Goodnight, how she claws the ivory!

"I am very sorry I teased you, cousin Tom," she said very softly, as I turned to her to say goodnight.

But I heard him exclaim, ere they drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!" Clement C. Moore.

With a serious face Linnet lay awake after Marjorie had fallen asleep, thinking over and over Miss Prudence's words when she bade her goodnight: "It is an experience to be married, Linnet; for God holds your two lives as one, and each must share his will for the other; if joyful, it is twice as joyful; if hard, twice as hard.

And so there fell a silence between them, yet a silence that held a wondrous charm of its own; a silence that lasted so long that the coppery curls drooped lower, and lower upon Bellew's arm, until Anthea, sighing, rose, and in a very tender voice bade Small Porges say 'Goodnight!'

" "Good-night, Master George, sir, goodnight!

Presently, the evening drawing near, the bo'sun set us to the building of fires about the hill-top, and after that, having waved our goodnights to the people in the hulk, we made our suppers, and lay down to smoke, after which, we turned-to again at our plaiting of the sennit, the which we were in very great haste to have done.

Now cracke a Noble heart: [Sidenote: cracks a] Goodnight sweet Prince, And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest, Why do's the Drumme come hither?

Goodnight, girls.

"If you'll let me wear your ring for the rest of the summer, and come and kiss me goodnight every night after I'm in bed" "All right," Agony agreed hastily, with a sigh of resignation for this departure from her fixed principles regarding the lending of jewelry and about promiscuous demonstrations of affection, but peace in camp was worth the price.

From all the woods around came the goodnight twitter of the birds.

"I could see that Sir Alfred Jarnock was very much in earnest, and would evidently have held himself to blame had he allowed me to make the experiment and any harm come to me; so I said nothing in argument; and presently, pleading the fatigue of his years and health, he said goodnight, and left me; having given me the impression of being a polite but rather superstitious, old gentleman.

Goodnight to ye, mum.

An hour later Don said goodnight.

The gleam of uniforms in a drab world, the upright bearing, the rattle of a kettledrum, the boom of a salute, the murmur of the "Dead March," the goodnight of the "Last Post" sounding over the home-faring traffic and the quiet cradlesone does not know by what substitutes eternal peace could exactly replace them.

He had thought he was through with Carson when the latter had made his farewells the night before, saying goodnight to Tony before them all.

" Later, Carlotta, coming in to say goodnight to Tony, found the latter sitting in front of the mirror brushing out her abundant red-brown hair and noticed how very scarlet her friend's cheeks were and what a tell-tale shining glory there was in her eyes.

A group of actors passed through the reception room, calling gay goodnights and congratulations to Tony as they went and shooting glances of friendly curiosity at the two, tall frowning men between whom the vivacious Rose stood.

"Come," he said, "we are going to dance; will you be my partner?" We danced, and then followed songs and parlour games, and it was in the small hours when the merry goodnights were all said and we had retired to rest.

" Nothing more was said in the study that evening, and when Eric went down he didn't even bid Duncan goodnight.

"Goodnight, my boy; and hope for the best.

I remembered that he had it in his hand the last night of his life, when I bade him goodnight.

To his surprise and annoyance, however, Mr. Nott insisted on accompanying him to his room, and without heeding Renshaw's cold "Goodnight," entered and closed the door behind him.

"Goodnight, madame," Lord Tancred said, at the door.

He abruptly turned the conversation back to Canada again, until even the two magnates on their own ground were bored and said goodnight.