" "Have you seen the gentleman that brought him on from Washington lately?" "Not here, mum; I did see him in the street the other day.

The weaver's wife was in the little kitchen, and, knowing the gentleman who was with me, she invited us forward.

Business called me from Boston to New York, and after I had been there a few days, I met an English gentleman, Thomas P. Medley, of London, who had come to America for a hunt on the Plains.

I loaded my rifle carefully, and while I was puttin' on the cap, asked the gentleman if he calculated to move on, and let peaceable people alone.

"There is nothing here I may not tell, gentlemen," he said after a moment, turning back to the group about the table.

The Canadian seigneurs found fellow-gentlemen among the British officers.

"What brings my proud gentleman up these long stairs?" he asked.

She afterwards married a gentleman named Hook, who became the first mayor of Cheyenne, where she now lives.

Drake refused to go, but sent some gentlemen, detaining the king's brother in the mean time.

We heard a gentleman who, when he might have had a wing, declare his partiality for a leg, saying that he had been obliged to eat legs for so long a time, that he had at last come to like them better than the other more prized parts.

WHEN FRUIT HAS BEEN TAKEN, and a glass or two of wine passed round, the time will have arrived when the hostess will rise, and thus give the signal for the ladies to leave the gentlemen, and retire to the drawing-room.

" "They say that you are one of the Kansas jay-hawkers, and one of Jennison's house burners," replied the gentleman.

" "Why," exclaimed the gentleman of the hair, staring in wonder, "you don't mean to tell me that my cane looks at all like his nephew?"

"I'll thank you, young gentleman," said Mr. Benfield, sternly, "not to interrupt me when I am speaking to a lady that is, if you please, sir.

I remembered Philip Vantine as I had always known hima kindly, witty, Christian gentleman.

I was called upon, and entertained the gentlemen with some lively Indian stories.

" Just then I noticed a gentleman, who was rather stoutly built, and who wore a blue military coat, on the left breast of which were pinned about twenty gold medals and badges of secret societies.

I am not able to follow the honourable gentleman in any refinements of reason upon our foreign affairs; I have not subtilty enough to do it, nor is it in my way as a private country gentleman.

A fine figure of a mansmart, well turned out, well-groomeda gentleman.

Some way down sat several gentlemen, and as she bent to observe them, one did the same, and she received an admiring glance from a pair of fine black eyes.

The board were sitting in solemn conclave when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing a gentleman in a high chair, said, "Mr. Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir!

" "I said gentleman," she retorted, with something approaching insolence.

I can here play the gentleman, enact the student.

There was present an elderly gentleman, of apparently indifferent health, although his manners were extremely lively, and his dress particularly studied.

It is very often the practice of the master of the house to introduce one gentleman to another, but occasionally the lady performs this office; when it will, of course, be polite for the persons thus introduced to take their seats together for the time being.