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d and u have in china than a iti europe variety i dot now to lie in fact at an earlier period the the liad almost in detail every ic ct of popular inquiry the of seeing that which have read or heard but such will l c lo he of the subject and on i confess that china appeared to me eminently deficient china in il extent produce and want energy and ihe chill i f and the for my own i had again undergo aod among of or the of than sail along as we may expect in comfort on the waters of the imperial whether the view taken be just or ignorance of the language the state of under which � e shall probably travel will be complete to enjoyment and the will consist in lo and im able to ay with mr von hu it would appear that author was as judge of ch f nation as a chinese who did not n word � of and who openly professed to despise tlie country and inhabitants would ix to judge of the p moral character and manners of the united states from ha ing been n up the from to some and again let see he judges after such an as we have just quoted the are so in their principles action so in that the arguments arc thrown away upon denying both your general and your facts ad the chinese all at yet that and deceit arc him and he has no in the e of i i is ui il by others and it must ik � constant practice of vices gives them a � in the semblance of in with i k arc t pf our friend a taste and wc are t� it f i i i i i in ihe case with men of education in china mi h ui occupation at t� a nd this opinion he notwithstanding his of � of were fully the ri of nt any thing like natives which if it could have with mr i mm have been us wc have already entirely to � we r to subject one upon which the may he as possessing a competent knowledge w� object of the this he i� with and wc think hi on the propriety of the of the or of are marked by great good sense it is to perceive that tne chinese in the course of the on tliis mo t interesting subject an and that would not have disgraced the most an their over his ts evident and not contented with succeeding in their views manifested a to make his hip feel the between a people and aa were to term the li h it is impossible not to consider the following account of an of the emperor � � more to the of the than the tou with its nine � sir collected oft ive respecting us to the it y the return of y after describing us ns in se our stopping or going on shore were o forbidden o us b r at to sell us books or articles of were ordered tu usual i particular to the them to keep of an sl s throws u � the ui repetition a party of tor un ix to some tribes passing l country od t occasion to pr � the women of villages on the route as arc alike by ihe chinese until known cf equal it mom be tliat the freedom allowed able this mr has his revenge n he describes the chinese and before we our notice of this work it mill be proper to state that there is one general idea impressed on our minds by this man with more than ordinary pains it i if we comprehend the author rightly on of manners for it is certainly under that lu ad that we arc to place il that wc have derived from the of this uninteresting work the to believe mr arc a people wc should ra a people the sustained by mr from want of cleanliness on the part of the natives must have been extreme indeed our author on one not to be considered u u ae m m a the of the school of who the of of sources of this to the of the work have been deemed fit fur in this country so many productions of press arc suffered to unnoticed by rs for this obvious almost unknown and unnoticed by the m public we can we no good reason why we should ha all ti of li literature bestowed upon ui some of the e be the cane though were twice as much we recommend o their attention ihe remarks from the pen of one of the most scholars among us hope it may have due ht future it is this kind of on the one hand and p on the other which our solid advancement us from our true level in the of europe i prefer that our taste and intelligence be tested by the � n among us although these too been and scant our seem c been governed by the of english and t of a book as by the number of without making allowance for ihe influence of or party spirit in those and the that in so vast � public m the british no kind of can fail to have a er eager hence we have been with have no other than tlie worst of effects on american taste an must either produce or an intellectual in h h i bill ha o m f to ihe of mr s id u x it a fair of x work n � il ci of jt i iy lo mr m t w� im at lo he in t w il a i to account of iti but mr f of die i r pf | 48 |
morning s in of gallows post and a tale of two cities iron it walking between her and mr passed into the oh air a coach was called and the father u daughter departed in it mr ver had left them in the passages to hia way back to the room another person va had not joined the group or a word ml any one of them but who had been leaning against tl wall where its shadow was darkest bad silently si out the rest and bad looked on until the c drove away he now stepped up to where mr i and mr stood upon the pavement so mr men of business may speak to h now nobody had made any acknowledgment of mr c ton s part in the day s proceedings nobody had of it he wag and was none the better for in appearance if you knew what a conflict goes oa in the mind when the business mind is divided g natured impulse and business appearances you would t amused mr mr and said warmly bi mentioned that before sir we men of business v serve a house are not our own masters we have i think of t ie house more than of ourselves i know know rejoined mr careless don t be mr tou are as good as u other i have no doubt better z dare say and indeed sir pursued mr not him i really don t know what you have to do with tl matter if you ll excuse me aa very much your for saying so i really don t know that it is your a tale of two cities ill business bless you have no business said mr it is a pity you have not sir � i think so too if you had pursued mr perhaps you would attend to it lord love you no � i shouldn t said mr well sir cried mr thoroughly heated by his indifference business is a very good thing and a very respectable thing and sir if business its and its and mr as a young gentleman of generosity knows how te make allowance for that circumstance mr good night god bless you sir i hope you have been day preserved for a prosperous and happy life � chair there perhaps a little angry with himself as well as with tbe mr into the chair and was carried off to s who smelt of port wine and did not appear to be quite sober laughed then and turned to � this is a strange chance that throws you and me together this must be a strange night to you standing alone here with your on these street stones i hardly seem yet returned charles to belong to this world again i don t wonder at it it s not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another you speak i begin to think i am faint then why the devil don t you dine i dined while those were which world a tale of two cities you should belong to � this or some other let me show you the nearest tavern to dine well at drawing his arm through his own he took him dawn to fleet street and so up a covered way into a tavern here they were shown into a little room where charles was soon his with a good plain dinner and good wine while sat opposite to him at the same table with his separate bottle of port before him and his fully half insolent manner upon him do you feel yet that you belong to this scheme again mr i am confused regarding time and place but i am so far mended as to feel that it must be an immense satisfaction he said it bitterly and filled up his glass again was a large one as to me the greatest desire i have is to forget that i belong to it it has no good in it for me � except wine like this � nor i for it so we are not alike in that particular indeed i begin to think we are not much alike in any particular you and l confused by the emotion of the day and feeling his being there with this double of coarse to be like a dream charles was at a loss how to answer finally answered not at all now your dinner is done presently said why don t you call a health mr why t you give your toast what health what toast why it s on the tip of your tongue it ought to be it must be i ll swear it s there miss then a tale of two cities miss then his companion full in the face while he drank the toast flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall where it shivered to pieces then rang the bell and ordered in another that d a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the mr he said filling his new a slight frown and a yes were the answer that s a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept � or by how does it feel is it worth being tried for life to be the object of such sympathy and compassion mr again answered not a word she was pleased to have your message when i gave it her not that she showed she was pleased but i suppose she was the allusion served as a to this disagreeable companion had of his own free will assisted him in the strait of the day he turned the dialogue to that point and thanked him for it i neither want any thanks nor merit any was the careless it was nothing to do in the first and i don t know why i did it in the second | 8 |
no more waking in this world � she shivered and cried at the solemn black of the funeral � and looked like a poor weak little in her heavy mourning gown it was while she was yet in the state that richard first met her at the house of a mutual friend where she had been invited to stay for change and solace after her � and she had comforted herself with his love just as a small hurt might comfort itself in the arms of a kind protector it was delightful to find another man ready to pet and make much of her as her late father had done � it was all she wanted in life � and of the graver duties and of marriage she took no thought richard was kind and nice and not bad looking � richard had just got a living � and what was best of all richard was perfectly devoted � this was her own expression � perfectly devoted to her and gradually the effect of her father s death wore off � she forgot him more and more completely � till when her baby was bom a sudden rush of tender recollection flowed in upon her mind and she said with tears sparkling in her pretty eyes � eyes and expression of angel a who had read many of the books writ whose work his daughter had laughed whether his spirit had become re in t who already looked so wise beyond rs moved by this thought he one day express e that our will be as de our father was red a little cry of alarm hope not she said with delightful to be clever dick i you don t know h is i likes id woman do you want the boy to b t be a fool declared warmly � t i but i he won t be clever i if poor you would understand what i mean is really z pitiable object � he is dick � he always wants what he cannot get � and he s going wrong and he wants to put it right and cat t put it right � not in his because ev i to do it another � and oh � it s just aw the tragedy of a quiet life oh don t and covered her shell pink ears with her pretty white hands � i don t want to hear anything about mind and soul or imagination i want baby to be just � baby and so it was baby � at least for the present � remained baby � and it was only nurse who called him master nurse knew him better even than his parents and had become much impressed by his personal dignity this he showed in various ways of his own for example he disliked all dirty things and was only content with perfect cleanliness certain pictures in the nursery he strove to hide from his eyes with one tiny hand and as this gesture was not quite by his elders he managed to up on his cot and tear them down they were not objectionable pictures but they were unnatural � that is to say they were nursery pictures of the kind which are called by the of christmas numbers suitable for children there were fat impossible � and red faced carrying pale pink dogs in their arms � all of which creatures moved master to quiet scorn was always hearing of some curious and original deed on the part of her son but she paid very little attention to any of the signs and symptoms of his possible future mental development all she thought of was that he was baby � her own her very own beautiful baby i � and her chief idea was that he must be fed well and have his own way whenever it was possible this was the business of the day for her � the business upon which she set all her energies � baby s food baby s brain and baby s thoughts were � to use her own frank � utter nonsense if asked she would have said with the most charming assumption of maternal wisdom that a child of two has no brain worth considering and no thoughts worth thinking that was her opinion nurse entertained quite a different view of the matter being a trained woman whose life had been spent with children of all sorts sickly and healthy bright and dull and who had studied their moods and manners holy orders with close and sympathetic attention she was affectionately interested in her charge and said of him to her own special friends � master is a child he will be a great man but thought no such thing she thought in fact as little about the development of her small son as she did of the soul if he had one of the troublesome whose drunken had summoned her hu band out of his peaceful study into the wind and rain on this cross and cloudy march morning she was perfectly happy in herself � she had never wanted more than a home a husband and a baby and she had a three nothing further existed in the universe so far as she was concerned and as soon as she had the drawing room � which was one of the little duties she imposed on herself regardless of the fact that the house maid had it perfectly � she tripped up to the nursery singing as she went full of a careless gaiety being so happily constituted as to be indifferent to any troubles in which she did not share and after all it is fortunate that the greater majority of women are even as she � and that few of them have the finer perception and power to look beyond the circle of their own comfortable surroundings into the speechless miseries | 33 |
their necks when all is ready the are roused from the pond and as all wild fowl rise against the wind the poles in that quarter are and fly up with the at the instant the begin to leave the of the water so as to meet them in their first ascent and they are thus beat down by hundreds the other method of french origin is the system where the himself with a number of made tame k the wild fowl are in a state of they will not follow the call of the towards the like that in which fish are caught in in such case a little dog is brought into he passes backward and forward between the reed hedges in which there are little holes both for the man to see and for the httle dog to pass through this the eye of the wild fowl who prompted by curiosity advance towards this little animal while he all the time keeps playing among the nearer and nearer the covered over by the sticks and till they follow him too far to sometimes the dog will not attract their attention till a red handkerchief or something as attractive be put about him the ducks are taught to under the water as soon as the rest are driven in the wild duck thousands on thousands are brought to market by these modes while of ancient and modem modes of we cannot avoid taking notice of that which is said to be the chinese method of these birds it equals the french for ingenuity the italian method of putting out their eyes is too cruel for our english habits but this chinese method might be followed without to humanity whenever the sees a number of ducks settled in any particular of water he sends off two or three to float among them these being made hollow swim on the surface of the water and on one pool there may be sometimes seen twenty or thirty of them the fowl are at first a little shy of coming near but by degrees they approach and as birds grow familiar with so the ducks gather around the and amuse themselves by their bills against them at last the is satisfied he can deceive them he puts his head into one of these hollow and making holes to breathe and see through he slowly into the water keeping his body under and nothing but his head above its surface he thus gets in among the wild fowl while they long used to see take not the least fright while the enemy is in the midst of them and an enemy he is for ever as he approaches a fowl he it by the legs and it under the water there he natural hi t by of the it under his aiid goes to the next till he has loaded himself when he has got his quantity without ever attempting to disturb the rest of the fowls on the pool he slowly moves off again and in this manner pays the flock a visit several times in the day this if true is by no means a method of duck murder and so far to be approved of the young reader will find in s industrious experiences some useful hints on wild duck shooting for our parts we have not been without our attachment to the diversion give us in any part of the world in the eastern of our own country in france or amid the hills of scotland where the lie like among the hills � some far off solitary pool or lake � clear water only in the centre and rushes thickly round � there might we not hope to see plentiful as duck � who knows � wild and from our crouching station and there might we not again amidst the and and and bustle of a first arrival do execution as of the � this the smallest of the duck species is also the most delicate and the most esteemed it is unfortunately more rare than the others but the numbers that come to this country vary greatly from season to season the about twelve or more and may measure about fifteen inches in length the male bird has the according to the received standard of the beauty among the tribe the bill is black the head and upper parts of the neck are of a bright bay the whole of its head and wings are very splendid the female has the same beautiful green patch on her wings as the male bird a few of these birds breed with us some years back great numbers were taken in but the is much reduced of late the internal structure of this bird is peculiar it has at the end of the adapted as it is said to the peculiar sounds it this is also the case of many others of the wild fowl tribe as we have mentioned in our account of the wild swan and goose the s nest is formed of rushes and lined with down and so placed as to swing to and rise and fall with the motions of the wind and water some authors speak of varieties of this bird as summer c is clearly wrong in his description of a bird of a much greater size in it as a its eggs are of the size of those of the pigeon they are white with brown spots the used to be made after this � where a pond by a wood is found the is to be raised this should be planted round with if possible in the event of the wood not clothing it three or four pipes or channels are then to be dug broad towards the pond and point like towards the end these are to be covered with supported by sticks bending from one side to another and | 50 |
to trade in the and other of the valley iii late in the following summer la returned to canada he brought with him a number of and and also sails and for a vessel which he proposed to build and on lake with him came an italian officer who had become deeply interested in his plans and whom he had in his service this man as we shall see proved to be his most faithful friend and in all his at fort was another man who was to take a prominent part in the proposed of the west this man was louis a who had come over from france three years before he was of a restless disposition and by nature better fitted to be a de than a priest since coming to canada he had spent the most of his time at fort where he busied himself building a chapel preach from to ing to the indian bands who had settled there and enjoying the companionship of the soldiers he also made long excursions into the country learned the and the languages became expert in and himself to all the hardships of the forest upon la s return from france this priest entered most heartily into his plans and offered to give him all the aid in his power in november everything was in readiness for the departure of la s expedition sixteen men under command of la de re and by father embarked in a small vessel which was expected to proceed directly to the mouth of the river la and with the remainder of the company sailed in another vessel for the same point but instead of going straight across the lake they along the south shore in order to visit some villages of the and make sure of the friendship of those jealous lords of the forest in due time all arrived in safety although not without peril and serious at the mouth of the a house was built a little below the point where the present town of stands and in it a part of the supplies for the expedition were stored some of the materials for brought from france had been lost in the rough weather which had made the last days of the voyage so perilous but the and and most of the tools had been saved and these were now landed a party of with father were sent in advance up the right bank of the river to find the easiest road around the falls learn what obstacles must be overcome and report whether it would be at all possible to carry tools and supplies up the way to the higher of the stream it is impossible for us to imagine the feelings of these men as they approached the great and the tremendous flood of waters burst upon their view for sixty years these falls had been known to the french through from wandering indians it is not unlikely that more than one of the woods some or possibly la himself had visited the spot and gazed with wonder upon the rushing mighty waters but they left no record behind them and hence so far as we know the priest and his companions were the real of for indeed who shall be honored as the of any hitherto unknown thing if not the man who from personal observation first tells the world of its existence and appearance from the top of the cliff where now stand to observe the fall father viewed the with the enthusiasm which marked all his conduct he drew a picture of the scene as it appeared to him � the first picture of the falls ever published perhaps the first ever drawn he afterwards described them as a vast of water of which the universe does not afford its parallel the waters falling from a height of five hundred feet he says do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable making outrageous noise more terrible than that of thunder for when from to the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen distant in the meanwhile much dissatisfaction was breeding at the little fort at the mouth of the river many of the men because of the difficulties to be overcome were ready to give up the enterprise before it had been fairly begun and some being in the pay of la s enemies at were on the point of open the captain la de re was himself suspected of doing what he could to increase this ill feeling and he was permitted to return to fort in the end the strong will of the commander prevailed and arrangements for building a ship above the falls were soon completed la and went forward to find a suitable place for the work they selected a little about six miles above the falls where the stream now called creek flows into the to this spot late in january the men began to carry the tools the and the it was no easy matter to lift their heavy burdens up the steep cliffs to the above and to carry them nearly twenty miles over the rough unbroken country but through snow and all struggled bravely forward and in time reached the appointed place father rugged and strong carried an altar upon his back and cheered the ones by his enthusiasm as soon as the materials for the ship were on the ground la put in charge of the work and hastened back to the mouth of the where he began the construction of a to serve as � of supplies for the expedition but when the spring had begun and the ice had disappeared he left this post in charge of a few trusted men and returned on foot along the north shore of lake to fort and his estate of it was high time that he was there for | 23 |
ni and the temple tlie palace and gardens are of tlie former but wliat are they to the celestial rs the eternal are present to the i of the latter and the visions of his rocky h with a glory inconceivable to the ai two never each other while tliey remain essentially as now the that questions and ca s and doubts and seems to him and object the of proper humility into the abject of contentment into the breasts of the down trodden and of with a sacred reverence for property those who have no personal reason to think well of the sharp distinction of mine and the on the other hand on humanity as the inevitable of all true religion presses the best beloved s searching question if a man love not his brother whom he seen how can he love god whom he has not seen or as a poet of our own day has it that there are to adam worse than to god and that the effective answer to an imperfect halting faith is a devoted loving life this earnest angry strife shall yet be composed � this stormy be hushed � not through the absolute defeat of either party but through the recognition by each of the truth affirmed by tlie other so that and shall take their places side by side on the same and faith and life humanity and christianity be recognized by our enlarged vision as of tlie same revolving and in turn by the same sun of everlasting truth meantime let us cherish the for his and not the s is the active force through which this ultimate of the real with the ideal is to be achieved harsh and sweeping rash and he may seem and often is but his fire however blind and its rage be foimd at last to have left all that was really worth preserving with him w e respect the proper force and legitimate function of we must say � standing still is childish folly going backward is a crime none should patiently endure any ill that he can cure onward keep the march of time onward while a wrong remains to be conquered by the right g while a to n by while an error cloud the of the or a action ia tho man i part and to liim our final word of and cheer shall wo on ths tower for of ths when en r shall and truth and right shall and wrong and indeed the life of the may seem rugged and it were hard to say that any were worth living at all who can that the career of the conquering warrior � of tlie of gold or pomp or joys the monarch in his purple the by bis the over his bowl � is not a on humanity and an offence against god but the earnest unselfish � into a state of darkness evil and and striving to replace these by light and purity � � he may i die t a ao i and lowly and lonely couch of the dying uncle tom whose life had been a brave and christian battle against monstrous injustice and crime � these teach us at that all greatness is and tempered and proved in life long struggle against vicious traditions institutions and that not to have been a is not to have truly lived life is a which any breath may wealth or power a snow melting into the treacherous deep across whose waves we are floated on to our unseen destiny hut to have lived so tliat one less han is called to choose between starvation and � one less slave feels the lash in mere or cruelty � to have lived so that some eyes of those fame shall never know are brightened and others at the name of the beloved one � so that the few who knew him truly shall recognize him as a bright warm cheering presence which was here for a season and left the world no worse for his stay in it � this surely is to have really lived � and not wholly in vain the grounds of i mr and � t has on me as junior advocate for tlie of protection to open the discussion of this i do this with less than i should feel in meeting able aud practised on almost any other because i am strongly confident tliat you my hearers will regard this as a subject demanding logic rather than the and proper treatment of homely truths than the indulgence of of fancy as sensible as you can be of my as a i have chosen to put my views on paper in order that i may present them in as c m the of protection i ignorant hopelessly ignorant indeed and while i may not hope to set before you in the brief space allotted me all that is essential to a full understanding of a question which the whole arch of political economy � on which men have written volumes without at all it � i do entertain a sanguine hope that i shall be able to set before you considerations to the candid and mind of the policy and necessity of protection let us not waste our time on non that unwise and unjust measures have been adopted under the pretence of protection i stand not here to deny that laws intended to be have sometimes been injurious in their tendency i need not dispute the logic which would thence infer the or the danger of would just as easily prove all laws and all policy mischievous and destructive political economy is one of the latest bom of the the very fact that we meet here this evening to discuss a question so as this proves it to be yet in its comparative infancy tlie sole favor i shall ask of my therefore | 19 |
occasion and john went down to him immediately attended by james whose object in going was to be the means of bringing back the earliest intelligence to mr and mrs whose anxious sufferings particularly those of the latter have of course been dreadful they went down on tuesday and james came back the next day bringing such favorable accounts as greatly to lessen the distress of the family at though it will probably be a long while before mrs can be quite at ease one most material comfort however they have � the assurance of its being really an accidental wound which is not only positively declared by but is likewise by the particular direction of the bullet such a wound could not have been received in a at present he is going on very well but the surgeon will not declare him to be in no danger mr met with a genteel little accident the other day in hunting he got o� e to lead his horse over a james the writer s eldest brother the limb wan a of jane hedge or a house or something and his horse in his haste trod upon his leg or rather ankle i and it is not certain whether the small bone is not broke has accepted mary s invitation for lord s ball he has not yet sent out his own invitations but that does not signify comes and a ball there is to be i think it will be too early in her mother s absence for me to return with her sunday evening � we have had a dreadful storm of wind in the fore part of this day which has done a great deal of mischief among our trees i was sitting alone in the dining room when an odd kind of crash startled me in a moment afterwards it was repeated i then went to the window which i reached just in time to see the last of our two highly valued elms descend into the sweep i the other which had fallen i suppose in the first crash and which was the nearest to the pond taking a more direction sunk among our screen of and knocking down one fir beating the head of another and the two corner of several branches in its fall this is not all one large elm out of the two on the left hand side as you enter what i call the elm walk was likewise blown down the bearing the was broke in two and what i regret more than all the rest is that all the three elms which grew in hall s meadow and gave such ornament to it are gone two were blown down and the other so much injured that it cannot stand i am happy to add however that no greater evil than the a of jane loss of trees has been the consequence of the storm in this place or in our immediate neighborhood we grieve therefore in some comfort i am yours ever j a the next letter written four days later than the former was addressed to miss an intimate friend whose sister my mother was married to jane s eldest brother � wednesday th my � i did not receive your note yesterday till after had left or i would have sent my answer by her instead of being the means as i now must be of the elegance of your new dress for the ball by the value of d you are very good in wishing to see me at so soon and i am equally good in wishing to come to you i believe our merit in that respect is much upon a par our self denial strong having paid this tribute of praise to the virtue of both i shall here have done with and proceed to plain matter of fact in about a fortnight s time i hope to be with you i have two reasons for not being able to come before i wish so to arrange my visit as to spend some days with you after your mother s return in the st place that i may have the pleasure of seeing her and in the nd that i may have a better chance of bringing you back with me your promise in my favor was not quite absolute but if your will is not perverse you and i will do all in our power to overcome your scruples of con a of jane science i hope we shall meet next week to talk all this over till we have tired ourselves with the very idea of my visit before my visit begins our invitations for the th are arrived and very curiously are they mary to you yesterday s unfortunate accident i dare say he does not seem to be going on very well the two or three last posts have brought less and less favorable accounts of him john has gone to again to day we have two families of friends now who are in a most anxious state for though by a note from this morning there seems now to be a revival of hope at its continuance may be too reasonably doubted mr however who has broken the small bone of his leg is so good as to be going on very well it would be really too much to have three people to care for you distress me cruelly by your request about books i cannot think of any to bring with me nor have i any idea of our wanting them i come to you to be talked to not to read or hear reading i can do that at home and indeed i am now laying in a stock of intelligence to pour out on you as the invitation the ball dress and some other things in this and the preceding letter refer to a ball | 26 |
in many ways the self composed old maid was a match for madame at this moment train entered and him came a tall young man fair haired and he was handsome but seemed to be ill at ease and pulled yellow nervously as train led him to the throne this is my friend said presenting him he just managed to get here for the fog is so thick here he was interrupted madame cried mrs what is the matter mr the water � wine � quick there was need of it mrs had fallen back on the throne with a white face and lips she appeared as though about to faint but herself with a powerful effort she waved her hand to intimate that she needed nothing at the same time her eyes were fastened not so much on the face of the stranger as on a piece of yellow he wore in his coat i am perfectly well said mrs this is only one of my turns i am glad to see you mr said the stranger who seemed astonished at mrs receives train who was alive with curiosity have you seen him before madame mrs laughed certainly not she replied calmly and yours is not a face i should forget mr � she uttered the name with a certain amount of hesitation as though she was not sure it was the right one george nodded my name is he said rather and mrs nodded in her most gracious manner i bid you welcome sir any friend of mr train s is also my friend if there is anything to amuse you here she waved her hand we are simple people fortune a little music and the company of my guests ik s mr she introduced them but every now and then her eyes were on the yellow remarked it you are noticing my flower mrs he said it is rather rare most extraordinary replied mrs coolly i have seen with red before but yellow there was a great bush of it in my father s garden said mr but i have not seen any for years perhaps you would like it mrs said taking it from his coat she hastily waved her hand no no i am too old for flowers keep it mr it suits better with your youth she looked at his face keenly i have seen a face like yours before laughed i am of a type i fear he said no not so very common fair hair and dark eyes do not usually go together perhaps i have met your father the yellow perhaps replied or your mother persisted mrs i dare say then he turned the conversation what a old house you have here mrs bit her up on finding her inquiries thus baffled but taking her cue expanded on the subject of the house it was a fashionable mansion in the time of the she said some of the are wonderfully painted and there are all kinds of queer rooms and and corners in it and so quiet i dare say she went on this room was filled with and in powder and patches what a sight mr � what a sight will you have some port wine mr she was evidently talking at random and offered him a glass of with a trembling hand evidently more and more astonished at her manner drank off the wine he made few remarks being a man who spoke little in general company train had long ago gone to hear miss bull tell fortunes and from the laughter it was evident that his future was being no no cried train i shall never marry a literary man should keep himself away from the of female society do you agree with that mr asked mrs curiously he shook his head and laughed i am not a mrs then miss bull must about your marriage come at first was unwilling to go but after some persuasion he submitted to be led to the table miss bull was quite willing to do what was asked of her and spread out the cards waited beside mrs with a most indifferent air she was far more anxious to hear the fortune than he was receives you are in trouble announced miss bull in a tone and the trouble will grow worse but in the end all will be well she will aid you to get free and will bestow her hand on you she asked looking puzzled miss bull did not raise her eyes the lady you are thinking of was rather taken but seeing mrs s curious look he crushed down his emotion at my age we are always thinking of ladies he said laughing train touched his arm it is he began but frowned and was quick enough to take the hint miss bull went on telling the fortune there were the usual dark and fair people the widow the journey the money and all the rest of the general events and which are usually foretold but there was always trouble trouble and again trouble but you will come out right in the end said miss bull keep a brave heart i am sure mr will do that said madame graciously while bowed to the compliment miss bull again the cards and fastened her keen black eyes on madame will you have your fortune told she asked coldly oh certainly said mrs in a most manner anything to amuse but my has been told so often and has never come true � never and she sighed in an effective manner miss bull continued her mystic counting she told madame a lot of things about the house which were known to most present mrs laughed and sneered suddenly miss bull turned up a black card you will meet with a violent death she said and every one shuddered chapter n s story if miss bull wished to make madame | 12 |
a good neighbor without the hint of a jail or a what is strange too there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of to inspire him with the broad design of j the state on the principle of right n and love all those who have pretended this design have been partial and have admitted in some manner the of the bad state i do not call to mind a single human being who steadily denied the authority of the laws on the simple ground of his own moral nature such designs full of genius and full of fate as they are are not entertained except as air pictures if the individual who them dare to think them practicable he scholars and and men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of thi enthusiasm and there are now men � if i can speak in the number � exactly i will say i have just been conversing with one man to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it lis s e sat for a moment appear impossible that thousands of beings might exercise towards each other the and simplest sentiments as well as a knot of friends or a pair of lovers � v and in countless striving waves the moon drawn tide wave in thousand far the parent fruit so in the new bom millions the perfect adam lives not less are summer mornings dear to every child they wake and each with novel life his sphere fills for his proper sake � � k essay and i cannot often enough say that a man is only a relative and representative nature each is a hint of the truth but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us if i seek it in him i shall not find it any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he to be long afterwards i find that quality elsewhere which he promised me the genius of the is to the student yet how few particulars of it can i firom all their books the man stands for the thought but will not bear examination and a society of men will represent well enough a certain quality and culture for example chivalry or beauty of manners but separate them and there is no gentleman and viii no lady in the group the least hint sets u on the pursuit of a character which no man we have such eyes that on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve and when the curtain is lifted from the which it seemed to veil we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld we are greatly too liberal in our construction of each other s faculty and promise exactly what the parties have already done they shall do again but that which we inferred from their nature and they will not do that is in nature but not in them that happens in the world which we often witness in a public debate each of the expresses himself imperfectly no one of them hears much that another says such is the of mind of each and the audience who have only to hear and not to speak judge very wisely and how and is each of the to his own great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but men never when i meet a pure intellectual force or a and generosity of affection i believe here then is man and am presently by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions because the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total of his talents all persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have we borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature and finish the portrait which is false for the rest of his body is small or i observe a person who makes a good public appearance and conclude thence the perfection of his private character on which this is based but he has no private character he is a graceful cloak or lay figure for holidays all our poets heroes and saints fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea fail to draw our spontaneous interest and so leave us without any hope of but in our own future our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul but there are no such men as we fable no nor nor caesar nor at till nor washington such as we have made we a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men there is none without his i verily believe if an angel should come to the chorus of the moral law he would eat too much bread or take liberties with private letters or do some precious it is bad enough that our cannot do anything useful but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits he is admired at a distance but he cannot come near without appearing a the men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude or by courtesy or by satire or by an worldly manner each concealing as he best can his for useful association but they want either love or self reliance our native love of reality with this experience to teach us a little reserve and to a too sudden surrender to the 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would rather have had tell the story but his determined silence obliged her to relate her brother s situation her voice was animated in speaking of his profession and the foreign stations he had been on but she could not mention the number of years that he had been absent without tears in her eyes miss wished him an early promotion do you know anything of my cousin s captain said captain you have a large acquaintance in the navy i conclude � park among large enough but with an air of grandeur we know very little of the inferior ranks may be very good sort of men but they do not belong to us of various i could tell you a great deal of them and their flags and the of their pay and their and but in general i can assure you that they are all passed over and all very ill used certainly my home at my uncle s brought me acquainted with a circle of of and vices i saw enough now do not be suspecting me of a i entreat again felt grave and only replied it is a noble profession yes the profession is well enough under two circumstances if it make the fortune and there be discretion in spending it but in short it is not a favourite profession of mine it has never worn an amiable form to me to the harp and was again very happy in the prospect of hearing her play the subject of improving grounds meanwhile was still under consideration among the others and mrs grant could not help addressing her brother though it was calling his attention from miss my dear henry have you nothing to say you have been an yourself and from what i hear of it may with any place in england its natural beauties i am sure are great as it used to be was perfect in my estimation such a happy fall of ground and such timber what would not i give to see it again nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it was his answer but i fear there would be some disappointment � you would not find it equal to your present ideas in extent it is a mere nothing � you would be surprised at its and as for improvement there was very little for me to do � too little � i should like to have been busy much longer you are fond of the sort of thing said excessively but what with the natural advantages of the ground which pointed out even to a very young eye what little remained to be done and my own consequent park tions i had not been of age three months before was all that it is now my plan was laid at westminster a little altered perhaps at cambridge and at one and twenty executed i am inclined to envy mr for having so much happiness yet before him i have been a of my own those who see quickly will resolve quickly and act quickly said you can never want employment instead of mr you should assist him with your opinion mrs grant hearing the latter part of this speech enforced it warmly persuaded that no judgment could be equal to her brother s and as miss caught at the idea likewise and gave it her full support declaring that in her opinion it was infinitely better to consult with friends and disinterested than immediately to throw the business into the hands of a professional man mr was very ready to request the favour of mr s assistance and mr after properly his own abilities was quite at his service in any way that could be useful mr then began to propose mr s doing him the honour of coming over to and taking a bed there when mrs n as if reading in her two minds their little approbation of a plan which was to take mr away interposed with an there can be no doubt of mr s but why should not more of us go why should not we make a little party here are many that would be interested in your improvements my dear mr and that would like to hear mr s opinion on the spot and that might be of some small use to you with their opinions and for my own part i have been long wishing to wait upon your good mother again nothing but having no horses of my own could have made me so but now i could go and sit a few hours with mrs while the rest of you walked about and settled things and then we could all return to a late dinner here or dine at just as might be most agreeable to your mother and have a pleasant drive home by moonlight i dare say mr would take my two and me in his and park can go on horseback you know sister and will stay at home with you lady made no objection and every one concerned in the going was forward in expressing their ready excepting who heard it all and said nothing chapter vii well and how do you like miss now said the next day after thinking some time on the subject himself how did you like her yesterday very well � very much i like to hear her talk she me and she is so extremely pretty that i have great pleasure in looking at her it is her countenance that is so attractive she has a wonderful play of feature but was there nothing in her conversation that struck you as not quite right oh yes she ought not to have spoken of her uncle as she did i was quite astonished an uncle with whom she has been living so many years and who whatever his 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me it wasn t funny at all � it was poetry you re feeling better now aren t you dear oh yes and dried his eyes on her apron � don t you mind me i m only a little tired as you say i ll have my tea now he sat down to table and made such a brave show of being hungry that soon withdrew quite satisfied but when she had gone he ceased eating and went to his old seat in the window there to dream and muse he tried before the evening closed in to study some more of the subjects professor had left for his consideration but he could not � his head swam directly he bent over a printed page bo he gave up the attempt in despair he watched the sun sink and the stars come out and then went willingly enough to bed before he shut his little bed room window he heard an owl among the neighbouring woods and thought what a pitiful cry it uttered perhaps it is like me wondering why it was ever made he said to himself � and perhaps it thinks the as cruel as i do chapter ix tired out as he was sleep came reluctantly to s eyes that night there was an odd quick behind his brows which him for a long time and would not let him rest � it seemed to him like a little mill for ever turning and grinding out portions of facts which he had recently committed to memory � bits of history bits of grammar bits of bits of latin bits of greek � till he began to wonder how all the bits would piece themselves together and make a comprehensive ground work for further instruction by and by he found himself considering how very stupid it was of richard de lion to make so much fuss over the holy when now there were so many clever men alive who were all agreed that christ was a and that there never was any holy at all what a very dense king was richard � what a brave � with his perpetual oath par le de while all the time if he had only known it the was just a mechanical thing with no de about it and oh what a wicked waste of life there had been � what terrific for the faith � merely to end in an age which was prepared to deny and utterly condemn all spiritual and supernatural whatsoever gradually and by gentle degrees de lion and the de and the and with bits of facts and bits of professor s features curiously joined on to the dreadful of the silly man of the village got all together in confusion and the little tiresome mill in his head turned slower and slower and presently ceased to grind � and he fell into a profound slumber � the deep trance of utter exhaustion so dead asleep was he that a voice calling only reached his consciousness at last as though it were a faint far oflf sound in a dream � and not till the call had been repeated many times did he start up rubbing his heavy eyelids and gazing in speechless alarm at a mysterious figure bending over his bed the room was dark save for the moonlight that struck one wide beam across the floor and he could not for a moment imagine what strange and thus roused him from his rest but before he had time to think the figure s arms were round him and its voice murmured tenderly have i frightened you poor boy � poor baby don t you know me mother and in his sudden surprise and joy he sprang up half out of bed to return her embrace how good of you to come and see me � and you haven t even taken your hat and cloak did tell you i wanted to wait up for you no � didn t tell me � answered mrs drawing him more closely to her breast poor child how thin you are such a little bag o bones you mustn t catch cold � curl yourself under my cloak so there now i want you to be very quiet and listen to me attentively will you yes mother under the warm cloak with her arms round him was in a state of perfect happiness � this unexpected visit seemed too good to be true he was secretly astonished but entirely glad � he had never dreamed of the possibility of so much consolation and delight you feel so small said his mother then with a tremulous laugh � in your little you seem just a mere bundle of a baby � the very same sort of bundle i used to carry about and be so proud of you were a baby once you know closer and kissed her soft hand yes mother i suppose i was well now she went on speaking rapidly and in low tones � you must try and understand all i say to you i am going away dear � for a time on a visit with a friend who wishes to make me happy i m not very happy just at present neither are you i you see your father is clever and good � and her voice here rang with a delicate of mockery � and � very naturally � he does not care much for people who are not equally clever and good � so it makes it to get on with him sometimes he does not like me to sing and dance and amuse myself any more than he likes you to play games with other boys you are too young to go about by yourself and have a good time yet � but by you will grow up and you will know what a good time means you | 33 |
hear what message he was to take you are to say said mr glancing steadily at � you are to say that you have brought those books back and that you have come to pay the four pound ten i owe him this is a five pound note so you will have to bring me back ten shillings change i won t be ten minutes sir replied eagerly and having up the bank a m and pocket and placed the books carefully under his arm he made a respectful bow and the room let me see he ll be back in twenty minutes at the longest said mr pulling out his watch and placing it on the table it will be dark by that time oh you really expect him to come back do you inquired mr � don t you i asked mr smiling the spirit of contradiction was strong in mr s breast at the moment and it was rendered stronger by his friend s confident smile no he said the table his fist i do not the boy has got a new suit of clothes on his back a set of valuable books under his arm and a five pound note in his pocket he ll join his old friends the thieves and laugh at you if ever that boy returns to this house sir i ll eat my head with these words he drew his chair closer to the table and there the two friends sat in silent expectation with the watch between them it grew so dark that the figures on the dial were scarcely but there the two old gentlemen continued to sit in silence with the watch between them mm it f jew chapter got into he turned down a by street which was not exactly in his way but not discovering his mistake till he had got half way down it and knowing it must lead in the right direction he did not think it worth while to turn back and so marched on as quickly as he could with the books under his arm he was walking along thinking how happy and contented he ought to feel and how much he would give for only one look at poor little dick who starved and beaten might be lying dead at that very moment when he was startled by a young woman screaming out very loud oh my dear in ther and he had hardly looked up to see what the matter was when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck i don t cried struggling let go of me who is it what are you stopping me the only reply to this was a great number of loud from the young woman y a s and him and who had got a little basket and a key in her hand oh mj gracious said the young woman found him oh oh you naughty boy to make me suffer such distress on your account ck me home dear come oh i ve found him thank gracious goodness i ve found him with these exclamations the young woman burst into another fit of crying and got so dreadfully hysterical that a couple of women who came up at the moment asked a butcher s boy with a shiny head of hair with who was also looking on whether he didn t he had better run for the doctor oh no no never mind said the young woman grasping s hand i m better now come home directly you cruel boy come what s the matter ma am inquired one of the women oh ma am replied the young woman he ran away near a month ago from his parents who are and respectable people and joined a set of thieves and bad characters an almost broke his mother s heart young wretch said one woman go home do you little brute said the other tm not replied greatly alarmed i don t thb jew know her i haven t got any sister or father and mother either fm an orphan i live at oh only hear him how he it out cried the young woman what the devil s this said a man bursting out of a beer shop with a white dog at his heels young come home to your poor mother you yoimg dog come home directly i don t belong to them i don t know them help help cried struggling in the man s powerful grasp help repeated the man yes help you you young rascal what books are these you ve been a stealing em have you give em here with these words the man tore the volumes from his grasp and struck him violently on the head weak with recent illness by the blows and the suddenness of the attack terrified by the of the man and overpowered by the conviction of the that he was really the hardened little wretch he was described to be what could one poor child do darkness had set in it was a low neighborhood no help was near resistance was useless in another moment he was draped into a of dark narrow courts and forced along them at a pace which rendered the few cries he dared give utterance to wholly unintelligible it was of little moment m v � t and were intelligible or not for there was nobody to care for them had they been ever so plain at length they turned into a very filthy narrow street nearly full of old clothes shops and the dog running forward as if conscious that there was no further occasion of his keeping on guard stopped before the door of a shop which was closed and apparently for the house was in a condition and upon the door was nailed a board that it was to let which looked as if it had | 8 |
do it she said i can t bend my pride to such a job will you write for me i i don t see why i should be the one particularly as i think it premature but you have not quarrelled with my father as i have done well no but there is a long standing which would make it odd in me to write wait till we are married and then i will write not till then then i suppose i must you don t know my father he might forgive me marrying into any other family without his knowledge but he thinks so of yours on account the well beloved of the trade that he would never pardon till the day of his death my becoming a secretly i didn t see it at first this remark caused an unpleasant jar on the mind of despite his independent artistic position in london he was to the simple old parent who had held out for so many years against s trade and whose money had educated and maintained as an art student in the best schools so he begged her to say no more about his family and she silently resumed her letter giving an address at a post office that their quarters might not be discovered at least just yet no reply came by return of post but rather some letters for that had arrived at her father s since her departure were sent on in silence to the address given she opened them one by one till on reading the last she exclaimed good gracious and burst into laughter what is it asked began to read the letter aloud it came from a faithful lover of hers a youthful gentleman who stated that he was soon a young man of twenty going to start for england to claim his darling according to her word she was half half concerned what shall i do she said do my dear girl it seems to me that there is only one thing to do and that a very obvious thing tell him as soon as possible that you are just on the point of marriage thereupon wrote out a reply to that effect helping her to shape the phrases as gently as possible i repeat her letter concluded that i had quite forgotten i am deeply sorry but that is the truth i have told my intended husband everything and he is looking over my shoulder as i write said when he saw this set down you might leave out the last few words they are rather an extra for the poor boy it is not that dear why does he want to come me you ought to be very proud that i have put you in my letter at all you said yesterday that i was conceited in declaring i might have married that science man i told you of but now you see there was yet another available � the well beloved he gloomily well i don t care to hear about that to my mind this sort of thing is decidedly unpleasant though you treat it so lightly � well she i have only done half what you have done what s that i have only proved false through but you have while remembering oh yes of course you can use as a retort but don t vex me about her and make me do such an unexpected thing as regret the she shut her mouth tight and her face flushed the next morning there did come an answer to the letter asking her parents consent to her union with him but to s amazement her father took a line quite other than the one she had expected him to take whether she had herself or whether she had not seemed a question for the future rather than the present with him a native born when old island e views prevailed in families he was fixed in his of her marriage with a hated he did not consent he would not say more till he a young man of twenty could see her if she had any sense at all she would if still unmarried return to the home from which she had evidently been he would then see what he could do for her in the desperate circumstances she had made for herself otherwise he would do nothing could not help being sarcastic at her father s evidently low estimate of him and his and took at his i am the one deserving of satire if anybody she said i begin to feel i was a foolish girl to run away from a father for such a reason as a little scolding because i had exceeded my allowance i advised you to go back in a sort of way not in the right tone you spoke most contemptuously of my father as a merchant i couldn t speak otherwise of him than i did i m afraid knowing what � what have you to say against him nothing � to you beyond what is matter of common everybody knows that at one time he made it the ness of his life to ruin my father and the way thb he to me in that letter shows that his enmity still continues that ruined by an open handed man like my father said she it is like your people s to say that s eyes flashed and her face burned with an angry heat the beauty which this warmth might have brought being killed by the of countenance that came this temper is too i could give you every step of the proceeding in detail � anybody could � the getting the one by one and everything my father only holding his own by the most desperate courage there is no facts our parents relations are an ugly fact in the circumstances of us two people who | 45 |
