"No one could call him anything but a fine boy," thought the mother, "and surely the outside is a key to what is within!His firm chin, his erect head, his bright eye, his quick tread, his air of alert self-reliance,surely here is enough, for any mother to build on!" VIII THE KNIGHT OF BEULAH CASTLE Nancy's flushed face was glued to the window-pane until Gilbert turned the corner.

An hour he sat, and read in vain, Nought but mirrors were his eyes; For to and fro through his helpless brain, Went the dance's mysteries; Till a gust of wind against the pane, Mixed with a sea-bird's cries, And the sudden spatter of drifting rain Bade him mark the altered skies.

Instead of mother's love-lit eyes, The church's storied pane, All blank beneath cold starry skies, Or sounding in the rain.

Never to sesame of mine that door Yielded that room; but through one undyed pane, Gazing with reverent curiosity, I saw a little chamber, round and high, Which but to see, was to escape the heat, And bathe in coolness of the eye and brain; For it was dark and green.

"Know'st thou that sound upon the window pane?" Said the youth quietly, as outstretched he lay, Where for an hour outstretched he had lain, Pillowed upon her knees.

' Maskew had slipped out before him, and the children's noses left the window-pane as the great man walked down the steps.

And good Isabella McDonald turned angrily away, and drummed on the window-pane with her knitting-needles to relieve her nervous discomfort at this slight passage at arms with her best-beloved daughter.

He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept: Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped, By the morning light were seen Most beautiful things!there were flowers and trees; There were bevies of birds, and swarms of bees; There were cities with temples and towers; and these All pictured in silvery sheen!

On one pane a soap was extolled, and on another the exordium, "For this is a true saying and worthy of all acceptation," was followed by the statement of a religious dogma; while on another pane was an urgent appeal not to do in the omnibus what you would not do in a drawing-room.

On one pane a soap was extolled, and on another the exordium, "For this is a true saying and worthy of all acceptation," was followed by the statement of a religious dogma; while on another pane was an urgent appeal not to do in the omnibus what you would not do in a drawing-room.

A stern law had been passed that Henry's daytime hours were to be as strictly respected as those of a man of business; yet quite often, about eleven o'clock in the morning, there would come a heavenly whisper along the passage and a little knock on the door, soft as a flower tapping against a window-pane.

The flower dwindled to a small white moon standing high in the upper pane of one of the uncurtained windows.

She dashed to the small, tight window, broke a pane with her fist, and thrust out her arm.

With closed eyes she put her arm out through the broken pane, and, after a short struggle, slipped the rusty bolt.

He stops, and tosses a pebble against the window-pane.

In many cathedrals grand and dim, whose windows glimmer with pane and lens, Mid the odor of incense raised in prayer, hallowed about with last amens, The infant Saviour is pictured fair, with kneeling Magi wise and old, But his baby-hand restsnot on the gifts, the myrrh, the frankincense, the gold But on the head, with a heavenly light, Of the little gray lamb that was changed to white.

She scarcely looks at the little children as they press their rosy faces against the window pane and whisper to each other, "Is the Babouscka looking for us?"

The enthusiast then approached a window of the baker's shop, and breaking a small pane of glass within it, threw the fire-ball into the room.

There is never a pane of glass on the lower story, even for the shops, but only barred windows and solid doors.

The interior of the chapel is very plain, with a picture of no merit for an altar-piece, and a single old pane of painted glass in the great eastern window, representingno saint, nor angel, as is customary in such casesbut that grim sinner, the Earl of Leicester.

She was standing there now beating a tattoo on the window pane.

Let me hear all about your fresh discoveries.' It was a thin November day: leaves were whirling on the lawn, and at that moment one blew rustling down the window-pane.

THE OLD CARRYALL It's alone in the dark of the old wagon-shed, Where the spider-webs swing from the beams overhead, And the sun, siftin' in through the dirt and the mold Of the winder's dim pane, specks it over with gold.

The spring sun flashes a rapier thrust Through the dingy school-house pane, A shining scimitar, free from rust, That cuts the cloud of the drifting dust, And scatters a golden rain; And the boy at the battered desk within Is dreaming a dream sublime, For study's a wrong, and school a sin, When the joys of woods and fields begin, And it's just birds'-nesting time.

The gray morning passed away; the village on the hill sent down busy sounds of labor and cheer; flies buzzed on the sunny pane, doors clicked and slammed in the house, fires crackled behind the shining fire-dogs.