Just then Jack, who had followed his aunt home, entered.

" She opened the letters and read "DEAR AUNT JUDY: "It's our hour for home letters.

By this I hope my aunt hath mov'd the king, And knows his mind, and makes return to me To end at once all this perplexity.

LOWE, VIOLA R. Louisa M. Alcott's Eight cousins; or, The aunt hill, retold by Viola R. Lowe.

When the cap'n comes back tell 'im that I'm taking Miss Butt to an aunt o' mine in the country.

There was no direct answer, but he could hear his aunt mutter between her teeth: "Drat that boy!"

I thought I should have died when I heard my aunt order Adamo to unloose those dreadful dogs.

She got it in Paris; but her aunt providentiallyno, unfortunatelydied; so she can't wear it, and wants to get rid of it.

Sometimes their disputes reach to such a pitch that a catastrophe seems imminent; then suddenly my aunt relaxes, falls to with an appetite and eats her dinner with a certain determination.

Her mother was always moved by her tears, and would not her aunt relent?

Riglett had an aunt resident about three miles from the school, whom he was accustomed to visit occasionally on Sunday afternoons during the term.

When I went in, I saw, at first, no one but my cousin, and she seemed so extraordinarily glad to see me that I thought something must be wrong, somewhere; and when my aunt returnedshe was not at home when I arrivedshe was thrown into such a state of mind on seeing me, that I didn't know whether she was going to order me out of the house or go herself.

Liza bent forwards and reddenedthen she began to cry; but she did not make her aunt rise, nor did she withdraw her hands from her.

"That egg, lady," he said, "is what us fanciers callexcuse me" (I saw my aunt shudder in anticipation)"a bloomer.

When he grows up and marries a lowborn girl,"a Minorcan"and fills the old home with rude children, who break the piano-wires, the old aunt slaves for them.

"Aunt, aunt dear," whispered Lambert, who had pushed his way forward, and now put his arm round the old woman, for she had begun to sway, "what is the matter, dear?"

Pot-luck, as it is called, in Scotlandwhen the man's wife is in the sulks, the wife's man proportionably savage, the children blear-eyed from the recent blubber in the nurserythe governess afraid to lift her eyes from her platethe aunt sourer than the vinegar cruetand wealas!

He never said anything while there, until he came to pay his board bill, when bidding my aunt farewell, he observed: "

the veteran asked of the younger pair, seeing the little aunt glance at them with a playful smile.

At its conclusion Andy saw his aunt hand Dewey a folded piece of paper.

I shall not change my mind twice, once having seen the great error of my early prelatical opinions,as your good aunt knoweth I have seen it.'