TWO LESSER ADVENTURES A few nights after the party, Bedient was left to his own devices, Cairns being appointed out of town.

Nor less at land His royal cares; wise, potent, gracious prince!

Truly, as the fight was a deliverance to them, they were in the right to give thanks for it; but as to its being a victory, neither side had much to boast of, and they less a great deal than we had.

No more for him is rest, or peace, or bliss; still less the glories of his brighter days,the sight of glittering fields, the gems of heaven, without which "Neither breath of Morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild,... is sweet.

2. LESSER BLACK GULL.

Yet if at length you seek her, prove her, Lean to her whispers never so nigh; Yet if at last not less her lover You in your hansom leave the High; Down from her towers a ray shall hover Touch you, a passer-by!

Hence this volume is for you less a labor-saving machine than a collection and arrangement of materials which you must put together by hand.

The governor, Mr. Carver, exerted himself with zeal and benevolence to lesser the misery of his people; but with so little effect, that when the spring at length set in, and the captain of the Mayflower prepared to return to England, the little band of settlers was found to be reduced to one half the original number; and these were weakened by illness, and by want of proper nourishment.

"With making Mr. Hardcastle less offensively pompous, and Mrs. Hardcastle less tedious, and Mrs. Upjohn less dogmatic, and Mrs. Anthony more sincere, and Miss Delano less namby-pamby,in short, by taking a little of the superficiality and narrow-mindedness and provinciality out of the place if possible.

The fact that she knew how it was to come out would not make it less the interesting playin a world where, after all, strange things happen, so that no man may see the end from the beginning, nor count upon as inevitable an outcome which all the fates may combine to threaten and to thwart.

Perhaps every one felt the gun need to make them less the product and more the person.

Retiring, as I must soon do from my somewhat Satanic activity, from "going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it," I can claim, like my ill-reputed exemplar, to have encountered some patient Jobs, servants of the Lord, but more who were impatient, yet not the less the Lord's servants, and the outward semblance of these I try to present.

Is the king of France less a sovereign, because the king of England partakes his title?

And I think if you don't believe it all, it is none the less true for that, because in that case you are the sort of person who believes a thing less the truer it is.