" The stern landlord hesitated, when a loud authoritative "Ahem!" from his invisible wife strengthened him, and he said: "I have not a morsel to spare.

Mark and Mildred were sitting cozily by the ample fireplace,not at opposite corners, you may believe,when there was a warning ahem!

That if a man (do you mark, sir?), being sick of the plague (do you see, sir?), had a, a, ahem, hem (this cold troubles me; it makes me cough sometimes extremely)had a French crown, sir, (you understand me?) lying by him, and (come hither, come hither), and would not bestow twopence (do you hear?) to buy an urinal (do you mark me?) to carry his water to the physician, hem! AUD.

" The old lawyer grimaced and shook his head from side to side, in sign of discontent, while he rubbed his hand over his bald pate and said in a tone of condescending pity: "Ahem!

those are bad doctrines, bad theories, ahem!

" "Ahem," said a voice close to him.

"What sort of man is he?man, Claude?" "Ahem, humph! '

"If that wasn't evidence enough that Iahoherah! Ahem!

I thought she was not much of a Countess! Ahem! '

"Ahem!" said Mr. Lind.

Who is he going to marry?" "Ahem!

The silence growing tense he further ejaculated "Ahem!"

" "Ahem!" was the soft rejoinder, and the two smilingly held each other's gaze for the larger part of a minute.

But now by dear Anna's goodness (ahem!)

now that you have it, you dare not strike!" All this the subtle girl read in the ancient lady's one small "ahem!" and for reply, in some even more unvoiced way, warned her against the eye of the gray man near the gun.

But as we were sayin' to-day when we heard that His Majesty, the King of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Canada, and India, as well.(Looks at Sir Denis who is trying to light a clay pipe) Ahem! ahem!

But as we were sayin' to-day when we heard that His Majesty, the King of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Canada, and India, as well.(Looks at Sir Denis who is trying to light a clay pipe) Ahem! ahem!

Captain Staysail cleared his throat before he began: "Ahem!

" "Ahem!" said Colonel Killigrew, who believed not a word of the doctor's story; "and what may be the effect of this fluid on the human frame?

Aside, however, from all this, there was some gratification in knowing that she was an object of envy to Susie Graham, and Anna Thorn, and Carrie Bell, either of whom would gladly have taken her place as bride-elect of an M.C., while proud old Captain Markham's frequent mention of "my nephew in Congress, ahem!"

The fussy little clock gave a sort of preliminary cough or hiccup, as if it should say: "Ahem! ladies and gentlemen, I am about to strike."

Ahem: "Jane and Sukey and July Ann Too brown, too slim, too stout!

" "Ahem" in some confusion, "I mean you celebrate once a year.

But glancing uneasily at his daughter and seeing her calm eyes fixed on the speaker without embarrassment, he folded his arms stiffly, and with a lofty simulation of examining the ceiling, said: "Ahem!

" "Dd! Ahem!" cried Percy, turning green.