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"We had an offer this very morning for all three of the animals by the American stage company." "Vas the hoffer a good one?" asked Steel Spring, in a low voice. "Yes; all that the animals are worth." "Then do you go at vonce and get the tin, and tell the coveys that you vant them taken off now this werry evening. The commissioner von't interfere vid the stage company. He knows better."

'Vell, vid a bretty woman überhaupt it dosn't mean business! It's zoziety the dukes and the duchesses that ruins all the yong talents. This whispered conversation went on during the andante. With the scherzo the two hirsute faces broke into broad smiles. The artist behind each woke up, and Langham heard no more, except guttural sounds of delight and quick notes of technical criticism.

Vich ees de bettair, de air or de meat, señor? Bueno, I tink de laugh vas vid him." Mr. O'Brien, his attention thus suddenly recalled to practical affairs, gazed into the emptied frying-pan, a decided expression of bewildered despair upon his wizened face. For the moment even speech failed him as he confronted that scene of total devastation.

Vid. etiam Jacob. Laurent. Sutliv. De Presbyterio, cap. 12, page 72 and 87: edit. Lond., an. 1591. This is one of D. Field's three glosses. Cartwright Testam. See Altar. Ignatius, Purpurius, Tertullian, Origen, Cyprian, Optatus, Ambrose, Augustine, and Isidorus; and of these three late ones, viz. Whitaker, Thorndike, and Rivet.

"I've got something to do that pays better than vaiting on Lieutenant Murden," he whispered. "Is the occupation honest?" I asked. "If it hadn't been you vouldn't have caught me connected vid it," was the prompt reply. "That we can tell after we have heard what you are doing. Go on."

"That's the vay vid the vorld," the fellow said, putting one hand to his eyes as though overcome by the unexpected interview; "a covey tries to be honest, and get a honest livin', but up comes somebody vot has been concerned vid him in the grab line, and insists upon being acquainted. I'll leave this 'ere country, I vill."

I cannot prove this at this distance of time; but I do not think it wrong to introduce here the passage containing it, as I am imputing to the Bishop nothing which the world would think disgraceful, but, on the contrary, what a large religious body would approve. On this subject, vid. my third lecture on "Anglican Difficulties." Part VII General answer to Mr. Kingsley

The United-States census of 1870 shows that there is, in the city of New York, but one child under fifteen years of age, to each thousand nubile women, when there ought to be three; and the same is true of our other large cities. The Nation, Aug. 28, 1873, p. 145. Vid. a pamphlet by the Rev. Dr. Todd. The New Englander, July, 1873. Art., Iowa College. Body and Mind. Op. cit., p. 85.

You see Nosey heard that they'd got the dust vid 'em; so I was sent to talk vid 'em and find out how much they had, and get 'em to stop in a convenient place; and then Nosey and two others comes up and pretends to be going our vay, and ven a good chance occurred the miners vere knocked in their heads, and Nosey took the dust and divided it around, but I didn't get any."

Perhaps you would be willing to send her to a good school away from here, if I could arrange it. Either here or in England." Otto threw up his hands; he was becoming indignant, his mind more and more set against Felix's proposition. "Vell, but vat's de matter vid de school she has now? She is more dan on de top of all de classes.