Sterling's suicide, then, though it does in fact cut the chief knot of the play, is to be regarded rather as a characteristic and probable incident of a certain phase of life, than as the culmination of a spiritual tragedy.

Since Carlyle's "extraordinary elegy, apology, eulogium" is itself a classic, particular interest attaches itself to Sterling's generous estimate of the man destined to make him immortal.

Miss Sterling's eyes twinkled.

"Maybe it's on Miss Sterling's account," interposed Mrs. Albright.

Mrs. Albright smiled a wordless response, the swift color flushed Miss Sterling's face, while fun played about Polly's mouth.

CHAPTER VII ROSESAND THORNS Polly was in Miss Sterling's room when the box was brought up.

Before the pink roses had lost a petal another box was brought to Miss Sterling's door.

The next morning it was whispered from room to room that the second card had been filched from Miss Sterling's box of roses.

Several smiling glances thrown across the room by Polly put Miss Sterling's mind in confusion.

They're always building additionsnow the one that's going to spoil Miss Sterling's room and Miss Twining's down below.

CHAPTER XI "SO MYSTERIOUS" "Are you busy?" asked Miss Leatherland at the threshold of Miss Sterling's room.

" It was finally decided that Polly should go over to the Home and up to Miss Sterling's room, as usual, leaving Miss Sterling to see Mrs. Adlerfeld and to give her Mrs. Dudley's invitation to spend the rest of the day at her house.

Miss Sterling's lips took a sorrowful droop.

Polly glanced whimsically at Miss Sterling's face.

Miss Sterling's tone was firm.

not a single word of it!" Polly was too excited to heed Miss Sterling's warning pinch.

Miss Sterling's foot was on the stair when the superintendent arrested her.

Polly laughed and flung her arms round Miss Sterling's neck.

"It's to go in Miss Sterling's room.

Mr. Randolph put a private wire up to Miss Sterling's room, and she felt fixed all right.

The reader who is interested in these (and every one who reads him is forced to become so) will find them faithfully dealt with in John Sterling's remarkable letter (quoted in Carlyle's Life of Sterling) on Sartor Resartus.

They taken her from old lady Sterling's place.

He stayed on Sterling's place one night.

Sterling's voice in Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar.'

It was not the saintly, single-minded and sweet-natured C.O.'s of Christopher Sterling's type that made the chief difficulty.