Every sign was given of disappointment and resentment at such a step being taken, and the 'harangue' of the Chancellor to Sir Edward Goschen, and his astonishment at the value laid by Great Britain upon the 'scrap of paper' of 1839 would seem, when coupled with Herr von Jagow's desperate bid for neutrality at the last moment, to show that the German Government had counted on the neutrality of this country and had been deeply disappointed.

Is there any othah bid?

There can be little doubt that, at the death of Nasr-oo-din, the Governor of Ispahán will make a bold bid for the throne; in fact, the latter makes no secret of his intentions.

Surely, we know that interest does not come at mere bidding, and that it cannot be forced by hard work.

SIMS, DOROTHY RICE. Psychic bidding.

and she would do his lightest bidding, but controlling her secret desires she answered: "I would help if you needed me, but you don't.

One of them held up the Japanese dressing-gown and made some horrible jokes; and the auctioneer, who was a humorist, answered, "If there are any ladies' men present, we shall have some spirited bidding."

As the negotiations had showed me that the members of the party were not all incorruptible, and as I had learned that Tynan, who was then in New York, and who was supposed to be the famous No. 1, was conversant with all the facts relating to the murder in Phoenix Park, I suggested to my friend the principal detective that I should make Tynan a direct bid for the information we wanted, offering an ample compensation.

and whom he disappointed by accepting his invitation at once, and not Maydening it; no insignificant term as he applies it: for, as he says, Who looks for double biddings to a feast, May dine at home for an importune guest.

You will be sorry to hear that our last summer's siege with dysentery bids fair to be repeated.

[Illustration] XX The Month of Years In the morning, after doing the head's extraordinary bidding, Manuel went to feed his horse, and found tethered to the holm-oak the steed's skeleton picked clean.

When the woods gloom dark and darker, Sedges in the night-wind moan, Then a faint mysterious wailing Bids me weep, still weep alone.

Thus artfully their persons they disguise, Till the last flourish bids the curtain rise.

And the fourth bid them God speed.

And Fergus sent, when the children were ill, and made me a handsome bid for them.

Sweet mouse, the hermit bids you stay here; he'll visit you anon.

"And a thousand knights in armor Hath he chosen and required To fulfil his holy bidding All with noblest zeal inspired.

What impulse bids you thus elude him?"

She read the ingenuous matrimonial bids.

Better than this is the lot of our restless countrymen, whose modern instinct bids them tend always towards "fresh woods and pastures new."

Mr. Leslie Stephen remarked (1873) that “it may be said, with little exaggeration, that there is not only no article in the creeds which may not be contradicted with impunity, but that there is none which may not be contradicted in a sermon calculated to win the reputation of orthodoxy and be regarded as a judicious bid for a bishopric.

Lanyard bid in two or three sketches, more out of idleness than because he wanted them, and succeeded admirably in seeming ignorant of the existence of the Princess Sofia and the husband whose surface of a blackguard was so harmonious with his reputation.

"We make our little bids for happiness, but it helps one to remember that the issue lies with God.

"Cupid in Lucian bids Venus his mother be of good cheer, for he was now familiar with lions, and oftentimes did get on their backs, hold them by the mane, and ride them about like horses, and they would fawn upon him with their tails."

Not an incident that had ever occurred to them that did not rise obedient to her magical bidding.