Still it is always a pleasant evening, one sees plenty of people to talk to and the music is a cheerful accompaniment to conversation.

I remember one lovely moonlight evening, off the Irish coast, when our ship was slipping along before a light westerly air,just enough of it for everything to draw, and the ship as steady as Ailsa Crag, so that everybody got on deck, even the chronically sea-sick passengers of the steerage.

The sun appeared to be not more than two hours high (though, in fact, it was more than fifty); the sky was without a cloud, and a fresh breeze from the mountains contributed to make it like one of the most delightful summer evenings of a temperate climate.

These falls constitute a beautiful cascade, and their roar may be heard of a calm, summer evening, for miles out on the placid water.

We were introduced to Lord L. and other persons of influence, took tea, and spent a most agreeable evening, and I hope a profitable; for all our conversation was on the subject of bettering the condition of the poor and destitute children.

Day by day as I wandered through the lanes and the woods that he had loved with so wonderful and unconscious an affection, in a repose that we have lost and a quietness we can only envy him, I tried to discover, I tried to make clear to myself, what it really is that on a dull evening at home, in a sleepless night in London, or in the long winter evenings anywhere, draws me back again and again to that curious book.

Several had been wounded in the riot of the eventful evening, but none seriously injured.

Although in the very midst of danger, for we knew not how formidable in number the Indians were, we passed a merry evening.

" At last, one dark rainy evening, the wild outcast saw the man for whom he was seeking.

Doctors and nurses were busy at her bedside and little hope was held out of her being able to tell soon, if ever, what she knew of her sister's departure from the house on that fatal evening.

'DEAR SIR, 'It is inconvenient to me to come out, I should else have waited on you with an account of a little evening Club which we are establishing in Essex-street, in the Strand, and of which you are desired to be one.

The remembrance of that memorable evening when I had dined on board the Lola arose vividly before me.

There were musical evenings, when Miss Abigail opened the melodeon and played "Old Hundred," and Abraham was encouraged to pick out with one stiff forefinger "My Grandfather's Clock."

" In the twilight of a glorious Sunday evening, in the height of summer, I was roaming over the heathery waste of Swinshaw, towards Dean, in company with a musical friend of mine, who lived in the neighbouring clough, when we saw a little crowd of people coming down a moorland slope, far away in front of us.

A door which she had often noticed, but never seen opened, now stood wide open, and the old quadrangular garden, which was James Steadman's particular care, smiled at her in the golden evening light.

I made a note of the date, and at the appointed time I was promptly at Mr. Belmont's mansion, where I spent a very enjoyable evening.

It was drawing towards one of those calm, still, autumnal evenings of which poets sing, but which are to be met with in all their glory only among the beautiful lakes that lay sleeping in the wild woods, and surrounded by old primeval things.

Then, in the cool evenings, men, women, and children, with their capacity for dirt greatly increased by the soft resin with which they are all bedraggled, form circles around camp-fires, on the bank of the nearest stream, and lie in easy independence cracking nuts and laughing and chattering, as heedless of the future as the squirrels.

The sun, above the mountain's head, 5 A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green fields has spread, His first sweet evening yellow.

It was a very mild spring evening, and he made up a great blaze which would have suited December.

Ramond was absent from home, attending a consultation at Marseilles, and he would not be back until the following evening.

And on the loftiest of them all, in melancholy mood, A solitary captive that stormy evening stood.

In consequence we had a cheerful evening.

Music's a great thing of a lonely evening.

The boy had just arrived in time to have a last splendid evening with his friends before moving into his new home.