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turned towards her husband now cried she furiously if you say a word against it you and i shall quarrel after all these years who thee foolish woman quarrel with your own shadow while i go borrow a mule for ye bless thee my good man bless thee i never yet fail me at a pinch now eat your din who can while i go and make ready she took back with her in the cart and on the way questioned and cross questioned him severely and by turns till she had his mind inside out what there was of it margaret met her at the door pale and agitated and threw her arms round her neck and looked in her face come he is alive thank god said after her eagerly she looked at the child and then at the poor hollow eyed mother alternately lucky you sent for me said she � the child is poisoned poisoned i by whom by you you have been � nay indeed mother how can i help don t tell me margaret a nursing mother has no business to fret she must turn her mind away from her grief to the comfort that lies in her lap know you not that the child pines if the mother herself this comes of your reading and writing those idle a man but they keep all useful knowledge out of a the child must be h you cruel woman cried margaret i am sorry i sent for you ou rob me of the only bit of comfort i have in the world a nursing my i forget i am the most unhappy creature beneath the sun that you do not was the retort or he would not be the way he is mother i said margaret tis hard replied but thee would it not be tb look down and see his lovely face a looking up at ou out of a little coffin v � and how could you your other troubles with your heart aye full and your lap empty oh mother i consent to anything only save my boy that is a good trust to me i do stand by and see dearer than thou unfortunately there was another consent to be gained the babe s and he was more than his mother there said margaret trying to affect regret at his he loves me too well but was a match for them both as she came along she had observed a healthy young woman sitting outside her own door with an infant hard by she went and told her tlie case and would she nurse the child for the till she had matter to him the young woman consented with a smile and her child into the cradle and came into margaret s house she dropped a and put the child into her hands she examined and pitied it and over it and proceeded to nurse it just as if it had been hei own s the a d the hearth margaret who had been at her cast a look at add burst out cr ing tiie visitor looked up wliat ia to do wife ye told me not tbe mother waa unwilling she is not she is only a fool never heed her and you margaret i am ashamed of you you are a cruel hard hearted woman sobbed them as take m hand to guide the weak need be and you will excuse me but you are not my flesh and blood and boy is after giving this blunt speech time to sink she added come now is her own to save yours and yon can think of nothing better than bursting out a in tbe woman s face out for shame t nay wife said tbe thank heaven i have enough for my own and for hers to boot and not on her i maybe the troubles o ha her own milk and her heart into the bargain said the margaret looked her full in the face and down went her eyes i know x ought to be very grateful to you sobbed margaret to the nurse then turned her head and leaned away over the not to witness the intolerable sight of another nursing her and no distinction between this new mother and her the banished one the nurse you are very welcome my poor woman and so are you mistress which are my and know it not what are ye from all the better but i cannot call your face to mind oil you know not me my husband and me we are very humble folk by you but true and his wife are known of all the town and respected so i am at your call dame and at yours wife and yours my pretty night or day there s a woman of the right old sort as the door closed upon her i hate her i hate her i hate her said margaret with wonderful only laughed at this outburst that is right said she better say it as sit sly and think it it is very natural after all come here is your bundle o comfort take and hate that if you can and she put the child in her lap no no said margaret turning her head half away from him she could her life turn the other he is not my child now he is he i know not why she left him here for my part it was very good of her not to take him to her house cradle and all oh oh i oh oh oh i oh oh i ah i well one comfort is not dead this me light some other woman has got him a way from me like father like sou oh was sorry for her and let her cry in peace and after that when she wanted s aid used to take out to	9
trail wide and smooth enough to run on they ran there was no stopping them until the trail became bad again and then stopped of themselves for days they had performed the hardest kind of work and fed most of the time on grass by themselves at night while we slept and yet that day they covered twenty eight leg breaking miles and the house of the sun into like a bunch of also there were several of them reared in the dry region on the side of that had never worn shoes in all their lives day after day and all day long they had travelled over the sharp with the extra weight of a man on their backs and their hoofs were in better condition than those of the shod horses the scenery between s where the gap into the sea and which we covered i our way led past a pit in half a day is well worth a week or a month but wildly beautiful as it is it becomes pale and small in comparison with the that lies beyond the rubber between and the two days were required to cover this marvellous stretch which lies on the side of the people who dwell there call it the ditch country an name but it has no other nobody else ever comes there nobody else knows anything about it with the exception of a handful of men whom business has brought there nobody has heard of the ditch country of now a ditch is a ditch muddy and usually the of the ing uninteresting and monotonous but the ditch is not an ordinary ditch the side of is by a thousand down which rush as many torrents each torrent of which a score of and before it reaches the sea more rain down here than in any other region in the world in the year s was four hundred and t vent inches water means sugar and sugar is the of the territory of wherefore the ditch which is not a ditch but a chain of the water travels appearing only at intervals to leap a travelling high in the air on a giddy and plunging into and through the opposing mountain this magnificent is called a ditch and with equal can s be called a box car there are no carriage roads through the ditch country and before the ditch was built or bored rather there was no horse trail hundreds of inches of rain on fertile soil under a sun means a steaming of vegetation a man on foot cutting his way through might advance a mile a day but at the end of a week he would be a wreck and he would have to crawl hastily back it he wanted to get out before the vegetation the passage way he had cut o was the daring engineer who conquered the and the ran the ditch and made the horse trail he built in and and made one of the most remarkable water farms in the world every little and is and conveyed by channels to the main ditch but so heavily it the house of the sun rain at times that countless let the escape to the sea the horse trail is not very wide like the engineer who built it it dares anything where the ditch through the mountain it over and where the ditch leaps a on a the horse l oi cloud is a i while beyond the gap it is a trail takes advantage of the ditch and crosses on top of the that careless trail thinks nothing of travelling up or down the faces of it its narrow way out of the wall around or passing under them where they thunder down in white fury while straight overhead the wall rises hundreds of feet and straight beneath it sinks a thousand and those marvellous mountain horses are as the trail they fox trot along it as a matter of course though the footing is slippery with thk ok the rain and they will gallop with their hind feet slipping over the edge if you let them i advise only those with steady nerves and cool heads to tackle the ditch trail one of our cow boys was noted as the strongest and on the big he had ridden mountain horses all his life on the rugged western slopes of he was first in the horse breaking and when the others hung back as a matter of course he would go in to meet a wild bull in the cattle pen he had a reputation but he had never ridden over the ditch it was there he lost his reputation when he faced the first a hair raising narrow without with a above another below and directly beneath a wild the air filled with driving spray and rocking to the and rush of sound and motion � well that cow boy dismounted from his horse explained briefly that he had a wife and two children and crossed over on foot leading the horse behind him the only relief from the was the and the only relief from the was the except where the ditch was far under ground in which case we crossed one horse and rider at a time on primitive log bridges that swayed and and threatened to carry away i confess that at first i rode such places with my feet loose in the and that on the sheer walls i saw to it by a definite conscious act of will that the foot in the outside overhanging the thousand feet of fall was exceedingly loose i say at first for as in the itself we quickly lost our conception of magnitude so on the ditch wc quickly lost our apprehension of depth the ceaseless of height and depth produced a state the house of the sun of consciousness in which height and depth were accepted	21
garden gate the pair shook hands affectionately enough but as soon as the door had closed behind his visitor john fell into a fit of laughter which sounded and even devilish in the ears of francis so another day had passed and little learnt but the young man remembered that the morrow was tuesday and promised himself some curious discoveries all might be well or all might be ill he was sure at least to some curious information and perhaps by good luck get at the heart of the mystery which surrounded his father and his family as the hour of the dinner drew near many preparations were made in the garden of the house with the green blinds the table which was partly visible to francis through the chestnut leaves was destined to serve as a and carried of plates and the materials for the other which was almost entirely concealed had been set apart for the and francis could catch glimpses of white cloth and silver plate mr arrived punctual to the minute he looked like a man upon his guard and spoke low and the on the other hand appeared to enjoy an unusual flow of spirits his laugh which was youthful and pleasant to hear sounded frequently from the garden by the and the changes of his voice it was obvious that he told many droll stories and the accents of a variety of differ new nights ent nations and before he and the young clergyman had finished their all feeling of distrust was at an end and they were talking together like a pair of school companions at length miss made her appearance carrying the soup mr ran to offer her assistance which she refused and there was an of among the which seemed to have reference to this primitive manner of waiting by one of the company one is more at one s ease mr was heard to declare next moment they were all three in their places and francis could see as little as he could hear of what passed but the dinner seemed to go merrily there was a perpetual of voices and sound of knives and forks below the chestnut and francis who had no more than a roll to was affected with envy by the comfort and deliberation of the meal the party lingered over one dish after another and then over a delicate with a bottle of old wine carefully by the hand of the himself as it began to grow dark a lamp was set upon the table and a couple of candles on the for the night was perfectly pure and light besides from the door and window in the so that the garden was fairly illuminated and the leaves in the darkness for perhaps the tenth time miss entered the house and on this occasion she returned with the coffee tray which she placed upon the at the same moment her father rose from his seat the coffee is my province francis heard him say and next moment he saw his supposed father standing by the in the light of the candles talking over his shoulder all the while mr poured out two cups of the brown and then by a rapid act of emptied the the s diamond contents of a tiny into the smaller one of the two the thing was so swiftly done that even francis who looked straight into his face had hardly time to perceive the movement before it was completed and next instant and still laughing mr had turned again towards the table with a cup in either hand we have done with this said he we may expect our famous hebrew it would be impossible to the confusion and distress of francis he saw foul play going forward before his eyes and he felt bound to interfere but knew not how it might be a mere and then how should he look if he were to offer an unnecessary warning or again if it were serious the criminal might be his own father and then how should he not lament if he were to bring ruin on the author of his days for the first time he became conscious of his own position as a spy to wait at such a juncture and with such a conflict of sentiments in his bosom was to suffer the most acute torture he clung to the bars of the shutters his heart beat fast and with and he felt a strong sweat break forth upon his body several minutes passed he seemed to perceive the conversation die away and grow less and less in vivacity and volume but still no sign of any alarming or even notable event suddenly the ring of a glass breaking was followed by a faint and dull sound as of a person who should have fallen forward with his head upon the table at the same moment a piercing scream rose from the garden what have you done cried miss he is dead the replied in a violent whisper so strong and that every word was audible to the at the window silence said mr the man is as new nights well as i am take him by the heels whilst i carry him by the shoulders francis heard miss break forth into a passion of tears do you hear what i say resumed the in the same tones or do you wish to quarrel with me i give you your choice miss there was another pause and the spoke again take that man by the heels he said i must have him brought into the house if i were a little younger i could help myself against the world but now that years and dangers are upon me and my hands are weakened i must turn to you for aid it is a crime replied the girl i am your father said mr this appeal seemed	38
r chapter and mr r w at length and e that it the twilight was beginning to close in when mr alighted from a coach at his own door and knocked softly the door being opened a sturdy man got out of the coach and himself on one side of lie steps while another man ii o b ed on the box dismounted too and stood up n the f at a sign from mr they helped out a third man and taking him between them hurried him into the house this man was they walked in the same manner up ihe stairs without speaking and mr preceding them led the way into a back room at the door of this apartment who had ascended with evident reluctance stopped the two men looked to the old gentleman as if for instructions he knows the said mr if he or moves a finger but as you bid him drag him into the street call for the aid of the police and him as a in my name how dare you say this of me asked how dare you urge me to it young man replied mr him with a steady look are you mad enough to leave this house him there sir you are free to go and we to follow but i warn you by all i hold most solemn and most sacred that the instant you set foot in the street that instant will i have you apprehended on a charge of fraud and robbery i am resolute and if you are determined to be the same your blood be upon your own head what authority am i in the street and brought here by these dogs asked looking from one to the other of the men who stood beside him � b the torture the protracted anguish of that i know how and wearily of that wretched pair dragged on their heavy chain through a world that was poisoned to them both i know how were by open how gave place to dislike dislike to hate and hate to ud til at last they the bond asunder and retiring a wide apart carried each a fragment of which nothing but death could break the to hide it in new beneath e looks they your mother succeeded she forgot it soon but it and at your father s heart for years well they were separated said and what of that they had been separated for some mr and your mother wholly given up to c had utterly forgotten the young ten good years her junior who with prospects lingered on at home ho fell among new friends circumstance at least you know already not i turning away his eyes and i his foot upon the ground as a man who is determined to a everything not i your manner no less than your actions ass you have never forgotten it or ceased to think of it with bitterness returned mr i speak of years ago when you were not more than eleven years old aad your father but one and � for he was i repeat u boy when his father ordered ih to marry must i go back to events which cast a shade upon the memory of your nt or will you spare it and disclose to me the truth i have nothing to disclose rejoined must talk on if you will these new friends then said mr naval officer retired from active service whose wife had d some a before and left him with two there had been more but of all the family happily but fi survived they were both daughters one a beautiful of nineteen and the other a mere child of two or years old what s this to mo asked they resided said mr twist hear the in a part of the country to which your father in his wandering had repaired and where he had taken up his abode acquaintance intimacy fast followed on each other your father was gifted as few men are he had his sister s soul and person as the old officer knew him more and more he grew to love him i would that it had ended there his daughter did the same the old gentleman paused was biting his lips with his eyes fixed upon the floor seeing this he immediately resumed the end of a year found him contracted solemnly contracted to that daughter the object of the first true ardent only passion of a girl your tale is of the longest observed moving in his chair it is a true tale of grief and trial and sorrow young man returned mr and such tales usually are if it were one of joy and happiness it would be very brief at length one of those rich relations to strengthen whose interest and importance your father had been sacrificed as others axe often � it is no case � died and to repair the misery he had been in left him his for all � money it was necessary that he should immediately repair to home whither this man had sped for health and where he had died leaving his affairs in great confusion he went was seized with mortal illness there was followed the moment the intelligence reached paris by your who carried you with her he died e day aft her arrival leaving no will � no will � so that the whole property fell to her and you at this part of the recital held his breath and listened with a face of intense eagerness though his eyes were not directed towards the speaker as mr paused he changed his position with the air of one who has experienced a relief and wiped his hot face and hands before he went abroad and as he passed through london on his way said mr slowly and fixing his eyes upon the other s	8
s stooped grasped his coat collar behind with both hands and swung him up like the sack of flour or coals before mentioned a countenance of special discontent and amazement mr exhibited in this position with his buttons almost as on view as s own and with his wooden leg in a highly state but not for many seconds was his countenance visible in the room for lightly trotted out with him and trotted down the staircase mr attending to open the street door mr s instructions had been to deposit his burden in the road but a s cart happening to stand at the corner with its little ladder planted against the wheel mr s found it impossible to resist the temptation of shooting mr into the cart s contents a somewhat difficult feat achieved with great dexterity and with a prodigious splash chapter xv what was caught in the traps that were set how had been and in his mind the quiet evening when by the river side he had risen as it were out of the ashes of the none but he could have not even he could have told for such misery can only be felt first he had to bear the combined weight of the knowledge of what he had done of that haunting reproach that he might have done it so much better and of the dread of discovery this was load enough to crush him and he under it day and night it was as heavy on him in his scanty sleep as in his red eyed waking hours it bore him down with a dread monotony in which there was not a moment s variety the beast of burden or the slave can for certain shift the physical load and find some slight even in additional pain upon such a set of muscles or such a limb not even that poor mockery of relief could the wretched man obtain mutual under the steady pressure of the infernal atmosphere into which he had entered time went by and no visible suspicion dogged him time went by and in such public accounts of the attack as were renewed at intervals he began to see mr who acted as lawyer for the injured man further from the feet going wider of the issue and evidently in his zeal by degrees a glimmering of the cause of this began to break on s sight then came the chance encounter with mr at the railway station where he often lingered in his leisure hours as a place where any fresh news of his deed would be or any referring to it would be posted and then he saw in the light what he had brought about for then he saw that through his desperate attempt to separate those two for ever he had been made the means of them that he had dipped his hands in blood to mark himself a miserable fool and tool that for his wife s sake set him aside and left him to crawl along his course he thought of fate or providence or be the directing power what it might as having put a fraud upon him � him � and in his impotent mad rage bit and tore and had his fit new assurance of the truth came upon him in the next few following days when it was put forth how the wounded man had been married on his bed and to whom and how though always in a dangerous condition he was a shade better would far rather have been seized for his murder than he would have read that passage knowing himself spared and knowing why but not to be still further and � which he would be if by and punished by the law for his abject failure as though it had been a success � he kept close in his school during the day ventured out at night and went no more to the railway station he examined the in the newspapers for any sign that acted on his hinted threat of so him to renew their acquaintance but found none having paid him handsomely for the support and accommodation he had had at the lock house and knowing him to be a very ignorant man who could not write he began to doubt whether he was to be feared at all or whether they need ever meet again all this time his mind was never off the rack and his raging sense of having been made to fling himself across the chasm which divided those two and bridge it over for their coming together never cooled down this horrible condition brought on other fits he could not have said how many or when but he saw in the of his pupils that they had seen him in that state and that they were possessed by a dread of his one winter day when a slight fall of snow was the and frames of the windows he stood at his black board in hand about to commence with a class when reading in the countenances of those boys that there was something wrong and that they seemed in alarm for him he turned his eyes to the door towards which they faced he then saw a man of for our mutual bidding appearance in the midst of the school with a under arm and saw that it was he sat down on a stool which one of his boys pat for him and lie had a passing knowledge that he was in danger of falling and that his face was becoming distorted bat the fit went off for that time and he wiped bis month and stood np again beg your pardon governor by your leave said his forehead with a chuckle and a what may this be this is a school where young folks s right t said gravely nodding beg your pardon governor	8
she not just see him hear him be in his presence once again the went forth � no and alone accepted their aunt s hospitality and not a word or sign gave the little sister when she heard it hard as her fate was she had borne it bravely but none the less had the disappointment been bitter and to find herself once more without act or effort of her own within a few hours of meeting her cousin within his own halls filled her with amazement and strange delight no wonder that had over run her frame as she stood in patient silence during her mother s deliberation could never speak but she could keenly feel it was not the decision she had had to fear however it was the delay and that we shall presently explain mrs being by the state of her health from leaving her own apartments had known nothing of what had passed between and his cousin she saw gentle quiet composed as ever and fancied that her youngest daughter whose temper and disposition she had hardly so far had an opportunity of studying was the history of an evening j by nature silent and reserved as she had certainly shown herself to be under the before mentioned since the parent had nothing whereof to complain she asked no questions and was vouchsafed no information there being no occasion for her to be enlightened at least so thought and and they had their own reasons for s gallantry had annoyed them to the full as much as had its effect upon their sister and they had been even more out of temper with their friend and gossip than with either for it was who referring to the feat had alleged that people talked and that it was given out everywhere that sir was engaged to one of his cousins this was the more provoking since there neither was nor ever had been any truth in such a statement and the idea was with indignation � but it was not repeated at home would think it did not signify what people said mamma would show that there was something wrong before aunt added we should be prevented going to ourselves concluded both and that settled the matter for they liked going to very much if not quite so much as did and as they came home along the shore from their walk to the village on the afternoon in question they were in high good humour at the prospect of spending the evening there they had thought themselves obliged to go out stormy as the weather was that a few little odds and ends of messages trifles that were wanted by one and another would not be properly attended to unless they took upon themselves the task was no good they did not think of asking her to undertake the business and on no account would they have out a carriage a carriage being needed so soon again that is to say they wanted the walk to some of their spirits and to the roses in their cheeks for the evening when lady s messenger arrived at the castle it was not far from the hour when the return of the two might be looked for and it was the knowledge of this which made all the time spent by mrs in considering the question and pointing out the errors of s one of trial to her daughter in every gust of wind she fancied she heard her sisters footsteps at the door and once admitted to the deliberation their influence was everything with their mother by she knew what scale it would weigh down in the present instance and that her chance might go to the winds once raised her voice or her eyebrows � but the note was written and the man gone joy joy no one could now recall him the were coming from an opposite direction and by the time they knew anything of the matter the answer the history of an evening would be in her aunt s hands and she might snap her fingers at all interference but she must calm the flutter in her breath arid shade the light within her eye none must suspect what she would hide even from herself if she could at all would be easy she was not afraid of once in s presence � the very thought that he was near was enough to silence and to � but beforehand an speech a look of happiness might attract fatal attention mrs however was still alone when returned to the my tea i am so thirsty child she began your sisters really need not have stayed so long it is past five now and getting quite dark i don t like their being out at this hour it is only dark in this room mamma it is quite light outside will not have been able to match my wool i am sure i she will it is not a difficult blue to get more difficult than you think there are so many shades nowadays i wish i had told her to bring another case of needles if i should lose this needle to night i should not know what to do it is my last i have not another anywhere dear how stupid of me not to think of that before when she was actually going to the needle shop now i shall have a whole evening doing nothing ttie you must just not lose your needle mamma said gaily poor child she could not but be gay do what she would everything was now in her eyes as bright as in her mother s all was sombre and her conviction of the daylight s having lasted and of her sisters successful would have extended itself to further cheerfulness on any other subject started she could not up needles but she could say you	4
attractive on the third day the having arrived all set out on their return to stopping at over night as before a sugar princess made no trouble his appetite was good and he liked going about among the strange streets of the metropolis with a special attendant who was provided for him the others managed to fill up the time agreeably until news came that mr van s steamer had been sighted then when the meeting with this all important person was imminent grew again i know what the world will say that i have an for her money he told repeatedly i am as proud my love as i am poor if mr had his proper senses he might undo his work in me i should at least feel then that i had expectations but when i am merely a beggar she saw how deep his feelings were and hesitated to say more she would leave it to her father to dispose of these ridiculous notions mr van s welcome was very warm he was rejoiced to see peter who recognized him at once but was surprised to hear that his wife had returned home he looked extremely well and was in excellent spirits the voyage had been so calm that he had not had a bad quarter of an hour during the whole of it a few days later all sailed for having the extraordinary good fortune to catch the on her return trip mr the arranged that the party should occupy his entire table and during the voyage contributed largely to their comfort and pleasure on arriving mr van ben and a sugar princess went of course to the family residence while the others at various hotels mrs van received her daughter with great and gave absolute orders to the servants that if mr called he was not to be admitted meetings between the couple were therefore held for the present at mr van s office and it may be added that they were of daily occurrence and of prolonged duration within a few weeks olive received a letter from her brother asking her to come at once to new york he said he had settled all his business troubles satisfactorily and was prepared to offer her a home again with him though sorry to leave she was very happy at the news and took the first steamer for a sugar princess chapter writes to olive my darling sister so wrote to olive some weeks after the events in the preceding chapter i have so much to say to you i hardly know to begin but before i record news some of which i think will surprise you let me say again how glad i am your brother has been relieved of the troubles h hung over him papa tells me it was never anything more than a between partners and that thorn did right in trying to protect his interests i suppose it was owing to his suspicion of the men with whom he had to deal that made him assume the name of stone to them give him my regards and say we shall be glad to welcome him whenever he finds it convenient to visit our island now for my story a short time ago mr was informed through the agency of that he had fallen heir to the title and estates of a german nobleman who was i think his great uncle there being no reason why he should refuse the fortune he wrote promptly to germany sending the necessary papers and later went over himself he is now fully entitled to be called a count and a sugar princess mamma has modified her objections to our marriage since she will after all have a in the family to humor her i must call him by his first name will consent to use his new title for a time though he with papa that handles of that sort are not becoming in a full republican living under the folds of the star banner mr is so well contented in that he has decided to remain here his mind is completely restored and one of the first things he did when he was able to execute papers was to destroy the will by which he and the previous one by which he devised his property to him in these altered circumstances has managed to muster courage enough to ask papa for my hand as if that hadn t been arranged for all practical purposes before and as soon as he returns we are to be wedded at my home in the most approved fashion i know you will congratulate me dear i never really gave up expecting it would happen but i confess s remarkable run of luck did not seem very probable when we were in last autumn and now for the strangest part of my history i don t think it was meant that i should ever know it at all but it has come out little by little papa was so fearful that mamma would marry me to some foreigner that he arranged with to have a man follow us and keep him informed of our every movement mr the head of the firm undertook the important commission you may think you didn t see anything of him but you did he merely assumed a x sugar princess new name and with us as w hat do you think the rev i understand that in his early days mr was an actor and that his most successful were those of he certainly filled the part this time with some success as i think you will agree nor is this all feeling that mamma needed to influence her at the right moment he had his wife who was already at on another case go along also that lady as you may now be able to guess passed under the name of mrs	1
when the door closed he made a at it and drew along with him he mustn t go he cried we mustn t let him go he has got that bottle about him we must have that bottle u why you wouldn t take it by farce said wouldn t i yes i would i d take it by any force i d have it at any price are you so afraid of one old man as to let him go you coward i am so afraid of you as not to let m go muttered clasping him in his arms did you near him retorted bid you hear him say that he was resolved to disappoint us did you hear him say you cur that he was going to have the cleared oft when no doubt the whole place will be if you haven t the spirit of a mouse to defend your rights i have let me go after him as in his he was making a strong struggle for it mr deemed it expedient to lift him throw him and fall with him well knowing that once down he would not be up again easily with his wooden leg so they both rolled on the floor and as they did so mr shut the gate mutual vii the friendly takes up a position the friendly sat upright on the floor panting and one another after mr had the gate and gone away in the weak eyes of and in every hair in his shook of hair there was a marked distrust of and an to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion in the hard face of and in his stiff figure he looked like a german wooden toy there was expressed a which had no in it both were flushed and by the late and in coming to the ground had received a humming knock on the back of his devoted head which caused him still to rub it with an air of having been highly � but � astonished each was silent for some time leaving it to the other to begin brother said at length breaking the silence m you were right and i was wrong i forgot myself mr cocked his shock of hair as rather thinking mr had remembered himself in respect of appearing without any disguise but comrade pursued it was never your lot to know miss elizabeth master george aunt jane nor uncle mr admitted that he had never known those distinguished persons and added in effect that he had never so much as desired the honor of their acquaintance don t say that comrade retorted no don t say that because without having known them you never can fully know what it is to be to frenzy by the sight of the offering these words as if the y reflected great credit on himself mr impelled himself with his hands towards a chair in a corner of the room and there after a variety of awkward attained a perpendicular position mr also rose comrade said take a seat comrade what a speaking countenance is yours x mr involuntarily smoothed his countenance and looked at his hand as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off w for clearly do i know mark you pursued pointing his words with his forefinger clearly do x know what question your expressive features puts to me u what question p said the question returned with a sort of joyful why i didn t mention sooner that i had found something says your speaking countenance to me c why didn t you communicate that when i first come in this evening why did you keep it back till you thought mr had come to look for the article your speaking said puts it than language now you can t read in my face what answer i give our mutual no i can v � id i knew it and why not returned with the same joyful because i lay no claims to a speaking countenance because i am well aware of my all men are not gifted alike but i can answer in words and in what words these i wanted to give you a delightful � having thus and the word surprise mr shook his friend and brother by both hands and then clapped him on both knees like an affectionate patron who entreated him not to mention so small a service as that which it had been his happy privilege to render your speaking countenance said being answered to its satisfaction only asks then what have you found why i hear it say the words well retorted after waiting in vain if you hear it say the words why don t you answer it hear me out said i m a going to hear me out man and brother partner in feelings equally with and actions i have found a cash box where � hear me out said he tried to reserve whatever he could and whenever disclosure was forced upon him broke into a radiant of hear me out on a certain day sir when said n � no returned shaking his head at once thoughtfully and no sir that s not your expressive countenance which asks that question that s your voice merely your voice to proceed on a certain day sir i happened to be walking in the yard � taking my lonely round � for in the words of a friend of my own family the author of all s well arranged as a � deserted as you will remember mr by the moon when stars it will occur to you before i mention it proclaim night s cheerless noon on tower fort or ground the walks his lonely round the � those sir i happened to be walking in the yard early one afternoon and happened to have an iron rod in my	8
easy to trace across the clean sheet of snow it ran up the slope of a hill behind the house now on the crest of this hill is an ancient monument of upright set there by some people known as the devil s ring � a sort of miniature in fact i had seen it several times and happened to have been present not long ago at a meeting of an society when its origin and purpose were discussed i remember that one learned but somewhat eccentric gentleman read a short paper upon a rude bust and head that are cut within the chamber of a tall flat or which stands alone in the centre of the ring he said that it was a representation of the egyptian goddess and that this place had once been sacred to some form of her worship or at any rate to that of a introduction nature goddess with like attributes a suggestion which the other learned gentlemen treated as absurd they that had never travelled into britain though or my part i do not see why the or even the who adopted her more or less should not we brought it here but i know nothing of such matters and will not discuss them i remembered also that mr was acquainted with this place for he had mentioned it to me on the previous day asking if the stones were still as ihey used to be when he was young he added also and the remark struck me that yonder was where he would wish to die when i answered that i feared he would take so long a walk again i noted that he smiled a little well this conversation gave me a clue and without troubling more about the i went on as fast as i could to the ring half a mile or so away presently i reached it and there � yes there � standing by tlie and clothed in his night things only stood mr in the snow the strangest figure i think that ever i beheld indeed never shall i forget that wild scene the circle of rough single stones pointing upwards to the star strewn sky intensely lonely and intensely solemn the tall above them in the centre its shadow thrown by the bright moon behind it lying long and black upon the dazzling sheet of snow and standing clear of this shadow so tliat i could distinguish his every motion and even the look upon his dying face the white draped figure of mr he appeared to be uttering some � in i for long before i reached him i could catch the tones of his full voice and see his waving outstretched arms in his right hand he held the which by his express wish i send to you with the drawings i could sec the flash of the jewels strung upon the wires and m � t stillness bear the of its i the further history of she who must be obeyed chapter i the double sign on twenty years have gone by since that r s vision � the most awful years perhaps which were ever endured by men � twenty years o� search and hardship ending in soul shaking wonder and amazement my death is very near to me and of this i am glad for i desire to pursue the quest in other as it has been promised to me that i shall do i desire to learn the beginning and the end of the spiritual drama of which it has been my strange lot to read some pages upon earth i have been very ill they carried me more dead than alive down those mountains whose lowest slopes i can see from my window for i write this on the northern of india indeed any other man had long since perished but destiny kept my breath in me perhaps that a record might remain ii bide here a month or two till i am strong enough te travel for i have a fancy to die in the place � here i was bom so while i have strength i will ha put the story down or at least those parts of it il most essential for much can or at any rate m omitted i shrink from attempting too long though my notes and memory would s material for volumes fl i will begin with the vision u after and i came back from africa ii desiring solitude which indeed we needed sorely cover from the fearful shock we had to give us time and opportunity to think we went old house upon the shores of that h longed to my family for many generations this unless somebody has taken it believing me to be still my property and i travel to die those whose eyes read the words i write if any s ever read may ask � what shock well i am and my companion n loved friend my son in the spirit whom i reared infancy was � nay is � we are those men who following an ancient clue to the of in central africa and ther covered her whom we sought the immortal she must be obeyed in she found her love that re the priest of whom thousand years before she had slain in her jealous thus on him the judgment of the angry in her also i found the divinity whom i doomed to worship from afar not with tlie flesh is all lost and gone from but what is cause its burden is with the will and soul a man throughout the countless of his the flesh dies or at least it changes and its passions but that other passion of the spirit � that longing for ness � is as itself what crime have i committed that this sore punish should be laid upon me yet in truth is it	18
its advantages and i could not let the people of and other towns to which i was due know what had become of me nor why i disappointed them so i resolved to dig out if possible and as the were stiu rising rapidly the only course was to start at once a council of wise friends decided that i could not reach if i were ever so bent upon it and should find no train there if i did and that the only hopeful course was to take the highest or eastern road and steer for half way to at once by taking this course i should turn several leaving only main really formidable so a and capital span were procured from a livery stable with their shrewd and capable owner as pilot and at a little past o clock we put out into the storm resolved to see miles by our route before daylight if possible though the clouds were thick the wind blew and the rain poured there was a good moon above all which though obscured gave about all the light that was really necessary though is built on the sand we crossed wide stretches of water before we had cleared it and of the miles of high sand ridge that between it and main i judge that fully a fourth lay under water stiu hoofs and wheels brought up on frost and it was not till we descended into the bottom of main that matters began to wear a serious aspect forty rods west of the ordinary channel of the creek we into the water which grew gradually deeper until our boots and baggage had drunk of it to just at this point the driver s quick and wary eye caught sight of some plank or timber which had formed part of a bridge over one of the ordinary side cuts of the stream when over its bank � said plank or timber head being even with the surface of the flood with such an angle of inclination as indicated that the bridge was a wreck and had probably in good � part floated off he up ms horses before reaching it and turned them face about and in a minute we were back � not to dry but to land here we took sweet together and i offered to return to if he considered it to persist in going forward he studied a moment and concluded to make another attempt which he did and went through above the treacherous bridge though i don t believe any man could have done it two hours later we were soon in water found the main bridge all right and no deep water east of it though smith s creek a which enters main just below the bridge set back upon and covered our road with a swift current for perhaps a quarter of a mile the driver was familiar with the road and thought it had never been so covered before soon however we ascended a long badly hill of the very worst clay and breathed more freely on the high level covered in good part with water and not pretty but never threatening to float u bodily off like that main having reached five or six miles on our way the driver called up a friend and borrowed dry while i made in my baggage for a like but with very results main had been there before me and had made everything fit for his wear and unfit for mine i closed and bag with a shiver and we resumed our weary way i do like the though their admirers won t admit it and i cheerfully that the best going we found was on the virgin turf true the were many and wide yet there was frost and ice at the bottom of them which seldom cut through but whenever it did it gave horses and a my pilot picked our way with great judgment and we were stopped and hardly checked until we came out on the main road westward from three miles distant that three miles of dense was the heaviest travelling i ever and if our horses traversed it in an a winter flood in hour and a quarter they did passing well on the naked we felt little anxiety for if the seemed too deep straight ahead we could sheer right or left ad only taking care to keep some in view if possible but roads imply bridges over the water courses and these bridges were far more perilous than the water courses themselves stiu the wind blew still the rain fell in spite of our repeated that it would soon hold up and still our horses slowly onward until those three miles seemed to me interminable our main business was to watch the bridges just ahead and see that they had not been washed out and they generally seemed to stand remarkably well at last was in sight the last bridge was passed no not the last for our horses were in a deep this instant a second more and they sprang out and jerked the in with a crash that is still audible the nigh fore wheel snapped its tire and went down an of oven wood split but held on and the driver was pitched across my knees head downward into the deep mortar bed termed the road i went forward on my face but clung to the wreck with my feet entangled in apron and blankets and as the horses started to run the look ahead for an instant was not flattering only for an instant however the idea of running with that wreck through such mud after a heavy night drag of eighteen miles was so essentially ridiculous that no well bred horse could have entertained it ours perceived this instinctively and soon up while the driver recovered his feet and his reins if he had	19
herself as a fine looking and decidedly young woman with an independent air which suggested the it could easily be seen and by a less observant person than that would be known as mrs s husband when the ring was on the lady s finger his chin betrayed a rather weak nature and his eyes had much too a look in them to hint at mastery while the the lost tall black young woman who swung toward the group with the air of conquering appeared quite capable of an empire much less a husband did not envy s approaching bliss mr miss said the squire introducing his friend to the new arrival miss is the daughter of our doctor at the mention of her father and wondered why she should however the emotion passed in a flash and miss the much as a a under the the with which she concluded her scrutiny hinted at dissatisfaction if not at contempt but then as an ardent never did think much of the male and straightway flew her colors in the face of this particular one i am going to to speak at a meeting squire have i your good wishes that you will come home safe and sound with twinkling eyes you have don t insult the crowd more than you can help miss i shall not conceal my opinions retorted the lady her lips ah looked her up and down in that case i am glad mr and his car will be at hand to rescue you i can fight my own battles said miss coolly but i see that you don t believe in for women my dear lady replied smoothly when i am in your presence believe in anything you like to advance she observed men never can give a straight answer i only wish she continued as she turned to that i could with my but she won t the banner and in her tent i am afraid that i have exhausted all my power in her to join me as my future wife said the squire politely nodded her approval s a nice girl and a good girl and a very pretty girl she said in her deep toned voice but she is as weak as any man in this village as weak as you are squire as the as my father and you know what he is she again then turned on but i can t stay here all day as the meeting at is waiting five miles you must do it in five minutes what about the police asked i despise the police cried miss as she was borne away hurriedly by her lover to prevent further trouble they know me looked leisurely after the machine until it vanished and s trumpet tones of defiance died away what an uncomfortable woman he observed turning toward his friend oh s a good sort said she s had heaps of trouble it doesn t seem to have knocked much sense into her anyway trouble bother i see her father i expect the squire looked astonished yes but how you guessed i saw her when you and she mentioned dr explained the the lost they crossed the green passing an ancient cross of worn stone which stood in the of a vast expanse of grass burnt brown with the long enduring heat round the square were various cottages with white washed walls and roofs each standing in its own tiny garden brilliant with flowers the inn with the arms of the family swinging from a was the largest building in sight and presented an attractive sight to an artist since it dated from times and its upper story the lower with its red roof and dark beams deeply in its flint and stone walls it caught the eye of straightway he had seen it before but its quaint beauty him again to contemplation that s a delightful old inn he said looking backward as they passed out of the square quite the place for an adventure there are no adventures in replied the squire heavily we are very dull people is our bright and shining light as he goes in for old and ancient buildings and queer customs and in a word is an interrupted who somewhat and who is if we had gone to church yesterday you would have seen him in the pulpit he is the and if you don t mind being blamed for we are going to look him up now oh i don t mind in the least said the briskly if he talks religion i can talk science argument is always amusing with a i don t think is a he is of his than of his profession but he s all right as a parson although he doesn t visit his as often as i could wish yonder s the church where all my people are buried picturesque the gave the building his g ve approval but everything is picturesque about here in the best style of art you ought to be happy i am very happy but i shall be happier when i marry amen to that and let me be your best man said gaily if doesn t mind yes replied matter of fact chapter ii the by this time the squire and his friend were approaching a five barred gate which stood wide open as the hinges being useless it could not easily be shut passing through this they advanced up a wide drive overgrown with grass and this dismal path conducted them to a stony expanse by an flowers shrubs trees and were all mixed up together in a way suggesting only too clearly the s garden and almost presented an aspect of decay the thoroughly matched this desolation although in skilful hands it could have been made into a most charming residence viewed this deadly solitude with disgust are you taking me to see the	12
returned from the office two later he found this note awaiting him dear mouse � friend has asked me to join her in have beat it sorry not see you say good by come sm me sometime � before and see if i m in � spring address xx south washington in haste he spent the evening in not going to the times he broke away from a game to rush upstairs and see if the note was as chilly as he it always was then for a week he awaited a more definite from her which did not come he was uneasily to these days and of her gentleness he wanted to brood but be did not his old habit of long solitary walks every afternoon ht planned one for the evening every evening found he wanted to be around with folks he had a sort of youthful defiant despair so he much at the card table by way of his new of keeping people from knowing what he was he took pleasure in noting that mrs no longer condescended to him he managed to tom s writing on a card which he left with a bunch of in s room and nearly persuaded tom himself that tom was the probably w a wandering flame he didn t much care what happened he was able to force mr r to raise his salary to dollars a week mr his way to admit that the letters to the southern trade had been a first rate son john the head of the company s department invited mr home to dinner and the account of the cattle boat was much admired by mrs and the three young a few days later in mid june there was an unusually cheerful dinner at the house turned to mr � yes he was quite sure about it she was speaking exclusively to him with a and most merry account of the manner in which the floor had called down the of the he longed to give his whole self in his answer to be in the absolute community of thought that lovers know but the image of was behind his chair � he had to see her � now this evening he rushed out to the corner store and reached her by yes s admitted a httle she was going to be at the that evening though ell there was going to be a little party � some friends � but � yes she d be glad to have him come grimly mr set out for washington square since this scientific has so examined mr s toward the one need give but three of his impressions of the and people he found on washington square � namely a that the big room was bare ill kept and not to the red splendor of mrs s for all its to superiority why a lot of the pictures weren t framed i and you should have seen the and fruit of the frames at mrs s b that the people were brothers in talk to the inmates of the flat on great james street london only far less friendly and � � our mr c that mr was now a man of friends and tke blooming as he called them didn t him they were permitted to go to the was always across the room from him somehow he found himself glad it made their parting he was going back to his own people he was as he rose with elaborate boarding house to the room at large for going and a cheerful but not intimate good night to she followed him to tht door and into the dark long without good night mouse dear i m glad you got a chance to talk to the silver girl but was mr rude to i heard him talking single tax � or was it � and he s usually rude when he talks about them no he was all right then what is worrying you oh � nothing good ni you are going angry l you no but � oh there ain t any use of our � of me is there � the you just spoke about � and them artists here to night in dress suits � i wouldn l know when to wear one of them things and when swallow tail � if i had one even � or when or oh not a prince mouse dear say coat sure that s what i mean it s like that i don t know about none of the things you re in while you ve been away from mrs s� lord i ve missed you but when i try to train your bunch or when you spring he peculiarly to resent the unfortunate french artist o me i sort of get myself � and now it ain t like it w s in england i ve got a bunch of my own i can around with anyway got myself lo hen � i m a wandering flame s pose it s because i been thinking you didn t care much for my friends but mouse dear all this isn t news to me surely you who ve with me aren t going to be so obvious so as to blame me because you ve cared for me are you child oh no no no i didn t mean to do that i just wanted � oh i � well i wanted to have things between us definite do understand you re quite right and now we re just friends aren t yes then good by and sometime when i m back in new york � i m going to in a few days � i think i ll be able to get back here � i certainly hope si though of course i ll have to keep house for friend father for a while and maybe	42
