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A SAPPHIRE RING

... concerned in it as they mistook me for Walter. Then he could not have a stepped ten paces from the door before some one would 5 speak to him about it, for it is all over Laninouth long ago, r, and surely if he was to hear it from anyone he had better hear it ...

Art and Literature

... caution as will prevent accidents. Speaking of linseed cakes, he insists that buyers in all cases should make sure to get a guarantee of purity fromn the vendor, and several instances are 'iven of buyers who have, so to speak, been victimised, pay'n, good ...

AN ARTIST'S QUARTER IN LONDON

... strange, weird, or grotesque-an uncommon call- ing; if ghastly, so much the better. It was required to 'dress' Mr Venus, so to speak. The question was put over Dickens's dinner-table, and his young friend at ouce suggested a man who prepared skeletons and ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... the spring, and concluding with an engagement of eight months' duration in America. An amusing instance of Carlyle's plain-speaking is reported by a bearer of it. An aenanintance, with strong opinions cf his owvn, had supported them pertinaciously One evening ...

Art and Literature

... hews a bright extempors lecturer. He has been heard to say that he never wrote a lecture in his life, and his fluency in speaking was extraordinary. He studied, re- says M r Lee, 'not only geology, but, as a good geologist ,ith ought to do, he paid ...

A SAPPHIRE RING

... overworked and breaking down brain. Bat he there was now no room for doubt, 'Walter's escape had corn- he pelled the old man to speak, to play his last card, make his of final appeai. Nothing but desperation could have driven D, him to make that awful confession ...

OUR LITERARY CLUB

... WYEAR: New speculation, did you say? A speculation wnich certainly dates back to the time of Origen is not new. You do not speak quite correctly when you say that it con- aerns eternal punishment, because it has for its subject the non-eternal nature of ...

A SAPPHIRE RING

... and that he asked me to speak of what I saw. I am young Leuthwait. as they call me and the old man who sat there is my father. IWell, sir, all I say is may I be- if I Thought any- thing of the sort. I'd have been sorry to speak as I did if I knew who ...

Art and Literature

... volaptu- ous style of art. Mr Edwin Booth is going to play Hamlet in Berlin with a German company. He will speak English, and the rest will speak German. Lady Benedict has contributed a useful and almost ex- haustive article on How to Play Mendelssohn's ...

NORTHUMBERLAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC

... she has ta'en her gay geld ring That with her love she brake so free; (die him that ye proud porter, And bid the bridegroom speak to me. Tell him to send mee a slice of bread And a cup of blood red wine, And not to forget the fair young ladye That did relegse ...

OUR LITERARY CLUB

... satisfied with the state of the society there. The congregations were large-the converts were numerous. In his journal he speaks of many rejoicing with joy uanpeakable l-of preachingto his lovely congregation in Weardale-of God being with them still-of ...

Art and Literature

... and by hiln wvas the ?? of the Arabian horse tardily but finally ackrluovledged. in the Keheilan or genuine Arabian horse (speaking in general terms from seeinga nunberot itorys. mod utales:toile time), setting on one side Whatt ?? be cailie their great ...