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Verena went to the toilet-glass to see that she had put on her hat properly, and Olive slowly got up, in the manner of a person not in the least eager for food. "Let him react as he likes for heaven's sake don't mind him!" That was Miss Chancellor's rejoinder, and Verena felt that it didn't say all that was in her mind.

Above ground? 'God knows, rejoined the locksmith, 'many that I knew above it five years ago, have their beds under the grass now. And the world is a wide place. It's a hopeless attempt, sir, believe me. We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

He could never account for the lowly cot, and the old wrinkled woman, but he remembered his grandfather's dying words, and never wooed where he knew he could not give his heart and soul; nor was his vision ever again unfolded, but one of heaven's choicest, purest women was given him to love, and in her high and spiritual life, his soul grew to sense that which by sight he could not obtain.

"For Heaven's sake," whispered the good Rolf to his knight "for Heaven's sake, Sir Sintram, what kind of companions have you here? One of them cannot bear the light of God's blessed sun, and the other has no sooner set foot in a dwelling than tidings of death wail after his track. Could he have been a murderer?" "I do not think that," said Sintram. "He seemed to me the best of the two.

"But how about La Croix?" "For heaven's sake say nothing about him." This conversation increased my ardour. She called Annette, and I went to my room. As I had expected, Annette came to me as soon as her mistress was in bed. "If the lady is really your niece," said she, "may I hope that you still love me?" "Assuredly, dear Annette, I shall always love you. Undress, and let us have a little talk."

"Elizabeth! Elizabeth!" shrieked Elsie, in genuine terror which there was no mistaking. "I must do it," muttered the woman; "I must do it!" "Oh, Bessie, dear Bessie! Get up! Don't look so! Oh, for heaven's sake! Bessie, Bessie!" Elsie threw herself upon the floor beside her sister, crying and shrieking, clinging to her, and hiding her face in her dress.

Hail, thou faithful wife and mother, The latest, choicest part of heaven's great plan. None fills thy peerless place at home, no other Helpmeet is found for laboring, suffering man. Hail, thou home circle, where, at day's decline, Her moulding power, her radiant virtues shine!

"Well, for heaven's sake get up and take off that wet coat! Here," rising to help him "I've always heard that doctors had absolutely no sense. Sitting around in a wet coat!" "I wonder," he said, after another minute of resting, "why any man ever takes it into his head he wants to be a doctor?"

A torrent of words issued from his lips, and he flung out an arm, the fist clenched, in a fierce, quick gesture, partly of despair, partly of defiance, partly of supplication. "No, your God would not take her part. Where was God's mercy in that? Where was Heaven's protection in that? Where was the loving kindness you preach about? Why did God give her life if it was to be stamped out?

"My angel!" cried the man who held me, "you cannot surely be alarmed,-do you not know me?-I shall hold myself in eternal abhorrence, if I have really terrified you." "Indeed, Sir Clement, you have," cried I:"but, for Heaven's sake, where is Madame Duval?-why is she forced away?"