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tied round necks whilst the skins of the two men with the moisture as they stood up to each other once more i noticed that whispered very earnestly into s ear as he rose from his knee and that the smith nodded his head with the air of a man who understands and of his orders and what those orders were was instantly apparent was to be turned from the into the the result of the rally in the last round had convinced his seconds that when it came to give and take their hardy and powerful man was likely to have the better of it and then on the top of this came the rain with the slippery grass the superior activity of would be and he would find it harder to avoid the rushes of his opponent it was in taking advantage of such circumstances that the art of lay and many a shrewd and second had won a losing battle for his man go in then i gk in the two prize while every in the crowd took up the roar and went in in such fashion that no man who saw him do it will ever forget it the smith s last battle as game as a met him with a flush hit every time but no human strength or human science seemed capable of stopping the terrible of this iron man round after round he scrambled his way in slap bang right and left every hit sent home sometimes he covered his own face with his left and sometimes he to use any guard at all but his springing were irresistible the rain lashed down upon them pouring from their faces and running in crimson over their bodies but neither gave any heed to it save to always with the view of bringing it in to each other s eyes but round after round the west fell and round after round the rose until the odds were higher in our favour than ever they had been against us with a sinking heart filled with pity and admiration for these two gallant men i longed that every bout might be the last and yet the time was hardly out of s mouth before they had both sprung from their second s knees with laughter upon their faces and words upon their bleeding lips it may have been a humble object lesson but i give you my word that many a time in my life i have myself to a hard task by the remembrance of that morning upon downs asking myself if my manhood were so stone weak that i would not do for my country or for those whom i loved as much as these two would endure for a paltry stake and for their own credit amongst their fellows such a spectacle may those who are brutal but i say that there is a spiritual side to it also and that the sight of the utmost human limit of endurance and courage is one which bears a lesson of its own but if the ring can breed bright virtues it is but a who can deny that it can be the mother of black vices also and we were destined that morning to have a sight of each it so chanced that as the battle went against his man my eyes stole round very often to note the expression upon sir s face for i knew how he had laid the odds and i understood that his fortunes as well as his champion were going down before the blows of the old the confident smile with which he had watched the opening rounds had long vanished from his lips and his cheeks had turned of a sallow whilst his fierce grey eyes looked from under his brows and more than once he burst into savage when was beaten to the ground but especially i noticed that his chin was always coming round to his shoulder and that at the end of every round he sent keen little the smith s last battle glances flying backwards into the crowd for some time amidst the immense of faces which themselves up on the slope behind us i was unable to pick out the exact point at which his gaze was directed but at last i succeeded in following it a very tall man who showed a pair of broad bottle green shoulders high above his neighbours was looking very hard in our direction and i assured myself that a quick exchange of almost was going on between him and the i became conscious also as i watched this stranger that the cluster of men around him were the elements of the whole assembly fierce vicious looking fellows with cruel faces who howled like a pack of wolves at every blow and at whenever he walked across to his corner so turbulent were they that i saw the whisper together and glance up in their direction as if preparing for trouble in store but none of them had realized how near it was to breaking out or how dangerous it might prove thirty rounds had been fought in an hour and twenty five minutes and the rain was down harder than ever a thick steam rose from the two and the ring was a pool of mud repeated falls had turned the men brown stone with a horrible of crimson round after round had ended by going down and it was evident even to my inexperienced eyes that he was rapidly he leaned heavily upon the two jews when they led him to his comer and he when their support was withdrawn yet his science had through long practice become an thing with him so that he stopped and hit with less power but with as great accuracy as ever even now a casual observer might have thought that he had the best of the battle for | 4 |
she was not near enough to him to observe he had a face on which in spite of his efforts to make it grave there was a tender smile tm afraid i frightened you miss by my premature appearance he said as he came up and took her hand visitors have no right to come at such hours but the fact is i travelled by the night mail i am very glad to see you mr very she said and so i am sure will mr and mrs be but we didn t expect � that is you expected of course instead of me he said which no doubt is a disappointment i did not say that mr though mr is a great favourite with all of us and so he ought to be for he deserves it he is i believe one of the best of men as i am sure he is the best of friends but the fact is his hands are just now too full of affairs � business matters � to admit of his coming down matters connected with poor mr of course oh mr how that shocked us all i i was afraid it would but we thought it better to tell you the whole truth and then they fell to talking about their dead friend from what told her of the matter she soon lost that feeling of horror concerning his end which the idea of suicide once so heroic now so always upon one point on which he mr had been undoubtedly insane and was therefore on all others he had shown himself to the last the kindly and beneath the rugged surface tender hearted man that he really was he loved you said as though he had been your own father trembled partly because this speech awakened certain memories partly because her companion in his earnestness and had called her for the first time by her christian name he had done so unconsciously no doubt but the sound of the more familiar title from s lips had a strange attraction for her his voice indeed was very sweet and low and from the nature of the subject confidential they walked together side by side he had picked up her for her and was carrying her basket in one hand but the other somehow had sought her own that he should have been attached to you he continued can surprise no one but his last da � s great regard a much less y o ji c i� to i � i i � i a from a thorn could it lave been otherwise that is i mean said of the enthusiasm her tone had involuntarily displayed did you not risk your life for him mr my name is walter returned the young man very gently would you mind calling me walter as did not reply to this question it must be taken for panted that she did not mind as air was so fond of you and had a regard for me went on it was only natural that he should associate us together in his mind or perhaps he guessed something � a secret i had never told him since i had not dared to tell it even to you they walked on in silence but very slowly there was a in her ears yet could hear their feet moving through the fresh grass the low of the cows in the the song of a distant it was because he guessed my secret and wished me to tell it to you for which i had not hitherto had the courage that he sent me hither as the bearer of his last farewell he said to give my dear love to her and if as i think you love one another kiss her for me and here walter kissed her that of course was a sacred duty having performed it you would think perhaps that there was an end of the affair but that was not the case he followed up the caress by by kissing his fair companion upon his own account and somehow or another though was by no means resolute in her resistance those unfortunate fell out of the basket during the process i have loved you darling from the first instant i set eyes on you whispered this impulsive young man and though i am too much of a gentleman i hope to repeat a lady s exact words uttered in a moment of confidence i may say that murmured something that had a similar tendency at this particular spot the l them and the farm happened to be thick and neither of them for some moments evinced any disposition to proceed where the veil of was thinner indeed they might have stopped there much longer but for a summons from the garden from the mistress of the house herself e � la el � la breakfast breakfast she shouted in her cheerful tones they were dose by though she could not see them and it was really rather embarrassing for them to come out as it were of and show themselves however they had to do it what mr good gracious is it really you i believe so ma am said the young gentleman modestly though indeed he aa m a tumult of happiness that he might well have been oi v a v we have to you � � o c q l aa x a but where are the in his confusion the too happy young man had not perceived that his basket was empty its late contents lay where the hedge was yet not more out of eight than out of mind oh never mind the exclaimed mrs pray walk in mr and do you go upstairs and change your boots immediately because the grass is so wet being a woman she of course took in the situation at a glance and offered | 25 |
bluff overlooking the great plain and from a distance i know not why has the appearance of a ruined temple very glad were a winter pilgrimage we to reach it about three o clock in the afternoon and partake of a lamb whole in the fashion with other luxuries just below this house start the six miles of massive dam that runs across the plain to form the retaining wall of the vast body of water which is to be held up as yet this water is allowed to escape but next winter when the dam is completed it will be saved and let out for purposes of there is nothing new in the world in the course of the building of the dam were discovered the remains of one more ancient also running across the plain but a smaller area indeed its is to be pressed into the service of the present generation i examined it and came to the conclusion that the is of the roman period mr j h of the indian department the very able engineer who has designed these great works and carried them out so successfully is however of opinion that it is probably he is right this at least is clear that people in days long dead could plan and execute such as well as we do to day roman or the stone work is admirably laid and bound together with some of the hardest and best that ever i saw the messrs christian who have contracted to complete this employ about three thousand men and women mostly on a system of piece work in the evening i walked along the great dam and them like there and in the which are to the water they were then engaged in facing the dam with stone which is fitted together but not carrying up great blocks upon their backs and laying them in place under the direction of at first the provision of this facing stone was difficult and expensive as the stuff had to be six or seven � r gate at to miles indeed its cost threatened to swallow up most of the profits then it was that within half a mile of the place where the material was needed veiy luckily mr charles christian in the course of an walk discovered an of excellent stone soft to work but with the property of in water the get it out by a simple but effective system no doubt that which has been followed by their ancestors for thousands of years a skilled man can a great number of suitable blocks in a day apparently with ease when i tried it however i found the task somewhat beyond me from the strong resemblance of the material i believe that this was the very stone used by the of the ancient dam below the doubtless they discovered the as mr christian did although oddly enough the natives who had lived in the neighbourhood all their lives declared that nothing of the sort existed for miles it was the old case of eyes and no eyes i said some pages back that living in c is cheap and of this here i had an instance the house put up by messrs christian for their convenience while directing the works is spacious two and built of stone with if i remember right a kind of mud roof laid upon covered with split cane properly made and attended to such last for years the whole cost of the building which was quite large enough to accommodate with comfort seven or eight people and servants was less than � including the large in england it would cost at the very least a thousand and probably a great deal more chapter xi that night a great gale blew roaring round the house as though we had been in or at instead of southern in the morning the wind had dropped but the sky was heavy with ominous looking rain clouds floating here and there in the blue after breakfast we mounted the that had been provided for us a blessed change from the familiar mule and set out to explore the plain and the dam this magnificent plain which in breadth from ten to twenty miles runs practically the whole length of the body of the island from on the east to on the west that is a distance of about miles once it was a dense forest now it is open level country cultivated here and there but for the most part barren on either side of it north and south stretch the two of mountains that of and that of and it is the rock brought down from these mountains in the winter floods by the river and other torrents that form the soil of the plain what a soil it is i deep brown in colour of an unknown thickness � it has been proved to fifty feet � and i suppose as rich and productive as any in the world hitherto or at any rate since the days two natural accidents however have made it comparatively that of and that of the greater part of this end of the plain which i am now describing for has been a swamp in winter and an arid wilderness in summer it is to remedy this state of that the have been constructed to hold up the waters in winter and pour their life giving streams forth again in summer in the future all this vast area of land or thousands of acres of it that will fall imder their influence ought to produce the most enormous crops on this point i see only one fear upon the top surface of the soil and in places going a foot or two into it are little veins of white deposited i suppose from the floods these may make the surface earth sour and until they are affect the health | 18 |
seated at the piano apparently the early day with the of a whole strange of this was an unwonted effort for her had fallen of late into � and it had been supposed for a year past that she had a careless adieu to all its charms but this morning she resumed it with a spirit and a perseverance that attracted the notice of all the it in their simple some impending disaster such a change in the lady s habits could import no good they intimated that when people were going to give up the ghost such were the not unusual of the event it was as bad one of the servant maids remarked as to hear a hen crow at night from the and she shouldn t wonder if something was going to happen � a burying or a wedding or some such dreadful thing but prudence was not melancholy on the contrary she smiled and seemed more cheerful than ever after breakfast mr passed an hour or two in the parlor and fascinated the ladies by the of his discourse he fell into a conversation with prudence upon literary topics and nothing could be more refreshing than to hear how much she had read and how passionately she admired it was hard to tell which was best pleased with this comparison of opinions � it was so congenial prudence proclaimed to be her favorite bard and that was exactly s preference they both disliked the of and admired scott and both delicious lines from the pleasures of hope � tis distance enchantment to the view following the line up with twenty more tis distance echoed prudence � as if it had been a thought � and responded throughout in a softer voice and with an eye to the whole good souls delightful i why has cruel fate � nonsense i shall grow sentimental myself if i say another word about them strange symptoms before noon s was at the door had arranged the examination of the line to take place on wednesday next in the mean time the ent parties on either side were to their hostile preparations with the most gracious condescension the philosopher poet patron and ascended his radiant car and away with the brisk and flourish that belongs to this race of gifted mortals chapter the national the event with which i have closed the last chapter took place on the morning of the fourth of july a day that is never without its interest even in the most secluded parts of our country it was to be celebrated at the landing a place about a mile and a half distant on the bank of the river where the small river boats are usually to take in their to this spot ned proposed that we should ride after dinner it was a holiday so had permission to accompany us and was directed to have our horses at the door we were amused to find that the old groom had not only brought out our own cavalry but also a horse for himself and there he stood holding our arrayed in his best coat with a pair of old top boots drawn over loose of striped cotton which were clean he wore his spurs and carried also a riding whip his mien was unusually brisk and after an ancient fashion he ventured to tell us that master frank thought he ought to attend us to the landing as there was on down there upon account of the fourth of july the truth was that learning our destination he had slipped off to to ask his permission to go with us our aged squire rode at a distance behind us and the national on a hard mouthed and obstinate that belonged to him trotted by our sides with both hands pulling in the bridle and his legs thrust forward to enable him to the constant tendency of his to away that � for so he calls his � is the easiest going animal on the place although each particular step lifted him at least six inches above his saddle and almost entirely stopped his talking because the motion shook the words out of his mouth somewhat in the same manner that water comes out of a bottle however no man ever thinks ill of his horse our road lay through of pine in the shade of which we advanced rapidly and we soon reached the landing there are very few villages in the tide water country of virginia it is by so many rivers that almost every plantation may be approached sufficiently near by trading vessels to gratify the demand of the population without the assistance of those little towns which in other parts of the united states up like there are yet therefore to be seen the of former trading stations on all the principal rivers and the traveller is not surprised when having consulted his map and been informed of some village with a goodly name he that he has passed over the spot without being conscious of any thing but a standing on the bank of a river in deep and solitary shade the landing which we had now reached had originally been used for a foreign trade in which vessels of a large class a long time ago were accustomed to receive of tobacco and deposit the required by the country in return it is now however nothing more than the place of resort for a few river craft used in carrying the country produce to market there were two or three buildings in view and among these one of larger dimensions than the rest a brick house with the national a part of tlie entirely gone a rank crop of weed grew up within so as to be seen through the windows of the first story indian corn was planted on the adjacent ground up to the walls and extended partly | 29 |
s child that by some strange or so the villagers thought she believed to resemble her drowned baby had earned the respect of more than one wife and mother though they wondered greatly that she should willingly leave the boy in whose very life she seemed bound up there were many prayers put up for in the village at this time the chief being that a might be born to her and so win mr for the first time to love a child of his own for the sake of its resemblance to its mother i think if td got a new born baby to lie in my arms said one day in late october when the were wondering what tide would bring to the red hall i could bear to let one of the other ones go couldn t you she added suddenly to bet of the mill story of a sin i don t know said you see we when they are coming and there s the pain but there ain t a true woman that hates the child for tliat � and somehow whether it s or or mat or bill they make their way to our hearts and we can t abide to lose em even if the burial club do pay up handsome and we ve got the satisfaction of knowing they re up top as where having no they can t feel hungry like as they do more or less below and what with washing days and a husband getting tight most saturday nights she added the en gets a poor time of it but there you ve got the mother s heart and you understand she added clutching s hand with her own weather beaten honest one early in november there was one day in the village a report of mrs s sudden and premature illness was one of the first to hear it and scarcely waiting to cloak herself made her way to the red hall and unobserved as she thought reached the nursery by the door that led from it to the garden it was about three o clock and in the clear air the house wore an unwonted look of cheerfulness and peace so that on looking at it one noticed less the frown thrown from the rock behind it than the red flung by the sun on its many windows and so giving warmth to the otherwise cold colouring oi tht story of a sin is she dead thought as she turned the handle and went in struck by the quiet that reigned in the as she went forward trembling and afraid she heard a step behind her and turning came face to face with mr who had seen her enter and followed she neither moved nor spoke but stood a image of detected guilt feeling that what she had her soul and her vow to to win had escaped her what is your errand here he said his old suspicions returning in full force as he marked each sign of guilty terror written on her face you were looking for my wife he said quietly a sudden gleam shot across her features � he had suggested to her an idea and she boldly seized upon it as a behind which to shelter her real intention why not she said sullenly she was kind to me i have a mind to see her � she wants to see me times and times i have got out of her way but now i would like to have a word with her before it is too late for she is ill they say and she might be beyond my reach to morrow she isn t dead she added struck by the curious change that had passed over mr s face dead he repeated the hatred of his glance the scorn of his voice keen as the of a knife to her heart and you living but you tempt fate he story of a sin added abruptly i gave you your warning once before i give it you now again make one more effort to see her and the consequences be on your own head you told me that before she said slowly and i might have listened to you then only got a taste of happiness and a soul that s faint with starving ii sometimes lay the bit of food down feeling that she s got beyond it and it s easier to die than to worry on but when you ve got to love your life and morning noon and night your heart cries out to be fed it isn t in human nature to go away to oblige somebody who s been cruel to you from the beginning and as was the woman s instinct of right even now it yet moved her towards the father of her dead child she could have forgiven him she thought if it had lived in his image representing the good he might have brought to her life and not the evil but and stern mr stood the judge not the in the sin and the moment of up in her breast as suddenly as it had been born you can be reached through her she said with one of those impulses of reckless that sometimes will sweep a good as well as a bad woman away if she came in here now this minute i d tell her before your eyes it would not take very long to say your husband is the father of my dead child lord told you a lie she came close to him possessed by a rage story of a sin tempted violence but mr returned her glance with a calmness that still further her perhaps you ll keep us apart after all she said but deeds can speak as well as words and when you see her heart wrung and her cheek white with misery | 17 |
the good master who had sent us with directions of his own that we had not deemed them sufficient that we had listened to those who were themselves bewildered and thus had lost our way but i entreat you to pardon me i am actually preaching a sermon when i had meant only to show you my drawings the fair speaker then rose and after ringing the bell pressed me to partake of her usually solitary tea from this time i found in all i could desire in a and many were the hours of social enjoyment that i spent in what she first called her little den and where i soon found it possible to forget except the high tone of feeling which influenced her character the noble generosity ever warming her heart and the happiness which a close and familiar intercourse with refined and elevated minds never did i see this admirable woman distressed by paltry cares and though few could have more to contend with nor weighed down by the of vanity though few had experienced a more total change of fortune she had not made the world her idol even in the day of prosperity when its smile was upon her and therefore her spirit was not by its nor her feelings by its s pictures of private life chapter v not many evenings after the first i ever spent with i joined a mixed party where a gentleman was present who struck me forcibly by his resemblance not only to the portrait i have mentioned but to my friend herself who is that gentleman with dark hair i asked of a lady who sat near mc oh that she lowering her voice and her brow at the same time as if the fact was not fit to be spoken aloud that is young have you never heard of of lodge no what is there to hear of him nothing good i assure you the has wasted his father s property some say broken his heart and now do you know he drinks dreadfully indeed i am surprised that any one should think of inviting him to an evening party i understand he is a delightful companion when quite himself observed another lady but is such an odious vice one never can forget it my cousin jane who liked nothing better than a conference h d upon the follies and vices of mankind now joined and with bitter expressed her horror that so shocking a creature should be asked to meet us who was an extremely handsome man had now risen and joined a group of ladies who whatever they might say or think of him when absent looked evidently well pleased with his presence from them he arrived by a chain of communication at the part of the room where we were seated he had the most independent yet most manner of pleasing i ever remember to have seen so that while you were actually by his conversation you felt almost that be had taken so little pains to render it flattering or agreeable and while many were severe upon his character all the young and not a few of the old were won by his address now thought i my cousin jane will show her just of his conduct and when he took a vacant place between us i turned to observe the indignation of her countenance and listened for the well which i felt convinced she would bestow upon him it is a long time said he since i had the happiness of seeing miss my cousin bowed not and said it was indeed a long time since they had met the last time he continued was on the day of that romantic excursion when the storm overtook us up the mountain and you were the only woman who had the courage to stand with me upon that tremendous precipice and watch the lightning playing at our feet when i borrowed a cloak of the shepherd s wife and put on the shepherd s hat and j as you ought to look � the genius of the valley below protecting it from the fury of the tempest do you not it is worth all the tame pleasures of domestic life now and then to spend a day like this amongst the hills with nothing but the purple beneath our feet and the blue heavens above our heads � i do then why are we so of an enjoyment which may at any time be ours what say you to a party on the river to grove where i understand the woods are delightful will you go with all my heart and thus the conversation went on to my litter amazement until interrupted by some common place remark from me which seemed to break the charm for immediately turned and addressing me in a grave and earnest manner said i have not ihe pleasure of having been introduced to you but as you are the lady who has kindly visited my poor sister i know you will pa don me when i say that i have made my way from the farthest extremity of the room by slow advances and march for the purpose of thanking you what i have done for my own gratification i replied cannot surely me to your thanks but i have heard of such a thing as being thankful for yet to come and i am living in the hope that your first visit may not be your last poor was once the idol of that society from which she is now excluded � and for what because she teaches to the children of these people the accomplishments by which society is and adorned what a marked difference is by the world in its treatment of men and wo i men your remark is but too just miss only think of me for one moment i ask no more | 41 |
ago and here s the bride and and may die a bachelor and i m a happy little woman may god bless you she was an irresistible little woman if that be anything to the purpose and never so completely irresistible as in her present there never were congratulations so and delicious as those she on herself and on the bride amid the tumult of emotions in his breast the honest had stood confounded flying now towards her dot stretched out her hand to stop him and retreated as before no john no hear all don t love me any more john on the hearth till you ve heard every word i have to say it was wrong to have a secret from you john i m very sorry i didn t think it any harm till i came and sat down by you on the little i last night but when i knew by what was written in your face that you had seen me walking in the gallery with edward and knew what you thought i felt how giddy and how wrong it was but oh dear john how could you could you think so little woman how she sobbed again john would have caught her in his arms but no she wouldn t let him don t love me yet please john not for a long time yet when i was sad about this intended marriage dear it was because i remembered may and edward such young lovers and knew that her heart was far away from you believe that now don t you john john was going to make another rush at this appeal but she stopped him again no keep there please john when i laugh at you as i sometimes do john and call you clumsy and a dear old goose and names of that sort it s because i love you john so well and take such pleasure in your ways and wouldn t see you altered in the least respect to have you made a king to morrow said with unusual vigor my opinion and when i spoke of people being middle aged and steady john and pretend that we are a couple going on in a trot sort of way it s only because i m such a silly little thing john that i like sometimes to act a kind of play with baby and all that and make believe she saw that he was coming and stopped him again but she was very nearly too late no don t love me for another minute or two if you please john what i want most to tell you i have kept to the last my dear good generous john when we were talking the other night about the i had it on my lips to that at i did dot love you so dearly as do now that i came home here i was half afraid i t learn to love every bit as well as hoped and prayed might � john but dear john every day and hour loved you more and more and if i could have loved you better do the words i heard you say this morning would made me but i can t � all the that i had il n great deal john i gave you as you deserve long long ago and i no more left to give now my dear me to your heart again that s my home john and never never think of sending me to any other you never will derive so much from seeing a woman in the arms of a third party as you would have fell if you had seen dot run into the s embrace it was ihe most complete soul piece of earnestness that ever you beheld in all your days you may be sure the was in a state of perfect rapture and you may be sure dot was likewise and you may be sure they all were of miss who cried mom for joy and wishing to include her young the general of congratulations handed round the baby to everybody in succession as if it were something to drink but now the sound of wheels was heard again outside the door and somebody exclaimed that and was back speedily that worthy gentleman appeared looking warn and why what the devil s this john said there s some mistake i appointed mrs to meet me at the church and swear i passed her hi the on her way here oh here she is i beg your pardon air i haven t ihe pleasure of knowing you but if you can do tne the to spare this young lady she has a � it on the hearth � h but i can t spare her returned edward i couldn t think of it what do you mean you vagabond v said i mean that as can make allowance for your being vexed returned the other with a smile i am as deaf to harsh this morning as i was to all discourse last night the look that bestowed upon him and the start he gave i am sorry sir said edward holding out may s left especially the third finger that the young lady can t accompany you to church but as she has been there once thb morning perhaps you will excuse her looked hard at the third finger and took a little piece of silver paper apparently containing a ring from his waistcoat pocket miss said will you have the kindness to throw that in the fire thank ee it was a previous an old engagement � that prevented my wife from keeping her appointment with you i you said edward mr will do me the justice to acknowledge that i revealed it to him faithfully and that i told him many times t could forget it said may blushing oh certainly said | 8 |
nurse in the next room and who bored and irritable at being kept so much indoors seemed to be meditating unspeakable upon the now no longer new with the pink hat stood lazily at the open window with his hands in his pockets and his back to the company watching the progress of the storm lie had developed rather a habit of standing doing nothing but stare out of the window just lately a sketch in black and white the prospect was not a cheering one across the lake the mountains of and of the were behind heavy streaming masses of white mist down toward there was a lurid light in the sky and the swiftly moving copper colored clouds were twisted and into a thousand weird fantastic shapes the broad lake itself was a blue with long of livid gray where the sudden of wind swept across the angry surface of the water in the could see the waves dashing themselves against the stone wall on the other side of the while great drops of rain and on the broad leaves of the plane trees in the garden just below it was not an encouraging outlook certainly but perhaps was none the less in sympathy with it on that account there was a knock at the door of the t cried mrs frank over her shoulder then turning to the little girl on the floor by her side she said my dear child do have some sort of compassion on that unfortunate doll tou u break its head right you know if you bang it down on the floor in that way looked up with a very little face at her mother and the head down again on the floor i hate this she said she s so old i want to go out into the garden and play turned round as the door opened it was only a hurried and slightly distracted with a packet of english letters none for yoa said frank as lie examined them before proceeding to open them turned back to the window again cried frank all of a sudden why what s the matter asked his wife almost any event would have been a relief to her this afternoon she felt so bored elizabeth s ill down at said frank slowly running his eyes over the pages of the letter old mr writes they want me to go there at once set his teeth rather hard as he watched the of wind chasing each other across the sullen face of the lake ho remembered elizabeth as ho had soon her last standing pale and patient in her white dress among the scattered flowers lie had told her once that were silly things but lie thought with a sickening feeling of dread of the stain upon her bosom come here cried frank sharply look here this letter s a good week old it was sent to london and evidently it wasn t forwarded for several days moved quickly across the room and kneeling down by her husband s side began reading the letter anything may have happened by this time frank said what on earth am i to do oh i fm afraid she is really very ill i am afraid it is serious said in accents of genuine alarm and distress i tell you what frank she went on getting up and standing by him with a pretty air of determination i must go oft to her at once this very evening a sketch in black and white indeed you ll do nothing of tlie kind he answered shortly like a good many other people frank had a habit of getting remarkably when he was frightened it s quite bad enough to have elizabeth a nasty fever going and about in cottages without your rushing off to look after her and catching it too and i ve not the least intention of being left here tied by the leg with a grumbling nurse and a couple of naughty children on my hands i can tell you i m sure the children arc not particularly answered who in the very article of death would have up to defend the i of the two babies i don t know what on earth to do though said frank had turned round and was standing with his back to the window he had formed a definite plan in his own mind but he wanted to propose it quietly and make it appear the most natural and obvious course in the world both to himself and to his companions he sauntered slowly up to the sofa one thing is certain anyway frank he said quietly you can t travel i know answered the other man i hope i m not a great coward you know but i really don t think i could and mrs can t be spared added that s clear glanced up at him quickly she held her own opinion as to what had made elizabeth m retire to and become so silent and moody even at this moment of real trouble on her part � for she was very fond of elizabeth � she could not resist trying to gain some hints regarding past events from his manner and expression looked at her steadily there was something rather hard and unpleasant in his face which made drop her eyes quickly on to the open letter again if you write he continued it will be at least five or six days before you can get any answer if you telegraph you can t explain all your reasons for not coming and they may not think you rather indifferent and he paused a minute i really think you d better let me go ho added i can catch the evening train through to paris you know i could go right on down to and telegraph you the real state of the case you really are the | 32 |
