Mr. T. said he had one good thing to say of the negroes, viz., that they were an exceedingly temperate people.

But I was all nervous and upset, and as I couldn't face my wife or settle to anything until I knew the police had got the letter and found the body, Ithough a strictly temperate man in the ordinary course of life, sirsat down in one of the little compartments of the place and ordered a glass of wine to pass the time till the first editions of the evening papers came outthey are usually out here about noon.

Señor Sanchez, who was an employee of the Spanish forestry bureau, told me that in the highlands of Northern Luzón at an elevation of about five thousand feet, there was a region of pines and oaks blessed with a perpetually temperate climate and even with occasional frosts.

" "I suppose she cursed me properly?" "Oh, no." "Beyond referring to you in one passage as 'this blasted Glossop', she was, I thought, singularly temperate in her language for a woman who at one time hunted regularly with the Quorn.

When we happen to see an individual whose countenance is "all tranquillity and smiles;" who is full of good-humour and pleasantry; whose manners are gentle and conciliating; who is uniformly temperate in his expressions, and punctual and just in his every-day dealings; we are apt to conclude from so fair an outside, that "All is conscience and tender heart" within also, and that such a one would not hurt a fly.

He was remarkably temperate in eating and drinking, and parsimonious in his habits.

But the strange thing of it was that, though I am a man more than ordinarily temperate, that night I poured the Rhenish into me like water down a cistern-pipe and felt it not.