Stroking his beard thoughtfully, therefore, he seated himself upon a convenient wooden chest, while Blossy slipped her old love-letter in and out of the envelop, with that essentially feminine manner of weighing and considering.

And now, hesitating no more, Anthea took up her pen, and wrote,surely a very short missive for a love-letter.

And now, which shall I first give you; the answer of my good mamma; or the dialogue that passed between the widow mother, and the pert daughter, upon her letting the latter know that she had a love-letter?

M. It may be a very difficult thing, perhaps, for a man of the best sense to write a love-letter that may not be cavilled at.

a love-letter?

Well, sir, but now for Master Inamorato's love-letter.

It was not a love-letter, though it expressed so much love, but was written just as he would at any time have spoken to me.

* * POETICAL LOVE-LETTER.

"That must have been a love-letter," said Aunt Missouri, in a pause of the music.

For three successive nights I sat up in a brown study, with a four-in-the-pound candle burning before me till almost cock-crow, composing a love-letter, a most elaborate affair, the pure overflowing of la belle passion, all about Venus, Cupids, bows and arrows, hearts, darts, and them things, which, having copied neatly over on a handsome sheet of foolscap, turned up with gilt, (for, though I say it myself, I scribble a smart fist,)

But she did live; she became better, and then in a mood of passionate tenderness she wrote her first little love-letter to Joe.

To be frank with the reader, the first impression of Juno was, that the note thus tendered to her was a love-letter, though its contents instantly undeceived her.

When he was fourteen years old, he wrote to her his first love-letter.

CHAPTER XX A LOVE-LETTER

" It might be suggested that such a crude love-letter to the sex in general, as compared with one of our own love-letters to a particular girl, gives a fair idea of what Indian love is, compared with the love of civilized men and women.

AN AFRICAN LOVE-LETTER T.J. Hutchinson declares that the gentle god of love is unknown in the majority of African kingdoms: "It in fact seems to be crawling into life only in one or two places where our language is the established one."

" Such a "love-letter," consisting of three notches cut in a twig, symbolically sums up this whole chapter.

"O wind of Malaya," laments the king, "you are welcome to all the fragrance breathing from the flowers, but of what use to you is the love-letter you have stolen from me?

I wrote a love-letter to the skipper signed with the name of "Dorothy," and asked 'im to meet me at Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment at eight o'clock on Wednesday.

It might be a sweetly soft love-letter; but then it might be neither sweet nor soft, in the condition of things in which Harry was now placed.

Immediately there arose in colonial French the loveliest of contentions, the issue of which was that the pair sat down side by side, like two sisters over one love-letter, and undertook to decipher the paper.

How much longer are you going to keep me waiting for that precious love-letter?" She called an answer to him, dashing off final words as she did so.

Now the princess and this prince are lover and mistress; she is distracted at home, and he in the cage; she sent him a love-letter by your hands; the spies instantly conveyed intelligence

A LOVE-LETTER PART II.

A LOVE-LETTER.