young bachelor wondered that had not taught them better my mother is not used to my having visitors who can take any interest in my said the as he opened the door of his study which was indeed as bare of luxuries for the body as the ladies had implied unless a short pipe and a tobacco box were to be men of profession don t generally smoke he said smiled and shook his head nor of mine either properly i suppose you will hear that pipe alleged against me by and company they don t know how pleased the devil would be if i gave it up i understand you are of an temper and want a i am heavier and should get idle with it i should rush into and there with all my might ana you mean to give it all to your work i am some ten or twelve years older than you and have come to a compromise i feed i e � a weakness or two lest they should get see continued the opening several small drawers i fancy i have made study of the of district i am going on both with the and i have at least done my insects well we are singularly rich i don t know whether � ah you have got hold of that glass jar � you are looking into that instead of my drawers you don t care about these things not by the side of thia lovely monster i have never had time to give k much to natural history i was early bitten with an interest and it is what lies most directly in my profession i besides i have the sea to swim in there ah you are a happy fellow said mr turning on his heel and beginning to fill his pipe you don t know what it is to want spiritual tobacco � bad of old or small about a variety of with the well known signature of for me s magazine or a learned on the of the including all the insects not mentioned but probably met with by the in their passage through the desert with a on the ant as treated by solomon the harmony of the book of with the results of modem you don t mind my you ate was more surprised at the of this talk man at its implied meaning � that the felt not altogether in tlie right the neat fitting up of drawers and and the with expensive books on natural history made him think again of the at cards and their destination but he was beginning to wish that the very best construction of everything that mr did should be the true one the frankness seemed not of the repulsive sort that comes from an uneasy consciousness seeking to the judgment of others but simply the relief of a desire to do with as little pretence as possible apparently he was not without a sense that his freedom of speech m tt seem premature for lie said i have not yet told you that i have the advantage of you mr and know you better than you know me you remember who shared your apartment at paris for some time was a correspondent of his and he told me a good deal about you i was not quite sure when you first came that you were the same man i was very glad when i found that you were only i don t forget that you have not had the like about me divined some delicacy of feeling here but did not half understand it by the way he said what has become of i have quite lost sight of him he was hot on the french social systems and talked of going to the to found a sort of community is he gone not at all he is at a bath and has married a rich patient book il � old and young then my notions wear the so said with a short laugh he have it the profession was an inevitable of i said the was in the men � men who to lies and folly instead of preaching against outside the walls it might be better to set up a apparatus within in short l am my own conversation � you may be sure i had all the good sense on my side your scheme is a good deal more difficult to carry out than the community though you have not only got the old adam in yourself against you but you have got all those descendants of the original who form the society around you you see i have paid twelve or thirteen years more than you for my knowledge of difficulties but � mr broke off a moment and then added you are that glass do you want to make an exchange you not have it a i have some � fine � in spirits and i will throw in robert brown s new � observations on the of plants � if you don t happen to have it already why seeing how you long for the monster i might ask a higher price suppose i ask you to look through my drawers and with me about all my new species the while he talked in this way alternately moved about with his pipe in his mouth and to hang rather fondly over his drawers that would be good discipline you know for a doctor who has to please his s in you must learn to be bored remember you shall have the monster on your own terms don t you think men the necessity for s nonsense till they get despised by the very fools they said te to mr s side and rather at the insects ranged in fine with names in exquisite writing the shortest way is to make your value felt so | 14 |
able to endure the restraint which her father imposed the liberty which his absence had given was now become absolutely necessary she must escape from him and as soon as possible and find consolation in fortune and consequence bustle and the world for a wounded spirit her mind was quite determined and varied not to such feelings delay even the delay of much preparation would have been an evil and mr could hardly be more impatient for the marriage than herself in all the important preparations of the mind she was complete being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home restraint and tranquillity by the misery of disappointed affection and contempt of the man she was to marry the rest might wait the preparations of new carriages and furniture might wait for london and spring when her own taste could have fairer play the being all agreed in this respect it soon appeared that a very few weeks would be sufficient for such arrangements as must the wedding mrs was quite ready to retire and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son selected and very early in november removed herself her maid her footman and her chariot with true propriety to bath there to parade over the wonders of in her evening parties enjoying them as thoroughly perhaps in the animation of a as she had ever done on the spot and before the park middle of the same month the ceremony had taken place which gave another it was a very proper wedding the bride was dressed uie two were duly inferior her father gave her away her mother stood with in her hand expecting to be agitated her aunt tried to cry and the service was read by dr grant nothing could be objected to when it came under the discussion of the neighbourhood except that the carriage which conveyed the bride and bridegroom and from the church door to was the same chaise which mr had used for a before in everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the investigation it was done and they were gone sir thomas felt as an anxious father must feel and was indeed much of the agitation which his wife had apprehensive of for herself but had fortunately escaped mrs most happy to assist in the duties of the day by spending it at the park to support her sister s spirits and drinking the health of mr and mrs in a glass or two was all joyous delight for she had made the match she had done i and no one would have supposed from her confident triumph that she had ever heard of in her life or could have the smallest insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye the plan of the young couple was to proceed after a few days to and take a house there for some weeks every public place was new to maria and is almost as gay in winter as in summer when uie novelty of amusement there was over would be time for the wider range of london was to go with them to since between the sisters had ceased they had been io of good aid were at w l b ci c to each of to be with tbe at a tune some other i an r was of the to his lady and was quite as eager for and pleasure as she mi not hare ed to obtain and could better bear a their made another material change at a which some time to fill the became greatly and the miss had added to its g y they not but be missed even their mother missed them and how more their tender hearted cousin who wandered about the house and thought of them and for them with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve y s consequence increased on the departure of her cousins becoming as she then did the only young woman in the drawing room the only of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble a third it was impossible for her not to be more looked at more thought of and attended to than she had ever been before and where is became no uncommon question even without her being wanted for any one s convenience not only at home did her value increase but at the too in that house which she had hardly entered twice a year since mr s death she be park came a welcome an guest and in the gloom and dirt of a november day most acceptable to mary her visits there by chance were continued by mrs grant really to get any change for her sister could by the easiest self deceit persuade herself that she was doing the kindest thing by and giving her the most important opportunities of improvement in pressing her frequent calls having been sent into the village on some errand by her aunt was overtaken by a heavy shower close to the and being from one of the windows to find shelter under the branches and lingering leaves of an oak just beyond their premises was forced though not without some modest reluctance on her part to come in a civil servant she had but when dr grant himself went out with an umbrella there was nothing to be done but to be very much ashamed and to get into the house as fast as possible and to poor miss who had just been contemplating the dismal rain in a very state of mind sighing over the ruin of all her plan of exercise for that morning and of chance of seeing a single beyond themselves for the next twenty four hours the sound of a little bustle at the front door and the sight of miss | 26 |
then she said are you going to be a soldier always these wars are so long � so long they last forever and ever and ever there was a glad flash in s eye as she cried this campaign will do all the really hard work that is in front of it in the next four days the rest of it will be � oh far less bloody yes in four days france will gather another like the of and make her second long step toward freedom started and so did i then she gazed long at like one in a trance murmuring four days � four days as if to herself and unconsciously finally she asked in a low voice that had something of awe in it tell me � how is it that you know that do know i of arc � yes said i know � i know i shall strike � and strike again and before the fourth day is finished i shall strike yet again she became silent we sat wondering and still this was for a whole minute she looking at the floor and her lips moving but uttering nothing then came these words but hardly audible and in a thousand years the english power in france will not rise up from that blow it made my flesh creep it was she was in a trance again � i could see it � just as she was that day in the pastures of when she about us boys in the war and afterward did not know that she had done it she was not conscious now but did not know that and so she said in a happy voice oh i believe it i believe it and i am so glad then you will come back and bide with us all your life long and we will love you so and so honor you a scarcely perceptible flitted across s face and the dreamy voice muttered before two years are sped i shall die a cruel death i sprang forward with a warning hand up that is why did not scream she was going to do that � i saw it plainly then i whispered her to slip out of the place and say nothing of what had happened i said was asleep � asleep and dreaming whispered back and said n oh i am so grateful that it is only a dream it sounded like prophecy and she was gone like prophecy i knew it was prophecy and i sat down crying as knowing we should lose her soon she started shivering slightly and came to herself and looked around and saw me crying there and jumped out of her chair and ran to me all in a whirl of sympathy and compassion and put her hand on my head and said my poor boy i what is it look up and tell me i had to tell her a lie i grieved to do it but there was no other way i picked up an old letter from my table written by heaven knows who about some matter heaven knows what and told her i had just gotten it from p re fronts and that in it it said the children s fairy tree had been down by some or other and � i got no further she snatched the letter from my hand and searched it up and down and all over turning it this way and that and sobbing great sobs and the tears flowing down her cheeks and all the time oh cruel cruel how could any be so heartless ah poor f e de gone � and we children loved it so show me the place where it says it and i still lying showed her the pretended fatal words on the pretended fatal page and she gazed at them through her tears and said she could see her i of arc self that they were hateful ugly words � they had the very look of it then we heard a strong voice down the corridor announcing � � his majesty s messenger � with for her the commander in chief of the armies of france chapter knew she had seen the vision of the tree but when i could not know doubtless before she had lately told the king to use her for that she had but one year left to work m it had not occurred to me at the time but the conviction came upon me now that at that time she had already seen the tree it had brought her a welcome message that was plain otherwise she could not have been so joyous and light hearted as she had been these latter days the death warning had nothing dismal about it for her no it was of exile it was leave to come home yes she had seen the tree no one had taken the prophecy to heart which she made to the king and for a good reason no doubt no one wanted to take it to heart all wanted to banish it away and forget it and all had succeeded and would go on to the end placid and comfortable all but me alone i must carry my awful secret without any to help me a heavy load a bitter burden and would cost me a daily heart break she was to die and so soon i had never dreamed of that how could i and she so strong and fresh and young and every of arc day earning a new right to a peaceful and honored old age for at that time i thought old age valuable i do not know why but i thought so all young people think it i believe they being ignorant and full of she had seen the tree all that miserable night those ancient verses went floating back and forth through my brain and | 34 |
ir f i in � bud i u i op tub of view an divine ac t nt ill o in of early date the n � in n n l� fl fo liis of � i� ion lo ii i i to in divine he or in c histories if it ink ot all of us well a� to un x l or to l of lived in union with mi whilst te � such is s of are always in to the and literally it hitherto n customary to ia in the histories either and falsehood or the of tradition but thinks justice evidently requires that hebrew and pa history should ho treated in the same way so with beings during a of in must either be to all nations pagan and hebrew or equally denied to au mind to make so universal an first on of not un errors contained in claiming to have been communicated secondly from a sen e of the of explaining the of the race from a state of ine to one of o and lastly in aa and of the records may be more ana more relied upon in the proportion do immediate divine invariably disappear it accordingly notion of su k ii is lo rejected with re lo tlie as well a lo c view generally taken of tt at as that most to early namely their n were based n on and falsehood or that should be m i to ihe and of tradition is the view of the ct a d by the lo the i nt n n from which the mind on a r ev ii n is it conceivable that the ti of so fully and so i n ir age one and all liave and et t e detection of according lo i o per a view could arise only in ft mind that refused lo the ancient in � of their age truly bad they composed with all l accuracy of writers of the present day we have been compelled to find in them actual di or a pretence but they arc the production of an infant age and treat reserve of divine int en en i ill with the and of r period ho that in point of tact have neither to won im at on the nor lo on the simply the of n l r a to that of y race liad gained a of tin of all were to bu s or u of ii lofty n more c were the of that whose tn placed of � l k ll by which some individual excited r of the i � as ai s of and of a with and n as the belief not ol the people only but also of c eminent who i no of tlie and who exalted in the fuu conviction of being in with the deity i� of no ol tion can l c ui d against the attempt to th� i into and far he � to the tan but le mi es wm an i to be over and a with in the all divine but h from them in explained the lu i not os h imported with to deceive but sa a and as it were reflected from anti i in with these ch to naturally the of c a in i the of that the of to be the leader of � u us more than the long project of the to people which when before his n more than usual in hu was by him to be a divine inspiration the and a� at the giving of ihe law a fire which in r in make a ion ni on the nation of people an il which nt that the shining of his countenance was natural of being but it was su n to be a divine not by the bat by mo s lie being ignorant of the true cause � ni was more n � in his application of mode of to the new tt it was only to a � � of the in the acts of the such as tlie miracle of the day of t of the paul and the many apparition of angels that he allowed himself lo apply il too he the to the ul bible in which for example a happy m � a a thought � the of an angel and a op ov p� i� state of mind � comforting angel it is however le was of of natural to to� i part of gospel and with n� lo many of took a more view many in a spirit partially tlie j j l of c but it l y on ow in reputation of a ill the in to in n to work it to lie tlie re � of tin al critic to to h ix wn what i is y i v and wliat � that which has been tu l or by the in an he calls fa the of an event the sup x st d causes i to l is either by the or bv i he calls opinion to t two become blended and in � both of original in an and of and and opinion low their so tliat the one and tin other arc and with c in their historical this ia particularly in the books of tlie new i ment at lime n it was the pre di to derive striking from an invisible and it ia v tlie chief of the historian t lo d� al witli of t that i to nay in to the n c w ti lament to st two con elements so find yet in � o and to of from the shell of o in to in tin of u y more genuine account which would as a he must in | 14 |
told him we would sit here all night that s right we agreed and he as good as kicked me out of his house sir said jim what we were overwhelmed at this breach of decorum and jim had to of course he did not lay his hand on me but he rang the bell and told that black butler of his to show me the door this did look like it and jim who was rather declared that for a little he would call him oat himself jim whom did he say he would send for v we asked i did not catch the name exactly but it sounded like it could not have been him though he s the are you sure it was there s only one in the county and that s the jim s memory was refreshed by our repetition of the name and he was positive it was here was a shell the whole plot burst on us he was going to send for the and have us arrested and then get the credit of being the only one out it was why in the mischief did you tell him where we were we asked which made jim rather sulky and he said truly that we had just praised him for doing that very thing and said something further about our being a couple of fools as he was necessary to us and had done the best he could we had to him which was not hard to do still there was the question of arrest to be considered to be the first arrested in a was a crying disgrace it was decided to send out to he had not been gone long when he came rushing back and began to the door faster than ever he had run upon the himself coming out of old s yard and the had attempted to arrest him but i knocked him down said he triumphantly this was a new the was already the friend and creature of old who was the s attorney and now to have knocked him down would make him all the more bitter against us jim changed the current of our thoughts suddenly by saying suppose old should choose shot guns and he s one of the best shots with a shot gun in the world one armed or no one armed i had not thought of this and i was conscious of a sudden and catching of my breath which left a little taste in my mouth then i thought of my girl again i asked jim how the colonel lost his arm he said in the war and i don t know why but i was conscious again of that same sinking sensation and taste however we did not have much time to consider for just then we heard the of approaching footsteps through the frozen snow and the next moment there came a thundering knock at the door and the was demanding i was sensible of something not unlike a feeling of relief at which i was rather ashamed but seemed to be in a frenzy of excitement he sprang up and seized a heavy desk the and his for there were several in the party as we could tell from their voices finding the door locked dashed against it and it and cracked and seemed about to give way when got his desk against it and flung himself on top of it get out of the window he whispered hurry go to s i ll hold it i ll keep the out i of course had to appear to hb trying to get away so i began to at the window and would have found a reasonable excuse in its tight if jim had not solved the difficulty by kicking the window out and all there was nothing for me to do then but to climb out but how cold it was i thought the wind would split me i was about to climb back when jim pushed me out they were the most eager seconds i ever saw i told them i could not go out in that wind without a hat and overcoat they flung me a hat and asked where my overcoat was i was looking around with one eye for the coat and the other on the door hoping it might give way which it threatened to do every minute when it did give way with a and the came in head foremost through the split flung himself on him like a tiger shouting to me to run � he d hold him � and jim gave me a so there was nothing else to do and i got out it was as cold as christmas and as i ran across the lots to rice s stable i thought the wind would cut me in two jim followed and we climbed up into the in the hay at first i was sensible of relief at getting out of that biting wind but after a little i began to again i asked jim if he thought he could get any he said not and began to preach on in general and especially on the necessity of in a i said jim you talk as if you were drunk now he was so much offended at this that i i rowed down into the hay but to no purpose jim was better off than i for he had an overcoat the idea that would keep me from seemed to take possession of me and i began to think about it all the time presently i actually began to smell it this scared me for i thought i must be to death my feet were already jim who had at first been very had become less and less so and now only answered from his hole in the hay in or not at all how long we | 46 |
often the sympathies of age his h� r c e which like a spirit sits at the of the heart every genial sentiment and every spontaneous glow of enthusiasm no sooner then did this scoundrel on his honour reach the ear of peter than he proceeded in a manner which would have to his credit even though he had studied for years in the library of don himself he immediately despatched his and squire van with orders to ride night and day as herald to the council them in terms of noble indignation for giving ear to the of heathen against the character of a christian a gentleman and a soldier � and declaring that as to the treacherous and bloody plot alleged against him whoever affirmed it to be true lied in his teeth � to prove which he defied the president of the council and all of his or if they pleased their champion captain that mighty man of to meet him in single where he would trust the of his innocence to the of his arm this challenge being delivered with due ceremony van sounded a trumpet of defiance before the whole council ending with a most and full in the face of captain who almost jumped out of his skin in an of astonishment at the noise this done he mounted a tall mare which be always rode and trotted merrily towards the an w� r to the council � passing through and and and all the other border his trumpet like a very devil so that the sweet valleys and banks of the with the warlike melody � and stopping occasionally to eat dance at country and bundle with the of those whom he rejoiced exceedingly with his soul stirring instrument but the grand council being composed of considerate men had no idea of running a with such a fiery hero as the hardy peter � on the contrary they sent him an answer in the the most mild and provoking terms in which they assured him that his guilt was proved to their perfect satisfaction by the testimony of divers sober and respectable indians and concluding with this truly amiable paragraph � for of the barbarous charged will little in balance against such evidence that we must still require and due satisfaction and so we rest sir in of c i am aware that the above transaction has been differently recorded by certain of the east and elsewhere who seem to have inherited the bitter enmity of their ancestors to the brave and much good may their inheritance do them these declare that peter requested to have the charges against him inquired conduct of their into by to be appointed for the purpose and yet that when such were appointed he refused to submit to their examination in this artful account there is but the semblance of truth � he did indeed most offer when that he found a deaf ear was turned to his challenge to submit his conduct to the inspection of a court of honour � but then he expected to find it an august composed of courteous gentlemen the and nobility of the and of the province of new j where he might be tried by his in a manner worthy of his rank and dignity � whereas let me perish if they did not send to the two lean sided hungry mounted on with saddle bags under their and green under their arms as though they were about to beat the from one county court to another in search of a law suit the peter as might be expected took no notice of these cunning who with professional industry fell to and about in quest of ea evidence divers simple indians and old women with their cross questioning until they contradicted and themselves most horribly thus having fulfilled their errand to their own satisfaction they returned to the grand council with their and stuffed full of stories and outrageous � for all which the great peter did not care a tobacco j against but i warrant me had they attempted to play off the same trick upon william the he would have treated them both to an on his patent gallows the grand council of the east held a very solemn meeting on the return of their and after they had pondered a long time on the situation of affairs were upon the point of without being able to agree upon any thing at this critical moment one of those spirits who endeavour to establish a character for patriotism by blowing the of party until the whole furnace of politics is with sparks and � and who have just cunning enough to know that there is no time so favourable for getting on the people s backs as when they are in a state of turmoil and attending to every body s business but their own � this of who was called a great because he had secured a seat in council by all his � he i say conceived this a fit opportunity to strike a blow that should secure his popularity among his who lived on the borders of and were the greatest in excepting the scotch border like a second peter the therefore he stood forth and preached up a against peter and his devoted city he made a speech which lasted six hours according to the ancient custom in these parts in which he represented the dutch as a race of im the dutch anti pious who neither believed in nor the sovereign virtues of horse who left heir country for the of gain not like them for the enjoyment of liberty of conscience � ho in short were a race of mere and inasmuch as they never ate on devoured swine s flesh without and held in utter contempt this speech had the desired effect for the council being awakened by the at arms | 48 |
now except the g een hands that came aboard this year this is rather an important matter outward bound or everything depends upon the officers for instance who will be captain asked with assumed indifference i shall of course replied with becoming modesty that s a settled matter i suppose yes without a doubt it is i may not ag ee to that suggested new convert you have already agreed to it you have promised to obey your but who are my i am one of them who appointed you i appointed myself i got up the chain i think i have just as much right to that place as � you have j i don t see it do you expect me to get up this i thing and then take a subordinate position demanded indignantly let members choose the captain that s the proper way perhaps they will choose neither one of us very well i will agree to serve under any fellow who is fairly elected when shall he be chosen asked who was so sure of a majority that he was disposed to adopt the suggestion when we have thirty links say � will agree to it the separated each to obtain as fast as he during the latter part of the day young america afloat the gale began to and at sunset its force was broken but the sea still ran fearfully high the fore course was shaken out and the ship filled away again plunging madly into the savage waves on sunday morning the gale had entirely subsided but the wind still came from the same quarter and the weather was cloudy the sea had its fury though the still rolled high and the ship had an ugly motion during the night the had been turned out of the the flying and had been set and the young america was making a course east south east sail ho shouted one of the crew on the after the watch was set where away demanded the officer of the deck over the lee bow sir was the report which came through the officers on duty the report created a sensation as it always does when a sail is seen for one who has not spent days and weeks on the broad expanse of waters can form only an inadequate idea of the companionship which those in one ship feel for those in another even while they are miles apart though the crew of the young america had been shut out from society only about three days they had already begun to realize this craving for association � this desire to see other people and be conscious of their existence after the severe gale through which they had just passed this sentiment was stronger than it would have been under other circumstances the ocean lashed into unwonted fury by the mad winds a fierce gale had been raging for full twenty four hours outward bound or and the tempest was suggestive of what the sailor most � with its long train of disaster � suffering and death it was hardly possible that such a terrible storm had swept the sea without carrying down some vessels with precious of human life the young america had safely ridden out the gale for all art could do to make her safe and strong had been done without regard to expense no owners had built her of poor and insufficient material or sent her to sea weakly and with officers the ship was heavily eighteen or twenty men would have been deemed a sufficient crew to work her and though her force consisted of boys they would average more than two of the muscle and skill of able there were other ships abroad on the vast ocean which could not compare with her in strength and and which had not one third of her working power on board no ship can absolutely defy tlie elements and there is no such thing as absolute safety in a voyage across the ocean but there is far less peril than people who have had no experience generally suppose the have been running more than a quarter of a century with the loss of only one ship and no lives in that one � a triumphant result achieved by strong ships with competent men to manage them poorly built ships short with officers unfit for their positions constitute the harvest of destruction on the ocean mr believed that the students of the academy ship would be as safe on board the young young america afloat america as they would on shore he had taken a great deal of pains to his theory to parents and though he often failed he often succeeded the young america had just passed through one of the of the year and in for the next three years she would hardly encounter a more terrific storm she had safely it the boys had behaved splendidly and not one of them had been lost or even injured by the trying exposure the principal s theory was thus far the watch to breakfast when the sail was discovered too far off to make her out the boys all manifested a deep interest in the distant wanderer on the sea mingled with a desire to know how the stranger had the gale many of them went up the into the tops and the spy glasses were in great demand do you make her out captain asked mr as he came up front bis breakfast and discovered the commander watching the stranger through the glass yes sir i can just make her out now her and have gone by the board and she has the union down hoisted at her replied the captain with no little excitement in his manner indeed exclaimed the teacher of as he took the glass you are right captain and you had better keep her away shall i speak to | 36 |
divided them oh heavens my beloved have i got you at last was her address on s entering the box and sitting by her now mr for he was close to her on the other side i shall not speak another word to you all the rest of the evening so i charge you not to expect it my sweetest how have you been this long age but i need not ask you for you look delightfully you really have done your hair in a more heavenly style than ever you mischievous creature da you want to attract everybody i assure you my brother is quite in love with you already and as for mr � but that is a settled thing � even your abbey modesty cannot doubt his attachment now his coming back to bath makes it too plain oh what would not i give to see him i really am quite wild with impatience my mother says he is the most young man in the world she saw him this morning you know you must introduce him to me lu he in the house now look about for heaven s sake i assure you i can hardly exist till i see him no said he is not here i cannot see him any where oh horrid i am i never to be acquainted with him how do you like my gown i think it does not look amiss the sleeves were entirely my own thought do you know get so sick of bath your brother and i were agreeing this morning that though it is vastly well to be here for a few weeks we would not live here for millions we soon found out that our tastes were exactly alike in preferring the country to every other place really our opinions were so exactly the same it was quite ridiculous there was not a single point in which we differed i would not have had you by for the world you are such a sly thing i am sure you would have made some droll remark or other about it no indeed should not oh yes you would indeed i know you better than you know self you would have told us that we seemed bom for each other or some nonsense of that kind which would have distressed me beyond conception my cheeks would have been as red as your roses i would not have had you by for the world indeed you do me injustice i would not have made so improper a remark upon any account and i am sure it would never have entered my head smiled and talked the rest of the evening to james abbey s resolution of endeavouring to meet miss again continued in full force the next morning and till the usual moment of going to the room she felt some alarm from the dread of a second but nothing of that kind occurred no visitors appeared to delay them and they all three set off in good time for the pump room where the ordinary course of events and conversation took place mr after drinking his glass of water joined some gentlemen to talk over the politics of the day and compare the accounts of their newspapers and the ladies walked about together noticing every new face and almost every new bonnet in the room the female part of the family attended by james appeared among the crowd in less than a quarter of an hour and immediately took her usual place by the side of her friend james who was now in constant attendance maintained a similar position and separating themselves from the rest of their party they walked in that manner for some time till began to doubt the happiness of a situation which her entirely to her friend and brother gave her very little share in the notice of either they were always engaged in some sentimental discussion or lively dispute but their sentiment was conveyed in such whispering voices and their vivacity attended with so much laughter that though s supporting opinion was not called for by one or the other she was never able to give any from not having heard a word of the subject at length however she was to herself from her friend by the necessity of speaking to miss whom she most saw just entering the room with mrs and whom she instantly joined with a firmer determination to be acquainted than she might have had courage to command had she not been urged by the disappointment abbey of the day before miss met her with great civility returned her advances with equal good will and they continued talking together as long as both parties remained in the room and though in all probability not an observation was made nor an expression used by either which had not been made and used some thousands of times before under that roof in every bath season yet the merit of their being spoken with simplicity and truth and without personal conceit might be something uncommon how well your brother dances was an exclamation of s towards the close of their conversation which at once and amused her companion henry she replied with a smile yes he does dance very well he must have thought it very odd to hear me say i was engaged the other evening when he saw me sitting down but i really had been engaged the whole day to mr miss could only bow you cannot think added after a moment s silence how i was to see him again i felt sure of his being quite gone away � when henry had the pleasure of seeing you before he was in bath but for a couple of days he came only to engage lodgings for us that never occurred to me and of course not seeing him anywhere i thought he must be gone was | 26 |
