Frau von Sigmundskron was not really much past middle age, though the people in the village generally called her the old baroness.

I remember a delightful, wicked old baroness whom I met in my youth stranded in Geneva on short allowance-Europeanresorts are full of such characters.

And they tolerated the silly old Baroness because they had to.

The chaplain was loud in his praises of Harry to his aunt, the old Baroness.

What hath happened before in our family? cried the old Baroness, glaring at her niece with savage eyes.

One evening a reunion for recruiting purposes was held by the old Baroness Guerbel at her big house in the Potemkinskaya.

He was as humiliated as a whipped school boy; the old Baroness had to use her choicest powers of persuasion to calm him.

Never before had the old Baroness manifested so ardent a desire to win, or so keen a joy in fingering the old gentleman's gold pieces.

"I think Arnaut has suggested that the baby should be sent away, but Mathilde objects," remarked the old baroness.

"As for the child, she had great fire and liveliness, and a Cherokee manner which is not without its charm," said the pleased old Baroness.