"Who the devil's that ?" said he to his wife, looking surlily both at me and her.
"Oh, it's a friend of Grandmamma's and Jane's," said Lady Fanny at once, looking, like a sly rogue as she was, quite archly at her sister--who in her turn appeared quite frightened, and looked imploringly at her sister, and never dared to breathe a syllable.

"Yes, indeed," continued Lady Fanny, "Mr.Titmarsh is a cousin of Grandmamma's by the mother's side: by the Hoggarty side.

Didn't you know the Hoggarties when you were in Ireland, Edmund, with Lord Bagwig?
Let me introduce you to Grandmamma's cousin, Mr.Titmarsh: Mr.Titmarsh, my brother, Mr.Edmund Preston." There was Lady Jane all the time treading upon her sister's foot as hard as possible, and the little wicked thing would take no notice; and I, who had never heard of the cousinship, feeling as confounded as could be.

But I did not know the Countess of Drum near so well as that sly minx her grand-daughter did; for the old lady, who had just before called poor Gus Hoskins her cousin, had, it appeared, the mania of fancying all the world related to her, and said-- "Yes, we're cousins, and not very far removed.

Mick Hoggarty's grandmother was Millicent Brady, and she and my Aunt Towzer were related, as all the world knows; for Decimus Brady, of Ballybrady, married an own cousin of Aunt Towzer's mother, Bell Swift--that was no relation of the Dean's, my love, who came but of a so-so family--and isn't _that_ clear ?" "Oh, perfectly, Grandmamma," said Lady Jane, laughing, while the right honourable gent still rode by us, looking sour and surly.
"And sure you knew the Hoggarties, Edmund ?--the thirteen red-haired girls--the nine graces, and four over, as poor Clanboy used to call them.
Poor Clan!--a cousin of yours and mine, Mr.Titmarsh, and sadly in love with me he was too.