he reflected, for here, again, were castby love-letters potent to breed mischief; and his talk with Polly Ashmeade had been peculiarly reminiscent of his more ancient talk with Clarice Pendomer.

"I dare not question you are an authority in such matters," said John Charteris, sweetly"since among many others, Clarice Pendomer is near enough to be an obtainable witness.

And in consequence it was considered improbable that at this late day the colonel would do the proper thing by Clarice Pendomer, as, at the first tidings of Patricia's death, had been authentically rumored among the imaginative; and, in fact, Lichfield no longer considered that necessary.

But all such tittle-tattle, as has been said, is quite beside the mark, since with the decadence of Clarice Pendomer this chronicle has, in the outcome, as scant concern as with the marital aspirations of Cousin Lucy Fentnor.

And when she found, of all people, Rudolph Musgrave standing by her husband's grave, as in a sort of puzzled and yet reverent meditation, she was, and somehow as half-guiltily, assuring herself there was no possible reason for the repugnancenay, the rage,which a mere glimpse of trudging, painted and flamboyant Clarice Pendomer had kindled.

Yet it must be recorded that Anne had always detested Clarice.

And we remembered how Jack stood by us both whenwhen things bade fair to be even more unpleasant for Clarice and myself than they actually were.

"But then Clarice and I could hardly have weathered scandal except by making ourselves particularly agreeable to everybody.

He had lost his wife, Clarice Orsini, in July, 1487, at a time when he was absent at the sulphur baths of Filetta, striving to obtain relief from pain; therefore his last years were lonely indeed.

I had confessed to him the grievous sin of a horrible rage I had been in when one of the bees had stung me on the lip as I was gathering the cool vine leaves to lay on the good Sister Clarice's forehead, who was ill with a fever.

Where didst thou learn those wild songs?" "From Sister Clarice, in the convent," answered Victorine.

Thou seemest to me like the men of whom Sister Clarice did tell me."

"What did the Sister Clarice tell thee of men?

" "Oh!" replied Victorine, innocently, "it was different with the Sister Clarice.

But even now, when the move was so safe, Florence lacked courage to carry it out until a member of the Medici family, furious at the presence of the base-born Medici in the palace, and a professed hater of her base-born uncle Clement VII and all his waysClarice Strozzi, née Clarice de' Medici, granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificentcame herself to this house and drove the usurpers from it with her extremely capable tongue.

Suddenly turning to a young brother who had lately joined the convent, he said to him, "And what of the pretty Clarice, my brother?"

SEE Rall, Harris Franklin, ed. BALL, CLARICE M. Introduction to French grammar.

By George H. Ball, Edward F. Meylan & Clarice M. Ball.

George H. Ball, Edward F. Meylan & Clarice M. Ball (A); 4Apr66; R383848.

<pb id='049.png' n='1954h1/A/0699' /> GALLOWAY, CLARICE L. Personification method for primary teaching, by C. L. Galloway and P. W. Addison.

Clarice L. Galloway (A); 8Feb54; R125315. GALSWORTHY, ADA.

SEE Cunningham, Clarice.

SEE Rall, Harris Franklin, ed. BALL, CLARICE M. Introduction to French grammar.

By George H. Ball, Edward F. Meylan & Clarice M. Ball.

George H. Ball, Edward F. Meylan & Clarice M. Ball (A); 4Apr66; R383848.