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Then in tender, earnest supplication did this Christian woman offer her prayers for help. "Dear Lord and Saviour," she said, in hushed, pleading tones, "whose love goes yearning after the lost and straying ones, open the eyes of this man, one of thy sick and suffering children, that he may see the tender beauty of thy countenance. Touch his heart, that he may feel the sweetness of thy love.

"Arrange yourselves in a circle about me," he whispered. "I am going to beard the lion in his den." He walked up to a small cottage that stood some distance from any other dwellings on a lonely street in the village, and knocked loudly. "Who's there?" came a voice, in answer, a few seconds later from an upper window. "Tobias Smelts, come forth!" called Jack in deep tones.

Grimshaw came out in the field to see my uncle. They walked away to the shade of a tree while "Mr. Purvis" and I went on with the hoeing. I could hear the harsh voice of the money-lender speaking in loud and angry tones and presently he went away. "What's the rip?" I asked as my uncle returned looking very sober. "We won't talk about it now," he answered.

"Fifty-eight; and we started out early this morning with a full company," returned Pfeffer, with no little bitterness in his tones. "You will march your men in single file along this bank, and deposit your arms of all kinds on the ground," said Lieutenant Lyon.

But the pendulum still continued its regular, even swinging; the time went forward; only every moment made the horror, the fear of unknown danger seem like an eternity! At last, slowly, with calm stroke, the hour began to strike four o'clock. And amid the dreadful sounds outside the palace, the women could recognize the deep tones of the great clock on the Swiss hall. Four o'clock!

Scrymgeour," she said, speaking in clear and even tones, "you must not be concerned at my father's harsh expressions. I felt no disgust for you; on the contrary, I asked an opportunity to make your better acquaintance. As for what has passed to-night, believe me it has filled my mind with both pity and esteem." Just then Mr.

"All right," he said, gayly, "I'll be out almost before I'm in. You run back to the house and help your mother get the dry clothes ready for me." His tones were so confident, and his laugh so buoyant, that Mr. Heard, who had been fully expecting him to withdraw from the affair, began to feel that he had under-rated his swimming powers.

She looked at Dulcie struggling for breath in her mother's arms, and fighting the air with her helpless little hands. It was pitiful, but she could not move; she only gazed horror-stricken, and as if turned into stone. "Oh!" exclaimed Mrs Roy in tones of anguish, "why doesn't Richard come home? What shall I do?"

Then while the echoes of that glad cry yet rang round the rocky walls, Ayesha motioned to me to stand at her side, and taking Leo by the hand drew him towards her, so that now he faced the white-robed company. Holding him thus she began to speak in clear and silvery tones. "Priests and priestesses of Hes, servants with her of the Mother of the world, hear me.

Turning gingerly around so as not to lose his footing, he faced this masked battery that had opened so unexpectedly upon him, and saw a white-haired old man balancing himself on one crutch and brandishing the other at him. "Stop knockin' down that wall and fillin! the road with stuns, you ," shouted the venerable man, in tones that indicated anything but the calmness of age.