here sit you a-dabbing colour with a little brush!" Answered Beltane: "An so ye seek to do your duty as regardfully as I now daub this colour, messire, in so much shall the world be bettered.

It looked rather bare, and barren, just now, for the furniture was all moved out of place,ranged neatly round the walls, and stacked at the farther end, beneath the gallery where the little man in question, blue of chin, and red of nose, was hovering about it, dabbing little tickets on chairs, and tables,even as Small Porges had said.

Is that all there is to an engagement?" "There's a ring," observed Flavilla, dabbing on too much

Ranald came to help her in his quiet, gentlemanly way, dabbing up the thick brown stream with his table-napkin.

Avery turned towards him instinctively, to see him dabbing the table with his handkerchief.

"'He-he's gorn to 'is godfather,' she ses, dabbing her eyes.

" Stone was dabbing at his mouth with a handkerchief, a task which precluded anything in the shape of conversation; so Robinson replied that Mike's study was the first you came to on the right of the corridor at the top of the stairs.

"I am not surprised," said Mrs. Kingdom, dabbing her eyes; "I expected it somehow.

Perhaps while he is dabbing with lint and lotions the real remedy is the knife.

She could see from the look of the court and the spectators that she had spoken wonderfully well; there was a great silence in the place, only Barbro sat dabbing her eyes now and again for sheer emotion.

As I went I cried, sometimes openly before all men, sometimes furtively before shop-windows, dabbing my eyes with a wet pocket-handkerchief, and gasping for breath.

But his subsequent description of the baiting, with his position, of his legs and arms bent and shortened, till he looked like Bruin on his hind-legs, dabbing his fore-paws hither and thither, as the dogs snapped at him, and now and then acting the gasp of one that had been suddenly caught and hugged, his own capacious mouth adding force to the personation, was a memorable display.

Take a year in which to thread a needle, rather than go dabbing at the texture with the naked thread.

Still the child was uneasy, and would keep his eyes shut; so the Doctor thought he must try something, and he used some lotions common in such cases; but, as they did no good, the kind old gentleman, at Madeline's request, consented to sit by the little boy's bedside at night; when, all at once, as he was carefully dabbing his eyes with rosewater, he perceived that the child was fast asleep.

She was standing beside the car, which we had left in the middle of the road because the bullets were flying too thickly to turn it around, dabbing at her nose with a powder-puff which she had left in the tonneau and then critically examining the effect in a pocket-mirror.

" The girl sank back, dabbing uncertainly at her eyes.

" She pulled out a dirt-coloured pocket-'ankercher and stood there dabbing her eyes with it.

Birth-mark, or moles, or anything of that sort?" "I'm sure he is my 'usband," ses the woman, dabbing her eyes.

It was two o'clock when I woke, and, arter a couple o' pork-pies and a pint or two, I sat on a seat in the Park smoking, while she kep' dabbing 'er eyes agin and asking me to come 'ome.

When she had finished talking with Miss Dunlap that hempen-haired sentimentalist was dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief and blowing her nose, assuring Miss Monon, at the same time, that she was a dear and that it was all right now that she knew the truth.

And Redwood I remember went on talking all the time the lights were up and dabbing at the place where his diagram ought to have been visible on the screenand so it was again so soon as the darkness was restored.

"If I was rich," said Gip, dabbing a finger at the Disappearing Egg, "I'd buy myself that.

"Hehe's left me two hundred pounds a year for life, Henry," she said, dabbing at her pale blue eyes with a handkerchief.

" "I couldn't tell you," ses the gal, just dabbing at'er eyeswith a lace pocket-'ankercher about one and a 'arf times the size of 'er nose.

Only my duty...." He began to snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his face with it.