Fatima, who was one of the most generous and amiable girls in the world, would often take Veenah out to walk, when her sisters were otherwise engaged; at which times she was perpetually contriving, under some little pretext, to leave us alone.

" A peasant girl of Venice was once given a beautiful coral-branch and some rare leaves and shells which her lover had gathered for her from the sea-depths.

" The girl with the Grecian Bend.

THERE WAS A POOR LITTLE GIRL AT SCHOOL WHO HAD NO ONE TO TAKE CARE OF HER, AND SO I HAD TO SEE HER HOME.

But the expression which flashed into his eyes, and that came instantaneously, was of so vengeful and threatening a character, that Gifford felt glad he was there to protect the girl from her now enraged persecutor.

She said I had no business to lead the poor girl on, in a manner of speaking, and walk out with her, and pay her marked attention, and then not propose marriage like a gentleman.'

How natural was that simple question put by that little girl to her brother, 'Wouldn't you like to be a little bird?'

I should have thought a girl like Miss Townsend, who has passed examinations in Germany, and so forth, would have had more sense of her responsibilitymore tact.

Anyhow, she is just the girl for Painswick, who is evidently after her.

"I like such a girl as that," he continued.

A fat woman, of a sanguine temperament, holding a little girl by the hand, then stepped up and showed her fingers.

" When the whipping was over, Mary took the girls into her room.

" "Oh, please let me try," said Mary, "I do so want to tell those boys and girls about my Saviour.

" "Well, my swell 'stenog friends,' as you call them, keep themselves self-respecting girls without getting themselves talked about, and that's more than I can say of my sister.

"Among others there was one Miss Mitchell, and, of course, that anxious mother put that girl under my special care, and she is very bright.

But while he sat over the novel, and tried with unnecessary vehemence to make her see what very bad law it was, and glanced from her smiling attention to the innocent sweetness of the girl beside her, who was her loving attendant, the good man's heart was sore.

He divined in this movement of Johnnie's but an attempt to approach himself, and, as she explained with some particularity, he paid more attention to the girl than to her words.

You will have to turn the girl out of doors, after paying her wages.

The part (or rather main body) which has left the sweetest odor on my memory (a bad term for the remains of an impression so recent) is the "Tales of the Churchyard"the only girl among seven brethren, born out of due time, and not duly taken away again; the deaf man and the blind man; the Jacobite and the Hanoverian, whom antipathies reconcile; the Scarron-entry of the rusticating parson upon his solitude,these were all new to me too.

What secret knowledge could be possessed by that smart, handsome girl before me?

"Then you had better send your little girl after him," said Rolfe, seating himself on the one rickety chair on the outside of the counter.

A girl behind the counter gave her the right shades, and she slowly started for home.

The preposterously long hours, the ill-ventilated rooms, the savage monotony of her toil, none of these reached the girl through the glow of hope and ambition.

I followed closely behind the three composing our party, Roger Fairfax, and Sanchez, with the laughing girl between them for protection, pressing a passage forward.

"You turned my girl against me with your lying love-making and turned her into a spy.