he was fearful that he had slightly his part and that in his efforts to cover up the the flag ob wrong which he had actually committed he should prove himself to be guilty of what he had not done but his chances were still good in his own estimation harassed though he was by doubts and fears it could not be proved that he changed the bills mr might swear that he had given the money to buy the boat but that would not prove that he had not stolen s money if worse came to worst and he found himself compelled to the two hundred and fifty dollars he could place the in a in the flag or in some other place which would fasten the guilt upon the boy the case was by no means hopeless though it did not work as well as the had hoped and expected � had a powerful friend in mr he was a man of wealth and influence and this fact troubled mr the accused would be defended at the examination which was yet to take place probably there would be smart lawyers who would indulge in ugly cross and dig down into the deepest depths of human nature it gave him a cold sweat to think of the the young op cape ann awkward questions be would be asked and of the efforts which would be made to induce him to contradict himself but if the case looked desperate on the day before the examination he could easily change the whole aspect of it by carrying out the policy he had adopted when he found the in the chimney mr still believed that would be committed for trial and that he should be able to keep the money dock had delivered his cargo of fish in boston and returned to where he expected to obtain another eight the following week as left old pier after landing his passengers he passed near the he was sorry to see dock come back now that mr had returned he was aid the grasping villain would make a demand upon the merchant for a larger reward and perhaps mention his name dock was a mean man and capable of doing very mean things as the flag stood away fi om the shore almost made up his mind to say something to mr about the little plan and put him on his guard against the of the wretch but aa it might look like a hint thb flag or or at least open th question as to whether the merchant had sufficiently rewarded those who saved his daughter and himself he decided to say nothing the matter � stood out from the to the deep water where his boat could float at low tide and came to anchor there after his sails it was nearly dark and he concluded to pipe to supper he had laid in a stock of provisions consisting of a small boiled ham bread cakes and he had no for making tea or coffee though he had heard of an apparatus for making coffee with a spirit lamp which he intended to procure but he had a of water on board with whose contents he was satisfied for the present the young without being an was very fond of good living and certainly his fare on board the boat was much better than that to which he had been accustomed at the house of his uncle and what filled the measure of his satisfaction there was plenty of it like a prince and having cleared away his table � which a swinging board in the � he sat for an the young op cape ann � hour watching the sea as the flag gently rose and fell on the long regular and listening to their dull roar as they broke upon the and the rocks then he thought of the coming examination of the triumph which awaited him when mr gave his evidence for he believed that he would fully establish his innocence the darkness gathered around him and it was time to pipe below he had not yet purchased the for the of his boat but he had made up a bed of old clothes in one of them using the tattered sail of the dingy for a covering if he ate like a prince he slept better than princes are said to sleep for he did not wake till daylight it was sunday and as he had procured all his clothes from his uncle s he dressed himself in his best after he had washed down the boat and put her in order he had declined an offer of ten dollars to take a party out to the fishing grounds on that day and running in at old pier he went to church and to sunday school as the next morning he went after dog fish and pro the flag ob cured a full cargo whose added ten dollars funds in his by three o clock in the afternoon he had sold his fare to mr and washed up the boat so that she was as clean and sweet as a lady s he intended to devote the rest of the day to a pleasure trip to s island the occasion was to be complimentary to he had spoken of the trip on saturday night and mr had consented for he had perfect confidence in s prudence as well as his mrs had been invited but she was always so sick that sailing parties afforded her no pleasure and she declined to go in order to make the occasion more agreeable to had invited john and to join the party always did the handsome thing and it was perhaps rather extravagant he expended three dollars and a half in the purchase of the cake the made and in fruit and all the party except were at old pier the | 36 |
the meadows having passed the period of communication with his fellows his old experienced coat hanging long and straight and brown as the yellow pine bark glittering with so much smothered sunlight if you stood near enough no work of art but at length i often discovered him unexpectedly amid the and the gray when he moved fishing in some old country method � for youth and age then went a fishing together � full of thoughts perchance about hb own and he was always to be seen in serene the river and almost rustling with the s so many sunny hours in an old man s life silly fish almost grown to be the sun s need had he of hat or any having served out his time and seen through such thin i have seen how his rewarded him with the yellow perch and yet i thought his luck was not in portion to his years and i have seen when with slow steps and weighed down with aged thoughts he disappeared with his fish under his house on the skirts of the village i think nobody else saw him nobody else remembers him now for he soon died and to new streams his fishing was not a sport nor solely a means of but a sort of solemn and from the world as the aged read their the divine man art in � a scientific statement of the doctrine of the lord or divine man the doctrine of the lord or divine man rests upon this that od alone is being or life in himself man is not being but only a subject of being a form or image of being his being is not absolute but as in space and time but god s being is utterly either in space or time it is infinite not as all space but as utterly the bare conception of space and eternal not as all time but as utterly the bare conception of time he is not a subject of being but being itself and therefore the sole being with this we are bound to deny that the creature of god has any being or substance in himself the substantial being or life of every creature is god while the creature is but a form or image of god the creature is not another being than god nor yet is he an identical being with god because the creature is not being at all but only a shadow or reflection of being tou would not call the shadow of the tree on the ground another substance than the tree itself nor yet the same substance for the reason that the shadow is not any substance at all but merely the image of a substance so man the shadow or image of god is neither a different being from god nor yet an identical being because he is not any being whatever but only the reflection of being thus god s creature is without any being or substance in himself his being nothing more than an image or reflection of the only and universal being which is god the internal of every man is god the external or that which the man his self consciousness is only a shadow or reflection of this internal these things being granted which they must be as it seems to the writer unless one to deny the fact of creation it follows from them that the universe of creation is a vast theatre of or correspondence if god be the sole and therefore universal being his universal creature can be nothing more and nothing less than his image or shadow and if the creature be only the image or shadow of god then creation itself is not the of any new being or substance on the part of god but only the revelation or the man forth of a being wliich is eternal and in the light of the principles here stated the created universe itself both in whole and in part into an or correspondence of god and the science consequent j or the science of becomes the science of correspondence if now all this be true if it be true that creation can be nothing more and nothing less than the revealing or forth of then some momentous results immediately to our and philosophy it results that the true creature of ood is not cannot be comprehended within the laws of space and time for as the creature is i an e or reflection of and as ood being eternal and infinite is utterly ignorant both of time and space so his true creature cannot be by these conditions thus the life of nature or that life which lies within the laws of space and time does not image god the only life does image him consequently is one that these laws being a spiritual life and this life belongs exclusively to man but in order to justify this it is necessary to state what we mean by spirit as distinguished from sensible nature in speaking of the spirit of a thing in to the sensible thing itself nothing else is meant than its genius or faculty of operation for example the horse is an outward form by my senses from all other natural forms but there is something more in the horse than meets my eye namely a certain faculty or capacity of use which his spirit or genius and is only by the eye of my understanding thus what is spiritual about the horse is what lies within his material form and his power or faculty of use this faculty is different in the horse from what it is in every other animal the cow the sheep the ox the lion the elephant etc take another example from the sphere of the arts my hat is an artificial form sensibly distinct from all other forms but this outward or sensible | 37 |
being in love with him i should not like a man who is so soon by a hot morning s sweet easy temper will not mind it he was gone long enough to have had a very comfortable meal and came back all the better � grown quite cool and with good manners like himself able to draw a chair close to them take an interest in their employment and regret in a reasonable way that he should be so late he was not in his best spirits but seemed trying to improve them and at last made himself talk nonsense very agreeably they were looking over views in as soon as my aunt gets well i shall go abroad said he i shall never be easy till i have seen some of these places you will have my sketches some time or other to look at � or my tour to read � or my poem i shall do something to expose myself that may be � but not by sketches in you will never go to your uncle and aunt will never allow you to leave england they may be induced to go too a warm climate may be prescribed for her i have more than half an expectation of our all going abroad i assure you i have i feel a strong persuasion this morning that i shall soon be abroad i ought to travel i am tired of doing nothing i want a change i am serious miss whatever your penetrating eyes may fancy � i am sick of england � and would leave it tomorrow if i could you are sick of prosperity and indulgence cannot you invent a few hardships for yourself and be contented to stay i sick of prosperity and indulgence you are quite mistaken i do not look upon myself as either prosperous or indulged i am in everything material i do not consider myself at all a fortunate person you are not quite so miserable though as when you first came go and eat and drink a little more and you will do very well another of cold meat another draught of and water will make you nearly on a par with the rest of us no � i shall not stir i shall sit by you you are my best cure we are going to box hill to morrow you will join us it is not but it will be something for a young man so much in want of a change you will stay and go with us no certainly not i shall go home in the cool of the evening but you may come again in the cool of tomorrow morning no � it will not be worth while if i come i shall be cross then pray stay at but if i do i shall be still i can never bear to think of you all there without me these are difficulties which you must settle for yourself choose your own degree of i shall press you no more the rest of the party were now returning and all were soon collected with some there was great joy at the sight of frank others took it very but there was a very general dis vol ii � and disturbance on miss s disappearance being explained that it was time for everybody to go concluded the subject and with a short final arrangement for the next day s scheme they parted frank s little inclination to himself increased so much that his last words to were � well � if you wish me to stay and join the party i will she smiled her acceptance and nothing less than a summons from was to take him back before the following evening chapter xv they had a very fine day for box hill and ah the other outward circumstances of arrangement accommodation and were in favor of a pleasant party mr directed the whole safely between and the and everybody was in good time and went together miss and her niece with the the gentlemen on horseback mrs remained with mr nothing was wanting but to be happy when they got there seven miles were travelled in expectation of enjoyment and everybody had a burst of admiration on first arriving but in the general amount of the day there was deficiency there was a languor a want of spirits a want of union which could not be got over they separated too much into parties the walked together mr took charge of miss and jane and and belonged to frank and mr tried in vain to make them better it seemed at first an accidental division but it never materially varied mr and mrs indeed showed no unwilling ness to mix and be as agreeable as they could but during the two whole hours that were spent on the hill there seemed a principle of separation between the other parties too strong for any fine prospects or any cold or any cheerful mr to remove at first it was downright to she had never seen so silent and stupid he said nothing worth hearing looked without seeing admired without intelligence listened without knowing what she said while he was so dull it was no wonder that should he dull likewise and they were when they all sat down it was better � to her taste a great deal better � for frank grew and gay making her his first subject every attention that could be paid was paid to her to amuse her and be agreeable in her eyes seemed all that he cared for and glad to be not sorry to be flattered was gay and easy too and gave him all the friendly encouragement the admission to be gallant which she had ever given in the first and most period of their acquaintance but which now in her own estimation meant nothing though in the judgment | 26 |
be we re here to protect you beer bread soft an that s a cur soup in a tin by the smell ut an fowls mother moses but ye take the field like a tis ere s a said significantly when the s done the may clean the pot i several things into s before the major s hand fell on my shoulder and he said tenderly for the queen s service was quite wrong about special they are the soldier s best friends come and take pot luck with us to night and so it happened amid laughter and that my well considered melted away to later at the mess table which was a sheet spread on the the had taken three days with it and there be few things � especially when government is with german toys beef of surpassing compressed vegetables and meat may be but what thomas the of lai needs is bulk in his inside the major assisted by his brother officers purchased for the camp and so made the experiment of no long before the fatigue party sent to collect had returned the men were settled down by their and pots had appeared from the surrounding country and were dangling over fires as the kid and the compressed vegetable together there rose a cheerful of mess outrageous demands for a little more with that there liver wing and gust on gust of as pointed as a and as delicate as a gun butt the boys are in a good temper said the major they ll be singing presently well a night like this is enough to keep them happy over our heads burned the wonderful indian stars which are not all pricked in on one plane but preserving an orderly perspective draw the eye through the et darkness of the void up to the barred doors of heaven itself the earth was a gray shadow more unreal than the sky we could hear her lightly in the pauses between the howling of the the movement of the wind in the and the fitful of fire away to the left a native from some unseen hut began to sing the mail train thundered past on its way to and a crow then there was a belt silence about the fires and the even breathing of the crowded earth took up the story the men full fed turned to tobacco and song � their officers with them the is happy who can win the approval of the musical critics in his regiment and is honoured among the more intricate step dancers by him as by him who plays cleverly thomas will stand in time of need when he will let a hi s better officer go on alone the ruined of forgotten saints heard the ballad of town the battery marching to the long long indian day the place where tlie died and that crashing chorus which youth s daring spirit manhood s fire firm hand and eagle eye must he aj who would to see the gray die to day of all those jovial thieves who appropriated my and lay and laughed that sheet not one remains they went to that were not of exercise and battles without the and the frontier � fever and fight � took them in their time i drifted across to the men s fires in search of whom i found his feet by the blaze there is nothing particularly lovely in the sight of a private thus engaged after a long day s march but when you reflect on the exact proportion of the might majesty dominion and power of the british empire which stands on those feet you take an interest in the proceedings there s a bad luck to ut on the heel said i can t touch ut ut out httle man took out his house wife the trouble with a needle in the calf with the same weapon and was swiftly kicked into the fire i ve the best my toes over you ye child said sitting cross legged and nursing his feet then seeing me oh ut s you be an take that s place hold him down on the for a bit d the of but escaped and went elsewhere as i took possession of the hollow he had scraped for himself and lined with his on the other side of the fire grinned and in a minute fast asleep there s the height for you said lighting his pipe with a flaming branch but s eaten half a box your at wan an i think the tin too what s the best you son an how did you happen to be on the side this day we captured you the army of the south is winning au along the line i said then that line s the s rope your presence you ll learn to morrow how we to on before we made trouble an that s what a woman does by the same we ll be attacked before the an ut would be not to slip your boots how do i know that by the light pure reason here are three companies us ever so far inside the enemy s flank an a crowd cavalry gone on just to turn out the whole s nest them course the enemy will pursue by like as not an thin we ll have to run for ut mark my words i am the opinion he said don t fight for the pure joy but if you do knock the nose him first an we ought to ha gone on an helped the but what do you know about i demanded i this was a new side of s character l all that shakespeare wrote an a more that h the gallery shouted said the man of war carefully h his boots did i not tell you silver s theatre in h i was younger | 39 |
the flood another another jacob another joseph another i see she found this excessively interesting � so did i we used to be quite glad sometimes when m came home later than usual then you know we got to and egypt which was very interesting ground i wanted her first to get a comprehensive view of history and its bearing on christianity she became profoundly interested in david � we went through the at the same time of course noticing the types when we got to solomon we read the and go on miss may � and all this while you know she was going to church every saint s day with madame crossing herself herself before different so she does now but in a different spirit her religion when i began with her was so completely that it left the door open for me now i am sometimes ready to tremble at the possible effect of the light breaking in upon her � yet how can i hold back what can i do go on telling me about your then you know we came to the when we began it was necessary to read the at the same time the new testament became our chief reading and we only read the in it we are now in st john s remarks are often excessively original and interesting sometimes she says another window is opened on me i what would her old religion master say luckily we have left him behind us what will m say i doubt if he will say anything he never gave me the smallest direction on the subject � laid no on me � asked no promises it was who before i left england that i should not be expected to attend the greek church and mr fell into profound thought his eyes glowed with some internal interest but its nature did not appear here comes our charming butterfly said he suddenly well since you have crushed the poor thing i will sing its and he began � poor bom to flutter and to die � falling into the second directly took the first till he got down to such unreasonable bass that he suddenly gave a shriek in that made stop her ears all at once the sky became darkened by clouds a sudden summer storm was impending the wind rose large drops of rain fell and increased to a torrent they could reach the house the thunder broke with a sound their heads and the lightning seemed to tear up the ground immediately their feet wet and panting burst into gay laughter as she reached the house and � hook the rain drops from her hair but who was rather overcome sought her own room and felt awed and subdued by the sudden the jews call thunder the voice of the lord thought she how grand how terrible it is and she repeated to herself the voice of the and lord is mighty in operation the voice of the lord is a glorious voice it the even the mighty of the voice of the lord the flames of fire the voice of the lord the wilderness yea even the of from a child she had had an instinctive dread of thunder and lightning which might have acquired an unreasonable had not her mother talked quietly to her about it and taught her a hymn which even now to her � how the tempest t the rain in rattling torrents my trembling soul that power who bade this tempest rise the wind and fulfil his word in them his glorious is heard by him the electric fires are stirred � of earth and skies oh tis a glorious blessed thing for which to praise thee my that i a helpless worm can cling with confidence to thee that i by faith amidst the storm can hear thy voice can view thy form nay feel thy warm extended over me amid the clapping to of doors and outer shutters along the numerous galleries and passages fancied she heard the peculiar tones of s voice in some of the distant offices o and afterwards meeting in the corridor the bright but suppressed smile on her lips and the light in her eye made conclude must really have unexpectedly arrived and she asked her oh dear no said immediately growing very a from has indeed arrived with for m but a very different looking person i assure you � quite a common man j and with a uttle jerk of the chin that spoke of offended dignity passed on on the family she found the s had occasioned no small disturbance m had been summoned to on official business of no pleasant complexion it would seem from the cloud on his brow dinner had been hastened and mr who was glad to improve his acquaintance with readily agreed to accompany his host when that gentleman in an kind of way said i suppose you don t want to go m seemed quite brightened by the idea of having him for his companion this will be very pleasant � very pleasant repeated he as he down his fish soup i don t expect to be there more than a day or two but it is lonely to be shut up by one s self at an inn and soon they were oflf and observed to how strange it was that mr should seem to have so won upon her father whom she had never seen to like any person so much before without knowing why felt melancholy in her sadness influenced by an uncomfortable as to the nature of her father s summons to though his habitual excluded her from any knowledge of his affairs suppose he should have displeased government said she and that whether or not there should be some charge for him to answer such things occur every day and as false witnesses are easily | 2 |
can follow do you think he has entirely gotten over his feelings toward asked the colonel nervously entirely have no fear you will return to america with a wedding party is in europe somewhere you know yes with a who will take good care that she does not get out of her sight i know he never sent her here without full instructions to meet every case he has been as fearful that there should be anything between them since that day of the as he was anxious for it before when a man is desirous of being convinced it does not take much to convince him and the worthy colonel found his fears for his daughter s happiness giving way to rose colored expectations as he noted the confidence of his companion they the steamer at took the usual short run through ireland crossed to scotland where they spent a fortnight and then by easy stages stopping at many places of interest came to world s metropolis a cry chapter a cry for help had not been twenty four hours in london before he began to realize that he was practically under he occupied the peculiar position of being in a foreign land with hardly a dollar in his pocket and with watchful eyes following his every movement it was no part of the purpose of his father that he should be able to take journeys of his own in any direction that he might fancy and his purse had been carefully with that end in view under the pretence that funds had not arrived john gave his son only the smallest sums and s pride prevented him from asking the only other person in the party to whom he could have applied s father for anything london meant to the young man more than all else the place where had undoubtedly been perhaps where she still was and the fever that had in his veins grew as time passed on they might surround him with all the they pleased but he resolved that it should avail them nothing if he could not find the one he loved at least they should not make him wed another he had never really recovered from his illness mr continued to supply him with disguised in his medicine generally he wore an appearance of extreme melancholy was much troubled by this and appealed to her the ton father to know if something could not be suggested to turn the current of his thoughts m i never saw so unhappy she said sometimes i feel as if he did not care for me i would rather die than marry him if i thought that the voyage does not seem to have done him much good thus far the colonel was all this time in a he had given out to the of the eagle that his daughter and were engaged and that they would probably return from europe man and wife all expected this and if it did not occur there would be a suspicion that had been was constantly at his elbow ready to meet any doubt and the colonel was more than willing to be convinced don t be in haste and all will be well said repeatedly all he wants is a little more time it takes something more than common to control the every movement of a young man of twenty three even under the conditions of a case like the one in question found by a newspaper that he picked up at the hotel that was at the victoria little as he had cause to hope for help from him it was a straw worth catching at in his helpless and he a note to the address stating his position and begging cliff for the sake of old times to come to his rescue i am still suffering from the effects of the long illness i have had he wrote and though they give me medicine constantly it does me no good i feel that it is too late for me to hope to regain the a foe help of and i shall try to reconcile myself to its loss but this steady pressure toward another alliance is wearing me out i fear that some day i shall yield and then there will be a future of misery for both myself and i have not a dollar that i can call my own if i had enough to take me back to america i would fly from this danger and once there i would take care that they never got me again into their power you hate me for the of which i was guilty but you can afford to be now that i have lost the only thing i care for if i have done wrong and heaven knows how dearly i regret my conduct my punishment is already severe enough if you can send me twenty pounds which i will repay as soon as i can earn it you may save two people from a lifetime of the messenger who took this note reported that mr had left the victoria and gone to live at some other hotel and that the clerks would forward the letter to his new address as soon as they could ascertain it there was something very in this report for it might mean that had left the city and in s mood he naturally looked at the darkest side of everything a week went by and nothing was heard from his former friend he thought it more than probable that the note had reached him and that his contempt for the had induced him to meet his request by a dead silence if he had done so felt that he could not blame him it would not be easy for cliff to despise him more than he despised himself he was plunged into the greatest despondency and in this state of | 1 |
mr for a little m i indulgence the name i have heard alfred mention tossing in i dreams m is it not t the name of the is said mr with i rather accent on his mary axe and co oh yes exclaimed mrs clasping her hands with i certain and co the pleading of the feminine mr began ai i there so for a word to get on with mis i offered him sweetly � heart no said mr � is ever what a man is bound i listen to and i wish it rested with myself but this is a one mrs he really is not if speak to him dear mr upon my soul and body he is said try try once more dearest mr what is there yo cannot do if you will i thank you said jou ve very complimentary to sa so i don t mind trying again at your request but of i can t answer for the consequences is a tough subject an when he says hell do a thing hell do it exactly so cried mrs � and when he says to you wait hell wait she ib a devilish clever woman thought i didn see that opening but she it out and into it as soon as it i made � in point of fact dear mr mrs went on in f very interesting manner not to a ot concealment of alfred s hopes to you who are ao i� a break m his horizon this figure of d to who and there s a what in his eh dear mr with me very before he went out some he has which lai t entirely change the of hia v o yea i here mrs brought her into play and you know deer mr � u who human heart and the world � what aa it would be to and to lose credit when ability to tide a might all oh said then yon if got time he vi t np � to an mr which ia adopted in market � indeed yea yea � that all the � of at on � mr t � � l she him her hand said mr of a and female the of a noble action r said extremely of him it wasn t what i was g to bj never would under any circumstances a suggested but you re very may i a a one i good morning r i depend upon your dearest mr said looking back at door and his band may depend upon it in ct mr sped on his errand of tb streets at so brisk a rate that his feet might been winged the good spirits that they might have i p their station in his breast too for he was and many t was quite a fresh in his voice when arriving at the in st mary axe and finding it for the moment empty forth at the foot of the staircase now what are up to there the old man appeared with his deference i said back with a wink ton mischief i the old man hia yes you do said oh you sinner i oh you you re going to act upon that bill of sale at jf you nothing will torn you won t it you won t be another single minute won t you ordered to immediate action by the master s tone and look the � man took up his hat the where it lay � i i i i j i � i � i i i � � � i you told tliat he might pull through it if di go in to win awake have you said not your game that he should pull it ain t it you security and there enough to pay you oh you jew the old man stood and uncertain fear a moment i there might be further for him in do i go sir he at length asked in a low � asks me if he is going exclaimed didn t know his own purpose i asks me as if he hadn t ha i asks me as if his old eye � why it like a wasn t looking at his hy door do sir sneered yes you it a a bad left alone in the house about with his hat on one side whistling and drawers and here and for any small evidences of being cheated but could find none not his merit that he cheat me was mr s delivered with a wi but my precaution then with a lazy grandeur asserted rights as lord of and go by his cane at the and boxes and in the and so to i window and looked out into the street with his small e just peering over the top of and co s blind as a blind more senses than one it reminded him that he was alone in house with the front door open he was moving away shut it lest he should be identified with the ment when he was stopped by some one coming to the door this some one was the with a little basket her arm and her stick in her hand her keen h mr before mr had her and he w in his purpose of shutting her out not so much by h approaching the door as l ber him with a shower of no i the instant he saw her this advantage she by up the steps with despatch that before mr could ta measures for her finding nobody at home she was to ce wi i him in the hope i see you well sir said mr in had dropped into a chair in the attitude of one wearily i suppose he will be back soon he replied he has ci out and left me expecting him back in an odd | 8 |
