Curiously enough while I was looking over my notes the other day, I had a visit from an old friend, the Duc de M., who was one of the inner circle of the imperial household of the Emperor Napoleon III, and took an active part in all that went on at court.

He arrived and found his household in tumult.

The young Earl of Huntingdon came of age in 1750, and the Countess gave up Donnington Park to him, removing her household to Ashby, living there with her other children and two of the Ladies Hastings.

* Weeks and months flew past and the household at 'The Willows' was a very happy one.

I bend to the yoke, and it is almost with me and my household as with the man and his consort, "To them each evening had its glittering star, And every sabbath-day its golden sun!"

It is easy to provide in the lump; but with decency, privacy, independence,in short, with a high degree of respect on the part of the members of the household for each other's individuality,expense begins.

28th Ed. I. Robert Hood, a citizen of London, says Mr. Hunter, supplied the king's household with beer.

For each of the following words (a) determine what families are intermarried, (b) ascertain the exact contribution to the household by each family represented, and (c) make as complete a list as possible of cognate words.

Fortunately for her, however, her father was too just to consider a wife, or a daughter, a mere upper servant, and he rightly judged that a liberal portion of his income should be assigned to the procuring of that higher quality of domestic service, which can alone relieve the mistress of a household from a burthen so heavy to be borne.

For he is a son of Abraham; and of him God hath said, as of Abraham, 'I know him that he will command his children and household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring on him the blessing which he has spoken.'

"Strange to the ideas and customs of your world, I cannot conceive that a woman can wish to take the last place in a household like ours rather than the first or only one with the poorest of her people.

Enter thou and all thy household into the ark, that is to say thou and thy wife and thy three sons and their three wives.

"To take any advantage of her misfortuneto make her feel it in my conductto give her a place in my household on other terms than her equalsto show her less consideration or courtesy than one would give to a girl as beautiful as yourselfyes, Eunané!

The younger Pliny built a study in the garden of his Laurentine villa near Ostia, which he describes (II, 17) with enthusiasm: "horti diaeta est, amores mei, re vera amores": and here he found refuge from the tumult of his household during the festivities of the Saturnalia, which corresponded with our Christmas.

After his relapse, and until just before his death, the princess never suffered any English, man or woman, above the degree of valet-de-chambre to see him; nor did she herself see any one of her household until absolutely necessary.

He called the folk of his household about him, and going to the stables, got him to horse.

He knelt in his own enclosure to the right of the altar, with his guards and his immediate household around him, while the court, ladies and cavaliers, filled the chapel.

'The entertainment at Bayfield' was nothinga private experiment only; the unfamiliar must be handled gently; a good rule to try it on your own household before tackling the world.

You put the head of the household out of the question.

The rulers made laws and the people obeyed them; they imposed taxes and spent the money as they saw fit; many of them enriched themselves and their personally appointed official household throughout the island, at the expense of the tax-payers.

"I ought to place this entire household under arrest," Robinson muttered.

The Baroness hardly undertook anything in her household without consulting Apollonie and asking her assistance.

It was the unconcealable magnitude of her beneficence, and its wise quality, which made her a second time the theme of English conversation in all honest households within the four seas.

On women we must depend, first and last, for personal and household hygienefor preventing the race from degenerating in as far as these things are concerned.

I believe the Families of the Artificers will thank me, more than the Households of the Peasants shall Sir ROGER.