When, at last, Mr. P. was conveyed, in a stifling hack, (the fare had risen, under the unusual circumstances, about one hundred and ten degrees,) to a stifling little room under the hot roof of an hotel exposed to the sun on every side, and had taken an extempore Russian bath while changing his linen, and had partaken of a hot dinner, he might have been excused for saying that he would like to cool off a little.

The landlord's buxom wife came forth from an inner room and offered her a lodging for the night, and then, when she could not persuade her, helped her to wrap the baby up afresh, and finally made her place in her pocket a tiny flask of brandy, "in case," she said, "the snow should overtake them.

After about two hours of warm, and, as it seemed to me, unprofitable discussion, we were summoned to our repast in the adjoining room.

Be these things as they may, leather bindings in sets of "grenadier uniformity" ornament the upper and lighter rooms.

In haste I dragged it to the outer room into which the moonlight was now streaming.

In the plain bare room where, for all its hospitality and good cheer, reigned an air of rude simplicity and austerity of lifeinto this somewhat rarefied atmosphere Father Richmond brought a whiff from another world.

Judge Hildreth sat with his family at dinner in the spacious dining-room of one of the finest houses in Marlborough.

No!" "The first thing Lester says was a flat on Wasserman and a spare room for Mother Coblenz when she wants to come down.

"Youyou're all right!" * * * * * Up-stairs, in a too tufted and too crowded room directly over the frontal half of the store, the window overlooking the remote sea of city was turning taupe, the dusk of early spring, which is faintly tinged with violet, invading.

We lodged here this Sunday night in a comfortable bed-room, apparently the best one; and all that I noticed unusual in the nightfor I still kept taking notes, like a spy in the campwas the creaking of the thin split boards, when any of our neighbors stirred.

" Patsy secured for Hetty a pleasant room facing the creek.

" The sun had receded, leaving a sudden sullen gray, the little square room, littered with an upheaval of excelsior, sheet-shrouded furniture, and the paperhanger's paraphernalia and inimitable smells, darkening and seeming to chill.

"There is ample room for two, and 't is no use to tire yourself needlessly.

The tiny room was full of a homely comfort which did her heart good.

Such blasphemy on the open hill-side had been shocking enough, but in that narrow room it was too horrid to be borne.

"Soon after our return she suggested that we should occupy separate rooms at night, reminding me, when she made the request, of the infectious nature of consumption.

We were shown into a pretty drawing-room, opening on a garden, where the princess was waiting, standing at one end of the room.

It was there, in the cool, shady room, that Edith showed him the letter.

Ah, that is bettermuch better...." He fired, and the sound of his pistol in the closed room made my ears ring, and then the ship lurched, so that I had nearly lost my balance.

The proprietor, Chow Hop, had attempted to bar their way to the rear room.

Now that I come to think of it," she added, her eyes beginning to shine with excitement, "that was the reason for the winding tunnels and secret rooms.

But who can meditate upon the memorable stanzas, and not see, in fancy, the enthusiastic youththe lover of melody and of natureas he enters his dingy room, the ordinary abiding place of poetical geniuses.

With imagination full of sick people turned out to perish, the Boy started up as a long wail came, muffled, but keen still with anguish, down through the snow and the earth, by way of the smoke-hole, into the dim little room.

" So in the end the girls had their way, and the boys joined them in the upstairs room which came the nearest to being cheerful of any room in the house, except the kitchen.

He had attained the ends he had striven for, he was respected alike in the church and the world, he held a high and lucrative position, he had a well appointed home, over which his handsome wife presided with dignity and grace, and yet, as he took his seat before his desk in the lofty room whose shelves were lined with gems of thought in fragrant, costly bindings, life seemed to have missed its sweetness to Lawrence Hildreth.