I remark to MARGARET, while this daring act of marine horsemanship in progress, that "I hope the horse won't founder"meaning to pun on the latter word.

"I hope not," he groaned.

There can be no evil so great as that we now suffer, except the making the same consumption, and paying for it to foreigners in money, which I hope never will be the case.

Cheek by jowl, in the best bed, was Zahn, the hated Ober-Leutenant, loathed by his own men, one of whom wrote in his diary that he loved to see the bombardment of Tanga, "for Zahn was there, the , and I hope he'll meet a 12-inch shell."

I hope with all my heart that everything may go smoothly.

I hope the Apology I have made as to the license allowable to a feigned Character may excuse anything which has been said in these Discourses of the Spectator and his Works.

I hope that one day when they are older they may be able to rejoin you, and to enjoy to the full your tender care.

"Peter," he said colorlessly, "I hope you'll be careful of Caroline's feelings if she ever gets up again.

I hope, before this reaches you, that the French Government, long and deservedly celebrated for its generosity to men of genius, will have amply supplied all your losses by a liberal sum.

I hope for the best while I endeavor to prepare my mind for the worst.

" "Ireland and Africa, and they were not ready for annexation?" "No, and never will be, I hope.

but not, I hope, to one of those worthless court-gallants, who, as I learn from common report, are in the habit of toasting you daily.

"I hope," she said, "that you may all be allowed to see him some day, if you are good.

I hope this is a mistake of our dear Lucy's, however?"

From Father Oliver Gogarty to the Mother Abbess, Tinnick Convent. 'GARRANARD, BOHOLA, 'June 3, 19. 'MY DEAR ELIZA, 'I hope you will forgive me for having delayed so long to answer your letter, but I could not think at the moment of anybody whom I could recommend as music-mistress, and I laid the letter aside, hoping that an idea would come to me.

"By Jove, Genevra, I hope no harm comes to you here in this beastly place," said he, a look of anxiety in his honest eyes.

You will, I hope, enjoy finding it for yourself.

Now, the pond is the Indian country, the fishes are the Indians, the false treaties and promises of the white men are the lumps of mud," and, turning to the missionaries, he said: "I hope you have come to clear up the water."

I have laboured them with diligence, I hope with success; such at least as can be expected in a task, which no man, however learned or sagacious, has yet been able to perform.

How can I hope to enter them?"

"I hope ye'll know me again," said the girl.

interrupted Pet; "you wern't hurt, I hope?

" "And I hope you like my sto-ry!" hummed Mount, strolling about the room, peeping into closets and cupboards, poking under the bed with his rifle, and finally coming to a halt at the foot of the stairs with his head on one side, like a jay-bird immersed in thought.

" "I hope she doesn't keep everybody in order as sharply as she used to?" I said, with a bitter little laugh.

I hope, my dear sir, that our experiment in regard to the affairs of our Marshpee friends may yet succeed.