of the home government england said mr a prominent member for more than a century the of into the island as slaves why should she not encourage it now when all the blessings of freedom are secured to them the and english oppose the act on the ground that the have already enough if they will but use and pay them well and they assert that the wish to import this foreign laboring population merely with a view to control the price of labor and thus bring down the once more to the condition of slaves the merchants appear to have but little faith in the project they acknowledge however that it is a forlorn hope and if this does not succeed that nothing else will say they are not able to come into this climate and go at once to severe field labor the of the united states i think will prove but a feeble resource their strong local will be an it may not be very to induce a portion of the idle colored population of our cities to but i suspect they would prove very field africa seemed to be considered the main resource but i was unable to ascertain what was to be their mode of operation on the coast what may be the for obtaining through and their other colonies i do not know but except through these their only resource in africa must be with native chiefs and this method it appears to me cannot but possess some of the features of the slave trade but on this subject i am not well informed my impression is that the plan cannot succeed it is based on a false principle the genuine motives for are a love of power gain or liberty or the strong hope of in some way very materially improving one s condition and in voyage to these motives the project is deficient it is an which for its main result not the good of the but that of the and i am of opinion that none but a body of slave like the assembly could ever have come deliberately to the conclusion that men of sufficient energy to do them good service could be induced to leave their native country with the prospect and indeed under the express agreement of remaining for a term of years in the condition of at the wages of fifty cents per day the governor in the measure but according to his despatch before referred to he considers time the only remedy for the but for this the system of cannot wait should the proposed of duties on sugar take place in england for which the english people are its taken in connection with the regularly increasing supply of sugar and the favorable prospects for east india sugar must be very disastrous to the interests of the the prices of sugar in i found to be i er cent higher than those in boston for the same qualities when i left the latter place these high prices are owing to the duties in england on all foreign the british government thus the interests of her west india or rather those of the landed who make common cause with the corn law against competition and she does this at the expense of the great body of the people and greatly to their discontent by an of the sugar duties the british market would be thrown open to and which from the nature of their soil cheaper mode of building and the abundance of slave labor which they have at command are able to furnish sugar at a much lower price than can furnish it the trade of in this article therefore is now merely kept alive by artificial sugar is the main product of the island and should this of the duties be removed it is believed that the trade of the colony will go down with a crash i suppose the governor is right and that there is no remedy but time but this will be no remedy for the present race of they must suffer � just as in all voyage to those must always � who have been the greatest advantage from the previously existing state of things among disinterested persons who have given the subject their attention i suspect there is little doubt but that the is destined to be the dominant race of this island or rather that in no very long time it will be the only race in amount of native qualities these people are the best of the island the men are fine looking and more muscular than the and the women � the brown and yellow varieties are much more beautiful and than those of purely english origin these physical which they inherit from their black ancestors with the european intellect which they have received from their white contribute to give them a force of character equal at least to that of the english in short appears to be to the negro a sort of process by which the more soft and feeble qualities of his nature are carried off to give place to those of more refinement and force it is still not unusual in the northern states to hear color spoken of as by nature as a barrier to intercourse between the white and black race and to hear represented as an outrage that it is an outrage against northern prejudice there is no doubt i confess myself one of those who do not like to touch the skin of a negro but when any of the laws of nature are outraged in this respect i believe she generally marks down her resentment by some or in the result now the result of between the and is the manifest improvement of ihe negro race this improvement is shown in many ways and particularly in the superior business of the race over the the agency of this	37
and the strains of god save the queen the union jack was run up a lofty and the was formally announced to be british soil the flag was hoisted by colonel b and the present writer speaking for myself i may say that the british rule it was one of the moments of my i have foreseen that i should to see that same flag then hoisted with so much joyous ceremony within a few years and hauled down and buried i think it would have been the most miserable the was as well received in england as it was in the lord wrote to sir t to convey the queen s entire approval of your conduct since you received her majesty s commission with a renewal of my own thanks on behalf of the government for the admirable prudence and discretion with which you have discharged a great and unwonted responsibility it was also accepted by parliament with very few voices since it was not till afterwards when the subject became useful as an howl that the liberal party headed by our powerful popular minister discovered the deep that had been in south africa so satisfied were the with the change that messrs and who formed the to proceed to england and present president formal protest against the found great difficulty in raising one half of the necessary expenses � something under one thousand pounds � towards the cost of the undertaking the thirst for independence cannot have been very great when all the wealthy in the put together would not a thousand pounds retaining it indeed at this time the members of the themselves seem to have looked upon their the flag wm during the of the � t buried by a urge of end j l the undertaking as being both doubtful and since they informed sir t that they were going to europe to discharge an obligation which had been imposed upon them and if the mission failed they would have done their duty mr said that if they did fail he would be found to be as faithful a subject under the new form of government as he had been under the old and dr admitted with equal frankness that the change was inevitable and expressed his belief that the of it would be whilst the was thus well received in the country immediately interested a lively agitation was commenced in the western province of the cape colony a thousand miles away with a view of the home government to sir t s act the reason of this movement was that the cape dutch party caring little or nothing for the real interests of the did care a great deal about their scheme to turn all the white of south africa into a great dutch to which they thought the would be a as i have said elsewhere it must be borne in mind that the strings of the anti agitation have all along been pulled in the western province whilst the have played the parts of the instruments used by the leaders of the movement in the cape were for the most part the discontented and element a newspaper of an extremely nature called the and another in known as the lately by the notorious which has an almost equally reputation ths british rule on the of messrs and in they were received with great civility by lord who was however careful to explain to them that the was in this decision they cheerfully assuring his of their determination to do all they could to induce the to accept the new state of things and expressing desire to be allowed to serve under the new government whilst these gentlemen were thus satisfactorily arranging matters with lord sir t was making a tour round the country which resembled a progress more than anything else he was everywhere greeted with enthusiasm by all classes of the community english and natives and numerous addresses were presented to him in the warmest language not only by englishmen but also by it is very difficult to reconcile the enthusiasm of a great number of the inhabitants of the for english rule and the quiet acquiescence of the remainder at this time with the decidedly attitude assumed later on it appears to me however that there are several reasons that go far towards for it the when we it was in the position of a man with a knife at his throat who is suddenly rescued by some one stronger than he on certain conditions which at the time he gladly but afterwards when the danger is passed wishes to in the same way the inhabitants of the south were in the time of need ver thankful for our aid but after a while when the recollection of their difficulties had grown faint when their debts the had been paid and their enemies defeated they began to think that they would like to get rid of us again and start fresh on their own account with a clean sheet what agitation more than anything else however was the perfect with which it was allowed to be carried on had only a little firmness and decision been shown in the first instance there would have been no further trouble we might have been obliged to half a dozen farms and perhaps as many free for a few months and there it would have ended neither or natives understand our way of playing at government they put it down to fear what they want and what they expect is to be with a just but a firm hand thus when the found that they could with they naturally enough continued to anybody who knows them will understand that it was very pleasant to them to find themselves in possession of that delightful thing a grievance and instead of stopping quietly at home on their farms to feel obliged to proceed full of	18
it a strange voice was heard at the door by one of the instincts of their sex they hastily hid the picture in the cloth though there was no need and the next moment in came casting his eyes around a man that had not entered the house this ten years � van the two were so taken by surprise that they merely stared at him and at one another and said the i iu a tone so the and the hearth ai that felt compelled to answer it yes own the last time i came here was not on a friendly errand men love their own interest � � li and mine were contrary well let this visit the last to day i come on your business and none of mine and her daughter exchanged a swift glance of contemptuous incredulity they knew the man better than he thought it is about your son ay i ay i you want him to work for the town all for nothing he told us i come on no such errand it is to let you know he has fallen into bad hands now heaven and the saints forbid i man torture not a mother i speak out and quickly speak ere you have time to coin falsehood we know thee turned pale at this and spite mingled with the other motives that brought him here thus it is then said he grinding his teeth and speaking very fast your son is more like to be father of a family than a priest he is for ever with t peter s red haired girl and loves her like a cow her calf mother and daughter both burst out laughing stared at them what you knew it carry this tale to those who know not my son women are to him other women but this one is the apple of his eye to him or will be if you part them not and soon come dame make me not waste time and friendly counsel my servant has seen them together a score of times handed and reading babies in one another s eyes like � you know dame � you have been young too girl i am ill at ease yes i have been y and know how blind the young and foolish are my heart i he has turned me sick in a moment if it should be true nay nay i cried eagerly might love a young woman all men do i can t find what they see in them to love so but if he did he would let us know he would not deceive us you wicked man i no dear mother look not so i is too good to love a creature of earth his love is for our lady and the saints ah i i will show you the picture � there if his heart was earthly could he paint the queen of heaven like that � look i look and she held the picture out triumphantly and more radiant and beautiful in this moment of enthusiasm than ever dead picture was or will b� overpowered the with her eloquence and her feminine proof of s purity his eyes and mouth opened and remained open in which state they kept turning face and all as if on a from the picture to the women and from the women to the picture why it is herself he gasped isn t it v cried and her hostility was softened you admire it i forgive you for fi u � am i in a mad house said van thoroughly puzzled you show me a picture of the girl and you say he painted it and that is a proof he cannot love her why they all paint their painters do a picture of the girl exclaimed shocked this is no girl this is our blessed lady no no it is margaret oh blind it is the queen of heaven no only of village profane man i behold her crown v silly child look at her red hair i would the virgin be seen in red hair she who had the pick of all the colours ten thousand years before the world began at this moment an anxious face was round the edge of the open door it was their neighbour peter what is to do said he in a cautious whisper � we can hear you all across the street what on earth is to do neighbour what is to do why here is the our stop i cried van peter is come in the nick of time he knows father and daughter both they cast their on him what is she a witch too else the egg takes not after the bird why is her ther called the i tell you they this very peter here they cast on him and cured him of the now peter look and tell me who is that and you be silent women for a moment if you can who is it peter well to be sure i said peter in reply and his eye seemed � by the picture who is it repeated peter smiled why you know as well as i do j but what have they put a crown on her for i never saw her in a crown for my part man alive i can t you open your great jaws and just speak a s name plain out to oblige three people i d do a great deal more to oblige one of you than that if it isn t as natural as curse the man i he won t he won t � curse him i why what have i done now oh sir said little for pity s sake tell us are these the features of a living woman of � of � margaret a mirror is not truer my little maid but is it she	9
this way of escape to the blushing mr had a great deal to talk about at breakfast that morning and it was certainly natural that he should be the chief speaker but even mr couldn t help noticing how silent was on the other hand she was a most excellent listener � good a one that she might to some minds have suggested a parallel to hanging on the accents ol had brought for her the portrait of little which mr had confided to his keeping and when left the room to put this precious gift away mrs could not restrain her feminine curiosity to know what poor mr had done with all his money he has left some of it to said blushing even more than he had done over the empty basket but the bulk of it has gone elsewhere this was not very satisfactory and what was worse it was plain that mr did not wish to be put to the question on that point yet mrs could not restrain herself from saying then do you mean to say that except the picture of little he has left nothing he has left her nothing but the picture i am sorry for that said mrs rather she afterwards observed to her husband when alone with him that though mr had looked grave enough when he gave them this information he had not looked particularly sorry perhaps he s got the money himself suggested the farmer in that case you can hardly expect him to be m tears about the disposal of it how hard you are william his wife though indeed even if mr has got it well what well i would tell you a secret if i thought you could keep it it is my firm impression that mr has come in for mr s estate it was only his poverty that made him hesitate so long about asking to marry him and now that he feels he can offer her a fitting home and an establishment no interrupted the farmer emphatically our miss is not of that sort she is not one of those fine young ladies who care about an establishment i did not say she was william really c this about miss you ll make om � v s a from a thorn you jealous no my little woman you ve too much sense for that here to the farmer s great his wife began to laugh i was not referring to myself at all you silly old creature where was i when you broke in with our miss yes i was saying that now mr has the means he will marry her indeed he has told me almost as much this very morning now what do you think of that mr scratched his head in amazement if he had known that all had said was we have ventured to bring you a little present of he would not have felt perhaps the same conviction on the matter as his wife did as it was he observed nay but that was quick work i suppose he was making up for lost time observed mrs who was in great spirits it was a high testimony to her that she was so since the stroke of fortune which would make her favourite such a happy woman would of necessity take her away from farm where she had won the hearts of both host and hostess and was as a daughter of their own perhaps the farmer imagined that his wife had forgotten this dark side of the picture for he observed gravely if things are as you say little woman i am afraid you will feel parting with the she has found the same place in your heart that poor used to hold i reckon yes sighed mrs heaven forbid however i should grudge the dear girl to the man she loves besides marriage is not like death we don t lose her but only lend her and by the by remarked the you have lost something else remember by this love affair won your white not a bit of it said his wife on the contrary you have reminded me that i have won your cow my words were replied her husband with a seriousness that it was easy for one of his to affect i ll lay my best cow against your white donkey that this time next month miss is engaged to be married yes but you meant to mr now it s a most extraordinary thing observed the farmer that whenever a woman makes a bet and loses it she always tries to make out she won it you know very well i ve won it william very well we ll just refer it to a third person here s mr and who count as one and indeed look like it � dear me he had his arm round her waist though he has just whipped it away � now i ll appeal to them mr raising his voice my wife has bet b be quiet william how date � il d� hia q putting her hand up to his i to e i m creek cottage has bet white donkey to my best cow for shame william for shame that you and miss here what with laughter and the his had contrived for him the good natured stood in peril of well if you ll give in little woman not say another word he otherwise � her bet was mr the donkey is yours w cried poor mrs in f but i think you are very mean i don t suppose the took possession of his prize or meant to take it but never over any bargain at fair or market had he grinned and chuckled as he did over the winning of that white donkey the circumstances however from who i fancy for all her innocent looks guessed what that	25
we could give a variety of good reasons for so doing yet it would be an ill natured act to deprive the public of such an admirable opportunity to indulge in their favourite amusement of besides we have ever considered aa and opinions h a beneath persons of onr dignity to for oar or � � en we are not like the unhappy rulers of land to the mob oar actions or dependent on their smiles support l� � this much however we it is not for want of subjects that we s our career we are not in the poor alexander the great who wept as indeed he might because there were no m worlds to conquer for to do justice to queer odd city and this country there is matter enough in them keep our muscles and our pens go until most people in taking a may perhaps be for ever are anxious to j on good terms and it is usual on such n occasions for even enemies to hands forget their previous quarrels and h all former in parting regrets m because most people do this i am to act in quite a different way for as i hi lived so should i wish to die in my own w without any person whatever n of esq o he his rank talents ot reputation besides it i know our we have no to no to bury and as to all we ba e long since at moment is not an individual in tbe world not even tbe pope to whom we any personal but if shutting their eyes to the many striking of good displayed through the whole course of this work there should be any persons so sin ridiculous as to take offence at our we heartily forgive their stupidity earnestly them to from all of ill humour test they should be under some one of the of we have it duty to hold up to ridicule even at moment we feel a glow of parting upon us � a sentiment of cordial good will towards tbe numerous host of readers that on at our heels the last year and in justice to ourselves seriously that if at any time we have treated them a little it was in that of with o whim and opinions which a unlucky or a humane his animal at the very moment when his heart is of loving kindness if this be not considered an ample justification so much the worse for in that case i fear we shall remain for ever � a most desperate extremity and worthy of every man s one circumstance in particular has i us as we along and that is the astonishing secrecy with which we been able to carry on our fully aware of the profound sagacity of the public of and their wonderful faculty of a writer by his style it is with great self we find that has never pointed to us as the authors of our gray beard speculations have been most attributed o sundry smart young gentlemen who for aught we know have no at all and we often been highly amused when they were charged with the sin of writing what their harmless minds never conceived to see them affect all the blushing modesty and beautiful op lot esq embarrassment of detected virgin authors � the profound and penetrating public having so long been led away from truth and nature by a constant perusal of those histories and from beyond seas in which human nature is for the most part and have never once imagined this work was a genuine and most history that the were a real family dwelling in the city � paying and lot entitled to the right of and holding several respectable offices in the as little do they suspect that there is a knot of merry old seated in the old fashioned parlour of an dutch house with a on the top that came from holland who amuse themselves of an evening by laughing at their neighbours in an honest way and who manage to on through the streets of our ancient and venerable city without or being by a living soul when we first adopted the idea of this work we determined in order to give the critics a fair opportunity for i o and opinions to declare ourselves one and all absolutely for it is one of the rare and invaluable privileges of a writer that by an act of innocent suicide he may himself to the grave and cheat the world of renown but we abandoned this scheme for many substantial reasons in the first place we care but little for the opinion of critics who we consider a kind of in the republic of letters who like deer and divers other animals gain by upon the and leave of the young shrubs of the forest thereby them of their and their progress to maturity it also occurred to us that though an author might in all countries kill himself outright yet this privilege does not extend to the raising himself from the dead should he be ever so anxious and all that is left him in such a case is to take the benefit of the act and revive under a new name and form far be it therefore from us to condemn ourselves to useless should we ever be disposed to resume the guardian op la esq ship of this learned city of and finish this invaluable work which is yet but half completed we openly and seriously declare that we are not dead but intend if it please providence to live for many years to come to enjoy life with the genuine relish of honest souls careless of riches honours and every thing but a good name among good fellows and with the full expectation of shuffling off the remnant of existence after the excellent fashion	48
particularly recommend itself to me i infinitely prefer the tender and liberal spirit of which impressed with the deepest conviction of my merit is satisfied that whatever i do must be right and look with a degree of contempt on the inquisitive and doubtful fancies of that heart which seems always on the of its emotions is indeed beyond all compare superior to � superior in everything but the power of being with me poor fellow i he is much distracted by jealousy which i am not sorry for as i know no better support of love he has been me to allow of his coming into this country and lodging somewhere near but i forbade everything of the kind those women are who forget what is due to themselves and the opinion of the world yours ever s mrs to lady de my dear mother � mr returned on thursday night bringing his niece with him lady had received a line from him by that day s post informing her that miss had absolutely refused to allow of miss s continuance in her academy we were therefore prepared for her arrival and expected them impatiently the whole evening they came while we were at tea and i never saw any creature look so lady frightened as when she entered the room aj who had been shedding before and showing great agitation at the idea of the meeting received her with perfect self command and without betraying the least tenderness of spirit she hardly spoke to her and on s bursting into tears as soon as we were seated took her ont of the room and did not return for some time when she did her eyes looked very red and she was as agitated as before we saw no ol her daughter poor was beyond measure concerned to see his fair friend in such distress and watched her with so much tender solicitude that i who occasionally caught her observing his countenance with exultation was quite out of pa this pathetic representation lasted the whole evening and so and artful a display has entirely convinced me that she did ia fact feel nothing i am more angry with her ever since i have seen her daughter the poor girl looks so unhappy that my heart for her lady is surely too severe for does not seem to have the sort of temper to make severity necessary she looks perfectly timid dejected and penitent she is very pretty though not so handsome as her mother nor at all like her her complexion is delicate but neither so fair nor so blooming as lady s and she has quite the cast of countenance the oval face and mild dark eyes and there is peculiar sweetness in her look when she speaks either to her uncle or me for as we behave kindly to her we have of course engaged her gratitude h r h� tint temper is r a ce less el than ben and from what i of t e of each to the the ol and the silent � n of i am led to believe as ace tbe f no real love for her done ber or treated ber i been able to have sa iv n with mv niece she is and i think i can see thai some pains are taken to prevent ber being with me nothing as to ber reason for away her kind hearted yon may be was too of distressing ber to ask many questions as they travelled i wish it bad been possible for me to fetch ber instead of him i think i should discovered tbe in the course of a tbe small has been removed within these few days at lady s request into her dressing room and great part of the day there as it is called but i seldom hear any noise when i p ass that way what she does with herself there i do not know there are plenty of books but it is not every girl who has been running wild the first fifteen years of her life that can or will read poor creature the prospect from her window is not very instructive for that room the lawn you know with the on one side where she may see ber mother walking for an hour together in earnest conversation with a girl of s age must be childish indeed if things do not strike her is it not to give such an to a daughter yet still thinks lady the best of and as a worthless he is convinced that her attempt to run away proceeded from no cause and had no provocation i am sure i cannot say that it had but while miss declares that miss showed no signs of obstinacy or during her whole stay in street till she waa detected in this scheme i cannot so readily credit what lady has made him and wants to make me believe that it was merely an impatience of restraint and a desire of escaping from the of masters which brought on the plan of an how is your judgment he scarcely dares even allow her to be handsome and when i speak of bet beauty replies only that her eyes have no sometimes he is sure she is deficient in understanding and at others that her temper only is in fault in short when a person is to deceive it is impossible to be consistent finds it necessary that should be to and probably has sometimes judged it expedient to excuse her of ill and sometimes to lament her want of sense is only repeating after her i remain etc etc lady from the same to the same my dear mother � i am very glad to find that my description of has interested you for i do believe her truly deserving of your regard and when i have communicated a	26
other equally familiar and tried friend who stands in the proud position � i mean who proudly stands in the position � or i ought rather to say who places and myself in the proud position of himself standing in the simple position � of baby s and indeed is much relieved in mind to find that no jealousy of s elevation so it has come to pass that the spring van is flowers on the rosy hours and on the staircase and that is surveying the ground on which he is to play his distinguished part to morrow he has already been to the church and taken note of the various in the aisle under the of an extremely dreary mutual friend widow who opens the and whose left hand appears to be in a state of acute but is in fact voluntarily doubled up to act as a money box and now shoots out of the study wherein he is accustomed when to give his mind to the carving and of the going to in order to show the little flourish he has prepared for the trumpets of fashion describing how that on the instant at st james s church the blank blank assisted by the dash dash united in the bonds of matrimony alfred of street to only daughter of the late of also how the fair bride was married from the house of of and was given away by of duke street st james s second cousin to lord of park while which composition makes some approach to perceiving that if the blank blank and the dash dash fail after this introduction to become in the list of s dearest and oldest friends they will have none but themselves to thank for it after which appears whom has seen twice in his lifetime to thank for the late of and after her appears alfred whom has seen once in his lifetime to do the same and to make a sort of glitter as if he were constructed for candle light only and had been let out into daylight by some grand mistake and after that comes mrs in a state of figure and with transparent little on her temper like the little transparent on the bridge of her nose worn out by worry and excitement as she tells her dear mr and reluctantly revived with by the and after that the begin to come by railroad from various parts of the country and to come like by a not present for on arriving at the they are in a of strangers so goes home to duke street st james s to take a plate of mutton with a chop in it and a look at the marriage service in order that he may cut in at the right place to morrow and he is low and feels it dull over the livery stable yard and is distinctly aware of a dint in his heart made by the most of the for the poor little harmless gentleman once had his fancy like the rest of us and she didn t answer as she often does not and he thinks the is like the fancy as she was then which she is not at all and that if the fancy had not married some one else for money but had married him for love he and she would have been happy which they wouldn t have been and that she has a tenderness for him still whereas her is a proverb over the fire with his dried little head in his dried little hands and his dried little elbows on his dried little knees is melancholy no to bear me company here thinks he no at the club a waste mutual a waste a waste my and so drops asleep and has starts all over him next morning that horrible old lady of the late sir thomas in mistake for somebody else by his majesty king george the third who while performing the ceremony was graciously pleased to observe what what what who who who why why why n begins to be and for the interesting occasion she a reputation for giving smart accounts of things and she must be at these people s early my dear to lose nothing of the fun in the bonnet and announced by her name any fragment of the real woman may he concealed is perhaps known to her maid but you could easily buy all you see of her in bond street or you might her and her and scrape her and make two lady out of her and yet not penetrate to the genuine article she has a large gold eye glass has lady to survey the proceedings with if she had one in each eye it might keep that other drooping lid up and look more uniform but youth is in her artificial flowers and her list of lovers is ml u you wretch says lady turning the eye glass about and about where is your charge the bridegroom give you my honor returns tt i don t know and i don t care miserable is that the way you do your duty f beyond an impression that he is to sit upon my knee and be at some point of the like a principal at a prize fight i assure you i have no notion what my duty is returns is also in attendance with a air upon him of having the ceremony to be a funeral and of being disappointed the scene is the room of st james s church with a number of old on shelves that might be bound in lady but hark a carriage at the gate and s man arrives looking rather like a and an member of that gentleman s family whom lady surveying through her eye glass considers a fine man and quite a catch and of whom remarks in the	8
coming and she doesn t see them for she s talking to but what s the matter with him he s looking at miss cap as if he knew her and now she s looking too there off goes his hat and she s speaking and s like to faint and now they ve took the road to the station and miss s going home by the lord said a few moments later to her how proud miss have in she just said good morning sir i as if he was dirt and without a of her eye on his face and she looked at poor soul as if she d been p i � tm not the frost that fell nor tis that makes me cry but my s heart grown to me j � v yes here i am said the young man but i thought you might be dismal here by yourself � and by jove you look he added with sudden concern you are as white as your frock v and he touched one of her of muslin and may i not be as pale as i please here where i came on purpose to be quiet f said with an angry stamp of her little foot you seem to have had visitors all the same said for i don t suppose came to call on anyone in the perhaps it s part of his game at general post to come down here when he knows your father is looking for him in town where did you see him said continuing the task in which had surprised her and which happened to be that of and arranging her father s books he got into the train that i got out of said at me as if he saw a ghost there is nothing on earth that you less resemble said and you are wrong in supposing he came to look for father or me she added below her breath for he on a visit to a person in the village and how is she added with an abrupt change of tone i don t know and i don t care said the young fellow and snatched her and threw it down then caught her hands and held them he said for once and all you shall give me my answer to day she looked up and the ardent love the power the protection of s look and attitude could not but strike her in contrast with the cold neglect the outrage that the man she loved had put upon her oh she said and somehow that here was her mother s story with frank over again and something in her voice � more of pity for herself than him � struck the young fellow oddly and he put her back the better to search her face who is it he said pain his voice and for once making it the colour flew into her face the light to her eyes in that moment however it might disgrace her flesh and blood bore witness to the truth of how in her heart a grace hath reigned that nothing else could bring and read the signs surely and truly he dropped her hands and went to the window coming back just as she stooped to pick up her he loves you he said still in that stem voice so to s ears no then god help you i he said and went out o s and she echoed his and shivered a sense of cold as she stood alone was she to be left by � by by by � ah this last was the bitterest of all with a bow and a good morning sir i to represent their � by all save the dear old whom she had betrayed when she loved his enemy she down by his chair bnt even as her lips to the leather knew that however faithfully he had loved her he was not first with her now she think of him tenderly she was conscious of clinging to as her one refuge in the future but for the moment she felt only a raging desire to be alone beyond sight or sound of human voices the fact that major not only loved and rode away but rode away with another woman her cool green hollow beckoned her even across blinding fields of heat and it was safe it was secret the only soul who knew of its existence was by now far away and might search the woods for a month before ever he found it and her she caught up her white and went by the way that she had passed shame her at every step as she thought of how swiftly she had sped to the one sided in which she had taken passionate farewell of a ghost that in point of fact was a very substantial body running away she laughed aloud climbed to her seat and looked down the long and beautiful that she had so long reckoned her own and which major had also seemed to think at his disposal then the moment having at last come when she was alone with her misery her shame turning her cheek to the moss of the tree p wept e a she cried out no more than her father would have done under equal punishment but her body trembled as if shaken by a violent hand and was it a ghost that in the afternoon sunshine drew near and stood looking down on her with such misery in his eyes as her hidden ones could not have matched so had he seen her mother once and a word from him had ended that one short bitter space of a sunny life and she had been happy happy afterwards to the very end and now a word from him would save her child and he neither willed nor dared	17
of after dinner in a very commonplace way he was not in the least troubled with ideas nay further when called upon by his father to do so he had after something of a struggle followed the very sensible if example of the historian and while he sighed as a lover had obeyed as a son elizabeth s pride had at his desertion of her had so strongly that it hurried her as we have seen into a marriage with robert in a way she might put down all the troubles of her young life to edward s account and yet � yet the memory of first love is very strong coming in from her dreary walk on the parting half in anger from her friend on the elizabeth suffered a strange transition of feeling when she found edward s card on the hall table she had not seen him for four years she did not know anything about his present circumstances she did not even know whether he was married or single but she was filled with a longing to meet him once again to go back for a few hours at least to that pleasant easy time before she had known anything practically of sorrow or disappointment she longed to breathe the morning air again after struggling in the heat and confusion of the everything seemed to be slipping away from her just now a foolish hope a half despairing fancy that somehow a meeting with her old lover might make things clear and ch viii a sketch in black and white straight came over her elizabeth knew dimly all the while that she was the lessons of experience that she was fighting against fate that she was refusing to acknowledge an inevitable conclusion it may seem a little stupid of any person to do this and yet to my mind there is something wonderfully moving in the gallant hopeless determination with which the young fight against the hard of fact and experience they may be fools they are fools no doubt but they are fools whom one suffers gladly for love of their magnificent obstinacy and finely tempered courage elizabeth went slowly upstairs with the still in her hand she felt a little reckless � the world seemed in a way to be coming to an end the day after to morrow meanwhile she would defy fate she would do what she liked she would give herself one last chance she would see edward somehow and if nothing came of it � and in justice to poor elizabeth it must be owned that she had formed no clear idea as to what could possibly come of it � well then she thought bitterly enough she would have to own herself beaten and let the world come to an end as soon as it pleased at last said mrs frank in her clear emphatic voice as elizabeth entered the drawing room my dear elizabeth where in the name of patience have you been i have been waiting here the most interminable length of time to see you had a great power of letting mrs part ri plain daylight into the minds of other people but elizabeth was too highly wrought � too entirely occupied with her own sensations � to be awakened even by her sister in law s rapid and decided opening of the shutters just at present i have been walking down by the river she answered dear me said mrs frank doesn t it strike you that it is just a little late for you to be out walking alone i wasn t alone observed elizabeth simply oh said mrs frank with a note of in her voice she looked rather hard at elizabeth she had an impression that there was something odd about her she wondered if anything could have happened i met mr said elizabeth with the same air of indifference and abstraction and he walked back here with me a sudden cheerful seemed to take possession of s small person had come back then and just in time she hardly knew how to be sufficiently thankful she had not made a fatal mistake after all elizabeth seemed strangely but that mrs frank was charmed at � it certainly meant she argued that something had happened or was just about to happen everything was really going right then she had hardly before how dreadfully anxious s absence had made her her present sense of relief was intensely she smiled ch viii a sketch in black and white a little to herself and folded her small neat hands on her lap as she said quietly � you have an admirable indifference to public opinion really elizabeth you know the circumstances and surroundings of your walk might strike some people as slightly peculiar if had failed to awaken elizabeth at first she certainly succeeded in doing so very completely now elizabeth turned towards her with a sense of considerable annoyance what do you mean she asked quickly only that you are young and very good looking answered the other and that of course you run the risk of being talked about you know everybody does that unless they are immensely careful elizabeth had not expected this sort of open attack it seemed to her that was playing exactly the same part that mrs had played two years before it is interesting to observe how history itself but there are some experiences none of us desire particularly to go through twice even for the sake of proving the truth of that valuable saying the drawing room was warm after the cold damp air of the evening outside elizabeth felt both mentally and physically stifled she had a sense of heat and crowding and confusion no doubt her state of mind was exaggerated but hers was a nature prone to exaggeration s words all her distressing feelings she felt as though she was caught in a great	32
coloured growth of and veiled the image of in the basin of the blood by v ic the sacrifice of er above the altar held the morning sun a on its heart below face hid in hands the maid lay er beyond the hills of ao bears witness to the truth and ao hath told the men of thence the tale comes westward o er the peaks to india by v ic the dove of the freed dove flew to the s tower � fled from the slaughter of kings � and the thorns have covered the city of dove � dove � oh dove little white traitor with woe on thy wings the of rode under the wall he set in his bosom a dove of flight � if she return be sure that i fall dove � dove � oh dove pressed to his heart in the thick of the fight fire the palace the fort and the keep � leave to the no spoil at all in the flame of the palace lie down and sleep if the dove if the dove � if the dove come and alone to the palace wall the kings of the north they were scattered the of he them all hot from slaughter he stooped at the ford and the dove � the dove � oh the dove she thought of her on the palace wall by co by ic the dove of she opened her wings and she flew away � fluttered away beyond recall she came to the palace at break of day dove � oh dove flying so fast for a kingdom s fall the queens of they slept in slept in the flame of the palace old � to save their honour from shame and the dove � the dove � oh the dove she to her young where the smoke rolled the of rode far and fleet followed as fast as a horse could fly he came and the palace was black at his feet and the dove � the dove � the dove alone in the sky so the dove flew to the s tower � fled from the slaughter of kings so the thorns covered the city of and was lost for a white dove s wings dove � oh dove is lost from the roll of the kings by v ic the explanation love and death once ceased their strife at the tavern of man s life called for wine and threw � alas � each his quiver on the grass when the bout was o er they found mingled arrows the ground hastily they gathered then each the loves and lives of men ah the dawn deceived mingled arrows each one death s dread was stored with the shafts he most love s light quiver groaned beneath headed of death thus it was they wrought our woe at the tavern long ago tell me do our masters know blindly as they fly old men love while young men die by v ic an answer a rose in on the garden path cried out to god murmured his wrath because a sudden wind at twilight s hush had snapped her stem alone of all the bush and god who hears both sun dried dust and sun made answer whispering to that one sister in that thou we did not well � what voices thou when thy fell and the rose answered in that evil hour a voice said father wherefore falls the flower for lo the very are still and a voice answered son by s will then softly as a rain mist on the came to the rose the answer of the lord sister before we smote the dark in twain ere yet the stars saw one another plain time tide and space we bound unto the task that thou fall and such an one should ask the withered flower all content died as they die whose days are innocent while he who questioned why the flower fell caught hold of god and saved his soul from hell by co by v ic the gift of the sea the dead child lay in the and the widow watched beside and her mother slept and the channel swept the gale in the teeth of the tide but the mother laughed at all i have lost my man in the sea and the child is dead be still she said what more can ye do to me the widow watched the dead and the candle low and she tried to sing the passing song that bids the poor soul go and mary take you now she sang that lay against my heart and mary smooth your to night but she could not say depart by ic the gift of the sea then came a cry from the sea but the sea blinded the glass and heard ye nothing mother she said tis the child that waits to pass and the nodding mother sighed tis a in the for why should the soul cry out that never knew of sin o feet i have held in my hand o hands at my heart to catch how should they know the road to go and how should they lift the latch they laid a sheet to the door with the little that it might not hurt from the cold or the dirt but the crying would not stop the widow lifted the latch and strained her eyes to see and opened the door on the bitter shore to let the soul go free by v ic m the gift of the sea there was neither glimmer nor ghost there was neither spirit nor spark and heard ye nothing mother she said tis crying for me in the dark and the nodding mother sighed tis sorrow makes ye dull have ye yet to learn the cry of the or the wail of the wind blown the are	39
thousand extra dollars � the reward paid by the community to mr for the virtue of a who had vision and who understood talking points key situations and the of came to the conference he was fond of this morning and called him old the a long man and solemn seemed to care less for and for vision but met bim at the street door of the office and guided him toward the private room with little cries of this way brother he took from the correspondence file the entire box of cigars and forced them on his guests he pushed chairs two inches forward and three inches hack which gave an ho note then leaned back in his desk chair and looked plump and jolly but he spoke to the with firmness well we been having some pretty tempting offers from and a of other folks for that lot next to your store but i persuaded that we ought to give you a shot at the property first i said to it d be a rotten shame i said if somebody went and opened a combination and meat market right next and ruined s nice little business especially � leaned forward and his voice was harsh � it would be bard luck if one of these cash and carry chain stores got in there and started cutting prices below cost til they got rid of competition and forced you to the wall i snatched his thin hands from his pockets pulled up his trousers thrust his hands back into his pockets in the heavy oak chair and tried to look amused as he struggled yes they re bad competition but i guess you don t realize the pulling power that personality has in a neighborhood business the great smiled that s so just as you feel old man we thought we d give you first chance all right now look here i know f r a fact that a piece of property bout same size right near sold for less n eighty five hundred n t two years ago and here you fellows are asking me twenty thousand dollars why i d have to � i wouldn t mind so much paying twelve thousand but � why good god mr you re asking mat a twice its and to ruin me if i don t take i don t like your way of don t like it one bit i supposing and i were enough to want to ruin my human don t you suppose we know it s to our own selfish interest to have everybody in pro but all this is beside the point tell you what well do we ll come down to twenty three thousand � five thousand down and the rest on � and if you want to wreck the old and i guess i can get here to up for a building on good liberal terms heavens man we d be ad to oblige you we don t like these foreign any better n you do but it isn t reasonable to expect us to sacrifice eleven thousand or more just for � it how about it you to come down by warmly taking s part persuaded the benevolent mr to reduce his price to twenty one thousand dollars at the right moment snatched from a drawer the agreement he had had miss type out a ago and thrust it into s bands he shook his fountain pen to make certain that it was flowing handed it to and watched him sign the work of the world was being done had made something over nine thousand dollars had made a and fifty dollar commission had by the sensitive of n been provided with a business building and soon the happy inhabitants of would have meat upon them at prices only a little higher than those down town it had been a manly battle but after it drooped this was the only really amusing contest he had been planning there was nothing ahead save details of he muttered makes me sick to think of carrying oft most of the profit en i did all the the old and � what else have i got to do to day � like to take a good long trip he rang iq by the thought of with paul � i� s preparations for leaving the office to its feeble self during the hour and a half of his were some ess elaborate than the plans for a general european war he fretted to miss what time you going to well make sure miss is in then explain to her that if calls up she s to tell him i m already having the title traced and oh b the way remind me to morrow to have trace it now if anybody comes in looking for a cheap house remember we got to that road place ofi somebody if you need me ni be at the club i ll be back by two he the cigar ashes off his he placed a difficult letter on the pile of unfinished work that he might not fail to attend to it that afternoon for three now he had placed the same letter on the unfinished pile he on a sheet of yellow paper the see apt h which gave him an agreeable feeling of having already seen about the apartment house doors he discovered that he was smoking another cigar he threw it away protesting dam it i thought you d quit this he the cigar box to the correspondence file locked it up hid the key in a more difficult place and raged ought to take care of f and need more exercise � walk to the every single noon � just what do � every noon � cut out this all the time the resolution made him feel immediately after it he decided that this noon it was	42
is jt some one called name it n ye kin have it called another i swan f t ain t the old ark the from the deck of the ghost there ar other wag shouted s yer port we took no notice of the joking but acted after the manner of ai though the coal tar required a on attention i rounded her well to of the and ran for a rd to drop the anchor to all ap it was a the way the chain tangled and kept the anchor from reaching the bottom and to all appearances and i were terribly excited as we strove to clear it at any rate we quite deceived the who took huge delight in our but the chain remained tangled and amid all kinds of mocking advice we drifted down upon and the ghost whose square through our and a hole in it as big as a barn door the and the doubled up on the cabin in of laughter and left us to get clear as best we could this with much we succeeded in doing and like a on wise in clearing the anchor chain of which we let out about three hundred feet with only ten feet of water under us this would permit the coal tar to swing in a circle six hundred feet in in which circle she would be able to foul at least half the fleet the lay together at short the weather being fine and they protested loudly at our ignorance in putting out such an length of anchor chain and not only did they for they made us heave it in all but thirty feet having sufficiently impressed them with our general and went below to congratulate ourselves and to cook supper hardly had we finished the meal and washed the dishes when a ground against the coal far a on and heavy trampled on deck then the s brutal face appeared in the and he descended into cabin followed by the before they could seat themselves on a another came alongside and another another till the whole fleet was by the gathering in the cabin where d you the old tub asked a and hairy man with el eyes and features didn t it answered meeting them on th� ir own ground and encouraging the that we had stolen the coal tar and if we did what of it well i don t admire your taste that s lu sneered he of the features i d rot on the beach first before i d take � tub that t get out of its own way a on j how were we to know till we tried her f asked so innocently as to cause a laugh and how do you get the f he hurried on we want a load of them that s what we came for a load of what d ye want em for demanded the oh to give away to our friends of course retorted that s what you do with yours i suppose this started another laugh and as our visitors grew more genial wc could see that they had not the slightest suspicion of qui identity or purpose didn t i see you on the dock in the other day the asked of me i answered boldly taking the bull by the horns i was watching you fellows and out whether we d o � on or not it s a pretty good business i calculate and so we re going in for it that is i hastened to add if you fellows don t mind i ll tell you one thing which ain t two things he replied and that is you ll have to an get a better boat we won t stand to be disgraced by any such box as this understand sure i said soon as we sell some we ll in style and if you show square an the right sort he went on why you kin run with us but if you don t here his voice became stem and menacing why it ll be the day of yer life understand � � sure i said after that and more warning and advice of similar nature the conversation became a on general and we learned that the beds were to be that very as they got into their boats after an hour s stay we were invited to join them in the with the assurance of the more the did you notice that chap asked when they had departed to their various he s of the sporting life gang and the fellow that came with him is they re both out now on five thousand dollars i had heard of the sporting life gang before a crowd of and that the lower quarters of oat land and two thirds of which were usually to be found in state s prison for crimes that ranged from and box to murder they are not regular a on continued they ve just come down for the lark and to make a few dollars but we ll have to watch out for them we sat in the and discussed the details of our plan till eleven o clock had passed when we heard the rattle of an oar in a boat from the direction of the ghost we hauled up our own tossed in a few and rowed over there we found til the it being the intention to the beds in a body to my surprise i found barely a foot of water where we had dropped anchor in ten feet it was the big june run out of the full moon and as the ebb had yet an hour and a half to run i knew that our would be dry ground before slack water mr s beds were three miles away and for a long time we rowed silently in the	21
