It was from Mr. Manson, Allan Carey's younger partner; the sort of letter that dazed her, opening up as it did so many questions of expediency, duty, and responsibility.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

In Praeterita he tells in an inimitable way how the most portentious interruption to his solitude came in 1836, when his father's Spanish partner came with his four beautiful daughters to visit Herne Hill.

Maria was taking some refreshment, and saw Lord Orville advancing for the same purpose himself, when a gay-looking man, Sir Clement Willoughby, I am told, stepped up and cried, "Why, my lord, what have you done with your lovely partner?" "Nothing!" answered Lord Orville, with a smile and a shrug.

Before he arrived at his teens, young Ruskin had composed much, both in prose and verse, and he early manifested an aptitude for drawing, as well as a decided taste for art, which, it is said, was in some measure incited by the gift, from a partner of his father, of a copy of the poet Rogers' "Italy," with engravings by Turner.

Neither Mr. Chatto nor his partner, Mr. Percy Spalding, had as yet arrived, and I therefore had to wait a few minutes.

"Secure from recognition, you wormed yourself into the confidence of my wife, for you were bent upon ruining her also; and you took as partner in your schemes that needy adventurer Flockart.

And the partner's ticket must correspond.

Why had it been forgotten here, Doctor, that Silas Blackburn had a brotherhis partner in those wretched and profitable contract scandals?" "You mean," the doctor answered, "Robert Blackburn.

Tied to a partner of a petty and timorous disposition, he seizes an early opportunity to rid himself of the incubus.

When it was suggested to him, as a young publisher, that his former partner was ready to bear part of the risk in a contemplated undertaking, he refused to associate his fortunes with a man who conducted his business on methods that he did not approve.

J.C. (Lord Advocate), Colquhoun, John, "The Moor and the Loch"; correspondence with Murray; dissatisfaction with Blackwood; visit to London and interview with Murray, Constable, Archibald (Constable & Co.); Farmer's Magazine, Scots Magazine, Edinburgh Review; his partner, A.G. Hunter; appointed Murray's agent; "Sir Tristram" and "Lay of the Last Minstrel"; breach with Longman; injunction as to Edin.

He looked over at his partner sharply.

One would suppose you were a sleeping partner in the firm.

Fortune had not smiled upon Lesbia's cards, or on those of her partner.

Then God forbid I should consort my selfe With one so far from grace and pietie, Least being found within thy companie, I should be partner of thy punishment.

He lost the partner of his breast, Who sooth'd each rising care; And ever charm'd the pains to rest She ever lov'd to share.

[Illustration: BUSY CITY MAN TO HIS PARTNER (as one of the new air-raid warnings gets to work): "If you'll leave me in here for the warnings I'll carry on while you take shelter during the raids.

The Germans have reached Sevastopol, but the Kaiser's Junior Partner in the South is only progressing in the wrong direction.

"Pretty badly tangled, I declare," said Mr. Hare, staring helplessly at his senior partner.

Wyckholme preceded Skaggs to the grave by two winters and he willed his share of everything to his partner of thirty years' standing.

Wyckholme held to his agreement with Skaggs by bequeathing his share of the property to him, but it was definitely set forth that at the death of his partner it was to go to Agnes Ruthven, the grandchildwith reservations.

In order to keep the business and the property intact and under the perpetual control of one partnership, the granddaughter of Wyckholme was to marry the grandson of Skaggs within the year after the death of the surviving partner.

The baited stag will turn, and with the show Of his dread antlers hold the hounds at bay; The chamois drags the huntsman down th' abyss; The very ox, the partner of man's toil, The sharer of his roof, that meekly bends The strength of his huge neck beneath the yoke, Springs up, if he's provoked, whets his strong horn, And tosses his tormentor to the clouds.

SEE The silent partner.