" This room of Annie's has been opened into the drawing-room by taking down the wall, and it forms a charming alcove.

To have at hand the literature of the period I went to Washington, where the most kind officials of the Library of Congress assigned to me a roomy alcove in the north curtain with a desk and ample surrounding shelves.

A wood fire smouldered on the heartha curtained alcove to the left partly concealed a beda corresponding alcove to the right, fitted with altar and crucifix, served as an oratory.

The librarian entered the alcove, smiled at Marguerite, peeped over her shoulder into the book she was reading, searched for another, and took it away.

Then the three took up their arms, returned their packs to their backs and without noise left the alcove.

To place a pile of these on the margin of the creek, and apply his torch to them, took but a moment; and in an instant a bright, white flame flashed and lit up the little sheltered alcove.

Viewed casually the triple mirror, lining an alcove wherein stands a couch garlanded with flowers, betrays no sinister qualities.

The scene is a chamber richly decorated; a frieze of angelic boys ornaments the alcove; St. Anna lies on a couch.

Certainly footsteps were approaching, but they ceased before they reached the alcove at the end of the passage.

Together they wandered along the margin of the ocean, and together they sought that delicious alcove, which now appeared ten times more beautiful, from the recollection it suggested of the sufferings they had passed.

With as light a step and as little noise as possible, I descended into the garden from the veranda, and approaching the alcove on the side where its foliage was thickest, I found that the beauty, of which I had before thought so highly, did not appear less on a closer survey.

They gave as a reason for sticking the new part against their own irregularly that they intended to use the alcoves for verandahs!