... representing the gensral good wishes of one family towards another. This custom is not likely to diminish the postman's burden, Speaking for ourselves, with a large circle of acquaintances, the tax is quite heavy enough as it is. The list of expect- ants gets ...

... their work well; so much can scarcely be said for the cabbies-they were wretchedly slow. The cart horsee have, generally speaking, salistless sluggishgalt; it is not uncommon to see six whine entire horses shambling along, all attached to a Iced that ...

... knew would i irove agreeable to Walter. She complimented him upon his skill in horsemanship and driving, and led him on to E speak of his college and university experiences, though there I were some things lie kept back even from the ear of the ( popular ...

... having wandered all the day, Linked arm in arm, I dared to say, You'll love me-won't you? And when you blushed, and could not speak, I fondly kissed your glowing cheek; Did that affront you n Oh, surely not; your eye exprest No wrath-but said, perhaps in ...

... enjoins in honour preferring one ; another. Otherwise we can imagine the shuffle there was for the best places. Figuratively speaking, in their own 3 estimation, some must have been placed behow the salt, be. r cause it is certain the good opinion we have ...

... Pennant considers that the Scotch and Nor- thumbrians are indebted to the Romans for the introduc- tion of the bagpipes. Speaking of the two kinds of bag- pipes found in Scotland. he says that neither of these instruments wras the invention of the Danes ...

... possessed your love still. He shook his head. Impossible; you could neither for- give me, nor could the world expect it. You speak from the natural goodness of your heart. It had been better for you if we had never met. If I can help you, I shall rejoice ...

... the last sec- tion-I mean, relatively. It may seem strange to readers not intimately acquainted with Roman Catholicismn to speak of it as anything else than Ritualistic; but there may be the love of simplicity, even in a royal court, and in spite of compulsory ...

... this, my tongue had told; True to its bashful instinct still, My love erects this screen, And writes the words it dare not speak In ink that can't be seen. MACAULAY'S VALENTINE The following valentine from Lord Macaulay to the Ron. Mfary C. Stanhope, daughter ...

... IF THOU BUT SPEAK. If thou but speak, the chattering brooklet, ever Wasting in idle goesip with the flowers The sweet long hours of sumnmer that can never Come back again to us-the long sweet hours- Forgets its story to gitve thought to thine, Forgets ...

... case, I think I had better consult my master. He disappeared in the inner room. 1seft by themselves, the visitors began to speak jestingly of the strange situation in which they were placed. The original holder of Number Fourteen described his own experience ...

... shame, for shame ! To risk your life for a paltry dispute about cards. 'I would risk it again, said Percy, to hear you speak as if you set some value on it. She looked away from hinu quickly, without a word of reply. Her mind seemed to be busy again ...