'My uncle's great journey was in the fall of the leaf, at which time he collected debts, and took orders, in the north; going from London to Edinburgh, from Edinburgh to Glasgow, from Glasgow back to Edinburgh, and thence to London by the smack.
'But bless your hearts and eyebrows, all this sort of thing was nothing to my uncle! He was so well seasoned, that it was mere child's play.
It is superintended by both the executors, and by my
uncle's lawyer, who is personally, as well as professionally, known to Mr.
As for
Uncle Henry, he thought his little niece merely a dreamer, as her dead mother had been, for he could not quite believe all the curious stories Dorothy told them of the Land of Oz, which she had several times visited.
Rose eagerly told all she knew, and
Uncle Alec listened, with an odd smile lurking about his mouth, though his eyes were quite sober as he watched the face before him.
Nightingale, who well knew his
uncle to be as headstrong as his father, submitted to attend him home, and then they both returned back into the room, where the old gentleman promised to carry himself with the same decorum which he had before maintained.
"Has your
uncle received any answer from Major Fitz-David?" he inquired.
"Much the same, thank you,
uncle," said Tom, feeling nervous.
The tranquil Ilagin, Nicholas, Natasha, and "
Uncle" flew, reckless of where and how they went, seeing only the borzois and the hare and fearing only to lose sight even for an instant of the chase.
Here is
Uncle Silas, all these years a preacher--at his own expense; all these years doing good with all his might and every way he can think of--at his own expense, all the time; always been loved by everybody, and respected; always been peaceable and minding his own business, the very last man in this whole deestrict to touch a person, and everybody knows it.
Uncle Bill Hugson married your
Uncle Henry's wife's sister; so we must be second cousins," said the boy, in an amused tone.
Dorothy had almost fallen asleep when she was aroused with a start to find that
Uncle Henry was missing.
The shell-fish call us `The Ocean Gossips.' No--tell the little boy we are sorry we do not know where his
uncle is; but we are quite certain he hasn't been drowned in the sea."
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.
Uncle Alec was going to Charlottetown that day, and I, awakened at daybreak by the sounds in the kitchen beneath us, remembered that I had forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted.
