"I have been detained by"--the
nephew stopped a moment in his answer--"various business."
I was told that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married, but that you, that Miss Elizabeth Bennet, would, in all likelihood, be soon afterwards united to my
nephew, my own
nephew, Mr.
The light hair and florid complexion, the bright blue eyes and hardy upright figure, familiar to her in the picture, were all recalled to her memory, as the
nephew followed the uncle across the room and took his place at table.
In the end, the good man was satisfied that his
nephew, far from having any objections to Sophia, had that esteem for her, which in sober and virtuous minds is the sure foundation of friendship and love.
Stranger still, Hippolyte and the "son of Pavlicheff" also seemed slightly surprised, and Lebedeff's
nephew was obviously far from pleased.
This is why - because in Corsica your dead will not leave you alone - Dominic's brother had to go into the MAQUIS, into the bush on the wild mountain-side, to dodge the gendarmes for the insignificant remainder of his life, and Dominic had charge of his
nephew with a mission to make a man of him.
Julian Gray was her only surviving
nephew, the son of a favorite sister whom she had lost.
Jasper's heart may not be too much set upon his
nephew. Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Fentolin remarked, indicating his
nephew. "Gerald, you will be pleased, I know, to meet Mr.
My
nephew, the captain, was a man of spirit, and of great presence of mind; and though he was surprised, yet he told them calmly that he would consider of the matter, but that he could do nothing in it till he had spoken to me about it.
"Money is a sore subject with me just now," she went on, with her eyes on her
nephew, watching the effect of what she said.
It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own
nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same
nephew with approving affability.