Sylvia made out, from the impression he evidently now had of her, that her face had really been very, very dirty; and at the recollection of that absurd ascent of the mountain by those two black-faced, twig-chewing individuals, a return of irrepressible laughter quivered on her lips.

It was an enforced manoeuver with which the past weeks had made her wearily familiar.

She was nowadays continually detecting in herself motives which made her sick.

It's only the contagion of the American craze for connecting everything with social betterment, tagging everything with that label, that ever made him think he did.

She made a great effort for self-possession.

Through such obstacles we have found or made our way, and are now amid leather and shoemakers' shops, then among copper and iron-smiths, till at last we emerge on the central town-square, not a bad one either, nor very irregular, considering that it is in Raseem.

He made an unpleasant racket with his chair; spilled his sand-box; in mending his pens, impatiently split them all to pieces, and threw them on the floor in a sudden passion; stood up and leaned over his table, boxing his papers about in a most indecorous manner, very sad to behold in an elderly man like him.

It made him insolent.

Revolving all these things, and coupling them with the recently discovered fact that he made my office his constant abiding place and home, and not forgetful of his morbid moodiness; revolving all these things, a prudential feeling began to steal over me.

But he made no motion.

Arry"] When you made a dug-out in those days you made it out of anything you could find, and generally had to make it yourself.

I have never quite made out what the family consisted of, but, approximately, I should think, mother and father and ten children.

The nervy Boches had spotted our sap as something new, and their bullets, whacking up against our newly-thrown-up parapet, made us glad we had worked so busily.

Its nature, however, cannot be realized by the officers concerned like a sudden inspiration when mobilization takes place; knowledge of its principles must be gained by study, and a proof of the complete misapprehension of the importance which this service has attained under modern conditions is that officers are supposed to be able to manage it successfully without having made in peace-time a profound scientific study of the matter.

He waited for a hint of some sort, but I made no move to help him out.

That obliged the front rank to force the men behind them backward, closer to the wall, so that room could be made for us without our trespassing on the forbidden gangway.

The absence of eyebrows made his face expressionless.

And it needed no wizardry to prove that the Allies had broken every promise they ever made to the Arabs.

Yet, for fifteen minutes he carried the whole meeting with him, and the warmth of his self-satisfied emotion made him ooze resplendent sweat.

He shouted at me, and made angry gestures; but I knew that if he wanted me to understand his signals he would never make them openly, so I ignored them.

Added to all that had gone before, that made about the climax of sensation.

"A thousand other deviations may be made, and still either of them may be correct in principle.

"'Tis certain, we believe ourselves more, after we have made a thorough Inquiry into the Thing.

She knew he was anything but "soft," which made the game all the more alluring.

Perhaps she did for having made her do that which she had never dreamed of doing.

"I had to go and be waiting-maid to Aunt Esther at Croydon.

I took the place of her maid-of-all-work.

In response to his knock they were bidden to enter, and Elizabeth, who was lying on a couch whilst a maid was busy preparing her costume for the next act, held out her hand with a little welcoming smile.

"You came with the idea, did you not, thatyou would find Mr. Douglas Romilly?" The girl nodded and glanced around for the maid, who had disappeared, however, into an inner apartment.

" The maid, who had just returned, held the door open.

Elizabeth's maid, Phoebe, came forward to take her mistress' cloak, and the floor valet was there to relieve Philip of his overcoat.

I hold that a man and a maid must settle their love affairs without help from a third party.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.

The mellow stream from the star above, a maid of twenty summers, on a bed of sweetgrass, drank in with her wakeful eyes.

" He pauses for reply, but the maid's head drops lower over her deerskin, and her lips are more firmly drawn together.

"Has anything occurred lately," she asked, "to annoy Merton?" "No, ma'am, I don't know of anything; but he is very changed, indeed, of late," replied the maid.

" "Well, ma'am, I do hope it is not his conscience that is coming against him, now," said the maid.

A new staff of house servants was installed, as follows: Aunt Delia, cook; Louisa, chambermaid; Puss, lady's maid to wait on the madam; Celia, nurse; Lethia, wet nurse; Sarah, dairymaid; Julia, laundress; Uncle Gooden, gardener; Thomas, coachman.

Celia had been acting as her maid.

Celia, the maid, had been so hurried in the preparations for this visit that she had done nothing for herself.

I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than such a murderer as yourself.

He confronted the maid upon the threshold with something like a smile.

The sight of the country girl who was maid-of-all-work in her humble household filled her almost with desperation.

The obsequious dressing-maid laid it lightly on her shoulders, and holding out a white nubia of zephyr worsted, she said, "P'r'aps missis would like to war dis ere."

By the same token, there was a wanton maid, that being asked by her mother what such a one did with her so late one night in such a room, she presently said that MEM.

Jack, Have both our cares, your uncle and myself, Sought, studied, found out, and for your good, A maid, a niece of mine, both fair and chaste; And must we stand at your discretion? SCAR.

The ballad of the Nut-Brown Maid has some touches that are almost Shakespearean.

In this ship were passengers, a youth, his mother, and a maid-servant, who were in a most deplorable condition for want of food.

After we had sailed with them some days, we sent them five barrels of beef, one of pork, two hogsheads of biscuit, with peas, flour, and other things; taking three casks of sugar, some rum, and some pieces of eight as payment, we left them, but took the youth and maid with us, with all their goods.

When the surgeon told him, our voyage might put him in bad circumstances, and farther from his friends, he said he did not care, if he was delivered from that terrible crew; that as the Captain (meaning me) had saved him from death, so he was sure he would do him no harm; and, as for the maid, when she was restored to her senses, she would be no less thankful, let us carry them