"Hath your Royal Highness ever seen this Cibber act?" asked the Duchess, by way of making conversation.

"O Sir Hacon!" cried the Duchess, "did I not bid thee to thy bed?" "Why truly, dear my lady, but since I may not go forth myself, fain would I see my good comrades ride into the battlefaith, methinks I might yet couch a lance but for fear of this thy noble lady,

But she is dreadfully arriérée, poor dear thing; and she must have amused herself with the day-dream of seeing Lesbia a duchess, or something of that kind.

WILLSON, DIXIE. Meet the duchess.

It took place accordingly, in the presence of the king of Bohemia, the duke of Savoy, the dowager queens of France and Hungary, the duchess of Lorraine, and an immense assemblage of nobility from various countries.

"Verily thou hast found me, Godric!" sighed the Duchess, looking upon Beltane very wistfully.

"For me?" quoth Beltane, leaning near, "was it for meah, was it so in very sooth?" "Beltane," said she, looking not toward him, "last night did'st thou bear a nun within thine arms, and, looking on her with love aflame within thine eyes, did yet vow to her you loved this duchess.

Philip now formed the design of sending back the duchess of Parma to resume her former situation as stadtholderess, and exercise the authority conjointly with her son.

" "I have a fancy for it," returned the duchess; "it suits my taste.

Hell! said the duchess.

It is dedicated to her royal highness the duchess of York, on whom the author passes the following extravagant compliment.

"Norman," said Madaline, as they stood before the great Gothic porch, "will you wait until to-morrow before you tell the duchess?

Mrs. Kendal takes her children to visit a duchess, and has naughty chorus girls to tea, and tells them of the joy of respectability.

"You are the proprietor of this inn, are you not?" demanded the duchess.

" The greatest trial in her life was now approaching the duchess.

He turned suddenly and kissed the Duchess, leaving her pallid face aflame and her trembling limbs rigid with amazement.

In the meanwhile the duke dies, and the friends of the prince hasten to him, bringing with them the duchess as a prisoner.

Any one who knew the duchess knew also that a single word would be all-sufficient.

She had precious old laces, too, almost worth their weight in diamonds,laces which had been snatched from altars in ancient Spanish cathedrals during the wars, and which it would not be safe to leave a duchess alone with for ten minutes.

She sniffed haughtily as she spoke of "that Nugent lot"; and the manner in which she promised Mr. Smith that he should not lose by his services would have graced a duchess.

"She was not too proud, after all, to love a noble man, when she once recognized him, duchess.

"I deny nothing," said Susie, proudly, and she looked the duchess unflinchingly in the face.

"Obtained by Monsieur Tellier," replied the duchess.

I am not in the least likely to marry a duchess; indeed, I wouldn't marry the highest and greatest of them, if she'd have me, which is highly improbable.

The Duke of Clarence and Isabel his duchess, the king-maker's daughter; the Duke of Somerset, executed after the battle of Tewkesbury; Abbot Alear, Becket's friend, are all buried here.