What you have told me, Mr. DIBBLE, concerning the breaking of the engagement between your ward and my nephew, relieves my mind of a load.

He hurriedly read them, and said they were important; and then he asked me all about General Hazen and where he had gone, and about the breaking out of the Kiowas and Comanches.

For the first few nights, with their guns popping off all round, and with blasting operations in full swing, an almost continuous echo travelled round and round the stony hillsides and made me dream that I was sleeping beside a stormy sea breaking in endless waves on a rocky coast.

And then when they tried to break him he started doing some breaking on his own account.

For nine successive mornings she wondered over the repetition of disappointment; and then, on the tenth, she got a letternot from Isabella, but from James, announcing the breaking off of the engagement by mutual consent.

The Boy, returning from trail-breaking to the river, kicked at the butt to draw attention to the omission.

Now as he walked him thus, within the cool, green twilight, watchful of eye and with heavy quarter-staff poised upon his shoulder, he presently heard the music of a pipe now very mournful and sweet, anon breaking into a merry lilt full of rippling trills and soft, bubbling notes most pleasant to be heard.

Neither of them could guess at what speed they traveled this first wild half-hour; but he knew that the long milesso heart-breaking with their ridges and brush thickets to men and horseswere whipping past them each in a few, little breaths.

Not a wretch groans in any cell of the prisons of our country, who is exposed to a confinement so rigorous and heart-breaking as the law allows theirs to be continually and permanently.

"You ought to see the way they're neck-breaking for the marriage-license bureaus since the draft.

They may be made with any fruit that is in season, such as rhubarb, oranges, gooseberries, currants, cherries, apples, &c.; but care must be taken not to have the syrup too thin, for fear of its breaking through the crust.

And surely, the Maid then to kneel and to kiss the raft; for memories did gather upon her; and she there to have one more breaking from all that did be the first part of her life; and you to give your understanding, and so to have a quiet sympathy, and to perceive that her heart did be like that it should stir with a strange trouble of sorrowing in that moment.

[Footnote 2: Wit, in the town sense, is talked of to satiety in Shadwell's plays; and window-breaking by the street rioters called 'Scowrers,' who are the heroes of an entire play of his, named after them, is represented to the life by a street scene in the third act of his 'Woman Captain.']

Looked at in certain lights, what could be more crushing or heart-breaking than that?

The foam breaking against the prow sparkled like broken fragments of electric globes.

" [Suffering and law-breaking thru the monopoly.]

All he had been able to do thus far was to regard every newcomer to the town with a steely eye of distrust; to watch each one furtively, to shadow him in his walks, and to believe during his sojourn that he might be "Red Mike, alias James K. Brown, wanted for safe-breaking at Muskegon, Michigan; reward, $1000," or some like desperado.

At that moment the young man was struggling with the bitterest sorrow that can befall youththe breaking up of his life-purpose.

I am tormented by the fear that I had something to do with her breaking like that.