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A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play. The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her saddle with a shriek of joy. 'Whose are they? Oh! whose are they? she asked. 'How happy any man must be who is the master of such lovely creatures!

Corresponding to the outer, perianth-segments are the three stamens and the three, petal-like divisions of the style, each bearing a transverse stigma immediately above the anther. They are pollinated by bumble-bees, and in some instances by flies of the genus Rhingia, which search for the honey, brush the pollen out of the anthers and afterwards deposit it on the stigma.

Vaughan, cried Cecilia Ossulton; 'you know it came from your heart. 'My dear Cecilia, said the elder Miss Ossulton, 'you forget yourself what can you possibly know about gentlemen's hearts? 'The Bible says that they are "deceitful and desperately wicked," aunt. 'And cannot we also quote the Bible against your sex, Miss Ossulton? replied Seagrove.

The loss of one sense makes us exercise the others so constantly and so effectually as to acquire a power quite unknown to common persons. This goes far to compensate the blind man who is in the pursuit of knowledge, and enables him to learn vastly more of some subjects than other men; but there are capacities of his nature which can never be developed.

He seems to forget the people he sees every day, and thinks of them in a moment when they least expect it; his attention seems ill-timed; his presents are dictated by caprice and not by propriety. He gives or sends in an instant whatever comes into his head, be the value of it ever so small.

Both of these towns almost disappeared when the colony declined and are now humble villages.

The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat. Now really and truly it was finished. Nothing remained to do but to knock. 'All look your best, Peter warned them; 'first impressions are awfully important. He was glad no one asked him what first impressions are; they were all too busy looking their best.

Presently he made another venture: "Have I been ill long?" "Yes very long." "What's the matter?" "Concussion of the brain, pneumonia and shock. You are much better now, but you mustn't talk so much or you may have a relapse." He asked no more, but passed his hand over his brow in a bewildered sort of way. Presently, he began again: "Does my wife come to see me?"

Although some physicians boast that this is an age of preventive medicine, the following paragraph is about all that is devoted to this phase of the subject. In one or two places people are cautioned not to eat too much and chew thoroughly, but what does this amount to? How many people know how much to eat or how thoroughly to chew?

"I doubt," said the earnest Constance, "whether the legislators are not right. For men given to amusement are easily enslaved. All noble thoughts are grave." Thus talking, they passed a shallow ford in the stream. "We are not far from the Priory," said Godolphin, pointing to its ruins, that rose greyly in the evening skies from the green woods around it. Constance sighed involuntarily.