The boy's earliest memory went back to an estate in Holstein where they had lived with an elderly great-aunt, his grandmother's sister.

" Clotilde, who had heard her grandmother's voice, entered at this moment.

His mother made him comfortable, then left him in his grandmother's charge for a short time.

Her ladyship was reposing in her low reading-chair, with a volume of Tyndall on the book-stand before her, when the door was opened softly and Lesbia came gliding in, and seated herself without a word on the hassock at her grandmother's feet.

She wanted to get a little nearer her grandmother's heart if she could; but she knew that her attentions were endured rather than liked.

It irked the girl to see that stout, clumsy figure in the chair which had been filled by her grandmother's imperial form.

I will be as serious as a judge after he has put on the black cap,' said Maulevrier, seating himself near his grandmother's couch, and altering his tone altogether.

Viscount Haselden, alias Lord Maulevrier, held a long consultation with Lord Hartfield on the night of his grandmother's death, as to what steps ought to be taken in relation to the real Earl of Maulevrier: and it was only at the end of a serious and earnest discussion that both young men came to the decision that Lady Maulevrier's secret ought to be kept faithfully to the end.

Then, as she thought how his eyes probably looked as he said, "I wish her to ride," she felt impelled to obey, and greatly to her grandmother's surprise she commenced dressing.

'We are going to keep my birthday,' says he, 'Newton, and Somers, and Franklin, and I, we are all going to Witton,' that is the next town, Miss, as you may know, 'we are going to have a sail there, and dine at grandmother's, and home again at night, eh Father.'

Summoned at last to her grandmother's bedside, and kneeling to ask for reconciliation, she is forced to stay there, and to listen to the most cruel and literal account of her mother's life, its early errors, and their inevitable consequences.

Her sister's name was Fannie and her grandmother's name was Crecie Lander.

She had settled herself on a low stool at my grandmother's feet, and while we all sat in silent expectation of the "once upon a time," or "when I was young," which is generally the prelude to similar narratives, Emma suddenly started up, and fixing an incredulous gaze upon our dignified relative, exclaimed: "But were you ever young, grandmother?

" Here ended my grandmother's history, which had afforded us many evenings of amusement.

Wet afternoons were always a sore trial to the boys: their mornings were generally spent at the Rectory under Mr. Selby's tuition, but their afternoons were their own, and it was hard to be kept within four walls, and expected to make no sound to disturb their grandmother's afternoon nap.

GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER As the grandmother related it fresh from the primeval sources that feed a grandmother's memory, it happened thus: In the early days of the settlement of Georgiaah, how green and rustic appears to us now the world in the early days of the settlement of Georgia!

By a designed motion she showed her grandmother's reticule on her arm.

DOBSON, Henry J. SEE Grandmother's visitor.

Did anybody ever before see such a grandmother's rag bag of uniforms in an American army!

An Australian is not only forbidden to marry a girl who is closely related to him by bloodsometimes the prohibition extends to first, second, and even third cousinsbut he must not think of such a thing as marrying a woman having his family name or belonging to certain tribes or clanshis own, his mother's or grandmother's, his neighbor's, or one speaking his dialect, etc.

And she seldom let them go from home to visit unaccompanied by her; but one day, being very busy, she let them go alone to their grandmother's.

The widow lady and the cripple were also in the grandmother's apartment; the child sat on a stool at the old lady's feet, and smiled sadly as the young man entered.

I know all about them as far back as my great-grandfather's and great-grandmother's.

He knew what a commotion would be raised if the matter came to his grandmother's ears.

" "Some one," said Robert, "was saying to-day that he stood in his own light when he refused his grandmother's offer to receive him as her son.