"The ring-finger.

The dagger split suddenly into three blades, as when one separates the forefinger and the ring-finger from the middle one.

"Last letter I had from her," said Mr. Mott, stealing a glance at the girl's ring-finger, "I understood you were engaged.

"De bride-sign on de ring-finger!

The ring-finger is York River, with Williamsburg and Yorktown just above and below the knuckle line.

You may with the middle and ring-finger of the right hand, conuey a testor into the palme of the same hand, and seeming to cast it away, keepe it still, which with confederacy will seeme strange: to wit, when you finde it againe, where another hath bestowed the very like peece.

"And I notice that it is the ring-finger too!

You doubtless know that when an unmarried girl helps an engaged one to sew her bridal linen, and in doing it pricks her ring-finger, it means that she herself is to become engaged in the same year?

With a steady hand she untwisted the wire fastening of the chain, slipped the ring off, and, bending her head, placed it reverently on the ring-finger of her left hand;brief, but potent ceremony; and over without preface or comment, but over for all time.