what did he tell you, Lucy?" "You will never learn, if you thus interrupt me, Miles," Lucy answered, smiling saucily in my face, though she permitted me still to hold both her hands, as if I had taken possession of them literally with an intent to keep them, blushing at the same time as much with happiness, I thought, as with the innate modesty of her nature.

" To this I replied, smiling, "I am neither a player nor a vertumnus; but I am alternate, at one time in your light, and at another in your shade; thus both a foreigner and a native."

Hardly has nature unfolded her smiling treasures, than the children are at once upon her track to open out a calling for themselves.

"That answers your question, doesn't it?" said Kent, smiling sourly.

" "Nor have I," she answered, smiling.

" The Judge yielded, smiling at the General's urgency, and shrewdly guessing what it implied.

"Well, well!" said he, laying down his fork, and smiling innocently; "what be you all laughin' at?

"Yes," she answered, nodding and smiling, and pointing with a pea-pod; "that's our boat, just coming up to the wharf, with her peak down.

The shadows crept in upon him with a deadly, merciless certainty that would have filled the stoutest heart with gloom, and yet he maintained a smiling stoicism that deceived all but his closest associates.

The property man met him, and he too was smiling.

He was still smiling when he stooped and picked up the weapon.

The old fellow was a good deal of a philosopher; he showed neither resentment nor pleasure, but once or twice I caught him smiling oddly at my enthusiasm.

I never saw one, but often fancied that I heard them rustling, at daybreak, by these bright clear waters, stretching out in such smiling promise, where no sound broke the deep and blissful seclusion, unless now and then this rustling, or the plash of some fish a little gayer than the others; it seemed not necessary to have any better heaven, or fuller expression of love and freedom than in the mood of nature here.

[The PIPER sets down JAN and stands forth, smiling.

[He comes down smiling and beckons to MICHAEL, who draws near, bewildered.

Perhaps she found no instant welcome, this diminutive maiden who came smiling into existence laden with a message from the sunshine; her father was richer in ancestry than guineas, and the arrival of another daughter may have seemed an honour hardly worth the bestowal.[A]

He beheld a creature in all the gentle bloom of highbred beautytall, well-formed, and radiating a sort of natural elegance, with a fine-shaped, expressive face, to which great speaking eyes and a mouth half pensive, half smiling, lent an air of rare distinction.

As she sits in the green-room, smiling in girlish triumph while she looks around at the beaux and players who crowd about her, anxious to worship the rising star, her eloquent glance falls on George Farquhar.

[Looking earnestly on LORD FOPPINGTON, who, smiling, gives it to LORD MORELOVE and then bows gravely to her].

There was a light in the room now and he could see his companion's face, smiling at him encouragingly.

15 Suddenly near me, Smiling, immortal, Thy bright regard asked What had befallen, Why I had called thee, 20 What my mad heart then Most was desiring.

15 Ah, when the hyacinth Wakens with spring, And buds the laurel, Doubt not, some morning When all earth revives, 20 Hearing Pan's flute-call Over the river-beds, Over the hills, Sounding the summons, I shall look up and behold 25 In the door, Smiling, expectant, Loving as ever

In some valley of the hills Far away and misty-blue, By quick water he hath cut A new pipe, and set the wood 30 To his smiling lips, and blown, That earth's rapture be restored.

But, with plumage sleek, yet shady, perched above my study door, Perched upon a bust of GLADSTONE placed above my study door, Perched, and croaked "Obstructive Bore!" Then this mocking bird beguiling my tried temper into smiling By the lank lopsided languor of the countenance it wore.

Till his dirges of despair one melancholy burden bore, Parrot-like, "Obstructive Bore!" But the Jackdaw still beguiling my soothed fancy into smiling.