I love my darling with all my soul, and still you did not tell me that for several weeks you have been engaged.

" "I know, darling," said the young man.

The leaves to-day are whirling, The brooks are all dry and dumb, But let me tell you, my darling, The spring will be sure to come.

Oh, how I hoped that no one would come to claim my little darling.

Nay, fold your arms, beloved Friends, Above the hearts that vainly beat! Or catch the rainbow where it bends, And find your darling at its feet; Or fix the fountain's varying shape, The sunset-cloud's elusive dye, The speech of winds that round the cape Make music to the sea and sky: So may you summon from the air

A feeble taper dimly burn'd, As swift her task she plied, And oft her anxious gaze was turn'd Where, nestled by her side, On a low pallet, sleeping lay A darling, cherub boy, With curling hair and azure eyes, His mother's only joy.

She had never toiled to deliver her darling from the lions,to redeem a soul from purgatory.

Mysterious as it may be, know this, that in the councils of eternity your sorrows were considered, and the decree which took from you your darling, was ordered in mercy.

But that Ally was the most to be pitied there was also no denying, for she could remember with unfading vividness being the centre of love, the one special darling in one home, and now she hadn't even one home, and was nobody's darling.

The self-styled Emporium of the West has lost her British darling, Beaver Bill, the big swell who was first cousin to the Marquis of Buckingham and own grandmother to the Emperor of China, the man with the biled shirt and low-necked shoes.

His mother and sister were strict Roman Catholics, and near the end forced a priest into his room, but the priest was promptly ejected by the wrath of the dying man, and by the almost fierce resolve of the wife that no messenger of the creed he detested should trouble her darling at the last.

This is the reason why I don't like my baby to go with you, but if you, my dear young master, will just think over what your mamma said, and ask for the approval of your Saviour and the direction of his Holy Spirit in all thingswhy then, as I said before, I will trust my darling with you any where, for I know that you love him dearly, and would not willingly hurt a hair of his precious little head.

Many and many a time have I been coming home, weary and heart-sick, and the glimpse of the little face watching has reminded me that I must not carry in a grave face to sadden my darling, and the effort to throw off the dreariness for her sake shook it off altogether, and brought back the sunshine.

I never saw such darlings in my life.

All other sins he reckons up with detestation, while he loves and hides his darling in his bosom.

Grandy perseveres in her knitting: she silently commends her darling for his thoughtful affection, and occasionally pauses to cast a glance of deep earnest love, not unmixed with a degree of pride, on the beaming countenance of her favorite grandchild.

It would meanit would mean "Avery darling!"

II suppose I let her think," said Sarah, leaning her head against Lady Mary's knee, "that some dayif he is still idiotic enough to wish itand if you don't mind" "My pretty Sarahmy darling!"

This curled darling of the Bonegulch aristocrat-worshippers passed through Deadhorse yesterday, clean bust.

"Bless the little darlings!" said Miss Mayton.

I then endured for her, as the tenderness she had so long betrayed; and left the late darling of my house a prisoner under strict guard, necessary for the safety of others than ourselves.

"And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling.'

"Such is human nature, my little Maud"answered the captain, drawing his darling towards himself and kissing her polished forehead.

"You frightened darling!" were his first words, when she let him speak.

Her little boy grows such a darling, I shall miss him almost as much as his mother.