She verbally replied to it through Fatima; and stated, in her justification, that she was hurried from Benares to a town on the river, whence she was rapidly transported to the castle of Omrah, who had not long before lost his wife, and who was more than four times her age.

As I returned with my kettle filled, I went up to them and, after a friendly nod, to which they replied in like manner, I asked them casually about the fishing; but, instead of answering, they just shook their heads silently, and stared at me.

He replied with a smile,"It seems to me that your extreme fear of hearing falsehood, must often prevent you from ascertaining the truth.

The Major appropriated the reply of the old California stage driver, Hank Monk, to Horace Greely.

Again and again, when Mr. Welsby's pupils were at football practice, and Mr. Blake happened not to be present, the enemy's sharp-shooter crept into ambush behind the hedge and discharged stones from their catapults at the legs of the players, while the latter replied by inquiring when they meant to "come over and take another licking."

His explanation brought the famous reply from the duc, when he said it was impossible to act or to treat; there was nothing left in Franceno government, no ordersnothing.

"As for the ship," he replied at length, "I don't mind saying.

" Mr. Evans mopped his eyes, and Inspector Seldon took upon himself to reply for him.

The British Prime Minister replied on May 6 in the clearest terms.

'It is for your coming,' he replied without hesitation, with a smile and a bow.

But every plough-man and rude shepheard swain Doth still reply unto my greater paine?

" I gladly make room for the above letter and respond to the suggestion to give a public reply as no doubt the difficulty experienced by the English friend is experienced by many.

Their friend, however, would vouchsafe no further reply than, "Come here out of the way, and I'll tell you.

"I remarked before that I was quite comfortable here," he replied after a moment's pause.

The driver asked me if we were for St. John's Lodge, and on my replying in the affirmative gave me a note which Mrs. Smyth had written to him, to ask for inside seats.

From him, however, we learned the name of the detective who had seen the two strangers leave Leghorn by the early morning train, and an hour afterwards the police-officer, a black-eyed man short of stature, but of an intelligent type, sat in the Consulate replying to our questions.

"One's useless and the other's dangerous," I replied under my breath, conscious of a keen desire to laugh, and leaving him to choose.

I've been mighty lucky in not losing a single pup so far," came the reply over Obed's shoulder; and he might be pardoned for putting just a mite of pride in his tones, for he had accomplished something worth while for a new beginner at the business.

They were all the melodies which poets have made to vibrate on the strings of lyres, and in those moments of delicious ecstasy he forgot the vexations, the littlenesses and the miseries of the world, and if anyone had asked him what was the aim of his life, he would have replied like Anaxagoras: "To love Nature, and to contemplate the sky.

" Heabani eyed Khumbaba, nor replied Before the Queen, who wrung her hands and cried; And Izdubar continued: "He, of war, It seems, doth lack in skill, and from afar He scents the battle, while his fighting men Their raids oft make, and here return again; His castle we may enter without fear, And thou his queen mayst have who standeth here,

Bulgaria did not reply within the time specified and the Russian minister was reported too ill to move from Sofia, thus indicating that the diplomats of the great contending powers were still at work in an effort to secure the important support of Bulgaria in the Balkan campaign which was imminent.

" I muttered something in reply about his impudence, and the conversation ceased abruptly.

Receiving no reply beyond a wink and a waggle, he dropped his blue pencil, rose, and went to the table sacred to litter; and from a wild welter of books, pipes, papers, golf-balls, hats, cigar-boxes, dog-collars, switches, cartridges and other sediment, he extracted a large gilt-edged card and studied it without enthusiasm or bias.

An unseen enemy was killing unseen men, and other guns replied into this grim, grey mystery, not knowing what destruction was being done.

I put my head out of the little window by me, and cried "Who's there?" The voice of the boatman replied out of the darkness: "She'll bump herself to pieces against this pier!