... cottage shape, in gendarme blue velvet, trimmed with drapery and strings of shot moleskin plush in old-fold a blue ground, lined with blue satin and clasped with steel-blue buckle*. A cluster of ostrich tips, +levied from dark ...

... Merelanda, bet though Mrs. Drayton had never been a favourite with her, there was something so sad in this mother dying ignorant whether her only child was living or dead—something so sad in what she felt her life had been of late, coerced by a bad man—that ...

... would partake thereof. Not only that, but some one suggested that he should give something heavy to a charity, with which suggestion I believe that he complied. Then the news-I.a er writer went on to say that you often found in the patron of the turf a ...

... that it was not she; but round her neck, and twined through her now helpless fingers, was the old, faded red ribbon, and dangling at the end lay tho old, old shilling. She never would let us take off that charm, sir, explained, in a whisper, Betsy Gray ...