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It is true, the two generals senior in rank at Fort Donelson were sending him encouraging dispatches, even claiming great Confederate victories up to the night of the 16th when they must have been preparing for their individual escape. Johnston made a fatal mistake in intrusting so important a command to Floyd, who he must have known was no soldier even if he possessed the elements of one.

"Mrs. Alsager." Violet Grey smiled more deeply. "It's the same thing." "And how did Mrs. Alsager save you?" "By letting me look at her. By letting me hear her speak. By letting me know her." "And what did she say to you?" "Kind things encouraging, intelligent things." "Ah, the dear woman!" Wayworth cried. "You ought to like her she likes YOU. She was just what I wanted," the actress added.

Lincoln's Inaugural Speech was of the kind usually called "firm, but conciliatory," a policy doubtful in troublous times, since it commonly argues weakness, and more than doubtful in a crisis like ours, since it left the course which the Administration meant to take ambiguous, and, while it weakened the Government by exciting the distrust of all who wished for vigorous measures, really strengthened the enemy by encouraging the conspirators in the Border States.

His wife always knew when to expect a little specimen of her husband's literary talent by a peculiar cough, which served as prelude; and, judging from this encouraging sign, and the high-pitched and emphatic voice in which he read them, she was inclined to think, that an "Ode to an early Rose-bud," in the corner devoted to original poetry, and a letter in the correspondence department, signed "Pro Bono Publico," were her husband's writing, and to hold up her head accordingly.

"I see just how it is; and if I have said a word that hurt you, I am sorry for it. No one could have given better satisfaction in a family than you have given." "I have always tried to do right," murmured the poor girl, sadly. "I know it, Polly." My tones were encouraging.

Over the mantel, in front of Barbara as she stood, her back to us all, hung an oil painting one of those family groups same old popper; same old mommer, and a fat baby in a white dress and blue sash. At that, it was good enough to show that the man had some resemblance to Vandeman as he leaned there on the mantel below it, rather encouraging Skeet's enterprise.

On the 11th of the Twelfth Month they left home, and during the next two months were closely occupied in visiting various meetings from Yorkshire to Devonshire. Their service commenced with an encouraging meeting at Monyash, in Derbyshire. 13th. The first meeting we attended was at Monyash.

Social reformers and temperance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabooing all pleasures. They ought to distinguish between those that have a tendency to excess and vice, and those that are harmless and ennobling, encouraging the latter in every possible way.

The Y. M. C. A. is, he says, a group of social workers rather than of missionaries in the old-fashioned sense all of which is quite encouraging. Perhaps the Chinese will be the ones to rejuvenate Christianity by dropping its rot, wet and dry, and changing it into a social religion. The principal is a Teachers College man and one of the most influential educators in China.

"Then it was that we gave to each other the long pledge, often on the lips of lovers since Eros strung his bow, but never more deeply felt. "'I am sure the sky will clear soon, she said to me at last. "Indeed as I bade them good night, I saw encouraging signs of that. Sir Benjamin had taken a liking to me.