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You are rather pleased to think you have thereby not only named some one whom no one else is likely to hit upon, but also you have delicately let your master see you have lately read a very good book.

Rousseau named his collection of songs "The Consolations of the Miseries of my Life;" Shakspere called music "The food of love;" and Chopin, in one of his letters to a friend, after referring to his first love affair, adds, "How often I relate to my piano everything I should like to communicate to you."

"Why, that we should divide in the proportions you named, only I bargain to be allowed to take my whack in kind I mean in plant, and to have the first option of purchasing the rest of the plant at whatever value may be agreed upon." "But, Mr. Somers, do you mean that you wish to find £2,000 and make this expedition in person?" "Of course I do. I thought you understood that.

One really would not believe that we possessed in our own country such romantic situations!" "Is she your only sister?" inquired Otto. "No," returned Wilhelm, "I have two the other is named Louise; she is of quite an opposite character: I do not know of which one ought to think most. Have you no brothers or sisters?" he asked of Otto.

She seemed to have already provided herself with a lover, in the person of Hastenbrook, and it was necessary to get some one able to "cut him out." The company had a gentleman in their employ, named De Forest, whom I thought admirably adapted for this purpose, and if the Vice-President would allow me, I would assign to him the task of becoming Mrs. Maroney's lover.

On the 6th of January we reached the village of another female chief, named Nyamoana, who is said to be the mother of Manenko, and sister of Shinte or Kabompo, the greatest Balonda chief in this part of the country. Her people had but recently come to the present locality, and had erected only twenty huts.

He was also allowed to carry back in his vessel two or three Peruvians, for the similar purpose of instructing them in the Castilian. One of them, a youth named by the Spaniards Felipillo, plays a part of some importance in the history of subsequent events.

The towns on the Laconian coast were given to the Spartan emigrants, and this new community, who named themselves the "free Laconians" in contrast to the monarchically governed Spartans, were directed to enter the Achaean league.

You have no reason to love Cetywayo, and it does not matter to you whether or no I return to his kraal to mend guns there. If you think that he will be angry because I am missing, you had better cross the border also; we can go together." "And leave my father and all my brethren to his vengeance? Black Heart, you do not understand. How can you, being so named?

Jones saw that his wife was in a very unhappy state of mind, and tried his best to cheer her, but with little good effect. "It is no use to talk to me, I can't help it," she replied to his remonstrance, in a husky voice. "I am neither a stock nor a stone." "There's Mrs. Jones," said one friend to another, on seeing the lady they named enter Mrs. 's well-filled parlours. "Where is Mrs.