have introduced in the person of that his own stately lady disguised arrived at in a car and like the fairy at the of the to do something dreadful to the marriage service and truly he had a momentary reason to be pale of face and to whisper to you don t think that can be your ma do you my dear on account of a mysterious rustling and a stealthy movement somewhere in the remote neighbourhood of the organ though it was gone directly and was heard no more it was heard of afterwards as will afterwards he read in this register of marriage who i john and so do i who l r w and as john and have consented together in holy you may in short consider it done and withdraw your two wooden legs from this temple to the foregoing purport the minister speaking as directed by the to the people represented in the present instance by g and g above mentioned and now the church porch having swallowed up for ever and over had it not in its power to that young woman but slid into the happy sunlight mrs john instead and long on the bright steps stood and looking after the pretty bride with a consciousness of having dreamed a dream after which took out from her pocket a little letter and read it aloud to pa and john this being a true copy of the same � � dearest ma i hope you won t be angry but i am most happily married to mr john who loves me better than i can ever deserve except by loving him with all my heart i thought it best not to mention it beforehand in case it should cause any little difference at home please tell darling pa with love to ever dearest ma your affectionate daughter p s � then john put the queen s countenance on the letter � when had her gracious majesty looked so as on that blessed morning � and then it into the post office and said merrily now dearest pa you are safe and will never be taken alive the new as j an d � i ro k l s � i l u � our mutual friend fa was at first in the stirred depths of his conscience so far from sore of being safe yet that he made out majestic lurking in among the harmless trees of park and seemed to see a stately countenance tied up in a well known pocket handkerchief down at him from a window of the where the of the royal nightly the stars but the minutes passing on and no mrs in the flesh appearing he became more confident and so repaired with good heart and appetite to mr and mrs john s cottage on where breakfast was ready a modest little cottage but a bright and a fresh and on the snowy the prettiest of little in waiting too like an attendant summer breeze a fluttering young all pink and ribbons blushing as if she had been married instead of and yet asserting the triumph of her sex over both john and fa in an and exalted as who should say this is what you must all come to gentlemen when we choose to bring you to book this same young was s serving maid and unto her did deliver a bunch of keys commanding treasures in the way of and the investigation of which made after breakfast when declared that fa must taste everything john dear or it will never be lucky and when pa had all sorts of things into his mouth and didn t quite know what to do with them when they were put there then they all three out for a charming ride and for a charming stroll among heath in bloom and there behold the identical and with his wooden legs disposed before him apparently sitting meditating on the of life to whom said in her light hearted surprise oh how do you do again what a dear old you are to which and responded that he see her married this morning my beauty and that if it warn t a liberty he wished her ji and the fairest of and weather further in a general way to know what cheer and up on his two wooden legs to salute hat in hand ship shape with the gallantry of a man of and a heart of oak it was a pleasant sight in the midst of the golden bloom to see this salt old and waving his hat at while his thin white hair flowed free as if she had once more launched him into blue water again you are a charming old said and am so happy that i wish i could make you happy too answered and give me leave to kiss your hand my lovely and it s done so it was done to the general contentment and if and didn t in the course of the afternoon the main brace it was not for want of the means of that outrage on the feelings of the infant bands of hope but the marriage dinner was the crowning success for what had bride and bridegroom to do but to have and to hold that dinner in the very room of the very hotel where fa and the lovely woman had once dined together sat between fa and john and divided her attentions pretty equally but felt it necessary in the our mutual friend waiter s absence before dinner to remind fa that she was his lovely woman no longer i am well aware of it my dear returned the and i resign you willingly u willingly sir you ought to be so i should be my dear if i thought that i was going to lose you but you know you are not don t you poor dear	8
estate an cr his wheat afore it was well i the nor sold the straw off hia farm nor j scenes of life ask all the round if there was a than mj husband as attended hip market an he says he � them was his last words � a shift to the if sir let you stay sir to manage the farm as cow you be ob have some managing man either cheat you out of your money or you into marrying hi tour honor i was never that f marry you and would like yon he the more children you have and the less but it is useless to talk and cry i have good reasons for my plans and never alter them what you have to do is to make the best of stock and to look out f some little place to ro to when you leave ihe now go back to mrs s room and ask her lt give on a dish of tea mrs understanding sir lone that he was not i� he shaken low and left the library while the himself at his desk in the � wrote the following let very likely not because you we never a widow before a woman always silly enough but she s as great a fool as she can i she on a widow s ca now just ask yourself how much tl better you will be for on your farm at the end of four years when jou re got through your money and let your farm run down and are s got some great dow tt r a husband who at you and your children indeed sir i know a deal o an was brought up i the thick on it as may say an there was my husband s aunt managed a farm for twenty year an left to all her an an even to my husband as was then a babe a woman six feet high with a and elbows i dare say � a man in not a widow like you mrs indeed your honor i never heard of her an they said as she might ha been married o er and o er to as had no call to her money ay ay that s what yon all think mr � take no steps about letting crow foot cottage as i intend to put in the widow when she leaves her farm will be here at on saturday morning i will ride round with and settle about making some and see about adding a bit of land to the take as she will want to keep ft le pigs after ringing the bell and ordering this letter to be sent sir walked out to join the party on lawn but finding the cushions deserted he walked on to the eastern front of the building where by the side of the grand entrance was the large bow window of the saloon opening on to the and looking towards along vista of turf bordered by tall trees seeming to unite itself with the green of ihe meadows and a grassy road through a plantation only with the arch of a in the far distance the bow window open sir stepping in found the group he sought ng the progress of the s love story dining room but more il which waa like out and varied about a fourth of it remained and under this part were and tools the spacious was empty of furniture and seemed to ha a grand for the group of five human figures standing in the centre been getting on a little the last or two said sir as he joined the party he a a sad dog and i fancy he has a of sleeping as he stands with his in his must spur him on or we may not have ths na ay before the bride if you in our and take your ah sir a is known lo be one of the moat tedious operations in war said captain with an smile not when there a within ths walls in the shape of a soft heart and that there will be if has her tenderness as well as her s beauty what do yon think sir said i y who seemed to a little under her s reminiscences of hanging s that door when we put up the it is rather lost in my sitting room very good my lo e answered sir in a tone of polite if you like to part with the ornament from your own room it will show admirably here our portraits by sir will hang opposite the window and the at that end you see i am leaving no good places on the walls for you and your wife we shall turn you with faces to the wall in the gallery and you may take revenge on us by and by is going on mr turned and i like the view from this window better any in the house i ihe mode no answer and he saw that ber eyes were filling with tears so he added we walk out a little i sir and my lady seem to be occupied complied silently and they turned down one of the gravel walks that led after many under tall trees and among to a large enclosed walk was silent for knew that s thoughts were not with him and she had been long used to make him endure the ht of those moods which she carefully hid from they reached the flower garden and turned mechanically in at the gate that a h hedge on an expanse of brilliant color which after the green shades they bad passed through startled the eye like flames the effect was assisted by an of the ground which gradually descended from the entrance gate and then rose again towards tlie opposite end crowned by	14
hand every time she went about in spare moments they for the packed fish which does not improve a cargo but since there was no fishing had time to look at the sea from another point of view the low sided was naturally on most intimate terms with her surroundings they saw little of the horizon save when she a swell and usually she was and her steadfast way through grey grey blue or black hollows across and across with streaks of shivering foam or rub captains courageous herself along the flank of some bigger water hill it was as if she said you wouldn t hurt me surely vm only the little re here then she would slide away softly to herself till she was brought up by some fresh obstacle the of folk cannot see this kind of thing hour after hour through long days without noticing it and being anything but dull began to comprehend and enjoy the dry chorus of wave tops turning over with a sound of incessant tearing the hurry of the winds working across open spaces and the purple blue cloud shadows the splendid of the red sunrise the folding and packing away of the morning mists wall after wall withdrawn across the white floors the glare and blaze of noon the kiss of rain falling over thousands of dead flat square miles the chilly of everything at the day s end and the million wrinkles of the sea under the moonlight when the boom solemnly at the low stars and went down to get a from the cook but the best fun was when the boys were put on the wheel together tom within hail and she her lee rail down to the crashing blue and kept a little home made rainbow unbroken over her then the jaws of the against the and the captains courageous sheets and the sails filled with roaring and when she slid into a hollow she trampled like a woman tripped in her own silk dress and came out her wet half way up yearning and peering for the tall twin lights of s island they left the cold grey of the bank sea saw the lumber ships making for by the straits of sl with the salt from spain and found a friendly off bank that drove them within view of the t light of island � a sight did not linger over � and stayed with them past western and le have to the northern fringe of george s from there they picked up the deeper water and let her go merrily s pulling on the string dan confided to an ma next sunday you ll be a boy to throw water on the windows to make ye go to sleep guess you ll keep with us till your folks come do you know the best of ashore again hot bath said his eyebrows were all white with dried spray that s good but a night shirt s better i ve been o night shirts ever since we bent our ye can your toes then ma ll a new one fer me all washed soft it s home it s home ye can sense it in the air we re into the of a hot captains courageous wave an i can smell the wonder if we ll get in fer supper port a trifle the hesitating sails and in the close air as the deep smoothed out blue and round them when they whistled for a wind only the rain came in rods and and behind the rain the thunder and the lightning of mid august they lay on the deck with bare feet and arms telling one another what they would order at their first meal ashore for now the land was in plain sight a boat drifted alongside a man in the little pulpit on the flourishing his his bare head down with the wet and all s well i he sang cheerily as though he were watch on a big s waiting fer you what s the news o the fleet shouted it and passed on while the wild summer storm overhead and the lightning along the from four different quarters at once it gave the low circle of hills round harbour ten pound island the fish sheds with the broken line of house roofs and each and on the water in blinding photographs that came and went a dozen times to the minute as the iv re here crawled in on half flood and the whistling moaned and mourned behind her then the storm died out captains courageous in long separated vicious of blue white flame followed by a single roar like the roar of a mortar battery and the shaken air under the stars as it got back to silence the flag the flag said suddenly pointing upward what is ut � said long jack ha af mast they can see us shore now i d clean forgot he s no folk to has he girl he was goin to be married to this fall mary pity her said long jack and lowered the little flag half mast for the sake of swept overboard in a gale oflf le have three months before wiped the wet from his eyes and led the re here to s wharf giving his orders in whispers while she swung round and night hailed her from the ends of black over and above the darkness and the mystery of the procession could feel the land close round him once more with all its thousands of people asleep and the smell of earth after rain and the familiar noise of a engine to herself in a freight yard and all those things made his heart beat and his throat dry up as he stood by the they heard the captains courageous f anchor watch on a into a pocket of darkness where a lantern on either	39
any description which went before in acts one and two which not be straightened out in the last act the spirit of these plays my fancy at that time and elevated me into a world of which unfortunately fell in with the wildest of my youthful love as i saw it here set forth in all those gorgeous or sentimental was the only kind of love worth while fortune also gilded as only the stage can d it and as shown nightly by mr everywhere in america was the only type of fortune worth while to be rich elegant exclusive as in the of and mr jones and mr according to what i saw here love and youth were the only things worth discussing or thinking about the splendor of the the social of new london and paris the sex of such minds as junior then in his and a number of other current seemed all to be built around youth and love the dreary of actual life was carefully shut out from these pieces the simple delights of ordinary living if they were used at all were exaggerated beyond sensible belief and elsewhere � not here in st louis but in the new yo london paris st � were all the that were worth while if i really wanted to be happy a book about i moat go to places of than were the fine clothes the and and vice and painted in that they were always sad or r existed on in those great chapter i to dream more than ever of perfect atmosphere for somehow somewhere � bnt never in st of that was too common too western too far from the real wonders of the world love and and travel and romance the great things bnt tb were afar off in new york it was around this time that i was establishing the atmosphere of a in tenth street nothing be so as love in a mansion a palace in some oriental realm such as was indicated in the comic in which thomas q francis and frank were then appearing how often or wood as companion occasionally hazard or a new friend to me by wood and known as or body a most amazing person aa i will later relate i to these poetic stage scenes i with one or other of these i visited aa many aa i if for no more than an or an act at a time and with wonder and scenes as most appealed to me the scene for instance in the or the third act of nearly any of henry arthur jones s plays also all of the light of de and harry b smith as well as those of color and melody the the au the such as fox of long line of comic opera who somehow me of held me with delight and admiration here at last was tiie kind of maiden i was really craving an of this airy temperament i remember that one at the close of of mr wh laid s at the � the t lave a book about story in which he appearing a popular leading woman a very one � i waa hy the manager to wait for a few moments after the performance so that he mi introduce me why i know it seemed that he was taking them to supper and thought they might like to meet one of the local critics or that i might like to accompany them an honor which i declined out of fright or when they finally appeared in the of the however the young very and soft and clinging and dressed most after the manner of the stage i was beside myself with envy and despair for she appeared hanging most tenderly on her star s arm she was his mistress i understood and gazing about such beauty such vivacity i could anything be ao lovely think of having such a perfect creature love you hang on your arm i and here was i poor a mere a nobody upon wh � n such a splendid creature would not bend a second glance mr was full of tlie heavy of the actor which made the scene all the more impressive to me i think most of us like to be up at on time or by some one i i at her pretending to be but little interested while i was really dying of envy finally after a few words and a few smiles cast in my direction i was urged to come with them but instead hurried away pleading and my stars and my fate think of being a mere at twenty five or thirty a week others earning thousands were thus in the sunshine of success and ah why might not i have been bom rich or famous and so able to command so lovely a woman i if i had been of an ordinary sensible turn of mind with a of that practical wisdom which puts moderate place and position first and sets great store by the saving of mon i might have succeeded fairly well here better than i did anywhere else for a long period after unquestionably mr liked me i think he may bare been fond of me in some amused way to keep such a bounding high flown about the a book place i might have held this place for a or two and made it a stepping stone to something better bat instead of rejoicing in the and t it the end and aim of my daily i looked npon it as a mere i had bnt might not have tomorrow and anyhow there were better things than working day by day and living in a small room e certainly to bring me better something truly splendid � and soon i deserved it everything a great fine clothes women the respect and companionship of men indeed	43
i c virginia city state committee john h virginia city secretary peter j virginia city new a license bill was defeated in the to new york � tbe passed a joint resolution to submit the to a popular vote at a special election on april the assembly for a special election the regular � in november as the two houses could not agree no provision for submission was made a motion in the assembly to substitute the provision was defeated republican some were to the reform act the assembly passed bv a party vote a new liquor bill but it failed of an act paused life companies firom showing any against colored persons or charging them a higher rate than that paid by others a new act relating to notes and other instruments given for a consideration for farm that when such instruments are given in purchase of farm at a price four times greater than the fair market value of the same or jn certain dealings in reference to such a purchase the notes shall be marked � given for a consideration three constitutional were proposed by resolutions and will be submitted to the people if the next one for the determination by the courts of disputed election cases another s the sale of the springs a the number of judges of the court of appeals and allows its sub into two or more north � the has passed a bill providing for an to the by which the people of the entire state will vote for also a bill providing scientific education north a bill to the passed the to but was defeated in the by a vote of to absent � a new law to enter an act was passed a proposed constitutional giving the the power to tax all of and was passed to be sub to popular vote in november state secretary f a st south � a to the manufacture and sale of spirits and except under certain has passed the house and is expected to pass the south � a bill to provide for to popular vote of the passed the to absent the were the were i � the used � to the let lease system � a law providing for education was passed all the states but eight now have a law virginia e e was declared elected in to the house of from the of virginia wa state committee t secretary k north west virginia an act was passed the school law was by a vote in the the vote contents and index � for political and additions see political actors fund acts public of on j admission of states it of officers of area g platform � meeting of next general election population state officers � � area state officers alien contract i aw america cup american association advancement oi science american of medical association american pork in europe � j inspection of so ancient order of s naval academy at bills tory of for s fair and c ment day i roman area of states loo � area jo i state officers area meeting of next general election population o platform state officers war military commands and po i officers list of pay table tj s academy arts and es spirits used in of property reform � t� m� b� condition of south � catholic of with british to united states iron 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� i edition complete list iv � on add ready and i v ji n s friend and the of north i t � i� � � i t etc i r � a s of i etc i t � the bell or i etc i t � i� � � df peter iv three i w am tbe n� e books of r mrs j mrs alexander author of the heir of m sir arthur helps i j js t � the and death of d v can admiral � john the go i some and lord v � the mrs sorrow j v � oat of e holds worth the that i � the arrive v ty � lee pan am the the break i the i v � the god x � t � af if the ah in old i v � the � � the author of william a bride from the v f � v � the of i v � mr lord duke v young blood v some the black i � shadow of word by dick if v mil i list of how to be happy though married how ea be happy though l v am til � ton maid el tbe open william sharp a fellows und wits i t william dean am a i � � ths lady the i v � a modem in i v � the n i tbe of v � a of i � thomas e s brown i school days i v mis mrs a les t iv � mn i v � and i v � a v i mrs hunt violet hunt t fl j t i n h free � v the hon lady the siege of i t john h vi e e a mrs washington am i v � the life of i t � of i � � j v � life of t mrs h h am f s edition complete list ton square etc � � the portrait of a lady v � foreign parts i v � french poets and z v � the siege of london the point of view a passionate pilgrim i v � portraits of places z v � a little tour in france i v j a book about doctors v � a woman in spite of herself v � the real lord v mrs charles j who pays i v � x v � once and again a v � two french marriages v � within an ace xv � s daughters x v edward s baby his birth and other misfortunes lord t author of of prince s b h k the idle thoughts of an idle fellow iv � of a pilgrimage and six essays x v � novel notes x v � sketches in blue and green z v � the second thoughts of an idle fellow � three men on the z v f history of st and st james v � men of character v author of john gentleman mrs mrs henry wood samuel johnson j lives of the english poets a � jolly colonel v author of mrs � miss f a v � a v � grace lee a � � x v � � � � and in s second love v � a v � v � v � john v � two lilies a v � forget me v � also series for the young p f v � v d thomas a the imitation of christ translated from the latin by w b d z v richard b am f saint z v � romance of student life abroad z v � z v � was he successful z v � to day in new york z v alexander william f z v � the invasion of the z v charles f z v � westward ho i v � two years ago a v � v � iv � the wake v � at last v � his letters and memories of his life by his wife v henry f v � z v � v � the and the v � court z v � z v � castle z v � � � the garden v an opera and lady z v plain tales from the hills z v � the second book z v � the seven seas z v � captains courageous z v � the day s work z v � a fleet in being z v � co v � from sea to sea v � the city of dreadful night z v � z v may and the etc z v charles f m i im or the last of the miss george alfred author of leaves from the journal of � in the victoria r i and i v golden author of the of mother to elizabeth the of her to charles f s the o v � v � o iv � tom of ly lack v t the f � of tbe of t v � round � v � ton � sir v � tbe of s fall i v � a rent in n i v � tliat bo of i t � si i i i i v � s honour of t t � i � d c n � i e f of j u a a t tin in head and other it � mt � a v � tie girl of the period and other it � lone i m i mine i t lord portrait m� e de d � the divine i and three i author of a lost battle a l� l t sir john the of uie v � beau of mature iii tion i al r v � scenery of and v r v i knight t e golden won by � v �	26
please mr tr et my coat madam mrs yea off with it � there s a hole in it � and then she whipped to the other end of the table and like be pleased to cast your es ea on that mrs pass it to the lady young gentleman away mr never mind as women ma am fearful to the eye only it holds everything in the world and there is a else � to be by the � r thank you sir away like lightning at the coat eat away children i now is your time when once i be n the pie will soon end i do everything so quick the lady quicker on mother bless the child don t by will go eve and at the back of your this nonsense made the children the needle will be lost � the child no more � � � shows t� the door goes with a face as long and crying fine o mother the lady is funny aa funny when are as well paid br it tliis just hit poor trip s notion of and he began to choke his full of pie james care mrs sad and james looked up my wife is a good woman madam said he but deficient in an important james i my dear i regret to say jou no sense of humor a cat jane what i because the poor thing can t laugh at your comedy so ma am but she laughs at nothing try her with one of your my lad i am sure james said the poor food woman if i on t laugh it is not for want of the will i used to bo a very hearty she but i have n t said the then the next two years you shall do nothing else ah madam said that passes the art even of the does it t said the coolly � she is not a ly lady yon don t ever cry pretty � of confidential j � comedy is crying father cried all the time be was his one turned red as fire hold ur tongue said he i was bursting with wife our children talk too much they put noses into everything and own father and when they take up a notion could n t convince to the contrary for instance madam all this morning they thought fit to assume that they were starving so we were said until the angel came and went the pie there � there � there now you mark my words wo shall never get that idea ont of their heads � until said mrs a cut of into s plate we a very idea into this and the look she cast on mrs fairly caught that good sombre personage she her to her face and said i m i ask your pardon ma am it was no use the had determined they should all and they were to laugh then she i and showed them how to drink ci fa her little admirers to touch her with theirs and the pure she had brought did mrs ti much good too though not so much as the music and sunshine of her and voice then when full of good food and the soul of the in their veins and their souls glowed under her great cr she suddenly seized the and showed them another of her she put it on her knee and played a tune that would have made and dance upon their last legs she played to the eye as by i well as to the car with sack a smart of bow aud a radiance of aa looked at them that whether the music came out ot her wooden shell or horse hair or her bright self seemed doubt ful they on chairs could not keep jumped up so did they she gave wild irish she put the fiddle in s hand the wind that shakes the ye cried she went de he played like pa or an demon covered the in she danced the children danced and danced and flung his limbs in wild the danced and last mrs was observed to be on her sofa in a absurd way out the tune and playing her hands with all to herself pointed out this to the two boys a glance of fiery meaning this was enough with a yell they fell npon her and lore her shrieking off the and lo i when she was once she danced up to her husband and set to him with a meek deliberation that was ny as any part of the scene the of all tliis side and let the stone of me roll � and roll it did no swimming their feet struck the ground for note of the fiddle pat as echo their faces shone hearts leaped and their poor natures came out and warmed themselves at the glowing melody a great come into their abode and these human danced in it the elder ones recovered their gravity first they sat down bi and put their hands to their they looked at one another and then at the goddess who had them their first feeling was wonder j were they the same who ten ago wore together t yes ten minutes o they were ray less hopeless how the sun was in their hearts and sorrow and were fled as before ie god of day it was could a mortal play upon the soul of man woman and child like this happy i and suppose this was more half acting but acting as never dreamed of and to the honest simple truth t myself should not have suspected it bnt children are than one would think and in after years that when they wore all dancing except the lady ho caught sight of her � and it was quite quite grave and even sad but	9
went along they the of the village and in a short time lighted upon the man trap its discovery simply added an item of fact without helping their conjectures but s indefinite alarm was greatly increased when holding a candle to the ground he saw in the teeth of the instrument some from grace s clothing no intelligence of any kind was gained till they met a of who said that he had seen a lady answering to the description her father gave of grace walking through the wood on a gentleman s arm in the direction of was he clutching her tight said well � rather said the man did she walk lame well tis true her head hung over towards him a bit groaned not suspecting the presence of coupled this account with the man trap and the scream he could not understand what it all meant but the sinister event of the trap made him follow on accordingly they bore away towards the town shouting as they went and in due course emerged upon the highway the previous information was confirmed by other though the gentleman s supporting arm had disappeared from these later accounts at last they were so near that informed his faithful followers that he did not wish to drag them farther at so late the an since he go on alone and if the woman who had been seen were really grace but they not leave him alone in his anxiety and onward till the from the town began to their fronts at the entrance to the high street they got fresh scent of the pursued but coupled the new condition that the lady in the costume described had been going up the street alone faith i � i believe she s or walking in her sleep said however the identity of this woman with grace was by no means certain but they along the street the hair who had of her was standing at his door and they duly put inquiries to him ah � how s little folk by now he said before replying never have i been over there since one winter night some three year and then i lost myself finding it how can ye live in such a one eyed place great is bad enough � but little � the and would drive me melancholy mad it took two days to raise my to their true pitch again after that night i went there mr sir as a man s that put by money why not retire and live here and see something of the world the at last given by him to their guided them to the building that offered the best accommodation in � having been enlarged with the construction of the railway � namely the earl of hotel leaving the others without made prompt inquiry here his alarm was lessened though his perplexity was increased when he received a brief reply that such a lady was in the house do you know if it is my daughter asked the waiter did not do you know the lady s name of this too the household was ignorant the hotel having been taken by brand new people from a distance they knew the gentleman very well by sight and had not thought it necessary to ask him to enter his name oh the gentleman appears again now said o himself � well i nt to se the lady be declared the a message was taken up and after some delay the shape of grace appeared descending round the bend of the staircase looking as if she lived there but in other respects rather ty and frightened why � what the name � began her father i thought you went out to get oh yes � i did � but it is all right said grace in a whisper i am not alone here i am here with it is entirely owing to an accident father i an accident how does he come here i thought he was two hundred mile yes so he is � i mean he has got a beautiful practice two hundred miles off he has bought it with his own money some that came to him but he travelled here and i was nearly caught in a man trap and that s how it is i am here we were just thinking of sending a messenger to let you know did not seem to be particularly enlightened by this explanation you were caught in a man trap f yes my dress was that s how it arose is upstairs in his own sitting room she went on he would not mind seeing you i am sure oh faith i don t want to see him i have seen him too often already til see him another time perhaps if tis to oblige ee he came to see me he wanted to consult me about this large i speak of as it is very promising oh i am glad to hear it said a pause ensued during which the inquiring faces and brown clothes of s companions appeared in the door way then t you coming home with us he asked i � i think not said grace blushing h m � very well � you are your own mistress he returned in tones which seemed to assert otherwise and retreated towards the door don t be angry father she said following him a few steps i have done it for the best i am not angry though it is true i a the in this however good night i must get home along he left the hotel not without relief for to he under the eyes of strangers while he conversed with his lost child had embarrassed him much his search party too had looked awkward there having to the task of investigation � some in their shirt sleeves others in their leather	45
said that before i knew all the circumstances now i think differently you think she still means to go she handed the letter back to him i think this is to tell you so this he for his glasses the letter again yes and what s more if you refuse to go have every right to break her side of the agreement mr sank into a chair stead ring himself painfully with his stick upon my soul i sometimes think you re on her side he ejaculated no � but i like fair play she returned measuring his tea carefully into his favourite little tea pot fair play she s offering to do her part it s for you to do yours now � to take to if i find her there i never cross s threshold again mrs without answering rose and put his on the slender legged table at his elbow then before returning to her seat she found the match box and laid it by the cup it was becoming difficult for mr to guide his movements about her small room and he had rs liked being waited on mrs s proved correct when mr and arrived at they the fruit of the tree found alone to receive them he explained briefly that his wife had been and had gone to seek rest and change at the house of an old friend in the west mr expressed a decent amount of regret and the subject was dropped as if by common consent however was not so easily silenced poor s uncertain fits of tenderness had produced more bewilderment than pleasure in her sober minded child but the little girl s feelings and had developed rapidly in the atmosphere of her s affection had reached the age when children put their questions with as much ingenuity as and both mr and longed for mrs aid in her incessant as to the cause and length of s absence what she had said before going and what promise she had made about coming back but mrs had not come to though it had become a matter of habit to include her in the family to the mills she had firmly maintained the plea of more urgent engagements and the two men with only between them had spent the long days and longer evenings in and mr before leaving thought it proper to touch on his promise of giving to for the summer but to his surprise the latter after a moment of hesitation replied that he should probably go to europe for two or three months to europe alone escaped from mr before he had time to weigh his words frowned slightly i have been made a the fruit of ih tree ii the fruit of the tree to the conference on the of factory he said at length without making a direct reply to the question and if there is nothing to keep me at i shall probably go out in july he waited a moment and then added my wife has decided to spend the summer in mr s answer was a vague murmur of assent and turned the talk to other matters mr returned to town with distinct views on the situation at poor devil � i m sorry for him he can hardly speak of her he broke out at once to mrs in the course of their first confidential hour together because he cares too much � he s too unhappy because he her mr brought out with emphasis mrs drew a deep sigh which made him add i believe you re actually sorry sorry she raised her eyebrows with a slight smile should one not always be sorry to know there s a little less love and a little more hate in the world you ll be asking me not to hate her next she still continued to smile on him if s the not the hated i m sorry for she said at length and he flung back impatiently oh don t s talk of her i sometimes feel she takes up more place in our lives than when she was with us went to the conference in july and the fruit of the tree spent six weeks afterward in rapid visits to various and model factory villages during his previous european his interest had by no means been to questions the appeal of an old reaching him through its innumerable forms of tradition and beauty had roused that side of his imagination which his work at home left untouched but upon his present state of deep moral commotion the of art and history were powerless to work the foundations of his life had been shaken and the fair exterior of the world was as vacant as a s face he could only take refuge in his special task himself against every expression of beauty and poetry as so many of a phase of life that he was vainly trying to cast off and forget even his work had been to him thrust out of its place in the ordered scheme of things it had cost him a hard struggle to hold fast to his main purpose to convince himself that his real duty lay not in the money and its obligations but in carrying out his projected task as if nothing had occurred to affect his personal relation to it the mere fact that such a would have been a deliberate moral suicide a once for all of every of action made it take on at first the semblance of an obligation a sort of higher duty to the abstract conception of what he owed himself but had not in her once she had passed out of his life it was easier for him to return to a view of his situation to see and boldly confess to himself that he saw the still her the fruit of the tree duty of	10
friends or home to leave he said and had come to share his fortunes he loved the child as though she were his own well well said the clergyman let it be as you desire she is very young old in and trial sir replied the help her let her rest and forget them said the old gentleman but an old church is a and gloomy place for one so young as you my child oh no sir returned i have no such thoughts indeed i would rather see her dancing on the green at nights said the old gentleman laying his hand upon her head and smiling sadly than have her sitting in the shadow of our arches you must look to this and see that her heart does not grow heavy among these solemn ruins your request is granted friend after more kind words they withdrew and repaired to the child s house where they were yet in conversation on their happy fortune when another friend appeared was a old who lived in the house and had resided there so they learnt soon afterwards ever since the death of the clergyman s wife which had happened fifteen years before he had been his college friend and always his dose companion in tiie first shock of his grief he had come to console and comfort him and from that time they had never parted company the old was the active spirit of the place tiie of all differences the of all merry the of his friend s and of no small charity of his own besides the and friend none of the simple villagers had cared to ask his name or when they knew it to store it in their memory perhaps from some vague rumour of his college honours which thb old shop abroad on his first arrival perhaps because he was an gentleman he had been called the bachelor the name pleased him or suited him as well as any other and the bachelor he had ever since remained and the bachelor it was it may be added who with his own hands had laid in the stock of which the had found in their new the bachelor then � to call him by his usual � lifted the latch showed his little round mild face for a moment at the door and stepped into the room like one who was no stranger to it you are mr the new he said greeting s kind mend i am sir you come well recommended and i am glad to see you i should have been in the way yesterday expecting you but i rode across the country to carry a message from a sick mother to her daughter in service some miles off and have but just now returned this is our young church keeper you are not the less welcome mend for her sake or for this old man s nor the worse teacher for having humanity she has been iu sir very lately said the in answer to the look with which their visitor regarded when he had kissed her cheek yes yes i know she has he rejoined there have been suffering and here indeed there have sir the little old gentleman glanced at the grandfather and back again at the child whose hand he took tenderly in ms and held you wiu be happier here he said we will try at least to make you so you have made great improvements here already are they the work of your hands yes sir we may make some others � not better in themselves but with better means perhaps said the bachelor let us see now let us see accompanied him into the other little rooms and over both the houses in which he found various small comforts wanting which he engaged to supply from a certain collection of odds and ends he at ta at have been thb old curiosity shop a yery miscellaneous and extensive one as it the most opposite articles imaginable they all came however and came without loss of time for the little old disappearing for some five or ten minutes presently returned laden with old shelves blankets and other household gear and followed by a boy bearing a similar load these being cast on the floor in a heap a quantity of occupation in arranging and putting away the of which task evidently afforded the old gentleman extreme delight and engaged him for time great and activity when nothing more was left to be done he charged the boy to run off and bring his to be before their new master and solemnly as good a set of fellows as you d wish to see he said turning to the when the boy was gone but i don t let em know i think so that wouldn t do at all the messenger soon returned at the head of a long row of great and small who being confronted by the bachelor at the house door fell into various of politeness clutching their hats and caps them into the smallest possible dimensions and making all manner of bows and which the little old gentleman contemplated with excessive satisfaction and expressed his approval of by a great many and smiles indeed his approbation of the boys was by no means so disguised as he had led the to suppose inasmuch as it broke out in whispers and confidential remarks which were perfectly audible to them every one this first boy said the bachelor is john a lad of good parts sir and frank honest temper but too thoughtless too playful too light headed by far that boy my good sir would break his neck with pleasure and deprive his parents of their chief comfort � and between ourselves when you come to see him at hare and hounds taking the fence and ditch by the finger post and sliding down the	8
principle upon which the of tlie appears to depend e the effects produced � will be to t� na j of each of mental a� tbe object at present in view is to investigate heir effects than their nature and origin the latter will he con no further is indispensable terms employed it will not he to inquire whether each be the result of � or from the combined influence of nor will there he occasion lo all the forms and varieties they as their general mode of action may be sufficiently illustrated by the t the others being either of e or in their operation and the mo i e� in a point of view are grief jo fear hope anger and love their influence is most clearly evinced and their excess productive of the most serious consequences � others of minor importance are anxiety which is merely an of fear and hope which ix or in the of hatred which i t a less � but more permanent form of anger jealousy which ia of love and anger and y which is a compound of anger and ambition ft besides these there arc some others such as pride and shame which may he distinct emotions but arc too limited in their or too transient in their effect to merit examination the appear to he more particularly ing of attention from observing the phenomena of the passions the conclusions lo be n are as follow mental n the heart but on the brain or organ of the this being the only part endowed with consciousness and capable of moral feelings i of other is secondary and results from their with the secondly it appears that moral feelings act upon the brain or organ of just as physical impressions do upon the organs of tense alter the circulation of the organs mo mental feelings affect the of the mental organ i it will be found that the changes first produced in the brain and thence communicated to owing to nervous and have also immediate in the system and are just as the influence of impressions is extended lo distant through sympathy the accuracy of the te conclusions will be shown in the separate ot each passion and the careful analysis of the phenomena it grief grief cannot he considered as a i ti i one remarkable mil i � ix t n� i � xi si i is the willing it he in sorrow with an or for every thi with its the calls of r � and even bodily pain arc disregarded in the slate of p aad abstraction it occasions now thi peculiarity in appears to influence of on the bodily frame which causes every li tion to as the symptoms declare the marks of bodily in the effects of grief a evinced by u e of and in the head with i f the face and of the eyes these are by deep si and interrupted in early life and mode a copious flow of tears and tt relief but in more advanced age and in excessive this fails and worse are apt to as acute pain in the head actual an attack or affections or su death he brain i the seat of the changes produced from visibly first in parts to organ while the the namely of tl face eyes with of fulness in the head declare reside in the system ami to consist in blood to these to account for their production one of two causes strict be assigned � either the blood is sent more than to the e parts or it meets usual when it arrives in them lu would not increase there now grief surely does not belong to the class of passions which arc to as a and the action of tlie heart oo the contrary circulation it i fact found to like other function and the pulse becomes slow and irregular still however tht l in the of the and parts to it and since is no increase in impulse with which it is sent to there must be a in the resistance which these oppose to the of the them for this is the only remaining cause thai can be alleged to account for the unusual point then to be l in wh they op k ance now than usual here the same reasoning which explains the determination blood occasioned bv local or the produced � the surface by sensible ofl also a k tion of the produced in the l rain by mental emotions the vessels in common with other organs owe of their moving power lo the of internal t ti i force ta � i in the cat t hich habitually i c� w� v m of i th� m to maintain at other a ly uniform degree of but when a m from or tht force of the impressions within their resistance is for a time or � yield to d intending determination of to lie part in pa the brain is the of this change mental adapted to act upon the organ of mind but other parts indirectly those to and upon ine with the laws of the like other parts which arc susceptible of owe faculty to the nerve that enter into their texture and derive c nerves from different sources some from l u and some from the system there sufficient reason to doubt that the receive their nerves from the same source as the an of which tliey form a part it is therefore tn be expected that these vessels of the in the affections of the parts to which they belong now the external surface and voluntary organs chiefly with or while those of the internal surface anti derive i from the il is easily conceived why the vessels of the surface more in mental emotions than those of the centre and why those of the face which arc	48
always pleasant society to an indolent stay man and mr s being his guest was an excuse for drinking every day the miss admiration of mr was more than anything which miss s habits made her likely to feel she acknowledged however that the mr were very fine young men that two such young men were not often seen together even in london and that their manners particularly those of the eldest were very good he had been much in london and had more and gallantry park than and must therefore he preferred and indeed his the eldest was another strong claim she had felt an early that she should like the eldest she knew it was her way tom must have heen thought pleasant indeed at any rate he was the sort of young man to he generally liked his was of the kind to he oftener found than some of a higher stamp for he had easy manners excellent spirits a large acquaintance and a great deal to say and the of park and a did no harm to all this miss soon felt that he and his situation might do she looked her with due consideration and found almost everything in his favor � a park a real park five miles round a spacious modern house so well placed and well as to deserve to he in any collection of of gentlemen s seats in the kingdom and wanting only to he completely new furnished pleasant sisters a quiet mother and an man himself � with the advantage of tied up from much at present hy a promise to his father and of sir thomas hereafter it might do very well she she should accept him and she accordingly to interest herself a little the horse which he had ta run at the b races these races were to call him away not long after their acquaintance and as it appeared that the family did not from his usual on expect him hack again for many weeks it would bring his passion to an early proof was said on his side to her to attend the and schemes were made for a large party to them with all the eagerness of inclination bat it would only do to be talked of and � what was she doing and thinking all this while and what was her opinion of the new comers few young ladies of eighteen could be less called on to speak their opinion than in a quiet way very little attended to she paid her tribute of admiration to miss s beauty but as she still continued to think mr very plain in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary she never mentioned him the notice which she excited herself was to this effect i begin now to understand you all except miss price said miss as she was walking with the mr pray is she out or is she not i am puzzled she dined at the with the rest of you which seemed like being out and yet she says so little that i can hardly suppose she is to whom this was chiefly addressed relied i believe i know what you mean but i will not undertake to answer the question my cousin is grown up she has the age and sense of a woman but the and not are beyond me and yet in general nothing can be more easily ascertained the distinction is so broad manners as well as appearance are generally so totally different till now i park not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl s being out or not a girl not out has always the same sort of dress � a close bonnet for instance � looks very and never says a word you may smile but it is so i assure you and except that it is sometimes carried a little too far it is all very proper girls should be quiet and modest the most objectionable part is that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden they sometimes pass in such very little time from reserve to quite the opposite � to confidence that is the part of the present system one does not like to see a girl of eighteen or nineteen so immediately up to everything � and perhaps when one has seen her hardly able to speak the year before mr i dare say you have sometimes met with such changes i believe i have but this is hardly fair i see what you are at you are me and miss no indeed miss i i do not know who or what you mean i am quite in the dark but i will you with a great deal of pleasure if you will tell me what about ah you carry it off very well but i cannot be quite so far imposed on you must have had miss in your eye in describing an altered young lady you paint too accurately for mistake it was exactly so the of baker street we were speaking of them the other day you know you have heard me mention charles the circumstance vol i � if was precisely as this lady has represented it when first introduced me to his about two years ago his sister was not out and i could not get her to speak to me i sat there an hour one morning waiting for with only her and a little girl or two in the room the being sick or run away and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business and i could hardly get a word or a look from the young lady � nothing like a civil answer � she np her mouth and turned from me with such an air i did not see her again for a she was	26
the dark lore of death which is the portion of those who have seen men die had the larger experience but dan the finer imagination shivered when the former spoke of the knife as an intimate acquaintance or the latter dwelt with loving on the fate of those who wounded and helpless had been overlooked by the and had fallen into the hands of the women folk knew that the for the present at least was dead knew too that a change had come over dan s usually respectful attitude towards him and horse s laughter and frequent allusions to all that the had guessed the horrible of the death stories however made him seek the men s society he learnt much more than he had for and in this manner it was on the last night before the regiment to the front the were stripped of everything and the men were too excited to sleep the bare walls gave out a heavy hospital smell of of lime and what said in an awe stricken whisper after some conversation on the eternal subject are j l the of the you going to do to me dan this might have been the language of an able a weak spirit you ll see said dan grimly turning over in his cot or i rather say you ll not see this was hardly the language of a weak spirit shook under the bed clothes be easy with him put in from the next cot he has got his o goin clean listen all we want is for the good sake of the regiment that you take your death standing up as a man there be heaps an heaps of enemy � heaps go there an do all you can and die decent you ll die with a good name tis not a hard thing again shivered an how could a man wish to die better than added dan and if i won t said the in a dry whisper there ll be a of smoke returned dan sitting up and off the situation on his fingers sure to be an the noise of the be an we ll be running about up and down the regiment will but we horse and i � we ll stay by you and never let you go maybe there ll be an accident it s playing it low on me let me go for pity s sake let me go i never did you harm and � and i stood you as much beer as i could oh don t be hard on me dan you are � you were in it too you won t kill me up there will you i m not of the treason though you be glad any honest boys drank with you it s for the regiment we can t have the shame o you shame on us you went to the doctor quiet as a sick cat to get and stay behind an live with the women at the t� you that wanted us to run to the sea in life s like the none of your black blood dared to be but we knew about your goin to the doctor for be told in mess and it s all over the regiment bein as we are your best friends we didn t allow any one to you we will see to you ourselves fight which you will us or the enemy � you ll never lie in that cot again and there s more glory and maybe less from the enemy that s fair and he told us by word of mouth to go and join with the � you ve forgotten that dan said horse to justify sentence what s the use of the man one shot pays for all sleep ye sound but you do ye not for some weeks understood very little of anything at all save that ever at his elbow in camp or at parade stood two big men with soft voices him to commit lest a worse thing should happen � to die for the honour of the regiment in decency among the nearest knives but dreaded death he remembered certain things that priests had said in his infancy and his mother � not the one at new york � starting from her sleep with shrieks to pray for a husband s soul in torment it is well to be of a intelligence but in time of trouble the weak human mind returns to the creed it sucked in at the breast and if that creed be not a pretty one trouble follows also the death he would have to face would be physically painful most have large could see himself as he lay on the earth in the night dying by various causes they were all horrible the mother in new york was very far away and the regiment the engine that once you fall in its grip moves j the of the you forward whether you will or won t was daily coming closer to the enemy they were brought to the field of and with the black to aid they fought a fight that has never been set down in the newspapers in response many believe to the fervent prayers of father the enemy not only elected to fight in the open but made a beautiful fight as many weeping irish mothers knew later they gathered behind walls or across the open in shouting masses and were pot in it was expedient to hold a large reserve and wait for the moment that was being prepared by the shrieking therefore the lay down in open order on the brow of a hill to watch the play till their call should come father whose duty was in the rear to smooth the trouble of the wounded had naturally managed to make his way to the foremost of his boys and lay	39
fortune he had inherited from his father and the social standing he could claim � a standing however which that fortune would not have been large enough to procure by his reputation in his art but had been weak enough as her mother knew to indulge in fancies for local youths from time to time and mrs could not help herself that her daughter had been so in the circumstances yet to every one except perhaps herself was the most romantic of lovers indeed was there ever such a romance as that man embodied in his relations to her house the first the second had rejected him and to rally to the third with final achievement was an artistic and tender finish to which it was ungrateful in anybody to be blind the widow thought that the second might probably not have rejected on that occasion in the london so many years ago if destiny had not arranged that she should have been secretly united to another when the proposing moment came the well beloved but what had come was best my god she said at times that night to think my aim in writing to him should be itself like this when all was right and done what a success upon the whole her life would have been she who had begun her career as a cottage girl a small owner s daughter had sunk so low as to the position of had engaged in various occupations had made an unhappy marriage for love � which had however in the long run thanks to s management much improved her position � was at last to see her daughter secure what she herself had just missed securing and established in a home of and refinement thus the sick woman excited herself as the hours went on at last in her it seemed to her that the time had already come at which the household was stirring and fancied she heard conversation in her daughter s room but she found that it was only five o clock and not yet daylight her state was such that she could see the of the bed tremble with her she had declared that she did not require any one to sit up with her but she a young man turned sixty now rang a little hand bell and in a few minutes a nurse appeared � an island woman and a neighbor whom mrs knew well and who knew all mrs s history i am so nervous that i can t stay by myself said the widow and i thought i heard dressing miss in her wedding things oh no � not yet ma am there s nobody up but i ll get you something when mrs had taken a little nourishment she went on i can t help myself with thoughts that she won t marry him you see he is older than yes he is said her neighbor but i don t see how anything can the now you know had fancies at least one fancy for another man � a young fellow of five and twenty and she s been very secret and odd about it i wish she had and cried and had it out but she s been quite the other way i know she s fond of him still what � that young frenchman mr o i ve heard a little of it the well beloved but i should say there much between em i don t think there was but i ve a sort of conviction that she saw him last night i believe it was only to bid him good bye and return him some books he had given her but i wish she had never known him he is rather an impulsive young man and he might make mischief he isn t a frenchman though he has lived in france his father was a gentleman and on his becoming a he married as his second wife a native of this very island that s mainly why the young man is so at home in these parts ah � now i follow ee she was a � his i heard something about her years ago yes her father had the biggest on the island at one time but the name is forgotten here now he retired years before i was born however mother used to tell me that she was a handsome young woman who tried to catch mr when he was a young man and herself a bit with him she went off abroad with her father who had made a fortune here but when he got over there he lost it nearly all in a young man turned sixty some way years after she married this man mr who had been fond of her as a girl and she brought up his child as her own mrs paused but as did not ask any question she presently resumed her self murmur how miss got to know the young man was in this way when mrs s husband died she came from to live at and made it her business one day to cross over to this place to make inquiries about mr as my name was she called upon me with her son and so and he got acquainted when she went back to to the finishing school they kept up the acquaintance in secret he taught french somewhere there and does still i believe well i hope shell forget en he good enough i hope so � i hope so now try to get a little nap went back to her room where finding it would not be necessary to get up for another hour she lay down again and soon slept her bed was close to the staircase from which it was divided by a only and her consciousness either was or seemed to be aroused by light brushing touches on the	45
might have married this man and yet retained the name by which she was known upon the stage and in that case dick would be secure from any serious he made up his mind however not to give up his point of staying to the last until he should be out of the place in order to discover this for certain mr if such he were would scarcely go through the farce of leaving him in the house and then returning to it after his departure mr had already suffered much and had even done wrong to his own conscience for of bis friend but the other guests bad taken their departure he found a worse than all that liad yet taken place awaiting him mr wished to ask madame la s opinion regarding certain points in the mad physician and this involved and mr s listening to it the man had an infamous delivery the chariot wheels in the gates which he drove them forth and the chariot besides was not worth driving i am afraid i weary you mr the author after half an hour of this his tone was not however it seemed to say but yon have only to go to bed you weary me very much said frankly how these two young hated one another but i have got a few remarks to make to madame before i go respecting my own piece oh dear said mr i did not know that i was business of such great im and after a few more he took himself off noticed not for the first time that his hostess wore a wedding ring it signified little of course it might be only fifteen worth of respectability still it gave him hopes that though she was probably not married to this man she might have been married to somebody else � no matter who so long as he was alive you wish to speak to about the said she quietly when he was left alone with her and mrs my dear madam i confess that i do not that was a mere to get rid of mr but i have something of to say to of a private nature and he glanced at the walking as though he would like to see her walk i have no secrets from mrs observed madame and with a certain severity she thinks i am going to make love to her on her own account thought mr and what is worse she doesn t like it there was no alternative but to tell his tale in the presence of a third person there was with me in the theatre to night madam an old friend of mine � and yours � one richard madame did not move a muscle she said the name sounds to me why cried mrs starting to her feet it s master dick from of course it is mother answered calmly i saw him in the to night well sir yes i know him chapter i will not seek out with that yes i know him of madame s a strange change came over her face it was calm and quiet enough and her eyes regarded mr with steady composure but he felt that under that mask of gentleness and grace and beauty there was a sharp pain only a quiver oi wo � id � � u of the lip i betrayed it aad � k i� so i xv x less black than we re perceived it but mr s heart was very kind i have come here to night madam as richard s friend said he upon a very errand let us say delicate mr put in his hostess quickly your difficulty lies in your regard for my feelings do not spare them and then your task will be easy speak to me she went on in bitter scorn as to a low bom woman who once attempted and failed to induce a young gentleman of fortune and position to marry her and who ward became an upon the stage what need is there of in such a case the humility of her words contrasted strangely with the of her tone and carriage it was as though a penitent instead of with sheet and should make her confession in royal robes you came here she continued to see me at my worst and to report upon it i do not say she added for the color had rushed into the cheeks of her young guest that you did it willingly the part of a spy is not suited to your character mr and you play it ill let me relieve you from your embarrassment she went on in tones i will tell you my story without putting yon to the pain � for you are a gentleman � of cross examination yon may not believe me but any inquiries you may think it worth your while to make will me in every particular mrs here is my mother i have lived with her ever since i left aunt s roof my life has been as free from taint � though not perhaps from temptation � as that of your own sister or of her mother before her i believe it cried mr with sudden impulse he could not help it her words her looks her tone carried conviction with them and he was too generous not to acknowledge it thank you answered she gi and the more so because i know you wished to have found it otherwise poor mr grew purple under her keen eyes indeed madam you do me wrong he stammered i do not sir what you hoped to have to say to your friend was this the girl that you went mad about when you were a boy has become an abandoned woman � wanton vile to have married her in the old days would have been humiliation but to do	25
fi e minutes afterwards and s unusual was quite gone then she was resolved to put through the whole of his performances before the coach came they took some time not so much on account of their variety as s reluctance and were still unfinished when it was heard at the door there was a hurried but parting between and herself and was to write to who was not to mind her letters being she said and was to write to and they had a second parting at the coach door and a third when in spite of the of miss would come running out once more to remind at the coach window about writing and to shake her curls at me on the box the stage coach was to put us down near garden where we were to take another stage coach for i was impatient for the short walk in the interval that might praise to me ah what praise it was how lovingly and fervently did it commend the pretty creature i had won with all her graces best displayed to my most gentle care how thoughtfully remind me yet with no pretence of doing so of the trust in which i held the orphan child never never had i loved so deeply and as i loved her that night when we had again alighted and were walking in the along the quiet road that led to the doctor s house i told it was her doing when you were sitting by her said i you seemed to be no less guardian angel than mine and you seem so now a poor angel she returned but faithful the clear tone of her voice going straight to my heart made it natural to me to say the cheerfulness that belongs to you and to no one else that ever i have seen is so restored have observed to day that i have begun to hope you are happier at home i am happier in myself she said i am quite cheerful and i glanced at the serene face looking upward and thought it was the stars that made it seem so noble there has been no change at home said after a few moments no fresh reference said i to � i wouldn t distress you but i cannot help asking � to what we spoke of when we parted last no none she answered i have thought so much about it you must think less about it that i confide in simple love and truth at last have no apprehensions for me she added after a moment the step you dread my taking i shall never take although i think i had never really feared it in any season of cool the personal history and experience reflection it was an unspeakable relief to me to have this assurance from i her own truthful lips i told her so earnestly and when this visit is over said i � for we may not be alone another time � how long is it likely to be my dear before you come to london again probably a long time she replied i think it will be best � for papa s sake � to remain at home we are not likely to meet often for some time to come but i shall be a good correspondent of s and we shall frequently hear of one another that way we were now within the little court yard of the doctor s cottage it was growing late there was a light in the window of mrs strong s chamber and pointing to it bade me good night do not be troubled she said giving me her hand by our misfortunes and anxieties i can be happier in nothing than in your i ness if you can ever give me help rely upon it i will ask you for it god bless you always in her beaming smile and in these last tones of her cheerful voice i seemed again to see and hear my little in her company i stood awhile looking through the porch at the stars with a heart full of love and gratitude and then walked slowly forth i had engaged a bed at a decent close by and was going out at the gate when happening to turn my head i saw a light in the doctor s study a half fancy came into my mind that he had been working at the dictionary without my help with the view of seeing if this were so and in any case of bidding him good night if he were yet sitting among his books i turned back and going softly across the hall and gently opening the door looked in i the first person whom i saw to my surprise by the sober light of the shaded lamp was he was standing close beside it with one of his skeleton hands over his mouth and the other resting on the doctor s table the doctor sat in his study chair covering his face with his hands mr sorely troubled and distressed was leaning forward touching the doctor s arm for an instant i supposed that the doctor was ill i hastily advanced a step under that impression when i met s eye and saw what was the matter i would have but the doctor made a gesture to detain me and i remained at any rate observed with a of his person we may keep the door shut we needn t make it known to all the town saying which he went on his toes to the door which i had left open and carefully closed it he then came back and took up his former position there was an show of compassionate zeal in his voice and manner more intolerable � at least to me � than any he could have assumed i have felt it incumbent upon	8
more resolution in her those arc rare but i ire known happen sometimes with people of will mrs took an opportunity of mr pilgrim s to mrs who as a tim of and rarely en that pleasure at mrs was a woman of decided opinions though f utterance for my part she remarked i m ad to hear there s any of improvement in mrs but i think the way hare turned out seems to show that she was more to blame people she was else why should she feel so much about her husband and i understand ha left his wife pretty nearly all his property to do as she likes with is u t like such a very bad husband i don t believe mrs can have had so provocation as they pre tended i ve known husbands who ve laid plans for their wives when they re � tying up their money and them from marrying again not that should ever wish to marry again i think one husband in one s life is enough in all conscience � here she threw a fierce glance at the amiable mr was innocently himself with the in the guardian and thinking the editor must be a droll fellow � but it s to be tied up in that way why they say mrs will have as good as six hundred a year at least a fine thing for her that was a poor girl without a to her fortune it s well if she does n t make ducks and of it mrs s view of however was from being the one in even neighbors who had no strong personal interest in her could hardly see the noble looking woman in her widow s dress with a sad sweet gravity in her face and not be touched with fresh admiration for her and not feel at least va that she had entered on a new life m which it was a sort of to allude to the past and the old fi who had a real regard for her but whose cordiality had been or chilled of late years now came round her with hearty of affection mr felt that his happiness a substantial addition now he could once more call on that nice little woman mrs and think of her with rejoicing instead of sorrow the lost no time in returning to the of old established friendship with and her mother and miss tf scenes of life felt it on her on all suitable occasions to deliver a very emphatic approval of the remarkable strength of she understood mrs to be exhibiting the miss were eager to meet mr s wishes by greeting as one who was likely to be a sister in religious feeling and good works and mrs was so agreeably surprised by the fact that had left his wife the money in that handsome way to do what she liked with it that she even included himself and his discovery of the flaw in her title to s in her oblivion of past she and mrs agreed over a friendly cup of tea that there were a many husbands as was very fine spoken an all that an yet all the while a will locked np from yon as tied yon up as tight as anything i assure you mrs dropping her voice in a confidential manner i know no more to this day about mr s will the child as is i ve no fears about a income � i m well aware mr ud leave me for that but i should like to a thousand or two at my own it makes a widow a deal more looked on perhaps this ground of respect to might not be entirely its influence on ihe mind and might do something towards those more aristocratic acquaintances of s who would otherwise have been inclined to take the view of her towards errors look so very ugly in persons of small mean � one feels they are taking quite a in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a tliey ve got the money for it as the girl said of her mistress who had made herself ill with salmon however it may have been there was not an acquaintance of s in that did not offer h� r in the early days of her even the severe mrs was not an exception for heaven knows what would become of our if we never visited people we k ill of we should live like egyptian in crowded solitude perhaps the attentions most to were those of her old friend mrs whose attachment to her favorite proved quite too strong for any resentment she might be supposed to feel on the score of mr the little deaf old lady could n t do without her accustomed visitor whom she had se i grow up from child to woman always so wit ling to chat with her and tell her all the news though she was deaf while other people thought it tiresome to shout in her ear and irritated her by ear trumpets construction all this friendliness was very pre to she was conscious o� the aid it gave her in the self conquest which was the blessing she prayed for with every fresh morning e chief strength of her nature lay in her affection which colored all the rest of her mind it a personal tenderness to ner acts of benevolence it made her cling with u every object that had once stirred her kindly emotions alas it was wounded affection that had made her trouble greater than she could bear and now there was no check to the full flow of that current in her nature � no secret anguish � no overhanging terror � no inward shame friendly faces beamed on her she felt that friendly hearts were her and wishing her	14
seems that a them uke the of the century toward the precipice which will them for woe b to those who remain deaf to the cries of the starving woe to those who believing themselves of superior essence assume the right to those beneath them then comes a time when the people no longer reason thej rise like a and rush onward like a torrent then we see bleeding heads on among the gentlemen there are two of individuals those of one class not they are and what they might be take life as it comes believe that they are bom to be slaves and themselves with the little that is given them in exchange for their labor but there are others on the contrary who think who study and looking about them social is it their fault if they see clearly suffer at seeing others suffer then they throw themselves into the struggle and make themselves the of the popular claims i know very well that i shall be told that i ought tc have confined myself to speech for the of the people s claims but what can you expect it takes fl loud voice to make the deaf hear too long have they answered our voices by imprisonment the rope and rifle make no mistake the explosion of my is not only the cry of the rebel but the cry of an entire class which its rights and which will soon add acts to words for be sure of it in vain will they pass laws the ideas of the will not l i at by b a drama of modem industry see page the masters meet a great castle the home of one of them to plan the destruction the labor whereupon a group of blow up the with in the scene following the author gives his sections upon this event in the words of the grief stricken sister of the � suppose what has happened � � � arouse the conscience of the people � why that s what he was saying � his very oi i think � arouse the conscience of the people t r all these thousands of years that we have been � t to the influence of the family and of religion it be possible that we are unable to arouse the people s except by � o ye silent and exalted witnesses hear without answering and see without reflecting you see why don t you show me how to reach the road for in the midst of all this misery there no road that leads upward � nothing but an endless the same spot by which i perish en � upward means forward � but there is no forward in this we have en thrown back into sheer once more all in a happy future has been wiped out just ask the cry for justice a few questions around here and then the sun the spring � ever since that dreadful night � nothing but fine weather night and day � a stretch of it the hke of which i cannot recall is it not as if nature itself were crying out to us shame shame you my leaves with blood and mingle death cries with my song you the air for me with your complaints that s what it is saying to us you are the spring for me your diseases and your evil thoughts are crouching in the woods and on the everywhere a of misery is following you like that of waters that s what it is telling us your and your envy are a pair of sisters who have fought each other since they were bom � that s what it says only my highest mountain peaks only my sandy and icy deserts have not seen those sisters every other part of the earth has been filled by them with blood and brutal in the midst of eternal glory mankind has invented hell and to keep it filled and men who should stand for perfection harbor among them what is worthless and foul by lord a of was imprisoned with his sons in castle the story is told in s longer poem the prisoner of eternal spirit of the brightest in liberty thou art � for there thy habitation is the heart � the heart which love of thee alone can bind and when thy sons to are consigned � to and the damp vault s gloom their country with their and freedom s fame finds wings on every wind thy prison is a holy place and thy sad floor an altar for twas trod until his very steps have left a trace worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod by may none those marks i for they appeal from tyranny to book vii the christ of the working class the inspired of the masses the world s supreme leader whose love for the poor and the children of the poor all the days of his consecrated life lighted up and made forever holy the dark tragedy of his death and gave to the ages his divine inspiration and his name � it by v see page j he christ of the class the inspired of the masses the world s supreme leader whose love for the poor d the children of the poor all the days of his life lighted up and made forever holy the dark tragedy of his death and gave to the ages his divine and his name � by elizabeth ck american writer have taken the tomb of our comrade christ � � � � that believe not in man stable and stall for his birth but his tomb is built on a plan alley have him round with pomp and parade they have buried him deep under steel and stone � ut we come leading the great to give our comrade back to his own e the	21
my heart failed me but the rival discord of tlie shop prevented my return while i hesitated the parlour door was suddenly thrown open by one of the little hoping to escape his share in the general and the scene within was thus revealed to my wondering vision it was ten years since i had seen my friend � ten married years nine children three attacks of four of scarlet fever and one had done to make mrs exceedingly unlike the fair girl i had once known her but in a dark street in london poverty and had done more oh who can say they do not wish for money long as young helpless girls will marry before they have had much more experience than the they have just laid aside � so long as men who have not wherewith to clothe and feed themselves will link their hard fate with those who are not used to hardship at first all may go smoothly new furniture looks well and kind pitying relations make presents that show upon the table and the mantle piece they are both young and confiding and in the young is more potent while it lasts than the old will believe but even love may be drawn upon too often for draughts too large and and the poor man s banker make r the pains op pleasing the same complaint the first child is welcomed by tlie nurse and the young mother and sometimes the father is of his pressing cares by its happy smiles a second find a welcome because two are little more trouble than one and a third because tliey hope it will be the last but tliey have no nursery and it is very difficult to find a welcome for the fourth the wife loses her health and her spirits her cheek grows hollow her eye dim and she is evidently sinking under her cares but an just settled near them and they cannot afford to hire more help the doctor is called in he looks with compassion on that gentle drooping form and quiet with t on the sofa alas there is no sofa and if there were how should that � how should she find rest whose ears are stunned with perpetual discord who is constantly called upon to the anger of tlie turbulent to soothe the to up the bruised and to forget herself perchance the husband loves her still all changed as she is and thinks kindly of her for he can do no more but the hardship of her lot is not much by his thoughts oh who does not wish for money when they see the children of such people wanting that education which parents have enjoyed and consequently falling into a lower grade of society without either the dignity of their father or the refinement of their mother strangers even to the decency of manners and conduct without which we ought not to be contented with such a family as this i was now come to eat my bread i could not expect a welcome but i found one for the poor are not the last to fulfil the duties of hospitality nor the worn and the harassed the most unwilling to show that they can exert themselves yet farther for a friend mrs was on her knees in the midst of her noisy group when i entered she started up at the sight of a stranger and it was some time before she discovered by the flickering light of the fire who that stranger was she was herself so changed that but for a peculiar smile which played for a moment on her lips and which had once been familiar to her face i should scarcely have known her i told her i was come to be her she thought i was nor was it until i had convinced her of my meaning by repeated assurances that she acknowledged by a silent tear how sorry she was to be unable to offer me a home on any other terms you are weary she said � i will just put the children to bed and then you shall have tea i asked if in the time i might go up stairs to my own room poor mrs looked confounded she had forgot while offering me a welcome that on the birth of her last child she had resigned the privilege of keeping what is called a spare room and that it was impossible any apartment under her roof should be exclusively my own she might have recollected too if this had not been enough that long before this fearful upon comfort she had laid aside all pretensions to neatness and regularity and that even in what was now called the best instead of the spare room every drawer was stuffed and every shelf crowded with different articles of clothing concealed from the of the small who ranged at large and with their busy fingers wherever they were not prevented by lock and bolt stay one moment said my friend and i was m the dark while she ran upstairs half the uttle tribe escaped on the departure of their mother of the remaining half i could only make friends with one while the others shrieked and rolled about the floor until they woke the baby in the cradle and i had more than i could well manage to still its cries mrs now called t me from be top of the stairs and i ascended with the cheering hope of finding quiet at last but to relate a low wide bed made to contain three at least stood close beside the pictures of private life one prepared for me and the poor mother told me with many apologies and much embarrassment that she could not offer me any other room nor find room for her children elsewhere � don t mention it said i it is	41
in bj means of wed from one end of great britain to another or from the to the as as the and make our words to friends upon the magic tight wire a great deal � � ter � now that the european and saxon is spreading his more or all the known world it seems that the simple expedient of opening a twenty eight mile passage between the and atlantic to save a dangerous of some eight thousand miles has not been already in this age of enterprise that so simple t remedy for so great an evil should not have been applied appears astonishing we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighbourhood of both exist of such having existed in what we are pleased to barbarous ages does nature present difficulties to the scheme t by no means for after the our own railway and the bridge difficulties have become are the of the and the of which should be joined so that if one were admitted the would the surrounding country not at all hear on these points forty ago he declared it to be his firm opinion that the of is suited to the formation of an canal � one with fewer than the capable of affording an passage at all seasons of the year to vessels of that which sail between new york and liverpool and between and in the recent edition of his of nature he sees no reason to alter the views he has notes of entertained on thk subject both british and american hare this opinion by actual survey as then c � nation of british skill capital and energy with that � i the go ahead upon earth have been whence the secret of the delay the answer at once � till the present time the m would not have paid large w d this nature while they create an inconceivable development oi commerce must have a certain amount d a trading hi to b in a gold can cover the of a man on horseback with a so but he must have the sovereign first it was not merely because the full power of the iron rail to the transition of heavy burdens had not been estimated and because no had constructed a engine that a railway with steam was not made from to liverpool before until the traffic between these had swelled to a sufficient amount in quantity and value to bear for establishing such a mode of conveyance its execution would have been impossible even though men had known how to set about it what has been the condition of the under consideration f in the entire population of the tropical american in the states of central america and new did not exceed three millions the number of the inhabitants of pure european descent did not exceed one hundred thousand it was only am this that anything like wealth intelligence and enterprise akin to that of europe was to be found the rest were poor and ignorant and mixed races in a state of scarcely throughout peopled and poverty re ou k the world here and there or law nor government in s central america may be found an account of a hunt after a government by a american who had been sent to seek for one in central america wanderer running through and after a will o the could not have encountered more perils or been in search of a more phantom in there was nobody to trade with to the south of the along the pacific coast of america there was only one station to which merchants could resort with any prospect of gain � except all the pacific states of south america were from a very imperfect state of under a succession of petty and to the north of the matters were uttle if anything better had ll ne backwards from the time of its revolution and at the best its commerce in the pacific had been confined to a yearly ship between and the throughout and with the exception of a few european and half breed members there were none but savage tribes the russian in the far north had nothing but a paltry trade in with that barely its own expenses neither was there any encouragement to make a short out to the innumerable islands of the pacific the whole of lay outside of the pale of in the group and the northern of new had barely the first seeds of morals and the limited commerce of china and the eastern was by europe and took the route of the cape of hope with the exception of a few annual vessels that w m the sea board states of the north american to and the wool of new notes of travellers wales was but into notice and found its way to england alone round the cape of good hope an american fleet of the and of the same nation carried on a and traffic in hides with in ell and mother of with the islands what then would have been the use of cutting a canal through which there would not have passed five ships in a but twenty years have worked a wondrous revolution in the state and prospects of these regions the traffic of has received it lai development and the of its institutions has been tried the resources of the population of which is mainly of european race is steadily advancing american citizens have founded a state in the have become for all practical purposes an american colony the trade with china � to which the proposed canal would open a convenient ue by a western instead of the present eastern route � is no longer to the river but is open to all nations as r as the the of the has been opened to the by a treaty and cannot long remain	8
the key t down ms back a the clock struck did you think of walking down to f said he certainly said i if you approve very much was reply for i ha i had my legs under the desk all day and shall be to stretch them now i ll tell you what i have for supper mr i have got as which is of home preparation � and a cold roast � which is from the cook s shop i think it s b the master of the shop was a in ei f ours the other day and we let him down a i i reminded him of it when i bought the fowl an r pick us out a good one old had chosen to keep you in the box another day i two we easily have done it he said to i make you a present of the best fowl i i shop i let him of course as far as it goes r property and you don t object to an ag i parent i hope i really thought he was still speaking of the until he added because i have got an aged i at my place i then said what politeness required so you haven t dined with mi yet r pursued as we walked along not yet he told me so � i expect a ve j br he s going to ask your too b ain t there i was not in the habit of aa one of my intimate i he s going to ask the whole gang i � felt by the word and whatever you ho u give you good don t look forward but you ll have excellence and there s br turn thing in his house proceeded b moment s pause as if the remark on understood he never lets a door or b be fastened at night never robbed t a it returned he says and ma it out publicly i want to see the man who ll ill me you i have heard him a hundred men if i have heard him once say to regular � ji iu our front office you know where i live now � is ever drawn there why don t you do a stroke iii with me come can t i tempt you not of them sir would be bold enough to try it on ii love or money they dread him bo much said i dread him said i believe you they not but what he s artful even in his de of them no silver metal every so they wouldn t have much i observed even ah but ie would have much ind they know it ra a scores of om he d ia v i � at � l get and it s impossible to say what he get if lie gave his mind to it ts falling into meditation on my greatness when remarked aa to the absence of that s only his depth you know a river s its depth and li his natural depth look nt his watch chain tht real enough it s veiy massive said i massive repeated i think so a his watch is a gold and worth a pound if it s worth a penny mr there are hundred thieves in this town who know all that watch there s not a man a woman or a among them who wouldn t identify the smallest n that chain and drop it as if it was red hot if into touching it at with such discourse and afterwards i of a more general did mr r and i the time and the road until i gave me to understand that we had arrived in district of it appeared to he a collection of back i and little gardens and to present the as t of a rather dull little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of and the top of it was cut out and painted like a mounted with guns my own doing said looks pi don t it i highly commended it mi ever saw wit i j r the greater part of them and a f too to get in at that s a real yon see said and on sundays i run np a real flag then look after i have crossed this o i tt up � � and cut off the the was a plank and it crossed a chasm four feet wide and two deep but it was very pleasant to the pride with which he hoisted it up and made it fast smiling as he did so with a relish and not merely mechanically at nine o clock every night time said the gun fires there he is you and when you hear him go i think you ll say he s a the piece of referred to was mounted in a separate fortress constructed of work it was protected from tlie weather by an ingenious little contrivance in the nature of an umbrella then at the said out of sight s not to the idea of � for i with me if you have an idea it out � mi keep it up i don t know whether that s your t said decidedly at the back there s a pig and there are fowls i then i knock together my own little i you see and grow and you ll judge � what sort of a i can raise so sir i smiling again but seriously too as ho ik his head j ou can suppose t e tt a it would hold out a devil of a t m y r b then conducted me to a bower about a off but wliich was approached by h of path that it took quite a long time to get k nd in this retreat our glasses were	8
in their walks they a tree bearing in the garden of an english merchant ran back to the prison to get a shilling and came and offered to purchase i am not going to sell to you people said the merchant come and take what you like here interrupted himself to say it was the only tree bearing in the the governor had none or he would have given it to me on the passage from the to germany he had great delight to see the cliffs of england he saw the rocks shining in the sun and three hours later was surprised to find them sunk in the heavens he saw also and immense buildings perhaps and eight years of trouble in its castle in after breakfast mr who had now finally ceased from troubling came on board and carried him ashore in a steam to a large house of the government where he stayed till noon at noon told him he was going to the place where ships are that go to and led him to a very magnificent house with carriages inside and a wonderful roof of glass to wit the railway station they were on the train and then went in something with a house drawn by horses which had windows and many decks plainly an here at or i believe they stayed some while in a house of five hundred rooms then were got on board the as they understood for in england on a sunday were joined en route by the famous dr passed through a narrow passage where they went very slow and which was just like a river and beheld with curiosity that red sea of which they had learned so much in their at last at the hour when the fires bum red they came to a place where sorrows of was a german man of war was called with one of the boys on deck when he found a german officer awaiting him and a steam alongside and was told he must now leave his brother and go elsewhere i cannot go like this he cried you must let me see my brother and the other old men � a term of courtesy who seems always to have been good natured his orders and consented not only to an interview but to allow to continue to accompany the king so these two were carried to the man of war and sailed many a day still supposing themselves bound for and lo she came to a country the like of which they had never dreamed of and cast anchor in the great of and upon that narrow land the were set on shore this was the part of his on which he looked back with the most bitterness it was the last for one thing and he was worn down with the long suspense and terror and deception he could not bear the water and though the were still good to him and gave him beef and and tea he suffered from the lack of vegetable food eight years of trouble in such is the narrative of this simple exile i have not sought to correct it by testimony it is not so much the facts that are historical as the man s attitude no one could hear this tale as he originally told it in my hearing � i think none can read it as here and � without the and simplicity of the and wondering at the want of heart � or want of humour � in so many successive that they should have continued to surround this infant with the secrecy of state chapter iv september to august so was on the throne and behind it and i have now to deal with their brief and reign that it was the reign of needs not to be argued the policy is throughout that of an able over hasty white with eyes and ideas but it should be borne in mind that he had a double task and must first lead his sovereign before he could begin to drive their common subjects meanwhile he himself was exposed if all tales be true to much and interference and to some aid from the and the firm and to one of these the of the i am inclined to attribute his ultimate failure the white enemies of the new were of two in the first stood and eight years of trouble in � the of the two chief rivals of the firm who saw with jealousy a clerk or a so called clerk of their advanced to the chief power the second class that of the officials numbered at first exactly one the english acting is understood to have held strict orders to help germany commander of the the american captain when he arrived on the th october and for some time after seemed devoted to the german interest and spent his days with a german officer captain von who was beloved by all who knew him there remains the american general marsh a young man of high spirit and a generous disposition he had obeyed the orders of his government with a grudge and looked back on his past action with regret almost to be called repentance from the moment of the declaration of war against we find him standing forth in bold consistent and sometimes rather opposition stirring up his government at home with clear and forcible and on the spot grasping at every opportunity to thrust a stick into the german wheels for some while he and fought their difficult battle in in the course of which first one and then the other paid a visit home to reason with the authorities at washington and during the s absence there was found an american clerk in william to perform the duties of the office with remarkable ability and courage the three names just brought together and make the	38
and wandering from babies who had but a week or two of life behind them to crooked old men and women who seemed to have but a week or two of life before them and from bodily carrying out soil of england on their boots to taking away of its and smoke upon their skins every age and occupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass of the decks as my eye glanced round this place i thought i saw sitting by an open port with one of the children near her a figure like s j it first attracted my attention by another figure parting from it with a kiss and as it glided calmly away through the disorder reminding me of � but in the rapid motion and confusion and in the of my own thoughts i lost it again and only knew that the time was come when all visitors were being warned to leave the ship that my nurse was crying on a chest beside me and that mrs the personal history and experience assisted by some younger stooping woman in black was busily arranging mr s goods is there any last r said he is there any one forgotten thing afore we parts one thing said i he touched the younger woman i have mentioned on the shoulder and stood before me heaven bless you you good man cried i you take her with you she answered for him with a burst of tears i could speak no more at that time bat i wrung his hand and if ever i have loved and honored any man i loved and honored that man in my soul the ship was clearing fast of strangers the greatest trial that i had remained i told him what the noble spirit that was gone had given me in charge to say at parting it moved him deeply but when he charged me in return with many messages of affection and regret for those deaf ears he moved me more the time was come i embraced him took my weeping nurse upon my arm and hurried away oh deck i took leave of poor mrs she was looking about for her family even then and her last words to me were that she never would desert mr we went over the side into our boat and lay at a little distance to see the ship on her course it was then calm radiant sunset she lay between us and the red light and every line and was visible against the glow a sight at once so beautiful so mournful and so hopeful as the glorious ship lying still on the flushed water with all the life on board her crowded at the and there for a moment bare headed and silent i never saw silent only for a moment as the sails rose to the wind and the ship began to move there broke from all the boats three cheers which those on board took up and echoed back and which were echoed and re echoed my heart burst out when i heard the sound and beheld the waving of the hats and handkerchiefs � and then i saw her then i saw her at her uncle s side and trembling on his shoulder he pointed to us with an eager hand and she saw us and waved her last to me aye beautiful and drooping cling to him with the utmost trust of thy bruised heart for he has clung to thee with all the might of his great love surrounded by the rosy light and standing high upon the deck apart together she clinging to him and he holding her they solemnly passed away the night had fallen on the hills when we were rowed ashore � and fallen darkly upon me of david chapter absence it was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me haunted by the ghosts of many hopes of many dear many errors many sorrows and regrets i went away from england not knowing even then how great the shock was that i had to bear i left all who were dear to me and went away and believed that i had borne it and it was past as a man upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt and scarcely know that he is struck so i when i was left alone with my heart had no conception of the wound with which it had to strive the knowledge came upon me not quickly but little by little and grain by grain the desolate feeling with which i went abroad deepened and at first it was a heavy sense of loss and sorrow wherein i could distinguish little else by degrees it became a hopeless consciousness of all that i had lost � love friendship interest of all that had been shattered � my first trust my first affection the whole airy castle of my life of all that remained � a ruined blank and waste lying wide around me unbroken to the dark horizon if my grief were selfish i did not know it to be so i mourned for my child taken from her blooming world so young i mourned for him who might have won the love and admiration of thousands as he had won mine long ago i mourned for the broken heart that had found rest in the stormy sea and for the wandering of the simple home where i had heard the night wind blowing when i was a child from the accumulated sadness into which i fell i had at length no hope of ever issuing again i from place to place carrying my burden with me everywhere t felt its whole weight now and i drooped beneath it and i said in my heart that it could never be lightened when this despondency was at its worst i believed that	8
leave my mother without help you were the only child i ve got a sister but somehow she didn t care to go out to work and so i had to go out to service and i heard that more was paid in where i ve got an aunt an i had enough to take me out an i thought maybe i d get my mother out there some day or i d get money enough to make her comfortable what kind of work will you do in new york y i don t believe we ve got any mills i think we get irish linen table and so on oh i m going out to service i can t do heavy work but i can do s work all this time was turning a quarter over in her pocket it was the only american coin she had carried with her through europe and she now took it out slowly and said you ll accept a little something for your kindness in saving my hat i m much obliged miss but i d rather not i d rather have your kind words than any money it s very i ve been since i left she put the quarter back into her pocket with something like shame then she her rings in a strange embarrassment she had made a mess of it she thought at the same time she was glad the girl had so much pride what is your name she asked margaret you must let me help you in some way said miss at last i wonder what kind of people they are in new york now said margaret looking at wistfully it seems dreadful to go so far away and not know in whose house you ll be looked steadily at the girl and then went away promising to see her again she smiled at walter a story had finished his game of and was looking all np and down the deck for miss she did not stop to talk with him however but pushed on to where her mother and father were sitting not far from the mamma i ve been out in the you ll be in the next i don t doubt said her father laughing i ve been talking to the irish girl that caught my hat yesterday you shouldn t talk to people said mrs they might have the or they might not be proper people i suppose cabin passengers might have the too said mr who liked to either wife or daughter i offered the irish girl a quarter and she wouldn t have it you re too free with your money said her mother in a tone of complaint that was habitual the girl wouldn t impose on you said mr she s honest she knew that your hat wasn t worth so much now if you had said fifteen cents � o papa be still and she put her hand over his mouth i want to propose something going to adopt the irish � but here s hand again arrested mr s speech no i m not going to adopt her but i want mamma to take her for upstairs girl when we get home mr made another effort to push away s hand so as to say something but the girl smothered his speech into a i couldn t think of it she s got no and no character maybe she has got her character in her pocket you don t know broke out the father that s where some girls carry their character till it s worn out i ll give her a character said she is a lady if she is a servant that s just what i don t want said mrs with a a servant oh well we must try her how s the girl to get a character if nobody tries her and she s real splendid i think going off to get money to help her mother and i m sure she s had some great sorrow or disappointment you know she s got such a wistful look in her face and when i spoke about she said � there you are again exclaimed the father you ll have a heroine to make your bed every morning but you d better keep your drawers locked for all that now i think that s mean and the young girl a story tried to look stern but the severity vanished when mr of the senior class in college came up to inform miss that the young people were about getting up a party miss accepted the invitation to join in that saying as she departed let s try her anyway if she wants her i suppose i shall have to take her but i wish she had more sense than to go to the for a servant she could hardly find one in the cabin ventured mr so it happened that on arrival in new york margaret was as second girl at the for in an american home the authority is often divided � the mother has the name of ruling the household which the daughter actually how much has the setting to do with a romance the old tales had castles with savage forests and supplied with and galleries leading to where it was necessary to go in the s emergency in our times we like to lay our scenes on a ground of with of lace curtains and oil paintings how then shall i make you understand the real human loves and sorrows that often have play in a girl s heart where there are no better stage than stationary and kitchen was sure that the pretty maid from whose melancholy showed itself through the veil of her perfect health had suffered a disappointment she watched her as she went silently about her work of sweeping and and she knew by a sort	11
to see him about about said laughing that is a secret i m afraid not posed quickly it is well known that you are going to join the party shrugged his shoulders but did not deny the statement one must have excitement he said in a low voice i am bored to death with everything so a little conspiracy will be a change you u get yourself into trouble hinted with the amiable of a near relation pleasure and politics of course and the excitement will be in getting myself out again cousin laughing � but i wish to speak to you about this don t draw my husband into your plot it is not my plot replied the duke is responsible for the whole affair ah there is the excuse me i will see you again when the duke went off turned towards in surprise i hope you are not in any of these mad schemes she said anxiously you may be certain i will tell you everything i do i certainly had some idea of seeing paradise at whose suggestion major s that man is your evil genius well then you are my good genius replied smiling don t be alarmed whatever may be my intention i will commit myself to nothing without your consent and approval looked at him anxiously and would have spoken but at this moment her attention was claimed by a newly arrived guest and she was forced to turn away from her husband when she looked again he was gone the fact was that major had touched his arm and drawn him aside into a quiet comer some new was a piece of music notwithstanding which with the peculiar good breeding characteristic of the fashionable world con in london went on just as usual a few had gathered round the player but the majority of the guests were talking incessantly hardly lowering their voices to do so and amid the general hum of talk and music and his young friend found an opportunity of exchanging a few words have you spoken to asked the major anxiously not yet i have not had an opportunity but will do so shortly at present he is talking to the duke of and we know what that means said significantly he is bent on the same errand as ourselves so i hear and from whom my father in law he knows everything � except how to hold his tongue muttered the major annoyed at being in his information well i wish you would introduce me to at once whenever i get the chance replied hurriedly but we cannot speak of anything serious to him just now of course not ask him to make an appointment about the conspiracy yes but don t hint at such a thing if you do he deny all about it it seems to me hardly worth while his doing so said every one knows that a is in the course of formation pleasure and politics every one does not answered emphatically there are certainly but nothing definite is known why the russian are keeping a close watch on the princess so if they found out her plans she would be in no they are keeping the affair as quiet as possible and there is no evidence that such a thing as a conspiracy is in existence oh i know all about him said the major rapidly it is said that he is in love with the princess � a mere nothing more of which the russian government takes no notice has no power no money � nothing but his title which goes for naught in foreign politics his accession to the party of the princess means nothing whatever mind i do not intend to commit myself with then what is the use of speaking to him at all said in an angry tone every use i i wish to find out the truth of the matter if it is some wild scheme such as itself to i certainly will not pledge myself to interfere in any way but if it is serious business and i can see some possibility of success i will do my best to help the cause � if my wife does not object your wife � why what has she got to do with it everything if i join in this my wife must come with me i have been thinking over the mat in london ter since i saw you last and her will be very useful i don t see it not now but you will when i explain my plans have you any plans yes i have a design for getting the princess to without any one knowing of her presence in the country but � hush said a trifle impatiently this is not the time to discuss these matters you will find that i am not talking without good cause meanwhile let us go and speak to in silence and followed across the room he did not like the imperative tone adopted by and saw that if the young man went in for conspiracy he would do so heart and soul if he � with the aid of his money � succeeded in placing de on the throne it would be as difficult to obtain the ring in as in england for its owner would be as safe in the former country as in the latter however had a most hopeful disposition and so long as he induced to go to trusted that some opportunity would occur him to gain possession of the ring once he had that and the conspiracy could come to naught so far as he was concerned the major was purely on his own account and making use of as a cat s but the young man had proved too clever pleasure and politics for him before and dreaded lest he should do so again at all events the major	12
s bank with more than usual pity and reverence � and i pressing in with the rest of the morbid spectators saw the fair soft white body of the woman i had loved and hated and and driven to her death laid out on the dull hard of stone like a beautiful figure of frozen snow the river had used her tenderly � poor little � it had her gently and had not her delicate limbs or spoilt her pretty face � she looked so wise so sweet and calm that i fancied the cold and muddy must have warmed and brightened to the touch of her drowned beauty yes � the river had her � had her cheeks and left them pale and pure � had kissed her lips and closed them in a happy smile � had swept all her dark hair back from the smooth white brow just to show how prettily the blue veins were under the soft transparent skin � had closed the gentle eyes and pointed the long dark lashes in a downward sleepy fringe � and had made of one little dead girl so wondrous and piteous a picture that otherwise hard hearted women sobbed at sight of it and strong men turned away with hushed footsteps and eyes the very officials at the were � they stood apart and looked on solemnly � one of them raised the tiny white hand and examined a ring on the finger a not in gold and seemed about to draw it off but on second thoughts left it where it was i knew that ring well � had given it to her � it was a for which she had always had a sentimental fondness such as girls often indulge in for perfectly worthless i stared and stared � i on every detail of that delicate half form � and m brain was steady enough to remind me that now � now it was my duty to identify the poor little corpse without a moment s delay so that it might be borne reverently to the care of the de and st then it would receive proper and honourable � and like shakespeare s would have her maiden and the bringing home of bell and burial but no � i put away the suggestion as soon as it occurred to me i took a peculiar delight in thinking that if her body were not identified within the proper interval she too like her lover would be cast into the general ditch of death without a name without a right to memory my and intelligence found a vivid pleasure in the contemplation of such petty and unnecessary cruelty � it seemed good to me to spite upon the dead � and as i have already told you the brain of a confirmed the most ideas as both beautiful and just if you doubt what i say make inquiries at any of the large lunatic in france � ask to be told some of the of who form the largest of brains gone wrong � and you will hear enough to form material for a hundred worse histories than mine what can you expect from a man who has poisoned his blood and killed his conscience you may talk of the soul as you but the soul can only make itself manifest in this life through the senses � and if the senses are and how can the messages of the spirit be otherwise than and also and so yielding to the devilish working within me i held my peace and gave no sign as to the identity of � but i went to the so frequently nearly every hour in fact and stared so long and persistently at her dead body that my conduct at last attracted some attention from the authorities in charge one evening the third i think after she had been laid there an official tapped me on the arm pardon seems to know the corpse i looked at him angrily and though there were a few people standing us i gave him the lie direct you mistake i know nothing he eyed me with suspicion and you seem to take a strange interest in the sight of the poor creature all the same well what of that i retorted the girl dead is beautiful i am an artist � i have the soul of and i laughed beauty � and i study it wherever i find it dead or living � is that so strange but certainly no not at all said the his shoulders and still looking at me only there is just this one little thing that i would say if we could obtain any idea however slight � any small clue which we might follow up as to the proper of this so we should be glad she was a lady of gentle birth and breeding � we have no doubt of that � but the linen she wore was � we can find no name anywhere except one contained in a she wore my nerves shook and i controlled myself with what sort of i asked oh a mere trifle � of no value whatever we opened it of course � it had nothing inside but a withered rose leaf and a small slip of paper on which was written one word that may be the name of a place or a person � we do not know it does not help us no � it did not help them � but it helped me i � helped me to keep my rage more firmly fixed upon that helpless smiling looking thing that lay before me in such solemn and chilly a withered rose leaf and the name of that accursed priest � these were her sole treasures were they � all she cared to save from the of her brief summer time i well well women are	33