a charming hotel de with a box planted garden said to have been laid out by and soon after the wild break away in as the road throws its about the sides of the � black hollows deepening below and long grey between the crowded peaks unhappily a enveloped us before we reached the top of the pass so that we lost all the beauty of the long southern descent to and were aware of it only as a distant of lights in the plain toward which we painfully through wind and rain the rain persisted the next day but perhaps it is a not accompaniment to a first view of since it that and element which has so possessed itself of the ancient restoring to it under a grey light something of its narrow huddled life he who has gone there with wrath in his heart against le may even under these by a plight through france conditions go so far as to think that the universal has for once been justified by his results � that in advance the possibility of innumerable errors of detail his brilliant still produces a total impression of reality perhaps too all the floating of literary � the irresistible of keep and and � help out the illusion the little and people it with such figures as walked among when went with leather at any rate the impression is there � for those who have the to take it � there all the more on a day of such unbroken rain when even the official their stove and a beneficent mist hides the of post cards and the traveller from every window the weather however so beneficent at car proved an obstacle to the seeing of and b� and drove us before it to where it gave us the next morning one of those brilliant southern days that are born of the southern here was at last � dry clear edged classic � with by q o i i z q co z m ui z by by the to a sky like blue marble low red hills by stony hollows with thin threads of stream and a sun that picked out in gold the pure curves of the among the greek towns of the there is none as greek � or to speak more precisely as roman � as no other city of old seems to have put itself so completely in harmony with its rich of remains � or the monuments of other periods and content to group its later growth about the temple and the it was very well for to make its venture for to crown itself with a glory of but with the tranquil lines of the and the the spring of the arches to act as influences � above all with the overwhelming grandeur of the du as a background � how could so far more deeply pledged to the past do otherwise than constitute herself the guardian of great memories the du alone would be enough to any town to a state of its is as as by a flight through france that of a great mountain and next to the it is the object in the solitude of its site and the austere lines of the surrounding landscape make it appear as much on the outer edge of as when it was first planted there and its long of arches seems to be forever pushing on into the wilderness with the tremendous tread of the roman by one of the charming of french travel one may return from this classic pilgrimage through the town of and as if such were not fruitful enough may pause on the way to smile at the fantastic d � a half ruined century folly with an of a chapel like a roman temple and a ruined box garden haunted by itself a steep town clustered about the keep of the has a stately terrace above the valley and some fine century houses in shabby streets swept but its chief feature is of course the castle which planted in the centre of the town l by q id q u h o z z z o co co o cr o by by the to up its central over a fine of from to the the impressions are packed too thick first the with the castles of and each other across its yellow flood from a steep cliff from the very brink of the river then after a short flight through olive and the pretty leafy town of saint on the skirts of the and a mile to the south of saint on a ledge of the low mountain chain the two monuments of the roman city of they are set side by side the tomb and the arch in a circular grassy space enclosed with olive and backed by delicate fretted peaks not another of roman construction left to connect them with the past was it one wonders their singular beauty that saved them that held even the hands when they wiped out every other trace of the city of stone with its walls and temples certainly seeing the two buildings thus isolated under the radiant lonely sky one is tempted to exclaim that they by a flight through france might well have checked even violence and that never again did the stout roman trunk throw out two such flowers of grace and lightness it is as though from that packed al soil some dust of greece had passed into the latin stem clearing a little its thick sap yet it is just because the monuments remain so roman that the grace and the lightness count so much this country between and is itself the most thing west of greece of in every line of its bare sharp cut heights with a spare classic growth of olive and it explains why the greek found himself at home on these | 10 |
in her little in the corner of another system and knows it quite well and comes and cries and goes away and is satisfied verily miss is easier of satisfaction than the world that troubles mr so much i and son at the counting house the clerks discuss the great disaster in all its lights and shades hut chiefly wonder who will get mr s place they are generally of opinion that it will be of some of its and made uncomfortable by newly devised and and those who are beyond all hope of it are quite sure they would rather not have it and don t at all envy the person for whom it may prove to be reserved nothing like the prevailing sensation has existed in the counting house since mr s little son died but all such there take a social not to say jovial turn and lead to the cultivation of good fellowship a reconciliation is established on the occasion between the acknowledged wit of the counting house and an rival with whom he has been at deadly for months and a little dinner being proposed in of their happily restored takes place at a neighboring tavern the wit in the chair the rival acting as vice president the following the removal of the cloth are opened by the chair who says gentlemen he can t disguise from himself that this is not a time for private recent to which he need not more particularly allude but which have not been altogether without notice in some sunday papers and a daily paper which he need not name here every other member of the company names it in an audible murmur have caused him to reflect and he feels that for him and robinson to have any personal at such a moment would be for ever to deny that good feeling in the general cause for which he has reason to think and hope that the gentlemen in s house have always been distinguished robinson replies to this like a man and a brother and one gentleman who has been in the office three years under continual notice to quit on account of in his appears in a perfectly new light suddenly bursting out with a thrilling speech in which he says may their respected chief never again know the desolation which has fallen on his hearth and says a great variety of things beginning with may he again which are received with of applause in short a most delightful evening is passed only interrupted by a difference between two who quarrelling about the probable amount of mr car vol and son s late per defy each other with and are taken out greatly excited water is in general request at the office next day and most of the party deem the bill an as to perch the messenger he is in a fair way of being ruined for life he finds himself again constantly in bars of public houses being treated and lying dreadfully it appears that he met everybody concerned in the late transaction everywhere and said to them sir or madam as the case was why do you look so pale at which each shuddered from head to foot and said oh perch and ran away either the con of these or the reaction consequent on liquor mr perch to an extreme state of low spirits at that hour of the evening when he usually seeks consolation in the society of mrs perch at ball s pond and mrs perch a good deal for she fears his confidence in woman is shaken now and that he half expects on coming home at night to find her gone of with some mr s servants are becoming at the same quite dissipated and unfit for other service they have hot every night and talk it over with smoking drinks upon the board mr is always after half past ten and frequently to know whether he didn t say that no good would ever come of living in a comer house they whisper about miss and wonder where she is but agree that if mr don t know mrs s this brings them to the latter of whom cook says she had a stately way though hadn t she but she was too high they all agree that she was too high and mr s old flame the who is very virtuous that you will never talk to her any more about people who holds their heads up as if the ground wasn t good enough for em everything that is said and done about it except by mr is done in chorus mr and the world are alone together and son chapter secret good mrs brown and her daughter kept silent � any together in their own dwelling it was early in the evening and late in the spring but a few days had elapsed since had told major of his singular intelligence singularly obtained which might turn out to be and might turn out to be true and the world was not satisfied yet the mother and daughter sat for a long time without changing a word almost without motion the old woman s face was anxious and expectant that of her daughter was expectant too but in a less sharp degree and sometimes it darkened as if with gathering disappointment and incredulity the old woman without these changes in its expression though her eyes were often turned towards it sat and and listening their abode though poor and miserable was not so utterly wretched as in the days when only good mrs brown inhabited it some few attempts at cleanliness and order were manifest though made in a reckless way that might have connected them at a glance with the younger woman the shades of evening and deepened as the two kept silence until tlie blackened walls were nearly lost in the prevailing gloom | 8 |
rise from an committed by the latter against the rules concerning the observation of sabbath when cured the with the withered hand it is said in t ic j out and held a council it t t vi xii mark iii g vi and in like on the occasion of sabbath cure at the pool of did the us and after mentioning a declaration of proceeds thus j the the more to k him v � � ill the life op but immediately after point the account of the relation in question from that of john la the the next offence is given by the neglect of washing before meals on the part of and his with the sharp which when called to account on the subject he launched forth against the spirit of petty and the and spirit of persecution it was in the and lawyers after all which it is said that the latter conceived a deep against him and tried to him and him by dangerous questions in order to obtain grounds of accusation against him xi � xv ff vii ff on his last journey to the gave a warning against xiii apparently had no other object than fo induce him to leave the the next cause of offence to tlie party was the striking homage paid to by the people on entrance into and the of the temple which lie undertook but they were still from any violent measures towards him by the strength of his interest with people xxi f ix xix f which was the sole reason why they did not possess themselves of his after the manner in wliich he had in the of of the x i f after these it needed the anti discourse to make the chief priests the and i c the in the palace of the high priest shortly before the for a consultation if take by and kill him xxvi ft n the fourth gospel also the great number of c of among the people is sometimes it is true described as the reason why hia enemies desired to seize him vii iv ff and his solemn entrance into them here also xii sometimes their designs arc without any motive stated vii viii but the main cause of offence in tliis lies in the of concerning his exalted dignity even on the occasion of the cure of the lame man on the sabbath what irritated the jews was that justified it by to the agency of god as his which in their opinion was a of equal i t l v when he spoke of his divine mission they sought to lay hold on him vii viii on his asserting that he was before ihey took up stones to cast at viii tliey did the same when he declared that he and the father were x and when he asserted that the father was in him and he in the father they again to seize him x but that which according to the fourth gospel turns the scale and causes the hostile party to take a formal resolution against is the enemies of je u of tliis act was reported to the and chief priests a council of the in the of deliberation was tliat if continued to perform so would at to and then the roman would be exerted to the destruction of the nation the high priest pronounced the momentous decision it was better for one n an to die for the people than for the whole nation to his death was now determined upon and it was on one to point out hia abode that he might be arrested xi ff regard to this difference modern that we should not at all the turn of the fate of je the accounts and that john alone opens to us a glance into tlie n� in which step by step the breach between the party and was in short that in this point also the representation of the fourth cl shows a one which that of other is not but what it is in which the gospel of john in and progress it is difficult to see since the very first definite statement concerning the enmity v contains the extreme of the n n� e f e i god and the extreme of the enmity ts it to kill so tiiat all which is further concerning the hostility of the jews ia mere repetition and the fact which presents itself as a step towards more decided measures is the resolution of the xi this of however is not wanting in the account also here we have the transition from wait for and tiie l e done to aim xl vi or as it is more precisely given in i xii and in mark the taking l how might him to the definite resolve as to the manner and time j iv r xxvi fl � it is especially made a reproach to the three first that in passing over he of they omitted that incident which gave the final impulse to the fate of je us t if we on the contrary in virtue of the above result of our criticism of this miraculous narrative t rather praise the that do not represent as the point in the fate of an incident which never really hap so the fourth list by the manner in which he relates the resolve to which it was the immediate by no himself as one whose authority can be held by us a sufficient warrant for the truth of his narrative the ho to the high priest the gilt of prophecy without doubt in accordance with a su idea of lis age and regards bis � vn s f i i s is s t � u ve n t the t view oil point we t the life of speech as a of the death of would certainly not | 14 |
in free in shall caps the bill was then passed without further division and being approved by the president became a law its provisions are as follows an act to the of and be it by the and house of representatives of the united states of america in assembled that all that part of the territory of the united states included within the following limits except such portions thereof as are expressly from the operations of this act to wit beginning at a point in the river where the parallel of north latitude crosses the same thence west on said parallel to the east boundary of the territory of on the summit of the rocky mountains thence on said summit northward to the parallel of north latitude thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of the territory of thence southward on said boundary to the river thence down the main channel of said river to the place of beginning be and the same is created into a temporary government by the name of tho territory of and when admitted as a state or states the said territory or any portion of the same shall be received into the union with or without slavery as their constitution may at the time of their admission provided that nothing in this act contained shall be to the government of the united states from dividing said territory into two or more in such manner and at such times as shall deem convenient and proper or from any portion of said territory to any other state or territory of the united states provided further that nothing in this act contained shall be to the rights of person or property now to the indians in said territory so long as such rights shall remain by treaty between the united states and such indians or to include any territory which by treaty with any indian tribe is not without the consent of said tribe to be included within the limits or of any state or territory but all such territory shall be out of the boundaries and constitute no part of the territory of until said tribe shall signify their assent to the president of the united states to be included within the said territory of or to affect the authority of the government of the united states to make any respecting such indians their lands property or other rights by treaty law or otherwise which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed sec that the power and authority in and over said territory of shall be in a governor who shall hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified unless sooner removed by the president of the united states the governor shall reside within said territory and shall be commander in chief of the thereof he may grant and for against the laws of said territory and for against the laws of the united states until the decision of the president can be made known he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under tho laws of the said territory and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed sec that there shall be a secretary of said territory who shall reside therein his office for five years unless sooner removed by the president of tho united states he shall record and preserve all the laws and proceedings of the assembly constituted and all the acts and proceedings of tho governor in his department he shall one copy of the laws and journals of the le assembly within thirty days after the end of each and one copy ot tho proceedings and official correspondence semi on the first days of january and july in each year to the president of the united states and two copies of the laws to the president of the and to the speaker of the w the struggle foe slavery home of representatives to be deposited in the shall be entitled to vote at the election and of and in case of the shall be eligible to any office within the said resignation or absence of the governor but the of and of from the territory the secretary shall be and he holding office at all subsequent shall ts and required to execute and be such as shall be prescribed by the perform all the powers and duties of the governor assembly provided that the right of during such or absence or until another and of holding office shall be exercised only by governor shall be duly appointed and qualified to citizens of the united and those who shall have declared on oath their intention to become sec that the power and or i such and shall have taken an to support the constitution of the united states and the and a assembly the as provisions of this act and provided further shall consist of a council and house of that no officer soldier seaman or marine or representatives the council shall consist of other person in the army or navy of the united thirteen members having the of states or attached to troops in the service of the as prescribed whose term of united shall be allowed to vote or service shall continue two years tho house of office in said territory by reason of being on representatives shall at its first consist service therein of twenty six members possessing the same sec fi tho power of the as prescribed lor members of the tory shall extend to all subjects of and whose term of service shall continue consistent with the constitution of the one year the number of representatives may united states and the provisions of this act but be increased by the assembly from no law shall be passed interfering with the to time in proportion to the increase of mary disposal of the soil no | 19 |
the act of making a the being driven firmly into the ground in a row over which he bent and the twigs beside him was a square compact pile like the altar of formed of already finished which on all sides with the sharp points of their at a little distance the men in his employ were assisting him to carry out his contract rows of wood lay on the ground as it had fallen under the axe and a shelter had been constructed near at hand in front of which burned the fire whose smoke had attracted him the air was so that the smoke hung heavy and crept away amid the bushes without rising from the ground after wistfully regarding a while drew nearer and briefly inquired of how he came to be so busily engaged with an of slight surprise that could seem so after being deprived of grace was not without emotion at the meeting the for grace s affairs had divided and ended their intimacy of old times explained just as briefly without raising his eyes from his of a that he held in front of him i p iii be ap in april before yon get it all cleared said yes there or said a chop of the the last word into two pieces there s ther interval still looked on a from s hook occasionally flying against the waistcoat and legs of his visitor who took no heed ah � you should have been my partner you should have been my son in law the old man said at last it would have been far better for her and for me saw that something had gone wrong with his former friend and throwing down the he was about to he responded only too readily to the mood of the timber dealer is she ill he said hurriedly no no stood without speaking for some minutes and then as though he could not bring himself to proceed to go away told one of his men to pack up the tools for the night and walked after heaven forbid that i should seem too inquisitive sir he said especially since we don t stand as we used to stand to one another but i hope it is well with them all over your way no said � no he stopped and the smooth trunk of a young ash tree with the flat of his hand i would that his ear had been where that is i he exclaimed i should have treated him to little compared wi what he deserves now said don t be in a hurry to go home i ve put some down to warm in my shelter here and we ll sit and drink it and talk this over as took his arm and they went back to where the fire was and sat down under the screen the other having gone he drew out the from the ashes and they drank together the to have bad her as i said now tu tell yoa why for the first time he th told as with great relief the story of how he won away s father s chosen one � by nothing worse than a s it is bat by means which except in love certainly haye been and unfair he explained how he had always intended to make to the father by giving grace to the son till the devil tempted him in the person of and he broke his tow how highly i thought of tliat man to be who d have supposed he d have been so weak and wrong headed as this tou ought to have had her and there s an end on t knew how to preserve his calm under this unconsciously cruel tearing of a healing wound to which s on the more vital subject had blinded him the young man endeavored to make the best of the case for grace s sake she hardly have been happy with me he said in the dry voice under which he hid his feelings i was not well educated too rough in short i couldn t have surrounded her with the she looked for anyhow at all nonsense � you are quite wrong there said the unwise old man she told me only this day that she hates and such like all that my trouble and money bought for her in that way is thrown away upon her quite she d fain be like that that s the top of her ambition perhaps she s right she loved you � the and what s more she loves ye still � worse luck for the poor maid if only had what fires he was stirring up he might have held his peace was silent a long time the darkness had closed in round them and the monotonous of the fog from the branches quickened as it turned to fine rain oh she never cared much for me managed to say aa he stirred the embers with a brand the she did and does i tell ye said the other however all that s vain talking now what i come to ask you about is a more practical matter � how to make the best of things as they are i am thinking of a desperate step � of calling on the woman i am going to appeal to her since grace will not tis she who holds the balance in her hands � not he while she s got the will to lead him astray he will follow � poor � and how long she ll do it depends upon her whim did ye ever hear about her character before she came to f she s been a bit of a in her time i believe replied with the same level as he regarded the red coals one who has smiled where she has not loved and | 45 |
find to their great relief a subject on which they can converse with one and a copious one too � steam � wonderful thing ah a deep drawn sigh it is indeed great power sir immense � immense great deal done by steam sir ah another sigh at the of the subject and a knowing shake of the head you may say dr � still in its in they say sir novel remarks of this kind are generally the of a conversation which is prolonged until the conclusion of the trip and perhaps lays the of a speaking acquaintance between half a dozen gentlemen having their families at take son tickets for the boat and dine oo board every afternoon c chapter xl s we never see any large staring black roman in a book or or on a wall their immediately recalling to our mind an indistinct and confused recollection of the time when we were first in the mysteries of the we almost fancy we see the pin s point following the letter to impress its form more strongly on oar bewildered imagination and as we remember the hard with which the reverend old lady who into oar mind the first principles of education for per week or ten and sixpence per quarter was wont to oar head occasionally by way of the confusion of ideas in which we were generally involved the same kind of feeling us in many other instances but there is no place which so strongly our recollections of childhood as s it was not a in those days nor had arisen to shed the light of classic taste and gas over the of the but the whole character of the place was the same the pieces were the same the s jokes were the same the riding were equally grand the comic equally witty the equally hoarse and the highly trained equally spirited s has altered for the better � we have changed for the worse our taste is gone and with shame we confess that we are � more delighted and amused with the audience than with the we once so highly we like to watch a regular s party in the or pa and ma and nine or ten children varying from five foot six to two foot eleven fourteen years of to four we had just our seat in one of the boxes in the centre of the house the other when the next was occupied by just such a party as we should have attempted to describe had we depicted our beau ideal of a group of s visitors first of all there came three little boys and a little girl who in of pa s directions issued in a very audible voice from the box door occupied the front row then two more uttle girls were ushered in by a young lady evidently the then came three more uttle boys dressed like the first in blue and trousers with lay down shirt then a child in a frock and high state of with very large round eyes opened to their utmost width was lifted over the seats � a process which occasioned a display of httle pink legs � then came and pa and then the eldest son a boy of fourteen years old who was evidently trying to look as if he did not belong to the family the five minutes were occupied in taking the off the little girls and the bows which ornamented their hair then it was discovered that one of the little boys was seated behind a pillar and could not see so the was stuck behind the pillar and the boy lifted into her place then pa the boys and directed the away of their pocket handkerchiefs and ma having first nodded and winked to the to the girls a more off their stood up to review the little troop an inspection which i to to her own satisfaction for she looked with a complacent air at pa who was at the further end of the seat fa the glance and his nose very emphatically b b sc sketches by i got m peeped mt from behind the pillar and timidly tried to catch ma s eye with a look of her high admiration of the whole then two of little boys who had been the point whether s was more than twice as large as agreed to refer it to george for his decision at which george who was no other than the gentleman before noticed indignant and remonstrated in no gentle terms on the gross of having his name repeated m so loud a voice at a public place on which all the children laughed very heartily and one of the boys wound up by expressing his opinion that george began to think himself quite a man now whereupon both pa and laughed too and who carried a dress cane and was whiskers muttered that william always was encouraged in his impertinence and assumed a look of profound contempt which lasted the whole evening the play began and the interest of the little boys knew no bounds pa was clearly interested too although he very endeavoured to look as if he wasn t as for ma she was perfectly overcome by the of the principal and laughed till every one of the immense bows on her ample cap trembled at which the peeped out from behind the pillar again and whenever she could catch ma s eye put her handkerchief to her mouth and as in duty bound to be in of laughter also then when the man in the splendid vowed to rescue the lady or perish in the attempt the little boys applauded vehemently especially one little fellow who was apparently on a visit to tho family and had been on a child s the whole evening with a small of twelve years old who looked like a | 8 |
loves and of the which means black snake had served the indian government in every way that an elephant could serve it for years and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught that makes him nearly seventy � a ripe age for an elephant he remembered pushing with a big leather on his forehead at a gun stuck in deep mud and that was before the war of and he had not then come to his full strength his mother � the darling � who had been caught in the same drive with told him before his little milk had dropped out that who were afraid always got i the book hurt and knew that that advice was good for the first time that he saw a shell burst he backed screaming into a stand of piled and the pricked him in all his places so before he was twenty five he gave up being afraid and so he was the best loved and the best looked after elephant in the service of the government of india he had carried tents twelve hundred pounds weight of tents on the march in upper india he had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam and taken for days across the water and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from india and had seen the emperor lying dead in and had come back again in the steamer entitled so the soldiers said to the war he had seen his fellow die of cold and and starvation and up at a place called ten years later and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big of in the timber yards at there he had half killed an young elephant who was his fair share of the work after that he was taken off timber and employed with a few score other of the who were trained to the business in helping to catch wild among the hills are very strictly preserved by the indian government there is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them and catch them and break them in and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work stood ten fair feet at the shoulders and his had been cut off short at five feet and bound round the ends to prevent them with bands of copper but he could do more with those than any elephant could do with the real sharpened ones when after weeks and weeks of cautious driving of scattered across the hills the forty or fifty wild monsters were driven into the last and the big drop gate made of tree trunks lashed together down behind them at the word of command would go into that generally at night when the of the made it difficult to judge distances and picking out the biggest and wildest of the mob would hammer him and him into quiet while the men on the backs of the other and tied the smaller ones the book there was nothing in the way of fighting that the old wise black snake did not know for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger and curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm s way had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid air with a quick cut of his head that he had invented all by himself had knocked him over and upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl and there was only a striped thing on the ground for to pull by the tail yes said big his driver the son of black who had taken him to and of of the who had seen him caught there is nothing that the black snake fears except me he has seen three generations of us feed him and groom him and he will live to see four he is afraid of me also said little standing up to his full height of four feet with only one rag upon him he was ten years old the eldest son of big and according to custom he would take his father s place on s neck when he grew up and would handle the heavy iron the elephant that had of the been worn smooth by his father and his grandfather and his great grandfather he knew what he was talking of for he had been born under s shadow had played with the end of his trunk before he could walk had taken him down to water as soon as he could walk and would no more have dreamed of his shrill little orders than he would have dreamed of killing him on that day when big carried the little brown baby under and told him to salute his master that was to be yes said little he is afraid of me and he took long strides up to called him a fat old pig and made him lift up his feet one after the other said little thou art a big elephant and he his head quoting his father the government may pay for but they belong to us when thou art old there will come some rich and he will buy thee from the government on account of thy size and thy manners and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold in thy ears and a gold on thy back and a red cloth covered with gold on thy sides and walk at the head of the the of the king then i shall sit on thy neck o with a silver and men will run before us with golden sticks crying room for the king s elephant that will be good but | 39 |
is with a set of t� i which foundations of be seldom or never uses in common speech he must to appreciate fine distinctions in the use of e he must receive from words a precision and a force of meaning a richness of suggestion which is to be appreciated only by special and training it will be instructive for the teacher to take any ordinary high school class for instance and examine how far each member gets a complete and notion of what meant in the opening sentence of the speech on i hope sir that tha of the chair your good nature will incline you to some degree of indulgence toward an is apt to assume that the intent of a passage such as this is entirely clear yet i apprehend that not one high school pupil in twenty gets the real force of this if this example seems in its too remote from every day speech to be a fair example tha teacher may try the experiment with the sentence in books in which speaks of volumes that are so ho so bo every word is of common habitual use but most people would be well nigh helpless when confronted with them in this passage the use in literature of allusion of figures of j striking and unusual employment of words must be i come familiar to the student before he is in a con i to deal with literature easily and with full j talks on teaching literature i intelligence the process must be almost like that i of learning to read in a foreign tongue for a � teacher to this ia to the position of a professor in italian or spanish who begins the reading of his pupils not with words and simple sentences but with intricate prose and verse it must be remembered moreover that if the of literature ia removed from the daily experience of the pupil the ideas and the sentiments of literature are yet more widely apart from it literature must deal largely with abstract thoughts and ideas expressed or implied it is necessarily concerned with sentiments more elevated or more profound than those with which life makes the young familiar they must be educated to take the point of view of the author to rise to the mental plane of a great writer as far as they are capable of so doing until they can in some measure accomplish this they are not even capable of reading the literature they are supposed to study it is with reading literature aa it is with ling foreign tongues often the the general tone the spirit will carry us over passages in which there is much that is not clear to our exact knowledge children are constantly able to get from a story or a poem much more than would seem to their ignorance of the language of literature are helped by truth to life even when they are far from what they are receiving so that it would be unjust to assume that the measure of a child s profit of work in a given case is to be too nicely by acquaintance witb tbe words tbe the the in tbe conveyed it tbe fact remains tbat in attempting to do effective in the way of instruction tbe teacher first of all to train pupil in tbe language of literature the student having learned to read the work which is to be studied must approach it through some personal experience tbe teacher who ia to assist him must therefore discover what in tbe child s range of knowledge may best serve as a point of departure in all education no less than in formal argument a start can be made only from a point of agreement from something as evident to the student as it is to the con or unconsciously every teacher acts upon this principle from the early lessons in addition which begin witb the obvious agreement produced by the sight of tbe blocks or apples or beads which are before tbe child in literature too the fact is commonly acted upon if not so universally if young pupils are having the village blacksmith read to them the teacher instinctively starts witb the fact that they may have seen a blacksmith at work at hia the difficulty is that teachers who naturally do this in simple poems fail to see that the same principle holds good of literature of a higher order and that tbe more complex the problem the greater tlie need of being sure of this beginning with some actual experience talks on teaching literature with this finding some safe and substantial f in the pupil s own experience is con ti the necessity of speaking of literature as of anything else one tries to teach in the language of the class addressed all that we say to our pupils very little if any of all our careful wisdom really them or remains in their minds except that portion which we have managed to phrase in terms of their language and so to put that it appeals to emotions of their own young lives they can have no conception of the characters in fiction � or poetry except in so far as they are able to con r these shadows as moving in their own world they should be told to make up their minds about lady or robin hood or dr as if these were persons of their own community about whom they had learned the facts set forth in the books read they cannot completely realize this but they get hold of the character only so far as they are able to do it they will at least come to have a conception that people they see in the flesh and those they meet in literature are of the same stuff and should be judged by the same laws hey will receive the benefit moreover | 3 |
to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden i am very little disposed to grant a tenant of hall any favour i assure you be he sailor or soldier after a short pause mr shepherd presumed to say � in all these cases there are established which make everything plain and easy between landlord and tenant your interest sir walter is in pretty safe hands depend upon me for taking care that no tenant has than his just rights i venture to hint that sir walter cannot be half so jealous for his own as john shepherd will be for him here anne spoke � the navy i think who have done so much for us have at least an equal claim with any other set of men for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give sailors work hard enough for their comforts we must all allow very true very true what miss anne says is very true was mr shepherd s and oh certainly was his daughter s but sir walter s remark was soon afterwards � the profession has its utility but i should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it indeed was the reply and with a look of surprise yes it is in two points offensive to me i have two strong grounds of objection to it first as being the means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction and raising men to honours which their fathers and never of and secondly as it cuts up a man s youth and vigour most horribly a sailor grows old sooner than any other man i have persuasion observed it all my life a man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose his father might have to speak to and of becoming an object of disgust himself than in any other line one day last spring in town i was in company with two men striking instances of what i am talking of lord st whose father we all know to have been a country without bread to eat i was to give place to lord st and a certain admiral the most deplorable looking personage you can imagine his face the colour of mahogany rough and rugged to the last degree all lines and wrinkles nine grey hairs of a side and but a of powder at top in the name of heaven who is that old fellow said i to a friend of mine who was standing near sir old fellow cried sir it is admiral what do you take his age to be sixty said i or perhaps forty replied sir forty and no more picture to yourselves my amazement i shall not easily forget admiral i never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea life can do but to a degree i know it is the same with them all they are all knocked about and exposed to every climate and every weather till they are not fit to be seen it is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once before they reach admiral s age nay sir walter cried mrs clay this is being severe indeed have a little mercy on the poor men we are not all bom to be handsome the sea is no certainly sailors do grow old i have often observed it they soon lose the look of youth but then is not it die same with many other professions perhaps most other soldiers in active service are not at all better off and even in the professions there is a toil and a labour of the mind if persuasion not of the body which seldom leaves a man s looks to the natural effect of time the lawyer quite care worn the physician is up at all hours and travelling in all weather and even the clergyman � she a moment to consider what might do for the clergyman � and even the clergyman you know is obliged to go into rooms and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere in fact as i have long been convinced though every profession is necessary and honourable in its turn it is only the lot of those who are not obliged to follow any who can live in a regular way in the country choosing their own hours following their own pursuits and living on their own property without the torment of trying for more it is only their lot i say to hold the blessings of health and a good appearance to the utmost i know no other set of men but what lose something of their when they cease to be quite young it seemed as if mr shepherd in this anxiety to sir walter s good will towards a naval officer as tenant had been gifted with foresight for the very first application for the house was from an admiral with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter at and indeed he had received a hint of the admiral from a london correspondent by the report which he hastened over to to make admiral was a native of who having acquired a very handsome fortune was wishing to in his own country and had come down to in order to look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood which however had not suited him that accidentally hearing � it was just as he had foretold mr shepherd observed sir walter s concerns could not be kept a secret � accidentally hearing of the possibility of persuasion hall being to let and understanding his mr shepherd s connection with the owner he had introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries and had in the course of a pretty long conference expressed as strong an | 26 |
the mother who provided the tea and other it was astonishing to herself that she did not feel more delighted but it was startling to find the in a lane after all and not on a common indeed it was rather for a mysterious common where there were sand to hide in and one was out of every body s reach had always made part of s picture of life she went on however and thought with some that most likely knew nothing about so there was no of their falling into the mistake of setting her down at the first glance as an idiot it was she had attracted attention for the tall figure who proved to be a young woman with a baby on her arm walked slowly to meet her looked up in the new face rather as it approached and was reassured by the thought that her aunt and the rest were right when they called her a for this face with the bright dark eyes and the long hair was really something like what she used to see ui the glass before she cut her hair off e � v on h vl my little lady where are you going to the said in a tone of deference it was delightful and just hat expected the saw at once that she was a little lady and were prepared to treat her accordingly not any farther said feeling as if she were saying what she had in a dream i m come to stay please that s come then why what a nice little lady you are to be sure said the taking her by the hand thought her very agreeable but wished she had not been so dirty there was quite a group round the fire when they reached it an old woman was seated on the ground nursing her knees and occasionally a into the round kettle that sent forth an steam two small children were lying prone and resting on their elbows something like small and a placid donkey was bending his head over a tall girl who lying on her back was scratching his nose and indulging him with a bite of excellent stolen hay the sunlight fell kindly upon them and the scene was very pretty and comfortable thought only she hoped they would soon set out the tea cups every thing would de c ite charming when she had taught the to use a basin and to feel an interest in books it was a little though that the young woman began to speak to the old one a language which did not understand while the tall girl who was feeding the donkey sat up and stared at her without offering any salutation at last the old woman said what my pretty lady are you come to stay with us sit ye down and tell us where you come from it was just like a story liked to be called pretty lady and treated in this way she sat down and said i m come from home because unhappy and i mean to be a i ll live with you if you like and i can teach you a great many things such a clever lady said the woman with the baby sitting down by and allowing baby to crawl and such a pretty bonnet and frock she added taking off s bonnet and looking at it while she made an observation to the old woman in the unknown language the tall girl snatched the bonnet and put it on her own head hind foremost with a grin but was determined not to show any weakness on this subject as if she were susceptible about her bonnet on thb i don t want to wear a bonnet she said rather wear a red handkerchief like yours looking at her friend by her side my hair was quite long till yesterday when i cut it off but i dare say it will grow again very soon she added thinking it probable the had a strong in favor of long hair and had forgotten even her hunger at that moment in the desire to opinion oh what a nice little lady � and rich fm sure said the old woman didn t you live in a beautiful house at home yes my home is pretty and i m very fond of the river where we go fishing but i m often very unhappy i should have liked to bring my books with me but i came away in a hurry you know but i can tell you almost every thing there is in my books i ve read them so many times � and that will amuse you and i can tell you something about geography that s about the world we live in � very useful and interesting did you ever hear about s eyes had begun to sparkle and her cheeks to flush � she was really beginning to instruct the and gain ing great influence over them the themselves were not without amazement at this talk though their attention was divided by the contents of s pocket which the friend at her right hand had by this time emptied without her notice is that where you live my little lady said the old woman at the mention of oh no said with some pity was a very wonderful man who found out half the world and they put chains on him and treated him very badly you know � it s in my of geography � but perhaps it s rather too long to tell before tea j want my tea bo the last words burst from in spite of herself with a sudden drop from instruction to simple why she s hungry poor little lady said the younger woman give her some o the cold you ve been walking a good way i ll be bound my dear | 14 |
help them as much as possible she used as soon as she left school to lend a of the d hand at or on neighbouring farms or by preference at or butter making processes which she had learnt when her father had owned cows and being it was a kind of work in which she every day seemed to throw upon her young shoulders more of the family burdens and that should be the representative of the at the d mansion came as a thing of course in this instance it must be admitted that the were putting their fairest side outward she from the van at cross and ascended on foot a hill in the direction of the district known as the chase on the borders of which as she had been informed mrs d s seat the slopes would be found it was not a home in the ordinary sense with fields and pastures and a grumbling farmer out of whom the owner had to squeeze an income for himself and his family by hook or by it was more far more a house built for enjoyment e and simple with not an acre of troublesome land attached to it beyond what was required for purposes and for a little fancy farm kept in hand by the owner and tended by a the crimson brick lodge came first in sight up to its in dense thought this was the mansion itself till passing through the side with some and onward to a point at which the drive took a turn the house proper stood in full view it was of recent � indeed almost new � and of the same rich red that formed such a contrast with the of the lodge par behind the comer of the house � which rose like a bloom against the subdued colours around � stretched the soft e landscape of the chase � a truly venerable tract of forest land one of the few remaining in england of date wherein was still found on the maiden aged oaks and where enormous trees not planted by the hand of man grew as they had grown when they were for bows all this antiquity however though visible from the slopes was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate everything on this snug property was bright and well kept acres of glass houses stretched down the to the at their feet everything looked like money � like the last coin issued from the the stables partly by pines and oaks and fitted with every late were as dignified as of ease on the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent its door being towards her simple stood at gaze in a attitude on the edge of the gravel sweep her feet had brought her onward to this point before she had quite realized where she was and now all was contrary to her expectation i thought we were an old family but this is all new she said in her she wished that she had not fallen in so readily with her mother s plans for claiming kin and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home the d � or d as they at first called themselves � who owned all this were a somewhat family to find in such an part of the parson had spoken truly when he said that our john was the only really representative of the old d family existing in the or near it he might have added what he knew very well that the d were no more d of the true tree than he was himself yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to a name which sadly wanted such when old mr deceased had op the d made his fortune as an honest merchant some said money in the north he decided to settle as a county man in the south of england out of hail of his business district and in doing this he felt the necessity of with a name that would not too readily identify him with the smart of the past and that would be less commonplace than the original bald words for an hour in the british the pages of works devoted to extinct half extinct obscured and ruined families to the quarter of england in which he proposed to settle he considered that d looked and sounded as well as any of them and d accordingly was to his own name for himself and his yet he was not an extravagant minded man in this and in his family tree on the new basis was duly reasonable in his and aristocratic links never a single title above a rank of strict moderation of this work of imagination poor and her parents were in ignorance � much to their discomfiture indeed the very possibility of such was unknown to them who supposed that though to be well favoured might be the gift of a family name came by nature still stood hesitating like a about to make his hardly knowing whether to retreat or to when a figure came forth from the dark door of the tent it was that of a tall young man smoking he had an almost complexion with full lips badly though red and smooth above which was a well black moustache with curled points though his age could not be more than three or and twenty despite the touches of in his s there was a singular force in the gentleman s face and in his bold rolling eye well my beauty what can i do for you said the maiden he forward and perceiving that she stood confounded never mind me i am mr d have you come to see me or my mother this of a d and a differed even more from what had expected than the house and grounds had differed she had dreamed of | 45 |
i would it if i lived near you who is now there was a little niece at to be fondly inquired after by the kind hearted who regretted very much her not being of the party you are very good replied her mother and i assure you it went very hard with to have us come away without her i was forced to say we were only going to church and promise to come back for her directly but you know it would not do to bring her without her maid and i am as particular as ever in having her properly attended to sweet little darling cried margaret it quite broke my heart to leave her then why was you in such a hurry to run away from her cried mrs you are a sad shabby girl i have been quarrelling with you all the way we came have not i such a visit as this i never heard of you know how glad we are to have any of you with us if it be for months together and i am sorry with a witty smile we have not been able to make agreeable this autumn my dearest jane do not me with your you know what i had to bring me home spare me i entreat you i am no match for your arch well i only beg you will not set your the against the place perhaps may he tempted to go back with us and stay till if you don t put in your word was greatly obliged i assure you we have very good society at i do not much attend the they are rather too mixed but our parties are very select and good i had seven tables last week in my drawing room are you fond of the country how do you like very much replied who thought a comprehensive answer most to the purpose she saw that her sister in law despised her immediately mrs was indeed wondering what sort of a home could possibly hav been used to in and setting it down as certain that the aunt could never have had six thousand pounds how charming is whispered margaret to mrs in her most tone was quite distressed by such behavior and she did not like it better when she heard margaret five minutes afterwards say to elizabeth in a sharp quick accent totally unlike the first have you heard from pen since she went to i had a letter the other day i don t find she is likely to make anything of it i fancy she come back miss as she went such she feared would be margaret s common voice when the novelty of her own appearance were over the tone of artificial sensibility was not recommended by the idea the ladies were invited upstairs to prepare for dinner the i hope you will find things tolerably comfortable jane said as she opened the door of the spare my good creature replied jane u e no ceremony with me i entreat you i am one of those who always take things as they find them i hope i can put up with a small apartment for two or three nights without making a piece of work i always wish to be treated quite en when i come to see you and now i do hope you have not been getting a great dinner for us we never eat i suppose said margaret rather quickly to you and i are to be together elizabeth always takes care to have a room to herself no elizabeth gives me half hers oh in a softened voice and rather to find that she was not ill used i am sorry i am not to have the pleasure of your company especially as it makes me nervous to be much alone was the first of the females in the parlor again on entering it she found her brother alone so said he you are quite a stranger at home it must seem odd enough for you to be here a pretty piece of work your aunt has made of it by heaven a woman should never be trusted with money i always said she ought to have settled something on you as soon as her husband died but that would have been trusting me with money replied and i am a woman too the it might have been secured to your future use without your having any power over it now what a blow it must have been upon you i to find yourself instead of of z or z sent back a weight upon your family without a sixpence i hope the old woman will smart for it do not speak of her she was very good to me and if she has made an choice she will suffer more from it herself than i can possibly do i do not mean to distress you but you know everybody must think her an old fool i thought had been reckoned an sensible clever man how the devil came he to make such a will my uncle s sense is not at all in my opinion by his attachment to my aunt she had been an excellent wife to him the most liberal and enlightened minds are always the most confiding the event has been unfortunate but my uncle s memory is if possible to me by such a proof of tender respect for my aunt that s odd sort of talking he might have provided decently for his widow without leaving everything that he had to dispose of or any part of it at her mercy my aunt may have said warmly she has but my uncle s conduct was i was her own niece and he left to her the power of providing for me but she has left the pleasure of providing for you to your father and | 26 |
