If the Greenlander be unsuccessful in fishing, the Huron in hunting, or in war; if even the scarcely half reasoning Hottentot finds every thing is not right in his mind, body, or fortune, no time must be lost before the spirit be invoked.

Huerta's twenty pieces of field artillery, neatly posted in a straight line on the open plain, barely half a mile away from his ammunition railway train, kept firing at the supposed rebel positions all day long without any appreciable interruption, and all day long the artillery caissons and limbers kept trotting to and fro between the batteries and ammunition cars.

"Why that thar girl is crazy to get married," he argued, half angrily.

'I think, my dear,' said Mrs. Lavington (who had, half unconsciously to herself, more reasons than one for bringing the young lord to Whitford), 'I think, my dear, that his conversation, with all its faults, will be a very improving change for your father.

He sought with unobtrusive tenderness to anticipate her slightest want; he jumped to his feet and brought her a cup of water; he shoved aside a burning branch which rolled impudently too near the divine foot; he removed the offending fish from under her nostrils hastily and half apologetically; he piled the fire high when he saw her shiver.

For every morning, at precisely half-past nine, a smart motor-brougham arrived at the door of the private hotel and carried Rayner off Citywards; every afternoon at exactly half-past five the same conveyance brought him back.

" "You've scolded me so often for that," said Lady Mary, half mockingly, half sadly.

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[Half aloud, watching the BUTTERFLY.]

In other words, judging by the progress of the canoes, there might be a difference of merely half an hour or so between the time of the arrival of the boat and that of the canoes.

She laughed, half-bitterly, half-nervously, at the idea, and turning away her face she held out her hand to him.

" "You've scolded me so often for that," said Lady Mary, half mockingly, half sadly.

She looked at the young man half fearfully as she asked: "What is your task?" "Why, first to quiet Louise's fears; then to turn her by specious argumentslies, if you willagainst Weldon; next to induce her to give me her hand in honest wedlock.

WHEWELL was a man of robust physique and hearty appetite, and I noted that he ate no fewer than thirteen, considerably more than half the total.

When asked regarding her knowledge of languages and science, he answered that he had been attracted to Arnheim by the most extravagant reports on these points, but that he must return confessing 'the half thereof had not been told unto him.'

(Brutus and Cassius appeared in the Spanish cloak; they wore, quite contrary to the Roman custom, the sword by their side in time of peace, and, according to the testimony of an eye witness, it was, in the dialogue where Brutus stimulates Cassius to the conspiracy, drawn, as if involuntarily, half out of the sheath).

There, all among the women and children, half-shyly, half-defiantly, they pecked at the plaster flesh and returned to resume the conversation in the piazza with a new serenity and confidence in their hearts.

he said, half wistfully.

"I do not know, though, why I should have detained him," she said, half laughingly.

"More's the pity!" said John, half lightly, half sadly, as they went on hand in hand.

His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, Elate philosopher!

" "I am sure you do," she said wistfully, and impulsively half put out her hand.

"Maggieyou don't say so," said her mother, half incredulously.

This stroke of cynicism is put forward as it were but half intentionally, and with no appreciation of its intense irony in the mouth of the husband.