Our Lord has promised His blessing to the merciful.

Surely He would count that an act of mercy which should save those in peril from the hands of their foes." She spoke with great earnestness and with kindling eyes.

His clasp upon her hands tightened.
"And what reward would you give to such a man ?" he asked; but then, seeming, as it were, to feel shame for these words, he added hastily, "It is thus, sweet lady, with me.

Mine uncle is the proctor in Oxford--proctor for the south.

Through him I ofttimes glean news unknown to other students.