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So our heavenly Father is pleased with his children when they do what they can to provide for the wants of the needy; and the smallest gift, offered in love, is not forgotten by him. You recollect that our Saviour, when he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury and the poor woman casting in her two mites, said that she had cast in more than they all.

At last he made a little speech to me, of which I wish I could recollect the very words, for they were so simple and unaffected that they put all the best writing and speaking to the blush; as it is, I can recall only the sense, and that perhaps imperfectly.

'She excuse me Miss D., you know, said Traddles, colouring in his great delicacy, 'lives in London, I believe? 'Oh yes. Near London. 'Mine, perhaps you recollect, said Traddles, with a serious look, 'lives down in Devonshire one of ten. Consequently, I am not so much engaged as you in that sense. 'I wonder you can bear, I returned, 'to see her so seldom. 'Hah! said Traddles, thoughtfully.

I can recollect a time, 'seems hundreds and hundreds of years ago, that I was getting my three hundred a month, and pickings, when I was working on a big timber-contract in Calcutta. I didn't stick to that work for long. The Black Smoke does not allow of much other business; and even though I am very little affected by it, as men go I couldn't do a day's work now to save my life.

Not only those who knew him when he played in the streets like a vagabond did not recollect him, but those who saw him but a little while before hardly recognised him, so much were his features altered: such were the effects of the lamp, as to procure by degrees to those who possessed it perfections suitable to the rank to which the right use of it advanced them.

I explained that I was there in obedience to his request to see me, and after a moment of thought he said: "You recollect I told you I would probably entrust you with a commission to the Queen? Are you ready to undertake it?" "Perfectly." "You will have to go back to Paris; but that is your way. When can you start?"

With the balance he escaped on the small captured steamer, the New Era, and succeeded in passing the batteries at Grand Gulf and reaching the vicinity of Vicksburg. I furnished an ambulance for his use and that of some of the State officers who accompanied him. I recollect that I had transferred my headquarters from a boat in the river to a house a short distance back from the levee.

Come, come, open them, and do not keep me waiting." It was necessary to obey, which gave me such alarm, that I tremble every time I recollect my situation. The caliph sat down; and the favourite ordered all the trunks to be brought before him one after another.

"I do not recollect that any of our illustrious ancestors of the house of Savoy, before or since the great hero Charles Emmanuel, of immortal memory, ever dishonoured or tarnished their illustrious names with cowardice. In leaving the Court of France at this awful crisis, I should be the first. Can Your Majesty pardon my presumption in differing from your royal counsel?

"You have lived in Dayton for some time," said an old hunter, addressing one of his companions. "Have you ever seen during your rambles the remains of a log cabin about two miles down the Miami Canal?" "I recollect it well, but there is a mystery attached to those ruins which no one living can solve.