put in place by his treacherous of faith with the in the deal on and there were written in which he was called an enemy of society possessed of the manners and culture of a a of business troubles the of the city s prosperity in commerce and trade burning daylight of dire menace and one gravely recommended that hanging would be a lesson to him and his and concluded with the fervent hope that some day his big car would up and him with it he was like a big bear a bee hive and regardless of the he persisted in for the honey he his teeth struck back beginning with a on two companies it developed into a pitched battle with a city a state and a continental coast line very well they wanted fight and they would get it it was what he wanted and he felt justified in having come down from the for here he was gambling at a bigger table than ever the had supplied allied with him on a splendid salary with thrown in was a lawyer a young with a reputation to make and whose peculiar genius had been until daylight picked up with him had imagination and daring and to such degree that daylight s cooler head was necessary as a check on his visions s was a legal mind without balance and it was just this balance that daylight supplied alone the was doomed to failure but directed by daylight he was on the to fortune and recognition also he was possessed of no more personal or conscience than napoleon it was who guided daylight through the of modern politics labor organization and commercial and law it was of resource and suggestion who opened daylight s eyes to possibilities in twentieth century warfare and it was daylight accepting and who planned the and them with the pacific coast from sound to and humming burning daylight and with san furiously about his ears the two big companies had all the appearance of winning it looked as if burning daylight was being beaten slowly to his knees and then he struck � at the companies at san at the whole pacific coast it was not much of a blow at first a christian endeavor being held in san a row was started by express drivers union no over the handling of a small heap of baggage at the building a few heads were broken a score of made and the baggage was delivered no one would have guessed that behind this petty was the fine irish hand of made potent by the gold of burning daylight it was an insignificant affair at best � or so it seemed but the union took up the quarrel backed by the whole water front step by step the strike became involved a refusal of and to serve or brought out the and the and meat refused to handle meat destined for unfair the combined associations put up a solid front and f facing them the organized of san the and the wagon drivers struck followed by the milk drivers and chicken the building trades asserted its position in terms and all san was in turmoil but still it was only san s were and daylight s campaign steadily developed the powerful fighting organization known as the pacific slope seaman s union refused to work vessels the of which were to be handled by and freight the union presented its and then a strike this had been daylight s all the time every vessel was by the union officials and its crew sent ashore and with the burning daylight went the the and the sea and daily the number of idle increased it was impossible to get for the men of the seaman s union were trained in the hard school of the sea and when they went out it meant blood and death to this phase of the strike spread up and down the entire pacific coast until all the ports were filled with idle ships and sea was at a the days and weeks dragged out and the strike held the steam company and the and pacific company were tied up completely the expenses of the strike were tremendous and they were earning nothing while daily the situation went from bad to worse until peace at any price became the cry and still there was no peace until daylight and his played out their hand in the and allowed a goodly portion of a continent to resume business it was noted in following years that several leaders of workmen built themselves houses and blocks of and took to the old countries while more immediately other leaders and dark horses came to political and the control of the government and the in fact san s ridden condition was due in greater degree to daylight s battle than even san ever dreamed for the part he had played the details of which were practically all and quickly out and in consequence he became a much and man nor had daylight himself dreamed that his on the companies would have grown to such colossal proportions but he had got what he was after he had played an exciting hand and won beating the companies down into the dust and the n burning daylight by perfectly legal methods before he let go of course in addition to the large sums of money he had paid over his had rewarded themselves by the advantages which later enabled them to the city his alliance with a gang of had brought about a lot of but his conscience suffered no he remembered what he had once heard an old preacher utter namely that they who rose by the sword perished by the sword one took his when he played with and his daylight s throat was still that was it and he had won it was all and war between the | 21 |
act for him and now when he should have seen more clearly than ever the significance of what was proposing he was frightened and his reason obscured by such things as s probable opposition and rage s possible failure his own inability to face a real crisis and things of that sort s real innate financial ability did not so the sure in this hour the banker was too young too new was older richer so was so was butler these men with their wealth represented the big forces the big standards in his world as yet s word as long as he had been dealing with and as much as he had was still a law to him and besides confessed that he was in great danger � that he was in a comer that was the worst possible confession to make to � although the circumstances it was the only one that could be made � for he had no courage to face danger so he sat beside meditating � pale unable to see the main line of his interests quickly unable to follow them definitely vigorously � while they drove to his ofl ce entered it with him for the sake of continuing his plea well george he said earnestly i wish you d tell me time s short we haven t a moment to lose give me the money won t you and i ll get out of this quick we haven t a moment i tell you don t let those people frighten you off they re playing their own little game you play yours i can t frank said finally very weakly his sense of his own financial future successful and wonderful overcome for the time being by the thought of s hard face the latter was his political god he was but one among many i ll have to think i can t do it right now was just in here and � good god george exclaimed scornfully don t talk about what s he got to do with it think of yourself think of where you will be it s your future � not s� that you have to think of i know frank persisted weakly but really i don t see how i can honestly i don t you the say yourself you re not sure whether you can come out of things all right and three thousand more is three hundred thousand more i can t frank i really can t it wouldn t be right besides i want to talk to first anyhow good god how you talk exploded angrily looking at him with ill concealed contempt see � that s the thing to do let him tell you how to cut your own throat for his benefit it wouldn t be right to loan me three thousand dollars more but it would be right to let the five hundred thousand dollars you have stand and lose it that s right isn t it that s just what you propose to do � lose it and everything else besides i want to tell you what it is george � you ve lost your mind you ve let a single message from frighten you to death and because of that you re going to risk your your reputation your standing � everything do you really realize what this means if i fail you wiu be a i tell you george you will go to prison this fellow who is so quick to tell you what not to do now will be the last man to turn a hand for you once you re down why look at me � i ve helped you haven t i haven t i handled your affairs satisfactorily for you up to now what in heaven s name has got into you what have you to be afraid of was just about to make another weak when the door from the outer office opened and mr mr s chief entered was too to really pay any attention to for the moment but being so well known to the latter took matters in his own hands what is it he asked familiarly mr from mr to see mr at the sound of this dreaded name like a leaf saw it he realized that his last the hope of getting the three hundred thousand dollars was now probably gone still he did not propose to give up as yet well george he said after had gone out leaving word that mr would see mr in a moment i see how it is this man has got you you can t act for yourself now � you re too frightened i ll let it rest for the i ll come back but for heaven s sake pull yourself together think what it means i m telling you exactly what s going to happen if you don t you ll be rich if you do you ll be a if you don t there s the long and the short of it and there s no third way out n chapter after leaving in his office decided make one more effort in the street before seeing butler again and after him for a final appeal he jumped into his light spring which he so often used in fair weather � a handsome little yellow glazed vehicle with a yellow leather cushion seat drawn by a yoimg high stepping bay mare and sent her from door to door throwing down the lines indifferently and up the steps of banks and into office doors the while she looked around curiously as though wondering what it was all about it never occurred to him that she would run away no horse of his ever had in these offices after seeing he was literally pleading for his life and curiously it never occurred him that he was pleading it was all business if | 43 |
attending to his toilet a httle before he read hia letters was there making eveiy thing ready for him and soon with a freshness about him as if he were prepared to begin a new day he went back into his dressing room to open his letters the level rays of the low afternoon sun entered directly at the window and as arthur seated himself in his velvet chair with their pleasant warmth upon him he was conscious of that quiet well being which perhaps yon and i have felt on a sunny afternoon when in our brightest youth and health life has opened on a new vista for us and long to mon of activity stretched before us hke a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at because it was all our own the top letter was placed with its address upward it was in mr s handwriting arthur saw at once and below the address was written to be delivered as soon as he ai nothing have been less surprising to him than a letter from mr at that moment of course there was something he wished arthur to know earlier than it was for them to see each other at such a time as that it was quite natural that should have something pressing to say arthur broke the seal with an agreeable anticipation of soon seeing the writer i send this letter to meet you on your arrival arthur x may then be at whither i am called by the most painful duty it has been given me to perform and it is right that you should know what i have to tell you without delay j will not attempt to add by one word of reproach to the r that is now falling on you any other words that i write at this moment must be weak and by the side of those in which j must tell you the simple fact ia in prison and will be tried on friday f the crime of child arthur read no more he started up from his chair and stood for a single minute with a sense of violent in his whole frame as if the life � were going ont of him with horrible hut the next minute he had out of the room still clutching the he was hurrying along the corridor and down the stairs into the hall mills was still there hut arthur did not see him as he passed like a hunted man across the hall and out along the gravel the butler hurried out him as fast as his elderly limbs could run he guessed he knew where the young squire was going when mills got to the stables a horse was being and arthur was forcing himself to read the words of the letter he thrust it into his pocket as the horse was led up to him and at that moment caught sight of mills s anxious face iu front of him tell them fm gone � gone to he said in a muffled tone of agitation � sprang into the saddle and set off at a chapter in the sunset that evening an elderly gentleman was standing with his back against the smaller entrance door of jail saying a few last words to the departing the walked away but the elderly gentleman stood still looking down on the pavement and his chin with a air when he was roused by a sweet woman s voice saying can i get into the prison if you please he turned his head and looked at the speaker for a few moments without answering i have seen you before he said at last do you remember preaching on the green at in yes sir surely are you the gentleman that staid to listen on horseback yea why do you want to go into the prison i want to go to the young woman who has been condemned to death � and to stay with her if i may be permitted have you power in the prison sir yes i am a magistrate and can get for you but did you know this criminal yes we are kin my own aunt married her uncle martin but i was away at and didn t know of this great trouble in time to get here before to day i entreat you sir for the love of our heavenly father to let me go to her and stay with her how did you know she was condemned to death if you are only just come from i have seen my uncle since the trial sir he is gone to his home now and the poor sinner is forsaken of all i you to get leave for me to be with her what have you course to stay all night in the prison she is very sullen and will scarcely make answer when she is spoken to oh sir it may please god to open her heart still don t let us delay come then the elderly gentleman ringing and gaining admission i know you liave a key to hearts took off her bonnet and shawl as soon as they were within the prison court from the she had of throwing them off when she preached or prayed or visited the sick and when they entered the s room she laid them down on there was no agitation visible in her but a deep concentrated calmness as if even when she was speaking her was in prayer on an unseen support after speaking to the the ma turned to her and said the wiu take you to the prisoner s cell and leave you there for the night if you desire it but you can t have a light during the night � it is contrary to rules my name is colonel if i can help you in any thing ask the | 14 |
be to the liking of all i pr y that those ill forward th ranks who the if ill to follow there s a rustle among the � when si l up at them po man rd f but the lines of men a s before sir at them in amazement and a look of the deepest sorrow his face that i should have lived to see the day i he cried what not one my fair lord whispered they have all stepped forward ah by st paul i i see how it is with them i could not think that they would desert me we start at dawn to morrow and ye are to have the horses of sir robert s company be ready i pray ye at early a of delight burst from the as they broke their ranks and ran hither and thither and cheering like boys who have news of a holiday sir gazed after them with a smiling face when a heavy hand fell upon his shoulder what ho i my knight of said a voice you are oflf to i hear and by the holy fish of you must take me under your banner what sir cried sir i had heard that you were come into camp and had hoped to see you glad and proud shall i be to have you with me i have a most particular and reason for wishing to said the sturdy knight i can well believe it returned sir i have met no man who is quicker to follow where honor leads nay it is not for honor that i go � � for what then for yes for the rascal have cleared every hen from the country side it was this very morning that my squire bis horse in riding round in quest of one for we have a bag of and to eat with them never have i seen such as this of ours not a shall we see until we are in front of them so i shall leave my to the care of the and i shall hie south with you with my at my i know you over well said sir shaking his head and the two old soldiers rode off together to their chapter how at an to the south of in the kingdom of there stretched a high table land rising into bare hills brown or gray in color and strewn with of granite on the side of the great mountains there had been running streams meadows forests and little villages here on the contrary were nothing but naked rocks poor pasture and savage gloomy or this wild country with mountain torrents dashing and foaming between their rugged sides the clatter of waters the scream of the eagle and the howling of wolves were the only sounds which broke upon the silence in that dreary and region through this wild country it was that sir and his company pushed their way riding at times through vast where the brown cliffs shot up on either side of them and the sky was but a long winding blue between the lines of box which fringed the lips of the or again leading their horses along the narrow and rocky paths worn by the upon the edges of the chasm where under their very elbows they could see the white streak which marked the gave which a thousand feet below them so for two days they pushed their way through the wild places of past over the rapid through until upon a winter s evening the mountains fell away from in front of then and they saw the broad blue its double line of and of villages the of were aroused that night by rough voices speaking in a strange tongue and are morning sir and m h d the and i ere the land of spain all the next day they lay in a pine wood ii ar to the town of r their horses and taking ds to they should do sit had with him sir william sir old sir the scotch knight the earl of and sir richard accounted among the ill the army with sixty m n at � ind three hundred and twenty ai had been sent out in the morning and returned after nightfall to i ay that the king of spain was fourteen off in the direction of having with him twenty horse forty five thousand foot a wood had been lit round this the the glare beating their rugged faces while the hardy and amid the horses while they their scanty provisions for my part said sir i am of o that we hav already done that which we have come for for do we not now know where the king is and how great a following he hath which was the end of our ti ue answered sir william but i hate come on this venture because it is a long time since i have broken a in war and shall not go back i have run a course with of spain let those go back who will but i must see more of these st ere i turn will not you sir william returned sit and yet as old soldier and one who hath seen of war i cannot but think that it is an ill thing for four men to find an army of on the one and a broad river yet said sir richard we cannot for bt of go back a blow nor for the honor of either cried the earl of by st i wish that i may never set eyes upon the water of again if i pluck my horse s ere i have seen this camp of theirs by st paul you have spoken very well said sir and i have always heard that there were very worthy gentlemen among the and fine to be had upon their | 4 |
i were sure to succeed i don t care for social success any more at all but i do feel i should like to do some good thing and i bitterly regret the church and the loss of my chance of being her ordained minister the who was a new man to this neighborhood had grown deeply interested and at last he said if you feel a real call to the and i won t say from your conversation that you do not for it is that of a thoughtful and educated man you might enter the at church as a only you must make up your mind to avoid strong drink i could avoid that easily enough if i had any kind of hope to support me part iii at for there was no other girl o bridegroom like � h t it was a new idea � the and life as distinct from the intellectual and life a man could preach and do good to his fellow creatures without taking double in the schools of or having anything but ordinary knowledge the old fancy which had led on to the vision of the had not been an or enthusiasm at all but a ambition in a he feared that his whole scheme had to even though it might not have originated in a social which had no foundation in the nobler instincts which was purely an artificial product of civilization there were thousands of young men on the same i self seeking track at the present moment the hind who ate drank and lived carelessly with his wife through the days of his vanity was a more being than he but to enter the church in such an wa r that he could not in any probability rise to a higher grade through all his career than that of the humble wearing his life out in an obscure village or city � that might have a touch of goodness and greatness in it that might be true religion and a course worthy of being followed by a man the favorable light in which this new thought showed itself by contrast with his intentions cheered as he sat there shabby and lonely and it may be said to have given during the next few days the to his intellectual a career which had e� the obscure tended over the greater part of a dozen years he did nothing however for some long time to advance his new desire occupying himself with little local in putting up and about the neighboring villages and to be regarded as a social failure a returned purchase by the half dozen or so of farmers and other country people who condescended to nod to him the human interest of the new intention � and a human interest is indispensable to the most spiritual and � was created by a letter from sue bearing a fresh she evidently wrote with anxiety and told very little about her own doings more than that she had passed some sort of examination for a queen s and was going to enter a training college at to complete herself for the she had chosen partly by his influence there was a college at was a quiet and soothing place almost entirely in its tone a spot where worldly learning and intellectual had no establishment where the feeling that he did possess would perhaps be more highly estimated than a brilliancy which he did not as it would be necessary that he should continue for a time to work at his trade while reading up divinity which he had neglected at for the ordinary classical grind what better course for him than to get employment at the farther city and pursue this plan of reading that his excessive human interest in the new place was entirely of sue s making while at the same time sue to be regarded even less than formerly as proper to c t i ate it had an to which he not blind but that much he to human fr � and hoped to learn to love her only as a friend and a woman a he aj he might s o mark coming as to begin his at the age of thirty � an age at h much attracted him as bein g t hat of his r when he first began to teach in this would allow him plenty of time for deliberate study and for acquiring capital by his trade to help his after course of keeping the necessary terms at a college christmas had come and passed and sue had gone to the normal school the time was just the worst in the year for to get into new employment and he had written suggesting to her that he should his arrival for a month or so till the days had lengthened she had so readily that he wished he had not proposed it � she evidently did not much care about him though she had never once reproached him for his strange conduct in coming to her that night and his silent disappearance neither had she ever said a word about her relations with mr suddenly however quite a passionate letter arrived from sue she was quite lonely and miserable she told him she hated the place she was in it was worse than the s worse than anywhere she felt utterly could he come immediately � though when he did come she would only be able to see him at limited times the rules of the establishment she found herself in being strict to a degree it was mr who had advised her to come there and she wished she had never listened to him s suit was not exactly evidently felt glad he packed up his things and went to with a lighter heart than he bad 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at eleven o clock in the morning be a little trying a delicious sense of humour lit up in her eyes and he felt his interest in her advance a further stage if you have nothing to do we might go to the picture gallery there is a wonderful at eleven greek hymn at one but she felt all the same that she would give everything to go to the picture gallery with him but i am not dressed this is an old thing i wear in the morning not that there would be many people there only the and a girl at eleven in the morning by but is your father coming back at one why do you ask because you said greek hymn at one the time will pass quickly between eleven and one you need not change your dress then with an expressive little glance which went straight to his heart she noted his fastidious dress the the perfectly fitting morning coat across the chest the yellow brown trousers and the long boots half of patent and half of tan coloured leather i not walk about with you in this dress and but i sha n t keep you long while he waited he himself on the moment when he had determined to abandon his tour round the world and come back to see at she is much a hundred times more exciting than i thought poetry sympathy it is like living in a dream he asked himself if he liked her better than and answered himself that he did but deep down in his heart he knew that the other woman had given him deeper and more emotions and he knit his brows for he hated was the first temptation in s life and it carried her forward with the force of a river she tried to think but thoughts failed her and she her black cloth skirt and thrust her arms into her black cloth jacket with puffed sleeves she opened her wardrobe and wondered which hat he would like chose one and hastened downstairs you ve not been long you look very nice yes that is an improvement his notice of her occasioned in her a little flutter of joy a little exaltation of the senses and she walked on without speaking deep in her pleasure and as the sensation died she became aware that she was very happy the quiet silence of the spring morning to her mood and the rustle of last year s leaves communicated a delicious emotion which seemed to sing in the currents of her blood and a little madness danced in her brain at the ordinary sight of nature this way she said and they turned into a lane which almost looked like country there were hedges and fields and the amid by the cows and over the branches of the high elm the spring was already shaking a soft green dust there were nests in the bare boughs � whether last year s or this year s was not certain further on there was a and she thought that she would like to lean upon it and look straight through the dim fields gathering the meaning which they seemed to express she wondered if felt as she did if he shared her admiration of the sunlight which fell about the through the woven branches making round white spots on the so you were surprised to hear that i had given up my trip round the world i was to hear you had given it up so that you might hear me sing you think a man incapable of giving up anything for a woman he was trembling and his voice was confused experience did not alter him on the verge of an he was nervous as a he watched to see if she were moved but she did not seem to be he waited for her to contest the point he had raised but her reply which was quite different took him you say you came back to hear me sing was it not for another woman that you went away but how did you know the woman with the red hair who was at your party the tale of a past love affair often served as a plank of transition to another he told her the tale it seemed to him extraordinary because it had happened to him and it seemed to very extraordinary because it was her first experience of the ways of love then it was she who got tired of you why did she get tired of you why anything why did she fall in love with me is it then the same thing he judged it necessary to and he advanced the theory which he always made use of on these occasions � that women were more capricious than men that so far as his experience for anything he had invariably been thrown over the object of this theory was two fold it impressed his listener with an idea of his fidelity which by was essential if she were a woman it also suggested that he had inspired a large of thereby he gratified his vanity and inspired hope in the lady that as a lover he would prove equal to her desire it also helped to establish the moral atmosphere in which an might develop did you love her very much yes i was crazy about her if i hadn t been should i have rushed off in my old for a tour round the world he felt the light of romance fall upon him and this he thought was how he ought to appear to her yet he was sincere he admired he thought he might like to be her lover and he regarded their present talk as a necessary the habitual comedy in which we live so when asked him if he still loved he answered that he hated | 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indeed by killing that wretch who was known as the professor and the of the gate martin carrying who is wounded upon his back i am indeed rejoiced cried excitedly be silent his mother and he knew that the worst had overtaken him my husband your has not escaped he is in the prison still for there i have just him farewell and the sentence upon him is that he shall be starved to death in a cell overlooking the kitchen oh cried and groaned it was my good or my evil fortune went on in a voice of ice to see the written evidence upon which my husband your brother and martin were condemned to death on the grounds of rebellion and the killing of the king s servants at the foot of it duly witnessed stands the signature of � van s jaw fell she stared at the traitor like one while seizing the back of a chair rested upon it and rocked his body to and fro have you anything to say asked there was still one chance for the wretched man � had he been more than he was he might have denied all knowledge of the signature but to do this never occurred to him instead he plunged into a wandering scarcely intelligible explanation for even in his dreadful plight his vanity would not permit him to tell all the truth before moreover in that fearful silence soon he became utterly bewildered till at length he hardly knew what he was saying and in the end came to a full stop i understand you to admit that you signed this paper in the house of and in the presence of a man called he who is governor of the prison and who showed it to me said lifting her head which had sunk upon her breast yes mother i signed something but a meeting and a parting i wish to hear no more interrupted whether your motive was jealousy or or wickedness of heart or fear you signed that which had you been a man you would have suffered yourself to be torn to pieces with before you put a pen to it moreover you gave your evidence fully and freely for i have read it and supported it with the severed finger of the woman which you stole from s room you are the murderer of your benefactor and of your mother s heart and the would be murderer of your brother and of martin when you were born the mad wife who nursed me that you should be put to death lest you should live to bring evil upon me and mine i refused and you have brought the evil upon us all but most i think upon your own soul i do not curse you i call down no ill upon you i give you over into the hands of god to deal with as he sees fit here is money � and going to her desk she took from it a heavy purse of gold which had been prepared for their flight and thrust it into the pocket of his wiping her fingers upon her after she had touched him go hence and never let me see your face again you were born of my body you are my flesh and blood but for this world and the next i you i know you not murderer get you gone fell upon the ground he before his mother trying to kiss the hem of her dress while sobbed aloud but him in the face with her foot saying get you gone before i call up such servants as are left to me to thrust you to the street then rose and with great of agony like some sore wounded thing crept from that awful and majestic presence of outraged crept down the stair and away into the city when he had gone took pen and paper and wrote in large letters these words � notice to all the good citizens of called van upon whose written evidence his van his half brother van and the serving man martin have been condemned to death in the by torment starvation water fire and sword is known here no longer van then she called a servant and gave orders that this paper should be nailed upon the front door of the house where every by might read it it is done she said cease weeping and lead me to my bed whence i pray god that i may never rise again two days went by and a fugitive rode into the city a worn and wounded man of with horror stamped upon his face what news cried the people in the market place him be gasped i come from what of and its citizens asked van de stepping forward don has taken it the have them old and young men women and children they are all i escaped but for two and more i heard the sound of the death wail of give me wine they gave him wine and by slow degrees in broken sen he told the tale of one of the most awful crimes that ever was committed in the name of christ by cruel man against god and his own fellows it is written large in history we need not repeat it here a meeting and a then when they knew the truth up from that multitude of the men of went a roar of wrath and a cry to vengeance for their kin they took arms each what he had the his sword the his fish spear the his ox or his pick leaders sprang up to command them and there arose a shout of to the gates to the free the prisoners they round the hateful place thousands of them tlie was up but they the moat some shots were fired at them then the defence ceased they battered | 18 |
that it was needless t fear me being any to you i have no more to say ma am he remarked as he moved towards the door i come with no hope and i take away no hope i have done what i should be done but i never looked fur any good to come of my where i do this has been too evil a house fur me and mine fur me to be in my right senses and expect it the personal history and experience with this we departed leaving her standing by her elbow chair a picture of a noble presence and a handsome face we had on our way oat to cross a paved hall with glass sides and roof over wliich a vine was trained its leaves and shoots were green then and the day being sunny a pair of glass doors leading to the garden were thrown open entering this way with a noiseless step when we were close to them addressed herself to me you do well she said indeed to bring this fellow here such a of rage and scorn as darkened her face and flashed in her jet black eyes i could not have thought even into that face the made by the hammer was as usual in this excited state of her features strongly marked when the throbbing i had seen before came into it as i looked at her she absolutely lifted up her hand and struck it this is a fellow she said to champion and bring here is he not you are a true man miss i returned you are surely not so unjust as to condemn me why do you bring division between these two mad creatures she returned don t you know that they are both mad with their own self will and pride is it my doing i returned is it your doing she retorted why do you bring this man here he is a deeply injured man miss i replied you may not know it i know that james she said with her hand on her bosom as if to prevent the storm that was b i of raging there from being loud has a false heart and is a traitor but what need i know or care about this fellow and his common niece miss i returned you the injury it is sufficient already i will only say at parting that you do a great wrong i do him no wrong she returned they are a worthless set i would have her whipped i mr passed on without a word and went out at the door oh shame miss i shame i said indignantly how can you bear to on his affliction i would on them all she answered i would have his house pulled down i would have her on the face in rags and cast out in the streets to starve if i had the power to sit in judgment on her i would see it done see it done i would do it i her if i ever could reproach her with her infamous condition i would go anywhere to do so if i could hunt her to her grave i would it there was any word of comfort tliat would be a solace to her in her dying hour and only i possessed it i wouldn t part with it for life itself the mere vehemence of her words can convey i am sensible but a weak impression of the passion by which she was possessed and which made itself articulate in her whole figure though her voice in of being raised was lower than usual no tion i could give of her would do justice to my recollection of her or to her entire of herself to her anger i have seen passion in many forms but i have never seen it in such a form as that by th� personal history and experience when i joined mr he was walking slowly and thoughtfully down the hill he told me as soon as i came up with him that having now discharged his mind of what he had doing in london he meant to set out on his travels that night i asked him where he meant to go he only answered i m a going sir to seek my niece we went back to the little lodging over the s shop and there i found an opportunity of repeating to what he had said to me she informed me in return that he had said the same to her that morning she knew no more than i did where he was going but she thought he had some project shaped out in his mind i did not like to leave him under such circumstances and we all three dined together off a pie � which was one of the many good things for which was famous � and which was curiously on this occasion i recollect well by a miscellaneous taste of tea coffee butter bacon cheese new candles and continually ascending from the shop after dinner we sat for an hour or so near the window without talking much and then mr got up and brought his bag and his stout stick and laid them on the table he accepted from his sister s stock of ready money a small sum on account of his barely enough i should have thought to keep him for a month he promised to communicate with me when him and he his bag about him took his hat and and bade us both good by all good attend you dear old woman he said embracing and you too r shaking op david hands with me fm going to seek her fur and wide if she should come home while fm away � but ah that a n t like to be � or if i should bring her back | 8 |
not agreeable to look at but with some appearance of good looks too who attracted my attention perhaps because i had not expected to see her perhaps because i found myself sitting opposite to her perhaps op david because of something really remarkable in her she had black hair and eager black eyes and was thin and had a upon her lip it was an old � i should rather call it for it was not and had healed years ago � which had once cut through her mouth downward towards the chin but was now barely visible across the table except above and on her upper lip the shape of which it had altered i concluded in my own mind that she was about thirty years of age and that she wished to be married she was a little � like a house � with having been so long to let yet had as i have said an appearance of good looks her seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her which found a vent in her gaunt eyes she was introduced as miss and both and his mother called her i found that she lived there and had been for a long time mrs s companion it appeared to me that she never said anything she wanted to say outright but hinted it and made a great deal more of it by this practice for example when mrs observed more in jest than earnest that she feared her son led but a wild life at college miss put in thus oh really you know how ignorant i am and that i only ask for information but isn t it always so i thought that kind of life was on all hands understood to be � eh it is education for a very grave profession if you mean that mrs answered with some coldness oh yes that s very true returned miss but isn t it though � i want to be put right if i am wrong � isn t it really what said mrs oh you mean it s not returned miss well i m very glad to hear it now i know what to do that s the advantage of asking i shall never allow people to talk before me about and and so forth in connection with that life any more and you will be right said mrs my son s is a conscientious gentleman and if i had not reliance on my son i should have reliance on him should you said miss dear me conscientious is he conscientious now yes i am convinced of it said mrs how very nice exclaimed miss what a comfort conscientious then he s not � but of course he can t be if he s really conscientious well i shall be quite happy in my opinion of him from this time you can t think how it him in my opinion to know for certain that he s really conscientious her own views of every question and her of everything that was said to which she was opposed miss in the same way sometimes i could not conceal from myself with great power though in contradiction even of an instance happened before dinner was done mrs speaking to me about my intention of going down into i said at hazard how glad i should be if would only go there with me and explaining to him that i was going to see my old nurse and mr s family i reminded him of the whom he had seen at school the personal history and experience oh that bluff fellow said he had a son with him hadn t he no that was his nephew i replied whom he adopted though as a son he has a very pretty little niece too whom he adopted as a daughter in short his house or rather his boat for he lives in one on dry land is full of people who are objects of his generosity and kindness you would be delighted to see that household should i said well i think i should i must see what can be done it would be worth a journey � not to mention the pleasure of a journey with you � to see that sort of people together and to make one of em my heart leaped with a new hope of pleasure but it was in reference to the tone in which he had spoken of that sort of people that miss whose sparkling eyes had been watchful of us now broke in again oh but really do tell me are they though she said are they what and are who what said that sort of people � are they really animals and and beings of another order i want to know so much why there s a pretty wide separation between them and us said with indifference they are not to be expected to be as sensitive as we are their delicacy is not to be shocked or hurt very easily they are wonderfully virtuous i dare say � some people contend for that at least and i am sure i don t want to contradict them � but they have not very line natures and they may be thankful that like their coarse rough skins they are not easily wounded said miss well i don t know now when i have been better pleased than to hear that it s so it s such a delight to know that when they suffer they don t feel sometimes i have been quite uneasy for that sort of people but now i shall just dismiss the idea of them altogether live and learn i had my doubts i confess but now they re cleared up i didn t know and now i do know and that shows the advantage of asking � don t it i believed that | 8 |
upon your knees dear lady ihe girl that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger and riot and and � and something than all � as i have been from my cradle i may use aa word for the alley and the were mine as they will l� my i pity you said rose in a broken voice it my heart to hear you heaven bless you for your goodness rejoined the if you knew what i am sometimes you would pity me indeed but i have stolen away from those who would surely murder me if they knew i had been here to teu you what i have overheard do you know a man named no said rose twist l� he knows you replied the girl and knew you were here for it was by hearing him tell the place that i found you out i never heard the name said rose then he goes by some other amongst us rejoined the girl which i more thought before sometime ago and soon after was put into your house on the night of the robbery i � suspecting this man � to a held between him and in the dark i found out from what i heard that � the man i asked you about you know � yes said rose i understand � that pursued the girl had seen him with two of our boys on the day we first lost him and had known him directly to be the same child that he was watching for though i couldn t make out why a bargain was struck with that if was got back he should have a certain sum and he was to have more for making him a thief which this wanted for some purpose of his own for what purpose asked rose he caught sight of my shadow on the wall as i listened in the hope of finding out said the girl and there are not many people besides me that could have got out of their way in time to escape discovery but i did and i saw him no more till last night and what occurred then i u tell you lady last night he came again again they went up stairs and i myself up so that my shadow should not betray me again listened at the door the first words i heard say were these so the only proofs of the boy s identity lie at the bottom of the river and the old that received them from the mother is in her coffin they laughed and talked of his success in doing this and talking on about the boy and getting very wild said that though he had got the young devil s money safely now he d rather have had it the other way for what a game it would have been to have brought down the boast of the father s will by driving him through every jail in town and then him up for some capital which could easily manage after having made a good profit of him besides what is all this said rose twist the truth lady though it comes from my lips replied the girl then he said with oaths common enough in mv ears but strange to yours that if he gratify his hatred by the boy s life without bringing his own neck in danger he would but as he couldn t he d be upon the watch to meet him at every turn in life and if he took advantage of his birth and history he might harm him yet in short he jew as you are you never laid such as i contrive for my yoimg brother his brother exclaimed rose those were his words said glancing uneasily as she had scarcely ceased to do since she began to i speak for a vision of haunted her perpetually and more when he spoke of and the other lady and said it seemed contrived by heaven or the devil against him that should come into your hands he laughed and said there was some comfort in that too for how many thousands and of thousands of pounds would you not if you had them to know who your two legged was you do not mean said rose turning very pale to teu me that this was said in earnest he spoke in hard and angry earnest if a v an ever did replied the girl shaking her head he is an earnest man when his hatred is up i know many who do worse things but i d rather listen to them au a dozen times than to that once it is growing late and i have to reach home without suspicion of having been on such an errand as this i must get back quickly but what can i do said rose to what use can i turn this communication without you back do yon wish to return to companions you paint in such colours if you repeat this information to a gentleman whom i can summon in an instant from the next room yon can be consigned to some place of safety without half an hour s delay i wish to go back said the girl i must go back because � how can i tell such things to an innocent lady like you � because among the men i have told you of there v one the most desperate among them all that i can t leave no not even to be saved the life i am leading now your having interfered in this dear boy s behalf before said rose your coming here at so great a risk to as twist what you have heard your manner which me of the truth of what you say your evident and sense | 8 |
of which was open to all how could she have so imposed on herself heaven forbid that henry should ever know her folly and it was in a great measure his own doing for had not the appeared so exactly to agree with his description of her adventures she would never have felt the smallest about it this was the only comfort that occurred impatient to get rid of those hateful evidences of her folly those detestable papers then scattered over the bed she rose directly and folding them up as nearly as possible in the same shape as before returned them to the same spot within the cabinet with a veiy hearty wish that no accident might ever bring them forward again to disgrace her even with herself why the locks should have been so difficult to open however was still something remarkable for she could now manage them with perfect ease in this there was surely something mysterious and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute till the possibility of the door b having been at first unlocked and of being herself its darted into her head and cost her another blush she got away as soon as she could from a room in which her conduct produced such unpleasant reflections and found her way with all speed to the breakfast parlour as it had been pointed out to her by miss the evening before henry was alone in it and his hope of her having been undisturbed by the tempest with an arch reference to the character of the building they inhabited was rather distressing for the world would she not have her weakness suspected and yet unequal to an absolute falsehood was abbey constrained to acknowledge that the wind had kept her awake a little but we have a charming morning after it she added desiring to get rid of the subject and storms and are nothing when thej are over what i have just learnt to love a and how might you learn by accident or argument your sister taught me i cannot tell how mrs used to take pains year after year to make me like them but i never could till i saw them the other day in street i am naturally indifferent about flowers but now you love a so much the better you have gained a new source of enjoyment and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible besides a taste for flowers is always desirable in your sex as a means of getting you out of doors and tempting you to more frequent than you would otherwise t� e and though the love of a may be rather domestic who can tell the sentiment once raised but you may in time come to love a rose but i do not want any such pursuit to get me out of the pleasure of walking and breathing fresh air is for me and in weaker i am out more than half my time mamma says i am never within at any rate however i am pleased that you have learnt to love a the mere habit of learning to love is the thing and a of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing has my sister a pleasant mode of instruction was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by tiie entrance of the general whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure the elegance of the breakfast set forced itself on s notice when they were seated at table and luckily it had been the general s choice he was enchanted by her approbation of his taste confessed it to be neat and simple thought it right to encourage the manufacture of his country abbey and for his part to his the tea was as weu ihe clay of as from that of or but this was quite an old set purchased two years ago the manufacture was much improved since that time he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind might have been tempted to order a new set he trusted however that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one though not for himself was pro the only one of the party who did not understand him shortly after breakfast henry left them for where business required and would keep him two or three days they all attended in the hall to see him his horse and immediately on re entering the breakfast room walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure this is a somewhat heavy upon your brother s fortitude observed the general to will make but a sombre appearance to is it a pretty place asked what say you speak your opinion for can best tell the taste of ladies in regard to places as well as men i think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many the house stands among fine meadows facing the south east with an excellent kitchen garden in the same a the walls surrounding which i built and myself about ten ago for the benefit of my son it is a family living miss and the property in the place being chiefly my own you may believe i take care that it shall not be a bad one did henry s income depend solely on this he would not be ill provided for perhaps it may seem odd that only two younger children i should think any necessary for him and certainly there moments when we could all wish him disengaged from every tie oi but though i may not make ol yoa young ladies i am sure your father miss would agree with me in thinking it expedient to give every | 26 |
as soon os little comprehended that she had been asked this question � for which time was necessary the galloping pace of her new having left her far behind � she answered that she had known mr ever since his return to be sure you couldn t have known him before you had been in china or neither of which is likely for travelling people usually get more or less mahogany and you are not at all so and as to corresponding what about that s very true tea so it was at his mother s was it really that you knew him first highly sensible and firm but dreadfully ought to be � the mother of the man in the iron mask mrs has been kind to me said little really i am sure i am glad to hear it because as s � mother it s ally pleasant to my feelings to have a better opinion � of her than i had before wliat she thinks of me when i run on � as i am certain to do and she sits at me like fate in a � shocking comparison really � invalid and not her fault � i � know or can imagine shall i find my work anywhere ma am asked little � e � looking timidly a ut can i get it you industrious little fairy returned taking in r i cup of tea another of the prescribed by her medical there s not the slightest and it s better that we l � begin by being confidential about ur mutual too cold a for at least i don t mean that very proper expression mutual than become mere not vou but me like th� boy with the fox biting him which i hope you ll my bringing up for of all the tiresome boys that will go tumbling in every sort of company that boy s the little her face very pale sat down again to listen hadn r i better work the while she asked i can work and attend toe i would rather if i her earnestness was so expressive of her being her work that answered well my dear whatever you best and produced a basket of white handkerchiefs little gladly put it by her side took out her little pocket her needle and began to hem what fingers you have said but arc you you are well oh yes indeed put her feet the and settled herself for a thorough good disclosure she started off at score tossing her head in the most manner making a great deal of use of her eyebrows and occasionally but not often glancing at the that bent over the work you must know my dear said but that i have no doubt yon know already not only because i have already thrown it out in a general way but because i feel i it stamped in burning what s his names upon my brow that before i was introduced to the f i had been to arthur � mr in where reserve is necessary arthur here � we were all in all to one another it was the morning of life it was bliss it was frenzy t was everything else of that sort in the highest degree when rent we turned to stone in which capacity arthur went to china � md i became the statue bride of the late mr e these words in a deep voice enjoyed herself immensely to paint said she the emotions of that morning when all was within and mr f s aunt followed in a glass coach which it � to reason must have been in shameful repair or it never could broken down two streets from the house and mr f s aunt brought like the fifth of november in a rush chair i will not � suffice it to say that the hollow form of breakfast took place ui the dining room down stairs that papa too freely of was ill for weeks and that mr f and myself went upon u tour to where the people fought for us on the pier they separated us though not for ever that was not yet to l e the statue bride hardly pausing for breath wont on with the complacency in a rambling manner sometimes to flesh and i will draw a veil over that dreamy life mr f was in good his appetite was good he liked the he considered the wine weak but and all was well we returned to the immediate x of number thirty little street london settled down ere we had yet fully detected the in selling the feathers out of the spare bed flying upwards � with mr f to another sphere his with a glance at his portrait shook her head and wipe tier the memory of mr f as an man and most husband only necessary to mention and it appeared v to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic a pint bottle it was not but it was comfort i returned to pa s roof and lived secluded if not happy during years until le day papa came smoothly in and said that arthur un awaited me below i went below and found liim ask me not what found him except that ho was still unmarried still unchanged the dark mystery with which now herself might ve stopped other fingers than the � rs that worked near r they worked on without pause and the busy head bent over m watching the i ask mc not if i love still or if lie still me or what the end is to he or when we are hj y eyes and it may he that we are destined to pine asunder it may be never more to he not a word not a breath not a look to ns all | 8 |
