" "I think you carry these notions too far, dearest Mary, and that it is possible for man and wife most heartily to love each other, and to be happy in each other, without their thinking exactly alike on religion.

He looked into her face, and, reading its agony, said, with feeble earnestness, "Mourn not, dearest mother.

"My lord of Bourne," said he, "dear my friend, to thy care I give this lady Abbess, Duchess of Pentavalonmy well-beloved and noble mother.

"Dear my love," she whispered, "in but a little hour I shall be thine: art happy in the thought?

If you with all your strength care for her and love her, God will reward you, both in this present life and in the future with life eternal; and to do this with all the strength we have, we pray you, do it diligently, dearest brethren.'

In this wish, indeed, I include myself, who have none but you on whom my heart reposes; yet surely I wish your good, even though your situation were such as should permit you to communicate no gratifications to, dearest, dearest Madam, Your, &c. SAM JOHNSON.' (BOSWELL.)

'Tis no new thing this, God's best servants and dearest children have been so visited and tried.

I want you so, O dearest girl in all the world!

"Beltane," she whispered 'neath his kiss, "dear my lord and husband, here is an end at last of sorrow and heart-break, I pray.

"No, dearest Gertrude, I could not refuse you, whatever you might ask.

"Now tell me, dearest husband, I pray thee tell me true, Who were thy parents, and what land thy birth and nurture knew?

"But, dearest heart, here we are standing in the middle of the highway," said he; "suffer me to conduct you to my sister's house, where you shall have an apartment with a child of nature having some slight resemblance to yourself."

"I have sent for you, dearest Miles," my sister continued, "not that I think it probable I shall be called away soon or suddenlyGod will spare me for a little while, I humbly trust, in order to temper the blow to those I love; but he is about to call me to him, and we must all be prepared for it; you, and dear, dear Lucy, and my beloved guardian, as well as myself.

"Are you alone, dearest Maud?

20 Dear is the forest frowning o'er his head, And dear the velvet green-sward to his tread: Moves there a cloud o'er mid-day's flaming eye?

"O Sir Hacon!" cried the Duchess, "did I not bid thee to thy bed?" "Why truly, dear my lady, but since I may not go forth myself, fain would I see my good comrades ride into the battlefaith, methinks I might yet couch a lance but for fear of this thy noble lady,

"We have lately passed through a terrible scene together, dearest Adelheid.

Can you ask why, my dearest Miss Howe, of a creature, who, in the world's eye, had enrolled her name among the giddy and inconsiderate; who labours under a parent's curse, and the cruel uncertainties, which must arise from reflecting, that, equally against duty and principle, she has thrown herself into the power of a man, and that man an immoral one? Must not the sense she has of her inconsideration darken her most hopeful prospects?

This night, this very hour thou shalt wed me" "Nay, dear my lordbethink thee" "It hath been my thoughtmy dearest dream since first I saw thee within the woods at Mortainso now shalt wed me" "But, Beltane" "Shalt wed me!" "Nay, love, IIthou art so sudden!

But dearest Lucy, all these agreeable and delusive anticipations have vanished.

" "Nay," whispered the friar, with pleading hand on Beltane's arm, "'tis thing impossible" "Yet must I try, good brother" "Ah, dear my son, 'twill be thy death" "Why look you, gentle friar, I am in Belsaye, and Belsaye 'is in the hand of God!'

Since you went away I have had vexatious hours, hours of darkness, in which one can do nothing; after your departure I roamed about for full three hours in the Schoenbrunner Alley, also on the ramparts; but no angel met me who could take such hold on me as you, angel!Forgive, dearest Bettina (friend), this digression from the key; I must have such intervals in order to give vent to my feelings.

I thought you were brave, and strong, and clean, and honest, and beautiful, and dearoh, quite the best and dearest man in the world, I thought you, Billy Woods!

honest, outspoken, confidential, clever little Nancy, who calls me her 'dearest Mr. Hamilton' and thanks me for letting her live in my yellow house, you shall never be disturbed, and if you and Gilbert ever earn enough money to buy it, it shall go to you cheap!

Only, as Effie says about her housekeeping, the two dearest things in living are butter and experience!"