When coffee had been served and they were alone together, the nephew, looking at the uncle and meeting the eyes of the face that was like a fine mask, opened a conversation.
"Indeed, sir," pursued the nephew, "for anything I know, you may have expressly worked to give a more suspicious appearance to the suspicious circumstances that surrounded me."
Has he, has my nephew, made you an offer of marriage?"
If there is no other objection to my marrying your nephew, I shall certainly not be kept from it by knowing that his mother and aunt wished him to marry Miss De Bourgh.
Left together over their wine, the uncle and
nephew drew their easy-chairs on either side of the fire; and, in Magdalen's absence, began the very conversation which it was Magdalen's interest to hear.
"I knew it had been written, but I would not have advised its publication," said Lebedeff's
nephew, "because it is premature."
At the sound of the heavy plop alongside horror held me rooted to the spot; but Dominic stepped quietly to the rail and leaned over, waiting for his
nephew's miserable head to bob up for the first time.
"Grace," she said, pausing and turning round, "I have a note to write to my
nephew. I shall be back directly."
Come, uncle; take your dutiful and sharp-set
nephew in to dinner.'
I want you, too, to make friends with my niece and
nephew. Mr.
I was very glad to see my
nephew, I must confess; for I was not without apprehensions that they would confine him by violence, set sail, and run away with the ship; and then I had been stripped naked in a remote country, having nothing to help myself; in short, I had been in a worse case than when I was alone in the island.
"Tommie?" suggested Lady Lydiard, still watching her
nephew as maliciously as ever.
If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's
nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too.
The first sight that attracted the eyes of Spada was that of his
nephew, in full costume, and Caesar Borgia paying him most marked attentions.
A large map of London would be needed to display the wild and zigzag course of one day's journey undertaken by an uncle and his
nephew; or, to speak more truly, of a
nephew and his uncle.
