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ve sound bodies and supreme endurance in war and in labour tlie force of the race has to of great parts of the world yet it remains to be seen whether they can make good the of millions from great britain in to more than a thousand a day they have force are hy their foreign subjects and they still and the dominion of their arts and liberty their laws are hospitable and slavery does not exist under them what exists is and temporary their is not sudden or but they have maintained and self equality for many ages is this power due to their race or to some other men hear gladly of the power of blood or race everybody likes to know that his advantages cannot be to air soil sea or to local wealth as mines and nor to laws and traditions nor to fortune but to superior brain as it makes the praise more personal to him we anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of that whatever bone or essential organ is found in one healthy individual same part or organ may be found in or near the place in its and we look to find in the ment al and moral property that existed in the in race it is not the broad shoulders or or stature that give advantage but a that as far as to the wit then the miracle and renown begin then first we care to examine the and copy heed fully the training � what food they ate what nursing school and exercises they had which resulted in this mother delicacy of thought and robust wisdom came such men as king alfred and bacon william of walter philip new ton william george francis george henry to exist here p what these delicate natures was it the air p was it the sea was it the p for it is certain that these men are of their the hearing ear ii always found close to the speaking tongue and no can long or often utter which is not invited aad gladly entertained by men around him it is race is it not p that puts the hundred millions of india under the dominion of a remote island in the of europe race if that be true u all are and all are � love j of power and the representative principle is a in in the jew who for two under has preserved the same and in the negro is of appalling importance the french in canada off from ail with the parent people have held their national traits i to read on the manners of the not long since in and the heart of and i und abundant points of resemblance between the of the forest and our and of the american woods but whilst race works to keep its own it is resisted by other forces civilization is a re and � away the old traits the of to day are the of but the of to day is a very person from � or � has its the hare a face the a the a face an englishman will pick out a by his manners and professions their own lines on face and form certain circumstances of english life are not effective as personal liberty plenty of food good ale and mutton open market or good wages for every kind of labour high to talent and skill the island life or he million opportunities and for and talent readiness of combination among themselves for politics or for business strikes and sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labour and in war and the a for superiority grows by feeding it is easy to add to the forces to race is a main element it is said that the views of j ture held by any people determine all their institutions add to mental or moral faculty take out of as out of other conditions and make the national life a compromise these of the formidable doctrine of race which threaten to it as not sufficiently based the or of races as english we see is a weak argument for the eternity of frail since all our historical period is a the duration in which nature has wrought any the and in our natural history such as the of fruits and of animal stocks has the worth of a in tlie opportunity of periods moreover though we flatter the self love of men and nations by the legend of pure races all our experience is of the and resolution of races and strange meet us everywhere it need not puzzle us that and and saxon and should mix when we see the of tiger and in our human form and know that the of races are not � but that some spray us from the seas � the low are simplest a mere or a straight worm as the scale become complex we are with descent but nature loves a child face the faces of both parents and some feature whose face hangs on the wall the nations are those most widely related and ar a world wide mixture is the most potent of nations character a origin english is a of distant and elements the language is mixed the names of men are of different nations � three languages three or four na tions � the currents of thought are counter � tion and practical skill active intellect and dead con world wide enterprise and devoted use wont y freedom and hospitable law with class a people scattered by their wars and over the face of the whole earth and to a i a country of extremes � and ofi and naked heathen � nothing can w praised in it exceptions and nothing without of cordial praise i neither do this people appear to be of one stem but a better race | 37 |
all his score of years of wandering and studying so the benefit of the doubt conditions over the world he had carried with him the memory of his old town as a sweet and wholesome place the he now beheld was startling he certainly must continue his stroll and glimpse the to which his town had descended another thing had a keen social and consciousness wealthy he had been to his energies in the pink and dinners of society while race horses and kindred had left him cold he had the bee in his bonnet and was a of no mean though his work had been mainly in the line of to the heavier and and to the publication over his name of brightly cleverly written books on the working classes and the among the twenty seven to his credit occurred titles such as if christ came to new the reform in the rural of england the people of the east side reform revolution the university settlement as a hot bed of and the cave man of civilization the benefit of the doubt but was neither morbid nor he did not lose his head over the horrors he encountered studied and exposed no enthusiasm him his humor saved him as did his wide experience and his philosophic temperament nor did he have any patience with lightning change reform as he saw it society would grow better only through the painfully slow and painful processes of there were no short cuts no sudden the of mankind must be worked out in agony and misery just as all past social had been worked out but on this late summer af was curious as he moved along he paused before a gaudy drinking place the sign above read the there were two one evidently led to the bar this he did not explore the other was a narrow passing through this he found himself in a huge room filled with chair encircled tables and quite deserted in the dim light he made out a piano in the distance making a mental note that be would come back some time and study the of persons that must sit and drink at those the benefit of the doubt tables he proceeded to the room now at the rear a short led oflf to a small kitchen and here at a table alone sat proprietor of the a hasty supper ere the evening rush of business also was angry with the world he had got out of the wrong side of bed that morning and nothing had gone right all day had his been asked they would have described his mental condition as a but did not know this as he passed the little s sullen eyes lighted on the magazine he carried under his arm did not know nor did he know that what he carried imder his arm was a magazine out of the depths of his decided that this stranger was one of those who and the walls of his back rooms by up or up the color on the front cover of the magazine convinced him that it was such an advertisement thus the trouble began knife and fork in hand leaped for out know yer game the benefit of the doubt was startled the man had upon him like the of a jack in a me walls cried at the same time a string of vivid and vile rather of if i have given any i did not mean but that was as far as the visitor got interrupted get out talk much yer mouth quoted his remarks with of the knife and fork caught a quick vision of that eating fork inserted between his ribs knew that it would be rash to talk further with his mouth and promptly to go the sight of his meekly retreating back must have further enraged for that worthy dropping the table implements sprang upon him weighed one hundred and eighty so did in this they were equal but was a rushing rough and tumble while was a in this the latter had the advantage for came in wide open swinging his right in a perilous sweep all the benefit of the doubt had to do was to straight left him and escape but had another advantage his and his experience in the and of the world had taught him restraint he on his feet and instead of striking the other s swinging blow and went into a but charging like a bull had the of his rush while whirling to meet him had no as a result the pair of them went down with all their three hundred and sixty pounds of weight in a long crashing fall he lay with his head touching the rear wall of the large room the street was a and fifty feet away and he did some quick thinking his first thought was to avoid trouble he had no wish to get into the papers of this his childhood town where many of his relatives and family friends still lived so it was that he locked his around the man on top of him held him close and waited for the help to come that must come in response to the crash of the fall the help came � that is six men ran in from the bar and formed about in a semi circle take him off fellows said i the benefit of the doubt have n t struck him and i don t want any fight but the semi circle remained silent held on and waited after various vain efforts to inflict damage made an o me an i get off o said he let go but when scrambled to his feet he stood over his foe ready to � strike up commanded his voice was stem and like the voice of god calling to judgment and there was no mercy there stand back and | 21 |
depression whereas he who is of fresh as a man at the bottom of ladder runs very little risk of breaking his neck by tumbling to the top the very essence of true wisdom which consists in knowing when we ought u be j and was di ix much about the same time with that secret that thing is and of q in consequence of which your wise men have ev been the of the human race it as an in mark of genius to be distressed without since any man may be miserable in time of o but is the philosopher alone who can discover cause lor grief in the veiy hour of prosperity according to the principle have just advanced we that the colony of new which under the re of the renowned van had flourished in such and serenity is now paying for its and the enormous debt of which it contracted foes it from the of new yet in its infancy is kept alarm and its commander william the answers the but expressive idea of f in a of troubles while busily engaged his bitter enemies he on one side we find him suddenly in another quarter and by other a of the conduct of peter an to queen of had settled themselves and erected south or river within the boundaries claimed by the government of the new his is mute as to the of their first landing an history of their red pretensions to the soil and the be lamented as thi same colony of will � be found most materially to affect not only the if the but of the world at large in whatever manner therefore this of first took possession of the country it is that in they a and ae to the off usage of his declared himself of all the adjacent country under the name of the province of new no sooner did this reach the ears of the than like a lane spirited he broke into a violent rage and calling together his council the most in the longest speech ever been heard in the colony since the of ten breeches and tough breeches having vent to the first of his he had resort to his measure of and one hot in the first year of his reign peter that the territory on the south river had time out of mind been in possession ei the having been fi and sealed with their blood the latter sentence would convey an idea of war and were we not relieved the information that it merely related to a fi y in whidi half a dozen had been killed by die indians in their benevolent attempts to establish a colony and promote by this it will be seen that william j though a very small man delighted in big expressions and was much given to a figure in generally cultivated by your little great men called a figure which has been found of infinite service among many of his and which has helped to the grandeur of many a mighty important but windy magistrate nor can resist in this place new york observing how much my beloved country is indebted to this same figure of for certain of her greatest and who by dint of big words periods and windy doctrines are kept afloat on the surface of as are up by blown � the against concluded by ordering the self governor and his gang of to leave the country under penalty of the high displeasure and inevitable vengeance of the government of the this strong measure however does not seem to have had a whit more than its which had been thundered against the � the resolutely held on to the territory they had taken possession of whereupon mi rs for the present remained in that should put up with this insolent obstinacy in the would appear with his temperament but we find that about this time the little man had bis hands full and with one annoyance and another was kept continually on the there is a certain description of active who by shrewd management contrive always to have a hundred irons on the every one of which must be immediately attended to who are ever full of and up the public and the national a� s so as to make nine holes where they mend one � stopping and with whatever comes first to hand like the i have mentioned old clothes in broken windows of this class of was william the and had he only been blessed with powers equal to his zeal or his zeal been by a discretion there is very doubt but he would have made the greatest governor of his size on record the renowned governor of the island of alone y history of the great defect of s was no man be more ready to stand forth m m hour of emergency yet he was so intent upon the national that he suffered the enemy to its head in other words whatever precaution fer safety he adopted he was so upon r it cheap that he rendered it all this was a consequence of his at the where having acquired a he was ever after a great of continually dipping into bo s without ever studying to the bottom of any subject so that he had the of all kinds of authors in his in some of these he stumbled over a grand political word which with his customary facility he immediately into his great scheme of government to the and m of the honest province of and the eternal of all rulers in vain have i over the of the the of the jews the of the a the magic of the the of the english the of the or the of the indians to discover where the little man first laid his eyes on this terrible word r the that famous | 48 |
upper lip and the great striped chest snapped at us like a wild animal came the huge lid into its place and the glasses on the swinging rack sang and with the shock the mate sat down on the edge of the table and shivered like a frightened horse you ve saved my life captain said he so this was the secret of the striped treasure chest of old don di and this was how he preserved his ill gotten gains from the and i green flag etc the province of be the thief ever so cunning he could not tell that golden from the other articles of value and the instant that he laid hand upon it the terrible spring was and the were driven into his brain while the shock of the blow sent the victim backwards and enabled the chest to close itself how many i wondered had fallen victims to the ingenuity of the of and as i thought of the possible history of that grim striped chest my resolution was very quickly taken carpenter bring three men and carry this on deck going to throw it overboard sir yes mr not superstitious as a rule but there are some things which are more than a sailor can be called upon to stand no wonder that made heavy weather captain with such a thing on board the glass is dropping fast sir and we are only just in time so we did not even wait for the three sailors but we carried it out the mate the carpenter and i and we pushed it with our own hands over the there was a white of water and it was gone there it lies the striped chest a thousand deep and if as they say the sea will some day be dry land i grieve for the man who finds that old box and tries to penetrate into its secret a shadow before the th of july found john a ruined of the stock exchange upon the th he was a very man and yet he had effected the change leaving the little irish of which could have been bought outright for a quarter of the sum which he had earned during the single day that he was within its walls there is a romance of yet to be written a story of huge forces which are for ever and of bold operations of breathless suspense of failure of deep which are baffled by others still more subtle the mighty debts of each great european power stand like so many columns of for ever rising and falling to indicate the pressure upon each he who can see far enough into the future to tell how that column will stand to morrow is the man who has fortune within his grasp john had many of the gifts which lead a to success he was quick in observing just in prompt and fearless in acting but in there is rs the element of luck which however one may it still remains like the blank at a constantly present upon the and so it was that bad the green flag etc come to grief on the best he had in the funds of a south american republic in the days before south american had been found out the republic and lost his money he had the shares of a scotch railway and a four months strike had hit him hard he had helped to a coffee company in the hope that the public would come along upon the feed and gradually away some of his holding but the political sky had been clouded and the public had refused to invest everything which he had touched had gone wrong and now on the eve of his marriage young clear headed and energetic he was actually a had his chosen to make him one but the stock exchange is an indulgent body what is the case of one to day may be that of another to morrow and is interested in seeing that the stricken man is given time to rise again so the burden of was lightened for him many shoulders helped to bear it and he was able to go for a httle summer tour into for the doctors had ordered him rest and change of air to restore his shaken nervous system thus it was that upon the th of july he found himself at his breakfast in the fly blown coffee room of the george hotel in the market square of it is a dull and room and one which is usually empty but on this particular day it was as crowded and noisy as that of any london hotel every table was occupied and a thick smell of bacon and of fish hung in the air heavily men in and out spurs riding crops were in and there was a general atmosphere of horse a shadow before the conversation too was of nothing else from every side heard of of of of of of a hundred other terms which were as unintelligible to him as his own stock exchange would have been to the company he asked the waiter for the reason of it all and the waiter was an astonished man that there should be anyone in this world who did not know it it s the horse fair your honour � the greatest horse fair in all it lasts for a wake and the folk come from far an near � from england an scotland an if you look out of the your honour you ll see the horses and it s your honour s conscience must be or you wouldn t so sound that the didn t rouse you with their clatter had a recollection that he had heard a confused murmur which had itself with his dreams � a sort of steady beating and � and now when he looked through the window | 4 |
is dry and is not by the of foreign flesh is in a more lent condition is more and is more prompt for intellectual energy thus too it is said that the which is the and the to the taste affords the best honey to bees the therefore or power of the soul is or rather he who when this energy is mingled with the energies of either the imagination or power but consists in a t days from a separation from all these and the wisdom which is adapted to divine concerns is a desertion of everything of this kind the proper likewise of each thing is that which essentially es it thus you may say that the of a stone is the cause of its continuing to be a stone and of firmly remaining in a form but the of a plant is that which preserves it in increase and and of an animated body that which preserves its composition it is one thing however to and another to and one thing to impart what is necessary and another to produce what is luxurious various therefore are the kinds of and various also is the nature of the things that are nourished and it is necessary that indeed all things should be nourished but we should earnestly endeavor to our most principal parts hence the of the rational soul is that which preserves it in a rational state but this is intellect so that it is to be nourished by intellect and we should earnestly endeavor that it may be through this rather than that the flesh may become through for intellect preserves for us eternal life but the body when causes the soul to be furnished through its hunger after a blessed life not being satisfied our mortal part since it is of itself insane and an of an immortal condition ot being it likewise by the soul and drawing her down to that which is foreign to her nature and the indeed as it were a soul to the iron which is placed near it and the iron though most heavy is elevated and runs to the spirit of the stone should he therefore who is suspended and deity be anxiously busied in food which the body that is an to intellectual perception t ought he not rather by what is necessary to the flesh into that which is little and easily procured be nourished by to god more closely than the iron to tin i wish indeed that our nature was not so and that it were possible we could live without the derived fi om fruits that as says we were not in want of meat or drink that we might be truly immortal � the poet in thus speaking beautifully that food is the not only of life but also of death if therefore we were not in want of vegetable we should be by so much the more blessed in proportion as we should be more immortal but now living in a mortal condition we render ourselves if it may be proper so to speak still more mortal through becoming ignorant that by addition of this the soul as says does not only confer a great i s a benefit on the body by being its but giving herself wholly to it hence it is much to be wished that we could obtain the life celebrated in in which hunger and thirst are unknown or that by stopping the every way flowing of the body we may in a very little time be present with the most excellent natures to which he who since deity is there is himself a god but how is it possible not to lament the condition of the of mankind who are so involved in darkness as to cherish their own evil and who in the first place hate themselves and him who them and afterwards those who them and call on them to return firom to a sober condition of being i � an from animal food june x cottage th our and fields remind me whenever i step into their presence of your promise of spending awhile with us at the cottage but lest you should chance to alight at my door while i am absent i write now to say that i purpose to breathe those mountain airs and shall leave for on monday next � so do nt come till after my return i shall then have the more to communicate of the spirit of those hills lately i have been sent to seek the members of that brotherhood whom god designs shall dwell together in his paradise the time is near when the soul s shall as a visible fact rooted in the soil of new england and wise even as the of old record their version of the of man and the and planting of i have visited the city since i saw you where i met persons a few of wise hearts and growing gifts and graces god is breeding men and women here and there for the new heaven and earth � have you seen he has been passing a few days with me and a great promise he is to me the youth is rich in wisdom a child of deepest and truest life god has a work for the boy and set him about it � while his years scarce days from a april numbered an � and now he is great beside his and shall honor his remember i am to see you on my return your friend xi green th bland the air picturesque the scenery of these hills this is the of our republic and these are parcel of their mountains and love them as do the this too is the scenery this the these the pursuits for growing and here is the haunt of reform cherished by these austere of toil and storm | 37 |
impertinent as to inquire into them but might i ask what sort of man is he whom they call removed his hand from his face and revealed an expression of great relief oh answered he gaily yes he is a strange fellow and i do not wonder that he has excited your curiosity moreover it is only right it should be satisfied since it is likely he will be more or less mixed up with our own fortunes well he was the son of a gentleman on a neighbouring estate to that of my father and who like the bad boys of the story books ran away at an early age to sea he led a very queer life i fancy � what is called a � which is mostly black you know though i don t believe there was ever much real harm in him when he returned home after a quarter of a century lie matters worse than he had left them his by the m m j i fl v h it s master such as only occur in ireland then he got mixed up in the troubles and had to flee the country and skin poor fellow � like myself nay sir not so for it seems to me that he had nothing to lose and all to gain whereas you had an estate at stake i had at one time � yes returned thoughtfully there is something in what you say perhaps though we have no right to selfish motives you do not like mr it seems i don t dislike him sir personally but i confess that � of late � he has seemed to me to be a dangerous man dangerous why dangerous inquired quickly well sir i can t exactly say but this man has great influence among our people and if he choose to use it ill there might be great danger i am certain at all events that that is the captain s opinion you have been ill and confined to your cabin so that you may not have observed it but i notice that both he and the other officers of the ship go about armed armed how long has that been the case p inquired with excitement a deep flush his pale face since the day you came on deck in your real character that is strange muttered very strange is this a matter of general remark do the boys know it i think not sir they do not take much but there is one man that knows it the island myself unless i am much mistaken and that is himself ah then he should have told me i mean added hastily he should have confessed that he had been guilty of a foolish there is no harm in him nor in my people but there should be no ground for supposing harm keep your eyes open robert for the future and above all things your mouth shut to talk of danger before some people is like putting a match to a fire grate that is already laid and now tell poor dick that i am ready to see him to morrow or the next day at i shall be well and about again good day lad good day chapter xii the island the interview was over and clearly as it seemed to robert hurried to a close by the tidings which he had just communicated it was evident that mr had been of the effect produced by his own appearance among his people and yet when informed of it he had not expressed that which might have been expected of him he must have known more of also than he had to reveal and in that as in still s master half trusted on the other hand his appointment if it could be called such of second in command to his patron was at least a proof of extreme favour while to the fact that it was genuine s own behaviour abundantly neither on the next day nor for many days afterwards did robert again see mr that gentleman was once more reported ill and remained in his berth visited only by and it would have doubtless been within the scope of s newly conferred authority to insist on being admitted to the sick man s cabin but he took no advantage of this the same wild cries for help the same half sounds were repeated as he had heard on the previous occasion and something hinted to him that whatever might be the nature of his patron s the presence of an witness like himself would not be welcome to him the ship s surgeon had attended the patient in the first instance but of late he had not done so since as he explained to robert the two men in question thoroughly understood the case and were competent to deal with it the ship was by this time advanced far across the indian ocean and was within a few hundred miles of the western coast of and the no longer influenced by whom s illness seemed to have greatly and who was much engaged about the sick man s person and excited by the prospect of a termination to their tedious voyage passed much of their time on deck looking out for the first glimpse of land thus robert made a more in acquaintance than he had hitherto done not only those under bis own charge tut vn l the island liis fellow passengers and was much struck with the difference between them the boys with their wives and families gave but little thought to their appearing to leave that with great in the hands of their patron while the others were never tired of like children upon the new world they were so rapidly approaching where potatoes grew without planting and all were masters and none servants but just when they seemed to be | 25 |
little nervous i am quite nervous already you are eminently welcome colonel he added with gracious emphasis some relations of mine have most kindly come to see me to day we have not as much in common as one could wish � my fault of course i own � and family affection goes a long way arid fills up many conversation now is becoming the least shade difficult i have colonel wife been looking forward to your arrival with longing and you come and say something to them we should all unite in a movement of gratitude i shall be very happy to make myself useful said philip stiffly he detested mr with amazing cordiality at that moment that is so good of you the other man answered then he addressed at whom he had glanced more than once while speaking i wonder if you know how extremely becoming that gown is he remarked in a meditative manner it does not much matter whether i know it or not she replied quickly if other people do you mean continued mr still looking at her and lifting his eyebrows slightly commend me to your good sense it never deserts you i did not say that the girl answered with some warmth oh no of course not if you had it would have tended to my statement with rapidity but you leave things to be understood your taste is always admirable that is more than can be said of your own at times mr broke in the colonel a number of subtle strains of feeling had combined to philip s self control he was bitter and he lost his temper pretty thoroughly that fellow with his nasty tions will make her as artificial and as he is himself he thought and then he added mentally a certain desire concerning mr future destiny considerably more vigorous than polite meanwhile stared at him with an of interested surprise suppose we come into the garden he said perhaps it would be safer this spot is exposed and medical men say that moonlight is dangerous it affects the intelligence in some cases shall we come few things are more than that another person should triumphantly retain his of when you are conscious of having lost your own practised this passive form of torture frequently upon the members of his acquaintance he entirely refused to be ruffled he became and more seriously polite and gracious � that was all he was perfectly ready to pardon small and those that cursed him and this not because his spirit was lover and mistress lot penetrated with a conviction of the value of the grace of humility but simply because it was not worth while to get excited men and things were profoundly unsatisfactory this world is a most speculation bound to go wrong and prove a bore to permit yourself to be excited or angry implied that you had expected things to go right and were disappointed it was crude it was exquisitely foolish to be disappointed and if there was one thing mr dreaded it was being foolish he did not dread anything else very much he was under the impression that he had taken the measure of the possible evils which could befall him � he believed he was equal to meeting them he had not very much he thought either to gain or to lose his belief in his own that would be a heavy loss and an one as to colonel had a considerable respect for him he fancied that he understood the other man s character pretty completely he knew quite well that colonel disliked him but it would have appeared about as reasonable to to be annoyed with him on these grounds as to be annoyed with a for moving with deliberation or with a spider for enjoying a diet of flies people are the result of their circumstances of inheritance education to be o� with them poor for what they cannot possibly help for sympathies and none of their choosing and beyond their control is simply absurd and so it comes about that a and creed produces some aspects of the highest christian endurance and � a really admirably glad suffering of fools combined with a beautiful absence of any desire to the said fools in with the professed intention of grinding the folly out of them the immediate consequence of mr philosophy on the present occasion was that he entertained his companion with agreeable conversation as they walked slowly after and the little boy down the length of the terrace his face was mild and serious his manner calm and soothing he treated the colonel as one treats a slightly insane patient who should be agreed with and humoured gazed down over the terrace wall at the and the town below � did his best in fact to out the little walk as much as possible and completely to engage colonel s philip s wrath under these he thought he had been a trifle rough on mr he did not care to that movement of he had plenty on m colonel en s wife his hands already without matters by a brush with this young gentleman he too and listened very to mr advice as to the best way of seeing italy and other kindred matters while his eyes followed s retreating figure with lingering as they went in at the gate of the garden was saying � you should come for a winter you know for instance is delightful in winter and there generally is interesting society there society that presents a good deal of material to the imagination yes you should see it colonel you would form an element � perhaps a new one society would be obliged to you by the way my cousin mrs who is here to night could tell you a lot about she was tha e a good deal a few years ago before | 32 |
was the scene of and discomfort from to end and who had no talent no conversation no affection towards herself no curiosity to know her no desire of her friendship and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings was very anxious to he useful and not to appear her home or in any way or by her foreign education from her help to its comforts and therefore set about working for sam immediately and by working early and late with perseverance and great despatch did so much that the boy was off at last with more than half his linen ready she had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness but could not conceive how they would have managed without her sam loud and as he was she rather regretted when he went for he was clever and intelligent and glad to be employed in any errand in the town and though the of given as they were though very reasonable in themselves with ill timed and park powerless warmth was to be by s services and gentle j and she found that the best of the three younger ones i gone in him � tom and charles being at least as many years as they were his distant from that age of feeling and reason which might suggest the of making friends and of to be less disagreeable their sister soon of making the smallest impression on they were quite by any means of address which she had spirits or time to attempt every afternoon brought a return of their games all over the house and she very early learnt to sigh at the approach of saturday s hall too a spoilt child trained up to think the her greatest enemy left to be with the servants at her pleasure and then encouraged to report any evil of them she was almost i ready to despair of being able to love or assist ad of s temper she had many doubts her continual with her mother her rash with tom and and with were at least so distressing to that though admitting they were by no ins without provocation she feared the disposition that could push them to length must be far from amiable and from affording any repose to herself such was the home which was to put out of her head and teach her to think of her in with feelings on she could think of nothing but park its beloved inmates its happy ways where she now was was in fall contrast to it the elegance propriety regularity harmony and perhaps above all the peace and of were brought to her remembrance every hour of the day by the of everything opposite to them here the living in incessant noise was to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like s an evil which no elegance or harmony could have entirely for it was the greatest misery of all at no sounds of no raised voice no abrupt bursts no tread of violence was ever heard all proceeded in a regular course of cheerful everybody had their due importance everybody s feelings were consulted if tenderness could be ever supposed wanting good sense and good breeding supplied its place and as to the little sometimes introduced by aunt they w ere short they were trifling they were as a drop of water to the ocean compared with the ceaseless tumult of her present abode here everybody was noisy every voice was loud excepting perhaps her mother s which resembled the soft monotony of lady s only worn into whatever was wanted was for and the servants out their excuses from the kitchen the doors were in constant the stairs were never at rest nothing was done without a clatter nobody sat still and nobody could command attention when they spoke in a review of the two houses as they appeared park to her before the end of a week was tempted to apply to them dr johnson s celebrated judgment as to matrimony and and say that though park might have some pains could have no pleasures chapter xvi was right enough in not expecting to hear from miss now at the rapid rate in which their correspondence had mary s next letter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last but she was not right in supposing that such an interval would be felt a great relief to herself here was another strange revolution of mind she was really glad to receive the letter when it did come in her present exile from good society and distance from everything that had been wont to interest her a letter from one belonging to the set where her heart lived written with affection and some degree of elegance was thoroughly acceptable the usual plea of increasing engagements was made in excuse for not having written to her earlier and now that i have begun she continued my letter will not be worth your reading for there will be no little of love at the end no three or four lines from the most devoted h c in the world for henry is in business called him to ton lays ago or perhaps he only pretended the call for the sake of being at the same time that vou were but there he is and by the by his absence may account for any of his sister s in writing for there has been no well mary when do w park is not it time tor you to write bi to spur me on at after nt at meeting i have your dear and dearest mrs found me at home yesterday and we were glad to see h other again we glad to see h other and i do really think we were a little we had a vast deal to shall i tell you how mrs looked when your name waa | 26 |
was some months since by the we shall h d a about it when the na d by we left at o clock p m mr has been the of the of the american mate at in reference to which re are to set a by the by is a corruption of the word as used y the natives it has many among which is that � f an open quarrel to set a is to bring it to a issue either by talking or fighting the story of the murder is as follows a agreed to o down the coast with captain who paid him his wages in advance on receiving which the fellow jumped and escaped the captain then refused to pay the sums due to two members of the same tribe unless the first the money finding the threat insufficient he endeavoured to these two natives on board his vessel by promises of payment but meanwhile the mate going ashore with a his boat was detained by the natives the night but given up the next morning at the of the inhabitants the mate returned on board in a violent rage and sent a sailor to catch a on whom to take vengeance but the man caught a and was taken ashore as prisoner the mate and cook then went out in a boat and were attacked by a the men in which the cook and the mate naked threw him overboard they beat the poor fellow off as he attempted to seize hold of the and after him for some time at length him in the back captain having but man and two passengers left made sail and got away as fast as possible s � arrived at where we find the with six native prisoners on board who were taken at as being concerned in the murder of captain and his crew two years ago to accomplish their the was as a with only four or five men on de and these in scotch caps and red shirts so as d by b of to resemble the crew of a merchant the first c� m approached and prince stepped boldly up the side but started back into his boat the moment that he sa the guns and martial on deck the f the however jumped into the water and upset tiie making prisoners of the four natives whom it contained six or eight miles further along the coast the being sail another came off with two natives who were wise secured the begged to be allowed to kill le prisoners as they were of a hostile tribe � leaving the ship in one of our boats pulled by men we crossed the bar at the mouth of the aad i ten minutes afterwards were alongside of the half a dozen young natives and issued from a house to watch our landing but their curiosity was less and than would have been that of tiie number of new york boys at the landing of a foreign war s boat on our part we looked around us with the interest which e n common place objects possess for whose daily is nothing more varied the sea sky even the most ordinary shore scenery becomes after a week or two on two were plank in the shade of the large stone store of the colony ascending the hill we passed the of the herald where two workmen were the laws the publication of the newspaper had been suspended for nearly three months to enable them to accomplish work of more pressing importance proceeding onward we came to the governor s house and were received with that gentleman s usual courtesy the house is w furnished and arranged for a hot climate it is situated near ike highest point of the principal street and from its a view of most of the in town the fort is on the highest ground in the village one hundred feet above the sea it is of stone in shape d by and has a good deal the appearance of an american pound for cattle but is substantial and adequate for it� intended from this point the street in both directions fifty houses are in view first the opposite to which stand the neat dwellings of judge and doctor day further on you perceive the largest house in ite village erected by rev mr of the mission on the right is a one story brick house and two or three wooden ones a stone edifice intended for a court house and hall has recently been com the street itself is wide enough for a spacious pasture and affords abundance of luxuriant grass l which ma two or three well trodden foot paths apart from the village on the cape we discerned the light house the base of which is about two hundred feet above the sea we dined to day at the new hotel the dinner was cooked an fault at where good formerly in the service of our southern might be � i po ed to abound and not served up in proper style but there was abundance to eat and though the keeper of the house is a clergyman and a man ale porter wine and cherry brandy are to be had at fair prices three years ago a tavern was kept here in by a mr whose set forth that nothing was more to his feelings than to sell ardent spirits � but added � if gentlemen wiu have them the following is tiie price of course after such a mr the profits of his liquor trade with a quiet conscience he used to tell me that a little brandy was good for the suggestion but i fear that he made in his own person too large a demand upon its suggestive properties for his house is now and and he himself has carried his tender conscience to another settlement | 35 |
and had been in the thought it likely that he had been knocked overboard by the flapping of the sail while putting about and that he had not known how to swim but though they were near their attention had been first arrested by a cry which seemed like that of a man in distress and while they were hastening with their oars they heard a shriek from the lady and saw her jump in on re entering the hotel was told that had risen and was desiring to see him he was shown into a room darkened by blinds and curtains where she was seated with a white shawl wrapped round her looking towards the opening door like one waiting uneasily but her long hair was gathered up and carefully book � the and the son and through all the blue stars in her ears had kept their place as she started to her full height in her white shawl her face and neck not less white except for a purple line under her eyes her lips a little apart with the peculiar expression of one accused and helpless she looked like the unhappy ghost of that whom had seen turning with firm lips and proud self possession from her losses at the table the sight pierced him with pity and the effects of all their past relation began to revive within him i you to rest � not to stand said as he approached her and she obeyed falling back into her chair again will you sit down near me she said i want to speak very low she was in a large arm chair and he drew a small one near to her side the action seemed to touch her peculiarly turning her pale face full upon his which was very near she said in the lowest audible tone you know i am a guilty woman himself turned paler as he said i know nothing he did not dare to say more he is dead she uttered this with the same decision daniel yes said in a mournful suspense which made him reluctant to speak his face will not be seen above the water again said in a tone that was not louder but of a suppressed eagerness while she held both her hands clenched no not by anyone else � only by me � a dead face � i shall never get away from it it was with an inward voice of desperate that she spoke these last words while she looked away from towards something at a distance from her on the floor was she seeing the whole event � her own acts included � through an medium of excitement and horror was she in a state of delirium into which there entered a sense of concealment and necessity for self such thoughts glanced through as a sort of hope but imagine the conflict of feeling that kept him silent she was bent on confession and he dreaded hearing her confession against his better will he shrank from the task that was laid on him he wished and yet the wish as cowardly that she could bury her secrets in her own bosom he was not a priest he dreaded the weight of this woman s soul flung upon his own with im book vii � the mother and the son dependence but she spoke again hurriedly looking at him � you will not say that i ought to tell the world you will not say that i ought to be disgraced i could not do it i could not bear it i cannot have my mother know not if i were dead i could not have her know i must tell you but you will not say that any one else should know i can say nothing in my ignorance said mournfully except that i desire to help you i told you from the beginning � as soon as i could � i told you i was afraid of myself there was a piteous pleading in the low murmur to which turned his ear only her face afflicted him too much i felt a hatred in me that was always working like an evil spirit � things everything i could do to free myself came into my mind and it got worse � all things got worse that was why i asked you to come to me in town i thought then i would tell you the worst about myself i tried but i could not tell everything and he came in she paused while a shudder passed through her but soon went on will tell you everything now do you think daniel a woman who cried and prayed and struggled to be saved from herself could be a great god said in a deep shaken voice don t torture me you have not murdered him you threw yourself into the water with the impulse to save him tell me the rest afterwards this death was an accident that you could not have don t be impatient with ma the tremor the in these words compelled to turn his head and look at her face the poor quivering lips went on you said � you used to say � you felt more for those who had done something wicked and were miserable you said they might get better � they might be into something better if you had not spoken in that way everything would have been worse i did remember all you said to me it came to me always it came to me at the very last � that was the reason why i but now if you cannot bear with me when i tell you everything � if you turn away from me and me what shall i do am i worse than i was when you found me and wanted to make me better all the wrong i have done | 14 |
where a post chaise was already waiting with four horses i declare said quite aghast at the preparations well you are going to do it mother here she is sir here s my mother she s quite ready sir that s well returned the gentleman now don t be in a flutter ma am you be taken great care of where s the box with the new clothing and necessaries for them here it is said the in with it all right sir replied quite ready now sir then come along said the single gentleman and thereupon he gave his arm to s mother handed her into the carriage as politely as you please and took his seat beside her up went the steps bang went the door round whirled the and off they rattled with s mother hanging out at one window waving a damp pocket handkerchief and screaming out a great many messages to little jacob and the baby of which nobody heard a word stood in the middle of the road and looked after them with tears in his eyes � not brought there by the departure he witnessed but by the return to which he looked forward they went away he thought on foot with nobody to speak to them or say a kind word at parting and they come back drawn by four horses with this rich for their friend and all troubles over forget that she taught me to write � whatever thought about after this took some time to think o for he stood gazing up the lines of shining lamps long after the chaise had disappeared and did not return into the house until the and mr who had themselves lingered outside tiu the sound of the wheels was no longer had several times wondered what could possibly detain him � � � � thb old shop chapter it u to leave for a while thoughtful and and to follow the fortunes of little the thread of the narrative at the point where it was left some chapters back in one of those wanderings in the evening time when following the two sisters at a humble distance she felt in her sympathy with them and her recognition in their trials of something to her own loneliness of spirit a comfort and consolation which made such moments a time of deep though the softened pleasure they yielded was of that kind which lives and dies in tears � in one of those wanderings at the quiet hour of twilight when sky and earth and air and rippling water and sound of distant bells claimed kindred with the emotions of the solitary child and inspired her with soothing thoughts but not of a child s world or its � in one of those which had now become her only pleasure or relief from care light had faded into darkness and evening deepened into night and stiu the young creature lingered in the gloom feeling a companionship in nature so serene and still when noise of tongues and glare of lights would have been solitude indeed the had gone home and she was alone she raised eyes to the bright stars looking down so mildly from the wide worlds of air and gazing on them found new stars burst upon her view and more beyond and more beyond again the whole great expanse sparkled with shining rising higher and higher in space eternal in their numbers as in their and existence she bent over the calm river and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters upon the mountain tops down far below and dead mankind a deep the old shop the child sat silently beneath a tree hushed in her breath by the stillness of the night and all its attendant wonders the time and place awoke reflection and she thought with a quiet hope � less hope perhaps than resignation � on the past and present and what was yet before her between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation harder to bear than any former sorrow every evening and often in the day time too he was absent alone and although she well knew where he went and why � too well the constant drain upon her scanty purse and from his haggard looks � he all inquiry maintained a strict reserve and even her presence she sat meditating sorrowfully upon this change and mingling it as it were with everything about her when the distant church clock bell struck nine rising at the sound she her steps and turned thoughtfully towards the to wn she had gained a little wooden bridge which thrown across the stream led into a meadow in her way when she came suddenly upon a ruddy light and looking forward more attentively discerned that it proceeded from what appeared to be an of who had made a fire in one comer at no great distance from the path and were sitting or lying round it as she was too poor to have any fear of them she did not alter her course which indeed she could not have done without going a long way round but quickened her pace a little and kept straight on a movement of timid curiosity impelled her when she approached the spot to glance towards the fire there was a form between it and her the outline strongly developed against the light which caused her to stop abruptly then as if she had reasoned with herself and were assured that it could not be or had satisfied herself that it was not that of he person she had supposed she went on again but at that instant the conversation whatever it was which had been carrying on near this fire was resumed and the tones of the voice that spoke � she could not distinguish words � | 8 |
refusing to acknowledge an inevitable conclusion it may seem a little stupid of any person to do this and yet to my mind there is something wonderfully moving in the gallant hopeless determination with which the young fight against the hard of fact and experience they may be fools they are fools no doubt but they are fools whom one suffers gladly for love of i u i their magnificent and finely elizabeth went j op tain with the in her she felt a little reckless � the world seemed in a to be coming to an end the da j after to morrow meanwhile she would defy fate she do what she liked she would herself one last chance she would see edward somehow and if nothing came of it � and in justice to poor elizabeth it must be owned that she had formed no clear idea as to what could possibly come of it � well then she thought bitterly enough she would have to own herself beaten and let the world come to an end as soon as it pleased at last f said mrs frank in her clear emphatic voice as elizabeth entered the drawing room my dear elizabeth where in the name of patience have yon been i have been waiting here the most interminable length of time to see you had a great power of letting plain daylight into the minds of other people but elizabeth was too highly wrought � too entirely occupied with her own sensations � to bo awakened even by her sister in law s rapid and decided opening of the shutters just at present i have been walking down by the river she answered dear me i said mrs frank doesn t it strike you that it is just a little late for you to be out walking alone i wasn t alone observed elizabeth simply oh said mrs frank with a note of ill her a u in and she looked rather hard at elizabeth she had an impression that there was something odd about her she wondered if anything could have happened i met mr said with the same air of indifference and abstraction and he walked back here with mo a sudden cheerful seemed to take possession of s small person had come back then and just in time she hardly knew how to be sufficiently thankful she had not made a fatal after all elizabeth seemed strangely but that mrs frank was charmed at � it certainly meant she argued that something had happened or was just about to happen was really going right then she had hardly before how dreadfully anxious s absence had made her her present sense of relief was intensely she smiled a little to herself and folded her small neat hands on her lap as she said quietly you have an admirable indifference to public opinion really elizabeth you know the circumstances and surroundings of your walk might strike some people as slightly peculiar if had failed to awaken elizabeth at first she certainly succeeded in doing so very completely now elizabeth turned toward her with a sense of considerable annoyance what do you mean she asked quickly only that you are young and very good looking answered the other and that of course you run the risk of being talked about you know everybody does that unless they are immensely careful elizabeth had not expected this sort of open attack it seemed to her that was playing exactly the same part that mrs had played two years before it is interesting to observe how history itself but there are some experiences none of us desire particularly to go through twice even for the sake of proving the of that valuable saying the drawing room was warm after the cold damp air of the evening outside elizabeth felt both mentally and physically stifled she had a sense of heat and crowding and confusion no doubt her state of mind was exaggerated but hers was a nature prone to exaggeration s words all her distressing feelings she felt as though she was caught in a great spider s web the delicate almost invisible threads clung about her her movement almost choking her her and hopelessly round with their thin compelling strength she struggled against this sensation she determined angrily come what might to see edward again this room is hot she said for all answer to her sister in law s upon her conduct the fire is large replied calmly i suppose your maids are anxious to finish up your whole stock of coals before they go maids always regard tenants as their natural enemies they can t leaving a scrap of anything for their i fancy we are all inclined to bo a little prejudiced against our the heat is intolerable said elizabeth again she moved across the room hastily and threw one of the windows wide open letting in a rush of rain laden a in and wind which made the curtains and the candles oh i what a fearful draught i cried mrs frank putting up both hands to keep a little of the blast from her face for pity s sake shut down that and come and speak to me like a reasonable creature i if you want to give me something pray let it be something more agreeable than a violent cold in my head elizabeth shut the window down slowly cold air and the physical exertion had done her good she felt less excited and bewildered yet more determined than ever to have her own way in one matter at least she sat down quietly and looked at edward s card again she observed that he had the name of the hotel at which he was staying in the corner of it now that the has ceased said mrs frank her long gloves with great composure i may as well tell you what i | 32 |
