My misfortunes have given you a call to discharge the noblest offices of the friendship we have vowed to each other, in advice and consolation; and it would be an injury to it, and to you, to suppose it needed even that call.

Here, I saw, was a man of strength yet for me to encounter, such as I had never met, but would be glad to meet, having found no man of late who needed not my mercy at wrestling or singlestick.

It needed no long study or especial insight into character to know which of the two would receive the more and suffer the less, in the abnormal and unfortunate relation on which they had entered.

If a poor minister broke down and needed rest, Parson Dorrance preached for him, for one month or for three, as the case required.

He felt at times so removed from her by the great gulf which her genius all unconsciously seemed to create between herself and him that he doubted his own memories of her love, and needed to be reassured by gazing into her eyes, touching her hand, and listening to her voice.

The silent house, the empty room, still more terrible the long empty hours in which nobody needed her help, all wrung Mercy's heart.

And she would be won upon and softened by the words; when in reality they were only the outcry of the famished heart which needed some reassurance that its sacrifices had not been all in vain.

It failed at last, when no longer needed.

It will be an hour before you are needed.

He told me all I needed graciously: Enough for guidance, and for victory O'er doubts and fears enough for quiet rest, And when some veiled response I could not read It was not hid from Him, this was enough indeed [Illustration]

Finding that his people needed textbooks in the native tongue, he studied Latin so that he might consult all accessible authorities and translate the most helpful works, making alterations and additions to suit his plan.

Though he erred in exalting form above matter, he taught his age the needed lesson of careful workmanship.

The deterioration in poetry was partly compensated for by the rapid advances in prose, which needed the influences working toward artistic finish.

Because from that time European diplomatists began to succeed in persuading Turkey that she had no strength to stand by herself; and by and bye it became the rule in Constantinople that every petty interior question needed European diplomacy.

And yet that is your position in the world now, and that position is the consequence of your adhering to your policy of indifference, at a time when you needed to act like a power on earth.

THE NEEDED IMPLEMENT XXXI.

" But all this needed not, you will say; if she affect once, she will be his, settle her love on him, on him alone, "illum absens absentem Auditque videtque" she can, she must think and dream of nought else but him, continually of him, as did Orpheus on his Eurydice, "Te dulcis conjux, te solo in littore mecum, Te veniente die,

As the quæstors needed to serve in the provinces were proving insufficient, all drew lots for the places who for ten years previous had been named quæstors without the duties of the office.

And what is needed is that each should learn frankly to recognize the fact.

And if, again, we turn to the words of Jesus, we shall find the needed something more is given.

When once He wanted to use a coin as an illustration, He borrowed it; when, at another time, He needed one with which to pay a tax, He wrought a miracle in order to procure it.

What was needed in many directions, both in politics and in industry, was merely negative action by the government, the repeal of the old laws, the overthrow of old abuses.

If expert knowledge or special apparatus are needed to test it in order to avoid counterfeits, few could be ready to take it and trading would be a costly process.

If he delayed a day, a week, or a month in spending the money, waiting until he could buy in some other market, or until a better time to buy, he would thus increase insomuch the amount of money needed to make the trade (on that scale of prices).

In effect, all the debits and credits between the two countries are merged into one big ledger balance, and the international shipment of gold bullion finally made is just the amount needed to balance the accounts payable at the time.