "The mater!" was the frowning reply. "Oh yes, I know!" said Joe, looking at his step-brother curiously. "I've seen it in stories. She's up-stairs. You'll be a surprise. You're wearing lots of clothes, 'Gene."
General Michael was watching the undergraduate with the same critical attention which he had brought to bear on the writer of the diary not two months before. "Did you see much of your step-brother?" he asked abruptly, feeling his way towards his purpose. Arthur looked up.
When they had laughingly introduced themselves to each other Maurice Guest's companion talked about herself, with a frankness that left nothing to be desired, and impressed the young man at her side very agreeably. Before they had gone far, he knew all about her. Her name was Madeleine Wade; she came from a small town in Leicestershire, and, except for a step-brother, stood alone in the world.
"She has a fortune of over three hundred thousand guldens, and considerable land." "Has she any relatives?" "No," replied Fellner harshly. But a thought must have flashed through his brain for he started suddenly and murmured, "Yes, she has one relative, a step-brother." The detective gave an exclamation of surprise. "Why are you astonished at this?" asked Fellner.
The Edict of Fontainebleau served as a weapon to my enemies, and it was put in force with the utmost rigour against me. My principal accuser was my unnatural step-brother the Vidame d'Orrain. He went so far as to charge me with aiding and harbouring the members of the New Heresy, and the discovery of a small leaflet printed at Geneva amongst my books was held to be sufficient proof against me.
Walker the man who had made the money for Breslaw and his step-brother had been a grand level-headed old labourer, and though his sons had been educated in the great English schools, they were not far removed from honest utilitarian folk, and owing to this, and in conjunction with Dawn, when her real name was divulged, being a daughter of one of the "old families," to wit, the Mudeheepes of Menangle, the old dame consented to be reconciled.
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