which is often i twist it at once reduced mr to begging as a special fe tour to be allowed to any what was most to hear after a short of less than three of as hour s duration the was most graciously it s only about young twist my dear mr a very good looking boy that my dear he need be for he eats enough observed the lady there a an expression of melancholy in his face ni dear resumed mr which ia very interesting he would make a delightful mute my love mrs looked up with an of considerable mr remarked it and without allowing time for any observation on the good lady s part i t mean a regular mute to attend grown up people my dear but for children s practice it would be very new to lave a mute in proportion my dear you may depend npon it it would have a superb effect mrs who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way was much struck by the novelty of this idea but as it would have been her dignity to have said so under existing she merely inquired with much why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband s mind before mr rightly this as an acquiescence in his proposition it was speedily determined therefore that should be at once into the mysteries of the � trade and with this view that he should accompany his master on the very nest occasion of his services required the occasion was not long in coming half an hour after breakfast next morning mr entered the shop and supporting cane against the counter drew forth his large pocket book from he selected a small of paper which he handed over to said the glancing over it a an order for a eh for a coffin first and a replied mr the of the pocket book which like himself was very said the looking from the � paper to mr i never heard the name before twist s shook his head as he replied obstinate people mr very obstinate proud too i m afraid sir proud eh mr with a sneer come that s too much oh it s sickening replied the ir so it is the we only heard of the family the night before last said the and we shouldn t have known anything about them then only a woman who in the same house made an application to the committee for them to send the surgeon to see a woman as was very bad he had gone out to dinner but his which is a very clever lad sent em some medicine in a bottle off hand ah there s said the indeed replied the but what s the consequence what s the behaviour of these sir why the husband sends back word that the medicine won t suit his wife s complaint and so she shan t take it � she shan t take it sir good strong wholesome medicine as was given with great success to two irish and a only a week before � sent em for nothing with a bottle in � and he sends back word she shan t take it sir as the presented itself to mr s mind in i he struck the counter sharply with his cane and l flushed with indignation well said the i ne � ver � did never did sir ejaculated the no nor no never did but now she s dead we ve got to bury her that s the direction and the sooner it s done the better thus saying mr put on his cocked hat wrong side in a fever of excitement and out of why he was so angry that he forgot even to ask you said mr looking after the as strode down the street sir replied who had carefully kept himself of sight during the interview and who was shaking head to foot at the mere recollection of the sound of mr s voice he needn t have taken the trouble to shrink mr s glance however for that ox s t that whom the of tlie gentleman in the white w had made a very strong impression thought that had got upon trial the subject was l avoided until such time as he should be firmly bound for seven years and au danger of his being returned upon the hands of the parish bo thus effectually and overcome well said mr taking up his hat this job is done the better look a r the si put on your cap and come with me and followed his master on hia professional mission they walked on for some time through the most c and inhabited part of the town and then a down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any th had yet passed through paused to look for the house was the of their search the houses on were high and lai hut veiy old and by people of the poorest class as their neglected appearance would have without the testimony afforded by the looks of the few men and women who with folded arms and bodies half doubled occasionally along a great many of the had shop fronts tl these were fast closed and away only the u m rooms being inhabited some houses which had l h in e from ago and decay were prevented from falling h m the by huge beams of wood reared against the wa h and � planted in the road but even these crazy d h to have been selected as the nightly of l wretches for many of the rough boards i supplied the place of door and window were fi h their positions to afford an wide enough for h of a human body the was a m filthy the very rats which here and there | 8 |
so to his own condition it would have made but little impression npon him and this was not very in its application he was by no means without hope he had come to full of hope though disappointed at its not having been already exchanged for certainty he had good hope of inspiring john with confidence in his social position and consequently of obtaining his consent to marry the woman who had now become indispensable to his happiness he had even some hope of yet a portion of his father s great estate he could not be accused of spiritual ambition any sort of hope than that of being in a position to enjoy himself thoroughly bad never entered into his mind just now however he was far from enjoying himself he was a prey to anxiety and any opportunity of forgetting it was welcome to him hot without an to he interested therefore he reflected npon these words which seemed rather to have been spoken in his ear aloud than merely to have caught his eye he had already shut the book with contemptuous impatience but he found himself nevertheless repeating having no hope and without god in the world and pondering upon their mean ing he wondered at himself for taking the trouble to do so but if he didn t do that his thoughts would he knew be even less pleasantly occupied so he let them slip into this novel channel how could a man be without god in the world if god was every where as he had somewhere seen or heard stated and wliich ho believed to be the it was one of the objections against the bible was his tion tliat it was self contradictory in its and distinct only in its of wrath here was a case in point and one which might justly be taken up by a fellow if it was worth while as for himself he was no hall might have clasped him to her breast and would npon that ground he was to the name of the creator whenever he wished to be particularly e but for any other purpose he had never named it with his lips even as a child his mother had never hun to do so she had never spoken to bin on religious subjects except in humorous connection with the heads of the two to which her first husband had belonged � and if the expression without god in the world meant the living in it without the practice of religion it certainly did have an application to himself but also to every one else with whom he was acquainted of course he had known people who went lo men of his own age whom their parents com to do so and who envied him the liberty e enjoyed in that respect and the poor folks at went to chapel bnt even there shrewd fellows like and solomon not trouble themselves to do so true harry bnt then women unless they were clever like his own mother always did go to hear the as a were he had met one or two of them in town under circumstances that showed they had really no more nonsense about them than other people but in the pulpit they were bound to cant look at mr for instance � the best specimen of them by the by he in the bone had ever � who could that his mind was set upon the main chance to what and did he submit him f for the sake of his own nest i and how he had counted npon that of which the squire had so cruelly disappointed him talk of religion there was himself with thirty thousand a year and did not spend a shilling of it on religion i true ho kept a only as a check upon his steward to manage hi estate for him if there was really any thing i it would not a rich man like him have put aside a portion of his wealth by way of � against fire here chuckled to himself it was all rubbish these and things lie would dress himself and go out and take a walk although it was so early he had heard in the as though somebody was so he rang the bell it was hy a sleepy and personage whom he scarcely recognized for the night whose du it was to watch while others slept and who had him a bed candle not many hours what up mv man said richard yes sir the mom ng ma has but just we had a passenger i v it i put him in the room under ou but he seemed a quiet one and i didn t a disturbed you he did not said richard i have been awake all ni t and never so much as him can i have some hot water not yet sir i m afraid e s no fire alight at present i can get you some sir no no answered richard smiling i sha n t want that and as for the hot water i can do without it but now you re here just tell me for i am quite a stranger to town isn t that high and he pointed to the object in question the that s it ah if the morning was but a little you would have a lovely view from this here window � half the town and a good of harbor i there s a splendid building out to the left there if the clouds would but lift a little that s the county jail sir indeed said richard carelessly and turned away just my boots down with yon as i shall want them as soon as yoa can get them cleaned the man did as he was bid directly he bad left the richard pulled down the and staggered to a | 25 |
the moon was up an we see his face i can t find her the ril man an out like the puff a candle saints stand us an evil himself that s the who was he i for he has given me a this day us that was a ril who lost his wife in those quarters three years gone an mad an walked they buried him for her well i to he s been out to company mrs for the last fortnight you may tell mrs my love for i know that she s been to you an you ve been that she ought to the differ a man an a ghost she s had three husbands i an you ve got a wife too good for you which you lave her to be by ghosts an � an all manner evil i ll go in the way politeness to a man s wife again to you both i an that i away fought woman man and all in the � the solid heart an hour by the same token i gave father victor wan to say a mass for s soul me him by my fist into his your ideas of politeness seem rather large i said that s as you look at ut said calmly cared for me for all that i did not want to leave anything me that could take to be angry her about � an ha cleared all up there s nothing like ye let me put me oi to that bottle for my throat s as as i thought i get a kiss from an that s fourteen years gone cork s own city an the blue sky above ut � an the times that was � the times that was with the main guard der sit round open mouth while tell of in the south und moral lessons how before der battle take a little prayer to und a long drink of mary mother mercy the us to take an this answer me that it was who was speaking the time was one o clock of a stifling june night and the place was the main gate of fort most desolate and least desirable of all in india what i was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns m the of the guard and the men on the gate said is a necessity this ll lively till relieved he himself was stripped to the waist on the next was dripping from the of water which clad only in white trousers had just over his shoulders and a fourth private was muttering a with the main guard uneasily as he open mouthed in the glare of the great guard lantern the heat under the was the night that i is all hell loose this tide said a puff of burning wind lashed through the gate like a wave of the sea and swore are ye more he said to put yer between your legs it ll go in a minute ah don t care ah would not care but ma heart is on ma ribs let me die oh leave me die groaned the huge who was feeling the heat being of build the under the lantern roused for a moment and raised himself on his elbow � die and be damned then he said m damned and i can t die who s that i whispered for the voice was new to me gentleman born said ril wan year red hot on his c mission but like a fish he ll be gone before the weather s here so he slipped his boot and with the naked toe just touched the of his misunderstood the movement and the next instant the s rifle was dashed aside while stood before him his eyes blazing with reproof you said my j ou if it was you would we do quiet little man said putting him aside but very gently tis not me nor will ut with the main guard si be me s here i was but something bowed on his groaned and the gentleman sighed in his sleep took s and we three smoked gravely for a space while the dust devils danced on the and the fed hot plain pop said wiping his forehead don t or til you into your own block an � fire you off chuckled and from a in the produced six bottles of where did ye get ut ye said tis no pop w do hi know the drink answered the mess man ye ll have a martial on ye yet me son said but � he opened a bottle � i will not report ye this time s in the mess kid is for the belly as they say specially that mate is here s luck a bloody war or a � no we ve got the sickly season war thin � he waved the innocent pop to the four quarters of heaven bloody war north east south an west ye come an but half mad with the fear of death in the swelling veins of his neck was begging his maker to strike him dead and fighting for more air between his prayers a second time the quivering body with water and the giant revived with the main guard an ah t see a mon is i for on to live an ah t see there is for t for hear now lads ah m tired � tired there s i ma bones let me die the hollow of the arch gave back s broken whisper in a bass boom looked at me hopelessly but i remembered how the madness of despair had once fallen upon that weary weary afternoon in the banks of the river and how it had been by the skilful talk i said or we shall have loose and he ll be worse than was talk | 39 |
with pleased anticipation the sick woman was comfortably up in the bedroom in all his life the son had never felt so drawn to his mother there was a new look in her eyes as law lane he went toward her she had lost her high color and looked at him as she never had done before come close here said i believe i m goin to about ag in after all mis powder says i be but them s i had down the yesterday was twice as bad as the i struck with i may never be the same to work but i ain t goin to fight with folks no more the lord let me live a spell longer i ain t a goin to fight with nobody no matter how bad i want to now you go an you a good breakfast i ain t eat a since breakfast yesterday and you can bring me a help o anything sister powder my i hope last muttered sister powder to herself as she heaped the blue plate wish you all a merry christmas i she said i like to forgot my manners it was christmas day whether anybody in law lane remembered it or not the sun shone bright on the sparkling snow the were dropping and the snow birds and blue came about the door the wars of law lane were ended a lost a great many years it had been understood in that miss once had a lover and that he been lost at sea by little and little in one way and another her acquaintances found out or made up the whole story and miss stood in the position not of an unmarried woman exactly but rather of having spent most of her life in a long and lonely she looked like a person with a history strangers often said as if we each did not have a history and her own unbroken reserve about this romance of hers gave everybody the more respect for it the people paid willing deference to miss her family had always been one that could be liked and respected and she was the last that was left in the old home of which she was so fond this was a high square house with a row of pointed windows in its roof a porch in front a lost lover with some bushes near it and down by the road was a long orderly procession of like a row of standing guard she had lived here alone since her father s death twenty years before she was a kind just woman whose pleasures were of a stately and sober sort and she seemed not unhappy in her loneliness though she sometimes said gravely that she was the last of her family as if the fact had a great sadness for her she had some middle aged and elderly cousins who lived at a distance and they came occasionally to see her but there had been no young people staying in her house for many years until this summer when the daughter of her youngest cousin had written to ask if she might come to make a visit she was a girl of twenty both older and younger than her years her father and who were civil had taken some work upon the line of a railway in the far western country had made many long journeys with them before and since she had left school and she had meant to follow them now after spending a fortnight with the old cousin whom she had not seen since her childhood a l t lover her father ha laughed at this visit as a and warned her of the and of but the result was that the girl found herself very happy in the comfortable home she was still her own free lucky and self and the old house was so much pleasanter for the girlish face and life that miss had at first timidly and then most heartily begged her to stay for the whole summer or even the autumn until her father was ready to come east the name of was very dear to miss and she grew of her guest when the village people saw her glance at the girl affectionately as they sat together in the family of a sunday or saw them walking together after tea they said it was a good thing for miss how bright she looked and no doubt she would leave all her money to if she played her cards well but we will do justice and say that she was not she would have scorned such a thought she had grown to have a great love for her cousin and really liked to please her she her i have no doubt and her repress a lost lover sion her sa rare words of approval had a great fascination for a girl who had just been used to people who and were upon most intimate terms with directly and could forget jou with equal ease and liked having so admiring and easily pleased an audience as miss and her old servant she liked to be queen of her company she had so many gay bright stories of what had happened to herself and her friends beside she was clever with her needle and had all those practical gifts which elderly women approve so heartily in girls they liked her pretty clothes she was sensible and economical and busy they praised her to each other and to the world and even stubborn old the man servant to whom miss herself spoke with deference would do anything she asked would by no means choose so dull a life as this for the rest of her days but she enjoyed it immensely for the time being she instinctively avoided all that would shock the grave dignity and old school ideas of miss and somehow she never | 40 |
deal of nonsense talked about want � hard up you know that s the phrase isn t it ha ha ha � and i intend to put it down there s a certain amount of cant in about and i mean to put it down that s all lord the you said the turning to his friends again you may put down anything among this sort of people if you only know the way to set about it v took s hand and drew it through his arm he didn t seem to know what he was doing though your daughter eh said the her familiarly under the chin always with the working knew what pleased them not a bit of pride � where s her mother asked that worthy gentleman dead said her mother got up linen and wai called to heaven when she was bom not to get up linen i suppose remarked the pleasantly might or might not have been able to separate his in heaven from her old pursuits but if mrs had gone to heaven would mr pictured her as holding any state or station there and you re making love to her are you said to the young smith yes returned richard quickly for he was by the question and we are going to be married on new year s day what do you mean cried sharply married why we re thinking of it master said richard we re rather in a hurry you see in case it should be put down first ah cried with a groan put down indeed and you ll do something married married the ignorance of the first principles of political economy on the part of these people their their wickedness is by heavens enough to� now look at that couple will you well they were worth looking at and marriage as reasonable and fair a deed as they need have in the first quarter � a man may live to be as old as said mr and may labor all his life for tbe benefit of such people as those and may heap up facts on figures facts on figures facts on figures mountains high and dry he can no more hope to persuade em that they have no right or business to be married than he can hope to persuade em that they have no earthly right or business to be born and that we know they haven t w reduced it to a certainty long ago was already diverted and laid his right forefinger on the side of his nose as much as to say to both his friends observe me will you keep your eye on the practical man � and called to him come here my girl said the young blood of her lover had been mounting within the last few minutes and he was to let her but setting a upon himself he came forward with a stride as approached and stood beside her kept her hand within his arm still but looked from face to face as wildly as a in a dream now i m going to give you a word or two of good advice my girl said the in his nice easy way it s my place to give advice you know because i m a justice you know i m a justice don t you timidly said yes but everybody knew was a justice oh dear so active a justice always who such a of brightness in the public eye as you are going to be married you say pursued the very and in one of your sex but never mind that after you are married you ll quarrel with your husband and come to be a distressed wife you may think not but you will because i tell you so now i give you fair warning that i have made up my mind to put distressed wives down so don t be brought before me you ll have children the boys those boys will grow up bad of course and run wild in the streets without shoes and stockings mind my young friend i ll em every one for i am determined to put boys without shoes and stockings down perhaps your husband will die young most likely and leave you with a baby then you be turned out of doors and wander up and down the streets now don t wander near me my dear for i am resolved to put all wandering mothers down all young mothers of ail sorts and kinds it s my determination to put down don t think to plead illness as an excuse with me or babies as an excuse with me for all sick persons and young children i hope know the church service but i m afraid not i am determined to put down and if you attempt desperately and and and attempt to drown or hang yourself i ll have no pity on you for i have made up to put all suicide down if there is one thing said the with his self satisfied smile on which i can be said to have made up my mind more than on another it is to put suicide down so don t try it on that s the i isn t it ha ha now we understand each other knew not whether to be or glad to see that had turned a deadly white and dropped her lover s hand as for you you dull dog said the turning with even increased cheerfulness and to the young smith what are you thinking of being married for what do you want to be married for you silly fellow if i was a fine young chap like you i should be ashamed of being enough to pin myself to a woman s apron strings why she ii be an old woman before you re a middle aged man and a | 8 |
his return had scarcely paused however before the gathering of a crowd of men and boys along the side of the river attracted her attention and far in the distance she discovered two boats evidently with each other in the speed with which they cut through the water it requires very little to call together a crowd in london � very little to awaken anywhere in the minds of the idle and the thoughtless that which aims at pre eminence in folly or vice and thus the throng of spectators increased and the two boats came nearer and nearer until the dash of their oars would have been heard by but for the roll of carriages immediately beside and the general hum of the eat multitude of which she formed an item at last a shout was heard and there was a splash struggle � while the nearest boat rocked on one side and the stooped over and then while the minister s they ceased from their labors they seemed to be looking after something that was left behind another shout succeeded to the first and both the boats put back and rested on their oars while some of the men could be seen making up a of ropes and standing as if in readiness to throw it to any spot that might be indicated by others did not at first feel any apprehension about what had happened she thought it might have been a hat a coat or even a dog which had fallen but suddenly she seemed to be impelled by a kind of irresistible necessity to hasten to the spot and with a countenance of such deadly that those who looked into her face drew hack astonished and made way for her to pass she her way along the side not once looking to the right hand or the left but keeping her eye fixed steadily upon one particular point she succeeded in forcing a passage through the of the crowd and in standing directly opposite to where one of the boats was about to approach the land n or was it difficult for to by the exclamations of the crowd the frightful catastrophe which had occurred we haye him too said many at once but � and knew perfectly well without any of their coarse descriptions what was the reason why the could not by any possibility be she knew for by this time the lifeless form of her brother had been lifted out of the boat and while many crowded round to see the tall and manly youth who had met with this fate was the only one who claimed or who wished to claim kindred or association with the deceased take him said in a tone and attitude of command unusual to her when suddenly that she had neither home nor shelter in that vast city nor means of either she wrung her hands with an exclamation of s and distraction which made the police press near to her i the minister s and question her about her residence and her name thus though prepared in some measure for her great calamity was entirely overcome by the lesser besides which her mighty grief was sacred in itself it was also one in which that gazing crowd had nothing in and therefore she had locked it in her heart scarcely conscious of its real magnitude and waiting only for the time when she might be alone to ascertain its full extent but the sudden sense of poverty and loneliness which came upon her with the conviction that she had not where to bury her dead was what she was wholly un for and was her distress and such er inability to devise any means to relieve her melancholy that suspicions ran among the crowd of her not being quite herself and strange stories were soon set afloat about her with the young man who had been drowned all these however even had they reached the ear of would have affected her but little so deeply was her attention absorbed in the means which public benevolence employed for the restoration of her brother s life but in vain she laid her hand upon the senseless breast � upon the brow the temples and the cheek in vain she bent over that once beautiful countenance and tried to persuade herself that some movement was in the muscles of the face and that a warmth like that of life still lingered about the heart the truth was too evident to admit of a doubt in any mind but hers that the high and spirit which once that manly form had left its earthly for ever there are certain individuals with whom we habitually connect ideas of sickness and decay and death if the wind blows coldly we single them out as objects of especial anxiety and after we have been separated from them for a while we scarcely dare inquire of their relatives about their health lest they should be dead but on the other hand there s are those whom we are e j disposed to from ail suspicion of bodily danger we see that they may and do nm a thousand risks with regard to prudence economy and general esteem but of their health we never think and their death h in the course of nature it must come at last appears to be an event so far beyond the date of our own that it scarcely a place in our calculations of this class of beings had been and even those who loved him best had seldom had to with a single fear relating to his precious life he was so full of health so blooming so beau said to herself one day as she was hastening on one of those long walks in with her occupation which in this instance she had been permitted to take in order that the change of air from | 41 |
he muttered hoarsely � let her rest in peace slowly the king raised his face it was grey and stricken old the dark clear grey eyes were sunken and dim � the light of hope ambition love and endeavour was in them for ever was she unhappy that she killed herself he asked in a hushed voice drew back shuddering those sad eyes of his sovereign seemed to pierce his soul he � the murderer of � could not face them a vague whirl of thoughts tormented his brain � he had heard it said that a murdered person s corpse would in the presence of the murderer � would the dead body of now he wondered if he waited long enough if so � the king would know he started as once more the sad questioning voice broke on his ears was she unhappy think you you knew her better than i and with dry lips forced an answer nay it is possible your majesty knew her best again the sunken melancholy eyes searched his face she was endowed with genius � rich in every good gift of womanhood i would have given my life for hers � my kingdom to spare her a moment s sorrow went on the king but she would have nothing from me � nothing nothing � not even love said that she had whether she would or no � replied the king slowly � that she will have till time itself shall end was silent a passion of mingled fury and re sailing to the infinite consumed him � his heart was beating rapidly � there were great in his brain like heavy hammer strokes � he was afraid of himself lest on a savage impulse he should leap like a beast of prey on this grave composed figure � this king � who was his acknowledged ruler � and kill him even as he had killed and then � he thought of the people � the people by whose great force and strong justice he had sworn to abide � the people who had worshipped and applauded him � the people who if they ever knew the truth of him and his crime would snatch him up and tear his body to as surely as he stood with murder in god s sight this day with a powerful effort he rallied his forces and drawing from his breast the small folded paper which had been found on the body of and which was inscribed with the words my last wish he held it out to the king then your majesty will perhaps grant her the burial she here demands he said � it is a strange request � but not difficult to gratify i taking the paper the monarch touched it tenderly with his lips before opening it in all the blind of his own grief he was struck by the fact that there was something strained and unnatural about s appearance � something wild and forced even in his expression of sorrow he studied his face closely but to no purpose � there was no clue to the mystery packed within the harsh lines of those dark fierce features � he seemed no more and no less than the same brooding creature that had planned the deaths of men in his own committee there was no touch of softness in his eyes � no tears even at the sight of smiling coldly in her flower strewn and now her last message the king beheld it thus expressed to those who shall find me dead i pray you of your gentle love and charity not to bury my body in the earth but in the sea for i most earnestly desire no mark or remembrance of the place where my sorrows with my mortal remains shall be rendered back power to nature and kinder than the worms in the mould are the wild waves of the ocean which i have ever loved and there � at least to my own thoughts � if any spiritual part of me remains to watch my will performed � shall i be best pleased and most grateful to be given my last rest this document had been written and signed some years back and had therefore nothing to do with any idea of immediate departure from the world or suicide and once again the king looked at as he returned him the paper her will shall be performed he said � and in a manner her memory � the love borne to her by a people � and � a king he paused � then went on softly to you my friend and comrade � to you will be the task of committing this sweet of a sweeter soul to the mercy of the waves � you the guardian of her childhood the of her womanhood the protector of her life o god no more � no more cried suddenly falling on his knees by the couch of the dead � no more � in mercy i will do all � all but leave me with her now � leave me alone with her this last little while and breaking into great sobs he buried his head among the death flowers in an utter of despair silently the king watched him for a little space then he turned his eyes towards the pale form of the woman he had loved and who had taught him the noblest and most part of love sleeping her last sleep with a fixed sweet smile upon her face we shall meet again my he whispered � on the other side of death and so � with the quiet air of one who knows a quick way out of difficulty he departed some five days later a strange and solemn spectacle was witnessed by thousands of spectators from all the shores and of the sea city a ship set sail for | 33 |
by stem misfortune s stroke laid low who for help in humble mood � he who acts is truly good an v men who far others rise by learning wealth or royal state and yet with pride are ne er by all are justly reckoned wise of a man v no ill the thoughtful man his hungry appetite who in comfort all his household keeps who toils immensely little sleeps who not content to help his friends when asked his help to foes extends � � who more lives than he of dainty food who eats the best in rich attire is always and his helpless family s if ana for his he i� than an st to v xi those men who ample gifts on strangers waste and leave their own to pine in want and woe of goodness only earn the empty show � to poison turns the praise they taste the fools who thus to doom their kin and costly rites fulfil to merit heaven from all the acts performed and given no bliss shall find but reap the of sin � xxvi i v � far st vi f iii the good to others kindness show and from them no return exact the best and greatest men they know thus ever nobly love to act � � a that b t y � � f xiii f er thy acts the source must be of good or ill to other men deal thou with them in all things then as thou would st have them deal with thee from writers of a man il and f the good kind actions recollect but base injurious deeds forgot on doing good to others set they never expect he me and iii kind deeds are never thrown away on men of real goodness � such are not content to give as much as they have got far more repay nay even a bestow for here the gods no measure know a iii a man should do with all his might the good his heart has once designed ne er let him wrong with but be to others ever kind of not t� be on thee to smile though fortune never her happier lot with calmness bear for prudent men from they do not share but others own enjoyment ever gain the last two lines of this are may perhaps admit of an interpretation that the unfortunate may find means of by the wealth of others by themselves to their favour see however the as given in the he not equal the at xii the man who manifold hath paid a kindness on himself conferred does less than he who only stirred by generous impulse lent him aid i the lain the st vii in one short verse i here express the sum of of sacred lore is oppression sin s malignant core il not t � t not to thee or in another edition hear virtue s sum expressed in one brief � lay it well to heart ne er do to others what if done to thee would cause thee inward smart from writers bt them s � st st v i or in another edition his action no applause who simply good with good he only justly merits praise who deeds with kind h highest at the viii h to scatter joy throughout thy whole surrounding world to still men s grief � such ia the worship best and chief of god the universal soul aim of x be only does not live in vain who all the means within his reach his wealth his thought his speech t advance the of other men she at to final a xv those men alone the secret know which final brings whose hearts with pity to even the meanest living things � not those a beggar s garb who wear with ashes with to the xii v xii with conquer wrath and ill with by giving lies with truth he not again ist of peter ii iii y xii meet with patience ne er to men bear harsh tones and language greet with gentle speech and accents sweet when struck return not thou the blow even gods their admiration of men who thus entreat a foe ef him xxv v � to the xii xii that foe not with a frown who claims thy hospitable aid a tree refuses not its shade to him who comes to it down oi injuries a hero hates not even the foe whose deadly bow is him bent the tree with fragrant scent the axe which lays it low from writers � not to be sent let none with a meet or from the door a dog an outcast kindly treat and so shalt thou be in turn a i or the good extend their loving care to men however mean or vile e en base ch dwellings share th impartial s silvery smile v small souls belongs this man to our own race or class or but larger hearted men embrace ar brothers all the human race inn ht to to bad as well as good to all a generous man compassion shows on earth no mortal lives he knows who does not oft through weakness fall has the same sense as a man of the or of no caste from the i ii and from got the wise accept with joy the pearl they prize to them the mean may knowledge teach the lofty virtue preach such men will wed nor view with scorn a lovely bride though humbly bom when sunlight fails and all is gloom a lamp can well the house bt v from s even the wise and children s good may gain as workmen skilled extract the vein of gold in rocks that lies compare see above no p their y vii as doth is tinged by any in which it long time plunged may lie so | 28 |
own people got away with it and his eyes wandered to the sail which hid the burden on the cart sir went on you heard right martin and i with a pilot man who was killed were they who got away with it and by the help of the who now is dead and who was known as mother or the mare we hid it in whence we recovered it after we escaped from if you care to know how i will tell you later but the tale is long and strange was with us at the time vol she is s only child and therefore the owner of his wealth f believe interrupted the prince yes sir and my wife i have heard of the young lady and i congratulate you is she in no sir her strength and mind were much broken by the horrors which she passed through in the siege of and by other events more personal to her therefore when the threatened their first of this place i sent her and my mother to in england where they may sleep in peace you were wise indeed van replied the prince with a sigh but it seems that you stopped behind yes sir martin and i thought it our duty to see this war out when is safe from the then we go to england not before when is safe from the and again the prince sighed adding well you have a true heart young sir and a right spirit for which i honour both of you but i fear that things being thus the cannot sleep so very peacefully in after all we must each bear our share of the basket answered sadly i must do the fighting and she the watching it is so i know it who have both fought and watched well i hope that a time will come when you will both of you do the loving and now for the rest of the story sir it is very short we read your in the streets this morning and learned from it for certain what we have heard before that you are in sore want of money for the defence of and the war at large therefore hearing that you were still in the city and believing this of yours to be the summons and clear command for which we waited we have brought you s treasure it is there upon the cart two scenes the prince put his hand to his forehead and back a step you do not jest with me van he said indeed no but stay this treasure is not yours to give it belongs to sir the legal title to it is in myself for my father was s lawful heir and and i inherit his rights moreover although a provision for her is charged upon it it is s desire � i have it written here under her hand and witnessed � that the money should be used every of it for the service of the country in such way as i might find good lastly her father always believed that this wealth of his would in due season be of such service here is a copy of his will in which he that we are to apply the money for the defence of our country the freedom of religious faith and the destruction of the in such fashion and at such time or times as god shall reveal to us when he gave us charge of it also his words to me were i am certain that thousands and of thousands of our folk will live to bless the gold of on that belief too thinking that god put it into his mind and would reveal his purpose in his own hour we have acted all of us and therefore for the sake of this stuff we have gone to death and torture now it has come about as foretold now we understand why all these things have happened and why we live this man and i to stand before you sir to day with the by a single no not even by martin s man you jest you jest said orange made a sign and martin going to the cart pulled off the sail cloth revealing the five mud stained barrels painted each of them with the mark b there too ready for the purpose were a hammer and resting the shafts of the cart upon a table martin climbed into it and with a few great blows of the drove in the head of a selected at hazard beneath appeared wool which he removed not without fear lest there might be some mistake then as he could wait no longer he the barrel up and shot its contents out upon the floor as it chanced this was the that contained the jewels into which days from time to time had converted the most of his vast wealth now in one glittering stream of red and white and blue and green breaking from their cases and that the damp had save for those pearls the most valuable of them all which were in the copper box � they fell to the open floor where they rolled hither and thither like beans shot from a sack in the i think there is only this one tub of jewels said quietly the rest which are much heavier are full of gold coin here sir is the so that you may check the list and see that we have kept back nothing but william of orange him not only he looked at the gems and muttered of ships armies of men of food means to bribe the great and buy � aye and the themselves wrung from the grip of spain the free and rich and happy god i thank thee who thus hast moved the hearts of men to the salvation of this thy people | 18 |
s wife ought not to be if she would stand in a respectable position with county society tier quite un christian name too � was absurd and almost her dress was always exquisitely though not extravagant � and people said � such people as there were in to say that they wondered how she could do i she was a daily joy and bewilderment to her husband during the first year of their marriage then there arrived a baby boy � like yet unlike her with a wise angel face and a noble head like that of the infant where he came from neither of his parents could imagine the reverend richard stared for hours at his offspring wondering why it looked so at him for he himself was quite a plain ordinary sort of man � his two best features being his eyes and mouth � eyes which were deeply set and darkly blue and lips that were finely sensitive and accustomed to gentle lines of speech and smile the beauty of his baby son confused and oppressed him he was troubled by it though he knew not why his wife was not so much perplexed as delighted with her child � she looked like a little girl suddenly presented by a kind friend with a model doll after the birth of this wondrous boy the family in considered itself complete everything smiled upon the happy the house was lovely � the garden delicious the air good and the surrounding landscape perfect at the time this true tale opens the and his wife had enjoyed their condition of bliss for three years and their beautiful son was two old � just at what is called the interesting age and it was at this very juncture that a kind of mysterious change came over the spirit of the the tragedy of a quiet life s dream � so for at least as the himself was concerned in the joy of securing living and the greater bliss of winning the love of � felicity crowned and completed by the arrival of the boy with the fine head and countenance � the reverend richard had forgotten altogether one trifling � namely that he was a clever man that is to say a man gifted above the ordinary with a wide knowledge of books a keen grasp of things social and political and a natural bias towards the graces of art and learning amid the smiles of his wife and the of his infant he had so himself that he had completely lost sight of the fact that perhaps there might be wider and more useful fields of labour than when this thought first came to him he put it away as though it were a suggestion from the evil one some deadly sin � yet every now and then it persistently to him and forced itself upon his pained attention he was ashamed of it and angry with himself for giving way to what he called a weakness � but nevertheless the question rang in his ears with haunting � are you going to spend all your life in all his life he was only thirty five � and probably � taking all the chances for and against there were several years before bim long years too � for in the time on with a most extraordinary yet who could wish for a more peaceful way of passing the days than the work of souls there was no prettier old village church in england than the one in which it was his duty to and as for his personal there was no better house anywhere than his � no wife � no more beautiful child what more then could he desire how was it that a sudden � small yet perfectly perceptible � had crept into his sky he asked himself the question many times � angrily and with a keen self reproach but he kept his own counsel as to his inward condition of mind � and not even to that dazzling creature of sunshine and his adored whose bewildering fairy beauty and gaiety of heart were a perpetual holy orders amazement to his mind did he confide what he gravely decided was a matter between and god on this day of dull rain and sweeping mist when even the garden looked dreary the spring not having yet made up its mind as to whether or no it meant finally to a long and winter and when in both its and parts presented its worst and most forlorn aspect there was something more than usually ing in the atmosphere and the reverend richard felt it he sat in his study at a round oak table strewn with letters and papers holding a pen in his hand and trying to fix mind on his next sunday s sermon opposite to him the spacious window gave him an open view of his garden � a dream of beauty in june and july � but just now fitting itself into his particular frame of mind as somewhat like a well kept from which the and memorial monuments had been recently removed tall dark and waved their like solemnly to and fro in the driving rain � the were and marked by the muddy trail of the worm � the flower borders showed some meekly little of green of waiting to grow tall if the sun would only shine upon them � and a few withered drooped towards the gravel path and shivered in the of the wind s deep set thoughtful eyes ed all these trifles with a kind of morbid even for march � he said to himself gently as though for the remark � the weather is trying he turned his pen about finger and but wrote not a word with it a terrible conviction was forcing itself upon his mind that there was nothing to write about it was a dreadful | 33 |
in a timid voice but clasping her arms more closely round his neck there is just one thing i want to say to you before i go well what is it f do you ever read your bible now not very often do you ever pray never and don t you think it is a fearful thing in this great city to live among so much wickedness and so minister s much temptation without ever asking our heavenly father to keep you safe it is but i feel more afraid to pray than i am to live without it � perhaps you have some darling sin you do not wish to give up and therefore you can not ask a blessing on what you wish or what you do i am afraid i am all sin and folly and wretchedness are you really unhappy said his sister and with her hands clasped together and pressed gently upon his head she lifted up her eyes and her voice and poured forth such a prayer as well might have awakened a response from a heart more hardened than his own ai ter this her spirit appeared more calm more subdued to the trials of her lot and pressing upon his brow a farewell kiss as gently as if it had been upon the cheek of a sleeping she passed almost silently away from his apartment and traced back her melancholy steps along the public street i tbe s f chapter v of all the days in the week which had looked forward to as holding out the most precious promise of intercourse with her brother the sabbath was that upon which she most fondly it was also that in which she felt most in need of friendly companionship for on that day of the week alone she was not only allowed but ex to absent herself from the family in whose social hours she was a welcome only so long as she contributed by her industry to make those hours more easy and to the present of her time and talents on the sabbath day then generally made as long a journey as she could to some place of worship distant from the city in order to use up her spare time and also to walk off a little of the weariness which her occupations occasioned it was however a lonely sort of heartless task to pass along so many streets among so many strangers in all which belonged to her and acquainted with her very existence except as aa of the moving mass before them it was many weeks after the interview described between and her brother when she forth one morning to spend this kind of solitary day though she had been on this occasion invited to dine with a friendly woman whose grade in society was such as to render her not above showing hospitality to a s though a good woman had few thoughts in common with her and though kind to one whom she looked upon as a poor young woman felt no great alacrity the s in joining her family circle she therefore her way and stopping upon one of the bridges amused herself with a party of pleasure bet sail in a painted boat while she repeated most audibly the following of a scotch ballad � there s place like our ain oh i wish that i was there � there s like our ain to be met wi � and oh that i were back again to our farm and fields so green and heard the o my ain folk and was what i been the whole of these verses though describing the situation of an imaginary character possessed an extraordinary charm to the mind of for there is a mysterious consolation in thinking that other in have even pictured to themselves the rows from which we are suffering and as bent over the of the bridge to hide her face from the by her tears fell thick and fast into the heedless stream which hurried on its way below the sound of music from the pleasure boat which had at first attracted her attention now disturbed the of and awakened to the necessity of passing on she still her head toward the merry party willing to have it supposed by any who observed her and strange attitude that she was only amusing herself with the amusement of others the look which had at first been one of pretended interest became however as real as it seemed for the eye of ever quick and true to early impressions suddenly caught the tall figure of her brother in the boat while she could discover firom his countenance that he was laughing and looking as happy as the rest poor said more sorry for her brother s present mirth than she had been for his sadness on the preceding day poor is i thb s this then the way in which you can laugh off all your anxiety and all your thought too if her brother s debts were so pressing it was a pity he should be spending his money on amusements of this kind out the hour which then struck from the churches reminded her that she had lingered au ready too long and she endeavored through the remainder of the day to for her momentary neglect by her thoughts in a more than usual manner and fixing them upon the solemn services of the sabbath it was at rather a late hour that evening when her steps to the city nor had she thought so much of her brother s present situation as of his character and conduct in general when on reaching the bridge again whence she had seen the gay party setting out on their excursion the whole scene rushed back upon her mind and she involuntarily stopped if not to see to think and conjecture what be the circumstances attending | 41 |
certain things studied for instance the elder and so learned a poetic language as if poetry lay in the not in the heart at other times we are told he must he in a certain rank and must be on a confidential footing with the higher classes because above all other things he must see the world as to seeing the world we apprehend this will cause him little if he have but an eye to see it with without eyes indeed the task might be hard but happily every is bom in the world and sees it or against his will very d and every hour he lives the mysterious of man s heart the true light and the inscrutable darkness of destiny reveal themselves not only in capital cities and crowded but in every hut and hamlet where men have their abode nay do not the elements of all human virtues and all human vices the passions at once of a and of a lie written in stronger or inter lines in the consciousness of every individual bosom that has practised honest self examination truly this same world may be seen in and if we look well as clearly as it ever came to light in s or the itself but sometimes still harder are laid on the poor to poetry for it is hinted that he should have been horn two centuries ago inasmuch as poetry soon that date vanished from the earth and became no longer by men such speculations have now and then the field of literature but they not the growth of any plant there the or the unconsciously and merely as he walks onward silently them away is not every genius an impossibility till he appear why do we call him new and original if we saw where his marble was lying and what fabric he s miscellaneous writings could rear from it it is not the material but the workman is wanting it is not the dark place that but the dim eye a peasant s life was the meanest and of all lives till became a poet in it and a poet of it found it a man a life and therefore significant to men a thousand battle fields remain but the wounded hare has not perished without its memorial a of mercy yet breathes on us from its dumb agonies because a poet was there our had passed and in rude awe and laughter since the era of the but no till discerned in it the materials of a neither was the holy fair any council of or roman but nevertheless superstition and and fun having been to him in this man s hand it became a poem instinct with satire and genuine comic life let but the true poet be given us we repeat it place him where and how you will and true poetry will not be wanting of the essential gift of poetic as we have now attempted to describe it a certain rugged worth whatever has written a as of green fields and mountain breezes dwells in his poetry it is of natural life and hardy natural men there is a decisive strength in him and yet a sweet native he is tender and he is vehement yet without or too visible effort he the heart or it with a power which seems habitual and familiar to him we see in him the gentleness the pity of a woman with the deep the force and passionate of a hero tears lie in him and fire as lightning in the drops of the summer cloud he has a in his bosom for every note of human feeling the high and the low the sad the ludicrous the joyful are welcome in their turns to his lightly moved and burns all spirit and observe with what a prompt and eager force he his subject be it what it may how he as it were the full image of the matter in his eye full and clear in every and catches the real t and essence of it amid a thousand accidents and superficial circumstances no one of which him is it of reason some truth to be discovered no no vain surface logic him quick resolute he through into the of the question and speaks his verdict with an emphasis that cannot be forgotten is it of description some object to be represented no poet of any age or nation is more than burns the characteristic features disclose themselves to him at a glance three lines from his hand and we have a likeness and in that rough dialect in that rude often awkward so clear and definite a likeness it seems a working with a burnt stick and yet the of a is not more expressive or exact this clearness of sight we may call the foundation of all talent for in fact unless we see our object how shall we know how to place or prize it in our understanding our imagination our affections yet it is not in itself perhaps a very high excellence but capable of being united with the strongest or with ordinary powers all men in this quality but strangely enough at no great distance below him are and it belongs in truth to what is called a lively mind and gives no sure indication of the higher that may exist along with it in all the three cases we have mentioned it is combined with great their descriptions are detailed ample and lovingly exact s fire bursts through from time to time as if by accident but and have no fire again is not more distinguished by the clearness than by the s ous force of his of the strength the piercing emphasis with which he thought his emphasis of expression may give a humble but the proof who ever uttered sayings than his words more memorable now by their burning | 37 |
