" "Oh, Gulian," cried Clarissa, clasping her hands, as a faint pink glow lit her pale face, "you did not say that before.

[Sidenote: The Music-master] Godmamma met us in the hall, radiant, and, clasping Victorine to her breast, said she must announce to her the joyful news that M. le Baron de Frémond had made the demande, on the part of his sister, the Marquise de Beaupré, for the hand of her peerless Victorine, for her son and his nephew, the Marquis de Beaupré, and that sheGodmammahad consented to relinquish to them this treasure.

my darlings!" cried she at last, looking up, and clasping them to her by twos and threes; "Is there no way of saving you?

He ran up to his brother, who was sitting with some neighbours in the parlour, and, clasping his feet, implored forgiveness.

" "Oh, that is lovely," cried Faith, clasping her hands together.

How proudly those hush'd towers receive the glow That mellows the gold sunsetand the trees, Clasping with their deep belt the festal hills, Are ting'd with summer-beauty; the rich waves Swell out their hymn o'er shells and sweet blue flow'rs, And haply the pure seamaid, wandering by, Dips in them her soft tresses.

Where have you been, this long, long while?" Running on thus,now holding Oliver from her, now clasping him to her and passing her fingers through his hair, the good soul laughed and wept upon his neck by turns.

The next moment, with a sudden revulsion of feeling, she had thrown herself at his feet,at the feet of a negro, this proud white woman,and was clasping his knees wildly.

What are you doing here?" "Mrs. Miller," returned Mrs. Carteret tremulously, dazed for a moment by this outburst, and clasping her hands with an imploring gesture, "my child, my only child, is dying, and your husband alone can save his life.

exclaimed Kalora, clasping her hands.

It had once seemed clear and of exquisite proportions; now no second act seemed possible: the subject did not seem to admit of a second act; and, clasping his forehead with his hands, he strove to think it out.

In the drawing-room he insisted on being nursed; and alone, amid the faded furniture, watched over by the old portraits, her pale face fixed and her pale hands clasping her beloved dog, she sat thinking, brooding over the unhappiness, the incurable unhappiness, of her little life.

Clasping him to her breast, she smothered him with kisses, then put him away in his corner, covering him over for the night.

Trembling, she threw herself down beside him, clasping him to her.

And old Donald, clasping his great arms about Aldous, cried brokenly: "Oh, Johnny, Johnnysomething told me to foller yean'

" "Then father and Fred were not hurt?" gasped Jennie, clasping her hands and gazing inquiringly into the face of the messenger.

" "Good-night," said Marian, overcoming her repugnance to Susanna's hand, and clasping it.

she asked, kneeling beside him and clasping his unwilling hand.

" "I'm afraid to," said Dodo, clasping her hands behind her.

"Thoughts," said Miss Drewitt, clasping her hands round her knee and smiling again.

"Oh!" said the girl, clasping her hands together.

"Did you go?" inquired Mrs. Ward, clasping her hands.

The smile was now gone; she leaned back against a heavy table, her fingers tightly clasping its edge.

Being face to face with me, therefore, my assailant had mastered my right arm, and was clasping my back with his left hand, while his right was over my month.

sez she, shutting her eyes and clasping her hands.