It paid from fifteen to twenty per cent to the stockholders, and the people along the line soon became its warmest friends,and no wonder, since it doubled the value of every man's farm on the line.

You meet with certain old friends, to try to revive the old days; but the spirit of the old time will not come over you.

These old friends will die, you think; who will take their place?

You remember Who said to his friends, before leaving them, that He would have them bring forth fruit, and much fruit.

Upon the walls of the library hung portraits of the master and mistress of the house, and of their most familiar friends and guests, all by Sir Joshua.

The general collection then began by Lord Sandys and Lord Westcote, (Lyttelton,) two early noble friends of Mr. Thrale.

Her marriage with him had not been a love-match; but we suspect that the long course of years had been unfavorable to his memory in her recollection, and that the blame with which his friends visited her second marriage, which was in all respects an affair of the heart, produced in her a certain bitterness of feeling toward Mr. Thrale, as if he had been the author of these reproaches.

" Somewhat more than three years after her first husband's death, Mrs. Thrale, in spite of the opposition of her friends, the repugnance of her daughters, and the sneers of society, married Piozzi.

Mrs. Thrale set this opinion at defiance: a rash thing for a woman to do, and hardly an excusable one in her case; for she was aware that she would thus alienate her daughters, and offend her best friends.

He settled everything with his own money, depended on God and my good constitution for our living long and happily together,and so we did, twenty-five years,said change of scenery would complete the cure, and carried me off in triumph, as he called it, to shew his friends in Italy the foreign wife he had so long been sighing for.

Mrs. Piozzi had come home determined to resume, if it were possible, her old place in society, and to assert herself against the attacks of wits and newspapers, and the coldness of old friends.

The Lady and her friends took advantage of my fondness, and insisted on my giving up the Welsh estate.

Mrs. Thrale, whom the world smiled upon, whom the wits liked and society courted, who had the best men in England for her friends, is a woman who will always be pleasant in memory.

But Mrs. Piozzi, whom the world frowned upon, whom the wits jeered at, and society neglected, whose friends nobody now knows, will be best remembered and best liked as having once been Mrs. Thrale.

However that may be, we got under way again after a meal and a chat, our friends Messrs. George and Moore descending the Aletsch glacier to the Aeggischhorn, whose summit was already in sight, and deceptively near in appearance.

" What she wanted was to live in Paris, to be a leaderor, rather, to be "the" leaderof Parisian society, to sit in a salon, the admired of all admirers, and to pull the wires of politics to the advantage of her friends.

" He introduced his two guests, and they quickly became fast friends.

Wounded by the innocent raillery of my friends, I escaped into an empty room and buried my head in my hands.

We were more than father and daughter; we were friends, comradeshe was my world, and I was his.

With this style of John Bull in numerical ascendency, you cannot wonder at the club-doors not being freely opened to "the Dook's friends," or at the character of an English gentleman being imperfectly understood.

Adieu, all ye hospitable friends, not forgetting my worthy countryman the British consul.

The ocean teapot is hissing, the bell rings, friends cry, kiss, and smokehandkerchiefs flutter in the breeze, a few parting gifts are thrown on board by friends who arrive just too late; one big-whiskered fellow with bushy moustache picks up the parting cadeaugracious me!

When, all the fuss and vapour was made by Mr. Law and his friends, they seemed to have forgotten the old adage, "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

We stayed a couple of days with our kind and hospitable friends, and then returned to Havana.

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