"And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely.

But now the time was come that Timon could shut his ears no longer to the representations of this faithful steward.

In vain did his honest steward Flavius try to represent to him his condition, laying his accounts before him, begging of him, praying of him, with an importunity that on any other occasion would have been unmannerly in a servant, beseeching him with tears, to look into the state of his affairs.

" "Me?" interrupted the unfortunate steward.

No, my false steward; your accounts are true; You have dishonour'd me, I worshipp'd you.

About midday he returns, and, finding his patient no better, administers a bolus; and while we are all standing about the bed, and Dawson the colour of death, and groaning, betwixt the nausea of the drug he had swallowed and the cramp in his inwards, in comes our Captain Ballcock and the little steward.

It would be a notable feat for the humble steward to be the means of bringing the young people together and thereby bringing to an end the feud of a dozen years.

"By making him the responsible steward of heaven's bounties."Anti-

He generally accompanies you in your morning ride, shows you your new lands, consults with you about throwing up exhausted fields, and is generally a sort of farm-bailiff or confidential land-steward.

His ubiquitous steward, laden with hand luggage, paused for a moment.

Presently we hear the humpbacked steward's footsteps on the deck above our heads, and, with a quick succession of little bumps, half a dozen boiled potatoes come rolling down the stairs of the companionway into the cabin.

Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful stewards, who have seen the danger and yet have given no warning.

His excuse for following was the bag, his reason for leaving the volcanic condition of its owner's temper, coupled with the fact that he appeared to be sublimely ignorant that the most devoted steward in the world was tagging faithfully along a yard or two in the rear.

On my part I made no effort at greeting, not certain as to what eyes might be observing us through the deck light above, or, for the matter of that, unwilling to face the curiosity of the watchful steward.

"Here we are, then, Mr. Wilks," he said, putting his head in the door and smiling at the agitated steward.

"You see, he don't know that we know each other," explained the apologetic steward, "but I don't like leaving you in the kitchen.

To wait upon them was the dumb steward, whose head Sharkey split with a glass, because he had been too slow in the filling of it.

"] CHAPTER IV For the next month or two Master Hardy's existence was brightened by the efforts of an elderly steward who made no secret of his intentions of putting an end to it.

We must not confound him with the eternal old, low steward of comedy.

Mozart and the gray steward.

An idle and ridiculous idea, which occurred to him in connection with them, was dismissed at once as too preposterous for a sensible steward to entertain.

The lot fell upon the Herenach [hereditary steward] of Cluain Earaird.

" He closed the door after him quietly, and the horrified steward, after fetching the bed-clothes on tiptoe from the kitchen, locked the door which led to the staircase, and after making up a bed on the floor lay down in his clothes and tried to get to sleep.

He produced an immense orange, also a vast store of almonds and raisins, which had been given him by the good-natured steward.

" The mother clasp'd her babe with bitter cry, But a rude hand enforced it from her arms, And the rough steward held it up on high, Laughing aloud the while at her alarms; Said he unto his master; "This shall be A bait to draw her on with willingly.