He had furnished it nicelywhite lace curtains were no longer an unattainable luxury; no house in the town looked so clean, so bright, or so pretty as the doctor's People began to look up to him; it was rumored that he had had money left to hima fortune that rendered him independent of his practice.

" "The parlor curtains are a fright.

No one was there; everything appeared in precisely the same condition in which he had left it the evening before,his pen lying upon the paper as he had dropped it on going out, the candles on the table and the mantel-piece evidently not having been lighted, the window-curtains drawn aside as he had left them; in fine, there was not a single trace of any person's having been in the room.

The percipi in these originals of experience is the esse; the curtain is the picture.

The curtain which hung in the sanctuary was rent in two and hung in shreds at the sides; nothing was to be seen around but crumbled walls, crushed flagstones, and columns either partly or quite shaken down.

CHAPTER XIV As he walked into his bedroom, which was pleasantly warmfor there was a good fire, and the curtains across the three windows were closely drawnDr.

Coming closer, they saw the curtain was not canvas, but dressed deerskin. "Indians!" said the Colonel.

The curtain is a wall,a flying wall.

You felt that the curtain of fire, purring and crackling and sending up hot sparks to meet the kind, calm stars, was only a painted backdrop; that the reports of rifles from the dark ruins came from blank cartridges, and that these trembling shopkeepers and peasants ringed in bayonets would not in a few minutes really die, but that they themselves and their homes would be restored to their wives and children.

The curtains were liftedstill I lay rigidly and with closed eyelids before themnot from any notion of my own, but from the helplessness of my agony and the condition into which I was fast drifting.

If he had suffered, if the "fringed curtains of his eyes were all the night undrawn," we shall find his dreary experienceshis hours of pathetic misery, his nights of desolationvoiced by the tongues of his men and women.

The Curtain of Steel (HODDER AND STOUGHTON) is the fourth book which the author of In the Northern Mists has given us during the War, and in essentials it is the most valuable of the quartette.

The window curtains were dark red velvet; and through an open doorway Mary and her husband saw a corresponding luxury in the arrangements of the adjoining bedroom.

But the green window curtains with gold borders were the most significant symbols of love, in his eyes.

The drop curtain is fast descending; only a yard of space remains.

The Curtain isn't iron.

The same things were there materially; but the emblem, the reference, was gone!The green curtain was no longer a veil, drawn between two worlds, the unfolding of which was to bring back past ages, to present "a royal ghost,"but a certain quantity of green baize, which was to separate the audience for a given time from certain of their fellow-men who were to come forward and pretend those parts.

The window curtain awry where she had stood there during a feverish moment of the sleepless night, looking down upon the lights of Grant Park and the sombre black void beyond that was Lake Michigan.