to br n l were the work to half present � w � will be wi � w lu rf a of i ii l f of tbe text par id � x r r i fr i vol � f our thk n ed ki � ur by l n n slid ai of n � � i � f � the are on fur the il i ji ul lie n� de bring t � lo of till th r w� � i m i mil im b ab � sell � f by ihe art ol and i re i w i r � � r i ii i � own l i � � � � � � � � � � � � � � jf lu v � i� ll c re t r e h ii os � � � � i h� il d in fc i e only were toy loi j r lit in li i ami � k in b l o l h i f kept k ill il � i� f i ol t in the tl i e m il p j j tu i c of i u il o ro take io all ni h i y in i i � � f ihe i il � � � � r � may l� n h� u of ti � r mm a in and � na wilt t c � f the � � i f an i ami il w of � � v add of i i a an tn the of i w l the in ihe be r ot in i ui tt of i ui h a latin i � iii lit in � ar if i p tt m � � do � m for and in int i i if men i l in i il ft i a p ard � i ol t be t � � � � � mt ut � l � ai m i l ami al to of a am ir i ti r f in of i� r ri m ir � � til r � often in i ir t i and be their i thi w d in infant with are f � of a � � f � � im il its an of i � � � im and to all who know i � � rather by � j k r l i b j il li ul in the and a of l i r pa r t i and u � � a rim c ia � r im en ri ia i a � � of ii aa e in d n witli the ain in in o j c if for a � other derived from i � t ai rapidity of in mi u h il to � iu re � s pi period of a j nt and i ii � to � � for of � � p rt lie rapidly de ami bu e ir al lu to paint tie tu an l e tl o cr die u be mix are � � d from m in r on and th� of at that ami � f i i uie l i r u � it partly i i � i i li i i l tv � � ci i � � au to n j r un a � f s � air i it en � � � � n � ll ii j france � l t l b if rt i i mute genius d � i na til on ii hi il mom � r ch ill of ij ill ii in the il i � ii of ij i � � � � r� o v � i were t th� r� � u us ot c tl tr wo l c to ne re it � h hm wc our ihe rf in � � i lo in h mi could i t � � aw or ril ll r wc fo a i u of ox a id o hid mo ed by n um � i i tl he l jo i of t in a � jn t th of in our s � l t a wc to ha � n � � lt ihe from did i daring of e to i m � � n i c i mi of our f i � i i ih ii � � � n � n v i p ct t ill � iii v ir m e � fl � � � � � r wh i tl no in � c� i � t � tj ci la un tl at of � � � � tv l a ii m n � i � n l � n m ami ma � � r ii a r ih ui i o m i � � i oi more ji n a � i � � � � � � � � � � � ui i i� i ii ii r i iii an � � i t ta ut of hi d l n il � l v i� ui i i i tn as ua t of of the ir far u um ot ill at bi i t it l ua i j iv la toil i � � � t � � � tin a r i i i l � m mad t � mil i f ul t f � � i u m � t u n � t ill w � � � � � � � � � � � in ir fr lu h� t i ii � tl ii iii n ui � i u un j tu fc dr i iii u r va t f t	48
is not a principle alone that is involved what do they expect to gain the but that those who crowd this measure with so honorable from much and earnestness must expect that says that by thus the freedom or slavery shall gain something promise they a by it in those regions the case then stands on which tbe inhabitants of and thus in and freedom may may write whatever they will this is the lose but certainly can gain nothing while great principle of the bill as he it very may gain but as certainly can lose no well gain is there in that you ate a constitution of freedom if they write a so far ae i am concerned the time for looking new constitution of freedom can the new be on the dark side has passed i feel quite sure than tbe old if they write a slavery at most can get nothing more than tion of slavery will it not be a worse one i while the wider northern ask the honorable that hut tho will under existing circumstances says that people of fur the reason that its soil and climate are will have the privilege of establishing institutions ir themselves they have now the privilege of free institutions is it a privilege then to establish slavery if so what a sugar cotton and tobacco moreover establishing free institutions is it a directed toward tbe i ery are all our which a hope that slavery may be prevented oven inhabitants from free from gaining a in institutions and establishing institutions of gives consent but it does not and cannot very i sir it is a a to talk of introduce slavery there slavery will be em upon a country already secure in tbe by own no blessings of freedom the power of i am sure the possible re tion of the african slave trade the tide of what mankind everywhere want is not tbe to is therefore to be supplied removal of the of freedom which there solely by tbe domestic fountain of slave pro they have that they may make at their pleasure but slavery also other regions be of slavery or of freedom but tbe be filled from that fountain there privilege of retaining of freedom are all of new and all of already when they already have them and tho removal within the united states and then there of of slavery when they have thorn that slave labor and life as fast as any that they may establish of freedom states can supply it and in their place we hold on to all besides these regions there remains ad of existing of freedom who down to the the stream of slave any man for diligently to such labor flowing from so small a fountain and who would dare to ken into several will not any one for to our existing the struggle for slavery if they wore of and slavery but it is supposed by some that this principle is less important in regard to and than as a general one � a general principle to all other present and u re of the united states do honorable then indeed suppose they are establishing a principle at all if so i think they whether the principle is either good or bad right or wrong they are not establishing it and cannot establish it in this way you one law by making another law in its place that is all will your law have any more weight authority solemnity or binding force on future than the first had you the law of your others will have equal power and equal liberty to yours you allow no around the old law to protect it from you erect none around your new law to stay the hand of future on what ground do yoa expect the new law to stand if you are candid you will confess that you rest your assumption on the ground that the free states will never but always it may be that you are right i am not going to the course of the free states i claim no authority to speak for them and still less to say what they will do but i may venture to say that if they shall not this law it will not be because they are not strong enough to do it they have power in the house of representatives greater than that of the slave states � nd when they choose to exercise it a power greater even here in the the free states re not dull scholars even in practical political when you shall have taught them that a compromise law establishing freedom can be and the union nevertheless stand you will have let them into another secret namely that a law permitting or establishing slavery can be and the union nevertheless remain firm if you inquire why they do not stand by their rights and their interests more firmly i will tell you to the best of my ability it is because they are conscious of their strength and therefore and slow to apprehend danger the reason why you prevail in so many because you are in perpetual fear there cannot be a of in hall or the though it consists of men and women who have separated themselves from all effective political parties and who have all political even though they resolve that they will vote for nobody not even for themselves to carry out their purposes and though they practice on that resolution but you take alarm and your agitation renders necessary such as those of and of we are young in the arts of politics you are old we are strong you are weak wo are therefore careless and indifferent you are and active these are traits that to your praise they are mentioned not in your i say only that there may be an extent of of on	19
under you sorry for it i said he should attend his own cure � mr they laughed of course you don t credit that story about miss s marriage with lord suddenly god s good man i am slow to believe anything i hear � replied john � but � is it quite without foundation looked him straight in the eyes quite i very quite most quite my dear you are pale a change even a brief one will do you good go and see your bishop by all means and tell him how nearly how very nearly you gave to the calling of a by knocking down a rascal i they parted then and by was in the train away from st best at the rate of fifty miles an hour to one of the great cities where human beings swarm together more thickly than bees in a hive and and each other s lives out in the desperate struggle for mere bread and were left sole masters of the and its garden and both man and dog were depressed in spirits and more or less restless and discontented tain t what it used to be by no manner o means � muttered looking with a dejected air round the orchard where the wall fruit was hanging in green clusters of promise � don t seem to care an when he don t care then i don t care why it seems t other day twas may morning an he was frost on his shoulder an all the children wi the into the big meadow an all was as right as right could be � yet ere we re just in august an everything s like lord lord � ow trifles do make up a sum o life to be sure as the � for all what s naught in any wise miss as come ome to her own � an she s ad a few friends from with er that s simple enough as simple as in a lawn then miss s that is to be comes down an stays with old at the all in order to be near is sweet art there ain t out of the common in that it s all as plain as an ain t done either but jest his as he it � he ain t been up to the more n once � he ain t been at the all � an miss she ain t been ere neither since the day he broke his best for her so it can t be she what s done mischief � nor him nor any on em so i to myself what is it what s come over the old place what s come over neither place nor man s the same somehow yet if i know where the change comes in it s like one of the ways o the lord past out he might have thought there was something still more to god s good man wonder at if he could have looked into s cottage that evening and seen there sitting on a low stool at the old man s knee and patting his wrinkled hand tenderly while she talked to him in a soft and he listened with grave and sagacity though also with something of sorrow an so ye think it s the way my beauty he anxiously � there ain t no other comer round it i m afraid not dear she answered with a sigh � and i m telling you all about it because you knew my father and because you saw me when i was a little child you would not like me to marry a man whom i hate � a man who is bad right through and who only wants my aunt s money which he would get if i consented to be his wife i am sure you don t think money is the best thing in life do you � i know you agree with me that love is better looked down upon her where she sat with an almost devout tenderness love s the thing in the world worth an my beauty i he said � an love s you an you re sure to get i wouldn t see squire s married for money no not if it was a gold mine � i d rather see er in er grave i an i don t want to see er with a lord nor a duke � i u be content to see er with a good man if the lord will grant me that fore i die i an you do as you feels to be right an all things work together for good to them as loves the lord that s s an rare good it at this rose rather hurriedly and put on her hat tying its strings slowly under her chin good bye dear � she said � it won t be for very long but you must keep my secret � you mustn t say a word not even � here she paused and laughed a little � not even to the parson you re so fond of looked at her sideways with a meditative expression be gone away � he said a little smile creeping among the kindly wrinkles of his brown face � he back till sunday gone away was quite unconscious of the of pain in her voice as she asked the question as she was equally of the startled sorrow in her pretty eyes ah my beauty gone away � repeated with a curious sort of placid satisfaction � he be god s good man like an a change o scene do im good an bring im back all the better for it he came an said good bye to me this stood for a moment why had he gone away her brows met in a little line	33
this crush � � mr wiu you tell my aunt that i shall be back almost directly and before mrs who on her side was impatiently expecting the twice could notice what was happening with no very clear idea where he was going was mounting a staircase by s side seemed to him more than ever that evening and he was beginning to with triumph at the idea of having when her first words somewhat dashed his confidence you do come from him don t you she said ah i knew it i no � no ice thank you they were passing a a s idol at the head of the stairs see this library quiet now tell me � why isn t he here it was cool and dim in the library with its sombre colouring of and mahogany seen by shaded lamps they had the place to themselves and could not have found a better opportunity though his thoughts were too sadly fluttered by this ill timed reference to to avail himself of it just then he was a after his dinner he said he ask me to make his cried i can t believe that � you are deceiving me something � some misfortune has happened to him � please tell me all no no he is quite well � there has happen and me he is not for you so to care i you are against him too i thought you were his friend i not any he has done it himself and i am i shall make you angry and if you only could tell me it is not you felt for mr had anyone else asked such a question she would have been but had a child s of you ve no right to any answer when you put such questions as that she said still just this once i will satisfy your curiosity mr is nothing to me � do you understand � nothing ah i how you make me glad he exclaimed with a deep sigh of relief which imagined was on i account in the luck turns more than once then ro mr has not told you she said i thought you came from him you know we were once engaged and then it was broken off and i always be very very grateful to you because you first made me suspect that there might be an excuse for him i could never have dreamed of and now i am sure of it and � � and we met only this afternoon and everything is as it used to be the poor man s castle came rattling down about his ears perhaps it was the dust it made that choked and blinded him for a few moments he was indeed unfortunate no sooner had as he imagined hopelessly himself than a new rival presented himself in the shape of and just when he had ceased to be formidable reappeared triumphant no he said i did not know � i did not know that yes and she added anxiously he was to have been here to night but it is so late and i can t help uneasy even when he has got rid of the idol at last how got rid inquired and told him what she had been told herself i tell you will he get rid of it in such way it will come back time more and more angry he said when he had heard her story he will not what it wants and i myself i can only guess but i suspect that in the s was a which makes a great but you can find out surely urged a fallen idol not unless i and you forget we no more i have him oflf yes i am sorry said with a gloomy satisfaction te could not altogether disguise but i am mr is having more with that idol and that is why he is not here to night oh but it can t be that it s all so impossible cried and yet he believed it it may be all true � that wicked thing may have come back oh do help us too late he said without my i cannot know if i am right about the and the remedy and with him i quarrel but you can make friends with him again he may be more amiable when you come to know him better and if is in danger see i gave him that thing and if any more mischief were to come from it it would kill me it would really you ask me to do all this he cried almost savagely � to back to my s feet like a beaten if i never had seen you so would i still be for your sake i my and my both i would be free to � yes i tell you it was and for you and now you want me to eat my to put my bride in my and myself a fool � all for mr was beyond all measure surprised and shocked it had never occurred to her that there was any room in s head for thoughts of love i am so sorry so very sorry she said looking at him with eyes in which the luck turns more than once in which wonder was still lingering if i had known i would never have pained you like this and now you have told me i can t of course ask for your help after all we may be ourselves about nothing don t you think so but it is the uncertainty that s so dreadful and the not having any idea what to do her sorrow and resignation seemed to produce a in do not please he entreated or i also shall � and i so i been a fool ever to you might me � ever to	44
fair and of could not have been more on tlie of the gallant tribe of than was that of the kind hearted fair ones of new on the de of their every maiden fondly crammed the j of her hero with and nuts � many a copper ri i was exchanged and crooked sixpence broken in pledge of eternal constancy � the expedition sails and there remain to this day some love � verses written on that occasion sufficiently and incomprehensible to confound the whole universe but it moving sight to see the how they hung about the van � for he was a jolly rosy faced bachelor fond of his joke and withal a desperate rogue among the women fain would have kept him to comfort them while the army was away for besides what i have said of it is no more than justice to add that he was a kind hearted soul noted for his attentions in comforting wives during the absence of their husbands � and this made him to be very much regarded by the honest of the city but nothing could keep the from following the heels of the old governor whom he loved as he did his very soul � so all the young and giving every one of them that had good teeth and rosy lips a dozen hearty be departed loaded with their kind wishes nor was the departure of the gallant peter among the least causes of public distress though the old governor was by no means indulgent to the follies and of his subjects yet some how or other he had become strangely popular among tbe people there is something i popularity op so in personal bravery that with the common mass of mankind it takes the lead of most other merits the simple folk of new looked upon peter as a of his wooden leg that of his martial was regarded with reverence and admiration every old had a of miraculous stories to tell about the exploits of wherewith he his children of a long winter night and on which he dwelt with as much delight and as do our honest country on the hardy adventures of old general or as he is familiarly termed old put during our glorious revolution � not an individual but verily believed the old governor was a match for himself and there was even a story told with great mystery and under the rose of his having shot the devil with a silver bullet one dark stormy night as he was sailing in a through hell gate � but this i do not record as being an absolute fact � perish the man who would let fall a drop to the pure stream of history certain it is not an old woman in new but considered peter as a tower of strength and rested satisfied that the public welfare was secure so long as he was in be city it is surprising that they looked bis upon his departure as a sore affliction with heavy hearts they dragged at the heels of hia troop as they marched down to the river side to the governor from the stern of his gave a short but truly address to his citizens wherein he recommended to like loyal and subjects � to go to church regularly on sundays and to mind their business all the week besides � that the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their after nobody s concerns but their own all and morning � and carrying short tongues and long that the men should from in public concerns the cares of government to the officers appointed to support them � staying at home like good citizens making money for themselves and getting children for the benefit of their country that the should look well to the public interest � not the poor nor indulging the rich � not their security to devise new laws but faithfully those which were already made � rather bending their attention to prevent evil than to punish it ever civil should consider themselves more as of public morals than rat employed to public finally final departure of the he them one and all high and low rich and poor to conduct themselves as well as they could them that if they and complied with this golden rule there was no danger but that they all conduct themselves well enough � this done he gave them a paternal the sounded a most loving farewell with trumpet the jolly put up a shout of triumph and the invincible swept down the bay the good people of new crowded down to the battery � that resort firom whence so many a tender prayer has been so many a fair hand waved so many a look been cast by love sick after the bark bearing her adventurous to distant � here the watched with straining eyes the gallant as it slowly floated down the bay and when the intervening land at the shut it from their sight gradually dispersed with silent tongues and downcast countenances a heavy gloom hung over the late bustling city � the honest smoked their pipes in profound casting many a wistful look to the weather cock on the church of saint and ail the old women having no longer the presence of peter to it arrives in the them gathered their children home and the doors and windows every evening at sun down in the mean while the of tlie sturdy peter proceeded on its voyage and after about as many storms and water and and other horrors and phenomena as generally adventurous in perilous voyages of the kind and after a severe from that deplorable and malady called sea sickness the whole arrived safely in the without so much as dropping anchor and giving his wearied ships time to breathe after so long in the ocean the peter pursued his course up the	48
man is my friend for he is without an exception the highest minded the most independent spirited most original spiritual classical the most thoroughly if not and at the same time the most dog i know but sir i have not the vanity to attempt to pass for any other man in the wide world i am equal to but is i frankly confess a great many cuts above me therefore you are wrong i judged from this said mr out the cover of the letter no doubt you did returned the but mr the whole thing itself into an instance of the peculiarities of genius eveiy man of true genius has his peculiarity sir the peculiarity of my friend is that vol t and of he is always waiting round the comer he is perpetually round the comer sir he is round the comer at this instant now said the gentleman sha his forefinger before his nose and planting his legs wider apart as he looked attentively in mr s face that is a remarkably curious and interesting trait in mr s character and whenever s life comes to be written that trait must be thoroughly worked out by his or society will not be satisfied observe me society will not be satisfied mr s sir whoever he may be resumed the gentleman must apply to me or if i am gone to that what s his name from which no comes back he must apply to my for leave to search among my papers i have taken a few notes in my poor way of some of that man s proceedings � my adopted brother sir � which you he made use of an expression sir only on the of last month when he couldn t meet a little bill and the other party wouldn t renew which would have done honor to napoleon in addressing the french army and pray asked mr obviously not quite at his ease what may be mr s business here if i may be permitted to inquire who am compelled by a regard for my own character to all interest in his proceedings in the first place returned the gentleman you will permit me to say that i object to that remark and that i strongly and indignantly protest against it on behalf of my friend in the next place you will give me leave to introduce myself my name sir is the name of e wiu perhaps be familiar to you in connection with the most remarkable events of the war mr gently shook his head no matter said the gentleman that man was my father and i bear his name i am consequently proud � proud as excuse me one moment i desire my friend to be present at the remainder of this conference with announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the blue and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself who was wrapped in an old blue cloak with a of faded scarlet his sharp features being much pinched and by long waiting in the cold and his straggling red whiskers and hair being si more than usually m the same cause he looked rather and uncomfortable than or now said mr clapping one hand on the shoulder of his mend and calling mr s attention to him with the other you two are related and relations never did agree and never will which is a wise and an inevitable thing or there would be none but family parties and everybody in the world would bore everybody else to death if you were on good terms i should consider you a most unnatural pair but standing towards each other as you do i look upon you as a couple of devilish deep fellows who may be reasoned with to any extent here mr whose great abilities seemed one and all to towards the quarter of the moral compass his mend stealthily with his elbow and whispered in his ear said mr aloud in the high tone of one who was not to be with i shall come to that presently i act upon my own responsibility or not at all to the extent of such a loan as a to a man of your talents i look upon mr as certain and seeing at this juncture that the expression of mr s by no means that he shared this certainty mr laid his finger on his nose again for that gentleman s private and especial calling upon him thereby to take notice that the of small was another instance of th peculiarities of genius as developed in his mend that he winked at the same because of the strong interest which these weaknesses possessed and that in reference to his own personal of such small advances he merely consulted the humour of his mend without the least regard to his own advantage or necessities oh added mr surveying his adopted brother with an air of profound contemplation after this piece of � you are upon my life a strange instance of the little that beset a mighty mind if there had never been a in the world i should have been quite certain � rom my observation of you that there were spots on the sun i wish i may die if this isn t the state of existence that we find ourselves forced b and of into without knowing why or wherefore mr well never mind as we will the world goes on as hamlet says may lay about him with his club in every possible direction but he can t prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets life s a riddle a most hard riddle to g ess mr my own opinion is that like that celebrated why	8
to the ceiling but where the ceiling f and the door i said to myself we re two stories j � t ie are wide enough for one i one glance at he was lying in bed wide awake looking straight at me i ran something struck i on the head as i bolted downstairs � kept running i suppose the knock i got dazed me for i don t remember much of anything till i found myself a coward in a a mile from the town i was roused by the warm blood running down my nose and heard myself to exactly how it had happened when i crawled back to the town they told me that all the houses near the inn were in ruins and that a dozen people had been killed was among them of course the ceiling had come down on him mr wiped his forehead sat looking away from him two days later came back i began to tell him the story but he interrupted me there was no one with him at the time then i you d left him alone no he wasn t alone who was with him you said the sister was out with him � you n him shall never forget s look i believe i had meant to explain to accuse myself to shout out my agony of soul but i saw the of it a door had been shut between us neither of us spoke an i other word he was very kind to me on the way i home he looked after me in a way that i good deal harder to stand than his open contempt i saw the man was honestly trying to pity me but it was no good � he simply couldn t s a coward mr rose slowly with a certain shall we turn toward home p perhaps m keeping you they walked on a few steps in silence then he tliat business altered my whole life of course i t to have allowed it to � that was another form of cowardice but i saw myself only with s eyes � it is one of the worst miseries of youth that one is always trying to be somebody else i had meant to be a � i saw i d better go home and study law it s a childish fancy a of the primitive savage if you like but from that hour to this i ve day and night for a chance to my � self to set myself right with the man i meant to be i want to prove to that man that it was all an � an unaccountable from my normal instincts that having once been a coward does n t mean that a man s cowardly and i can t i can t i mr s tone had passed from agitation to irony he had t back to his usual stand point why i m a perfect branch he concluded with his dry indulgent laugh the very babies stop crying at my approach � i carry a sort of about with me � i d make my fortune aa an agent of n� l i the peace society i shall go to the grave leaving that i other man walked back with him to on her l they met mrs flushed and i with a card case and dusty boots i don t ask you in she said to because i can t answer for the food this evening my of all work tells me that she s going to a ball � is more than i ve done in years and besides fit would be cruel to ask you to spend such a hot i evening in our little house � the air is so much i cooler at mrs s remember me to mrs i please and tell her how sorry i am that i can no i longer include her in my round of visits when i had carriage i saw the people i liked but now that fl have to walk my social opportunities are more � limited i was not obliged to do my visiting on foot t when i was younger and my doctor tells me that to i persons accustomed to a carriage no exercise is more i injurious than walking she glanced at her husband with a smile of sweetness fortunately she concluded it with mr i s the twilight of the god i i the twilight of the god i a room a through ike windows a edged ike cliffs ike sea sits reading war � la d in and a cap i back already i war and the wind dropped � it turned into a � � � drifting race took me off the on his what time b it two o clock where s mrs p on her way to new york to new york precisely the boat must be just leaving she started an ago and took with her in fact i m alone in the house � that is until this evening some people are coming then but what in the world � her aunt mrs has had a fit she has them constantly they re not serious � at least they would n t be if mrs were not so rich � and naturally under the circumstances feels a peculiar sympathy for her her position is such a sod one there s positively no s one to care whether she lives or dies � except her of course they all rush to whenever she has a fit it s hard an for she lives the farthest away but she has come to an understanding with the housekeeper who always her first so that she gets a start of several hours she will be at to night at ten and she has calculated that the others can t possibly arrive before	10
life of alexander or of yet by no means so easy to find one who could do justice to napoleon lord bacon was right in leaving his name and memory to foreign nations and to mine own countrymen after some time be passed over we are far from thinking lord bacon so great as many men esteem him but at his death there was no man among his own countrymen or in foreign nations meet to be his judge the followers of collected only a few scanty of the man and they who have since undertaken his life are proofs that the world has not caught up with his thoughts nor its foremost men risen high enough to examine to and to judge a spirit so but after all no advance of mankind no culture however nice and extensive will ever enable a or a to write the life of a or even a it no y character of mr as an march would be hard even now to find a man in d or out of it competent to give us the biography of even if he had all that annals and might furnish now an historian is to a nation what a is to a man he is not a bare to the of a nation and his reader with a mere of events however great and brilliantly colored � events which have a connection of time and place but no meaning coming from no recognized cause and leading to no conclusion he is to give us the nation s life � its outer life in the civil military and commercial transactions its inner life in the thought and feeling of the people if the historian undertake the entire of a nation that has completed its career of existence then he must describe the country as it was when the people first appeared to take possession thereof and point out e successive changes which they e� therein the position of the country its natural features � its waters mountains plains its soil climate and productions � all are important elements which help the character of the nation the historian is to tell of the n of the people of their rise their decline their fall and end to show how they acted on the world and the world on them � what was given and received the causes which advanced or the nation are to be sought and their action explained he is to inquire what sentiments and ideas in the nation whence they came from without the people or from within how they got organized and with what result hence not merely are the civil and military transactions to be looked after but the philosophy which in the nation is to be ascertained and of the laws and religion the historian is to describe the condition of the people � the state of commerce and the arts � both the useful and the beautiful to inform us of the means of internal communication of the intercourse with other nations � military commercial literary or religious he must tell of the social state of the people the relation of the to the soil the relation of class to class it is important to know how the of the state are raised how the taxes are � on person or property directly or indirectly in what manner they are collected and how a particular tax affects the of the people the writer of a nation s life must look at the whole people not merely at any one class noble or and of mr an most ve the net result of their entire action so that at the end of his book we can say this people had such sentiments and ideas which led to this and the other deeds and institutions which have been attended by such and such results they added this or that to the general achievement of tiie human race now in the history of each nation there are some men in whom the spirit of the nation seems to � either because they are more the nation than the nation is itself or because by their eminent power they the tion to take the form of these individuals such men are to be distinctly studied and carefully for while the nation s genius they are an of its history la a first survey we know a nation best by its great men as a country by its mountains and its plains its waters and its shores � by its great characters still while these eminent men are to be put in the of the picture the class is by no means to be neglected in the family of man there are elder and younger brothers it is a poor history which either class a few facts from the every day life of the merchant the slave the peasant the are often worth more as signs of the times than a chapter which relates the of a though these are not to be overlooked it is well to know what songs the peasant sung what prayers he prayed what food he ate what tools he wrought with what tax he how he stood connected with the soil how he was brought to war and what weapons armed him for the fight it is not very important to know whether general commanded on the right or the left whether he charged or whether he rode a bright chestnut horse or a gray nor whether he got dismounted by the breaking of his saddle or the stumbling of his beast but it is important to know whether the soldiers were well or ill and whether they came voluntarily to the war and fought in with a will or were brought to the conflict against their own consent not much caring which side was victorious in telling what has been the historian is also to tell what ought	37
and were invited to dine at the and she was excluded it was meant and done by mrs grant with perfect good humor on mr s account who was partly expected at the park that day but it was felt as a very grievous injury and her good manners were severely to conceal her vexation and anger till she reached home as mr did not come the injury was increased and she had not even the relief of showing her power over him she could only be sullen to her mother aunt and cousin and throw as great a gloom as possible over their dinner and between ten and eleven and walked into the drawing room fresh with the evening air glowing and cheerful the very reverse of what they found in the three ladies sitting there for maria would scarcely raise her eyes from her book and lady was half asleep and even mrs by her niece s ill humor and having asked one or two questions about the dinner which were not immediately attended to seemed almost determined to say no more for a few minutes the brother and sister were too eager in their praise of the night and their remarks on the stars to think beyond themselves but when the first pause came looking around said but where is is she gone to bed no not that i know of replied mrs she was here a moment ago her own gentle voice speaking from the other end of the room which was a very long one told them that she was on the sofa mrs began scolding that is a very foolish trick to be away all the evening upon a sofa why cannot you come and sit here and employ yourself as we do if you have no work of your own i can supply you from the poor basket there is all the new that was bought last week not touched yet i am sure i almost broke my back by cutting it out you should learn to think of other people and take my word for it it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always upon a sofa before half this was said was returned to her seat at the table and had taken up her work again and who was in high good humor from the pleasures of the day did her the justice of exclaiming i must say ma am that is as little upon the sofa as anybody in the house said after looking at her attentively i am sure you have the headache she could not deny it but said it was not very bad i can hardly believe you he replied i know your looks too well how long have you had it since a little before dinner it is nothing but the heat did you go out in the heat go out to be sure she did said mrs would you have her stay within such a fine day as this were not we all out even your mother was out to day for above an hour park yes indeed added her who had been thoroughly awakened by mrs s sharp to i was out above an hour i sat three quarters of ui hour in the flower garden while cut the roses and very pleasant it was i assure you but very hot it was shady enough in the but i i quite dreaded the coming home again has been cutting roses has she yes and i am afraid they will be the last this year poor thing she found it hot enough but they were so full blown that one could not wait there was no help for it certainly rejoined mrs in a rather softened voice but i question whether her headache might not be caught then sister there is nothing so likely to give it as standing and stooping in a hot sun but i dare say it will be well to morrow suppose you let her have your i always forget to have mine filled she has got it said lady she has had it ever since she came back from your house the second time what i cried has she been walking as well as cutting roses � walking across the hot park to your house and doing it twice ma am so wonder her head mrs was talking to and did not hear i was afraid it would be too much for her said lady but when the roses were gathered your aunt wished to have them and then you know they must be taken home park but were there roses enough to her to go twice no but they were to be put into the spare room to dry and forgot to lock the door of the room and bring away the key so she was obliged to go again got up and walked about the room saying could nobody be employed on such an errand but upon my word ma am it has been a very ill managed business i am sure i do not know how it was to have been done better cried mrs unable to be longer deaf unless i had gone myself indeed but i cannot be in two places at once and i was talking to mr � at that very time about your mother s by her desire and had promised john groom to write to mrs about his son and the poor fellow was waiting for me half an hour i think nobody can justly accuse me of myself upon any occasion but really i cannot do everything at once and as for s just stepping down to my house for me � it is not much above a quarter of a mile � i cannot think i was unreasonable to ask it how often do i pace it three times a day early and late ay	26
the show of love for the name s sake i june the poet at last g of the world hoping to find his peace and lie of ike spirit m entire � be all the earth a only let me go on go on stiu hoping ever and anon to one eve the better land then did the i knew him through the dread as ihe whole god within his me ea te a breaks � no paradise stands barred to entry spite of dreary moments hope is and the poet knows that mercy every way is so cordial is oar agreement the pore spirit of au this that we cannot spend a word upon in with this of ous love the reader can return to the power and beauty of this world with such loving in ad the verse of mr and permit them amid enjoyment to worship of the unseen world the kingdom of to these partial shows of time thanks to mr we learn m� n his poem to mingle content with we will keep of earth every beautiful line that he has to the treasury of poets every minute marvel with which god us to of the of heaven all partial beauty is a pledge of that the pledge shall not suffice our mood yet we cannot refuse to love it now with a tranquil hope nothing of late has so lifted the veil behind our customary routine and feeling letting in upon them of glory from tiie sphere of perfect beauty as the latter half of eve with its hues its its thought we forbear to mar tiie sustained and solemn grace the poem by of that which every man must buy and read it has the full vital force of all the other strokes from tiie same pen there is no easy sentiment for summer and reading it is not an amusement for that as the word carries us oftener from mu e than keeps us m their instructive o mr makes our senses alert we to him m a reverie but with self possessed sometimes even his best images require a to clutch them are not confused and i br poem dim but palpable the handle towards the hand the the way it ought to go this is true of all his works we think we can p in christmas and � day that mr has also gained clearness without a single of indeed its power is materially increased for his pen serves the thought with a greater regard for human sympathy such lofty beauty which the many need is more to the style of the many without ever stooping to win by a its subtle energies is it too much to say that with this pen for his mr can exact the homage of hearts f he will permit us to apply to his of truth and beauty what he says of the chief best way of worship � � � let me strive to find it and when my fellows also take their share we deem that he possesses all the gifts and the needed by the great artist and he makes us conscious of a that can command their services for the ood of men give the world a direction towards the good says to the artist you have given it direction if as a teacher you its thoughts to the necessary and eternal if while acting or you the necessary and eternal into an object of its impulse create the conquering truth in the modest stillness of your soul array it in a form of beauty that not only thought may pay it homage but sense lovingly comprehend its presence last words of admiration and gratitude linger on our pen we for every future line of mr a cordial welcome here and it is pleasant to think that he cannot regard the warm personal he has unconsciously established here with indifference we assure him that he can take his piece entitled time s and for a friend in the first line read friends the passage to express our ever increasing regard for the books he writes contrive contrive to rouse us i who s alive our men scarce seem in earnest now distinguished names i � but tis somehow as if they played at being names still more like the games of children turn our sport to earnest of the y � � of the united of america from the of the continent to the of government under by id three volumes new york k brothers at the present day the united states present one of the most interesting and important political phenomena ever offered in the history of mankind england has planted her colonies in new holland in new in the east and the west indies at cape good hope and at at and in the islands of the pacific she has forced an entrance into china she to get firm footing in and her children wander they carry the seed out of which british institutions are sure to grow institutions however which never produce like but nobler and better on another soil all mention of ireland abundantly treated in a previous article america was the oldest of these colonies the first to itself from the parent stem and is perhaps the prophecy of what most of the others are destined to become it must be a vigorous tribe of men which can hold so vast a portion of the earth while themselves are so few in numbers three hundred years ago in the reign of edward the sixth england was a third rate power in europe her population was less than three millions her were trying and consisted of the raw materials of her clumsy and her treasures which the had traversed the ocean to purchase two thousand before her soil could hardly raise a scotland was independent ireland not wholly subject to english rule wales had	37
in upon the floor of the box what he tried to do was to cover up one of the in the box so that no part of it could be seen if he did so he was to have a prize and he paid two for the privilege of playing the consisted of little articles of cheap images and other similar things which were all placed on shelves against the tree above the box in view of the player it seemed to the as if it would be not at all difficult to toss the so as with ten to cover one but those who tried seemed to find it very difficult to accomplish the object an excursion is it to play for the of a prize even if the which thej tossed fell in the right place they would or slide away and sometimes knock away those which were already well placed still after trying once the players were usually unwilling to give up without trying a second and even a third and fourth time so that they generally lost six or eight before they were willing to stop especially as the man himself would now and then play the and he having made himself skilful by great practice found no difficulty in up his ten wherever he wished them to go i could do it i verily believe said i should like to try i mean to go and ask my father if i may so went to the carriage to state the case to his father and ask his permission to see if he could not pitch the so as to cover one of the plates on the board his father hesitated so far as trying the experiment is concerned said mr holiday as a matter of dexterity and skill there is no harm but so far as the hope of getting a prize by it is concerned it is of the nature of i should think it was more of the nature of a reward for merit and excellence said mr george no said mr holiday for in one or two in paris mr holiday � i to tbe trials made by chance passengers coming along to such a place the result must depend much more on chance than on or skill i will tell you what you may do continued mr holiday you may pay the man the two and try the experiment provided you determine beforehand not to take any prize if you succeed then you will pay your money simply for the use of his apparatus to amuse yourself with a performance and not stake it in hope of a prize well said that is all i want and oflf he ran it seems to me that that is a very nice distinction that you made said mr george as soon as had gone and that those two things are very near the line yes replied mr holiday it is a nice distinction but it is a very true one the two things are very near the line but then one of them is clearly on one side and the other on the other for a boy to pay for the use of such an apparatus for the purpose of trying his eye and his hand is clearly right but to stake his money in hopes of winning a prize is wrong for it is it is it is true in this case on an exceedingly small scale still it is and so is the beginning of a road which has a very dreadful end is not it so an excursion md get carriage and go yes said mr george i think it is as might have been expected did not succeed in covering one of the the that he threw spread all over the board the money that he paid was however well spent for he had much more than two worth of satisfaction in making the experiment found a great many other things to interest him in the various and stands that he visited but at length he got tired of them all and coming back to the carriage told his father that he was ready to go home very well said his i don t know but that your uncle george and i are ready too though we have not quite got through with our papers but we can finish them at home so and got into the carriage and all the party went home to dinner in torn u mr chapter x s one evening when had been making a long excursion during the day with his george and had dined with him at the close of it at a s in the he went home about eight o clock to the hotel to see his father and mother and and tell them where he had been he found his mother in her room putting on her bonnet she said she was going to take a ride along the with a gentleman and lady who were going to call for her and where is father said he has gone to bed and is asleep by this time you must be careful not to disturb him and asked she has gone to bed too said his mother but she is not asleep and i presume she will be very glad to see you you can go in her room well i will said but mother i s narrative mi holiday s plan for to accompany party should like to go and ride with you will there be room for me yes said his mother there will be room i suppose in the carriage but it would not be proper for me to take you for i am going on an invitation from others the invitation was to me alone and i have no right to extend it to any body else but this you can do if you please continued	22
the eldest son of mrs of park street and brother of your sister in law mrs john is the i mean you must allow that am not likely to be ed as to die name of the man on all my happiness depends it is strange replied in a most painful that i should never have heard him even mention your ar � � u k it im i ir t i inn e re h � rt i s jt z sit r � � t tp i � se i la v s � � a p is i a x too f � � b � tt as i t � r r � i ti t to h m i ts t mn u be bat ti lo to get it r but i t � t it the very first are m the right replied tbey n ee a few in lo t i � w i have no in world ot secret yon f it to un not to have his mother � never of it i dare say i shall have ni and she is an exceeding woman i did not seek your confidence said me no more than justice in imagining that i on secret is safe with me bnt mc if i surprise at so a sense and yon mast at least have felt that being acquainted with it not add to its safely as she said this she earnestly at to discover something a her countenance perhaps the falsehood of the greatest part of what she had been saying but s countenance suffered no change i was a aid you would think i was taking a great with you said she in telling you all this i have not known you long to be sure personally at least but i have known you and all your by description a great while and as soon as i saw you i felt as if you was an old acquaintance besides in the present case i really thought some explanation was due to you after my making such particular about edward s mother and i am so unfortunate that i have not a creature whose advice i can ask anne is e only person that knows of it and she has no judgment at all indeed she does me a great deal more harm than good for i am in constant fear of her betraying me s ie does not know how to hold her tongue as you must perceive and i am sure as in the greatest fright in the world t other day when edward s name was mentioned john lest she should out with it all how much i go through in my mind from it i only wonder that i am alive after what i have suffered for edward s sake these last four years every thing in such suspense and uncertainty and seeing him so seldom � we can hardly meet above twice a year i am sure i wonder my heart is not quite broke here she took out her handkerchief but did cot feel very compassionate sometimes continued after wiping her eyes i think whether it would not be better for us both to break off the matter entirely as she said this she looked at her companion but then at other times i have not resolution enough for it i cannot bear the thoughts of making him bo miserable as i know the very mention of such a thing would do and on my own account too � so dear as he is to m � i don t think i could be equal to it what would you advise me to do in such a case miss what would you do yourself and me replied startled by die ki but i can give you do such tour own judgment must direct yon to be sun continued a few minutes od both sides his mother must provide for bim some time or other but poor edward is so cast down about it i did not you think turn dread fill low when he was at he was so miserable when he left us at to go to you that i was you would think him quite l did he come om uncle s then when he visited oh yes he had been staying a t ua did you think he came from town t no replied most sensible of every fresh circumstance in favour of s i remember be told us that he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near she remembered too her own surprise at the time at his mentioning nothing farther of those friends at his total silence with respect even to their names did not you him sadly out of spirits i repeated we did indeed particularly so when he first i begged him to exert himself for fear you should suspect what was the matter but it made him so melancholy not being able to stay more than a fortnight with us and seeing me much affected poor fellow i am afraid it is just the same with him now for he writes in wretched spirits i heard from him just before i left taking a letter from her pocket and carelessly showing the direction to you know his hand i dare say � a charming one it is but that is not written so well as usual he was tired i dare say for he had just filled the sheet to me as full as possible saw that it was his hand and she could doubt no longer the picture she had allowed herself to believe might have been accidentally obtained it might not have been edward s gift but a correspondence between them by letter could only under a positive engagement could be by nothing else for a few moments die was and sensibility j almost	26
last night no madame bnt there was a night or two ago well that might it laughed but the was grave let all go and look at it said she sadly a tree was an old friend to her there lay the monster on the earth that was and by its hundred arms and thousand fingers its giant proportions now first revealed by the space of earth it covered and the frightful gap its fall left in the air and the prospect the doctor the tree in detail especially the stump and said � i the looked only at the mass and the ruin an ill omen my children said she it stood out the storm and then one calm night it fell and so it will be with the house of ah well said in a comfortable tone now you are down we must do the best we can with you i wanted some � and i wanted small wood terribly the shrugged her shoulders at this kitchen philosophy and moved away with the doctor detained now it is no use telling your to annoy her but this tree has been cut down impossible fact come and look at the i have and of it i an ting a j f ome next to taking off a� ra see how clean three of the wood have come away have hail the cunning to nt three feet above the ground too but k not nature s work � it is man s it wanted but this i an enemy � a secret enemy ah i cried with and her hand into an oh that i had him here ah ah r this threat ended in two screams for a young f from the road over the hedge and alighted dose to them he took oil his hat and blushing like a loi poured out a flood of excuses � i saw that a large tree had i mien and my curiosity � forgive pay � and he affected to retreat but cast a lingering look at the fallen tree remain st politely and as eyes are younger than mine i will even ask you to examine the and the tree and tell me whether my f u are correct has this tree fallen by fir by h md of man pronounce un darted on the stump with the tire of curiosity in face and examined it keenly his was not bad he pronounced this tree has been cat down see cried the young rogue determined to bring her into the conversation observe cut here in the look hare are the marks of the teeth of a saw this brought close to him and he gave a to keep her there and ai her whether she saw this and whether she aw so then she wa i obliged to to him he proved to entire satisfaction that had cot down the elm the rogue i cried st � the wretch cried lies looked down and resumed his inspection of the oh that i had him t cried still at fever heat i wish you had said with ft droll look then with an air of imposing r mon he i have tlie honour to serve the government in th � district m jou may perhaps be aware st looked to for explanation she would not give any by revealing the young man s name she would have enabled st to put the purse and this jump over the hedge together she at bare thought but said nothing went on if yon really suspect tliis has been done out of malice i will et an on fix t you are very good it certainly is a mysterious affair in short give yourself no further anxiety about it sir i take it into my hands � in doing so i merely discharge my duty need i add that duty is for once a pleasure if any of the neighbours is the it will if not still the present government is i assure you sir a and one of its hands will fall sooner or later on him who has dared to annoy you as a comment on these words of weight he drew out his pocket book with such an air made a minute or two and returned it to his pocket receive once more my excuses for my curiosity which i shall never cease to regret unless it should lead to the discovery of what you have at heart and he bowed himself away a charming young man my dear what that little buck � do you see charms in him � where buck a young beaming with goodness as well a intelligence white ob doctor a face for ever so long the doctor angry i t de to see for ver so long confess at f m s are � � admire il � who � it was the ea of a young desirous to to liis own grace but f to be � � i his flying over our hedge und taking oar on him and his little pocket book a great piece of if it not b� en done with equal modesty and i replied si � but poor i a republican i so you cannot be oh politics � you the � you the judgment � you corrupt the heart � let see whether they liave blinded your very eyes come did you notice his colour � roses and lilies side by side come now i a boy s complexion staring red and white � yes i � aiid hb eyes full of soul i he had h eyes if you want to be stared out of countenance f si nd for � hum � what did he i say i forget a figure like with all s i bounding grace oh he can jump high enough to frighten one quality i well i shall not subject bim	9
