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The Circus in Rome was thronged with an enormous crowd of persons on a day in June, about two thousand years ago. One hundred thousand men and women sat on its tiers of white marble seats, under the open sky and witnessed a gladiatorial contest in the arena, beneath.

Kit and Kat sat on their little stools. Their eyes were very big. At five minutes of six, Vrouw Vedder said, "He will be here in just a few minutes, now. Get up, Kit and Kat, and sing your song!" The Twins stood up on the edge of the sheet and began to sing: "St. Nicholas, good, holy man, Put on your best gown; Ride with it to Amsterdam, From Amsterdam to Spain."

Here I sat on the morning in question looking over some "diet lists," when I heard a slight noise at the door. Soon a little girl edged her way into the room. Her dress was plain and faded, but when she pushed back the calico sun-bonnet a sweet, bright face appeared. She came forward as shyly as a little bird and stood at my side.

Down it is; and he sat down accordingly upon the bedstead. 'Help yourself, said Martin, handing him the only knife. 'Thankee, sir, rejoined Mark. 'After you've done. 'If you don't take it now, you'll not have any, said Martin. 'Very good, sir, rejoined Mark. 'That being your desire now it is. With which reply he gravely helped himself and went on eating.

Bobby's guardian would have liked very well to have sat before the canteen in the sun and gossiped about his small charge.

He had waked in the morning with the words in his ears to make him face the day with hope and cheerfulness. It had sounded in his ears at night as he sat on the wide stoop watching the moon and listening to the night-birds, or vaguely heard his mother babbling things he did not hear.

And when they reached the tarn, a magical shadowed mirror of brown and purple water, they sat for long beside it, while the evening faded, and a breathless quiet came across the hills, stilling all their voices, even, one might have fancied, the voice of the hurrying stream itself.

Candy without your own knowledge as a practical refutation of the opinions which you had expressed to him at the birthday dinner." I sat with the papers in my hand completely stupefied. "Try and forgive poor Mr. Candy," said the assistant gently. "He has done dreadful mischief, I own; but he has done it innocently.

His cognomen in the wilderness was "Slugs," a name which originated in his frequent use of clipped pieces of lead instead of shot in the loading of his gun. But to return to the point from which we started: It was on a cold winter morning that Robin Gore entered his parlour and sat him down to breakfast.

Colonel Danvers was a man who usually sat next to Maltravers in parliament; they voted together, and thought alike on principles both of politics and honour: they would have lent thousands to each other without bond or memorandum; and neither ever wanted a warm and indignant advocate when he was abused behind his back in the presence of the other.