The venerable Brahmin here concluded his narrative, and we both remained thoughtful and silent for some time; he, apparently absorbed in the recollections of his eventful life; and I, partly in the reflections awakened by his story, and partly in the intense interest of revisiting my native earth, and beholding once more all who were dear to me.

Shrubs also hasten in time to the new gardens,kalmia with its glossy leaves and purple flowers, the arctic willow, making soft woven carpets, together with the heathy bryanthus and cassiope, the fairest and dearest of them all.

"Ye'll pay dear for playing your pranks wi' John Donald.

On the other hand, it was made tolerably clear that the labor was not so scarce or so dear in the colonies as had been represented, and that colonial sugar grown by free labor really suffered from no inconvenience except the fact that it was still manufactured on the most crude, old-fashioned, and uneconomical methods.

dear as your honour, your life, be your home.

It struck the Boy that good old Kentucky would look like that when he met his dearest at the Gate of Heavenif there was such a place.

But I smacked of travel and enterprise, which to an honest heart are dearer than brocade.

"Ah, Beltane, but I would have thee love this lonely maid dearest of all henceforth an it may be so, for that she is so very lonely and hath sought thee so long" "Sought me?" he murmured, gazing on her wide-eyed, "nay, how may this be, for with my kisses warm upon thy lips thou did'st bid me farewell long time since at Mortain, within the green.

Dear to thy father in thy life thou wert, But in thy death dearest unto his heart; I kiss thy paled cheeks, and close thine eyes.

" He sees the two things dearest to his heart, and sees them both at one time!

Save my dear from burning flame, Bitter groans and endless crying, That thy blest Redeemer came.

He's dear with me, Madeline.

Oh, dear on earth when all did love her, Oh, dearer lost beyond recover: Of women all the bravest-hearted Hath pressed thy lips and breathed thy breath.

She is perfectly dear about it.

Always heretofore, on nights that he lay sleepless, Dorn had thought of the two things dearest on earth to himLenore Anderson and the golden wheat-hills of his home.

Smiling meadows and Gloucestershire vales will soon give place to fair Berkshire villages, and, further on, to those glorious spires and courts of Oxford; and here shalt thou make many friendsfriends who will evermore think kindly of thee, ever associate thy placid waters with all that they loved best and held dearest during their brief sojourning in those old walls which tower above thy banks.

I am sorry for this, because women are by nature prone to judge even their nearest and dearest by the standard of fashion, and to exact from men almost as close a conformity to that standard as they themselves display.

Neveuxwhere the cooking is Franco-Italian, and the Chianti and wines are dear beyond belief, and the venerable waiters move with a deliberation which can drive a hungry manand one is always hungry in this fine Tuscan airto despair.

For who acknowledges not, that since our dread conflagration, When He so hardly chastised us, He now is continually blessing, Constantly shielding, as man the apple of His eye watches over, Holding it precious and dear above all the rest of His members? Shall He in time to come not defend us and furnish us succor?

" "I have heard men speak of Signor Giacomo as paying dearest for their favors.

And when I waked for the fourth time, I did whisper that I loved her; and surely she broke into a sudden weeping, and did hold my hand very dear against her breast.