Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were, what the father was like, and how long the mother had been dead.
Robert supposed he was not, as there were a good many New Orleans club men over at Klein's.
"I am entirely at your service," Lord Robert answered.
"Lord Robert," he said, "I have, I believe, the right of a personal appeal.
Listen to the tones of Uncle Robert's voice when he says, 'Well, Chris, my boy?' Watch Mrs.
Aunt Mildred greeted him with a glow of fondness and motherly kindness, while Uncle Robert genially and heartily demanded, "Well, Chris, my boy, and what of the riding?"
And in this poor cottage, in the wild January weather of 1759, wee Robert was born.
For some time William Burns went on working as a gardener, then when Robert was about seven he took a small farm called Mount Oliphant, and removed there with his wife and family.
MARCHMONT MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir
Robert Chiltern's Sister MRS.
Robert himself is certainly worth knowing--a really attractive union of manliness and saintliness, of shrewd sense and unworldly aims, and withal with that kindness and pity the absence of which so often abates the actual value of those other gifts.
"'Was he happy in his school life?' Robert asked gently.
The evidences are, in appearance, so overwhelming against Monsieur Robert Darzac that a detective so well informed, so intelligent, and generally so successful, as Monsieur Frederic Larsan, may be excused for having been misled by them.
We know now where it brought Monsieur Robert Darzac.
Elinor remembered what
Robert had told her in Harley Street, of his opinion of what his own mediation in his brother's affairs might have done, if applied to in time.
"Half the trouble is the stupidity of the whites," said
Roberts, pausing to take a swig from his glass and to curse the Samoan bar-boy in affectionate terms.
