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An anonymous benefactor has donated over $100,000 to the Children's Hospital.

In Europe the plant's range is supposed to be limited to that of a crepuscular moth (Sphinx convolvuli), and where that benefactor is rare, as in England, the bindweed sets few seeds where it does not occur, as in Scotland, this convolvulus is seldom found wild; whereas in Italy Delpino tells of catching numbers of the moths in hedges overgrown with the common plant, by standing with thumb and forefinger over a flower, ready to close it when the insect has entered.

The white-fringed orchis grows in watery places that it may more easily manufacture nectar, and protect itself from crawling pilferers; its flowers are clustered on a spike, their lips are fringed, they have been given fragrance and a snowy-white color that they may effectually advertise their sweets on whose removal by an insect benefactor that will carry pollen from flower to flower as he feeds depends their chance of producing fertile seed.

By rapidly lengthening the cells on the outer side of its stem more than on the inner side, the former becomes convex, the latter concave; that is to say, a section of spiral is formed by the new shoot, which, twining upward, devitalizes its benefactor as it goes.

So very many flowers especially adapted to the bumblebee are in bloom when the cymes of the waterleaf uncoil, like the borages, from their immature roll, that some special inducement to attract this benefactor were surely needed.

He is the truest benefactor of the European columbine (q.

He was skilled in medicine and the use of herbs, and was indeed a general benefactor to the citizens of his native place, where he was almost worshipped as a god.

It is partly this impatience of obligation which makes a man desirous of giving as requital more than he has received; for otherwise his benefactor has still the superiority of having taken the initiative.

For we do not think it obligatory to requite services in all cases, even if it be in our power to do so, if the benefactor appear to be sufficiently supplied with the means of happiness: but if he[261] either demand it or obviously stand in need of it, we think it ungrateful not to make an equal return.

Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret, until the person chooses to reveal it.

I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.

"Is my benefactor to be made known to me to-day?

" I was beginning to express my gratitude to my benefactor for the great liberality with which I was treated, when Mr.

" "I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me.

This bringing us into conversation, he was so good as to entertain me with my own story,-of course with the popular feature that Pumblechook was my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortunes.

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