" Duke Wan of Tsin he characterized as "artful but not upright"; and Duke Hwan of Ts'i as "upright but not artful.

"Is he alone, BRIDGET, dear?" "Sorra any wan with him but his cane, Miss; and that he axed me wud

Would you suppose that he should show the same sort of attachment as exists between a poor yokel and his one wifethat he would asphyxiate himself in some sewer, leaving no one the wiser?" Kung-shuh Wan's steward, who became the high officer Sien, went up accompanied by Wan to the prince's hall of audience.

It was like Night blanched in death then; and wan as the very kingdom of death and Hades I have seen it, most terrifying, that neuter state and limbo of nothingness, when unreal sea and spectral sky, all boundaries lost, mingled in a vast shadowy void of ghastly phantasmagoria, pale to utter huelessness, at whose centre I, as if annihilated, seemed to swoon in immensity of space.

"Well," he said, "oi'm not wan uv his pershonal fri'nds.

"I seen wan at Kilpedder wan time that I went up when a cousin

Should they not be successful in this the soul is carried down the river, subject, however, to redemption by Péh-ho-wan on payment of a big knife.

" XVIII The Lady Marina was wan from fear and fasting but very resolute, though her face showed traces of tears, as her husband entered the oratory of the palace, whither she had implored him to come to her before he went to the Senate Chambera dignity to which he had but just been elected.

In these bustling days we are apt to think that streams have no work but to turn mills and make light for cities, to bear merchandise, to sweep foulness to the sea; we forget that they pass through woodland places, feeding the grasses and the trees, quenching the thirst of bird and beast, that they sparkle in the sun, gleam wan in the sunset, reflecting the pale sky.

"Was not Tsang Wan like one who surreptitiously came by the post he held?

she returned a wan wraith of a smile, pitiful with entreaty, while one of her hands found the way to his.

THE WOUNDED FROM KISSAKI Two very busy days were before us when the wounded came in from Kissaki, so badly shaken and so pale and wan after their journey.

The candles were still burning, wan against the daylight; and behind them was the pale, glowing star of the Electric Pentacle.

It was misting; the streets gleamed wet and wan beneath the lamps.

"In gardens where the languid roses keep Perpetual sweetness for the hearts that smile, Perpetual sadness for the hearts that weep, Lonely, unseen, I wander, to beguile The day that only shines to show thee bright, The night whose stars burn wan beside thy light, Adelaïda! "Adelaïda!

Madonna Gemma, confronted by his strangeness and complexity, neither frowned nor smiled, but looked more wan than ever.

He gripped Li Wan under the shoulders and raised her to her feet.

And, so sighing, fell back, and lay there pale and wan within the dawn, but with a smile upon his pallid lips.

But no sooner were we back in our bunks than he began it again, and such was the turmoil of our nerves that day found us sitting wan about a fire, hugging our knees.