he must be another prophet which he denied calling on heaven to witness that he was not one whereupon he was mistaken for a great sinner and heard that however great his repentance it would avail him nothing for the was gone away with his joseph thinking that he had left the s in the desert began to argue that this could not be and at the man bringing others round him till he was hemmed into a circle of ridicule among the multitude many were of the same faith as joseph himself and these drew him out of the circle and explained to him that the in the river for several hours till � unable to bear the cold any longer � he had gone away his teeth chattering with the ff j mm i the joseph repeated but before he could inquire came running along the bank saying they had sins to repent and on hearing that the s v � � � v the brook was gone and would not return that day they began to tell each other stories of the great cloud that was seen in the east bearing within it a chariot and from the chariot angels were seen descending all the morning with flaming swords in their hands get thee they shouted and and pushed to and fro � a multitude of brown faces and noses of bony shoulders and striped shirts get thee before sunset everybody was crying and joseph watched the floating from their as they fled on what errand he asked in search of the or the new not the new was the answer he got back for leaves to john but why doesn t joseph asked since he is a of the if be good for him it is good enough for another and so the multitude seemed to think and were confounded till one amongst them said that might not be endowed with the gift of or have accepted from john for a purpose it having been that the would have a but who asked many voices together has said that is the some maintaining that was the lesser prophet but this was not agreeable to all some having for reasons unknown to joseph ranged themselves already alongside of believing him to be greater than john yet not the prophet promised to and these came to blows with the others who looked upon john as the and as the one whom john had called to his standard a � nothing fists were striving in the air and � thrusting himself between two � joseph begged them to tell him if john s was from the yea yea he heard from all sides the shepherd of the brotherhood � that one who follows their flocks over the hills but not being sure of his mission he has gone into the desert to wait for a sign an but one that was the brook seldom in the more often to be met on the hills with his flocks a shepherd joseph asked yea and it was among the hills that john met him and seeing a prophet in him spoke to him and seeing that another prophet was risen up in had thrown his away and gone to the president to ask for leave to preach the of repentance unto men for the grand day is at hand joseph having heard this before only tidings of the new prophet when a woman pressing forward shouted a pleasant voice to hear on the mountain side said she and another added the hills will seem lonely without his gait a great cried a third but why did he come to john for knowing himself to be the greater prophet a question that started them all again and crying one against the other that repentance was necessary or else the lord would desert them or choose another race these are irksome a man said to joseph but come with me and i ll tell thee much about him no better shepherd than he ever ranged the hills i wouldn t have thee forget mate another man said that he s gone without leaving us his great cure for true for thee mate answered the first for a great forgetfulness has been on him this time past a great cure certainly which he might have left us and the twain fell to discussing their several for another shepherd came by and passed the remark that knew the hills like one born them but neither could tell whence he came nor did they know if he brought the cure for with him or learnt it at the the brotherhood has secrets that it is forbidden to tell i be with thee on this matter said another shepherd that wherever he goes he ll be a prize to a master for the he has been through will stand to him the last of this chatter that came to joseph s ears was that could do as much with sheep as any man since and � satisfied with this knowledge � he took the brook his leave of the certain that must have been i among the for many years before god called to him to leave dogs and to follow john whom he began to recognise as greater than himself but whom he was destined to as john s own in the joseph s own eyes he remembered how saw john in a vision plunging into of and there was none for the men along these banks bore witness to the that joseph would have seen for himself if he had started a little earlier nor could the who came to john for be other than the young shepherd whom joseph had seen at the beginning of his walking with the president in deep converse the president apparently trying to him from some project joseph 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i travelled and i travelled but i found no em ly and i travelled home how long ago i asked a matter o days said mr i sighted the old boat dark and the light a shining in the when come nigh and looked in through the glass i see the faithful by the fire as we had fixed upon alone i called out t be it s dan l and i went in i never could have the old boat would have been so strange some pocket in his breast he took out with a very careful hand of david a small paper bundle containing two or letters or little which he laid upon the table this first one come he said selecting it from the rest afore i had been gone a week a fifty pound bank note in a sheet of paper directed to me and put underneath the door in the night she tried to her writing but she couldn t hide it from me he folded up the note again with great patience and care in exactly the same form and laid it on one side this come to he said opening another two or three months ago after looking at it for some moments he gave it to me and added in a low voice ee so good as read it sir i read as follows oh what will you feel when you see this and know it comes from my wicked hand but try try � not for my sake but for uncle s goodness try to let your heart soften to me only for a little httle time try pray do to towards a miserable girl and write down on a bit of paper whether he is well and what he said about me before you left off ever me among yourselves � and whether of a night when it is my old time of coming home you ever see him look as if he thought of one he used to love so dear oh my heart is breaking when i think about it i am down to you begging and praying you not to be as hard with me as i deserve � as i well well know i deserve � but to be so gentle and so good as to write down something of him and to send it to me you need not call me little you need not call me by tlie name i have disgraced but oh listen to my agony and have mercy on me so far as to write me some word of uncle never never to be seen in this world by my eyes again dear if your heart is hard towards me � justly hard i know � but listen if it is hard dear ask him i have wronged the most � him whose wife i was to have been � before you quite decide against my poor poor prayer if he should be so compassionate as to say that you might write something for me to read � i think he would oh i think he would if you would only ask him for he always was so brave and so � tell him then but not else that when i hear the wind blowing at night i feel as if it was passing angrily from seeing him and uncle and was going up to god against me tell him that if i was to die to morrow and oh if i was fit i would be so glad to die i i would bless him and uncle with my last words and pray for his happy home with my last breath some money was in this letter also five pounds it was untouched like the previous sum and he it in the same way detailed instructions were added relative to the address of a reply which although they betrayed the of several hands and made it difficult to arrive at any very probable conclusion in reference to her place of concealment made it at least not unlikely that she had written from that spot where she was stated to have been seen what answer was sent i inquired of mr he returned not being a good scholar sir ham kindly it out and she made a copy on it they told her i was gone to seek her and what my parting words was is that another letter in your hand said i it s money said mr it a little way ten pound you see and wrote inside from a true friend hke the first but the first was put underneath the door and this come by the post day afore yesterday i m a going to seek her at the post mark he showed it to me it was a town on the upper he had the personal history and experience found out at some foreign who knew that country and they had drawn him a rude map on paper which he could very well understand he laid it between us on the table and with his chin resting on one hand his course upon it with the other i asked him how ham was he shook his head he works he said as bold as a man can his name s as good in all that part as any man s is in the anyone s hand is ready to help him you understand and his is ready to help them he s never been fur to complain but my sister s belief is ourselves as it has cut him deep poor fellow i can believe it he ain t no care r said mr in a solemn whisper � no care no how for his life when a man s wanted for rough service in rough weather he s when there s hard duty to be done with danger in it he steps forward afore all | 8 |
truth grandfather look at me now and say so with your eyes � see he keeps them fast closed � i knew he was not one to approve of what is false in order to gain his ends well well i will go and see mr myself and explain matters said mrs in a tone nay grandmother but i must send the message said with quiet determination � come in mary for the girl had been to wait outside the door you are to tell mr from mistress with her compliments that no member of the i can see him to day but that if the e of his business will permit him to do so he can communicate it to mr who is in the the servant departed repeating to herself miss s words for fear she should forget them and in a minute or two s step was heard leaving the apartment below for the drawing room into which the visitor had been shown john and the young squire of hall had never met since they had stood together on eighteen months ago and during that interval short as it was there had been considerable change in both of them john always self and self composed had become even more conscious of his own powers of which his improved position in the world had also afforded ample proof had he needed such instead of the somewhat coarse attire which he had worn as he was now dressed although very plainly in all respects as a gentleman and he looked every inch a gentleman and something more if there was an absence of that careless ease which sits not upon those for whom all things have been made smooth from the cradle to manhood steady purpose of his face was far from hard or while as he now regarded his rival as he well knew him in intention to be a certain courtesy lit up his fine features and gave his tone a gentleness with which genuine feeling could always inspire it but which in conventional intercourse it lacked perhaps the knowledge that s heart was his not to be won fi om him by this man nor any other permitted him to be thus generous j or perhaps the if not desperate circumstances of his rival of which he had heard reports though as it happened true enough in affected bim with pity and gave softness to his air and manner was even more altered in appearance though not as in the other s case for the better he had grown paler and thinner of late months and anxiety and wounded pride had set their marks upon a face that had once s by its calm the two young men shook if not with cordiality yet with perfect frankness i am sorry to have been thus obliged to trouble you mr said but since mr william is not at home i have no choice the matter on which i have come here being unhappily of the last importance and not admitting of delay no apology is at all necessary mr the occupation you have interrupted was only that of making artificial flies and i assure you that the arrival of any visitor in this place whatever his business is quite a to us i think i should remark however that if the matter in question which you say is so important has any private and particular reference to mr that i have no authority and indeed must altogether decline to be its the matter i have in hand said gravely touches mr william only as it affects every one else in this house yourself included it is not i confess upon his account i have come i mentioned his name merely as being the most proper person to receive my communication and yet if there had been none dearer to me under this roof than he i should still have thought it my duty to have made it i must beg of you first of all mr to take upon trust with only my word to it that i am well acquainted with certain matters connected with my profession which is that of civil engineer that i am not one to be mistaken for instance about the strength of an and it is with the sense of the peril in which you and all persons now resident on the stand from the state of the on that i have ridden here this day and with no other object whatsoever do you mean to tell me that there is any danger of the great on the giving way mr asked starting to his feet there is in my opinion veiy great danger of it i should say indeed if the wind were east instead of as at present the most imminent danger in that case the wind would bring the waves right down upon the and it is not in a condition to resist it sir it is not indeed i entreat you i you mr ta give heed to what i say there is no fear of my such a warning mr of the risk to our friends in this house and to human life generally supposing i were so brutal as to disregard it i have property on the which even if this catastrophe should be delayed must sooner or later be destroyed by it i will not only do my best to persuade mr and his family to quit this spot but i shall not lose a moment in representing to the authorities of with whom i have some influence � that would be time wasted interrupted solemnly and there is in my a beggar on horseback ment not one hour to waste i have spoken � i have warned in vain the of the company in the person of their have refused to to my request that the should he examined � but i 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and was lord � the jury under the of a judge gave the it was a most unjust verdict based on a of the law which if sustained left the press no substantial liberty to rebuke wrong doing or and the of justice thus effected naturally led to still further and worse ten or a dozen years afterward mr j returned from a long residence abroad during which many of his novels had been written a man of talent � almost genius � he was aristocratic in feeling and in bearing altogether in his manners what a yankee once as winning ways to make people hate him to liis paternal acres near n y he was soon involved in a difficulty with the neighboring villagers who had long been accustomed in their excursions on the lake to land and make themselves at home for an hour or two on a long or point that ran down from his gi into tlie lake and whom he had now from so doing by legal force the newspaper of the village took up the case for the s urging that their from the point legal was and impelled by the spirit of the dog in the the editor for recovered a verdict and collected it by talking the money � through a s officer � from the editor s trunk by this time several had taken up the for the villagers and their editor and as mr had recently two self com i works on his s ways and manners entitled homeward bound and home as found some of these took the form of of those works one or more of them appeared in the and by james at least one other in tlie by william l stone while j to mr the of the evening journal and were doubt recollections of a busy ufe less from the pen of its founder and then editor mr weed them all bringing several actions to trial at tlie new county seat of county he had no luck against colonel because that gentleman he him and could never find a jury to send an editor to prison on his colonel was defended in chief by l afterward of the state an able and zealous advocate who threw his whole soul into his cases and who did by no means stand on the in one of his actions against mr weed he was more fortunate weed had not given it proper attention and when the case was called for trial at he was detained at home by sickness in his family and no one appeared for him so a verdict of was entered up against him by he was on hand a few hours afterward and tried to have the case but would not consent so weed had to pay the and costs himself he wrote a letter to the describing the whole and on that letter mc as for another and here let me say that weed was forced to pay some to and as costs in his various suits most weed was a profound admirer of s novels � an extravagant one in my judgment � and was so fond of quoting them that gravely affirmed that he evidently had never read but three authors � shakespeare scott and at a later day they were obliged to add to the list the that provoked s were intended by weed rather to the american that he was acting in quarrelling with his neighbors to their landing on the point with his by his harsh on their manners and with the press by his innumerable suits not a a of malice nor even of ill will impelled the which resented so and suits the first writ wherewith was honored by the author of the c me to answer at county on the first tuesday i believe in december and i obeyed it to the letter i employed no lawyers not that i needed any in its turn the case was called and opened in due by nephew of for the no witnesses were called for none were needed i admitted the publication and accepted the thereof so the questions to be tried were these was the by such publication if so to what amount was he when had concluded i said all that i deemed necessary for the defence and then up his own cause in a longer and rather stronger speech than s and the case was closed so far i felt quite at my ease but now the judge rose and made a harder more elaborate and speech against me than either or had done making three against one which i did not think quite fair he absolutely the jury on the presumption that tliey were inclined to give a verdict for the which he told them tliey were at liberty to do i had never till that day seen one of them and had never sou j it to effect any or understanding with them so i must say that the judge s charge seemed to me as unfair as possible the jury retired at its close and on seven of to make me pay s two for � one for s and two for nothing at all � or very nearly so they soon agreed to call it s and make it verdict which they did all the costs were aid i wa s just s out of pocket by that i have done better and worse in other cases but having been most al ly and successfully defended in several the that lie who j leads liis own cause has a fool for a i am satisfied that could i have found time in every case wherein i was for to attend in person and simply state the material facts to the jury i should have had less to pay than i have done there is always recollections of a busy ufe | 19 |
social benefit to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute and which even leaves the language of love and common so much is this purer and ii � o much divine i do not wish to treat bat with courage when they are real thej are not glass threads or but the thing we know for now after so many ages of experience what do we know of nature or of ourselves not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of liis destiny in one of folly stand the whole universe of men but tlie sweet sincerity of joy and peace which draw from this alliance with my brother s soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the and shell happy is the that a friend it might well be built like a bower or arch to entertain him a single day happier if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor friendship law he who offers himself a candidate for that comes up like an to the great games where the first bom of the world are the he himself for where time want danger are in the lists and he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of liis beauty from the wear and tear of these the gifts of fortune may be present or absent but all the speed in that contest depends on and the tempt of trifles there are two elements that go to the composition of friendship each so sovereign that i can detect no superiority in either no reason why either should be first named one is truth a friend is a person with whom i may be sincere before him i may think aloud i am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that i may drop even those garments of courtesy and second thought which men never put off and may deal with him with the simplicity and with which one meets another sincerity is the luxury allowed like and authority only to the highest rank that being permitted to speak truth as having none above it to court or unto every man alone is sincere at the entrance of a second person begins we and the approach of our fellow man by compliments by essay bj amusements by affairs we cover up oar thought from him under a hundred folds i knew a man who under a certain religious cast off this and all compliment and commonplace spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered and that with great insight and beauty at first he was resisted and all men agreed be was mad but as indeed he could help doing for some time in this course he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him no man would think of speaking with him or of putting him off with any chat of or reading rooms but every man was constrained by so sincerity to the like and what love of nature what poetry what symbol of truth be had he did certainly show him but to most of us society shows not its face and eye but its side and its back to stand in true relations with men in a age is worth a fit of insanity b it not we seldom go erect almost every man we meet requires some civility � requires to be he has some fame some talent some whim of religion or in his head that is not to be questioned and which spoils all conversation with him but a friend is a sane man who exercises not my in but me my friend gives me entertainment without requiring any on my a friendship friend therefore is a sort of in nature i who alone am i who see nature whose existence i can affirm with equal evidence to my own behold now the semblance of my being in all its height variety and curiosity in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the of nature the other element of friendship is tenderness we are to men by every sort of tie by blood by pride by fear by hope by by lust by hate by admiration by every circumstance and and trifle but we can scarce believe that so much character can in another as to draw us by love can another be so blessed and we so that we can offer him tenderness when a man becomes dear to me i have touched the goal of fortune i find very written directly to the heart of this matter in books and yet i have one text which i cannot choose but remember my author says � i myself faintly and to those whose i effectually am and tender myself least to him to whom i am the most devoted i wish that friendship should have feet as well as eyes and eloquence it must plant itself on the ground before it over the moon i wish it to be a little of a citizen before it is quite a we the citizen because he makes love a it is an exchange of gifts of useful it is good neighbourhood it watches with the tl sick it the pall at the funeral and sight of the and of the but though we cannot find the god under this disguise of a yet on the other hand we cannot forgive the poet if he thread too fine and does not his romance by the of justice fidelity and pity i hate the of the name of friendship to signify and worldly i much prefer the company of and tin to the silken and which its days of encounter by a frivolous display by rides in a and dinners at the | 37 |
all parts from their anxious and affectionate these little services he performed kindly many a blessing was fervently the good word and the prayer we could afford as they said to the that the world an him for sake o the that hasn t the o the mother the mother s hand near him the about the middle of the third year h more thrown upon the general people the three farmers with whom he for the preceding six months t as did many others of that class which in try most nearly to tne of england the little purse he had placed in the hands of the kind exhausted a season of famine sickness i distress had set in and the master on that he was without money became savage in short the boy s difficulties � young boy boy in toes � ta � the poor scholar sing degree even and his grown who usually interposed in his behalf when became excessive in him had e school and now the prospect before him was nd cheerless indeed for a few months longer er he struggled on meeting every difficulty endurance from his very boyhood he the of religion and was d by a strong spirit he trusted in nd worshipped him night and morning with a heart his crisis he was certainly an object of pity which for some time before had been he had replaced by a cast off coat and a present from his friend the abandoned him this worthy young not afford him money for as he had but a year with which to clothe a horse and pay rent it was hardly to be id that his benevolence could be extensive in n to this famine and disease raged violence in the parish so that the upon his of hundreds who lay huddled r in cold in out houses and even behind were incessant as well as heart the r of that took place daily in the was awful nothing could be seen but by groups of ragged and creatures hollow eyes gleamed forth the the wretched were the number of that lay on the public where attended by the nearest relatives of the d they had been placed for the purpose of ng charity � were greater than ever had been by the oldest was the state of the parish when our poor complained one day in school of severe illness ly symptoms of the prevailing were own and on examining more c j a u it waa clear that torn s poor scholar of the people he had got � had caught it heavy load of the favor the are particularly apprehensive of moment it had bi discovered that v his avoided him with a of terror scarcely and the was delighted at any however that afford a for driving the yon out of the school take said he every thing to you out of my establishment you were always a plague me but now more so that ever be quick for yourself somewhere else do you to my into an hospital and i into as president go off you wild f and wherever you find a com spot to do it in the poor boy silently and with difficulty collected his books and on his i looked to his as if ho had said of yon will afford me a place where to lay my head all however kept aloof from him caught the ana the they knew had swept the people away in vast numbers at length he spoke is there any boy among yon he inquired who will bring me home you know i am a stranger an far from my own god help me this was followed l y a profound silence not out of those who had so often him or would on any other occasion share their bed mid their last morsel with him would even touch his person much less allow him when thus ed t take shelter under thi ir roof such are the of selfishness when it ia opposed only by the force those natural qualities that are not elevated ii sense of duty clear and profound views of truth it is one thing to perform a kind action constitutional impulse and another to perform it ii fixed duty perhaps to that impulse on finding himself avoided like a the poor scholar of old silently left the school and walked on at knowing whither he should ultimately direct he thought of his friend the priest but between him and his place of abode was r he felt than his illness would permit him to he walked on therefore in such a state of y as can scarcely be conceived much less his head ached excessively an intense pain like death pangs through his lower back and his face was flushed and his head giddy in he proceeded without money or friends ut a house to shelter him or a bed on which to r from his own relations and with the prospect under circumstances peculiarly dreadful him he on however the earth as under him the heavens he ht streaming with fire and the earth indistinct home the paradise of the absent � the heaven of the affections � with all its and blessed sympathies rushed upon his his father s deep but quiet kindness his s love his brothers all that they een to him � these with their thousand associations started into life before him again gain but he was now ill and the mother � the enduring sense of that mother s love placed and strongest and tenderest in the far group which his imagination forth other he exclaimed � on mother why � why ever lave you mother the son you loved is without a kind word lonely and neglected in a re land oh my own mother why did i ever our j conflict between his illness and | 50 |
those of an attached father and a sensible man his loud tones did very well in the open air and there was not a single oath to be heard such was his instinctive compliment to the good manners of mr and be the consequence what it might s immediate feelings were infinitely soothed the conclusion of the two gentlemen s i was an offer of mr price s to take mr the dock yard which mr desirous of as a favor what was intended as such though he had the dock yard again and again and hoping to be so much the longer with was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of if the miss prices were not afraid of the fatigue and as it was somehow or other ascertained or inferred or at least acted upon that they were not at all afraid to the dock yard they were all to go and but for mr mr price would have turned thither directly without the smallest for his daughters in the high street he took care however that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out to visit and it did not delay them long for so little bear to excite impatience or bo waited for that before the gentlemen as they stood at the door could do more than begin upon the last naval or settle the number of three now in commission their companions were ready to proceed they were then to set forward for the dock yard at once and the walk would have been conducted according to mr s opinion in a manner had mr price been allowed the entire i of it as the two girls he found would have been left to follow and keep up with or not as they could while they walked on together at their own hasty pace he was able to introduce some improvement occasionally though by no means to the extent he wished he absolutely would not walk away from them and at any cross park ing or any crowd when mr price was only calling out come girls come fan come sue take care of yourself keep a sharp he would give them his particular attendance once fairly in the dock yard he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with as they were very soon joined by a brother of mr price s who was come to take his daily survey of how things went on and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself and after a time the two officers seemed very well satisfied in going about together and discussing matters of equal and never failing interest while the young people sat down upon some in the yard or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which they all went to look at was most conveniently in want of rest could not have wished her more fatigued or more ready to sit down but he could have wished her sister away a quick looking girl of s age was the very worst third in the world � totally different from lady � all eyes and ears and there was no introducing the main point before her he must content himself with being only generally agreeable and letting have her share of entertainment with the indulgence now and then of a look or hint for the better informed and conscious was what he had mostly to talk of there he had been some time and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes such a man could come from no place no society without something to amuse his journeys and ills were all of use and was i ark entertained in a way new to lier for somewhat more was related the of the parties he had been in for her approbation the particular reason his going into at all at this unusual time of year was given it had been real business relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and he believed industrious family was at stake he had suspected hia agent of some dealing � of meaning to bias him against the deserving � and he had determined to go himself and thoroughly the merits of the case he had gone had done even more good than he foreseen hail been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended and was now able to congratulate himself upon it and to feel that in performing a duty he had secured agreeable recollections for hia own he had introduced himself to some tenants whom he had never seen before he had begun making acquaintance with cottages whose very existence though on his own estate ha l been hitherto unknown to him this was aimed and well at it was pleasing to hear him speak so properly here he had been acting as he ought to do to be the friend of the poor and oppressed nothing could be more grateful to lier and she was on the point of giving him an look when it was all frightened off by his adding a something too pointed of his hoping soon to have an assistant a friend a guide in every plan of utility or charity for a somebody that would make and all about it a dearer object than it had ever been yet park she turned away and wished he would not say such things she was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had heen wont to suppose she to feel the of his turning out well at last hut he was and must ever he completely to her and ought not to think of her he perceived that enough had heen said of and that it would he as well to talk of something else and turned to he could not have chosen that was a topic to | 26 |
as passed by one set of p who were dining together near the doorway but glancing at his companion unmoved face he concluded his cars must have deceived him at the summit of the wide staircase which they had to ascend from the into the a dressed man stood looking down at with a air as though he were peering into the bottom of a deep well face was of a sickly white hue and a foolish smile played now and then on his loose mouth like a weak from an flame he was considerably in the way of the coming and going people and once or twice was swayed aside by their movements as though he were too helpless for personal resistance just as and passed him he suddenly lost his balance and to over rolling from the top of the stairs to the bottom iv f was about to hurry to his assistance when pulled him back don t interfere � he said � he s drunk the will sue to him drunk echoed � here not possible quite possible you think not because he s dressed like a gentleman and is in a which for but my good sir there s as much occasional in high flying places of this sort as there is in the lowest public house see � they ve picked up his his he s a lord quite of the best quality � and i the tragedy of a quiet life is going in time to prove as serious a matter as the question of the negro population in america i all between � said many jews are kinder and more christians in certain well defined and well advertised agreed his companion but in the no the christian is bad enough but the j� is twenty times worse besides it is not a question of but of race differences are the h will not lie down with the lamb take for f he has made his millions by the most and honourable methods and yet there is no one who to expose him one of his numerous trades is t he makes or it � as he pleases � and he is one ot many existing causes of its gradual decline how do you make that out asked c i in this way he owns two or three theatres fashion quarters he lets these to certain men who o tb t selves as actor on easy terms with the understanding that whenever he chooses to put l woman the boards as leading lady the actor insist take im and boom her for all they are rt not have an of talent � that doesn t matter � will go down with the public if it s only enough the jew but there he is often mistaken the public getting sick of having the discarded of put forward for their in leading parts they want trained capable � not but it was in this way that got his she was first his mistress they were walking through a by street badly lit and and s face was in shadow he made no j went on � v she was a chorus girl in a musical comedy and sh just one dance to herself in the piece which she r unusual and her beauty attracted the er w as more a r o l aft t the i stood m of n � c r r z i s f vi � c v ask s l r j h h c re y i r i not quite wh it o � tr c z h n li r f r the future of i j n us c hall come to ne or a long er and the think sounded r u ut s c a a few mc here the front race a sh re against the ov ht bv s u e instinctive � i or e expects s last said on slow it is the last thi or e should look for or ever see in the government house our great empire and � if e look yonder here pointed to the centre of the square where an of shakespeare the contempt of every int the tragedy of a quiet life foreigner for its inadequate conception of honour to the world s genius � there is the of our country s greatest poet who said of our country s curse oh that a man should put a thief into his mouth to steal his brains ah that s all very well and began to laugh � but have you ever thought that your very shakespeare himself so far as associations with his memory in his own native place are concerned is literally soaked in beer soaked � why yes i should think he s just pretty well drowned in it his serve him up to you like a bit of toast in a of ale here he threw back his head and his laughter rang out heartily i don t speak without knowledge for of course like all good americans i ve been to on the first thing i heard there from a small boy who was as a guide to the different places of interest was that shakespeare got at when i had recovered from this shock i was hit in the eye by the spectacle of a theatre on the banks of the classic as a pile of bricks as ever i beheld and i was told it had been built by a as a memorial to shakespeare then i grasped the design of course � which is that of a round and all complete i likewise learned that the said had a version of the immortal plays with all the bits he considered naughty cut out i but that s not all a the so called national trust of the bard s own � never was there | 33 |
hands always to be seen in any clerk at s who shook hands with a when the house pervaded the air he shook in a self as one who shook for and co can i do anything for yon mr asked mr in his business character why no thank yon this is a private to yourself mr i have come for a private word oh indeed said mr bending down his ear while his eye strayed to the house afar off i am going said mr leaning his arms on the desk whereupon although it was a large double one there appeared to be not half desk enough for him i am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend miss mr ob dear me cried mr rubbing his chin and looking at his visitor oh dear me sir repeated drawing back oh dear you sir what may your meaning be mr my meaning answered the man of business is of course friendly and and that it does yon the greatest credit and � in short my meaning is everything you could desire but � really you know mr mr paused and shook his head at him in the manner as if he were compelled against his will to add you know there really is so much too much of you well said the desk with his band opening his eyes wider and taking a long breath if i understand you mr i ll be hanged a tale of two cities mr adjusted his little wig at both ears as a means towards that end and bit the feather of a pen d � n it all sir said staring at him am i not eligible oh dear yes yes oh yes you re eligible said mr if you say eligible you are eligible am i not prosperous asked oh if you come to prosperous you are prosperous said mr and advancing if you come to advancing you know said mr delighted to be able to make another admission nobody can doubt that then what on earth is your meaning mr demanded well i were you going there now asked mr straight said with a plump of his fist on the desk then i think i wouldn t if i was you why said now i ll put you in a corner shaking a forefinger at him you are a man of business and bound to have a reason state your reason why wouldn t you go because said mr i wouldn t go on such an object without having some cause to believe that i should succeed d � n me cried but this beats everything mr glanced at the distant house and glanced at the angry here s a man of business � a man of years � a man of experience � in a bank said and having a tale of two cities up three leading for complete success he says there s no reason at all i says it with lis head on i mr remarked upon the peculiarity it would have been infinitely less remarkable if lie said it with his bead off when i of success i speak of success with tha young lady and when i speak of causes and ns la make success probable i of and re that will tell as with the young lady the young lady my good air said mr mildly the arm the young lady the young lady goes before all then yon mean to tell me mr said his elbows it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a fool not exactly so i mean to tell you mr said mr that i will hear no word of that lady from any lips and that if i knew any man � which i hope i do not � was ao aud whose temper was so ing that he could not restrain himself from f of that young lady at this desk not even a prevent my him a piece of ray the necessity of being angry in a tone had put mr s blood vessels into a dangerous when it was his turn to be angry mr s veins as their courses could usually be were i state now it was his turn that is what i mean to tell you sir mr pray let there be ao mistake about it mr sucked the end of a ruler for a a tale of two cities while and then stood a tune out of his teeth with it which gave him the he broke the awkward silence bj saying � this is something new to me mr you deliberately advise me not to go up fo and offer myself � myself y of the king s bench bar do you ask me for my advice mr � yes i do very good then i give it and you have repeated it correctly and all i can say of it is laughed with a vexed laugh that this � ha ha � beats everything past present and to come now understand me pursued mr as a man of business i am not justified in saying anything about this matter for as a man of business i know nothing of it but as an old fellow who has carried miss in his arms who is the trusted friend of miss and of her father too and who has a great affection for them both i have spoken the confidence is not of my seeking recollect now you think i may not be right not i said whistling i can t undertake to find third parties in common sense i can only find it for myself i suppose sense in certain quarters you suppose bread and butter nonsense it s new to me but you are right i dare say what i suppose mr i claim to for | 8 |
