" He went on out of the room, mumbling again incoherently.

He must have felt that I meant exactly what I said, for he walked off mumbling unintelligibly.

" CHAPTER XII AT THORS Below the windows of a long, low, stone house, in its architecture remarkably like a fortified farmbelow these deep-embrasured windows the river Oster mumbled softly.

"No, no; I am just a little short-sighted, that is all," he mumbled, rather awkwardly.

I exclaimed, "you have come to thisyou dare not speak, you dare not utter the name of 'Bonaparte' aloud; you barely mumble a few words in a whisper here, in this street, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, where, from all the doors, from all the windows, from all the pavements, from all the very stones, ought to be heard the cry, 'To arms.'

"Why don't you eat some grab, Toffee?" he mumbled cheerfully, with his mouth full.

He went on mumbling confusedly to himself.

"Pris'ner o' war," he mumbled, finally,contemptuously; for Dave's trousers were in rags like his own, and his chilblained toes stuck through the shoe-tops.

He paddled about the vessel, mumbling darkly in a strange tongue.

he mumbled derisively, as an officer approached.

Great Taylor mumbled disparagingly, "He got it from a book!"

"I reckon 'tis," Zeb drowsily mumbled.

I remember foolishly mumbling something to the silent man riding next to me, something about the power of recuperation of youth, about the comparative harmlessness of the pointed, steelmantled rifle bullets which on account of their terrific percussion make small clean wounds and rarely cause splintering of the bone or blood poisoning.

Beside a little smoky flame Sate hovering, pinched with age and frost; Her shrivelled hands, with veins embossed, Upon her knees her weight sustains, While palsy shook her crazy brains: She mumbles forth her backward prayers, An untamed scold of fourscore years.

" Ted stretched out his hand and grasped the tempting handle; then, averting his eyes, he hastily mumbled the prescribed words, burying his face in the mug immediately after.

"Hithit's a lie," Himes mumbled half-heartedly.

" I repeated the order to Yellow Handkerchief, who mumbled it huskily to his men.

" "Certainly, certainly," mumbled Haines, impatiently, as he endeavored to associate coherently, intelligently, in his mind those startling new revelations of Telfer with certain incidents he had previously noted in the operations of the committee on naval affairs.

" As Joseph was mumbling indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, and gave no sign of ascending, his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis with the ruffianly bitch and half a dozen four-footed fiends that suddenly broke into a fury, while I parried off the attack with a poker and called aloud for assistance.

So it stands, you perceive; the labial muscles, that swelled with Vehement evolution of yesterday Marseillaises, Articulations sublime of defiance and scorning, to-day col- Lapse and languidly mumble, while men and women and papers Scream and re-scream to each other the chorus of Victory.

As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed.

"Mayhap," mumbled the engineer, snuggling close.

Or, better yet, won't you come over and have dinner with us?" "Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he mumbled mechanically.

The guide was busy re-baiting the old gentleman's hook and merely mumbled "U-m-mm.

he mumbled mournfully, as we rode out of the yard.