"Stepbrother" Quotes from Famous Books
... Ollerenshaw had been a young-old man of nearly thirty. He had had a stepbrother, much older and much poorer than himself, and the stepbrother had died, leaving a daughter, named Susan, almost, but not quite, in a state of indigence. The stepbrother and James had not been on terms of effusive cordiality. But James was perfectly ready to look after Susan, ... — Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... softened. She had been very fond of her stepbrother; it seemed that his voice appealed to her across the grave in behalf of his child. But the crust of years was not to ... — Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery |