Odd byways in American history.

" Those who care to pursue these curious byways of not very ancient history are referred to the unfailing Greville; to Lady Anne Hamilton's Secret History of the Court of England; and to the Recollections of a Lady of Quality, commonly ascribed to Lady Charlotte Bury.

VIII THE ARREST They gained the corner of Great Jones Streetone of those dim byways of trade that branch off from the radiant avenues.

He was, in fact, writing for citizens much like the English of twenty years ago, when the interest of readers, protected from the harsh realities of danger and anxiety, was flattered equally by bloodthirsty slaughters, the shimmer of veiled radiance, and haunted byways for access to the unknown gods.

He spoke of none of the achievements which the world granted to be his; instead, the little byway humanities were called forth, for the other to hearbuds of thought and action, which other pressures had kept from fertilizing into seedthe very things he would have delighted in relating to a dear, wise woman.

Her one thought, as she walked those miles of lonely rural byways, so bare and cheerless, was of Walterher Walterthe man who, she knew, would have willingly given his very life for hers.

Theodore inoculated me, I think, with some of his seriousness, and I just touched him with my profanity; and we agreed together that there were a few good things lefthealth, friendship, a summer sky, and the lovely byways of an old French province.

as what maimed warriors of life, as what bemired travellers in muddied byways, must we presently come to Thee!"

Long after midnight he entered a narrow byway, which the pale moon showed to be decent, though not inviting.

Our only difficulty lies in judicious choice, for the wires soon begin to diverge up numerous byways.

Of late years great attention has been paid to our naval history, and many even of its obscure byways have been explored.

asking only for light, and the right way; to see him turning so blindly from the true given light, and searching with simple earnestness along sterile, rocky byways and thorny hedges, to find the path or opening that conducts back to a true starting place.

Her one thought, as she walked those miles of lonely rural byways, so bare and cheerless, was of Walterher Walterthe man who, she knew, would have willingly given his very life for hers.

In the centre of the town, where bazaars radiated from the quarter of which the Great Mosque was the hub, the houses were a mass of stones and rubble, and the narrow streets and tortuous byways were filled with fallen walls and roofs.

But I confess to absolute surprise, as I read on, and learned that your career was to lead you, not through Lovers' Lane, not before the footlights, but along the hurly-burly byways and highways of American newspaper work, beginning with interviews and reporting.

CHAPTER XI THE GATES OF CHANCE Markham had finished the portrait of his antiquated countess in Havre and abandoning the luxuries of the Hotel Frascati had taken to the road with his knapsack and painting kit for a two months' jaunt along unfrequented Norman byways.

I had always known that Petrograd had its own grace and beauty, but it was not until, sore and sick at heart, lonely and bitter against fate, haunted always by the face and laughter of one whom I would never see again, I wandered about the canals and quays and deserted byways of the city that I began to understand its spirit.