bo put together on the authority of any of his t � certainly not took the liberty to said after casting his e on the ground because he is capable of making any representation in the of his insolence i � i hope you will not me sir i � i am much interested in this brother and sister and the subject yery strong feelings within me very very strong feelings with a shaking hand took out his handkerchief and wiped his brow the secretary thought as he glanced at the s ce that he had opened a channel here indeed and that it was an unexpectedly dark and deep and stormy one and difficult to sound all at once in the midst of his turbulent emotions stopped and seemed to challenge his look much as though he suddenly asked him what do you see in me the brother was your real recommendation here said the quietly going back to the point mr and mrs happening to know through mr he was your pupil anything that i ask respecting the brother and sister or of them i ask for myself out of my own interest in the subject and not in my official character or on mr s how i come to be interested i need not explain you know the father s connection with the discovery of mr s body sir replied veiy indeed i know all the of that case tray tell me mr said the secretary does the sister suffer under any because of the impossible accusation � would be a better word � that was made against the and substantial withdrawn no sir returned with a kind of anger i am very glad to hear it the sister said separating his words over and speaking as if he were repeating � rom a book suffers under no reproach that a man of character who has made for himself every step of his way in life from placing her in his own station i will not say raising her to his own station i say placing her in it the sister labours under no reproach unless she unfortunately make it for when such a man is not from regarding her as his equal and when he has himself that mere is no on her i think the ct must be taken to be pretty expressive and there is such a man said the secretary knotted his brows and his large lower jaw and fixed his eyes on the with an air of that seemed unnecessary to the occasion as he replied and there is such a man the secretary had no reason or excuse for the conversation and it ended here within three hours the apparition once more into the leaving shop and that night s lay in the post office addressed under cover to at her address all these proceedings occupied john so much that it was not until the following that he saw again it seemed then to be them that they were to be as as they could without the attention of mr and mrs to any marked change in their manner the fitting out of old was to this as keeping engaged and interested and as occupying the general attention i think said when they all stood about her while she packed her tidy basket � except who was busily helping on her knees at the chair on which it stood that at least you might keep a letter in your pocket mrs which i would write for you and date from here merely stating in the names of mr and mrs that they are your friends � i won t say because they wouldn t like it no no no said mr no let s keep out of whatever we come to there s more than enough of that about without us ain t there said mrs i believe you old lady i returned the golden indeed but people sometimes like to be don t they sir asked looking up i don t and if they do my dear they ought to learn better said mr and and and vice and i and deceased and ex and ex what does it all mean in the books of the that pouring in on as he sits among em pretty well up to his neck i if mr tom gives his five shillings ain t he a patron and f mrs jack gives her five shillings ain t she a what the deuce is it all about if it ain t staring impudence what do you call it don t be warm mrs warm i cried mr fin it s to make a man smoking hot i can t go anywhere without i don t want to be if i buy a ticket for a flower show or a music show or any sort of show and pay pretty heavy for it why am i to be and as if the and treated me if there s a good thin to be done can t it be done on its own merits if there s a bad to be done can it ever be and right yet when a new institution s going to be built it seems to me that the bricks and mortar ain t made of half so much as the and no nor yet the objects i wish somebody would tell me whether other our to like the extent oi one f and as to the and themselves i wonder they re not ashamed of they ain t or hair or nervous to be puffed in that way having delivered himself of these remarks mr took a trot to his custom and trotted hack to the spot which he had started as to the letter said mr yoa re as right as a give her the letter make her take the letter put it in her pocket hy violence she | 8 |
regard of the other miss the lodged in the same house with herself and uncle this changed the s half formed design of remaining at the coffee shop until the should bring him word that had issued forth into the street he the with a confidential message to her that the visitor who had waited on her father last night begged the favor of a few words with her at her uncle s lodging he obtained from the same source full directions to the house which was very near dismissed the gratified with half a crown and having hastily refreshed himself at the repaired with all speed to the player s dwelling there were so many in this house that the door post seemed to be as full of bell handles as a cathedral organ is of stops doubtful which might be the stop he was considering the point when a flew out of the parlor window and alighted on his hat he then observed that in the parlor window was a blind with the inscription mr s academy also in another line evening little and behind the blind was a little white faced boy with a of bread and butter and a the window being accessible from the he looked in over the blind returned the and put his question said the little white faced boy master in fact mr third bell and one knock the pupils of mr appeared to have been making a of the street door it was so over in pencil the of the old and dirty dick in combination suggested intentions of personality on the part of mr s pupils there was ample time to make these observations before the door was opened by the poor old man himself ha said he very slowly remembering arthur you were shut in last night yes mr i hope to meet your niece here presently oh said he pondering out of my brother s way true would you come up stairs and wait for her thank you turning himself as slowly as he turned in his mind whatever he heard or said he led the way up the narrow stairs the house was very close and had an smell the little staircase windows looked in at the back windows of other houses as as itself with poles and lines thrust out of them on which linen hung as if the inhabitants were for clothes and had had some wretched not worth attending to in the back garret � a sickly room with a turn up in it so hastily and recently turned up that the blankets were boiling over as it were and keeping the lid open � a half finished breakfast of coffee and toast for two persons was down anyhow on a table there was no one there the old man to himself after some consideration that had run away went to the next room to fetch her back the visitor observing that she held the door on the inside and that when the uncle tried to open it there was a sharp of don t stupid and an appearance of loose and flannel concluded that the young lady was in an the uncle without appearing to come to any conclusion in again sat down in his chair and began warming his hands at the fire n ot that it was cold or that he had any waking idea whether it was or not what did you think of my brother sir he asked when he bye and bye discovered what he was doing left off reached over to the chimney piece and took his case down i was glad said arthur very much at a loss for his thoughts were on the brother before him to find him so well and cheerful ha muttered the old man yes yes yes yes yes arthur wondered what he could possibly want with the case he did not want it at all he discovered in due time that it was not the little paper of snuff which was also on the chimney piece put it back again took down the snuff instead and himself with a pinch he was as feeble spare and slow in his as in everything else but a certain little of enjoyment of them played is the poor worn nerves about the corners of his eyes and mouth f little mr what do you think of her lam much impressed mr by all that i have seen of her and thought of her my brother would have been quite lost without he returned we should all have been lost without she is a very good girl she does her duty arthur fancied that he heard in these praises a certain tone of custom which he had heard from the father last night with an inward protest and feeling of it was not that they her praises or were insensible to what she did for them but that they were lazily to her as they were to all the rest of their condition he fancied that although they had before them every day the means of comparison between her and one another and themselves they regarded her as being in her necessary place as holding a position towards them all which belonged to her like her name or her age he fancied that they viewed her not as having risen away from the prison atmosphere but as to it as being vaguely what they had a right to expect and nothing more her uncle resumed his breakfast and was toast in coffee of his guest when the third bell rang that was he said and went down to let her in leaving the visitor with as vivid a picture on his mind of his hands dirt worn face and decayed figure as if he were still drooping in his chair she came up after him in the usual plain dress and with the usual | 8 |
said my aunt taking out the cotton on that side again well ma am returned mr we are � we are slowly ma am � a � ah said my aunt with such a at him that mr absolutely could not bear it it was really calculated to break his spirit he said afterwards he preferred to go and sit upon the stairs in the dark and a strong draught until he was again sent for ham who went to the national school and was a veiy at his and who may therefore be regarded as a witness reported next day that happening to peep in at the parlor door an hour after this he was instantly by miss then walking to and fro in a state of agitation and upon before he could make his escape that there were now occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which he inferred the cotton did not from the circumstance of his evidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom to her agitation when the sounds were that marching him constantly up and down by the collar as if he had been taking too much she at those times shook him his hair made light of his linen stopped his ears as if she confounded them of david with lier own and otherwise and him this was in part confirmed by his aunt who saw him at half past twelve o clock soon after his release and affirmed that he was then as red as i was the mild mr could not possibly bear malice at such a time if at any time he into the parlor as soon as he was at liberty and said to my aunt in his manner well ma am i am happy to congratulate you what upon said my aunt sharply mr was fluttered again by the extreme severity of my aunt s manner so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile to her mercy on the man what s he doing cried my aunt impatiently can the speak be calm my dear ma am said mr in his accents there is no longer any occasion for uneasiness ma am be calm it has since been considered almost a miracle that my aunt didn t shake him and shake what he had to say out of him she only shook her own head at him but in a way that made him well ma am resumed mr as soon as he had courage i am happy to congratulate you all is now over ma am and well over during the five minutes or so that mr devoted to the delivery of this my aunt eyed him narrowly how is she said my aunt folding her arms with her bonnet still tied on one of them well ma am she will soon be quite comfortable i hope returned mr quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be under these melancholy domestic circumstances there cannot be any objection to your seeing her presently ma am it may do her good and she how is she said my aunt sharply mr laid his head a little more on one side and looked at my aunt like an amiable bird the baby said my aunt how is she ma am returned mr i apprehended you had known it s a boy my aunt said never a word but took her bonnet by the strings in the manner of a aimed a blow at mr s head with it put it on bent walked out and never came back she vanished like a discontented fairy or like one of those supernatural beings whom it was supposed i was entitled to see and never came back any more no i lay in my basket and my mother lay in her bed but was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows the tremendous region whence i had so lately travelled and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly of all such travellers and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he without whom i had never been the personal history and experience chapter ii i observe the first objects that assume a distinct presence before me as i look far back into the blank of my infancy are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape and with no shape at all and eyes so dark that they seemed to their whole neighbourhood in her face and cheeks and arms so hard and red that i wondered the birds didn t her in preference to apples i believe i can remember these two at a little distance apart to my sight by stooping down or kneeling on the floor and i going from the one to the other i have an impression on my mind which i cannot distinguish from actual remembrance of the touch of s fore finger as she used to hold it out to me and of its being by like a pocket this may be fancy though i think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose just as i believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its and accuracy indeed i think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty than to have ed it the rather as i generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness and gentleness and capacity of being pleased which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood i might have a that i am in stopping to say this but that it brings me to remark that i build these conclusions in part upon my own experience of myself and if | 8 |
ice on his cheeks his clothes were completely with the hard snow which had been beaten into them by the strength of the blast and his joints were getting stiff and the tumult of the tempest the whirling of the snow clouds and the thick snow now falling and again tossed upwards by sudden to the clouds deprived him of all power of reflection and rendered him though not altogether blind or deaf yet incapable of forming any distinct opinion upon what he saw or heard still by the principle of self preservation he oo cold feeble and breathless now driven back like a reed by the strong rush of the storm or al � � je � most to under the that started up like savage creatures of life about him during all this time his faithful dog never abandoned him but his wild only heightened the horrors of his situation when he fell the affectionate creature would catch the of his coat or his arm in his teeth and attempt to raise him and as long as bis master had of mind with the certainty of instinct he would turn him when taking a wrong direction into that which led was not however reduced to this state without sensations of which no language could convey adequate notions at first he struggled with the storm but when utter darkness threw its shades over the desolation around him and the fury of the elements grew so tremendous all the strong to life became roused the of a young heart on the steep of death threw a wild and corresponding energy into his vigorous frame and occasioned him to cling to existence with a rendered still stronger by the terrible consciousness of his unprepared state and the horror of being plunged into eternity by the rites of his church whilst the crime of attempting to take away human life lay on his soul those domestic affections top which in are so strong lt became excited bis home his fireside the faces of already impressed with affliction for the death of one brother and the mild countenance of the fair girl to whom he was about to be united were up in the powerful of natural feeling the fountains of which were opened in his heart and his cry for life rose wildly from the mountain desert upon the voice of the tempest then indeed when the gulf of a two fold death yawned before him did the struggling spirit send up its shrieking prayer to heaven with desperate impulse these struggles however as well as those of the body became gradually weaker as the storm tossed him about and with the chill of its breath withered him into total � � � � � p � helplessness he on stiff and insensible without knowing he went falling with every blast and possessing scarcely any faculty of life except mere animation after about an hour however the storm subsided and the clouds broke away into light columns before the wind the air too became less cold and the face of nature more visible the driving and hard snow now ceased to fall but were sue d by large that descended slowly upon the still air had this trying scene lasted much longer must soon have been a the child like strength which just enabled him to bear up without sinking in despair to die now supported him when there was less demanded for energy the dog loo by rubbing itself against him and his face enabled mm by a last effort to recollect himself so as to have a glimmering perception of his situation his confidence returned and with it a greater degree of strength he shook as well as he could the snow from his clothes where it had accumulated heavily and felt himself able to proceed slowly it is true towards his father s house which he had nearly reached when he met his friends who were once more hurrying out to the mountains in quest of him having been compelled to return in consequence of the storm when they had first set out the their companionship and their assistance soon revived him one or two were despatched home before them to the afflicted family of his safety and the ence was hailed with melancholy joy by the a faint light played for a moment over the which had settled among them but it was brief or on the safety of their second son their grief rushed back with renewed violence and nothing c be heard but the voice of sorrow and affliction more who had assumed the control of the family did everything in his power to console them his efforts however were viewed with a feeling short of � said the afflicted mother you have god in some my fair son s death to account for you had a but you wouldn t tell it to us if you had my boy might be this day for it would be for him to be an his guard poor woman replied sure you don t know you afflicted what you re about tell ray why thin it s myself it to him from beginning to ind and that we goin to mass this day itself desired him on the of his life not to go out a or the mountains good or bad � you said you had a prayer that ud keep it back observed the mother an why didn t you say it i did say it replied an that afore a bit my this but you se he broke his promise of not goin to the mountains an that was what made the come well well i beg your pardon an god s pardon for you in the wrong oh my son is it there you re us and she again renewed her grief oh thin i m sure i forgive you said � but keep | 50 |
should be for the sake iv mother an never once have i opened me lips but to say fine things iv them an him god curse his soul an may he rot in ten thousand and then go down to the last an deepest hell iv all i johnson the man who had me raw when i came aboard seemed the least of the men forward or aft in fact there was nothing about him one was struck at once by his and which in turn were tempered by a modesty which might be mistaken for timidity but timid he was not he seemed rather to have the courage of his convictions the of his manhood it was this that made him protest at the commencement of our ance against being called and upon this and him louis passed judgment and prophecy the sea wolf a fine chap tbat johnson we ve for ard � ith us he the best in the fo c he s boat but it s to trouble u come with wolf as the sparks fly upward it s that i can see it an up like a storm in tbe i ve talked to him like a brother but it s little he in in his lights or false he out when things don t go to suit him and there ll be always some word iv it aft to the wolf the wolf is strong and it s the way of a wolf to hate an strength it is he ll see tn johnson � no n under and a yes sir thank ye kindly sir for a or a blow oh she s a i she s a t an god knows where i ll get another boat what does tbe fool up an say when the old man calls him yon � oo but he name is johnson sir an then it out for letter ye should iv seen the old man s face i it he d let drive at him on the spot he didn t but ke win an he ll break that s heart or it s little i the ways iv men on the ships iv the sea ge b becoming i am to him and to sir him with every speech for this is that wolf seems to have a to him it is an thin i it for a captain to be with the cook but s k certainly what wolf is doing two or times he put his head into the and o and once this afternoon he stood by tho of tbe and with him for fully fifteen � � � when it was over and was back in the c he became radiant and went about his work songs in a nerve and f the sea wolf i always get along with the officers he remark me in a confidential tone i know the w y i do to myself there was my last � thought of down in the cabin for a chat and a friendly glass e to e you ve missed yer ow s that i yer should a been bom a g man an never ad to work for yer god dead if that t e an me a in is own cabin jolly like an comfortable a cigars an is rum this chatter drove me to distraction i heard a voice i hated so his tone greasy smile and his monstrous self conceit o nerves till sometimes i was all in a tremble he was the most disgusting and person i ever met the of his cooking was indescribable as he cooked everything that was eaten aboard i was to select what i ate with g at c ing from the least dirty of his my hands me a great deal unused as they to work the nails were and black skin was already with dirt which even a brush could not remove then came in a p and never ending procession and i had a great bum o acquired by losing my balance in a roll o ship and against the stove nor wa knee any better the swelling had not gone down the cap was still up on edge about on it morning to night was not helping it any what i n was rest if it were ever to get well rest i i never before knew the meaning of the i had been resting all my life and did not the sea wolf l low could i fit tiu for one hour and do even think it would be the most in the world it is a on the other i shall be able to appreciate the lives of the work � hereafter i did not dream that work so ic a thing half past five in the morning till k at night i am everybody s slave with not one rt to myself except such as i can steal near the end second dog watch let me pause for a minute to over the sea sparkling in the sun or to at a going aloft to the or running out the and i am sure to hear the hateful voice ere no i ve got my on yer arc si ns of bad temper in the su le gossip b going around that smoke and had a fight seems the best of the rs a slow going fellow and hard to rouse but roused ist have been for smoke had a bruised and od looked particularly vicious when he came into the for supper thing h just before supper of and of these men there is hand in the i by name a country boy mastered i imagine by the spirit of ture and making his first voyage in the light g airs the had been about a great at which times the sails pass from one side to the and a | 21 |
his own home he wondered what they were sa of him all day long in imaginary conversations he caught them why say he s a regular i you got to admire the fellow for his nerve the way he turned liberal and by just absolutely runs his life to suit himself but say he s ous that s what he is and he s got to be shown up he was so that he rounded a comer and chanced on two acquaintances talking � whispering � his heart leaped and he stalked by like an embarrassed when he saw his neighbors and jones together he peered at them went indoors to escape their and was miserably certain that they had been whispering � � whispering through all his fear ran he felt stubborn sometimes he decided that he had been a very devil of a fellow as bold as sometimes he planned to call on and tell him what a he was and never got beyond the but just as often when he heard the soft � him he good lord what have i done just played with the bunch and called down drum about being such a high and ty never catch me people and trying to make them my ideas lid could not stand the strain before long he admitted he would like to flee back to the security of provided there was a decent and le way to return but he would not be back he would not he swore eat dirt only in q engagements with his wife did these turbulent fears rise to the surface she complained that he seemed nervous that she couldn t understand why he did not want to drop in at the for the evening he tried but he could not express to her the facts of his rebellion and punishment and with paul and ic t he had no one to whom he could talk lord is the only real i have these days he si ed and he clung to the child played floor games with her all evening he considered going to see paul in prison but though he had a pale note from him every week he thou t of paul as dead it was for he was longing i thought i was so smart and independent cutting out and i need her lord how i need he raged simply can t understand all she sees in life is getting al by being just like other folks but she d tell me i was all ri t then he broke and one evening late he did run to he had not dared to hope for it but she was in and alone only she wasn t she was a courteous brow lifting ice woman who looked like she said tes george what is it in even and tones and he crept away whipped his first comfort was from ted and they danced in one evening when ted was home from tiie university and ted chuckled what s this t hear from she sa rs her says you raised by old hot give em stir em i this is i down on s kissed him her hair against his chin and think you re lots than why is it that is such an old the man has a good heart and honestly he s awfully bright but he never will learn to step on the gas after all the training i ve given him don t you think we could do something with him dearest why that isn t a nice way to speak of your papa observed in the best heights manner but he was happy for the first time in weeks he pictured himself as the liberal strengthened by the loyalty of the young generation they went out to rifle the ice box if your mother caught us at this we d certainly get our come and became maternal scrambled a number of eggs for them kissed on the ear and in the voice of a brooding it beats the devil why like me still go on nursing these thus stimulated was reckless when he encountered of the y m ca and choir leader of the road church with one of his damp hands imprisoned s thick while he brother we haven t seen you at church very often lately i know you re busy with a multitude of details but you mustn t forget your dear friends at the old church home shook off the affectionate clasp � liked to hold hands for a long time � and well i guess you fellows can run the show without me sorry got to beat it g day but afterward he if that white worm had the nerve to try to drag me back to the old church home then the holy must have been doing a lot of talking about me too he heard them whispering � whispering � dr john o drew even william washington the independence out of him and he walked the streets alone afraid of men s cynical eyes and the incessant hiss of whispering chapter he tried to explain to his wife as they prepared for bed how objectionable was but all her answer was he has such a beautiful voice � so spiritual i don t think you ought to speak of him like that just because you can t appreciate music i he saw her then as a stranger he stared at this plump and woman with the broad bare arms and wondered how she had ever come here in his chilly cot turning from aching side to side he pondered of he d been a fool to lose her he had to have somebody he could really talk to he d � he d bust if he went on about things by himself and m useless to e q her to understand well rats no use the issue | 42 |
to wish for this plan of mine said with a j not appear to answer for if i guess right we are both disappointed in the result you because i have asked almost the only thing you would not do to please me and i because your answer me that you do not love me for since we are all imperfect creatures i have no idea of that love which does not seek to improve its object and how can this be done when there is wilful blindness to each other s defects think anything but that said affectionately taking her hand you have seen me as i am my naked soul has been revealed to you without disguise for i would scorn to purchase what i most desire by false pretensions of any kind whatever yet i know and have long known that for any one to see me thus and love me would be impossible and when i tell you that all the affection i am capable of feeling is in you that you are the good angel that must decide my destiny and that i should long since have disclosed these my real sentiments but for the cowardly dread of breaking the spell which has been the only comfort of my life i await your answer without fear for those who hope nothing escape the anguish of disappointment yet speak to me dear for i would hear the last fatal sound like the closing of the prison door upon the criminal rather than my darkness should be again disturbed by such faint and distant of forbidden happiness as even i at times have up a deep blush like the crimson glow of evening when it suddenly bursts forth upon every cloud and and of the western shore had risen to the face of while was speaking thrice she strove to answer but the tears that fell one another from her downcast eyes seemed to be flowing with too full a tide for words at last she mastered her rebellious heart and replied � i have long loved you with what i believed to be the affection of a sister what that affection might have become it would be fruitless now to conjecture for you compel me to express my full that with one whose sentiments and feelings are like your ow there could be no real happiness you are right exclaimed with bitterness it would be worse than folly to unite yourself to misery in this world where truth and sincerity of feeling are without worth or value no man should ask a woman to share his fortune without he could offer her a light heart and sunny brow and a home of merriment and joy you are right to ask yourself where would be the gain i should be a dull companion for a winter s evening and you know it well hear me again said as she appealed to him through her tears that now were falling without control you wrong me if you think it is for myself only that i am speaking you compel me to say more than woman should say to tell you that i am unable to imagine any gratification to my natural feelings so great as that of cheering your hours of and sorrow and that i would rather share your fortune were it as my own than be set apart for the brightest destiny that ever to the lot of mortals but in this world we live not for the enjoyment of the present moment only and marriage is a holy and enduring bond and woe the woman who enters into it with base or selfish views either you must be aware that the sentiments you entertain of human life and the duty of man to his fellow man are widely at with what i believe to be right or my words have hitherto strongly my thoughts i know not how far a blind and love might in time carry me on towards with your views or how it might soothe me into a dangerous and luxurious repose in the midst of that enjoyment which i am unable to think of anywhere but with you but i am not blind now i wish not to make an idol even of you i cannot say i believe that in the present state of your mind you could assist me to correct my own i am pictures of private life far from the presumption of taking both of your and mine and i know that i must answer at the last day for the decision of this moment ah make me what you will exclaimed if this be the barrier us you shall mould me to your wishes k her d it is easy replied she to say that we are willing to be by those we love but would it not be safer and wiser to submit to the of him who first created us for we know not that those whom we most admire are able to form a correct notion of what is fitted to our individual good but we do know that a wise providence has placed us here for his own gracious purposes and that he will require us to render an account of how these purposes have been a vain woman may persuade herself that she has power to change the character of the man who loves her but i am not yet to learn that the change which is wrought merely for the sake of a can neither be lasting nor sincere said you are a sage cold you know not what it is to love how is it possible to convince you that i do sighed and musing for a while with her eyes fixed upon the distant horizon she resumed � if it is so easy to change the heart and to adopt new habits of thinking and feeling this may | 41 |
told me she was married and i asked why she was not living with her husband in a sympathetic voice she told me but the reason of the separation i have forgotten in the many similar reasons for and which have since been confided to me the landlady resented our intimacy and i believe miss l was charged indirectly for her conversations with me in the bill i of a young man on the first floor there was a large sitting room and bedroom solitary rooms that were nearly always the landlady s parlour was on the ground floor her bedroom was next to it and further on was the entrance to the kitchen stairs whence ascended mrs s� � s brood of children and the ful servant with tea things many various smells that of ham and eggs i remember you � you are not to be forgotten � up at five o clock every morning washing dressing those infamous children seventeen hours least out of the twenty four at the and call of landlady and quarrelling children seventeen hours at least out of the twenty four in that horrible kitchen running upstairs with coals and and of hot water down on your knees before a grate pulling out the with those can i call them hands the sometimes threw you a kind word but never one that recognised that you were akin to us only the pity that might be extended to a dog and i used to ask you all sorts of cruel questions i was curious to know the depth of you had sunk to or rather out of which you had never been raised and generally you answered innocently and enough but sometimes my words were too crude and they struck through the of a young man thick hide into the quick into the human and you a little but this was rarely for you were very nearly oh very nearly an animal your temperament and intelligence were just those of a dog that has picked up a master not a real master but a master who may turn it out at any moment would or laugh over you i do neither i merely recognise you as one of the facts of you looked � well to be candid � you looked neither young nor old hard had the delicate of the ears and left you in round numbers something over thirty your hair was brown and your face wore that plain honest look that is so essentially english the rest of you was a mass of clothes and when you rushed upstairs i saw something that did not look like legs a horrible rush that was of yours a sort of like bound i have spoken angrily to you i have heard others speak angrily to you but never did that sweet face of yours for it was a sweet face � that sweet natural goodness that is so sublime � lose its expression of perfect and kindness words convey little sense of the real horrors of the reality life in your case meant this to be bom in a and to leave it to work seventeen hours a day in a lodging house to be a but to know only the in which you of a young man were bom and the few shops in the strand at which the landlady dealt to know nothing of london meant in your case not to know that it was not england england and london i you could not distinguish between them was england an island or a mountain you had no notion i remember when you heard that miss l was going to america you asked me and the question was sublime is she going to travel all night you had heard people speak of travelling all night and that was all you knew of travel or any place that was not the strand i asked you if you went to church and you said no it makes my eyes bad i said but you don t read you can t read no but i have to look at the book i asked you if you had heard of god � you hadn t but when i pressed you on the point you suspected i was laughing at you and you would not answer and when i tried you again on the subject i could see that the landlady had been telling you what to say but you had not understood and your conscious ignorance grown conscious within the last couple of days was even more pitiful than your unconscious ignorance when you answered that you couldn t go to church because it made your eyes bad it is a strange thing to know nothing for instance to live in london and to have no notion of the house of nor of a young man indeed of the queen except perhaps that she is a rich lady the police � yes you knew what a policeman was because you used to be sent to fetch one to make an organ man or a move on to know of nothing but a dark kitchen eggs and bacon dirty children to work seventeen hours a day and to get cheated out of your wages to answer when asked why you did not get your wages or leave if you weren t paid that you didn t know how mrs s would get on without me this woman owed you forty pounds i think so i calculated it from what you told me and yet you did not like to leave her because you did not know how she would get on without you sublime stupidity i at this point your intelligence stopped i remember you once spoke of a half holiday i questioned you and i found your idea of a half holiday was to take the children for a walk and buy them some sweets i | 15 |
think that he should never be troubled about the principal but mr was determined not to encourage such shuffling people any longer and a ride along the lanes was not likely to a man s resolution by softening his temper the trodden marks made in the days of winter gave him a shake now and then which suggested a rash but at the father of lawyers i ho whether by means of his or otherwise had doubtless something to do with this state of the roads and the abundance of foul land and neglected fences that met his eye though they made no part of brother moss s farm strongly contributed to his dissatisfaction with that unlucky k this wasn t moss s it might have been was all alike it was a parish in mr s opinion and his opinion was not had a poor soil poor roads a poor non resident landlord a poor non resident and rather less than half a also poor if any one strongly impressed with the power of the human mind to triumph over circumstances will contend that the of might nevertheless have been a very superior class of le i have nothing to urge against that abstract proposition only know that in point of fact the mind was in strict with its circumstances the muddy lanes green or that seemed to the eye to lead nowhere but into each other did really lead with patience to a distant high road but there were many feet in which they led more frequently to a centre of spoken of formally as the o but among as s a large low room with a floor a cold scent of tobacco modified by beer mr leaning against the door post with a melancholy face looking as to the daylight as a last night s candle � all this may not seem a very form of temptation but the majority of men in found it when encountered on their road toward four o clock on a wintry afternoon and if any wife in wished to indicate that her was not a pleasure seeking m i co o the on ths hardly do it more emphatically than by saying that he didn t spend a shilling at s from one to another mrs moss had said so of her husband more than once when her brother was in a mood to find fault with him as he certainly was to day and nothing could be less to mr than the behavior of the farm yard gate which he no sooner attempted to push open with his riding stick than it acted as gates without the upper are known to do to the peril of whether or human he was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farm yard by the large half buildings up to the long line of down dwelling house standing on a raised but the s of a saved him that of a plan he had determined on � namely not to get down from his horse during this visit if a man means to be hard let him keep in his saddle and speak from that above the level of pleading eyes and with the command of a distant horizon mrs moss heard the sound of the horse s feet and when her brother rode up was already outside the kitchen door with a half weary smile on her face and a black eyed baby in her arms mrs moss s face bore a faded resemblance to her brother s baby s httle fat hand pressed against her cheek seemed to show more strikingly that the cheek was faded brother i m glad to see you she said in an affectionate tone i didn t look for you to day how do you do oh pretty well mrs moss pretty well answered the brother with cool deliberation as if it were rather too forward of her to ask that question she knew at once that her brother was not in a good humor he never called her mrs moss except when he was angry and when they were in company but she thought it was in the order of nature that people who were poorly off should be mrs moss did not take her stand on the of the human race she was a patient loving hearted woman your husband isn t m the house i suppose asked mr after a grave pause during which four children had run out like chickens whose mother has been suddenly in behind the no said mrs moss but he s only in the field run to the far close in a minute and tell father your uncle s come you ll get down brother won t you and take something no no i can t get down i must be home again directly said mr looking at the distance and how s mrs and the children said mrs mo j humbly not daring to press her invitation the mill on the oh pretty well tom s going to a new school at � a deal of expense to me s bad work for me lying out o my money i wish you d be so good as let the children come and see their cousins some day my little want to see their cousin so as never was and me her and so fond of her � there s nobody ud make a bigger fuss with her according to what got and i know she to come for she s a loving child and how quick and clever she is to be sure if mrs moss had been one of the most women in the world instead of being one of the simplest she could have of nothing more likely to her brother than this praise of he seldom found any one praise of the it was usually left | 14 |
one fine day the to get np a grand age g upon reference to the that it would be then extremely all the old books were antique and laboriously and traditions but the duke could not be happy he had found out the lady s function also somebody upon consulting the authorities discovered that it was ordained in eminent deference to the female character that she should at the certainly our little lady must have become rather for she the pleasure the with amazement stood for a while in a and then with a smile that partook of the turned her over to his yellow mother to learn what was and lawful and the mother smelt blood with a cat like instinct as her cheek quick all its she receives such a as only an old yellow mother with whiskers can give and the duke revenge weu on the very of the hunt a troop of come up to the castle with their annual gifts their guardian angel seems to be the oldest then above ground and ugly in proportion altogether a weird and presence a thought strikes the duke as soon as he eyes upon her he will give his anti wife a d t by way cf punishment so he over his horse s neck and whispers the whole history of her into the s ears who instantly it contrary to intent while she promises to do his and forth the duke to his old witch was a personage no sooner has he turned his back than she drops the and becomes the the dress its arrangement the head sits erect the eyes light up with meaning our friend her tiie way to his lady and takes measures to watch her shortly from a balcony he witnesses the strange scene of the lady passive and radiant at the feet of the drinking in grateful influence from those mystic eyes hands and the woman sings from i this chant in which the beneficent wins the harassed lady to escape with her to land and feel there how love is only good in the world we must quote the following nor will we promise that it shall be the last from a poem each line of which witli vitality either a laugh a grace or a tear � we are beside thee in all thy ways with our blame with our praise our shame to feel our pride to show glad sorry � but no whether it is thy lot to go for the good of us all where the meet in the crowded city s horrible street or thou step alone through the where sound yet was save the dry quick of die s bill for the air is still and the water still when the blue breast of the dipping under and all again is mute so at the last shall come old age as that stage how else thou retire apart with the memories of thy heart and gather all to the very least of the fragments of life s earlier feast let fall through eagerness to find the crowning yet behind on the entire past laid together thus at last when the twilight helps to the first fresh with the faded hues and the outline of the whole as round eve s shades their roll fronts for once thy soul and then as mid the dark a gleam of yet another morning breaks and like the hand which ends a dream death with the might of his touches the and the soul then then indeed but no matter about with such poetry as this now � such an of summer silence such a picture of the pure of age such trumpet words the in death match those lines m english if you can reader we challenge you that you s june have not them but read them till you have become into their spirit our friend the is coarse as he ought to be born in the he airs his just enough to be characteristic without our respect for his tenderness and loyalty to the nobody objects to s or to s license the latter perils virtue as little as the former does intelligence the is an admirable specimen of a noble nature far above his condition the soul of true delicacy and honor the little of hair that the gave him and that last look which placed a crown on him yet with his speech now and then of the coat and and a phrase or two caught up in the of the stables we like him all the better for his we know that it is not a in livery for this night only he hates that mother in law too cordially not to have known her how refreshing it is to hear the whole disgust with which he describes the of the ferocious old � until she grew from to l just the object to make you shudder alter a word and you the after all he was cautious how he more than needs on the otherwise we can easily imagine how he might have favored us with sundry touches and when he has told his story and made a clean breast of it why my heart s blood that went but anon in such muddy is up brisk now the main and me about the here are all the marks of that a could desire he had evidently the and in his day but here is the true heart of the man with which we conclude notice the delicate freedom of his touched was his wife as he parts from the � then do you know her face looked down on me with a look that placed a crown on me and she felt in her bosom � mark her bosom � and as a flower tree drops its blossom dropped me � ah had it been a purse of silver my | 37 |
prevailing over mind all sen took material forms man repented with prayed by bead the saints with wax put fish into the body to the soul in cold water for empire over the emotions and thanked god for returning health in stone of bread and cheese whilst i have been preaching who preach so rarely and so ill the good cure has been the lord of the to step into the church and give order what shall be done with his great great grandfather what have you dug him up nay my lord he never was buried what the old diet was true er all so true that the workmen this very day found a skeleton erect in the pillar they are i had sent to my lord at once but i knew he would be here it is he tis he said his his pace let us go see the old boy this youth is a stranger i think bowed know then that my great grandfather held his head high and being on the point of death against lying under the aisle with his for mean folk to pass over so as the tradition goes he swore his son my great grandfather to bury him erect in one of the pillars of the church here they entered the porch for he no base man shall pass over my stomach and even while speaking his with his stick a skull that came at him by a boy in the middle of the aisle who took to his heels yelling with fear the moment he saw what he had done his hurled the skull furiously after him as he ran at which the cur gave a shout of dismay and put forth his arm to hinder him but was too late the cure groaned aloud and as if this had spirits of mischief up started a whole pack of children from some and bat heard loud enough out of the church like a rising in a thick wood oh these cried the cur the workmen cannot go to their but the church is with them pray heaven they have not found his late nay i mind i bid his a workman s saints defend u tho has been moved the poor cure s worst were the rising generation of had played th� mischief with the haughty old noble the little ones had for the bones oh and such of them as seemed ted for primitive games then in amongst them i ll them roared the and all their race never heed said the grace lord and his hawk ther is enough of him t swear by put him back put him back i the and the hearth surely my lord your will his bones be laid iq earth and masses said for his poor soul the noble his hawk are ye there master cur said ha nay the business is too old he is out of by thia time or down i shall not draw my for him every dog his day adieu adieu f and he sauntered off whistling to his hawk and caressing it mis reverence looked after him in said he sorrowfully � i thought i had him safe for a dozen masses yet i blame him not but that young er which did his s skull at us for who could his great great and play with his head well it us to be better christians than he is so they gathered the bones reverently and the cur looked them up and forbade the workmen w ho now entered the church to close up the pillar till he should recover by threats of the church s wrath every of my lord and he showed a famous shrine in the church before it were the usual gifts of a there was also a w ax image of a most curiously and coloured to the life eyes and all s fell at once on this and he expressed the admiration the cur assented then asked could the saint have loved the cure laughed at his simplicity nay tis but a hawk when they have a bird of gentle breed they cannot train they make his image and send it to this shrine with a present and pray the saint to work upon the stubborn mind oc the original and make it as wax that is the notion and a reasonable one too assented but reverend sir won i saint i should side with the innocent dove rather than with the cruel hawk that her by st you are right said the cur but the saints are and have been flesh themselves and know man s and absurdity tis the bishop of sent this one what do hawk in this country v one and all every noble person and lives with hawk on wrist why my lord bard by and his that has just parted from us had a two years as to where they should put their down on that very altar there each claimed the right hand of the altar for his what nay i nay t thou we make them both glove and hawk to take the blessed their gloves will they give to a servant or simple christian to hold but their beloved they will put down on no place less than the altar ed how the battle of the why he he yielded as the church to he searched ancient books and that the left hand was the more honourable being in truth the right hand since the altar is east but looks westward so he gave my lord the oi right hand and contented himself the real right hand and even so may the church still the lay and their your nay sir i the church i am and owe all i have and am to holy church ah that accounts for my sudden liking to thee art a gracious youth come and see | 9 |
stray tears on face he was there once before said my aunt presently he was a long time � a shattered broken man these many years when he knew his state in this last illness he asked them to send for me he was sorry then very sorry you went i know aunt i went i was with him a good deal afterwards he died the night before we w ent to said i my aunt nodded no one can harm him now she said it was a vain threat we drove away out of town to the churchyard at better here than in the streets said my aunt he was born here we alighted and followed the plain coffin to a corner i remember well where the service was read it to the dust six and thirty years ago this day my dear said my aunt as we walked back to the chariot i was married god forgive us all we took our seats in silence and so she sat beside me for a long time holding my hand at length she suddenly burst into tears and said � he w as a fine looking man when i married him trot � and he was sadly changed it did not last long after the relief of tears she soon became composed and even cheerful her nerves were a little shaken she said or she would not have given way to it god forgive us all so we rode back to her little cottage at where we found the following short note which had arrived by that morning s post from mr friday my dear madam and the fair land of promise lately on the horizon is again enveloped in impenetrable mists and for ever withdrawn from the eyes of a drifting wretch whose doom is sealed another writ has been issued in his majesty s high court of king s bench at westminster in another cause of v and the in that cause is the prey of the having legal in this now s the day and now s the hour see the front of battle lower see approach proud edward s power � chains and slavery consigned to which and to a speedy end for mental torture is not beyond a certain point and that point i feel i have attained my course is run bless you bless you i some future traveller visiting the a d from motives of curiosity not let us hope with sympathy the place of confinement allotted to in this city may and i trust will as he traces on its wall inscribed a rusty nail the obscure w m p s i re open this to say that our common friend mr thomas who has not yet left us and is looking extremely well has paid the debt and costs in the noble name of miss and that myself and family are at the height of earthly bliss chapter ly tempest i now approach an event in my life so so awful so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it in these pages that from the beginning of my narrative i have seen it growing larger and larger as i advanced like a great tower in a plain and throwing its fore cast shadow even on the incidents of my childish days years after it occurred i dreamed of it often i have started up so vividly impressed by it that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room in the still night i dream of it sometimes though at lengthened and uncertain intervals to this hour i have an association between it and a stormy wind or the mention of a sea shore as strong as any of which my mind is conscious as plainly as i behold what happened i will try to write it down i do not it but see it done for it happens again before me the time drawing on rapidly for the sailing of the ship my good old nurse almost broken hearted for me when we first met came up to london i was constantly with her and her brother and the they being very much together but i never saw one evening when the time was close at hand i was alone with and her brother our conversation turned on ham she described to us how tenderly he had taken leave of her and how and quietly he had borne himself most of all of late when she believed he was most tried it was a subject of which the affectionate creature never tired and our interest in hearing the many examples which she who was so much with him had to relate was equal to hers in relating them my aunt and i were at that time the two cottages at i intending to go abroad and she to return to her house at we had a temporary lodging in garden as i walked home to it after this evening s conversation reflecting on what had passed between ham and myself when i was last at i wavered in the original of david purpose i had formed of leaving a letter for when i should take leave of her uncle on board the ship and thought it would be better to write to her now she might desire i thought after receiving my communication to send some parting word by me to her unhappy lover i ought to give her the opportunity i therefore sat down in my room before going to bed and wrote to her i told her that i had seen him and that he had requested me to tell her what i have already written in its place in these sheets i faithfully repeated it i had no need to upon it if i had had the right its deep fidelity and goodness were not to be adorned by me | 8 |
an opportunity and another twenty years absence perhaps begun park s plans were affected by this journey this absence of s he too had a sacrifice to make to park as well as he had intended about this time to be going to london but he could not leave his father and mother just when everybody else of most importance to their comfort was leaving them and with an effort felt but not boasted of he delayed for a week or two longer a journey which he was looking forward to with the hope of its fixing his happiness forever he told of it she knew so much already that she must know everything it made the substance of one other confidential discourse about miss and was the more affected from feeling it to be the last time in which miss s name would ever be mentioned between them with any remains of liberty once afterwards she was alluded to by him lady had been telling her niece in the evening to write to her soon and often and promising to be a good correspondent herself and at a moment then added in a whisper and i shall write to you when i have anything worth writing about anything to say that i think you will like to hear and that you will not hear so soon from any other quarter had she doubted his meaning while she listened the glow in his face when she looked up at him would have been decisive for this letter she must try to arm herself that a letter from should be a subject of terror she began to feel that she had not yet park gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment which the progress of time and of circumstances occasion in this world of changes the of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her poor though going as she did willingly and eagerly the last evening at park must still be wretchedness her heart was completely sad at parting she had tears for every room in the house much more for every beloved she clung to her aunt because she would miss her she kissed the hand of her uncle with struggling sobs because she had displeased him and as for she could neither speak nor look nor think when the last moment came with him and it was not till it was over that she knew he was giving her the affectionate farewell of a brother all this passed over night for the journey was to begin very early in the morning and when the small diminished party met at breakfast william and were talked of as already advanced one stage chapter xiv the novelty of travelling and the happiness of being with william soon produced their natural effect on s spirits when park was fairly left behind and by the time their first stage was ended and they were to quit sir thomas s carriage she was able to take leave of the old coachman and send back proper messages with cheerful looks of pleasant talk between the brother and sister there was no end everything supplied an amusement to the high glee of william s mind and he was full of and joke in the intervals of their higher toned subjects all of which ended if they did not begin in praise of the conjectures how she would be employed schemes for an action with some superior force which � supposing the first lieutenant out of the way and william was not very merciful to the first lieutenant � was to give himself the next step as soon as possible or speculations upon prize money which was to be generously distributed at home with only the of enough to make the little cottage comfortable in which he and were to pass all their middle and latter life together s immediate concerns as far as they involved mr made no part of their con park william knew what had passed and from his heart lamented that his sister s feelings should be so cold towards a man whom he must consider as the first of human characters hut he was of an age to he all for love and therefore unable to blame and knowing her wish on the subject he would not distress her by the slightest allusion she had reason to suppose herself not yet forgotten by mr she had heard repeatedly from his sister within the three weeks which had passed since their leaving and in each letter there had been a few lines from himself warm and determined like his speeches it was a correspondence which found quite as unpleasant as she had feared miss s style of writing lively and affectionate was itself an evil independent of what she was thus forced into reading from the brother s pen for would never rest till she had read the chief of the letter to him and then she had to listen to his admiration of her language and the warmth of her there had in fact been so much of message of allusion of recollection so much of in every letter that could not but suppose it meant for him to hear and to find herself forced into a purpose of that kind compelled into a correspondence which was bringing her the addresses of the man she did not love and obliging her to administer to the adverse passion of the man she did was cruelly here too her present removal promised advantage when no longer under the same roof with she park trusted that miss would have no motive for writing strong enough to overcome the trouble and that at their correspondence would into nothing with such thoughts as these among ten hundred others proceeded in her journey safely and cheerfully and as as could be hoped in the dirty month of february they entered oxford but she could | 26 |
