"Your niece will one day be a Duchess, Mrs. Wilson," whispered Lady Laura, as Derwent and Emily were running over a new poem one morning, in the lodgings of Sir Edward; the former reading a fine extract aloud so strikingly in the air and voice of Denbigh, as to call all the animation of the unconscious Emily into her expressive face.

If Madame Bordier's defunct niece had been the best Femme Orchestre in the Eure, there was no reason why Hermia shouldn't fit into her reputation as comfortably as she fitted into her post-humous garments.

Her nieces were persons with whom she could not wish to be acquainted.

You're not ashamed of my three nieces, I take it?" "Your nieces, Mr. Merrick, are very charming young women," was the dignified reply.

" "You mean us to understand, Signor Giuntotardi, that your niece is the grand-daughter of Don Francesco Caraccioli, through a natural son of that unfortunate admiral?

His niece, as she was presumed to be, was the great object of attraction.

I want your niece to be my wife, sir.

This niece, Mary M'Intyre, like her brother Hector, was an orphan.

He called her his niece; but whether niece, or daughter, or adopted child, was a mystery.

"Your niece is the most interesting personality I have ever met; but, underneath, something is making her unhappy, I am sure.

You came into their lives abruptly, appearing from those horrid Western wilds with an amazing accumulation of money and a demand that your three nieces become your special protégées.

There is a sweet, sedate, and almost solemn womanliness about her, which even overawes Mrs. Stanley, conscious of aunthood and strongmindedness, and insisting upon it that her niece is "a mere child."

"She is nicebut, well, Skinny-boy," her voice was a caress, "Old Heck's niece is not the sort for you.

It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer, and he accepted the task of serving as her escort and guardian.

Besides Patricia Doyle, whom we have already introduced, these nieces were Miss Louise Merrick, who had just celebrated her eighteenth birthday, and Miss Elizabethor "Beth"De Graf, now well past fifteen.

my dear boy," the financier went on, "I don't believe I ever realized what a gorgeously beautiful creature my niece is.

My real niece, Julia, is a lady and an heiress, and the beauty of the county.

Can you, John Merrick, sit there like a lump o' putty and do nothing, when your niece and my own darlin' Patsy is lostor strayed or stolen?

"I wish my niece to be a Queen of Society, and to have her whole life arranged with due state.

Your nieces are charming girls, all three.

"My niece, the heiress of old Etienne Marie de Barbérie, and the sought of so many of honorable names and respectable professions, to be a refugee with a rover!always supposing your opinions of the character of the brigantine to be just.

"My niece," says she, dwelling on the word with a smile, as if happy in the alliance, "my niece, coming to Barbary of her free will, is not a slave like those captured in warfare and carried there by force.

The beautiful niece of Physcon, who, at the time of her compulsory marriage with him, evinced such an aversion to the monster, had become, at the period of her husband's death, as great a monster of ambition, selfishness, and cruelty as he.

The three nieces and himself were the only passengers in the coach, aside from rosy-cheeked Mary, Patricia's cook.