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She wore a rough-and-ready straw bonnet this fall; all the girls did. Margaret agitated the school question again. Hanny ought to be making some useful friends, and though the "First Avenue and First Street girls might be very nice " "Nonsense!" exclaimed Mrs. Underhill. "She's too little to be sent so far off. And I don't want any lovers put in her head this many a year."
Captain John Underhill was a brave though somewhat bumptious soldier, who had fought under the Prince of Orange in the War of the Netherlands, and had been employed as temporal drill-master in the church-militant in New England. He did good service for the colonists in the war with the Pequot Indians, and indeed wherever there was any fighting to be done.
Yet she was fresh and fair, and seemed to take life very comfortably. Then they were always having so much company at the Underhills. "Yes," said Mrs. Underhill, with a mellow sort of laugh that agreed capitally with her ample person, "yes, we have such a host of cousins, not all own ones, but second and third. And since my daughter was married, the house seems lonesome at times.
Smith Antonio, a Merchant, young and rich. Friend to Carlos, in love with Clara, but promis'd to Isabella, Mr. Wiltshire Francisco, old and rich, Husband to Julia, and Father to Isabella, Mr. Nokes. Baltazer, Father to Julia and Clara, Mr. Bright. Sebastian, Father to Antonio, Mr. Freeman. Guzman, Gentlemen to Carlos, Mr. Underhill. Guiliom, a Chimney-Sweeper; the False Count, Mr. Lee.
And one might go all over the world and miss one's best friends. Ah, Dr. Underhill!" A curious shock went over Dr. Underhill. He had to compel himself to take the outstretched hand. For what had this young man "crossed the seas?" He was not going to marry the cousin. "But when did you come?" inquired Daisy. It was odd, but he took the seat the other side of her, and Hanny was by Joe. Then Mr.
Other members of his family had also noted this quality in Lady Underhill, and had commented on it bitterly in the smoking-rooms of distant country-houses at the hour when men meet to drink the final whisky-and-soda and unburden their souls. Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons.
But nothing had happened, and Hanny was all right, and well, he would face the music whatever it was. If Dele could be trusted, why not he? There had been a good deal of anxiety. Mrs. Underhill had expected them home by six, but their father said: "Oh, give them a little grace." But when seven o'clock came she went down to Whitney's to inquire. The table was still standing. Mrs.
Indeed I rather gather that you are like one of your distinguished Admirals ready at all times for a fight or a frolic." Edestone smiled. "The facts are, Mr. Edestone, that you are in a pretty ticklish position, and had not Mr. Underhill notified Scotland Yard when he did, I do not know what might have happened.
My leg gave me all the pain I had any use for, and I drew my knife and got it in the place. “Now,” said I, “I’ve got you; and you’re gone up, and a good job too! Do you feel the point of that? That’s for Underhill! And there’s for Adams! And now here’s for Uma, and that’s going to knock your blooming soul right out of you!” With that I gave him the cold steel for all I was worth.
And Grandmother Underhill had sent the little girl her Irish chain bedquilt, finished and quilted. The Dean children came in during the afternoon to exchange notes and tell a grand secret. Their aunt and two cousins were coming from Baltimore. Bessy was quite a big girl, fourteen, and Ada was ten.
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