They shoulder responsibility; they do not flirt; they sort out cranks; they flee from simpers; they put down presumption.

whose false lips seductive simpers part, While cunning nestles in the harlot-heart!

The rustle and buzz, the music, the oratory and the poem, during which the men cheer and the girls simper; the professors yawn, and the poet's friends pronounce him a second Longfellow.

See how he ducks to the lady of the house, and simpers across the fire-place to his wife, who, by this time is giving a most spirited account of the state of the roads, and the civility of the postilions near the Borders.

She simpers as if she had no teeth but lips; and she divides her eyes, and keeps half for herself, and gives the other to her neat youth.

" "I dare say, my love,[looking in his face, and continuing to drawl and simper in the manner which we might imagine of Shakspeare's little shepherdess "'Sweet youth chide onI had rather hear thee chide

"Thus only can I tell the true thoughts of those who bow and simper before my face.

Sir, only think of the small Squires with the red faces, sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their hipsand the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their visible pocketsand the damsels, blushing things in white muslin, with sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and thingsand the sons, sir, the promising young gentlemen, sirand the doctor, and the lawyerand the parson.

SEE Simpers Co., Inc. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL SCIENCE; a survey of social problems.

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Oh! dear, my lord, your lordship, no,' said Mistress Pauncefort, with a simper.

'It is not Venus I am expecting, but Mars,' he said with a simper.

Des Esseintes was exasperated by his immaculate and bedizened shepherds, his Orpheus whom he compares to a weeping nightingale, his Aristaeus who simpers about bees, his Aeneas, that weak-willed, irresolute person who walks with wooden gestures through the length of the poem.

ALICE COALE SIMPERS.

ALICE COALE SIMPERS.

Mrs. Alice Coale Simpers was born in the old brick mansion known as "Traveler's Repose," a short distance south of Harrisville, in the Sixth district of Cecil county, on the first day of December, 1843.

The Coale family of which Mrs. Simpers is a member, trace their descent from Sir Philip Blodgett, a distinguished Englishman, who settled in Baltimore shortly after its foundation, and are related to the Matthews, Worthingtons, Jewetts, and other leading families of Harford county.

Mrs. Simpers' early education was received at Waring's Friends' School, near the village of Colora, which was kept up by a few families of Friends in the neighborhood.

When Mrs. Simpers was quite young her father removed his family to the banks of the romantic Octoraro, near Rowlandville, and within less than two miles of the birth-place of the two poetic Ewings and the late John Cooley, and the romantic spot where Mrs. Hall lived when she wrote the poems which are published in this volume.

In 1875 Mrs. Simpers began to write for the New York Mercury, which then numbered among its contributors Ned Buntline, Harriet Prescott, George Marshall, George Arnold, Bayard Taylor, W. Scott Way, and many other distinguished writers with whom she ranked as an equal in many respects, and many of whom she excelled as a brilliant satirist and pathetic painter of the quaint and the beautiful.

Mrs. Simpers has also contributed largely to the Woman's Journal and other periodicals.

Though possessed of a brilliant poetic genius, Mrs. Simpers is best known as a writer of prose; and, in addition to the large quantity of matter she has contributed to the newspaper press, is the author of a story of about two hundred pages illustrative of the principles and practices and exemplifying the social life of the Friends, for which she received a prize of two hundred dollars.

On the 22d of February, 1879, the subject of this sketch married Captain John G. Simpers, who served with distinction in the Second Regiment Delaware Volunteers in the war of the rebellion.