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" The immediate cause of that shade was the death of Prince Albert's father; and although in Queen Victoria's life there was a fair allowance of sunshine, still, as Ecclesiastes said, "the clouds return after the rain"; and, in a family where cousinship is recognized to the third and fourth generation, the "shade" of mourning must constantly recur.

But while he is stately in the cousinship of the Everybodys, he is a kind and generous man, according to his dignified way, in the cousinship of the Nobodys; and at the present time, in despite of the damp, he stays out the visit of several such cousins at Chesney Wold with the constancy of a martyr.

The rest of the cousins are ladies and gentlemen of various ages and capacities, the major part amiable and sensible and likely to have done well enough in life if they could have overcome their cousinship; as it is, they are almost all a little worsted by it, and lounge in purposeless and listless paths, and seem to be quite as much at a loss how to dispose of themselves as anybody else can be how to dispose of them.

And thus, with a clatter of maids and valets-for it is one appurtenance of their cousinship that however difficult they may find it to keep themselves, they MUST keep maids and valets-the cousins disperse to the four winds of heaven; and the one wintry wind that blows to-day shakes a shower from the trees near the deserted house, as if all the cousins had been changed into leaves.

It was with this notion, that I felt compelled to make my hero and heroine relatives, as you well know that none else could there obtain that degree of intercourse leading to genuine affection; I had nearly made them rather too much akin to each other; and though the wild passions of the East, and some great examples in Alfieri, Ford, and Schiller (to stop short of antiquity), might have pleaded in favour of a copyist, yet the time and the north (not Frederic, but our climate) induced me to alter their consanguinity and confine them to cousinship.

Some of your accomplishments are not ordinary.” “I don’t know about that.” “You had a little cottage near the school, you say: did he ever come there to see you?” “Now and then?” “Of an evening?” “Once or twice.” A pause. “How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?” “Five months.” “Did Rivers spend much time with the ladies of his family?” “Yes; the back parlour was both his study and ours: he sat near the window, and we by the table.” “Did he study much?” “A good deal.” “What?” “Hindostanee.” “And what did you do meantime?” “I learnt German, at first.” “Did he teach you?” “He did not understand German.” “Did he teach you nothing?” “A little Hindostanee.” “Rivers taught you Hindostanee?” “Yes, sir.” “And his sisters also?” “No.” “Only you?” “Only me.” “Did you ask to learn?” “No.” “He wished to teach you?” “Yes.” A second pause. “Why did he wish it? I believe no one in the army received so many last charges as he has done, or executes them more fully." "And," said Ermine, feeling pleasure colour her cheek more deeply than was convenient, "you are relations." "So far away that only a Scotsman would acknowledge the cousinship." "But do not you call yourself Scotch?" said Ermine, who had for years thought it glorious to do so. "My great grandfather came from Gowan-brae," said Alick, "but our branch of the family has lived and died in the -th Highlanders for so many generations that we don't know what a home is out of it.

I asked Cousin Ruth (as we used to call her, though the cousinship was distant) what was become of Uncle Ben, and how it was that we never heard anything of or from him now.

It's true he is himself a man of a very low descent upon the one side; though upon the other he counts cousinship with a gentleman, my very good friend, the late Mr. Balfour of the Shaws, in the Lothian; which I should be wanting in good fellowship to forget.

And as to Lady Selina, it was well known to the Winterbourne cousinship that she could never get a maid to stay with her six months. "What did you think of Mr. Wharton's speech the other night?" said Lady Selina, bending suavely across the tea-table to Marcella. "It was very interesting," said Marcella, stiffly-perfectly conscious that the name had pricked the attention of everybody in the room, and angry with her cheeks for reddening. "Wasn't it?" said Lady Selina, heartily. "You can't do those things, of course! There was a tie of cousinship between them, and a considerable difference of age.

Her transparent sincerity, her superb chastity-he could call it by no other word-of manner and movement, even of outline-the slight angularity of strong muscle as opposed to soft roundness of cushioned flesh-these arrested and impressed him. "I had Chifney up from the stables this afternoon and made my peace with him," he said. "He was very full of your praises, Honoria-for the cousinship may as well be acknowledged between us, don't you think?
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