communicated except by the of such passages as that quoted above student should bring to the class a statement of what he regards as the chief thought in each paper as it comes up � not the moral of the paper but the chief end which the writer seems to have in view the thought which most strongly strikes the reader opinions be talked over in class and from them one produced which at least the majority of the class are willing to accept no pupil however should be discouraged from holding to his own original proposition or from a view at with that of the majority always if possible � and personally i should make it possible even at the sacrifice of other things � the paper should last of all be read as a hole without interruption the fact should always be kept before the minds of the that the essay is not a collection of detached facts or thoughts but it is a whole and that it can fairly be received only in its to stretch out illustrations of the teaching of particular books would only be tedious and trust i have enough to make evident what i believe the study of prose should be the spirit of work done in the of prose in the secondary schools the matter is of comparative simplicity as contrasted with the handling of poetry and i have therefore reserved most of my space for the latter no one knows better than i that a method real and work and what i have written be i largely inspired by a knowledge that many are at a loss to any rational method at all while others i am forced sorrowfully to add seem never even to have perceived that any method is � � i j xii the study op the may be the entrance and whatever the prescribed course in the way of fiction i should begin the study o� the novel with a modern b to hold the attention of the majority of modem children long enough for them to form any of the and of any work of the length of an ordinary novel long enough for them to gain an idea which of the work as a whole and not as a collection of detached scenes and scraps is sufficiently difficult in any case it should not be made more difficult by selecting as a text a book requiring effort in the understanding of point of view setting and the rest is good in its place but it is not adapted to use as first aid to the it ia probable that a class after sufficient experience in fiction may be able to handle and it is apparently fated by the powers that be that they must struggle with the of but they certainly need preliminary practice before they are set to with so remote from their daily lives they should begin with something as near their own world as possible and treasure island the scene laid in the land of boyhood s is the study of the novel an example of the sort of story which may well be used to introduce to the serious consideration of thia branch of literature a li talk may well the actual reading the teacher should be that the class has a fair idea of what is � a matter generally of little difficulty � and of the social conditions under which the tale begins the actual geography of the romance need not he considered much although students lose nothing if they are trained to the habit of knowing accurately the of such real places as are named in any but the imaginary geography of the tale the of the island should be well mastered beyond this the teacher should have prepared a list of words to be learned before any reading is done this should include all those in the first that are likely to bother the child in the first going over of the text in the opening chapter for instance such words as these title of part i bars dry m in this chapter are a couple of allusions to the costume of the time but as they are intelligible only when as sentences they may be left for the reading in class talks on teaching literature one of of hia having fallen down the neat bright with lis powder as white as snow when the class comes together the is to be taken up as a solid and task and after that ia of the text may follow it is generally impossible to give the time to the reading aloud of an entire novel but i am inclined to believe that at the opening chapters the portion of the story which must be most deliberately considered if the young reader is to go on with the tale in full possession of the atmosphere and the characters as they are introduced should always be thus taken up the portions for each lesson must be at first but may wisely increase as the interest grows and familiarity with personages and situations is enlarged the first chapter then having been read aloud the class may make a list of the characters introduced squire dr the old not yet named the father the i who is telling the story the who brings the chest and the neighbors are obviously of no permanent importance these characters the class should e so much of an impression as they have obtained from this chapter this is simple with the fairly easy in regard to dr and the inn keeper but more difficult in the case of the boy the paragraph beginning how that personage haunted my dreams i need scarcely tell you � the study of the novel and the opening sentence of the following paragraph but i was so terrified by the idea of the man with one leg i was far less | 3 |
on and can see for yourself how i come to be so much mingled up with the affairs of your family and friends which for all of our i wish had been and less bloody you can see for yourself too that i have certain pieces of business depending which were scarcely fit to lay before a lawyer chosen at random no more remains but to ask if you will undertake my service i have no great mind to it but coming as you do with s button the choice is scarcely left me said he what are your instructions he added and took up his pen the first point is to forth of this country said i but i need not be repeating that i am little likely to forget it said the next thing is the bit money i am owing to i went on it would be ill for me to find a conveyance but that should be no stick to you it was two pounds five shillings and three sterling he noted it then said i there s a mr a preacher and missionary in that i would like well to get some snuff into the hands of and as i you keep touch with your friends in so near by it s a job you could doubtless overtake with the other how much snuff are we to say he asked i was thinking of two pounds said i � two said he then there s the in lime the writer said i her that helped and mo across the forth i was thinking if i could get her a good sunday go vn such as she could wear with decency in her degree it would be an ease to my conscience for the mere truth is we owe her our two lives i am glad to see you are mr says he making his notes i would think to be otherwise the day of my fortune said i and now if you will the and your own proper charges i would be glad to know if i could get some back it s not that i grudge the whole of it to get safe it s not that i lack more but having drawn so much the one day i think it would have a very ill appearance if i was back again seeking the next only bo sure you have enough i added for i am very to meet with you again well and i m pleased to see you re cautious too said the writer but i think ye take a risk to lay so considerable a sum at my discretion he said this with a plain sneer i ll have to run the hazard i replied and there s another service i would ask and that s to direct me to a lodging for i have no roof to my head but it must be a lodging i may seem to have hit upon by accident for it would never do if the lord advocate were to get any jealousy of our acquaintance ye may set your weary spirit at rest said he i will never name your name sir and it s my belief the advocate is still so much to be with that he ken of your existence c i saw i had got to the wrong side of the man there s a day coming for him then said i for hell have to learn of it on the deaf side of his head no later than to morrow when i call on him when ye call on him i repeated mr am i or are you what takes ye near the advocate just to give myself up said i mr he cried are ye making a mock of me no sir said i though i think you have allowed yourself some such freedom with myself but i give you to understand once and for all that i am in no spirit nor yet me says and i give you to understand if that s to be the word that i e the looks of your behaviour less and less you come here to me with all sorts of which will put me in a train of very doubtful acts and bring me among very persons this many a day to come and then you tell me you re going straight out of my office to make your peace with the advocate s button here or s button there the four quarters of bribe me further in i would take it with a little more temper said i and perhaps we can avoid what you object to i can see no way for it but to give myself up but perhaps you can see another and if you could i could never deny but what i would be rather relieved for i think my traffic with his is little likely to agree with my health there s just the the thing clear that i have to give my evidence for i hope it ll save s character what s left of it and james s neck which is the more immediate he was silent for a breathing space and then my man said he you ll never be allowed to give such evidence we ll have to see about that said i i m when i like ye ass cried it s james they want james has got to hang � too if they could catch him � but james whatever go near the advocate with any such business and you ll see he ll find a way to ye i think better of the advocate than that said i the advocate be damned cries he it s the man you ll have the whole of them on your back and so will the advocate too poor body it s ye cannot see where ye stand if there s | 38 |
rendering the subject much clearer by shaking it mrs put the baby away in a cradle and folding her arms sat rocking it angrily with her foot how you stand there said mrs to her husband why don t you do something because i don t care about doing anything mr replied i am sure don t said mrs ill take my oath i don t said mr a diversion arose here among and his five younger brothers who in preparing the family breakfast table had fallen to for the temporary possession of the loaf and were one another with great the smallest boy of all with discretion hovering outside the knot of and their legs into the midst of this mr and mrs both themselves with t d great if such ground were the only ground on which they could now agree and with no visible r of their late laid about them without any and done much execution resumed their former relative positions you had better read your paper than do nothing at all said mrs what s there to read in a paper returned mr with excessive discontent what said mrs it s nothing to me said what do i care what people do or are done to suggested mrs ko business of mine replied her husband deaths and marriages are those nothing to you said mrs if the were all over for good and all to day and the deaths were all to begin to come off to morrow i don t see why it should interest me till i thought it was a coming to my turn grumbled as to marriages i ve done it myself i know quite enough about them to judge from the dissatisfied expression of her face and manner mrs appeared to entertain the the haunted man same opinions aa her husband but she opposed him nevertheless for the of quarrelling with him oh you re a consistent man said mrs an t you you with the screen of your own making there made of nothing else but bits of newspapers which you sit and read to the children by the half hour together say used to if you please returned her husband you won t find me doing so any more i m wiser now wiser indeed mrs are you better the question sounded some note in mr s breast he and passed his hand across and across his forehead better murmured mr i don t know as any of us are better or happier either better is it he turned to the screen and traced about it with his finger until he found a certain paragraph of which he was in quest this used to be one of the family i recollect said in a forlorn and stupid way and used to draw tears from the children and make em the good if there any little or discontent among em next to the story of the robin red breasts in the wood melancholy case of yesterday a small man with a baby in his arms and by half a dozen ragged little ones of ages between ten and two the whole of whom were evidently in a condition appeared before the worthy magistrate and made the following recital � ha i don t understand it i m sure said i don t see what it has got to do with us how old and shabby he looks said mrs watching him i never saw such a change in a man ah dear me dear me dear me it was a sacrifice what was a sacrifice her husband inquired mrs shook her head and without iu words raised a complete sea storm about the baby by her violent agitation of the cradle if you mean your marriage was a sacrifice my good woman � said her husband i do mean it said his wife why then i mean to say pursued mr as and as she that there are two sides to that and that was the sacrifice and that i wish the sacrifice hadn t been accepted haunted han i it hadn t with all my heart and soul i do assure you said his wife you can t wish it more than i do i don t know what i saw in her muttered the i m sure � certainly if i saw anything it s not there now i was thinking so last night after supper by the fire she s fat she s she won t bear comparison with most other women he s common looking he has no air with him he s small he s beginning to stoop and he s getting bald muttered mrs i must have been half out of my mind when i did it muttered mr my senses must have me that s the only way in which i can explain it to myself said mrs with in this mood they sat down to breakfast the little were not to regard that meal in the light of a occupation but discussed it as a dance or trot rather resembling a savage ceremony in the occasional shrill and of bread and butter with which it was accompanied as well as in the intricate off into the street and back again and the up and down the door steps which thb were to the in the present instance the between these children for the milk and water common to all which stood upon the table presented so lamentable an instance of angry passions risen very high indeed that it was an outrage on the memory of doctor it was not until mr had driven the whole herd out at the front door that a moment s peace was secured and even that was broken by the that had come back and was at that instant choking in the like a in his and haste these children will be the death of me | 8 |
still more shocking by being tinted to the hues of life as life had been after the wreck six hours after when the workman was gone lord looked upon the result and smiled grimly and said a statue should represent a man as he appeared in life and that s as he appeared ha ha but tis done to good purpose and not idly he locked the door of the closet with a skeleton key and went his way to fetch the home that night she slept but he kept awake according a group of noble to the tale she murmured soft words in her dream and he knew that the tender converse of her was held with one whom he had but in name at the end of her dream the of awoke and arose and then the of former nights was repeated her husband remained still and listened two strokes sounded from the clock in the without when leaving the chamber door she passed along the corridor to the other end where as usual she obtained a light so deep was the silence that he could even from his bed hear her softly blowing the to a glow after striking the steel she moved on into the and he heard or fancied he heard the turning of the key in the closet door the next moment there came from that direction a loud and prolonged shriek which to the farthest corners of the house it was repeated and there was the noise of a heavy fall lord sprang out of bed he hastened along the dark corridor to the door of the which stood and by the light of the candle within saw his poor young lying in a heap in her on the floor of the closet when he reached her side he found that she had fainted much to the relief of his fears that matters were worse he quickly shut up and locked in the hated image which had done the mischief and lifted his wife in his arms where in a few she opened her eyes pressing her face to his without saying a word he carried her back to her room endeavouring as he went to her terrors by a laugh in her ear oddly of and ho � ho � ho r says he frightened dear one hey w w j j w a group of noble what a baby tis only a joke sure � a did joke but a baby should not go to at midnight to look for the ghost of the dear departed if it do it must expect to be terrified at his aspect � ho � ho when she was in her bed chamber and had quite come to herself though her nerves were still much shaken he spoke to her more sternly now my lady answer me do you love him � eh no � no she faltered shuddering with her expanded eyes fixed on her husband he is too terrible � no no you are sure quite sure replied the poor broken spirited but her natural asserted itself next morning he again inquired of her do you love him now she under his gaze but did not reply that means that you do still by g he continued it means that i will not tell an and do not wish to incense my lord she answered with dignity then suppose we go and have another look at him as he spoke he suddenly took her by the wrist and turned as if to lead her towards the ghastly closet no � no oh � no she cried and her desperate out of his hand revealed that the fright of the night had left more impression upon her delicate soul than appeared another dose or two and she will be cured he said to himself it was now so generally known that the earl and were not in accord that he took no great trouble to disguise his deeds in relation to this matter during the day he ordered four men with ropes and a group of noble to attend him in the when they arrived the closet was open and the upper part of the statue tied up in canvas he had it taken to the sleeping chamber what followed is more or less matter of conjecture the story as told to me goes on to say that when lady retired with him that night she saw near the foot of the heavy oak four a tall dark wardrobe which had not stood there before but she did not ask what its presence meant i have had a little whim he explained when they were in the dark have you says she to erect a little shrine as it may be called a little shrine yes to one whom we both equally � eh i ll show you what it contains he pulled a cord which hung covered by the and the doors of the wardrobe slowly opened that the shelves within had been removed throughout and the interior adapted to receive the ghastly figure which stood there as it had stood in the but with a wax candle burning on each side of it to throw the and distorted features into relief she clutched him uttered a low scream and buried her head in the oh take it away � please take it away she implored all in good time namely when you love me best he returned calmly you don t quite yet � eh i don t know � i think � o have mercy � i cannot bear it � o in pity take it away nonsense one gets accustomed to anything take another gaze loi a group of noble in short he allowed the doors to remain at the foot of the bed and the wax burning and such was the strange fascination of the exhibition that a morbid | 45 |
when i described his looks she thought he might be her dead father s secretary � for she then believed her father was dead she wished to see him but always kept out of her sight then when anne went to mrs he still continued to dog me he got to know a concert hall where i frequently sang and hired himself there as an attendant then he took to sending me love letters i was angry at first afterwards i wondered if he know anything about and thought he must if he really was the secretary as anne said i asked him to come here said the princess you have behaved badly s evidence tf has all turned out for the best responded wearily she was beginning to show signs of fatigue again but still kept on with her explanation in the most manner came he is a handsome young fellow and was well dressed i led him on to talk about anne he told me more than he should have done told you what that had come in for money and was living at as i knew from anne about the money i put two and two together and concluded that was pretending to be anne s father that she was really my half sister and that her pretended father had really murdered to get the money as but how did you know about this asked why replied much surprised at his i read the case in the papers i knew that anne could not have killed and having settled in my own mind that she was not s daughter from her resemblance to me i decided that who lived at the and had the money was really my mother s enemy i sent for my mother she came over went down to and recognized that is all wait a minute said quickly what about your telling steel to look after well mr ware it was this way she answered when you came to me and talked about the scarlet cross i remembered that had such a one on his watch chain the of the gang of course but i did not know that until later then steel came in if you remember and hinted that the red cross was the symbol of such a gang your talk of the cross being found in the church and that you thought a coin of edward vii it was dropped by the criminal set me thinking i sent for again and tried to find out the truth at first he refused saying it was as much as his hfe was worth to talk and i he is right would not stick at a second murder by the way did you know he was only when confessed i gradually got him to be confidential to me promising that he would not get into trouble he was so deeply in love with me that he spoke out at last my dear well mother i knew if i could get at the truth i could save anne the princess nodded well pleased i am glad you thought of your sister flushed a deep red and her eyes sought those of it was not my sister i thought of but of myself she said in a low tone you see mother i fancied that i might get something if i could prove the innocence of anne for i is any explanation needed said uneasily she paused for a moment and looked at him no she said at length that is all over i think no more explanation need be made but with regard to he told me that had come to england to see about the money left to he disguised himself as and lodged at a mrs s then he went down to and and murdered interposed eagerly so i said mr ware but who seems devoted in a way to that he struck the blow does he know who did no he says doesn t know either s evidence s a bigger scoundrel than you think said recalling his last conversation at the he anne of the girl he ll have to prove it then said coolly while her mother shrieked i ll be able to save anne never fear however told me that the red cross was the of a thieves gang had a called the red cross which goes from one port to another to take stolen goods on board that s what steel says of course told him when he him with it the boy for he is just twenty five told me everything and you told steel said ware rather reproachfully i had to tell steel if i wished to save anne retorted but i asked him to do nothing to the liberty of mark did he promise that yes saw him in i told him to call with a note which i gave him did not know why he was sent and when he discovered that steel was a he became afraid i believe he told something but he afterwards ran away he doesn t trust you any longer perhaps said the princess from his attitude last night i think he does although he was a trifle he will come if steel has written a letter to call him here in my name then i he will be able to explain why he took anne away will he do so ah that is what we must find out paused then continued i wanted steel to learn all he could it a coin of edward vii from about as i wish to see that man arrested nothing would give me greater pleasure cried the princess i thought of that tried to ruin your mother and he did � he did she said bitterly he tried or rather he is trying to ruin anne also said for these reasons i wish steel to find evidence against him so that | 12 |
or peace of mind in my own house i will stand it no longer i may be late to night � i shall go to the british medical meeting but when i return i x the shall h to find that have your conduct and that have en dear of the have recently made an alteration in your he seized his hat the dining room do n and a few minutes later they heard the crash of the big front gate victory victory cried still around the furniture did you hear what he said influences don t you understand why do you sit there so pale and why don t you get up and dance oh i shall be so glad when it is over i do hate to give him pain surely he has learned now that it is very unpleasant to spend one s life with he has almost learned it just one more little lesson we must not risk all at this last moment what would you do oh don t do an ing too dreadful i feel that we have gone too far already oh we can do it very nicely you see we are both engaged and that makes it very easy will do what you ask him especially as you have told the reason why and my charles will do it without even wanting to know the reason now you know what mrs thinks about the reserve of young ladies mere affectation and a of uie dark ages of the those were her words were they not what then well now we must put it in practice we are all her other views to practice and we must not this one but what would you do oh don t look so wicked you look like some evil little with your golden beyond the city hair and dancing mischievous eyes i know that you are going to propose something dreadful we must give a uttle supper to night we a supper why not young gentlemen give why not young ladies but whom shall we invite why and charles of course and the admiral and mrs hay oh no that would be very old fashioned we must keep up with the times but what can we give them for supper oh something with a nice fast late kind of to it let me see champagne of course � and will do in the novels all the naughty people take champagne and besides they won t need any cooking how is your pocket money i have three pounds and i have one four pounds i have no idea how much champagne costs have you not the slightest how many does a man eat i can t imagine write and ask charles no i won t ask jane ring for her she has been a cook and is sure to know jane on being cross questioned refused to commit herself beyond the statement that it depended upon the gentleman and also upon the the united experience of the kitchen however that three dozen was a fair provision women of the future then we shall have eight dozen altogether said da down all her upon a sheet of � and two of champagne and some bread and and that s all i it is not so very difficult to give a supper after is it i don t like it it seems to me to be so very but it is needed to the matter no no here is no drawing back now or we shall ruin papa is sure to come back by the le will reach the door at we must have ready for him now just sit down at once and to come at nine o clock and i shall do the to charles the two invitations were received and was already a and he that this was some further development of he plot as to charles he was so accustomed to in the person of his aunt that the � thing which could surprise him would be a rigid � of etiquette at nine o clock they entered he dining room of number to find the master of the absent a red shaded lamp a snowy cloth a � little feast and the two whom would have as their companions a party never and the house rang with their laughter and their it is three minutes to ten cried suddenly at the clock good gracious so it is now for our little pushed the champagne bottles tke great shadow etc beyond the city forward in the direction of the door and scattered shells over the cloth have you your pipe charles my pipe yes then please smoke it now don t argue about it but do it for you will ruin the effect otherwise the large man drew out a red case and extracted a great yellow out of which a moment later he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke had lit a cigar and both the girls had that looks very nice and said glancing round now i shall lie on this sofa so now charles just sit here and throw your arm carelessly over the back of the sofa no don t stop smoking i like it dear put your feet upon the and do try to look a little dissipated i wish we could crown ourselves with flowers there are some on the oh dear here he is i hear his key she began to sing in her high fresh voice a little snatch from a french song with a swinging la la chorus the doctor had walked home from the station in a and frame of mind feeling that perhaps he had said too much in the morning that his daughters had for years been models in every way and that if there had been any change of late it was as they said themselves on account of their anxiety to | 4 |
a comer when he returned to neither the nor the mare was perceptible to his naked eyes and he had been searching in vain for them ever since it was the time not for words but deeds and mr did not indulge in futile but sat down and composed a reply wire to the clerk of course in these simple words have you seen my mare � after the suspense of an hour the reply came in the form of an abrupt negative upon which mr thus addressed the abashed even should i my mare in time you have proved stone walls yourself unworthy of riding her strip off your racing coat and cap and i will engage some more the lad over the which stuffed being of very fine silken into his coat pocket after which he hurried off to victoria in great agitation to make inquiries there the officials treated his modest in very off handed style and he was becoming all of a with anxiety and humiliation when all of a sudden his ears were by the sound of a and he the beloved voice of way but whence did it proceed he ran to and fi o in excitement endeavouring to the sound there was no trace of a horse in any of the waiting a from rooms but at length he discovered that his mare had been locked up in the left luggage department and a porter mr had at last the indescribable felicity to embrace his favourite way chapter a race against time there s a certain old you ve got to be keen if you d beat him � although he is bald and he carries a clock and a machine on the he s called written to order by young english but i fear copied from poet ah with what did mr caress the neck of his precious horse how carefully he searched her to make sure that she had sustained no internal or other thank goodness he was unable to detect any flaw within or without � the probability being that the did not dare to commit such a breach of decorum to poison a favourite nd a from thought to accomplish her fell by leaving the mare as lost luggage and destroying the ticket receipt but old time had already lifted the glass to his lips and the contents were rapidly running down so mr approaching a railway politely requested him to hook a horse box the next train what was his surprise to hear that this could not be done until all trains had first themselves with passionate he pleaded that if such a law of and was to be insisted on way would arrive at several hours too late to in the race in which she was already morally victorious � until at length the official and to a race against time i i do the job for valuable consideration in hard cash after all his pockets our unhappy hero could only fork out enough for third class single ticket for himself and he accordingly that his mare might travel as baggage in the guard s van i am not to say whether the officials at this leading were all in the pay of the since i am naturally reluctant to advance so serious a charge against such industrious and parties but it is con that mr s very reasonable request was in highly offensive dried fashion and he was recommended to walk himself and his horse off the platform fair e how was it a from for any horse to win the race without putting in an appearance and how was way to put in her appearance if she was not allowed access to any train a less wilful and individual than mr would have certainly under so much red but it only served to s monkey how far is the distance to he inquired fourteen miles he was answered and what o clock the race about one p m and it is now just the middle of the day exclaimed very well since it seems way is not to ride in th railway she shall cover the on a race against time author s note on illustration no vn i earnestly my benevolent to suppress at all events this illustration � as much for the sake of mr who if it appears will be the stock of every cultivated young indian with any acquaintance at all with english life as on my own poor account i ask anyone endowed with � could there be a more grotesque than this of such a well known scene as the annual pilgrimage to the race it is true that i wrote every description of conveyance � but how was i being non to anticipate that mr would interpret the phrase as including such as a cab by a and a kind oi borne by two members of the caste he further his colossal ignorance by the introduction of a snake � a character who even that he ever made his d but on a london would be speedily run in with all his for traffic moreover where is his authority for representing an bird as an ordinary london fowl time and patience fail me to indicate the countless and howling which mr has achieved in the space of this single picture but i say once more it is possible to provide a novel of this with congenial and appropriate drawings by an artist who is acquainted with what is what it is infinitely to dispense with illustrations altogether than to such a work with and pictures h b j a race against time i s mare for i will ride her to in so courageous a determination loud cheers from the who cordially advised him to put his best legs foremost as he mounted his crack and set off with broken speed for i must request my indulgent readers | 44 |
hand of man grew as had grown when they were for bows all this antiquity however though visible from the slopes was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate everything on this snug property was bright and well kept acres of glass houses stretched down the to the at their feet everything looked like money � like the last coin issued from the the stables partly by pines and o and fitted with every late were as dignified as of base on the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent its door being towards her simple stood at gaze in a alarmed attitude on the edge of the gravel sweep her feet had brought her onward to this point before she had quite realized where she was and now all was contrary to her expectation i thought we were an old family but this is all new she said in her she wished that she had not fallen in so readily with her mother s plans for claiming kin and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home the d � or d as they at first called themselves � who owned all this were a somewhat unusual family to find in such an part of the parson had spoken truly when he said that our john was the only really representative of the old d family existing in the county or near it he might have added what he knew very well that the d were no more d of the true tree than he was himself yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to a name which sadly wanted such when old mr deceased liad by of the d made his as an honest merchant some said money in the north he decided to settle as a county man in the south of england out of hail of his business district and in doing this he felt the necessity of with a that would not too readily identify him with the smart of the past and that would be less commonplace than the original bald words for an hour in the british the pages of works devoted to extinct half extinct and ruined families to the quarter of england in which he proposed to settle he considered that d looked and sounded as well as any of them and d accordingly was to his own name for himself and his yet he was not an ant minded man in this and in his family tree on the new basis was reasonable in his and aristocratic links never a single title above a rank of strict moderation of this work of imagination poor and her parents were naturally in ignorance � much to their discomfiture indeed the very possibility of such was unknown to them who supposed that though to be well favoured might be the gift of fortune a family name came by nature still stood hesitating like a about to make his plunge hardly knowing whether to retreat or to when a figure came forth from the dark door of the tent it was that of a tall young man smoking he had an almost complexion with full lips badly though red and smooth above which was a well black moustache with curled points though his age could not be more than three or four and twenty despite the touches of in his there was a singular force in the gentleman s face and in his bold eye well my beauty what can i do for you said by the maiden he coming and perceiving that she stood quite confounded never mind me i am mr d have you come to see me or my mother this of a d and a differed even more from what had expected than the house and grounds had differed she had dreamed of an aged and dignified face the of all the d with memories representing in the centuries of her family s and england s history but she herself up to the work in hand since she could not get out of it and answered � i came to see your mother sir i am afraid you cannot see her � she is an invalid replied the present representative of the house for this was mr the only son of the lately deceased gentleman cannot i answer your purpose what is the business you wish to see her about it isn t r it i can hardly say what pleasure h no why sir if i tell you it will seem � � s sense of a certain in her errand was now so strong that notwithstanding her awe of him and her general discomfort at being here her rosy curved towards a smile much to the attraction of the alexander it is so very she stammered i fear i can t tell you never mind i like foolish things try again my dear said he kindly asked me to come continued and indeed i was in the mind to do so myself likewise but i did not think it be like this i came sir to tell you that we are of the same family as you ho poor relations yes no d by of the d ay ay i mean d our names are worn away to but we have several proofs that we are d hold we are � and � and we have an old seal marked with a lion on a shield and a castle over him and we have a very old silver spoon round in the bowl like a little and marked with the same castle but it is so worn that mother uses it to stir the soup a castle is certainly my crest said he and my arms a lion and so mother said we ought to make ourselves to you � as lost our horse by a bad accident and are the oldest branch | 45 |
relief when neighbours no longer considered the house in and when the chances of seeing alone were very much reduced but that intimacy of mutual embarrassment in which each feels that the other is feeling something having once existed its effect is not to be done away with talk about the weather and other topics is apt to seem a device and behaviour can become easy unless it frankly a mutual fascination � which of course need not mean anything deep or serious this was the way in which and slid gracefully into ease and made their intercourse lively again visitors came and went as usual there was once more music in the drawing room and all the extra hospitality of mr returned whenever he could took his seat s side and lingered to hear her music calling himself her captive � meaning all the while not to be her captive the of the notion that he could at once set up a satisfactory establishment as a married man was a sufficient against danger this play at being a little in love was agreeable and did not interfere with graver pursuits after all was not necessarily a process for her part had never enjoyed the days so much in her life before she was sure of being admired by some one worth and she did not distinguish from love either in or in another she seemed to be sailing with a fair wind just whither she would go and her thoughts were much occupied with a handsome house in gate which she hoped would by and by be vacant she was quite determined when she was married to rid herself of all tne visitors who were not agreeable to her at her father s and she imagined the drawing room in her favourite house with various of furniture certainly her thoughts were much occupied with himself he seemed to her almost perfect if he had known his notes so that his enchantment under ner music had been less like an elephant s and if he had been able to better the of her taste in dress she could hardly have mentioned a deficiency in him how different he was from young or mr those young men had not a notion of french and could speak on no subject with striking knowledge except x the and trades which of course tne r were ashamed to mention they were gentry elated with their and satin to but embarrassed in their manners and timidly even was above them having at least the accent and manner of a university man whereas was always listened to bore himself with the careless politeness of conscious superiority and seemed to have the right clothes on by a certain book in � waiting for death natural without ever having to think about them was proud when he entered the room and when he her with a smile she had a delicious sense that she was the object of homage if had been aware of all the pride he excited in that bosom he might have been just as weu pleased as any other man even the most ignorant of or he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to a man s pre eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in but was not one of those helpless girls who betray themselves unawares and whose behaviour is awkwardly driven by their impulses instead of being by wary grace and p bo you imagine that her rapid and concerning house furniture and society were ever in her conversation even with her mamma on the contrary she would have the prettiest surprise and if she had heard that another young lady had been detected m that � indeed would probably have in its possibility for never showed any knowledge and was always that combination of correct sentiments music dancing drawing elegant note writing private for extracted verse and perfect which made the irresistible woman for the doomed man of that date think no unfair evil of her pray she had no wicked plots nothing sordid or in fact she never thought of money except as something necessary which other people would always provide she was not in the habit of and if her statements were no direct clue to fact why they were not intended in that light � they were among her elegant accomplishments intended to please nature had inspired many arts in finishing mrs s favourite pupil who by general consent s was a rare compound of beauty cleverness and found it more and more agreeable to be with her and there was no now there was a delightful of influence in their eyes and what they said had that of meaning for them which is with some sense oi by a third person still they had no or from which a third person need have been excluded in fact they and was secure in the belief that they did else if a man could not love and be wise surely he could and be wise at the same time really the men in except mr were great and did not care about commercial politics or cards what was he to do for he was often invited to the but the girls there were hardly out of the and mrs s way of piety and the of this life and the of cut glass the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best was not a sufficient relief from the weight of her husband s invariable seriousness the house with all its faults was the plea by contrast besides it nourished � sweet to look at as a half opened blush rose and adorned with accomplishments for the refined amusement of man but he made some enemies other than medical by his success with miss one evening he came into the drawing room rather late when several other visitors were | 14 |
it is either ant or defeated and that too in preference to any other business that may be urged upon us as to the bills i have not the least fear but that they will go their carries them through the question was then taken and mr s motion was carried by the following vote the being indicated by messrs bright foot johnson of rice s smith and messrs chestnut clay hunter i lane and upon an examination of this vote it will be seen that the in the affirmative and that the slave state were all in the negative with the solitary exception of mr johnson of of the free state bright rice smith and all being from the new states for mr i motion i the bill was now up and so bill is tub w m its friends were concerned nothing was bat a vote which would not have ten minutes but a vote was precisely what the southern were determined to avoid instantly therefore upon the announcement of the success of mr s motion which brought the bill before the mr hunter took the floor and moved that it be set aside as to take up another bill the and bill no question of order was raised upon this motion of mr hunter but it was well as play to move to set aside a bill instantly after a vote to take it up some debate upon mr hunter s motion the hour of twelve o clock arrived and the vice president decided that the bill having been assigned for that was the subject before the mr moved to the twelve o clock order and continue the consideration of the bill and this motion prevailed by the following vote messrs bell bright ch jt foot foster johnson of rice smith and � messrs b brown green hunter johnson of lane ward and on this vote an additional southern mr bell of ranged himself on the of s but this was of et by the back to the negative side of mr the bill was now again before the but the question as stated by th� � vice president was still upon mr hunter s motion to set it aside and take up the and bill mr of virginia threatened an ex debate upon the bill if its consideration were insisted upon he declared at any rate for himself that he intended to t o into it pretty largely because he had yet bill so with mischief most mr and mr in brief and energetic terms the friends of the bill to firm the vote was then taken upon mr hunter s motion and resulted as follows � messrs brown green hunter johnson of lane ward and � � messrs bell bright ur n foot foster hole johnson of king rice ev ard smith and the vote being a tie the vice president mr in the affirmative and after a long struggle the bill was for that day of the twenty eight for over li it all but five are from the south and ne of these five mr is only a temporary of state of the twenty eight in favor of the bill only three are from the south and only one of the three johnson of is a two days afterward on the th of february mr again moved to set aside all orders and take up the bill but this motion was by the following vote � messrs foot sale johnson of jones king rice tm � messrs bright brown chestnut clay green hunter smith ward and upon these two days the th and th of february the question was made between the consideration of the bill and the consideration of the bills the necessity of passing which last bills did not fail to be insisted upon by the at a subsequent stage of the as will be presently seen the question was made between considering the bill and considering the bill upon the th day of february upon the occasion of a motion by mr to all prior orders and take up the bill for the purchase of mr resisted it and called upon the friends of to vote it down so that he himself might submit a motion to take up the bill mr said i think it would be better to take up this question of the bill and vote upon it and then the bill will come up i ask the friends of the bill now to stand by it and i ve it the preference the vote was then taken and the motion to take up the bill prevailed as follows messrs bell brown chestnut clay green hunter jones lane ma on rice smith w ard and messrs o foot foster ha johnson of king and il the bill was now up and the discussion upon it protracted the late into tht night and almost into the next morning it was distinctly seen during the progress of this discussion that it would be without practical result and that no vote could be reached before the final of accordingly at ten o clock in the evening r felt it to be his duty to renew the attempt to set aside the bill the of a idle debate so as to take up the bill his motion to that effect and th� commencement of the debate upon it will be found on page of the globe such are made as will exhibit its general character mr if there was any assurance that bill could be taken up after the was disposed of i should be willing to see it have the go on the present occasion but we have sought a text book it b repeatedly to bring np tbe bin a d that has been made to bring it np has been with a counter movement crowding it out of the with something else if the virginia will give ns | 19 |
of nature which is quite superior to our will it stands thus will always be a government of where men are selfish and when they are pure enough to the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends of the post office of the highway of commerce and the exchange of property of and of institutions of art and science can be answered we live in a very low state of the world and pay unwilling tribute to founded on force there is not among the most religious and politics instructed men of the most religious and civil nations a reliance on the moral sentiment and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial as well as the system or that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor without the hint of a jail or a what is strange too there never was in any man � � � � � � � h i i i w i i a � � the power of to inspire him with the broad design of the state i o have pretended this design have been partial and have admitted in some manner the of the bad state i do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws on the simple ground of his own moral nature such designs full of genius and lull of fate as they are are not entertained except as air pictures if the individual who them dare to think them practicable he scholars and f and men of talent and women of superior ments cannot hide their contempt not the does nature continue to fill the heart of youth v suggestions of this enthusiasm and there are men � if indeed i can speak in the nm ber � more exactly i will say i have e at tu been conversing with one man to whom no of adverse experience will make it for a n appear impossible that thousands of human might exercise towards each other the grand simplest sentiments as well as a knot of a pair of lovers and in countless upward striving waves the moon drawn tide wave in thousand far the parent fruit so in the new born millions the perfect adam lives not less are summer mornings dear to every child they wake and each with novel life his fills for his proper sake essay and i cannot often enough say that a man is only a relative and representative nature each is a hint of the truth but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us if i seek it in him i shall not find it could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he to be long afterwards i find that quality elsewhere which he promised me the genius of the is to the student yet how few particulars of it can i from all their books the man i � stands for the thought but will t examination � and a society of men will represent well enough a certain quality and for example chivalry or beauty of manners separate them and there is no gentleman and lady in the group the least hint sets us on pursuit of a character which no man essay have such eyes that on smallest arc we complete the curve and curtain is lifted from the which it to veil we are vexed to find that no drawn than just that fragment of an arc wh first beheld we are greatly too liberal in o of each other s faculty and promise what the parties have already done the do again but that which we inferred iron nature and they will not do thi nature but not in them that happens world which we often witness in a public each of the expresses himself no one of them hears much that another say is the of mind of each and who have only to hear and not to judge very wisely and how wrong and is each of the to hi affair great men or men of great gifts yo easily find but men never meet a pure intellectual force or a affection i believe here then is man and ai by the discovery that thi is no more available to his own or general ends than his companions power which drew my respect is not the total of his talents all exist to society by some shining trait of hei and utility which they hav e we borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature and finish the portrait which is false for the rest of his body is small or i observe a person who makes a good public appearance and conclude thence the perfection of his private character on which this is based but he has no private character he is a graceful cloak or lay figure for holidays all our poets heroes and saints fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea fail to draw our spontaneous interest and so leave us without any hope of but in our own future our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul but there are no such men as we fable no nor nor caesar nor nor washington such as we have made we a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men there is none without his i verily believe if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law he would eat too much or take liberties with private letters or do some precious it is bad enough that our cannot do anything useful but it is worse that no man is fit | 37 |
became cat like in his ability to stay on his feet even grown dogs might him backward or sideways with the of their heavy bodies and backward or sideways he would go in the air or sliding on the ground but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth when dogs fight there are usually to the actual combat � and and stiff legged but white learned to omit these delay meant the coming against him of all the young dogs he must do his the outcast work quickly and get away so he learned to give no warning of his intention he in and snapped and on the instant without notice before his foe could prepare to meet him thus he learned how to inflict quick and severe damage also he learned the value of surprise a dog taken off its guard its shoulder open or its ear in ribbons before it knew what was happening was a dog half whipped it was remarkably easy to overthrow a dog taken by surprise while a dog thus invariably exposed for a moment the soft of its neck � the point at which to strike for its life white knew this point it was a knowledge to him directly from the hunting generations of wolves so it was that white s method when he took the offensive was first to find a young dog alone second to surprise it and knock it off its feet and third to drive in with his teeth at the soft throat being but partly grown his jaws had not yet become large enough nor strong enough to make his throat attack deadly but many a young dog went around camp with a throat in token of white s intention and one day catching one of his enemies alone on the edge of the woods he managed by repeatedly him and attacking the throat to cut the great vein and let out white the life there had been a great row that night he had been observed the news had been carried to the dead dog s master the remembered all the instances of the stolen meat and gray was beset by many angry but he resolutely held the door of his inside which he had placed the and refused to permit the vengeance for which his white became hated by man and dog during this period of his development he never knew a moment s security the tooth of every dog was against him the hand of every man he was greeted with by his kind with curses and stones by his gods he lived he was always up alert for attack wary of being attacked with an eye for sudden and unexpected prepared to act and coolly to leap in with a flash of teeth or to leap away with a menacing as for he could more terribly than any dog young or old in camp the intent of the is to warn or frighten and judgment is required to know when it should be used white knew how to make it and when to make it into his he all that was vicious malignant and horrible with nose by continuous hair in waves tongue out like a red snake and the outcast back again ears down eyes gleaming hatred lips wrinkled back and exposed and dripping he could compel � pause on the part of almost any a t pause when taken off his guard gave him the vital moment in which to think and determine his action but often a pause so gained lengthened out until it into a complete from the attack and before more than one of the grown dogs white s enabled him to beat an honorable retreat an outcast himself from the pack of the dogs his methods and remarkable made the pack pay for its persecution of him not permitted himself to run with the pack the curious state of affairs obtained that no member of the pack could run outside the pack white would not permit it what of his and the young dogs were afraid to run by themselves with the exception of lip lip they were compelled to bunch together for mutual protection against the terrible enemy they had made a alone by the river bank meant a dead or a that aroused the camp with its shrill pain and terror as it fled back from the wolf that had it but white s did not cease even when the young dogs had learned thoroughly that they must stay together he attacked them when s write he caught them alone and they attacked him when they were the sight of him was to start them rushing after him at which times his swiftness usually carried him into safety but woe to the dog that his fellows in such pursuit white had learned to turn suddenly upon the that was ahead of the pack and thoroughly to him up before the pack could arrive this occurred with great for once in full cry the dogs were prone to forget themselves in the excitement of the chase while white never forgot himself stealing backward glances as he ran he was always ready to whirl around and down the that his fellows young dogs are bound to play and out of the of the situation they realized their play in this warfare thus it was that the hunt of white became their chief game � a deadly game withal and at all times a serious game he on the other hand being the footed was to venture anywhere during the period that he waited vainly for his mother to come back he led the pack many a wild chase through the adjacent woods but the pack invariably lost him its noise and warned him of its presence while he ran alone velvet footed silently a moving shadow among the trees after | 21 |
in an instant but anne could imagine she read there the consciousness of having by some of mutual trick or some authority of ms been obliged to attend to his lectures and on her designs on sir walter she exclaimed however with a very tolerable imitation of e � oh dear very true only think miss to my great surprise i met with mr in bath street i was never more astonished he turned back and walked with me to the pump yard he had been prevented setting off for but i really forget by what for i was in a hurry and could not much attend and i can only answer for being determined not to be delayed in his return he wanted to know how early he might be admitted to morrow he was full of to morrow and it is very evident that i have been of it too ever since i entered the house and learned the extension of your plan or my seeing him could never have gone so entirely out of my head chapter day only had passed since anne s with mrs smith but a interest had and die was now so little touched by mi s conduct except by its effects in one quarter it became a matter of the next morning still to her visit in s street she had promised to be with the from breakfast to dinner her faith was and mr s character like the s head must live another day she could not keep her appointment however the weather was and she had grieved over the i on her friend s account and felt it very much on her own before she was able to attempt the walk when she reached the white and made her way to the proper apartment she found herself neither arriving quite in time nor the first to arrive the party before her were mn talking to mrs and captain to captain and she immediately heard that mary and too impatient to wait and gone out the moment it had cleared but would be back again soon and that the had been left with mrs to keep her there till they returned she had only to submit and feel herself plunged at once in all the which she had merely laid her account of a l e before the closed there was no delay no waste of time she was deep in the happiness of such misery or the misery of such happiness instantly two minutes after her entering the room captain said � we will write the letter we were talking of now if you will give me materials materials were all at hand on a separate table he went to it and nearly turning his back on them all was engrossed writing persuasion mrs was giving the history of her eldest s engagement and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was perfectly audible while it pretended to be a whisper anne felt that she did not belong to the conversation and yet as captain seemed thoughtful and not disposed to talk she could not avoid hearing many particulars such as mr and my brother had met again and again to talk it over what my brother had said one day and what mr had proposed the next and what had occurred to my sister and what the young people had wished and what i said at first i never consent to but was afterwards persuaded to think might do very well and a great deal in the same style of open hearted communication which even with every advantage of taste and delicacy could be properly interesting only to the mrs was attending with great good humour and whenever she spoke at all it was very sensibly anne hoped the gentlemen might each be too much self occupied to hear and ma am all these things considered said mrs in her powerful whisper though we could have wished it different yet altogether we did not think it fair to stand out any longer for charles was quite wild about it and was pretty near as bad and so we thought they had better marry at once and make the best of it as many have done before them at any rate said i it will be better than a long engagement that is precisely what i was going to observe cried mrs i would rather have young people settle on a small income at once and struggle with a few difficulties together than be involved in a long engagement i always think that no mutual � oh dear mrs cried mrs unable to let her finish her speech there is nothing i so as a long engagement it is what i always protested against for my children it is all very well used to say for young persuasion people to be engaged if there is a certainly of their being able to many in six months or even in twelve but a long engagement � yes dear ma am said mrs or an uncertain engagement to begin knowing that at such a time there will be the means of marrying i hold to be very and unwise and what i think all parents should prevent as far as they can anne found an unexpected interest here she felt it in its application to herself felt it in a nervous thrill all over her and at the same moment that her eyes instinctively glanced towards the distant table captain s pen ceased to move his head was raised pausing listening and he turned round the next instant to give a look one quick conscious look at her the two ladies continued to talk to re urge the same admitted truths and enforce them with such examples of the ill effect of a contrary practice as had fallen within their observation but anne heard nothing distinctly it was only a of | 26 |
