Madam, Permission to love you is all I desire, to conquer all the Difficulties those about you place in my Way, to surmount and acquire all those Qualifications you expect in him who pretends to the Honour of being, Madam, Your most humble Servant, Clytander.

The madam, with this little attendant, was everywherein the barn, in the hennery, in the smokehouseand she always made trouble with the servants wherever she went.

"Miss Clarissa is pretty well to-day, thank you, and ole madam is in the drawing-roomLaw!"

That, Madam, is the key to our Eastern policy: a grateful Kaliphat, claiming allegiance from the whole Mahometan world, bound to us by instincts of self-preservationand we hold henceforth the gorgeous East in fee with redoubled security.

Pray, your Honour, said she, if I may be so bold, was madam ever a mamma? No[and I sighed.]We have been but a little while married; and as I may say to you, it is her own fault that she is not in that way.

" Is there not any "accounting for girls," my dear madam?

He twirled a button, Without a glance my way: "But, madam, is there nothing else That we can show to-day?" XIII.

Why then, Madam, what I knocke out now is the very Maribone of mirth; and this it is.

Madam," he added, "this is Judge Clayton.

Mony's the time that I've heard him swearfor Michael was an awfu' hand at that vice, when his betters were no near to rebuke himbut often has he swore that Madam, and her winsome daughters, were the pride of his een; ay, and their delight too!"

Madam, To approach the high and the illustrious has been, in all ages, the privilege of poets; and though translations cannot justly claim the same honour, yet they naturally follow their authors as attendants; and I hope that, in return for having enabled Tasso to diffuse his fame through the British dominions, I may be introduced by him to the presence of your majesty.

Why, I hope Madam there be other things to Court Ladies withall besides voyces.

"Old Madam was a saint," they observed, "but she couldn't come and look arter us hersen, poor dear.

LORD B. In the history of my race, Madam, there has been a great tradition of faithfulness between husbands and wives.

DEAREST MADAM,There had not been so long an interval between my two last letters, but that, when I came hither, I did not at first understand the hours of the post.

DEAR MADAM,That you are gradually recovering your tranquillity is the effect to be humbly expected from trust in God.

Presently, however, the door was gently tapped, and on her call "Come in," Hans, all one grin, admitted Peregrine Oakshott, bowing low in his foreign, courteous manner, and entreating her to excuse his intrusion, "For truly, madam, in your goodness is my only hope.

"Lord T. Nor am I, madam, a husband so well bred as to bear my wife's being so fond of it; in short, the life you lead, madam "Lady T. Is, to me, the pleasantest life in the world.

'Yes, madam,' was the reply; 'it certainly has cleared up enough for one, but not enough for two;' and off he went.

This, madam, is its ordinary fate; but yours, which is accompanied by virtue, is not subject to that common destiny.

The City Madam is an extraordinarily spirited picture of actual life, idealized into a semi-comic strain of poetry.

Else we might easily imagine, upon some other system which might have prevailed for any thing which our pathology knows to the contrary, a lover addressing his mistress, in perfect simplicity of feeling, "Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your disposal;" or putting a delicate question, "Amanda, have you a midriff to bestow?"

"Madam," he said, "it is a great pleasure to us to meet Colonel Johnson here in the forest, but we have the unexpected and still greater pleasure of meeting his lady also.

He laughed, but looked astonished, and said, "My dear Madam, my name is Dodgson, and 'Alice's Adventures' was written by Lewis Carroll."

MADAM, "Tho' the transporting promise you made me of refusing admittance to all company but mine, is a new instance of your goodness, yet I cannot but think we should be still more secure from interruption at a place I have taken care to provide.