indeed they did feel a great itself poor things about you an moreover be lo gin of to s the here � mrs s mother and rose the birth treat between them it is unnecessary to say that the young men and girls had their own sly fun upon the occasion and now that s apprehension of danger was over he joined in their mirth with as much glee as any of them this being over they all retired to rest and honest m went home very hearty in consequence of s sense of the aid he had rendered his wife the next morning rose after dressing the infant and performing all the usual duties that one expected from her took her leave in these words � now mrs god bless you an yours an take care of yourself til see you again on sunday next when if s to be until then throw out no dirty before sunrise or after sunset an when father is goin to it let tell him not to forget to it against the fair an thin it ll be safe good bye ma am an look you to her mrs said she addressing her patient s mother an till i see all again the following sunday morning rose paid an early visit to her patient for as it was the day of young s her presence was considered indispensable there is � thb irish besides in the appearance and bearing of a upon those occasions which a spirit of light not only through the immediate family but also through all who may happen to in the ceremony or partake of the good cheer in many instances it is known that the very presence of a medical attendant such a cheerful confidence to his patient as of any is felt to foe a manifest relief so it is with the with this difference that she exercises a greater and more latitude of consolation than the doctor although it must be admitted that she generally falls short of that conventional dress with which we cover of expression no doubt many of her very stock jokes to carry on the are a little too dressed to pass current out of the sphere in which they are used but be this as it may they are so in character and so humorous in conception that we never knew the to feel offended or the temperament to maintain its at their recital not that she is at all gross or in any thing she may say but there is generally in her a passing touch of fancy � a quick but vivacity of at once so full of fun and and that truth which all know but few like to acknowledge that we defy any one not gone in some melancholy to resist her humour the moment she was seen approaching the house every one in it felt an immediate elevation of spirits with the exception of mrs herself who knew that wherever had the arrangement of the bill of fare there was sure to be what the call full an � an � a fact which made her groan in spirit at the bare contemplation of such waste and extravagance she was indeed a woman of a very un heart � so sharp in hei temper and so in soul that one would imagine veins were filled with instead of blood moan in the blessing of god be here on entering � the blessing of god and the virgin on you replied an you re welcome � i know that well how are we � how is my � on like a pair o � thank god for it t we a good right to be grateful to him any way an is my little man to be to day indeed he is � the will be here presently an so will her mother but dear will you take the of the an part of it � you re up to these things than we are an so you ought of let there be no want of any thing an if there s an may care there ll be poor mouths enough about the door for whatever s left so you see keep never any hint she may give you � you know she s a little o the but no let there as i said be enough an to spare there spoke your father s son all the ould s not dead yet any how well do my best but she s not fit to be up you know an of can t disturb us the expression of her eye could not be misunderstood as she uttered this i see said � � devil a if you manage that s right an now i must go in till i see how she an my son s an that s always my first start you know honey that their health goes afore every thing having thus undertaken the task required of her she passed into the bed room of mrs whom she found determined to be up in order as she said to be at the head of her own � well if you must you must but in the name of thb irish goodness i wash my hands out of the oh to think of a woman in state to sit at her own table that i may never if i u see it or be about the place at all if you take your life by your own why god forgive you but it mustn t be while i m here since you re bent on it why me the child an afore i go any how i may as well dress it poor thing i the heavens pity it � my little man � eh � where was it � � that s it a stretch away aye an an my son i o thin	50
dear said t when she had gone away laughing my dear returned she is without any exception the dearest girl the way she this place her domestic knowledge economy and order her cheerfulness indeed you have reason to commend her i returned you are a happy fellow i believe you make yourselves and each other two of the happiest people in the world i am sure we are two of the happiest people returned g the history and experience i admit that at all events bless ray soul when i see her getting up by candle light on these dark mornings herself in the day s arrangement going out to market the clerks come into the caring for no weather the most capital little dinners out of the materials making and keeping everything in its right place always so neat and ornamental herself sitting up at night with me if it s ever so late sweet tempered and encouraging always and all for me i positively sometimes can t believe it he was tender of the very slippers she had been warming aa he put them on and stretched his feet upon the i positively sometimes can t believe it said then our pleasures dear me they are but they are quite wonderful when we are at home here of an evening and shut the outer door and draw those curtains � which she made � where could we be more snug when it s fine and we go out for a walk in the evening the streets abound in enjoyment for us we look into the glittering windows of the shops and i show which of the diamond eyed up on white satin rising grounds i would give her if i could afford it and shows me which of the gold watches that are and and engine turned and possessed of the escape movement and all sorts of things she would buy for me if she could afford it and we pick out the and forks fish butter knives and we should both prefer if we could both afford it and really we go away as if we had got them then when we stroll into the squares and great streets and see a house to let sometimes we look up at it and say how would that do if i was made a judge and we parcel it out � such a room for us such rooms for the girls and so forth until we settle to our satisfaction that it would do or it wouldn t do as the case may be sometimes we go at half price to the pit of the theatre � the very smell of which is cheap in my opinion at the money � and there we thoroughly enjoy the play which believes every word of and so do i in walking home perhaps we buy a little bit of something at a cook s shop or a little at the s and bring it here and make a splendid supper about what we have seen now you know if i was lord we couldn t do this you would do something whatever you my dear thought i that would be pleasant and amiable and by the way i said aloud i suppose you never draw any now replied laughing and i can t wholly deny that i do my dear for being in one of the back rows of the king s bench the other day with a pen in my hand the fancy came into my head to try how i had preserved that accomplishment and i am afraid there s a skeleton � in a wig � on the ledge of the after we had both laughed heartily wound up by looking with a smile at the fire and saying in liis way old i have a letter from that old � here said i for i never was less disposed to forgive him the way he used to than when i saw so ready to forgive him himself from the exclaimed no among the persons who are attracted to me in my rising fame and op fortune said t looking over my letters and who discover tliat they were always much attached to me is the self same he is not a now he is retired he is a magistrate i thought might be surprised to hear it but h was not so at all how do you suppose he comes to be a magistrate said i� oh dear me replied it would be very difficult to answer that question perhaps he for somebody or lent money to somebody or bought something of somebody or otherwise obliged somebody or for somebody who knew somebody who got the lieutenant of the county to him for the commission on the commission he is at any rate said i and he writes to me here that he will be glad to show me in operation the only true system of prison discipline the only way of making sincere and lasting and you is by solitary confinement what do you say to the system inquired looking grave no to my accepting the offer and your going with me i don t object said then i write to say so yoa remember to say nothing of our treatment this same turning his son out of doors suppose and the life he used to lead his wife and daughter perfectly said yet if you read his letter you find he is the tenderest of men to prisoners convicted of the whole of said i though i can t find that his tenderness extends to any other class of created beings shrugged his shoulders and was not at all i had not expected him to be and was not surprised myself or my observation of similar practical would have been but scanty we arranged the time of our visit and i wrote accordingly to mr	8
we were just like sisters to him and it was perfectly natural when he went to live in new x he should like people that had new york ways but it does seem to me strange that harry should ever fancy she has not ways of thinking or acting or feeling oh is handsome � they say the best of men are carried away with beauty not harry i am sure and besides i have heard him say � i never told you because did not want to flatter you � but i heard him say when we went to hear squire s fourth of july � the day wore that new pink satin bonnet � and somebody said squire never took his eyes from her all the time he was what did harry say harry whispered to me and said he liked your looks a thousand times better than s and sunshine did he did he � he would not say so now maybe not i shall always think if he had gone to new york that have come to pass that we expected but i believe it is very hard to keep from being worldly minded in a city when i was in new york as i have often told you the chief conversation was about dress and making money oh how i did long to hear something about something profitable you know i never was in favour of harry s going there � i never liked his going into with � he d better have sat over his the his life but forget the weakness in his breast � i do � that was a good reason for giving up his trade but not for going to new york yes but you forget what flattering prospects ke had and she added with a sigh after his parents death he had not much to keep him here and having all his portion of the estate in money he thought it would enable him to carry on business to die greatest advantage in new york he explained all this to our satisfaction then yes and when he told us about his plans and seemed to be in such a hurry to get ahead i was sure he was at sharing with you though he did not seem to think it best to speak out i thought so too but i know i was much to blame for setting my heart that way when i had no more reason and then his always writing and sending something by every opportunity � to be sure the letters were directed to you but somehow they always seemed written to me poor rich man and then be was � tm to send some present that he knew i should like better than any thing else m the world but it s now a long long time since we have heard from and yet we never suspected any thing no because we never in our lives harry could do any but the right thing it will be very hard to make up our minds to see s husband harry s husband oh it s awful to think of i but if she were only worthy of him � if she could make him happy i could be as � happy i was going to say but that would not be true � but i could be contented for myself and thankful for him both sisters were silent for a few moments said � if we can t have things right in this world we can have right feelings let us kneel down and pray together oh yes that is always a comfort the sisters knelt locked in each other s arms was the organ of both their hearts and most earnestly did she pray that they might walk together in integrity and in whatsoever path it should please the almighty to mark out for them even were it through a solitary wilderness that they might remember that their lord and master did not promise his followers their portion in this world that they might humbly and faithfully do the duty appointed them and not because they could not choose what that duty should be she poured forth an earnest petition for their h and sunshine best friend that he might be directed aright that be might be delivered from the many evils and temptations that surrounded him and that she with whom his heart was knit might have the grace as well as the gifts of god when their heart service was over said she felt as if a load were taken from her he she said to who commanded us to pray for our enemies certainly knew what was i us how differently we feel towards any one we earnestly pray for from this time there was no apparent change in the sisters except that pursued her labours with even more than usual and a remark would escape from her that showed the course of her thoughts such as i am sure of having enough to do in this world and that s a real for one can t be very unhappy while there is enough to do that prophecy was was obvious a portion of her was gone and even uncle remarked that she did not sing as she used to he wished she would he had rather hear her than a bird meanwhile watched her with a of the sister s sympathy and the mother s tenderness and daily as she saw that s resolution was carrying her serenely through the storm did she offer her humble to him who she knew was the source of her strength and peace p the poor rich man etc chapter vii love letters three weeks passed and nothing more was heard of s news save that once when in s presence was about the house of and she and her head and had all	6
may his own house it was because of this miracle that the is said to have destroyed the church in the writer the author of the universal history from the creation who must have written about says � the author of this persecution that of was some enemy of the christians who told that when the assembled in their temple at to � a winter pilgrimage the of the use of a pious fraud the chain of iron that held the lamp the tomb with oil of and that when the officer sealed up the door which led to the tomb they applied a match through the roof to the other extremity of the chain and the fire descended immediately to the of the lamp and lighted it then the burst into tears and cried supposing that it was fire from heaven that fell upon the tomb and they were thus strengthened in their faith really when he learnt the truth of the matter it is not wonderful that in his turn the was strengthened in his indignation against the christian religion and the who practised such a fraud in the day of it appears that the head priest was shut by the into the lord s monument with an candle he brings forth lighted with a loud cry and from which all the lamps are lighted but although at times was too sensible a man to be thus imposed upon he says but it is not lighted by a miracle but the ignorant mob raises its cries to heaven rod as though a miracle had been wrought and so they noise it abroad among the people even among the he goes on to tell how that the said that if this fire was really brought down from heaven and the christians could prove it they would be willing to be converted a fable which he calls a beautiful story this fire it is that when an ancient bishop of was about to hold service on eve his told him that there was no oil but being holy and believing and full of faith he sent for water instead when it he blessed it the church of the and filled the lamps then suddenly by a po unheard of in any other age the water took upon itself the of oil and being lighted from heaven made the light of the lamp shine more brightly than it was wont to do this very curious event which chanced under the � years before the day of was it is suggested the beginning of the miracle wliich thereafter repeated itself as may be imagined this yearly wonder happening in a crowded � i believe that people can press into the space beneath the dome although at the time of writing i am unable to find an authority for the statement � is not with danger in indeed a fearful catastrophe occurred of fortunately we have an account in visits to in the the late hon robert the author of this interesting work was travelling in the holy land and chanced to be present in the church upon that dreadful occasion he tells how the was carried out of the in triumph on die shoulders of the people he had deceived and how overcome by the smoke and smell three unhappy wretches fell from the upper range of galleries and were dashed to pieces on the heads of the people below an girl dying in her place merely of heat and f afterwards mr and his party set out to return to the where they were lodging the soldiers of their escort making a way for them when he reached the station occupied by the virgin during the he saw a number of people lying on the floor of the church at first he thought that they were resting but at length coming to a great pile of them perceived that these were dead bodies now i must quote since nothing can give a idea of this fearful event than the words s a winter pilgrimage of the eye witness who describes its details many of those whom he took to be peaceful were he found quite black with and farther on were others all bloody and covered with the brains and of those who had been trodden to pieces by the crowd at this time there was no crowd in this part of the church but a little farther on round the comer towards the great door the people who were quite panic struck continued to press forward and every one was doing his utmost to escape the guards outside frightened at the rush from within thought that the christians wished to attack them and the confusion soon grew into a the soldiers with their killed numbers of fainting wretches and the walls were with blood and brains of men who had been like oxen with the butt ends of the soldiers every one struggled to defend himself or to get away and in the e all who fell were trampled to death by the rest so desperate and savage did the fight become that even the panic struck and frightened appear at last to have been more intent upon the destruction of each other than desirous to save mr then tells of his own fight for life and of his hideous struggle with one of the s whom in the end he the officer died where he fell but mr found his legs again and succeeded in winning his way back to the of the and thence to the room adjoining the church which had been assigned to him by the he says the dead were lying in heaps even upon the stone of and i saw full wretched people dead and living heaped one upon another in some places above five feet the site of the church of the holy has witnessed many during the last fifteen centuries the of	18
come out thither in her twenty third year nourished in this singular way between saloon and kitchen table with the of pretensions meanest of possessions our poor high and has realized for herself a face not beautiful yet with a certain dark blue eyes and a character which the present writer a determined student of human nature declares to be let the try it de saint de de france actually lived and worked and was she has even published at various times three considerable volumes of with loose leaves in courts of justice of unknown number f wherein he that runs may read � but not under he was of hebrew descent of the renowned jew whom louis xv and even louis xiv used to walk with in the garden when they wanted him to lend them money � du due de m de c t four pour by her in this du like lawyers tongues turned inside out afterwards one volume de la de c london with of documents so called this has also been translated into of then two as quoted above the diamond stand strange volumes more like the of distracted night birds suddenly disturbed by the torch of police than the articulate utterance of a rational cheerfully admitting these statements to be all lies we ask how any mortal could or should lie the however commit one sore mistake that of searching in every character named human for something like a conscience being mere for most part and feeling that morality is the heart of life they judge that with all the world it is so nevertheless as men are aware life can go on in excellent vigor without of that kind what is the essence of life go deeper down you find a much more universal root and characteristic while lasts life cannot in language be said to be extinct and will give rise to enough at any rate to desires and attempts which may pass for such he who looks neither nor after any further than the and which is properly the finest of the will need no world theory creed as it is called or scheme of duties lightly leaving the world to wag as it likes with any theory or none his grand object is a theory and practice of ways de de c printed in l � by w y of money from paris this latter lying of was bought up by french persons in authority it was the burning of this in the on the th of may which raised such a smoke th t the assembly took alarm and had an investigation about it and considerable of c till the truth came out copies of the book were speedily after the tenth of august it is in english too and except in the part is not so entirely distracted as the former s miscellaneous w and means not goodness or is the type of him only or and now of this let the consider it under a bolder view consider the brisk de saint de saint as a spark of vehement life not developed into will of any kind yet fully into desires of all kinds cast into such a life element as we have seen vanity and hunger a princess of the blood yet whose father had sold his tain whether of a fond with hopes sky high or with not enough of man making in a word one of the pitiable of man she is of that light class of that light sex et and then her fine though a one capricious and with all the finer of the heart now in the now in the vivid in contradictory laughing weeping without reason � though these acts are said to be signs of reason consider too how she has had to work her way all along by flattery and dropping how she needs wages and knows na other productive trades thought can hardly be said to exist in her only perception and device with an understanding eyed for the surface of things but which beyond the surface of nothing every individual thing for she has never seized the heart of it turns up a new face to her every new day and seems a thing changed a thing thus sits or rather vehemently and her vehement mind in the middle of a boundless many dancing of gilt and � to which the revolving chaos of my uncle s smoke jack was and regularity reader thou for thy sins must have met with such fair the diamond fascinating with their lively eyes with their quick fancies distinguished in the higher circles in fashion even in literature they hum and there on graceful wings � searching nevertheless with the skill for honey as flies skill for honey we say and pray mark that as regards this de saint her genius is prodigious her appetite fierce in any speculation of the private kind she as you call her will be worth a hundred and so of such flies the is now down in the bar sur diligence to inspect the honey of and see and smell whether there be any in them alas at we can with sensibility behold we were nursed under farmers courteously offer cooked milk and other country but no soul will part with his landed property for which though cheap he declares hard money was paid the honey are all close then � however a certain de a tall home on from is now at bar pays us attentions becomes quite particular in his attentions � for we have a face with a certain the tongue the manner not yet hardened into cat hood with thirty pounds a year and prospects m de indeed is as yet only a private but then a private in the and did not his father die fighting at the head of his company at why not in virtue of our	37
feeling he is the met here and a large business witb the come m two or three miles in the and crowd is yard there they sit in almost receiving their goods and making t in v ji ivory towards n mr s on showed most hospitable yet in a perfectly is the land of plenty in africa beef mutton aa chickens abound and its supply of necessaries and luxuries is � we got under way yesterday for the islands a term well understood to mean those o st thomas and a lar one of the two who proposed to take passage with us from cape a month since is now on ard as a passenger to prince s i tbe other mr is dead he was of a wealthy and in family in and is said to have been a young man of extraordinary talent and promise aa m the the q ki l y of its by explosion of the a at twelve o clock to day we fired thirteen minute guns as a d by off t of to the of ao fell a to the ob p alter the events and five of fate we gave a fl to officer � and oh how aiid � at i received a present of an or mi who certainly a and in in the of a calm between the hia r is but inches but when at covers an extent of two and a half feet from head to t i l is wholly fortified with an impenetrable of of alarm it is custom to nose between his hind legs and roll his body and tail together so as to i like the half of a ball no part to an enemy in this be affords an excellent example of a self involved from tiie annoyance of tiie by a and seeking all his within ins � centre his muscular strength being great and y that of his fore legs it is very difficult to him attempt r made to force his he his fi re into the scales of his head and holds m a ke grip at however or when all is quiet he t himself and awkwardly about on his i k in pursuit and � after many days of calm or light winds a stiff and r breeze for twenty four hours past has been rapidly us on our course we hope to see st thomas to morrow the above described ant is properly the long la species of the his will torn a ball this animal with a urn other natural and artificial im in tha national attached to tha at d by ib u at daylight wind had failed us it being sunday divine waa per and regard of all on board by hia amiable and piety noon tiie breeze and na within ten tbe by the dose of day st ia hi and p o a one ia ao aa to et ry moat forcibly it ia a ti t than five hundred feet high and like a air a third of the firom extremity f the island we are now a r of the and sundry jokes not to ut joe miller are passing through the ship of the line a heavy struck us last night we were for it however with nothing on but ant down and the fore the ned sail blew away and tiie ship lay over with her g me in the water in five minutes nevertheless we were going before e wind and away from shore the appearance of the island is pleasant a high hills covered with wood and spots of ground ig ua of the or pasture lands of our own country on these tracts not a tree or a bush is visible for acres together bat whether the soil was left naked by nature or rendered ao by cultivation is yet to be ascertained a ruined chapel cm i top of a hill a large mansion apparently on ttie shore and a few huts among the trees are the only evidences that men have ever been here several have now come off to us bringing fruit and shells d by j mm chapter xviii � excursion to st anne de mode of drying madame s hotel for the mess man tt letters home fa m l king and louis � ml l ll son y i of the people of � i have just returned from an to anne de the capital of st thomas leaving yesterday at a m we landed but did not find the which had been from the it to wait three of the party started on foot and the not the land vehicle of that name proceed on the same destination after walking three ot miles along the beach we met two of the horses served to mount a pair of us while the witb guide and boys proceeded on foot it being arranged at mi should travel in the old fashioned mode of ride most of the distance was across open land without a tree but overgrown with coarse high grass the whole a was that of a western but without the grandeur of its extent or the flowers that attract the when wearied with the of the prospect the like that of the nut groves is a deep fertile in two hours we arrived at st anne de l ie to is spread out upon the circular shore of the bay a mile in extent and is defended by a stone fort situated on extreme point of the cape there three or four houses which with few exceptions are small and of wood a long stone building is appropriated as the of the governor and contains the public offices j only remarkable besides are a large wooden very like a barn and a smaller one of stone the streets are but kept remarkably clean and	35
was very warm in her praise of edward s conduct but only and understood its true merit they only knew how little he had had to tempt him to be and how small was the consolation beyond the consciousness of doing right that could remain to him in the loss of friends and fortune in his integrity and forgave all his in compassion for his punishment but though confidence between them was by this public discovery restored to its proper state it was not a subject on which either of them was fond of dwelling when alone avoided it upon principle as tending to fix still more npon her thoughts by the too warm too positive assurances of that belief of edward s continued affection for herself which she rather wished to do away and s courage soon failed her in trying to converse upon a topic which always left her more dissatisfied with herself than ever by the comparison it necessarily produced between s conduct and her own sense and she felt all the force of that comparison but not as her sister had hoped to urge her to exertion now she felt it with all the pain of continual self reproach regretted moat bitterly that she had never exerted herself before but it brought only f the torture of without the hope of her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible and therefore it only her more nothing new was heard by them for a day or two afterwards of affairs in street or s buildings but though so much of the matter known to them already that mrs might have had enough to do in spreading that knowledge further without seeking after more she had resolved from the first to pay a visit comfort and inquiry to her cousins as soon as he could and nothing but the of more than usual had prevented her going to em within that time the third day succeeding their knowledge of the � was so fine so beautiful a sunday as draw many to gardens though it only the second week in march mrs and were of the number but who knew that the were again town and had a constant dread of meeting lose rather to stay at home than venture a place sense and an intimate acquaintance of mrs joined them soon after they entered the gardens and was not sorry that by her with them and engaging all mrs s conversation she was left to quiet reflection she saw nothing of the nothing of edward and for some time nothing of anybody who could by any chance whether grave or gay be interesting to her but at last she found herself with some surprise by miss who though looking rather shy great satisfaction in meeting them and on receiving encouragement from the particular kindness of mrs left her own party for a short time to join theirs mrs immediately whispered to � get it all out of her my dear she will tell yon anything if you ask you see i cannot leave mrs it waa lucky however for mrs s curiosity and s too that she would tell anything without being asked for nothing would otherwise have been learned i am so glad to meet you said miss taking her familiarly by the arm for i wanted to see you of all things in the world and then her voice i suppose mrs has heard all about it la she angry not at all i believe with you j sense and sensibility that is a good thing and lady is she angry i cannot suppose it possible that she should i am monstrous glad of it good gracious i have had such a time of it i never saw in such a rage in my life she vowed at first she would never trim me up a new bonnet nor do anything else for me again so long as she lived but now she is quite come to and we are as good friends as ever look she made me this bow to my hat and put in the feather last night there now you are going to laugh at me too but why should not i wear pink i do not care if it is the doctor s favorite color i am sure for my part i should never have known he did like it better than any other color if he had not happened to say so my cousins have been so me i declare sometimes i do not know which way to look before them she had wandered away to a subject on which had nothing to say and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first well but miss speaking triumphantly people may say what they choose about mr s declaring he would not have � for it s no such thing i can tell you and it s quite a shame for such ill natured reports to be spread abroad whatever might think about sense it you know it was people to set it down for certain i never heard anything of the kind hinted at before i assure you said ob did not you but it was said i know very well and by more than one for miss told miss sparks that nobody in their senses could mr to give up a woman like mis with thirty thousand pounds to her fortune for that had nothing at all and i bad it from miss sparks myself and that my cousin richard said himself that when it came to the point he was afraid mr would bo off and when edward did not come near us for three days i could not tell what to think myself and i believe in my heart gave it up al for lost for we came away from your brother s wednesday and	26
passed him while he was reading s letter by the last lamp and now he was her he did hope for a moment that it might be with a changed mind but it was not she nor anybody like her a taller form than that of his and although the season was only autumn she was wrapped in or in thick and heavy clothing of some kind a young man of twenty he soon advanced abreast of her and could get glimpses of her against the lights it was dignified � that of a very nothing more classical had he ever seen she walked at a swinging pace yet with such ease and power that there was but little difference in their rate of speed for several minutes and during this time he regarded and however he was about to pass her by when she suddenly turned and addressed him mr i think of east he assented and could just discern what a handsome commanding imperious face it was � quite of a piece with the proud tones of her voice she was a new type altogether in his experience and her accent was not so local as s can you tell me the time please he looked at his watch by the aid of a light and in telling her that it was a quarter past seven observed by the momentary gleam of his match that her eyes looked a little red and as if with weeping mr will you forgive what will appear very strange to you i dare say that is may i ask you to lend me some money for a the well beloved day or two i have been so foolish as to leave my purse on the dressing table it did appear strange and yet there were features in the young lady s personality which assured him in a moment that she was not an he yielded to her request and put his hand in his pocket here it remained for a moment how much did she mean by the words some money the quality of her form and manner made him throw himself by an impulse into harmony with her and he responded he scented a romance he handed her five pounds his caused her no apparent surprise it is quite enough thank you she remarked quietly as he announced the sum lest she should be unable to see it for herself while and conversing with her he had not observed that the rising wind which had proceeded from puffing to growling and from growling to with the accustomed suddenness of its changes here had at length brought what it promised by these � rain the drops which had at first hit their left cheeks like the of a soon assumed the character of a from the bank adjoining one shot of a young man of twenty which was sufficiently smart to go through s sleeve the tall girl turned and seemed to be somewhat concerned at an which she had plainly not foreseen before her starting we must take shelter said but where said she to was the long monotonous bank too piled to afford a screen over which they could hear the of pebbles by the sea without on their right stretched the inner bay or the distant riding lights of the ships now dim and glimmering behind them a faint spark here and there in the lower sky showed where the island rose before there was nothing definite and could be nothing till they reached a precarious wood bridge a mile farther on henry the eighth s castle being a little farther still but just within the summit of the bank whither it had apparently been hauled to be out of the way of the waves was one of the local boats called bottom upward as soon as they saw it the pair ran up the slope towards it by a impulse they then perceived that it had lain there a long time and were comforted to find it the well beloved ble of affording more protection than anybody would have expected from a distant view it formed a shelter or store for the the boom of the being as a roof by creeping under the bows which the bank on to they made their way within where upon some oars and other lay a mass of dry � a whole upon this they scrambled and sat down through inability to stand upright a charge the rain fell upon the of the old like corn thrown in by some colossal and darkness set in to its full shade they crouched so close to each other that he could feel her against him neither had spoken since they left the till she said with attempted this is unfortunate he admitted that it was and found after a few further remarks had passed that she certainly had been weeping there being a suppressed gasp of in her utterance now and then it is more unfortunate for you perhaps than for me he said and i am very sorry that it should be so she replied nothing to this and he added that it was rather a desolate place for a woman alone and he hoped nothing serious c the well beloved had happened to drag her out at such an time at first she seemed not at all disposed to show any on her own affairs and he was left to conjecture as to her history and name and how she could possibly have known him but as the rain gave not the least sign of he observed i think we shall have to go back never said she and the firmness with which she closed her lips was audible in the word why not he inquired there are good reasons i cannot understand how you should know me while i have no knowledge of you oh but you know me �	45
me remember the past which can never be anything but a memory to me i could not show my programme to when you have stolen her heart from her and seem as if you care no more about breaking it than you did about breaking mine oh dick dick how could you do it the girl passed another sleepless night and not was told in the morning by her mother and sisters that she really was not fit for and would have to go to bed at eight o clock if she persisted in looking like this after a single dance i begged you not to let me go mother she with a great effort at cheerfulness i was no good there � i didn t know what to say to the men and a good half of them didn t know what to say those to me they all thought i was the most stupid little they had ever been condemned to dance with because of her sisters popularity in their lives i thought you got on remarkably well said i saw you once or twice with lord did you said i didn t know it my dear don t you like him any better mrs asked no mother she said enough not any better than i did and then she blushed to think how utterly she had grown ah that s a pity dear he danced with you several times didn t he oh yes said he was very kind to me but he dances beautifully said oh yes dear he dances very well admitted girls during the course of the morning she said to her mother mother dear i want to tell you something yes darling what is it she was always poor woman anxious to have any sign of affection or confidence from this particular daughter lord told me last night mother that he goes back to in three days time and he is coming this afternoon to say good bye � and he did say something about his fate or something of that kind i don t fancy he has said anything to so i thought perhaps you had better know my dear how good how very thoughtful and considerate of you � what shall we do is difficult � so afraid of seeming to men on or anything of that kind i know is going somewhere with captain and do you darling go into and match me those that we wanted the other day you can do any other little that you want and so keep out of the road and i will those girls manage to leave to receive lord alone mrs did manage it she managed it exceedingly neatly for as soon as and captain were gone she said to in quite an off hand tone oh dear i want you to go into for me to day if you don t want to walk dear take in the trap i must have those and i want a little marking ink from s and you might just as well look in at s and see if they ve got that bonnet of mine done i am really in need of it and then if there is you want in the town you can get it at the same time i had rather walk mother said taking her cue as she was intended to do as soon as had left the house mrs turned round to dear i do not feel very well i sent the child off because i should not like her to see me if i had one of my attacks this afternoon do stay with me dear those girls why of course mother dear will you come and lie down i think i d better do so dear it s only a little but i feel so nervous if i m left alone yes i will go np stairs i shall be better to be quiet lying down thus she up into her bedroom laid down on the sofa and went through the whole process of smelling and water and even a tiny dose of and presently that is to say about an hour afterwards came upstairs and said that lord was in the drawing room oh dear dear dear cried mrs i really cannot go down no of course not send down a message and say you re not well enough to receive him oh but my dear he has come to say bye said mrs anxiously i feel much better and i shall come down to tea in any case go down and talk to him a little dear child you know he s going back to the day aft r to morrow those girls you are sure that you ll be all right dear yes yes i ll ring my bell for if i feel the least faint or anything promised mi s mc knowing perfectly well that she was no more likely to feel faint than she was to feel that particular afternoon so after a glance at herself in the glass went down to entertain lord and as mrs fondly hoped to decide his fate but lord seemed in no hurry to get the process over he expressed deep regret that mrs was not feeling very well asked after the other members of the family received with a smile the information that miss had gone out with his brother and then with some asked whether miss was out also yes said has gone into � well really i cannot tell you where she has gone somewhere for my mother but i cannot tell you where oh really he spoke in a tone of the most perfect indifference not as if it was a matter of any those girls consequence whether miss was out at the house or in and so they sat for some three quarters of an hour talking on subjects most absolutely	30
course according to her dreadful for the man she created a great scene broke some over his head and caused a general uproar in the house it is an old trick your timid man hearing this and being possibly a new or adventurer in this world becomes fearful of a scene many men are timid about with a woman beforehand it too much of the brutal and evil and after all there is a certain element of romance involved in these for the average man even if there is none � as there is none � for the woman it is an old sad sickening grim story to most of them and men are fools dogs with rarely anything fine or interesting in their eyes when they see the l st chance to betray one of th i a at forty and rob or him in any way and by any trick they are ready to do it this girl e had been by perhaps a hundred experienced of the street as to how this was done i know this is so for afterwards she told me of how other women did it but to continue he laid a sovereign on the table and i went for him she said i smiled not so much in derision as amusement the story did not fit her obviously it was not so oh no you did n t i replied you are telling me one of the oldest stories of the trade now the truth is you are a silly little liar and you think you are going to frighten me by telling me this into giving you two or three pounds you can save yourself the trouble i don t intend to do it i had every intention of giving her two or three if it suited my mood later but she was not to know this now my little girl was all at sea at once her powerless but really sweet eyes showed it something hurt � the pathos of her courage and endurance in the face of my contemptuous attitude i had made fun of her obvious little lies and at her transparent tricks i m a new experience in men i suggested men i don t want to know anything more about them she returned with sudden fury i m sick of them � the whole lot of them if i could get out of this i would i wish i need never see another man i did not doubt the sincerity of this outburst but i affected not to believe her it s true she insisted sullenly you say that but that s talk if you wanted to get out you would why don t you get a job at something you can work it a girl of the streets i don t know any trade now and i m too old to learn what nonsense you re not more than nineteen and you could do anything you pleased you won t though you are like all the others this is the easy way come i said more gently put on your things and let s get out of this and without a word she put on her coat and her hat and we turned to the door look here i said i have n t meant to be unkind and heaven knows i ve no right to throw stones at you we are all in a bad mess in this world � you and i and the rest you don t know what i m talking about and it does n t matter and now let s find a good quiet where we can dine slowly and comfortably like two friends who have a lot to talk over in a moment she was all animation the suggestion that i was going to act toward her as though she were a lady was according to her standards wildly well you re funny she replied laughing you really are funny and i could see that for once in a long time perhaps the faintest touch of romance had entered this sordid world for her as we came out seeing that my attitude had changed so she asked would you get me a box of i have n t any change surely i said and we stepped into a s shop from there we took a to a certain which she seemed to regard as sufficiently luxurious and from there � but i ll tell this in detail tell me i said after she had given the order picking something for herself and me you say you come from wales tell me the name of a typical a at forty town which is nearer london than some of the others � some place which is really poor and hard worked well where i come from was pretty bad she ventured giving me some name the people have n t got much to live on there i wish you might have heard the peculiar of her accent and how far is that she gave me the hours from london and the railroad fare in shillings i think it was about three hours at most and s pretty bad she added there s lots of mines there very deep ones too the people are poor there have you ever been in a mine yes sir i smiled at her civility for in entering and leaving the room of the house of she had helped me on and off with my overcoat quite as a servant might i learned a little about wales through her � its life � and then we came back to london how much did the average street girl really make i wanted to know she could n t tell me and she was quite honest about it some make more than others she said i m not very good at it she confessed i can t make	43
pipe behind him which he evidently highly how do you know that he it highly i asked well i should put the original cost of the by the yellow face pipe at seven and sixpence now it has you see been twice mended once in the wooden stem and once in the each of these done as you observe with silver bands must have more than the pipe did originally the man must value the pipe highly when he prefers to patch it up rather than buy a new one with the same money anything else i asked for was turning the pipe about in his hand and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way he held it up and tapped on it with his long thin forefinger as a professor might who was on a bone pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest said he nothing has more individuality save perhaps watches and the indications here however are neither very marked nor very important the owner is obviously a muscular man left handed with an excellent set of teeth careless in his habits and with no need to practice economy my friend threw out the information in a very by of off hand way but i saw that he cocked his eye at me to see if i had followed his reasoning you think a man must be well to do if he a seven shilling pipe said l this is mixture at an answered knocking a little out on his palm as he might get an excellent smoke for half the price he has no need to practise economy and the other points he has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas you can see that it is quite all down one side of course a match could not have done that why should a man hold a match to the side of his pipe but you cannot light it at a lamp without getting the bowl and it is all on the right side of the pipe from that i gather that he is a left handed man you hold your own pipe to the lamp and see how naturally you being right handed hold the left side to the flame you might do it once the other way but not as a constancy this has always been held so then he has bitten through his it by the yellow face takes a muscular energetic fellow and one with a good set of teeth to do that but if i am not mistaken i hear him upon the stair so we shall have something more interesting than his pipe to study an instant later our door opened and a tall young man entered the room he was well but quietly dressed in a dark grey suit and carried a brown wide awake in his hand i should have put him at about thirty though he was really some years older i beg your pardon said he with some embarrassment i suppose i should have knocked yes of course i should have knocked the fact is that i am a little upset and you must put it all down to that he passed his hand over his forehead like a man who is half dazed and then fell rather than sat down upon a chair i can see that you have not slept for a night or two said in his easy genial way that tries a man s nerves more than work and more even than pleasure may i ask how i can help i wanted your advice sir i don t know what by of to do and my whole life seems to have gone to pieces you wish to employ me as a consulting not that only i want your opinion as a judicious man � as a man of the world i want to know what i ought to do next i hope to god you ll be able to tell me he spoke in little sharp and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him and that his will all through was his inclinations it s a very delicate thing said he one does not like to speak of one s domestic affairs to strangers it seems dreadful to discuss the conduct of one s wife with two men whom i have never seen before it s horrible to have to do it but i ve got to the end of my and i must have advice my dear mr grant began our visitor sprang from his chair what he cried you know my name if you wish to preserve your said by the yellow face smiling i should suggest that you cease to write your name upon the of your hat or else that you turn the crown towards the person whom you are addressing i was about to say tliat my friend and i have listened to many strange secrets in this room and that we have had the good fortune to bring peace to many troubled souls i trust that we may do as much for you might i beg you as time may prove to be of importance to furnish me with the facts of your case without further delay our visitor again passed his hand over his forehead as if he found it bitterly hard from every gesture and expression i could see that he was a reserved self contained man with a dash of pride in his nature more likely to hide his wounds than to expose them then suddenly with a fierce gesture of his closed hand like one who throws reserve to the winds he began the facts are these mr said he i am a married man and have been so for three years during that time my wife and i have loved by of each other as fondly and lived as happily	4
by the ladder s assistance to scale high and perpendicular banks of snow it some times proved too short to reach to the top but where the steep was not absolutely perpendicular we continued in several instances to remedy this inconvenience one of the guides standing on the top of the ladder enabled die rest who up by his assistance to reach the summit when there we easily drew up him and the ladder with we were occasionally compelled to our steps and we were frequently so involved in an intricate path that we had to remain without proceeding a considerable time until the guides who were dispersed in every direction on the dis could find a practicable path to us in addition to these difficulties i had not been long on the before i perceived that my boot had given way which as every thing depended upon the good health of our feet was a serious misfortune necessity however is the mother of invention and i contrived to bind it with in such a that it served me tolerably well the rest of the journey in consequence of all these we only arrived at o clock at the grand not more than four or five miles distant in a straight line from the point where we on the but from the route we had taken we could not have walked less in this distance than fourteen or fifteen miles we were now feet above the level of the sea an d � � feet above the village of a on the steep side and near the t p of the rock about a hundred and fifty feet from its base and to which we had much difficulty in climbing was selected our lodging place indeed it was the only part of the rock that any thing like a level place we were fortunate in finding the day had been so warm that there was wa tier in some of the of the ice which circumstance us to our the sun shone bright on our side of the rock but as soon as it sunk the horizon the eternal frost around us regained its and the air became very cold we had however time to dry our boots and and i found a pair of large stockings that i had with me an invaluable article our guides stretched the ladder from one point of die rock to another and throwing over it a couple of sheets they had brought for the purpose formed a kind of tent just large enough for r and myself to creep in a single blanket upon the rock was our bed the guides were so loaded with articles that we had not been able to bring a blanket or even an extra coat to cover us after a cold and uncomfortable supper we crept into our den soon after die genial sun left us and endeavoured by every means our ingenuity could suggest but to keep ourselves warm we suffered much from die cold all night but principally towards morning as the was several degrees below � the night ass the seemed to last at least twenty hours at one time i thought the day must certainly be not distant and was surprised at look ing at my watch by the light of the moon to find it only o clock tired of lying and shivering with the cold i crawled out about midnight to warm myself by on die rock the view around me was sublime the sky was very clear but perfectly black the moon and stars whose rays were not obscured by passing through the lower dense region of the atmosphere shone with a brilliancy of what i had ever observed from below and the with its bright formed in the north west a beautiful object nothing was to be seen around the rock on whidi we were placed but white and some heavy clouds that floating below us shut out the valley from my view the guides were all asleep and the only interruption to the silence of death was the occasional rolling with the sound of distant thunder from the highest part of the surrounding and the feelings of awful which our situation was so calculated to inspire as our lodging was far from comfortable in eveiy point of view we were under no temptation of lying till a late hour in the morning on the contrary we hailed with joy the first appearance of the dawn which enabled us to substitute the warmth of marching for the odd from which we had suffered all night we set out at three o clock leaving most of our provisions and other articles on the rock four hours of laborious but not dangerous walking brought us to a large plain called the grand which is nearly surrounded on the one hand by a spur of and the du on the other by the e de la while presents itself directly in front these mountains form a steep around this plain there we stopped an hour to breakfast and strength for the last and most difficult part of our ascent we were now more than is xx � above the level of the sea and to th of only feet lower than the summit was in view before us � ut i looked around in vain for any part of its steep sides that seemed to a of it and when the guides pointed out the route we were to take among and over and huge broken masses of snow and up almost i involuntarily shrunk at the prospect and could not forbear casting my eye wistfully at our road back but it would not have done to be at this time by difficulties and a moment s reflection on the skill and experience of our guides renewed my confidence and we began cheerfully to mount the first steep before us we here	48
