They say all our army in India had it at one time; but that was in Hyder-Ally's time.

"I meant to be good to Ally, and that's why I taught Peter to say, 'Ally's come, Ally's come! give her a kiss! give her a kiss!'

It was just after you were so ill with that bad throat, and I was speaking to your aunt Ann about it, and I said to her, 'I dread the winter on Ally's account.'

When they were all at the dinner-table that night,mother and father and girls and the three boys who had just come up from their boarding-school that very morning,this telegram was brought in from Uncle Tom, "Thanks for word of Ally's safety.

" Ally's eyes opened wide with astonishment at this conclusion.

The insurgent chiefs fled, and got on board the Vectis, one of the two vessels of war which you suffered the Sicilian rebels to fit out in your ports, when you refused all help to your ancient friend's ambassador in checking this outrage on the law of nations, and when by a celebrated 'inadvertence' you suffered those rebels to obtain from the Tower a supply of arms, wherewith to fight your ally's armies.

Ally's bed faced the door, and the look in Ally's eyes made her aware of the change in him.

Ally's bed faced the door, and the look in Ally's eyes made her aware of the change in him.

" Ally's prettiness (when she gazed at it in the glass) was delicious, intoxicating joy to Ally.

And on the Vicar's dressing-table there lay a large and perfect hand-glass that had belonged to Ally's mother.

It was all beautiful what Ally's brain did, all noble, all marvelously pure.

There was no sullen and selfish Ally in Ally's dreams.

It was only at night, when Ally's brain slept among its dreams, that Rowcliffe's face leaned near to hers without ever touching it, and his arms made as if they clasped her and never met.

The choir looked upon Ally's innocent art with pride and admiration and amusement.

Ally's pale eyes lightened and grew large.

She had not forgotten that she had to ask him, that she was pledged to ask him on Ally's account if, as Gwenda had put it, she was to play the game.

(She said to herself it would look better on Ally's account.)

And of course it was just as well (on Ally's account) that Rowcliffe should not have seen her until she was absolutely well.

On Ally's account, of course.

He had even found a certain austere satisfaction in the thought that he, the doctor, who had tried to terrify him about Ally's insanity, having thrown that bomb into the peaceful Vicarage, should be blown up, as it were, with his own explosion.

" "Was itwas it" Ally's instinct heard the name that her sister spared her.

So, without Ally being in the least aware of it, Ally's mind, struggling toward sanity, fabricated one enormous fear, the fear of her father's death, a fear that she could own and face, and set it up in place of that secret and dangerous thing which was the fear of life itself.

And all the time, through the perilous months, Nature, mindful of her own, tightened her hold on Ally through Ally's fear.

Ally's clinging, so far from irritating or obstructing him, drew out the infinite pity and tenderness he had for all sick and helpless things.

He said to himself that he didn't like the turn Ally's obsession had taken.