" [Footnote 1: Thou art man and not God, says the holy book of Consolation, thou art flesh and not an angel.

And meanwhile mamma has said as she kisses her daughter's forehead, "Sleep well, my daughter," and she murmurs to papa, "What an angel of candour!" LXIX.

Behind the sweet form of the angel, the grinning face of Satan.

For there comes a moment when the angel for whom one would have given one's life, the divinity for whom one would have sacrificed country, family, fortune, future, is no more than a common mistress, ranked in the ordinary lot with the rest, and for whom one would hesitate to spend half-a-sovereign.

An angel, born of memory and imagination, might come to her from heaven, and so work upon her superstitious feelings as to induce her to stop short in her course of reckless vengeance; but she would not, on that account, fall upon anybody's neck, or ask forgiveness for anything she had done to anybody.

When Mahs' Robert marry dat ole jimpsun weed, de angel Gabr'el blow his hohn, shuh.

If Lawrence had known, at the time, what Peggy was doing, he would have considered her an unmitigated little demon; but afterward, if he could have known of it, he would have thought her a very unprepossessing and conscienceless guardian angel.

No, that's neither more nor less than an imaginary angel, Simon.

Here are two epitaphs which suggest something else: No. I. "I loved him in his beauty, A mother boy while here, I knew he was an angel

The man who can tell us all about the institution of the law of gravity, how the inspired prophet thought and felt while writing his history, and who knows everything respecting "affinity and attraction when they were in Creation's womb," could not hesitate a moment to measure an arch-angel for a pair of breeches.

He rose from his desk, and, looking once more at the young girl's face, forgot his logical conclusions, and said to himself that she was a little angel,which was in violent contradiction to the leading doctrine of his sermon on Human Nature.

It is my opinion that she was born Mrs. Laudersdale, that her coral-and-bell was marked Mrs. Laudersdale, and that her name stands golden-lettered on the recording angel's leaf simply as Mrs. Laudersdale.

CATHERINE'S CONVENT AT BENICIAROMANCE OF SPANISH CALIFORNIATHE BEAUTIFUL ANGEL IN BLACKTHE PRAYER OF DONA

Those were his parting words to his friends, and his greeting to the Angel of Death.

With this relation he is so thoroughly possessed, that, like an evil angel, it haunts him even when he enters the temple of justice!

Sometimes a gentle rustling Falls faintly on the ear; Some angel, with the radiant wing, Perchance is hov'ring near.

We know if angel spirits come From other worlds to this, They are sent to guide us to our home, Where God our Father is.

I will not dare to question a mother's love, so strange and inexplicable in power, and so mysterious in operation, gentle as the breathing of the memory, ungovernable as the whirlwind in its frenzy, tender as the angel of sympathy, yet stronger than the bands of Death, it is painful to witness such a cloud of sorrow resting on one so young as you, without an atheistic questioning, the all-wise purposes of our Father in heaven.

Angel's flight.

" "You are a good angel," I said, "always trying to make others happy.

His face I may not see Are angel hands more tender than a mother's hands may be?

And does he smile to hear the song an angel stole from me?

And with his going fell the night O God, is there an angel arm More strong, more tender than the rest?

Perhaps THERE was a man, once, and a woman Whose love was so entire That an angel, watching them, Said wistfully, "Would I were no angel

Perhaps THERE was a man, once, and a woman Whose love was so entire That an angel, watching them, Said wistfully, "Would I were no angel