the charge of murder up os may i like � that is natural better than i had expected to the soil is richer and deeper the timber is more generally diffused the country more rolling than i had supposed them there are of course heavy in from the heavy charges for good low prices for produce indian and the high price of good lumber for instance pine boards used in building at this place came from county n y and were down some mill stream to the thence down the to and the to were thence taken up the l to st louis the to city and the to this place which has but twice or thrice been reached y a when here they were dog cheap at one hundred dollars per thousand superficial feet or ten cents for every square foot in the absence of on the they must here be richly worth one hundred and twenty five dollars per thousand feet and while there is pretty good timber here for other purposes there is and that mainly black � that will make good boards the ready cotton wood along the banks of the streams cuts easily but so when that it will draw the nails out of the on side of a house elm is of course equally perverse and i have seen few boards that were not either black or oak but much of the oak is small short and while the black is likely to be exhausted i see young ones coming up thickly in some of the river but these have much to contend with and will not at best be large enough to saw for many years no doubt the timber of each year and will increase still f as roads and improvements are multiplied the sweep of the fires but it will always cost more to build a decent house of wood in the interior of than in any part of new york or new england � i think twice as much this is a heavy tax on a new country where not only houses hut are a general and pressing need rejoice to see the new timber creeping up the of the streams i note with pleasure that much of this is and some of it white ash i doubt not that there will always be wood enough here for and fuel but if the s peak region can send a good lot of pine lumber even yellow pine down the and the it will be worth more to than all her gold i consider well watered � no state better i do not confine this remark to the present when everything is and likely to be more so i mean that springs streams rivers are quite universal for my own private drinking i should like a supply not so much with lime but for water is generally quite good and the itself is among the chief blessings up oh of i presume it every foot of her soil i have yet traversed with nearly every square mile that will be within the state of yon see it out from almost every bluff it lies thickly strewn in over the surface of every or that makes out into the low or so that if you want to use it it is always to be drawn or rolled down hill though not here needed as a it can everywhere be with little labor into building stone or burned for use iti putting up chimneys and walls though somewhat i presume by the action of water upon it through thousands of years and readily into blocks of suitable size for house walls it is said to by exposure to the atmosphere and make a very wall it is the constant though unobserved of this stone that has contributed so largely to the of this soil and now the enormous waste through the rivers i presume all the imported yearly into our country does not equal in value the annual from the river alone i judge that indian corn can be grown here as as anywhere on earth thousands of acres last year produced their hundred of grain per acre at a very moderate cost for labor and none at all for an extensive farmer who grew many thousands of near assured me that the cost of his com in the ear was just six cents per of ears equal to nine cents per of three half of cars of the great on kind here cultivated making a of grain of course this estimate the cost of breaking and but making a fair allowance for these the net cost of that corn cannot have exceeded twenty cents per i presume it would now sell in his for forty cents while here in the interior it is worth from twenty five to thirty five cents per i met at an old and now republican friend who left new york city where he had been an industrious and settled between and two years ago he had last year eighty acres in corn which yielded four thousand worth to him thirty five or forty cents per his clear profit on this corn above the immediate cost of growing it can hardly have been less than one thousand dollars he will grow more this year with wheat potatoes etc yet he is one of a class who are supposed incapable of making money by farming i suspect few life long farmers of similar means will have good buildings over their heads and fruit trees and other elements of material comfort around them sooner than my friend wheat and did badly last year owing to the heavy summer rains which and them too little of either have been sown for this year s harvest yet i find both winter and spring wheat looking remarkably well almost everywhere are scarcely more than out of the ground yet they too promise well | 19 |
wrote the notice for his centre stake � this pasture is reserved for the and � bill read it over with approval saying � too much gold as them s my sentiments i reckon i might as well so the name of charles was added to the notice and many an old sour s face relaxed that day at sight of the of a kindred spirit how s the inquired when they strolled back into camp to hell with was bill s reply me and s goin a for too much gold when we get rested up too much gold was the creek of which all sour dreamed whereof it was said the gold was so thick that in order to wash it gravel must first be into the boxes but the several days rest preliminary to the quest for too much gold brought a slight change in their plan inasmuch as it brought one a had been working for wages all summer at miller creek over on the sixty mile and the summer done had strayed up too much gold like many another helplessly adrift on the gold tides that swept across the land he was tall and his arms were long like man s and his hands were like soup plates twisted and and big from toil he was slow of utterance and movement and his eyes pale blue as his hair was pale yellow seemed filled with an immortal dreaming the stuff of which no man knew and himself least of all perhaps this appearance of immortal dreaming was due to a supreme and innocence at any rate this was the men of ordinary clay put upon him and there was nothing extraordinary about the composition of bill and the partners had spent a day of visiting and gossip and in the evening met in the temporary quarters of the � a large tent where rested their weary bones and bad sold at a dollar a drink since the only money in circulation was dust and since the house took the down weight on the scales a drink cost something more too much gold than a dollar bill and were not drinking principally for the reason that their one and common sack was not strong enough to stand many excursions to the scales say bill i ve got a on the string for a sack of flour announced bill looked interested and pleased was scarce and they were not supplied for the quest after too much gold flour s worth a dollar a pound he answered how like do you calculate to get your finger on it trade m a half interest in that claim of our n answered what claim bill was surprised then he remembered the he had off for the and said oh i wouldn t be so about it though he added give m the whole thing while you re about it in a right free handed way bill shook his head if i did he d get clean and fm on as how the ground is believed to be valuable an too much gold that we re go half just because we re monstrous short on after the we can make him a present of the whole if somebody ain t disregarded our notice bill objected though he was plainly pleased at the prospect of exchanging the claim for a sack of flour she ain t jumped assured him it s no and it stands the took it serious and they begun where you left off clean over the divide too i was with one of them which has just got in with in his legs it was then and for the first time that they heard the slow and groping utterance of ay like the looks he was saying to the ay ay a claim the partners winked at each other and a few minutes later a surprised and grateful was drinking bad with two hard hearted strangers but he was as hard headed as they were hard hearted the sack too much gold made frequent journeys to the scales followed each time by s eyes and still did not up in his pale blue eyes as in summer seas immortal dreams swam up and burned but the swimming and the burning were due to the tales of gold and prospect he heard rather than to the he slid so easily down his throat the partners were in despair though they appeared boisterous and jovial of speech and action don t mind me my friend bill his hand upon s shoulder have another drink we re just s birthday here this is my an what might your name be this learned his hand descended on s back and clumsy self consciousness in that he was for the time being the centre of the rejoicing while pleased and asked them to have a drink with him it was too much gold the first and last time he treated until the play changed and his soul was roused to unwonted but he paid for the liquor from a fairly healthy looking sack not less n eight hundred in it calculated the eyed and on the strength of it he took the first opportunity of a conversation with proprietor of the bad and the tent here s my sack said with the intimacy and of one old to another just weigh fifty dollars into it for a day or so more or less and we ll be yours truly bill an me thereafter the journeys of the sack to the scales were more frequent and the of s day he even to sing the old s classic the of the forbidden fruit but broke down and drowned his embarrassment in another round of drinks even honored him with a round or two on the house and he and bill were decently drunk by the time s eyelids began too much gold to and his | 21 |
and you with him unless you seize this chance and withdraw your countenance from him the three rose by one impulse make your preparations to leave the jail said mr half an hour is quite enough under the circumstances said stood aghast � his mind was not fast enough to keep up mr bow and retired he was scarcely out of the room when the drew up an order tor hia from his office mr was sent for we have found the all you described him discipline is impossible with such a man here is an order for his s eyes sparkled we will enter it into the book meantime you are to see it executed went ont but presently returned he won t go gentlemen what do yon mean by he won t go said � told him your orders and he said tell their they are exceeding their authority and i won t go then i said they give you half an hour to pack up and then you must off he he i he i and what did he say � � o they give me half an hour do they says he you take them this and he wrote this on a slip of paper � here it is the slip contained these words x i m s while the were over this added gentlemen he said in his polite way if it is like the prison rules and beats their comprehension you may tell them it means � there ib many a slip t the cup and the up � � well mr what next � i am for a siege says he and he goes into his own room and i heard him shoot the bolt what does that mean inquired mr � it means sir that you won t get him out except by kicking him out had been their wounded vanity in order to get them up to this then turn him out by force slid but the other two were wiser no we must not do � we can keep him out if once he crosses the door i will manage it for you gentlemen said mr � do mr went out and with a message to mr that a gentleman had ridden over from oxford to see him and was at his house mr was in his room busy collecting and arranging several papers he had just tied them up in a little when he heard s voice at the door when that worthy it is never too late to mend delivered his message his lip curled with scorn but he said very well will disappoint the sly thought he but the next moment looking out of his window he saw a fly with a gray horse coming along the road at last � he cried and instantly his door and issued forth with his little under his arm he had scarce taken ten steps when a out from a comer and stood over his room door all return mr smiled and passed on along the corridor he descended the first floor to the here he found business but not enough to hide that he was watching mr out in the yard leading to the great door he found the thought he � waiting to see me out he raised his hat politely took no notice the others slight there is many a slip the cap and the lip said he to them looking them calmly over then sauntered towards the gate mi came creeping after and joined the every eye watched the parson whom they had himself had gone to the lodge to let him out and keep him out he was but a few steps from the door chuckled his heart beat with exultation another moment and that huge barrier would be interposed forever between him and his enemy the prisoners friend open the door mr said the pulled it quickly open and let that gentleman in a middle aged gentleman was paying off his fly the door being thus thrown open he walked quickly into the jail as if it belonged to him who is this inquired mr sharply the new comer inquired as sharply the governor mr stepped forward i am the governor the new comer handed turn his card and a note mr from the home office said mr to the these sir are the visiting mr bowed but addressed himself to mr only grave charges have been made against you sir i am here to see whether matters are such as to call for a closer investigation may i ask sir who makes the charges against me � the of your own jail but he is my enemy sir my personal enemy � don yourself no public man is safe from we hear an excellent account of you from every quarter but this one my visit will probably turn to your advantage brightened is there any room in which i could conduct this inquiry � will vou be pleased to come to the room tes let us go there at once gentlemen you shall be present if you choose it is right you should know the is cracked said mr i should not wonder pray inquired mr who was that looking character near the gate when i came in � why that was the i thought so i dare say we shall find he has taken a view of things send for if you please and let us get through the business as quickly as we can when mr came he found mr pleasantly with his four on his entrance the gentleman s countenance fell a little and mr had the pleasure of seeing that this man too was prejudiced against him mr � mr � � mr be seated if you please you appear to be ill sir � i am recovering from a mortal sick the eh � some thing of that | 9 |
nuts and and cakes and r when the was set forth on the by s contribution which was a great f smoking potatoes he was by from producing any other tes on thb hb led intended mother in law to the post of honour for the better of this place at the high festival the majestic old soul had adorned a cap calculated to inspire the thoughtless with sentiments of awe she also wore her gloves but let ns be genteel or die sat next his daughter dot and her old w re side by side the good took care of the bottom of e table miss was isolated for the time being from every article of furniture but the chair die sat on that she might have nothing else to the baby s head against as stared about her at the and toys they stared at her and at the company the venerable old gentlemen at the street doors who were all in action showed especial interest in the par pausing occasionally leaping aa if they were listening to the conversation and then plunging wildly over and over a great many times without halting for � as in a frantic state of delight with the whole pro certainly if these old gentlemen were inclined to have a joy in the contemplation of s discomfiture they had good reason to be satisfied couldn t get on at all and the more cheerful his intended became in dot s the less he liked it though he had brought them tt ther for that purpose for he was a regular dog in the was and when they laughed and he couldn t he took it into his head immediate that they must be laughing at him ah may said dot dear dear what changes to talk of merry school days makes one young again why you an t particularly old at any time ace you f said look at my sober husband there returned dot he adds twenty years to my age at least don t you john forty john replied how many you add to s i am said dot laughing but she can t be hundred years of age on her next birthday ha ha i laughed laugh though and he looked as if he dot s neck comfortably dear dear said dot on y to thb on thb used to talk at school about the husbands we would choose i don t know how young and how handsome and how gay and how lively mine was not to be and as to may s � ah dear i don t know whether to laugh or cry when i think what silly girls we were may seemed to know which to do for the colour flashed into her face and tears stood in her eyes even the very persons themselves � real live young men � we fixed on sometimes said dot we thought how things would come about i never fixed on john i m sure i never so much as thought of him and if i had told you you were ever to be married to mr why you d have me wouldn t you may though may didn t say yes she certainly didn t say no or express no by any means laughed � quite shouted he laughed so loud john laughed too in his ordinary good natured and contented manner but his was a mere whisper of a laugh to s you couldn t help yourselves for all that you couldn t resist us you see said here we are here we are where are your gay young now some of them are dead said dot and some of them forgotten some of them if they could stand among us at this moment would not believe we were the same creatures would not believe that what they saw and heard was real and we could forget them so no they would not believe one word of it why dot exclaimed the little woman she had spoken with such earnestness and fire that she stood in need of some recalling to herself without doubt her husband s check was very gentle for he merely interfered as he supposed to shield old but it proved effectual for she stopped and said no more there was an uncommon agitation even in her silence which the who had brought his half shut eye to bear upon her noted closely and remembered to some purpose too may uttered no word good or bad but sa quite still with her eyes cast down and made no sign of in what had passed the good lady her mother now interposed observing in the first instance that girls were girls and and that so as young people were young and thb on thb hearth would probably conduct like young and thoughtless persons with two or three other positions of a no less sound and character she then remarked in a devout spirit that she thanked heaven she had always found in her daughter may a dutiful and obedient child for which she took no credit to herself though she had every reason to believe it was entirely owing to herself with regard to mr she said that he was in a moral point of view an individual and that he was in an eligible point of view a son in law to be desired no one in their senses could doubt she was veiy emphatic here with regard to the family into which he was so soon about after some to be admitted she believed mr knew that although reduced in purse it had some to and that if certain circumstances not wholly she would go so far as to say with the trade but to which she would not more particularly refer had happened differently it might perhaps have been in possession of wealth she then remarked that she would not allude | 8 |
the sky turn with meaning in them towards the compassionate oe from which the tears are dropping and a smile is on the aged lips as they ask what is your name my dear my name is i must be sore are you afraid to kiss me the answer is the ready pressure of her lips upon the cold but bless ye now lift me my love very softly raised the weather stained grey head and lifted her as high as heaven chapter ix d becomes the subject of jl thee hearty thanks foe that hath pleased to deliver this our sister out of the if of this sinful world so read the frank in a not for his heart him that au was not quite right between us and our sister � or say our sister in law � poor law � and that we some mutual these m on our sister and our brother too and on whom the brave deceased had never her back until ran away from him that otherwise he would not be separated from lier � not in his conscience as jet find the thanks required of it selfish in and yet it may be humbly hoped because our sister had been more than his mother the words were read above the ashes of in a of a churchyard near the river in a obscure that there was nothing in it but grass not so much as one it might not be to do an great deal fi r the and in a age if we ted their graves at tne common so i� at a new generation might know was which so that the soldier sailor coming be able to identify the resting of father mother or for we turn up our eyes and si that we are all in death and we might turn them down and work the saying oat in world so far it would be sentimental perhaps say ye my lords and gentlemen and honorable boards shall we not find good standing room left for a little sentiment if we look into our crowds near unto the frank as he read stood his little wife john the and r these over and above were the at the lowly grave a penny had been added to the money in her what her honest spirit had so long projected was fulfilled took it in my head said laying it against the church door when all was done � took it in my wretched head that i might have sometimes turned a harder fi r her and it cuts me deep to think so now the frank in him how the best of us were more or less in our at our respective � some of us very much so � and how we all a halting feeble and crew she t sir said taking this ghostly rather ill in behalf of his late let us speak for o sir she went through with whatever duty she had to do she went through with me she went through with the she went through with herself she went through with o mrs you was a woman and a mother and a in a million million i with those words removed his dejected head om the church door and took it to the grave in the comer and laid it down there and wept alone a very poor said the frank brushing his hand across his eyes when it has that homely figure on it i think than it be made by most of the in westminster abbey i they left him undisturbed and passed out at the the water wheel of the paper mill was audible there and to have a softening on the bright scene they had friend arrived bat a little t and now told them tiie little she could add to the letter in which she had enclosed mr s letter and had asked for their instructions this was merely how she had heard the groan and what had afterwards passed and how she had obtained leave for the remains to be placed in that sweet fresh empty store room of the mill from which they had accompanied them to the churchyard and how the last had been observed i could not have done it all or nearly au of myself said i should not have wanted the will but i not have had the power without our managing partner surely not the jew who received said mrs my dear observed her husband in why not the certainly is a jew said and the lady his wife is a and i was first brought to their notice by a jew but i think there cannot be kinder x in the world but suppose they try to convert suggested mrs in way as a clergyman to do what ma am ask with a modest smile to make you change your religion said mrs her head still they have never me what is they asked me what m was and i told them th asked me to be industrious and faithful and i promised to be they most willingly and cheerfully do their duty to all of us who are employed here and we try to do ours to them indeed they do much more than their duty to us for they are wonderfully of us in many ways it is easy to see you re a my dear said little mrs not quite pleased it would be very in me to say i am not returned for i have been already raised to a place of confidence here but that makes no in their following their own religion and leaving all of us to ours they never talk of theirs to us and they never talk of ours to us if i was the last in the mill it would be the they never asked me what that poor thing had | 8 |
of sundry long loose and and a recent of this raw material made it seem expedient to bring such an influence to bear upon the new ground of remote certain and were accordingly directed to move under the general idea that an force from the had occupied while in of another general idea really more to the though not announced the accompanying band received instructions to be liberal and lively in its performances by the way all along their route through the wide brown land the soldiers might be sure of drawing as much sympathetic attention as that west country could on any given line probably a lost there would be no one disposed like to get out of the way unless some very small child roared and ran if of a size to have acquired the latter accomplishment at the sound of the drums to the great majority of these the spectacle would be a rare and gorgeous a memory across twilight time tracts as a vision of scarlet and golden and proudly pacing horses and music that made you feel you had never known how much life there was in you all the while some toll it is true had to be paid for this enjoyment when it had passed by things suddenly grew very flat and and there was a tendency to feel more or less vaguely because you could not go a yourself in cases however where circumstances rendered that obviously impossible as when people were too old or or were women or girls this thrill of discontent seldom very acute soon subsided by virtue of the self preserving instinct which us to persist in knocking our heads hard against our stone walls but it was different where the was so situated that he could imagine himself riding or after the to fields of peril and and glory without the of the picture by simultaneously supposing himself some quite other person the gleam in young m s eyes as he watched the red and twinkle out of sight was to the brightening up be a lost his grandfather s shaggy brows as the flash is to the sheet that are but a harmless reflection from far off storms and there indeed pleasure paid a duty if those who were liable to it did not imitate s prudence and hold aloof the reason may have been that they had not fortitude enough to turn away from excitement offered on any terms or that their position was less desperately than his and the latter explanation is the more probable one since few lads in and about can have had their martial aspirations by an so and yet so effectual there was nothing in the world to hinder from except just the of his mother and that was an so unreasonable as to verge upon what her neighbours would have called ould for though a widow woman and therefore entitled to occupy a pathetic position its privileges were defined by the opinion that she was not so badly off as she might ha been s departure need not have left her desolate since she had another son and daughter at home besides married in the village and settled down at where he was doing well and times and again asking her to come and live with then would have been able to help her out of his pay much more than he could do by his at where work was a lost slack and its low so that the result of a lad s daily labour sometimes seemed mainly the putting of a fine edge on a superfluous appetite all these points were most clearly seen by in the light of a fiercely burning desire but that availed him nothing unless he could set them as plainly before some one else who was not thus illuminated and not far from two years back he had resolved that he would attempt to do so no more the soldiers had been about in the district on the day before scattered like beds over the and and firing till the misty october air with excitement when you have lived your life among wide bounded where the silence is broken by the s pipe or the of some heavily flapping bird you will know the meaning of a call and his had acted as camp followers from early till late with ever one whereof was that he heard his especial definitely decide to go and at next monday which gave a turn more to the screw of his own wish it was with a scheme for whether there were any chance of bringing his mother round to a rational view of the matter that he and his friend dropped into her cabin next morning on the way to carry up a load of turf mrs was washing her couple of in an old brown butter and thought he had introduced the subject rather a lost happily when he told her she had a right to be her hands out of the and the finest she could and she the commander in of the army forces in to pay her a visit of course this statement required as it was intended to require so proceeded to it s himself s off to a monday he be in the light so the next time we set eyes on him it s along the street we see him like the boys we had here ah sure now that be grand said mrs we all be proud to behold him that way t is a fine thing for any yoimg man who s got a fancy to take up it then it is so said with emphasis promptly making for the opening given to him it is said there s like it said ah at all said mrs made no remark as she twisted a dripping apron into a shaped roll to the water out how much | 39 |
was a rattling gossip and told him first her own here was the village and yet no more custom coming to her because of the beer house the very mention of this institution moved her directly a pretty gentleman said she to his own beer and a poor widow that have been here all her days and her father before her i but the colonel won t let me be driven out altogether no more will mr walter he do manage for the old gentleman now and waited for the name of hope but it did not come the good lady him with the things that interested her she was to have a bit of a farm added on to the cow it was to be grass land and not much labor wanted she couldn t undertake that was it likely but for of cows and by a secret butter or cheese that she was as good at as here and there one and if she could have the custom of the for her milk but la sir said she ril go as that there will take and set up a against me as he have a beer shop said ay sir him as owns the mine and the beer shop and all worse luck for me who is he oh one of those that rise from nothing nowadays game here to farm but that was a blind the colonel says sunk a mine he did and built a pit and turns everything into brass money but there you are a stranger sir what is all this to you why it is very interesting said mistress i always like to hear the whole history of every place i stop at especially from a sensible woman like you that sees to the bottom of things do have another glass why i should be as dull as ditch water now if i had not your company la sir fm sure you welcome to my company in a civil way and for the matter of that you are right life is life and there s plenty to be learned in a public � do but open your eyes and ears have another glass with me i am praised for my punch you deserve it sir better was never she and and her lips till it was all gone this glass colored her cheeks brightened her eyes and even loosened her tongue though that was pretty well by nature well sir said she you are a bird of passage here to day and gone to morrow and it don t matter much what i tell you so long as i don t tell no lies be a row in this having delivered this formidable prophecy the dame pushed her glass to her companion for more and leaning back in the old fashioned high backed chair observed the effect of her thunder bolt rubbed his hands i m glad of it said he that is to say provided my good hostess does not suffer by it i m much to you sir said the lady you are the gentleman i have entertained this many a day here s your health and wishing you luck in your business and many happy days well spent my service to you sir the same to you ma am well sir in regard to a row between the � not that i call that there one � judge for yourself you are a man of the world and a man of business and an elderly man apparently at all events i am older than you madam that is as may be said mrs we t got the parish register here and all the better for me so once more i say judge for yourself well madam said i will try if you will oblige me with the facts that is reasonable said mrs but after some little consideration the facts i will declare and not a lie among em that will be a novelty thought her cynical but he held his tongue and looked respectfully attentive colonel said mrs hates like poison and him the colonel vows he will have him off the land and out of the of the earth and he have sent him a lawyer s letter for every thing out in this village along of the servants chattering he don t value a lawyer s letter no more than that he the colonel and they ll go at it hammer and at the sizes and spend a of money by is a perilous secret in law one side of the question but there s another master walter is deep in love with miss mary who is she who is she why s daughter to be sure not as i d believe it if i hadn t known her mother for she is no more like him in her looks or her ways than a is to a she is the loveliest girl in the county and better than she s you don t catch her drawing bridle at her papa s beer house and she never passes my picture it s oh mrs i am so thirsty a glass of your good please and a little hay and water for that s her way bless your silly heart she ain t dry and he s full of beans and his coat s like satin but that s miss mary s way of letting me know that she s my customer and nobody else s in the town god bless her and send her many happy days with the man of her heart and that is walter for she is just as fond of him as he is of her i seen it all from the first day twas love at first sight and still a growing to this day them old may tear each other to pieces but they won t part such lovers as those | 9 |
the world more likely for i have a notion she is always rather sickly i would lay any it is about miss it ia not so very likely he should be distressed in his circumstances for he is a very prudent man and to be sure must have cleared the estate by this time i wonder what it can be may be his sister is worse at and has for him over his setting off in such a hurry seems very like it well i wish him out of all his trouble with all my heart and a good wife into the bargain so wondered so talked mrs her opinion varying with every conjecture and all seeming equally probable m they arose though she felt really in in the welfare of el could not bestow all the wonder on hia going ao suddenly away which mrs was desirous of her feeling for besides that the circumstance did not in her opinion justify lasting amazement or variety of her wonder was otherwise disposed of it was engrossed by the extraordinary silence of her ai ter and wi ho by on the subject which they must know to be peculiarly interesting to them as this silence continued every day made it appear more and more with the of both why tliey should not openly acknowledge to her mother and herself what their constant behaviour to each other declared to have taken place could not imagine she could easily conceive that marriage might not be im in their power for though was independent there was no reason to believe him rich his had been by sir john at about six or seven hundred a year but he lived at an expense to which that income could and be equal and he had often complained of his but for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by relative to their engagement which in fact concealed at all she could not account and it was so wholly to their general opinions and practice that a sometimes entered her mind of their being really and this doubt was enough to prevent her making ny of nothing could be more expressive of attachment to them q s behaviour to it had all le tenderness which a lover s heart could give to the rest of the family it was the affectionate attention f a son and a brother the cottage seemed to be considered ad loved by him as his home many more of his hours were ent there than at and if no general engagement them at the park the exercise which called him out i the morning was almost certain of ending there where the of the day was spent by himself at the side of ad by his favourite at her feet one evening in particular about a week after colonel had left the country his heart seemed more than open to every feeling of attachment to the objects round him and on mrs s happening to mention er design of improving the in the spring he warmly every alteration of a place which affection had as perfect with him what he exclaimed � improve this dear cottage that i will never consent to not a stone must bo added i its walls not an inch to its size if my feelings are do not be alarmed said of le kind will be done for my mother will never have money to attempt it i am heartily glad of it he cried may she always be or if she can employ her riches no better thank you but you may be assured that i k d se i would not sacrifice one of local attachment of yours or of any one whom i loved for all tlie in the world depend upon it that whatever bum may remain when x make up my ac count b in the would even rather lay it by than of it in a manner bo painful to you but are you really io attached to this place aa to see no defect in it said he is fault nay more i con it as the only form of in which happiness is and were i rich enough i would instantly pull down and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage with narrow stairs and a kitchen that i suppose said r cried ho in the same eager tone with all and every thing belonging to in no one convenience or m convenience about it should the least be perceptible then and then only under such a roof i might perhaps be aa happy at as i have been at i flatter my s e d tliat even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase you will hereafter find your own house as as you now do this there certainly are circumstances said which might greatly it to me but this place will always have one claim on my affection which no other can possibly share mrs looked with pleasure at whose fine eyes were fi so on as plainly how well she understood him how often did i wish added ho when i was at this time that cottage were inhabited i never passed within view of it without admiring its situation and that no one should live in it how little did i then think that the very first news should hear from mrs smith when i next came into the country would he that cottage was taken and i felt an immediate sense and sensibility and interest in the event which nothing bat a kind of science of what happiness i should experience from it can for must it not have been so speaking lier in a lowered voice then continuing his former tone said and yet this house you would spoil mrs dash d you would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary and this dear parlour in which | 26 |
she is at present in and ready to take the field at once if so why did conceal the information from me he knows i am devoted to the that i desire for my own ends and those of the church to restore the princess to the throne yet he has not told me all i may be mistaken certainly but i feel sure that is in the princess here said breaking in on his master s re very with the assurance of a privileged favorite i ejaculated the cardinal fixing his keen eye on the secretary i forgot for the moment that you were present yes i feel certain that the princess is here you know what the said yesterday about the occupation of the villa by this m his intention to supply the princess the keys of st peter with money and the conspiracy formed in london yes your eminence i heard all this but it does not say that princess is here to me it does replied emphatically do you think that they would leave behind them such a necessary to the plot as princess de i tell you no with her on the spot they can do everything in her absence notwithstanding all their craft and conspiracy the result will be nothing and again is not the woman to be left behind if this is so why did not the tell your eminence that is what i do not know perhaps the princess chooses to reveal herself at her own time the wife of the englishman comes to day yes she is due now she comes to see a poor of the church but not alone the cardinal uttered this sentence with such irony that the secretary looked up quickly and then dropped his eyes again in a manner i do not your eminence this madame said the cardinal slowly has requested permission to bring with her a female companion why so there can be no risk in visiting a priest like myself if so this female companion is useless then your eminence thinks � i do not think said emphatically i am sure that this companion is the princess at this moment an electric bell which announced to the that his guests had arrived in london had not now i think the game will be in my f that is if does not think of some new combination he will all in the end replied the cardinal quietly the fox has many tricks but he is run to earth at last how did your eminence guess that i would bring her majesty with me asked who could not help at the prompt manner in which the had recognized did my husband tell you or the neither madame i know the temper too well to think that any of them would remain in the background when i saw the yesterday i knew that her majesty could not be far oflf to day you visit me with a female attendant i know you madame as madame so it needed but little thinking on my part to guess that you were accompanied by her majesty all the same i think your eminence is to be congratulated on your said smiling but i might have known no disguise could your eye i only hope will not discover the truth also you must keep out of his sight said the cardinal hastily these are very keen and very suspicious it was of you to come hither her majesty was anxious to see your eminence personally then her majesty should have sent for me to the villa the keys of st peter my dear cardinal broke in impatiently i was too anxious to know what position you to take up to await your arrival what position could i take up but that of your friend said the cardinal in a tone you forget that our interests are identical but a part from all worldly considerations i should be base to desert the daughter of a monarch to i owe so much forgive me cardinal i know you are devoted bo my interest replied taking his hand � but you know the fallen are ever suspicious your majesty � why address me by that mockery of a title a queen without subjects without lands i have not even been crowned but you will be said and by my hands in the cathedral of but the crown of is that in the possession of no it is yet in the treasure vault of the cathedral where it has ever been wished to seize it and i had to threaten him with before he would from his purpose still if he is not of your church he would not care for that observed thoughtfully not in himself perhaps but if he was he would lose his position as president of the and he fought too hard to risk such a loss what think you of our plans ask d a anxiously in london i think they are excellent we are to your husband madame continued the cardinal bowing graciously to both for his proposed loan of money to the cause and his suggestion regarding the villa being the of the queen s my husband will do all in his power to replace the queen on her throne but in the event of war do you think the cause will be well supported the cardinal smiled and going over to the desk took from thence the papers concerning the conspiracy and placed them in the hands of look at these your majesty he said significantly and you will see that i have not been idle the princess eagerly examined the lists while the addressed himself with courtesy to whose beauty had made a great impression on him m must indeed be a prince madame when he can afford to raise a million of money in the cause of fallen it is a good use to | 12 |
my dear she exclaimed severely the next moment i am ashamed of your being so and then laughed again and took the affecting old hat and carried it back to its place i would not have had any one else see you for the world she said sorrowfully as she returned feeling quite self possessed again to the parlor doorway but still sat in the minister s chair with her small feet placed as his stiff boots had been by s lady and a copy of his solemn expression before they came to speaking of and of the i wish i had asked him if he would be so kind as to the said a little at the discovery that her cousin would consent to laugh no more there are all those ripe on the top branches i can climb as high as he but i can t reach far enough from the last branch that will bear me the minister is so long and thin � i don t know what mr ton would have thought of you he is a very serious young man said cousin still ashamed of her laughter will get the for you or one of the men i should not like to have mr think you were frivolous a young lady of your opportunities � but had escaped through the hall and out at the garden door at the mention of s name miss sighed anxiously and then smiled in spite of her deep convictions as she shut the blinds and tried to make the house look solemn again the front door might be shut but the garden door at the other end of the broad hall was wide open upon the large by s lady garden where the last of the red and white and the golden lilies and the first of the tall blue lent their colors in generous fashion the straight box borders were all in fresh and shining green of their new leaves and there was a fragrance of the old garden s inmost life and soul blowing from the blossoms on a long it was now late in the afternoon and the sun was low behind great apple trees at the garden s end which threw their shadows over the short turf of the green the cherry trees stood at one side in full sunshine and miss who presently came to the garden steps to watch like a hen at the water s edge saw her cousin s pretty figure in its white dress of india muslin hurrying across the grass she was accompanied by the tall shape of the new maid who dull and indifferent to every one else showed a surprising and to the young guest ought to be in the dining room already slow as she is it wants but half an hour of tea time said miss as she turned and went into the shaded house it was s duty to wait at table and there had been many scenes by s lady and defeated efforts toward her education was certainly very clumsy and she seemed the because she had replaced her aunt a most person who had but lately married a farm and its prosperous owner it must be confessed that miss was a most bewildering and that her pupil s brain was easily confused and prone to the coming of had been somewhat dreaded by reason of this service but the guest took no notice of or futile gestures at the first tea table except to establish friendly relations with on her own account by a smile they were about the same age and next morning before cousin came down showed by a word and a quick touch the right way to do something that had gone wrong and been impossible to understand the night before a moment later the anxious mistress came in without suspicion but s eyes were as affectionate as a dog s and there was a new look of on her face this dreaded guest was a friend after all and not a foe come from proud boston to confound her ignorance and patient efforts by a the two young creatures mistress and maid were hurrying across the i can t reach the explained politely and i think that miss ought to send some to the minister he has just made us a call why you have n t been crying again yes m said sadly miss always loves to send something to the minister she acknowledged with interest as if she did not wish to be asked to explain these latest tears we arrange some of the best in a pretty dish i u show you how and you shall carry them over to the after tea said cheerfully and accepted the with pleasure life was beginning to hold moments of something like delight in the last few days you ll spoil your pretty dress miss gave shy warning and miss stood back and held up her skirts with unusual care while the country girl in her heavy blue checked began to climb the cherry tree like a boy down came the scarlet fruit like bright rain into the green grass by s lady break some nice twigs with the and leaves together oh you re a duck and flushed with delight and looking far more like a thin and solemn blue came rustling down to earth again and gathered the spoils into her clean apron that night at tea during her s temporary absence miss announced as if by way of apology that she thought was beginning to understand something about her work her aunt was a treasure she never had to be told anything twice but has been as clumsy as a calf said the precise mistress of the house i have been afraid sometimes that i never could teach her anything i was quite ashamed to have you come just now and find me so | 40 |
poetry it is tradition more than invention helps the poet to a good fable the beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem it is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work and is as much surprised at the effect as we that we are so unwilling to our best sense of any work of art to the author the very highest praise we can attribute to any writer painter is that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us we hesitate at doing so great an honor as to think that he intended by his the sense we to it we grudge to the wise human his to him even of whom we can believe everything we think indebted to and to for the wisdom they detect in his hamlet and especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius we fear that and did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us our arts are happy we are like the on the lake whose melody is sweeter than he knows or like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo whose trivial word returns to him in romantic in view of these facts i say that the power of nature over the human will in all works of even the fine arts in all that respects their material and external circumstances nature the best part of the picture the best part of the statue the best part of the house and speaks the best part of the for all the advantages to which i have are such as the artist did not produce he relied on their aid he put himself in the way to receive aid from some of them but he saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of nature or was vain thoughts on art let us proceed to the consideration of the great law stated in the beginning of this essay as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art as in useful art so far as it is useful the work must be strictly to the laws of nature so as to become a sort of and in no wise a contradiction of nature so in art that aims at beauty as an end must the parts be to ideal nature and everything individual abstracted so that it shall be the production of the universal soul the artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired not by his friends or his or his but by all men and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture must himself and be a man of no party and no manner and no age but one through whom the soul of all men as the common air through his lungs he must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak or an angel of the lord to act that is he is not to speak his own words or do his own works or think his own thoughts but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts in speaking of the useful arts i pointed to the fact that we do not dig or grind or by our muscular strength but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the axe or bar precisely to this in the fine arts is the manner of our intellectual work we aim to hinder our individuality from acting so much as we can aside our our prejudice and will and bring the of reason upon the subject before us so perfect is the work the wonders of are things which he saw whilst he stood aside and then returned to record them the poet aims at getting observations without aim to subject to thought things seen without voluntary thought in eloquence the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself when he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour and says what cannot but be said hence the french phrase to describe the self surrender of the orator not his will but the principle on which he is the great and crisis of events thunder in the ear of the crowd thoughts on art in poetry where every word is free every word is necessary good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is the first time you hear it it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible in the eternal mind than as if composed by the poet the feeling of all great poets has accorded with this they found the verse not made it the muse brought it to them in did ever any body call the a fancy piece or say of the how it might be made differ ent a of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being as much as a plant or a crystal the whole language of men especially of artists in reference to this subject points at the belief that every wc k of art in proportion to its excellence of the precision of fate no room was there for choice no play for fancy for the moment or in the successive moments when that form was seen the iron of reason were which ordinarily are heavy with slumber that the individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity there is but one reason the mind that made the world is not one mind but the mind every man is an to the same and to all of the same and every work of art is a more or less pure of the same therefore we | 37 |
at a time when the least sanguine did not dream ah a necessary � signed his check for two hundred thousand without a quiver gentlemen without a quiver was the report of the secretary of the enterprise who had been sent on the forlorn hope of finding out ah s intentions and on top of the many similar actions that were true of his word there was scarcely a man of in the islands that at one time or another had not experienced the helping financial hand of ah so it was that watched his wonderful family grow up into a problem and secretly with him for it was beyond any of them to imagine what he was going to do with it but ah saw the problem more clearly than they no one knew as he knew the extent to which he was an alien h p ah in his family his own family did not guess it he saw that there was no place for him amongst this marvellous seed of his and he looked forward to his declining years and knew that he would grow more and more alien he did not understand his children their conversation was of things that did not interest him and about which he knew nothing the culture of the west had passed him by he was to the last fibre which meant that he was heathen their christianity was to him so much nonsense but all this he would have ignored as and could he have but understood the young people themselves when for instance told him that the housekeeping bills for the month were thirty thousand � that he understood as he understood ah s request for five thousand with which to buy the and become a member of the club but it was their complicated desires and mental processes that him he was not slow in learning that the mind of each son and daughter was a secret which he could never hope to tread always he came upon the wall that east from west their souls were inaccessible to him and by the same token he knew that his soul was inaccessible to them besides as the years came upon him he found himself back more and more to his own kind the smells of the chinese quarter were to him he them with satisfaction as he passed along the street for in his mind they carried him back to the narrow ah of with life and movement he regretted that he had cut off his to please in the days and he seriously considered the of his crown and growing a new one the dishes his highly paid for him failed to his in the way that the weird did in the down in the chinese quarter he enjoyed vastly more a half hour s smoke and chat with two or three chinese than to at the lavish and elegant dinners for which his was where the pick of the americans and sat at the long table men and women on equality the women with jewels that blazed in the subdued light against white necks and arms the men in evening dress and ah all chattering and laughing over topics and that while they were not exactly greek to him did not interest him nor entertain but it was not merely his and his growing desire to return to his chinese flesh pots that constituted the problem there was also his wealth he had looked forward to a placid old age he had worked hard his reward should have been peace and repose but he knew that with his immense fortune peace and repose could not possibly be already there were signs and he had seen similar troubles before there was his old employer whose children had from him by due process of law the management of his property having the court to administer it for him ah ah knew and knew ly well that had been a poor man it would have been found that he could quite manage his own affairs and old had had only three children and half a million while he ah had fifteen children and no one but himself knew how many millions our daughters are beautiful women he said to his wife one evening there are many young men the house is always full of young men my cigar bills are very heavy why are there no marriages shrugged her shoulders and waited women are women and men are men � it is strange there are no marriages perhaps the young men do not like our daughters ah ah they like them well enough answered but you sec they cannot forget that you are your daughters father yet you forgot who my father was ah said gravely all you asked was for me to cut off my the young men are more particular than i was i fancy what is the greatest thing in the world ah demanded with abrupt pondered for a moment then replied god he nodded there are gods and gods some are paper some are wood some are bronze i use a small one in the office for a paper weight in the bishop museum are many gods of coral rock and ah but there is only one god she announced her ample frame ah noted the danger signal and off what is greater than god then he asked i will tell you it is money in my time i have had dealings with jews and christians and and with little black men from the and new guinea who carried their god about them wrapped in paper they possessed various gods these men but they all worshipped money there is that captain he seems to like he will never marry her retorted he will be an admiral before he dies � a rear admiral ah inter ah yes i know that is the way they retire | 21 |
