" He went first straight back through the town and up the hill to the two tents.

He sat in a high-backed, elaborately carved oaken chair, with a gray dignity of aspect that might have well befitted that very Father Time, whose power had never been disputed, save by this fortunate company.

Twice I arose when the assistant did, resolved to accompany him part way back.

Lord ROBERT CECIL, safely back from his travels, does not appear to have kept himself up to date in the interval, for he was ignorant of the refusal of the Allies to allow Greece to set up a republic, although Mr. KING, with his superior sources of information, knows all about it.

The sweep of her hair made a shadowy veil around her; his mind harked swiftly back.

In the meantime, I grew plump and glossy and broad-backed, and as my masters observed I ate no hay, they spied on me one evening.

Kneeling behind a big spruce, Noel was trying nervously the spring and temper of his long bow, divided in desire between the caribou, which they needed sadly at home, and one of the great wolves whose death would give him a place among the mighty hunters, when Mooka clutched his arm, her eyes snapping with excitement, her finger pointing silently back on their own trail.

Her maid knocked, backed out hastily and fled, distracted.

Men stood in shirt-sleeves at their cabin doors in the unwinking sunshine, looking up the valley or down, betting that the "first boat in" would be one of those nearest neighbours, May West or Muckluck, coming up from Woodworth; others as ready to back heavily their opinion that the first blast of the steam whistle would come down on the flood from Circle or from Dawson.

The fisher-cat was the first to move cautiously back to the forests that had been, but the porcupines were still rolled into balls when Gray Wolf and Kazan left the sand-bar.

he gasped, shaking the assistant violently back and forth.

Dora held firmly the forelock of the mare, and patted the good animal's head with the other hand; but, strange to say, the animal did not like being held by the young lady, and gradually she backed, first toward the side of the barn, and then out toward the open yard.

Darrin leaped nimbly back, both from a chivalrous impulse to give Treadwell a chance to recover his steadiness and to save himself from any sudden rush and clinch by his big opponent.

The weapon in his hand swept wildly back and forth.

Deep back they went through a pitch-black gloom, and it grew warmer and warmer, and the wailing of the wind died away until it was only a murmur.

One enormous oath exploded from his lips, and he backed sullenly through the door and slammed it after him.

He rose now and strode across the room and back; from the wall the heavy echo of his footfall came sharply back.

" She turned over her shoulder to glance at Johnnie, who was pulling vigorously back.

The bedroom door swung noiselessly back, fanning out the etheric fumes, and closed again upon an emerging figure.

And he looked keenly at Robin, who gazed boldly back again into his eyes.

Everything was ready, and as they drove away, the major, leaning luxuriously back, exclaimed, "Now I begin to enjoy travelling, for I'm no longer worried by the thought of luggage, time-tables, trains, and the everlasting perplexity of thalers, kreutzers, and pfenniges.

Tell me!" He slid hurriedly back to safety and pounded the rock above his head with his bare fists.

Or is he to lapse helplessly back into his original conditionto be absorbed into the dense masses of surrounding barbarism?

Before Slade had time to note that there was no response to his outstretched hand, the surgeon had jumped in and pushed him roughly back upon his pillow.

She turned her face from him again, but he leaned slowly forward in his chair and taking her chin between his finger and thumb turned it deliberately back again.