The partition was too thin and Jack Harpe's ears were too long and sharp for him to risk even the tiniest of whispers.

"Seen Jack Harpe around anywheres?" Luke Tweezy's thin and sandy eyebrows lifted up in what would pass with almost any one for surprise.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease?

Though it professes to defend the Anglican Church, that institution fares perhaps worse than the others; for nothing is left to her but a thin cloak of custom under which to hide her alleged hypocrisy.

"What is it now?" "The Jamaica ginger," asked Carmen's thin voice in a bewildered tone, "what shall I do with it?

She was dressed in black, with longer skirts, and her hair caught up behind; and perhaps it was the mourning frock that made her look pale and thin, as Ratsey said.

" From artichoke to artichoke, from field to field, he followed the thin trail of blood, and came at length to a poor little donkey he had wounded!

Yes, and I've seen his pale, thin face and great starin' brown eyes a-lookin' into mine, a thousand times since that day.

[Illustration: BY THE BROOK] RIPPLES, little curling waves FILM, a thin skin or slight covering. CURRENT, the swiftest part of a stream; also applied to air, electricity, etc.

My friend Jacques then first observed the thin and thoughtful face of the little fellow.

"No, ma'am," said he, hugging the loaf closer to his thin blouse; "but mother told me to say that she would come and speak to you about it to-morrow.

" "O ma'am, give me one, only one, if you please!" said the child, clasping his little thin hands under the big loaf.

If I cut off a very thin slice for you, and divide what is left between your brother and sister, will that be fair?" "No, that would not be at all fair, Grandpa.

"When your servants, tired of seeing Such a face of want and woe, Turning to the ragged orphan, Gave him coin, and bade him go, Down his cheeks so thin and wasted Bitter tears began to flow.

Thin, he an' thim with him, stharted in an' mhurdered thim wan an' all as they slep'.

An' sence thin 'tis death to any, so they say, to pass the night in the castle whin the bhlood-dhrip comes.

'Twill put out candle an' fire, an' thin in the darkness the Virgin Herself would be powerless to protect ye.' "Wentworth told me he laughed at this; chiefly because, as he put it:'One always must laugh at that sort of yarn, however it makes you feel inside.'

After that, we stretched thin piano wire across the cellar, about nine inches from the floor, at such a height that it should catch anything moving about in the dark.

As we returned, I called in at an ironmonger's, where I bought some thin hemp rope and an iron rack pulley, like those used in Lancashire for hauling up the ceiling clothes racks, which you will find in every cottage.

"I stared in a bewildered way 'round the cellar; there were thin lines of vague fire crossing the floor in all directions; and suddenly I remembered the piano wire that the landlord and I had stretched.

Please say she's skinny!" "Erwell, she's a bit thin, perhaps.

She was not one of those creatures that a man meets with sometimescreatures who are for ever on the watch to pounce, and who are incapable of making allowances for any male frailtysmooth, smiling creatures, with thin lips, hair a little scanty at the front, and a quietly omniscient 'don't-tell-me' tone.

Then she opened the door, and saw, in the gloom, a short, thin woman standing on the step, a woman of advanced middle-age, dressed with a kind of shabby neatness.

He began resolutely to whistle, but this dwindled away till it was a thin and very subdued little sound, which ceased altogether as he rode up the driveway to a large two-storied house.

"My dear, I was on the brink of suicide when I saw your name in the visitors' list," she explained; and Undine felt like answering that she had nearly reached the same pass when the Princess's thin little hand had been held out to her.