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Feel awfully queer and look a fright. Sympathetic lady, next compartment, just offered condolences for loss of my husband. What are the probabilities of storm? Be sure and find out before we start. "Isn't that just like a girl!" he muttered to himself. "Where else would Forty-second Street be but New York! London?"

A few minutes more and the two men, the taller one of whom walked somewhat unsteadily, were on Fifth Avenue, making their way towards Forty-second Street. Ten days later there appeared among the society notes of the New York Herald this paragraph: "Robert Stafford, the well-known railroad promoter, was married yesterday at St.

You said you were not now in his Majesty's service: beg pardon were you ever?" "Why, once I was; many years ago." "Ah! and what regiment? I was in the forty-second. Heard of the forty- second? Colonel's name, Dysart; captain's, Trotter; corporal's, Bunting, at your service." "I am much obliged by your confidence," said the Traveller drily. "I dare say you have seen much service." "Service!

As he is now in his forty-second year the people of Paris do not forgive him for running about at balls, like a young fool, for the amusement of women, when he has the cares of the kingdom upon his shoulders. When the late King ascended the throne he had reason to take his diversion; it is not so now.

I was to "settle down," and it is only slaves who rebel. The next day, humble and chastened in spirit, I kissed the rod, and went into the city to search for a situation. I determined to start at Forty-second Street, and work my way down town until I found a place that looked as though it could afford a foreign correspondent.

The engines and other apparatus were rolling away from the fire when we regained the street and things were settling themselves down to normal again. We rode downtown on the subway, and I was surprised when Garrick, instead of going all the way down to the crosstown line that would take us to the Old Tavern, got off at Forty-second Street. "What's the idea of this?" I asked.

Wrap the muffler well around the lower part of your face, button this second overcoat closely about your neck, and enter the private carriage which I ordered for 'Mr. Lee, waiting now at the Forty-fifth Street Side. Then drive leisurely to the West Forty-second Street Ferry, where you can catch the late afternoon train for your country place." "Good-bye, Mr. Shirley.

From the Forty-second Street Station the "new departure" of many a life has begun, the radial lines often curving downward into the sheer depths of ruin of the Morgue, or the darkened abysses of the Tenderloin. Alas! That no angel with a flaming sword stands ready to warn away the helpless from the gates which close behind the unwary with a deadly clang.

Mary Gibson, my first sweetheart, lived by the bridge, caught such a trout there by the by! had beautiful eyes black, round as a cherry five feet eight without shoes might have listed in the forty-second." "Who, Bunting!" said Walter smiling, "the lady or the trout?" "Augh! baugh! what? Oh, laughing at me, your honour, you're welcome, Sir.

Ames was a member of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses, and I knew him very well during my six years' service. I was made chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Forty-first Congress, by Mr. Blaine, who was then Speaker.