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... of light, andL zlI is dark WThen my blaze is put out; Y'et, I am somet-sues very doll, Though I'm a clever scent. I often speak but never talk, I run, yet have no lez, And though I'm never known to walk, I urge, and scold, erntreat, and beg. 've sounded ...

JONAS HANWAY'S WARD;

... help hier Ftc- ou~t, but Landing no response from this quarter, she was relics obliged to go on unsupported. I think, to speak plainly, 1 mcccv mnydear sir, that 'twas not acting with your usual wvisdom, C aents, to say the least of it, to introduce ...

JONAS HANWAYS WARD; OR NEVER DESPAIR

... him. I assure you, ma'am, I do not wonder at his mistake, for, in general, ladies are as fond of the animal we have been speaking of as they are of a monkey, and perhaps for the same reason; but I vow I never knew a lady who married a buck who did not ...

Art and Literature

... be one of tile first in the world. As for religion, Cati r. John does not conids ,th house is without its joss or josses. Speaking of Japan he is of opimmion that the country was pretty well worked out before any foreigners came into it. Every inch of ...

NORTHUMBERLAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC

... its polmy days looked forward to with anxious hope by the juveniles of Nesvwastle, and men not yet far past middle age can speak of the fun, both fast and furious, taat prevailed during this carnival. ...

FEMININE FASHIONS AND FANCIES

... shootings were recently occupied by Sir Wim. Scott, Bart.. of Ancrurn. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Secretary to the Board of Trade, speaking at Cowes on 'WVednesday night, said however anxious we might be to be at peace with the Boers, England could not expect to ...

JONAS HANWAY'S WARD; OR NEVER DESPAIR

... up from the points to the root in a straight line from the top of her cranium towards the nose till he completes a tile, to speak in military parlance, of ten curl papers. he then gradually descends towards the lady's right ear, twhich exactly completes ...

JONAS HANWAY'S WARD; OR NEVER DESPAIR

... witness, hope and fear seemed to struggle for the mastery, and her words were almost in- audible as she exclaimed- Speak, LIr Forster, speak again ! Oh, sir, did my ears deceive me? Did you call him Dulluk? I certainly called Mr Dobson Dulluk, replied ...

UNDER THE BEECHES

... his silence was hopeful, 'Be looked at the glow onj her cheek, He -Watebed how the rosy lips pasted, Endeavouring vainly to speak. Tvwo blue eyes glanced upward a moment, And answered him silent and shy; Then burning tears fell, for betrothal Meant only ...

JONAS HANWAY'S WARD; OR NEVER DESPAIR

... her Rhenish and sugar, would have gone on dilating on her favourite theme to her friend, but tue latter now left her seat to speak to young Mrs George Forster, Bliss Helen, and the Miss Dunn, whom she requested, as it wanted yet half-an-hour of three o'clock ...

NORTHUMBERLAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC

... nse unco fyke, Set tuysr writh her--i} she incline I come, 0 ttiat's a stoble sign 0. fortune fair in vooing, &C. Before ye speak a word ava' Just gie her kisses, ane or twVf, And after that a little wee, Just gae her kisses, twa or three, Ahtke this your ...

A SAPPHIRE RING

... must have been! But, Mr Leuthwaite, your yellow coat looked very like the real thing. Ay, ay, so it does, now that you speak of it. What a foolish thing of me to come riding about a place like this in yellow corduroys. Very stupid! But then, you see ...