Many, too, would almost rather die than leave their mistress.

"Tell your mistress, little man," says the Captain kindly, "that we must speak to her.

When I arrived rather early, the day of the party, I found the mistress of the house, aided by Count Hatzfeldt, then German ambassador to England, busily engaged in transforming her drawing-room.

She had last seen her mistress alive at eight o'clock on the evening of the 24th.

Bellmour, meantime, in despair and rage at his misery plunges into reckless debauchery, and in company with Sir Timothy visits a bagnio, where they meet Betty Flauntit, the knight's kept mistress, and other cyprians.

"What is it, Julie?" asked her mistress, taking her hand.

I love my dear mistress; I can say no more than that; I love her better than any one else in the world; and I think it will please her if I write the story of a dog's life.

"You and I serve one mistress," I said, "and now I confide her to your care.

Yes, the scientific man may have this comfort, that whatever he has done, he has done good; that he is following a mistress who has never yet conferred aught but benefits on the human race.

Orlando had no great faith in the remedy, yet he agreed to come every day to Ganimed's cottage, and feign a playful courtship; and every day Orlando visited Ganimed and Aliena, and Orlando called the shepherd Ganimed his Rosalind, and every day talked over all the fine words and flattering compliments, which young men delight to use when they court their mistresses.

It took the road it had followed the first day and when it had arrived near the house it called the mistress and said: "Strike now, be not afraid to kill me."

Mathieu became anxious, and summoned the old servant, who, after procuring assistance, carried her mistress to her bed and then undressed her.

Lord Campbell, who mentions this fact, informs us, that, as early as his own youth, the British Bench had reached such purity that judges were expected to marry their mistresses when they were appointed to the Bench.

If the family are not there, he will place chairs for them, open the blinds (if the room is too dark), and intimate civilly that he goes to inform his mistress.

What shall I do to deliver this Letter?Well, Sir, since I see you are so averse to what the Governor desires, I'll returnbut, Sir, I must tell you as a Friend, a Secret; that to a man of your temper may concern you;Sir,he's resolv'd when he comes next to visit his Mistress, to make another visit to your Apartment, to your Lady too.

Master Junius was a quiet man, and fond of walking; and the next day he devoted to long rambles, sometimes on the roads, sometimes over the fields, and sometimes through the woods; but in none of his walks, nor when he came back to dinner and supper, did he meet the elderly mistress of the house to which he had come.

Is he not gone to seek the mistress of his soul!

Lady Mary presently had her tit-for-tat with Lady Walpole by "taking up" Walpole's mistress, Molly Skerritt.

Else we might easily imagine, upon some other system which might have prevailed for any thing which our pathology knows to the contrary, a lover addressing his mistress, in perfect simplicity of feeling, "Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your disposal;" or putting a delicate question, "Amanda, have you a midriff to bestow?"

" Indeed, it seemed to her flat desecration that Musgrave should have brought his former mistress into this hallowed plot of ground.

She also talks of getting a house-boat for the summer with some girl friends and discourses on the advisability of having the wardrobe mistress for a chaperone.

It is especially to be used, says Sidney, by a lover to persuade his mistress, urging her to yield while yet her beauty endures.

Lucetta, who knew her mistress more desired to see the letter than to know the time of day, without answering her question, again offered the rejected letter.

" The road was not again visible for some distance, but when the buggy reappeared Peggy gave a start, and exclaimed: "Dar's on'y one pusson in it now, Miss Rob." "Which is it?" exclaimed her mistress quickly, shading her eyes, and endeavoring to see for herself.

Edith felt less mistress of the situation than she had expected.