For many years after the war the German military attache returned from the review unobserved in a shut carriage, couldn't run the risk of an angry or insulting word from some one in the crowd, and still later, fifteen years after the war, when W. was ambassador in England, I was godmother of the daughter of a German-English cousin living in London.

It is difficult to write stylistically a per-annum report of 1,327 curvatures of the spine, whereas the poor specific little vertebra of Mamie O'Grady, daughter to Lou, your laundress, whose alcoholic husband once invaded your very own basement and attempted to strangle her in the coal-bin, can instantly create an apron bazaar in the church vestry-rooms.

She came one day with a proposal of marriagea charming man, a Frenchman, not too young, with a good fortune, a title, and a chateau, had seen Madam King's daughters in the ballroom and hunting-field, and would very much like to be presented and make his cour.

Many of the officials had their wives and daughters with them, and some of the toilettes were wonderful.

" The young man answered, "Give me your daughter for a wife.

She did not say no, but she hoped to find a way to distract her daughter from a mésalliance, which would not only diminish her child's rank, but compromise the family politically.

In order to punish her for her intolerable arrogance, Isabella, Francisco's daughter by his former wife, who is designed to wed Antonio, is introduced to a chimney-sweep, Guiliom, masquerading as a noble of high degree.

The most beautiful of all the Sons and Daughters of the Universe: Fancy, Imagination is not half so charming:

"Mama!" Mrs. Coblenz emerged immediately, finger up for silence, kissing her daughter on the little spray of cheek-curls.

A pretty sight it was to see the fair mistress of Castlewood, her little daughter at her knee, and her domestics gathered around her, reading the Morning Prayer of the English Church.

"But when his angry mood is o'er, He'll love his daughter as before; And send his horsemen far and near, To take me to my mother dear; Therefore, I would not further stray, But here, without a murmur, stay.

Sensible that the only circumstance which could give him security was to gain the confidence of the Yorkists, Richard paid court to the Queen Dowager with such art and address, made such earnest protestations of his sincere good-will and friendship, that this Princess ventured to put herself and her daughters into the hands of the tyrant.

And there is the following well-known couplet: "With a four-leaved clover, a double-leaved ash, and a green-topped leave, You may go before the queen's daughter without asking leave.

"I wish it to every mother to have a daughter like you, Mrs. C." "No!

He was prouder of his daughter than of his self-made rank or his revered million.

The great house had been gloomy enough for father and daughter during the last miserable months, but he still fled to her for comfort.

" When the repast was over, Mr. Effingham led his guests and daughter through the principal apartments, sometimes commending, and sometimes laughing, at the conceits of his kinsman.

The millionaire had been at the house on Riverside Drive early in the afternoon to see Miss Bamberger, as he had told Margaret on board the steamer, but Bamberger had not seen his daughter after that till she was brought home dead, for he had been detained by an important meeting at which he presided, and knowing that she was dining out to go to the theatre he had telephoned that he would dine at his club.

She comes with her daughter under a safeguard from General Johnston, who knew the family when he was at West Point.

The death of Maria Teresa naturally closed the court of her daughter against all gayeties during the spring of 1781.

Well, what do you think of him now you have met him?' Such a question from a daughter about her father filled me with a certain vague horror.

I wished to go home, and once more embrace my wife and daughter before precipitating myself into that abyss of the "unknown" which was there, yawning and gloomy, and which several of us were about to enter, never to return.

With his daughter behind him so rosy and fair, Lumpety, lumpety, lump!

We do more: a prudent mother does not rely upon her fear of dishonor, nor upon the bad opinion she has of men, she keeps her daughter out of sight; she puts it out of her power to succumb to temptation.

You, as a father, ought to excuse little subterfuges, contrived in order to get a daughter off one's hands.