drew in to an in the midst of a double row of wire was stretched around above her rail that looked like business and when saw the shore alongside armed with bows and arrows and he wished more earnestly than ever that the was over that evening the natives were slow in leaving the ship at a number of them checked the mate when he ordered them ashore never mind i ll fix them said captain below when he came back he showed a stick of attached to a fish hook now it happens that a paper wrapped bottle of with a piece of harmless projecting can fool anybody it and it the natives when captain lighted the and the terrible the fish hook into the tail end of a native s cloth that native was smitten with so ardent a desire for the shore that he forgot to shed the cloth he started forward the and at his rear the natives in his path taking over the wire at every jump was horror stricken so was captain he had forgotten his twenty five on each of which he had paid thirty shillings advance they went over the side along with the shore dwelling folk and followed by him who the bottle did not see the bottle go off but the mate a stick of real aft where it would harm nobody would have sworn in any court to a blown to the flight of the twenty five had actually cost the forty pounds and since they had taken to the bush there was no hope of recovering them the and his mate proceeded to drown their sorrow in cold tea the cold tea a the terrible was in bottles so did not know it was cold tea they were up all he knew was that the two men got very drank and argued and at length as to whether the exploded should be reported as a case of or as an accidental drowning when they off to sleep he was the only white man left and he kept a perilous watch till dawn in fear of an attack from shore and an of the crew three more days the spent on the coast and three more nights the and the mate drank of cold tea leaving to keep the watch they knew he could be depended upon while he was equally certain that if he lived he would report their drunken conduct to captain then the dropped anchor at plantation on and landed on the beach with a sigh of relief and shook hands with the manager mr was ready for him now you mustn t be alarmed if some the terrible of our fellows seem downcast mr said having drawn him aside in confidence there s been talk of an outbreak and two or three suspicious signs i m willing to admit but personally i think it s all how � how many have you on the plantation asked with a sinking heart we re working four hundred just now replied mr cheerfully but the three of us with you of course and the and mate of the can handle them all right turned to meet one the who scarcely acknowledged the introduction such was his eagerness to present his resignation it being that i m a married man mr i can t very well afford to remain on longer trouble is working up as plain as the nose on your face the are going to break out and there ll be another horror here the terrible what s a horror asked after the had been persuaded to remain until the end of the month oh he means plantation on said the manager the killed the five white men ashore captured the killed the captain and mate and escaped in a body to but i always said they were careless on they won t catch us here come along mr and see our view from the was too busy wondering how he could get away to to the s house to see much of the view he was still wondering when a rifle exploded very near to him behind his back at the same moment his arm was nearly so eagerly did mr drag him indoors i say old man that was a close said the manager him over to see if he had been hit i can t tell you how the terrible sorry i am but it was broad daylight and i never dreamed was beginning to turn pale they got the other manager that way vouchsafed and a dashed fine chap he was blew his brains out all over the you noticed that dark stain there between the steps and the door was ripe for the which mr pitched in and for him but before he could drink it a man in riding trousers and entered what s the matter now the manager asked after one look at the s face is the river up again river be � it s the stepped out of the cane grass not a dozen feet away and at me it was a and he shot from the hip now what i want to know is where d he get that � oh i beg pardon glad to know you mr mr brown is my assistant explained ic the terrible mr and now let s have that drink but where d he get that mr brown insisted i always objected to keeping those guns on the premises they re still there mr said with a show of heat mr brown smiled come along and see said the manager joined the procession into the office where mr pointed triumphantly at a big packing case in a dusty corner well then where did the beggar get that mr brown but just then lifted the packing case the manager started then tore off the lid the case was empty they gazed at | 21 |
work upon me perhaps to my i but my as i used to call you this is only my way of talking and you must not look so horribly concerned oi course you have done nothing except retain your pretty face and figure i saw it on the before you saw me � that tight thing sets it off and tiiat wing bonnet � you field girls should never wear those if wish to keep out of danger he r her silently for a few moments and with a short laugh resumed i that if the whose i thought i was had been tempted by such a pretty face he would have let go the plough for her sake as i do attempted to but at this juncture all her failed her and without he added well this paradise that you supply is perhaps as good as any other after au but to speak seriously d rose and came nearer sideways amid the and resting upon his elbow since i last saw you i have en thinking of what said that he said i have come to the conclusion that there does seem rather a want of in these oil how i could have been so fired by poor parson s enthusiasm and have gone so madly to work even him i cannot make out as for what you said last time on the strength of your wonderful husband s intelligence � name you have never told mt � about having what call an by the convert system without any i don t see my way to at all why you can have the religion of loving kindness and purity at least if you can t in at do you call it� o no fm a different sort of fellow from that if there s nobody to say do this and it will be a good thing for you after you are dead do that and it will be a bad thing for you i can t warm up hang it i am not going to feel responsible for my deeds and passions if there s nobody to be responsible to and if i were you my dear i wouldn t either she tried to and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters and morals which in the primitive days of had been quite distinct but owing to angel s to her absolute want of training and to her being a vessel of emotions rather than reasons she could not get on well never mind he resumed here i am my love as in the old times not as then � never as then � tis different she entreated and there was never warmth with me why didn t you k your faith if the loss ot it has brought you to k to me like this because you ve knocked it out of me so the evil be upon your sweet head your husband little thought how his teaching would upon him ha ha � i m awfully glad you have made an of me an the i am more taken with than ever and i pity you too for all your see you are in a bad way � n by one who ought to cherish you she could not get her of food down her throat her lips were dry and she was to ke hie voices and laughs of the work folk eating and drinking under the came to her as if they were a quarter of a mile off it is cruelty to me she said how can by of the d you treat me to this talk if you care ever so little for me � true true he said a little i did not come to reproach you for my deeds i came to say that i don t like you to be working like this and i have come on purpose for you you say you have a husband who is not i well perhaps you have but i ve never seen him and you ve not told me his name and altogether he seems rather a m personage however even if you have one i think i am nearer to you than he is i at any rate try to help you out of trouble but he does not bless his invisible face the words of the stem prophet that i used to read come back to me don t you know them � and she shall follow after her lover but she shall not overtake him and she shall seek him but shall not find him then shall she say i will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now my trap is waiting just under the hill and � darling mine not his � you know the rest her face had been rising to a dull crimson fire while he spoke but she did not answer you have been the cause of my he continued stretching his arm towards her waist you should be willing to share it and leave that you call husband for ever one of her leather gloves which she had taken off y to eat her c e lay in her lap and without the slightest warning she passionately swung the glove by the directly in his face it was heavy and thick as a warrior s and it struck him flat on the mouth fancy might have r the act of a trick in which her armed were not fiercely started up from his portion a scarlet appeared where her blow had alighted and in a moment the blood began dropping from his mouth upon the straw but he soon controlled himself drew his hand by the convert from his pocket and his bleeding lips she too had sprung up but she sank down again now me she said turning up | 45 |
him no not said his majesty the king with superb insolence one corner of his mouth with his hand s my mamma s place � she kisses me oh said the s wife briefly then to herself � well i suppose i ought to be glad for his sake children arc selfish little and � i ve got my p t ie the drums of the fore and aft the drums of the fore and aft and a little child shall lead them in the list they still stand as the fore and fit princess s own royal loyal light district a but the army through all its and knows them now as the fore and aft they may in time do something that shall make their new title honorable but at present they are bitterly ashamed and the man who calls them fore and aft does so at the risk of the head which is on his shoulders two words breathed into the stables of a certain cavalry regiment will bring the men out into the streets with and and bad language but a whisper of fore and aft will bring out this regiment with their one excuse is that they came again and did their best to finish the job in style but for a time all their world knows that they were openly beaten whipped dumb shaking and afraid the men know it their officers know it the horse guards know it and when the next war comes the enemy will know it also there are two or three of the line that have a black mark against their names which they will then wipe out and it will be excessively inconvenient for the troops upon whom they do their wiping the courage of the british soldier is supposed to be above proof and as a general rule it is so the exceptions wc decently out of sight only to be referred to in the drums of the fork aft the of talk that occasionally a at midnight then one hears strange and horrible stories of men not following their officers of orders being given by those who had no right to give them and of disgrace that but for the standing luck of the british army might have ended in brilliant disaster these are unpleasant stories to listen to and the tell them under their breath sitting by the big wood fires and the young officer bows his head and thinks to himself please god his men shall never behave the british soldier is not altogether to be blamed for occasional but this verdict he should not know a intelligent general will waste six months in the craft of the particular war that he may be a colonel may utterly the capacity of his regiment for three months after it has taken the field and even a company commander may and be deceived as to the temper and temperament of his own handful wherefore the soldier and the soldier of to day more particularly should not be blamed for falling back he should be shot or hanged afterwards � pour us but he should not be in that is want of tact and waste of space he has let us say been in the service of the for perhaps four years he will leave in another two years he has no inherited morals and four years are not sufficient to drive into his fibre or to teach him how holy a thing is his regiment he wants to drink he wants to enjoy himself � in india he wants to save money � and he does not in the least like getting hurt he has received just sufficient education to make him understand half the purport of the orders he receives and to on the nature of clean and wounds thus if he is told to under fire preparatory to an attack he knows that he runs a very great risk of being killed while he is and that he is being thrown away to gain ten minutes time he may either with desperate swiftness or he may the drums of the fore and aft or bunch or break according to the discipline under which he has lain for four years armed with imperfect knowledge cursed with the of an imagination by the intense selfishness of the lower classes and by any associations this young man is suddenly introduced to an enemy who in eastern lands is always ugly generally tall and hairy and frequently noisy if he looks to the right and the left and sees old soldiers � men of twelve years service who he knows know what they are about � taking a charge rush or demonstration without embarrassment he is consoled and applies his shoulder to the butt of his rifle with a stout heart his peace is the greater if he hears a senior who has taught him his and broken his head on occasion whispering � they ll shout and carry on like this for five minutes then they ll rush in and then we ve got em by the short hairs � but on the other hand if he sees only men of his own term of service turning white and playing with their and saying � what the hell s up now while the company are into their sword and shouting � front rank fix steady there � steady sight for three no for five lie down all steady front rank kneel and so forth he becomes unhappy and grows miserable when he hears a comrade turn over with the rattle of fire irons falling into the and the of a pole ox if he can be moved about a little and allowed to watch the effect of his own fire on the enemy he feels and may be then worked up to the blind passion of fighting which is contrary to general belief controlled by a chilly | 39 |
their property on board i had told of the terrible event and it had greatly shocked him but there could be no doubt of the kindness of keeping it a secret and he had come to help me in this last service it was here that i took mr aside and received his promise the family were lodged in a little dirty tumble down which in those days was close to the stairs and whose rooms the river the family as being objects of some interest in and about attracted so many that we were glad to take refuge in their room it was one of the wooden chambers up stairs with the tide flowing underneath my aunt and were there busily making some little extra comforts in the way of dress for the children was quietly assisting with the old insensible work box yard measure and bit of wax candle before her that had now so much it was not easy to answer her inquiries still less to whisper mr when mr brought him in that i had given the letter and all was well but i did both and made them happy if i showed any trace of what i felt my own sorrows were sufficient to account for it and when does the ship sail mr asked my aunt mr considered it necessary to prepare either my aunt or his wife by degrees and said sooner than he had expected yesterday the boat brought you word i suppose said my aunt it did ma am he returned well said my aunt and she sails � madam he replied i am informed that we must positively be on board before seven to morrow morning said my aunt that s soon is it a sea going fact mr tis so ma am she ll drop down the river with that tide if r and my sister aboard at o next day they ll see the last on us and that we shall do said i be sure until then and until we are at sea observed mr with a glance of intelligence at me mr and myself will constantly keep a double look out together on our goods and my love said mr clearing his throat in his magnificent way my friend mr thomas is so obliging as to in my ear that he should have the privilege of ordering the necessary to the composition of a moderate portion of that which is peculiarly associated in our minds with the roast beef of old england i allude to � in short punch under ordinary circumstances i should scruple to entreat the indulgence of miss and miss but of david m i can only say for myself said my aunt that i will drink all happiness and success to you mr with the utmost pleasure and i too said with a smile mr immediately descended to the bar where he appeared to be quite at home and in due time returned with a steaming i could not but observe that he had been the with his own clasp knife which as became the knife of a practical was about a foot long and which he wiped not wholly without on the sleeve of his coat mrs and the two elder members of the family i now found to be provided with similar formidable instruments while every child had its own wooden spoon attached to its body by a strong line in a similar anticipation of life afloat and in the bush mr instead of helping mrs and his eldest son and daughter to punch in wine glasses which he might easily have done for there was a shelf full in the room served it out to them in a series of little tin pots and i never saw him enjoy anything so much as drinking out of his own particular pint pot and putting it in his pocket at the close of the evening the luxuries of the old country said mr with an intense satisfaction in their we abandon the of the forest cannot of course expect to in the of the land of the free here a boy came in to say that mr was wanted down stairs i have a said mrs setting down her tin pot that it is a member of my family if so my dear observed mr with his usual suddenness of warmth on that subject as the member of your family � whoever he she or it may be � has kept us waiting for a considerable period perhaps the member may now wait my convenience aid his wife in a low tone at such a time as this � it is not meet said mr rising that every nice offence should bear its comment i stand the loss observed his wife has been my family s not yours if my family are at length sensible of the to which their own conduct has in the past exposed them and now desire to extend the hand of fellowship let it not be my dear he returned so be it if not for their for mine said his wife he returned that view of the question is at such a moment irresistible i cannot even now distinctly pledge myself to fall upon your s neck but the member of your family who is now in attendance shall have no genial warmth frozen by me mr withdrew and was absent some little time in the course of which mrs was not wholly free from an apprehension that words might have arisen between him and the member at length the same boy re appeared and presented me with a note written in pencil and headed in a legal manner v from this document i learned that mr being again arrested was in a final of despair and that he begged me to send him his knife and pint pot by bearer as they might prove | 8 |
the safe side he murmured at last i d give a month s pay if this fog u d lift things go in a fog that ye don t see in clear weather � yo an and such like i m relieved he come the way he did o he might ha walked do on t dan we re right on top of him now wish i was safe aboard bein by uncle � � captains courageous � � they ll be fer us in a little the dan took the tin dinner but paused before he blew go on said i don t want to stay here all night question is b d take it there was a man down the coast told me once he was in a where they t ever blow a horn to the the � not the man he was with but a captain that had run her five years before � he d a boy alongside in a drunk fit an ever after that boy he d row alongside too and shout � with the rest � a voice cried through the fog they again and the horn dropped from dan s hand hold on cried it s the cook what made me think o fool tale either said dan it s the doctor sure enough dan dan � we re here sung both boys together they heard oars but could see nothing till the cook shining and dripping rowed into them what happened said he you will be beaten at home s what we want s what we re for said dan anything s good enough fer us we ve had kinder c� � captains courageous company as the cook passed them a line dan told him the tale i he come for hiss knife was all he said at the end never had the little rocking ft e re here looked so home like as when the cook bom and bred in rowed them back to her there was a warm glow of light from the cabin and a satisfying smell of food forward and it was heavenly to hear and the others all quite alive and solid leaning over the rail and promising them a first class but the cook was a black master of he did not get the aboard till he had given the more striking points of the tale explaining as he backed and round the counter how was the to destroy any possible bad luck so the boys came as rather heroes and every one asked them questions instead of them for making trouble little delivered quite a speech on the folly of but public opinion was against him and in favour of long jack who told the most ghost stories to nearly midnight under that influence no one except and said anything about when the cook put a lighted candle a cake of flour and water and a pinch of salt on a and floated them out to keep the frenchman quiet in case he was still restless dan captains courageous lit the candle because he had bought the belt and the cook and muttered charms as long as he could see the point of flame said to dan as they turned in after watch how about progress and catholic � i guess i m as enlightened and as the next man but when it comes to a dead st deck hand a couple o pore boys fer the sake of a thirty cent knife why then the cook can take hold fer all o me i or dead next morning all except the cook were rather ashamed of the ceremonies and went to work double tides speaking to one another the iv re here was racing neck and neck for her last few loads against the and so close was the struggle that the fleet took sides and tobacco all hands worked at the lines or dressing down till they fell asleep where they stood � beginning before dawn and ending when it was too dark to see they even used the cook as and turned into the hold to pass salt while dan helped to dress down luckily a man his ankle down the fo c and the re gained could not see how one more fish could be crammed into her but and tom and and the mass captains courageous down with big stones from the and there was always jest another day s work did not tell them when all the salt was he rolled to the aft the cabin and began out the big this was at ten in the morning the riding sail was down and the main and were up by noon and came alongside with letters for home their good fortune at last she cleared decks hoisted her flag � as is the right of the first boat off the banks � up and began to move pretended that he wished to accommodate folk who had not sent in their mail and so worked her gracefully in and out among the in reality that was his little triumphant procession and for the fifth year running it showed what kind of he was dan s and tom s fiddle supplied the music of the magic verse you must not sing till all the salt is wet send your letters ah our salt is an the anchor s off the bend oh bend your we re back to � with fifteen an fifteen � old an grand the last letters pitched on deck wrapped round pieces of coal and the men captains courageous shouted messages to their wives and and owners while the iv re here finished the musical ride through the fleet her head sails quivering like a man s hand when he raises it to say good bye very soon discovered that the w re here with her riding sail strolling from berth to berth and the | 39 |
v of david dearest husband said now that i may call you by that name i have one thing more to tell you let me hear it love it grows out of the night when died she sent you for me she did she told me that she left me something can you think what it was i believed i could i drew the wife who had so long loved me closer to my side she told me that she made a last request to me and left me a last charge and it was that only i would occupy this vacant place and laid her head upon my breast and wept and i wept with her though we were so happy chapter a visitor what i have to record is nearly finished but there is yet an incident conspicuous in my memory on which it often rests with delight and without which one thread in the web i have spun would have a end i had advanced in fame and fortune my domestic joy was perfect i had been married ten happy years and i were sitting by the fire in our house in london one night in spring and three of our children were playing in the room when i was told that a stranger wished to see me he had been asked if he came on business and had answered no he had come for the pleasure of seeing me and had come a long way he was an old man my servant said and looked like a farmer as this sounded mysterious to the children and moreover was like the beginning of a favorite story used to tell them to the arrival of a wicked old fairy in a cloak who hated every body it produced some commotion one of our boys laid his head in his mother s lap to be out of harm s way and little our eldest child left her doll in a chair to represent her and thrust out her little heap of golden curls from between the window curtains to see what happened next let him come in here said i there soon appeared pausing in the dark doorway as he entered a hale grey haired old man little attracted by his looks had run to bring him in and i had not yet clearly seen bis face when my wife starting up cried out to me in a pleased and agitated voice that it was mr the personal and experience it was mr an old man now but in a ruddy hearty strong old age when our first emotion was over and he sat before the fire with the children on his knees and the blaze shining on his face he looked to me as vigorous and robust withal as handsome an old man as ever i had seen r said he and the old name in the old tone fell so naturally on my ear r tis a joyful hour as i see you once more long with your own wife a joyful hour indeed old friend cried i and these pretty ones said mr to look at these flowers why r you was but the of the of these when i first see you when em ly warn t no bigger and our poor lad were but a lad time has changed me more than it has changed you since then said i but let these dear go to bed and as no house in england but this must hold you tell me where to send for your luggage is the old black bag among it that went so far i wonder and then over a glass of we will have the tidings of ten years are you alone asked yes ma am he said kissing her hand quite alone we sat him between us not knowing how to give him welcome enough and as i began to listen to his old familiar voice i could have fancied he was still pursuing his long journey in search of his darling niece it s a of water said mr fur to come across and on y stay a matter of weeks but water specially when tis salt comes to me and friends is dear and i am � which is verse said mr surprised to find it out though i hadn t such intentions are you going back those many thousand miles so soon asked yes ma am he returned i the promise to em ly afore i come away you see i t grow younger as the years comes round and if i hadn t sailed as twas most like i shouldn t never have done t and it s been on my mind as i must come and see r and your own sweet blooming self in your wedded happiness afore i got to be too old he looked at us as if he could never feast his eyes on us sufficiently put back some scattered locks of his grey hair that he might see us better and now tell us said i everything relating to your fortunes our r he rejoined is soon told we haven t but to we ve we ve worked as we ought to t and maybe we lived a hard at first or so but we have what with sheep farming and what with and what with one thing and what with t other we are as well to do as well could be s been a blessing fell upon us said mr his head and we ve done but prosper that is in the long run if not yesterday why then to day if not to day why then to morrow op david and said and i both together em ly said he yon left her ma am � and i never her saying of her prayers at night t other side the canvas screen when we was settled | 8 |
ha laughed mr sitting down beside us and rubbing his hands in his sense of relief from recent trouble and in the genuine of his nature there s not a woman in the sir � as i tell her � that need to feel more easy in her mind than her she done her by the departed and the departed know d it and the departed done what was right by her as she done what was right by the departed and � and � and it s all right mrs groaned cheer up my pretty said mr but he shook his head aside at us evidently sensible of the tendency of the late to the memory of the old one t be down cheer up for your own self on y a little bit and see if a good deal more t come not to me dan l returned mrs s to me but to be lone and no no said mr soothing her sorrows yes yes dan l said mrs i ain t a person to live with them as has had money left thinks go too with me i had better be a of david why how should i ever spend it without you said mr with an air of serious remonstrance what are you a talking on t i want you more now than ever i did i know d i was never wanted before cried mrs with a pitiable and now i m told so how could i expect to be wanted being so lone and and so mr seemed very much shocked at himself for having made a speech capable of this construction but was prevented from replying by s pulling his sleeve and shaking her head after looking at mrs for some moments in sore distress of mind he glanced at the dutch clock rose the candle and put it in the window said mr cheerily we are mrs slightly groaned lighted up to custom you re a what that s fur sir well it s fur our little em ly you see the path ain t over light or cheerful dark and when i m here at the hour as she s a home i puts the light in the that you see said mr bending over me with great glee meets two objects she says says em ly s home she says and likewise says em ly c my uncle s if i ain t i never have no light showed you re a baby said very fond of him for it if she thought so well returned mr standing with his legs pretty wide apart and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction as he looked alternately at us and at the fire i t know but i am not you see to look at not observed no laughed mr not to look at but to � to consider on you know i t care bless you now i tell you when i go a looking and looking about that house of our em ly s i m � i m said mr with sudden emphasis � i can t say more � if i t feel as if the things was her a most i takes em up and i puts em down and i touches of em as delicate as if they was our em ly so tis with her little and that i couldn t see one on em rough used a purpose � not fur the whole there s a fur you in the form of a great sea said mr his earnestness with a roar of laughter and i both laughed but not so loud it s my opinion you see said mr with a delighted face after some further rubbing of his legs as this is along of my played with her so much and made believe as we was and french and and every of � bless you yes and lions and and i don t know what all � when she warn t no higher than my knee i ve got into the way on it you know why this here candle now said mr holding out his hand towards it i know well that she s married and gone i shall put that candle just the same as now i know well that when m here o nights and where else should live bless your arts whatever i the personal history and experience come into and she ain t here or i ain t i shall put the candle in the and sit afore the fire pretending i m expecting of her like i in a doing now there s a for you said mr with another roar in the form of a sea why at the present minute when i see the candle sparkle up i says to myself she s a looking at it em ly s a coming there s a for you in the form of a sea eight for all that said mr stopping in his roar and his hands together far here she is it was only ham the night should have turned more wet since i came in for he had a large sou hat on over his face where s em ly said mr ham made a motion with his head as if she were outside mr took the light from the window trimmed it put it on the table and was busily stirring the fire when who had not moved said r will you come out a minute and see what em ly and me has got to show you we went out as i passed him at the door i saw to my astonishment and fright that he was deadly pale he pushed me hastily into the open ah and closed the door upon us only upon us two ham what s the matter r � oh | 8 |
sham looking pretty on paper only knows else far too well for business purposes how on earth can you rack and harry and post a man for his when you are fond of his wife and live in the same station with him he says on the monday following i can t settle just yet you say all right old man and think yourself lucky if you pull nine hundred out of a two thousand debt any way you look at it indian racing is and which is much worse if a man wants your money he ought to ask for it or send round a list instead of about the country with an a with as much breed as the boy a brace of in caps three or four with and a of a mare called the because she has a in her flag racing leads to the quicker than anything else but if you have no conscience and no sentiments and good hands and some knowledge of pace and ten years experience of horses and several thousand a month i believe that you can occasionally contrive to pay your did you ever know � b w g � coarse loose mule like ears � barrel as long as a � tough as a telegraph wire � and the brute that ever looked through a bridle he was of no brand being one of an ear mob taken into the at � a head to make up freight and sold raw and out of condition at for rs people who lost money on him called him a but if ever any horse had s shoulders and the gin s temper was that horse two miles was his own particular distance he trained himself ran himself and rode himself and if his insulted him by giving him hints he shut up at once and the boy off he objected to two or three of his owners did not understand this and lost money in consequence at last he was bought by a man who discovered that if a race was to be won and only would win it in his own way so long as his sat still this man had a riding boy called � a lad from west � and he taught with a s whip the hardest thing a can learn � to sit still to sit still and to keep on sitting still when fairly grasped this truth the country no weight could stop him at his own distance and the fame of spread from in the south to in the north there was no horse like so long as he was allowed to do his work in the his own way but he was beaten in the end and the story of his fall is h to make angels weep at the lower end of the race course just before the turn into the straight the track passes close to a couple of old brick a shaped hollow the big end of the is not six feet from the on the off side the peculiarity of the course is that if you stand at one particular place about half a mile away inside the course and speak at ordinary pitch your voice just the of the brick and makes a curious echo there a i man discovered this one morning by accident while out training with a friend remarked the place to stand and speak from with a couple of bricks and he kept his knowledge to every peculiarity of a course is worth remembering in a country where rats play the mischief with the elephant litter and build to suit their own stables this man ran a very country bred a long high mare with he temper of a and the paces of an airy wandering � a stretch the mare was as a delicate tribute to mrs called the lady � or for short was a quiet well behaved boy but his nerve had been shaken he began his career by riding jump races in where a few want and was one of the who came through the awful � perhaps you will recollect it � of the plate the walls were � logs of into � with wings as strong as church once in his stride a horse had to jump or fall he couldn t run out in the plate twelve horses were at the second wall red hat leading fell this side and threw the broken link out the and the came up behind and the space between wing and wing was one struggling screaming kicking four were taken out dead three were very badly hurt and was among the three he told the story of the plate sometimes and when he described how on red hat said as the mare fell under him � god ha mercy i m done for and how next instant there and white had crushed the life out of poor and the dust hid a small hell of men and horses no one that had dropped jump races and together s owner knew that story by heart never varied it in the telling he had no education came to the autumn races one year and his owner walked about insulting the of generally till they went to the secretary in a body and said � and arrange a race which shall break and humble the pride of his owner the districts rose against and sent up of their best who was supposed to be able to do his mile in the bred trained by a cavalry regiment who knew how to train the lamb of the th the pride of and many others they called that race the broken link because it was to and the piled on the and the fund gave eight hundred and the distance was round the course for all horses owner said � you can arrange the race with | 39 |
from the first without any design that would bear investigation absence might have weakened his regard and convenience might have determined him to overcome it but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt as for on the pangs which so unhappy a meeting must already have given her and on those still more severe which might await her in its probable consequence she could not reflect without the deepest concern her own situation gained in the comparison for while she could edward as much as ever however they might be divided in future her mind might be always supported but every circumstance that could such an evil seemed to the misery of in a final separation from � in an immediate and with him chapter the had lit their fire the next day or the sun gained any power over a cold gloomy morning in january only half dressed was kneeling against one of e for the sake of all the little light she could command from it and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her in this situation and sensibility roused sleep by her and first perceived her end after observing ber for � few with j said in a tone of the most considerate gentleness may i ask no she replied j a k nothing yon will soon know the sort of desperate with which this was said lasted no longer than while spoke and was immediately followed by a return of the same affliction it wa some minutes before she could go on with her letter and the frequent bursts of grief which still obliged her at intervals to withhold her pen were proofs enough of her feeling how more than probable it was tbat she was writing for the time to j � paid her every quiet and attention in m her power j and she would have tried to soothe and her still more had not entreated her with all the e of the most nervous not to speak to her for the world in such it was better for both that they should not be long together and the restless state of s mind not only prevented her from remaining in the room a moment after she was dressed but requiring at solitude and continual change of place made her wander about the house till breakfast time sight of every body at breakfast she neither ate nor attempted to eat any things and s attention was all employed not m urging her not in pitying her nor in appearing to regard her but in end to engage mrs s notice entirely to herself as this was a favourite meal with it lasted a considerable time and ihey were just setting themselves after it round the common working table when a letter delivered to which eagerly caught from the servant and turning of a death like instantly ran out of the room who saw as plainly by this as if she had seen the direction that it must come from sense and sensibility felt immediately such a sickness at heart as made her hardly able to hold up her head and sat in such a general as made her fear it impossible to escape mrs s notice that good lady however saw only that had a letter from which appeared to her a very good joke and which she treated accordingly by with a laugh that she would find it to her liking of s distress she was too busily employed in measuring of for her rug to see any thing at all and continuing her talk as soon as disappeared she said � upon my word i never saw a young woman so desperately in love in my life my girls were nothing to her and yet they used to be foolish enough but as for miss she is quite an altered creature i hope from the bottom of my heart he won t keep her waiting much longer for it is quite grievous to see her look so ill and forlorn pray when are they to be married though never less disposed to speak than at that moment herself to answer such an attack as this and trying to smile replied and have you really ma am talked yourself into a persuasion of my sister s being engaged to mr i thought it had been only a joke but so serious a question seems to imply more and i must beg therefore that you will not deceive yourself any longer i do assure you that nothing would surprise me more t to hear of their being going to be married for shame for shame miss dash wood how can you talk so don t we all know that it must be a match � tiiat they were over head and ears in love with each other from the first moment they met did not i see them together in every day and all day long and did not i know your sister came to town with me on purpose to buy wedding clothes come come this won t do because you are so sly about it yourself you think nobody else has any senses but it is no such thing i can tell you for it has been sense a t sensibility known all o� er town this ever so long i tell eveiy body of it and � o does indeed ma am said very indeed you are doing a very unkind thing in spreading the report and you will find that you have though you will not believe me now laughed again but had not to say more j and eager at ail events to know what had hurried away to their room where on opening the door she saw stretched on the bed almost by grief one letter in her hand and two or three others lying by | 26 |
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the eyes it is perfect said under his breath playing with the old skin strange to see the covering of one s own head at one s own feet ay but i lack feet said and since this is the custom of all my people i do not find it strange does thy skin never feel old and harsh then go i and wash but it is true in the great i have wished i could my skin without pain and run i wash and also i take off my skin how looks the new coat ran his hand down the of the immense the is but not so gay he said the my name bearer is more gay but not so hard it is very beautiful to see � like the in the mouth of a lily it needs water a new skin never comes to full colour before the first bath let us go i will carry thee said and he stooped down laughing to lift the middle section of s the king s i great body just where the barrel was a man might just as well have tried to heave up a two foot water main and lay still puffing with quiet amusement then their regular evening game began � the boy in the flush of his great strength and the in his new skin standing up one against the other for a match � a trial of eye and strength of course could have crushed a dozen had he let himself go but he played carefully and never of his power ever since was strong enough to endure a little rough handling had taught him this game and it his limbs as nothing else could sometimes would stand almost to his throat in s shifting striving to get one arm free and catch him by the throat then would give way and with both quick moving feet would try to the purchase of that huge tail as it flung backward feeling for a rock or a stump they would rock to and fro head to head each waiting for his chance till the beautiful statue like group melted in a whirl of black and yellow and struggling legs and arms to rise up again and again now said making with his head that even s quick hand could not turn aside look i touch thee here little tke second book the second book brother here and here are thy hands here again the game always ended in one way � with a straight driving blow of the head that knocked the boy over and over could never learn the guard for that lightning and as said there was not the least use in trying good hunting at last and as usual was shot away half a dozen yards gasping and laughing he rose with his fingers full of grass and followed to the wise snake s pet bathing place � a deep black pool surrounded with rocks and made interesting by sunken the boy slipped in fashion without a sound and across rose too without a sound and turned on his back his arms behind his head watching the moon rising above the rocks and breaking up her reflection in the water with his toes s diamond shaped head cut the pool like a and came out to rest on s shoulder they lay still in the cool water it is very good said at last now in the man pack at this hour as i remember they laid them down upon hard pieces of wood in the inside of a mud trap and having carefully shut out all the dean winds drew foul cloth over their the king s heavy heads and made evil songs through their noses it is better in the a hurrying slipped down over a rock and drank gave them good hunting and went away said as though he had suddenly remembered something so the gives thee all that thou hast ever desired little brother not all said laughing else there would be a new and strong to kill once a moon now i could kill with my own hands asking no help of and also i have wished the sun to shine in the middle of the rains and the rains to cover the sun in the deep of summer and also i have never gone empty but i wished that i had killed a goat and also i have never killed a goat but i wished it had been buck nor buck but i wished it had been but thus do we feel an of us thou hast no other desire the big snake demanded what more can i wish i have the and the favour of the is there more between sunrise and sunset now the said began what he that went away just now said nothing he was hunting it was another the second hast thou many dealings with the poison people i give them their own path they carry death in the fore tooth and that is not good � lor they are so small but what hood is this thou hast spoken with rolled slowly in the water like a steamer in a beam sea three or four since said he i hunted in cold which place may be thou hast not forgotten and the thing i hunted fled shrieking past the and to that house whose side i once broke for thy sake and ran into the ground but the people of cold do not live in knew that was talking of the monkey people this thing was not living but seeking to replied with a quiver of his tongue he ran into a that led very far i followed and having killed i slept when i i went forward under earth even so coming at last upon a white hood a white who spoke of things beyond my knowledge and showed me | 39 |
each slow stroke would be his last respect the aged of the river � respect the aged the half turned his head a little in the direction of the voice and landed stiffly on the sand bar below the bridge then you saw what a brute he really was his back view was immensely respectable for he stood nearly six feet high and looked rather like a very proper in front it was different for his ally like head and neck had not a feather to them and there was a horrible raw skin on his neck under his chin � a hold all for the things his pick axe might steal legs were long and thin and but he moved them delicately and looked at them with pride as he down his gray tail feathers glanced over the smooth of his shoulder and into stand at attention a little who had been on a low bluff cocked up his ears and tail and across the to join the he was the lowest of his caste � not that the best of are good for much but this one was the peculiarly low being half a beggar half a criminal � a up of village rubbish heaps desperately timid or wildly bold hungry and full of cunning that never did him any good he said shaking as he landed may the red destroy the dogs of this village i have three for each upon me and all because i looked � only looked mark you � at an old shoe in a cow can i eat mud he scratched himself under his left ear i heard said the in a voice like a blunt saw going through a thick board � i heard there was a new bom in that same shoe to hear is one thing to know is another said the who had a very fair knowledge of picked up by listening to men round the village fires of an evening quite true so to make sure i took care of that while the dogs were busy elsewhere they were very busy said the well i must not go to the village hunting for scraps yet awhile and so there truly was a blind in that shoe it is here said the over his at his full a small thing but acceptable now that charity is dead in the world the world is iron in these days the then his restless eye caught the least id the second book possible ripple on the water and he went on quickly life is hard for us all and i doubt not that even our excellent master the pride of the and the envy of the river a a and a were all out one � said the to nobody in particular for he was rather a fine sort of a liar on his own account when he took the trouble yes the envy of the river the repeated raising his voice even he i doubt not finds that since the bridge has been built good food is more scarce but on the other hand though i would by no means say this to his noble face he is so wise and so virtuous � as i alas am not when the says that he is gray how black must the be muttered the he could not see what was coming that his food never fails and in consequence there was a soft grating sound as though a boat had just touched in water the spun round quickly and faced it is always best to face the creature he had been talking about it was a twenty four foot in what looked like plate studded and and the yellow points of his upper teeth just overhanging his beautifully lower jaw it was the blunt of older than the ill any man in the village who had given his name to the village the demon of the ford before the railway bridge came � murderer man and local in one he lay with his chin in the keeping his place by an almost invisible rippling of his tail and well the knew that one stroke of that same tail in the water could carry the up the bank with the rush of a steam engine met protector of the poor he at every word a voice was heard and we came in the hopes of sweet conversation my presumption while waiting here led me indeed to speak of thee it is my hope that nothing was overheard now the had spoken just to be listened to for he knew flattery was the best way of getting � things to eat and the knew that the had spoken for this end and the knew tliat the knew and the knew that the knew that the knew and so they were all very contented together the old brute pushed and panted and up the respect the aged and and all the time his little eyes burned like coals under the heavy eyelids on the top of his head as he his along between his legs then he settled down and accustomed as the was to tl the second his wa rs he could not help starting for the time when he saw how exactly the a log adrift on the bar he had even taken pains to lie at the exact angle a naturally log would make with the water having regard to the current of the season at the time and place all this was only a matter of habit of course because the had come ashore for pleasure but a is never quite full and if the had been deceived by the likeness he would not have lived to over it my child i heard nothing said the mu er shutting one eye the water was in my ears and also i was faint with hunger since the railway bridge was built | 39 |
heaven how it all comes back to me this long time afterwards � don t go if you please these are two � very kind good people � who are relations of my nurse and have come from to see me aye aye said returning i am glad to see them how are you both there was an ease in his manner � a gay and light manner it was but not � which i still believe to have borne a kind of enchantment with it i still believe him in vii of this carriage his animal spirits his delightful voice his handsome face and figure and for aught i know of some power of attraction besides which i think a few people possess to have carried a spell with him to which it was a natural weakness to yield and which not many persons could withstand i could not but see how pleased they were with him and how they seemed to open their hearts to him in a moment you must let them know at home if you please mr i said when that letter is sent that mr is very kind to me and that i don t know what i should ever do here without him nonsense said laughing you mustn t tell them anything of the sort and if mr ever comes into or mr i said while i am there you may depend upon it i shall bring him to if he will let me to see your house you never saw such a good house it s made out of a boat made out of a boat is it said it s the right sort of house for such a thorough built so tis sir so tis sir said ham grinning you re right young gen n r bo gen n s right a thorough built that s what he is too mr was no less pleased than his nephew though his modesty forbade him to claim a personal compliment so well sir he said bowing and and in the ends of his at his breast i sir i i do my in my line of life sir the best of men can do no more mr said he had got his name already i pound it it s you do yourself sir said mr shaking his head and you do well � right well i sir i m to you sir for your manner of me i m rough sir but i m ready � least ways i hope i m ready you understand my house ain t much for to see sir but it s hearty at your service if ever you of david should come along with r to see it i m a lar i am said mr by which he meant and this was in allusion to his being slow to go for he had attempted to go after every sentence and had somehow or other come back again but i wish you both well and i wish you happy ham echoed this sentiment and we parted with them in the manner i was almost tempted that evening to tell about pretty little em ly but i was too timid of mentioning her name and too much afraid of his laughing at me i remember that i thought a good deal and in an uneasy sort of way about mr having said that she was getting on to be a woman but i decided that was nonsense we transported the shell fish or the relish as mr had modestly called it up into our room unobserved and made a great supper that evening but couldn t get happily out of it he was too unfortunate even to come through a supper like anybody else he was taken ill in the night � quite prostrate he was � in consequence of and after being with black draughts and blue to an extent which whose father was a doctor said was enough to a horse s constitution received a and six chapters of greek testament for refusing to confess the rest of the half year is a in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives of the summer and the changing season of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed and the cold cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again of the evening dimly lighted and indifferently warmed and the morning which was nothing but a great shivering machine of the of boiled beef with roast beef and boiled mutton with roast mutton of of bread and butter dog s lesson books cracked tear blotted copy books hair rainy sundays and a dirty atmosphere of ink surrounding all i well remember though how the distant idea of the holidays after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck began to come towards us and to grow and grow how from counting months we came to weeks and then to days and how i then began to be afraid that i should not be sent for and when i learnt from that i had been sent for and was certainly to go home had dim that i might break my leg first how the breaking up day changed its place fast at last from the week after next to next week this week the day after to morrow to morrow to day to night � when i was inside the mail and going home i had many a broken sleep inside the mail and many an dream of all these things but when i awoke at intervals the ground outside the window was not the of house and the sound in my ears was not the sound of mr giving it to but the sound of the coachman touching up the horses the personal history and experience chapter my holidays especially one happy afternoon when we | 8 |
