Asked diffidentlyas diffidently as he could, that ishow many men my house would hold.

I didn't want my good name taken away, and I had to be careful, and many's the good arf-pint I 'ad to refuse because that little imitation monkey was sitting in the office drawing faces on 'is blotting-paper.

I am greatly indebted to Mr. Dodgson's relatives, and to all those kind friends of his and others who have aided me, in so many ways, in my difficult task.

Mrs. Tate has looked through my clothes and left in the trunk a great many that will not be wanted.

One of the persons that amused me was a Mrs. Gummidge, a wretched melancholy person, who is always crying, happen what will, and whenever the fire smokes, or other trifling accident occurs, makes the remark with great bitterness, and many tears, that she is a "lone lorn creetur, and everything goes contrairy with her.

"If the book were but a little more definite," he writes, "it might stir up many fellow-workers in the same good field of social improvement.

mannersthe sort of person one knows in a few minutes as well as many in many years.

The book in question, admirable as it is in many ways, has not commanded a large sale.

The piece we crossed, some fifteen miles from shore to shore, is very shallow, in many parts only six or eight feet deep, and every winter it is entirely frozen over with ice two feet thick, and when this is covered with snow it forms a secure plain, which is regularly used for travelling on, though the immense distance, without means of food or shelter, is dangerous for poorly clad foot passengers.

Lewis Carroll's dining-room has been the scene of many a pleasant little party, for he was very fond of entertaining.

Meanwhile "Through the Looking-Glass" was steadily progressingnot, however, without many little hitches.

But "Sylvie and Bruno," in this respect entirely unlike "Alice in Wonderland," was the result of notes taken during many years; for while he was thinking out the book he never neglected any amusing scraps of childish conversation or funny anecdotes about children which came to his notice.

Many people have tried to show that "The Hunting of the Snark" was an allegory; some regarding it as being a burlesque upon the Tichborne case, and others taking the Snark as a personification of popularity.

I think this fits in beautifully in many waysparticularly about the bathing-machines: when the people get weary of life, and can't find happiness in towns or in books, then they rush off to the seaside, to see what bathing-machines will do for them.

ANDREW BEDIENT, SIR: Many of my guests have caught the spirit of The Pleiad more readily and pleasurably, after making the acquaintance of one elsewhere designated, I believe, the proprietor.

Many were closing their annals of error in decrepitude and beggary; others were well-knit studies of evil, with health still hanging on, more or less, and much deviltry to do.

I met them at dinner in the Flamingo Room, and after listening to the Señora, the courtesies of the Spaniard were like so many cold shuddery waves of dread.

For Monkhouse talked alluringly, incessantly,and asked only to be with the strangerand many a time, all unknowing, he banished for the moment some devouring anguish with a tale of disruption told to a turn.

"Ah, yes, there are many grand swimmers in my country among the coast men.

"Like our host, I have sailed many seas and not a few with him," he added.

What came over him cannot be tolda break in his fine control; a sudden realization that he was whipped; a resurgence of all the shattered strategies in his brain, many of which certain others of the party did not yet understand; his doubt of Framtree, or his inability to reach the weapon,the exact point which goaded him to black disorder was never known, but the fury of it concentrated upon the Glow-worm.

Through the love of one, comes the love of many....

He had made many fair promises about a final transfer of this property to Albert and Katy when they should both be of age, but all that was now forgotten, as it was intended to be.

I remember now how many times of late years I have given her needless trouble.

She had made many apologies for Plausaby's previous offensesthis was too much even for her ingenious charity.

" "If you had only been true to me, even then, John; if you had written to me declaring the truth, and giving me fair warning that you were my rival, how much better it would have been!

"Did he seem much agitated?"

" "And he took that?he wanted as much as that?" asked Gilbert eagerly.

Not much vigour in my biceps now, eh?" It was only a few paces from one cabin to the other; but Mr. Saltram could scarcely have gone so far without the steward's supporting arm.

Mrs. Tadman had so many ailments of her own, such complicated maladies, such deeply-rooted disorders, that she could be scarcely expected to give much attention to the trivial sufferings of another person.

He told William Carley as much one day when the question of money matters was pushed rather too fartold him in the plainest language.

"Stephen," she cried, half awake and very much, frightened, "what was that?"

Where's Steph?" "Under the trees yonder, very much hurt; I'm afraid fatally.

We were to be rich, and our lives free and peaceful henceforward; and I had seen him suffer so much for the want of money.

I suffered too much.

"His talk can't do me much harm, anyhow."

He could not so much as conceive the idea of a world in which there should be no such thing as sale and profit.

That much of his early success had been due to this heroic upbringing, Adrian was too honest not to admit, but thenby God, it had been hard!

He would have liked very much to have got to his feet, standing firmly on his two long, well-made legs, and have once and for all delivered himself of a final philippic.

Just as she was leaving, the subversive softness came close to her again, like a wave of too much perfume as you open a church-door; as if some one were trying to embrace her against her will.

Perhaps it is too much to askbut if you could call again sometime.

It was discretion, after all, but not the kind he thoughta much more forgiveable discretion.

"It is very tragic," she said, "but much betteryou know it is better.

Yes, so much better; and this way, too!"

You are the truest soldier of us all, and I, who am not much given to worship, am on my knees before that shy gallantry of yours, which makes what courage we poor duffers have seem a vain and boastful thing.

But when he sits in his club window with two or three Iron Men and the White Pine Man and the Brass Man they look very much as you and I do, only more so, if you know what I mean.

We shall not suffer his company much longer in this world,poor, neglected, pitiable, darkened soul that he is, this fellow-citizen of ours.

The Gentile merchants, who were present with great wagon-trains containing all those articles indispensable to the comfort of life, of which the Mormons stood so much in need, refused to open a single box or bale until they could hire storehouses.

The ascription, however, to John Reynolds has not very much to support it.

I give the resemblances for what they are worth, which is perhaps not much; it is unlikely that Fletcher should have been acquainted with any of the plays in question, though of course not impossible.