"Close work, too." "No such thing," replied Power; "but Sparks will enlighten you.

It is, without exception, the most touching and beautiful thing I ever heard.

As a simple story, it beats the 'Vicar of Wakefield' to sticks." "You don't say so ?" said poor Sparks, blushing.
"Ay, that I do; and maintain it, too.

I'd rather be the hero of that little adventure, and be able to recount it as you do,--for, mark me, that's no small part of the effect,--than I'd be full colonel of the regiment.

Well, I am sure I always thought it affecting.