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Such were my reflections and half-uttered expressions as I slowly led my soldiers through the tangled path. Don Santiago's age and his appearance were the creations of a jealous fancy. I had bidden adieu to my new acquaintances knowing nothing of Don Santiago beyond the fact that he was an officer on board the Spanish ship of war, and a relation of Don Cosme. "Oh, yes! Don Santiago is on board!

"They do so," replied the merry girl, who caught these half-uttered words; "but she's a very sweet lady." Jacques sighed. "Are you not tired, sir?" asked the girl. "No, no! my dear child; but I believe I must return your little bulrush receptacle, for yonder is my journey's end. Look, Sir Asinus beholds us see! there at the window!"

With the suppressed exclamation of "Far better than nothing," he brought his piece to his face and fired; when the glimpse of a straight-falling body, and the heavy thump on the ground that followed, told him that the object of his aim was a "dead coon." But his half-uttered shout of exultation was cut short by the startling report of a rifle, a little distance to the rear, on his left.

"We haven't a thousand dollars and if we had you couldn't get a cent of it. And to save you some trouble I'll say that what we have is in your bank." Another half-uttered oath sounded on Jellup's lips. "In thet case," retorted the marshal, "we'll jest show you that we mean business. That's a lie about the bank. Produce or take the consequences."

Could Mrs. Henley have looked behind the scenes she would have marvelled. 'One kiss for mamma; and one for papa, was Amy's half-uttered morning greeting, as she lifted from her cot her little one, with cheeks flushed by sleep.

At that moment Jane, who was groping round to find the other side, uttered a piercing scream which was quickly followed by a heavy splash in water. "Jane! Jane!" they all cried; and the chief, at the moment springing towards the place where she had stood, with a half-uttered exclamation, fell heavily with a loud splash also.

A dead world, this! its utter desolation struck Chet's half-uttered exclamation to a hoarse whisper of dismay. In all the universe what less likely place might one discover wherein to look for man?

The girl did not reply to this half-uttered query, but a faint rose-tint swept into the pale cheeks, and up to the blue-veined temples. "But to be an old maid, Ulrica," she said a moment after, in a troubled tone; "it is a dreary future for any woman to contemplate.

'Tis only asking me to give up the boy, that's all;" and as he left the room, his daughter again heard his sigh and half-uttered words, "Oh, Maggie, Maggie!" A tale Would rouse adventurous courage in a boy, And make him long to be a mariner, That he might rove the main.

The hand was snatched away to be pressed to her face. Oh that those old times were back again, and she a child that could ask his protection! No one to give it now. He was silent a moment. Fleda's head bowed beneath the mental pressure. "Has Dr. Gregory returned?" The negative answer was followed by a half-uttered exclamation of longing, checked midway, but sufficiently expressive of her want.