" There was a universal shout of contempt at this mild proposal.

" Dick, too, seemed to agree to this proposal, and hastily ordered Crusoe to run on ahead with the savage; an order which the dog obeyed so vigorously that, before the men had done laughing at him, he was a couple of hundred yards ahead of them.

" This proposal was gladly accepted, for energy and hope go hand-in-hand, and the guide was about to quit the group, when he felt the strong grasp of Sigismund on his arm.

"I have a proposal to make, if you will only give it a moment's thought.

" Gobardhan agreed to the proposal; but seeing that his client was loth to go and evidently had something on his mind, he remarked: "When a wise man consults a physician, he always discloses his symptoms.

At length Sádhu said: "I've come to make you a proposal.

Indignation at corrupt proposal from California.

"I make only one modification of your proposal, and that is, if any profits are realized, please substitute for my name the name of your brother Alfred's amiable widow.

Did your proposal intend simply a personal compliment I should feel no hesitation in thanking you cordially for this evidence of your personal regard, while I declined your proffered honor; but I cannot fail to perceive that there is a paramount patriotic duty connected with your proposal which forbids me to decline your invitation.

Did your proposal intend simply a personal compliment I should feel no hesitation in thanking you cordially for this evidence of your personal regard, while I declined your proffered honor; but I cannot fail to perceive that there is a paramount patriotic duty connected with your proposal which forbids me to decline your invitation.

All that they felt themselves prepared to carry was a proposal that Free Church or United Presbyterian ministers should be "mutually eligible" for calls in the two Churchesa proposal that did not come to much.

All that they felt themselves prepared to carry was a proposal that Free Church or United Presbyterian ministers should be "mutually eligible" for calls in the two Churchesa proposal that did not come to much.

Dr. Cairns was decidedly opposed to this proposal.

Except when he had to expound and recommend some scheme for which he had become responsible, or when he had been laid hold of by others to speak in behalf of a "Report" or a proposal in which they were interested, Dr. Cairns did not intervene often in the debates of the United Presbyterian Synod.

Louis Napoleon has just now undertaken to make all the friction-matches in France,but Dr. Johnson's proposal referred to the matrimonial matches, the dénouemens of the comedies and tragedies of domestic life.

" I think he felt relieved at my proposal,glad, perhaps, after long silence, to confide to another man the secret of his lonely, wretched life.

Seward: It is certainly a very attractive and, I conceive, a humane proposal.

I do not know whether Mr. JOYNSON HICKS claims any connection with Hicks's Hall, which stands in the old road-books as the starting-point of the great highway to the North, but he became almost lyrical in his denunciation of the proposal to put all the roads in the country in charge of a railwayman like Sir ERIC GEDDES.

[Blank Page] These casual comments did not seem to arouse any burning curiosity among the young men, and up to the day of Kalora's nineteenth anniversary they had not had the effect of bringing to the father any of those guarded inquiries which, under the oriental custom, are always preliminary to an actual proposal of marriage.

MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT It may seem very reasonable to ask how the result proposed in the last paragraph is to be attained, and to add that the difficulty of carrying so laudable a proposal into effect lies wholly in the details, and therefore that until some working plan is suggested, the consideration of improving the human race is Utopian.

And the proposal to change the name of Berlin Road at Lewisham has been rejected by the residents.

Then we have had the surprising but welcome experience of Mr. Tim Healy championing the Government against Sir John Simon's attack on the Military Service Bill; and have listened to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's urgent plea in the Lords for unity of air control, a proposal which Lord Haldane declared could not be adopted without some "violent thinking."

But the fellow wrote again, asking if I had received his proposal.

When arrived there, they informed the merchants of the unfortunate death of Skinner, and of the proposal which had been made to them.

Then followed a very lean time both for Mrs. Brackett and her daughter, until at last the former made such an outrageous proposal that Doll came to her senses.