Instead of going to the nearest and most convenient railroad station, I accepted the invitation of a young man who had been present the closing Sunday at the meeting to drive with him some miles farther to the town in which he taught school, and there take the train.

Gentlemen,I have received your polite invitation to the Printers' Festival in honor of Franklin, on his birthday the 17th of the present month, and regret that my engagements in the city put it out of my power to be present.

Read the invitation on the enclosed card, which, although forbidden to be transferable, may without breach of honor be transferred to my other and better half.

" The card of invitation has been lost, but it was, perhaps, to a President's Reception, and the "great" crowd of three hundred would not tax the energies of the President's aides at the present day.

Replying to an invitation to be present at a public dinner he writes: GENTLEMEN,I have received your polite invitation to join with you in the celebration of the birthday of Washington.

Replying to an invitation to be present at a public dinner he writes: GENTLEMEN,I have received your polite invitation to join with you in the celebration of the birthday of Washington.

Oily Dave and Stee Jenkin accepted Katherine's invitation to walk in, following her through the dark store and into the lighted room beyond with a sheepish expression on their faces, which certainly no one had ever seen there before.

I called on the commanding officer, Captain Loomis, and accepted his invitation to dine.

The old-time invitation, "Honey, Jackyhoney," had lost its power, but the smell of the honey, the coat, the hands that he had fondled, had together a hidden potency.

We declined the invitation as courteously as it was offered.

Though this phrase, short and snappish enough, was not worded as an invitation for me to sit down, I accepted it as such, and took the chair which a lean boy of some nine or ten years old had hurriedly vacated.

" I accepted the invitation with a simple "No," and ate enough of the rude fare (for I was really hungry) to satisfy my hosts that I was not proud.

We think that the invitation to Paine was one of the manliest acts of Jefferson's life.

Magruder had recently returned from Europe, bringing two French cooks; and as he was a notorious bon vivant, it was not disagreeable to accept an invitation to dinner.

The large kitchen as we entered was only lighted by the flame of the wood-fire on the hearth, in front of which a fowl and a piece of veal were turning on the same spit, moved by clockwork that said 'click-clack, click-clack;' which was as genial an invitation to dinner as any I had ever heard.

' I accepted the invitation, and away went the donkey, making himself as much like an arrow on the wing as any ass could.

He had reminded his friend, the junior O'Connell, of Dan's invitation to him to go to see him in London; and he had looked forward to their levee with delight and expectation.

The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals always received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the neighbourhood, an invitation to visit him.

A WELSH INVITATION.

Aware of the puerile vanity of the princely fugitive, the Duke stood bareheaded in his presence, and never presumed to seat himself until he had received an invitation to do so.

Invitation by bullet.

Invitation by bullet.

"That's me, sir," said the voice; and in response to Thorndyke's invitation, a typical "growler" cabman of the old school, complete even to imbricated cape and dangling badge, stalked into the room, and glancing round with a mixture of embarrassment and defiance, suddenly fixed on Polton's nose a look of devouring curiosity.

Of course the young cowboy would be included in the invitation, and Alice premeditated a flirtation, either with that good-looking Mr. Waring or Mrs. Adams's son.

He seldom drank, but to-night he did not refuse Hardy's invitation to "have something."