THE MISERIES OF A HANDSOME MAN.

So much was his heart in the work that he remarked on one occasion: "When I feel age creeping on me, and know I must soon dieI hope it is not wrong to say itbut I cannot bear to leave the world with all the misery in it".

"For in the widest prison-house is misery to me, And the stoutest heart is broken unless the arm be free.

"I knew it meant horrible misery for the rest of my life, but anything seemed better than the terrible scandal which threatened us.

" "Does everybody want to go to Dawson?" "Everybody except a few boomers who mean to stay long enough to play off their misery on someone else before they move on.

Mohammed felt his misery as a pain too great to be endured; in some way or other he must be delivered from it.

It seemed to me like a very long time before the sergeant joined us, and then I knew that the unfortunate men were out of their misery at last.

It could not now be answered, for letters between the lines were subject to censorship, and Olympia perhaps shrank from adding to her lover's misery by exposing his rejection to the unfeeling eyes of the postal agents.

Her gray eyes contracted with horror when he told her of the misery with which he was too familiar.

For the bishop, when he came into the province and found so great misery from famine, taught them to get their food by fishing; for their sea and rivers abounded in fish, but the people had no skill to take them except eels alone.

For them the elements of beauty which exist in any great trial of the spirit become so great as to overpower the evil that created themto turn it from shame and misery into tragedy.

But both Somerset and Margaret were detained by contrary winds from reaching England, till a new revolution in that kingdom, no less sudden and surprising than the former, threw them into greater misery than that from which they had just emerged.

So Hungary suffers all the injustices without defence, all the miseries without help, and all the intrigues without resistance.

Misery like this, my lords, admits no exaggeration, nor need I dwell long on the absurdity of establishing regulations which cannot be observed, and which if they were enforced by any sanctions, proportioned, as all penal sanctions ought to be, to the temptations of violating them, must drive all our sailors into foreign service, or urge them, upon the first distress, to defiance of law, and fill America with pirates, and with rebels.

Vandin admits the existence of the six senses but says that the soul experiences happiness and misery through those as well as through the intellect.

The misery under which I had suffered was only lightened, not removed.

England suffered great miseries during the reign of this prince: but his personal character, allowing for the temerity and injustice of his usurpation, appears not liable to any great exception; and he seems to have been well qualified, had he succeeded by a just title, to have promoted the happiness and prosperity of his subjects [n].

When the war ceased, this demand suddenly fell off; the soldiers returning to their country swelled the army of the unemployed, and there resulted increased misery among the lower classes, and a check to the prosperity of the middle and upper classes.

Perhaps with Him, who regards equally the forlorn beggar stretched on the threshold, consumed by filth and disease, and the blooming beauty who avoids while she succours him, the offering of humanity scarcely expiates the involuntary disgust; yet such is the weakness of our nature, that there exists a degree of misery against which one's senses are not proof, and benevolence itself revolts at the appearance of the poor of Arras.

"For my own part, I have seen so much misery within the last few weeks, that my disposition is wholly changed.

It is the magic of motive that calls forth all this wealth and beauty to bless the most sterile soil stirred by willing and intelligent labor; while the reversing of that spell scatters squalor and poverty and misery over lands endowed by Nature with the highest fertility, spreading their leprous infection from the laborer to his lord.

He compromised the rest of his life, risked his signature without knowing if he might not be involving his honor, and, terrified by the anguish yet to come, by the black misery about to fall upon him, by the prospect of every physical privation and every mental torture, he went to get the new necklace, and laid down on the dealer's counter thirty-six thousand francs.

Why make four miseries out of three?

Prethee, good Girle, Be not so cruell to thy aged father To somme up all his miseries before him.

" "When I see," I replied, "so much poverty and misery around me which needs actual relief, and when I look at this inclement weather and think how these poor creatures must suffer from the cold, it seems to me that they are the people who should apply to those who have anything to bestow in charity; not those who are the only people, as it would appear, who can take pleasure in this excruciating weather.