She told me many things that I need not repeat here, but, as she talked, I saw how, far more deeply than I had imagined, Nina had been the heart of the whole of her life.

Nina was her duty, her sacred causeand now she was betraying her trust!

But verily, to use a homely phrase, we have jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire in point of leisure, for there are innumerable sponges here to suck up every spare moment; but dear Nina is a miracle of hope, faith, and endurance.

Of them all, Nina was by far the gayest.

After all, Nina was everything, Nina was the first consideration.

Nina, or la folle par amour, is a ballet from private life.

But Nina had been the charge of her life.

The dogs have all romantic names, and are enquired after with so much solicitude when they do not make one in a visit, that it was some time before I discovered that Nina and Rosine were not the young ladies of the family.

" Nina had been a good deal frightened, but recovered wonderfully in the reassuring presence of her lover.