About the service, the most remarkable thing was the beauty, the silver intonation of Mr. Newman's voice as he read the lessons....

" We are a long way from those days in time, and still more in habits and sentiment; and a manifold and varied experience has taught most of us some lessons against impatience and violent measures.

They had not forgotten the lessons of their earlier time.

They are not very large rooms, it is true, but in one of them he gives his lessons, and the grand piano fills it up entirely, so that you can only sit on the little black horsehair sofa at the end, and it is very hard to get past the piano on either side.

"By the by, do you give her lessons every day?" asked the boy.

"You give lessons to the Signora von Lira?"

Nino had certainly not contemplated setting up for an Italian teacher to all the world when he undertook to give lessons to Hedwig.

No more lessons with Hedwig, no more parties to the Pantheon, no more peace, no more anything.

I give lessons now, until I have appeared in public, to support myself.

Sometimes two or three lessons would pass in severe study.

As they passed the great house Nino saw a light in Hedwig's sitting-roomthe room where he gave her the lessons.

I mean only that I may not wish to give lessons to the contessina much longer."

Every moment he expected a formal notice from the count to discontinue the lessons.

"Professor Cardegna gives me lessons.

"In truth," he said, "the Signora Baronessa's lessons consisted chiefly" "In teaching me pronunciation," interrupted the baroness, trying to remove Hedwig's veil and hat, somewhat against the girl's inclination.

I trust our lessons are not at an end?"

"Alas, signorina," answered Nino, still standing before her, "such a confession would have deprived me of the pleasureof the honour of giving you lessons.

" "And pray, Signor Cardegna," put in the baroness, "what are a few paltry lessons compared with the pleasure you ought to have experienced in satisfying the Contessina di Lira's curiosity.

Nino therefore went home with a heavy heart, longing to explain to Hedwig why he had been tied to the baroness,that it was the price of her silence and of the privilege he had enjoyed of giving lessons to the contessina; but knowing also that all explanation was out of the question for the present.

I laughed at her dresses which had been handsome, with much frayed trimming about them, the hooks and eyes loosened and the seams strained, but liked her, and although I did not take lessons, saw her every day when she came up to the Academy.

" I promised to try, and as I had taken lessons before, in three months I could play and sing "Should those fond hopes e'er forsake thee," tolerably well.

" "You shall think and talk of your lessons, and nothing more, I charge you.

I had been taking lessons of Professor Simpson, and was ready for the ball.

Mr. Howitt mentions, among moral lessons divinely sanctioned, respect for old age, abstinence from lawless love, and avoidance of the sins so popular, poetic, and sanctioned by the example of Gods, in classical Greece.

The example of the Melanesians enforces these lessons.