I thought so, and was on the point of satisfying this wonder by a quick advance upon this stranger, when there happened an uncanny thing, which held me in check from sheer astonishment.

He's an old man now and that happened years and years ago.

"There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put it in great consternation.

Hence, in such cases, there usually happens some unfortunate event or other, which occasions the interruption of the story.

Twenty-four hours after the falling of the cliff, it seemed as if it had happened ages ago.

Such accidents happening several miles from home may have far more serious consequences, and every Ski runner, who scoffs at the precautions of people more fussy than themselves, may very likely have the life or limb of someone else on their mind when, had they been a little more fussy, they might have saved it.

MORAL: Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, "It Might Have Been." THE FABLE OF WHAT HAPPENED THE NIGHT THE MEN CAME TO THE WOMEN'S CLUB

" Happening one day to mention Mr. Flaxman, the doctor replied, "Let me hear no more of him, sir; that is the fellow who made the index to my Ramblers, and set down the name of Milton thus: 'Milton, Mr, John.'" Goldsmith said that he thought he could write a good fable, mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requires, and observed that, in most fables, the animals introduced seldom talk in character.

" "And then what would happen?" enquired Bellew.

When it had happened it seemed to have happened thousands of years ago.

Taking with him a force of 200 Spaniards, partly horse and part foot, with 300 Indians to carry the baggage, he marched to Guixos, the most distant place or frontier of the empire of the Incas; in which place there happened a great earthquake, accompanied with much rain and dreadful lightning, by which seventy houses were swallowed up.

What has happened now?" "A discovery.

He fetches his next Thought from Tyburn; and seems very apprehensive lest there should happen any Innovations in the Tragedies of his Friend Paul Lorrain.

XLVIII.In two days after this transaction, there happened an unexpected misfortune.

Oh, surely it has never happened beforethis meeting of Secret Friendsand surely no friend ever loved her friend as I love you, and surely there never was so little room for sin and disappointment in any love as there is in ours.

Within the five weeks of my being here, there have happened three deaths, which certainly nobody expected six weeks ago.

If that happens war becomes not a risk but a certainty.

"Dat was a funny thing how dat happened an' Bledsoe, it was right 'cross de riber from where I was en had been for two years

There is no longer a remedy, and there is none for whatever may happen our poor bodies, so preserve yours.

Though many years have elapsed, the events of those three weeks seem as vivid in my memory as though they had happened yesterdaythe brightness of the jewels, the dazzling gold, the nerves wrought to the highest pitch of tension while waiting in eager expectation for the result of a search.

What's happened ter Burke, sir?" "Knifed.

The third day, towards evening, there happening a calm, and the current being very strong, we were drove to the N.N.E. towards the land.

Before anyone realized what was happening a big grey car shot down the road with the slender figure of Mrs. Winterbottom at the wheel.

CHAPTER III THE BALL CHAPTER IV HIS LORDSHIP'S PROPOSAL CHAPTER V BACCHUS AND BACCHANTES CHAPTER VI JANET'S PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER VII THE BRANTLE CHAPTER VIII THE ANCIENT MONASTERY CHAPTER IX SIR JULIAN POMPHREY CHAPTER X WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BUTLERY CHAPTER XI JACQUES DEMPSY CHAPTER XII CASTLE AND MONASTERY CHAPTER XIII AS NINE TOLLED FROM THE CHAPEL BELFRY CHAPTER XIV SERMONS NEW AND OLD CHAPTER

As he sat looking at her, he seemed to understand, as he had never understood before, that if he married her all that had happened in the years back would happen againmore children scrambling about the counter, with a shopman (himself) by the dusty window putting his pen behind his ear, just as his father did when he came forward to serve some country woman with half a pound of tea or a hank of onions.