it would certainly enough if any were at once named of ni of our want conscious and for this reason he has detailed tbe te ic d to the ii but instead of doing as we hare that he must done it had he with known to lie original place of till of his account has ly the tc that his ii was of s t oi when w n joseph on his r turn from us from going to solely by hia fear of be b� ril e t to hint to proceed to tliat province � an which is unaccountable if the affair of the alone had him to and which is to be explained by the n o� that lie had formerly dwelt there on the other as makes the danger with the of u prophecy the sole cause of the settlement of joseph and at he cannot have supposed that tliis was ir original for in that case would been an decisive cause have other bu the of with m the instance turns upon the impossibility of how the of on their return from have it in contemplation to proceed � second lime to unless f had formerly been heir home the c of accordingly been chiefly applied to the task of finding other for existence of such an inclination in joseph mary such efforts am of a very date holding by ho decidedly to be of the of yet not joseph as a complete cr in for he makes it the place from which he seems i su i that was the dwelling and the of and � c t � to c the ner this n� of points oat source and the of the statements of our two but it la far from a tor m is still supposed to be tlie place which joseph liad his no reason why on hia return t l c all at once to exchange cr for liis c especially as to him the cause of his former journey to not been a of but the a after tlie do longer statement of to the side of and i not i to bring him into with i it wan the source of our two ik u still for how the of ns a dwell ing nor as tlie e of � journey to in the of to which these arc arguing generally on the one hand there arc two on the other an attempt to combine them it is certain that the is not parent and the two former offspring but vice moreover in this department of we have already in witli the learned to or authorities a more at reconciliation is made in � and met with much from modem according to hook the house of va t al and she waa brought up in the temple at and e to she returned after tliis to lier nt in joseph on the contrary not only at as seems to hut also lived there and r brought hia be t hut this mo ie of unlike the other ia le to and to l or the with its circumstances is left out and so because ii joseph were at home in and only went to to fetch his bride the not be as tlie reason he returned to for he would do ie � in tlie ordinary course of after a few days above all had been hia he would not on his arrival have sought an inn where there was no room for him but have token mary under own roof hence modem who wish to avail themselves of the presented by the book and yet to save tlie of i uke fix m maintain that joseph did indeed dwell carry on hia trade in m u � � lo lie j no iv t i ai tbe � vi r � thi i law l u i� if l� v u mil ii n b i i land ri v c� � v r v in h t i� p i and life op but tliat be no of own in that place find the dim sooner than he had bo had not yet provided one but make it not of wore not yet settled n but were not even of there tliat on the con it was intention to depart the shortest e stay great on the part of and mary on tlie hand prefers for the of tiie tn question he tliat h in and could therefore d in but unknown inclined on their return from lo upon until the divine as n thus reason why ic appeared to c rents of ji to settle in hut and supplied his by assuming that it must have seemed to them most for him who was � son of david to be brought up in david s own city here would do well to take for their model the honesty of t and to confess with him tliat of this intention on the part of joseph and tu settle at and of motives whidi induced them to give up the plan knows nothing and that they rest on the authority of alone but what does nt for alleged change of the visit of uie of in dreams � events from serving as proofs of a change of residence on uie part of the of on the other while the author the gospel was probably i of according to to journey to and hence took to be the original residence of the parents of je us tliat may be an essential agreement between the two accounts though agreement did not exist in the of the but once more what cause does lor the journey o the which our previous in shown to be as frail a support for this statement as the and its for that of hero again it b not by admitting tlie of tlie | 14 |
we were in each vith t by with a ar bj � nd r ne to om f n birth for � of of � oft and on � in the of the � on of my be if it he il win gift of with � i be to be at lime he to and hi tou my b s m tell e l for the of a if � a� m with on b lad till one wife that tl my to to thin he lie and w at hu who ra winter the ii cr n ed a� l men that all of e at hill line tin but said be � � u ai lie in lie chief ed rank of of them of ton a torn in in ir whether it be or united and are d in i to do in ihe of t they be ihe tn in a of all in the of and t� to a in is not by the of about it� i mr p � from st be and the error of in � an of very unpleasant the and l party experienced in pushing oi er ihe the smaller boats in they to ai last l i the � and o by land il y an of l w aa a for of party who were to while the ot the in hit stage of the p l in woods mid was soon and plan of on fa a � f i� i � the ui � o v my bad m with mc tm f n l l � ai am if do ihe w a or in to kill one to n il with of � nod of iu � it m ly n r t� � i a of one bin i � ui c� m t m � � bom o they at i � f in le file � buck of nt foot c leading and of nm up till t t i shot shortly ur s n hi a ir ii of u der of bill he off t tn at i about to n buck which i am l wh n r fi ll up t him pot my � i mid the upon br up i f hu la t in he jumped np and he ve lo fall were d from of the wounded r d out tn we lo d we came up in the found him nt ck l in the but my hall lie r t n now c� ld ur d three deer two ch obliged to in n of � of ck ar river thi bt a ul mile in our s of our aiid to our in the r for it b r o� th� he b d � early aud � cat to at tlie i ki m t ud l ul b in the of il fi ill to in v� but in r� vi i i could rs an body mi her i n r find in when ut i il g t be � wc � the tis in in all down i � ite fill � lie did not tt � hell i ir mi l ir of � i lion ami i t a i ry o � � l r v i it t returned to my l i i the bi impelled bj he if in and on re in ihe weather i to lt � � i i l ill journey being unable to advance � in a day und i il hi d id tht of one r a c a t at iii tin of they the tbe were l� l u of one oc ihe of tbe a of th of ihe t an mr was he not help i t be lo � ni civilized � ii in � u m thin � � only of � tn b� to by tbe � � � � � r by tt in lit tbe j l c r� of b� d n u rd � � ti il will long te by � r inn d from u y b nt of bt � iu civil for tbe di i this im f i � n who np on tr h� ami i of x y mi tn a bi of � by private by � cf poets b their of front bay lu st � � � � b it b to i from tht in l n� � t quarters il a mr oil a r te � to u io d in � o with � l t li l b y n hy be id a of am for i� an mil i � r all it h m l i i ii � mon nt d hi i in hi i i c� and ha � ki t ir n of r iii our t with the an � ir i u v in a the � of our al the aj of cl hi sufficiently lo any i in b of and ttie of any public � n the of ii different wa wholly o e l mr found no difficulty in agent n to in from and political ii hit of he b� va g e he o the r� r front is mn of uie of the country t� and made to pence with adjoining a with him of the warriors m il to american bead lie proceeded on hi lo the in part in � p the river h n journal � which however i in an report has little for hie at large on the tribe of called by french traveller io be was with their over their neighbours m af nearer about lie an of an of the oc ore lo be found in certain about miles above we | 48 |
the district of clay the character and of the two being so distinct that the appeared but as a deposit of a few years antiquity upon the level he kept along the edge of this high country and the sky behind him being deep violet she could still see white darling in relief upon it � a mere speck now � a reduced to dimensions upon this s he gradually disappeared thus she had beheld the pet animal purchased for her own use in pure love of her by one who had always been true impressed to convey her husband away from her to the side of a new found idol while she was musing on the of horses and wives she discerned shapes moving up the valley towards her quite near at hand till now hidden by the hedges surely they were with his two horses and apparatus conducted by robert up upward they crept a stray beam of the sun eveiy now and then like a star on the blades of the which had been converted to steel by the action of the she opened the gate when he m came nd die as thej the how do do the m to be with him he replied with much m mn he added it is now no i em the the gate � and walked by her in the rear of the i mill he looked and like s his � m� being to wheat color his eyes as his boots and with his hands with the sweet of apples his hat with and everywhere him that atmosphere of which at its return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been bom and bred among the her heart rose from its late sadness like a released ring her senses in the sudden lapse back to nature the consciousness of having to be genteel because of her husband s the of which she had acquired at the fashionable schools were and she became the crude country ml of her latent earliest instincts was she thought no sooner had she been starved off by than another being bare and had arisen out of the earth ready to hand this was an excursion of the imagination which she did not encourage and she said suddenly to disguise the confused regard which had followed her thoughts did you meet my husband f with some hesitation yes where did you meet him f at bay cross i come from abbey i have been making there for the last week haven t they a mill of their own f yes but it s out of repair i think � i heard that mrs had gone there to yes i have seen her at the windows once or twice thb once waited aa interval before went on did mr take the way to f yes i met him on darling as she did not reply he added with a yon know why the mare was called that r oh yes � of course she answered quickly they had risen so far over the crest of the hill that the whole west sky was revealed between the broken they see far into the recesses of heaven the eye on under a species of golden and past fiery fancied stones and of deeper than this their gaze passed thin of till it plunged into a medium of soft green fire her to the time after her sense ol ill usage her revolt for the against social law her desire for primitive life may have showed in her face was at her his eyes lingering on a that she wore in her bosom almost with the abstraction of a he stretched out his hand and gently c the flower she drew back what are you doing winter borne i she exclaimed with a look of severe surprise the evident absence of all from the act however speedily led her to think that it was not necessary to stand upon her dignity here and now you must bear in mind she said kindly that we are not as we were and some people might have said that what you did was taking a liberty it was more than she need have told him his action of forgetfulness had made him so angry with himself that he flushed through his tan i don t know what i am coming to he exclaimed savagely ah � i was not once like this tears of vexation were in his eyes no now � it was nothing i was too it would not have to me if i had not seen something like it done elsewhere at lately he said thoughtfully after a while by whom the she him narrowly i know well enough she indifferently it was by my husband and the woman was mrs association of ideas reminded yon when yon saw me � tell me all yon know that � please do bat i won t hear it let the subject cease and as yon are my friend say nothing to my father they reached a place where their ways divided continued along the highway which kept outside tjie and opened a gate that entered it chapter hb walked up the soft grassy ride on either hand by nut bushes just now heavy with clusters of and and a little way on the track she pursued was crossed by a similar one at right angles here grace stopped some few yards up the ride the was visible � her gown tucked up hi h through her and no bonnet on her head � m the act of pulling down boughs from which she was gathering and eating nuts with great rapidity her lover tim standing near her engaged in the same pleasant meal crack crack went s jaws every second or two by an chain of thought grace s mind to the tooth drawing scene described | 45 |
had told her she ought had she not with a folly which no tongue could express prevented her marrying the young man who would have made her happy and respectable in the line of life to which she ought to belong all would have been safe none of this dreadful would have been how could ever have had the presumption to raise her thoughts to mr � how she could dare to fancy herself the chosen of such a man till actually assured of it but was less humble had fewer scruples than formerly her inferiority whether of mind or situation seemed little felt she had seemed more sensible of mr s being to stoop in marrying her than she now seemed of mr s vol n � alas was not that her own doing too who had been at pains to give notions of self consequence but herself who but herself had taught her that she was to herself if possible and that her claims were great to a high worldly establishment if from being humble were grown it was her doing too chapter xx till now that she was threatened with its loss had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with mr first in interest aud affection satisfied that it was so and feeling it her due she had enjoyed it without reflection and only in the dread of being found how important it had been long very long she felt she had been first for having no female connections of his own there had been only whose claims could be compared with hers and she had always known exactly how far he loved and esteemed she had herself been first with him for many years past she had not deserved it she had often been or perverse his advice or even opposing him insensible of half his merits and quarrelling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own � but still from family attachment and habit and thorough excellence of mind he had loved her and watched over her from a girl with an endeavor to improve her and an anxiety for her doing right which no other creature had at all shared in spite of all her faults she knew she was dear to him might she not say very dear when the suggestions of hope however which must follow here presented themselves she could not presume to indulge them smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly exclusively passionately loved by mr she could not she could not flatter herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to her she had received a very recent proof of its how shocked had he been by her behavior to miss how directly how strongly had he expressed himself to her on the subject not too strongly for the offence but far far too strongly to issue from any feeling softer than upright justice and clear sighted she had no hope nothing to deserve the name of hope that he could have that sort of affection for herself which was now in question but there was a hope at times a slight one at times much stronger that might have deceived herself and be over his regard for her wish it she must for his sake � be the consequence nothing to herself but his remaining single all his life could she be secure of that indeed of his never marrying at all she believed she should be perfectly satisfied let him but continue the same mr to her and her father the same mr to all the world let don well and lose none of their precious intercourse of friendship and confidence and her peace would be fully secured marriage in fact would not do for her it would be with what she owed to her father and with what she felt for him nothing should separate her from her father she would not marry even if she were asked by mr it must be lier ardent wish that might be disappointed and she hoped that when able to see them together again she might at least be able to ascertain what the chances for it were she should see them with the and as she had hitherto misunderstood even those she was watching she did not know how to admit that she could be blinded here he was expected back every day the power of observation would be soon given � soon it appeared when her thoughts were in one course in the mean while she resolved against seeing it would do neither of them good it would do the subject no good to be talking of it further she was resolved not to be convinced as long as she could doubt and yet had no authority for opposing s confidence to talk would be only to she wrote to her therefore kindly but to beg that she would not at present come to acknowledging it to be her conviction that all further confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided and hoping that if a few days were allowed to pass before they met again except in the company of others � she objected only to a a � they might be able to act as if they had forgotten the conversation of yesterday submitted and approved and was grateful this point was just arranged when a visitor arrived to tear s thoughts a little from the one subject which had engrossed them sleeping or waking the last twenty four hours � mrs who had been calling on her daughter in law elect and took in her way home almost as much in duty to as in pleasure to herself to relate all the particulars of so interesting an interview mr had accompanied her to mrs and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely but she having | 26 |
herself chapter vm the very next day and as fresh feeling less hot than the weather had lately been trusted that her losses both of and be soon good while she gone mr mother who came to he civil and to her civility especially in urging the execution of the plan for which had been started a fortnight and in consequence of her subsequent absence from home had i since lain mrs and her were well with its and an early day was named and agreed mr should be disengaged the young i du not forget that and though mrs would i have answered for being so they would neither the nor the risk and at last on a hint from miss ber mr that the most proper to be for him to walk down to the directly and call on mr and whether would him or not before hia return mrs grant and miss came in saving b en out some time and taken a to tlie house they bad not met him comfortable hopes however were given that he would find mr at home the was of course it was possible indeed that else should he talked of for mrs was in high spirits it and mrs a well civil thought nothing of but aa it to her own and ber sou s concerns bad not yet given l to be of the party lady it it but placid manner of vl m l i i she wished til w c a � id louder tone convinced ot wo be too much for my b wi u my mrs t � t you excuse my v of our two dear a� a the only tiiat give ber a to bo but it ii will have a in price you know bo it will till do very well and as for u he is not to speak himself i wilt answer fur his being to join the he can go on you being obliged to yield to lady a ring at home only be sorry the of lier a company be a great and � ie should have been happy to have the young lady too price who i been at yet and it a pi she not bee the place you are very kin you all kindness my dear mrs k bu as to she will in of seeing she has time enough before her and her going now is quite oat � the could dot spare her i cannot do proceeded next the conviction must be to see to include in the invitation and though airs grant who had not been mt the trouble of visiting on her into declined it on her own glad to any pleasure far her sister and and persuaded was cot long in accepting her � hue c� the civility came back from the and made his appearance just in time to what had been for to attend mrs to her carriage and walk half way down the witb his i two ot er ladies i on ms return to the breakfast room he found mrs try ing to make up mind as to whether miss s being of the desirable or not or whether her brother s not be full without her the miss at idea assuring her tliat would hold independent of the box on which one might go with liim � but why is it necessary said that a or his only should be employed why is no use to bo mode of s chaise i could not the scheme was mentioned the er day understand why n visit from not to be made in the carriage of the family cried tide weather we may liave in a no my � that will not do sold maria i know that air i us after what at he would te v and my dear added a b s om will do would be no ml ma ourselves the coachman ia not one a� be u x � g net to have dear when lie home all uie off that dot be a reason far ur a w is that old and does not how to drive i wilt for it that ve shall find no narrow on there is no i suppose in going on the cried oh i it be b� thought the seat can be no comparison u to one s view of the country probably miss will the box can be no then to s going with you there can be no doubt of room for her repeated mrs my dear u no idea of her going ith she with bet i so she ia not expected you can have no reason i imagine madam he at log liis mother for wishing not to be of the i it relates to to your own comfort if you could dr out her you would not keep her at home to be sure not but i cannot do hi r you can if stay at home with you as i mean to do there wai a general cry out at this yes he ia no necessity for my going and i to stay at h a great desire to see i know she e has not often a of the kind and t rid sure ma am you would be glad to give her the pleasure now f oil very glad if your aunt sees no mr waa very ready with the only which could � assured not and the very strange appearance would be in taking her which seemed to a difficulty quite impossible to over it must have the strangest appearance it be something so very so on ct for mrs whose own were a a of good breeding and attention that she really did not to it mrs had no for and no of pleasure at any time but her opposition to now arose more from | 26 |
him to inquire book m � i j v slid lash l j hie s utterly done i ind the too lost all their il s ow to some hie poor mother t a son it she and the girls have to into a little like a s don t lie to me if yoa please said in lis it s not and it answers no other what do mean p said more than was common with him � the before him being more than commonly me the will it s no invention of mine i have heard the from � s man for one he is getting a new tenant for i don t mean that is miss there or is she not f said in his former tone upon my soul i tell said rather may have left yesterday i heard she had taken a situation as she may be gone to it for what i know but if you wanted to sec no the mother would send for her this sneer slipped off his tongue without strict intention to inquire whether she will be there to did not move like many persons who have thought over beforehand what they shall say in given he was im by an irritation to say some of those things before the cases given in fact was likely to get into a scrape so tremendous that it was impossible to let him take the t step toward it without remonstrance retained enough caution to use a tone of rational friendliness still he felt his own value to his patron and was prepared to be daring it would be as well for you to remember that you are coming under closer fire now there can be none of the ordinary done which may mean every thing or nothing you must make up your mind whether you wish to be accepted and more than that how you would like being refused either one or the other you bo after her again for weeks said nothing bat pressed the newspaper down on his knees and began to light another cigar took this as sign that he was willing to listen and was the bent on using the opportunity ho wanted if possible to find out which would be the more potent cause of hesitation � probable acceptance or probable refusal every thing has a more serious look now than it had before there is her family to be provided for you could not let your wife s mother live in it will be a affair marriage will pin you down in a way you haven t been used to and in point of money you not too much elbow room and after all what will you get by you are master over your estates present or future as far as choosing your heir goes it s a pity to go on them for a mere whim which you may repent of in a i should be sorry to see you making a mess of your life in that way if there were any thing solid to be gained by the marriage that would be a different affair s tone had gradually become more and more in its friendliness of remonstrance and he was almost in danger of that he was merely gambling in argument when he left off took his cigar out of his mouth and looking steadily at the moist end while he adjusted the leaf with his delicate finger tips said i knew before that you had an objection to my marrying miss ho made a little pause before he continued but i never considered that a reason against it i never supposed you did answered not but it was not that i urged as a reason i should have thought it might have been a reason against it after all your experience that you would be acting like the hero of a ballad and making yourself absurd � and all for you know you couldn t make up your mind before it s impossible you can care much about her and as for the tricks she is likely to play you may judge of that from what you heard at however what i wished to point out to you was that there can be no now book in � maidens perfectly said looking at and fixing him narrow eyes i don t intend that there should be i dare say it s disagreeable to yon bat if yoa suppose i care a d � n for that you are most mistaken h d rising with his hands in his pockets and feeling some latent still within him if you have made up your mind i� only there s another aspect of affair i have been speaking on the supposition that it was absolutely certain she would accept you and that would no choice but i am not so sure that the young lady is to be counted on she is cattle to shoe i think and she had her reasons for running away before had moved a step or two till he stood nearly in front of though at some distance from him he did not feel himself much restrained by consequences being aware that the only strong hold he had on his present position was his and even after a quarrel the want of him was likely sooner or later to ho foresaw that would cause him to be for a time and his temper at this moment ui him to risk a quarrel she liad her reasons he repeated more significantly i had come to that conclusion before said with contemptuous irony yes but i hardly think you know what her reasons were you do apparently said not betraying by so much as an that ho cared for the reasons yes and you had better know too that you may judge of the influence you have over her if she | 14 |
shade of the orchard and hear he story of the crops yielded by the apple tree and the quite embarrassing of the summer � to drink in the sweet evening bi of the garden as they sat in the � and so for a short interval to feel the strain of bis pastoral task relaxed perhaps he felt the return lo that task through uie dusty roads all the painfully perhaps something in that quiet shady home had bim of the time before he had taken on bim he yoke of self denial the heart faint under the feeling enemies arc bitter and that friends only know half its sorrows the most resolute soul will now and then cast ba k a yearning look in treading the rough mountain path away from the and laughing voices of ihe valley however it was in the nine o clock twilight that evening when mr had entered his small study and turned he key in ihe door he threw himself into the chair his writing and heedless of the papers there leaned his face low on liis hand heavily is apt to be so m this life i think while we are coldly a man s career at and his opinions � and narrow or and or and � that man in his solitude is perhaps shedding hot tears because bit ice is a bard one because s repentance and patience are failing him to speak the difficult word aad do the difficult chapter ix mb showed no symptoms of w ness on the critical sunday he ihe suggestion that he be taken to church in mr a � a proposition which that gentleman made as an on the plan when the of insult became alarming mr declared he would have no precautions taken but would simply trust in god and his good cause some of his more timid thought this conduct rather defiant than wise and reflecting that a mob has great talents for and legal is imperfect satisfaction tor having one s head broken with a were beginning to their of and l these i while less highly instructed persons whose memories were not well stored with simply expressed their determination e the if god on sunday e quarter past six mr setting out from mr s with a of his friends who had assembled there was soon joined by two other groups from mr s and mr s and stray persons on way to church naturally falling into this leading file by the time they reached the entrance of orchard street mr s friends formed procession walking three or four abreast it was in orchard street and towards the church gates that the chief crowd was collected and at mr s drawing room window on the upper floor a more select assembly of anti were gathered to witness the entertaining spectacle of the walking to church amidst the and of the crowd to prompt the popular wit with appropriate numerous copies of mr s bill were posted on the walls in large and emphatic type as it is that the most industrious of literature may not have been fortunate enough to possess himself of production which ought by all means to be preserved amongst the materials of our history i a faithful copy r lt on i led a d u op life the wolf in � � s clothing ih a ua � old t� ii per y mi lime a e u h � a the a the � ell nd a om i golden i est d wing to ihe � h� e ee from d the f f s ui bu u � i� u le � conclude � of the br mr sail j e tar f s ko b ml w hi lu t he � mb a will be at tbe i though it presents the keenest edge of wit does not strike ns i imagine but hatred is like fire � it makes even light rubbish deadly and mr s � not merely visible on the walls they were reflected in glances and in the voices of he crowd through this shower of and had with an ad of groans and but of no r mr walked and composed giving his arm lo old mr whose step was feeble on the other side of him was mr who still walked though his shoulders were slightly outwardly mr was composed but inwardly he was from these tones of hatred and scorn however strong his con of right he found it no stronger against such weapons as re glances and words than against and clubs his s was in repose hut sensibility was ed once more only did the pass up street followed by a of friends once only was there a crowd resembled to witness his entrance the church gates but that second time no voice wa i heard above a whisper and the whispers were words and blessing that second me was not were worn with grief and watching and she was her beloved and to the grave n d p n know is apt to rod to very old us with only a slight o we hai een p the at h o their s and n h enemy with n a dinner bnt are p to be in disgusting witli the of the most ingenious the of the expedition are nt with able calculations the enemy has the not to fall into confusion as liad been reasonably expected the mind of the gallant general li ns to be distracted hy news of against him at home and notwithstanding the handsome he paid to providence as his patron setting oat there seems every probability ihe te will be on the other it fell out with mr in his memorable campaign against the anti after all the from the battle of the evening lecture had been lost the was in of the | 14 |
day � that i would gladly encounter for mistress our maiden of the rose a war and more perilous hazard than this single combat with a rude and boisterous seaman and now with right good will i seek to do her honor against the body of this say so to her i pray you good captain man you heed not my preaching when you go to dying speeches it is up of the reckoning a fig s end for the message you shall bear it to the maiden yourself � blame you master secretary who would blame i would fain know a brave man who does battle for so a maiden by my manhood i i think that nothing short of the maiden herself will be fit for this he was a wise and a courteous king as the ballad him that gave his daughter to the brave knight who his adversary in combat now i will take on me to say that no king of the ballad ever had more need to be rid of a to his daughter than our friend old has to be free of this sea dog you shall fairly win a most fair and here once more i do you honor in a sup with this pledge � may st wear the st so i by ic rob of the bowl there s verse for it � halting ha ha master but of an honest it comes from thine and the maiden s well and with this flash of merriment the captain again plied the and spent some moments laughing at his jest when he suddenly ceased with the remark i hear the stroke of oars � this master is at hand he is punctual for it is just noon we shall see him anon it was as the captain said for at that moment attended by two followers was seen coming up from the margin of st s across the meadow to the place appointed for the s bearing was stern his brow high charged with passion and a keen resentment flashed from his eye as he ad into the presence of his adversary a slight salute passed between the and for some moments each party drew aside in the presence of his s whole was changed he had heretofore as we have seen assumed a cheerful vein of intercourse with his principal adapted with a view to amuse his mind and give him the necessary assurance which the successful conduct of the enterprise required � a labor however which was in no degree rendered necessary by the circumstances of the case as it was very apparent that the secretary although a in the practice of the quarrel was altogether self possessed and even eager for the issue the captain however was not slow to perceive that there was still in his carriage that hurried motion and too anxious restlessness which the novelty of the situation in which he found himself and the earnestness of his desire to himself to the satisfaction of his own feelings through all this cheerful of the captain s manner was grave and scarce responded to his companion s merriment but now that the by ic rob op the bowl moment of action arrived he grew apparently more light hearted whilst on the other hand became serious and addressed himself to the business in hand like a careful and man the is surly said as he stood apart with the secretary wiping the sword that was to be used by his friend i am glad to see it it passion receive the assault from him stand on your defence giving ground slightly to his advance then suddenly when you have whipped him to a rage as you will surely do give back the attack hotly follow it up as you did this morning in practice with me and you will hardly fail to find him at disadvantage then thrust home � for the shorter you make this quarrel the better for your strength i am more at my ease in this play than you think me replied smiling you shall find it so pray let us go to our business the captain with two in his hand advanced to the ground occupied by and his friends i would be acquainted with your second master he said here are our swords shall we measure master replied the as he presented a seaman the mate of the olive branch this other companion is but a on i would you had matched me replied hastily and with some show of displeasure with an of better degree master than this mate of yours he was but a within the year past our quality deserved that you should sort us with gentlemen at least gentlemen i exclaimed the in a passion st i are we not gentlemen enough for you we belong to the coast � peace hastily interrupted by ic rob of the bowl not here � leave me to speak i master mj not my second farther than as bearing master may render one to me i came hither to make my own battle i came to this field replied prepared with my sword to make good the quarrel of my friend against any you might match me with so second or bully or at your heels master i will fight with thia master that is but a boy s play and i will none of it captain si id angrily this custom of parties brings the quarrel to an end at the first drawing of blood i wish no upon a scratch my demand stops not short of a mortal strife my sword sir said hastily up to the captain and seizing his sword this is my quarrel alone captain you strike no blow in it upon guard sir i he added whilst his eye flashed fire and his whole figure was lighted up with the animation of his anger | 29 |
of his genius but this and writer whose verse in its deeper even pope s in melody fancied himself a a society singer and in his false ambition the of and prior but while he was vainly attempting to subdue for himself a province in land there lay a romantic island of which was his by and it was pope who opened his eyes to this fact we know little of s life but we may be sure from internal evidence that his last three poems were composed during the five years between the publication of forest and his own death yet though pope awakened his genius within him was not the of pope within the narrow range of what he did well there was no writer of his time who showed a greater originality the english poets the may be considered as forming the and of poetry in england it is more exactly in the french taste than any work that preceded it and after it english poetry swiftly passed into the of s poem is the model of a moral the movement is dignified and rapid the action and reflection are balanced with exquisite skill the surprise is admirably prepared and the treatment never flags from beginning to end the french complaint of the lack of style in our minor poetry might have been triumphantly confronted by the and of the infancy of our criticism by a reference to which if we are ready to grant that polish elegance and are the main elements of poetry could scarcely be surpassed in any language but more of real inspiration attended the composition of his two remarkable the night piece and the hymn to contentment in these he originated two distinct streams of poetical influence for the former was no less certainly the of the curious school of young and than the latter was of exquisite strain of writing in both he shows himself the of milton and the ringing measure as no one had done since was published the lines with which we open our selection from the hymn to contentment reach a higher range of melody and strike a more subtle of fancy than perhaps any other verses of that age yet has been neglected from his own generation to ours and it is doubtful whether his moral can ever hope to regain the popular ear w thomas par from a night piece on death by the blue s trembling light no more i waste the night intent with endless view to pore the and the o er their books from wisdom widely stray or point at best the longest way ill seek a path and go where wisdom s surely taught below how deep yon the sky where of gold d lie while through their ranks in silver pride the seems to glide i the breeze forgets to breathe the lake is smooth and clear beneath where once again the show to meet our eyes below the grounds which on the right in from the view retire the left presents a place of graves whose wall the silent water that guides thy doubtful sight among the livid of night there pass with melancholy state by all the solemn heaps of fate and think as softly sad you tread above the venerable dead time was like thee they life and time shall be that thou shalt rest those graves with bending bound that nameless heave the ground quick to the glancing thought disclose where toil and poverty repose the english poets the smooth stones that bear a name the s slender help to fame which ere our set of friends decay their frequent steps may wear away a middle race of mortals own men half ambitious all unknown the marble that rise on high whose dead in arches lie whose pillars swell with stones arms angels and bones these all the poor remains of state adorn the rich or praise the great who while on earth in fame they live are senseless of the fame they give ha while i gaze pale the bursting earth the shades all slow and wan and d with they rise in visionary crowds and all with sober accent cry think mortal what it is to die from a hymn to contentment the silent heart which grief soft and o er the sees open rivers run and seeks as i have vainly done amusing thought but to know that solitude s the nurse of woe no real happiness is found in trailing purple o er the ground or in a soul exalted high to range the circuit of the sky converse with stars above and know all nature in its forms below thomas par the rest it seeks in seeking dies and doubts at last for knowledge rise lovely lasting peace appear this world itself if thou art here is once again with and man contains it in his breast twas thus as under shade i stood i sung my wishes to the wood and lost in thought no more perceived the branches whisper as they d it seem d as all the quiet place confessed the presence of the grace when thus she spoke � go rule thy will bid thy wild passions all be still know god � and bring thy heart to know the joys which from religion flow then every grace shall prove its guest and i ll be there to crown the rest oh by yonder seat in my hours of sweet retreat might i thus my soul employ with sense of gratitude and joy i raised as ancient were in heavenly vision praise and prayer pleasing all men none pleased and blessed with god alone then while the gardens take my sight with all the colours of delight while silver waters glide along to please my ear and court my song i ll lift my voice and tune my string and thee great source of nature sing | 45 |
understand by his words as well as his actions abbey she had from the first been so fortunate as to excite in the general and by a recollection of some most generous and disinterested sentiments on the subject of money which she had more than once heard him utter and which tempted her to think his disposition in such matters misunderstood by his children they were so fully convinced however that their brother would not have the courage to apply in person for his father s consent and so repeatedly assured her that he had never in his life been less likely to come to than at the present time that she suffered her mind to be at ease as to the necessity of any sudden removal of her own but as it was not to be supposed that captain whenever he made his application would give his father any just idea of s conduct it occurred to her as highly expedient that henry should lay the whole business before him as it really was the general by that means to form a cool and impartial opinion and prepare his objections on a fairer ground than of situations she proposed it to him accordingly but he did not catch at the measure so eagerly as she had expected no said he my father s hands need not be strengthened and s confession of folly need not be he must tell his own story � but he will tell only half of it a quarter would be enough a day or two passed away and brought no tidings of captain his brother and sister knew not what to think sometimes it appeared to them as if his silence would be the natural result of the suspected engagement and at others that it was wholly with it the general mean while though o ended every morning by s in writing was free from any real anxiety about him and had no more pressing solicitude than that of making miss s i abbey time at pass pleasantly he often expressed his uneasiness on this head feared the of every day s society and would disgust her with the place wished the lady had been in the country talked every now and then of having a large party to dinner and once or twice began even to calculate the number of young dancing people in the neighbourhood but then it was such a dead time of year no wild fowl no game and the lady were not in the country and it all ended at last in his telling henry one morning that when he next went to wood ton they would take him by there some day or other and eat their mutton with him henry was greatly honoured and very happy and was quite delighted with the scheme and when do you think sir i may look forward to this pleasure i must be at on monday to attend the parish meeting and shall probably be obliged to stay two or three days weu well we will take our chance some one of those days there is no need to fix you are not to put yourself at all out of your way whatever you may happen to have in the house will be enough i think i can answer for the young ladies making allowance for a bachelor s table let me see monday will be a busy day with you we will not come on monday and tuesday will be a busy one with me i expect my from with his report in the morning and afterwards i cannot in decency fail attending the club i really could not face my acquaintance if i staid away now for as i am known to be in the country it would be taken exceedingly amiss and it is a rule with me miss never to give offence to any of my neighbours if a small sacrifice of time and attention can prevent it they are a set of very worthy men they have half a buck from twice a o abbey year and i dine with them whenever i can tuesday therefore we may say is out of the question but on wednesday i think henry you may expect us and we shall be with you early that we may have time to look about us two hours and three quarters will carry us to i suppose we shall be in the carriage by ten so ut a quarter before one on wednesday you may look for us a ball itself could not have been more welcome to than this little excursion so strong was her desire to be acquainted with and her heart was still bounding with joy when henry about an hour afterwards came and great into the room where she and were sitting and said i am come young ladies in a very strain to observe that our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage giving ready actual happiness for a on the future that may not be honoured witness myself at this present hour because i am to hope for the satisfaction of seeing you at on wednesday which bad weather or twenty other causes may prevent i must go away directly two days before i intended it go away said with a very long face and why why how can you ask the question because no time is to be lost in my old housekeeper out of her wits because i must go and prepare a dinner for you to be sure oh not seriously ay and sadly too for i had much rather stay but how can you think of such a thing after what the general said when he so particularly desired you not to give yourself any trouble because anything would do abbey only smiled i am sure it is quite | 26 |
acceptance of his views by the world at large but � alas for mr s visions of future triumph � when he reached home he found an angry letter from mr saying that his servants refused in a body to attend church unless orders were distinctly given by the that strangers were not to be put into their ch vii a sketch in black and white while mr the principal bass in the choir � who as he said himself had sung there man and boy this twenty years come next � was waiting in the study to announce with more than that as mr thought his self such an uncommon good and took people down so sharp at the he might sing bass for his self in future as he � mr � wasn t going to stand up there to be spoke to before a lot of boys he should go to chapel next sunday where folks knew when they d got hold of a tidy singer and behaved according mr s forehead itself up very much his charming castles resolved themselves into the fine air out of which they were originally constructed he gave up thinking of the conquest of the fair daughter of the for a time and plunged wearily back into the actual but though vexation and the sudden reaction from his unusually exalted state of feeling caused him thus to put the idea aside for a while he did not it altogether he was sensible that there was a new element in his life at last mr came home and the inmates of the were awakened from the state of and discomfort in which they had existed since the evening of the nothing regarding elizabeth s revolt was said on the night of his return indeed it would have been difficult to get time to make any announcement mr was not usually a great but i mrs part t he kept up the pretty old fashioned habit � falling sadly into in these hurrying days � of telling his wife all about it when he came home from any little journey what he had said and what everybody else had said what he had done willingly and what he had been compelled to do unwillingly gates and fences this man s beasts and that man s sheep what local had called what sort of dinners the wife had prepared for him how late the train was how long he took going here and going there finally how glad he was to be at home again � all these matters were with simple cheery dignity as though highly important and received by mrs with attention and appropriate remarks it was a very real relief to both women to listen to this stream of talk after the silence and of the last week it was comfortable and to have the sound of a man s footstep about the house again and to hear mr clear his throat in that loud way so much affected by the english country gentleman elizabeth was rather excited and almost disposed to repent of her decided action regarding the london house she regretted that she had not had an opportunity of talking the matter fairly over with her uncle now she feared he would hear a very one sided account of the business from her aunt having decided for herself she felt it would be out of place for her to speak to him on the subject first he must speak to her and he could only do ch vii a sketch in black and white so when mrs had put him in possession of the facts from her point of view elizabeth had a large confidence in mr s charity and comprehension she felt sure he would not judge her harshly or narrowly still he would be pained he must be pained at learning her strongly expressed desire � and it would lose none of its force in her aunt s recital of it � to leave most likely mrs would have the whole matter out with her husband next morning to night she was evidently too happy at getting him back and had too much respect for the time honoured custom of hearing all about it to interrupt the harmony of the occasion by the introduction of home matters to morrow poor elizabeth felt she would be judged she almost prayed that the verdict might be a merciful one she had taken the responsibility upon herself she intended to depart but she earnestly desired to depart in peace � at least with her uncle mrs i part l chapter viii � we fell out my wife and i oh we fell out i know not why and kissed again with tears there had been a heavy shower of rain in the night and the morning was hot damp and even on the high land where the village stood down in the valley and along the winding course of the brook lay long lines of mist which the sun veiled by a of thin gray cloud had not as yet sufficient power to burn up it was one of those very quiet summer mornings when the damp earth smells sweet and the cattle lie lazily down in the rich growing grass and the birds keep up such a lively search over and garden beds for worms that they have hardly time to sing mr stood on the flight of stone steps which led from the bow window of his study down into the garden he was smoking a comfortable after breakfast cigar and looking over the day s paper which had just brought him mr was in a particularly pleasant and serene attitude of mind he was conscious of having done a good week s work and of being glad to be at ch viii a sketch in black and white home again he felt a quiet satisfaction at being | 32 |
fourth floor bell about six times if s no good your ringing remarked by lights and shadows the book boy when i had discovered that fact for myself mr ain t at home lie ain t he s got a bad cold at this affecting intelligence the three boys burst into shrieks of laughter i understand the boy and his as well as any grown person can but i confess this conduct puzzled me after a few minutes however and many genial i discovered that having a bad cold means in town being in debt while a very bad cold that the sufferer has taken departure from his lodgings without that pecuniary misfortune was other professors of i must confess that i had the same difficulty in obtaining a personal interview in two out of the three next cases the men of science had flitted from their apartments urged perhaps by some irrepressible swelling in their organs of locality perhaps also it is a of their art that they should dwell no lower than the third floor but at all events i never found them below that by of london life mr with whom i had my first interview could scarcely be said to lodge on any floor at all he resided in a back of a third story in a street out of and carried on his undisturbed by any external influences through the medium of a he was struck by my head he said even as he had observed it coming upstairs with its hat on while leaning over the he had remarked to his little boy aged five but remarkably intelligent � with form much developed he assured me though to my eye he looked thin � that the gentleman who was come to see papa was a very remarkable person he was fairly with my characteristics bless my soul sir how i should like to write upon your head dear me said i is it then so very flat at the top no sir you mistake me i mean i should like to give you a written character instead of a mere the difference will be by lights and shadows but is d the value to yourself will be you will thereby learn the system of diet most adapted for your constitution that is most important in your case the instinct that leads to the selection of food i perceive is large really said i mr these remarks are rather painful i am not come here to be upon my eating certainly not sir nor is there any occasion for such a rebuke you will always take care of yourself � that is evident th to die is excessively prominent again is small your personal would never lead you into danger permit me what are you doing sir cried i as the professor produced a machine of mysterious construction and endeavoured to put it over my head i thought of the unhappy victims of messrs and hare whose portraits i had just beheld in a rival establishment and i shrunk by of london backward an unwilling horse from his collar and no there sir � there is there is a proof of the of my art if one were needed but there is nothing to be afraid of with this machine i determine your i lay my finger on the profession that you ought to pursue that is the very thing i came about said i pray proceed if the � the instrument is harmless it me a good deal as a one s foot as he measures it with his rule but nothing worse while the results were sufficiently striking if not satisfactory one of the most remarkable heads sir i ever � the great perhaps alone and who was lie f inquired i with interest for i naturally felt a desire to know the man with the next most wonderful head to that upon my own shoulders by and shadows well sir he might have been anything � anything in the world might that man have been or else is worth nothing he might have been a general or an author or a prime minister or a bishop if he had only tried well but what was he inquired i impatiently well when i knew him he was the champion at the gallery he could tie himself in a true lovers knot upon the stage bless you but besides that he was a most intellectual and benevolent man in later life however he injured his a good deal by the pursuit of his profession his veneration entirely disappeared through standing on his head while even his self esteem which you see slopes off and is partially protected got gradually smaller and was almost even with the surface at the period of his his popularity having died before him the great however had humour in which you are very deficient by of london life am i indeed said i gloomily yes sir you have a natural dislike to and consider those who practise it to be but heavens i what weight you have what calculation what ideas of distance and of space forgive me sir but i am surely addressing a civil engineer well not exactly replied i indeed sir then i am much mistaken you are a little mr well then all i have to say is that if you are not an engineer you ought to be you would build a bridge now that would astonish people if they attempted to cross over any bridge of mine it would i am sure astonish people a good deal but as mr evidently meant astonishment in the sense of admiration i only said t dear me engines now would be very much in your way continued the professor and next to engines you would perform an as well as any man i know by lights and shadows if this were true it is certain that | 25 |
er to the father xvii to the ii which witb t k as an entreaty for the of a glory � r je from eternity the language of vi where he of the son of where he was before d ii ih np is in meaning as well as in that which is re � b� l is life of s fl on it other j ii � i of actual not merely ideal � it has been already � or t least of to a � e i� are derived not from but from tlie of with whose opinions tu y tor if word was in an g with god iv r in il was made ft might to himself before n of with the father before th� foundation of world wc are not in tliis view unless it can b shown neither w i t the idea of pro existence of the among jews of before the time oi je nor is it probable attained a notion of to liis age nation tlie r spoke from own memory of his pre and existence is liable to comparison witli dangerous in tlie history of � nd of i whose alleged of individual states which bad experienced prior to their t are now regarded either aa or as of te ct men for the other that the idea in i to the nation a may be in tlie description already quoted from daniel of n of in he clouds of heaven since the author possibly and at all events ma ny imagined that personage to be a being dwelling with god like the angels every one this passage to the or that in ia ed with it the notion of a is not to be proved for if we the representation of john his coming in the of heaven as if le had come aa a to from his in heaven bat according to xxvi xxiv as if be the earth horn after the completion of hi c be received heaven and thence to his kingdom thus making the coming from not include idea of we in the in and the hook of wisdom the idea of a ami even hy � of god and in the y marked of the divine word and ii is iy worth of note that the later jews in their horror of in idea of the divine being his iq � aiid immediate agency to the s i a or the b of ta may be seen in the l w � p f it� f i � d o r il ton l t f i s f is i c � i of p� m � ii in turn k i s it t j i i ii in a t j m as of these at first of uie name of god soon n� the of a of a being at once distinct from and aa of the revelations and of whose word was o be were designed iii of the je il natural for them to to e which was from and which to w tlie crowning of i � the namely of � � m h tlie word or f from opinion tliat witli the tlie would was to the equally to � an opinion not confined to the bat by thi i to it was even in the � s invisible guide and of god fl t x j lie was with our first k rents in s he was the agent in creation col l even existed before the and prior to his in was in a glorious fellowship god ii as it is thus evident that immediately the time of e idea of n of the was in the higher it is no far that the game idea was a when the mind of was and that in liis conception of as the this included but were as deeply in the speculations of aa paul is yet a question and as the of the fourth in the doctrine of the stands alone in to the of a � we are unable to decide we are to put the to the account of or of his s go l op jl � of a political me nt i u to a future and to aa of the kingdom of heaven the idea of that belonged lo the h nation did l i it in the form in u it existed among his or of his own a of the grew up amongst jews in religious it in the lime of je us according to the testimony of the it was ar � mat m rap ml m� t t s t n il m of tar jf iii m � � a in at f lu f t t s il s ki i m � � i li u m i s mi � � � � � � � a ant int it � r i h il ut ht ii ms ml � ril m� k a i t op i would of fire from the yoke a om last for ever ike t f tr i our must l c did ji this political in plan that to be a at all rd of of christianity but bout by none with so much as by the author of the be it by no to the of at the moral of nation according to writer the of a political plan on the part ot n that lie announced th� kingdom laid down the on it was to be d without what this kingdom was and it as if lie current idea of its nature to be correct now the iv that the conception of a � bias when spoke of tjie s kingdom without u the could only think of an dominion and as not have pit � any other of his he must | 14 |
