On this bote I'm safe, for the villions who would have murdered and robbed me in the train if it hadn't been for you being there, won't have a chance, but when I get to Paris it will be the worst, and no hope for the jewls, followed as I am, if I hadn't already thot of a plan to save them through you, an honest gentleman far above temptashun.

SPRING'S PROMISES When the spring comes again, will you be there? Three springs I watched and waited for your face, And listened for your voice upon the air; I sought for you in many a hidden place, Saying, "She must be there.

For eighteen years you have been robbing me of every right I had in the world, robbing me of everything I've needed and longed and prayed for, everything you were paid to give mewhile I drudged for you and endured your ill-temper and your abuse and the contamination of association with you!...

We will raise a million dollars for you before midday to-morrow, if you leave that paper in our hands.

I guess there won't be no supper here for you to-night.

Admire our strategy when we feign indifference to what you call the pleasures of love, pretending even to be far removed from its sweetness, we augment the grandeur of the sacrifice we make for you, by it, we even inspire the gratitude of the authors of the very benefits we receive from them, you are satisfied with the good you do us.

"I'd opened the door and held it wide for you," smiled Frank.

"For both our sakes, cher maître," said Mr. Oxford persuasively, "I think it will be advisable for you to put me in a position to prove that my guarantee to Witt was justified.

You must not think this a great trouble, for you know how delicious they are; one or two saucers of good berries and cream, will amply repay all trouble.

I grieve for you, I grieve for you.

" "You trust me, mate," ses Jack Bates; "if I don't get that seventy-two pounds for you, you may call me a Dutchman.

"Now, don't that warm your heart, for you?" said Corson as the noise fell away a little.

" "That was quite proper in you," said Charlotte, "seeing that I was there; and, although she is much younger than I, the presence of your old friend had so many charms for you, that you overlooked the promise of the opening beauty.

It will be new: womanhood will have little like youth for you; but, in every event, it is well to add to our experience, you know.

" "Now, dear grandmother," said Agnes, "have I not said I would do everything for you, and work hard for you?

They say 'We's a fightin' for you, Dinah!' Yankees walked in, chile, just walked right in on us.

Again, May 10th, she writes: It would be a great pleasure to me to keep a journal for you if I were well enough, but I am not.

There would be small chance for you were you to fall into their hands.

"I am sick with love for you.

"This animal will carry your burdens for you; he will draw your chariots; he will pull your wagons and your plows; he will let you sit on his back and will run with you faster than the wind.

"There's a chance for you still, my friend," she laughed.

No, no! you never had a good place where they were kind to you, and so you don't know, and I am sorry for you; but I can tell you good places make good horses.

He would die for Ethie this very night, if need beaye, die for you too, perhaps, if you were suffering and his life could bring relief.

"Mrs. Cliff," said she, when the other had finished, "there is but one thing for you to do: you must go to Europe with us.

Though of course I can't do for you what you've done for me, but I'll kill a hen and make a bag puddin', and do the best I can." He thanked me real polite and said "if he wuz ever in Jonesville he should certainly come and see me.