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The quick-witted shopman saw that a wedding was afoot, for when two pretty girls whisper, smile, and blush over their shopping, clerks scent bridal finery and a transient gleam of interest brightens their imperturbable countenances and lends a brief energy to languid voices weary with crying, "Cash!"

"You see how he turns on his pets if they offend him," said Brigson; "why, even that old beast Gordon isn't as bad." "Yes; while poor Eric was reading, Rose reminded me of Milton's serpent," drawled Bull; "Hope elevates and joy brightens his crest." "He-e-ar! He-e-ar!" said Pietrie; "vide the last fifth form Rep."

And the Christian in Billy Boolah. smiled as he hummed "Left blooming Alone." "Whence has the man the balm that brightens all?" Though not popular, perhaps Tsing Hi was the best known of his contemporaries on the tableland through which the Palmer River wanders a hundred miles from the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The corona is undoubtedly affected both in shape and constitution by the periodic ebb and flow of solar activity, its low-tide form being winged, its high-tide form stellate; while the rays emitted by the gases contained in it fade, and the continuous spectrum brightens, at times of minimum sun-spots.

Religion is the sun that brightens our summer hours, and gives us, even through the darkest and most stormy day, light, and confidence, and certainty.

For miles and for miles, the public corn, the bread of the nation's life, is bettered; and in our own endeared spot, the roses, delight of our individual eye and sense, yield us more prosperingly their colour and their fragrance. For the universal sunshine which brightens a thousand cities, beautifies ten thousand homesteads, and rejoices ten times ten thousand hearts.

My ideas of a novel all through are comprehensive rather than austere.... Tono-Bungay still figures on the hoardings, it stands in rows in every chemist's storeroom, it still assuages the coughs of age and brightens the elderly eye and loosens the elderly tongue; but its social glory, its financial illumination, have faded from the world for ever.

"I see light," I said, "white light, on a billowy sea of clouds, as from a flying plane.... And now I see the sun it is sinking behind a rugged line of snowy peaks and the light is dimming.... It is gone now, but it is not dark, for moonlight, pale and silvery, is shimmering on a choppy sea.... Now it is the darkest hour, but it is never black, only a dark, dark grey, for the roof of the world is pricked with a million points of light.... The grey of the east is shot with the rose of dawn.... The rose brightens to scarlet and the curve of the sun appears red like the blood of war.... And now the sky is crystal blue and the grey sands of the desert have turned to glittering gold."

The wagon was old and weather-scarred, the harness rudely patched with hide, but it is possible there was room in the life of strenuous toil the bushman lived for the romance that brightens everything, and he shouted a mirthful greeting to them as he whipped his team.

"Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppresse'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest." When Chloe came in to dress her young charge the next morning, she found her already up and sitting with her Bible in her hand.