tom said i was punctual or i got no dinner when you were my age returned tom you hadn t a wrong balance to get right and hadn t to dress afterwards never mind that now said well then grumbled tom don t begin with me mrs said perfectly hearing this under strain as it went on your brother s face is quite familiar to me can i have seen him abroad or at some public school perhaps no she returned quite interested he has never been abroad yet and was educated here at home tom love i am telling mr that he never saw you abroad no such luck sir said tom there was little enough in him to her face for he was a sullen young fellow and in his manner even to her so much the greater must have been the solitude of her heart and her need of some one on whom to bestow it so much the more is this the only creature she has ever cared for thought mr james turning it over and over so much the more so much the more both in his sister s presence and after she had left the hard times room the t ok no pains to hide his contempt for mr whenever he could indulge it without the observation of that independent man by making faces or shutting one eye without to these communications mr encouraged him much in the course of the evening and showed an unusual liking for him at last when he rose to return to his hotel and was a little doubtful whether he knew the way by night the immediately proffered his services as guide and turned out with him to escort him thither hard times chapter iii the it was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint should be a but it was certainly the case with tom it was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five minutes should be incapable at last of governing himself but so it was with tom it was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been in his cradle should be still by its ghost in the form of but such a monster beyond all doubt was tom do you smoke asked mr james when they came to the hotel u i believe you said tom he could do no less than ask tom up and tom could do no less than go up what with a drink adapted to the weather but not so weak as cool and what with a tobacco than was to be bought in those parts tom was soon in a highly free and easy state at his end of the sofa and more than ever disposed to admire his new friend at the other end tom blew his smoke aside after he had been smoking a little while and took an observation of his friend vol i hard times he don t seem to care about his dress thought tom and yet how he does it what an easy swell he is mr james happening to catch tom s eye remarked that he drank nothing and filled his glass with his own hand thank ee said tom thank ee well mr house i hope you have had about a dose of old to night tom said this with one eye shut up again and looking over his glass at his a very good fellow indeed returned mr james you think so don t you said tom and shut up his eye again mr james smiled and rising from his end of the sofa and lounging with his back against the chimney piece so that he stood before the empty as he smoked in front of tom and looking down at him observed what a brother in law you are what a brother in law old is i think you mean said tom you are a piece of tom retorted mr james there was something so very agreeable in being so intimate with such a waistcoat in being called tom in such an intimate way by such a voice in being on such off hand terms so soon with such a pair of whiskers that tom was uncommonly pleased with himself oh i don t care for old said he if you mean that i have always called old by the same name when i have talked about him and i have hard times always thought of him in the same way i am not going to begin to be polite now about old it would be rather late in the day don t mind me returned james but take care when his wife is by you know his wife said tom my sister loo o yes and he laughed and took a little more of the drink james continued to in the same place and attitude smoking his cigar in his own easy way and looking pleasantly at the as if he knew himself to be a kind of agreeable demon who had only to over him and he must give up his whole soul if required it certainly did seem that the yielded to this influence he looked at his companion he looked at him he looked at him boldly and put up one leg on the sofa my sister loo said tom she never cared for old that s the past tense tom returned mr james striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger we are in the present tense now not to care mood present tense first person singular i do not care second person singular thou dost not care third person singular she does not care returned tom good very quaint said his friend though you don t mean it but i do mean it cried tom upon my | 8 |
pa j and exalted as who should say this is what must all come to gentlemen when we choose to bring you to b this same yoimg was s serving maid and hei deliver a bunch of keys commanding treasures in the way of and the investigation of which i after breakfast when declared that fa must everything john dear or it will never be lucky and when pa all sorts of things into his mouth and didn t quite know i to do with f hem they were put there then they all three out for a charming ride and for a stroll among heath in bloom and there behold the identical with his wooden l s disposed before him sitting meditating on the of life i to v said in her light hearted surprise oh how do yo again t a dear old j ou are i to which responded that he see her married this morning my beauty that if it t a liberty he wished her ji and the of wind and weather further in a general way to what cheer and up on his two wooden legs to sa hat in hand ship shape with the gallantry of a man of a heart of oak it was a pleasant sight in the midst of the golden i see this salt old and waving his hat at i while his thin white hair flowed free as if she had once launched him into blue water again you are a charming said and am so happy that i wish i r make you answered and give me to kiss your hand my lovely and it s done so it was done t general contentment and if and didn t in the i the afternoon the main brace it was not for want of the n of that outrage on the feelings of the infant ban i hope but the marriage dinner was the crowning success for bride and bridegroom to do but to and to hold in the very room of the very hotel where pa and the woman had once dined together i sat between pa and divided her attentions pretty equally but felt it necessary i i to ra lo y na well aware of il my the ail � you willingly willingly sir yoa to be so i be my dear if i thought that i but yon know you are not don t yon poor dear pa ton that yoa have only made a new relation who will be aa of a and as thankful to yon � for my sake and own don t you dear little pa look here i put h linger on her own lip and then on pa s and then on ber b again and then on her s now we are a pa dear fa the of dinner here cat short in one of her af the more because it was put on � of a solemn gentleman in black and a white om who looked more like a than tie v seemed ta have mounted a great deal higher in tjie m say the in secrecy ic on the subject of and bent though stooping to the of likewise on john s offering a suggestion which didn t i his views his became and l as what a dinner of all the that in if surely had way to it and if of the fists divers colours that made a in the ni ib explanation in re � of and then jumped of the pan were not to be it was only had all become of one by being cooked in and the dishes being with � an they are out o� at � of po and the golden drinks had in the up their ever since the best of it was that and john and the hid a that they would not reveal to mortal any � p� i� whatever of being a wedding party the the knew this as well as if he w the ceremony and the with entered into their without being invited show of keeping the ont of it wag the crowning rf entertainment there was an innocent waiter of a slender form � logs as yet in of and but evidently of a romantic temperament and deeply it not to add hopelessly in love with some young female not aware a � this youth the position of a even his innocence could not mistake his waiting to f it ly against the when want at her when she did hi l i l him out his in tiu i mutual of him in degrading of melted by any chance he got hold of any worth ha ben hi w of it and ordering him to stand hack excuse bim madam said the bishop in a low al voice he is a on liking and we like this induced john to observe � by way of thing more natural � my love this is so much more fill than any of our past that i think we must here w replied with probably the least attempt at looking that ever was seen indeed i so john dear here the of a stately attract the attention of three of his ministers present and at them seemed te say call upon you by your to be this with his own hands ho afterwards put on the as ing to the three guests the period now arrived at can dispense with the assistance of those who not ic confidence and would have retired with complete dignity but daring action issuing � com the brain of the young ma liking � ee finding by ill a piece of orange flower some in the now approached with the same in a and placed it on s right hand the and him but the thing was done i trust madam said his grace returning alone that | 8 |
wan eight a day i to bim � i to morrow thb daughter of the regiment me to you but by the ould who is now in glory you don t give me your to ask at the flesh off yer bones a brass to night tis a to b ny she s been single so long i i was i goin to let a three year ould to me my will bein set no i an asked her he s a good is wan these days he ll get into the com an a his s so i provided for ould s daughter an now you go along an dance her and i did i felt a respect for miss and i went to her wedding later on perhaps i will tell you about that one of these days the pride of his in the pride of his stopped m the straight when the race was his own t look at him cutting it� cur to the bone ask ere the be and what did he carry and how was he ridden maybe they used him too much at the start maybe fate s weight are breaking his heart s when i was telling you of the joke that the worm played off on the senior i promised a somewhat similar tale but with all the jest left out this is that tale was in his early early neither by landlady s daughter nor cook but by a girl so nearly of his own caste that only a woman could have said she was just the least little bit in the world below it this happened a month before he came out to india and five days after his one birthday the girl was nineteen � six years older than in the things of this world that is to say � and for the time twice as foolish as he excepting always falling off a horse there is nothing more easy than marriage before the the ceremony costs less than fifty shillings and is remarkably like walking into a shop after the of residence have been put in four minutes will cover the rest of the proceedings � and all then the the over the names and says grimly with his pen between his teeth � now you re m n and wife and the couple in the pride of his youth walk out into the street feeling as if something were horribly somewhere but that ceremony holds and can drag a man to his just as thoroughly as the long as ye both shall curse from the altar rails with the behind and the voice that breathed o er lifting the roof ofl in this manner was and he considered it vastly fine for he had received an appointment in india which carried a magnificent salary from the home point of view the marriage was to be kept secret for a year then mrs was to come out and the rest of life was to be a glorious golden mist that was how they it under the road station lamps and after one short month came and steaming out to his new life and the girl crying in a thirty shillings a week bed and living room in a back street off square near the but the country that came to was a hard land where men of twenty one were reckoned very small boys indeed and life was expensive tlie salary that loomed so large six thousand miles away did not go far particularly when divided it by two and more than the fair half at i to square one hundred and thirty five out of three hundred and thirty is not much to live on but it was absurd to suppose that mrs could exist forever on the � held back by from his allowance saw this and at once always remembering that rs were to be paid twelve months later for a passage out for a lady when you add to these trifling details the natural instincts of a boy beginning a new life in a new country and longing to go about and enjoy himself and the necessity for with strange tn the pride of his youth work � which properly speaking should take up a boy s attention � you will see that started he saw it himself for a breath or two but he did not guess the full beauty of his future as the hot weather began the settled on him and ate into his flesh first would come big crossed seven sheet letters � from his wife telling him how she longed to see him and what a heaven upon earth would be their property when they met then some boy of the wherein lodged would pound on the door of his bare little room and tell him to come out to look at a pony � the very thing to suit him could not afford he had to explain this could not afford living in the modest as it was he had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day he kept house on a green oil cloth table cover one chair one one photograph one tooth glass very strong and thick a seven and by contract at thirty seven a month which last item was he had no for a costs fifteen a month but he slept on the roof of the office with all his wife s letters under his pillow now and again he was asked out to dinner where he got both a and au drink but this was seldom for people objected to a boy who had evidently the instincts of a scotch and who lived in such a nasty fashion could not to any amusement so he found no amusement except the pleasure of turning over his bank book and reading what it | 39 |
very light covering on the head as a straw hat is best the should be open the breast being either exposed or covered the of the trousers should not be tight and the boots or shoes should have no iron about them sudden are always bad exercise should begin gently and should in the same manner the left hand and arm being commonly weaker than the right they should be exercised till they become as strong this custom is advantageous not only for all military and mechanical exercises but also for all their operations the being cooled too quickly is injurious therefore drinking when very hot or lying down on the cold ground should be avoided no exertion should be carried to excess as that only and the body therefore whenever the feels tired or falls behind his usual mark he should resume his clothes and walk home the exercise is finished the clothes should always be put on and the usual precautions adopted to prevent taking cold the necessary up of an ground are a leaping stand a horse a bar a climbing stand with poles and ropes which may be seen united as simply and as possible in a subsequent sketch � plate xviii climbing in most exercises a belt or is of utility and it seems in all ages to have been naturally employed the savage who could not follow others in the course without panting would find by placing his hand over his and supporting the liver and other organs which descend into that that he was aided in running and breathed more easily and thence he would make for himself a belt united in societies men would still preserve their belt though it might not seem particularly advantageous except to those whose active mode of life approached a primitive state such as travellers and the put on their before they commenced and many both ancient and modern recommend the use of as being to the whole of the body and to the parts over which they are placed what the exterior or are to the muscles � bands which embrace and keep firm the parts over which they are placed the common belt has and to fasten it an iron ring and a pocket a double for forms a very strong is put on by pupils who are very strong when they these may be made of different sizes for youths of different ages of five or six inches for tall youths and men and of eight or ten inches for their length is in proportion to the size of the person who uses them these are very useful in the region in running and leaping also should furnish themselves with before getting training on to prevent too motion of the of the and the which may result from it the indeed of will by d prove their utility and they will probably be worn even without reference to physical exercises they deserve this the more they give an air of lightness and elegance to the shape and the chest the most thing in existence is dangerous if applied in very young persons the chest and have been compressed by the belt too tight or making it too wide and of and have consequently been caused by pushing in the false ribs this is an that should be avoided if the belt be low it may press too much on the lower part of the belly if too high it may disorder the chest it must therefore be placed on the so as to pass over the and as said before it must not be too tight having given these ideas of the utility of and the manner of using them it remains only to explain the triple use of those adopted for exercises st they by their size and other circumstances all the conditions which render them useful d a pocket serves to the articles that may be wanted according to the class of exercises performing d an iron ring is intended to by means of hooks any thing we wish to carry so as to leave the hands at liberty this is important in relation to various exercises to be described the art of training for exercises or training laborious exertions consists in the body and its powers by certain processes which are now to be described the advantages of it are not confined to or they extend to every one for were training generally introduced instead of medicine for the and cure of diseases its consequences would assuredly life and promote its happiness every knows that all the parts which compose the human body � as well as � are absorbed and deposited hence a perpetual of them regulated by the nature of our food and general habits the health of all the parts and the of their structure depend on this perpetual and now nothing so effectually as exercise at once and it accordingly all the vital functions without hurrying them all the parts and preserves them apt and fit for their offices it follows then that health vigor and activity chiefly depend upon exercise and or in other words upon the of those rules which constitute the theory of training the effect has accordingly with the cause assigned in this view of the subject in every instance where it has been adopted and although not commonly resorted to as the means of restoring to health there is every reason to believe that it would prove effectual in many obstinate diseases such as complaints and the entertained this opinion they were says a popular writer on medicine by no means with or to these instruments of medicine although modem appear to have no idea of removing disease or restoring health but by pouring into the is said been the first who applied the exercises and f the to the removal of disease or the maintenance of health among the this so | 50 |
that he would die in a remembering on further however that under any circumstances he must have paid or handsomely for s debt and being by no means confident that he have succeeded had he undertaken his enterprise alone he regained his and and over more satisfactory until the entrance of interrupted him said arthur what is it what is it now it s the fowl replied holding up a plate containing a little � a very little one � quite a phenomenon of a fowl � so very small and a beautiful bird said arthur after inquiring the price and finding it to the size with a of ham and an egg made into and potatoes and and an apple and a little bit of cheese we shall have a dinner for an emperor there il only be she and me � and you when we ve done don t you complain of the expense afterwards said mrs i m a aid we must live for the first week returned arthur with a groan and then we must make up for it i won t eat more than i can help and i know you love your old master too much to eat more than you can help don t you don t i what said love your old master too much � no not a bit too much said oh dear i wish the devil had this woman cried arthur � love him too much to eat more than you can help at his expense at his what said oh dear she can never hear the most important word and hears all the others at his expense � you the last mentioned tribute to the charms of mrs being uttered in a whisper that lady assented to the general proposition by a harsh growl which was accompanied by a ring at the street door there s the said arthur ay ay i know that rejoined then why don t you go arthur go where retorted ain t doing any harm here am i arthur in reply repeated the word bell as loud as he could roar and his meaning being rendered intelligible to mrs s dull sense of hearing by expressive of ringing at a street door out after sharply demanding why he hadn t said there was a ring before instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it and keeping her half pint of beer waiting on the steps there s a change come over you mrs said arthur following her out with his eyes what it means i don t quite know but if it lasts we shan t agree together long i see you are turning crazy i think if you are you must take yourself off mrs or be taken off all s one to me turning over the leaves of his book as he muttered life and of this he soon lighted upon something wliich attracted his attention and forgot and everything else in the interest of its pages the room had no other light than that wliich it derived from a dim and dirt lamp whose lazy being still further obscured by a dark shade cast its feeble rays over a very little space and left all beyond in heavy this lamp the money had drawn so close to him that there was only room between it and himself for the book over whidi he bent and as he sat with his elbows on the desk and his sharp cheek bones resting on his hands it only served to bring out his ugly features in strong relief together with the table at which he sat and to all the rest of chamber in a deep sullen gloom raising his eyes and looking into this gloom as ho made some mental calculation arthur suddenly met the fixed gaze of a man thieves thieves shrieked the starting up and folding his book to his breast robbers murder what is the matter said the form advancing keep off cried the trembling is it a man or a � a � for what do you take me if not for a man was the inquiry yes yes cried arthur his eyes with hia hand it is a man and not a spirit it is a man robbers robbers for what are these cries raised � indeed you know me and have some purpose in your brain said the stranger coming close up to him i am no thief what then and how come you here cried somewhat re assured but still retreating from his visitor what is your name and what do you want my name you need not know was the reply i came here because i was shown the way by your servant i have addressed you twice or thrice but you were too profoundly engaged with your book to hear me and i have been silently waiting you be less abstracted what i want i wiu tell you when you can summon up courage enough to hear and understand me arthur venturing to regard his visitor more attentively and perceiving that he was a yoimg man of good and bearing returned to his seat and muttering that there were bad characters about and that this with former attempts upon his house had made him nervous requested his visitor to sit down this however he declined good god i don t stand up to have you at an advantage said for it was as he observed a gesture of alarm on the part of listen to me you are to be married to morrow morning n � n � no rejoined who said i was how do you know that no matter how replied i know it the young lady who is to give you her hand hates and you her blood runs cold at the mention of your name � the and the lamb the rat | 8 |
morning s hand trembled as she took the paper why should i read it she faltered mechanically lady raised her eyebrows and frowned impatiently � why because it is your duty to do so have you no will you allow your husband to write such a letter as to another woman � and such a woman too without one word of remonstrance you owe it to yourself � to your own sense of honour � to resent and resist such treatment on his part surely the deepest love cannot pardon deliberate injury and insult my love can pardon anything answered the girl in a low voice and then slowly very slowly she opened the folded sheet � slowly she read every word it contained � words that stamped themselves one by one on her bewildered brain and sent it the land of mockery into darkness and she felt sick and cold � she stared at her husband s familiar handwriting a man who has loved and who loves you still and who without you is utterly weary and broken hearted thus he wrote of himself to � to violet it seemed incredible � yet it was true she heard a rushing sound in her ears � the room swung round before her eyes � yet she still calm and cold holding the letter and speaking no word lady watched her irritated at her well she exclaimed at last have you nothing to say looked up her eyes burning with an intense feverish light nothing r she replied repeated her with emphatic astonishment nothing against philip continued the girl steadily for the blame is not his but mine that he is weary and must be my fault � though i cannot yet understand what i have done but it must be something because if i were all that he wished he would not have grown so tired she paused and her pale lips quivered i am sorry she went on with dreamy pathos for him than for myself because now i see i am in the way of his happiness a quiver of agony passed over her face � she fixed her large bright eyes on lady who instinctively shrank from the solemn speechless despair of that penetrating gaze who gave you this letter she asked calmly i told you before � miss herself why did she give it to you continued in a dull sad voice � lady hesitated and stammered a little well because � because i asked her if the stories about sir philip were true and she begged me to ask him not to visit her so often then with an additional thought of malice she said softly she doesn t wish to wrong you � of course she s not a very good woman but i think she feels sorry for you the girl uttered a smothered cry of anguish as though she had been to the heart she � to be actually by violet because she had been unable to keep her husband s love this idea tortured her very soul � but she was silent i thought you were my friend she suddenly with a strange so i am murmured lady a guilty flush colouring her cheeks you have made me very miserable went on gravely and with pathetic simplicity and i am sorry indeed that we ever met i was so happy till i knew you � and yet i was very fond of you i am sure you mean everything for the best but i cannot think it is so and it is all so dark and desolate now � why have you taken such pains to make me sad why have you so often tried to make me doubt my husband s love � why have you come to day so quickly to tell me i have lost it but for you i might never have known this sorrow � i might have died soon in happy ignorance believing in my darling s truth as i believe in god her voice broke and a hard sob choked her utterance for once i s conscience smote her � for once she felt ashamed and dared not offer consolation to the innocent soul she had so stricken for a minute or two there was silence broken only by the monotonous of the clock and the of the fire presently spoke again i will ask you to go away now and leave me she said simply when the heart is sorrowful it is best to be alone good bye and she gently held out her hand poor said lady taking it with an affectation of tenderness what will you do did not answer she sat mute and rigid you are thinking of me just now continued softly but i felt it was my duty to tell you the worst at once it s no good living in a delusion i i m very very sorry for you remained perfectly silent lady moved the door as she opened it looked back at her the girl might have been a lifeless figure for any movement that could be perceived about her her face was white as marble � her eyes were fixed on the sparkling fire � her very hands looked stiff and pallid as wax as they lay clasped in her lap � the letter � the cruel letter � had fallen at her feet she seemed as one in a trance of misery � and so lady left her the land of mockery chapter ix o my lord o love i have laid my life at thy feet have thy will thereof for what shall please thee is sweet she roused herself at last her hands she pushed back her hair from her brows and sighed heavily shivering as with intense cold she rose from the chair she had so long occupied and stood upright mechanically gathering around her the long fur mantle that | 33 |
we make you these days if i was you when i come to i would give two three big candles for my good luck give who to be sure � the virgin of our church on the hill she is very good to all the time that is why so few of us men ever are drowned you re a roman catholic then i am a man i am not a boy shall i be then eh at i always give candles � two three more when i come to the good virgin she never forgets me i don t sense it that way tom put in from his his face lit up by the glare of a match as he sucked at his pipe it stands to reason the sea s the sea and you ll jest about what s goin candles or fer matter tis a mighty good thing said long jack � to have a nd at though i m o s way o about tin years back i was crew to a sou boston market boat we was off s ledge a butt first captains courageous � of us thicker n the ould man was his chin on the an i to myself if i stick my boat into t wharf again fu show the saints manner o craft they saved me out now i m here as ye can well see an the model of the ould that took me a month to make i gave ut to the priest an he hung ut up the altar there s more sense in a model that s by way o bein a work art than any candle ye can buy candles at store but a model shows the good saints ye ve trouble an are grateful d you believe that irish said tom turning on his elbow � would i do ut if i did not � � wa al fuller he made a model o the old and she s to museum now mighty pretty model too but i guess he never done it no sacrifice an the way i take it there were the of an hour long discussion of the kind that love where the talk runs in shouting circles and no one proves anything at the end had not dan struck up this cheerful rhyme up jumped the with his striped in the and haul on the tack f r it s windy weather � captains courageous here long jack joined in and it s weather when the winds begin to blow pipe all hands together dan went on with a cautious look at tom holding the low in the up jumped the with his chuckle head went to the main chains to heave at the lead for it s windy weather etc tom seemed to be hunting for something dan crouched lower but sang louder up jumped the that to the ground chuckle head chuckle head mind where ye sound tom s huge rubber boot whirled across the tb c and caught dan s uplifted arm there was war between the man and the boy ever since dan had discovered that the mere whistling of that tune would make him angry as he heaved the lead thought rd yer said dan returning the gift with precision ef you don t like my music out your fiddle i ain t goin to lie here all day an listen ro you an long jack candles fiddle tom or i ll learn here the tune tom leaned down to a and brought up an old white fiddle s eye captains courageous m and from somewhere behind the he drew out a tiny like thing with wire strings which he called a tis a concert said long jack beaming through the smoke a lar boston concert there was a burst of spray as the opened and in yellow descended ye re just in time s she outside jest this he dropped on to the with the push and heave of the iv re here we re co our down ye u lead course said long jack guess there ain t more n two old songs i know an ye ve them both his excuses were cut short by tom into a most tune like unto the moaning of winds and the creaking of with his eyes fixed on the beams above began this ancient ancient tom flourishing all round him to make the and words fit a little there is a crack packet � crack packet o fame she from york an the s her name yoa may talk o your � swallow and black ball � but the t the packet that can beat them all now the she lies in the river because of the to take her to sea but when she s off you shortly will know captains courageous � chorus she s the liverpool packet � o lord let her go � � now the she s the banks o where the water s all shallow and the bottom s all sand all the little fishes that swim to an fro chorus � she s the liverpool packet � o lord let her go there were scores of verses for he worked the every mile of the way between liverpool and new york as as though he were on her deck and the and the fiddle beside him tom followed with something about the rough and tough who would pilot the vessel in then they called on who felt very flattered to contribute to the entertainment but all that he could remember were some pieces of s ride that he had been taught at the camp school in the it seemed that they might be appropriate to the time and place but he had no more than mentioned the title when brought down one foot with a bang and cried don t go on young that s a mistaken � | 39 |
expression of face which indicated a fear that all had not gone as she wished yes a short horse is soon what came they not surely of the eight hundred there were many who would not do you such as to believe your virtue with the shower ah their faith was sufficient � they came every mother s son of them and all and you sent them away happy yes with one of the � blessed are those who have nothing i charged my to turn them back tbe � from my gate and to tell them if they came again they should bo beaten off there was a general laugh through the box the of alone turned away with an expression of deep mortification daughter of the duke of and of was one of the most celebrated women of her time her graceful beauty seemed the of her lovely land � something quite foreign to the french court as she sat by the gross queen she inspired the idea of what humanity might become when invested with the body of the saints her soul beamed with almost lustre from her eyes and spoke in the musical accents of her beautiful lips her gentleness and sympathy more than the intellectual power and accomplishments that her amidst a and ignorant race gave her an over the mad king which afforded some colour to the wicked of those who in the end accused her of f � an accusation very common against the of that period whose superior civilization and science were attributed to the arts of magic the secret of s power over the king has been discovered and illustrated by modern benevolence she could lead him like a little child when for months he would not consent to be washed or dressed and when these offices were performed at night by ten men lest when their sovereign recovered all the reason he ever possessed he should cause them to be hung for this act of necessary violence i the spectators while awaiting the rising of the curtain were exchanging the usual observations and whispered the beautiful young wife of the old duke of did not that � man how beautiful ho is f � who stands near the kiss his hand to you the white yes � he id my i thought so � he looks as if the blood of all your proud old ran in his veins � the and heaven knows who he has a nobility than theirs my cousin his is direct from heaven and written by the finger of heaven on his noble countenance as to this world s honours he none but such as the son of a rich and skilful of may claim is it possible he is a that well might pass in any king s but he looks sad and abstracted and seeing as though he saw not know ye cousin what him yes but it is a long tale the lady of his thoughts has strangely disappeared and though for more than a month he has sought her day and night he hath as yet no trace of her he has come hither to night at my bidding for i deeply pity the poor youth and would fain divert his mind � but soft � the curtain is rising pray tell me what means this scene it is the interior of a chapel you know this legend of st th indeed i do not i cannot read and my never told it to me she was to one she loved the preparations were made for the when on the night before her marriage she saw in vision st francis who bade her her lover and told her that she was the elected bride of heaven that she must repair to the of the sisters of charity and there resign the world and its sinful passions you now see her obedient to the miraculous she has concluded her one weakness she the token has as yet indulged she has secretly retained the last gift of her hark there you hear the bell she is coming to deposit it at that shrine yonder a female now entered closely veiled and clad in a foil gray stuff dress that concealed every line of her person she held something in her hands which were folded on her bosom and walking with faltering steps across the stage to the knelt and made the accustomed signs and prayer she then rose and raising the little roll to her lips kissed it fervently and then as if asking pardon for this involuntary weakness again dropped on her and the roll withdrew it would seem she had entered completely into the tender regrets of the young saint she for a tear she had dropped on the last of the lover was seen as it caught and reflected the lamp s rays immediately through an open window in the ceiling a dove entered the symbol of the holy spirit it was not uncommon in these mysteries to bring the sacred i of the upon the scene the bird descended and took the roll in his bill as he rose with it it unfolded and the white silk given to poor represented the last earthly treasure of saint th the dove made three in his ascent and disappeared while the cries of were through the house the de whispered to see your he looks as if he would spring n the stage how deadly pale i and his eyes i blessed mary i they are like living fires surely he is going mad i heaven help him replied the gentle i in him to come hither would i could with him the white � never mind him now cousin the scene is changing � tell me what comes next next you will see st praying before her � ah there she there is the coffin in which she sleeps at | 6 |
it v said she and passed me her purse i am wishing it was five pounds what will you want it for and what have we been walking for all night like a pair of says i just because i was robbed of my purse and all i possessed in that town of i wiu tell you of it now because i think the worst is over but we have still a good tramp before us tiu we get to where my money is and if you would not buy me a piece of bread i were to go she looked at me with open eyes by the light of the new day she was all black and pale for weariness so that my heart smote me for her but as for her she broke out laughing my torture are we beggars then she cried you too i could have wished for this same thing and i am glad to buy your breakfast to you but it would be if i would have had to dance to get a meal to you for i believe they are not very well acquainted with our manner of dancing over here and might be paying for the curiosity of that sight i could have kissed her for that word not with a lover s mind but in a heat of admiration for it always a man to see a woman brave we got a drink of milk from a country wife but new come to the town and in a baker s a piece of excellent hot sweet smelling bread which we ate upon the road as we went on that road from travels in holland to the is just five miles of a fine avenue shaded with trees a canal on the one hand on the other excellent pastures of cattle it was pleasant here indeed and now said she what will you do with me at all events it is what what we have to speak of said i and the sooner yet the better i can come by money in that will be all well but the trouble is how to dispose of you until your father come i thought night you seemed a uttle to part from me it will be more than seeming then said she you are a very young maid said i and i am but a very yoimg this is a great piece of what way are we to manage unless indeed you could pass to be my sister and what for no said she if you would let me i wish you were so indeed i cried i would be a fine man if i had such a sister but the rub is that you are and now i wiu be she said and who is to ken they are all strange folk here if you think that it would do says i i own it troubles me i would like it very ill if i advised you at all wrong david i have no friend here but you she said the mere truth is i am too young to be your mend said i i am too yoimg to advise you or you to be advised i see not what else we are to do and yet i ought to warn you i will have no choice left said she my father james more has not used me very well and it is not the first time i am cast upon your hands like a sack of meal and have nothing else to think of but your pleasure if you will have me good and well if you will not � she turned and touched her hand upon my arm � david i am afraid said she no but i ought to warn you i began and then me that i was the bearer of the purse and it would never do to seem too said i don t me i am just trying to do my duty by you girl here am i going alone to this strange city to be a solitary student there and here is this chance arisen that you might dwell with me a bit and be like my sister you can surely understand this much my dear that i would just love to have you well and here i am said she so that s soon settled i know i was in duty to have spoke more plain i know this was a great blot on my character for which i was lucky that i did not pay more dear but i minded how easy her delicacy had been startled with a word of kissing her in s letter now that she depended on me how was i to be more bold besides the truth is i could see no other method to dispose of her and i inclination pulled me very strong a little beyond the she fell very lame and made the rest of the distance heavily enough twice she must rest by the which she did with pretty apologies calling herself a shame to the and the race she came of and nothing but a travels in holland to myself it was her excuse she said that she was not much used with walking shod i would have had her strip off her shoes and stockings and go but she pointed out to me that the women of that country even in the roads appeared to be all shod i must not be my brother said she and was very merry with it all although her face told tales of her there is a garden in that city we were bound to below with clean sand the trees meeting overhead some of them trimmed some and the whole place with and here i left and went forward by myself to find my correspondent there i drew on my credit and asked to be recommended | 38 |
sort but mrs was an awful woman it used to make me perfectly sick to see the way she crammed those wretched girls down every man s throat and poor old used to get so hot and miserable and yet he always did exactly what she told him that woman was a caution you know elizabeth smiled again everything goes on just the same down there she said people never seem to change at all in i wonder if the with the colored body and wheels is going still said laughing it was the finest thing out to see poor old driving that with mrs and all the little inside then do you remember that dance at the at be continued throwing himself back in his chair sticking his long logs straight out in front of him and his fingers into his trousers pockets what a nice dance that was i i don t believe i ve ever enjoyed a ball so much since a h in and white � edward paused and sighed as if the memories of that ball were really almost too much for him elizabeth was trying to bestow all her attention upon her guest she looked tired and pale but she managed to keep up a certain show of interest in mr s numerous reminiscences glancing across at her from his arm chair felt more irritable than ever the conversation seemed to him in very poor taste the young squire s was small thought him rather a coarse person it was to suppose that ho should be in any way connected with mrs s past life pulled the head quite savagely off a flower as if that was to blame in some mysterious way for his present do you remember said again turning toward elizabeth � do you remember mrs the squire took a little too much of his own champagne at supper and just as wo were all going away he seized on poor dear old aunt maria and dragged her out into the middle of the room and said we d have another sir my word you know i don t believe i ever laughed so much in my life poor maria was in the most awful state ah i that was a good ball do you remember � began to that phrase � wanted you to give him a second and you d promised � all � mr checked himself suddenly and cleared his throat with a rather unsuccessful attempt at while he looked quickly across at again it seemed to strike him suddenly that he might be going a little too far had given oyer pulling the flowers to pieces and had picked up a book he was not reading he was watching his companions and wondering whether it would not be much wiser and more dignified just to get up and go he was evidently not wanted his position was a little ridiculous and yet there was something about elizabeth s appearance which made him very to stay there was a strangely blank look on her face which he could not understand if she had merely looked bored he would have thought it natural enough under the circumstances but she looked something more than bored had a conviction that a good deal was going on around him that ho could not at present then mrs was going away to morrow lie put his dignity in his pocket and decided to remain i ve never been back to since said mr leaning toward elizabeth slightly as he spoke i ve not seen any of the people for years but sometimes i think do you know mrs that i never enjoyed any time in my life so much as those two elizabeth s face flushed slightly she tried to smile but the attempt was not a very successful one there was an uncomfortable silence got up and stood with his hands behind him and his back to the mantel piece � giving a little kick with each foot to settle his trousers down into their proper place over his knees he cleared his throat again and looked at london s uncommonly full for the time of year he remarked oh � er � were you speaking to me asked a sketch in black and white putting up his eyebrows slightly and shutting his book perhaps london is full he added i really don t know it s not a subject i have very carefully considered edward contemplated the toes of his shoes for a moment it is remarkable how much inspiration a certain class of men seem to derive from the contemplation of their shoes then he looked at elizabeth for a minute rather he was not an observant person but he was aware that he and his companions were at sizes and he was an follow ho believed that there was a mistake somewhere he feared that he was putting his hostess in a false position he gave a little sigh and then said well i m going to settle down at last mrs you re such an old friend that i should like you just to wish me good luck and all that sort of thing you know he paused i m going to bo married i m going to marry my cousin she s a good little girl and � again paused i m sure he went on with a sort of rush if you should be up north any time and would look us up i m sure i � i mean she my cousin you know � bother it � my wife and i should be only too happy to see you and he added looking toward with a civil smile your husband � elizabeth started up she gave a low cry as if in actual pain husband she cried my husband what do you mean edward stared at her in utter he made a motion toward | 32 |
proud erect for the have given me wondrous great and success both fair and fine comes to him who holds his line can stick and so can � too but there s nothing holds so fast as the clothes pin to the last and you gave up the egg altogether asked the poet a natural inclination to find in the construction of the clothes pin poem oh no said the idiot i knocked off a little on that i called it the speedy egg and it goes like this by l should hesitate to try to drive a can al boat by by the idiot at home great s can beat all however speedy be their legs but i distance her with ease when it comes t beating eggs i really think that you would have done better to give up the egg said the poet grown critical i ve no patience with one now if you had written great s can beat all however speedy be their legs but despite her deeds i can beat her beating eggs i should not have objected i accept the replied the idiot meekly i realized the weakness of the thing myself and thought of changing it into a where you only need one rhyme how s this on a carpet tack however dull the day however dull the skies however dark the night may be my spirits ever rise for though i m but a carpet tack afar from and strife no one can ever truly say that mine s a life that is very good said the poet by the idiot at home i think almost any editor of any comic paper would be willing to pay you three dollars for that � it is as good as your poem on a ton of coal � simple in its expression and sweet in sentiment i thought think so said the idiot it struck me so i ve got one on a screw driver too that is very much of the same order and a moral lesson to the reader who is always reaching out after the it reads as follows i cannot tool a ho i cannot drive a i dare not hold the ribbons on a hack or drag i could not guide the reins upon a simple goat and i should hesitate to try to drive a can al boat but i don t mind these things at all for can drive a screw and i am happy for that s just what i was meant to do the fourth line of the second verse is weak but otherwise it s good commented the poet it s not a can al boat it s a can boat and all the poetic li by i haven t ever had a home i ve always by by the idiot at home in the world wouldn t excuse your taking such a liberty with language i appreciate that said the idiot but i don t see how i could get around it there s only one way said the poet i think if you omitted that verse altogether you d improve the poem then i should have to the goat said the idiot that takes a great deal of humor out of it i always laugh when i encounter a beast like that in poetry he seems so helpless when in a poem that may be observed the poet but it is my belief that the goat of all animals in the kingdom was the last one designed to be used in poetry anyhow he is bad enough in prose and in this case will butt your poem to oblivion if you insist on keeping him in it any more no said the idiot that s the last well you ve got a good start said the poet rising to light his pipe which had gone out and if i were you i d go on and finish the book the idiot s book of household poetry would have by the idiot at home a great sale it has but one that i can see you harp on one string too much every one of your poems contentment satisfaction � nothing else that said the idiot is not an objection but a virtue for what other lesson he added with a glance of pride at his surroundings what other lesson my dear poet should a home try to teach and what other sentiment can mean so much to mankind i don t know said the poet with a little sigh i haven t ever had a home i ve always whereupon the idiot rose up from his chair and putting his arm about his friend s shoulder said how you do talk never had a home my dear fellow what s this it s yours as long as it s mine i by viii some consideration of the hired man who is that sitting down on your court mr idiot asked mr brief the lawyer or is it anybody i ve been trying for the last half hour to make out whether it s a man or one of those iron figures with which some people their that replied the idiot calmly is my hired man i pay him forty dollars a month to sit down there and let the grass grow under his feet i heard you and mr discussing the wonderful of my lawn after dinner last night and i meant to have told you then that the credit thereof belongs entirely to the nature of that man s soul he will stand for hours rooted to one spot and looking with apparent out over the river to most people this would seem k by the idiot at home to be prompted by a sheer to work but this would do him a rank injustice for his is due entirely to his system he is letting the grass grow beneath | 27 |
amiable intentions to him then he thought a moment and added but you mentioned one pray do you mean the gentleman whose signature appears here and he handed her another document saying it quietly there is no hurry the good is not starving yet i am informed indeed that he has just made an excellent breakfast � not his last by many thousands let us hope took the sheets and glanced at them then her intelligence awoke and she read on fiercely until her eye came to the well known signature at the foot of the last page she cast the roll down with a cry as though a serpent had sprung from its pages and bitten her i fear that you are pained said and no wonder for myself i have gone through such and know how they wound a generous nature that s why i showed you this document because i also am generous and wish to warn you against this young gentleman who i understand you is my son you see the who would betray his brother might even go a step further and betray his mother so if you take my advice you will keep an eye upon the young man also i am bound to remind you that it is more or less your own fault it is a most unlucky thing to curse a child before it is born � you remember the incident that curse has come home to with a vengeance what a warning against giving way to the passion of the moment him no longer she was thinking as s ie had never thought before at that moment as though by an inspiration there floated into her mind the words of the dead the plague i wish that i had caught it before for then i would have taken it to him in prison and they couldn t have treated him as they did was in prison and was to be starved to death for whatever might think he did not know the secret and therefore could not tell it and she � she had the plague on her she knew its symptoms well and its poison was burning in her every vein although she still could think and speak and walk well why not it would be no crime indeed if it was a crime she cared little it would be better that he should die of the plague in five days or i in two worked quickly as it often did with the full blooded i a meeting and a parting than that he should linger on starving for twelve or more and perhaps be tormented besides swiftly very swiftly came to her dreadful decision then she spoke in a hoarse voice what do you wish me to do i wish you to reason with your husband and to persuade him to cease from his obstinacy and to surrender to me the secret of the hiding place of s in that event so soon as i have proved the truth of what he tells me i undertake that he shall be set at liberty and that meanwhile he shall be well treated and if i will not or he will not or cannot then i have told you the alternative and to show you that i am not joking i will now write and sign the order then if you decline this mission or if it is fruitless i will hand it to the officer before your eyes � and within the next ten days or so let you know the results or witness them if you wish i will go she said but i must see him alone it is unusual he answered but provided you satisfy me that you carry no weapon i do not know that i need object so when had written his order and scattered dust on it from the box for he was a of neat and habits he himself with every possible courtesy to her husband s prison having ushered her into it with a cheerful friend van i bring you a visitor he locked the door upon them and patiently waited outside it matters not what passed within whether told her husband of her dread yet sacred purpose or did not tell him whether he ever learned of the of or did not learn it what were their parting words � their parting prayers all these things matter not indeed the last are too holy to be written let us bow our heads and them by in silence and let the reader imagine them as he will growing impatient at length unlocked the prison door and opened it to discover and her husband kneeling side by side in the centre of the room like the figures on some ancient marble monument they heard him and rose then folded his wife in his arms in a long last embrace and her held one hand above her head in blessing as with the other he pointed to the door so infinitely pathetic was this dumb show of farewell for no word as od between them while he was present that not only his but the questions that he meant to ask died upon the lips of try as he might he could not speak them here come he said and passed out at the door she turned to look and there in the centre of the room still stood her husband tears streaming from his eyes down a face radiant with an smile and his right hand lifted towards the heavens and so she left him presently and were together again in the little room i fear he said from what i saw just now that your mission has failed it has failed she answered in such a voice as might be dragged by an evil magic from the lips of a corpse he does not know the secret you seek and therefore | 18 |
of their lives and i would whether it be not a greater to t a towering of timber and for the of performing an office which you will not it to perform than to lay the covering of your at an inclination to keep it dry yet not fo lofty as to dwarf the of the building or withdraw the eye from what is more ornamental the high roof is a feature to which the italian has never been reconciled the roof of the italian palace has a pitch lower than our own the white marble which the office of on the covering of the cathedral of might have been at a greater height at even a reduced if the italian eye could have reconciled to the like outline there is a general but that the light and brilliant of the frenchman his on the contrary the of o our architecture france of the northern provinces of the and this in a degree in its roofs at one time the appeared to have from the influence and in the end of the combined a roof of italian proportions with the charming front which to turn away in dignified from the of the but in the he has allowed the element in his once more to and now the huge old not only triumphant over the efforts of regular art in paris but is as it would appear to off the of let us hope that the will be before reaching the pavement and detained in proper behind a such being the of regular art in relation to our let us a rapid glance on the condition of art the interior was that which the italian revival found adapted to receive its method of treatment and retaining the arched roof and it the it above the range of the arches on attached to the and making amends for the of the old modes of wall by a liberal ufe of in variety of colour the was a circle within the formed by the of the and it enlarged into a dome was the circle de our architecture i about that under great all the interior was united and the mind of the at once uplifted and expanded by arrangements the features of st peter s have been brought together with if st paul s in london had at all approached its in beauty of interior regular art might have retained its in but there are certain features in s which from the unity of the t and the of colour gives a air to the of the its the and forms of the and back through various efforts of imitation and until within the quarter of a century the revived has been in its as well as its forms but in the effort after new even the pure of the twelfth century fails to the of the age it is as we have in of its details open to from which the and modes are comparatively free are now on our with much of and influence of example here we fee a there a there a and the variety becomes daily more fo that as regards our we may be to at the moment in as a as with to our in ordinary and building there our as might be a more here the excellent good and of the french people have them from a into which the of the character us under their great roofs they to an elegant of fabric always under whatever amount of and the to whatever extent imparted always of the definite national type in one often than we they cultivate their privacy and a large proportion of ornament on their garden fronts i would willingly this theme but time me to my of the more art in to for many generations and tell the coming ages what were the of beauty and grandeur which the men of were able to on their palaces and temples an has that out of the crowd of placed before us new and of the age might be this hope which was very generally indulged at the time of the of the palace does not to have any l of fulfilment iron and together too for union acres of ground may be covered in with a roof on pillars or hung like the of a bridge from curves but the will be an not an it indeed as if we can now as little a new method in building our architecture we can a new in and that as all into the old of long and fo the at our will not group into cover from the weather than in of i modes already by who have preceded and when we that the new which ve modified the of greece and rome have ly with the of new bloody through the medium of wc may well reconcile to the probable that lies before us of having to from types that form in which our to the future let us review the as they them for our choice there are the three modes of regular � the italian french and the dignity of the italian is owing to the large portion of wall to window incident to a mate we may how the too imitation proportions in one of the club london reminds us of our difference latitude as we come northward the windows be larger and to this the principal of the three modes are to be to for their breadth of wall the and rely on a greater of their main difference is as we have ti in their roofs and if your judgments have gone ng with mine on that head you will probably that of the three regular modes our own much f our architecture is the one to our notions of beauty propriety and utility of the modes there are three kinds and many varieties the | 8 |
