It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets.

These, however, were only the exceptions required to prove the rule that the sparrows in the plane-tree behind the house, and the echoes in the corner before it, had their own way from Sunday morning unto Saturday night.

He complimented Daylight on his prowess-"The echoes of Ophir came down to us, you know.

Echoes! Daylight could not escape the shock of the phrase--echoes had come down to them of the fight into which he had flung all his

But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.

But the echoes of the chime die away--they have endured but an instant--and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart.