The excellent music of the Hotel bands is Instrumental in drawing crowds of listeners to the Ball rooms.

He found a sympathetic listener in Mr. Dodge, happily; that person having been invited, through the courtesy of Mr. Effingham, to pass the day with those in whose company, though very unwillingly on the editor's part certainly, he had gone through so many dangerous trials.

A tired listener at church, by properly varying his long yawns and his short ones, may express his opinion of the sermon to the opposite gallery before the sermon is done.

"They may say what they please," muttered Captain Truck, who had been a silent but wondering listener of all that passed; "she is worth as many of them as could be stowed in the Montauk's lower hold.

" "It comes to this," remarked the chief, looking at the three listeners with a smile.

"Ain't you heard?" "No." The little man sighed with pleasure; he had given up hope of finding a new listener for that oft-told tale.

and the other listeners on the phone, for the audience had been augmented as the conversation proceeded, politely said nothing, but hung up their receivers with haste, and acquainted the members of their household with the disquieting news.

But there came a time J.W., Sr., reveling in reminiscences before so patient a listener as the preacher, though it was an old story, rehearsed how he had served for years as superintendent of the country Sunday school, and how Mrs. Farwell was teacher of the Girls' Bible Class.

With great reverence and awe the good listener among the band of tourists is told that at one periodlegends are seldom very specific in the matter of time or spacea Savior arrived in a copper canoe, his mission being to save the Siwash Indians, who were spoken of as the chosen people of the Great Unseen.

Sir John is a better listener than any man I have met in England.

Was it whiskey, rum, absinthe, or what?" The question took his irritable listener by surprise.

By and bye, however, the gale grew too furious, and the spectators were so involved in collapsing tents, eddying date-branches and stampeding mules that the square began to clear, save for the listeners about the most popular story-teller, who continued to sit on unmoved.

The one who was addressed raised her eyes, which were glittering with tears she evidently struggled to conceal, and answered in a voice that sounded in the ears of the two youthful listeners like the notes of the Syren, so very sweet and musical were its tones.

It had been expressly stipulated that this particular provision as regards slavery should not apply to the Southwestern Territory, and of course Blount's omission to mention this fact did not in any way alter the case; but it is a singular thing that he should without comment have read, and his listeners without comment have heard, a recital that slavery was abolished in their territory.

An anxiety more poignant moved him; his thoughts centered on that other matterthe cause of Miss Van Rolsen's apprehensionsthe while those emotions that had held him a listener behind the curtain in her library again stirred in his breast.

Not coyly did she give this, with inciting, blushing implications, but rather with an unbending, disapproving sternness, as if with intent to divert the minds of her listeners from the song's frank ribaldry to its purely musical values.

His forte was in declamation: his attitude and delivery, and power of extemporizing, surprised even critical listeners into unguarded praise.

In the third class are his various miscellaneous works, not the least of which is Water-Babies, a fascinating story of a chimney sweep, which mothers read to their children at bedtime,to the great delight of the round-eyed little listeners under the counterpane.

Was not she a woman, and was not that enough? Not enough; for legendary details cluster round startling events, and often carry a moral which may prevent a repetition of these; and so, had it not been for this apparently inexplicable death by starvation, our wonderful story might never have gathered listeners round the evening fire.

This left the listener out of it completely, and Ormsby strolled out to the platform, wondering what had happened and where it had happened.

The tellers of legends and oral tales among them are, therefore, permitted to exercise their fancies and functions to amuse their listeners during the winter season, for the spirits are then in a state of inactivity, and cannot hear.

Then he proceeded to forget the man and his geniusin fact everything save the rapt listener above him.

He lifted on an elbow and repeated in a voice which must have sounded strange enough to the listener beyond the door.

" The anxious listeners within felt sure these were the dacoits and longed for the arrival of the police.

She hesitated for a moment before the looking-glass, as though straightening her hatin reality to give the listener outside time to get back once more into hiding.