Never having been a mile from her door, she was begging off in a palsy of fright, and here was the niece with a deep plotample source of her ecstasya plot for Anna, duly disguised, to go in the aunt's place, back to freedom, Dixie, and the arms of Constance and Miranda.

Miss Pettinger's niece.

As for his hostess, whom it had ever been his study to please, he had long won her heart; and, as she could not be blind to his projects and pretensions, she heartily wished him success, assisted him with all her efforts, and desired nothing more sincerely than that her niece should achieve such a conquest, and she obtain so distinguished a nephew.

The Countess, with all the tact of a woman, covered her niece's confusion by her animated description of their agreeable ride, and their still more pleasant promenade; and in a few minutes the whole party were walking back to their carriages.

Cadurcis appeared rather sullen, and the Countess, with feminine quickness, suddenly discovered that both herself and her niece were extremely fatigued, and that they had better return in the carriages.

Dorsey says (260): "Should a man get angry because his single daughter, sister, or niece has eloped, the other Omahas would talk about him saying, 'That man is angry on account of the elopement of his daughter.'

She remarks in her Journal, after her return home: I stayed at Ipswich three weeks after the birth of my precious little niece, Frances Elizabeth; rejoicing in her daily growth, and calm trustful fearlessnessa lesson which nothing ever preached to me so loudly before.

"Glad to see you, my lad," he said, shaking hands with Mr. Tredgold and glancing covertly at his niece.

"Except my niece," interposed the captain.

"He is very wide-awake," he said to his niece.

His niece said that he had always appeared to herwhen she had happened to give the matter a thoughtas a picture of indolence.

" Something in the tone of his voice attracted his niece's attention, and she looked at him sharply as an almost incredible suspicion as to the motive of this conversation flashed on her.

he ventured, anxiously"short sight or anything of that sort?" "I don't think so," said his niece, gravely.

" "Dear me!" said his niece, with suppressed viciousness.

An admirer in London to whom his niece had once or twice alludedforgetting to mention that he was only tenbegan to fade into what the captain considered proper obscurity.

The captain's satisfaction at finding them together was complete, but a little misunderstanding was caused all round, when Mr. Tasker came in with the tea, by the series of nods and blinks by which the captain strove to call his niece's attention to various facial and other differences between his servant and their visitor.

Coming to an erect position again he suddenly became aware of the presence of his niece.

"But you said that you had," persisted his niece.

" His niece gazed at him in perplexity.

"The only servant I have, practically," explained the clergyman, "cook, butler, housekeeper and tyrant all in one; and, with her niece, the only other persons in the house besides ourselves.

Regarding the Habit of Exaggeration During your visit here with my niece, I became much interested in you.

I am sure, my dear niece, that you are a good and pure-minded girl, and that you mean to live a life above reproach, and I fully understand your rebellion against many of the conventional forms which are incompatible with the career of a "girl bachelor," as you like to call yourself.

They are broader and more liberal and more unselfish than most parents, and they went out of their path to extend courtesies to you, a young country girlat first because you were my niece, then because they liked you personally.

'It'll be Mistress Baldwin's niece,' she said, at last.

And I thank ye, John Mortimer, for it all, I do indeed; but if my niece's daughter is wanting me, what can I do but go to her?"