It might be an advantage to the child's future (in every sense) to have a godmother so wealthy and so religious.

That seemed a sort of affront to her godmother's memory, at all events, until some one had made it clear to her.

But when he spends Saturday to Monday at Folkestone with the godmother who's going to leave him her money, how easy to slip over the Channel to the fair Maxine, without anyone being the wiser.

" "And who found a fairy godmother," responded Flora, subsiding into a tenderer tone.

And to very good purpose: many a sweet dear has answered me a letter for the sake of owning a name which her godmother never gave her.

He was then received into the home of his godmother, Doña Manuela Monchay, who was a woman of kind heart and much intelligence.

Gustavo's godmother, who was a woman in easy circumstances and without children or near relatives, would doubtless have bequeathed to him her property had he fulfilled her wishes and settled down to an honorable mercantile life.

"Yes,so we were; and now taking pussy for the godmother, the characters of the story are well personated,all but the slipper," said Di, laughing, as she thought of the many times they had played it together years ago.

By his second wife, Madonna Nannina, daughter of Messer Niccolo de' Soderinia lineal descendant of the self-seeking and notorious adviser of Don Piero de' Medicihe had two daughters, Constanza and Eleanora, named after her godmother, the Duchess Eleanora.

Your fairy godmother will see to all that.

In his first book there was no suggestion of authorship; it seemed an inadvertence, something which came of itself;but the second was made, and the kind fairy that stood godmother to its elder brother had been sent for and accordingly would not come.

The Fairy Godmother XIII.

" CHAPTER XII THE FAIRY GODMOTHER He threw the knapsack over his shoulder and picked up Hermia's leather bag which had been saved from the wreck of the machine, but she quickly took it from him.

I stopped off here, as no doubt you know, to serve as godmother to this baby of Jeanne's!

The baby was in her arms, and at that moment there was a question as to the godfathers and godmother for the baby.

It had been suggested, some weeks since, before the baby was born, that an effort should be made to induce Mrs. Bolton to act as godmother.

And a long letter had been prepared to Mrs. Bolton, written by Hester's own hand, not without much trouble, in which the baby's grandmother was urged to take upon herself the duties of godmother.

To Mrs. Bolton this position of godmother implied much of the old sacred responsibility which was formerly attached to it, and which Robert Bolton, like other godfathers and godmothers of the day, had altogether ignored.

With these ideas she wrote a long letter to Hester, in which she promised to have herself taken out to Folking in order that she might be present as godmother at the baby's baptism.

And the blithe commander, in the seclusion of his tent, standing over the lad and holding him tenderly by both pretty ears, preached to him of his sister and grandmother until with mute rage the youngster burned as red as his jacket facings; and then of the Callenders"who gave us our guns, and one of whom is the godmother of our flag, Charlie"until the tears filled Charlie's eyes, and he said: "I'll try, Captain, but it'soh, it's no use!

"Soldiers!" resumed the lover, "this fair godmother of your flag agrees that for all we two want just now Kincaid's Battery is minister enough.

He charged her of never having forgiven Hilary for making Anna godmother of their flag, and of being in some dark league against him"hell only knew what"along with that snail of a cousin whom everybody but Kincaid himself and the silly old uncle knew to be the fallen man's most venomous foe.

he explained to a knot of them later, "the little godmother of your guns!"

The Dusty godmother.

The Fairy Godmother Department presents us with what the Quartermaster describes as "Boots, gum, thigh"; and there has also been an issue of so-called fur jackets, in which the Practical Joke Department has plainly taken a hand.