" CHAPTER XII A TEA CLUB TEA Patty rebelled at being overruled in this manner, but Marian had some Fairfield firmness of her own, and taking her cousin's arm led her to the library and plumped her down upon the couch in a reclining position, while she vigorously jammed pillows under her head.

The big white handkerchief attracted him and one corner hung down from the edge of the reclining chair.

She would have exchanged her reclining posture for that of the others, but her mother gently drew her down to her former position.

" Colonel Egerton laughed pleasantly, but he did not blush; and Miss Jarvis observed, with a look, of something like admiration thrown on his reclining figure, "that when Harry had been in the army as long as his friend, he would know the usages of good society, she hoped, as well.

A stupendously sculptured male figure, in a reclining attitude, and exhibiting, I suppose, as much learning in his torso as does the famous figure in the Elgin marbles, strikes one as the most triumphant statue of modern times.

From this piece also branched 4 glass bowls to show the hour by a style without a shadow, a shadow without a style, &c. Upon the upper part of the table were 8 reclining planes, 4 covered with looking-glass, on which the hour-lines, or style of a dial being painted, were reflected upon the bottom inclining planes of the third piece, and there showed the hour.

But that was long gone by: and waste and war, And civil strife more ruthless still than they, Had quenched the lustre of Glen-Lynden's star, Which glimmered now, with dim reclining ray, O'er this secluded spot,sole remnant of their sway.

Would I could turn and crush them into bones with my reclining weight.

He had visions of 'rosily dying,' of 'turning to daisies gently in the grave,' of a 'pink reclining death,' of death coming like a summer cloud over the soul.

On the upper part of the Table were 8 reclining dials, glazed, and showing the hour in different waysas by the shade of the style falling upon the hour-lines, the hour-lines falling on the style, or without any shade of hour-lines or style, &c. Upon this piece or table stood also 4 globes, cut into planes, with geographical, astronomical, and astrological dials.

The cushioned seat of a rickety old sofa in one corner bore the faint impress of a lean, reclining form.

The "Caroline" received the blast like a stout and buoyant ship, yielding readily to its impulse, until her side lay nearly incumbent on the element in which she floated; and then, as if the fearful fabric were conscious of its jeopardy, it seemed to lift its reclining masts again, struggling to work its way heavily through the water.

"Tell me," cry I, impulsively, raising myself from my reclining pose, and sitting upright, "you will understand better than I doperhaps it is my mistakebut, if you had seen a person only once for five or ten minutes, would you sign yourself 'Yours very sincerely' to them?" He laughs dryly.