My listener lay on the other side of the fire, his face half hidden by a big sombrero; sometimes he glanced up questioningly when a point needed elaboration, but he uttered no single word till I had reached the end, and his manner all through the recital was grave and attentive.

" In his growing excitement, Mr. Mudge attempted to drag the chair forward a little nearer to his listener, and then smiled faintly as he resigned himself instantly again to its immovability, and plunged anew into the recital of his singular "disease.

"We soon learned the nature of these discussions from Khudr, who had been an attentive and agitated listener to the whole.

Some people think that the red man has been shamefully treated and betrayed by the white man, and that the catalogue of his grievances is as long as the tale of woe the former is apt to tell, whenever he can make himself understood by a sympathetic listener.

"I wish they'd Shanghaid me instead," he said to that sympathetic listener, "or Mrs. Silk.

Since he was a babe on his mother's knee sixty years before Mr. Wilks had never had such an attentive and admiring listener.

Her husband died twenty years ago last" "Twenty" said his suddenly enlightened listener.

" He stole a glance at his listener.

Two or three times he thought he saw signs of appreciation in his listener's face, but the mouth under the heavy moustache was firm and the eyes steady.

He preferred one congenial listener who understood him, to twenty critics that were puzzled with the vivacity of his impulses.

Captain Gordon makes a good listener.

But here I have a listenera live listener, and I ramble on about dead tyrants and martyrs.

" There was a fluid magnetism in the rush of Jasper Ewold's junketing verbiage which carried the listener on the bosom of a pleasant stream.

"I get a good listener only to lose him!"

" Chrysander tries to prove that this Vittoria was no other than the famous singer, Vittoria Tesi, "a contralto of masculine strength," as one listener describes her voice.

Uncle Wellington Braboy was a deeply interested listener.

Therefore, in the lonely street to which a cab had brought her from the shop where her carriage waited, and which they paced to and fro, this strangely-assorted pair, he gave vent to his feelings, and broke out in a paroxysm that roused all his listener's feelings of anger, resistance, and disgust.

He suggested that his listener, of whose skill in penmanship he entertained a high opinion, should write such a letter as might lure her ladyship into a lonely, ill-lighted locality, not far from her own door; and Tom, appreciating the anxiety she must now feel about her husband's movements, saw no difficulty in the accomplishment of such a stratagem.

Captain Annersley was moved to relate some of his hair breadth escapes and thrilling moments to an alert and hero worshiping listener.

Often too Alan read from books, called in the masters of the pen to set the listener's eager mind atravel through wondrous, unexplored worlds.

This rendered him exceedingly popular at Clawbonny, the persuaded usually having the same sort of success in the world as a good listener.

She is not inquiring the matter out of her own account; she is an enforced listener, and hears only one side.

Once a month, perhaps, his melancholy thoughts drove him to the bottle; for the most part he led a sullen, brooding life, indifferent to the state of his affairs, and only animated when he found a new and appreciative listener to the story of his wrongs.

The listener's eyes shone with gratification.

He was reserved in company; and he used to walk alone by the shore of the lake, while other fellows played at fives or skittles; and when he visited the kitchen of the George, he had his liquor to himself, and in the midst of the general talk was a saturnine listener.