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"Voyez comme M. de Chateaubriand prie Dieu," the Viscount's eloquence seems always to say. There is a sanctified grimace about the little French pilgrim which it is very difficult to contemplate gravely. The pictures, images, and ornaments of the principal Latin convent are quite mean and poor, compared to the wealth of the Armenians. The convent is spacious, but squalid.

The builder cast away his plummet; said to himself, "What is gravitation? Brick lies on brick there!" Alas, does it not still sound strange to many of us, the assertion that there is a God's-truth in the business of god-created men; that all is not a kind of grimace, an "expediency," diplomacy, one knows not what !

And meanwhile we are bending over the wounded leg and our work gets on apace. "Now, repeat," says the Sergeant. He goes over it again, verse by verse, and Auger accompanies him. Quand en passant dedans la plai-ai-ne... Auger stops now and then to make a slight grimace. Sometimes, too, his voice breaks. He apologises simply: "I could never sing in tune."

And in the library, Gregorio's stony features were bent all day over papers and documents and books of accounts, seeking refuge from sure ruin, while now and then his face was twisted into a curiously vacant grimace, and his maniac laugh cracked and reverberated through the lonely, vaulted chamber.

Somebody must be interpreter when the time comes; somebody must remember while the rest of you are forgetting. Oh, I shall be talked about, and set upon, and called hard names; it won't be so easy. Stay where you are, De Courcy; that coat will fit sooner than you think." Her brother lifted his shoulders and made a grimace. "I've an unlucky name, it seems," said he.

Waverton, the world is full of gentlemen who know where the Pretender was the other day. You are tedious. Where is he now?" "My lord, I shall put in your power one who is in all his cunning secrets: one who is the treasonous mainspring of the plot." Sunderland, who was something of a purist, made a grimace: "A treasonous mainspring! You may keep it, sir."

Those eyes, that mouth all twisted into a grimace of ferocity, that slim and feline body now trembling with rage, all were like the silversmith's. The look of the father came back again in that of the son, as exactly as if both faces had been poured in the same mold. And for the first time, after so long a time, the old engineer clearly understood everything.

But he knows every corner of Alexandria and then, what a memory! What an actor he would have made! Without even a change of dress, merely by a grimace, he at once becomes an old man, an idiot, or a philosopher." "And what a genius for intrigue!" Annianus went on enthusiastically.

Brand comes on the scene: 'Oh, my dear boy, you mustn't make that young woman unhappy. I was made unhappy by a gentleman when I was a girl, and I don't want you to behave as he did." "And that was very good of Mrs. Brand!" said Janetta, courageously. Juliet made a grimace. "After a fashion. She had better have let us alone.

That fopp'ry, grinning, and grimace, And fertile store of common-place; That oaths as false as dicers swear, And Wry teeth, and scented hair; That trinkets, and the pride of dress, Can only give your scheme success. Keep in mind. Has thy charmer e'er an aunt?