affectionate solicitude what a lucky thing it is you never married otherwise you would now be going to tell your wife all about the king s plans then she sweet creature would go to confession � and her would tell a bishop � and a bishop would tell a cardinal � and a cardinal would tell a confidential � and the confidential would tell the supreme � and so all the world would be ringing with the news started by one little pretty tongue of a woman a faint flush coloured de s cheek but he laughed true i am glad i have never married i am still glad � of circumstances � he paused � then went q � which have so chanced to me that i shall never marry he paused again � then added � i must be l one von i have to meet prince at the with a message from his majesty surely said the professor opening his eyes very wide th prince is not to be included in our adventure by no means replied de � but the king j ot pleased with his son s frequent from and desires to speak with him on the matter yon looked grave there will be some little trouble there he said with half sigh � who knows perhaps some trouble heaven forbid ejaculated sir � we power in times of peace we want no with either the king or the people till to morrow night then till to morrow night i responded von whereupon sir with a brief word of farewell strode away left to himself the professor still stood at his window watching the approach of the prince s which came towards the shore with such swift and stately motion through the of the over the sparkling water unfortunate he muttered � what a secret he has me with and yet why do i call him unfortunate there should be nothing to regret � and yet � well the mischief was done before poor von was consulted and if poor were god and the devil rolled into one strange eternal monster he could not have prevented it what is done can never be undone chapter v if i loved you a singular pomp is sometimes associated with the announcement that my lord or nobody has had the honour of dining with their the king and queen read the thrilling line with awe and envy � and of them are foolish enough to wish that they also were lords or nobody as a matter of sad and sober fact however a dinner with royal personages is an extremely dull affair do not speak unless you are spoken to is a rule which however excellent and necessary in court is apt to utterly conversation and render the brightest spirits dull and the silent and solemn movements of the court � the painful of those who are not spoken to the eager yet smiles of those who are spoken to � the melancholy efforts at gaiety � the dread of on subjects � these things tend to make all but the independent and minds shrink from such ordeal as the honour of dining with kings it must however be that the kings themselves are fully aware of the of their dinner parties and would the if they could but etiquette the particular monarch whose are the of this plain history would have f better than to be allowed to dine in y and peace without his conversation being noted and without having a at hand to watch every morsel food go into his mouth he would have liked to eat talk freely and conduct himself generally with the of a private gentleman all this being denied to him he hated the dinner hour s as he hated receiving illuminated addresses i power and the freedom of cities yet all things costly and beautiful were combined to make his royal table a picture which would have pleased the eyes and taste of a de on the evening of the day on which he had determined as he had said to himself to begin to reign it looked more than usually attractive some trifling chance had made the more � some amiable humour of the providence which rules daily events had ordained that two or three of the prettiest court ladies should be present � prince and his two brothers and were at table � and though conversation was slow and scant the of the scene was not destroyed by silence the apartment which was used as a private dining room when their had no guests save the members of their own household was in itself a of art and architecture � it had been designed and painted from floor to ceiling by one of the most famous of the dead and gone masters and its broad windows opened out on a white marble the ocean where of flowers and hung in natural and of foliage and blossom mingling their sweet with the fresh scent of the sea amid all the glow and delicacy of colour the crowning perfection of the perfect was the queen in her middle age than most women in their an exquisite figure of and dignity in such hues and adorned with such jewels as best suited her beauty and attended by ladies of whose more youthful charms she was never envious having indeed no cause envy she was a living defiance to the of time and her royal husband s dinner table with the same in different ease as she his throne in the dazzling light of her physical he at her with mingled impatience and sadness almost wished she would grow older in appearance with years and lose that perfect skin white as � that glittering but cold of eye for ence had taught him the of beauty by tenderness and fair faces had no longer the first attraction for him his eldest son | 33 |
against her was simply the effect of panic � the headlong panic that will even a strong man to run away from the sight of a shocking deed � a panic from which once recovered she made her way back to the very spot that she would have like the plague had she been a guilty woman i i say that she did not commit the murder that the whole of her life and character � merciful and humane � the thought but that her policy throughout has been to shield the real murderer one who is even here present � a man who in a moment of mad jealousy against his friend the woman he loved and strove to cast the guilt on the woman who loved him i say gentlemen of the jury that i demand the of this woman on the ground that the charge against her is not proved and in her place and in the interests of justice to place at the bar the real murderer who had a motive for the crime that the prisoner had not the judge frowned the jury unused to the opposing counsel smiled through the court a rustle as of a light wind among autumn leaves ran and none looked at the prisoner who was struggling for breath and gazing at her advocate as if she could have slain him but at mr who was calm with the strength in which there is no effort the s tory of a sin wild seeming to on the speaker like a wave dashed backwards from a granite cliff the next moment s champion had regained his courage and pressed onward before there was time to receive the he expected it had been said that there was a motive for the crime and this motive had been declared to be jealousy and this was true enough the murder had been committed through that passion but not by the prisoner it would be necessary to remind the jury of those facts that had long been public talk � the engagement of the deceased lady with lord her intimacy with him on his return her well known with him from the white house and mr s pursuit of the couple them before they had gone any farther than he had at the time affected to treat the matter as a joke and had bid lord to his house as usual but it was observed by many that a great change was perceptible in him from that time and he even neglected those duties that he had formerly fulfilled so to all appearance to meet his equals mr was a very proud man � one who made laws but was not governed by them � and it was only natural to suppose that as time went on and he found his young wife less and less a companion to him he should become jealous of the brilliant young man who in looks age and spirits story of a was so much more a fitting mate for her than him on the n ht of the murder it was dear that he had left the two together then placed where he could be an of all that passed and by a most unfortunate it occurred that they were conversing in a way that to the gardener sounded like and to him may have had a more sinister significance as he himself at his table his head resting on his outstretched arms in the attitude in which lord had seen him when he looked through the window it was to be that stung to a jealous madness � a second in his jealousy as she a in her innocence � some one had ascended to mrs s apartment and struck at her the blow that was her death it would be found entirely consistent with the prisoner s former conduct that while present at the deed � nay while she even struggled to it � she should be bent on hiding the fact from every living soul and escape hurriedly before there could be a chance of her being called upon to relate what she had seen the shriek that escaped her had been at the horrible sensation she experienced on feeling the presence of some person at the foot of the ladder and if she had fought wildly it had not been for fear on her own account but on that of another person the evidence of the man as to the story of a sin precise moment in which he heard the scream was confused and not to be trusted his in the kitchen having his wits so that he was not able to swear if the cry preceded or followed his grip of the ladder and now to examine the evidence that had been offered of her wish to steal the child of the deceased could a more improbable time possibly have been selected than that of nigh upon midnight and in what way could the mother retired to rest in the opposite wing have that plan or interfered with it she had access to him could have carried him away at any hour of the day she willed and it was inconceivable that she should have chosen this hour of the night to drag from his warm bed the little lad that she so passionately loved there are motives of jealousy which men and women to the commission of murder of hatred and revenge of and plunder that may spur them on to deeds of wickedness but as to the prisoner what motive of hatred had she to mrs by her successful rival s death she gained nothing � the ashes upon a stone cold hearth were not colder than the heart of the man who had made her his toy and crushed her under foot the child s love was already hers and should she that by a deed foreign to every | 17 |
our section where the influence of hon c our representative in was tlie party him for but that did not affect his position nor much affect his vote which in any case would have been nearly unanimous we were all my and mr was the foremost champion of our cause in the house he made a speech in the evening before the election when though the were sinister we still hoped that might be the paper nearest us headed its ticket for general and a and men au over the north and west protested that their party was as decidedly for protection as ours pointing to the attitude of at once the leading and the strongest state but we could not help seeing that all the free were for that was running with him for vice president and that south was threatening and forcible resistance if the policy were not abandoned and we concluded that either or must be cheated and that the latter would take good care not to be so mr urged ud to stand fast by those whom we knew to be devoted to our cherished policy rather than try those whose professions were by notorious facts and the response in our section was enthusiastic gave next day for to for i doubt that her vote has ever since been so unanimous or so strong and though the general result was heavily adverse to our desperate hopes � only � new england not quite half of new york new and part of giving mr their while the rest of new york and all the south and west went against him � we had the poor consolation that for whatever disaster the political revolution might involve no shadow of responsibility could rest on our own ix my faith i must have been about ten years old when in some school book whereof i have forgotten the name i first read an account of the treatment of the by called of cities one of the of madman i cannot that account so i must be content with the far and less vivid of the french historian � had withdrawn himself to after the battle of wherein he was and thence embarked for greece his whole resources being trusted to the affection of the with whom he had left his fleet money and wife but he was strangely surprised and offended when he was met on his way by from the who came to him that he could not be admitted into their city because the people had by a decree the reception of any of the kings they also informed him that his had been conducted to with all the honors and attendance due to her dignity was then sensible of the value of honors and by fear and which did not proceed from the will the posture of his affairs not permitting him to revenge the of that people he contented himself with his complaints to them in a moderate manner and demanded his with which as soon as he had received them he sailed toward the not many months elapsed before through one of those strange and sudden which were frequent throughout his career the fortunes of were completely my faith and he was enabled to settle his running account with those who had proved so treacherous in his i return here to the of � as we have already observed had from and shut her gates against him but when that thought he had sufficiently provided for the security of his in asia he moved against that rebellious and ungrateful city with a resolution to her as she deserved the first year was devoted to the conquest of the and of some other cities which had quitted his party but he returned the next season to which he closed blocked up and reduced to the last extremity by cutting off all of a fleet of a hundred and fifty sail sent by king to the and which appeared off the coast of afforded them but a transient joy for when this naval force saw a strong fleet arrive fix m to the assistance of besides a great number of other vessels from and that the whole to three hundred they weighed anchor and fled although the had issued a decree by which they made it a capital offence for any person even to mention a peace with the extremity to which they were reduced obliged them to open their gates to him when he entered the city he commanded the inhabitants to in the theatre which ho with armed troops and posted his guards on either side of the stage where the dramatic pieces were wont to be performed and then descending from the upper part of the theatre in the manner usual with actors he showed himself to the multitude who seemed more dead than alive and awaited the event in terror expecting it would prove their sentence to destruction but he dissipated their apprehensions by the words he uttered for he did not raise his voice like a man enraged nor deliver himself in any passionate or insulting terms but softened the tones of his voice and only addressed to them gentle complaints and he their offence and restored them to his favor � presenting them at the same time with measures of com wheat and such as were most agreeable to the joy of this people may be easily conceived from the terrors with which they were previously affected and how glorious must that prince be who could support so admirable a character recollections of a busy life reflecting with admiration on this exhibition of a too rare in human i was moved to inquire if a spirit so nobly so wisely the mean and savage impulse which man too often as justice when it is in essence revenge might not be reverently termed divine and the firm conclusion to which i was | 19 |
are killed there that i won t turn a hair i hate sentimental rot said those at the front are only doing their duty and would hate to be praised for it ease after port after stormy seas peace after war death after life doth greatly please and after all it s only one life � one death pang � nothing to make such a fuss about but by reading these newspapers you assist at thousands of deaths when all you ve got to do is to go through with your own they were going at a walk breathing their horses and said do you mind telling me where you picked up that mare miss and they plunged into a very faint colour had come into the warm white of skin she was enjoying herself thoroughly and had the sense to know it and there is not the least question that two men who both admire you while you do not love either are much more satisfactory and than the one whom love and hop from to after like a bird she was beginning to get her eye in to that most fascinating of all pursuits making a man really in love with her it s the most the most dangerous game out for you have to take care that you don t put your foot out too far to draw it back while encouraging the man to make no such mean about his shoe leather moreover when you know that the more you hurt him the better it will be for his soul s good you throw yourself into the game with much more zest we don t weep for the fox who loses his tail and his life probably he has chased and up scores of harmless bodies on the contrary we enjoy the sport and cherish his brush as a sir robert mrs very much she said presently not without malicious intention jumped often she would be twice round the world and back again before he had been able to take in the of her last remark is and like her aunt said what lovely women they both are bat isn t rather lady like smiled he had more than once in the past that lady like person a successful rival for spiritual looking persons will often glide in at a where visible wickedness is the door but had always been discreet and never even looked the way of a reputation such as a he doesn t smoke said and that s bad a man is at a loose end who doesn t says fm dull let s go and do something and it s usually mischief another man lights his pipe or cigar and is happy mrs never her husband said hotly and if you please neither will wa but she always calls him by his said and then they talked of things not chapter xii every heart when well ib a of warmer dust mixed with cunning sparks of hell was absent on one of those brief about which her friends had ceased to be curious for as she once remarked once you have a character for it is impossible to lose it and your own husband will order supper for two give you the and go to bed and i and though she never took her maid and furnished no address did not even ask her destination had quite forgiven that silly habit of putting her head on one side when one day � and it was a great proof of her liking for him � she had asked him if he did go and should meet would he give him her love and tell him she was very very happy and if that is how a mother s eyes look when she is glad thought how do they look when they weep but no one ever saw weep either then or after nor did any one ever hear her say when comes back it was always k but with regard to mrs s absence got in her little scratch i there s a perfect understanding between her and she one day to no harm i thinks but there s that she can t do wrong in his eyes as he looks at her which so completely gives a man away and though she that she she is really for all her airs of the good old woman sort and cares only for still half a loaf is better than no bread and if a woman has no taste for fancy b and ornamental what is the poor thing to do then if is of the sort cried warmly i wish there were more like her in the world and i think that you people who sit in your easy chairs and your fellow with none of their and sorrows a law unto yourselves represent the most type that ever breathed but was thinking about a new gown and did not trouble to answer she was amusing herself extremely well just then for whether took the or did the fact remained that these two naturally off thus inevitably throwing and together at the little dinners plays and to which in its a frightful strain the world rushed town was full the air brisk the news from the front improved each day spring was in the air and in the hour when the white flag went up over s the british army passed if not to victory at least from the twilight of defeat but though made a nuisance of himself at the war office closely following the of that widow in the bible who did more good than she ever knew of by her example unlike her he did not get what he wanted though it was proved abundantly in the campaign that the best furnished some of the very finest fighting and staying material the country had sent out meanwhile for he had | 17 |
i can t do a better than either or eat my hat as she crept into bed she was dazzled by s blazing grin she but is than his son in law don t you think yes may be old fashioned and all that but he s got a certain amount of while goes into everything bull headed and his way through like i main street a damn and tries to argue his into having whatever he them as having i about the best thing can do is to stick to baby he s just about on a par with this bone female mrs mrs and mrs though � they re nice they ve been awfully cordial to me well no reason why they shouldn t be is there oh they re nice enough � though you can bet your bottom dollar they re both for their husbands all the time trying to get the business and i don t know as i call it so cordial in mrs when i at her on the street and she back like she had a sore neck still she s all right it s ma that makes the mischief around all the time but i wouldn t trust any out of the whole lot and while mrs seems square enough you don t never want to forget that she s s daughter you bet i what about dr don t you think he s worse than either or he s so cheap � drinking and playing pool and always smoking cigars in such a way that s all right is a good deal of a sport but he knows a lot about medicine and don t you forget it for one second she stared down s grin and asked more cheerfully is he honest too i m sleepy he beneath the in a luxurious stretch and came up like a shaking his head as he complained how s that who honest don t start me laughing � i m too nice and sleepy i didn t say he was honest i said he had enough to find the index in gray s which is more than can do but i didn t say anything about his being honest he isn t is crooked as a dog s hind leg he s done me more than one dirty trick he told mrs seventeen miles out that i wasn t up to date in fat lot of good it did him she came right in and told me and s la y he d let a patient choke rather than interrupt a game oh no i can t believe well now i m telling you main street does he play much dr told me that dr wanted him to play told you what where d you meet he s just come to town he and his wife were at mr s tonight say what d you think of them didn t strike you as pretty light why no he seemed intelligent i m sure he s much more wide awake than our well now the old man is a good he knows his business and i wouldn t up to the too close if i were you all right for and that s none of our business but we i think i d just give the the glad hand and pass em up but why he isn t a rival that s � all � right was awake now hell work right in with and matter of fact i suspect they were largely responsible for his here they ll be sending him and he ll send all that he can get hold of to them i don t trust anybody that s too much hand in glove with you give a shot at some fellow that s just bought a farm here and into town to get his teeth looked at and after gets through with him you ll see him around to and every time reached for her which hung on a chair by the bed she draped it about her shoulders and sat up studying her chin in her hands in the gray light from the small electric down the hall she could see that he was frowning will this is � i must get this straight some one said to me the other day that in towns like this even more than in cities all the doctors hate each other because of the money who said that it doesn t matter bet a hat it was your she s a woman but she d be a damn sight if she kept her mouth shut and didn t let so much of her brains out that way will o will that s horrible aside from the vulgarity some ways is my best friend even if i main street she had said it which as a matter of fact she didn t he reared up his thick shoulders in absurd pink and green he sat straight and snapped his fingers and growled well if she didn t say it let s forget her doesn t make any difference who said it anyway the point is that you believe it god to think you don t understand me any better than that money this is the first real quarrel we ve ever had she was he thrust out his long arm and snatched his from a chair he took out a cigar a match he tossed the on the floor he lighted the cigar and puffed savagely he broke up the match and snapped the fragments at the she suddenly saw the foot board of the bed as the of the grave of love the room was colored and ill � did not believe in opening the windows so wide that you heat all the stale air seemed never to change in the light from the hall they were two of with shoulders and | 42 |
of being outward bound and did not turn aside nor linger the high pasture land grew more and more i stopped to pick some that at me like beads among their dry vines and two or three yellow birds fluttered up from the leaves of a and then came back again as if they had complacently discovered that i was only an overgrown yellow bird in strange disguise but perfectly harmless they made me feel as if i were an though they did not offer to i tbe of al me and we it was good to at last on the great of the hill the wind was in from the there a fine fragrance from the pines and the air grew sweeter moment i took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get to nature aad upon what she of her own free will hare been no to the soil aad h yielding artificial here one has to take just what nature is pleased to whether one is a yellow or a human being it is good entertainment for a summer and i am my reader now to the winter pro � i that day let us hope that the small birds are also well after their but i them an while the snow goes in wares across the buried fields hue windy winter night i went farther down the hill and a drink of fresh cool water from the brook and pulled a tender of sweet g it the old fence just b� was the barrier between me aad tbe of the pasture which had sent an invisible messenger earlier in the day but i tiiat somebody else had come first to tlie there was a brown ca and a shawl up and down a little way off among the i had taken such uncommon pleasure in being alone that i instantly felt a sense of then a warm glow of pleasant satisfaction my selfishness tliis could be no one but dear old mrs tlie friend of my childhood and fond dependence of my years i had not seen her for many weeks but here she was out on one of her famous for or perhaps just returning from a expedition i approached with care so as not to the net but she heard the rustle of the against my dress and looked up quickly as she knelt bending uie turf in that position she was hardly taller than the i m a in my she said briskly an i ye been thinking o yoa these twenty times since i come out o the house i begun to most forgot me at last of i from home i explained why t in your too � a great plantation of it beyond the next fence but one � i repeated the dear little old woman with an air of compassion for inferior knowledge t ain t the right time s too rank now but this day is prime te got a dreadful fit for em this year seems if i must to need em i feel like the must when they know a hard s and mrs bent her work again while i stood by and watched her carefully cut the best f grown with a clumsy pair of which mi t have through at least half a century of they were fastened to her apron strings by a long piece of list m going to take my jack knife and help you i suggested with some fear of i just passed a flourishing family ef six or seven heads that must hare been on purpose for you now be dear heart was the response � em well s odds b same s there is in tbe of angels take a plant that s all run up to stalk and there ain t but little goodness in the leaves this one i m at now must ha been stepped on by some and of its bloom and the is ban some i when i was small i used to hare a notion that adam an eve must a took fer their winter wear ain t they just like flannel for all the had and i know there s plenty of sickness might be saved to folks if they d quit horse and such ry things and use iu pro season now i shall these an dry em nice on my spare floor in the an come to steam em for use along in the winter there be the of the whole summer s goodness in em and she away with the while i listened respectfully and took great pains to hare my part of the present a good appearance � � this is most too dry a head she added presently a little out of breath there i can tell you there s win rows o doctors with book thai is truly ignorant of what to do for the sick or how to p int out those paths that well r or book fools i men an on em to know much better if b in my time every woman who bad brought np a lad proper ideas o with its i won t say but there was some but i d rather take my es s they d and with patent stuff now my did sense the use of and see anybody that up she was a meek woman mother was i that s where you learned so much mrs i ventured to say your heart i don t hold a candle i is but little i can recall of what to say no her died with i my friend m a self was as many as twenty roots alone that she used to keep bat i forget the use of an i m t know where to find the � n� any there was an � it | 40 |
of many years had she the happiness of being with william of the rest she saw nothing nobody seemed to think of her ever going amongst them again even for a visit nobody at home seemed to want her but william soon after her removal to be a sailor was invited to spend a week with his sister in before he went to sea their eager affection in meeting their exquisite delight in being together their hours of happy mirth and moments of serious conference may be imagined as well as the sanguine views and spirits of the boy even to the last and the misery of the girl when he left her luckily the visit happened in the christmas holidays when she could directly look for comfort to her cousin and he told her such charming things of what william was to do and be hereafter in consequence of his profession as made her gradually admit that the separation might have some use s friendship never failed her his leaving for oxford made no change in his kind dispositions and only afforded more frequent opportunities of proving them without any display of doing more than the rest or any fear of doing too much he was always true park to her interests and considerate of her feelings trying to make her good qualities understood and to conquer the which prevented their being more apparent giving her advice consolation and encouragement kept back as she was by everybody else his single support could not bring her forward but his attention were otherwise of the highest importance in assisting the improvement of her mind and extending its pleasures he knew her to be clever to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense and a fondness for reading which properly directed must be an education in itself miss lee taught her french and heard her read the daily portion of history but he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours he encouraged her taste and corrected her judgment he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read and heightened its attraction by judicious praise in return for such services she loved him better than anybody in the world except william her heart was divided between the two m the first event of any importance in the family was the death of mr which happened when was about fifteen and necessarily introduced alterations and mrs on the removed first to the park and afterwards to a small house of sir thomas s in the village and consoled herself for the loss of her husband by considering that she could do very well without him and for her of income by the evident necessity of economy the living was hereafter for and had his uncle died a few years sooner it would have been duly given to some friend to hold till he were old enough for orders but tom s extravagance had previous to that event been so great as to render a different disposal of the next necessary and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder there was another family living actually held for but though this circumstance had made the arrangement somewhat easier to sir thomas s conscience he could not but feel it to be an act of injustice and he earnestly tried to impress his eldest son with the same conviction in the hope of its producing a better effect than anything he had yet been able to say or do park i blush for you tom said he in his most dignified manner i blush for the expedient which i am driven on and i trust i may pity your feelings as a brother on the occasion you have robbed for ten twenty thirty years perhaps for life of more than half the income which ought to be his it may hereafter be in my power or in yours i hope it will to procure him better but it must not be forgotten that no benefit of that sort would have been beyond his natural claims on us and that nothing can in fact be an equivalent for the certain advantage which he is now obliged to forego through the of your debts tom listened with some shame and some sorrow but escaping as quickly as possible could soon with cheerful selfishness reflect first that he had not been half so much in debt as some of his friends secondly that his father had made a most tiresome piece of work of it and that the future incumbent whoever he might be would in all probability die very soon on mr s death the became the right of a dr grant who came consequently to reside at and on proving to be a hearty man of forty five seemed likely to disappoint mr s calculations but no he was a sort of fellow and plied well with good things would soon pop off he had a wife about fifteen years his junior but no children and they entered the neighborhood with the usual fair report of being very respectable agreeable people park the time was now come when sir thomas expected his sister in law to claim her share in their niece the change in mrs s situation and the improvement in s age seeming not merely to do away any former objection to their living together but even to give it the most decided and as his own circumstances were rendered less fair than heretofore by some recent losses on his west india estate in addition to his eldest son s extravagance it became not to himself to be relieved from the expense of her support and the obligation of her future provision in the fulness of his belief that such a thing must be he mentioned its probability to his wife and the first time of the subject s to her again happening to | 26 |
did not think to frighten thee senseless little one look up am i angry are are are shall i weep too and of our tears make a great pond and us both and then thy father will never get well lacking thee to pull his beard peace peace and i will tell thee of the thou hast heard many tales very many now this is a new one which thou hast not heard long and long ago when the walked the of the gods with men as they do to day but that we have not faith to see the greatest of gods and his wife were walking in the garden of a temple which temple that in the ward said the child nay very far away maybe at or whither thou must make pilgrimage when thou art a man now there was sitting in the garden under the trees a that had worshipped for forty years and he lived on the of the pious and meditated night and day oh father was it thou said the child looking up with large eyes nay i have said it was long ago and moreover this was married did they put him on a horse with flowers on his head and forbid him to go to sleep all night long thus they did to me when they made my wedding said the child who had been married a few months before and what thou do said i i wept and they called me evil names and then i smote her and we wept together thus did not the said for he was a holy man and very poor perceived him sitting naked by the temple steps where all went up and down and she said to in black and white what shall men think of the gods when the gods thus scorn their for forty years yonder man has prayed to us and yet there be only a few of rice and some broken before him after all men s hearts will be hardened by this thing and said it shall be looked to and so he called to the temple which was the temple of his son of the elephant head saying son there is a without who is very poor what wilt thou do for him then that great elephant headed one awoke in the dark and answered in three days if it be thy will he shall have one of then and went away but there was a money in the garden hidden among the � the child looked at the ball of blossoms in its hands � ay among the yellow and he heard the gods talking he was a man and of a black heart and he desired that of for himself so he went to the and said brother how much do the pious give thee daily the said i cannot tell sometimes a little rice sometimes a little pulse and a few and it has been and dried fish that is good said the child its lips then said the money because i have the of the gods long watched thee and learned to love thee and thy patience i will give thee now five for all thy of the three days to come there is only a bond to sign on the matter but the said thou art mad in two months i do not receive the worth of five and he told the thing to his wife that evening she being a woman said when did ever make a bad bargain the wolf runs through the com for the sake of the fat deer our is in the hands of the gods pledge it not even for three days so the returned to the and would not sell then that wicked man sat all day before him offering more and more for those three days first ten fifty and a hundred and then for he did not know when the would pour down their gifts by the thousand till he had offered half a of upon this sum the s wife shifted her counsel and the signed the bond and the money was paid in silver great white bringing it by the but saving only all that money the received nothing from the at all and the heart of the money was uneasy on account of expectation therefore at noon of the third day the money went into the temple to spy upon the of the gods and to in black and white in what manner that gift might arrive even as he was making his prayers a crack between the stones of the floor and closing caught him by the heel then he heard the gods walking in the temple in the darkness of the columns and called to his son saying son what hast thou done in regard to the of for the and woke for the money heard the dry rustle of his trunk and he answered father one half of the money has been paid and the for the other half i hold here fast by the heel the child with laughter and the money paid the it said surely for he whom the gods hold by the heel must pay to the the money was paid at evening all silver in great carts and thus did his work a woman was calling in the dusk by the door of the the child began to that is my mother it said go then answered but stay a moment he a generous yard from his put it over the child s shoulders and the child ran away at his own shoe his own head � native proverb as a messenger if the heart of the presence be moved to so great favour and on six yes for i have three little little children whose are always empty and com is now but forty pounds to the i will make so | 39 |
utterance from the depths of his own being and thus i standing be you in some sort a humble representative of that large class sometimes termed the � c educated by others perhaps more properly the i shall speak to you fi om the � before the literary of college july d the relations of to labor heart of that class � truths which may or may not have long since through the halls of our their venerable dust but which in either case are certain i ere long to make themselves heard and respected i have not hesitated to choose for my theme on this occasion � the discipline duties of the scholar vast and lofty though it be and imperfect as have been my opportunities for its thorough appreciation and discussion few as are the fragments of hours that i have been able to seize for its contemplation i am well aware that on its proper apprehension depends in great degree the progress and the well being of the human race you need not fear my friends that the advantages of a thorough education nor of a thoroughly educated class will be in our day and especially by us weary and along the beneath the sun of active life who have been able but to as it were here and there a from the grateful waters of know ledge as they danced and across our too eager headlong course o not from our panting ranks will ever arise the cry that solid and learning is a boon to be rejected or lightly the small of knowledge which we awkwardly handle arid dispense are constantly reminding us of the of golden treasure which for us lie buried in the far recesses of halls like these from which a grim fate has forever us limited as may have been our opportunities it is not to us a sealed truth that the present is only to be rightly read and interpreted in the full reflected from the past we are not unaware that this uneasy throng of to day is but a with slight of the striving crowds of a thousand to be again and again represented in the several of countless to we are well ware that faithful history is a as well as a judge � that her magic mirror gives back the faces glowing around us hints toward as well as the forms in dust beneath us and that he who rightly reads of and of and of smooth and may turn at once from the chronicle and see the living characters eagerly around him must he not discern the of our republic in that noble of our heroic elder time the oft baffled defeated but bravely struggling of might he not be tempted at last to suspect that the difference between one age and another exists quite as often in its as in its actors and that the of and would reveal heroism as devoted and admirable as any of that more recorded by or had we but the skill to interpret them as � in short it is not alone the educated who have learned that a knowledge of man is the central truth to which the study of men and their acts must be and that the mingled web of and human infirmity termed history is to be rightly only in proportion as we apprehend its beginning and its destined conclusion there is there must be a educated class among us � i do not merely admit the notorious fact i perceive the vital necessity whether the distance between that class and the many should or should not be as broad and palpable as at present is not now the question my theme its existence and that the greater number are however we might desire the universal and possession of the knowledge now confined to this class we know it is and long must be impossible its a devotion of time and of means to say nothing of tastes and habits which can only be given by the comparatively few my theme then the compound inquiry � what should be the oi the education of the more cultivated class � under what conditions should learn the relations of learning to labor ing be acquired � what ends should it contemplate � what advantages secure to its i shall proceed to discuss it i would insist then as the in the discipline of the scholar on a thorough and harmonious development of the physical man i place this first not as more important than moral and intellectual culture but as the proper foundation of all culture unto perfection you need not me to instances of intellectual giants who are physically � of genius and wit � you may as well tell me that the of a great city are favorable to health and because men have v grown there to stature and vigor and died in hale old age as well tell me that the and the battle field are favorable to long life because men have died peacefully at ninety after a half century of and these are exceptions which rather establish the rule than it a sound mind in a sound body � that is the order of nature � you may find a sound mind elsewhere but it will be most and bestowed the body can endure a divorce far better than the mind in fact we see bodies breathing moving acting all around us which seem to perform their proper functions tolerably with the aid of very little mind � almost none � but a clear mind in a body is a far more pitiable spectacle it is a diamond in the clutch of a to be gazed at a moment in wonder then hurled into the depths of the sea it is a freight of the wealth of the indies embarked in a tottering which is certain to sink in the | 19 |
considerable in those days he can by speech violent meal at and at by fire and he down by the word of his mouth the governor him though it is as a roman triumph and more he is chosen for two places has to decline and honor let his enemies look and wonder and sigh forgotten by him for thb too the career at last opens at last does not the benevolent reader though never so a little with this poor brother mortal in such a case victory is always joyful but to think of such a man in the hour when twelve labors he does finally triumph so long he fought with the many headed of and panting and with it for life or death � forty long stem years and now he has it under his heel the mountain tops are are where the man climbed on sharp slippery in s miscellaneous writings darkness seen by no kind eye � amid the brood of and the heart many times was like to fail within him in his loneliness in his extreme need yet he climbed and climbed his footsteps in his blood and now behold like he has it and on the summit shakes his glittering of war i what a scene and new kingdom for him all bathed in radiance of hope far solemn joyful what wild s music from the depths of nature comes through the soul raised suddenly out of death into victory and life the very we think might weep with this tears of joy which alas will become tears of sorrow for know o son of adam and son of with that accursed ambition of thine that they are all a delusion and piece of these same ments and s tones the thing thou as mortal is what is called t or peace which god knows thou wilt never get so happy they that find it without such searching but in some months more of blazing splendor and tion this will be ashes and lie in the of great men or say french of considerable or even of considered and small noisy men � at rest nowhere save on the lap of his mother earth there are to whom the gods in their give glory but far it is given in wrath as a curse and a poison disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man leading onward through dizzy rings and � towards no saint s shrine truly if death did not or still more happily if life and the public were not a and sudden unreasonable oblivion were not to follow that sudden unreasonable glory and i most damp it down � one of sees not where many a poor glorious man still more many a poor glorious woman for it falls harder on the distinguished female could � far short of on the th day of may madame de looking from a window in the main street of amid an assembled world as the walked in procession from the church of dame to that of saint louis to hear high mass and be constituted states general saw this among these who had been to the third estate above all others the de the opinion men had of his genius was singularly by the fear entertained of his and yet it was this very which the influence his faculties were to secure him you could not but look long at this man when once you had noticed him his immense black head of hair distinguished him among them ail you would have said his force depended on it like that of his face borrowed new expression from its very his whole person gave you the idea of an irregular power but a power such as you would figure in a of the people s history through the first months of the revolution falls not to be written here yet it is well worth writing somewhere the assembly when his name was first read out received it with murmurs not knowing what they murmured at this honorable member they were murmuring over was the member of all members the august without mm were no at all very notable truly is his in this section of world history by far the single element there none like to him or second to him once he is seen visibly to have saved as with his own force the existence of the assembly to have turned the whole tide of things in one of those mo s miscellaneous writings ments which are cardinal decisive for centuries the royal declaration of the twenty third of june is there is military force enough there is then the king s express order to to meet as separate third estate on the morrow and may be the penalty of his voice to encourage others all pallid panic stricken to supreme de enters with the king s renewed order to depart said de you heard the king s order the of out these words that have become memorable yes we heard what the king was advised to say and you who cannot be of his meaning to the states general you who have neither vote nor seat nor right of speech here you are not the man to remind us of it go tell those who sent you that we are here by will of the nation and that nothing but the force of can drive us hence and poor de � back foremost the says but this cardinal moment though it be is perhaps among his smaller in general we would say once more with emphasis he has les he goes through the revolution like a substance and a force not like a of one while innumerable barren and constitution are building with such and their august paper constitution which endured eleven months this man looks not at and social but at things and men what is to | 37 |
been the dependence of authors of every age even back to the times of the worthy robert of who wrote his history in of saxon even now many talk of s well of pure english as if the language ever sprang from a well or fountain head and was not rather a mere of various tongues perpetually subject to changes and it is this which has made english literature so extremely and the reputation built upon it so fleeting unless thought can be committed to something more permanent and than such a medium even thought must share the fate of every thing else and fall into decay this should serve as a check upon the vanity and exultation of the ho in his chronicle afterwards also by of and of john in the time of richard the second and after them of john and john of our said was brought to an excellent notwithstanding that it never came unto the type of perfection until the time of queen elizabeth wherein john bishop of john fox and learned and excellent writers have fully accomplished the of the same to their great praise and immortal p the most popular writer he finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradually and subject to the of time and the caprice of fashion he looks back and the early authors of his country once the of their day by modern writers a few short ages have covered them with obscurity and their merits can only be by the quaint taste of the and such he be the fate of his own work which however it may be admired in its day and held up as a model of purity will in the course of years grow and until it should become almost as unintelligible in its native land as an egyptian or one of those said to exist in the deserts of i declare added i with some emotion when i contemplate a modern library filled with new works in all the bravery of rich and binding i feel disposed to sit down and weep like die good when he surveyed his army out in all the splendour of military array and reflected that in one hundred years not one of them would be in existence ah said the little with a heavy sigh i see how it is these modern have all the good old authors i suppose is read now a days but sir philip s of literature s stately plays and mirror for or the fine spun of the john there you are again mistaken said i the writers whom you suppose in because they happened to be so when you were last in circulation have long since had their day sir philip s the immortality of which was so fondly predicted by his admirers and which in truth is full of noble thoughts delicate images and graceful turns of language is now scarcely ever mentioned has into obscurity and even though his writings were once the delight of a court and apparently by a proverb is now scarcely known even by name a whole crowd of authors who wrote and at the time have likewise gone down with all their writings and their wave after wave of succeeding literature has rolled over them until they are buried so deep that it is only now and then that some industrious after fragments of an live ever the simple image of his gentle and the golden pillar of his noble courage and ever unto the world that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence the breath of the the honey bee of the flowers of and the of and intellectual virtues the of in the field the tongue of in the chamber the of practise in and the of in print s pierce s the brings up a specimen for the gratification off the curious for my part i continued i consider this of language a wise precaution of providence for the benefit of the world at large and of authors in particular to reason from � we daily behold the varied and beautiful tribes of vegetables springing up flourishing the fields for a short time and then fading into dust to make way for their were not this the case the of nature would be a grievance instead of a blessing the earth would groan rank and excessive vegetation and its surface become a tangled wilderness in like manner the works of genius and learning decline and make way for subsequent productions language gradually and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time otherwise the powers of genius would the world a d the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless of literature formerly there were some on this excessive works had to be by hand which was a slow and laborious operation they were written either on which was expensive so that one work was often to make way another or on which was fragile and extremely was a limited and of literature � craft and pursued chiefly by in the leisure and solitude of their the of was slow and costly and confined almost entirely to to these circumstances it may in some measure be owing that we have not been by the intellect of antiquity that the fountains of thought have not been broken up and modern genius drowned in the but the inventions of paper and the press have put an end to all these they have made every one a writer and enabled every mind to pour itself into print and itself over the whole intellectual world the consequences are alarming the stream of literature has into a torrent � into a river � expanded into a sea a few centuries since five or six hundred constituted a great library but what would you say to such as actually exist containing three and four hundred thousand volumes | 48 |
heart with a picture of the riches the old man and to on his cunning in removing himself even beyond the reach of well said dick with a blank look i suppose it s of no use my staying here not the least in the world rejoined the dwarf you u mention that i called perhaps said dick mr nodded and said he certainly would the first time he saw them and say added mr say sir that i was here upon the of that i came to remove with the of friendship the seeds of and heart burning and to sow in their place of social harmony will you have the goodness to charge yourself with that commission sir certainly rejoined wiu you be kind enough to add to it sir said dick producing a very small limp card that is my address and that i am to be found at home every morning two distinct sir will produce the at any time my particular friends sir are accustomed to when the door is opened to give her to that they are my friends and have no interested motives in asking if i m at home i beg your pardon wiu you allow me to look at that card again oh by au means rejoined by a slight and not unnatural mistake sir said dick another in its stead i had handed you the pass ticket of a select circle called the glorious of which i have the honour to be perpetual grand that is the proper document sir good morning bade him g ood day the perpetual grand master of the glorious his hat in honour of mrs dropped it carelessly on the side of his head ag in and disappeared with a flourish the old shop by this time liad for the of the goods and strong men in caps were of drawers and other trifles of that nature upon their heads and performing muscular which heightened their considerably not to be behind hand in the bustle mr went to work with surprising and the people about like an spirit setting mrs upon all kinds of and tasks great up and down no apparent effort kicking the boy from the wharf he could get near him and with his loads a great many sly and blows on the shoulders of mr brass as he stood upon the door steps to answer all the inquiries of curious neighbours which was his department his presence and example diffused such alacrity among the persons employed that in a few hours the house was emptied of but pieces of empty porter pots and scattered fragments of straw seated like an african chief on one of these pieces of the dwarf was himself in the parlour with bread and cheese and beer when he without appearing to do so that a boy was in at the outer door assured that it was � it though he saw little more than his nose mr hailed him by his name whereupon came in and demanded what he wanted come here you sir said the dwarf weu so your old master and young mistress haye gone where rejoined looking round do you mean to say you don t know where answered sharply where haye they gone eh i don t know said come retorted let s haye no more of this do you mean to say that you don t know they went away by as soon as it was light this morning no said the boy in surprise you don t know that cried don t i know that you were hanging about the house the other night like a thief eh weren t you told then no replied the boy you were not said what were you told then what were you talking about who knew no particular reason why he should keep it the old shop ihe matter secret now related the purpose for he liad � come on that occasion and the proposal he had made oh said the dwarf after a little then i think they come to you yet do you think will cried eagerly aye i think they will returned the now when they do let me know d ye hear let me know and i give you something i want to do em a kindness and i can t do em a kindness unless i know where they are you hear what i say might have returned some answer which would not have been agreeable to his if the boy from the wharf who had been about the room in search of anything that might have been left about by accident had not happened to cry here s a bird what s to be done with this its neck rejoined oh no don t do that said stepping forward give it to me oh yes i dare say cried the other boy you let the cage alone and let me its neck will you he said i was to do it you let the cage alone wiu you give it here give it to me you dogs roared fight for it you dogs or i u its neck myself without further persuasion the two boys fell upon each other tooth and nail while holding up the cage in one hand and the ground with his knife in an urged them on by his and cries to fight more fiercely they were a equal match and rolled about blows which were by no means child s play until at length planting a well directed hit in his adversary s chest disengaged himself sprung up and the cage from s hands made off with his prize he did not stop once until he reached home where his bleeding face occasioned great consternation and caused the elder child to howl dreadfully goodness gracious what is the matter what have you been doing i cried mrs never you mind mother answered | 8 |
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