the dark little square in the ground down there he whispered hoarsely peering into the very depths of the grave � down there � he gave a gesture with his hands clasping and them nervously and still with an intense passionate searching horror into the mould s touch light and caressing as a woman s fell gently on his shoulder nay my little lad he said the tears in his voice shaking its deep tone to tenderest pathos � not down there � don t ye think it up there my dear up there and he raised his steadfast eyes to the perfect blue of the radiant heaven � up there beyond all that summer light an glory � in the lands o god an his holy angels � that s where mine is now with christ which is far better ay my dear far better for it s my selfish heart which her to god � it s just me a weak ignorant man can t see the lord s in her from me but surely he knows best � he must know best an he has seen the t fitted for the hard an ways o life � an so in very kindness has took her to himself an made of her an angel fore her time for angel she is now ye may be sure � as innocent as ever stood afore the great white throne � an it s not mine i m down here among the my lad but just the little earthly shape of her s pretty an light an like � we couldn t choose but love it all of us � but mine herself is yet � yes my dear an o me as much an more than ever she did � an there s naught shall come us now mother an child are wi the lord � an in a matter o short years i ll meet them both again an know as how for the best though now it seems a mystery an s hard looked up � his face was pole � his lips were set in a thin line you believe all that he said wildly � but you are wrong � quite wrong it isn t true � it s all silly superstition there is no god � no heaven � there are no such creatures as angels oh you poor poor man � you do not know � you have never learnt there is nothing more for us after death � nothing � you will never see little again � never � never he rose slowly from his kneeling position on the turf looking so old and weird and desperate that from him as from something unnatural and monstrous you will put her down there � he went on � in her coffin with all the flowers about her and you will the earth over her and very soon the worms will crawl over her poor little face and in and out her curls and make of her what you would not look at � what you would not touch � and he trembled violently as with an fit � and yet you loved her and you can talk of a god why a god who would take away from you would be the monster imaginable what reason could he give � what object could there be in first giving her to you and then killing her and making you miserable no no � there is no god you have not read � you have not studied things and you do not know � but you are all wrong there is no god � there is only the which does not care filled with alarm as well as grief thought the boy and endeavoured to take him again into his arms but shrank back and him poor little fellow he s just wi the shock an doesn t for the moment know he s thought the simple hearted man as he watched the childish figure of despair frozen as it seemed into a on the edge of s grave � if he could cry a bit do him good surely and struck by a sudden idea he said aloud � will ye come wi me my dear an see now as she lies asleep among her flowers � t frighten ye � she s just a little angel wi god s love written on her face will ye come no answered loudly and almost fiercely � i cannot you forget � i came out this morning to see her alive � with all her curls dancing about and her eyes shining � oh i was so happy and all the time she was dead no i couldn t look at her � i couldn t � i should be thinking of this grave and the worms there is one down there just now crawling � crawling � see and he suddenly began to laugh dry sobs with his laughter � oh � and you � you can actually believe it is a good god that has killed flinging his hands up above his head he suddenly turned away and ran � ran furiously out of the churchyard and away up the road not in the direction of his home but up towards the deep green woods that hang like a glorious over the village giving it shade even in the most of the summer sun looked after him wondering and half afraid god help the child he murmured � he seems gone clean mad like in s grief an it s something more than my mine s death that s working in s mind poor lad � it s a trouble out o reach somewhere an now i mind me he s lost his mother by a far worse than death � disgrace ah well and taking up his o he went resolutely to the of | 33 |
contemplating such a scent i like to bear your enthusiasm it is a lovely and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to e in some degree as you do who have not at been a for nature in early life they lose a great deal taught me to and feel on the or i had a apt s i and the bear i wish could h on the lawn for it is a great b t� l i not know how it has happened the glee will silly till is he ma on the and as it advanced tbe had the mortification of mm too forward by gentle the and it ceased be vas by ihe � ing t� among the most urgent in to hear the glee sa was to return in november and his son liad duties to call him earlier home the of si i of mr first in a letter to then in a letter to and by the end ut august he to be gay agreeable and gallant again as occasion ot demanded to tell of races and parties aad to which she might have before with some interest and altogether to give her the by the power of actual of her his younger brother i it and she was heartily sorry for it but ea u ea far meaning to marry the elder she did � ot want to attract beyond what the claims of beauty required his absence i anything but pleasure in view and his own will iq made it perfectly clear that he did not care about and ul indifference was so much more than equalled by her own that he now to forth the owner of tlie complete which he was to be in time she did not � he could accept him the and duties which brought mr to took mr into could not do him in the l of september ue went � � a fortnight of such to the oa to have put them both on their guard and made even in her jealousy of her sister the absolute ot his aod wishing him not to return and a of ut leisure in the of shooting and tt to the gentleman that he to keep ik been in the habit of examining h own motives and to wliat the indulgence of his idle vanity � and from prosperity and had he look the present moment the band and encouraging were au lo his in to equal fin i fl w returned to it at a v h i� j as bj w i h with mr to to her a to the repeated a at bad e his jealous of his of ca and his zeal after will not flat their to female feelings without some talent oa one � ome attachment to the other had mr and and felt all the right of bim more e the might be in bo doing by the hints of mrs grant in to credit what she wished and maria by the hints of mr everything returned into the same channel as before hia absence his manners being to each so animated and agreeable as to lose no ground with either and just stopping short of the the tlie and warmth general notice wm the only one of tbe party who found anything to but since tbe day at she could never sea mr with either sister without and seldom or censure i and had confidence in her own bees equal to her exercise of it in every respect bad a been that she waa seeing clearly and candidly du probably have made some hi to bat a it was however she only a hint and the hint was lost i am rather surprised said she � � tint mr should come again bo soon after being here lo long j ill seven weeks for i he was bo t t of change and moving about that i something occur be was ont o gone to take him be is used to places than it is to his credit was h answer and i say it bis r e does not his unsettled what a favourite he ia with my tes his manners to women are such as must please i believe su him of a for i never seen much symptom of it but i wish it m� y be so i � has ab but what a would if miss not said caution i could think be admired her which is perhaps in of bis liking b� � t you may be aware i believe it often nt he has quite made up bis oh d mind wilt the sister or intimate of the woman be is o more tbe woman b is ton much i � � here if he m any r i n n i am it at all for her after such a i � � � that are not f ha e been tm b v in all � and all the help of a o j noticed in some fit i � ii � c was mr choice ae � � w she one to tbe of ber � as well its to her and the i on a point of i and could n she and glad would she hare been obliged lo listen for it was while all the other i and she most among hm at the fire longing for tbe re entrance of her elder d� whom all her own of n partner then depended � ball the preparation or ir of many a lady s first the thought only of the bout on tbe late acquisition of a player in die i the of raising ate with the � mr and a new intimate friend of mr s � i visit it had been a very happy one i fear dances and | 26 |
this amiable for your brother s comfort may you not be a little mistaken are you not carried a little too far would he either on his own account or miss s for supposing that her affection or at least her good behaviour is only to be secured by her seeing nothing of captain is he safe only in solitude or is her heart constant to him only when by any one else he cannot think this and you may be sure that he would not have you think it i win not say do not be uneasy because i know that you are at this moment but be as little uneasy as you can you hare no doubt of the mutual attachment of your brother and your friend depend upon it therefore that real jealousy can exist between them depend upon it that no between them can be of any duration their hearts are open to each other as neither heart can be to you know exactly what is required and what can be borne and you may be certain that one will never the other beyond what is known to be pleasant perceiving her still to look doubtful and grave he added though does not leave bath with us he will probably remain but a very short time perhaps only a few days behind us his leave of absence will soon and he must return to his regiment and what will then be their the mess room will drink for a fortnight and she will laugh with your brother over poor s passion for a month would contend no longer against comfort she had resisted its approaches during the whole length of a but it now carried her captive henry must know best she blamed herself for the extent of her fears and resolved never to think so seriously on the subject again her resolution was supported by s behaviour in parting interview the spent the last evening of s stay in street and nothing i ia abbey the lovers to excite her uneasiness or make her quit them in apprehension james was in excellent spirits and most placid her tenderness for her friend seemed rather the first feeling of her heart but that at such a moment was and once she gave her lover a contradiction and once she drew back her hand but remembered henry s instructions and placed it all to judicious affection the embraces tears and promises of the parting fair ones may be fancied chapter xx mr and mrs were sorry to lose their young friend whose good humour and cheerfulness had made her a valuable companion and in the promotion of whose enjoyment their own had been gently increased her happiness in going with miss however prevented their wishing it otherwise and as they were to remain only one more week in bath themselves her them now would not long be felt mr attended her to street where she was to breakfast and saw her seated with the kindest welcome among her new friends but so great was her agitation in finding herself as one of the family and so was she of not doing exactly what was right and of not being able to preserve their good opinion that in the embarrassment of the first minutes she could almost have wished to return with him to street miss s manners and henry s smile soon did away some of her unpleasant feelings but still she was far from being at ease nor could the incessant attentions of the general himself entirely re assure her nay perverse as it seemed she doubted whether she might not have felt less had she been less attended to his anxiety for her comfort his continual that she would eat and his fears of her seeing nothing to her taste though never in her life before had she beheld half such variety on a breakfast table made it impossible for her to forget for a abbey hat she was a she felt unworthy of � and knew not how to reply to it her not improved by the general s impatience for the se of his eldest son nor by the displeasure he exit his when captain at came he was quite pained by the severity of his father s hich seemed to the offence and i her concern increased when she found herself the cause of the lecture and that his was from being to her this was er in a very uncomfortable situation and she felt for captain without being able to lis good will to his father in silence and attempted not any hich confirmed her in fearing that the nd on s account might by keeping him have been the real cause of his rising late it time of her being decidedly in his company and to be now able to form her opinion of him heard his voice while his father remained in and even afterwards so much were his spirits she could distinguish nothing but these words in r to how glad i shall be when you are of going was not pleasant the clock struck the trunks were carrying down and the general to be out of street by that hour his great sad of being brought for him to put on directly was t in the in which he was to accompany his e middle seat of the chaise was not drawn out were three people to go in it and his daughter s crowded it with that miss b have room to sit and so much was he influenced when he handed her in that she had in saving her own new writing desk from wn out into the street at last however the door d upon the three females and they set ofi at the no sober pace in which the handsome highly fed four horses of a gentleman usually perform a journey of thirty miles | 26 |
were more frequent and at length a white or red mansion looked down from a moderate eminence or allowed adam to be aware of its and chimneys among the masses of and elms � masses now with early and close at hand came the village the small church with its red roof looking humble even among the faded half houses the old green grave stones with round them nothing fresh and bright but the children opening round eyes at the post chaise nothing noisy and busy but the gaping of mysterious what a much prettier village was i and it should not be neglected like this place vigorous should go on every where among farm buildings and cottages in coming along the road should do nothing but e as they went and adam should all the for he had a share in s business now and if he liked arthur would put money into the concern and buy the old man out in another year or two that was an ugly fault in arthur s life that last summer but the future should make amends many men would have retained a feeling of toward adam but he would � he would resolutely overcome all of that kind for he had certainly been very much in the wrong and though adam had been and violent and had thrust on him a painful the poor fellow was in love and had real provocation no arthur had not an evil feeling in his mind toward any human being he was happy and would make every one else happy that came within his reach and here was dear old at last sleeping on the hill like a quiet old place as it was in the late afternoon sunlight and opposite to it the great shoulders of the below them the blackness of the hanging woods and at last the pale front of the abbey looking out from among the oaks of the chase as if anxious for the heir s return poor grandfather and he lies dead there was a young fellow once coming into the estate and making his plans so the world goes round aunt must feel very desolate poor thing but she shall be as much as she her fat the wheels of arthur s chaise had been anxiously listened for at the chase for to day was friday and the funeral had already been deferred two days before it drew up on the gravel of the court yard all the servants in the house were assembled to receive him with a grave decent welcome a house of death a month ago perhaps it would have been difficult for them to have a suitable sadness in their when mr arthur was come to take possession but the hearts of the head were heavy that day for another adam cause than tjie death of the old squire and more than one of them was longing to be twenty miles away as mr was knowing what was to become of son el � pretty � whom they used to see every week they had the of household servants who like their places and were not inclined to go the full length of the severe indignation felt against him by the farming tenants but rather to make excuses for him nevertheless the sen who had been on terms of with the for many years could not help that the longed for event of the young squire s coming into the estate had been robbed of all its to arthur it was nothing surprising that the servants looked grave and sad was very much touched on seeing them all again and feeling that he was in a new relation to them it was that sort of pathetic emotion which has more than pain in it which is perhaps one of the most of all states to a good natured man conscious of the power to satisfy his good nature his heart swelled agreeably as he said well mills how is my aunt but now mr the lawyer who had been in the house ever since the came forward to give greetings and answer all questions and arthur walked with hun toward the library his aunt was him aunt was the only person in the house who knew nothing about her sorrow as a maiden daughter was with any other thoughts than those of anxiety funeral arrangements and her own future lot and after the manner of women she mourned for the father who had made her ufe important all the more because she had a secret sense that there was little mourning for him in other hearts but arthur kissed her tearful face more tenderly than he had ever done in his life before dear aunt he affectionately as he held her hand loss is the greatest of all but you must tell me how to try and make it up to yon all the rest of your ufe it was so sudden and so arthur poor miss began pouring out her little and arthur sat down to listen with impatient patience when a pause came he said now aunt i ll leave you for a quarter of an hour to go to my own room and then i shall come and give full attention to every thing my room is all ready for me i suppose mills he said to the butler who seemed to bo lingering uneasily about the entrance hall yes sir and there are letters for you they are all laid od the � writing table in your room on entering the small room which was called a but which arthur really only to and write in lie just cast his eyes on the wi table and saw that there were several letters and lying there bat he was in the uncomfortable dusty condition of a man who has had a long hurried journey and he must really refresh himself by | 14 |
in her face � a dead child lay near and this group were two supernatural shapes � one in scarlet the other in black � vast and almost beyond the stature of humanity � the scarlet figure represented and its blood red fingers were advanced to clutch the diamond crown from society s brow � the form was death and even as we looked it slowly raised its dart in act to strike the effect was weird and wonderful � and the grim lesson the picture conveyed was startling enough to make a very visible impression the sorrows of satan no one spoke � no one applauded � but people moved and on their seats � and there was an audible sigh of relief as the curtain closed opening again it displayed the second � bravery ancient and modem this was in two scenes � the first one depicted a nobleman of elizabeth s time with drawn his foot on the prostrate body of a coarse who had evidently from the insulted a woman whose slight figure was dis shrinking timidly away from the contest this was ancient bravery � and it changed rapidly to modem showing us an narrow shouldered pallid in opera coat and hat smoking a and languidly appealing to a policeman to protect him from another young of his own class attired who was represented as round a corner in abject terror we all recognised the force of the application and were in a much better humour with this pictured satire than we had been at the lesson of society next followed a lost angel in which was shown a great hall in the palace of a king where there were numbers of brilliantly attired people all in various attitudes and evidently completely absorbed in their own concerns so much so as to be entirely unconscious of the fact that in their very midst stood a wondrous angel clad in dazzling white with a round her fair hair and a glory as of the sunset on her half drooping wings her eyes were wistful � her face was pensive and expectant she seemed to say will the world ever know that i am here somehow � as the curtain slowly closed again amid loud applause for the picture was beautiful � i thought of and sighed looked up at me why do you sigh she said it is a lovely fancy � but the symbol is wasted in the present audience � no one with education believes in angels now a days true i assented yet there was a at my heart for her words reminded me of what i would rather have forgotten � namely her own admitted lack of all religious faith the sorrows of satan the was the next and represented an emperor at his knelt a piteous crowd of the starving and oppressed holding up their lean hands to him clasped in petition but he looked away from them as though he saw them not his head was turned to listen to the side whisper of one who seemed by the bend and flattering smile to be his adviser and � yet that very held behind his back a drawn dagger ready to strike his sovereign to the heart russia whispered one or two of the company as the scene was obscured but the scarcely breathed suggestion quickly passed into a murmur of amazement and awe as the curtain parted again to disclose a comer of hell this was indeed original and quite unlike what might have been imagined as the conventional treatment of such a subject what we saw was a black and hollow glittering alternately with the of ice and fire � huge drooped from above and pale flames leaped stealthily into view from below and within the dark the shadowy form of a man was seated counting out gold or what seemed to be gold yet as coin after coin slipped through his ghostly fingers each one was seen to change to fire � and the lesson thus pi was easily read the lost soul had made its own torture and was still at work and increasing its own fiery agony much as this scene was admired for its effect of light and shade i personally was glad when it was from view there was something in the dreadful face of the doomed sinner that reminded me forcibly and of those ghastly three i had seen in my horrid vision on the night of ton s suicide seeds of corruption was the next picture and showed us a young and beautiful girl in her early lying on a luxurious couch en with a novel in her hand of which the title was plainly seen by all � a novel well known to present and the work of a much praised living author round her on the floor and cast carelessly on a chair at her side were other the sorrows of satan novels of the same type � all their titles turned towards us and the names of their authors equally made manifest what a daring idea said a lady in the seat immediately behind me i wonder if any of those authors are present if they are they won t mind replied the man next to her with a smothered laugh those sort of writers would merely take it as a first class advertisement looked at the with a pale face and wistful eyes that is a true picture she said under her breath it is painfully true i made no answer � i thought i knew to what she alluded but alas � i did not know how deeply the seeds of corruption had been sown in her own nature or what a harvest they would bring forth the curtain closed � to open again almost immediately on his latest purchase here we were shown the interior of a luxurious modern drawing room where about eight or | 33 |
so you still love me and so you can forgive your wife why then we may bid conscience down dog like an ill trained at shadows the pair fell into silence the doctor tapping on bis empty glass the carriage swung forth out of the valleys on that open balcony of high road that runs along the front of looking down on far below a white was shining to the stars from the falling skirts of forest and beyond that the night stood naked above the plain on the other band the the face of the and the dwarf pine trees prince with all their needles and were gone again into the wake the granite under wheels and hoofs and at times by reason of its continual winding could see the escort on the other side of a riding well together in the night presently the came plainly in view some way above them on a bold of the and planting its bulk against the sky see said the prince our destination awoke as from a trance i was thinking said he if there is danger why did you not resist i was told you came of your free will bat should you not be there to help her the color faded from the prince s cheeks a chapter in von i act the last in which she off when the busy came forth from her interview with it is not too much to say that she was beginning to be terribly afraid she paused in the corridor and reckoned up her doings with an eye to the fan was in in an instant but her was beyond the reach of the girl has lost head she thought and then i have gone too far she instantly decided on now the of the von was a certain rustic villa in the forest called by i in a smart attack of and by everybody else plain thither upon the thought she furiously drove passing at the entrance to the palace avenue but not to observe him and as was seven good miles away and in the bottom of a narrow she passed the night without any of the outbreak reaching her and the glow of the was concealed by intervening hills von did not sleep well she was seriously uneasy as to the results of prince her delightful evening and saw herself condemned to quite a in her deserts and a long correspondence ere she could venture to return to on the other hand she examined by way of the deeds she had received from and even here saw cause for disappointment in these days she had no taste for landed property and she was convinced besides that had paid dearer than the farm was worth lastly the order for the prince s release fairly burned her fingers all things considered the next day beheld an elegant and beautiful lady in a riding habit and a flapping hat draw bridle at the gate of the not perhaps with any clear idea of her purpose but with her usual views on life governor summoned to the gate welcomed the with his most gallant bearing though it was wonderful how old he looked in the morning ah governor she said we have surprises for you sir and nodded at him eh madam leave me my prisoners he said and if you will but join the band i ll be happy for life you would spoil me would you not she asked i would try i would try returned the governor and he offered his arm she took it picked up her skirt and drew him close to her i have come to see the prince she a romance said now on business a message from that stupid who keeps me running like a do i look like one and she planted her eyes in him you look like an angel ma am returned the governor with a great air of finished gallantry the laughed an angel on horse back she said quick work you came you saw you conquered flourished in high good humor with his own wit and grace � we you madam in the carriage in an excellent good glass of wine you deep the finest woman with the finest eyes in i never saw the like of them but once in my own country when i was a young fool at college her name was i give you my word of honor she was as like you as two peas and so you were merry in the asked the gracefully a we were we had a very pleasant conversation but we took perhaps a glass more than that fine fellow of a prince had been accustomed to said the governor and i observe this morning that he seems a little off bis we ll get him mellow again ere this is his door well she whispered let me get my breath no no wait have the door ready to open and the standing like one inspired shook out her fine voice in ch io and when she reached the proper point and uttered forth her after liberty the door at a sign was flung wide open and she swam into the prince s sight bright eyed and with her color somewhat by the exercise of singing it was a great dramatic entrance and to the somewhat prisoner within the sight was sunshine ah madam he cried running to her � you here she looked at and as soon as the door was closed l he fell on s neck to see you here she moaned and clung to him but the prince stood somewhat stiffly in that situation and the instantly recovered from her outburst poor child she said poor child sit down beside me here and tell me all about it my heart really to see you how does time go madam replied the prince sitting down beside her | 38 |
altogether to have the character of a benefactor seemed to s anxiety an obstacle to himself a lover unless in some inconceivable way it could be revealed to him that s heart had accepted him beforehand and the agitation on his own account too was not small even a man who has practised himself in till his own has rendered him may at last be overtaken by the lover s awe � may tremble and show other signs of recovered sensibility no more in the range of his acquired talents than pins and needles after how much more may that timidity possess a man whose inward history has daniel cherished his instead of them and has kept all the language of passion fresh and rooted as the lovely about the spring as for her dear head lay on its pillow that night with its former suspicions thrown out of shape but still present like an ugly story which has been but not therefore dissipated all that she was certain of about seemed to prove that he had no such upon him as she had been allowing herself to believe in his whole manner as well as his words implied that there were no hidden bonds remaining to have any effect in his future but notwithstanding this plainly reasonable uneasiness still clung about s heart was not to blame but he had an importance for mrs which must give her some hold on him and the thought of any close confidence between them stirred the little biting snake that had long lain curled and harmless in s gentle bosom but did she this evening feel as completely as before that her jealousy was no less remote from any possibility for herself personally than if her human soul had been lodged in the body of a book viii � fruit and seed that had saved from the hardly something had happened and made a difference the soft warm rain of blossoms which had fallen just where she was � did it really come because she was there what spirit was there among the boughs vol iv chapter e tale al di e grave � va su e men fa male � u it was not many days after her mother s arrival that would consent to remain at her desire to get away from that of the sea helped to rally her strength and courage for what place though it were the of may not the inward sense turn into a circle of punishment where the flowers are no better than a crop of flame tongues burning the of our feet i shall never like to see the again said to her mother who thought that she quite understood her child s even in her of any express reference to her late husband mrs indeed though compelled formally to regard this time as one of severe calamity was book viii � fruit and seed enjoying her life more than she had ever done since her daughter s marriage it seemed that her darling was brought back to her not merely with all the old affection but with a conscious of her mother s such as we give to a possession that we have been on the brink of losing are you there mamma cried in the middle of the night a bed had been made for her mother in the same room with hers very much as she would have done in her early if she had felt frightened in lying awake yes dear can i do anything for you no thank you only i like so to know you are there do you mind my waking you this question would hardly have been s in her early i was not asleep darling it seemed not real that you were with me i wanted to make it real i can bear things if you are with me but you must not lie awake being anxious about me you must be happy now you must let me make you happy now at last � else what shall i do god bless you dear i have the best happiness i can have when you make much of me but the next night hearing that she was sigh daniel der ing and restless mrs said let me give you your sleeping draught no mamma thank you i don t want to sleep it would be so good for you to sleep more my darling don t say what would be good for me mamma answered you don t know what would be good for ma you and my uncle must not contradict me and tell me anything is good for me when i feel it is not good mrs was silent not wondering that the poor child was irritable presently said � i was always naughty to you mamma no dear no yes i was said it is because i was always wicked that i am miserable now she burst into sobs and cries the determination to be silent about all the facts of her married life and its close in these of excitement but dim lights of interpretation were breaking on the mother s mind through the information that came from sir to mr and book viii � fruit and seed with some from mr to herself the good natured while he was attending to all decent measures in relation to his nephew s death and the possible washing ashore of the body thought it the kindest thing he could do to use his present friendly intercourse with the as an opportunity for communicating to him in the way the purport of s will so as to save him the additional shock that would be in store for him if he carried his illusions all the way home perhaps sir would have been enough without that kind motive but he really felt the motive he broke the unpleasant news to the by degrees at | 14 |
than ever to the and fell back in gave a scream and on her knees again she thought he was dead as soon as mr was able to give her a moment s attention he ca ie to her and taking her by the arm attempted to draw her gently out of the room now my dear mrs let persuade you not to remain in the room at present we shall soon relieve these symptoms i hope it is nothing but the delirium that ordinarily such cases oh what is the matter p what brought it on he fell out of the the right leg is broken it is a terrible accident and i s don t disguise that there is considerable danger attending it owing to the state of the brain but mr has a strong constitution you know in a few days these may be and he may do well let me beg of you to keep out of the room at present you can do no good until mr is better and able to know you but you ought not to be alone let me you to have mrs with you � yes i will send for mother but you must not object to my being in the room i shall be very quiet now only just at first the shock was so great i knew nothing about it i can help the nurses a great deal i can put the cold things to his head he may be sensible for a mc ment and know me do not say any more against it my heart is set on being with him mr gave way and having sent for her mother and put off her bonnet and shawl returned to take her place by the side of her husband s bed xxiv day after day with only short intervals of rest kept her place in that sad chamber no wonder the sick room and the have so often been a refuge from the of intellectual a place of repose for the worn and wounded spirit here is a duty about which all and all are at one here at least the conscience will not be dogged by doubt � the will not be checked by adverse theory here you may begin to act without settling one question to the sufferer s through the long night watches to bear up the drooping head to lift the helpless limbs to divine the want that can find no utterance beyond the feeble motion of the hand or glance of the eye � these are offices that demand no self no no assent to no weighing of consequences within the four walls where the and glare of the world are shut out and every voice is subdued � where a human being lies prostrate thrown on the tender of his fellow the moral relation of man to man is reduced to its utmost clearness and simplicity cannot it theory cannot it passion awed into can neither nor it as we bend over the bed all the forces of our nature rush towards the channels of pity of patience and of love and sweep down the miserable choking drift of our quarrels our our would be wisdom and our selfish desires this blessing of freedom from the of opinion in all simple direct acts of mercy and is one source of that sweet calm which is often felt by the in the sick room even when the duties there are of a hard and terrible kind something of that result was felt by � during her in her husband s chamber when the first hours were over � when her horror at his delirium was no longer fresh she began to be conscious of her relief from the of decision as to her course the question that agitated her about return ing to her husband had been solved in a moment and this illness after all might be the herald of another blessing just as that midnight when she stood an outcast in cold and darkness had been followed by the dawn of a new hope would get better this illness might alter him he would be a long time feeble help walking with a perhaps she would wait on him with such tenderness such love that the old and cruelty must melt away forever under the heart sunshine she would pour around him her bosom heaved at the thought and delicious tears fell s was a nature in which hatred and revenge could find no place the long bitter years drew half their bitterness from her ever living remembrance of the too short years of love that went before and the thought that her husband would ever put her hand to his lips again and recall the days when they sat on the grass together and he laid scarlet on her black hair and called her his queen seemed to send a tide of loving oblivion over all the harsh and stony space they had traversed since the divine love that had already shone upon her be with her she would lift up her soul continually for help mr she knew would pray for her if she felt herself failing she would confess it to him at once if her feet began to slip there was that stay for her to cling to o she could never be drawn back into that cold damp vault of sin and she had felt the morning sun s she had tasted the sweet pure air of trust and and submission these were the thoughts passing through s mind as she hovered about her husband s bed and these were the hopes she poured out to mr n he called to see her it was so evident that they were her in her new struggle � they shed such a glow of calm enthusiasm over her face as she spoke of that mr could not | 14 |