as apparently shown in the of cruel affliction on the head of a sweet and innocent woman was a little dazed about it all and could not be brought to that th squire s might never rise from her bed again with ye he said indignantly to the melancholy village who came in to see him and shake their heads generally over life and its brief � th almighty lord ain t a devil ain t sure of god s good man is own mind he don t make a pretty thing just to break it all for didn t ye all come to me about the five sister an ain t they still an miss too just as fast an firm as the trees � you take my for tl she ain t goin to die why look at me � just on ninety an i ain t dead yet but a of fear and came over him whenever visited him john s sad face told him more than words could express ain t she no better he would ask timidly and and john laying his own hand on the old brown wrinkled one would reply gently no better but we must hope � we must hope always and believe that god will be merciful an if he ain t merciful what u we do persisted once with tears in his poor dim eyes we must submit answered john almost sternly � we must believe that he knows what is wise and good for her � and for us all and we must live out our lives patiently without her � patiently till the blessed end � till that peace which all understanding and looking at him was awed by the pale spiritual serenity of his features and the tragic human grief of his eyes one person in the neighbourhood proved himself a of help and consolation during this time of general anxiety and suspense and this was he was always at hand and willing to be of service he threw his dreams of to the winds and became poet in earnest � poet in sympathy with others � poet in kindly thought � poet in constant delicate ways of solace to the man he had learned to respect above all others and whose love and despair he recognised with more passionate appreciation than any written tragedy he had gone at once to the on s arrival there and had laid himself so to speak at her feet when she had first seen him all oppressed by the weight of her sorrow as she was she had burst out crying he had without the slightest hesitation or embarrassment taken her in his arms and kissed her neither he nor she seemed the least surprised at the of their mutual caress � it came quite naturally it was so new � so fresh said afterwards and from that moment he had himself more or less at the under s orders he wrote letters for her god s good man answered drew up a formal list of and kept accounts went errands for the two trained nurses who were in day and night attendance on the unconscious invalid upstairs and made generally useful and but his fantastic notions were the same as ever he would not as he put it partake of food at the while its mistress was lying ill � nor would he allow any servant in the household to wait upon him he merely came and went quietly to and fro giving his best services to all and never failing to visit every day and tell him all the latest news he even managed to make friends with the great dog who ever since s accident had taken up regular hours of outside her bedroom door regardless of doctor and nurses though he would move his body gently aside whenever they passed in or out showing a perfectly intelligent comprehension of their business every now and again would indulge in a walk abroad with accompanying him as far as the where he would enter laying his broad head s knee with a world of sympathy in his loving brown eyes while half gratified humbly in the shadow of his tail and john found a certain melancholy pleasure in caressing the very dog lo ed and would sit thoughtfully the animal s thick coat while and dr both of whom were now accustomed to meet in his little study every evening discussed the and of what was likely to happen when woke from her long trance of would her awakening be to life or death john listened to their talk himself saying nothing all unaware that they talked merely to cheer him and to try and put the best light they could on the face of affairs in order to give him the utmost hope the weary days rolled on in rain and gloom � christmas came and went with a weight and never before known in st every sunday since the accident had earnestly requested the prayers of his congregation for miss who was seriously ill � and on christmas pay he gave out the same request with a pathetic alteration in the which as he uttered it caused many people te sob as they listened the prayers of this congregation he said � are desired for who has been much beloved among and whose life is now in imminent peril a chill seemed to strike through the church � an icy blast god s good man far colder than the wintry wind � the in front of the altar seemed all at once invested with a terrible � death and death only was the sovereign of the world and when the children s choir rose to give the hark the herald angels sing glory to the new bom king � their voices were and out of tune into tears was indeed in peril she had become suddenly | 33 |
expense of civility with this cursed secret of theirs called law they think every body s frightened at them my lord seems to have his insolence as ready as his soft he s as sleek as a rat and has as vicious a tooth i know the sort of well enough i ve helped to one or two in this mood of conscious contemptuous penetration christian was shown by the footman into s private room where the attorney sat surrounded with massive and other furniture to correspond from the legged library table to the frame and card rack it was the sort of room a man for himself when he feels sure of a long and future he was leaning back in his leather chair against the broad window the radical opening on the lawn and had just taken off his spectacles and let the newspaper fall on his knees in despair of reading by the fading light when the footman opened the door and said mr christian said good evening mr christian be seated pointing to a chair opposite himself and the window light the candles on the shelf john bat leave the blinds alone he did not speak again till the man was gone out but appeared to be referring to a document which lay on the before him when the door was closed he drew himself up again be an to rub his hands and turned toward his visitor who seemed perfectly indifferent to the fact that the attorney was in the shadow and that the light fell on himself a � your name � a � is there was a start through christian s frame which he was quick enough almost simultaneously to try and disguise as a change of position he his legs and his coat but before he had time to say any thing went on with slow emphasis you were born on the th of december at your father was a cloth merchant in london he died when you were barely of age leaving an extensive business before you were five and twenty you had run through the greater part of the property and had your safety by an attempt to your subsequently you a check on your father s elder brother who had intended to make you his heir here paused a moment and referred to the document christian was silent in you found it expedient to leave this country in a military disguise and were taken prisoner by the french on the occasion of an exchange of prisoners you had the opportunity of returning to your own country and to the bosom of your own family you were generous enough to sacrifice that prospect in of a fellow prisoner of about your own age and figure who had more pressing reasons than yourself for wishing to be on this side of the water you exchanged dress luggage and names with him and he passed to england instead of you as henry almost immediately afterward you escaped from your imprisonment after an which prevented your exchange of names from being discovered and it was reported that yon � that is you r the name of your fellow prisoner � were drowned in an open boat trying to reach a vessel bound for nevertheless i have to congratulate you on the falsehood of that report and on the certainty that you are now after th lapse of more than twenty years seated here in perfect safety paused so long that he was evidently awaiting some answer at last christian replied in a dogged tone well sir heard much longer stories than that told quite as solemnly when there was not a word of truth in them suppose i deny the very you hang your statement on suppose i say i am not henry a � in that case � a said with wooden indifference you would lose the advantage which � a � may attach to your possession of henry s knowledge and at the same time if it were in the least � a � inconvenient to you that you should be recognized as henry your denial would not prevent me from holding the knowledge and evidence which i possess on that point it would only prevent us from pursuing the present conversation well ir suppose we admit for the sake of the conversation that your account of the mat ter is the true one what advantage have you to offer the man named henry the advantage � a � is but it may be considerable it might in fact release you from the necessity of acting as or � a � or whatever other office you may occupy which prevents you from being your own master on the other hand my acquaintance with your secret is not necessarily a disadvantage to you to put the matter in a i am not inclined � a � � to do you any harm and i may be able to do you a considerable service which yon want me to earn somehow said christian you offer me a turn in a precisely the matter in question is of no earthly interest to you except � a � as it may yield you a prize we lawyers have to do with complicated questions and � a � legal which are never � a � fully known even to the parties immediately interested still less to the witnesses shall we agree then that you continue to retain two thirds of the name which you gained by exchange and that you oblige me by answering certain questions as to the experience of henry very good go on what articles of property once belonging to your fellow prisoner christian do you still retain this ring said christian round the fine seal ring on his finger his watch and the little matters that hung with it and a case of papers i got rid of a gold snuff box | 14 |
fifty thousand men from either coast to the other in the course of twenty or thirty days we have already expended some scores of millions of dollars on and are required to as many more especially on the pacific is their construction demanded i do not decide how fast nor how far this demand may or should be responded to but i do say that a railroad whereby the of the mountains could be brought to the pacific within three days and those of the within ten would afford more security to san than ever so many gigantic and costly but enough on this head the social moral and intellectual blessings of a pacific railroad can hardly be glanced at within the limits of an article suffice it for the present that i merely suggest them our are now carried to and from by in twenty to thirty days starting once a fortnight the average time of from writers throughout the atlantic states to their on the pacific thirty days with a to the pacific a pacific railroad this would be reduced to ten for the letters written in or would reach their in the of quicker than letters sent from new york or philadelphia would reach san with a daily mail by railroad from each of our atlantic cities to and from it is hardly possible that the amount of both letters and printed matter and consequently of should not be speedily the first need of to day is a large of intelligent capable virtuous women with a railroad to the pacific avoiding the miseries and perils of six � thousand miles of ocean and making the a pleasant and interesting journey of ten days at a reduced cost the of this class would be immensely and increased with wages for all kinds of women s work at least thrice as high on the pacific as in this quarter and with larger opportunities for honorable and fit settlement in life i cannot doubt that of thousands would cross the plains to the signal benefit of and of the whole country as well as the improvement of their own fortunes and the profit of the railroad thousands now staying in expecting to go home so soon as they shall have somewhat improved their circumstances would send or come for their families and settle on the pacific for life if a railroad were opened of thousands who have been to and come back unwilling either to live away from their families or to expose them to the present hardships of thither would return with a to the pacific a pacific railroad this would be reduced to ten for the letters written in or would reach their in the of quicker than letters sent from new york or philadelphia would reach san with a daily mail by railroad from each of our atlantic cities to and from it is hardly possible that the amount of both letters and printed matter and consequently of should not be speedily the first need of to day is a large of intelligent capable virtuous women with a railroad to the pacific avoiding the miseries and perils of six thousand miles of ocean and making the a pleasant and interesting journey of ten days at a reduced cost the of this class would be immensely and increased with wages for all kinds of women s work at least thrice as high on the pacific as in this quarter and with larger opportunities for honorable and fit settlement in life i cannot doubt that of thousands would cross the plains to the signal benefit of and of the whole country as well as the improvement of their own fortunes and the profit of the railroad thousands now staying in expecting to go home so soon as they shall have somewhat improved their circumstances would send or come for their families and settle on the pacific for life if a railroad were opened of thousands who have been to and come back unwilling either to live away from their families or to expose them to the present hardships of thither would return with a to the pacific all they have prepared to spend their remaining days � in the land of gold if there were a pacific railroad education is the vital want of second to its need of true women school books and all the material of education are now scarce and dear there almost all hooks sell there twice as high as here and many of the best are scarcely at any rate with the pacific railroad all this would be changed for the better the proportion of school houses to would rapidly increase all the elements of moral and religious would be multiplied of thousands of our best citizens would visit the pacific coast receiving novel ideas ami impressions to their own profit and that of the people thus visited civilization intelligence refinement on both sides of the still more in the great basin by them � would receive a new and immense impulse and the union would acquire a greater accession of strength power endurance and true glory than it would from the acquisition of the whole continent down to cape horn the only points of view in which a railroad from the to the pacific remains to be considered are those of its cost and the ways and means let us look at them i as to there is no room a ion or doubt the western the the and the and have each encountered difficulties as formidable as any to be overcome by a pacific railroad this side of the were the railroad simply to follow the principal s a to the pacific trail up the and down the snake and to or south from the south pass to the foot of the it would encounter no serious obstacle ii the of timber on the plains is tho chief difficulty to be overcome | 19 |
with frightened reverence and � she was any more mist he that winds it up i guess and turned heavily away for all his wandering thoughts they had never been more intimate than this he often reflected forget how old said a wise bird never goes love making in his own office or his own home start trouble sure but � in twenty three years of married life he had peered uneasily at every graceful ankle every soft shoulder in thought he had them but not once had he respectability by now as he calculated the cost of the house he was restless again discontented about nothing and everything ashamed of his and lonely for the fairy girl chapter iv pr was a morning of artistic creation fifteen minutes after the purple prose of s form letter the resident at came in to report a sale and submit an advertisement of who sang in and was merry at home over of hearts and old maid he had a tenor voice chestnut hair and a like a s hair brush considered it in a family man to growl seen this new picture of the kid � little devil eh but s domestic confidences were as as a girl s say i think i got a of an ad for the mr why don t we try something in poetry honest il d have wonderful pulling power listen mid pleasures and palaces wherever you may you just provide the little bride and we ll provide the home do you get it see � like home sweet home don t you � yes yes yes hell yes of course i get it but � oh i think we d better use something more dignified and like we lead others follow or eventually why not now course i believe in using poetry and humor and all that when it turns the trick but with a high class ment like the we better stick to the more dignified approach see how i mean well i guess that s all this morning ii by a tragedy familiar to the world of art the april enthusiasm of served only to the talent of the older george f he grumbled to that tan colored voice of s gets on my nerves yet he was aroused and in one he wrote do you respect your loved ones when the last sad rites of are over do you know for certain that you have done your best for the departed you haven t unless they lie in the beautiful lane tile only strictly up to date burial place in or near where exquisitely plots look from dotted hill slopes across the fields of sole agents company building he rejoiced i guess that ll show and his old something about modern ni he sent mat to the s office to dig out the names of the owners of houses which were displaying for rent signs of other he talked to a man who desired to lease a store building for a pool room he ran over the list of which were about to he sent thomas a street car conductor who played at real estate in spare time to call on side street prospects who were unworthy the of but he had spent his excite ment of creation and these routine details annoyed him one moment of heroism he had in discovering a new way of stopping smoking he stopped smoking at least once a month he went through with it like the solid citizen he was admitted the evils of tobacco made laid out plans to check the vice off his allowance of cigars and the pleasures of to every one he met he did everything in fact except stop smoking two months before by ruling out a noting down the hour and minute of each smoke and increasing the intervals between he had brought himself down to three cigars a day then he had lost the a week ago he had invented a system of leaving his and box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence file in the outer office i ll just naturally be ashamed to go in there all day long making a fool of myself before my own he reasoned by the end of three days he was trained to leave his desk walk to the file take out and light a cigar without knowing that he was doing it this morning it was revealed to him that it had been too easy to open the file lock it that was the thing inspired he rushed out and locked up his cigars his and even his box of safety matches and the key to the file drawer he hid in his desk but the passion of it made him so tobacco hungry that he immediately recovered the key walked with forbidding dignity to the file took out a cigar and a match � but only one match if cigar goes out it ll by have to stay out later when the cigar did go out he took one more match from the file and when a and a came in for a conference at eleven thirty naturally he had to offer them cigars his conscience protested why you re smoking with them but he it oh shut i m busy now of course by and by � there was no by and by yet his belief that he had crushed the habit made him feel noble and very happy when he called up paul he was in his moral splendor unusually eager he was of paul than of any one on earth except himself and his daughter they had been in the state university but always he thought of paul with his dark his precisely parted hair his nose glasses his speech his his love of music as a younger brother to be and protected paul had gone into his father s | 42 |
lor let s be mrs bent her head in a distant manner to her lady visitor and with majestic monotony replied to the g pardon me i have several daughters which of my daughters am i to understand is thus by the kind intentions of mr and his lady � don t you see the ever smiling mrs put in naturally miss you know oh h said mrs with a severely look my daughter is accessible and shall speak for herself then opening the door a little way simultaneously with a sound of outside it the good lady made the send miss b a to me which though formal and one might almost say to hear was m with her maternal eyes glaring on that young lady in the flesh � and iu so much of it that she was retiring with difficulty into the closet imder the stairs apprehensive of the of mr and mrs the of r w my husband mrs explained on her seat keep him fully engaged in the city at this time of the day or he would have had the honor of in your reception our humble roof � very pleasant premises i said mr pardon me sir returned mrs him it is the abode of conscious though independent poverty it rather difficult to pursue the conversation down this road mr and mrs sat staring ai mid � ir and mrs sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self denial rarely in history until miss appeared whom mrs presented and to whom she explained the purpose of the visitors i am much obliged to you i am sure said miss coldly shaking her curls but i doubt if have the inclination to go out at all mrs her you must conquer this yes do what your ma says and conquer it my dear urged mrs because we shall be so glad to have you and because you are much too pretty to keep shut up with that the pleasant creature gave her a kiss and patted her on her shoulders mrs sitting stiffly by like a over an interview previous to an execution we are going to move into a nice house said mrs who was woman enough to compromise mr on that point when he couldn t very well contest it and we are going to set up a nice carriage and we ll go everywhere and see and you mustn t beside her and patting her hand you mustn t feel a d like to us to begin with because we couldn t p it you know my dear mutual friend with the tendency of youth to yield to and sweet temper miss was so touched by the simplicity of this address that she frankly returned mrs s kiss not at all to the satisfaction of that good woman of the world her mother who sought to hold the ground of obliging the instead of being obliged my youngest daughter said mrs glad to make a diversion as that young lady reappeared mr george a friend of the the friend of the was in that stage of the tender passion which bound him to r ard everybody else as the foe of the family he put the round head of his cane in his mouth like a when he sat down as if he felt himself full to the throat with sentiments and he eyed the ns with eyes if you like to your sister with you when you come to stay with us said mrs of course we shall be glad the better you please yourself miss the better you ll please us oh my consent is of no consequence at all i suppose cried miss said her in a low voice have the goodness to be seen and not heard no i won t replied the sharp � i m not a child to be taken notice of by strangers you are a child i m not a child and i won t be taken notice of bring your sister indeed said mrs hold i will not allow you to utter in my presence the absurd suspicion that any strangers � i e not what their names � can my child do you dare to suppose you ridiculous girl that mr and mrs would enter these doors upon a errand or if they did would remain within l em only lor one single instant while your mother had the strength yet remaining in her vital frame to request them to depart you little know your mother if you presume to think so it s all very fine began to when mrs repeated hold i will not allow this do you not know what is due to guests do you not comprehend that in to hint that this lady and gentleman could have any idea of any member of your � i care not which � you accuse them of an impertinence little less than insane never mind me and mrs ma am said mr we don t care pardon me but i do returned mrs miss laughed a short laugh as she muttered yes to be sure and i require my audacious child proceeded mrs with a withering look at her youngest on whom it had not the slightest effect to please to be just to her sister to remember that her sister is much sought after and that when her sister an attention she considers herself to be qui i ite o mutual as � this with an indignant � as she receives but here miss and said i can speak for myself you know ma you needn t bring me in please � and it s all very well at others through convenient me said the irrepressible but i should like to a what he says to it mr proclaimed mrs seeing that young gentle man take his | 8 |
longed to hurry to no by i won t do that he vowed i won t go near her for a week but he was at her flat at four m he who had once controlled or seemed to control his life in a progress but and sane was for that fortnight borne on a current of desire and very bad and all the of new acquaintances those furious new who demand so much more attention than old friends each morning he gloomily recognized his of the evening before with his head throbbing his tongue and lips from he counted the number of drinks he had taken and groaned i got to quit he had ceased saying i will quit for however resolute he might be at dawn he could not for a single evening check his drift he had met s friends he had with the ardent haste of the midnight people who drink and dance and rattle and are ever afraid to be silent been adopted as a member of her group which they called the bunch he first met them after a day when he had worked particularly hard and when he hoped to be quiet with and slowly her admiration from down the hall he could hear shrieks and the grind of a as opened the door he saw fantastic figures dancing in a haze of smoke the tables and chairs were against the wall oh isn t this she at him had the loveliest idea she decided it was time for a party and she the bunch and told em to gather round george this is was in the less desirable aspects of both at once and she was perhaps forty her hair was an ash and if her chest was flat her were ponderous she greeted with a welcome to our little midst says you re a real sport he was apparently expected to dance to be boyish and gay with and he did his best he h about the room into other couples into the into chair legs as he danced he surveyed the rest of the bunch a thin young woman who looked capable conceited and sarcastic another woman whom he could never quite remember three and slightly young men � fountain clerks or at least born for that profession a man of his own age immovable self satisfied of s presence when he had finished his dutiful dance took him aside and begged dear wouldn t you like to do something for me i m all out of and the bunch want to couldn t you just down to s and get some sure he said trying not to sound sullen i ll tell you i ll get to drive down with you was pointing to the thin sarcastic young woman miss greeted him with an how d you do mr tells me you re a very prominent man and i m honored by being allowed to drive with you of course i m rot accustomed to with society people like you so i don t know how to act in such exalted circles thus miss talked all the way down to han bon s to her he wanted to reply oh go to the devil but he never quite himself to that reasonable comment he was the existence of the whole bunch he had heard speak of darling and � she s so clever � you ll her but they had never been real to him he had pictured as living in a rose tinted waiting for him free of all the of a heights when they returned he had to endure the patronage of the young clerks they were as friendly as miss was hostile they called him old and shouted come on now sport shake a leg boys in coats boys as young as ted and as as chorus men but powerful to dance and to mind the and smoke and he tried to be one of them he cried good work but his voice apparently enjoyed the companionship of the dancing she to their bland and casually kissed them at the end of each dance hated her for the moment he saw her as middle aged he studied the wrinkles in the softness of her throat the slack flesh beneath her chin the muscles of her youth were loose and drooping between dances she sat in the largest chair waving her her admirers to come and talk to her she thinks she s a blooming queen growled she to miss isn t my little sweet rats it s a plain old maid and dog flat oh god i wish i was home i wonder if i can t make a now his vision grew however as he applied himself to s raw but vigorous he blended with the bunch he began to rejoice that and the most nearly intelligent of the youths seemed to like him and it was important to win over the surly older man who proved to be a railway clerk named the conversation of the bunch was full of to people whom did not know apparently they thought very comfortably of themselves they were the wise and beautiful and amusing they were and accustomed to all the luxuries of dance halls and and in a cynical superiority to people who were slow or they oh did i tell you what that of a said when i came in late yesterday oh it was per ly oh but wasn t t d say he was simply what did say to him think of the nerve of bob trying to get us to come to his house say the nerve of him can you beat it for nerve some nerve i call it did you notice how was dancing wasn t she the limit was to be heard agreeing with the miss that persons who let a night go by without dancing to music were | 42 |
his face darkening � because sir miss should have ing she began when cut her short i shall not allow her to wear mourning mr he said so the nurse say no more three days later the funeral took place and if the facts of the dead man s having acknowledged miss as his child and having admitted to � ties that ho hail transferred her that night f i miss for dared from baby is own quarters to rooms created a it was as nothing to the intense surprise by the will which was read by the dead s desire before all the officers of the regiment in it he left his entire property to his daughter now in the care of captain ad commonly known as on condition that captain consented to be her sole guardian ud until she had attained the age of one or until her marriage provided it be with her guardian s sanction and on the understanding that captain should lot give up the care of the child to her mother temporarily to his wife a � of this testament was to be sent forthwith should any of the conditions be the whole of which he died possessed should go to lis cousin but if the be faithfully observed captain have the power of applying any or all of he income arising from the estate for the use and maintenance of the said mary murmured to who in contemptuous silence and wondered in small dismay what kind of a life he should lave if s mother chose to make herself but the will was not crazy at all far from it it iu only a very cleverly thought out plan for keep baby mother and child apart would care not to s inheritance and had taken advantage of it to carry out hia towards his wife to the end but of course there was one he had never thought of or provided for � marriage it was less than a week after s de that received a note by hand signed i already i he groaned impatiently may trouble you to send the child to for half an during this afternoon she s and that was all but did not see sending the child to be quietly stolen away he forgot quite that since had not left his widow a she would probably be now no better able to provide for the child than she had been when compelled to cast her baby upon the father s mercy therefore immediately after lunch he drove down to ihe hotel from which the note had been written yes mrs was this way and then � then � with the child fast hold of his band was shown into a room � and there they found � miss grace the truth flashed into his mind instantly she rose hurriedly and he saw that she was clad in black but was not in widow s dress she fell her and almost smothered with i i baby � she cried has been very kind to explained � not knowing whether to laugh or cry my � my baby the mother sobbed watched them � the two things he loved best on earth have you nothing to say to me he asked at last what shall i say she had risen from her knees and now moved away you might say said severely that you are very sorry that you � a married woman � deceived me and stole my heart away you might say that for one thing but i am not sorry cried s mother then you might take a leaf out of s book and say as she says when i have a headache loves i do think remarked to the fellows when the news had been told and freely discussed that now we must let that poor malicious minded chap in his in peace seems to me he continued with his most air that � er � solomon was and said a wise thing when he said love laughs at b baby solomon cried a voice amid a shout of laughter oh wasn t it solomon questioned mildly it s of no consequence some one said it but only think of that poor devil spending his last moments a to keep mother and child apart and old all the conditions to the letter and b them all in the spirit by � the end brothers � b s list of works by john strange winter � the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the british soldier � mr in the daily telegraph january cavalry life legends baby pluck s secret a siege baby n s husband children � in quarters on march army society garrison gossip beautiful jim that of a my poor dick harvest ii popular of ant i co price one shilling each s london library in small crown vo out bv a fair by tinted a by j baby a of ihe s struck down a tale of by smart la by j s winter at bay by mrs alexander gold by may s bargain by mrs alexander john a testimony bv the last of the bv l ki vn my friend by w c waters ij a woman s will by by a love story by a girl in a thousand by a wilful young woman by mrs of or all or by e green a maid by mrs the fortunes f by f h that o s bv paul jones by by charles king f r england s sake by the tide on the bar by burn a love by a love bv es s luck by w h miss by i on tim by france � or the mystery of the by g buy bias founded on the drama by victor by the world forgot by e j | 30 |
mentally noted their gifts from of lands purchases and buildings more particularly their political and military achievements which had been great and their performances in arts and letters which had been by no means contemptible he studied prints of the portrait of that family and then like a watching a began to examine young s face for the of those historic curves and shades that the painters and had on canvas when the boy reached the most fascinating age of childhood and his shouts of laughter ran through house from end to end the remorse that oppressed knew no bounds of all people in the world this was the one on whom he could have wished the estates to yet by s own desperate at the time of his birth had been from all inheritance of them and since he did not mean to the s lady would pass to his brother and his brother s children who would be nothing to him whose boasted on one side would be nothing to his s had he only left the first will of his grandfather alone his mind ran on the wills continually both of which were in existence and the first the one in his own possession night after night when the servants were all and the click of safety locks sounded as loud as a crash he looked at that first will and wished it had been the second and not the first the crisis came at last one night after having enjoyed the boy s company for hours he could no longer bear that his beloved should be and he committed the deed of the date of the earlier will to a fortnight later which made its execution appear subsequent to the date of the second will already proved he then boldly the first will as the second his brother edward submitted to what appeared to be not only fact but a far more likely disposition of old s property for like many others he had been much surprised at the defined in the other will having no to their cause he joined his brother in setting aside the hitherto accepted document and matters went on in their usual course there being no dispositions in the a group of noble will from those in the other except such as related to a future which had not yet arrived the years moved on had not yet revealed the anxiously expected historic which should the political abilities of the family when it happened on a certain day that made the acquaintance of a well known physician of who had been the medical adviser and friend of the late mrs s family for many years though after s marriage and consequent removal to he had seen no more of her the neighboring who attended the having then become her doctor as a matter of course was impressed by the insight and knowledge disclosed in the conversation of the physician and the acquaintance to intimacy the physician alluded to a form of to which s mother and grandmother had been subject � that of believing in certain dreams as realities he delicately inquired if had ever noticed anything of the sort in his wife during her lifetime he the physician had fancied that he discerned of the same peculiarity in when he attended her in her one explanation another till the was persuaded in his own mind that s confession to him had been based on a delusion squire s lady you look down in the mouth said the doctor pausing a bit tis unexpected like sighed but he could hardly believe it possible and thinking it best to be frank with the doctor told him the whole story which till now he had never related to living man save his dying grandfather to his surprise the physician informed him that such a form of delusion was precisely what he would have expected from s at such a physical crisis in her life his inquiries elsewhere and the of his labors was briefly that a comparison of dates and places showed that his poor wife s assertion could not possibly have foundation in fact the young of her tender passion � a highly moral and nobleman � had gone abroad the year before s marriage and had not returned until after her death the young girl s love for him had been a delicate ideal dream � no more went home and the boy ran out to meet him whereupon a strangely dismal feeling of discontent took possession of his soul after all then there was nothing but blood in the veins of the heir to his name and estates ho was not to be succeeded by a noble natured line to be sure was his son but that glory and he believed him to have inherited from the ages that of his brother s children a group of noble had departed from s brow forever he could no longer read history in the boy s face and centuries of in his eyes his manner towards his son grew colder and colder from that day forward and it was with bitterness of heart that he discerned the characteristic features of the themselves by degrees instead of the elegant nose so typical of the of there began to appear on his face the broad and hollow bridge of his grandfather no illustrious line of was promised a in that blue eye for it was acquiring the expression of the of a particularly objectionable cousin of his own and instead of the mouth curves which had thrilled in speeches now bound in calf in every well ordered library there was the bull lip of that very uncle of his who had had the misfortune with the signature of a gentleman s will and had been transported for life in consequence to think how he himself too had in this same matter of a will | 45 |
hands it ended thus an so i got ten days in one o their fed me on grapes they did along with one o their own funny people them south americans oh we t killed any one we only through their for fun like fun v ve got all the fun we want growled a voice in the shadow a had risen silently as a seal for a breath of air and stood chest to the breeze the fleet lights s the matter with your said the marine you d better take your off them or you ll be spoke to our said the figure addressing his grievance to the sea line are stuck all about like a lot o women s pockets they re stuck about like a lot o that s what our are he slipped back into the darkness presently a by to relieve his mate on the bridge you ll be said the marine who was a wit and by the same token something of a prophet i a fleet in being not if you re anywhere in the crowd i won t was the retort always in a cautious don t are you ere never you mind you go on up to the an lofty bridge an your my i wouldn t be a not for ever so when i met my friend next morning his as over the aft neither he nor i recognised each other but i owe him some very nice tales and returning next day both were exercised at steam which is a noble game but i was too interested in the life of my own hour by hour to be interested in all i remember is that we were taking up positions at fifteen knots an hour amid a crowd of other all precisely alike all still as death each with a of white foam under her nose and returning the danced stately by themselves in another part of the deep we of the light horse did barn dances about the windy floors and precisely as couples in the ball room fling a word over their shoulders so we and our friends whirling past to take up fresh stations snapped out an sentence or two by means of our bridge are wondrous human in the afternoon the overtook us their white showing like as they the sea line then we our faces and the had l a fleet in being chap rest and at a wave of the admiral s flag off land s end our fleet was split in twain one half would go outside ireland with the weight of the atlantic en route to bay while we turned up the irish channel to there we would coal and wait for war after that it would be blind man s within a three hundred and fifty mile ring of the atlantic we of would try to catch the fleet which was supposed to have a of its own somewhere out at sea before it could return to the shelter of the bay the of the lower deck there was however one small flaw in the rules and as soon as they were in possession of the plan of campaign the of the lower deck put their on it � thus look ere their admiral as to go out from to some known only to ain t that so we ve all that this from an impertinent new to war a be ind im � most likely or � to bring im word of the outbreak of ain t that so get on what are you at you ll see when that im e as to back to from is precious to get ome again before we the beggar well i a fleet in being now i put it to you what s to prevent im out slow in order to be overtook by that an back quick to before we im i don t see that is rate is anywhere laid down you mark my word e ll take precious good care to be overtook by that of is we won t catch im there s an in the rules an e ll slip through know im if you don t the voice went on to describe im the admiral of our enemy � as a person who would make the sit up and truly it came out in the end that the other admiral had done almost exactly what his friends expected he went to his slowly was overtaken by his about a hundred miles from the turned back again to and having won the game of i wants a corner played about in front of the bay till we descended on him then he was as he could afford to be explained the situation and i presume smiled there was a hole in the rules and he sailed all his fleet through it we of the northern found in full possession of a sou west gale and an of dingy lying where they could most annoy the fleet a came alongside with donkey engines that would not lift more than half their proper load she had no bags no and her crazy boom could not be up enough to let the load clear our so we supplied our own bags and the boom put two of our own men on the io a fleet in being chap donkey engines and fell to work in that howling wind and wet a preparation for war as a preparation for war next day it seemed a little hard on the crew who worked like sailors � there is no stronger term from time to time a red eyed black demon with flashing teeth shot into the ward room for a bite and a drink cried out the number of tons aboard added a few pious words on the s and our like a lot of the had said and tore | 39 |
that the southern pole and dipped our under to the dread roll beyond all outer we sailed where none have sailed and saw the land lights burning on islands none have hailed our hair stood up for wonder but when the night was done there danced the deep to blue empty the sun the strange rode beside us and brought us evil luck the witch fire climbed our channels and oa and till through the red that lashed us nigh to blind we saw the full canvas head to wind we ve heard the midnight that calls the black deep down � ay thrice we ve heard the the thing that may not drown on frozen and the cloud her hosts � when by more than signed with us we passed the isle o ghosts and north amid the a toss below we met the silent that know i i� a for l ine js x e steer br a te gi o dealt god s waters with as die so walked ail naked to our t but we ta lose or make � good lord behind us in the of onr go let go the now at heart are we to bring poor a cargo home that had for gi the sea let go the great bow � ah were we and blind � the worst we with utter toil the best we left ihe � cross seas � round the world and back again whither flaw shall fail us or the trades drive down plain sail � storm sail � lay your board and tack again � and all to bring a cargo up to london town seven seas the seven seas then said the souls of the gentlemen � wrist to bar all for red ho we in our chains o er the sorrow that was spain s heave or sink it leave or drink it we were masters of the seal up the soul of a gray � he that led the in the of fair oh the ice white and near and the clear will ye them all for that in the sea loud sang the souls of the jolly jolly crying under heaven here is neither lead nor must we sing for on the floor take back your golden and we ll beat to open sea the last then stooped the lord and he called the good sea up to him and his borders unto all eternity that such as have no pleasure for to praise the lord by measure they may enter into and serve him on the sea sun wind and cloud shall fail not from the face of it ringing nor the flying free and the ships shall go abroad to the glory of the lord who heard the silly sailor folk and gave them hack their seal the king solomon drew because of his desire for and ivory from unto with out of which down but we be only that use in london town � cross seas � round the world and back again � where the flaw shall head us or the full trade suits � plain sail � storm sail � lay your and tack again � and that s the way we ll pay for his we bring no store of of or precious stones but that we have we gathered with sweat and aching in flame beneath the in frost upon the and of every wind that does between them and some we got by purchase and some we had by trade and some we found by courtesy of and at midnight mid sea meetings for charity to keep and light the rolling homeward bound that rode a foot too deep by sport of bitter weather we re strained and from the on the to the upon the yard seven seas six had their will of us to all away � our s in the and our boom s in bay off the with slipped from with the at our heels beyond the that the southern pole and dipped our under to the dread roll beyond all outer we sailed where none have sailed and saw the land lights burning on islands none have hailed our hair stood up for wonder but when the night was done there danced the deep to blue empty the sun the strange rode beside us and brought us evil luck the witch fire our channels and on and till through the red that lashed us nigh to blind we saw the plunging full canvas head to wind we ve heard the midnight that calls the black deep down � ay thrice we ve heard the the thing that may not drown on frozen and the her hosts � when by more than signed with us we passed the isle o ghosts and north amid the a toss below we met the silent that know seven seas six had their will of us to all away � our s in the and our boom s in bay off the with slipped from with the at our heels beyond the that the southern pole and dipped our under to the dread roll beyond all outer we sailed where none have sailed and saw the land lights burning on islands none have hailed our hair stood up for wonder but when the night was done there danced the deep to blue empty the sun the strange rode beside us and brought us evil luck the witch fire climbed our channels and on and till through the red that lashed us nigh to blind we saw the plunging full canvas head to wind we ve heard the midnight that calls the black deep down � ay thrice we ve heard the the thing that may not drown on frozen and the her hosts � when by more than signed with us we passed the isle o ghosts and north amid the a toss below | 39 |
em consulted i don t know i swear sometimes i feel like taking ken aside and putting him over the and saying to him young me lad are you going to marry young or are you going to talk her to death here you are getting on toward thirty and you re only making twenty or twenty five a week when you going to develop a sense of responsibility and get a raise if there s anything that george f or i can do to help you call on us but show a little speed anyway well at that it might not be so bad if you or i talked to him except he might not understand he s one of these high brows he can t come down to cases and lay his cards on the table and talk straight out from the shoulder like you or i can that s right he s like all these that s so like all of em that s a fact they sighed and were silent and thoughtful and happy the conductor came in he had once called at s office to ask about houses h are you mr i we going to have you with us to this your boy yes this is my son ted well now what do you know about that here i been thinking you were a yourself not a day over forty hardly and you with this great big fellow forty why brother i ll never see forty five again is that a fact wouldn t hardly a thought it yes sir it s a bad give away for the old man when he has to travel with a young whale like ted here you re right it is to ted i suppose you re in college now proudly no not till next fall i m just kind of giving the rent the once over now as the conductor went on his way huge watch chain against his blue chest and ted gravely considered they arrived at late at night they lay in the morning rejoicing pretty nice not to have to get up and get down to breakfast they were staying at the modest hotel because business men always stayed at the but they had dinner in the and crystal room of the hotel ordered blue point with a tremendous with a tremendous of french potatoes two pots of coffee apple pie with ice cream for both of them and for ted an extra piece of pie hot stuff some feed young ted admired you stick around with me old man and show you a good time they went to a musical comedy and each other at the matrimonial jokes and the jokes they the arm in arm between acts and in the glee of his first release from the shame which fathers and sons ted chuckled did you ever hear the one about the three and the judge when ted had returned to was lonely as he was trying to make alliance between and certain interests which wanted the race track plot most of his time was taken up in waiting for calls sitting on the edge of his bed holding the asking wearily mr not in yet didn he leave any message for me all right i ll hold the wire staring at a stain on the wall reflecting that it resembled a shoe and being bored by this twentieth discovery that it resembled a shoe lighting a then bound to the with no in reach wondering what to do with this burning menace and anxiously trying to toss it into the at last on the no message eh all right i ll call up again one afternoon he wandered through snow streets of which he had never heard streets of small and houses and cottages it came to him that he had nothing to do that there was nothing he wanted to do he was lonely in the evening when he dined by himself at the hotel he sat in the afterward in a chair with the arms lighting a cigar and looking for some one who would come and play with him and save him from thinking in the chair next to him showing the arms of was a half familiar man n large red faced man with pop eyes and a deficient yellow he seemed kind and insignificant and as lonely as himself he wore a suit and a reluctant orange tie it came to with a crash the melancholy stranger was sir instinctively rose how re you sir member we met in at s s my name � real estate oh how d you do sir shook hands embarrassed standing wondering how he could retreat well i suppose you been having a great trip since we saw you in quite british and and all over the place he said doubtfully looking at how did you find business conditions in british or i suppose maybe you didn t look into em scenery and sport and so on scenery oh capital but business conditions � you know mr they re having almost as much as we are sir was speaking warmly now so business conditions not so good eh no business conditions weren t at all what i d hoped to find them not good eh no not � not really good that s a shame well � i suppose you re waiting for somebody to take you out to some big sir oh no to tell you the truth i was wondering what the deuce i could do this evening don t know a soul in i wonder if you happen to know whether there s a good in this city good why say they re running grand opera right now i guess maybe you d like that eh eh went to the opera once in london garden sort of thing shocking no i was wondering if there was a | 42 |
you all is there one of you that could touch him or come near him on any scent eh not one replied master in a voice rendered by regret not one � then what do you talk of replied the jew angrily what are you for cause it isn t on the is it said into perfect defiance of his venerable mend by the current of his regrets cause it can t come out in the cause nobody will never know half of what he was how will he stand in the p not be there at all oh my eye my eye a blow it is ha ha cried the jew extending his right hand and turning to mr in a fit of which shook him as though he had the see what a pride they take in their profession my dear ain t it mr nodded assent and the jew after contemplating the grief of for some seconds with evident satisfaction stepped up to that young gentleman and patted him on the never mind said soothingly it u come out it u bo sure to come out they u au know what a he was he show it himself and not disgrace twist particular with a view to proceedings to desired the to the names of them two as was on the bench which so the that they laughed aa heartily as master have done if he had heard tho request � silence there cried the what ia thia inquired one of the a pick case your worship has the boy ever been here before he ought to have been a many replied th he has been pretty well everywhere else i know him your worship oh you know me do yon cried the artful making u note of the statement good that s a case � t of character any way here there was another laugh and another cry of now then where are the said the clerk ah that s right added the where ay they i should like to see em this wish was immediately gratified for a stepped forward who had seen the prisoner attempt i pocket of an unknown gentleman in a crowd and indeed u a handkerchief which being a old one deliberately put back again after trying it on his own oi t� for this reason he took the into as soon es he could get near him and the said lid searched had upon hie person a silver with i owner s e engraved upon the lid thia f been on reference to the court guide and then and there present swore that the snuff box w and that he had missed it on the previous day the i he had disengaged himself from the crowd before he had also remarked a young gentleman iu tho thi particularly active in making his way about and that j gentleman was the prisoner before have you anything to ask this witness boy � i wouldn t myself by descending to hold no oi witli him the e you anything to say at all do you hear his worship ask if you ve to � inquired the the silent with twist my dear mad that you d walk into tlie very place where � no no one is enough to lose at a time you don t mean to go yourself i suppose said with a humorous that wouldn t quite fit replied shaking his head th n why don t you send new asked master laying his hand on s arm nobody knows him why if he didn t mind � observed the jew mind interposed what should he have to mind really nothing my dear said turning to mr really nothing i oh i dare say about that yer know observed towards the door and shaking his head with a kind of sober alarm no no � none of that it s not in my department that ain t department has he got inquired master surveying s form with much disgust the cutting away when there s anything wrong and the eating all the when there s everything right is that his branch never mind retorted mr and don t yer take with yer httle boy or yer u find in the wrong shop master laughed so vehemently at this magnificent threat that it was some time before could and represent to that he incurred no possible danger in visiting the police office that inasmuch as no count of the in which he had been engaged nor any description of his person had yet been forwarded to the metropolis it was very probable that he was not even suspected of having resorted to it for shelter and that if he were properly disguised it would be as safe a spot for him to visit as any in london inasmuch as it be of all places the very last to which he could be supposed likely to resort of his own free wiu persuaded in part by these representations but in a much greater degree by his fear of the jew mr at length consented with a very bad grace to the expedition b s directions he immediately for his own a s frock breeches and leather au of which articles the jew had at hand twist os waa in all the of and the girl could not wholly conceal the the knowledge of the step had taken worked her mind she remembered that both the jew and lie brutal had confided t� her lad been hidden from all others in the full confidence that she was and beyond the reach of their suspicion m those schemes were desperate as were their and bitter as her the jew who had led step by deeper and deeper down into an of and misery whence was no escape still there when even towards him she felt some t should bring him within the iron | 8 |
eldest boy from a chair by a very slap offered it to e i a tale mrs and resumed her seat quietly ing her meal her a ruddy good natured hardy bad had the misfortune by some accident in his childhood to lose the use of both his legs which were now folded into the same chair on which he sat he turned to the coachman who having secured his horses had just entered and smiling at his consternation said why friend you look pretty weather to be sure but then we mind it up here then turning to the child next him who in gazing at the strangers had dropped half the food she was conveying to her mouth he said � scatter the so � but last week he continued his address to the coachman there was the most spell of weather i have seen sen the week before last when my wife and i went down into the lower part of to hear s funeral � don t you remember that musical fellow that was there � i don t see says he the use of the minister preaching up so much about hell fire says he it is a very good doctrine says he to preach down on river but says he i should not think it would frighten any body in such a cold place as a bright flash that seemed to fire the heavens succeeded by a tremendous of thunder which made the tremble terrified all the excepting the fearless speaker � a pretty smart flash to be sure but as i was k land tale it is to that storm we had last week � pull that hat oat of the window so the gentleman can see � there sir said he just look at th t big tree that was down if it had come one yard nearer my house it have crushed it to ah this is a nice place as you will find any he continued for he saw mr was listening attentively to him to bring up boys it makes them hardy and spirited to live here with the wind roar ing about and the thunder rattling right over their heads why they don t mind it any more than my woman s spinning wheel which to be makes a dumb noise sometimes our travellers were not a little amused with the humour of this man wh o had a natural that a mi t have envied friend said mr you have a singular about what may be ihe name of that little girl who is playing with my wife s fan yes sir i am a little about that girl sir i call and that lazy little dog that stands by her is and this baby said mr kindly ttie astonished little fellow watch chain to play with this must be or no air no i met with a disappointment about that boy s name � what you may call a slip between the cup and the when be was bom the women asked me what i meant to call hind i told them i did not mean to be in any must know sir the way i get my names a new england tale i buy a book of one of those that are going over the mountain with tin ware and and books and and one notion and another that is i don t buy out and out but we make a they take some of my wooden dishes and let me have the in books for you must know i am a great reader and mean all my children shall have too though it is pretty tough for it well sir as i was saying about this boy i found a name just to hit my fancy for i can pretty generally suit myself the name was but just about that time as the deuce have it my wife s father died and the gin had been a very gin man to us and so to compliment the old gentleman i concluded to him solomon mr smiled and throwing a dollar into the baby s lap said there is something my little fellow to make up for your loss the sight and the gift of a silver dollar produced a considerable sensation among the the children gathered round the baby to examine the splendid favour the mother said the child was not old enough to make its manners to the gentleman but he was as much to him as if he could the father only seemed insensible and contented himself with remarking with his usual happy that he guessed it was easier getting money down country than it was up on the hills very true my friend replied mr and i should like to know how you support your a new d tale family here you do dot appear to have any sir replied the m ti it would puzzle with my legs to take care of a � but then always that as long as a man has his wits be s something to with this a pretty cold soil up here but we make out to raise all our and enough besides to fat a couple of pigs on then sir as you see my woman and i keep a stock of cake and beer and � a nice trade for a cold stomach re is considerable travel on the road and people get considerable dry by the time they get up here and we find it a good business and then i turn wooden and dishes and go out once or twice and there is not an old wife or a young one either for the matter of that but i can them to buy a dish or two i take my pay in provisions or clothing all the cash i get is by the beer and cake and now sir though | 6 |
