" "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.

Now good-bye, dearest Mamma.

But since you dislike what I have said, let me implore you, dearest Madam, to give the only proper sanction to it, by naming an early day.

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.

God bless you, dearest Mary; pray attribute blots and incoherences to my countless interruptions.

And still he insisted upon the propriety of appearing to be married, for the reasons he had given beforeAnd, dearest creature, said he, why this high displeasure with me upon so well-intended an expedient?

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

A thousand, thousand thanks, dearest Ghita, for this one act of kindness.

"You are quite happy, dearest Ellen!"

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.'

I think, dearest mother, we shall be happier than ever!'

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.)

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

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

"Cut off in this manner, from my nearest and dearest natural friend," Paul continued, "I was thrown, an infant, into the care of hirelings; and, in this at least, my fortune was still more cruel than your own; for the excellent woman who has been so happy as to have had the charge of your infancy, had nearly the love of a natural mother, however she may have been wanting in the attainments of one of your own condition in life.

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

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

"Will you not go to bed, dearest Emmeline?

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

"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?

"This is kind, and like yourself, dearest Maud," exclaimed the young man, taking the hand of his visiter, and pressing it in both his own, though he strangely neglected to kiss her cheek, as he certainly would have done had it been Beulah"This is kind and like yourself; now I shall learn something of the state of the family.

It isn't Esther's because it's too old and it begins 'Dearest wife' and it isn't Mary's because it isn't Doctor Coombe's writing; so you see I thought it might not hurt anybody if I pretended it was mine.