"Pray, my lord, what is that?" "Hypocrisy, my dear doctor."

"On Wednesday, the 11th of April, was buried my dear friend Mr. Thrale, who died on Wednesday, the 4th, and with him were buried many of my hopes and pleasures.

You must now be to me what you were before, and what dear Mr. Allen was besides.

All through the win-ter, long and cold, Dear Minnie ev-ery morn-ing fed The little spar-rows, pert and bold, And ro-bins, with their breasts so red.

To the lot of our dear lit-tle Rose We trust every bless-ing may fall;

Oh, yes, dear mam-ma, I can tell you; oh, yes!

"Dear lit-tle Snap, you fun-ny pup

In our dear land the la-den trees Be-speak God's pro-vi-dence and love; He sends all need-ful gifts like these For those who trust in Him a-bove.

But shall I tell you what I think, my dear?

" "Well, Mammy," said Camilla, "I'd rather he should know it than that he should go against his country and raise his hand against the dear old flag.

In this manner Mrs. Thoresby explained to her dear friend, Mrs. Devreaux.

Dear, pensive glooms of nightfall drooped from the zenith slowly down, narrowing twilight to a belt of dying flame.

Louis Lebeau, my brother, I thought to meet you in heaven, Hand in hand with her who is gone to heaven before us, Brothers through her dear love!

"Two of 'em is my dear childers," said Chloe,who never would accept Aaron, even with all his goodness, into her heart; and she moved about with accelerated velocity in her daily orbit.

On the other side, his affections are alive, even vehement, delicate in their instinct as a dog's or an infant's; he will detect the step of any one dear to him in a crowd, and burst into tears, if not kindly spoken to.

It has sometimes been said that slavery was necessary, because the commodities they raise would be too dear for market if cultivated by freemen; but now it is said that the labor of the slave is the dearest.

You see nothing of him, my dear Williams, but the ruin of that Falkland who was courted by sages, and adored by the fair.

My former connections, while I lived amidst the busy haunts of men, as many of them as were intimate, are all of them dear to me.

They then told the angels in Heaven the sad story of the lost babes, and one of the white-robed angels flew down to earth and carried both the little ones back to Heaven, so that when they awoke they were no longer tired and hungry, but were again with their dear mother.

Don't you believe, you dear, unsuspicious men, who dote upon their pliability and the trustfulness of their innocent, limpid blue or brown-eyed gaze, which meets your own with such implied flattery to your superior strength and intelligencedon't you believe for one moment that the simple little dears do not know exactly the part they are playing.

"I've promised not to tell," her letter began, "but I never count any promise of that kind as including you, dear, sweet Adelaide" Adelaide smiled as she read this; Theresa's passion for intimate confession had been the joke of the school.

"But mentally, Artie, dear, he's been distances and to places and in society that your poor brain would ache just at hearing about.

" "You've lost your senses!" "No, dear," replied Del sweetly; "on the contrary, I've put myself in the way of finding them.

"Does it hurt you, dear, for me to talk about him?" "Nono," he stammered, "I came to youtototalk about him."

"I beg your pardon, dear," he said.