" "Oh, dry up, you two, and leave it to the winning-post to decide," said William.

Now what's the answer?" "Oh, hardly a fortune, Dicky," I returned quietly.

" "Oh, no, I'm not," I said coolly.

" "Oh! Dicky!"

" "Oh! not that bad, Dicky," I protested again, but I knew in my heart that what he said was true.

" "Oh, I don't think it would be possible for them to arrive here before we have to start, even if Dicky gives them to an expressman right away, as I am sure he will do.

"I suppose I can ring for Katie when I am ready to have my dress fastened?" "Oh! by all means," I returned.

"Oh, yes." "Very well," and he stepped lightly to the side of the bed and stood looking down upon the sick woman.

"Oh, doctor, you don't think I am going to have pneumonia, do you?

"Oh, Mrs. Underwood," I exclaimed.

" "Oh, please!"

Why, oh, why are you not knitting?"

"But oh, Dicky, if I promise to try not to say anything irritating today, will you promise not to, either?"

"Oh, that's so, I didn't tell you," he returned carelessly, looking up from the manuscript.

"Oh, Mrs. Underwood!"

" "Oh, I can't do that," I said.

"Oh, Mr. Graham, how wonderful!"

" "Are you sure the ride over there wouldn't do your head good, Madge?" "Oh, no, Dicky, I feel that I must get home quickly.

"Oh, thank God, thank God," some one groaned brokenly on the other side of me, and I turned my eyes to meet Dicky's face bent close to mine and working with emotion.

"Oh, don't disturb that delirious, dying girl!" I made an impetuous step forward to try to stop him when Lillian caught my arm and whirled me into a recess of the alcove.

" "Oh, no," I said nervously, "I don't think the man's really looking at me at all; he's simply gazing out into space, thinking, and happens to be facing this way.

Oh, no, no, Dicky; no, no, no!" I heard my own voice rise to a sort of shriek, felt Dicky release my hands and seize my shoulders, and then everything went black before me, and I knew nothing more.

"Oh, Dicky, I am sure I can walk," I protested faintly.

"I wouldn't disturb you, sweetheart," he said, "only it's time for me to go in to the studio, and I did not want to leave you without knowing how you are." "Oh, have I slept so late?"

Oh, no, you wouldn't disturb any plans at allthey've been thoroughly upset already.

Though this state of things was very annoying to me, it proved advantageous in one respect, as it made me more diligent in my studies, lest I should furnish my rival with an occasion of triumphing ever me; so that I owe a part of what I gained to the enmity of my rival.

" "And how much do I owe you for all this?" asked Mr. P.

characterthe fact being that he was one of those unmitigated old scamps who owe to the accident of having lived in Revolutionary times, the distinction of being held up to the emulation of primary schools as a "Patriot Hero."

We'll probably owe our lives to the fact that we haven't.

"What," exclaims Castelar, "does Spain not owe to Byron?

This one thing is certain, that, whether or not we owe the first idea of movable type to Laurence Koster or to Haarlem, we do not owe to the period any very marked use of it; that was reserved for a later day.

He "held the rank of one of the first princes in Europe without being a king, and without possessing an inch of ground for which he did not owe service to some superior lord."

That he dared to be natural says much for Lorenzo, and it was largely due to his encouragement that Cristoforo Landino undertook his great work on "Dante," to which we owe so much to-day.

I owe my father thanks for a little grounding, and you, I am sure, for much that you have taught me.

But now the parts around the lower belly were almost cold; when, uncovering himself (for he had been covered over), he said, and they were his last words: "Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; pay it, therefore, and do not neglect it!"

The place was probably burnt by the Danes, and it is to one of them, to Canute, that we owe the foundation of the town we know.

To the fourteenth century we owe the fine rood screen restored in 1848, but the next great period of building was the fifteenth century, when the Lady Chapel, with the chapels north and south of it, were built, and later in the same century the great choir was entirely re-erected.

Oak, beech, and holly, which so largely make up the woodland of the New Forest we have always had in England, but the limes which named Lyndhurst it is said we owe to someone else, and if so it can only be to the Roman.

It is too good to owe its origin to the modern world, but not extraordinary for the Middle Age, which was eagerly and even violently Christian.

It is probably to this fact we owe the beauty and preservation of the church here, with its fine twelfth century nave, not fundamentally altered, and its chancel still largely of the thirteenth century.

Selborne must then have been a very secluded place, the nearest town, Alton, often inaccessible in winter one may think, judging from the description Gilbert White gives of the "rocky hollow lane" that led thither, but it is perhaps to this very fact that we owe more than a few of those immortal pages ever living and ever new.

believe all I owe to Kaiserswerth was comprised in the lesson of unquestioning obedience."

"Too well I know," replied Viola, "what love women may owe to men.

too manywho owe their success in life almost entirely to some feminine influence or another.

I owe you something already, for finding this young fellow, and I'll tell you what I'm thinking of.

Since the Sheriff of Nottingham hath sent such a one as this against me, I will put on the fellow's garb and go forth to see whether I may not find his worship, and perchance pay him back some of the debt I owe him upon this score.

"Here are two young friends who shared the hazards of our late passage with us, and to whom, in a great degree, we owe our present happy security, and I am anxious to make you acquainted with them.

I don't know," he added, beginning to sit down, "but that it is an action we owe to the communityhem!"

To the merchants, my lords, we owe that our name is known beyond our own coasts, and that our influence is not confined to the narrow limits of a single island.

Let us remember, that we are to owe our preservation only to ourselves, and redouble our efforts in proportion as others neglect their duty.