I am quite aware, she added, that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred? Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty, said I, with non-committal subserviency,

On these occasions I often heard him declare that the whole of Europe did not contain ten thousand men, and that as for King George, he was only fit to be a dewan or zamindar under himself.

With a skitter of excitement, Marcy glanced at the clock on the parlor mantel. It chimed ten, and her gaze flicked to the face of her husband as he lounged in his favorite chair with a newspaper in his lap.

What surprised me most, though, was the way the gals hung round for free tickets. ¶ They didn’t make any bones of it, but come up and made friendly with me the easiest I ever experienced. It was so sorter onusual that it took me quite a spell to git used to their sociable ways.