The French pique themselves on being a gayer nation than the English; but they certainly must exclude their mornings from the account, for the forlorn and neglected figure of a Frenchman till dinner is a very antidote to chearfulness, especially if contrasted with the animation of our countrymen, whose forenoon is passed in riding or walking, and who make themselves at least decent before they appear even in their own families.

Although the circumstances of the times have necessitated a good deal of domestic oeconomy among people who live on their fortunes, they have lately assumed a gayer style of dress, and are less averse from frequenting public amusements.

It was too much; Mr. Raleigh opened the window and let in the daylight again, and a fresh air that lent the place a gayer life.

"Why, how now," said Robin, after a time, holding Sir Richard off and looking at him from top to toe, "methinks thou art a gayer bird than when I saw thee last.

" The conversation drifted to gayer topics, and the two soon fell into their wonted tone of banter.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language: for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile, An eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.

The high mass, which is celebrated by a priest who has taken the oaths, is frequented by a numerous, but, it must be confessed, an ill-drest and ill-scented congregation; while the low mass, which is later, and which is allowed the nonjuring clergy, has a gayer audience, but is much less crouded.

how short a time since Francis Jeffery, the smallest of great men, a beau in his old age, a wit to the last, stood hat in hand to bandy words with Sydney ere he rushed off to some still gayer scene, some more fashionable circle: yet they are all gonegone from sight, living in memory alone.

"Thou may'st find another maiden With a fairer face than mine With a gayer voice, and sweeter, And a spirit liker thine: For if e'er my beauty bound thee, Lost and broken is the spell; But thou canst not find another That will love thee half so well.

In gayer moments, and, perhaps, a little tinctured by romantic refinement, I have thought Dr. Johnson made poverty too exclusively the subject of compassion: indeed I believe he used to say, it was the only evil he really felt for.

Because you're young and of a gayer world, you think I can't see themthose old men?

Go back to your work, dear, for another year; think of Nan in the light of this new hope; compare her with comelier, gayer girls; and by absence prove the truth of your belief.

" When the maiden had listened demurely to her father's commandment, there was no gayer lady than she.

Who, though in silken scarf and cassock drest, Wears but a gayer livery, at best.

Thou hast a good reason for thy regrets, since a gayer marriage of the sea, or a braver regatta, has not been witnessed in Venice since thou wast born.

The shops had put on even a gayer appearance, and though there was no rich merchandize to be seen, the character of the meeting being merely that of a rustic fair, I was greatly surprised by the elegance of some of the commodities, and the taste of their arrangement.

Well, Sholto, I do not blame you for spending your time in gayer places than this.

There are many others with gayer plumage and more brilliant songs.

"Well, we are not all perfect, and I hope Mrs. Abbott will cheer up and look at this matter in a gayer point of view.

I would respectfully suggest that some gayer residence than Fillettino would be a sovereign remedy for her illness.

" Round or square caps, hoods and cloaks of black, gray, or other sombre hue, were, however, the prevalent garb of the members of the university; but here and there might be seen some gayer specimen of the tribe, whose broad-brimmed, high-crowned felt hat and flaunting feather;

As the animals failed, all the wood used in camp was obliged to be drawn a distance of from three to six miles by hand, but there were few gayer spectacles than the long strings of soldiers hurrying the wagons over the crunching snow.

You've no idea how much gayer things will look then.

Well,' he added, in a gayer tone, 'it has gratified me much to meet Lord Cadurcis.

From Moorea, Raiatea, Bora-Bora, and other islands, and from the rural districts of Tahiti, drifted the fairest who pursued pleasure, and to these cafés went the male tourists, the gayer traders, the sailors, and the Tahitian men of city ways, the chauffeurs, clerks, and officials.