They listened attentively enough to all W. had to say.

I bent my head, quickly, more into the opening, and listened, intently.

Students, nurses, etc., would eagerly listen to his informal expositions in the wards, as he invariably showed a grasp of the subject that was equally minute and comprehensive.

They at once stopped eating, stood erect, and listened patiently until I came to "Old Hundredth," when with ludicrous haste every one of them rushed to their holes and bolted in, their feet twinkling in the air for a moment as they vanished.

" They had stopped in their walk now, and Edith Morriston was listening almost breathlessly to Gifford's graphic story.

I listened anxiously for the reply.

" The priest listened silently, but with that look of brotherliness on his face that made it so easy to talk to him.

She went peacefully home with her husband, and after a good night's rest in the little rooms he had taken for her, she was able to listen calmly when told next day of the capture of the whole Marac family.

He listened to her very gravely, and answered yes, that he was one of the officers, and could tell her whatever she wanted to know; but when she told him what she wanted, he too shook his head.

But he thus answered the king: "Listen awhile, if justice be thy aim, And thou wilt find me guiltless.

Salaman's last fall, and I guess she's got more ready dust even now, before the washin' begins, than anybody here except Salaman and the A.C. There ain't a man in Minóok who wouldn't listen respectfully to Maudie's views on any business propositiononce he was sure she wasn't fooling.

One teacher brought out an attractive picture and when a group of children gathered round it she proceeded to tell the story; they listened politely for a few minutes, and then the group gradually melted away; they were not ready for concentrated effort.

Jyanough's heart is open and clear before the eyes of his friend; and he will gladly listen again to all the good things that Henrich tells him, for his heart says that they are true.

" I would willingly have listened longer; but, yielding to his prudent suggestion, again composed myself to rest, and left my good monitor to his melancholy meditations.

But, when the captain heard Miss Weston was there to keep an appointment, he put out the accommodation ladder, took her on board, had the notice piped that she had come to give an address; and soon a crowd of sailors was swarming round her in the upper deck battery, standing, sitting, lying, kneelingall earnestly listening.

After mentioning that she also had called in passing to make inquiries, and declaring that both mother and children looked remarkably well, she relapsed into gloomy silence, scarcely listening to Marianne, who thanked her for having come.

" He listened sympathetically now, his head well on one side.

He talks much, and, as we have said, well; impatient, at times, of interruption, and at other times readily listening to those who have anything to say.

And still the men crowded round, listening greedily, just as everybody devours certain public prints without ceasing to impeach their veracity.

I doubt very much whether the masses would listen favorably to an empire established by foreign aid.

He stood with one foot on the bottom stair, listening acutely.

I learned a great deal from merely listening while the men talked at dinner.

I listen, Sir, impatiently.

But Mrs. Preston was prejudiced against Andy, and listened coldly.

Loneli, who had been listening intensely, interrupted.