After all, she was his own niece.
"It will be a very great joy to dress you splendidly," he said.

"I would have done so always, if I had not known where the money would go; but we are going to settle all that now, and every one can be happy." It was not in her nature to beg and try to secure favors for her brother and Mimo without paying for them.

She had agreed upon the price--herself.

Now all she had to do was to obtain as much as possible for this.
"Mirko's cough has come back again," she said quietly.

"Since I have consented I want him to be able to go into the warmth without delay.
They are here in London now--he and his father--in a very poor place." "I have thought it all out," Francis Markrute answered while he frowned, as he always did, at the mention of Mimo.