Whatever convictions and opinions he was maturing in this year with the Hardwicks, he kept to himself; but he was supposed to hold some socialistic ideas, and Lydia Sessions, James Hardwick's sister-in-law, made her devoir to these by engaging zealously in semi-charitable enterprises among the mill-girls.

Mightily he strove to do his devoir in the field, for the fairer service and honour of his lord.

When brought before Ferrand, he raised his visor, and said, "Is it well, my lord, to make captive an adventurous Knight, for doing his devoir against a personal challenger?" "Do not complain, Sir Arthur of Oxford," said Ferrand, "before you experience injury.

It has always seemed to me that the life, the routine, the many small haps in the daily function of a soldier, which in sum made up to him all that there was in the devoir of death, ought to be read with interest by the millions whose kin were part of the civil war, as well as by those who knew of it only as we know Napoleon's wars or Washington's.

" This is saying that Charlotte Brontë had no means of expression before she wrote devoirs under M. Héger.

Maine Chance has been paying his devoirs with great impartiality to two young ladies.