I remember when you said that Biggs's nieces were at the bottom of your troubles, I asked whether it might be this one." "So you did, old chap; and I replied that I hoped not.

So you need not shake your gory locks at me, my boy." "But I don't like the looks of it." "Neither do I." "Yes, but you see it looks as though she had been already set apart for you especially." "And pray, old man, what difference can that make, when I don't set myself apart for any thing of the kind ?" Dacres sat in silence with a gloomy frown over his brow.
"Besides, are you aware, my boy, of the solemn fact that Biggs's nieces are legion ?" said Hawbury.

"The man himself is an infernal old bloke; and as to his nieces--heavens and earth!--old! old as Methuselah; and as to this one, she must be a grandniece--a second generation.

She's not a true, full-blooded niece.

Now the lady I refer to was one of the original Biggs's nieces.