"Dearly beloved priest," wrote St. Alphonsus, "when you take the Breviary in your hand, imagine that an angel stands on one side to register your merits in the Book of Life if you say the Office with devotion, and on the other a devil who, if you recite it with distraction, writes your faults in the book of death.

George Macdonald's stories are all too well known and too universally beloved to need recommendation.

Life was always beautiful to her loving soul; for when the shadows held a meaning deeper than she could solve, her answer was faith; and now, that her new joy was to grow out of a deep solitariness for the father so tenderly beloved, it was he who upheld her courage.

" "God bless you, my deeply beloved ones!"

No fragile and lovely girl, fading untimely into heaven, was ever more passionately beloved than this white-haired and world-weary man.

"In particular, he greatly loved the Marchioness of Pescara, of whose divine spirit he was enamoured, being in return dearly beloved by her.

These extraordinary qualities, set off with great sweetness and affability, made him universally beloved by his people.

It is, however, deservedly beloved of the angler and the huntsman.

And so it came to pass that this woman, so well known, so widely beloved, lay a night and a day dead, within a few hours' journey of her home as unknown as if she had been cast up from a shipwrecked vessel on a strange shore.

In Paris," she went on, "have I been wonderfully beloved, and in northern lands near the pole" "ButEngland?" said Antony.

Oh, yes, wildly-beloved Miriam, the noblest, truest, as I have ever thought youthe most beautiful, too, surely, of all God's created beings!"

" He took her hands and kissed them tenderly With quiet kisses, long and calm, which held Sure promise of the strength he fain would give; Then, bending o'er her yearningly, he said In tones that stilled her spirit into rest, "God guard you, my beloved, evermore.

Farewell, then, my beloved Herbert, beloved faithfully, unchangeably in death as you have been in life.

There was a time when I was vain enough to think that my affection was all that was necessary for your happiness; but men, I know, require more to fill their cup of content than the undivided affection of a woman, no matter how fervently beloved.

* We will not linger on the first few weeks that passed over the inmates of Oakwood after the death of one we have followed so long, and beheld so fondly and deservedly beloved.

'Sally and Mrs. Sinclair next praised, but not grossly, my beloved.

The letters to Lesbia were of less consequence; for Lesbia, albeit so intensely beloved, was not in her grandmother's confidence, least of all about those schemes and dreams which concerned her own fate.

Marry they could not yet, and perhaps the unalloyed bliss of that hour might have originated in the fact that they thought only of the presentthe blessed knowledge that they loved each other, were mutually beloved.

It was on the prisoners in the different places of confinement that the work of death was to be done: and she had been specially marked out for slaughter, not solely because she was beloved by Marie Antoinette, but also, it was understood, because, as she was very rich, and sister-in-law to the Duc d'Orléans, that detestable prince desired to add her inheritance to his OWD already vast riches.

He had all the prestige of a conqueror, and was personally beloved, besides being a man of ability.

Yet this is the picture of a man plentifully beloved, large-minded but strangely naïf; a revolutionist of childlike directness.

The following is the beginning of his answer to a demand that the fugitive should be surrendered: "Sixthly, Beloved, "Is it so then, that our brother and fellow-labourer in the Gospel is start aside?

It grieves me to part from your excellent father, from yourself, from our precious and rightfully beloved Lucy, and from dear, dear Miles.

The priests, still living, who were co-workers with Father Fahy and appointed by him to various partidos, are Monsignor Samuel O'Reilly, deservedly beloved by his parishioners, and the Rev. Father Flannery, whose appointment to San Pedro brought a great influx of Irish farmers into that district.

She was beloved so warmly, and returned the affection of its owner so sincerely, that the arrival of the day never failed to excite that flow of spirits which generally accompanies anticipated pleasures, ere experience has proved how trifling are the greatest enjoyments the scenes of this life bestow.