They came most often after some great emotion in the theatre, when the sight of the painted mask in the glass shocked and disgusted her as it did to-night; when the contrasts of life were almost more than she could bear, when her sensibilities awoke again, when the fastidiousness of the delicately nurtured girl revolted under the rough familiarity of such a comrade as Stromboli, and rebelled against the sordid cynicism of Schreiermeyer.

In no long while after the birth of her son she conceived of a maid, who in the years that befell grew passing sweet and fair, and richly was she nurtured as became the daughter of so high a prince.

And in his bosom fondly nurtured hopes To travel likewise on the dang'rous sea.

If he felt some pride of race, we cannot blame the plain-liver and high-thinker, who, robbing himself of luxuries and necessaries even, enabled his kinsmen to maintain their rank among folk gently born and nobly nurtured.

His real parents are his grandfather and his uncle Abu Talib; but more than these, the desert that nurtured him, physically and mentally, that bounded his horizon throughout his life and impressed its mighty mysteries upon his unconscious childhood and his eager, imaginative youth.

How shall this budding affection be rightly nurtured and developed so that it shall flower and bring forth good fruit?

VII WILLIE STANDS UP It is not the most roughly nurtured of us who will rough it the most cheerfully.

Catherine had scarcely nurtured a thought which she had not confided to her father; being her only parent, she looked up to him as the directing source of all her actions.

Very sweetly nurtured was the lad.

It was evident she had been subjected to extremely brutal treatmentsuch as, in these days of improved legislation in such matters, and greatly advanced knowledge of the origin and remedy of cerebral infirmity, would not be permitted towards the meanest human being, much less a tenderly-nurtured, delicate female.

And can pen describe the nameless horrors of the timegently nurtured ladies outraged and slain before the eyes of their husbands, children and helpless infants slaughtereda very Golgotha of butchery, as all know who have read of the Well of Cawnpore?

And there was so much of sweetness in the youngster's nature that, unruly though he might be, he never nurtured a grievance.

Far apart now in their points of view, the expensively nurtured Merle, and Wilbur, who had grown as he would, whose education was of the street and the open, they found a common ground and rejoiced in their contact.