books at all but from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine she read all such works as must read to supply their memories with those which are so serviceable and so soothing in the of their lives from pope she learnt to censure those who bear about the mockery of woe from gray that � many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its fragrance on the desert air from that � it is a delightful task to teach the young idea how to shoot and from she gained a great store of information amongst the rest that � trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmation strong as proofs of holy writ that the poor which we tread upon in feels a pang as great as when a giant dies and that a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief so far her improvement was sufficient and in many other points she came on exceedingly well for though she could not write she brought herself to read them and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into by a on the piano of her own composition she could listen to abbey other people s performance with very little fatigue her greatest deficiency was in the pencil � she had no notion of drawing � not enough even to attempt a sketch of her lover s that she might be detected in the design there she fell miserably short of the true heroic height at present she did not know her own poverty for she had no lover to she had reached the age of seventeen without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility without having inspired one real passion and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient this was strange but strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out there was not one lord in the neighbourhood no not even a there was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door not one young man whose origin was unknown her father had no ward and the squire of the parish no children but when a young lady is to be a heroine the of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way mr who owned the chief of the property about the village in where the lived was ordered to bath for the benefit of a constitution and his lady a good humoured woman fond of miss and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad invited her to go with them mr and mrs were all compliance and all happiness abbey in addition to what has been already said of s personal and mental when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks residence in bath it may be stated for the reader s more certain information lest the following pages should otherwise fail of giving any idea of what her character is meant to be that her heart was affectionate her disposition cheerful and open without conceit or affectation of any kind her manners just removed from the awkwardness and shyness of a girl her person pleasing and when in good looks pretty and her mind about as ignorant and as the female mind at seventeen usually is when the hour of departure drew near tlie maternal anxiety of mrs will be naturally supposed to be most severe a thousand alarming of evil to her beloved from this terrific separation must her heart with sadness and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together and advice of the most important and nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet against the violence of such and as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm house must at such a moment relieve the fulness of her heart who would not think so but mrs knew so little of lords and that she entertained no notion of their general and was wholly of danger to her daughter from their her were confined to the following points i beg you will always wrap yourself up very warm about the throat when you come from the rooms at night and i wish you would try to keep some account of the abbey money you spend i will give you this little book on purpose sally or rather for what young lady of common will reach uie age of sixteen without her name as far as she can must from situation be at time the intimate friend and of her sister it is remarkable however that she neither insisted on s writing by every post nor her promise of die character of every new acquaintance nor a detail of every interesting conversation that might produce everything indeed relative to this important journey was done on the part of the with a degree of moderation and composure which seemed rather consistent with the common feelings of common life than with the refined � the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite her father instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker or even putting an hundred pounds bank bill into her hands gave her only ten guineas and promised her more when she wanted it under these the parting took place and the journey began it was with suitable and safety neither robbers nor them nor one lucky to introduce them to the hero nothing more alarming occurred than a fear on mrs s side of having once left her behind her at | 26 |
me the blue said dan what in thunder is it the song of fin said the cook when he going to his captains courageous was not thick but all clear cut as though it came from a faith i ve been to but i did n t make that noise t is like some of the old songs though said long jack sighing don t let s another between said dan and the struck up a rattling tune that ended it s six an twenty sundays we saw the land with fifteen an fifteen old an grand hold on roared tom d ye want to nail the trip dan that s sure less you sing it after all our salt s wet no t ain t is it not unless you sing the very verse you can t learn me anything on what s that said what s a a s anything that spoils the luck sometimes it s a man � sometimes it s a boy � or a bucket i ve known a knife two till we was on to her said tom i captains courageous there s all sorts o jim was one till he was drowned on i d never ship with jim not if i was there a green on the flood was a too the worst sort o drowned four men she did an used to shine fiery o nights in the nest and you believe that said remembering what tom had said about candles and models have n t we all got to take what s served a of ran round the yes things can happen said don t you go a mock of young well ain t no day after we him dan cut in we had a good catch the cook threw up his head and laughed suddenly � a queer thin laugh he was a most murder said long jack don t do that again doctor we ain t used to ut what s wrong said dan ain t he our and did n t they strike on good after we d struck him captains courageous oh said the cook i know that but the catch not finish yet he ain t goin to do us any harm said dan hotly where are ye an to he s all no harm no but one day he will be your master that all said dan placidly he t � not by a master said the cook pointing to man and he pointed to dan that s news soon said dan with a laugh in some years and i shall see it master and man � man and master how in thunder d ye work that out said tom in my head where i can see this from all the others at once i do not know but so it will be he dropped his head and went on the potatoes and not another word could they get out of him well said dan a heap o things to come fore s any master o mine but i m glad the doctor ain t to mark him for a now i captains courageous uncle fer the in the fleet his own special luck ef it s same s he ought to be on the that boat s her own sure � an gear make no differ to her christmas she loose in a flat ca am we ve well clear o the fleet anyway said an all there was a on the deck uncle has his luck said dan as his father departed it s blown clear cried and all the tumbled up for a bit of fresh air the fog had gone but a sullen sea ran in great behind it the we re here slid as it were into long sunk avenues and which felt quite sheltered and if they would only stay still but they changed without rest or mercy and flung up the to crown one peak of a thousand gray hills while the wind through her as she down the slopes far away a sea would burst in a sheet of foam and the others would follow suit as at a signal till s eyes swam with the vision of and four or five mother captains courageous s chickens round in circles shrieking as they swept past the bows a rain or two strayed over the hopeless waste ran down wind and back again and melted away seems to me i saw jest over yonder said uncle pointing to the can t be any of the fleet said peering under his eyebrows a hand on the as the solid bows into the sea s over fast don t you want to up a piece an see how lays in his big boots trotted rather than climbed up the main this consumed with envy himself around the cross trees and let his eye till it caught the tiny black flag on the shoulder of a mile away swell she s all right he hailed sail o dead to the no th ard down like smoke she be too they waited yet another half hour the sky clearing in patches with a of sickly sun from time to time that made patches of olive green water then a stump captains courageous lifted and disappeared to be followed on the next wave by a high stern with wooden s horn the sails were red shouted dan no t ain t neither da ad that s no french said your blame luck holds n a screw in a head i ve eyes it s uncle you can t tell fer sure the head king of all groaned tom oh why was n t you an asleep how could i tell said poor as the swung up she might have been the very flying so foul and was every rope and stick aboard her was some four or five feet high and | 39 |
i thought i ought to like a man on dis you infernal rascal didn t i tell you that the next time you took my clothes without asking my permission i was going to shoot you the major faced his chair around with a jerk but george washington had in the recovered himself yes i remembers he said complacently but didn t have no to solemn when i a man in de code ab n s� la yes sir it did i had this especially in mind declared the major � i gave you fair notice and damn me if i don t do it too before i m done with yon � i d sell you to morrow morning if it would not be a cheat on the man who was fool enough to buy you my best coat and waistcoat � he looked affectionately at the george washington evidently knew the way to soothe him � who ever de beat of he said in a tone of mild complaint partly to the young men and partly to bis old master in the and velvet over the piano you reckon i ain got no better manners n to you coat and coat and did you no favor � i hear miss bout it de time you ever put em on s de reason i em having found an excuse he was as as a river � i say to myself i ain let my young things no mo strange ladies an man in de too � an i so about it i say george n n you got to things and em yo george wa t n last self to keep him f om it s what you got to do i say and s de reason i em he looked the picture of self sacrifice but the major burst forth on him why you lying rascal that s three different reasons you have given in one breath for taking them at which george washington shook his head with s� just look at them cried the major � my favorite waistcoat i there is not a crack or a in them � they look as nice as they did the day they were bought this was too much for george washington s the favor of de what has em on he said bowing at which the major finding his ire giving way to amusement drove him from the room swearing that if he did not shoot him that evening he would set him free to morrow morning vi as the afternoon had worn away and whilst the two in the affair were arranging their matters the major had been taking every precaution to carry out the plan i i s for the meeting the effect of the approaching upon the old gentleman was somewhat remarkable he was in unusually high spirits his rosy countenance wore an expression of humorous content and from time to time as he about a smile flitted across his face or a chuckle sounded from the depths of his satin stock he fell in with miss and related to her a series of anecdotes respecting and generally so lurid in their character that she groaned over the of a region where such was practised but when he solemnly informed her that he felt satisfied from the signs of the time that some one would be shot in the neighborhood before twenty four hours were over the old lady determined to return home next day it was not difficult to secure secrecy as the major had given directions that no one should be admitted to the garden for at least an hour before sunset he had been giving directions to george which that would have found some difficulty in even had he remained sober but which in his existing condition was aa impossible as for him to change tlie i washington s last in his hair the major had solemnly assured him that if he got drunk he would shoot him on the spot and george washington had as solemnly consented that he would gladly die if he should be found in this condition immediately succeeding which however under the weight of the momentous matters submitted to him he had after his habit sought aid and comfort of his old friends the major s and he was shortly in that condition when he felt that the entire universe depended upon him he his shoes at least twenty times and marched back and forth in the yard with such importance that the servants instinctively shrunk away from his august presence one of the children in their ran against him george washington simply said out my way and without pausing in his gait or to look at him him completely over a maid ventured to him to know why he was so finely dressed george washington overwhelmed heir with a look of such infinite contempt and such withering scorn that all the other servants forthwith fell upon her for in george s last wash n ton s business at last the major entered the garden and bade george washington follow him and george washington having paid his twentieth visit to the and had a final interview with the liquor and having polished up his old anew left the office by the door carrying under hia arm a mahogany box about two feet long and one foot wide partially covered with a large linen cloth his hat was cocked on the of liis head with an air supposed to be impressive he wore the major s coat and velvet waistcoat which he had won so a victory in the morning and he a lai e handkerchief the of which he had transferred still more recently the major s orders to george washington were to convey the box to the garden in a secret manner but george washington was far too much impressed with the importance of the part he | 46 |
engagements thus fortified by resolve stimulated by love of the profession cheered by loud of friends by domestic solicitude and filled with the and courage of the national character they more resemble the chivalry which a few centuries ago assembled around de or de in their upon the fields of italy than they do any army of modem times the skill concert impetuous and labour of their will be the theme of from military critics in centuries to come whilst the brilliancy of their over such numbers and the rapidity of their conquest of the of will be regarded as the of the age in which they were achieved the of the regular army on the canada frontier in the war of will suffer nothing in the comparison with those of the latter period the won by the youthful general at and s lane will retain a as fresh as those which the same chief has plucked in his elder day upon the plains of s professional engagements had now so multiplied upon his hands as nearly to all his time and the reputation following his success seems to have so fur gratified his ambition as in a great degree to his literary projects or at least to them to few and efforts the old bachelor the greater part of which had been completed in the year through all the following year and after a slight endeavour towards a revival was finally disposed of in the life of henry too was vol i � v life of henry found to be an enterprise of less promise than at first it seemed we shall have occasion hereafter to notice the of this task and how weary the author became of it in a letter from mr to him upon this subject the farmer expresses a difficulty in regard to the collection and the publication of facts respecting henry which had already felt in answer to this letter remarks i despair of the subject it has been continually sinking under me the truth perhaps cannot be published by me during my life i propose at present to prepare it and leave the manuscript with my family i still think it a useful subject and one which may be wrought not only into lessons on eloquence but on the superiority of solid and practical parts over the transient and gaudy show of occasion i wish only it had been convenient to you to enable me to illustrate and adorn my theme by a short portrait of mr henry s most prominent i may notice here as some reference to the event will be made in the course of this narrative that had in the last week of the year � the day after christmas � been visited by a calamity of overwhelming horror in the burning of the theatre during a performance which had attracted to the house an unusual crowd of the most cherished members of the society of the city between sixty and a hundred persons were burnt up in the amongst these were the governor of the state george w smith mr the president of the bank of virginia mr the gentleman whom we have seen engaged as one of the counsel of the wife of this gentleman and his niece with many other ladies most to the community of � young and aged � were also in this awful catastrophe was in mourning with scarce a family in it that had not suffered some so melancholy a disaster we may suppose would leave its traces upon the character of the city for many years it was long before resumed that cheerful and careless tone of social enjoyment for which it was previously distinguished � i find a manuscript reference to this sad event amongst the papers of mr in which he has detailed some of the particulars attending the xx appointed the letters some interesting particulars of personal history making occasional to the incidents of the war and presenting some few evidences of the literary aspirations rather than labours of the writer they furnish besides agreeable pictures of the contentment and cheerfulness which attend a prosperous life the of judge to the bench by the governor and council required the of the in this proceeding in the of an opposition was got up against the judge sufficiently strong to defeat him during the year in which he had served on the bench it was universally admitted that entire was given to the public � that in fact the office was administered with distinguished ability the opposition is said to have arisen out of objections of a purely local character which touched what was supposed to be the claims of other persons it is said that acknowledging the judge s merits and with a special purpose to retain him in the the created new district of which was the seat of justice and bestowed the appointment to it upon him this appointment he promptly accepted it compelled him to change his residence from to the change seems to have gone hard with him for some time to one of his genial temper and love of domestic associations such a breaking up of settled habits and separation from familiar faces was rather a severe tax upon his affections this will explain the occasion of the next letter death of the governor i extract a few passages � the fatal night of his death says this record he had taken his wife and one of his sons about nine or ten years old to the play at the cry of fire he led mrs smith into the box and that he had left his little son behind in the box he told her to remain there until he stepped back for tho boy it was her wish to do so but the pressure of the crowd bore her away when the governor returned his wife was not to be seen he hastened | 29 |
earth would induce me to sit to him i there was a chorus of oh because � he makes people look so horrid the way one looks on board ship or early in the morning or when one s hair is out of curl and one knows it i d much rather be done by mr little the fashionable of his moustache to hide a is a genius � that we must all admit he said as though a friend s weakness but he has an unfortunate temperament he has been denied the gift � so precious to an artist � of perceiving the ideal he sees only the defects of his one might almost fancy that he takes a morbid pleasure in their weak points in painting them on their worst days but i honestly believe he can t help himself his peculiar prevent his the portrait seeing anything but the most side of human nature � a the brim a w to him and it is nothing more looked round to surprise an order in the eye of the lady whose sentiments he had so interpreted but poetry always made her uncomfortable and her attention had strayed to other topics his glance was tripped up by mrs but my dear man it s because he hasn t any because he doesn t wear the portrait painter s conventional that we re all so afraid of being painted by him it s not because he sees only one aspect of his it s because he the real the typical one as instinctively as a a pick pocket in a crowd if there s nothing to paint � no real person he nothing look at the of his portrait of mrs � why the pretty woman that s the only nice picture he ever did if there s one positive trait in a negative whole he brings it out in spite of himself if it is n t a nice trait so much the worse for the it is n t s fault he s no more to blame than a mirror your other do the surface � he does the depths they paint the on the pond he the portrait tbe bottom he makes seem as as clothes i look at his portraits of fine ladies in pearls and velvet i seem to see a little naked of a soul sitting beside the big splendid body like a poor relation in the darkest corner of an opera box but look at his pictures of really great people � how great are there a plenty of ideal there take his professor how clearly the man s history is written in those broad steady strokes of the brush the hard work the endless patience the fearless imagination of the great or the picture of mr � the man who has felt beauty without having the power to create it the very brush work expresses the difference between the two the crowding of nervous lines the of color somehow convey a suggestion of you feel what a delicate instrument the man is how every sense has been to the finest mrs paused blushing a little at the echo of her own eloquence my advice is don t let george paint you if you don t want to he found out � or to find yourself out that s why i ve never let him do mr i m waiting for the day of judgment she ended with a laugh every one but the pretty woman whose eyes betrayed a quivering impatience to discuss clothes had listened attentively to mrs s presence in new york � he had come over from paris for the t i the portrait first time in twelve years to arrange the exhibition of his pictures � gave to the analysis of his methods as personal a flavor as though one had been his domestic relations the indeed is not for in s curiously detached existence it is difficult to figure any closer tie than that which him to his pictures in this light mrs a flushed seemed not to the of the tea hour and some one almost at once carried on the argument by saying � but according to your that the significance of his work depends on the significance of the � his portrait of ought to be a master piece and it s his biggest fail s suicide � he killed himself strangely enough the day that s pictures were first shown � had made his portrait the chief feature of the exhibition it had been painted ten or twelve years earlier when the terrible was at the height of his power and if ever man presented a type to such insight as s that man was yet the portrait was a failure it was composed the was dazzling but the face had been � well it was as might liave painted him � a common man trying to look at ease in a good coat the picture had never before been exhibited and there was a general of the portrait isn t only the critics and the � ment it m grumbled even the big public which had and shuddered at in his genial and in his death that to divine wrath which as a spectacle is next best to its successful even the public felt itself what had the painter done with their hero where was the big face that figured so in political and patent medicine on cigar boxes and they had admired the man for looking his part su boldly for showing the in every line of his coarse body and cruel face the � gentleman of s picture was a poor thing compared to the real it had been vaguely expected that the great s portrait would have the zest of an document the scandalous attraction of secret and instead it was as as an it was as though the | 10 |
the was broken every now and then by a little like object � a box and one a small red spot he creeping backward and forward against the heavy sky i a young man of forty then he divined that she had a she turned her head saw him and took up her clothes basket to continue the ascent the was such that to climb it was a breathless business the linen made her task a cruelty to her you ll never get to the with that weight he said � give it to me but she would not and he stood still watching her as she panted up the way for the moment an being the of a whole sex by the beams of his own in such exceeding glory that he beheld her not beheld her not as she really was as she was even to himself sometimes but to the soldier what was she smaller and smaller she up the rigid road still gazing at the soldier aloft as gazed at her he could just discern springing up at the different of that she passed but seeing who she was they did not her and presently she crossed the over the enormous chasm surrounding the passed the there also and disappeared through the arch into the interior could see the now and there occurred to him the hateful idea that this scarlet rival was meeting and talking freely to her the orphan girl of his sweet original perhaps relieved of duty her across the interior carrying her basket her tender body encircled by his arm what the devil are you staring at as if you were in a trance turned his head and there stood his old friend � still looking the bachelor that he was i might say what the devil do you do here if i weren t so glad to see you said that he bad come to see what was his friend in such an out of the way place at that time of year and incidentally to get some fresh air into his own lungs made him welcome and they went towards castle you were staring as far as i could see at a pretty little with a b of clothes resumed the painter yes it was that to you but to me w a young man of forty behind the mere pretty island girl to the world is in my eye the idea in � the essence and of all that is desirable in this existence i am under a doom yes i am under a doom to have been always following a phantom whom i saw in woman after woman while she was at a distance but vanishing away on close approach was bad enough but now the terrible thing is that the phantom does not vanish but stays to me even when i am near enough to see what it is that girl holds me though my eyes i re open and though i see that i am a fool regarded the visionary look of his friend which rather than as his years wore on but made no further remark when they reached the castle gazed round upon the scenery and the quaint little cottage said that s where she lives what a romantic place � and this island altogether a man might love a or lantern here but a woman t scenery doesn t impress them though they pretend it does this girl is as you once were exactly � from your point of view she has told me so � candidly and it me hard stood still in sudden thought well � that is a strange turning of the tables he said but you wouldn t really marry her i would � to morrow why shouldn t i what are fame and name and society to me � a of and like her besides i know what she s made of my boy to her fibre i know the perfect and pure she was dug from and that gives a man confidence then you ll win while they were sitting after dinner that evening their quiet discourse was interrupted by the long low whistle from the cliffs without took no notice but marked it that whistle always occurred at the same time in the evening when was helping in the house he excused himself for a moment to his visitor and went out upon the dark lawn a of feet upon the gravel mixed in with the a young man of forty tion of the steps light as if they were winged and he supposed two minutes later that the mouth of some fellow was upon hers which he himself hardly ventured to look at so touching was its young beauty hearing people about � among others a couple quarrelling for there were rough as well as gentle people here in the island � he returned to the house next day abroad to look for scenery for a marine painting and going out to seek him met so you have a lover my lady he said severely she admitted that it was the fact you won t stick to him he continued i think i may this one said she in a meaning tone that he failed to he deserted me once but he won t again i suppose he s a wonderful sort of fellow he s good enough for me so handsome no doubt handsome enough for me so refined and respectable refined and respectable enough for me he could not disturb her and let her pass the next day was sunday and the having chosen his view at the end of the island in the afternoon to see s lover he found that she had left her cottage and went on towards the at the turning back when he had reached the nearest he saw on th lonely road between the a young man | 45 |
be so worried and by as to get the worst of it there s no thing as a talking machine like then you absolutely refuse yes i do yon remember that when i wrote my letter of thanks to you approved my offer to serve him if possible certainly i remember it but suppose he had asked yon to vote for civil marriage or to go and hear him preach eveiy sunday but he has not asked that something as unreasonable though well said philip taking up mr s letter and looking graver � looking even vexed it is rather an unpleasant business for me i really felt obliged to him i think there s a sort of worth in the man beyond his class whatever may be the reason of the case i shall disappoint him instead of doing him the service i offered well a we can t help it the worst of it is i should bo insulting him to say i will do any thing else but not just this that you want he evidently feels himself in company with and and and considers our letters part of tho history of yes yes i know it s rather an unpleasant thing you are aware that i would have done any thing in reason to prevent you from becoming here i consider your character a possession to all of us i think i must call on him forthwith and explain and no sit still thought of something said the with a sudden revival of spirits i ve just seen coming in he is to lunch with me to day it would do no harm for him to hold the debate � a and a young man � hell gain by it and it would release you from any aa is not going to st j here long you know he ll soon have his title i ll put the thing to him he won t object if i wish it it s a capital idea it will do good he s a clever fellow but he wants confidence philip had not time to object before mr appeared � a young divine of good birth and figure of sallow complexion and address you have come in most said the a case has turned up in the parish in which you can be of eminent use i know that is what you have desired ever since you have been with me but i m about so much myself that there really has not been sphere enough for you you are a man i know i dare say you have all the necessary matter prepared � at your finger ends if not on paper mr smiled with rather a trembling lip willing to distinguish himself but hoping that the only alluded to a dialogue on by or some other suited to the purposes of the christian knowledge society but as the proceeded to the circumstances under which his eminent service was to be rendered he grew more and more ous you ll oblige me very much the ended by going into this thing can you guess what time you will require because it will rest with us to fix the day i should be rejoiced to oblige you mr but i really think i am not competent to� that s your don t let me hear any more of that i know of � said you might be a first man if your didn t do yon injustice and yon can refer any thing to me you know come yon will set about the thing at once but yon must tell the preacher to send a scheme of the debate � all the different beads � and he must agree to keep rigidly within the scheme there sit down at my desk and write the letter now thomas shall carry it philip sat down to and the with his firm ringing voice went on at his ease giving indications to his agitated but you can begin at once preparing a good clear statement and considering the probable points of assault yon can look into hall and the rest find all here my library wants nothing in english divinity sketch the lower ground taken by and those men but bring all your force to bear on marking out the true high church doctrine expose the wretched of the and the noisy that belongs to generally i will give you a telling passage from on the and some good which i brought together in two sermons of my own on the position of the english church in how long do you think it will take you to bring your thoughts together you can throw them afterward into the form of an essay we ll have the thing printed fit will do you good with the bishop with all mr s timidity there was fascination for him in this distinction he reflected that he could take coffee and sit up late and perhaps produce something rather fine it might be a first step toward that eminence which it was no more than his duty to to even a fame like that of a must have had a beginning mr was not insensible to the pleasure of turning sentences successfully and it was a pleasure not always with a man likes the idea of doing something remarkable which will create belief in him without any immediate display of brilliancy may blush and be silent and win a grace the more thus mr was constrained trembling all the while and much wishing that his essay were already in print i think i could hardly be ready under a fortnight the radical � very good just write that and tell him to fix the precise day and place and then we ll go to lunch the was quite satisfied he had talked himself into thinking that he should like to give a few useful hints look | 14 |
comforted for the moment but unable to speak and entered hope s little cottage it was but a stone s throw from where they stood this broke up the party and my house is yours said colonel to i did not believe appearances against a with these words he took two steps toward his niece and held out his arm she moved toward him came forward radiant to congratulate her she drew up with a look of furious i scorn that made him and she by a perilous secret proudly away with her uncle he bestowed one parting glance of contempt upon the and marched his niece proudly off more determined than ever that she should be his daughter but for once he was wise enough not to press that topic he let her indignation work alone moreover though he was a little wrong headed and not a little pig headed he was a noble minded man and nothing noble passed him unobserved or that daughter � said he to ay when roses spring from and are bom of brave girl � brave girl i oh uncle said i am so glad you appreciate her i appreciate her i said the colonel what should i be worth if i did not why these are the women that win in the persons of their sons that girl could never breed a coward nor a cheat then his voice suddenly poor young thing said he with manly emotion i saw her come out of that ro pale as death to do another woman justice she s no fool though that called her one she knew what she was doing yet for all her woman s heart she faced disgrace as as if it was � death it was a great action a noble action a just action and a manly action but done like a very woman where the two sexes meet like that in one brave deed it s grand i declare it an old soldier s heart and makes him thank god there are a few creatures in the world that do humanity honor as the colonel was a man that stuck to a topic when he got upon it this was the main of his talk all the way to hall he even remarked to his niece that so far as his observations of the sex extended great love of justice was not the leading feature of the female mind other virtues he ventured to think were more prominent so everybody says was s admission everybody is right for once said the colonel they entered the house together and miss went up to her room there she put on a new bonnet and a lovely shawl recently imported from paris who could this be for she sauntered upon the lawn till she found herself somehow near the outward boundary where there was a gate leading into the park as she walked to and fro by this gate she observed out of the tail of her eye of course the figure of a devoted lover creeping toward her whether this took her by surprise or whether the lovely creature was playing the part of a beautiful striped spider waiting for her fly the reader must judge for himself came to the gate she walked past him twice coming and going with her eyes fixed upon she passed him a third time he murmured in a pleading voice she neither saw nor heard so attractive had the distant horizon become opened the gate and came inside and stood before her the next time she passed she started with what do you want here said she to speak to you how dare you speak to me after your vile suspicions well but how dare you call me well miss won t you even hear me not a word it s through you poor dear mary and i have both been insulted by that wretch of a father of hers which father i said wretch to whom does that term apply except to mr and with sudden vigor to you then you think i am as bad as old said firing up by a secret no i don t ah said glad to find there was a limit but explained i think you are a great deal worse you pretend to love me and yet without the slightest reason you doubt me what did i doubt i thought you had parted with my to another person and so you had i never doubted your honor oh yes you did i saw your face i am not r � r � responsible for my face yes you are you had no business to look broken hearted and miserable and and abominable it was your business face and all to distrust appearances and not me ap � � were so strong that not to look m � miserable would have been to seem indifferent there is no love where there is no jealousy oh said he has let that out at last after denying it a hundred times now i say there is no true love without respect and confidence and this doesn t exist where there is jealousy and all about a anything but tr � � � it came down from my ancestors you never had any your behavior shows that i tell you it is an it was given to my mother by � oh we know all about that said this did an egyptian to my mother give but you are not going to play with me i shouldn t have a very gentle no you wouldn t candidly no man shall ever bully and insult me and then wake me out of my first sleep to me because my maid has lost one of his handkerchiefs at the wash he burst out laughing at this and tried to her into good humor say no more about it said he and | 9 |
