That night the talk at the Visitors' Château, during and after a very simple dinner in an old panelled room, was particularly interesting and animated.

All through these days I have been conscious, in the responsible men I have been meeting, of ideals of which no one talks, except when, on very rare occasions, it happens to be in the day's work like anything else to talk of idealsbut which are, in fact, omnipresent.

Two days in Paris followed; every hour crowded with talk, and the vivid impressions of a moment when, from beyond Compiègne and Soissonssome sixty miles from the Boulevardsthe French airmen flying over the German lines were now bringing back news every morning and night of fresh withdrawals, fresh villages burning, as the sullen enemy relaxed his hold.

"Push open this window, enter this house, talk with any person whatever whom you may happen to meet, and they will tell you of the torture of old men, carried off as hostages and murdered in cold blood, or of the agonies of fear deliberately inflicted on old and frail women, through a whole night.

Come and talk with him, and hear what he says first.

Talk with some minister.

A little kicking and agony, and thenMartin Burney took me out a walking that evening, and we talked of Manning; and then I came home and smoked for you, and at twelve o'clock came home Mary and Monkey Louisa from the play, and there was more talk and more smoking, and they all seemed first-rate characters, because they knew a certain person.

But I won't talk of death.

We will shake withered hands together, and talk of old things,of St. Mary's church and the barber's opposite, where the young students in mathematics used to assemble.

We'll talk of sunshine and of song, And summer days, when we were young; Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

"A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbagesand kings

When the others talk about hanging out a shingle in Chicago or Saint Louis or Cleveland or some other over-doctored place, I tell 'em to watch me, when I'm the only doctor between Siam and sunrise!

Curiously enough, you had but to talk to Marty, and you would learn that J.W., Jr., was the finest athlete and the most popular student in school.

Marty was always slow to talk of himself.

"It's like this, the Poles they talk Polish, and maybe a little English.

The Italians, they speak Italian, and some can talk English, only not much.

But Poles they can't talk Italian at all, and Italians can't talk Polish.

But Poles they can't talk Italian at all, and Italians can't talk Polish.

Their talk was on an old, old subject, and not remarkable, yet somehow it was more to them both than any poet's rhapsody.

" Now, at this talk all the good fellows on the bench grinned till their teeth glistened, and even the landlord could not forbear to smile.

" This rather disconcerted Miss Ring, who picked her nosegay, for she was not accustomed to hear gentlemen talk to ladies of matrimony, but ladies to talk to gentlemen.

" This rather disconcerted Miss Ring, who picked her nosegay, for she was not accustomed to hear gentlemen talk to ladies of matrimony, but ladies to talk to gentlemen.

They have heard it talk loudly, indeed, of the house of Austria, when it was in your power to have raised her to that state, in which she was properly to be considered as the support of the balance of Europe, if timid neutralities had not intervened, and our naval strength had properly interposed to her assistance.

Even his favorite among the turnkeys, a person who pretty faithfully copied his conduct towards the other prisoners, always behaved very kindly towards me, and even used to make a confidant of me, by coming to my cell to talk over his troubles.