"More than ever, darling!" was Henry's fervent answer.

Miss Darling was head mistress of the Diocesan School at Amherst near Rangoon, and her pupils were bathing in the sea when one of them was bitten in the leg by a shark or alligator.

'My darling must be a lady,' she used to say.

"For nothing at all, my darling; for nothingI am such a fool.

Darling, that money is Mrs. Jacobs's money, by every moral right.

I suppose Mrs. Darling could be my new mother.

And you, Adele, I pray that you will go and sleep, my poor darling, for it has been a weary journey.

a few days, perhaps. "Darling," he said, coming to her bedside one day, "isn't there some secret you would like to confide in mesome secret that has been hurting and distressing you?

Dr. Mattoon was president of Biddle then and Dr. Darling was president of the girls' school.

See what I have bought you this morning," said he, handing her a necklace of the purest pearls; "here, darling, is a birth-day present for you."

At eve he dons his nightgown green, And goes to bed right early, At morn, he spreads his yellow skirts To catch the dewdrops pearly; A darling elf is Dandelion, A roguish wanton sweeting; Yet he is loved by ev'ry child, All give him joyous greeting.

For, that my darling was Ernie's Angy, I could not doubt, and the thought moved me to tremulous emotion.

William Darling, Grace's father, was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland.