... said with great show of gentle reasonableness, what you ask is quite out of the question. And as for Miss Car- michael Don't speak of her yelled the old gentleman, now almost apoplectic she's a tow-headed camel, an overgrown doll, father an out-and-out cad ...

... for my sake, no. You will do as we have arranged. After to-night, as -you can't write with that poor wrist of yours, you'll speak one letter into your phonograph 'telling me that you are engaged. Then send me the cylinder, I'll fit it on my phonograph ...

... up and reshape itself. The eyes expressed an earnest sense of need, an appeal of some kind the lips moved as if they would speak but could not. While I returned the look, held by an indescribable fascination, I grew aware that this was a being not subject ...

... have come. You condemn me to a long course of ■celibacy, dad, laughed Harvey, if I have to wait till your age. My age You speak as if I were a rival to Methuselah. I was forty-nine last March, and do not feel a day older than when I was the age you will ...

... but where's the sense Can't you keep your mouth shut, with sudden exasperation, or must I make you You won't let anybody speak, com plained the waiter. What I want to tell you is what you apparently don't know, and that is that being Friday Mr. Paterson ...

... foreigners. I speak and write French and German like my own lingo. I read aloud I am a good sick nurse I can manage a house, arrange flowers, make a hat, sew a bit, write quickly, tot up figures, &c., and get the most fun for my money, and I speak the Kmg's ...

... guessed poor old Phil was really hipped about Jeffreys, Bob said softly. The tears welled into Kitty's eyes. VVe mustn't speak of him again, Bob, she whispered, quite overcome at the seriousness of the love which Phil had forgone so quietly. I think ...

... had told me last week that in a few days I should have altogether broken with Harry Pomeroy, and that never again should I speak with my dearest friend, Lulu Malincourt-- well, to put it mildly, I simply shouldn't have believed it. Not that I care a pin ...

... to ignorance to see knowledge bested and sciolism triumphant. Sciolism is a good word, said Barker, but perhaps you'll speak English. I don't carry a dictionary about my clothes. Sciolism, my dear boy, said Bones patronisingly, is another word for ...

... decay of religion and the increase of supersti tion are among the most noteworthy of the social changes I have seen. When I speak of the decay of religion of course I must bs understood to refer only to external observances. As to interior convic tions ...

... Someone had considerately sunk a barrel into the ground for some reason or other. Harridge was in that barrel. We told him to speak softly and pulled him out. His feet had got mixed up with something and he pulled that out with him. It was a winding sheet ...

... besides listen ing to the infernal nonsense you are talking. The clerk smiled it was not a pleasant smile. Well, he said, speaking slowly, I was going to remark that it was fortunate- in a certain way for you that the girl you married was such a friend ...