She thought it a very becoming mark of respect to the deceased Mr. Scudder that his widow and daughter should be brought to mind,so becoming and praiseworthy, in fact, that, "though an old woman," as she said, with a complacent straightening of her tall, lithe figure, she really thought she must make an effort to go.

Doctor, I must call by-and-by and have a little talk with you,my theology, you know, needs a little straightening.

It is the key-note of all that architecture; and a brief examination into the principles of this, new birth of the Lotus, of the monumental straightening and stiffening of its graceful and easy lines, will afford some insight into the strange processes of the human mind, when it follows the grandest impulse of Love, and out of the material beauties of Nature creates a work of Art.

" This time she had found the right note: she knew it by the tightening of her father's slack muscles and the sudden straightening of his back.

As for the undaunted straightening of the shoulders, she adopted it, and after a time it grew to be a characteristic gesture with her.

Merle obeyed the call, and in the library of the Whipple New Place, where once he had been chosen to bear the name of the house, he listened with shocked amazement while Harvey D., with much worried straightening of pictures, rugs, and chairs, told him why Whipple money could no longer meet the monthly deficit of the New Dawn.