hall with a smile of conscious triumph first f s disappointed i don t see what she s done to clap their hands about myself at a second f s nor i neither � taking up his time all for nothing � depend upon it she wouldn t have gone up if he hadn t been so first f s i wouldn t like to think that of her myself but anyhow she didn t get much by it did she he soon sent packing male spectator to a woman in front of evening mrs � i see they ve got your good man up on the platform mrs m he will go mr he s gone up every night the s been here and says he feels it s going to do him good so this evening i said i d come in too and judge for myself what good he expects to get laying there like a damp don t know i meanwhile the has borrowed a silver handled umbrella from the audience and thrust it before tjie faces of one or two looking who immediately begin to horribly and follow the silver top with till they knock their heads mr to mrs he s going to give your husband a turn of it now the umbrella handle is applied to mr m feeble little man with a sandy top riot tie after the silver top when it is depressed and makes futile attempts to up the umbrella after it it is held aloft mrs m severely i haven t patience to look at him a ud have had more sense i the calling up one of the heavy is can you whistle sir yes then whistle something t ie youth a popular air in a tone now you cant whistle � try the youth tries � and produces nothing but a close imitation of an air cushion that is being now if i were not to wake him up this young gentleman s friends would never enjoy the benefit of his whistle again voice from a back row wake him nor we can bear it after restoring the lost talent and calling up another youth somewhat attired now sir what do you drink at d the youth w a beer when i can get old of it i a friend of his in audience jim s a lark with him � he said as ow he meant to kid him like � he ain t yer but you like water too don t you jim admits this � in moderation try this he gives him a of water is that good water jim his lips that s good water enough sin it s bad water � taste it again jim tastes and it with every symptom of extreme jim s friend try him with a drop o scotch in it � u get it down to jim there is no water in that glass � it s full of sovereigns don t you see jim that this is and to his conviction by promptly the contents of the glass into his pocket what have you got in your pocket jim with satisfaction � golden sovereigns wake up now what do you find in your pocket � any sovereigns t jim surprised sovereigns no sir after putting his hand in his bringing it out and regarding the stream of water issuing from his leg more like water sir he makes dismal efforts to dry himself amidst of laughter his friend old jim didn t come best out o that to jim you don t feel comfortable assent from jim yes you do you feel no discomfort whatever jim his seat with a satisfied expression an open minded mind yer if this can prevent water from being wet there must be something in it i will now give you an illustration of the manner in which by influence a subject can be affected with an entirely imaginary pain take this gentleman indicating unfortunate mr who is peacefully now what pain shall we give him a voice stomach ache this suggestion however is so advanced t it fortunately escapes notice at a very good � we will give him the audience receive this with enthusiasm which to delight when mr s cheek begins to violently y and lie nurses his jaw in acute agony the is transferred to another victim who in an even more entertaining manner until the unhappy couple are finally relieved from torment a well it s better nor any play this is � but he ought to ha passed the round the lot of em just for the fun o the thing mrs i should ha thought there was enough without coming here to get more of it but so long as s himself shan t interfere the has impressed his subjects with the idea that there is an angel at the other end of t ie hall and they are affected by the celestial apparition some gazing with a grin while others her stiffly or hail her like a cab mr alone no interest mr to mrs m your don t seem to be putting himself out angel or no angel mrs m complacently he knows too well what s due to me mn � angel enough for him i shall now persuade this gentleman that there is a beautiful young lady in green at the door of this hall to mr m do you see her sir i mr m rising with alacrity i do lovely creature he suddenly up a of water and his invisible in passionate to come up and share it with him � to tlie infinite delight of the audience and disgust of his wife after the performance mr as he his wife i felt the influence more strongly to night than what i have yet and the professor says if i only keep on coming up every night while	44
and the were of things and the baby was only a month or two old father was working for mr grant and he thought very highly of him just as all the men do now but i did not like him because he would not allow us boys to throw at the birds or rob their nests one day as i was going through this very wood and no one was near enough to see me i took a s nest with five tiny birds in it i hid them in the basket i was carrying to mother i knew that we had an old cage under the at home and i thought that i would put the birds in it and watch them the nest was very dry and i burned it so that i might not be found out mother was very busy indoors and so i put the birds in the cage without her seeing me for i knew that she would punish me if she learned that i had been cruel to the little creatures i soon noticed that mother was in trouble for father had not come home and she did not know the reason at last i was sent to bed and i lay and thought about the birds in the cage out under the but at length i slept and i must have dreamed for i thought that father had not come and i had been sent out to find him i asked a man where my father was and he told me that mr grant would not have my father work for him any more but that we were to go far away and be � like the little birds that i had put in the cage � without a home there was not a song of birds in the woods as i went back to the house my mother was making the children ready to leave she was crying and so were the children i tried to comfort her and then i went out to look at the birds they were dead and so great was my distress that i awoke it was a dream but a part of it was true the birds were dead is that all asked robert that is all will you take the nest again tell another story there is no hurry about taking the nest do you think that he took it expression practice the sounds of ch t wh th touch why thing they with touched what think than without reach when breath there mother reached whisper length thai another the poem the on page the dead robin i killed a robin the little thing with scarlet breast and glossy wing that came in the apple tree to sing a little flutter � a little cry � then on the ground i saw her lie i didn t think she was going to die but as i watched her i soon could see she never would sing for you or me any more in the apple tree a queer bird in on the other side of the world there lives a strange kind of bird which the nest you ever heard about the true name of this bird is but we will turn his name into plain english and call him big foot mr big foot is not a large bird he is not much larger than a but there is no other bird that so big a nest when mr and mrs big foot think it about time to build a nest they begin to gather all the sticks they can find they pick up leaves branches stems flowers and small plants and pile them on the ground where they want their nest they keep on with this work every day for a long time at last they have made a thick soft bed that is nearly round it is so large that you would think a hundred such birds could sit upon it but they do not want to sit upon it they now bring sand and earth and little stones and cover it all over they cover it so well that when it is done it looks like a hill of earth it is highest in the and slopes down all around so that when it rains the water will run off sometimes a nest is twelve feet high in the and thirty feet across at the bottom it is wonderful that two small birds can build so big a nest they have been at work a few weeks and they have piled up a good many of sticks leaves stones and sand what is the use of it all it surely does not look much like a nest in the of the mound the birds have left a round opening pr it is large enough for one of them to go into and it reaches from the top of the nest to the ground at the bottom of this they make a soft bed of leaves which is their true nest then when everything is ready mrs big foot begins to lay her eggs she lays eight and puts them in a perfect circle in this soft bed at the bottom of the but she does not sit on her eggs she has had enough to do to help build the great house for them as soon as all the eggs are in their places the two birds bid good by to their house and fly away but at first they do not go far mr big foot does not forget the eggs almost every day he comes back to see that everything is just right very soon the leaves and plants in the big nest begin to decay and this makes them warm the nest is a kind of like that which make for plants in the early spring how strange that the birds should know this if the	23
no sir replied coolly i should hardly describe it so sir i should say it it is the word i should employ mr his wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted of his victim the visions rising before his of the many ways in which this was to be turned to account never obscured the foremost idea natural to a dull man that he must not make himself too cheap mrs s fashion as a less inexorable deity than the idol usually worshipped under that name did not forbid her mixing for her guest or asking if he found the result to his liking on his returning a gracious answer and taking his place at the settle mr b an to compose himself as a listener at the opposite settle with eyes sorry to deprive you of a pipe he said filling his own but you can t do both together oh i and another thing i forgot to friend name i you in here of an evening and look round yon and notice anything on a shelf that happens to catch your fancy mention it we who had been going to put on his immediately laid them down with the observation you read my thoughts sir do my eyes deceive me or is that object up there a � a pie it can t be a pie yes it s a pie replied mr with a glance of some little discomfiture at the decline and fall have i lost my smell for fruits or is it a apple pie sir asked it s a and ham pie said mr is it indeed sir and it would be hard sir to name the pie that is a better pie than a and hammer said mr nodding his head have some thank you mr i think i will at your invitation i wouldn t at any other party s at the present juncture but at yours air and too especially when a little salt which is the case where there s ham is to the organ is very to the organ mr w g did not say what organ but spoke with a cheerful so the pie was brought down and the worthy mr exercised his patience until in the exercise of his knife and fork had the dish only by the opportunity to inform that although it was not strictly fashionable to keep the contents of a thus exposed to view he mr considered it hospitable for the reason that instead of saying in a comparatively manner to a visitor there are such and such down stairs will you have an up you took the bold practical course of saying cast your eye along the shelves and if you see anything you like there have it down and now mr at length pushed away his plate and put on his spectacles and mr lighted his pipe and looked with beaming eyes into the opening world before him and mrs in a manner on her as one who would be part of the audience if she found she could and would go to sleep if she found she couldn t hem began this mr and lady is the first chapter of the first of the decline and fall os here he looked hard at the book and stopped what s the matter why it comes into my mind do you know sir said w g with an air of frankness having first again looked at the book that you made a this morning which i had meant to set you right in something put it out of my head i think you said empire sir it is ain t it no sir what s the were the difference sir mr was and in danger of mutual friend down when a bright thought flashed upon him the sir there you place me in a mr suffice it to that the difference is best postponed to some other occasion when mrs does not honor us with her company in mrs s presence sir we had better drop it mr thus came out of his disadvantage with quite a air and not only that but by dint of repeating with a manly delicacy in mrs s presence sir we had better drop it turned the disadvantage on who felt that he had committed himself in a manner then mr in a dry way entered on his task going straight across country at everything that came before him taking all the hard words and getting rather shaken by and the at pronounced and supposed by mr to be a virgin and by mrs to i responsible for that necessity of dropping it li by up again and galloping smoothly with getting over the ground well with who under the of was held by mr to have been quite unworthy of his english origin and not to have acted up to his name in his government of the people with the death of this personage mr terminated his first reading long before which several total of mrs s candle behind her black velvet would have been very alarming but for being r accompanied by a potent smell of burnt pens when her feathers took fire which acted as a and woke her mr having read on by and attached as few ideas as possible to the text came out of the encounter fresh but mr who had soon laid down his unfinished pipe and had ever since sat intently staring with his eyes and mind at the of the so severely punished that he could hardly wish his literary friend night and articulate to gasped mr staring at the moon letting out at the gate and it fights in that wild east show seven hundred and five times in one character only i as if that wasn t enough a hundred lions is turned into the same wild beast show all at once	8
ship they were chased a long way out of their course into the straits of and the wind turning contrary increased towards night to a violent tempest in this extremity it required the tenderness of to encourage whose low spirited condition made her more fearfully alive to the horrors of the raging sea f which indeed roared round them as if the watery desert had hungry lions of its own as well as the sandy of africa but ten times more terrible the ship s besides straining as if they would part asunder and the storm howling through the like the voices of those evil angels who u is believed were cast into the dreadful deep t ii two i or when the daylight appeared there was no of any but the ship was tossing in the centre of a mere wilderness of sea and under the and troubled clouds which were still driving by a fierce wind towards the south the sails were torn into and the ignorant of where they were let the ship drift at the mercy of the elements which not their fury because the prey no longer resisted but the helpless bark with rage it could be no great wrong of and if at such a time they exchanged one embrace together in everlasting farewell they then composed to die calmly as became them in each other s company not with any vain shrieks or struggles but as they had lived and loved thus sitting in a martyr like mood and listening to the rushes of the waters across the deck they heard a sudden noise overhead which caused to look forth and lo there were the drunken putting off from the ship s side in the long boat being to their fate by a glimpse of land which none but their experienced eyes could yet discover however they had not struggled far with their oars when three monstrous curling a great deal than any of the rest turned the boat over and over washing out all the poor souls that were therein the waves swallowed up one by one without letting even their dying cries be heard through the bewildering foam after this sacrifice as though it had appeased the angry deity of the ocean the storm sensibly subsided and in an hour or two the skies clearing up perceived that they were off a small solitary � the ship soon after striking upon a coral about two hundred from the shore the the two lovers of skies frowning with a storm lost no time in a rude with and empty barrels upon which placing with such stores and implements as he could collect he towards the land where they landed safely upon a little sandy beach their first act was to return thanks to god for their miraculous preservation after which they partook of a that after their was v ry needful and then ascended a gentle sloping hill which ave them a prospect of the island it was a small place without any human inhabitants � but there were millions of marine birds upon the rocks as tame as domestic fowls and a number of the interior country besides seemed well wooded with various trees and the ground furnished divers kinds of and some very gigantic vegetables together with many european flowers the of which to such desolate and places is a mystery to this day the weather again turning boisterous they took a rocky which the kind hand of nature had out so that it seemed to have been provided with a foresight of their wants thus with their stores from the ship they were against any present hardships � but one many unlucky lovers i have sighed for such an island to take refuge in from the world yet here were two such fond persons in such an asylum whom fate had set up an eternal bar such as this could not but present themselves very sorrowfully to the minds of and a nevertheless he served her with the most tender and devoted homage and as love taught to him contributed by a thousand apt to her comfort and ease in this manner suppose them to spend five or two lovers of days � the cave being their shelter and by fishing or or the providing a change of food so that excepting the original hardship of their fortune the lovers had little cause to complain their solitary condition however and the melancholy of led to many little acts of fondness from which were almost as painful to exchange as to withhold it was no wonder then if sometimes in the anguish of his heart some expressions of impatience burst from his lips to which she answered with her tears at last one day when they were sitting on a rock which overlooked the sea they both turned at once towards each other with adverse faces and so despairing a look that they cast themselves by common consent into each other s arms in the next moment however forcing themselves asunder began as follows whilst covered her face with her hands i can bear this cruel life no longer better were we far apart as when you were living in and i for peace all over the world the restraint of distance was dreadful but and nothing so painful as this your tears flow before my sight yet i must not kiss them away without trembling nor soothe your audible grief upon my nor mingle my sighs with yours though we breathe the same limited air and not in a distant we were made for each other as our mutual love and yet here where there be none besides ourselves we must be several and my heart is torn asunder by such imperative there be but us two real creatures in the world and yet the horrible phantom of a third steps in between and us miserably apart i i	50
all the of her intellectual nature for something better than her narrow life by all her joy in the conversation of d the only man her equal in culture she had ever known she felt drawn to be the wife of the yet if there were roses there were thorns in such a path the village girl knew that madame la must lead a life very different from any she had known she must bear with a husband whose mind was ever in a state of and and she must meet the great world in truth there were two there was the that her neighbors knew the that went to church the that taught school no there was the other that read and shakespeare and de with this new had nothing to do and it was the of her nature that caused her then her conscience came in because there might be worldly attractions on one side she leaned to the other to reject a poor and accept a rich and one had something of treason in it at the end of a week she sent for them both henry s had been ready to start for new for two days and company were expecting the who was in some sort a ward of theirs henry and the d walked side by side in an awkward silence to the little vine covered cottage of that interview i do not know enough to write fully but i know that said such words as these this is an awful responsibility i suppose a judge when he must pass sentence of death but i must make a decision that the happiness of both my friends and myself i can not do it now will you wait until you both return in the spring i have a reason that i can not explain for wishing this matter postponed it will be decided for me perhaps i do not know that she said just these words and i know she did not say them all at once but so they parted and miss more who ribbons and scandal and whose only effort at mental improvement had been the out of the hairs to her forehead that she might look intellectual � miss more from her at the window the two friends walking away from mrs s cottage and remarked as she had often remarked before that it was absolutely for a young woman who was a professor to have two at once and such good friends too gifted girls like usually have a background in some friend intelligent quiet a dark thoughtful girl was sometimes spoken of as s double � but she was rather s opposite her traits were to those of her friend the two were all but inseparable and so when found herself the next evening on the bank of the river she naturally found with her slowly the of which henry was owner and master drifted by while the three or four men at each long oar strode back and forward on the deck as they urged the boat on henry was standing on the elevated bench made for the pilot holding the long oar and guiding the craft as his manly form in the western sunlight attracted their attention both the girls were with admiration both waved their handkerchiefs and henry returned the adieu by swinging his hat so intent was he on watching them that he forgot his duty and one of the men was obliged to call out swing her round captain or the mail boat d sink us hardly was the boat swung out of the way when the tall mail boat swept by see the cried and again were waved and the stepped to the guard and called out to henry i ll see you in new and the swift steamer immediately bore him out of speaking distance and henry watched him disappear with a choking feeling that thus the nobleman was to him in life see said you are a lucky girl tou have your choice you can go through life on the or on the of course you ll go by steam there are on sometimes said then turning she noticed a singular expression on s face her insight was quick and she said confess that you would choose the and turned away two strings to her bow or two to her string i should say and she did say it for this was miss more s comment on the fact wliich she had just learned that miss had received letters from the lower country the handwriting of the directions of which indicated that she had from both her friends but poor miss more with never a string to her bow and never a beau to her string might be forgiven for shooting that did no harm there was a time when had letters from only one henry was very ill and d wrote of his condition to and to his family in one of these it was announced that he was beyond recovery and and mingled their tears together then there came a letter saying that he was better then he was worse again and then better in those days the mail was brought wholly by and it took many days for intelligence to come but the next letter that had was from henry himself it was filled from first to last with praises of the that he had taken henry out of his boarding place and put him into his own large room in the st charles that he had nursed him with more than a friend s tenderness scarcely sleeping at all that he had sold his cargo relieved his mind of care employed the most prominent and anticipated his every want � all this and more the letter told and the very next from the lower try the great heavy duke of with a green half moon of work in	11
then she should have kept to her own station in life father said and not have given them any hold to talk about her and then they couldn t have done it couldn t have done it my dear retorted mr couldn t the personal history and experience have done it is that your knowledge of life what is there that any woman couldn t do that she shouldn t do � especially on the subject of another woman s good looks i really thought it was all over with mr after he had uttered this he to that extent and his breath all his attempts to recover it with that obstinacy that i fully expected to see his head go down behind the counter and his little black breeches with the rusty little of ribbons at the knees come quivering up in a last ineffectual struggle at length however he got better though he still panted hard and was so exhausted that he was obliged to sit on the stool of the shop desk you see he said wiping his head and breathing with difficulty she hasn t taken much to any companions here she hasn t taken kindly to any particular acquaintances and friends not to mention in consequence an ill natured story got about that em ly wanted to be a lady now my opinion is that it came into circulation principally on account of her sometimes saying at the school that if she was a lady she would like to do so and so for her uncle � don t you see � and buy him such and such fine things i assure you mr she has said so to me i returned eagerly when we were both children mr nodded his head and rubbed his chin just so then out of a very little she could dress herself you see better than most others could out of a deal and that made things unpleasant moreover she was rather what might be called � i l go so far as to say what i should call myself said mr � didn t know her own mind quite � a little spoiled � and couldn t at first exactly bind herself down no more than that was ever said against her no father said mrs that s the worst i believe so when she got a situation said mr to keep a old lady company they didn t very well agree and she didn t stop at last she came here for three years nearly two of em are over and she has been as good a girl as ever was worth any six is she worth any six now yes father replied never say i from her very good said mr that s right and so young gentleman he added after a few moments further rubbing of his chin that you may not consider me long as well as short breathed i believe that s all about it as they had spoken in a subdued tone while speaking of em ly i had no doubt that she was near on my asking now if that were not so mr nodded yes and nodded towards the door of the parlor my hurried inquiry if i might peep in was answered with a free permission and looking through the glass i saw her sitting at her work i saw her a most beautiful little creature with the blue eyes that had looked into my childish heart turned upon another child of s who was playing near her with enough of in her bright face to justify what i had heard with much of the old capricious lurking in it but with nothing in her pretty looks i am sure but what was meant for goodness and for happiness and what was on a good and happy course f of david the tune across the yard that seemed as if it never had left off � alas it was the tune that never does leave off � was beating softly all the while wouldn t you like to step in said mr and speak to her walk in and speak to her sir make yourself at home i was too to do so then � i was afraid of her and i was no less afraid of myself but i informed myself of the hour at which she left of an evening in order that our visit might be timed accordingly and taking leave of mr and his pretty daughter and her little children went away to my dear old s here she was in the kitchen cooking dinner the moment i knocked at the door she opened it and asked me what i pleased to want i looked at her with a smile but she gave me no smile in return i had never ceased to write to her but it must have been seven years since we had met is mr at home ma am i said to speak roughly to her he s at home sir returned but he s bad with the don t he go over to now i asked when he s well he do she answered do you ever go there mrs she looked at me more attentively and i noticed a quick movement of her hands towards each other because i want to ask a question about a house there that they call the � what is it � the said i she took a step backward and put out her hands in an frightened way as if to keep me off i cried to her she cried my darling boy and we both burst into tears and were locked in one another s arms what she committed what laughing and crying over me what pride she showed what joy what sorrow that she whose pride and joy i might have been could never hold me in a fond embrace i	8
with close attention describe this gentleman to me i surely ought to know one who knows me so well his sister painted as vividly as she could the features stature and dress oi her visitor but john either from having no knowledge of the original or from some in her description or from some abstraction of his thoughts as he walked to and fro pondering could not recognise the portrait she presented to him however it was agreed between that he should see the original when he next appeared this the sister applied herself with a less anxious breast to her domestic occupations and the grey haired man late junior of s devoted the first day of his unwonted liberty to working in the garden it was quite late at night and the brother was reading and son s i while the sister plied her needle when they were interrupted by a knocking at the door in the atmosphere of vague anxiety and dread that lowered about them in with their fugitive brother this sound unusual there became almost alarming the brother going to the door the sister sat and listened timidly some one spoke to him and he replied and seemed surprised and after a few words the two approached together said her brother lighting in their late visitor and speaking in a low voice mr � the gentleman so long in s house with james his sister started back as if a ghost had entered in the doorway stood the friend with the hair sprinkled with grey the ruddy face the broad clear brow and eyes whose secret she had kept so long john she said half breathless it is ttie gentleman x told you of to day the gentleman miss said the visitor coming in � for he had stopped a moment in the doorway is greatly relieved to hear you say that he has been ways and means all the way here of explaining himself and has been satisfied with none mr john i am not quite a stranger here you were stricken with astonishment when you saw me at your door just now i observe you are more astonished at present well that s reasonable enough imder existing circumstances if we were not such creatures of habit aa we are we shouldn t have reason to be astonished half so often by this time he had greeted with that agreeable mingling of cordiality and respect which she recollected so well and had sat down near her off his gloves and thrown them into his hat upon the table there s nothing astonishing he said in my having conceived a desire to see your sister mr john or in my having gratified it in my own way as to the regularity of my visits since which she may have mentioned to you there is nothing extraordinary in that they soon grew into a habit and we are creatures of habit � creatures of habit putting his hands into his pockets and leaning back in his chair he looked at the brother and sister as if it were interesting to him to see them together and went on to say with a kind of irritable it s this same habit that some of us who are capable of better vol ir y and son in s own pride and � tbat and others of us in � more of us in indifference � that us from day to day according to the temper of our clay like and leaves us as susceptible as images to new impressions and convictions you shall judge of its influence on me john for more years than i need name i had my small an exactly defined share in the management of s house and saw your brother who has proved himself a scoundrel your sister will forgive my being obliged to mention it extending and extending his influence the business and its owner were his and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day and was quite content to be as little troubled as i might be out of my own strip of duty and to let everything about me go on day by day like a great machine � that was ite habit and mine � and to take it all for granted and consider it all right my wednesday nights came regularly round our parties came regularly off my was in good tune and there was nothing wrong in my world � or if anything not much � or little or much it was no affair of mine i can answer for your being more respected and beloved during all that time than anybody in the house sir said john good natured and easy enough i dare say returned the other a habit i had it suited the manager it suited the man he managed it suited me best of all i did what was allotted to me to do made no court to either of them and was glad to occupy a station in which none was required so i should have gone on till now but that my room had a thin wall you can tell your sister that it was divided from the manager s room by a they were adjoining rooms had been one perhaps originally and were separated as mr says said her brother looking back to him for the of his explanation i have whistled tunes gone accurately through the whole of s in b to let him know that i was within hearing said mr but he never me it happened seldom enough that i was within hearing of anything of a private nature certainly but when i was and couldn t otherwise avoid knowing something of it i walked out i walked out once john during a conversation between and son two brothers to which in the beginning young walter gay was a party but i overheard some of it	8
ll never be your best man again stand up g visibly m returning she s coming now look out when the music starts there s the organ beginning to bride steps out of at church door g catches a glimpse of her and takes heart organ � the voice that breathed o er that earliest marriage day the marriage blessing it hath not passed away m watching g by jove he is looking well didn t think he had it in him g how long does this hymn go on for m it will be over directly anxiously beginning to and hold on and think o the regiment g i say there s a big brown crawling up that wall with any amazement m my mother the last stage of bride comes up to left of altar lifts her eyes once to g who is suddenly smitten mad g b himself again and again little s a woman � a woman and i thought she was a little girl m a whisper form the halt � inward wheel g mechanically and the ceremony proceeds only unto her as long as ye both shall live g his throat useless ha � m say you will or you won t there s no second deal here bride gives response with perfect coolness and is given away by the father g thinking to show his learning jack give me away now quick m you re given yourself away quite enough her right hand man repeat repeat philip have you forgotten your own name g through which bride a tremor m now the ring follow the don t pull off my glove here it is great he s found his voice g in a voice to be heard to the end of the church and turns on his heel m desperately rein back back to your troop t half legal yet � joined together let no man put asunder with any amazement g with fear after blessing m quickly on your own front � one length take her with you i don t come you ve nothing to say g up to altar m in a piercing rattle meant to he a whisper kneel you stiff i kneel whose daughters are ye so long as ye do well and are not afraid with any amazement m dismiss break off left wheel all troop to they sign m kiss her g rubbing the ink into his glove eh at m taking one pace to bride if you don t i shall g an arm not this journey general kissing in which g is pursued by unknown female g faintly to m this is can i wipe my face now m my responsibility has ended better ask g as though shot and procession is out of to house where usual take place over the m at table up with you they expect a speech g after three minutes agony ha � of applause m good for a first attempt now go and change your while mamma is weeping over � the g m starts with any amazement up tearing his hair it s not half legal where are the shoes get an at ah captain done gone band all the m sword woman produce those shoes i some one lend me a bread knife we mustn t crack s head more than it is heel off white satin arid puts up his sleeve where is the bride to the company at large be tender with that rice it s a heathen custom give me the big bag bride slips out quietly into and towards the sunset m in the open stole away by jove i so much the worse for here he is now this u be than where s your horse g furiously seeing that the women are out of where the is my wife m half way to by this time you ll have to ride like young horse comes round on his hind legs refuses to let g handle him g oh you will will you get round you brute � you � you beast i get round horse s head over nearly breaking lower jaw himself into saddle and sends home both spurs in the midst of a gale of best m for your life and your love � ride � and god bless you i throws half a pound of rice at g who with any amazement bowed forward on the saddle in a cloud of dust m i ve lost old lights and off singing � you may it on his you may cut it on his card that a young man married is a young man miss from her horse really captain you are more plain spoken than polite m aside they say marriage is like wonder who ll be the next victim white satin from his sleeve and falls at his feet left wondering the garden of and ye shall be as � gods scene � grass plot at hack of the overlooking little wooded valley on the left glimpse of the dead forest of on the rights hills in background line of the captain now three weeks a husband is smoking the pipe of peace on a rug in the sunshine and tobacco on rug overhead the mrs g comes out of mrs g my husband g lazily with intense enjoyment eh at say that again mrs g i ve written to mamma and told her that we shall be back on the th g did you give her my love mrs g no i kept all that for myself sitting down by his side i thought you wouldn t mind g with mock i object ly how did you know that it was yours to keep mrs g i guessed g lit i mrs g i be called those sporting pet names bad boy g you ll be called anything i choose has it ever occurred	39
the words of the young lady and his own impatient eagerness would suffer no delay in the late luminous and lamp dusk of the summer evening he accordingly set forward with brisk steps the street to which he was directed had first s n the day in the character of a row of small the squire of on a but the extension of the city had long since and on every hand surrounded it with miles of streets from the top of the hill a range of very tall buildings inhabited by the very poorest classes of the population and by from every second window the and their little gardens like a but still under the of years of city smoke these cottages with their blinds and rural retained a somewhat melancholy of the past the street when entered it was perfectly deserted from hard by indeed the sound of a thousand filled the ear but in richard street itself there was neither light nor sound of human habitation the appearance of the neighborhood weighed heavily on the mind of the young man once more as in the streets of london he was impressed with the sense of city deserts and as he approached the number indicated and somewhat f rang the bell his heart sank within him the bell was ancient like the house it had a thin and note and it was some time before it ceased to sound from the rear quarters of the building following upon this an inner door was stealthily opened and care the squire of f ul and steps drew near along the hall supposing he was to be produced his letter and as well as he was able prepared a smiling face to his indescribable surprise however the footsteps ceased and then after a pause and with the like withdrew once more and died away in the interior of the house a second time the young man rang violently at the bell a second time to his keen a certain bustle of discreet footing moved upon the hollow boards of the old villa and again the faint hearted garrison only drew near to retreat the cup of the visitor s endurance was now full to overflowing and committing the whole family of to every mood and shade of condemnation he turned upon his heel and the steps perhaps the in the house was watching from a window and plucked up courage at the sight of this or perhaps where he trembling in the back part of the villa reason in its own right had conquered his at least had scarce set foot upon the pavement when he was arrested by the sound of the of an inner bolt one followed another rattling in their the key turned harshly in the lock the door opened and there appeared upon the threshold a man of a very figure in his shirt sleeves he was a the squire of person neither of great manly nor of a refined exterior he was not the man in ordinary moods to attract the eyes of the observer but as he now stood in the doorway he was marked so with the extreme passion of terror that stood wonder for a of a minute they gazed upon each other in silence and then the man of the house with lips and gasping voice inquired the business of his visitor replied in tones from which he strove to banish his surprise that he was the bearer of a letter to a certain miss at this name as at a the man fell back and impatiently invited him to enter and no sooner had the adventurer crossed the threshold than the door was closed behind him and his retreat cut oflf it was already long past eight at night and though the late twilight of the north still lingered in the streets in the passage it was already groping dark the man led directly to a parlor looking on the garden to the back here he had apparently been for by the light of a dip the table was seen to be covered with a and set out with a of ale and the heel of a cheese the room on the other hand was furnished with faded and the walls were lined with and costly volumes in the squire of glazed cases the house must have been taken furnished for it had no with this man of the shirt sleeves and the mean supper as for the earl s daughter the earl and the visionary in foreign cities they had long ago begun to fade in s imagination like doctor and the angels they were plainly woven of the of dreams not an illusion remained to the knight not a hope was left him but to be si relieved from this business the man had continued to regard his visitor with anxiety and began once more to press him for his errand i am here said simply to do a service between two ladies and i must ask you without further delay to summon miss into whose hands alone i am to deliver the letter that i bear a growing wonder began to mingle on the man s face with the lines of solicitude i am miss he said and then perceiving the effect of this communication good god he cried what are you staring at i tell you i am miss seeing the speaker wore a chin beard of considerable length and the remainder of his face was blue with could only suppose himself the subject of a jest he was the squire of no longer under the spell of the young lady s presence and with men and above all with his he was capable of some display of spirit sir said he pretty i have put myself to great inconvenience for persons of whom i know too little and i begin to be weary of the business	38
very few people i am sorry to see company is always cheerful that is just my way of thinking give me but a little cheerful company let me only have the company of the people i love let me only be where i like and with whom like and the devil take the rest say i and i am heartily glad to hear you say the same but i have a notion miss you and i think pretty much alike upon most matters perhaps we may but it is more than i ever thought of and as to most matters to say the truth there are not many that i know my own mind about by jove no more do i it is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me my notion of things is simple enough let me only have the girl i like say i with a comfortable house over my head and what care i for all the rest fortune is i am sure of a good income of my own and if she had not a penny why so much the better very true i think like you there if there is a good fortune on one side there can be no occasion for any on the other no matter which has it so that there is enough i hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another and to marry for money i think the thing in existence good we shall be very glad to you at whenever it is convenient and away she went it was not in the power of all his gallantry to detain her longer with such news to communicate and such a visit to il north anger abbey prepare for her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge and she hurried away leaving him to tlie consciousness of his own happy address and her explicit encouragement the agitation which she had herself experienced on first learning her brother s engagement made her expect to raise no emotion in mr and mrs by the communication of the wonderful event how great was her disappointment the important affair which many words of preparation ushered m had been foreseen by them both ever since her brother s arrival and all that they felt on the occasion was comprehended in a wish for the young people s happiness with a remark on the gentleman s side in favour of s beauty and on the lady s of her great good luck it was to the most the disclosure however of the great secret of james s going to i the day before did raise some emotion in mrs she could not listen to that with calmness but repeatedly regretted the necessity of its concealment wished she could have known his intention wished she could have seen him before he went as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother and her kind compliments to all the v s expectations of pleasure from her visit in street were so very high that disappointment was inevitable and accordingly though she was most politely received by general and kindly welcomed by his daughter though henry was at home and no one else of the party d e found on her return without spending many hours in the north anger abbey ii examination of her feelings that she had gone to her appointment preparing for happiness which it had not afforded instead of finding herself improved in acquaintance with miss from the intercourse of the day she seemed hardly so intimate with her as before instead of seeing henry to greater advantage than ever in the ease of a family party he had never said so little nor been so little agreeable and in spite of their father s great to her in spite of his thanks invitations and compliments it had been a release to get away from him it puzzled her to account for all this it could not be general s fault that he was perfectly agreeable and good natured and altogether a very charming man did not admit of a doubt for he was tall and handsome and henry s father he could not be for his children s want of spirits or for her want of enjoyment in his company the she hoped at last might have been accidental and the latter she could only attribute to her own stupidity on hearing the particulars of the visit gave a different explanation it was all pride pride and pride she had long suspected the family to be very high and this made it certain such insolence of behaviour as miss s she had never heard of in her life i not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding to behave to her guest with such hardly even to speak to her but it was not so bad as that there was no she was very civil oh don t defend her and then the brother he who had appeared so attached to you good heavens well some people s feelings are incomprehensible and so he hardly looked once at you the whole day i do not say so but he did not seem in good spirits i abbey how contemptible of all things in the world is my aversion let me entreat you never to think of him again my dear indeed he is unworthy of you unworthy i do not suppose he ever thinks of me that is exactly what i say he never thinks of you such oh how different to your brother and to mine i really believe john has the most constant heart but as for general i assure you it would be impossible for any body to behave to me with greater civility and attention it seemed to be his only care to entertain	26
i hoped it was true it was but i was again taken and condemned if i may ride with you citizen will you let me hold your hand i am not afraid but i am little and weak and it will give me more courage as the patient eyes were to his face he saw a sudden doubt in them and then astonishment he a tale of two cities pressed the work worn hunger worn young fingers and touched his lips are you dying for him she whispered and his wife and child hush yes oh you will let me hold your brave hand stranger hush yes my poor sister to the last the same shadows that are falling on the prison are falling in that same hour of the early afternoon on the barrier with the crowd about it when a coach going out of paris drives up to be examined who goes here whom have we within papers i the papers are handed out and read physician french which is he this is he this helpless murmuring wandering old man pointed out apparently the citizen doctor is not in his right mind the revolution fever will have been too much for him greatly too much for him many suffer with it his daughter french which is she this is she apparently it must be the wife of is it not it is has an elsewhere her child english this is she she and no other � me child of now thou hast a tale of two cities kissed a good republican something new in thy family remember it advocate english which is he he lies here in this comer of tlie carriage he too is pointed out apparently the english advocate is in a it is hoped he will recover in the air it is represented that he is not in strong health and has separated sadly from a friend who is under the displeasure of the republic is that all it is not a great deal that many are under the displeasure of the republic and must look out at the little window banker english which is he i am he necessarily being the last it is who has replied to all the previous questions it is who has alighted and stands with his hand on the coach door replying to a group of officials they leisurely walk round the carriage and leisurely mount the box to look at what little luggage it carries on the roof the country people hanging about press nearer to the coach doors and stare in a little child carried by its mother has its short arm held out for it that it may touch the wife of an who has gone to the behold your papers one can depart citizen one can depart forward my i a good journey i salute you citizens � and the first danger passed these are again the words of as he his hands and looks upward there is terror in a tale of two the carriage there is weeping there is the heavy breathing of the insensible traveller are we not going too slowly can they not be induced to go faster asks clinging to the old man it would seem like flight my darling i must not urge them too much it would rouse suspicion look back look back and see if we are pursued the road is clear my dearest so far we are not pursued houses in and pass by us solitary farms buildings works and the like open country avenues of trees the hard pavement is under us the soft deep mud is on either side sometimes we strike into the mud to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us and sometimes we stick in and there the agony of our impatience is then so great that in our wild alarm and hurry we are for getting out and running � hiding � doing anything but stopping out of the open country in again among buildings solitary farms works and the like cottages in and avenues of trees have these men deceived us and taken us back by another road is not this the same place twice over thank heaven no a village look back look back and see if we are pursued i hush the house leisurely our four horses are taken out leisurely the coach stands in the little street of horses and with no upon it of ever moving again leisurely the new horses come into visible existence one by one leisurely the new follow and a tale of two cities the lashes of their leisurely the old count their money make wrong additions and arrive at dissatisfied results all the time our hearts are beating at a rate that would far the gallop of the horses ever at length the new are in their and the old are left behind we are through the village up the hill and down the hill and on the low watery grounds suddenly the exchange speech with animated and the horses are up almost on their we are pursued ho i within the carriage there speak then what is it asks mr looking out at window how many did they say i do not understand you � at the last post how many to the to day � fifty two i said so a brave number my fellow citizen here would have it forty two ten more heads are worth having the goes handsomely i love it hi forward then the night comes on dark he moves more he is beginning to revive and to speak he thinks they are still together he asks him by his name what he has in his hand oh pity us kind heaven and help us i look out look out and see if we are pursued the wind is rushing after us and the clouds are flying aft cr us and the	8
strains of b ton all or nearly all the poets who have followed these have attempted to follow in the same course until the flowers � and they were which grew beside their path have been trodden preface down by the pressure of numerous feet and from the very and familiarity with which such subjects have been presented to our view chivalry has lost its romance love and beauty have almost ceased to charm and passion has itself to death does it then follow that poetry must die also let us not admit the thought of such a falling upon our country or our age one thing however b necessary and it has been overlooked by almost all who have lately attempted to write poetry � after the over excitement which created so false and unnatural a taste has entirely subsided we must return to nature and simplicity it is more than probable that many will return in vain because the ear long accustomed to the higher of genius will scarcely condescend for some time at least to listen to the melody of simple � ut nature must prevail at last and whatever the event of the experiment i have made may be its or success will in no way affect my conviction that by returning to simplicity � by making simplicity without weakness or the constant companion of his studies the poet who is true to nature may viii preface yet find acceptance with intelligent and feeling minds in the poetry of life i have endeavoured to prove that four are necessary for an able and successful poet � power imagination impression and taste to only one of these � a for receiving lively and lasting impressions do i make any yet such is my confidence in the power of simplicity and truth that i commit my poem to the public not doubting but there will be found amongst that public some whose experience will testify to its and more whose hearts will respond to its truth it contains no exaggerated statements i know that such things are as i have here described it has suited my purpose amongst other illustrations to have actual representations made of the home of my childhood as well as of my s present residence but in making this confession i should wish to have it clearly understood that the representation of real scenes extends no farther the description of the habits of the farmer s family as well as the conduct of his landlord has arisen entirely out of the imagination of the writer and in the latter case preface ix especially would be very regarded as a specimen of the conduct of landed in general i cannot in the usual manner explain my reasons for selecting the subject which the following pages because instead of saying that i have chosen it i must say that it is almost ever present to my mind � the story is and has arisen out of the popular evils of the day but some of the scenes i have attempted to describe are such as are well calculated to force themselves into verse and if they fail to present to others the same vivid colouring which them amongst my early associations the fault is in the writer as a poet � not in the rural scenes of england as a subject for v indeed it has been chiefly when contemplating such scenes and the habits and feelings of those who are with them that i have renewed my confidence in the conviction that poetry never can become extinct it b the fashion of the day to overlook as unworthy of attention much that is connected with the happiness and misery of social life and to bring every effort of industry and mental application to a x preface bear upon the machinery of mere animal existence in with the same mode of thinking we hear perpetually of our national prosperity being calculated in exact proportion with our commerce and with the competition england is enabled to maintain with the abroad thus we are too much disposed to forget that the real prosperity of a nation ought to be calculated by its elevation in the scale of moral feeling rather than by its facility in supplying the bodily wants of the community at large that much of this true elevation of feeling belongs to the agricultural classes no one can deny who has become with their social and domestic habits and it ought to be esteemed as highest amongst the many privileges of rural life that the circumstances in which the farmer is placed have a natural tendency to induce a tone of feeling the value of which can never be by the greatest physical advantages this world is able to supply in his association with the more laborious classes the is placed on a footing very different from that of the the simple fact that in one case the working people are called men and in the other hands of itself a wide preface xi to the they are for the most part but instruments of labour � mere hands and they are taken into his employment when trade is said to be brisk and dismissed when he needs them no more just as so many tools are taken up or laid aside to suit the service of the day but the farmer dwells as it were amongst his own people he has most probably grown up from infancy beside them his children may have been with theirs he knows all the internal economy of the cottages around him his people come to him for advice in their domestic and social transactions and he feels too sensibly for his peace of mind that when his own altered circumstances render it necessary for him to dismiss any of them from his er ice that distress which be is well able to picture will cast a gloom over the	41
