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"Where nature intended them to be, I suppose"

"Nonsense! why didn't you use the tays at once, like Brahma; and my optics were irresistibly drawn in an opposite direction"

"A truce to all such excuses!"

"Patience, Miss Florence, hearat your cousin over there, and calculating the chances of her surviving suffocation"

"There is certainly so;olus has closed thewinds are securely pent in their prison"

"Are you not verypardon for such a waste of time and talk, if I were not aware that "'A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest arded her earnestly, Her hat had fallen back froe ofgirl The feverish flush had left the cheek, now perfectly wan; the dark brown hair clung on the pure, beautiful brow, and beneath the closed eyes were dark circles, traced byThe expression of the face was perfectly calered there So motionless she lay, that Frank hastily placed his hand on hers to feel if warmth and vitality remained Slowly and faint came the pulsations, and, as he watched her deathlike sluuish settled on his noble brow, and the finely cut lips were tightly coh hidden pain Florence slowly returned to Mr and Mrs Carlton--no smile passed her lips the remainder of the day; she seeer, and naught could divert her rief

Dr Bryant bent his head upon his breast, and ladly would I give all I possess on earth to see you strong and well again"