" "Will your ladyship please to give me your informant?" cried out Colonel Newcome.

And this is likely to be all the information you getnot that they would not tell, but they cannot grasp the idea that you wish to knowuntil, possibly, just as you are turning to depart, your informant, in a single word and with the most evident non-appreciation of its value, drops the simple key to the whole matter: "Dey's quadroons.

When told, one day, of the unfavorable whispers, he smiled a little and answered his informant,whom he knew to be one of the whisperers himself,laying a hand kindly upon his shoulder: "Father Murphy,"or whatever the name was,"your words comfort me.

"City men say the informant is here and will indicate the men to be arrested in a few minutes.

"That's Flynn of Kildare," said Dodds's informant.

Our informant could not state whether this was a local or individual superstition.

"You had far better have remained at Résht," added our informant, unpleasantly recalling to my mind the colonel's prophecy, "You will be sorry for this to-morrow!"

As they proceeded, Parravicin ascertained from the major that Disbrowe's house was situated in a small street leading out of Piccadilly, but as he could not be quite sure that he understood his informant aright, he engaged him to accompany him and point it out.

On the occasion referred to, the funeral procession having entered the churchyard, and my informant and the officiating clergyman having taken their places at the head of the grave, the undertaker and his assistants having removed the coffin from the hearse, and the mourners, of whom there was a large crowd, having gathered into a circular audience, the Reverend Doctor began the service.

My informant was Professor Tholuck, of Halle University, the most eminent living theologian in Germany, and the principal ecclesiarch of the Prussian Church.

The human blood-hound, thanked the gentleman for the information, and immediately set out in pursuit; but, just as the informant had intended, in a direction opposite to that the slaves had taken.

"My informant says that he resided in Louisiana and Alabama during a great part of the years 1819 and 1820:that he frequently saw slaves whipped, never saw any killed; but often heard of their being killed:that in several instances he had seen a slave receive, in the space of two hours, five hundred lasheseach stroke drawing blood.

"My informant further says, that in the spring of 1819, he steered a boat from Louisville to New Orleans.

There is no such thing as a relay of horses to be met withat all events, it is problematical; therefore, as the roads were execrable, we were informed it would take us two long days, and our informant strongly advised us to go by the mail, which only employs twenty-one hours to make the ninety-five miles' journey.

Mr. McC, believing that he might rely on the word of his informant, unfortunately, without making any inquiry as to the truth of the tale, and without assigning any reason, wrote to Mr. Breckenridge a curt letter of dismissal, and immediately employed George to conduct the further defence.

4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant 5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you 6.

"Were it so, cousin," said Henry coldly, "you would differ greatly from the other members of your family, especially your elder brother; but since you appear to place so perfect a reliance on the veracity of your informant, you have only to name him to me, and to explain precisely what he alleges to have passed, and I shall then understand what is necessary to be done, and will endeavour to satisfy you as far as I can reasonably do so.

" M. de Soissons was not, however, prepared to involve Madame de Verneuil in a quarrel which threatened the most serious results; and he consequently declared that he had plighted his word not to divulge the identity of his informant; a promise which he, moreover, considered to be utterly unnecessary, as he was ready to pledge himself to the entire truth of what he had advanced.

Under this impression, after listening attentively to the narrative of his informant, he hastened to the apartment of the King, who was still engaged in the cares of his morning toilet; and no contrast could have been more striking than the simple costume of the young sovereign and the elaborate dress of his favourite.

Though her informant had set no hour, Winona thought it would be three o'clock.

The marvel informant, truly a marvel.

I might make a query of this; but it is clearly a mistake of some half-learned or ill-understood informant.

Whether, in the hour of his need and fresh enthusiasm, poor puss was led to the sacrificial altar, or whether he found her reposing by the roadside, having paid the debt of Nature, our informant could not say; enough that, in time, he owned a brush and immortalized himself by his skill in its use.

My informant worked in the mattress department, over the room where prisoners were punished.

We stopped at a tavern two or three miles on, when somebody told the old lady that I was 'the chap that did it;' but as I had told her that this Bart wasn't much of a fellow, she was inclined to doubt her informant.