the situation in a cool sailor like way which showed that while the danger he had an eye for every of escape my lads he said no doubt you think i brought you into this fix if it is a fix and maybe some of you feel bitter against me on account of it but you must remember that for many a season no ship that comes to the country has brought in as much oil money as the old pole star and every one of you has had his share of it you can leave our wives behind you in the captain of the pole star comfort e other poor fellows come back to find their on the parish if you have to thank me for the one you have to thank me for the other and we may call it we ve tried a bold venture before this and succeeded so now that we ve tried one and failed we ve no cause to cry out about it if the worst comes to the worst we can make the land across the ice and lay in a stock of which will keep us alive until the spring it won t come to that though for you ll see the scotch coast again before three weeks are out at present every man must go on half share and share alike and no favour to any keep up your hearts and you ll pull through this as you ve pulled through many a danger before these few simple words of his had a wonderful effect upon the crew his former was forgotten and the old whom i have already mentioned for his superstition led off three cheers which were heartily joined in by all hands september i th � the wind has round to the north during the night and the ice shows some symptoms of opening out the men are in a good in spite of the short allowance upon which they have been placed steam is kept up in the engine room that there may be no delay should an opportunity for escape present itself the captain is in spirits though he still that wild expression which i have already remarked upon this burst of cheerfulness me more than his former gloom i cannot understand it i think i mentioned in an the captain of the pole star early part of this journal that one of his is that he never any person to enter his cabin but upon making his own bed such as it is and performing every other for himself to my surprise he handed me the key to day and requested me to go down there and take the time by his while he measured the of the sun at noon it is a bare little room containing a and a few books but little else in the way of luxury except some pictures upon the walls the majority of these are small cheap but there was one water colour sketch of the head of a young lady which arrested my attention it was evidently a portrait and not one of those fancy types of female beauty which sailors particularly affect no artist could have from his own mind such a curious mixture of character and weakness the languid dreamy eyes with their drooping lashes and the broad low brow by thought or care were in strong contrast with the clean cut prominent jaw and the resolute set of the lower lip underneath it in one of the corners was written m b set that any one in the short space of nineteen years of existence could develop such strength of will as was stamped upon her face seemed to me at the time to be incredible she must have been an extraordinary woman her features have thrown such a over me that though i had but a fleeting glance at them i could were i a them line for line upon this page of the journal i wonder i the captain of the pole star what part she has played in our captain s life he has hung her picture at the end of his berth so that his eyes continually rest upon it were he a less reserved man i should make some remark upon the subject of the other things in his cabin there was nothing worthy of mention � uniform coats a small looking glass tobacco box and numerous pipes including an oriental � which by the � bye gives some colour to mr s story about his in the war though the connection may seem rather a distant one p m � captain just gone to bed after a long and interesting conversation on general topics when he chooses he can be a most fascinating companion being remarkably well read and having the power of expressing his opinion forcibly without appearing to be i hate to have my intellectual toes trod upon he spoke about the nature of the soul and out the views of and upon the in a manner he seems to have a leaning for and the doctrines of in discussing them we touched upon modern and i made some joking allusion to the of upon which to my surprise he warned me most against the innocent with the guilty and argued that it would be as logical to brand christianity as an error because who professed that religion was a villain he shortly afterwards bade me good night and retired to his room the captain of the pole star the wind is up and blows steadily from the north the nights are as dark now as they are in england i hope to morrow may set us free from our frozen september � the again thank heaven that i have strong nerves i the superstition of these poor fellows and the accounts which they give with the utmost earnestness and self conviction would any man | 4 |
and at a letter signed with s name to his niece at announcing his intention to leave that day for and that he send his steward to accompany her to egypt by the way of the steward would be accompanied by his wife and would take her luggage to her the letter also informed her that was no longer her guardian for the writer had been appointed in his place was to return to when arrived at he waited till he was sure tliat had received this letter before he presented himself to her then he delivered his letters from and and produced her the innocent girl had not the remotest suspicion of any treachery nor had the landlord and his wife were very agreeable and treated the fair with the most profound respect and deference she was ready to depart at once and tlie agent of hurried her away before any letters could come from to bring confusion to his plans on the plea of being in season for the steamer he induced her to leave with him in the very next train going by rome and the party reached on the day before the departure of the steamer for thus far had no reason to suspect that anything was wrong and his wife treated her with the utmost consideration and deference as soon as the italian steamer in which passage had been sunny shores ok engaged arrived from the party went on board the weather was cold and damp and a dense fog the harbor went to her cabin and prepared her things for the voyage as did in the adjoining room her husband satisfied that he had now practically accomplished his mission was smoking his cigar on deck it was nearly noon the time appointed for the sailing of the steamer when the maiden had finished her preparations a knock induced her to open the door of the cabin and she found one of the of the hotel the passage way he bowed and smiled as he recognized her is this s cabin asked the man holding np a letter no his is next to this replied glancing at the letter in the waiter s hand he told me if any letters came to bring them off to him and this one came in the mail brought by this steamer i will give it to him he comes down for he is on deck now the steamer is about to leave and i have not time to find him added handing her the letter a gave him a couple of for his trouble and he departed as well satisfied as though he had seen himself the looked at the address on the letter it was in the handwriting of the was so cramped and peculiar that she could not possibly mistake it why should her guardian who had been removed from his office according to the information she had received young america in italy and write a letter to what business could tliey have with other how it be possible that they were even acquainted though he was an italian had resided for many years in as the steward of her uncle she had talked with him about and he declared that he had never even seen him he had staid in with his wife and had not been to the poor girl was agitated with the most painful doubts could it be possible that this steward was an agent of her guardian they were going to egypt � just where had attempted to convey her before she had almost fainted when she began to realize her situation but she recovered her self possession in a few she glanced at the envelope of the letter and then with a desperate impulse without considering her responsibility for such an act she tore it open she read the letter to the end where was placed the well known signature of her guardian though the language was rather guarded it fully confirmed her worst suspicions and his wife were certainly the agents of the steamer was not yet in motion and she hastily gathered together a few necessary articles of clothing determined to make her escape from the vessel before it was too late unfortunately as it seemed to her then it was already too late for before she could leave her cabin the steamer started she was almost in despair but she was full of gi eat resolutions she carefully secured the letter upon person and felt fully justified in opening it by the revelations it contained she heard the continual whistle of the steamer shores or as she made her way through the fog and rolling in the heavy sea which the bad weather had stirred up came to her door but she pleaded illness and begged to be left to herself for three hours the steamer continued on her coarse and then her wheels suddenly stopped heard violent shouting on the deck above and a rapid tramp of feet on the which were immediately followed by a crash which the vessel so that she was nearly thrown from the stool on which she was sitting the shouts and on deck increased and she was confident that some disaster had occurred grasping the bundle she had made up she hastened upon deck where she found some of the sailors lowering the boats and the passengers rushing wildly to and in the panic of fear ahead of the steamer she saw the tall and the white sails of a ship in the fog hut she was unable to comprehend the situation the academy which left four days before the event just described had delightful weather and a fair but light wind till the vessels were ofl cape � the southern point of the toe of the boot not more than fifty miles from which was the next port at which they were to anchor the journals of the students | 36 |
what then must have been its effect upon the great who was not only a a governor and a wooden legged soldier to boot but withal a man of the most and disposition he burst forth into a blaze of noble indignation � swore not a mother s son of them should see a syllable of it � that they deserved every one of them to be hanged and for daring to question the of government � that as to their advice or he did not care a of tobacco for either � that he had long been harassed and by their cowardly counsels but that they might go home and go to bed like old women for he was determined to defend the colony himself without the assistance of them or their so saying he tucked his sword under his arm cocked his hat upon his head and up his indignantly out of the council chamber � every body making room for him as he passed no sooner had he gone than the busy called a meeting in front of the house where they appointed as one a mighty baker in the land and formerly of the t v the baker s speech william the he was looked up to with great reverence by the who considered him a man of dark knowledge seeing he was the first that new cakes with the mysterious of the cock and breeches and such like devices this great who still the � ud of ill will against the in consequence of having been kicked out of his cabinet at the time of his taking the reins of government � addressed the greasy multitude in what is called a patriotic speech in which he informed them of the courteous summons to surrender � of the governor s refusal to of his denying the public a sight of the summons which he had no doubt contained conditions highly to the honour and advantage of the province he then proceeded to speak of his in high sounding terms suitable to the dignity and grandeur of his station comparing him to and those other great men of who are generally quoted by popular on occasions assuring the people that the history of the world did not contain a outrage to equal the present for cruelty tyranny and blood that it would be recorded in letters of fire on the b ood s i q that a how peter treated the memorial would roll back with sudden horror when they came to view it that the of time � by the way your and writers take strange liberties with the of time though some would fain have us believe that time is an old gentleman � that the of time as it was with horrors would never produce a parallel � with a variety of other heart soul stirring and figures which i cannot � neither indeed need i for they were exactly the same that are used in all popular and patriotic at the present day and may be in under the general title of the speech of this inspired being finished the meeting fell into a kind of popular which produced not only a string of right wise resolutions but likewise a most resolute memorial addressed to the governor at his conduct � which was no sooner handed to him than he handed it the fire and thus deprived posterity of an invaluable document that might have served as a precedent to the enlightened and of the present day in their sage with politics peter s and resolution chapter vii containing a disaster of tht � and how peter a second suddenly dissolved a parliament now did the high minded do shower down a load of upon his for a set of self willed obstinate who would neither be convinced nor persuaded and determined to have nothing more to do with them but to consult merely the opinion of his which he knew from experience to be the best in the world � inasmuch as it never differed from his own nor did he omit now that his hand was in to bestow some thousand left handed compliments upon the sovereign people whom he at for a herd of who had no relish for the glorious hardships and illustrious of battle � but would rather stay at home and eat and sleep in ease than gain immortality and a broken head by fighting in a ditch y e n defending his of van beloved city in despite even of itself he called unto him his van who was his right hand man in all times of him did he to take his war trumpet and mounting his horse to beat up the country night and day � sounding the alarm along pastoral borders of the � startling the wild of � the rugged of and � the mighty men of battle of bay � and the brave boys of town and sleepy hollow � together with all the other warriors of the country round about charging them one and all to their powder horns shoulder their pieces and march merrily down to the now there was nothing in all the world the divine sex that van loved better than errands of this kind so just stopping to take a dinner and to his side his bottle charged with he issued from the city gate that looked out upon what is at present called sounding as usual a farewell strain that rung in echoes through the winding streets of new a corruption of top so called from a tribe of in which boasted fighting as � his fate � alas never more were they to be by the melody of their favourite it was a dark and stormy night when the good arrived at the 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the country to play their parts tolerably he to have every year a queen of the may but as to robin hood the the horse and all the other crew that used to the day with their he has not ventured to introduce them still i look forward with some interest ta the promised shadow of old may day though it be but a shadow and i feel more and more pleased with the yet harm less of my host which is surrounding him with agreeable associations and making may day customs a little world of poetry about him brought up as i have been in a new country i may appreciate too highly the faint of ancient customs which i now and then meet with and the interest i express in them may provoke a smile from those who are suffering them to pass away but with whatever indifference they may be regarded by those to the manner born yet in my mind the lingering of them a charm to rustic life which nothing else could readily supply i shall never forget the delight i felt on first seeing a may pole it was on the banks of the close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint little city of i had already been carried back into former days by the of that venerable place the examination of which is equal to turning over the pages of a black letter volume or gazing on the pictures in the may pole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion my fancy adorned it with wreaths vol ii e may day customs of flowers and peopled the green bank with all the dancing of may day the mere sight of this may pole gave a glow to my feelings and spread a charm over the country for the rest of the day and as i traversed a part of the fair plain of and the beautiful borders of wales and looked from among swelling hills down a long green valley through which the wound its stream my imagination turned all into a perfect whether it be owing to such poetical associations early into my mind or whether there is as it were a sympathetic revival and forth of the feelings at this season certain it is that i always experience wherever i may be placed a delightful of the heart at the return of may it is said that birds about this time become restless in their as if instinct with the season conscious of the that is going on in the groves and impatient to break from their bondage and join in the of the year in like manner i have felt myself excited even may day customs in the midst of the metropolis when the win which had been closed all winter were again thrown open to receive the breath of may when the sweets of the country were breathed into the town and flowers were cried about the streets i have considered the treasures of flowers thus poured in as so many from nature inviting us forth to enjoy the virgin beauty of the year before its freshness is by the of sunny summer one can readily imagine what a gay scene it must have been in jolly old london when the doors were decorated with branches when every hat was with and robin hood maid the dancers and all the other fantastic and were performing their about the may pole in every part of the city i am not a admirer of old times and old customs merely because of their antiquity but while i rejoice in the decline of many of e s may day customs the rude and coarse amusements of former days i cannot but regret that this innocent and fanciful festival has fallen into it seemed appropriate to this and pastoral country and calculated to light up the too gravity of the nation i value every custom that to poetical feeling into the common people and to and soften the of rustic manners without destroying their simplicity indeed it is to the decline of this happy simplicity that the decline of this custom may be traced and the rural dance on the green and the homely may day have gradually disappeared in proportion as the have become expensive and artificial in their pleasures and too knowing for simple enjoyment some attempts the squire me have been made of late years by men of both taste and learning to rally back the popular feeling to these standards of primitive simplicity but the time has gone by the feeling has become mat customs by habits of gain and traffic the country the manners and amusements of the town and little is heard of may day at present except from the of authors who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city for o for o the is forgot village nay i tell you i am so well beloved in our town that not the worst dog in the street will hurt my little finger of as the neighbouring village is one of those out of the way but little places where a small matter makes a great stir it is not to be supposed that the approach of a festival like that of may day can be regarded with indifference especially since it is made a matter of such moment by the great folks at the hall master who is the faithful of the worthy squire and with his humour in every thing is frequent just now in his visits to the village to give directions for the impending and as i have taken the liberty occasionally of accompanying him i have been enabled to get some village insight into the characters and internal politics of this very sagacious little community master is in fact the caesar of the village it is true the | 48 |
hand and thinking the sooner it was brought forward and discussed the better i sat very silent during the of a formal offer of marriage from this man who seemed very much disposed to doubt his senses when it was followed up by an answer as formal and decided from me why what can have changed you he exclaimed when i persisted in my refusal i am sure you must have understood my meaning when you rode about with me in the lanes down yonder i understood that you were kind enough to lend me a horse oh yes i will always be kind to you miss finding it not do to speak of kindness and to be thus reminded of my past folly while the music sir charles had just been singing lay open before me i repeated my words with an emphasis so strongly marked wiu impatience and contempt that my admirer los his temper and with it the little propriety of conduct which alone had rendered him tolerable i see what you are at said he with the most insulting sir charles has a pretty income to be sure but what is that to people who live as he does i ll tell you what miss you ll not soon meet with another man to lay an estate like mine before you all in a ring fence with plenty of game for your dainty appetite but you ll the day yet when you see another mrs which you shall before you ve made sure of sir charles and so a ring he walked ofi closing the door him with a thundering sound that brought the startled and from the servants hall the scene being now completely over i felt really glad that it had been no worse conscious as i was that the of my late behaviour deserved if possible a punishment more severe nor could i behold from my window mrs and her brother trotting out of town in high with the butcher s boy and of a very little way behind while neither of their heads were turned to give a parting nod feeling that i had richly to lose my place in their regard it is almost impossible to lose the love we once possessed without a melancholy sense that something has been taken away from us although it might not while it lasted be of any real mrs was a warm the pains of pleasing hearted well meaning creature and had loved me better perhaps than many whose i had been more to obtain she was now in all probability struck off from my list of friends offended perhaps wounded she must think me ungrateful and i had the misery of reflecting that she might think so with perfect truth every loss we experience makes us pause and examine what is left and i turned upon my own heart to see what stores i had yet to draw upon for satisfaction under present circumstances i had indeed no wish to call mrs back but this simple so to others plunged me into a train of gloomy reflections against the sadness of which i was with any kind of i had now been living a long time amongst those who thought religion an unnecessary burden to take up so long as life could be made pleasant without it and as i made it my business to fall in with the sentiments of those around me i was but too ready to treat religion with as little regard as they did the inevitable consequence was that my mind was more empty than ever of any kind of consolation that i was less prepared for the rough accidents of life and worst of all that i was rapidly receding from that heavenly goal to which the only hope that never fails us is directed the circumstance which had cost me the loss of an old friend was never alluded to by lady or sir charles so much does politeness wear the character of real kindness but mrs was in her ridicule and quoted poor mrs on every possible occasion wondering than the day where i could have gathered up such people while i could call to mind without much difficulty the time when such people were not entirely excluded from her own sphere of existence to my new friends i felt unspeakable gratitude for their forbearance and had it not been for the fascination of their society i should have wisely my present abode where it was in vain to flatter myself that i was wished for by the lady of the house i was besides in considerable difficulty about where to go next and the fact of seeing no shelter fur our heads in any other place has a great tendency to reconcile our remaining where we are impossible as it was on first entering the house of mr to that the master of it or rather he who should have been the master could ever be an object of interest i found during a very short stay that pity has the power to the character and invest even the person with attractions that were never dreamed of before this spell was put in force long and intimately as i had been acquainted with the world and low as i had bent myself beneath its influence i had not acquired all its bad habits most certainly not that of on the fallen my delight was often to take part with the weak whether the strife in which they were engaged was right or wrong and in this spirit i never failed to throw in a word on behalf of the helpless husband when i thought him in danger of being borne down by his wife s authority i believe the little gentleman had never experienced so much consideration before and his unbounded was expressed by and b� and which were carefully watched and by one | 41 |
of witness from herself the first was his walking with her apart from the others ir � where they had been walking si and he had taken pains as she w from the rest to himself and at first he had talked to b n the lime walk at le before came ed to draw h in a more particular way than he had ever done before � in a very particular way indeed could not recall it without a blush he seemed to be almost asking her whether her affections were engaged but as soon as she miss appeared to join them he changed the subject and began talking about farming the second was his having sat talking with her nearly half an hour before came back from her visit the very last morning of his being at r though when he first came in he had said that he could not stay five minutes � and his having told her during their conversation that though he must go to london it was very much against hb that he left home at all which was much more as felt than he had acknowledged to her the superior degree of confidence towards which this one article marked gave her severe pain on the subject of the first of the two circumstances she did after a little reflection venture the following question � might he not � is not it possible that when as you thought into the state of your affections he might be alluding to mr martin � he might have mr martin s interest in view but rejected the suspicion with spirit mr martin no indeed � there was not a hint of mr martin i hope i know better now than to care for mr martin or to be suspected of it when had closed her evidence she appealed to her dear miss to say whether she had not good ground for hope i never should have presumed to think of it at first said she but for you you told me to observe him carefully and let his behaviour be the rule of and so i have but now i seem to feel that i may deserve him and that if he does choose me it will not be any thing so very wonderful the bitter feelings occasioned by this speech the many bitter feelings made the utmost exertion necessary oa s side to enable her to say in reply � as � i will only venture lo declare is the last man in the world who would give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does seemed ready to worship her friend for a sentence so satisfactory and was only saved from and fondness which at that moment would have been dreadful penance by the sound of her father s footsteps he was coming through the hall was too much agitated to encounter him she could not compose mr would be she had better go � with most ready encouragement from her friend therefore she passed off through another door � and the moment she was gone this was the spontaneous burst of feelings o that had never seen her the rest of the day the following night were hardly enough for her thoughts she was bewildered amidst the confusion of all that had rushed on her within the last few j hours every moment had brought a fresh surprise and i every surprise must be matter of humiliation to her how i to understand it how to understand the she i had been thus on herself and living under � the i the blindness of her � still she walked about she tried her own room she tried the � in every place every she perceived that she had acted most weakly that she had been imposed on by others in a most degree that she had been imposing on herself in a degree yet more tha l she was wretched and should probably find this day but the beginning of wretchedness � to understand thoroughly understand her own heart was the first endeavour to that point went every leisure moment which her father s claims allowed and every moment of absence of mind how long had mr been so dear to her as every feeling declared him now to be when had his influence such influence begun when had he to that in her frank had once for a short period occupied � she looked back she compared the two � compared them as they had always stood in her estimation from the time of the becoming known lo her � and as they must at any time have been compared by her had it � oh had it by any blessed felicity occurred to her to the comparison she saw that there never had been a time when she did not consider mr as infinitely the superior or when his regard for her had not been infinitely the most dear she saw that in persuading in in acting to the contrary she had been entirely under a delusion totally ignorant of her own heart and in short that she had never really cared for frank this was the conclusion of the first series of reflection this was the knowledge of on the first question of which she reached and without being long in reaching it she was most sorrowfully indignant ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed lo her affection for mr every other part of her mind was disgusting with vanity had she believed herself in the secret of every body s feelings with proposed to arrange every body s destiny she was proved to have been universally mistaken and she had not quite done nothing � for she had done mischief 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her he had known margaret ever george washington s la t she was a bit of a baby and had often carried her in his arms when she was a little girl and even after she grew up to be right big he had thought frequently of late that he would be willing to die if he might but take her in his arms it was therefore with no little that he observed what he considered his friend s growing fancy for her by the time had taken a few in the garden and a horseback ride or two with her was satisfied that he was in love with her and before a week was out he was consumed with jealousy margaret was not the girl to indulge in on account of her lover s if had had a finger ache or had a drop of sorrow but fallen in his cup her eyes would have softened and her face would have shown how fully she felt with him but this � this was different to his heart was a part of the business of her young it was a healthy process from which would come greater devotion and more loyal constancy then it was so delightful to make one whom she liked as she did look so miserable perhaps some time she would reward him � after a long while though thus poor george washington s last spent many a wretched hour cursing his fate and cursing pick he thought he would create a diversion by paying desperate attention to margaret s guest but it resolved itself on the first opportunity into his opening his heart and confiding all his woes to her in doing this he fell into the greatest contradiction declaring one moment that no one suspected that he was in love with margaret and the next that she had every reason to know he adored her as he had been in love with her all her life it was one afternoon in the drawing room rose with much assured him that no woman could have but one reason to know it inquired what it was rising and walking up to him she said in a mysterious whisper � tell her after that he had been telling her for years into a declaration of helpless perplexity how can i tell her more than i have been telling her all along he groaned rose said she would show him she seated herself on the sofa spread out her dress and placed him behind her now do as i tell you � no not so � � o � washington s last now lean over � put your arm � no it is not necessary to touch me as with prompt apprehension fell into the scheme and declared that he was all right in a and that it was only in the real drama he failed now say i love you said it they were in this attitude when the door opened suddenly and margaret stood facing them her large eyes opened wider than ever she backed out and shut the door sprang up his face very red lawyers know that the actions of a man on being charged with a crime are by no means evidence of his guilt � but it is hard to satisfy of this fact if the were composed of women perhaps it would be impossible the demonstration of a man s arm around a girl s waist is difficult to explain on more than one after this margaret treated with a which came near destroying the friendship of a lifetime and became so desperate that inside of a week he had had his first quarrel with who had begun to pay very devoted attention to margaret and as that young man was in no mood to wash s la lay on a bruised wound mischief might have been done had not the major arrived on the scene just as the quarrel came to a heat it was in the hall one morning there had been a quarrel had demanded satisfaction had just promised to afford him this peculiar happiness and they were both glaring at each other when the major sailed in at the door ruddy and smiling and laying his hat on the table and his riding whip it declared that before he would stand such a gloomy atmosphere a that created by a man s looks when there was so much sunshine lying around to be in he would agree to be in his own fat why i had expected at least two affairs before this he said as he pulled off his gloves and i ll be hanged if i shan t have to court somebody myself to save the honor of the family with dignity informed him that an affair was then and intimated that they were both interested when the major declared that he would advise the young lady to both and accept a and a wiser man they announced george washington s last that it was a more serious affair than he had in mind and let fall a hint of what had occurred the major for a moment looked gravely from one to the other and suggested mutual explanations and but when both young men insisted that they were quite determined and proposed to have a meeting at once he changed he walked over to the window and looked out for a moment then turned and suddenly offered to represent both parties that such a proceeding was outside of the code this the major gravely admitted but declared that the affair even to this point appeared not to have been conducted in entire with that system of rules and urged that as mr was a stranger and as it was desirable to have the affair conducted with as much secrecy and as possible it might be well for them to meet as soon as 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far from improving his appearance i heard that he went to a s in london on the monday morning and had a tooth out i hope it was a double one the doctor gave out that he was not quite well and remained alone for a considerable part of every day during the remainder of the visit and her father had been gone a week before we resumed our usual work on the day preceding its the doctor gave me with his om n hands a folded note not sealed it was addressed to myself and laid an on me in a few affectionate words never to refer to the subject of that evening i had confided it to my aunt but to no one else it was not a subject i could discuss with and certainly had not the least suspicion of what had passed neither i felt convinced had mrs strong then several weeks elapsed before i saw the least change in her it came on slowly like a cloud when there is no wind at first she seemed to wonder at the gentle compassion with which the doctor spoke to her and at his wish that she should have her mother with her to relieve the dull monotony of her life often when we were at work and she was sitting by i would see her pausing and looking at him with that memorable face afterwards i sometimes observed her rise with her eyes full of tears and go out of the room gradually an unhappy shadow fell upon her beauty and deepened every day mrs was a regular of the cottage then but she talked and talked and saw nothing as this change stole on once like sunshine in the doctor s house the doctor became older in appearance and more grave but the sweetness of his temper the placid kindness of his manner and his benevolent solicitude for her if they were capable of any increase were increased i saw him once early on the morning of her birthday when she came to sit in the window while we were at work which she had always done but now began to do with a timid and uncertain that i thought very touching take her forehead between his hands kiss it and go hurriedly away too much moved to remain i saw her stand where he had left her like a statue and then bend down her head and clasp her hands and weep i cannot say how sorrowfully sometimes after that i fancied that she tried to speak even to me in intervals when we were left alone but she never uttered word the doctor always had some new project for her in amusement of david away from home with her mother and mrs who was very fond of amusements and very easily dissatisfied with anything else entered into them with great good will and was loud in her but in a unhappy way only went whither she was led and seemed to have no care for anything i did not know what to think neither did my aunt who must have walked at various times a hundred miles in her uncertainty what was strangest of all was that the only real relief which seemed to make its way into the secret region of this domestic made its way there in the person of mr dick what his thoughts were on the subject or what his observation was i am as unable to explain as i dare say he would have been to assist me in the task but as i have recorded in the narrative of my school days his veneration for the doctor was unbounded and there is a of perception in real attachment even when it is borne towards man by one of the lower animals which leaves the highest intellect behind to this mind of the heart if i may call it so in mr dick some bright ray of the truth shot straight he had proudly resumed his privilege in many of his spare hours of walking up and down the garden with the doctor as he had been accustomed to pace up and down the doctor s walk at but matters were no sooner in this state than he devoted all his spare time and got up earlier to make it more to these if he had never been so happy as when the doctor read that performance the dictionary to him he was now quite miserable unless the doctor pulled it out of his pocket and began when the doctor and i were engaged he now fell into the custom of walking up and down with mrs strong and helping her to trim her favorite flowers or weed the beds i dare say he rarely spoke a dozen words in an hour but his quiet interest and his wistful face found immediate response in both their breasts each knew that the other liked him and that he loved both and he became what no one else could be � a link between them when i think of him with his wise face walking up and down with the doctor delighted to be battered by the hard words in the dictionary when i think of him carrying huge watering pots after kneeling down in very of gloves at patient work among the little leaves expressing as no philosopher could have expressed in every thing he did a delicate desire to be her friend sympathy and affection out of every hole in the watering pot when i think of him never wandering in that better mind of his to which addressed itself never bringing the unfortunate king charles into the garden never wavering in his grateful service never diverted from his knowledge that there was something wrong or from his wish to set it right � i really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in | 8 |
go and see my father immediately i know he would be hurt by my failing in such a mark of respect to him on the present occasion i shall therefore set off to morrow if he would say so to her at once in the tone of decision becoming a man there would be no opposition made to his going no said laughing but perhaps there might be some made to his coming back again such language for a young man entirely dependent to use i nobody but you mr would imagine it possible but you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own mr frank to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt who have brought him up and are to provide for him � standing up in the middle of the room i suppose and speaking as loud as he could how can you imagine such conduct practicable depend upon it a sensible man would find no difficulty in it he would feel himself in the right and the declaration � made of course as a man of sense would make it in a proper manner � would do him more good raise him higher fix his interest stronger with the people he depended on than all that a line of and can ever do respect would be added to affection they would feel that they could trust him that the nephew who had done rightly by his father would do rightly by them for they know as well as he does � as well as all the world must know � that he ought to pay this visit to his father and while their power to delay it are in their hearts not thinking the better of him for to their respect for right conduct is felt by every body if he would act in this sort of manner on principle regularly their little minds would bend to his i rather doubt that you are very fond of bending little minds but where little minds belong to rich people in authority i think they have a of swelling out till they are quite as as great ones i can imagine that if you as you are mr were to be transported and placed all at once in mr frank s situation you would be able to say and do just what you have been for him and it might have a very good effect the might not have a word to say in return but then you would have no habits of early obedience and long to break through to him who has it might not be so easy to burst forth at once into perfect independence and set all their claims on his gratitude and regard at he may have as strong a sense of what would be right as you can have without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it then it would not be so strong a sense if it failed to produce equal exertion it could not be an equal conviction oh the difference of situation and habit i wish you would try to understand what an amiable young man may be likely to feel in directly opposing those whom as child and boy he has been looking up to all his life your amiable young man is a very weak young man if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolution to do right against the will of others it ought to have been a habit with him by this time of following his duty instead of consulting i can allow for the fears of the child but not of the man as he became rational he ought i x to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority he ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father had he begun as he ought there would have been no difficulty now we shall never agree about him cried but that is nothing extraordinary i have not the least idea of his being a weak young man i feel sure that he is not mr would not be blind to folly though in his own son but he is very likely to have a more yielding mild disposition than would suit your notions of man s perfection i dare say he has and though it may cut him off from some advantages it will secure him many others yes all the advantages of sitting still when he ought to move and of leading a life of mere idle pleasure and himself extremely expert in finding excuses for it he can sit down and write a fine flourishing letter full of professions and and persuade himself that he has hit upon the very best method in the world of preserving peace at home and preventing his father s having any right to complain his letters disgust me your feelings are singular they seem to satisfy every body else i suspect they do not satisfy mrs they hardly can satisfy a woman of her good sense and quick feelings standing in a mother s place but without a mother s affection to blind her it is on her account that attention tb is doubly due and she must doubly feel the had she been a person of consequence herself he would have come i dare say and it would not have signified whether he did or no can you think your friend behind hand in these sort of considerations do you suppose she does not often say all this to herself no your amiable young man can be amiable only in french not in english he may be very f amiable have very good manners and be very agreeable but he can have no english delicacy to � b the of other people | 26 |
time than it takes to tell was swinging in a fifty feet above ground though he had no positive objection to strong daylight followed the custom of his friends and used it as the king s i i little as he could when he among the very loud that live in the trees it was twilight once more and he had been dreaming of the beautiful pebbles he had thrown away at least i will look at the thing again he said and slid down a to the earth but was before him could hear him in the half light where is the thorn pointed thing cried a man has taken it here is the trail now we shall see whether the spoke truth if the pointed thing is death that man will die let us follow kill first said an empty stomach makes a careless eye men go very slowly and the is wet enough to hold the mark they killed as soon as they could but it was nearly three hours before they finished their meat and drink and down to the trail the people know that nothing makes up for being hurried over your meals think you the pointed thing will turn in the man s hand and kill him asked the said it was death the second book we shall see when we find said trotting with his head low it is single foot he meant that there was only one man and the weight of the thing has pressed his heel far into the ground hai this is as clear as summer lightning answered and they fell into the quick trail trot in and out through the of the moonlight following the marks of those two bare feet now he runs swiftly said the toes are spread apart they went on over some wet ground now why does he turn aside here wait said and flung himself forward with one superb bound as far as ever he could the first thing to do when a trail ceases to explain itself is to cast forward without leaving your own foot marks on the ground turned as he landed and faced crying here comes another trail to meet him it is a smaller foot this second trail and the toes turn inward then ran up and looked it is the foot of a hunter he said look here he dragged his bow on the grass that is why the first trail turned aside so quickly big foot hid from little foot the king s that is true said now lest by crossing each other s tracks we foul the signs let each take one trail i am big foot little brother and thou art little foot the leaped back to the original trail leaving stooping above the curious narrow track of the wild little man of the woods now said moving step by step along the chain of i big foot turn aside here now i hide me behind a rock and stand still not daring to shift my feet cry thy trail little brother now i little foot come to the rock said running up his trail now i sit down under the rock leaning upon my right hand and resting my bow between my toes i wait long for the mark of my feet is deep here i also said hidden behind the rock i wait resting the end of the thing upon a stone it slips for here is a scratch upon the stone cry thy trail little brother one two twigs and a big branch are broken here said in an now how shall i cry that ah it is plain now i little foot go away making noises and so that big foot may hear me he moved away i the second book from the rock pace by pace among the trees his voice rising in the distance as he approached a little i � go � far � away � to � where � the � noise � of � falling � water � covers � my � noise and � here � i � wait cry thy trail big foot the had been casting in every direction to see how big foot s trail led away from behind the rock then he gave tongue i come from behind the rock upon my knees dragging the thorn pointed thing seeing no one i run i big foot run swiftly the trail is clear let each follow his own i run swept on along the clearly marked trail and followed the steps of the for some time there was silence in the where art thou little foot cried s voice answered him not fifty yards to the right um said the with a deep cough the two run side by side drawing nearer they on another half mile always keeping about the same distance till whose head was not so close to the ground as s cried they have met good hunting � look here stood little foot with his knee on a rock � and yonder is big foot indeed the king s not ten yards in front of them stretched across a pile of broken rocks lay the body of a of the district a long small arrow through his back and breast was the so old and so mad little brother said gently here is one death at least follow on but where is the of elephant s blood � the red eyed thorn little foot has it � perhaps it is again now the single trail of a light man who had been running quickly and bearing a burden on his left shoulder held on round a long low spur of dried grass where each seemed to the sharp eyes of the marked in hot iron neither spoke till the trail ran up to the ashes of a camp fire hidden in a again said checking as though | 39 |
san up its wild to its farthest fountains it was the season of indian summer the sun beamed lovingly the were in the pine trees hovered about the last of the the willow and were yellow the meadows brown and the whole sunny mellow landscape glowed like a countenance in the deepest and sweetest repose on my way over the polished rocks along the river i came to an expanded portion of the about two miles long and half a mile wide which formed a level park with picturesque granite walls like those of valley down through the middle of it the wild sheep poured the beautiful river shining and in the golden light yellow gi on its banks and of brown meadow while the whole park was witli wild life some of which even the head of thk and least observing of must have seen had they been with me deer with their bounded from thicket to thicket as i advanced kept rising from the brown grass with a great of wings and on the mountains of the lower branches of the pines and allowed a near approach as if curious to see me farther on a broad shouldered showed himself coming out of a grove and crossing the river on a flood of logs halting for a moment to look back the bird like about my feet everywhere among the pine needles and grass the of the river the rattled from perch to perch and the blessed sang amid the spray of every where may lonely wanderer find a more interesting family of earth bom companions and fellow mortals t it was afternoon when i joined them and the glorious landscape began to fade in the before i awoke from their enchantment then i sought a camp ground on the river bank made a of tea and lay down to sleep on a smooth place among the yellow leaves of an grove next day i discovered yet and life following the river over huge swelling rock through a majestic and past innumerable the scenery in general became gradually and more the sugar pine and silver gave place to the and the walls became more rugged and bare and and became more abundant in the gardens and of meadow along the streams toward the middle of the afternoon i came to another valley strikingly wild and original in all its features and perhaps never before touched by human foot as regards area of level bottom land it is one of the wild sheep the very smallest of the type but its walls are sublime to a height of from to feet above the river at the head of the valley the main forks as is found to be the case id all the of this one is due chiefly to the action of two great whose fountains lay to the eastward on the of and and a cluster of nameless peaks farther south the mountains of the gray river was singing loudly through the valley but above its roar i heard the of a which drew me eagerly on and just as i emerged from the tangled groves and at the head of the valley the main fork of the river came in sight falling fresh from its fountains in a snowy between granite walls feet high the steep incline down which the glad waters thundered seemed to bar all farther progress it was not long however before i discovered a crooked in the rock by which i was enabled to climb to the edge of a terrace that crosses the and the nearly in the middle here i sat down to take breath and make some in my note book taking advantage at the same time of my elevated position above the trees to gaze back over the valley into the heart of the noble landscape little knowing the while what neighbors were near after spending a few minutes in this way i chanced to look across the fall and there stood three sheep quietly observing me never did the sudden appearance of a mountain or fall or human friend more forcibly seize and my attention anxiety to observe accurately held me perfectly still eagerly i marked the flowing of their muscles their strong legs ears eyes heads their graceful rounded necks the color of their hair and the bold curves of their noble horns when they moved i watched every gesture while they in no wise disconcerted either by my attention or by the the wild sheep tumultuous roar of the water advanced deliberately alongside the between the two divisions of the turning now and then to look at me presently they came to a steep ice which they ascended by a succession of quick short stiff legged leaps reaching the top without a struggle this was the most startling feat of i had ever witnessed and considering only the of the thing my astonishment could hardly have been greater had they displayed wings and taken to flight on such gi would have fallen and rolled like loosened many a time where the slopes are far lower i have been compelled to take off my shoes and stockings tie them to my belt and creep with the utmost caution no wonder then that i watched the ess of these animal with keen sympathy and in the boundless of wild nature displayed in their invention construction and keeping a few minutes later i caught sight of a dozen more in one band near the foot of the upper fall they were standing on the same side of the river with me only twenty five or thirty yards away looking as and perfect as if created on the spot it appeared by their tracks which i had seen in the little and by their present position that when i came up the they were all feeding together down in the valley and in their haste to reach high gi | 28 |
i for it i for ve turn a great deal for doing with what would have done myself was in the glow of her double knock wm heard at the door a very odd knock low u avoid making a noise and attention i ng as if tbe knocking were pre in mind forgot to leave off said mr who s thia and edward without notice and without � said mrs lock out the room n as but the street waa lighter of ill ll k mr s head over tho balcony looked ao very and that it on point of � � the unknown it s one fellow said mr t on this second thought he went out into the balcony another look ho back as the door waa opened tliat he believed he had identified his s mistaken for his governor with his tile ia his hand immediately al candles mrs with a word of for darkness it s light enough for me said mr when the candles were brought in mr standing behind the door picking liis i i d ii call he said i am rather particularly now m aa i happened to be out for a stroll i thought i d you � a he wa in asked him he had ban i well mr i haven t been dining anywhere of course you have dined said why � no haven t exactly dined said mr he had passed his hand over his yellow forehead and considered as if he were not sure about it something to eat was proposed no thank you said mr i don t feel inclined for it i was to have dined out along with mrs but as i didn t inclined for dinner i let mrs go by hei self just as we were getting into the carriage and thought i d take a stroll instead would he have tea or coffee in o thank you said mr i looked in at the club and got a bottle of wine at this period of his visit mr took the chair which had offered him which he had hitherto been pushing slowly about before him like a dull man with a pair of on for the first time who could not make up his mind to start he now put his hat upon another chair beside him and looking down into it as if it were some twenty feet deep said again you see i thought i d give you a call flattering to us said for you are not a calling man n � no returned mr who was by this time taking himself into under both coat sleeves i am not u calling man you have too much to do for that said having so much to do mr loss of appetite is a serious thing ith you and you must have it en to you must not be ill oh i i am well replied mr after about it i am as well as i usually am i am well enough i am as well as i want to be the master mind of the age to its characteristic of being at all times a mind that had as little as possible to say for itself and great difficulty in it mute again mrs began to wonder how long the master mind meant to stay i was speaking of poor papa when j ou came in sir aye quite a coincidence said mr � did not see that but felt it incumbent on her to continue talking i was saying she pursued that my brother s illness has occasioned a delay in examining and arranging i s ty yea said yes there has been a delay not that it is of consequence said not assented mr after having examined the of all that part of the room which was within his range not tliat it is of any consequence my only anxiety is said that mrs general not get anything she won t get thing said mr was delighted to hear liim express the opinion mr after taking another gaze into the depths of his hat as if he thought he saw something at the bottom rubbed his hair and slowly to ms last remark the words oh dear no no not � he not likely as the topic seemed exhausted and mr too if he were going to take up mi s and the carriage in liis way home s o he answered i shall go by the shortest wa and to � here he looked all over the palms of both his hand as if he telling his own fortune � to take care of i dare say she ll manage to do it probably said there was then a long silence during which mrs back on her sofa again shut her eyes and raised her eyebrows in her former retirement from but however said mr i am equally you and myself i thought i d give you a call you know charmed i am sure said so i am off added mr getting up could you laid me a it was an odd thing observed for her who could seldom prevail upon herself even to write a letter to lend to of such vast business as mr isn t it mr but i want one and i know you have got wedding about with and and rich things in them you shall have it back to morrow said mrs open now and for you are so very awkward the mother of box on my little table there and give mr the mother of pearl pen � j said h if on v i � r h i i think i ril cr with a darker rt im � j aid mr v� s i i i should ll ac ly id o m o l and iv mr th on hi w n v | 8 |
