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feel?" And before the new-comer could reply to this greeting all the other eyes were turned upon him, with expressions of surprise and bewilderment. "You! What brings you here?" "What brings _you_ here?" Mrs. Bosher's brother was the only person who remained calm. "What's the matter?" said he. "Are you old friends or old enemies?" "It is so odd," said Mitchell; "I can't make it out." "Well, shake hands," cried Roberts; and he shook hands all round. When that was over Mr. Rowles said he would like to know what it was all about, and so at last matters were explained. "It is Daniel Roberts, who married my poor sister Nan, that died nine years come the 1st of November." While Mitchell said this he was gazing harder than ever at Roberts. "Why did you never tell me his name?" Mrs. Mitchell asked of Juliet. "I did," Juliet replied. "I always called him Mr. Robert." "Ain't he Mr. Robert then?" asked Rowles, still perplexed. "No," said the butler; "I am Daniel Roberts. Roberts is my surname, and Robert is not my Christian name. But some people have no ear for music, and can't hear an S when it is at the end of the word." Mrs. Mitchell turned to her children. "It is your Uncle Roberts. I _am_ surprised at finding him here. Why, Daniel, Mrs. Johnson said she thought it was partly owing to you that Mr. Burnet had us brought down here." "So it was, Mary. But, mind you, I did not know it was you. That girl there, they called her Juliet, and then they talked about Juliet's father being a printer and out of health, and all that; and I thinks to myself that there was Mitchell, poor Nan's brother, who was a printer, and I should not like to think that he was out of health and out of work, and that gave me a kind of feeling for all printers, and I put in a word for Juliet's father. But I little thought that Juliet's father was poor Nan's brother." "Ain't you glad, man?" said Mrs. Bosher's brother, giving a squeeze to Roberts's rheumatic arm; "ain't you glad?" "Glad--oh, it's agony!--yes, glad as I can be." "Well, I can't make it out now!" said Mitchell, taking off his hat to cool his head. "Just to think that Mr. Robert the butler is my brother-in-law!" "Are you sorry, man?" roared Mrs. Bosher's brother, putting his great rose into Mitchell's face; "are you sorry?" "Sorry!--phew, it's delicious, but stifling--no, I'm certainly not sorry." "Then get into the boat, and do the rest of your talki
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