Thus speaking, she sat down by the bulwarks of the vessel, and a despairing look gradually crept over her face.

"Not true music, not true love, not true anydings!" he said, speaking however with an unexpected gentleness, and patting her on the shoulder with a dirty old hand.

She looked up at him warningly, and he waited an instant before speaking.

For once in her life Mrs. Marshall was speaking out.

"I think," she said, speaking a little slowly, "I think the two go together, don't they?" "How do you mean?"

Without waiting for an answer she went on hurriedly, speaking in the tones of suppressed excitement which thrilled in every one's voice that day: "Come on, Sylvialet's work it off together!

"I didn't understand before," said Sylvia; and she was speaking the truth.

They will overlook a little roughness in him; they will excuse his speaking unpleasant truths: because they can trust him, even though he is plain-spoken.

I am not speaking of infidels.

For if he got forgiveness for a great sin, by merely confessing it, how much more may we hope to be forgiven, for the comparatively little sins of which I am now speaking?

St. Paul has been speaking of two good women, who seem to have had some difference; and he beseeches them to make up their difference, and be of the same mind in the Lord.

He brings to our minds, not abstract beings, but breathing, acting, speaking individuals.

A modern writer, of whom it is to be lamented that a certain want of refinement stopped short his perceptions, and degraded his philosophy from the finally expedient into what was fugitively so, has a passage on this point, as agreeable as what he is speaking of.

Richard Johnson says, "The only use of the Vocative Case, is, to call upon a Person, or a thing put Personally, which we speak to, to give notice to what we direct our Speech; and this is therefore, properly speaking, the only Case absolute or independent which we may make use of without respect to any other Word.

Properly speaking, there is but one last chapter in any book.

""The art of speaking, like all other practical arts, may be facilitated by rules,"Enfield's Speaker, p. 10.

There is, properly speaking, no subordination except in the field, and a soldier has only to avoid politics, and cry "Vive la Convention!"

For instance, a young monk, for writing fanatic letters, and signing resolutions in favour of foederalisma hosier, for facilitating the return of an emigranta man of ninety, for speaking against the revolution, and discrediting the assignatsa contractor, for embezzling foragepeople of various descriptions, for obstructing the recruitment, or insulting the tree of liberty.

Dubois de Crance, speaking of the inhabitants of La Vendee, says, "They are the most hospitable people I ever saw, and always disposed to listen to what is just and reasonable, if proffered with mildness and humanity.

" Still later Lear "aided him all in my power, and was gratified in believing he felt it; for he would look upon me with eyes speaking gratitude, but unable to utter a word without great distress."

He wrestled with himself, and fought with all his power against this hopeless passion; wondered whether he had done his cause irretrievable mischief by speaking too soon, as well as by speaking amiss; seldom hoped at all, for he had been refused even with indignation; and never was less able to withdraw his thoughts from Emily, even for a moment, than when he felt most strongly that there was no chance for him at all.

He wrestled with himself, and fought with all his power against this hopeless passion; wondered whether he had done his cause irretrievable mischief by speaking too soon, as well as by speaking amiss; seldom hoped at all, for he had been refused even with indignation; and never was less able to withdraw his thoughts from Emily, even for a moment, than when he felt most strongly that there was no chance for him at all.

'Mr. Swan,' says he, rather hot, 'this here is very plain speaking.'

Humanly speaking, he is the cause of all my misfortunes; but for him, I might have been mistress of Melcombe still, and my poor darling, my only delight, might have been well and happy.

"Humanly speaking," repeated Valentine with bitterness, "I suppose, then, she wishes to insinuate that God ordained the child's death, and she had nothing to do with it?"