twice heard the of a falling bird far behind but these i never as sport our expedition was a failure moonlight and a clear sky were needed both of which were absent but in its in the sense of infinite winged life rushing past us in the last view of that desolate as the darkness embraced it it was a perfect and unique experience i am old enough to be no longer very anxious for a bag therefore i enjoyed that s expedition with its one more than many a day s when the slain carefully raised for the occasion might be counted by hundreds at length it grew pitch dark so that it was for us to find each other in the gloom still more difficult was our homeward journey by the appropriate light of which glowed before us lying low upon the sky first came the this of antiquity which shows how careful its inhabitants now so long dead once were about their roads in is some eight feet wide and built of large blocks of stone on either side of it lie the waters of the swamp several feet deep in places much of this massive raised has been destroyed by floods or other accidents of time so that here and there one must leap firom block to block or into the pools between now stepping stones by would make a good title for a novel but are in fact an awkward path and very glad was i when with the of a who seemed to be able to see in the dark i had the last of them after these stepping stones we over a mile or two of mud about six inches deep then came some patches of ground with in them and another long stretch of mud this time covered with water struggling to its edge we found ourselves on a path strewn with and fell down in deep but invisible next followed ck stroll through a large patch of standing which was wet and reached almost to our a winter pilgrimage where we were exposed to the attentions of the or dogs which in are such a nuisance at last however about nine o clock we saw the welcome lights of home i confess that i was glad to reach its shelter thoroughly tired out as i was and absolutely wringing wet with perspiration a fruit of the labours of that interminable walk little of this sort teach us that we are not so young as once we were still i enjoyed our duck hunt my nephew fired by the sight or rather the sound of more wild fowl than he had ever of announced his intention of being back at the place by the first streak of dawn to catch the birds as they passed from the out to sea i congratulated him upon his superb energy but declined to share the adventure in the depths of my experience as in a magic crystal exactly what would happen it did happen about an hour after we had finished breakfast on the morning two hot and weary young men appeared carrying guns and but nothing else they had risen a little too late the duck were up before them and they reached the distant ridge just in time to see the last flock of vanishing the rains had departed for the present and the day was lovely with so clear an air that every little peak and of the mountains seemed close at hand it was with great regret that on so fair a morning we bade farewell to our hosts and started for i should have liked to stay longer at the place has many charms not the least of which is its solitude the tower where according to ancient tradition was stifled by is an odd place for yet thither on our arrival we were escorted through the ancient gates of indeed the feast was spread exactly where the poor victim lived and died is if ever she existed beyond the echoes of romance in the days which is said to be built upon the site of the ancient was a port now its harbour is choked and principally because of the heat within the walls such population as remains to the place lives about a mile away in a new town called v how am i to describe this beautiful monument i an attempt to set out its details would fill chapters so i must leave them to the fancy of the reader the whole place ib a ruin everywhere are the gaunt of churches the foundation walls of long fallen houses and around grim solid the vast circle of the what buildings are here millions of square yards of them almost every stone except where the have still bearing its s mark walls thirty feet thick great sally ports still black with the smoke of fragments of broken lying about in the ancient ash heaps water gates magazines gun straight and enormous gathering halls now used as arched of splendid the solid roof stones cut upon the bend running out to sea commanding the harbour mouth every defence and work known to warlike art then round them all in places through the solid rock the mighty ditch sixty feet or more in depth it was an this and in the end it fell to the power of the greatest of all hunger and not through the of the known as the and his vast army the came and conquered how i will describe presently and from that hour the glory of a winter pilgrimage departed to begin with no christian was allowed to live within the gates even the visitor of distinction must not ride or drive there but walk humbly as became a representative of a conquered faith where the sets his foot there the grass will not grow but here the saying is reversed the grass grows | 18 |
matters which may be supposed to have occupied the thoughts of the leaders as they were together on the broad rock to a subject which was at this moment brought to their notice by the unexpected appearance of two females on horseback on the road a full half mile in the rear of the army and who were now approaching at a steady pace they were attended by a man who even thus far off showed the of age and a short space behind them rode a few of in military array it was with mingled feelings of surprise and admiration at the courage which could have prompted her at such a time to visit the army that the party recognised and be i shoe s attendants in the approaching these emotions were expressed by them in the rough and hearty phrase of their habitual and familiar intercourse let me beg gentlemen said interrupting them that yon speak kindly and of yonder lady by my honor i hare never seen man or woman with a more devoted or heart poor girl � she has nobly followed butler through his and taken her share of suffering with a spirit thai should bring us all to shame horse shoe robinson who has her to our camp even from her father s house speaks of a secret between her and our captive friend that tells plainly enough to my mind of sworn faith and long tried love as men and soldiers we should reverence it look carefully to her comfort and safety go man at once and meet her on the road god grant that this day may bring an end to her grief j departed on his mission and when he met the lady her brother and the were already in her train explained the cause of this for the party in obedience to s urgent wish and scarcely less to the content of all the others had quitted their secluded position at town on the preceding morning and learning in the course of the day from persons on the road that had moved the miller had taken a direction across the country which enabled him to the army at its present post with little more than half the travel which the route of the march had required they had passed the night under a friendly roof some ten or twelve miles distant and had overtaken their companions at the critical moment at which they have been introduced to view at s request she was conducted into the presence of who still retained his station on the a thoughtful and amiable deference was manifested towards her by the assembled soldiers who received her with many kind and encouraging greetings that air of and timidity which in spite of all efforts at self control the novelty of her position and the consciousness of the dreadful scene at hand had thrown over her gradually began to give way before the assurances and sympathy of her friends and at length she became � self possessed to look around her and mark tlie events that were in progress the important moment of battle drew nigh and the several leaders took their leave of her with an to be of good cheer and to remain at her present post under the charge of her companion the miller who was fully instructed by as to the course he should take for the lady s safety in whatever emergency might arise here we leave her for a moment whilst we cast a glance at the preparations for battle it was three o clock before these arrangements were completed i have informed my reader that the mountain terminated immediately in front of the outlet from the narrow in which s army had halted its breast into the plain only some few hundred paces from the head of the column whilst the valley that forced both right and left afforded an easy passage along the base on either side occupied the very summit and now frowned upon his foe from the midst of a host confident in the strength of their position and exasperated by the pursuit which had driven them into this resolved to this post by a spirited attack at the same moment in front and on the two with this intent his army was divided into three equal parts the centre was reserved to himself and the right was assigned to and m the left to and these two latter parties were to repair to their respective sides of the mountain and the whole were to make the by the heights as nearly as possible at the same instant the men before they marched out of the had dismounted and their horses under the winding shelter of the hills and being now separated into detached columns formed in solid order they were put in motion to reach their allotted posts the were retained on horseback for such duty as might require speed and were stationed close in the rear of s own division which now merely marched from behind the shelter of the and halted in the view of the until sufficient delay should be afforded to the divisions to attain their ground attended by and his daughter still maintained her position on the and from this height surveyed the preparations for combat with a beating heart the scene within her view was one of intense occupation the air of stern resolve that sat upon every brow the silent but onward movement of the masses of men advancing to conflict the few brief and quick words of command that fell from the distance upon her ear the sullen beat of the upon the sod as an occasional sped to and fro between the more remote bodies and the centre division which yet stood in compact immediately below her at the foot of the hill then the breathless anxiety of her companions near at hand and the short note | 29 |
a fire they get plenty of fuel to bum their at and because this crew avail themselves of the of these wretches � and them from their own faith by a blanket and a of bacon they call that � the new by the way ha � ha � ha � oh it s too good i and do you think sir said that if they had a hard or an enlightened of their own creed that that would do it the whip here described a circle one part of whose sang within a few inches of s ear � who forgetting his relish for drew back his head to avoid it none of your back jaw said m don t you know that in spite of this the irish agent lord and the proud temptations you are commanded to the devil the world and the flesh don t you know that but replied are we commanded to the devil the world and a bit o fresh ha � you scoundrel said the you ve got their arguments already i see � but i know how to take them out of you before you leave my hands surely continued you wouldn t have a naked man a warm pair o breeches or a good coat to his back � does the forbid him that you have it replied the who felt for the moment astounded at s audacity you are determined on it but i will have patience with you yet a little till i see what brought you over if i can don t you admit as i said that you are commanded to the devil the world and the flesh � particularly the flesh for there s a peculiar stress laid upon that in the greek well but does it go in the greek against a o bacon and a o your reverence faith your pardon if you were to see some o the new how comfortable they are their m good coats and their new warm blankets beside their good fires you d maybe not blame them so much as you do your sir only for the but theirs you see any how for the body � and faith i say the last is a great advantage in these hard times the priest s astonishment increased at the boldness with which continued the argument or rather which prompted him to argue at all he looked at him and gave a smile well said he almost forgetting his anger � for he was by no means deficient in a perception of the humorous � but no matter � it will do by and by you villain said he forced into the comic spirit of the argument do you not know that it is said � cursed is he who an and the flesh of the flesh of is forbidden i sure enough an it s a not likely to be broken � for a dirty morsel they are god knows but is there anything said against the flesh of their sheep or cows � or that us to have a touch at a good fat goose or a turkey or any harmless little trifle o the kind myself never thought sir that beef or mutton was of any particular religion before the irish agent yes beef and mutton when they re good are catholic � but when they re lean why like a bad christian they re of course and that s well known said the priest still amused against his will by s arguments faith and great respect the same is but a poor argument for our own � hem � i mane sir for church for if the best beef and mutton be of the religion the have it all to nothing there they re and no mistake the fat o the land your reverence said with a wink don t you understand they ve got that any how a slight cut of the whip across the shoulders made him jump and rub himself whilst the priest struck with hi utter want of principle exclaimed � you double dealing scoundrel � how dare you wink at me as if we felt any thing in common the blow occasioned s to rise for like every other when conscious of his own and its detection he felt his bad passions him you must said the priest whose anger was now excited by his extraordinary assurance � you must their religion � you must m and � their and you must m your pardon said i received any of their or their i don t stand in need o them � it s an enlightened independent i am well then continued the priest you must burn their tracts and their their books and of every description and return to your own church to become acquainted replied that piece o doctrine in your hand there faith and i fed the truth o that as it is your reverence and it is yourself that can bring it home to one but why submission don t you imitate father be my i tell you to your face that so long as you take your divinity from the s shop so long you will have obedient men but indifferent what replied m in a rage do you dare to use such language to my face � a � a brazen i ve had this in for you and now here he gave him a round half dozen go off to m and and lord and when you see them tell them from me that if they don t give up my flock i ll give them enough of their own game s face got pale with a most deadly ex the irish agent of rage � an expression indeed so very different from that creeping one which it usually wore that m on looking at him felt startled if not awed and exasperated | 50 |
in d o a ter d d n k d d ix g ik k till ii e l d d d te d u d � o j v k w � r b j g fi r� g c r b i i p g r s n w system d moral vo ix x n f b op sup ed c ii v iii w v j do la philosophic par paris vol vol ii to recent in continental g k n i r e � e � sole vo � a w t s t e b vo fr t r und r vo g f a s t dr w l di con e e the same d di v de la b c t lo de m de t o de n j d l f de t o a y le di review no ii � march art i � has slavery in the united states a legal basis � the of slavery part first and second by mo � of s on the slavery by vo m pillar of domestic slavery as it now exists in the united states of america is tlie idea that it rests upon the law law is regarded with veneration as the great foundation and support of the rights of property � of personal rights in a word � of social organization with a natural disposition to the importance of a profession to which most of them have belonged have been induced to overlook or to disregard the natural foundation of rights of them represent the idea of property as resting on a merely artificial basis � the law not the law of nature hut the law of upon that same artificial basis too they are induced to rest oven the most important of rights these ideas widely spread through the community greatly public opinion upon the question of slavery in the abstract slavery all admit is sheer cruelty and injustice but slavery as it exists in the united states is supposed to be and being legal is supposed to acquire a certain character of right to use our best efforts for the of and injustice is admitted to bo a moral duty but then it is a moral duty and in the opinion of a duty to obey the law g ideas on the theory of government tend precisely no n i legal basis of american slavery march the same way those ideas derived from and represent government as a contract the natural state of man the state of nature is assumed to be a state of war of hostility on the part of each individual against every other to escape out of this wretched condition men we are told resort to the artificial expedient of government founded on contract according to thi theory the only moral principle involved in the idea of government is � contract and this contract we are told must be preserved or government is at an end and chaos comes again no matter how absurd no matter how unjust towards ourselves or others a bargain i s a bargain and though it for the of flesh it be fulfilled many excellent men ready to in the abstract a s the sum of all will tell us in the same breath that the of the constitution existence it is morally wrong they say to attempt to or got over or set aside those and this appeal to notions of honor is not without a powerful influence upon the best portion of the community opinions respecting law and government involve indeed the and absurdity of supposing that men have power by an l to make that right which naturally is wrong there have not been wanting able writers to expose this and absurdity these writers have shown enough that the basis of law the basis of property the basis of personal rights the basis of government arc to be sought for and found in the nature and constitution of man not in any artificial or arbitrary or they have shown clearly enough that law so far as it has any binding moral force is and mast be to natural � les of right indeed tliat in this alone its moral binding force and that so far as this is wanting is called law is mere violence and tyranny to which a man may submit for the sake of peace but which he has a moral right to resist at all times and forcibly when he has any fair of success such indeed was the principle upon � which tlie american revolution was justified the acts of parliament of which the colonies complained had all the of law and and other great lawyers said they were law but in the view of the they lacked the substance without which law cannot exist they those legal of slavery � principles of right and expressed in that and usage of tlie english constitution coupled t and representation together without was bj the as mere robbery to which though concealed under the form of law they were not obliged to and would not submit the le of tlie and of matter what their object character or operation been attacked with no less energy and success it has been shown that the very essence and of con i tract is mutual benefit whether in law or morals have no binding force without a consideration a good and valuable consideration men cannot bargain away either their own rights or the rights of others all such con ct are void from the beginning � the of fraud in the one party and ignorance in the other or of injustice and intentions in both to say that by committing the folly or the crime of to do an act a man lays himself under a moral obligation to do that act is to the very foundations of morality nor are these | 37 |
which had been contemporary with the successive stages of his prosperity he was always listened to with interest a man who had been bom in the year when good old king george came to the throne � who had been acquainted with the leg of the prince and hinted at private reasons for believing that the princess ought not to have died � had matter as special ta his as could have had on his return from travel my good sir he said to mr as he crossed his knees and spread his silk handkerchief over them may be returned or he may not be that s a question for north but it makes little to the kingdom i don t want to say things which may put younger men out of spirits but i believe this country has seen its best days � i do indeed i am sorry to hear it from one of your experience mr said the a large happy looking man i d make a good fight the radical myself before i d leave a worse world for my boys than found for myself there isn t a greater pleasure than doing a bit of planting and improving one s buildings and one s in some pretty acres of land when it up here and there � land you ve known from a boy it s a nasty thought that these are to turn things round so as one can calculate on nothing one doesn t like it for one s self and one doesn t like it for one s neighbors but somehow i believe it won t do if we can t trust the government just now there s providence and the good sense of the country and there s a right in things � that s what ive always said � there s a right in things the heavy end will get and if church and king and every man being sure of his own are things good for this country there s a god above will take care of em it won t do my dear sir said mr � it won t do when and the duke turned round about the in saw it was all over with us we could never trust ministers any more it was to keep off a rebellion they said but i say it was to keep their places they re fond of place both of them � that i know here mr changed the crossing of his legs and gave a deep conscious of having made a point then he went on � what we want id a king with a good will of his own if we d had that we shouldn t have heard what we ve heard to day reform would never have come to this pass when our good old king george the third heard his ministers talking about catholic he their ears all round ah poor soul i he did indeed gentlemen ended mr shaken by a deep laugh of admiration well now that s something like a king said mr who was an eager listener it was though how did they take it said mr rose a gentleman farmer from against whose independent position nature had provided the of a spontaneous his large cheeks round twinkling eyes and habitually expressed a concentrated effort not to get into trouble and to speak every body fair except when they were safely out of hearing take it i they d be obliged to take it aid the impetuous young a of superior information have you ver heard of the king s i don t say but what i have said rose retreating i ve nothing against it � nothing at all no but the have said young the is what they want to close they want us to be governed by from the trades who are to dictate to every body and make every thing square to their mastery they re a pretty set now those said mr with disgust i once heard two of em away they re a sort of fellow i d never employ in my or anywhere else i ve seen it again and again if a man takes to tongue work it s all over with him every thing s wrong says he that s a big text but does he want to make every thing right not he he d lose his text we want every man s good say they why they never knew yet what a man s good is how should they it s working for his � not getting a of other people s ay ay said young cordially i should just have liked all the in the country for our to go into � that s all they d see where the strength of old england lay then may tell what it is for a country to to trade when it such fellows as those that isn t the fault of trade my good sir said mr who was often a little pained by the defects of provincial culture trade properly conducted is good for a man s constitution i could have shown you in my time past seventy with all their faculties as sharp as a doing without spectacles it s the new system of trade that s to blame a country can t have too much if it s properly managed plenty of sound have made their fortune by trade you ve heard of co � every body has heard of well sir i knew old mr as well as i know you he was once a of mine in a city and now i ll answer for it he has a larger rent roll than lord bless your soul his to would make a fine income for a nobleman and he s as good a tory as i am and as for his town why how much | 14 |
turn tis like to be long said mr in a low voice afore the boat finds new tenants they look upon t down here as being now does it belong to anybody in the neighbourhood i asked to a mast maker up town said mr i m a going to give the key to him to night we looked into the other little room and came back to mrs sitting on the whom mr putting the david light on tlie chimney piece requested to rise that he might carry it outside the door before the candle dan l said mrs suddenly her basket and clinging to his arm my dear dan l the parting words i speak in this house is i mustn t be left behind t ye think of leaving me behind dan l oh t ye ever do it mr taken looked from mrs to me and from me to mrs as if he had been awakened from a sleep t ye dearest dan l t ye cried mrs fervently take me long with you dan l take me long with you and em ly i ll be your servant constant and if there s slaves in them parts where you re a going i ll be bound to you for one and happy but t ye leave me behind dan l that s a dear y od soul said mr shaking his head you t know what a long voyage and what a hard life tis yes i do dan l i can guess cried mrs but my parting words under this roof is i shall go into the house and die if i m not took i can dig dan l i can work i can live hard i can be loving and patient now � more than you think dan l if you ll on y try me i wouldn t touch the not if i was dying of want dan l but i ll go with you and em ly if you ll on y let me to the world s end i know how tis i know you think that i am lone and but love tan t so no more i an t sat h re so long a watching and a thinking of your trials without some good being done me r speak to him for me i knows his ways and em ly s and i knows their sorrows and can be a comfort to em some odd times and labor for em dan l let me go long with you and mrs took his hand and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude he well deserved we brought the out extinguished the candle fastened the door on the outside and left the old boat close up a dark speck in the cloudy night next day when we were returning to london outside the coach mrs e and her basket were on the seat behind and mrs was happy chapter i assist at an explosion when the time mr had appointed so mysteriously was within four and twenty hours of being come my aunt and i consulted how we should proceed for my aunt was very unwilling tc leave ah how easily i carried up and down stairs now we were disposed notwithstanding mr s for my aunt s attendance to arrange that she should stay at home and be represented by mr dick and me in short we had resolved to take this course when again unsettled us by declaring that she ne r would forgive herself and never would forgive her bad boy if my aunt remained behind on any pretence i won t speak to you said shaking her curls at my aunt i ll be disagreeable i ll make bark at you all day i shall be sure that you really are a cross old thing if you don t go tut blossom laughed my aunt you know you can t do without me yes i can said you are no use to me at all you never run up and down stairs for me all day long you never sit and tell me stories about when his shoes were worn out and he was covered with dust � oh what a poor little of a fellow you never do anything at all to please me do you dear made haste to kiss my aunt and say yes you do i m only joking � lest my aunt should think she really meant it but aunt said now listen you must go i shall you till you let me have my own way about it i shall lead my naughty boy such a life if he don t make vou i shall make myself so disagreeable � and so will you ll wish you had gone like a good thing for ever and ever so long if you b j david don t go besides said putting back her hair and looking at my aunt and me why shouldn t you both go i am not very ill indeed am i why what a question cried my aunt what a fancy said i yes i know i am a silly little thing said slowly looking from one of us to the other and then putting up her pretty lips to kiss us as she lay upon her couch well then you must both go or i shall not believe you and then i shall cry i saw in my aunt s face that she began to give way now and brightened again as she saw it too you ll come back with so much to tell me that it ll take at least a week to make me understand said because i know i shan t understand for a length of time if there s any business in it and there s sure to be some | 8 |
fact s sister s son k t of it as a � � legend in with refuses to draw di n this of tlie sons of remarking th it tlie te are a and ire � m t t ia au v t m is t ii � iti li f s f n � c k lu it i i l w� d i bu � tl nd i t ic art s s iti h� l j in s mi tht in to � � � a f r tm i t u t i t i so � � � f k it s m i � � i j ii v � � � � � st � l ff ir ii l � k j� n v � i � w t or of a its ot i� as in one al c n gi � tor it� but truth x � not ill any one individual an with tliat notion but hi tut which in � � of facts which often no rt l� c to the widely notion of a golden not prove t� i of a golden age of dot not that some one individual produced the which ia the of tliis notion is quite a more to the la the of the world prove nothing to the d jews that the of of the gods belonging to could not h� ve exerted an influence oh the rigidly notion of the at all such an must not be too from tlie expression sons of found likewise among the jews as applied in the old testament to g or to kings vii ii and not a or relation still less is importance to lie attached to the of flattery used by a in who wills child i of the princes children of god it was however a notion among the jews as was remarked in a former section that the holy co in the conception of pious individuals moreover that god s instruments conceived by divine of who could not have had a child according to the course of things it according to believed n ir the extinct on both was renewed by divine iv lu it was only one to the l that ui the case of the conception of most of ail god s agents the the total absence of on the one side was by a u complete on the other the latter is m a more marvellous the former and thus mast it hai c lo the author of i since be by tlie reply with which s incredulity j neither the reverence for marriage the in re of the aa a human being could the this climax to on the other hand the t of and idea derived from of christ as a being contributed but decided to of the representations embodied in our histories of consisted partly in ihe title a on of at one lime usually given to the for it is tlie nature of such originally expressions after a while to come lo be � r t j s f am x n i inn h i t op ts � its to more and and it was a t ic later jews to a p n to that liad a or natural di be title i in got and more was bv sion in tbe i ii interpreted of art mn mm t ay i words which can tu a physical relation it was by c of ni n should be with it wa to the ha were many of which the become this may be seen in the word en by tbe of a hy a an l other the word is used th� ui the notions of a von of god and � ton of a r till at last the divine i was for that no jew ever a j l j n i of l to the ami it wa with l of the the of a virgin from the b i hia of records of ideas of that age t proves in o ij to the presumption tliat a then prevailed of w hi i we have the ill and an hardly to be in tlie new one objection yet which i can no longer as peculiar to since other liave shown of sharing fame he objection is tliat tho i� l of god el u especially danger � i� it only loo wi ll to r i indeed and i t the iii of it fail to an opinion d � of the belief in a namely tliat i came into being through means since in fact at l i� time of her was not married in en s of liis work he adds that he willingly allows know not what they do it is therefore but just to give him the ad of the same since he not to know wliat otherwise would he say that interpretation is fitted only to a opinion that all who understand the narrative are to commit with which reproaches the the retaining one incident namely that mary was not married whilst the of the narrative hi l to be a particular incident which evidently serves as n d w� lt y i l s it t an b m r in bon � m c u l l t it aim a su t the life or s to the other that without it l � ii or u among the who this a in ie full of i blind and all � ii marriage bt and and ii � i mode of r i in in t easily lo set it aside for he in relation lo this of the gospel in particular it much that is dazzling f of tu � out in of ihe l n l if � ii becoming to of je us so long sm | 14 |
reasonable and dined with the principal a long and earnest consideration of the whole matter took place over the the of was and young was turned over to the ex naval officer with full to discipline him as he thought best mr had converted the young america afloat and he hoped he should be able to convert the son after dinner mr went down tlie bay with his host in the on the way they passed the school ship to which boys are by the courts for crime and and on board of which they are and educated mr explained the institution to his guest an excellent idea said mr it is just tlie place for your son replied mr but it is for very true robert is a criminal if he is not now he soon will be if he continues in his present course if i had him on i could make a man of him then i wish you had him on perhaps i may yet replied the principal with a smile i did not purchase the academy with the intention of becoming a in the ordinary sense of the word i have no intention of remaining in it i hope you will i have been thinking of fitting up a vessel like the school ship that rich men s sons may have the benefit of such an institution without the necessity of committing a crime i could do more for the boys in a month on board ship than i could in a year at this was the first mention which mr made of his plan though he had been considering outward bound or it for several weeks mr hoped that this idea of a academy would be reduced to practice for he now felt that it was just what his son needed the project was discussed during tlie rest of the trip the history of the scheme from its need not be followed in detail many persons were consulted in regard to it there were plenty to approve and plenty to but in october tlie of a four hundred ton ship was laid down the object of this marine institution was thoroughly explained and before the ship was ready for there were for every berth on board of her the idea was exceedingly popular among the boys all of whom were to be students on board especially as it was already hinted that the ship would visit europe to parents it held out for their sons all the benefits of a sea voyage with few of its it would furnish healthy exercise and a vigorous constitution to its pupils in march of the following year the ship was at anchor in harbor ready to receive her crew young america afloat j chapter ii the young america with mr the academy ship which was the name he usually applied to the idea he had and thus far carried into effect was not a speculation he did not intend to see how much money could be made by the scheme it was an experiment in the education of rich men s sons for only rich men could pay for in such an expensive institution the academy was to be continued under the management of a board of an accomplished teacher had been selected by mr and the school under its present administration was in a highly prosperous condition only ten of its pupils had been transferred to the academy ship for it required no little nerve on tlie part of parents to send their sons to school on the broad ocean to battle with the elements to endure the storms of the atlantic and to undergo the hardships which tender mothers supposed to be connected with a life on for six months mr had studied upon his plan and it was hardly when the new ship came to anchor in harbor during outward bound or this period he had visited the principal cities of tlie northern states those of the southern section being closed against his operations by the war of the rebellion then raging at the height of its fury he had interested his friends in his bold enterprise and boys witli whom the experiment was to be were from all parts of the country the securing of the requisite number of pupils was the first success and what he had regarded as the most difficult part of the enterprise more than half of them had been obtained before it was deemed prudent to lay the of the ship the details of the plan had been carefully considered during the winter and when the ship was at the organization of the school its rules and had all been written out the boys began to arrive about the first of march and by the first of april all of them eighty seven in number were on board mr was naturally very anxious for the success of his experiment and for months he had labored with diligence in his plan and carrying it into operation in this occupation he had found the activity he needed and he may not be blamed for believing all the time tliat he was laboring for his country and his race if it has been inferred from what has been said of mr of his domestic and of his views on the subject of discipline that he was an austere cold and man a wrong impression has been conveyed the boys of the academy when they came to know him loved him ar much as they respected him he was not the man young america afloat to the harmless enjoyment of youth or to repress its innocent he watched the sports of the students with interest and pleasure and encouraged them by all the means in his power he was fond of humor enjoyed a harmless joke and had a keen appreciation of wit lie was a good companion for the boys and | 36 |
like you read about in books my i wish that boy that took me fishing to goat island could see me now was just a place to start from he said and well we ve started haven t we and right here s where we stop and boil coffee you get the fire going and i ll get the water and the things ready to spread out say remarked while they waited for the water to boil d ye know what this reminds me oft saxon was certain she did know but she shook her head she wanted to hear him say it why the second sunday i knew you when we drove out to valley behind prince and king you spread the lunch that day only it was a more lunch she added with a happy smile but i wonder why we didn t have coffee that day he went on perhaps it would have ben too much like by ic the valley of the moon ing she laughed kind of what mary would call r raw she was always that word and yet look what became of her that s the way with all of them growled i ve always noticed it s the fastidious la de da ones that turn out the they re like some horses i know a at the things they re the least afraid of saxon was silent oppressed by a sadness vague and remote which the mention of s widow had served to bring on i know something else that happened that day which you d never guess i bet you couldn t i wonder saxon murmured and guessed it with her eyes s eyes answered and quite he reached over caught her hand and pressed it to his cheek it s little but oh my he said addressing the imprisoned hand then he gazed at saxon and she warmed with his words we re all over again ain t we both ate heartily and was guilty of three cups of coffee say this country air gives some appetite he as he sank his teeth into his fifth bread and meat i could eat a horse an drown his head off in coffee afterward saxon s mind had to all the young had told her and she completed a sort of general resume of the information my she exclaimed but we ve learned a lot an we ve sure learned one thing said an that is that this is no place for us with land a an acre an only twenty dollars in our pockets oh we re not going to stop here she hastened to say by ic the valley op the moon but just the same it s the that gave it its price and they make things go on it � send their children to school and have them and as you said yourself they re as fat as an i take my hat off to them responded but all the same i d sooner have forty acres at a hundred an acre than four at a an acre somehow you know i d be scared stiff on four acres � scared of off you know she was in full sympathy with him in her heart of hearts the forty acres much the harder in her way allowing for the difference of a generation her desire for was as strong as her uncle will s well we re not going to stop here she assured we re going in not for forty acres but for a hundred and sixty acres free from the government an i guess the government owes it to us for what our fathers an mothers done i tell you saxon when a woman walks across the plains like your mother done an a man an wife gets by the indians like my grandfather an mother done the government does owe them something well it s up to us to collect an we ll collect all right all right somewhere down in them mountains south of by ic chapter ii it was a good afternoon s tramp to passing through the town of hay wards yet saxon and found time to from the main county road and take the parallel roads through acres of intense cultivation where the land was to the wheel tracks saxon looked with amazement at these small brown who came to the soil with nothing and yet made the soil pay for itself to the tune of two hundred of five hundred and of a thousand dollars an acre on every hand was activity women and children were in the fields as well as men the land was turned over and over they seemed never to let it rest and it rewarded them it must reward them or their children would not be able to go to school nor would so many of them be able to drive by in or in stout light look at their faces saxon said they are happy and contented they haven t faces like the people in our neighborhood after the strikes began h sure they got a good thing agreed you can see it out all over them but they needn t get with me i can tell you that much � just because they ve us out of our land an everything but they re not showing any signs of saxon no they re not come to think of it all the same they ain t so wise i bet i could tell em a few about horses it was sunset when they entered the little town of who had been silent for the last half mile ventured a suggestion by ic the valley of the moon say i could put up for a room in the hotel just as well as not what d ye think but saxon shook her head emphatically how long do you think our twenty dollars will last at | 21 |
hand and an officer demanded in no gentle voice that he surrender it and move on with the rest for answer charles instead of giving up the gun cocked it he would undoubtedly have discharged its contents in the face of the officer if a lieutenant behind had not drawn a pistol and put a ball into the shoulder of the opponent of the law s majesty an hour later found his son in an hospital with a surgeon by his side examining a bullet he had just drawn from his wound well i guess you ve got enough of it smiled the father though he still wore a look of anxiety if you haven t the others have for there s not one of them to be found within two miles of here the boy took the hand held out to him sm young giddy they are right though he replied faintly they won t work at that starving rate and you ll find it out they won t get a chance laughed the father the mine will be shut up till next spring now i didn t care anything about their working but when they began to things i had to interfere charles put on a pleading look you could give them the old wages if you wished he said it would make so little difference to you they can t do any more than exist under the reduced and in a free land like ours a man has a right to live f the shook his head positively business can t be done that way my boy he answered it never was and never will be based on anything but supply and demand if coal can be had at a certain price no employer is going to pay a cent more but it s just as well for you and me not to discuss the matter now the doctor says you want rest for a day or two the next day when the called on his son he found him doing well he would be around in a fortnight the physician told him i ve been rather busy this morning said mr with his almost habitual smile in the first place i have about secured a promise that you will not be but will be permitted to go free as soon as your wound free echoed charles with astonishment am i under arrest certainly you were here by the military charged with a riot the young man drew a long breath of surprise do tou think my he had done all he could to stop the riot until the poor were so i shall be able to get you free i think continued the which will save you a couple of years or so in jail and the other thing which i have been myself to is a long letter to the war department the promotion of the lieutenant who shot you charles wondered if his hearing had not played him false i am much obliged he replied with a new vein of irony you ought to be had he ben a second later according to all accounts you would have been guilty of murder and then it might have taken more influence even than possess to get you released the wounded shoulder gave its possessor a severe at that moment doing more to cause the which spread over his face than the announcement he had just heard and the soldiers who shot down those men women and children in the street like dogs he muttered will there be any punishment for them oh no said the father that is very different they were the laws which the others were breaking charles would not proceed with the argument he recollected distinctly that the first shot was fired by the soldiers at a time when the striking were with their families in the public street doing nothing whatever to justify the outrage the love that he bore his father received a severe strain under this treatment of the people who had young miss been persuaded to the mines by the of his agent but further discussion was useless mr had told him often that he claimed he same right to decide questions that he gave to is son and daughter when charles was allowed to go from the hospital he remained with the and did what he could for them during the long winter that followed almost every cent of his handsome income was expended in food clothing and for the suffering ones and he saw at the end what the assured him in advance he would see he saw the hungry go to their work in the early spring at the reduced just as soon as the mine was opened to them they caught eagerly at the chance to labor as the beaten dog at a bone flung into his jaws if curses and tears could affect the product of toil the coal from the van mines for the next year would have been in the market it would have refused to in the and on the to which it was taken but would have filled the atmosphere with a dull and smoke repulsive to the sight and dangerous to the nostrils of men not a happy smile the faces in that settlement the free american citizens clothed with a manhood supposed to be superior to anything else on earth were bowed under a slavery as great as that which ever the sons of a fiction of the constitution told them they were born equal but the stern logic of facts raised one above their heads whom fate had made their master and an old j chapter xxii seeing an old up in the woods the stayed till late in november mrs before that time returned to her fifth avenue home parting from her husband with her usual sweetness but with no 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with pointed out to him their master among a group of the jews from he was told came to these games and this caused his conscience to for he had heard his father speak of the jews as did not hold such views but what his s views were about cock fighting joseph did not know and when he asked if he might approach the ring he was told that the circle about the ring was for the and those whom they might invite but he d be able to see very well from where he was the seemed to him an and proud people and conscious of an innate hostility he watched them as they leaned over the railing that enclosed the fighting ring the brook talking among themselves sometimes however to call a jew to join them the jews came to them hoping that the honour bestowed upon them did not escape notice and joseph s ear caught phrases young sir it is reported you ve a bird that will down all comers and sir we can offer you but a poor show of birds those at rome a sudden silence fell which was broken by the falling of and joseph was told that the throw would decide which seven birds were to begin we have won the throw was whispered in his ear we ve the advantage but why it was an advantage to fight from the right rather than from the left joseph was too excited to inquire for the had just been put into the ring or pit and joseph recognised the tall bird that the had taken out of his basket in the orchard he s fighting to day with long spurs he was told but why does he fight the other bird � a he heard the woman ask and he saw a black cock to meet the red in deadly fight must one die he asked but the were too intent on the battle to answer his question the birds re and leaped aside avoiding each other s rushes and before long it became clear even to joseph that their bird though stronger than the younger bird did not spring as high or as easily a good bird he heard the servants say there ll be a battle for it my word there will and our bird will win if the young one doesn t get his stroke in quickly an old bird will tire out a young bird as these words were spoken the black cock dashed in and with a quick stroke sent his spur through the red bird s head he s gone this time beyond thy care and tears came into s eyes i m sorry i d have liked to have seen him end his days happily among the a treading of them joseph felt he had not rightly understood her and when he inquired out her meaning from her she told it with so repulsive a that he could not the brook conquer a sudden dislike he moved away from her immediately and asked her no more questions more were set to fight and they fought to the death always only once did a cock turn tail and refuse to continue the combat to persuade him to be brave the slave in charge placed him breast to breast with his adversary but despite all encouragement he turned tail and hid himself in the now what will happen to him joseph asked first he ll be cut and then for the spit or the the answered look young master and turning his eyes whither the s finger pointed joseph saw the bird s owner sign to the slave that he was to twist the bird s neck which was done and the went into a basket by himself � he did not deserve to be with those that had been slain in combat the ring was now covered with blood and feathers and two slaves came with of water and to clean it and while this office was being performed many fell to drinking from which their slaves handed to them the man who had told his slave to his cock s neck regretted that he had done so the punishment would have been to hand the bird over to a large that would have plucked the bird feather by feather examining each feather curiously before selecting the next one and he swore a great oath by and then as if to annoy the jews by that the next of his birds that refused combat should be served this way our master will not put us on the cross for so a bird s courage joseph heard the say and up against joseph and it was her as much as the memory of the oaths he had heard uttered and that were being uttered and that would be uttered again as soon as the fighting commenced that set him thinking of the on the wall � that he would teach him no more but the which joseph knew well showed that he had not missed an the brook hour for many months but a whole day s absence was something more than any he had ever indulged in before and the only reason he could give for it would be the one that the had a demon take possession of him another pair of was already in the ring two young birds trained to the finest distinction and they so that even the could not the victor but there was no heart in joseph for more cock fighting and he viewed with disgust the mean vile faces that at him while he thanked them for the occasion which he owed them of overlooking so much fine sport but they were a lot than he had supposed though he had suspected from the first that they were some trick against him and he searched himself for he would | 15 |
so it s a thing that is either done at a blow or not done � and there s an end of it i want the lad only to bring home the prisoners for me after i have took them u ah mr robinson i have one son already in these wars � god protect him � and you men don t know how a mother s heart for her children in these times i cannot give another she added as she threw her arms over the shoulders of the youth and drew him to her bosom oh it nothing said in a tone it s only snapping of a pistol mother � if i m not afraid you t to be i give you my honor mistress said robinson that i will bring or send your son safe back in one hour and that he sha n t be put in any sort of danger come that s a good woman u you are not deceiving me mr robinson asked the matron wiping away a tear you wouldn t mock the sufferings of a weak woman in such a thing as this f u on the honesty of a ma am replied horse shoe the lad shall be in no danger as i said before � u then i will say no more answered the mother but my child be sure to let mr robinson keep before you horse shoe now loaded the fire arms and having the across his body he put the pistol into the hands of the boy then his rifle he and his young ally left the room ho robinson even on this occasion serious as it might be deemed the did not depart without giving some of that which no difficulties ever seemed to have the power to conquer he thrust his head back into the room after he had crossed the threshold and said with an encouraging laugh u and me will teach them mistress pat s point of war � we will surround the now my lad said horse shoe after he had mounted captain peter you must get up behind me turn the lock of your pistol down he continued as the boy sprang upon the horse s and cover it with the of your jacket to keep the rain off it won t do to hang fire at such a time as this the lad did as he was directed and horse shoe having secured his rifle in the same way put his horse up to a gallop and took the road in the direction that had been pursued by the soldiers as soon as our had gained a wood at the distance of about half a mile the relaxed his speed and advanced at a pace a little above a walk he said we have got rather a sort of a job before us so i must give you your lesson which you will understand better by knowing something of my plan as soon as your mother told me that these had left her house about fifteen minutes before the rain came on and that they had gone along upon this road i remembered the old field up here and the little log hut in the middle of it and it was natural to suppose that they had just got about near that hut when this rain came up and then it was the most case in the world that they would naturally go into it as the place they could find so now you see it s my calculation that the whole is there at this very point of time we will go slowly along until we get to the other end of this wood in sight of the old field and then if there is no one on the look out we will open our first you know what that means it means i s pose that we ll go right at them replied pretty exactly said the but listen to me just at the edge of the woods you will have to get down and put yourself behind a tree til ride forward as if i had a whole troop at robinson my heels and if i catch them as i expect they will have a little fire kindled and as likely as not they ll be cooking some of your mother s fowls yes i understand said the boy eagerly � no you don t replied horse shoe but you will when you hear what i am going to say if i get at them they ll be mighty apt to think they are surrounded and will like fine fellows for quarter and thereupon i ll cry out stand fast as if i was speaking to my own men and when you hear that you must come up full because it will be a signal to you that the enemy has surrendered then it will be your business to run into the house and bring out the as quick as a rat runs through a kitchen and when you have done that why all s done but if you should hear any of fire arms � that is more than one shot which i may chance to let off � do you take that for a bad sign and get away as fast as you can heel it tou comprehend oh yes replied the lad and i ll do what you want and more too may be mr robinson captain robinson � remember you must call me cap tain in the hearing of these i ll not forget that neither answered by the time that these instructions were fully impressed upon the boy our adventurous forlorn hope as it may be called had arrived at the place which horse shoe robinson had for the commencement of active operations they had a clear view of the old field and it afforded them a strong assurance that | 29 |
in england act the part of chief who a nation with sighs it never heaved and it with tears it never of shedding thus while the patriotic author is weeping and howling in prose in blank verse and in rhyme and collecting the di public sorrow into his volume as into a it is more than probable his fellow citizens are eating drinking and dancing as utterly ignorant of the bitter made in their name as are those of straw and richard of the whom they are generously pleased on divers occasions to become the most glorious and praise worthy hero that ever nations mi t have into oblivion the rubbish of his own it did not some lake into and his name to posterity and much as the william wo and and while he had the of a whole in his hand i question whether he will not be obliged to this history for all his hb exit occasioned no in the of new or its vicinity the earth trembled not neither did any stars shoot firom their the heavens were not in black as poets persuade us have been on the unfortunate death of he new york hard hearted melted not into nor did the trees hang their heads m silent sorrow and as to like sun he bid next just as long and showed as a when he arose as he ever did oo the same day of the month in any year either before or the good people of new one and all declared that he had been a yery busy active bustling lit tie that he was the of bis country he was the noblest work of god � that he was mail take him r all in all they never should look like again � together with sundry other civil and speeches that are r said on the death of all great men after which they smoked their pipes thought bo more about him peter succeeded to his peter was the last and like the renowned van he was also the best of our ancient having all who preceded him and or as he was called by the old dutch who were ever to names having never been equalled by any he was in ct the very man fitted by nature to re the desperate fortunes of her beloved province had not the those most potent and of all ancient and immortal destined them to to say that he was a hero would be doing him great injustice he was in truth a combination of heroes he was of a sturdy raw make like so for his in the little � a pair of round shoulders that would have given his hide for meaning his lion s hide when he undertook to ease old of his load he was moreover as describes not only terrible for the force of his arm but likewise of his voice which sounded as thou me out of a barrel and like too history op die same he possessed a for the sovereign people and an iron aspect which m enough of itself to make the very of his with terror and dismay all this martial of i was heightened by an al advantage with which i am surprised that neither ho nor have any of their heroes worth all the and wounds in the and or s into the bargain this was less than a wooden leg which was the prize he had gained in bravely fighting the battles of hu country but of which he was so proud that he was often heard to declare he valued it more than all his other limbs put together indeed so highly did he esteem it that he had it gallantly and relieved with silver devices which caused it to be related in divers histories and legends that he wore a silver leg like that warrior he was somewhat subject to of passion which times rather unpleasant to his and whose he was apt to after the manner of his illustrious peter the by their shoulders with his walking but the resemblance for which most value him was that which he bore in many particulars to the renowned though i cannot find that he had read or or or bacon or or tom yet did he sometimes manifest a and sagacity in his measures that one would expect firom a man who did not know greek and had never studied the true it is and i confess it with sorrow that he had an unreasonable aversion to and was fond of governing bis after see the of and new the t manner but then he it in better order tl ui did ihe ki though he had all the philosophers ancient and modem to assist and him i must unwise own that he made but very few laws but then ie took care that those few rigidly and i enforced and i do not but justice oa the whole was as well administered as if there bad been volumes of sage acts and made daily neglected and he was in the very reverse of his ing neither tranquil and like walter the i and like william the but a man or rather a governor ot such uncommon activity and decision of mind that he never sought or accepted the advice of others depending confidently upon his single head as did the heroes of upon their single arms to his way through all difficulties and dangers to tell the simple truth he no other requisite for a perfect than to think always right for no one can deny that he always acted as he and if he wanted in he made up for it in an lent quality since it is surely dignified for a ruler to be and consistent in error than wavering contradictory in endeavouring to do what is right u much is certain and it is a worthy | 48 |
