The distance prevented their disturbing those who remained near Raoul; while the light of the fire, which was kept in a cheerful blaze, cast a picturesque glow upon the group around the dying man, as soon as the night had fairly set in.

"It is remarkable, Ghita," he said, at length, "that IRaoul Yvardthe corsairthe man of wars and tempests combats and hairbreadth escapesshould be dying here, on this rock, with all those stars looking down upon me, as it might be, from your heaven, seeming to smile upon me!"

"Certainly not," he replied, promptly; "you must not think of dying.

I am the only son of the Earl of Mountdean, and my father lies dying in Italy.

Lady Charlewood was dying; yet the feeble arms held the little child tightly.

she repeated, a clear light shining in her dying eyes.

"Oh, Hubert, is it really true?" Nothing but his sobs answered her; dying as she was, all sweet, womanly compassion awoke in her heart.

" The hapless young mother kissed the tiny rosebud face, all the passion and anguish of her love shining in her dying eyes; and then the nurse carried the babe away.

Can you hear me, father?" No gleam of light came into the dying eyes, no consciousness into the quiet face; the earl did not hear.

He did not understand that to Lord Mountdean this childhis dying wife's legacywas the one object in life, that she was all that remained to him of a love that had been dearer than life itself.

When the priest came presently to administer the Sacraments of the dying to her, she roused herself and received them with much devotion, and presently beckoned Sister Louise to approach.

Great King, Scarce is our evening sacrifice begun, When evil demons, lurid as the clouds That gather round the dying orb of day, Cluster in hideous troops, obscene and dread, About our altars, casting far and near Terrific shadows, while the sacred fire Sheds a pale lustre o'er their ghostly shapes.

According to Manu, a king might take a sixth part of liquids, flowers, roots, fruit, grass, etc.; but, even though dying with want, he was not to receive any tax from a Bráhman learned in the Vedas.

I asked at last; and at the sound of my voice a smile broke over his small, sallow features, lending them strange beauty, but dying away instantly again into an expression of startled suspicion.

Think of the thief on the cross whom Christ pardoned in dying.

I could understand then, for the first time, how condemned criminals feelwell, strong, yet dying!

So centred were my dying thoughts on Wentworthso calmly did I await the great change that men call sudden death!

See, it requires two persons to sustain his dying motherone to wet her lips, one" "'Deed, honey," she interrupted, coolly, "you must 'scuse me dis oncst; I has jus' as much to do as I kin posomply 'complish, in keepin' of myself dry, comfable, and singin' ob my hyme-toones.

"Call the ship's doctorI am dying!" were the last words I remember to have articulated; then all was dark, and hours went by, of deep, unconscious sleep.

I sicken in this solitudeI am dying of mental inanition.

But, with one of those energetic impulses that come to us all in time of emergency, I recovered my balance in time to save myself from falling; and eagerly and wistfully, as looks the dying wretch on the dear faces he is soon to see no more, I gazed upon the paradise from which fiends had driven me.

Sybarite of societysustained the fainting souls of her companions by singing the grand anthems of her Church, in a voice loud, clear, and sweet as that of a dying swan.

"Howe'er the rest were coupled, as mov'd to court the train, Folker and Hagen parted ne'er again, Save in one mortal struggle, e'en to their dying hour.

"'Now think upon the homage that once to me you swore, When to the Rhine, good warrior, King Etzel's suit you bore, That you would serve me ever to either's dying day.

One version of the story relates, however, that Milon perished in a flood, and that Bertha was almost dying of hunger while her brother, a short distance away, was entertaining all his courtiers at his board.