At half-past seven he began to dress, and at five minutes to eight he was ready for dinner and stood looking out of the window at the moonlight on the white lawn below.

When she had started that afternoon to make a little visit at Cobhurst, she had had no imaginable reason to suppose that in the course of a very few hours she would be sitting alone with Mr. Haverley in the early moonlight, without even his sister with them.

When the three young people had been sitting for half an hour on the wide piazza of Cobhurst, enjoying the moonlight effects and waiting for the return of Dr. Tolbridge, Miriam, who was reclining in a steamer chair, ceased making remarks, but very soon after she became silent she was heard again, not speaking, however, but breathing audibly and with great regularity.

" "Suppose, then," said Ralph, "that we take a little turn in the moonlight.

Do not you like her the better for that, Mr. Haverley?" Ralph did agree most heartily, and it made him happy to agree on any subject with a girl who was even more beautiful by moonlight than by day; who was so kind, and tended to his sister, and whose generous disposition could overlook little breaches of etiquette when there was reason to do so.

It was agreeable in the highest degree to walk in the moonlight with this charming girl, but he felt that it was getting late; it was long past Miriam's bedtime, and he wondered why the doctor did not come.

I will light this candle, for no doubt poor Miriam has put out her lamp, if she did not depend entirely on the moonlight.

As it was yet early in the evening, and bright moonlight, he concluded to go around by the Wittons'.

For we'd nothing else but moonlight in the room.

She and her friends had driven down from the Notch by sunset and moonlight.

The night was falling; not, however, a dark winter night, but one of those beautiful, clear, moonlight nights, in which every object is perceptible, though not as distinctly as by day.

He lay quite still, his arms outstretched, looking at the pearly stream of moonlight coming into the window.

At first he saw a sea of faces: the mill-men,women he had known, drunken and bloated,Janeys timid and pitiful,poor old Debs: then they floated together like a mist, and faded away, leaving only the clear, pearly moonlight.

The farmer was to bring them back by moonlight in his hay-wagon.

As to me, I sat next to him, and the rest grouped about us on the nearest beds and on the floor; and there we sat in the dim moonlight, talking in whispers, while I heard all the school gossip, about Mr. Creakle and his cruelty, and about the other masters, and that the only boy on whom Mr. Creakle never dared to lay a hand was Steerforth.

But the storm was over now; with the setting sun it had gone to rest, and the pale moonlight stole softly into the silent chamber, where Madam Conway bent anxiously down to see if but the faintest breath came from the parted lips of her only daughter.

He thought a small party of four, consisting of herself and Henry, Miss Meeker and himself, could have a jolly afternoon and evening of it, dining on board in true picnic fashion, and returning to earth in the moonlight.

"Got to the moonlight stage alreadypoor Bliss!" "Poor Bliss indeed," retorted Mrs. Upton.

The afternoon was fine, the supper entrancing, and the moonlight irresistible.

But it is like going to the theatre and seeing the grandeur of the old gray castle, and the perpetual moonlight, and the devoted love of the satin duchess for the velvet duke.

As you descend towards the margin of the lake, and see Golden Friars, its taper chimneys and slender gables, its curious old inn and gorgeous sign, and over all the graceful tower and spire of the ancient church, at this hour or by moonlight, in the solemn grandeur and stillness of the natural scenery that surrounds it, it stands before you like a fairy town.

Then, if they were "free" men, they came boldly to shop on the nights the store was openmoonlight or no moonlight.

Nearer and nearer drew the clanking noise and presently a whole regiment of perambulators, four abreast, swung around the corner into the moonlight.

"How do you know?" "Saw their helmets glittering in the moonlight!"

A hard, frozen moonlight, from the steely disk sinking down the western sky, had slashed ink-black shadows of struts and stanchions across the gallery, and had flung Nissr's larger shadow down the hungering abysses of the sky that yawned beneath.