But it was when he came to tell his uncle of his debts that the other felt surprise and anger most keenly, and broke out into speeches most severe upon Pen, which the lad bore, as best he might, without flinching.

"And who is mamma?" asked my uncle.

He likes fun, I'm sure, for he laughed about the 'sumptuous cheek' till his own were red, though he dared not show it, and was as grave as an owl when we met uncle," said Amy, smiling at the recollection.

"I saw the innkeeper, uncle," said John, "who told me that Denbigh left there at eight o'clock in a post-chaise and four; but I will go to London in the morning myself."

He and Uncle Pros had been boys together, and she knew her uncle one to deserve affection, though he seldom commanded it.

Suppose that EDWIN, upon returning to the dining-room that night, after his temporary exercise in the open air with MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON, had found his uncle, flushed with cloves, endeavoring to force a social glass of lemon tea upon the umbrella, under the impression that it was a person, and had unthinkingly accused him thereat of being momentarily unsettled in his faculties?

" "I'm coming," replied my uncle.

" "I wouldn't be surprised she's fresh with the boys, but, believe me, if she gets the uncle she don't take the nephew!" "Say, a clerk in his own father's hotel like the Markovitches got in Atlantic City ain't no crime.

He at once arose, and leaving his uncle Assyed in charge of his domestic business, he accompanied Haml to the land of Fazarah.

After some time, gathering together a number of rich gifts, he started, in company with his mother, to visit his uncle.

And she turned and ran distractedly back into the cabin while Johnnie hurried on to join her uncle.

My books were now my chief amusement, though my studies were often interrupted by a game of romps with my uncle, which too often ended in a quarrel because he played so roughly; yet long before this I dearly loved my uncle, and the improvement I made while he was with us was very great indeed.

"Gar'ner will volunteer, then," rejoined the uncle, "and I shall charge nothing for the use of the boat.

" However, she prepared supper, and bade Aladdin seek his uncle, who came laden with wine and fruit.

" So Patsy had old Hucks hitch Joe to the surrey, and the three girls accompanied their uncle in his drive to town, leaving Arthur Weldon shaking his head in a deprecating way but fully realizing that no protest of his would avail to prevent this amazing undertaking.

"You'll end your days on the scaffold!" cried my uncle.

At once to kill his uncle would be to seal these horrible things irrevocable, indisputable facts.

I never knew that till I married your uncle.

" "Well, we'll see that you have something to take its place," promised her uncle, drawing her down beside him.

My own business prospered hugely, and I bought on credit such a stock of tobacco as made me write my uncle for a fourth ship at the harvest sailing.

She was anxious to persuade my uncle to relinquish his guardianship to her; but the evening of the funeral a black-bordered letter came from him, bidding me remain at Knowl until he could arrange for my journey to him.

On the fourth day Khaled arose, and after thanking his uncle for all his attentions, asked him for his daughter in marriage, and begged him to return to his own land.

"And what, JOHN BUMSTEAD, did you do with my oroide watch and other jewels?" "Musht've spilt'm on the road here," returned the musing uncle, faintly remembering that they had been found upon the turnpike, shortly after Christmas, by Gospeler SIMPSON.

He may shoot at the town, if he cares to, or murder your uncle.

Is obliged to attend a dying uncle: and entreats him to write from time to time an account of all his proceedings.