but what a thought is this? I strangle, in the sudden thrall Of this sharp pang of agony, Oh, hold me, Tarfe, lest I fall.

but what a thought is this? I strangle, in the sudden thrall Of this sharp pang of agony, Oh, hold me, Tarfe, lest I fall.

" "I have not lied," the Moor replied, and he bowed his haughty head Before the King whose wrath might fling his life among the dead.

"I would not deign with falsehood's stain my lineage to betray; Tho' for the truth my life, in sooth, should be the price I pay.

"I would not deign with falsehood's stain my lineage to betray; Tho' for the truth my life, in sooth, should be the price I pay.

I am son and squire of a Moorish sire, who with the Christians strove, And the captive dame of Christian name was his fair wedded love;

" "I give you grace for your open face, and the courteous words you use.

Oh, what pangs I felt For her whose profile was so pure!

For them I die.

I had walked I know not how long when I came out suddenly upon the road which wound along the bank and finally dipped to the ferry, and here I sat down upon a log to think.

Let me say here that I believe this purblind policy of delaying the expedition instead of freely aiding it had much to do with the result.

he cried, "I thought I had chanced upon a meeting of our Philadelphia friends,they of the broad hats and sober coats,and yet I had never before known them to go to war.

I have no wish that you should sacrifice your lives so uselessly by remaining here with me.

I cried, "I cannot hold them long.

I cried, "I cannot hold them long.

He listened without a word till I had finished.

I am sure they mean to shoot me."

I knew then that something had happened, and when I heard you speak, I told myself you were not to blame for it.

I still believe you were not to blame.

"I propose to deliver it tonight before I sail.

"I propose to deliver it tonight before I sail.

I leave it at Hixon's farm.

I trust thou hast a full purse with thee, fair stranger.

" "Alas!" said the stranger, "I have no purse nor no money either, saving only the half of a sixpence, the other half of which mine own dear love doth carry in her bosom, hung about her neck by a strand of silken thread.

I had only to take a few leaps to put myself aboard the vessel....

You see for yourself how absurd it would be to treat a paper drawn or executed after a will was made as part of it, for that would render the requirements of the statute nugatory.

You see for yourself how absurd it would be to treat a paper drawn or executed after a will was made as part of it, for that would render the requirements of the statute nugatory.

Shall we disguss or take a vote?" "Let's take a smoke!" amended a real-estate broker.

Shall we disguss or take a vote?" "Let's take a smoke!" amended a real-estate broker.

But Bently, with a light upon his countenance such as theretofore had ne'er been seen on sea or land, suddenly held up his hand.

The letters, written in a fine scholarly handwriting, excited his interest extraordinarily.

Many of the emigrants' wives have procured their liberty by being divorced, and in this there is nothing blameable, for I imagine the greater number consider it only as a temporary expedient, indifferent in itself, and which they are justified in having recourse to for the protection of their persons and property.

I believe no one will dispute that the revolution has rendered the people more vicious; and, without considering the matter either in a moral or religious point of view, it is impossible to assert that they are not less happy.

The sound of a bell or a knocker at the close of the evening is the signal of dismay.

When a member of the committee looked inauspiciously at a subordinate accomplice, the latter scarce ventured to approach his home for some time.

One might be inclined to pity a people obliged to suppress their indignation on such an event, but the mind revolts when addresses are presented from all quarters to congratulate this monster's pretended escape, and to solicit a farther sacrifice of victims to his revenge.

A youth of the name of Julien, particularly in the confidence of Robespierre, was then sent to Bourdeaux, not officially as his successor, but as a spy, to collect information concerning him, as well as to watch the operations of other missionaries, and prevent their imitating Tallien's schemes of personal advantage, at the expence of scandalizing the republic by an appearance of lenity.

The brothers of Cecile Renaud, who were sent for by Robespierre from the army to Paris, in order to follow her to the scaffold, did not arrive until their persecutor was no more, and a change of government was avowed.

They have presented themselves at the bar of the Convention, to entreat a revisal of their father's sentence, and some compensation for his property, so unjustly confiscated.

After all this, Lecointre, whose figure is almost ludicrous, and who is no orator, was to repeat a voluminous denunciation, amidst the clamour, abuse, chicane, and derision of the whole Convention.

] I hear little of the positive merits of the convention, but the hope is general that they will soon suppress the Jacobin clubs; yet their attacks continue so cold and cautious, that their intentions are at least doubtful: they know the voice of the nation at large would be in favour of such a measure, and they might, if sincere, act more decisively, without risk to themselves.

I'll have a commission appointed by the Convention, and go myself at the head of it.

There are, indeed, many known revolutionists and republicans, who, from party disputes, personal jealousies, or from being comprised in some general measure, have undergone a short imprisonment; and these men now wish to be confounded with their companions who are of a different description.

There are, indeed, many known revolutionists and republicans, who, from party disputes, personal jealousies, or from being comprised in some general measure, have undergone a short imprisonment; and these men now wish to be confounded with their companions who are of a different description.

" Discours de Tallien, 14 Nov. "Let the government but adopt wise measures for making an honorable peace with a part of our enemies, and with the aid of the Dutch and Spanish navies, let us repair to the banks of the Thames, and destroy the modern Carthage.

Madame de St. Emd is the daughter of a gentleman whose fortune was inadequate both to his rank and manner of living, and he gladly embraced the offer of Monsieur de St. Emd to marry her at sixteen, and to relinquish the fortune allotted her to her two younger sisters.

In response Washington wrote a letter intended for public use, in which he said, "As you say it is insinuated by some of your political adversaries, and may obtain credit, 'that you palmed yourself upon me, and was dismissed from my family,' and call upon me to do you justice by a recital of the facts, I do therefore explicitly declare, that both charges are entirely unfounded.

[so] highly improper" that he was ordered under arrest and tried by a court-martial, which promptly found him guilty of disobedience and disrespect, as well as of making a "disorderly and unnecessary retreat.

"That, because I want to ask a favour of you," he said.

Shaking his head when alone, and muttering, "They're a queer lot, these Melcombeswho'd have expected this now!