As she leaned over her little balcony, watching an early bird get the worm, and wondering how she should like
Uncle Alec, she saw a man leap the garden wall and come whistling up the path.
The mother, the two daughters, and young Mr Nightingale, were now sat down to supper together, when the
uncle was, at his own desire, introduced without any ceremony into the company, to all of whom he was well known; for he had several times visited his nephew at that house.
You ought not to have spoken as you did to my
uncles and aunts; you should leave it to me to take care of my mother and you, and not put yourself forward.
you've thought better of it, have you?" said the guard, when he saw my
uncle standing on the ground.
By that time we had the fire lighted, and a bottle of wine uncorked; a good supper came out of the basket, to which Torrance and I and Alan set ourselves down; while the lawyer and my
uncle passed into the next chamber to consult.
When
Uncle Alec had gone I proposed a saunter to the farther end of the orchard, where I had left a book the preceding evening.
You will notice as suspicious, that no explanation is given of the manner in which the alleged discovery of one of my
uncle's secrets was made, by persons who are total strangers to him.
Uncle Henry grew poorer every year, and the crops raised on the farm only bought food for the family.
"Ask the porpoises if the boy's
uncle was drowned--they'll know."
I had lived long enough with my
uncle Starkweather to catch some of his enthusiasm for field sports, and to learn something, especially, of the angler's art.
Shall we both course it?" answered Nicholas, seeing in Erza and "
Uncle's" red Rugay two rivals he had never yet had a chance of pitting against his own borzois.
"
Uncle Silas, don't you say another word like that.
He bowed to his
uncle as to a stranger, but recognizing him, he blushed and turned hurriedly away from him, as though offended and irritated at something.
"
Uncle Henry says 'Eureka' means 'I have found it.'"
Now, among these passengers was a little Kansas girl named Dorothy Gale, who was going with her
Uncle Henry to Australia, to visit some relatives they had never before seen.
