O'HARA, EDWIN V. With the divine retreat master.

Top ladies and vis-à-vis gentlemen cross to each other's places; advance four steps; retreat ditto; cross back towards partners, who set to them as they advance; turn partners; which ends first half of figure.

In return for the possession of the land, and for the protection guaranteed by the European governments, one, and one only demand was madenamely, that a certain accommodation should be offeredthe amount determined by agreement year by yearboth for these Retreat-houses in general, and for what were called "Hospitals-of-God" in particular.

His last hope had been the retreat southward in the month of February.

The effect upon the Germans was apparent from the fact that General Hans von Boehm, the German "retreat specialist" had been appointed to the supreme command on the Somme front.

This maneuvering could not, of course, be carried out without the forces guarding the rear and covering the retreat suffering sometimes terrible losses.

Mr. Thomasson had already set the example of a prudent retreat thither; and Lord Almeric, with a feeble, 'Lord, this is very surprising!

He left his smoking retreat amidships, took off his hat with a sort of airy gravity, and approached them.

The retreat wards, with accommodations in each wing for eighteen patients, show in this particular how little the old method of strict confinement is to be employed in the new institution.

Hungry, thirsty, footsore, all but panic-stricken, for with the actual retreat apprehension had augmented with each slow mile, thanking the Providence which had permitted them to arrive unmolested, a sorry-looking band of refugees, they faced the old smoothbore cannon before the big south gate and craved admittance.

The retreat gun is fired at the last note of retreat.

However, in these retreats religion especially became a passion.