a f l in p f t i s a i� op admit the of one or other of the g charges the ic � � it hu he to ih il the would be into the f i iv � h ill ix c a i c the ot a city wc t of the of or if lie he supposed to give a of t t x him with meet of word the est of its or even if to the ct n ap to the � in the old testament it could only that lie would i c a t which j was or that he would ik crowned ns joseph gen in no case that bo would be up in the petty town of the probable of this passage and that which the sanction of the christians questioned on the subject by li he here to si mc i called � as s in every case is violence done to the word by to a mere of on entirely relation to tlie name of the city of s at a of op thk � transition to the tl to avoid the many difficulties which beset ua at o cry step in this chapter after manner of the it is quite worth our while to seek for another which may suffice to explain the according lo physical and without any of such an has been the most attempted by how could heathen in a remote country of the t know any thing of a king about to be bom this is the first difficulty and it ia removed on the above system of interpretation by that the i were jews this apparently is not the idea oi for the which he into the mouth of the w an thai is born king of them from that people and t regards the of the entire narrative tire h o have apprehended it more than thinks in the visit of the ma as the of christ to as we have above remarked this difficulty may bo away without having recourse to he w� of i farther to tlie al the real object of the journey of men not lo see the new king nor n ns its cause the t ax which they observed in the cost tliey ad p f t in m t in ow k t s t t � d s s ad xl the ji happened to bo travelling to with views and far and wide in land of a new a celestial they had observed o and they desired to see the a ity it is true the the g von to by usual conception of ihe story ia but only at the expense of l or even if it were to into their purpose in this journey cannot hav boon a commercial one for their inquiry on arriving at je ia after the new bom king and mention a seen by them in the east aa the cause not only of their question but of their present journey the object of which to bo tho of their homage to the new bom child v the star becomes on this method of interpretation a natural or a or a that ia a of f last idea was ut forth by and has been approved by several and is it more on any one of these to conceive that the star could the on way and remain stationary over a particular according to the of the tc � t wo have already examined the two if we adopt tho third we either the v u to signify tho of the ts in union t the text nut imply a but a movement of the i entire phenomenon or we s to our aid and imagine that the which could no longer in tiie valley m and again on view over the where s l or the sion ov r v y merely the abode not the of child and hi t this we grant but when list pi thus t i v he gi more general ihe precise meaning of e so that this explanation is a vain effort to the of tho the most remarkable supposition l by those who p aa a of is that tliey had obtain bi fixed point in to of may be attached according to s calculation corrected by there before the of in the year of a of and in t io the of these is repented in the above sign to which attribute a special relation to i about every years and according to the of tlie jew it took place years before the of for both ii mm in f in der r in im s w it t l� � li s el s s ufe it � probable enough that hope of great of nation would be n the of this in the time of and thai the n as cr d it would on the part of tar d by was li o n our aft to the year of christ and as to the of � an extremely and as there certain in tlie ex text for instance the word v and t mi do not accord with an explanation � so soon as r with s narrative presents itself wc are m giving it the the connected with the of from the id testament are from the point of by denying that tlie writers of the testament arc for the of these it is that the prophecy of is applied to the and his birth in by the and that has not committed hun df to their by one word of a but when the proceeds to how the i the interpretation he it by sea of fact in relation to the from and in to a singular expedient say lo guard against the offence wliich it might possibly ve	14
position of hesitating on the bank with an anxious face not daring to spur his horse upon the ice after they left me i had eight more and then a ride of six miles before i reached the old trail but though there were several up to the saddle and no one had broken a track showed such pluck that instead of spending the night by a camp fire or not getting in till midnight i reached mr s cabin four miles from park only an hour after dark very cold and with the pony so tired that she could hardly put one foot before another indeed i walked the last three miles i saw light through the but hearing an earnest conversation within was just about to withdraw when ring and on his master coming to the door i found that the solitary man was talking to his dog he was looking out for me and had some coffee ready and a large fire which were very pleasant and i was very glad to get the latest news from the park he said that told him that it would be most difficult for any one of them to take me down to the plains but that he would go which is a great relief according to the scotch proverb better a finger off than aye and as i cannot live here for you would not like the life or climate the sooner i leave the better the solitary ride to s was very it the mountains was very dark and the noises were unintelligible young man rushed out to take my horse and the light and warmth within were delightful but there was a about the new though in difficulties was as hearty and generous as ever but who had assumed the management is prudent if not thinks we wasted the supplies and the as to milk etc are painfully apparent a young ex has come up with of whom the sanguine creature forms great expectations to be disappointed doubtless in the afternoon of yesterday a gentleman came who i thought was another stranger strikingly handsome well dressed and barely forty with sixteen shining gold curls falling down his collar he walked in and it was only a careful second look that i recognised in our visitor the courteously pressed him to stay and dine with us and not only did he show the most singular dexterity in talking with the stranger who was a very man and had seen a great deal of the world but though he lives and eats like a savage his manners and way of eating were as refined a possible i notice that is never quite himself or perfectly comfortable when he is there and on the part of the other there is a sort of stiffly assumed cordiality significant i fear of lurking hatred on a lady s life in both sides i was in the kitchen after dinner making rolled young was eating up the relics as usual jim was singing one of the others being in the living room when mr and mr came from up the creek to wish me good bye they said it was not half so much like home now and recalled the good time w we had had for three weeks having lost the cow we have no milk no one makes bread they dry the into and getting the meals at all seems a work of toil and difficulty instead of the pleasure it used to be to us since tea has told me all his troubles and he is a kind generous whole hearted man a worse enemy to himself i believe than to any other but i feel sadly that the future of a man who has not stronger principles than he has must be at the best very l mm letter woman g mission � the lost morning � the st trail � the st crossing the jim s dream � keeping strangers � the inn a child � a jim s the frost an unfortunate introduction december ib the last evening came i did not wish to it as i looked at the snow peaks glistening in the moonlight no woman will be seen in the park till next may young talked in a style but with some truth in it of the influence of a woman s presence how low mean vulgar talk had died out on my return how they had all pulled themselves up and how mr and mr had said they like always to be as quiet and gentlemanly as when a lady was with them by may he said we shall be little better than brutes in our manners at least i have seen a great deal of the class of men both on sea and land during the last two years and the more important i think the mission of every quiet refined self respecting woman � the more mistaken i think those who would a lady s life in letter it by noisy self assertion or in all this wild west the influence of woman is second only in its benefits to the influence of religion and where the last unhappily does not exist the first continually its power the last morning came i cleaned up my room and sat at the window watching the red and gold of one of the most glorious of winter and the slow lighting up of one peak after another i have written that this scenery is not but i love it i left on at o clock riding with me as far as mr s he was telling me so many things that at the top of the hill i forgot to turn round and take a last look at my colossal lonely den but it was needless for i carry it away with me i should not have been able to leave if mr had	20
to what is your friend laughing at and the story of how my strength had me at the third wall was told i quite with you said the one that had been overtaken like myself from the heat did the poet get to the top yes he did i replied sharply and did the view you for the walk there is no view m answered only a rim ot pearl coloured mountains the edge of the world they seemed and an intense silence that isn t enough to climb a thousand feet for said the of the two but it wasn t for the view he went there i replied indignantly but for the gods for the gods r and why not are there no gods but your s my question was not answered and at the end of an awkward silence we talked about indifferent things till we came to where we happened to be at the same inn and m suggested that we should ask the to dine with us having in mind not the dinner but the supper of ideas which he was preparing for them and that supper began with the dinner even before the arrival of the they were being told that was the most celebrated mountain in all and enveloped in the most beautiful it distressed me to see m neglect his dinner and i insisted that he must finish his chop before he his and showed the he had made of the shaped lake he ate for a little while but it was impossible to restrain him from telling how had seen a fairy face rise above the waters of the lake and had after it whether the and for how long he had enjoyed her he did not tell only that when rose to tiie again he was an old man old as the and ihe rocks of the world but his youth was given back to him by enchantment and of the adventure nothing remained except his snow white hair which was so and became him so well that it had not been altered back to its original colour it was on this mountain that had found the � horse and m told us in language which still rings in my memory oi the great battle of the ford and the giant of the he spoke to us of the manhood and of the exploits of and the children of more admirable he said as types more noble and inspiring than the o� little saints who came later and cursed their memories this last passage seemed to the they looked but m s soul refuses to recognize the miserable of certain christian he was think g of the smith who lived in the mountain and who the their and when that story had been related he remembered that he had not told than of the most remote and most spiritual of all the god of the feast of age the of hail and farewell the mysteries and how anyone who partook of that feast became himself immortal it is a great grief to me that no single note was taken at the time of that extraordinary evening spent with m in the inn at eating hard and drinking stale beer the fare was poor but what thoughts and what eloquence a short hand writer should have been by me she is never with us when she should be i might have gone to my room and taken notes but no note was taken alas a change came into the faces of the as they listened to m y even their attitudes seemed to become noble m did not see them he was too absorbed in his ideas but i saw them and thought the while of barren rocks that the sun for a moment and then not satisfied with that i thought how at midday a ray finds its way even into the darkest valley we had remained in the valley of the senses � our weak flesh had kept us there but m had ascended the mountain of the spirit and a divine light was about him it is the mission of some men to enable their fellows to live beyond themselves m possesses this power in an extraordinary degree and we were lifted above ourselves my memory of that evening is one which time is powerless to and though years have passed by the moment is remembered when m said that religion must always be which makes a far off land sacred rather than the earth and then he denied that the genius of the had ever owed any of its inspiration to teaching its our talk is always reported and in these memories of m there must be a great deal of myself it sounds so like myself that i hesitate to attribute this sentence to him yet it seems to me that i can still hear him speaking it � the folk tales of have ever lain nearer to the hearts of the people than those of whatever there is of worth in song and story is woven into them handed down from the dim ages and did i not hear him say that soon the children of a new race shall roll out their thoughts on the before your very doors o priests calling your flocks from your dark and to a temple not built with hands sweet with the and incense of from your call them to the of the hills soon to be lit up as of old soon to be blazing of over the land these heroes i see emerging have they not come forth in every land and race when there was need here too they will arise my ears retain memories of his voice when he cried ah my you will have to fight and suffer you must endure loneliness the coldness of the of love warmed only by the bright	15
it was how it softened the blow of my father s death i felt as if i had got into a haven of rest and peace from which i never be again as long as i lived and still the old native woman s prophecy stayed in my mind persistently i do not mean to imply that it always stayed in my mind but it came back from time to time with more or less painful � there is no in your life yon keep nothing long at least not in the early part of your life at such times i had to remind myself of that other prophecy of hers � your lord s heart will be yours always it was to that my father s were all sent home not the furniture of our at but all his and my personal my own things had been packed np by my father s orders immediately that my marriage was a finally settled matter and had been actually sent off by him the week previous to hia death but captain had gathered together everything that he believed i should most value the pictures a few choice books � as choice as anybody ever has in india that is to say � a few skins and and various personal odds and ends that my father had regularly used all other things were sold as is the custom at such times and the money for these together with the little money that my father had had to leave was handed over to me in accordance with his last wiu strangely enough made and signed on the very day of my wedding he had not had very much to leave � something over a thousand you had better put it with your money i said to my husband when i received the l z i c the of hy life for the from the lawyer who had managed my father s not at all he said but i don t want any separate money i would rather you would take care of it i don t understand money the best thing that we can do said my husband is to put it in a bank by itself and to keep it for for instance at the end of a couple of years we shall have to turn out of this place and furnish for ourselves and as my little all is well and safely invested in england it would he a pity to sell out for furnishing purposes besides it is always as well to have a shot in the for absolute emergency use one cannot t� ll in this climate what a single day may bring forth by far the best thing to do would be to put it into a bank in your own name we agreed to do that and so our life went on and i never gave my little bo as another thought we were really very gay at this time the rd was a go ahead regiment and one and all seemed determined to enjoy every scrap of gaiety that could be squeezed out of a life in not even my mourning kept me in for more than a few weeks i was a bride and as a bride i must be and i was very young and in spite of my great grief i did not find it practicable to myself from the life that was going on around ma at first when i began to go about i felt that i was wicked and then i reminded myself that after all it was hard to visit my sorrow upon my husband and i felt that if my father could look down and see me from where he was he would understand l z i a note in a i was not going i had in any sense foi him or ceased to regret him but wholly and solely ont of a desire to do my to the utmost to the who had been so good and considerate and tender with me and with every day that went over my head i to love my better and he on his side grew more and more devoted to me how different it would all have been if i had been left any relations whom i had known as relations with only my modest little and a wretched little to live npon a and a stray who would live in other people s houses with only two courses open to her either to marry for a home or to develop into that wretched of womanhood an indian spin i used sometimes to look at my husband with a kind of wonder i have often caught myself asking was i really edward was i really gallant young soldier s wife or was it all a dream and should i wake up some day to find myself in bed at or up in the which i had shared with mrs at in a certain sense there was a grain of in my life as if it was something to which i was not and never could get quite accustomed but i was very happy i had only one cause for dissatisfaction there was only one leaf in our bed of roses only one note in the harmony of our fa ie affection it was that while most of s people wrote to him sending good wishes and presents his mother who had been everything in the world to him stood aloof of course onr marriage had been very hurriedly pushed on and perhaps to her with her english notions � for as be explained to me english people as a rule d the of my have longer than ours was � there may have seemed something almost in the haste with which onr marriage had been arranged once or twice i asked whether he had heard from his mother and	30
hang it up perhaps he is waiting for a better price if he waits a little longer he will get no price at all the treaty will cease to be a secret in a few months that is most important said of course it is a possible supposition that the thief has had a sudden illness by the naval treaty l l an attack of brain fever for example asked the flashing a swift glance at him i did not say so said and now lord we have already taken up too much of your valuable time and we shall wish you good day every success to your investigation be the criminal who it may answered the nobleman as he bowed us out at the door he s a fine fellow said as we came out into but he has a struggle to keep up his position he is far from rich and has many calls you noticed of course that his boots had been re now i won t detain you from your legitimate work any longer i shall do nothing more to day unless i have an answer to my cab advertisement but i should be extremely obliged to you if you would come down with me to to morrow by the same train which we took to day by l of i met him accordingly next morning and we travelled down to together he had had no answer to his advertisement he said and no fresh light had been thrown upon the case he had when he so willed it the utter of countenance of a red indian and i could not gather from his appearance whether he was satisfied or not with the position of the case his conversation i remember was about the s of and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the french we found our still under the charge of his devoted nurse but looking considerably better than before he rose from the sofa and greeted us without difficulty when we entered any news he asked eagerly my report as i expected is a negative one said i have seen and i have seen your uncle and i have set one or two trains of inquiry upon foot which may lead to something by the naval treaty you have not lost heart then by no means god bless you for sa ring cried miss if we keep our courage and our patience the truth must come out we have more to tell you than you have for us said himself upon the couch i hoped you might have something yes we have had an adventure during the night and one which might have proved to be a serious one his expression grew very grave as he spoke and a look of something akin to fear sprang up in his eyes do you know said he that i begin to believe that i am the unconscious centre of some monstrous conspiracy and that my life is aimed at as well as my honour ah cried it sounds incredible for i have not as far as i know an enemy in the world yet from last night s experience i can come to no other conclusion pray let me hear it by of you must know that last night was the very first night that i have ever slept without a nurse in the room i was so much better that i thought i could dispense with one i had a night light burning however well about two in the morning i had sunk into a light sleep when i was suddenly aroused by a slight noise it was like the sound which a mouse makes when it is a plank and i lay listening to it for some time under the impression that it must come from that cause then it grew louder and suddenly there came from the window a sharp i sat up in amazement there could be no doubt what the sounds were now the faint ones had been caused by forcing an instrument through the between the and the second by the catch being pressed back there was a pause then for about ten as if the person were waiting to see whether the noise had me then i heard a gentle creaking as the window was very slowly opened i could stand it no longer for my nerves are not what by the naval treaty they used to be i sprang out of bed a d flung open the shutters a man was crouching at the window i could see little of him for he was gone like a flash he was wrapped in some sort of cloak which came across the lower part of his face one thing only i am sure of and that is that he had some weapon in his hand it looked to me like a long knife i distinctly saw the gleam of it as he turned to run this is most interesting said pray what did you do then i should have followed him through the open window if i had been stronger as it was i rang the bell and roused the house it took me some little time for the bell rings in the kitchen and the servants all sleep upstairs i shouted however and that brought joseph down and he roused the others joseph and the groom found marks on the outside the window but the weather has been so dry lately that they found it hopeless to follow the trail across the grass there s a place however on the wooden fence which skirts the road which by op shows they tell me as if had got over and had snapped the top of the rail in doing so i have said nothing to the local police yet for i thought i had best have your opinion first this tale of our s appeared to have an extraordinary	4
that it should have an but when a who from nobody knew where worked with a bottle of brown waters the character of the process was evident such thing been known since the wise woman at had died and she had charms as well us stuff everybody went her their children had must be of the same sort tor how di e what would back sail a breath if he did n t know the wit woman words that she muttered to herself so that could n t heat what were and if she tied ft of red thread round the child s the while it would keep off the in tlie head there were women in at that present time who had worn one of the wise i little round their necks and in consequence had never had on idiot child as ann had could very likely do as and more and now it was all how he should have come from unknown parts and be so but sally gates must and not tell the doctor for he would be sure to set his face he was always angry about the wise woman and used to threaten those who to her that they should have none of his l any or bring back the and by men who wanted stuff the or the knots in the hands and to them selves a refusal the silver in their palms have driven a profitable trade in charms as well as in his list of but money on this condition was no temptation to him he had never known an impulse towards and be drove another away with growing irritation for the as man had spread even co and it was long before people ceased to take long walks for the sake of asking his aid but the hope in his wisdom was at length dread for no one believed him when he j aid he knew no charms and work no and man and woman who had an accident or a new attach after applying to him set the misfortune down to master s ill will and irritated glances thus it came to pass that his movement of pity towards sally which had given him of heightened the between him and his neighbors and made his more complete gradually the guineas the and the half crowns grew to a heap and drew less and less for his own wants trying to solve the problem of keeping himself strong enough to work sixteen hours a day on as small an as possible have not men shut up in solitary found an interest in marking he by straight strokes of a tain length on the wall until the growth of the sum of straight strokes arranged in has become a purpose i o we not away moments of or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound until the repetition has bred a want which is habit that will help us to understand how the love of money grows an absorbing passion in men whose even in the very beginning of their showed them no purpose beyond it wanted the heaps of ten to grow into a square and then into a square and every added guinea while it was itself a satisfaction bred a new desire in this strange world made a hopeless riddle to him he might if he had had a less intense nature have sat weaving weaving � looking towards the end of his pattern or towards the end of his web till he forgot riddle and everything else but bis immediate sensations bat the money had come to mark off his weaving into periods and the money not grew but it remained with him he began to think it was of him as his loom was and he on no have exchanged h become a for other with faces he handled he counted them till their form and color were like the of thirst to him but it was only in the night when his work was done that he drew them out to enjoy their companionship he had taken up some bricks in his floor his loom aud here he had made a hole in whidi he pot that contained his � silver covering the bricks with sand whenever he replaced them not that the idea of being robbed presented itself often or strongly to his mind was common in in those days there were in the parish of who were known to have their by them inside their flock beds but rustic neighbors thou all of hem as honest as their in the days of king alfred had not bold h to lay a plan of how could they have spent the money in their own village without themselves they would be obliged to � a course as dark and as a so year after year bad lived in this solitude his rising in the iron pot and his life and itself more and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being his life had reduced to the mere functions of weaving and without any contemplation of an towards which the functions tended the same sort of process has perhaps been undergone by wiser men when they have been cut off from faith and love � only instead of a loom and a heap of guineas they have had some some ingenious project or some well knit theory strangely s face and figure shrank and relation to the objects of his life so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked hu apart the prominent eyes to look and dreamy now looked as if they had been made lo see only one kind of thing that was very small like tiny grain for which they hunted everywhere and he was bo withered and yellow that though he was not yet forty the children always called him old master	14
ome poor beggars � they ll never see ome there was a row in silver street that s near to between an irish regiment an english it started at an it lasted on till dark the first man dropped at s the last the park for it was an that s one for you an it was an that s done for you o an tongue was the song that we sung from s down to the park there was a row in silver street � the was out they called us an we answered about that drew them like a s nest � we met them good an large the english at the double an the irish at the charge then it was � there was a row in silver street � an i was in it too we passed the time o day an then the went i what occurred but the storm a s journal w i all my uniform o it was � there was a row in silver street � they sent the there the english were too drunk to know the irish didn t care but when they grew we rose till half o them was mud an half es for it was � room there was a row in silver street � it might ha raged till now but some one drew his side arm clear an nobody knew how twas took the point an dropped we saw the red blood run an so we all was that started out in fun while it was � there was a row in silver street � but that put down the shine each man to his next twas never work o mine we went away like beaten dogs an down the street we bore him the poor dumb corpse that couldn t tell the were sorry for him when it was � there was a row in silver street � it isn t over yet for half of us are under guard to get tis all a to me as in the i lie there was a row in silver street � i wonder why but it was an that s one for you an it was an that s done for you o and tongue was the song that we sung from s down to the park the young british soldier when the made goes out to the east e acts like a babe an e drinks like a beast an e wonders because e is frequent deceased ere e s fit for to serve as a soldier serve serve serve as a soldier serve serve serve as a soldier serve serve serve as a soldier so the queen now all you what s to day you shut up your rag box an ark to my lay an i ll sing you a soldier as far as i may a soldier what s fit for a soldier fit fit fit for a soldier first mind you steer clear o the huts for they sell you fixed bay that out your ay drink that ud eat the live steel from your � an it s bad for the young british soldier bad bad bad for the soldier the young british soldier when the comes � as it will past a doubt � keep out of the wet and don t go on the shout for the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out an it the young british soldier the soldier but the worst o your foes is the sun over you must wear your for all that is said if e finds you uncovered e u knock you down dead an you ll die like a fool of a soldier fool fool fool of a soldier if you re cast for fatigue by a unkind don t like a woman nor crack on nor blind be handy and civil and then you will find that it s beer for the young british soldier beer beer beer for the soldier now if you must marry take care she is old � a troop s widow s the i m told � for beauty won t help if your is cold nor love ain t enough for a soldier for a soldier � room if the wife should go wrong with a comrade be loth to shoot when you catch em � you ll swing on my oath � make im take er and keep er that s hell for them both an you re shut o the curse of a soldier curse curse curse o a soldier when first under fire an you re to duck don t look nor take at the man that is struck be thankful you re and trust to your luck and march to your front like a soldier front front front like a soldier when of your bullets fly wide in the ditch don t call your a cross eyed old she s human as you are � you treat her as an she ll fight for the young british soldier fight fight fight for the soldier their like ladies so fine the guns o the enemy wheel into line shoot low at the an don t mind the shine for noise never the soldier start start the soldier the young british soldier if your officer s dead and the look white remember it s ruin to run from a fight so take open order lie down and sit tight and wait for like a soldier wait wait wait like a soldier when you re wounded and left on s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains an go to your like a soldier go go go like a soldier go go go like a soldier go go go like a soldier so the queen by the old eastward to the sea there s	39
muster i should indeed the secretary why then lord love you said the in his chuckle as he pointed with his pipe to there he sets that s the man my stars and he added in a whisper as he drew his stool close to him and him with his elbow what a interesting blade he is he wants as much holding in as a if it hadn t been for me to day he d have had that ere down and made a riot of it in another minute and why not cried in a surly voice as he overheard this last remark where s the good of putting things off strike while the iron s hot that s what i say ah retorted shaking his head with a kind of pity for his mend s youth but suppose the iron an t hot brother you must get people s blood up afore you strike and have em in the humour there wasn t quite enough to provoke em to day i teu you if you d had your way you d have spoilt the to come and ruined us is quite right said smoothly he is perfectly correct has great knowledge of the world i ought to have muster seeing what a many people i ve helped out of it eh grinned the whispering the words behind his hand t the secretary at this just as much as could desire and when he had done said turning to s policy was mine as you may have observed you saw for instance how i fell when i was set upon i made no resistance i did nothing to provoke an outbreak oh dear no no by the lord harry cried with a noisy laugh you went down very quiet muster � and very flat besides i thinks to myself at the time it s all up with muster i never see a man lay flatter nor more still � with the life in him � than you did to day he s a rough un to play with is that ere and that s the fact the secretary s face as roared with laughter and turned his wrinkled eyes on who did the like might have a study for the devil s picture he sat quite silent until they were serious again and then said looking round we are very pleasant here so very pleasant that but for my lord s particular desire that i should sup with him and the time being very near at hand i should be inclined to stay until it would be hardly safe to go homeward i come upon a little business � yes i do � aa you supposed it s very flattering to you being this if we ever should be obliged � and we can t tell you � this is a very uncertain world � i believe you muster interposed the with a grave nod the as i ve seen in reference to this here state of existence the unexpected as have come about � oh my eye feeling the subject much too vast for expression he at his pipe again and looked the rest i say resumed the secretary in a slow impressive way we can t teu what may come to pass and if we should be obliged against our wills to have recourse to violence my lord who has terribly to day as r as words can go to you two � bearing in mind my recommendation of you both as good men beyond all doubt and suspicion � the pleasant task of this you may do as you please with him or his provided that you show no mercy and no quarter and leave no two beams of his house standing where the placed them you may sack it bum it do with it as you like but it must come down it must be to the ground and he and all belonging to him left as as new bom whom their mothers have exposed do you understand me said pausing and pressing his hands together gently understand you master you speak plain now why this is hearty i knew you would like it said shaking him by the hand i thought you would good night don t rise i would rather find my way alone i may have to make other visits here and it s pleasant to come and go without disturbing you i can find my way perfectly well he was gone and had shut the door behind him they looked at each and nodded stirred up the fire this looks a little more like business he said ay indeed cried this suits me i ye it said of muster said the that he d a surprising memory and firmness � that he never forgot and never forgave � let s drink his health readily complied � pouring no liquor on the floor when he drank this toast � and they pledged the secretary as a man after their own hearts in a chapter while the worst passions of the worst men were thus working in the dark and the mantle of religion assumed to cover the threatened to become the of all that was good and peaceful in society a circumstance occurred which once more altered the position of two persons from whom this history has long been separated and to whom it must now return in a small english country town the inhabitants of which supported themselves by the labour of their hands in and pre straw for those who made and other articles of dress and ornament from that material � concealed under an assumed name and living in a quiet poverty which knew no change no pleasures and few cares but that oi struggling on from day to day in the one great toil for bread � dwelt and his mother their poor cottage had known no stranger	8
the si a mm s for a bed and sixpence for more an he generously proposed that we drink up the whole shilling my mate e cut up rough night he explained an the got m so you can in wi me say i said yes and by the time we had soaked our a man and the abyss selves ill a whole shilling s worth of beer and slept the night on a miserable bed in a miserable den i knew him pretty fairly for what he was and that in one respect he was representative of a large body of the lower class london workman my later experience he was london born his father a and a before him as a child his home was the streets and the he had never learned to read and had never felt the need for it � a vain and useless accomplishment he held at least for a man of his station in life he had had a mother and numerous brothers and sisters all crammed into a couple of rooms and living on poorer and less regular food than he could ordinarily rustle for himself in fact he never went home except at periods when he was unfortunate in his own food petty and begging along the streets and a trip or two to sea as mess boy a few more as coal and then a full he had reached the top of his life and in the course of this he had also out a philosophy of life an ugly and repulsive philosophy but withal a very logical and sensible one from his point of view when i asked him what he lived for he immediately answered a voyage to sea for a man must live and get the the people of the abyss and then the paying off and the big drunk at the end after that little in the from mates with a few left like myself and when was played out another trip to sea and a repetition of the but women i suggested when he had finished the sole end of existence he his pot upon the bar and is a thing my as learnt me t let alone it don t pay it don t pay s a man like me want o eh jest you tell me there was my mar she was enough a the about an the man mis when e come ome w was seldom i grant an fer w y o she didn t make is ome that was w y then there s the other ow do they treat a pore with a few s in is a good drunk is e s got in is a good long drunk an the skin im out of is money so quick e ain t ad a glass i know i ve ad my fling an i know s an i tell you where s is trouble � an on an a month s ard labor back of it all an no pay day when you come out m a man and the abyss but a wife and children i insisted a home i of your own and all that think of it back from a voyage little children climbing on your knee and the wife happy and smiling and a kiss for you when she lays the table and a kiss all around from the babies when they go to bed and the kettle singing and the long talk afterward of where you ve been and what you ve seen and of her and all the little at home while you ve been away and � i he cried with a playful of his fist on my shoulder s yer game eh a an in an kettle all on ten a month w en you ave a ship an four w en you t i ll tell you i d get on four ten � a no coal t make the kettle sing an the kettle up the that s i d get enough t make a well glad to be back t sea a for t make you mis jest take my counsel an don t ave em look at me i can ave my beer w en i like an no blessed an a for bread i m i am with my beer an mates like you an a good ship an another trip to sea so i say let s ave another pint an s good enough fer me without going further with the speech of this the people of the abyss young fellow of two and twenty i think i have sufficiently indicated his philosophy of hfe and the reason for it home life he had never known the word home aroused nothing but unpleasant associations in the low wages u the crow up of his father and of other men in the same walk in life he found sufficient reason for wife and children as and causes of misery an unconscious utterly and he sought the greatest possible happiness for himself and found it in drink a man and the abyss a young a premature wreck physical inability to do a s work the or the and the end � he saw it all as clearly as i but it held no terrors for him from the moment of his birth all the forces of his had tended to him and he viewed his wretched inevitable future with a and i could not shake and yet he was not a bad man he was not vicious and brutal he had normal and a more than average his eyes were blue and round shaded by long lashes and wide apart and there was a laugh � in them and a fund of humor behind the brow and general features were good the mouth and lips sweet though already developing a harsh twist the chin was	21
� my own reflections so cheerful � when i looked forward every thing so inviting � when i looked back at the picture so soothing � oh it was a blessed journey he stopped well sir said who though pitying him grew impatient for his departure and this is all all no � have you forgot what passed in town t that infamous letter did she show it you i yes i saw every note that passed when the first of hers reached me as it immediately did for i was in town the whole time what i felt is in the common phrase not to be expressed in a more simple one perhaps too simple to raise any emotion ray feelings were very very painful every line every word was � in the which their dear writer were she here would forbid � a dagger to my heart to know that was in town was in the same language a and what a reproof would she have given me her taste her opinions � i believe they are better known to me than my own and i am sure they are dearer s heart which had undergone many changes in the course of this extraordinary conversation was now softened again yet she felt it her duty to check such ideas in her companion as the last this is not right mr remember that you are married relate only what in your conscience you think necessary for me to hear m sense and sensibility s note by assuring me that i was still as dear to her as in days � that in spite of the many many weeks we had been separated she was as constant in her own feelings and as full of faith in the constancy of mine as ever � awakened all my remorse i say awakened because time and london business and had in some measure it and i had been growing a fine hardened villain myself to her and choosing to fancy that she too must have become indifferent to me talking to myself of our past attachment as a mere idle trifling business up my shoulders in proof of its being so and every reproach every scruple by secretly saying now and then i shall be heartily glad to hear she is well married but this note made me know myself better i felt that she was infinitely dearer to me than any other woman in the world and that i was using her but every thing was then just settled between miss grey and me to retreat was impossible all that i had to do was to avoid you both i sent no answer to intending by that means to preserve myself from her farther notice and for some time i was even determined not to call in street but at last judging it wiser to affect the air of a cool common acquaintance than any thing else i watched you all safely out of the house one morning and left my name watched us out of the house even so you would be surprised to hear how often i watched you how often i was on the point of falling in with you i have entered many a shop to avoid your sight as the carriage drove by lodging as i did in bond street there was hardly a day in which i did not catch a glimpse of one or other of you and nothing but the most constant on my side a most invariably prevailing desire to keep out of your sight could have separated us so long i avoided the as much as possible as well as every body else who was likely to prove an acquaintance in common not aware of their being in town however i on sir john i believe the first day of his coming and the day after i had called at mrs s he asked me to a party a dance at his house in the evening t a � sense sensibility had he not told me as an that you and your sister were to be there i should have felt it too certain a thing to trust myself near him the next morning brought another short note from � still open confiding � every thing that could make my conduct most hateful i could not answer it i tried � but could not frame a sentence but i thought of her i believe every moment of the day if you can pity me miss pity my situation as it was with my head and heart full of your sister i was forced to play the happy lover to another woman those three or four weeks were worse than all well at last as i need not tell you you were forced on me and what a sweet figure i cut what an evening of agony it was beautiful as an angel on one side calling in such a tone oh god holding out her hand to me asking me for an explanation with those eyes fixed in such speaking solicitude on my face and jealous as the devil on the other hand looking all that was � well it does not signify it is over now such an evening i ran away from you all as soon as i could but not before i had seen s sweet face as white as death was the last last look i ever had of her the last manner in which she appeared to me it was a horrid sight yet when i thought of her to day as really dying it was a kind of comfort to me to imagine that i knew exactly how she would appear to those who saw her last in this world she was before me constantly before me as i travelled in the same look and hue a short pause of mutual succeeded first rousing himself	26
and fears were fixed upon the watchful figures which unlike any figures of this world by the deep gloom and � and them as well by their looks and and supernatural hovering above the floor were less as plainly to be seen as were the frames pieces bars and beams set up there to support the bells these hemmed them in a very forest of timber from the and depths of which as from among the boughs of a dead wood � r their phantom use they kept their and watch a blast of air � how cold and shrill � came moaning through the tower as it died away the great bell or the of the great bell spoke what visitor is this it said the voice was low and de and fancied that it sounded in the other figures as well i thought my name was called by the said raising his hands in an attitude of i hardly know why i am here or how i came i have listened to the these many years they have cheered me often and you have thanked them said the bell a thousand times the r � how n i am a poor man faltered and could only them in words and always so inquired the of the bell have you never done ua wrong in words v no cried eagerly never done us foul and false and wicked wrong in words f pursued tlie of the bell was to answer never but he stepped and was confused � the voice of time said the phantom cries to man advance time is for his advancement and improvement for his greater worth his greater happiness his better life his progress onward to that goal within its knowledge and its view and set there in the period when time and he began ages of darkness wickedness and violence have come and gone millions have su red lived and died to point the way before him who seeks to turn him back or stay him on his course a mighty engine which will strike the � dead and be the and the ever for its momentary check i never did so to my knowledge sir said it was quite by accident if i did wouldn t go to do it i m sure who puts into the mouth of time or of its servants said the of the bell a cry of for days which have had their trial and their failure and have left deep traces of it which the blind may see � a cry that only serves the present time by showing men how much it needs their help when any ears can listen to regrets for such a past � who does this does a wrong and you have done that wrong to us the s first excess of fear was gone but he had felt tenderly and gratefully towards the bells as you have seen and when the third quarter fi heard as one who had offended them so his heart was touched with and grief if you knew said clasping his hands earnestly � or perhaps you do know � if you knew how you have kept md company how often you have cheered me up when been low how you were quite the of my little daughter almost the only one she ever had when her mother died and she and were left alone � you won t bear for a hasty word who hears in us the one note disregard � r stem regard of any hope or joy or or sorrow of the many throng who hears us make response to any creed that human passions and affections as it the of miserable food on which humanity may pine and does us wrong that wrong you have done us v said the bell i have said � oh forgive me v who hears us echo the dull of the earth the down of crushed and broken natures formed to be raised up higher than such of the time can crawl or can conceive pursued the of the bell who does so does us wrong and you have done us wrong i not meaning it said in my ignorance not meaning it v lastly and most of all pursued the bell who turns his back upon the fallen and of his kind them as vile and does not trace and track with pitying eyes the un precipice by which they fell from � grasping in their fall some and of that lost soil and clinging to them still when bruised and dying in the gulf below does wrong to heaven and man to time and to eternity and you have done that wrong the spare me cried falling on his knees for s sake � said the shadow listen v cried the other shadows listen said a dear and like voice which thought he recognized as having heard the si n sounded faintly in the church below swelling by degrees the melody ascended to the roof and filled the choir and more and more it rose lip up up up higher higher higher up awakening agitated within the piles of oak the hollow bells the iron bound doors the stairs of solid st � ie until the tower walls were insufficient to contain it and it into the sky no wonder that an old man s breast could not contain a sound so vast and mighty it broke from that weak prison in a rush of tears and put his hands before his face listen said the shadow listen said the other shadows listen said the child s voice a solemn strain of blended voices rose into the tower it was a very low and mournful strain a and as he listened heard his child among the singers she is dead exclaimed the old man is dead her spirit calls to me i hear it	8
on habits of familiar intercourse with him a pious woman a member in chapel was to a husband who though very kind to her and in many respects a moral man had no sense the rev l whatever of religion but delighted in spending the hours in beer which she spent in attendance on the preaching of the gospel it so happened that the parties through some disappointment in business had been unable to pay their rent on a particular quarter day the consequence was that a on their furniture was put into their house and a party was employed as the phrase has it to take possession after turning over every scheme in their minds which could suggest itself for themselves from the difficulties in which they were involved they were just about to resign themselves to despair when the idea occurred to the wife of the whole circumstances of the case to mr hill she accordingly proceeded to his house at once got access to him and with no small degree of tremor made a short and simple representation of the state of matters how much would you require to save your furniture and to get rid of the person in possession inquired mr hill eighteen pounds sir would be quite suffice the b� v hill for the purpose answered the poor woman with a heart m let you have the loan of twenty you can repay me at your convenience the heart of the other was too to give utterance to distinct expressions of gratitude for so great a mark of kindness on the part of her minister he was too shrewd an observer of human nature not to perceive that the broken accents and sometimes entire absence of words which her attempt to express her gratitude afforded a far better proof of that feeling being at once deep and sincere than if she had been most in words and most in the use of them send your husband to me on your return home said mr hill after the other had returned thanks in the best way her feelings would allow her send him to me presently and i will have two ten pound notes waiting him by the time he arrives i wish to give the notes to him rather than to you mrs d quitted mr hill s house and hurried home with light foot but with a still the lighter heart having communicated to her husband what had passed and her minister it is unnecessary to say that he lost no time in proceeding to the house of mr hill the latter received him with much kindness of manner and so said he you are so unfortunate as to have a person in possession we unfortunately have sir and twenty pounds will be sufficient to get rid of him and restore your furniture to you � it wiu sh well then said mr hill pointing to the table there are two ten pound notes for you which you can repay me when you are able take them the other hesitatingly advanced to the table took up the notes and was in the act of folding them up at the same time warmly thanking mr hill for the act of friendship he had done a which that the goods of a have been seized and a person put into the to see that none of them be removed by the to whom they belong the rev hill him and expressing a hope he would soon be able to pay the amount back � when the reverend gentleman suddenly exclaimed stop a little just lay the notes down again until i ask a blessing on them the other did as he was desired on which the reverend gentleman extending both his arms addressed a short prayer to the divine being to this � o lord who art the author of all mercy and the of every good and perfect gift do thou be graciously pleased to bless the small sum of money to be given to him who is now before thee that it may to his present and eternal welfare for christ s sake now sir said as he finished his brief to the throne of grace now sir you may take the money the party a second time took up the two notes and was in the act as before of folding them up when mr hill interposed by him to wait a moment adding that he had foi one thing it may be easily supposed that by this time the rev hill the individual was a good deal confused his confusion was increased a hundred fold when mr hill remarked but my friend you have not yourself asked for a blessing on the money you had better do it now sir faltered out the other scarcely able to support himself sir i cannot pray i never prayed in all my life you have the more need to begin now observed the reverend gentleman in his own cool yet manner i cannot sir i do not know what to say make the effort however short your prayer may be i cannot sir i am unable to utter a single sentence then you cannot have the money i will not lend twenty pounds to a person the other hesitated for a moment and then closing his eyes and with uplifted hands he said with great earnestness o lord what shall i say to thee and to mr hill on this occasion he was about to begin another sentence when the reverend gentleman interrupted him i the rev hill by observing that will do for a beginning it is a very excellent first prayer it is from the heart i have not uttered a more sincere or fervent petition to god for the last fifty years take the money and may god s blessing be given along with it as be spoke mr hill �	24
thank you quite well and mr said in a low growl he was all right which was his general of acknowledging after his health when a little sullen i had a visit from young john to da r and very smart he looked i assure you so mr had heard must confess however that his wish was that the boy didn t lay out so much money upon it for what did it bring him in it only brought him in and he could get that anywhere for nothing how vexation asked the father odds returned mr mind mr going out yes my brother is going home to bed he is tired and not quite well take care take care good night my dear shaking hands with his brother and touching his greasy hat to the company in the lodge slowly out of the door which mr unlocked for him the father of the showed the amiable solicitude of a superior being that he should come to no harm be so kind as to keep the door open a moment that i may sec him go along the passage and down the steps take care he is very mind the steps he is so very absent be careful how you cross i really don t like the notion of his going wandering at large he is so extremely liable to be run over m g little with these words and with a face expressive of many uneasy doubts and much anxious he turned his regards upon the assembled company in the lodge so plainly indicating that his brother was to be pitied for not being under lock and key that an opinion to that effect went round among the assembled but he did not receive it with assent on the contrary he said no gentlemen no let them not him his brother was much broken no doubt and it might be more comfortable to himself the father of the to know that he was safe within the walls still it must be remembered that to support an existence there during many years required a certain combination of qualities � he did not say high qualities but qualities � moral qualities now had his brother that peculiar union of qualities gentlemen he was a most excellent man a most gentle tender and man with the simplicity of a child but would he though for most other places do for that place no he said confidently no and he said heaven forbid that should be there in any other character than in his present voluntary character gentlemen whoever came to that college to remain there a length of time must have strength of character to go through a good deal and to come out of a good deal was his beloved brother that man no they saw him even as it was crushed misfortune crushed him he had not power of enough not enough to be a long time in such a place and yet preserve his self respect and feel conscious that he was a gentleman had not if he might use the expression power enough to see in any delicate little attentions and � and � that he might under such circumstances receive the goodness of human nature the fine spirit the as a community and at the same time no degradation to himself and no of his claims as a gentleman gentlemen god bless you such was the with which he improved and pointed the occasion to the company in the lodge before turning into the sallow yard again and going with his own poor shabby dignity past the in the dressing gown who had no coat and past the in the sea side slippers who had no shoes and past the stout in the knee breeches who had no cares and past the lean clerk in black who had no hopes up his own poor shabby staircase to his own poor shabby room there the table was laid for his supper and his old grey gown was ready for him on his chair back at the fire his daughter put her little prayer book in her pocket � had she been praying for pity on all prisoners and � and rose to welcome him uncle had gone home then she asked him as she changed his coat and gave him his black velvet cap yes uncle had gone home had her father his walk why not much not much no hid he not feel quite well as she stood behind him leaning over his chair so lovingly he looked with downcast eyes at the fire an uneasiness stole over him that was like a touch of shame and when he spoke as he presently did it was in an and embarrassed manner little something i � hem � i don t know what has gone wrong with he is not � ha � not nearly so obliging and attentive as usual to night it � hem � it s a little thing but it puts me out my love it s impossible to forget turning his hands over and over and looking closely at them that � hem � that in such a life as mine i am unfortunately dependent on these men for something every hour in the day her arm was on his shoulder but she did not look in his face while he spoke bending her head she looked another way i � � i can t think what has given offence he is generally so � so very attentive and respectful and to night he was quite � quite short with me other people there too why good heaven if i was to lose the support and recognition of and his brother officers i might starve to death here while he spoke he was opening and shutting his hands like so conscious all the time of that touch of shame that he shrunk before	8

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