Meanings of seate next in английском

Seated next to the Commander, it was no longer Don Miguel who looked old-fashioned, it was Captain Bunker who appeared impossible.

Seated next me at dinner, he made a remark which threw much light on one of the most serious faults of the French Republic.

Seated next to this person at a later period was a maiden from whose agreeably-poised lips had hitherto proceeded nothing but sincerity and fact.