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"Mother," said Phillis, the moment Edith was out of hearing, "havn't you no sense, or what possessed you to talk of Miss Nina to her? Havn't you no family pride, and has you done forgot that Marster Arthur forbade our talkin' of her to strangers?"

"Here we are again," said Sir Tilton Everly, entering, and shaking hands with all, continued: "I hope, Bertram, I havn't kept your dinner waiting." "No, no, my dear fellow, my dinner waits for no man." "You see our gallant host makes an exception in our favour, Sir Tilton," said Lady Esmondet. "He considers the length of our toilette," said Mrs. Wingfield.

"No," said Arthur, ashamed to confess his dislike to the plan, "but why can't you take some other store?" "Because we havn't the men drugged in any other store, and, in case of detection, we're safer there than any where else." "How so? I should think the chances in that case would be equal anywhere?" "Oh, no.

"Say no more about it," said Glenn; "but as you are so anxious to be well provided with comforts, if we are besieged, there is one thing I had forgotten, that is absolutely necessary for our existence, which you can procure." "What is it? Be quick, for we havn't a moment to lose," said Joe. "Water," replied Glenn.

"It has some connection with the subject of numerous conversations we have held," said Roundjacket, persuasively, waving backward and forward the ruler which he had taken up abstractedly, and as he did so, indulging in a veiled and confidential smile; "now you can guess can't you?" "I think not, sir." "Why, what have we been talking about lately?" "Law." "No, sir!" "Havn't we?"

I've thought about you and the children all day, and of how much I have wronged you. But it's all over now. That pledge has done it!" pointing up as he spoke to his pledge nailed over the mantelpiece. "Since I signed that, I've not had the first wish to touch the accursed thing that has ruined me. I'm free, now, Sally! Free to do as I please. And that's what I havn't been for a long time.

We made our own bed, Larry, an' now we must lie down an it. An' God help us! We made his bed too, poor boy, an' a hard one it is. God forgive us! but, anyhow, my heart a breakin', for bad as he was, sure we havn't him to look upon!" "Thrue," replied Larry. "Still he was game an' cute to the last. Biddy Doran's ten guineas will sarve him beyant, poor fellow.

"'You'll have to wait until you bring home my clothes next week, Mrs. Blake. I havn't any change this evening. "The expression of the poor woman's face, as she turned slowly away, without speaking, rather softened my feelings. "'I'm sorry, said I 'but, it can't be helped now. I wish you had said, this morning, that you wanted money. I could have paid you then.

"All right, Baronet, we havn't time to talk much, I'm out of breath, but I am going to have that show tonight." "Oh! Blanche, I do wish you would wait, say even for a day or two," implored small Everly. "Well, I guess perhaps I will," she said cunningly, not meaning to defer her intention for even an hour, "but you must do something for me then." "Anything, anything," he cried eagerly.

"Glad of it," said Quirk, "she's happier; but I say, old boy, havn't you sometimes regretted the faithfulness to a poor girl which has deprived you of your inheritance, and forced you upon such deeds as to-night for a living?" "No! My faithfulness to Marion has made a better man of me in some respects than otherwise I ever could have been, though it may have made me worse in others.