of man this judgment or me of the deed when it me to the mercy of god tou have man s mercy say they yourself therefore to that of which is infinite or open to all degrees of no one dares forbid me all red as i am with my brother blood from in god this is a fact full of meaning the meaning of it is that we do not believe any man to be evil at bottom or in his inmost heart but only from a lack of outward freedom the meaning of it is that we consider none of our judgments final since they extend only to appearances but look to have them and corrected by hun who sees the inmost heart and judges therefore according to the reality a divine instinct in truth in every soul of man continually all our as ent or unreal so that no criminal ever shows himself so black as to make us feel that he is beyond god s power to bless no man does evil save from the stress of nature or society save fit m a false with respect to his own body or to his fellow man accordingly we hesitate to the worst of to the boundless of god if we really believed the man to be bad in himself bad of his physical and social conditions we should never dare send him to god we should do all in our power to hide him from god as firom a devouring here let us pause a moment to survey the ground we have traversed we have seen that creation is but the revelation or forth of divine personality we have consequently seen that nature is to this revelation because nature is destitute of personality destitute of power to its own action and finally we have seen that man is the only competent revelation or image of god because man alone possesses personality so far we have attained but now from the definition given of personality it is manifest that it is to be ascribed to man only in his very inmost or highest development and not at all in his physical or social relations for personality when applied to any subject subject s or perfection m other words the subject s entire unto himself it his self or perfection because it the power of his own action he who has power to his own action is sufficient unto himself and to be sufficient is to be infinite or perfect or per means self i admit the words are often used by or without any definite intention but whenever are used they are designed to express the s self we can form no conception of the or perfection other than is expressed by saying that he is sufficient unto himself and if we further ask ourselves what we mean by his being sufficient unto we reply instinctively that we mean to express his power to his own action this power which is inherent in god is the basis of his personality or character is that thing without which to our conception he would not be god that is would not be infinite or perfect had he not this power he would be or imperfect his power like that of nature would be limited by something external to himself tf therefore personality when applied to any subject expresses his or perfection expresses his it is manifest as was said before that it cannot be applied to man in every aspect of his namely as the divine man a subject either of nature or of his fellow man but only in his highest aspect which is that of a divine subject for man s highest or inmost is a to god which lifts him entirely beyond the sphere of necessity or duty and indeed him if need be to lay off the bodily life and the friendship of men as easily as he lays off his garments at night this of man to god is involved in the very relation of creator and creature for the creator being essential life life in itself cannot communicate life save by communicating himself to the creature and he cannot communicate himself save in so far as the creature be made which becomes effected by means of the creature s natural ana moral experience the issue of which is to him above nature and above society him with the or of the external universe man s natural activity or his personality it is not spontaneous � does not in his internal self but in a mere necessity of his nature common to all its instead of expressing his personality therefore it expresses a common property of all men regarded as a subject of nature therefore man personality at least all such personality as the divine his moral presents a similar fatal defect morality covers my relations to society or my fellow man thus as my natural action b upon a law of necessity or of to nature so my moral action is upon a law of duty or of to my fellow man i act morally only in so far as i act under obligation to others being morally good when i practically acknowledge and morally evil when i practically deny this obligation thus morality dis plays me in not to god but to society or my and thus equally with nature me proper personality for personality the subject s absolute property in his action which property is impossible unless the subject constitute also the object of the action or in other words unless the object of the action fall be internal to the subject s self and this condition is when i act not to please myself but to please my fellow man hence neither man s natural nor his moral action a divine or perfect e on him the former does not because it m in to nature the latter does not | 37 |
she would and britain who had been terribly east down at sight of thb battle of life ms wife which was like the business hanging its head said that was right and mr and michael went up stairs and there they were soon engaged in a conversation so cautiously conducted that no murmur of it was audible above the clatter of plates and dishes the hissing of the pan the of the low monotonous of the jack � with a dreadful click every now and then as if it had met with some mortal accident to its head in a fit of � and all the other preparations in the kitchen for their dinner to morrow was a bright and peaceful day and nowhere were the autumn tints more beautifully seen than from the quiet orchard of the doctor s house the of many winter nights had melted from that ground the withered leaves of many summer times had there since she had fled the honey porch was green again the trees cast and changing shadows on the grass the landscape was as tranquil and serene as it had ever been but where was she not there not there she would have been a stranger sight in her old home now even than that home had been at without her but a lady sat in the familiar place from whose heart she had never passed away in whose true memory she lived youthful radiant with all promise and all hope in whose affection � and it was a mother s now there was a cherished little daughter playing by her side � she had no rival no successor upon whose gentle lips her name was trembling then the spirit of the lost girl looked out of those eyes those eyes of grace her sister sitting with her husband in the orchard on their wedding day and his and s birthday he had not become a great man he had not grown rich he had not forgotten the scenes and friends of his youth he had not fulfilled any one of the doctor s old but in his useful patient unknown visiting of poor men s homes and in his watching of sick beds and in daily knowledge of the gentleness and goodness the by paths of this world not to be trodden down beneath the heavy foot of poverty but springing up elastic in its and making its way beautiful he had better learned and proved in each the of succeeding year the truth of his old the manner of his life though quiet and remote had shown him how men still entertained angels unawares as in the time and how the most unlikely forms � even some that were mean and ugly to the view and poorly clad � became hy the couch of sorrow want and pain and changed to spirits with a glory round their heads he lived to better purpose on the altered battle ground perhaps than if he had in more ambitious lists and he was happy with his wife dear grace and had he forgotten her the time has flown dear grace he said since then they had been talking of that night and yet it seems a long while ago we count by changes and events within us not by years yet we have years to count by too since was us returned grace six times dear husband counting tonight as one we have sat here on her birth day and spoken together of that happy return so eagerly expected and so long deferred ah when wiu it be when will it be her husband attentively observed her as the tears in her eyes and drawing nearer said but told you in that farewell letter which she left for you upon your table love and which you read so often that years must pass away before it could be did she not she took a letter from her breast and kissed it and said yes that through those intervening years however happy she might be she would look forward to the time when you would meet again and all would be made dear and that she prayed you and to do the same the letter runs so does it not my dear yes alfred and every other letter she has written since except the last � some months ago � in which she spoke of you and what you then knew and what i was to learn tonight he looked towards the sun then fast declining and said that the appointed time was sunset alfred said grace laying her hand upon his shoulder earnestly there is something in this letter � this old letter which you say i read so often � that i have never told you thb battle of s but to dear husband with that sunset drawing near and all our life seeming to soften and become hushed with the departing day i cannot keep it secret what is it love when went away she wrote me here that you had once left her a sacred trust to me and that now she left you alfred such a trust in my hands praying and me as i loved her and as i loved you not to reject the affection she believed she knew she said you would transfer to me when the new wound was healed but to encourage and return it � and make me a proud and happy man again grace did she say so she meant to make myself so and honored in your love was his wife s answer as he held her in his arms hear me my dear he said � no hear me so � and as he spoke he gently laid the head she had raised again upon his shoulder i know why i have never heard this passage in the letter until now i know why no trace of it ever | 8 |
who under the cloak of progress and favour to the government view obtained their seats was too weak to cope with the skill of the and granted leave to the acting president to carry out measures opposed to my policy native lands were and given out to a few who held large numbers of claims to lands which were destined for citizens and so a war was prepared for me on my return from europe which i could not this extract is interesting as showing the state of feeling existing between the president and his officers previous to the outbreak of the war it also shows the how entirely he was out of sympathy wi h the citizens seeing that as soon as his back was turned they with mr and paul at their head at once all the little good he had done when mr got to england he found that city would have nothing whatever to say to his railway scheme in holland however he succeeded in getting j of the � he wished to borrow at a high rate of interest and by passing a bond on five hundred farms this money was immediately invested in railway plant which when it arrived at bay had to be to pay the freight on it and that was the end of the bay railway scheme except that the f is i believe still owing to the confiding in holland on his return to the the president was well received and for a month or so all went smoothly but the relations of the with the surrounding native tribes had by this time become so bad that an explosion was imminent somewhere in the year the raised the price of passes under the pass law by which every native travelling through the territory was made to pay from i to � in case of non payment the native was made subject to a fine of from � to � io and to a beating of from ten to twenty five lashes he was also to go into service for three months and have a thereof for which he must pay five shillings the object of the law being to obtain a supply of labour this was done in spite of the earnest protest of the president who gave the distinctly to understand that by accepting this law they would in point of fact events the concluded with the chiefs on the south western borders it is not clear however if this pass law ever came into force it is to be hoped it did for even under the old law natives were treated by who would pretend that they were by government to collect the tax the result being that the unfortunate was frequently obliged to pay twice over natives had such a horror of the pass laws of the country that when travelling to the diamond fields to work they would frequently go round some hundreds of miles rather than pass through the that the should have thought it necessary to such a law in order that the farmers should obtain a supply of labour in a territory that had nearly a million of native inhabitants who unlike the are willing to work if only they meet with decent treatment is in itself an instructive on the feelings existing between master and servant but besides the general quarrel with the race in its which the always have on hand they had just then several individual in each of which there the possibilities of disturbance to begin with their relations with by no means during mr absence the government then under the of p j sent a very stern message � a message that gives the reader the idea that mr was ready to enforce it with ten thousand men after making various statements and demands with reference to the tribe the disputed boundary line c it ends thus � n the although the government of the south african has never wished and does not now desire that serious and should exist between you and them yet it is not the less of the greatest consequence and importance for you earnestly to weigh these matters and risks and to satisfy them the more so if you on your side al o wish that peace and friendship shall be maintained between you and us the secretary for native for comments on this message in these words the tone of tliis message to is not very friendly it has the look of an and if the government of the were in circumstances different to what it is the message would suggest an intention to if the demands it are not at once complied with but i am inclined to the opinion that no such intention exists and that the of a copy of the message to the government is intended as a that the government has proclaimed the territory hitherto in dispute between it and the to be territory and that the to occupy it tn the marked out by a decision known as the in which lieutenant governor of at the request of both parties laid down the boundary line between the and certain native tribes the government carried it with a yet higher hand as the natives of those districts being comparatively were less likely to resist on the i th august acting president issued a by which a line was laid down far to the southward of that marked out by mr events preceding the and consequently included more territory within the elastic boundaries of the a government notice of the same date all claiming lands now declared to belong to the to send in their claims to be settled by a land commission on the th march another chief in the same neighbourhood writes to the lieutenant governor of west in these terms � my friend � i wish to you with the doings of some people connected | 18 |
must be very poor since he never drank more than a pint or so they were inclined to hear what he had got to say on another occasion but they were rather irritated by his interruption at the present moment mr johnson was annoyed but he spoke with the same as before though with an expression of contempt i call it a poor spirited thing to take up a s straightforward words and twist them what i meant to say was plain enough � that no man can be saved from starving by looking on while others eat i think that s common sense eh there was again an to hear any thing said and understand it was a that had the effect of wit mr cast a suspicious and glance at who felt that he had been a for his pains well then continued mr johnson i suppose i may go on but if there is any one here better able to inform the company than i am i give way � i give way sir said mr no man shall take the words out of your mouth in this house and he added looking at company that s got no more orders to give and wants to turn up rusty to them that has had better be making room than filling it love an s the word on our club s flag an love an s the meaning of the sugar loaf william folks of a different mind had better seek another house of call very good said laying down his money and taking his cap i m going he saw clearly enough that if he said more there would be a disturbance which could have no desirable end when the door had closed behind him mr johnson said what is that person s name does any body know it said mr a few were heard i ve heard him speak like a downright else i should have looked a little after him but you may see he s nothing lar it looks rather bad that no one his name said mr johnson he s most a tory in disguise � a tory spy you must be careful of men who come to you and say they re and yet do nothing for you they ll stuff you with words � no lack of words � but words ire wind now a man like comes forward and says to the of this country here i am ready to serve you and to speak for you in parliament and to get the laws made all right for you and in the mean while if there s any of you who are my neighbors who want a day s holiday or a cup to drink with friends or a copy of the king s likeness � why tm your i m not a paper � all words and no substance � nor a man with land and nothing else i ve got bags of gold as well as land i think you know what i mean by the king s likeness here mr johnson took a half crown out of his pocket and held the head toward the company well there are some men who like to keep this pretty picture a great deal too mu h to themselves i don t know whether i m right but i think i ve heard of such a one not a hundred miles from here i think his name was and he managed some company s � s his name was rolled forth to an accompaniment of shoe a fellow by what i understand � a fellow � who would expect men to do as he liked without paying them for it i think there s not an honest man who wouldn t like to disappoint such an there was a murmur which was interpreted by mr i ll answer for em sir now listen to me here s he s one of the company you work under what s to you who sees him and when they do see him they see a thin fellow who keeps his pockets he calls himself a yet he ll split with a tory � she ll drive with the now gentlemen if i said i d got a vote and any body asked me what i should do with it i should say i ll plump for you ve got no and that s a shame but you have some day if such men as are returned and then you ll be on a level with the first gentleman in the land and if he wants to sit in parliament he must take off his hat and ask your leave but though you haven t got a vote you can give a cheer for the right man and s not a man like if you lost a day s wages by giving a cheer for he ll make you amends that s the way a man who has no vote can yet serve himself and his country he the radical can lift tip his hand and shout for ever � for let the working men � let and and stone who between you and me have a good deal too much the worst of it as things are now � let them join together and give their hands and t for the right man and they ll make the people shake in their shoes a little and when you shout for remember you for more wages and more of your rights and you shout to get rid of rats and and such small animals who are the tools the rich make use of to squeeze the out of the poor man i wish there d be a him said who was generally felt to be speaking to the question � no no my friend � there you re a little wrong no no striking | 14 |
informed that they were at first so easy of access that i then concluded they must have taken flight from some gentleman s pond the next year again during the tremendous from the west a flock of about eighty appeared near the same place and two more were killed and sent me by the same man i have therefore no doubt of their instead of to this i suppose these birds were tiu of late years very scarce as mr has no specimen of them the laughing have the wild goose only been known to the of our islands for some years � since the frost of when a flock of eighty of them alighted on a field near the village of the cry of the goose is frequently heard when we cannot catch the least sight of the flock overhead it seems to pass from one to another like the of the sheep or the bay of the hound in pursuit it is seldom heard when they alight the bird is too known for any of its or internal notwithstanding the royal authority in favour of the variety of this fowl our gives preference over all the race to the species called by the natives the this bird the coast of ireland from head to bay in vast quantities the country people cook it by all conceivable and inconceivable and it is eaten at breakfast at the houses of the gentry done into a after too much wine which from head to bay and thence to again is a consequence of course it is really a most delicious relish this may seem a quaint style of doing a natural history notice but allowance must be made for the subject who drives fat oxen c the benevolent reader will apply of goose it is fit to say however that in the affair of the wild goose is no doubt a non belonging neither to the flesh fish or good red the most amusing t the wild goose natural historian in the world thus speaks of his obligations to this bird � a young goose is generally reckoned very good eating yet the feathers of this bird still increase its value i feel my obligations to this animal every word i write for however a man s head may be his pen is enough upon eveiy occasion it is happy indeed for poor authors that it requires no great effort to put it in motion but the feathers of this bird are still as valuable in another capacity as they make the and the warmest beds to sleep on of goose feathers most of our beds in europe are composed or supposed to be by in the on the and in all asia the use of them is unknown how it happens that the had not the use of feather beds is surprising tells us indeed that they made of feathers to lay their heads on and this serves as a proof that they turned feathers to no other uses as good feathers are a very valuable great numbers of are kept tame in the of which are plucked once or twice a year the feathers of are most in esteem those of ireland are reckoned the worst s bay also very fine feathers supposed to be of the same kind the down of the swan is brought from the wild goose always the same marks these marks are seldom found in the tame but both invariably retain a white ring round their tail which shows they are both descended from the natural history of the wild duck same original describes the flight of the wild goose its wonderful and harmony of accord and remarks that unlike the and the which journey in the obscurity of the night the are seen pursuing their route in broad day the dock the wild duck among wild ducks the male is called the and the young birds in size it is not equal to the tame duck in it but little from it its bill is yellow its neck is adorned with the brightest grass green feathers ending in a white ring the most apparent distinction between the wild and tame species is however in the colour of the legs � the wild duck the wild duck s legs are black those of the tame one yellow those ducks which feed much in the and have a broad bill bending upwards a large hind toe and a long tail those which feed in have bills and and a tail pointed a few of the wild duck tribe known to the as natives of our own the f european may be thus � first the the bird or with the head and neck of a bright bay the with a bill of lead colour and the back feathers marked with narrow black and white lines and well known by its whistling sound the black duck or or black the duck or the duck the wiu duck colonel says of this duck the only three i ever heard of on the coast appeared in a late severe winter i stopped them all though i got but one as the other two beat me in a sea the duck the golden eye the grey duck or the duck or duck swallow the duck winter duck sea or the duck the or broad duck the duck the velvet duck or double besides other varieties as these live much in the same manner as the the duck domestic ducks we shall only briefly touch upon them they resort together in flocks during the winter and fly in pairs during the summer the velvet ducks are seen more in summer than in winter ducks nests are constructed easily among heath and rushes of their favourite not fer from the water where they will lay twelve or fourteen eggs before they sit the hen remains on them about thirty days when | 50 |
followed like a child eagerly � his brain set on the flight it led him through a country where all was promise of milk and honey he followed sure that the spirit would soon choose a flower then he would capture it often it seemed to settle he approached with heart but lo i when the net was withdrawn it was empty a look of pain and perplexity came upon his face he remembered the lodging at seven shillings a week in the court he had suffered there but it seemed to him that he was suffering more he had changed his surroundings but he had not changed success and failure despair vain fortune and hope joy and sorrow lie within and not without ns his pain lay at his heart s root he could not pluck it forth and its gratification seemed more than ever impossible he changed his position on the couch suddenly his thoughts said perhaps i am mistaken in the subject perhaps that is the reason perhaps there is no play to be extracted from it perhaps it would be better to abandon it and choose another for a few seconds he the literary horizon of his mind no no he said bitterly this is the play i was born to no other subject is possible i can think of nothing this is all i can feel or see it was the second act that now defied his efforts it had once seemed clear and of exquisite proportions now no second act seemed possible the subject did not seem to admit of a second act and clasping his forehead with his hands he strove to think it out he remembered that in the second act drawn by irresistible instinct lady hay ward visits the the of the desert is upon her she questions them about their wanderings learning eventually that the old fortune is her mother although lady loves her husband vain foi she is unconsciously drawn toward a young and it is at tbe close of the act that this note of the attraction of race out of which the story proceeds is first touched upon but though clear and precise in its conception this act as the author recognized was overgrown with a growth of subordinate idea he felt that all subordinate idea must be and nothing left but just enough to explain the drama that was to follow but how to secure the main theme and preserve it like a thread of gold to the end in his distraction he would take down book after book never finding the one he wanted he would turn over newspapers or dashing out of the house and wandering about in the park the strain of his thoughts first relieved by the chatter of a bird or an effect of light would unconsciously steal back to lady and very often before he was aware the dense and of the act would grow suddenly clear and measure out in ways and he feeling strong and capable of achievement would hasten home fearing he might lose the precious inspiration see him on a wet september morning hurrying through the deep grass vain fortune his feet fearing only lest the idea should fade before he reaches the white sheet of paper as he approaches his study it within him and he waits not to throw off his boots but sits down at once and writes but as he draws to the end of the first few the scene in his brain and goes out like a dying light see him reading and re reading the few lines he has written knowing them to be worthless tortured by a of the perfection required and by the sight of the that is see him rising from his writing table with blank despair upon his face unable to bear any longer the mocking of the sheet of paper he throws himself on the couch absorbed in despair and then a curious painful look round the corners of the mouth and looks out of the eyes � the pained pinched look of impotent desire any distraction from the haunting pain now becoming is welcome and he answers with a glad come in i the knock at the door tm sorry said mrs for disturbing you but i should like to know what fish you would like for your dinner � vain fortune or in literary problems as you are i dare say these details are very but i notice that later in the day laughed i find such details far more agreeable than literature i can do nothing with my play aren t you getting on this morning no not very well what do you think of i think very likes very well then ill order as mrs was about to withdraw she said i m sorry you are not getting on what stops you now that second act come you are not very busy i ll read you the act as it stands and then tell you how i think it ought to be altered nothing helps me so much as to talk it over not only does it clear up my ideas but it gives me desire to write my best work has always been done in that way i really don t think i can stay if heard that you had been reading your play to me i m tired of hearing of what thinks vain fortune i can put up with a good deal and i know that it is my duty to show much forbearance but there is a limit to all things i this was the first time mrs had seen him show either excitement or anger she hardly knew him in this new aspect in a moment the calm of the saxon had dropped from him and some emphasis appeared in his speech � this hysterical he is a sore burden tears about this and sighs about | 15 |
t taken dog with him ith a ill to have the dog out of the but on he wouldn t have performed without tho ith broad ith long with that he regarded her attentively with his fixed eye surveyed his company with his loose one kissed her shook his head and handed her to mr as to a horse there the ith he said sweeping her with a professional glance as if she were being adjusted in her seat and the u do you good bye good bye good bye god bless you dear in a variety of voices from all the room but the riding master eye had observed the bottle of the nine in her bosom and he now interposed with leave hard times ul the bottle my dear ith large to carry it will be of no to you now give it to me no no she said in another burst of tears oh no pray let me keep it for father till he comes back he will want it when he comes back he had never thought of going away when he sent me for it i must keep it for him if you please tho be it my dear you thee how it ith farewell my to you ith to the of your engagement be obedient to the and forget but if when you re grown up and married and well off you come upon any riding ever don t be hard upon it don t be with it give it a if you can and think you might do people must be continued rendered more ever by so much talking they can t be a working nor yet they can t be a learning make the of not the i ve got my living out of the riding all my life i know but i that i lay down the of the when i to you make the of not the the philosophy was as they went downstairs and the fixed eye of philosophy � and its rolling eye too � soon lost the three figures and the basket in the darkness of the street chapter vii mb being a bachelor an elderly lady presided over his establishment in consideration of a certain annual mrs was this lady s name and she was a prominent figure in attendance on mr s car as it rolled along in triumph with the bully of inside for mrs had not only seen different days but was highly connected she had a great living in these very times called lady mr deceased of whom she was the had been by the mother s side what mrs still called a strangers of limited times and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a was and even to appear uncertain whether it might be a business or a political party or a profession of faith the better class of minds however did not need to be informed that the were an ancient stock who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves � which they had rather frequently done as respected blind hebrew transactions and the court the late mr being by the mother s side a married this lady being by ihe father s side a lady an immensely old woman an appetite for butcher s meat and a mysterious leg which had now to get out of bed for fourteen years contrived the marriage at a period when was just of age and chiefly noticeable for a slender body weakly supported on two long slim and surmounted by no head worth mentioning he inherited a fair fortune from his but owed it all before he came into it and spent it twice over immediately afterwards thus when he died at twenty four the scene of his and the cause brandy he did not leave his widow from whom he had been separated soon after the in circumstances that lady fifteen years older than he fell presently at deadly with her only relative lady and partly to spite her and partly to maintain herself went out at a salary and here she was now in her elderly days with the style of nose and the dense black eyebrows which had making mr s tea as he took his breakfast if had been a conqueror and mrs a captive princess whom he took about as a feature in his state he could not have made a greater flourish with her than he habitually did just as it belonged to his to his own so it belonged to it to mrs s in the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favorable circumstance he brightened mrs s career with every possible advantage and of early roses all over that lady s path and yet box he would say how does it turn out after all why hard here she is at a hundred a year i give her a hundred which she is pleased to term handsome keeping the house of of nay he made this foil of his so very widely known that third parties took it up and handled it on some occasions with considerable it was one of the most attributes of that he not only sang his own praises but stimulated men to sing them there was a moral of clap trap in him strangers modest enough elsewhere started up at dinners in and boasted in quite a way of they made him out to be the royal arms the union jack john bull ihe bill of rights an englishman s house is his castle church and state and god save the queen all put together and as often and it was very often as an orator of this kind brought into his princes and lords may flourish or may fade a breath can make them b | 8 |
him to germany and give that crack a flutter that s all if it were only possible she said half and wholly without anger only it isn t and you know it isn t i can t accept money from you � hold on now he interrupted wouldn t you accept a drink of water from one of the twelve if you was dying of thirst or would you be afraid of his evil daylight tions � she made a gesture of � or of what folks might say about it but that s different she began now look here miss youve got to get some foolish notions out of your head this money notion is one of the things i ve seen suppose you was falling over a cliff wouldn t it be all right for me to reach out and catch you by the arm sure it would but suppose you needed another sort of help � instead of the strength of my arm the strength of my pocket that would be all wrong that s what they all say but why do they say it because the robber want all the to be honest and respect money if the weren t honest and didn t respect money where would the robbers be don t you see the robbers don t deal in arm holds they deal in dollars therefore arm holds are just common and ordinary while dollars are sacred � so sacred that you let me lend you a hand with a few or here s another way he continued on by her mute protest it s all right for me to give the strength of my arm when you re falling over a cliff but if i take that same strength of arm and use it at pick and work for a day and earn two dollars you won t have anything to do with the two dollars yet it s the same old strength of arm in a new form that s all besides in this proposition it won t be a claim on you it ain t even a loan to you it s an arm hold i m giving your brother � just the same sort of arm hold as if he was falling over a and a nice one you are to come running out and yell stop at me and let your brother go on over the cliff what he needs to save his legs is that crack in germany and that s the arm hold i m offering wish you could see my rooms walls all decorated with � scores of them � of them they re no use to me and they cost like sam scratch but burning daylight there s a lot of making them and i go on buying why ive spent more money in a single night on than would get the best and pay all the expenses of a dozen cases like your brother s and remember you ve got nothing to do with this if your brother wants to look on it as a loan all right it s up to him and you ve got to stand out of the way while i pull him back from that cliff still refused and daylight s argument took a more painful turn i can only guess that you re standing in your brother s way on account of some mistaken idea in your head that this is my idea of well it ain t you might as well think i m all those i buy from i haven t asked you to marry me and if i do i won t come trying to buy you into and there won t be anything when i come a asking s face was flushed and angry if you knew how ridiculous you are you d stop she out you can make me more uncomfortable than any man i ever knew every little while you give me to that you haven t asked me to marry you yet i m not waiting to be asked and i warned you from the first that you had no chance and yet you hold it over my head that some time some day you re going to ask me to marry you go ahead and ask me now and get your answer and get it over and done with he looked at her in honest and pondering admiration i want you so bad miss that i don t to ask you now he said with such and earnestness as to make her throw her head back in a frank boyish laugh besides as i told you i m green at it i never went a before and i don t want to make any mistakes but you re making them all the time she cried no man ever a woman by holding a threatened proposal over her head like a club daylight i won t do it any more he said humbly and anyway we re oflf the my straight talk a minute ago still holds you re standing in your brother s way no matter what notions you ve got in your head you ve got to get out of the way and give him a chance will you let me go and see him and talk it over with him i ll make it a hard and fast business proposition i ll stake him to get well that s all and charge him interest she visibly hesitated and just remember one thing miss it s his leg not yours still she refrained from giving her answer and daylight went on his position and remember i go over to see him alone he s a man and i can deal with him better without i ll go over to morrow afternoon chapter daylight had been wholly truthful when he told that he had no real friends on with thousands | 21 |