in bed all the day and be out all the night at other times he would stay at home the whole of the twenty four hours but he always paid his rent regularly and gave little trouble over his food yes added mrs her apron mr was always a gentleman i will say that thought steel taking all this in eagerly a queer kind of gentleman he added aloud did you know anything else about him mrs no sir she drew herself up i never � never did any one call to see mr no one all the time he was here not one person called did he receive any letters no not one letter arrived queer murmured steel what newspaper did he take the morning post also he took the world truth modern society and m a p he was fond of the fashionable intelligence oh he was was he would you have called him a gentleman he always paid his rent duly hesitated mrs so far he was a perfect gentleman but i have lived as a lady s maid in the best families sir and i don t think mr was what you or i would call an i see so you were a lady s maid once in what families mrs was not at all averse to relating her better days and did so with pride i was with the of flint with mrs and with lady a strange discovery ha v said steel starting he remembered that had been concerned with lady about the robbery of her jewels did you tell mr this he asked oh yes we had long talks about aristocratic families she repeated several tales she had told and steel asked her many questions when he took his leave he asked a leading one did mr wear a red cross as an ornament on his watch chain he did said mrs and steel departed very satisfied with his day s work chapter x on a fresh trail if ware had not been desperately in love and desperately anxious to find anne he would scarcely have gone to paris on such a wild goose chase the on the letter showed that she was or she had been in the french capital but to find her in that immense city was like looking for a in a desert however ware had an idea � foolish enough � that some instinct would guide him to her side and therefore as soon as he recovered sufficiently to travel he crossed the channel with trim he left about three weeks after his interview with time enough as he well knew for anne to change her place of residence but he trusted to luck for quite a fortnight he the city accompanied by the faithful old servant trim had sharp eyes and would be certain to recognize anne if she came within but in spite of their vigilance and observation the two saw no one even resembling anne certainly if had gone to the authorities who take note of all who come and go he might have been more successful but knowing that anne was wanted by the english police he did not dare to adopt this method he on a fresh trail was forced to rely entirely on himself and his search resulted in nothing it ain t no good master said trim for at least the tenth time we ve lost the scent somehow better go back to london i don t want you to be ill over here sir with nothing but foreign doctors to look after you i shan t leave paris until i am certain that she is not in the place declared ware resolutely well sir i don t know how much more certain you wants to be we ve them and till our feet are near dropping off you re looking a shadow master if you ll excuse an old man as nursed you when you were a baby she ain t here now i shouldn t be surprised if she were in london said trim wisely what in the very jaws of the lion nonsense oh but is it sir i always heard it said by them as knows that the jaws of the lion is the very last place any one expects to find them trim did not state what them he meant if she went back to she would be safe especially if she laid up in some cottage and called herself a trim you ve been reading novels not me sir i ain t got no time but about this going back we ll go back to morrow trim said ware with sudden resolution and trim joyfully departed to pack it just struck that after all trim might be right and that having thrown the police off the scent by going abroad in the anne might return to london she might be there now living in some quiet while the police were wasting their time corresponding with the french authorities moreover ware thought it would be just as well to learn what steel was doing he had a coin of edward vii charge of the case and might have struck the trail in that case wanted to know for he could then any possible danger from anne and finally he reflected that he might learn something about anne s friends from the people at the where mrs had engaged her if she returned to london it was not impossible that she might have gone to hide in the house of some friend any one who knew anne could be certain that she was not guilty of the crime she was accused of and would assuredly aid her to escape the unjust law so thought in his but he quite forgot that every one was not in love with anne and would help her unless they were fully convinced of her innocence and perhaps not even then most | 12 |
a shower of sparks the smaller boys began to grow chilly and sleepy when there was a and rustle and snapping of twigs close at hand then the gasp of a breathless dog two dim shapes rushed by a shower of bark fell and a dog began to sing at the foot of the great twisted pine not fifty feet away for tiger the boys but the dog s voice filled all the woods it might have echoed to the mountain tops there was the old they could all see him half way up the tree flat to the great limb they heaped the fire with dry branches till it high now they lost him in a shadow as he twisted about the tree john york fired and brown fired and the boys took a turn at the guns while john henry started to climb a neighboring oak but at last it was who brought the to ground with a lucky shot and the dog stopped his bark and frantic leaping in the and after an astonishing moment of silence crept out a proud victor to his master s feet goodness alive who s this good for by the dog you old handsome why i ll be hanged if it ain t old boys it � old i but could not speak another word they all crowded round the wistful clumsy old dog whose eyes shone bright though his breath was au gone each man patted him and praised him and said they ought to have all the time that it could be nobody but he it was some minutes before brown could trust himself to do anything but pat the sleek old head that was always ready to his hand he must have overheard us i guess he d have come if he d dropped dead half way proclaimed john henry like a prince of the house and his tail as if in honest assent as he lay at his master s side they sat together while the fire was brightened again to make a good light for the hunt supper and had a good half of everything that found its way into his master s hand it was toward midnight when the procession set forth toward home with the two across the fields by the dog the next morning was bright and warm after the hard frost of the night before old was asleep on the in the and his master stood in the yard and saw neighbor price come along the road in her best array with a gay holiday air well now she said eagerly you wa n t out very late last night was you i got up myself to let tiger in he come home au beat out about a quarter past nine i expect you had n t no kind o trouble the the boys was me he weighed most thirty pounds oh no kind o trouble said keeping the great secret gallantly you got the things i sent over bless your heart yes i i d a sight rather have all that good pork an potatoes than any o your wild meat said mrs price smiling with prosperity you see now jane she s given in she did n t re know but t was au talk of bout that dog s bein fifty dollars she says she can t cope with a dog same s he could an she s given me the money you an john york sent over this by the dog an i did n t know but what you d lend me another half a so i could both go to centre an return an see if i could n t make a sale o tiger right over there where they au know about him it s right in the season now s my time ain t it well a little late said shaking laughter as he took the desired sum of money out of his pocket he seems to be a clever dog round the house i don t know s i want to harbor him all winter answered the frankly striking into a good gait as she started off toward the station by aunt no said mrs hand speaking wistfully � no we never were in the habit of keeping christmas at our house mother died when we were all young she would have been the one to keep up with all new ideas but father and grandmother were folks and � well you know how t was then miss nobody took much notice of the day except to wish you a merry christmas they did n t do much to make it merry certain answered miss sometimes nowadays i hear folks o bein with all the christmas work they have to do well others think that it makes a lovely chance for all that you get an opportunity to speak your kind f right out answered mrs hand with a bright smile but there i i shall always keep new year s day too it won t do no by to have an extra day kept an made pleasant and there s many of the real old folks have got pretty things to remember about new year s day aunt s just one of em said miss she s always very if i don t get up to see her last year i missed it on account of a light fall o snow that seemed to make the too bad an she sent a neighbor s boy way down from the mount in to see if i was sick her her to the house altogether now an i have her on my mind a good deal how anybody does get of those that lives alone as they get older i i up only last night with a start if aunt s house should get or anything what she would do way up there all | 40 |
to him at any cost even the most sullen of will endeavor to make himself agreeable if the temptation is strong enough but the tone of his father s speech was far more forbidding even than the words themselves and his manner had a certain and shrinking in it which though he knew he was no favorite he could not at all explain and which frightened him a little notwithstanding that he once more murmured to himself he is out of his wits that s all what could the old fool be driving at and why did he keep him at a distance thus as though his touch and even his carried s eyes had returned to the and it was full a minute before he spoke again if i ask you one question william will you answer me just the truth and no more these men here your forefathers as well as mine were men of their word it used to be said though they had their faults as sure as a s word and perhaps this one virtue may remain in you yet notwithstanding � but no that is impossible and the white head and beard shook slowly from side to side what is it you mean sir interposed william with indignation i tell no more lies than my neighbors if you come to that you are not so particular about truth telling yourself it strikes me since mr is such a friend of yours you don t suppose that soft spoken gentleman never tells a lie do you and lawyer too he s another and there s plenty more i could tell off on my fingers how did really die william the effect of this sudden and most unexpected question was curious enough not only did he to whom it was put remain silent with his lips apart and his face of an but the also turned as ghostly as himself in the case of the former this was for the old squire had never before evinced the slightest interest in his daughter in law s supposed fate any more than he had in her while she was alive and as for other folks william had easily silenced their inquiries as to detail with a few sullen words nobody cares to press a bad natured man upon a distasteful matter as the had taken care to show this was to him and when his mother had been inclined to be curious he had treated her much as he had treated the jail don t ask me about poor mother the subject is too distressing to me her end was peace and let that content you which it did and the more so since the nature of the reply convinced her how much there was of good in the character of her darling son though many doubted it because it did not always crop out upon the surface thus mr william who according to his promise at that harsh meeting had to his wife the considerable sum of money paid to him by had begun to consider the existence of as an obstacle surmounted a matter that was not to trouble him more and this sudden reference to her from so unexpected a quarter embarrassed him exceedingly what could it matter to his father how she died and especially how could it so matter that the mere anxiety for the reply should change his face so that it seemed more like that of a dead man � but for that shrinking look which had come out afresh and more marked even than before � than that of the once ruddy squire he felt more alarmed and more at a loss for an answer than if the old man had asked him is your wife really dead of course he had contrived the story of her death before he had ventured home she had died of consumption with which she had long been supposed to be threatened and he had nursed her for many a long day and night not much of detail could be expected of such an end and little as we have said had been asked for but now not only had inquiry thus unexpectedly arisen but one which seemed to his own statement how did really die william absolutely nothing occurred to his mind at the moment except for evidently his father was in possession of some important fact and the want of accord with it in his reply might be with danger to his dearest hopes he was as much in love with as ms coarse and selfish nature permitted him to be and he was not going to own to any one that was living until he was absolutely obliged well it is a very distressing story father i ask how did she die if her end was such as you told your mother there must have been a of death let me have but no you are not to be trusted i will write for it to myself you would give yourself a needless trouble sir replied william slowly he saw the danger large and near before him and since there was a lie that lay ready to his tongue by which it might be he did not hesitate a moment to make use of it no such exists and since you press me so un a beggar on horseback ally � though i had hoped to spare myself so sad a story � i mast needs tell you why my poor wife was never buried the window was closed and there was a fire on that late autumn day in the little room yet the old man shivered and seemed to shrink within himself one moment sir said he in trembling tones you talk of yourself i am a very old and broken man spare me i do not know for certain what you are about to say but if you | 25 |
eyes in astonishment why do you say that he asked they are harmless lads enough and are enough to make them happy for the present no doubt agreed von but it sometimes happens that the young human animal who all his brains on kicking a is quite likely to another sort of force when he grows up in morally kicking other things at least that is how i regard it the over cultivation of physical strength leads to mental and these are scientific points which require discussion � not with you � but with a nothing should be too much and lack of leads to moral certainly � but so does too much sport as they call it there is a happy medium to be obtained on both sides but human beings generally miss it prince born of a beautiful selfish � yes i repeat it � selfish mother would if he had married a hard natured cold and conventional wife probably have been the most indifferent casual and careless sovereign that ever reigned but united as he is to a trusting warm hearted loving womanly woman like he will probably make himself the idol of the nation not more so than his father is said sir with a smile so that would be difficult i grant you agreed the professor as i told you at the beginning of this drama in which we have both played our a vote for love little parts no harm ever came to a brave man with a good conscience true and no harm has come to the king � as yet said sir thoughtfully but i sometimes fear one man suggested von to speak honestly so do but i watch him � i watch him closely he loves as a tiger loves its mate � and if he should ever suspect hush said quickly do not speak of it i assure you i am always on guard good so am i but is too busy just now climbing the hill to look either backward or aside when he reaches the summit it is possible he may see the whole landscape at a glance he will reach the summit very soon said de his election as for the city is certain from the moment he announced himself as candidate there has been no opposition he will be returned by an overwhelming majority said the professor and he will gain all the power he has been working for also with the power he will obtain all the difficulty responsibility disappointment and bitterness power is a dangerous possession unless it is accompanied by a cool head and in that our friend is lacking he is a creature of impulse � and a savage creature too � a half educated genius � than which nothing in the shape of humanity is more desperately difficult to manage can manage him said sir that depends and the professor rubbed his nose women are excellent up to a certain point but their limit is reached when they fall in love passion and enthusiasm them into quite as absurd fools as � men sir smiled and changed the subject but in a few days what had been in their conversation came true one of the chief results of the general election was the return of as for the metropolis by an enormous majority and in the evening of the day on which the was declared great crowds assembled beneath the win power of his house � that house so long known as the quarters of the committee � hoarse with he was of course called out before them to speak � and he yielded to the demand as he was bound to do but strangely enough with extreme reluctance a certain vague weariness depressed his spirits his election as one of the most important government representatives of the people lacked the of the triumph he had expected � and like all those who have worked for years to win a post and succeed at last in winning it he was filled with the fatal of accomplishment power � power � was after all not so great as it had seemed he had climbed � he had but all the joy was contained in the climbing and the striving now that he had gained his point there seemed nothing left to afresh his ambition nevertheless he succeeded in addressing his enthusiastic followers and with something of his old and fire � sufficiently well at any rate to satisfy them and send them off with renewed shouts of exultation expressive of their continued reliance on his courage and ability but when left alone at last his heart suddenly failed him what is the use of it he thought wearily true i now represent the city � i lead its opinions � i am its mouth piece for the state � and the wrongs and injuries done to the million are mine to bring before the government and my business it will be to force measures for the same but what then there will be there must be constant discussion argument contradiction � for there are always conflicting opinions in every aspect of human affairs � and it will be my work to put down all contradiction � all opposition � and to carry the people s cause with a firm hand yet � after all if i succeed it will be the king s doing � not mine to him i partly owe my present power the power i had before was all my own sullen and silent he on the changes in his fortunes with no very satisfied mind while he could not as a brave man refuse his respect and homage to the monarch who had quietly made himself complete master of a vote for love the and who had succeeded in turning thousands of persons into ardent he was nevertheless troubled by a lurking suspicion that had secretly known and | 33 |
as in a dream clutching the tightly came down the front steps the round leader still at her and fluttered one hand though two big were just bending to him the gate was oflf its hinges which seemed strange for she had been watching all the time and had not seen it happen s eyes were closed his lips were blood the valley of the moon and there was a in his throat as if he were tr ring to say something as she stooped above him with her handkerchief brushing the blood from his cheek where some one had stepped on him his eyes opened the old defiant light was in them he did not know her the lips moved and faintly almost he murmured the last of the the last of the then he groaned and the eyelids drooped down again he was not dead she knew that the chest still rose and fell and the still continued in his throat she looked up stood beside her the old woman s eyes were very bright her withered cheeks flushed will you help me carry him into the house saxon asked nodded turned to a of police and made the request to him the gave a swift glance at and his eyes were bitter and ferocious as he refused to hell with m well care for our own maybe you and i can do it saxon said don t be a fool was to mrs across the street you go into the house little mother that is to be this is bad for you we ll carry him in mrs is coming and we ll get saxon led the way into the back bedroom which had insisted on furnishing as she opened the door the carpet seemed to fly up into her face as with the force of a blow for she remembered had laid that carpet and as the women placed him on the bed she recalled that it was and she between them who had set the bed up one sunday morning and then she felt very queer and was surprised to see regarding her with questioning searching eyes after that her came on very fast and she descended into the hell of pain that is given to women alone by ic the valley op the moon to know she was supported half carried to the front bedroom many faces were about her � mrs it seemed she must ask mrs if she had saved little from the street but cleared mrs out to look after and went to answer a knock at the front door from the street came a loud hum of voices by shouts and commands and from time to time there was a of the of and then appeared the fat comfortable face of and later doctor came once in a clear interval through the thin wall saxon heard the high opening notes of mary s and another time she heard mary repeating over and over i ll never go back to the never never by chapter x could never get over the shock daring that period of saxon s appearance morning after morning and evening after evening when he came home from work he would enter the room where she lay and fight a royal battle to hide his feelings and make a show of cheerfulness and she looked so small lying there so small and and weary and yet so child like in her tenderly as he sat beside her he would take up her pale hand and stroke the slim transparent arm at the and delicacy of the bones one of her first questions alike to and mary was did they save little and when she told them how he had attacked the whole twenty four fighting men s face glowed with appreciation the little he said that s the kind of a kid to be proud of he halted awkwardly and his very evident fear that he had hurt her touched saxon she put her hand out to his she began then waited tiu mary left the room i never asked before � not that it matters now but i waited for you to tell me was it t he shook his head no it was a girl a perfect little girl only it was too soon she pressed his hand and almost it was she that with him in his affliction id by ic the valley of the moon i never told you � you were so set on a boy but i planned just the same if it was a girl to call her tou remember that was my mother s name he nodded his approbation say saxon you know i did want a boy like the very well i don t care now i think i m set just as hard on a girl an well here s the next will i e called you wouldn t mind would you if we called it the same name h i was thinking the very same thing then his face grew stem as he went on only there ain t goin to be a next i didn t know children was like before you can t run any more risks like that hear the big strong afraid man talk she with a wan smile you don t know anything about it how can a man i am a healthy natural woman everything would have been all right this time if if all that fighting hadn t happened where did they bury you knew a the time and where is she hasn t been in for two days old s sick she s with him he did not tell her that the old night was dying two thin walls and half a dozen feet away saxon s lips were trembling and she began to cry weakly clinging to s hand with both of hers i� i can t help | 21 |
in a of coloured seas we saw the neck fall like a the turn sideways showing the of a white belly and the of a gigantic hind leg or then all sank and sea boiled over it while the mate swam round and round darting her blind head in every direction though we might have feared that she would attack the steamer no power on earth could have drawn any one of us from our places that hour we watched holding our the mate paused in her search we could hear the wash beating along her sides reared her neck as high as she could reach blind and lonely in all that loneliness of the sea and sent one desperate across the as an shell across a pond then she made off to the westward the sun shining on the white head and the wake behind it till nothing was left to see but a little pin point of silver on the horizon we stood on our course again and the with the sea from bow to stem looked like a ship made gray with terror � � � � � we must pool our notes was the first remark from we re three trained journal by ic a of fact � we hold absolutely the biggest on record start fair i objected to this nothing is gained by in when all deal with the same facts so we went to work each according to his own lights triple headed his account talked about our gallant captain and wound up with an allusion to american enterprise in that it was a citizen of that had seen the sea serpent this sort of thing would have the creation much more a mere sea tale but as a specimen of the picture writing of a half people it was very interesting took a heavy column and a half giving and and the whole list of the crew e had sworn on oath to testify to his facts there was nothing fantastic or in i wrote three quarters of a column roughly speaking and refrained from putting any into it for reasons that had begun to appear to me was insolent with joy he was going to cable from to the new york world mail his account to america on the same day london with his three columns of loosely and generally the earth see how i work a big when i get it he said is this your first visit to england i asked yes said he you don t seem to appreciate the by ic many beauty of our it s the death of the sea serpent d heavens alive man the biggest thing ever vouchsafed to a paper curious to think that it will never appear in any paper isn t it i said was near me and he nodded quickly what do you mean said k you re enough of a to throw this thing away i sha n t i thought you were a newspaper man i am why i know don t be an ass remember i m seven hundred years your senior and what your may learn five hundred years hence i learned from my about five hundred years ago you won t do it because you can t this conversation was held in open sea where everything seems possible some hundred miles from we passed the needles light at dawn and the lifting day showed the on the green and the awful of england � line upon line wall upon wall solid stone dock and pier we waited an hour in the shed and there was ample time for the effect to in now you face the music the ha goes out to day mail by her and take you to the telegraph office i said i heard gasp as the influence of the land about him him as they say by ic a of fact heath cows a young horse to open country i want to my suppose we wait till we get to london he said by the way had torn up his account and thrown it overboard that morning early his reasons were my reasons in the train began to his copy and every time that he looked at the trim little fields the red and the of the line the blue pencil plunged through the slips he appeared to have the dictionary for ad i could think of none that he had not used yet he was a perfectly sound player and never showed more cards than were sufficient to take the pool aren t you going to leave him a single i asked remember everything goes in the states from a button to a double eagle that s just the curse of it said below his breath we ve played em for so often that when it comes to the golden truth � i d like to try this on a london paper you have first call there though not in the least i m not touching the thing in the papers i shall be happy to leave em all to you but surely cable it home no not if i can make the here and see the sit by ic you won t do it with three column of believe me they don t sit up as quickly as some people i m beginning to think that too does nothing make any in this country he said looking out of the window how old is that new it can t be more than two hundred years at the most um fields too that hedge there must have been for about eighty years labour cheap � eh pretty much well i suppose you d like to try the times wouldn t you no said looking at cathedral might as well try to a hay and to think that the world would take three columns and ask for with illustrations too | 39 |
from her lips who is it from i asked she but made no answer who is it from woman i cried is it possible that you have been as � to jim as you were to me how rude you are jack i she cried i do wish that you would mind your own business there is only one person that it could be from i cried it is from this man de and suppose that you are right jack the coolness of the woman amazed and enraged me you confess it i cried have you then no shame left why should i not receive letters from this gentleman because it is infamous and why because he is a stranger on the contrary said she he is my husband chapter ix thb doings at west inch i can remember that moment so well i have heard from others that a great sudden blow has their senses it was not so with me on the contrary i saw and heard and thought more clearly than i had ever done before i can remember that my eyes caught a little of marble as broad as my palm which was in one of the grey stones of the and i found time to admire its delicate and yet the look upon my face must have been strange for cousin screamed and leaving me she ran off to the house i followed her and tapped at the window of her room for i could see that she was there gk away jack go away i she cried you are going to me i won t be i i won t open the window go away but i continued to tap i must have a word with you i cried what is it then she asked raising the about three inches the moment you begin to i shall close it are you really married yes i am married who married you the great shadow at the roman catholic chapel at and you a he wished it to be in a catholic church when was it on wednesday week i remembered then that on that day she had driven over to while de had been away on a long walk as he said among the hills what about jim i asked oh jim will forgive me you will break his heart and ruin his life no no he will forgive me he will murder de oh how could you bring such disgrace and misery upon us ah now you are she cried and down came the window i waited some little time and tapped for i had much still to ask her but she would return no answer and i thought that i could hear her sobbing at last i gave it up and was about to go into the house for it was nearly dark now when i heard the click of the garden gate it was de himself but as he came up the path he seemed to me to be either mad or drunk he danced as he walked cracked his fingers in the air and his eyes blazed like two will o the he shouted � de la � just as he had done when he was off his head and then suddenly t en and up he came waving the doings at west inch his walking cane over his head he stopped short when he saw me looking at him and i dare say he felt a bit ashamed of himself jack i he cried i didn t thought anybody was there i am in what you call the high spirits to night so it seems said i in my blunt fashion you may not feel so merry when my friend jim comes back to morrow ah he comes back to morrow does he and why should i not fed merry because if i know the man he will kill you ta ta ta cried de i see that you know of our marriage has told you jim may do what he likes you have given us a nice return for having taken you in my good fellow said he i have as you say given you a very nice return i have taken from a life which is unworthy of her and i have connected you by marriage with a noble family however i have some letters which i must write to night and the rest we can talk over to morrow when your friend jim is here to help us he stepped towards the door and this was whom you were awaiting at the tower i cried seeing light suddenly why jack you are becoming quite sharp said he in a mocking tone and an instant later i heard the door of his room close and the key turn in the lock i thought that i should see him no the great shadow more that night but a few minutes later he came into the kitchen where i was sitting with the old folk madame said he bowing down with his hand to his heart in his own queer fashion i have met with much kindness in your hands and it shall always be in my heart i didn t thought i could have been so happy in the quiet country as you have made me you will accept this small and you also sir you will take this little gift which i have the honour to make to you he put two paper down upon the table at their elbows and then with three more bows to my mother he walked from the room his present was a with a green stone set in the middle and a dozen little shining white ones all round it we had never seen such things before and did not know how to set a name to them but they told us afterwards at that the big one was an and that | 4 |
and gentle sadness the weight of which was as sweetly and gently borne for an hour i had been trying to get a story out of him but he appeared to lack imagination to him there was no romance in his gorgeous career no deeds of daring no � nothing but a gray and infinite lions f oh yes he had fought with them it by frank house c the man s story was nothing all you had to do was to stay sober anybody could whip a lion to a with an ordinary stick he had fought one for half an hour once just hit him on the nose every time he rushed and when he got artful and rushed with his head down why the thing to do was to stick out your leg when he at the leg you drew it back and hit him on the nose again that was all with the far away look in his eyes and his soft flow of words he showed me his there were many of them and one recent one where a had reached for his shoulder and gone down to the bone i could see the neatly mended rents in the coat he had on his right arm from the elbow down looked as though it had gone through a machine what of the wrought by claws and but it was nothing he said only the old wounds him somewhat when rainy weather came on suddenly his face brightened with a recollection for he was really as anxious to give me a story as i was to get it i suppose you ve heard of the lion who was hated by another man he asked the man s story he paused and looked at a sick lion in the cage opposite got the he explained well the lion s big play to the audience was putting his head in a lion s mouth the man who hated him attended every performance in the hope sometime of seeing that lion down he followed the show about all over the country the years went by and he grew old and the lion grew old and the lion grew old and at last one day sitting in a front seat he saw what he had waited for the lion down and there wasn t any need to call a doctor the man glanced casually over his finger nails in a manner which would have been critical had it not been so sad now that s what i call patience he continued and it s my but it was not the style of a fellow i knew he was a little thin off sword and frenchman de he called himself and he had a nice wife she did work and used to from under the roof into a net turning over once on the way as nice as you please the man s story da had a quick temper as quick as his hand and his hand was as quick as the of a tiger one day because the ring master called him a or something like that and maybe a little worse he him against the soft pine background he used in his knife throwing act so quick the ring master didn t have time to think and there before the audience de kept the air on fire with his knives sinking them into the wood all around the ring master so close that they passed through his clothes and most of them bit into his skin the had to pull the knives out to get him loose for he was pinned fast so the word went around to watch out for de and no one dared be more than barely civil to his wife and she was a sly bit of baggage too only all hands were afraid of de but there was one man who was afraid of nothing he was the lion and he had the self same trick of putting his head into the lion s mouth he d put it into the mouths of any of them though he preferred a big beast who could always be depended upon the man s story ai as i was saying � king we called him � was afraid of nothing alive or dead he was a king and no mistake seen him drunk and on a go into the cage of a lion that d turned nasty and without a stick beat him to a finish just did it with his fist on the nose madame de at an uproar behind us the man turned quietly around it was a divided cage and a monkey through the bars and around the had had its seized by a big gray wolf who was trying to pull it off by main strength the arm seemed stretching out longer and longer like a thick elastic and the unfortunate monkey s mates were raising a terrible din no keeper was at hand so the man stepped over a couple of paces dealt the wolf a sharp blow on the nose with the light cane he carried and returned with a sadly smile to take up his unfinished sentence as though there had been no interruption � looked at king and king looked at her while de looked black we warned but it was no use he laughed at us as he laughed at de one day when he the man s story de s head into a bucket of because he wanted to fight de was in a pretty mess � i helped to scrape him off but he was cool as a and made no threats at all but i saw a glitter in his eyes which i had seen often in the eyes of wild beasts and i went out of my way to give a final warning he laughed but he did not look so much in madame | 21 |
she stood nearly in the middle of the room her little body trembling under the shock of passions too strong for it her very pale and her eyes gleaming the door opened and miss appeared tall blooming and splendid in her walking costume as she entered her face wore the smile appropriate to the cuts and of a young lady who feels that her presence is an interesting fact but the next moment she looked at with grave surprise and then threw a glance of angry suspicion at captain who wore an air of weary vexation perhaps you are � o much engaged to walk out captain i will go alone no no i m coming he answered towards her and leading her out of the room leaving poor to feel all the reaction of shame and self reproach after her outburst of passion chapter pray what is to be the next scene in the drama between you and miss said miss to captain as soon as they were out on the gravel it would be agreeable to have some idea of what i� coming captain was silent he felt out of humor wearied annoyed there come moments when one almost never again to oppose any things but dead silence o an angry woman now then confound i be to himself i m going to be battered on the other flank he looked f lately at the horizon with something more like a frown on his face than w seen there after a pause of two or three minutes she continued in a still tone i suppose you are aware captain that i expect an explanation of what i have just seen i have no explanation my dear he answered at last making a strong over himself except what i have already given you i hoped you would never to the subject your explanation however is very far from satisfactory i can only say that the airs miss thinks entitled to put on towards you are quite with your position as regards me and her behavior to me is most i shall certainly not stay in the house under such circumstances and mamma must state the reasons to sir said captain his irritation giving way to alarm i you to be patient and exercise your good feel in this affair it is very painful i know but i am sure you would be grieved to injure poor � to bring down my uncle s anger upon her consider what a poor little dependent thing she is it is very of you to make these but do not suppose that they deceive me miss would never dare to behave to you as she does if you had not with her or made love to her i suppose she considers your engagement to me a breach of faith to her i am much obliged to you certainly for making me miss s rival you have told me a falsehood captain i solemnly declare to yon that is nothing more to me than a girl i naturally feel kindly to � as a favorite of my uncle s and a nice little thing enough i should be glad to see her married to to morrow that s a good proof that i m not in love with her i should think as to the past i may have shown her little attentions which she has exaggerated and what man is not liable to that sort of thing but what can she found her behavior on what had she been saying to you thi morning to make her tremble and turn pale in that way don t know i just said something about her with that italian blood of hers there s no knowing mb s love how she may take what says she s a fierce little thing though she seems so quiet generally but she ought to be made to know how and her conduct is for my part i wonder lady has not noticed her short answers and the airs she puts on let me beg of you not to hint any thing of the kind to lady you must have observed how strict my aunt is it never enters her head that a girl can be in love with a man who has not made her an offer well i shall let miss know myself that i have observed her conduct it will be only a charity to her nay dear that will be nothing but harm s temper is peculiar the best thing you can do will be to leave her to herself as much as possible it will all wear off ive no doubt she ll be married to before long girls fancies are easily diverted from one object to another by jove what a rate my heart is galloping at these confounded get worse instead of better thus ended the conversation so far as it concerned not without leaving a distinct resolution in captain s mind � a resolution carried into effect the next day he was in the library with sir for the purpose of discussing some arrangements about the approaching marriage by the by he said carelessly when the came to a pause and ho wa round the room with his hands in his coat pockets surveying the backs of the books that lined the walls when is the wedding between and to come off sir i ve a fellow feeling for a poor devil so many deep in love as why shouldn t their marriage happen as soon as ours i suppose he has come to an understanding with � why said sir i did think of letting the thing be until old died he can t hold out very long poor fellow and then might have entered into matrimony and the both at once but after all that really is no good reason for waiting there is no need for them to leave | 14 |
not an and distressing traitor to the faith of main street the settled citizen believes that the rebel is constantly m a of complaining and hearing of a he what an awful person she must lie a holy terror main street to live with glad my folks are satisfied things way they are it was not so much as five minutes a day that devoted to lonely desires it is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as as s the presence of the baby had made her take and the brown house seriously as natural places of residence she pleased by being friendly with the complacent maturity of mrs and mrs elder and when she had often enough been in conference upon the elders new car or the job which the oldest boy had taken in the office of the flour mill these topics became things to follow iq day by day with nine of her emotion concentrated upon she did not shops streets acquaintances this year or two she hurried to uncle s store for a of corn she listened to uncle s of martin for asserting that the wind last tuesday had been south and not she came back along streets that held no surprises nor the startling faces of strangers thinking of hu s all ihe way she did not reflect that this store these blocks made up all her background she did her work and she over winning from the at five the most considerable event of the two years after the birth of occurred when resigned from the high school and was married was her attendant and as the wedding was at the church all the women wore new kid slippers and long white kid gloves and looked refined for years had been little sister to and had never in the least known to what degree loved her and hated her and in curious strained ways was bound to her chapter xxi gray steel that seems because it so fast in the balanced fly wheel gray snow in an avenue of elms gray dawn with the sun behind it � this was the gray of s life at thirty nine she was small and active and sallow her yellow hair was faded and looked dry her blue silk and modest lace and high black shoes and sailor hats were as literal and as a desk but her eyes determined her appearance revealed her as a personage and a force indicated her faith in the goodness and purpose of everything they were blue and they were never still they expressed amusement pity enthusiasm if she had been seen in sleep with the wrinkles beside her eyes and the hiding the radiant she would have lost her she was born in a hill smothered village where her father was a minister she labored through a college she taught for two years in an iron range town of faced and and of ore and when she came to its trees and the shining of the wheat made her certain that she was in paradise she admitted to her fellow teachers that the was slightly damp but she insisted that the rooms were arranged so conveniently � and then that bust of president at the head of the stairs it s a lovely art work and isn t it an inspiration to have the brave honest martyr president to think about she taught french english and history and the latin class which dealt in matters of a nature called discourse and the absolute each year she was that the pupils were beginning to learn more quickly she spent four in building up the society and when the debate really was lively one friday afternoon and the of pieces did not forget their lines she felt rewarded main street she lived an engrossed useful life and seemed as cool and simple as an apple but secretly she was creeping among fears longing and guilt she knew what it was but she dared not name it she hated even the sound of the word sex when she dreamed of being a woman of the with great white warm limbs she awoke to shudder in dusk of her room she prayed to always to the son of god offering him the terrible power of her adoration addressing him as the eternal lover growing passionate exalted large as she contemplated his splendor thus she mounted to endurance and by day rattling about in many she was able to ridicule her blazing nights of darkness with cheerfulness she everywhere i guess i m a bom and no one will ever marry a plain am like me and you men great big noisy creatures we women wouldn t have you round the place up nice clean rooms if it wasn t that you have to be and guided we just ought to say to all of you but when a man held her close at a dance even when professor george patted her hand as they considered the of she quivered and reflected how superior she was to have kept her in the autumn of a year before dr will was married was his partner at a five hundred she was thirty four then about thirty six to her he was a superb boyish creature all the heroic qualities in a manly magnificent body they had been helping the hostess to serve the and coffee and they were in the kitchen side by side on a bench while the others in the room beyond was masculine and he s hand he put his arm carelessly about her shoulder don t she said sharply you re a cunning thing he offered patting the back of her in an manner while she strained away she longed to move nearer to him he bent over looked at her she glanced down at his left hand as it touched | 42 |
from the ground on knees and elbows seemingly ill at ease and anxious like stubborn to rise again i the is the most singularly beautiful of all the so slender is its at the top that it over and like the stalk of a nodding lily the branches also and divide into innumerable slender waving which are arranged in a varied eloquent harmony that is wholly indescribable its are purple and hang free in the form of little two inches long from all the from top to bottom though exquisitely delicate and feminine in expression it grows best where the snow lies deepest far up in the region of storms at an elevation of from to feet on frosty northern slopes but it is capable of the mountains of et os nd seven in four feet from the ground growing on the edge of lake hollow at an elevation of feet above the level of the sea at the age of twenty or thirty years it becomes fruitful and hangs out its beautiful purple at the ends of the slender where they swing free in the breeze and contrast delightfully with the cool green foliage they are when young and their beauty is delicious after they are fully ripe the forests they spread their shell like scales and allow the brown winged seeds to fly in the mellow air while the empty remain to the tree until the coming of a fresh crop the of all the are beautiful growing in bright clusters yellow and rose and crimson those of the are the most beautiful of all forming little of blue flowers each on a slender stem under all conditions sheltered or well fed or ill fed this tree is singularly graceful in habit even at its highest limit upon exposed though compelled to in dense huddled close together as if for mutual protection it still to throw out its in irrepressible loveliness while on well ground soil it a perfectly tropical of foliage and fruit and is the very loveliest tree in the forest poised in thin white sunshine clad with branches from head to foot yet not in the faintest degree heavy or it towers in majesty drooping as if unaffected with the tendencies of its race loving the ground while conscious of heaven and of its blessings reaching out its branches like sensitive feeling the light and in it no other of our so finely its strength its delicate branches yield to the mountains breath yet is it strong to meet the wildest of the gale � strong not in resistance but compliance bowing snow laden to the ground gracefully accepting burial month after month in the darkness beneath the heavy mantle of winter the mountains of when the first soft snow begins to fall the lodge in the leaves weighing down the branches against the trunk then the yet lower and lower until the slender top touches the ground thus forming a fine ornamental arch the snow still falls and the whole tree is at length buried to sleep and rest in its beautiful grave as though dead entire groves of young trees from ten to forty feet high are thus buried every winter like slender but like the and which the heaviest crush not they are safe it is as though this were only nature s method of putting her to sleep instead of leaving them exposed to the biting storms of winter thus warmly wrapped they await the summer the snow becomes soft in the sunshine and at night making the mass hard and compact like ice so that during the months of april and may you can ride a horse over the prostrate groves without catching sight of a single leaf at length the down pouring sunshine sets them free first the elastic tops of the arches begin to appear then one branch after another each springing loose with a gentle rustling sound and at length the whole tree with the assistance of the winds gradually and rises and settles back into its place in the warm air as dry and and fresh as young just out of the some of the finest groves i have yet found are on the southern slopes of s there are also many charming companies on the head waters of the and san and in general the species is so far from being rare the that you can scarcely fail to find groves of considerable extent in crossing the range choose what pass you may the mountain pine grows beside it and more frequently the two species but there are many beautiful groups individuals or more without a single intruder i wish i had space to write more of the surpassing beauty of this favorite every is sure to regard it with special admiration even seeking only game or gold stop to gaze on first meeting it and to themselves that s a mighty pretty tree some of them adding d d pretty in autumn when its are ripe ha little striped and the and the crow make a happy stir in its groves the deer love to lie down beneath its spreading branches bright streams from the snow that is always near ripple through its groves and precious carpets in its shade but the best words only hint its charms come to the mountains and see dwarf pine this species forms the extreme edge of the timber line throughout nearly the whole extent of the range on both it is first met growing in company with on the upper margin of the belt as an erect tree from fifteen to thirty feet high and from one to two feet in thickness thence it goes straggling up the of the the mountains of summit peaks upon or crumbling wherever it can obtain a to an elevation of from to feet where it to a mass of prostrate branches covered with slender upright shoots each tipped with a | 28 |
that of tho and the text with t un expedient which w elsewhere in e and others the n house offer their adoration to the and to him the lions of ir native country one might wonder that there is notice of th� which it must excited in these men to find of a child in quite j t ia not f however to ihe i t by according to the notion that the li � r td child in a stable lying in the for this i to and is altogether unknown to who merely speaks of a house in which the child wiu then s v the warning given to the in it which as it were only to he wi that it been l t so lo the steps of the from and prevent whole subsequent ud await the return of the jo is bv an apparition in n to with the and its into for security v � lie s point of view thin la not attended any it i� er with the pro the au ve event is e to xi in passage the prophet in the of says h hen a child thi n i u wi and called my son out of we may venture to to mo t ex � s s t la be s ui birth op i dear lo � live � of half of ihe sentence i� object of j oe e of a � g iv are son nt oo past mn i of � l i� fact to t n not he me or iti j ig never ts a our says v lie of je into took of be lie must have ns n prophecy to christ � therefore have them ft h i i i the passage a though referring to i not the a relative to i c the of the e� h waa a of the of bat convenient method of interpretation is nut here for the would in the present ca c be external and since the only i i in the ban fact in both of a in the t which e i� r li and the altogether the return of the been delayed long for to become aware tliat tb hare no intention to with him he death of all the male children in and up o age f two near that being to the st of the as to the c of the star s the utmost interval that could ha e since the birth of t ic child � thia was beyond all tion an act of the fury for might have himself a who bad rare and costly presents was yet to be found in but even it not inconsistent with the disposition of the aged tyrant o the extent that supposed it were in any to be that so and a would be noticed by than t but neither who la very minute in his account of nor the who were in his memory give slightest of this the latter do indeed connect the of into with a scene the of which however is not but king the victims not but their story is evidently founded on a ion of the occurrence gathered from the christian history with an earlier event for alexander died years before birth of who lived in the century is the author notices the slaughter of the i and he it in a which all by the execution of who waa so lar � � in w bj iii b il t ut pi i u r s tp l l ti r� m p sl p ns i i u x jn of ua mid of a child lie j of f y with murder of uie among in t c iii tu our at the remarkable in hy reminding us the number of children of the given in o have been � iu and by remarking that among the ds of cruelty by whidi the of od was stained one would be sight of w n in j but in c i of children er few is overlooked � � it is that must liave prevented deed if really from being forgotten the v a as having been fulfilled by the murder ot whereas it to � ome thing quite namely the of the jews to and bad no kind of reference to an event lying in remote while and his are in egypt the dies and joseph is instructed by an angel who appears to him in u dream to return to his native country but as a successor in was to be feared he more precise directions in a second in to which he his abode at in under the of n i in of single chapter wc have five extraordinary an star and four for the first we already remarked one might have been not only without but with either ihe star or the from tlie bi j i from going to and by perhaps have ordained by od hut that the two last visions not united in one u a mere for the direction to joseph to to of which is made the object of n special might just aa well have been included in the such a disregard even to of in relation to the miraculous one is to refer to human to divine the of old testament passages in chapter arc crowned by tlie verse where it is said that by the settlement of the parents of at was the saying of the e s be a now this passage is not to be found in the old and unless lo ng take refuge in sa by supposing it is extracted a or book now lost they � b j xix camp iv f ji h i m w � � x vl l i l li ii i a iu wind il | 14 |
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