There were a few words of explanation from the man who had come home, and then, in gruff but not unkindly tones, he bade Babette be seated, and told his mother to get some supper speedily.

'I believe,' said the child, that there are people in the moon, and in all the stars.' 'Why?' asked her mother. '

Sir Andrew, with his usual kindness, did what he could and evidently gave satisfaction, for when he left the mother said: "Well, Sir Andrew, you have been so kind we must make it double," and handed him two guineas.

She looked and saw her mother, clad in such wear as Laurella's taste could select and Laurella's beauty make effective.

I found mother in very poor health, as she was suffering from asthma.

" "Then you know my mother?

Long ere thy princely father met thy mother, we loved, she and I, and in our love grew up together.

"I loved my mother, Rudolph.

He had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was six years old; but his father was a good and pious man, whose example had a great effect upon him.

And the midwife fled from the room crying for help, and brought my mother and my sister in to try and soothe her.

But, Mrs. Abbott, I feel bound to tell you that your own daughter" "Biansy-Alzumy-Anne!" exclaimed the mother in alarm.

What I do know is, that he fell asleep with his head and heart full of desire to wake and help his mother; and that, in the middle of the night, he did wake up suddenly, and there was little Agnes screaming with all her might.

"What sort of a house is it, Mother?" "I haven't been there for a number of years," replied her mother, knitting her brows in an effort to recall the details of Billie's queer inheritance.

How he kissed his mother, and thanked her!

But when she saw me, she grew as cool as you please, and called her mother.

When she stepped off the train last week, comin' back to visit her old mother, I wished the whole depot would open up and swallow methat's what I wished.

"What is it?" cried Connie's mother; "is it a warning!

Joseph Atterley, my father, formerly of East Jersey, as it was once called, had settled in this place about a year before, in consequence of having married my mother, Alice Schermerhorn, the only daughter of a snug Dutch farmer in the neighbourhood.

Probably there was at the back of his attentions to Mrs Ottley a vague idea that he wanted to get her on his sidethat she might be a useful ally; but he was always charming to elderly women, and inclined to be brusque with younger ones, excepting Edith; he remembered his own mother with so great a cult of devotion, and his late wife with such a depressed indifference.

He felt rather than heard the question put by the Mentor, and observing Dick's discomfiture, stammered: "It didn't kill your mother when you went for a soldier, I guess.

He took his mother in his arms and kissed her, then he shook hands with Miss Laura and Mr. Maxwell, who seemed to be an old friend of his.

I acceded to this courteous invitation, and followed the mother and son up the mud-brick steps leading to the rude terrace; and though anything but clean, it was a great improvement on what we had left, and with genuine kindliness the old woman brought out an old but well-preserved carpet and spread it for me.

Nothing, however, could persuade mother to change her determination.

Stafford stood and watched her; the collie and the fox-terrier upright on their haunches watching her also; the collie gave an approving bark as, with a pat she liberated the lamb, which went bleating on its way to join its distracted mother, the fox-terrier leapt round her with yaps of excited admiration; and there was admiration in Stafford's eyes also.

Looks like Johnnie's got more authorityher mother's more like a little girl to her than the other way round.