Nick was telling him that only Mrs. May's and the maid's luggage was to go in.

As Mrs. May was telling you at luncheon, Mr. Hilliard is showing her a few things because the mutual friend who was to have done it, couldn't.

They talked in low voices, he telling her things to "keep her mind off" the situation: things about the Mission and other Missions.

Theo Dene talked of Carmen Gaylor, telling stories she had heard of the rich widow from people whose acquaintance she had first made at Del Monte.

MAY?" Only one letter had Nick written to Carmen Gaylorthe one he had promised to write, telling her of his arrival in New York; that he was "pretty lonely, and didn't know how long he could stand for seeing no home sights."

But her heart was a lump of ice, though she talked and laughed a great deal, telling Mrs. Harland about the rich or important people she knew, instead of drinking in the sweet air, and giving her eyes to the wild loveliness.

It occurred to her that she might contrive to telegraph to Simeon Harp, telling him to wire her that something had gone wrong on the ranch, that she must return home at once.

" This Mr. Coffin wrote many long letters telling, in vivid language, of the great difficulties which beset the passage of a bill through both houses of Congress, and of how skilled he was in all the diplomatic moves necessary to success, and finally, after a long delay, occasioned by the difficulty of getting powers of attorney from all the proprietors, he was authorized to go ahead.

"I was immediately surrounded by my friends in the House, congratulating me and telling me that the crisis is passed, and that the bill will pass the House by a large majority.

" Writing to Alfred Vail on the same day, he says after telling of the passage of the bill: "You can have but a faint idea of the sacrifices and trials I have had in getting the Telegraph thus far before the country and the world.

" In a letter to his friend, Dr. Aycrigg of New Jersey, written on May 8, and telling of these successful demonstrations, this interesting sentence occurs: "I find that the ground, in conformity with the results of experiments of Dr. Franklin, can be made a part of the circuit, and I have used one wire and the ground with better effect for one circuit than two wires.

Then one of you is not telling the truth. ...

That's what I've been telling you.

I'd forgive ye for a deal more than telling the truth, if you'd only come a bit oftener and row me.

The boy was reproved for telling such idle stories; he was right, nevertheless, and this was what he saw.

"Telling all them lies about burglars," continued the indignant Mr. Grummit, producing his newspaper and waving it.

He went straight off 'ome, counting 'is money all the way and trying to make it more, and, arter telling Bob 'ow he'd been treated, and trying hard to get 'im to go shares in his losses, packed up his things and cleared out, all boiling over with temper.

o' the parlour, and Bill sat there like a king, telling us all his sufferings and wot it felt like to be shot.

o' them three men and telling 'em to keep still.

He was so disgusted at the way Bill Chambers and Henery Walker come up 'ere wasting their 'ard-earned money, that he sent 'im a letter, signed 'A Friend of the Working Man,' telling 'im about it and advising 'im what to do.

They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word 'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget.

" He finished up 'is beer, and while the other chaps was telling George Barstow wot a fool he was Joe Clark slipped out arter Bob Pretty and began to call 'im all the names he could think of.

So at last our troops were in fine featherespecially as Napoleon, who had a clever wit, made friends with the inhabitants of the country by telling them that we had come to set them free; and then, of course, they gave us quarters and took the best of care of us.

F. Ward: it appears that in the opinion of the Professor the boy had been guilty of eating nuts in the school and denying it, for which offence he was called out and whipped, as the master told him, for telling a lie.

'The next thing,' she remarked to a friend, when telling the story, 'is to pack off one of the girls into service.