"I can tell you, niece," replied Don Quixote, "if these chivalrous thoughts did not engage all my faculties, there would be nothing that I could not do, nor any sort of knickknack that would not come from my hands, particularly cages and tooth-picks."
The niece let him in, and his master Don Quixote came forward to receive him with open arms, and the pair shut themselves up in his room, where they had another conversation not inferior to the previous one.
He publicly declared that my niece had visited him as his betrothed wife.
I am well aware that he compassionately denied this, just as he compassionately affected to be in love with my niece when he married her.
When I asked you what you thought of my
niece's figure, I meant--how much of it comes from Nature, and how much of it comes from the Shop?
Miss Emmerson had good sense enough to perceive the value of such an acquaintance for her ward; but, unfortunately for her wish to establish an intimacy between her
nieces, Julia had already formed a friendship at school, and did not conceive her heart was large enough to admit two at the same time to its sanctuary.
Fentolin preferred not to leave him alone with his
niece and nephew.
I give you joy, my dear
niece." And looking at her complacently, she added, "Humph, we certainly are a handsome family!"
The old man felt then that the young man had ceased to hope; he felt the blood rushing to his heart, and if he conquered the vertigo that threatened him, it was because he would rather see his niece living and mad than dead.
Monsieur, I have deprived myself for your sake of the sad happiness of watching over my niece; I have left to you the pleasure of playing with her; I have kept for myself the heaviest cares.
"If you want to succeed, do not let my niece see you in that equipage.
The old doctor received the inanimate body of his niece, kissed it as though he were a young man, and carrying it aside, sat down with it still in his arms on a pile of wood.