"We could 'ave done with them," said the speaker bitterly; "pretty cold it was in this 'ere car.

" Miss Vale sat staring at the speaker dumbly for a space; then she asked in a dry, expressionless way: "And do you really think this is what happened?" Ashton-Kirk shook his head.

I was a tolerably frequent speaker, sometimes of prepared speeches, sometimes extemporaneously.

in a perfect Babel of orderly confusion. (Speaker, very solemnly and decidedly,) "Strangers must withdraw!"

"He has danced with me twice this evening," said the first speaker triumphantly; "and he danced with me twice last Sunday at the Jardin d'Armide.