Did you ever have an obstinate cold,a six or seven weeks' unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and everything?

Montgomery's book I have not much hope from, and the society with the affected name has been laboring at it for these twenty years, and made few converts.

Dear B. B.,I have had no impulse to write, or attend to any single object but myself for weeks past,my single self, I by myself, I. I am sick of hope deferred.

Yours, in tremors of painful hope, C. LAMB.

The relief was hinted to me from a superior power when I, poor slave, had not a hope but that I must wait another seven years with Jacob; and lo!

By this time I hope it is all over with him.

We hope the Frank wines do not disagree with Mrs. Patmore.

But when we are fairly in, I hope she will come and try it.

You have spurred me on this tiny effort, and at intervals I hope to hear from and talk to you.

A little after ten o'clock on Saturday forenoon, I went into the Boardroom, in the hope of catching there some glimpses of the real state of the poor in Blackburn just now, and I was not disappointed; for amongst the short, sad complainings of those who may always be heard of in such a place, there was many a case presented itself which gave affecting proof of the pressure of the times.

In the evening, I ran down to the beautiful suburb called Pleasington, in the hope of meeting a friend of mine there; not finding him, I came away by the eight o'clock train.

a week; but, after struggling on in the hope of better times, and exhausting the savings of past labour, they had been brought down to the receipt of charity at last, and for sixteen weeks gone by the whole thirteen had been living upon 6s.

When we got to the lower end of Hope Street, my guide stopped suddenly, and said, "Oh, this is close to where that woman lives whose husband died of starvation.

It felt almost like sacrilege to peer thus into the privacies of such people; but I hope they did not feel as if it had been done offensively.

"I hope not," replied Catrina quietly.

I hope he tells you everything.

And Smike says, 'W-i-n-d-e-r,' 'All right,' Squeers says, 'now go out and wash 'em,' Well, I hope I got the spelling a little nearer right, but I came home and began washing my windows.

I hope you will forgive me that thought, when I tell you that now I know what ignorance it revealed in me.

It's the only thing that we Americans can do in Mexico with any hope of avoiding suspicion or of our presence being acceptable to the Mexicans in the long run.

Then he spoke: "Marty, when J.W. comes home I hope something will set him thinking about the outer world that has no word of our Christ.

He hasn't seen it yet, not clearly; and you know that there isn't any hope for that world to get out of the depths until it gets the news of a Helper.

I can bear my solitary misery, can brave the sufferings of an isolated existence; but I could not live under the disappointments of such a hope, a hope fairly quickened by a clear expression from your lips.

I hope every day, as it adds to their experience, will diminish that ardour which is generally the effect of imperfect views, which is commonly raised by partial considerations, and ends in inconsiderate undertakings.

These, my lords, are surely great advantages; but these are not the greatest which we have reason to hope.

The satisfaction that I have is this: What I did, and what I attempted to do, was my protest,a protest which resounded from one end of the Union to the other, and which, I hope, by the dissemination of this, my narrative, to renew and repeat it,it was my protest against the infamous and atrocious doctrine that there can be any such thing as property in man!