A short Reprieve I hadand by a kind Mistake, Diana only was my Bedfellow

The sudden crop of reprints, dated 1561 and 1562, proves the Diana to have been then a new book, and inclines me to place the actual publication somewhat after the date suggested by Kelly.

" Diana, the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, is the queen of Meredith's heroines.

Apollo became the god of the sun, as Diana was the goddess of the moon.

Diana, worldly, cold and calculating as was her nature, had been profoundly touched by Arthur's devotion to her.

Add to this a quick wit, a generous though spicy temper, and a nimble tongue, and you will not wonder that Miss Diana was a marked character at Mapleton, and that the inquiry who she was was one of the most interesting facts of statistical information.

Chloe was an ordinary mortal negress enough, but Diana might have been the Huntress of the Woods herself, done into the African type.

But if any of these aforenamed young fellows advanced on the strength of these intimacies a presumptive claim to nearer relationship, why, then Diana was astonishedof course she had regarded them as her cousins!

Diana, his sister, When nobody kiss'd her, Was a saint, (at least a semi one,) Yet the vixen Scandal Made a terrible handle Of her friendship for Eudymion.

Fred could see that she was moulded more beautifully than the Graces,by so much more as Nature is fairer than all Art,and that she had an inward pure coldness, beside which Diana's was only stone.

"Isn't it unusual for you to present debutantes, Diana?" "You know these girls, don't you, Arthur?"

Being rather impartial judgesfor Diana was not a popular favorite with her setthey decided it was absurd to suppose a niece of wealthy old John Merrick would descend to stealing any one's jewelry.