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Banks have long employed girls as stenographers and a number of young women have held junior clerkships. But now the work of a ledger-keeper or teller is sometimes given to a woman, and there is a prospect for the intelligent girl with capacity for financial affairs to find a position in a bank, suited to her gifts. There are a few women in accountants' offices.

"Write 'em down in a row and see if we can't pick out some sense. I've had worse finds than this; no vowels at all sometimes; but here's three." He wrote the letters down, while Jackson leaned back against the wall, in patient quiet. "Well, sir," said Whitwell, pushing the paper, where he had written the letters in a line, to Westover, "make anything out of 'em?"

I sometimes meet him, and from early associations, even take his hand; but I never do it without feeling myself in contact with the very personification of depravity. Now, I am not surprised at all this, when I go back to the time when he had a mother, and remember what sort of a mother she was.

Then they went downstairs that Marcella might say good-bye. Miss Raeburn bade her guest farewell, with a dignity which her small person could sometimes assume, not unbecomingly. Lady Winterbourne held the girl's hand a little, looked her out of countenance, and insisted on her promising again to come to Winterbourne Park the following Tuesday.

From that hour to this, Jonas Marshall has been as true to his second pledge, even in thought, as the needle to the pole. So dreadful seems the idea of its violation, that the bare recollection of his former dereliction, makes him tremble. "It was a severe remedy," he says, sometimes, in regard to his broken legs; "and proved eminently successful. But for that, I should have been utterly lost."

"Sometimes the divers stay for hours on the bed of the sea, and work away at the amber tangles." "But suppose anything happens to the air-tubes and the men fail to get as much air as they need?" said Hans. "Is there any way of letting those in the boat know they are in trouble? And, besides that, how do the others know when it is time to raise the divers with their precious loads?"

Sometimes the ladies of his court rode out with him on picnic excursions to the forests of Fontainebleau or Marly. Upon returning from the drive, the king again changed his dress and repaired to his cabinet. He then proceeded to the apartments of Madame de Maintenon, where he remained conversing with her, or reading, and sometimes transacting business with his minister, until ten o'clock.

English women might well take a few hints from its simplicity. These ladies are mostly handsome, and their movements are exceedingly graceful. Here and there among the houses you sometimes see between two windows a painting simulating a third window half open, with perhaps a lady looking out into the street below, and this is so natural, that for the moment you fancy it is real.

We have none in our lakes; the water is too pure and free from vegetable matter for fish. It is doubly distilled. Taste it." Leo took the glass which Knops offered, and confessed he had never tasted anything more delicious. "We sometimes force carbonic gas into mineral springs, but that, as well as the salts considered so beneficial, is left to our chemists to regulate.

They shone like new-minted coins; the harbor was itself a purse of black velvet, to which the harbor master held the strings. The quiet the immortal quiet operated to restore his soul. But at such times Day would put the tips of her fingers mysteriously to her incarnadined dumb lips and appear to hearken on the seaward side. If a willful light came sometimes in her eyes he did not see it.