And all the days of the life of Abraham were one hundred and seventy-five years, and then died in good mind and age, and Isaac and Ishmael buried him by his wife Sarah in a double spelunke

" "You were married at seventeen, weren't you?" said Sarah to Lady Mary, in her deep, almost tragic voicea voice that commanded attention, though it came oddly from her girlish chest.

Barnes Newcome had just discovered an article in the Newcome Independent commenting warmly upon a visit which Colonel Newcome and Clive had recently paid to Newcome, the object of that visit having been the Colonel's desire to gladden the eyes of his old nurse Sarah with a sight of him.

She had been annoyed with Sarah for refusing Lord Avonwick, and thought it would do the rebellious young lady no harm to return for a time to the bosom of her family, and thus miss Newmarket, which Sarah particularly desired to attend, since no society function interested her half so much as racing.

"I cannot think of any girl in the world whom I would prefer to Sarah as a daughter.

This sister was Angelina Emily, the last child of her parents, and the pet and darling of Sarah from the moment the light dawned upon her blue eyes.

A right good scholar shalt thou one day be, And that no distant one; when even she, Who now to thee a star far off appears, That most rare Latinist, the Northern Maid The language-loving Sarah of the Lake Shall hail thee Sister Linguist.

"But it is Sarah on whom everything depends.

She tried to keep her feelings of indignation and offence against Sarah out of her voice.

The same difficulties which had humiliated and frightened Sarah into a life of quiet routine now faced Angelina.

Sarah at sixty-two, 277.

Angelina, as we have before remarked, never stood in the same attitude as Sarah towards the Society.

While the summer cooled into autumn, and the boarding-house season slackened and once more feebly brightened, she had daily conversed with Sarah about George's plans, making them palatable to her, softening the shocks of them, and voluntarily promising not to quit her until the crisis was past.

Nevertheless, she did join the Society, impelled thereto, we are forced to believe, more by love and consideration for Sarah than by religious conviction.

And then I would have come to fetch Sarah after dinner, only I couldn't be sure she mightn't have started; and if I'd gone down by the road, ten to one she'd have come up by the path through the woods.

She, poor thing, does not expect to see Sarah before Christmas, if then, from what she told us.

" "The Underground Railway," said Dunlap, "knows where Abe is, and will send Sarah along with change of cars.