The next two years were spent with maiden aunts at Elgin, where she enjoyed a liberty which was bracing to both mind and body.

She had broken the journey to visit a maternal grand-aunt and some Virginia cousins, in Richmond, Charteris explained, and was to come thence to Matocton.

The alleged great-aunt.

The last King of Sicily and Naples was William II., who had married Joan, sister to Richard, and who, dying without issue, had bequeathed his dominions to his paternal aunt, Constantia, the only legitimate descendant surviving of Roger, the first sovereign of those states who had been honoured with the royal title.

exclaimed the dear, little, fussy old lady aunt.

Miss Deborah is an admirable cook, and an affectionate aunt and considers that in religion a woman ought to think just as her husband does.

A grand-aunt, living in Boston, telegraphed to Mr. Hardwick to see that money be spent freely.

"It is useless to remind me of a promise, my beloved aunt, which I have so much interest in remembering," she said.

He was very much afraid of compromising her, and she was very much afraid of the elderly aunt with whom she lived.

My kind old aunt had strained her pocket-strings to bestow a sixpenny whole plum cake upon me.

"To a single man, his umbrella is wife, mother, sister, venerable maiden aunt from the countryall in one.

"Thanks to God, I have been able to send them to the house of your sister, my worthy and pious aunt, at Waldhaus.

"I am sorry, aunt, Mr. Denbigh is not rich," said Emily to Mrs. Wilson, after they had retired in the evening, almost unconscious of what she uttered.

She is an orphan, and a dependant in the house of a selfish, hard-hearted aunt, against whom the disposition of the little Jane chafes itself in natural antipathy, till she contrives to make the unequal struggle as intolerable to her oppressor as it is to herself.

"Like all careful aunts, I was unwilling that my nephew should be out alone at night.

And the thoughta comforting, soothing thought, it had beenof the distant land of her childhood came back to her, the thought of her simple, pious aunt, the sole survivor of her family, who wrote to her twice every year, urging her to reconcile her soul with Godto which end the good old Doña Pepa was herself aiding with prayer!

My auntmy excellent and admirable maternal aunt,and my cousin.

Her father's death, some years before, had fallen heavily upon her, but youth and health had borne her above even that sad event triumphant, and now at three and twenty, with a fortune which loomed large even in a day of large fortunes, she lived alone with a legion of servants in the great house, with no earthly ties but an ineffectual aunt and a Trust Company.

To the grown-up folk who came to see us during the daythe doctor, certain germ-proof unmarried aunts, truculently maternal, and the family itselfmy brother's case was far more interesting than mine because he had caught the measles really badly.

Although scarcely fifteen years of age she had for more than two years gained a livelihood by working in a skirt factory in Chicago, paying her board regularly to a cross old aunt who was her only relative in the big city.

My invincible aunt.

In this plight I waited to introduce myself to my formidable aunt.

"What's wrong with my garrulous aunt?

For her part, however, if he chose to consider her middle-aged aunt lovely, Veronica would not contradict him, for she was cautious in a certain degree, and in spite of herself she distrusted her surroundings.

Her house, her drawing-rooms, etc.; for the little brown aunt who lived with her was a mere piece of curious furniture.