Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that began the fireworks.

Often as she thus sat in the pensive twilight hour, listening to the murmur of the evening breeze, the voices of her dear parents would seem stealing upon her ear in well remembered tones, whispering of happiness and heaven; and she felt a sweet and holy calm steal over her spirits, and felt that "angels indeed ministered" unto her.

I watched him eagerly as he read it, and saw a slow flush steal into his cheeks.

How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movement, never catched, nice as an evanescent cloud, or the first arrests of sleep!

In London I can stay out till all hours and come home with the milk without a tremor, but put me in the garden of a country house after the strength of the company has gone to roost and the place is shut up, and a sort of goose-fleshy feeling steals over me.

On the barrows where the vikings sleep their long sleep, the plover pipes its melancholy lay; between steep banks a furtive brook steals swiftly by as if anxious to escape from the universal blight.

Forty long years have passed, and on this bright spring morning the gentle Ellen steals upon the lawn, unaltered by the lapse of time.

Dim inklings of a hazy future steal; Their thoughts their questions well express: "Does the sad South still cherish hate?

THE 'CELLO SAMUEL ABBOTT '87 The mellow light steals o'er its silent strings, That catch the sound of some far sylvan strain; Such fantasie as thrills the poet's brain, Or Morpheus, floating 'neath the pale stars, brings. And list!

"Do you see anybody?" I cried in a whisper, feeling the chill of nervous panic steal over me at this action.

He might gain Creedon's berth, as he called it, without chancing an outside steal.

Thought you could put over a raw steal an' get away with it.

The love where death has set his seal Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me.

And then a sad, lone feeling steals Upon the weary heart, And amid the gloom we only feel A longing to depart.

I watched him eagerly as he read it, and saw a slow flush steal into his cheeks.

Come, thou great expected guest, Come, and enter every breast; Lest the subtle foe steal in, Screen us with Thy guardian wing.

And lest, at last, the world should learn heart-secrets; Lest that sweet wolf from some dim thicket steal; Better the glassy horror of the stream.

And though I wander from my race away, As some lone meteor, dim and distant, wheels In wintry banishment, where but a ray Of kindred stars in timid twilight steals Still will I catch the light that faintly falls Through my leaf-latticed window of the skies, And I will listen to the voice that calls From heaven, where the wind stricken forest sighs.

If greatness please thee, mount th' imperial seat; If pleasure charm thee, view this soft retreat; Here ev'ry warbler of the sky shall sing; Here ev'ry fragrance breathe of ev'ry spring: To deck these bow'rs each region shall combine, And e'en our prophet's gardens envy thine: Empire and love shall share the blissful day, And varied life steal, unperceiv'd, away.

And creatures to whom only God is kind, The loveless small things, the slow, and the blind, Soft steal through the rushes, and comfort find.

And, when fatigued, I sought retirement, Or left thee for a few short hours, Oft them wouldst steal into my chamber And strew my couch with fragrant flowers.

Somehow, at her words, a little warmth of comfortable reassurance steals about my heart.

And lest, at last, the world should learn heart-secrets; Lest that sweet wolf from some dim thicket steal; Better the glassy horror of the stream.