Naturally, Roland was proud to tell his aunt that while he appreciated her fresh interest in his career, and would be only too glad to respond to her affection, at the same time she must know he had not made a failure, and that even now he was about to call upon the trustees of the will, to show them he had faithfully carried out all the provisions upon the fulfillment of which his legacy depended.

They were lean calves, and Miss Laura asked her aunt why all the nice milk they had taken had not made them fat.

She had broken the journey to visit a maternal grand-aunt and some Virginia cousins, in Richmond, Charteris explained, and was to come thence to Matocton.

Have you seen your aunt?

And, unless you knew my aunt very well, you could not conceive how unscrupulously straightforward she is in carrying out her plans.

I was meeting my aunt and cousins almost for the first time.

His case is an extraordinary exception to a very sacred rule'that the tree is known by its fruits,'" replied her aunt.

You know Preshe married Lura Dawson's aunt.

There was grief, true and deep, at leaving the dear old aunt, who had been so good to her and to her child.

"See you aught, Sister Annie?" called my aunt from below.

Then she joined her aunt and the boarders, of whom there were nine, on the veranda.

Would you not prefer to go of your own volition than to have me inform my aunt who you arewhat you are?" He shook his head.

Miss Laura told me to jump on the floor, and then she helped her aunt to take the spoiled things off the table.

" "Our good Wyllys will lend her aid," returned the aunt, smiling and bowing to the third female, with that mixture of suavity and form which was peculiar to the stately manners of the time, and which was rarely neglected, when a superior addressed an inferior.

I haven't known much of my relations in the past, you know, so it pleases me to find an aunt and a cousin at the same time.

I loved my aunt threefold: for her hearty laughter, for the cheerfulness she caused my mother, and most of all for the times she dried my tears and held me in her lap, when my mother had reproved me.

" "Much good is done," cried her aunt, with fervor.

On July the twenty-fifth, looking bronzed and fit, I accompanied aunt and child back to London.

"I am so glad to make your acquaintance," said Mrs. Hornby, when I had done the honours of introduction; "I have heard so much about you from Juliet" "Really, my dear aunt," protested Miss Gibson, as she caught my eye with a look of comical alarm, "you will give Dr. Thorndyke a most erroneous impression.

Young Dick, however, had none of the scruples that kept his aunts silent.

She understood why Leven had suddenly lost an aunt of whom she had never heard, and had got out of the way on pretence of an imaginary inheritance.

I could not come in the ox-cart because the oxen were in the field, and every day since I heard of your accident your uncle has had to drive your aunt to Portland on some business.

It began by expressing much surprise at the information his cousin had given him in regard to her assumption of a married title, and although she had assured him she had very good reasons, he could not admit that it was right and proper for her to deceive his aunt and himself in this way.

" "If mamma sends you a good account of us," said Louisa, "please to remember, aunt, that you promised to write to us when that was the case.

"Most comfortable shoulder in Sunwich," she murmured; "come and try the other, aunt, and perhaps you'll get a new bonnet.