your arm in that brown paper parcel laughed a leg of mutton i have just been to the stores you mean to say you buy legs of mutton at the stores and carry them home supposing you met some one if we were to � not very likely a night like this i have a small house in hill i take the at the i shall be very glad if you will come with me so will the i forgot to ask about her how is she very well come and see for yourself come and dine with us to morrow i can t give you one of your dinners but if leg of mutton will suit all i can say is that i shall be very happy i ll come whenever you like can you come to morrow yes we might go to the theatre afterwards we might be at my place at half past six that will give us plenty of time what a queer fish he is thought frank as he walked down street looking at the women can t come and dine with me because he has two or three to spring days write must have all his books out to make � what a clerk for the government � an ideal clerk what a genius for red frank of course drove all the way to hill was standing on the steps of the little house and he commented on his friend s as he welcomed him you might have come here for third class you paid that three shillings and you took i don t mind half an hour longer now don t make a mess do wipe your feet we don t keep a servant and it gives the a lot of trouble cleaning up not a book nor a picture nor a single flower and every worn carpet suggested the bare necessaries of life there was the drawing room kept for show never entered barren and blank there was the room � a little more alive � where smoked his pipe and kept his accounts but there the three or four seemed to speak of the dry bread like days that wore themselves away life there was too obviously dry and bare and mean had frank s mind been philosophic and deep seeing he would have mused on the admirable patience of the woman who lived here seeing no one making entire sacrifice of her life he would have contrasted the nay the meanness of this unknown house with the and of the house one life wasting in darkness and poverty another burning out in light and riches truths float on the surface of this little pool of life and so are they that they appear for a moment new and original but further than a l spring days regret that there were no flowers in the window and a sense of the horrible when his eyes fell on a piece of scenery his thoughts did not wander they soon were fixed and absorbed in the consideration of the happiness that had attained by doing the right thing by the woman he was hers she was his dreams of things the of husband and wife are the essence of the being of some men and women and are to them a delight frank was such a one he had brought a doll and the child came and sat on his knees and put her arms round his neck he kissed the long face hollow eyed and the beautiful gold that the shoulders they went to the theatre in a frank carried and he called indignantly to the crowd not to press him did they not see that he was carrying a child he did not think that his friends might recognise him nor would he have felt any shame had he caught sight of some face in the he knew he would not have put aside nor would he have pretended that he was not with the pale worn dressed woman by his side he was wholly filled with his friends their interests and concerns so complete was the of himself that baker did not snatch a fugitive thought from them and it was not until he sat smoking with in the back parlour that he said � i wonder what has become of her she was a nice girl you mean baker you lost sight of her all of a sudden didn t you do you think she went off to live with some one spring days no i don t think she was a girl who would do that by jove she was a pretty girl once i took her up the river up to we had such a jolly day in the woods and on the water � amid the water lilies and or the shade of the i wonder you never go up the river i have no time besides i hate the water i never go on the water if i can help it i am too nervous how odd oh we had a jolly day but i never understood how it was you lost sight of her you said in your letter that she had left the bar but she must have gone somewhere i am sure you didn t make sufficient inquiries you are too impatient i did all i could one girl told me that a lot of them � among the number � had suddenly been transferred to liverpool street that was true for i saw at liverpool street several girls i had known previously at the gaiety those poor bar girls how pitiful they look all over london they stand behind their bars breathing for hours tobacco smoke of and beer listening to abominable jokes the subjects of hideous and then the little comedy the to appear as virtuous young ladies � young ladies of the bar it is very pitiful it is | 15 |
lady s errand altogether for some time did not see him she was playing with great spirit and lord was following her finally a chance of the game bringing her to him she turned suddenly and found s eyes fixed upon her how long you been there she asked some time he answered when you are at liberty i wish to speak to you do you she said she seemed a little unprepared for the repressed energy of his manner which he � a fair to cover by a greater amount of ness than usual well she said after a moment the game will soon be ended i am going through the with lord in course of time but i dare say ha can wait she went back and finished her game apparently enjoying it as much as ever when it was over made his way to her he had resented her remaining of his presence when he stood near her and he had resented her enjoyment of her surroundings and now as he led her away leaving lord rather he resented the fact that she did not seem nervous or at all impressed by his silence what do you want to say to me she asked let us go and sit down in one of the i believe i am a little tired � not that i mind it though i ve been hav ing a lovely time then she began to talk about lord � � i like him ever so much she somebody do you think he will really go to america i wish he would but if he does i hope it won t be for a year or so � i mean until we go back from europe still it s uncertain when we shall go back did i tell you i had persuaded aunt to travel with us she s horribly frightened but i mean to make her go she ll get over being frightened after a little while suddenly she turned and looked at him why don t you say something she demanded what s the matter it is not necessary for me to say any thing she laughed do you mean because i am saying every thing myself well i suppose i am i am � awfully happy to day and can t help talking it seems to make the time go her face had lighted up curiously there was a delighted excitement in her eyes him are you so fond of your father as all that she laughed again � a clear laugh a fair yes she answered of course i am ai fond of him as all that it s quite isn t it i haven t observed the same degree of enthusiasm in all the young ladies of my acquaintance he returned he thought such rapture to the cause and regarded it they turned into an and bat down and leaned forward on the rustic table then she turned her face up to look at the vines covering the roof it looks rather doesn t it she remarked i hope it isn t don t you the light fell on her round little chin and white throat and a bar of sunlight struck on her eyes and the rings on her forehead there is nothing i hate more than she said with a little shiver unless seriously it s � and i then she lowered her gaze and gave her hat � a large white all soft curling feathers and satin bows � a charming tip over her s el s the brim is broad she said if any thing drops i it will drop on it instead of on me now what did you want to say he had not sat down but stood leaning against the rustic wood work he looked pale and was evidently trying to be than usual i brought you here to ask you a question well she remarked i hope it s an important one you look serious enough it is important � rather he responded with a tone of sarcasm you will probably go away soon that isn t exactly a question she commented and it s not as important to you as to me he paused a moment annoyed because he found it difficult to go on annoyed because she waited with such undisturbed serenity but at length he managed to begin again i do not think you are expecting the question i am going to ask he said i � do not think i expected to ask it myself until to day i do not know why � why i should ask it awkwardly and at i fi a t disadvantage i brought yon to you � to marry me he bad scarcely spoken four words � re all her airy manner had taken flight and had settled herself down to listen he hi noticed this and had felt it quite when he stopped she was looking straight into his face her eyes were singularly large and bright and clear you did not expect to ask me to marry you she said � why didn t you it was not at all what he had expected he did not understand her manner at all i � must confess he said stiffly that i felt at first that there were obstacles in the way of my doing so what were the obstacles he flushed and drew himself up i have been unfortunate in my mode of expressing myself he said i told you i was conscious of my own awkwardness yes she said quietly you have been unfortunate that is a good way of putting it then she let her eyes rest on the table a seconds and thought a little somebody er after she said � i have the of knowing that you must have been t iy much in love with me if you had not been very much | 13 |
any body until baby is old enough to be married what happen if he did of mrs my dear mr it s very foolish i know but i have an instinctive that if gave away anybody else first he would never give away baby thus mrs with her open hands pressed together and each of her eight fingers looking so very like her one nose that the new jewels on them seem necessary for distinction s sake but my dear there m a tried friend of our who i think and hope you will agree with me is the friend on whom this agreeable duty almost naturally that friend saying the words as if the company were about a hundred and fifty in number is now among us that friend is certainly i from that friend with greater firmness is our dear good and i cannot sufficiently to you my dear the pleasure i feel in having this of mine and s so readily confirmed by you that other equally familiar and tried friend who stands in tne proud position � i mean who proudly stands in the position � or i ought rather to say who places and myself in the proud position of himself standing m th simple position � of baby s and indeed is much relieved in mind to find that no jealousy of s elevation so it has come to pass that the spring van is flowers on the rosy hours and on the staircase and that is surveying the ground on which he is to play distinguished part to morrow he has already been to the church and taken note of the various in the aisle under the of an extremely dreary widow who opens the and whose left hand appears to be in a state of acute but is in fact doubled up to act as a money box and now shoots out of the study wherein he is accustomed when to give his mind to the carving and of the going to in order to show the little he has prepared for the of fashion describing how that on the instant at st james s church the blank blank assisted by the reverend dash dash in the bonds of matrimony al ed of street to only daughter of the late of also how the fair bride was married from the house of of and was given away by of duke street st james s second cousin to lord of park while which composition makes some approach to perceiving that if the blank blank and the dash dash after this introduction to become in the list of s dearest and oldest friends they will have none but themselves to thank for it after which appears whom has seen twice in his lifetime to thank for the late of and after her appears alfred whom has seen once in his lifetime to do the same and to make a sort of glitter as if he were constructed for candle light only ana had been let out into daylight by some grand mistake and after that comes mrs in a state of figure and with transparent little on her temper like the little transparent on the bridge of her nose worn out by worry and excitement as she tells her dear mr and reluctantly revived with oa by the and after that the b in to come by from the come like by a not present for on arriving at the they are in a of so goes home to duke street st james s to take a plate of mutton with a chop in it and a look at the marriage service in order that he may out in at the right place to morrow and he is low and feels it dim over the lively stable yard and is distinctly aware of a dint in his heart made by the most of the for the poor little harmless gentleman once had his fancy like the rest of us and she didn t answer as she often does not and he thinks the is like the as she was then which she is not at all and that if the had not married some one else for money but had married him for love he and she would have been happy which they wouldn t have been and that she has a tenderness for him still whereas her is a proverb brooding over the fire with his dried little head in his dried little hands and his dried little elbows on his dried little knees is melancholy no to bear me company here thinks he no at the club i a waste a waste a waste my and so drops asleep and has starts all next morning that horrible old lady of the late sir thomas in mistake for somebody else by his majesty king george the third who while performing the ceremony was pleased to observe what what what who who who why why why begins to be and for the interesting occasion she has a reputation for giving smart of things and she must be at these people s my dear to lose nothing of the fan m the bonnet and announced by her name any fragment of the real woman may be concealed is perhaps known to her maid but you could easily buy au you see of her in bond street or you might her and her and scrape her and make two lady out of her and yet not penetrate to the genuine article she has a large gold eye glass has lady to survey the proceedings with if she had one in each eye it might keep that other drooping lid up and look more uniform but youth is in her artificial flowers and her list of lovers is you wretch says lady turning the eye about and about where is your charge the bridegroom give you my | 8 |
had not her for the purity of intentions she could answer and she was to hope secondly that her uncle s displeasure was and would farther as he considered the matter with more and felt as a good man must feel how wretched and how how hopeless and how wicked it was to marry without affection when the meeting with which she was threatened for the morrow was past she could not but flatter herself that the subject would be finally concluded and mr once gone from that every thing would soon be as if no such subject had existed she would not could not believe that mr s for her could distress him long his mind was not of that sort london would soon bring its cure in london he would soon to wonder at his and be for the right reason in her which had saved him from its evil consequences while s mind was engaged in these sort of hopes her uncle was soon after tea called out of the room aa occurrence too common to strike her and she thought nothing of it till the butler re appeared ten minutes afterwards and advancing decidedly towards herself said sir thomas wishes to speak with you ma am in his own room then it occurred to her what might be going on a rushed over her mind which drove the colour park from her cheeks but instantly rising she was preparing to obey when mrs called oat stay stay what are yon where are you going t don t be in such a depend upon it it is not you that are wanted depend upon it it is me looking at the butler but you are veiy eager to put yourself forward what should sir thomas want you fort it is me you mean i am coming this moment you mean me i am sore sir thomas wants me not miss price but was stout no ma am it is miss price i am certain of its being miss price and there was a half smile with the words which meant i do not think you would answer the purpose at all mrs much discontented was obliged to compose herself to work again and walking off in consciousness found herself as she anticipated in another minute alone with mr chapter the conference was neither so short nor so as the lady had designed the was not so easily he had all the disposition to that sir thomas could wish he had which strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did love him though she might not know it herself and which secondly when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished he was in love very much in love and it was a love which on an active sanguine spirit of more warmth than delicacy made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld and determined him to have the glory as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him he would not despair he would not he had every well reason for solid attachment he knew her to have all the worth that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with her her conduct at this v time by speaking the and delicacy oi r character which he most was of a sort to all his wishes and � s resolutions he knew not that he had a pre engaged to attack of that he had no suspicion he her rather as one who had thought on the subject er who had been guarded by id as lovely as of person whose ted her from understanding his ill by the suddenness g unexpected and the novelty of a had never taken into that when he was under t he believed it love a must with secure a t distance and he had so much m tne of obliging her to love him in a very short time that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted a difficulty to be overcome was no evil to henry he rather derived spirits firom jl he had been apt to gain hearts too easily his situation was new and to however who had known too much opposition all her life to find any charm in it all this was she found that he did mean to but how he could after such language from her as she felt herself obliged to use was not to be understood she told him that she did not love him could not love him was sure she never should love him that such a change was quite impossible that the subject was most painful to her that she must entreat him never to mention it again to allow her to leave him at once and let it be considered a s concluded for ever and when farther pressed had added that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally as to make mutual affection and that were for each other by nature education and all this she had said and with the earnestness of sincerity yet this was not enough for he immediately denied there being any thing in their characters or any thing in k park and positively that he would still love and still hope knew her own meaning but was no judge of her own manner her manner was gentle and she was not aware how much it concealed the of her purpose her gratitude and softness made eveiy expression of indifference seem almost an effort of self denial seem at least to be giving nearly as much pain to herself as to him mr was no longer the mr who as the treacherous admirer of maria had been her whom she had hated to see or to speak to in whom | 26 |
nothing better to do to resign himself to be pulled about or by she was a strikingly pretty child with long curling brown locks and a and on the whole although privately considered she had taken rather a liberty in disturbing him he was willing to overlook it been thinking said that as you and lady will be thrown a good deal together when we go into the country next week you ought to know one a farewell appearance another and youve never been properly introduced yet so vm going to introduce you now now lady was only s doll and a doll too with perhaps as few ideas as any doll ever had yet � which is a good deal to say despised her with all the of a thoroughly superior dog he considered there was simply nothing in her except possibly and it had made him jealous and angry for a long time to notice the influence that this staring creature had managed to gain over her mistress now sit up said sat up he felt that committed him to nothing but he was careful not to look at lady who was in the work basket with her toes turned in lady said next with great ceremony let me introduce my particular friend mr you ought to bow and say something nice and clever only you can t so you must give your instead here was an insult for a self respecting dog determined never to disgrace himself by presenting his to a doll it was quite against his principles he dropped on all very rude of you said but a farewell appearance you shall do it will think it so odd if you don t sit up again and give your and let stroke your head the dog s little black nose wrinkled and his lips showing his sharp white teeth he was not going to be touched by s wax hand if he could help it unfortunately like older people sometimes was bent upon forcing persons to know one another in spite of an obvious on at least one side and so she brought the doll up to the and taking one limp pink arm attempted to pat the dog s head with it this was too much his eyes red like two signal lamps there was a sharp sudden snap and the next minute lady s right arm was between s keen teeth after that there was a terrible pause knew he was in for it but he was not sorry he dropped the pieces of wax one by one and stood there with his head on one side growling to himself but for all that for he was afraid to meet indignant grey eyes you abominable barbarous dog she said at last using the longest words she could to impress him see what youve done youve bitten poor lady s arm off a farewell appearance he could not deny it he had he looked down at the fragments before him and then sullenly up again at his eyes said what he felt � i m glad of it � serves her right td do it again you deserve to be well whipped continued severely but you do howl so i shall leave you to your own conscience a favourite remark of her until your bad heart is touched and you come here and say you re sorry and beg both our i only wish you could be made to pay for a new arm go away out of my sight you bad dog i can t bear to look at you still moved leisurely down from the table and out of the open door into the kitchen he was thinking that arm was very nasty and he should like something to take the taste away when he got downstairs however he found the butcher was calling and had left the area gate open which struck him as a good opportunity for a by the time he came back would have forgotten all about it or she might think he was lost and find out which was the more valuable animal � a silly useless doll or an intelligent dog like himself saw him from the window as he bolted out with tail erect he s doing it to show off a farewell appearance she said to herself he s a horrid dog sometimes but i suppose i shall have to forgive him when he comes back however did not come back that night nor all the next day nor the day after that nor any for the fact was an experienced had long had his eye on him and happened to come across him that very morning he was not such a stupid dog as to be unaware he was doing wrong in following a stranger but then the man had such delightful suggestions about him of things dogs love to eat and had started for his run in a temper so he followed the broken legged man till they reached a narrow lonely alley and then just as was thinking about going home again the stranger turned suddenly on him hemmed him up in a corner caught him up in one hand tapped him sharply on the head and slipped him stunned into a inside pocket i thought likely i should come on you in ere bob said a broken man in a fur cap about a week after s disappearance to a short red faced hoarse man who was drinking at the bar of a public house a farewell appearance ah said the hoarse man well you ain t fur out as it happens yes i did said the other i met your partner the other day and he tells me you re looking out for a i ve got a article about me at this moment i should like you to cast a eye over and into his inside pocket he | 44 |
park to which a side gate not fastened had tempted them very soon after their leaving her and they had been a portion of the park into the very avenue which had been hoping the whole morning to reach at last and had been sitting down under one of the trees this was their it was evident that they had been spending their time pleasantly and were not aware of the length of their s best tion was in being assured that p had wished for her very much and that he should certainly have come back for her had she not been tired already but this was not quite sufficient to do away the pain of having been left a whole hour when he had talked of only a few minutes nor to banish the sort of curiosity she felt to know what they had been conversing about all that time and the result of the whole was to her disappointment and depression as they prepared by general agreement to return to the house on reaching the bottom of the steps to the terrace worth and mrs presented themselves at tbe top ready for the wilderness at the end of an hour and a half from their leaving the house mrs had been too well employed to move faster whatever cross accidents had occurred to the of her had found a morning of complete enjoyment j for the housekeeper after a great many on the subject of bad taken her to the told her all about their cows and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese and since s leaving them they had been met p b the gardener whom she had a � factory for she had set liim right � t s him it was an and him a charm for it and he in return had shown her i l his nursery of and actually presented her with a very specimen of heath on this they all returned to the house together to away the time aa they could with and chat and till the return of the others and the arrival of dinner it was late before the miss and the two gentlemen came in and then did not appear to have been more than partially agreeable or at all productive of anything useful with regard to the object of the day bj their own accounts they had been all walking after each other and the which had taken place at last seemed to s observation to have been as much too late for re harmony as it had been for on any alteration she felt as she looked at and mr that hers was not the only dissatisfied bosom amongst them there was gloom on the of each mr and were more gay and she thought that he was taking particular pains during dinner to do away any little resentment of the other two and restore general good humour dinner was soon followed by tea and ee a ten miles drive home allowed no waste of hours from the time of their sitting down to table it was a quick of busy till the carriage came to the door and mrs having about and obtained a few s eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper � and made abundance of civil speeches to mrs rush worth was ready to lead the way at the same moment mr approaching said i hope am not to lose my companion unless she is afraid of the evening air in so exposed a seat the request had not been foreseen but was very received and day was likely to end almost i well as it began miss had made i p ia so i and was a little disappointed but her h of being the one preferred comforted her under it and enabled her to receive mr rush worth a parting attentions as she ought he was certainly better pleased to hand her into the than to assist her in ascending the and hia complacency seemed confirmed by the ar i well this has been a fine day for you upon my word said mrs as they drove the park nothing but pleasure from beginning to end am you ought to be very much obliged to your aunt and me for to let you go a pretty good day i amusement you have had mai ia was just enough to say directly think have done pretty well yourself ma am your lap seems full of good things and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow m my dear it is only a beautiful heath which nice old gardener would make me take but if it is in your way i will have it in my hip directly there you shall carry that parcel for me take great care of it do not let it fall it is a cream cheese just like the one we had at dinner would that good old mrs whit but my taking one of the i stood out aa long as i could till the tears almost came into her eyes and knew it waa just tbe sort that my sister would he with that is a treasure she was quite shocked when i her whether wine was allowed at the second table and she has turned away two for wearing white gowns take care of the cheese now can manage the other parcel and tlie very well what else have you been said maria half pleased that should be so my dear it is nothing but four of those ul s eggs which mrs would ma field park i k force upon me she would not take a denial she said it be such an to me as she under stood i lived alone to liave a few living creatures of that sort and so to he sure it will i shall | 26 |
and we ve done decidedly worse listened with a sense of she saw now that he did not mean to acknowledge his failing and knowing the of the she decided that he was enough to think he could still deceive her well he began again with an attempt at i ve found out that in my profession it s a hard struggle to get on your feet again after illness or � or any bad set back that s the reason i asked you to say a word for me it s not only the money though i need that badly � i want to get back my self respect with my record i t to be where i am � and you can speak for me better than anyone the � of the tree why better than the doctors you ve worked with put the question abruptly looking him straight in the eyes his glance dropped and an unpleasant flush rose to his thin cheeks well � as it happens you re better situated than anyone to help me to the particular thing i want the particular thing yes i understand that mr and mrs are both interested in the new wing for paying at saint s i want the position of house physician there and i know you can get it for me his tone changed as he spoke till with the last words it became rough and almost menacing felt her colour rise and her heart began to beat here was the truth then she could no longer be the of her own compassion the man knew his power and meant to use it but at the thought her courage was in arms i m sorry � but impossible she said impossible � why she continued to look at him steadily you said just now that you wished to regain your self respect well you must regain it before you can ask me � or anyone else � to recommend you to a position of trust half rose with an angry murmur my what do you mean meant that i d lost courage � through ill luck yes and your ill luck has come through your own fault till you cure yourself you re not fit to cure others the fruit of the tree he sank back into his seat at her under sullen brows then his expression gradually changed to half admiration you re a he said repressed a movement of disgust i am very sorry for you she said gravely i saw this trouble coming on you long ago � and if there is any other way in which i can help you thanks he returned still your sympathy is very precious � there was a time when i would have given my soul for it but that s over and i m here to talk business you say you saw my trouble coming on � did it ever occur to you that you were the cause of it glanced at him with frank contempt no � for i was not she that s an easy way out of it but you took everything from me � first my hope of marrying you then my chance of a big success in my career and i was desperate � weak if you like � and tried to my feelings in order to keep up my pluck rose to her feet with a movement of impatience every word you say proves how unfit you are to assume any responsibility � to do anything but try to recover your health if i can help you to that i am still willing to do so rose also moving a step nearer well get me that place then � i ll see to the rest i ll keep straight no � it s impossible you won t i can t she repeated firmly the fruit of the put me off with that answer � if there s no other help you ll and you expect t she hesitated ye accept he laughed again � his feeble laugh was disgusting oh i don t say that i d like to earn my living honestly � funny preference � but if you cut me off from that i suppose it s only fair to let you make up for it my wife and child have got to live you choose a strange way of helping them but i will do what i can if you will go for awhile to some institution he broke in furiously institution be damned you can t me out of the way like that i m all right � good food is what i need you think i ve got in why hunger heard him with a renewal of pity oh i m sorry for you � very sorry why do you try to deceive me why do you deceive tne you know what i want and you know you ve got to let me have it if you won t give me a line to one of your friends at saint s you ll have to give me another � that s the size of it as they faced each other in silence s pity gave way to a sudden hatred for the poor creature who stood shivering and before her you choose the wrong tone � and i think our talk has lasted long enough she said stretching her hand to the bell did not don t ring � unless you want me to write to your husband he rejoined sick feeling of helplessness overcame her but she the fruit of ihe tree turned on him firmly i you once for tha threat yes � and you sent me some money the next day i was mistaken enough to think � that in your dis you had not what you wrote but i you re a gently � gently bad names don t frighten it | 10 |
three quarters of an inch long set half an inch apart with square iron pins in a wooden shaft three inches with a wooden about five dollars one made all of iron same size cutting apparatus costs double that sum there is another a six inch about two inches thick made to screw on the edge of a table and fed by the hand at the side which is a very convenient little machine for cutting up meat for a family breakfast the cost is not over four or five dollars next in order comes the this is a tin barrel four and a half inches twelve inches long with a of the same length this is hung on a upon a wooden frame so as to turn up for convenience of filling it is then laid back in its place and the case slipped on the and held fast a on the end of a rack is forced in by turning a that a and in five seconds the whole contents of the are discharged into the case if it is long enough and large enough to hold all this sized costs five dollars there is a smaller size for three dollars on the same principle only the lack is moved by an miscellaneous farmers tools upright handle and a circle the latter is a very nice article more compact and convenient than those with a and big enough for any family what a saving of labor compared with the mode of in our days when the ease was taken in the lap and one end drawn over a little basket split to form an opening and the meat put in bj hand after having been cut with the knife there are any number of apple machines some of which are very ingenious labor saving tools taking off the cutting out the core and the a almost as fast as the can pick them up and them on the fork under the knife a few rapid turns of the dies the work throwing the skins one way and another and dropping the quarters into a tub o is a convenient fruit in the department a long pole is armed with a wire fixed upon the upper end which takes hold of the stem of the apple upon a twenty feet above the ground and by a little turn of the hand is off and di into a cotton cloth and conducted down to the or deposited in a basket on the ground but of all things in the fruit line the most interesting in the exhibition or out of it is a case of models of fi apples c done in a substance principally plaster as hard nd as stone this work is done by only one artist in this country an amateur by the name of of n y this case seems superior to any of the k ever before exhibited by this gentleman who has probably received more cups and high for his work than any other amateur artist in america tlie composition is plaster and the apples c are from the article to be represented and the is so perfect as to deceive the very best judges it is well worth the great attention which it it may be found in the south west t of the agricultural gallery of patent bee there are a sufficient number in the the exhibition to satisfy the after certain of that great of the the bee all the which we have ever seen for keeping out of are utter failures and now the minds of those who contrive n w seem to be turned to the best method of getting them in instead of them out of the hive the plan which we like best is one where the are set upon a box covered over with wire the of which are too fine to admit a miller to pass through this is about twice as wide as the hive and may be of any length to hold fifty stands if you like under each hive there is a drawer into which dust and from the hive falls this drawer is open to the and here they deposit their eggs and the worms that in due time are to be transformed into of course the bee keeper must destroy them before they arrive at that age in the back part of the box there is a drawer so arranged that in winter the bees being shut in the hive can go down under the wire screen and exercise and eat the food provided for them which they will convert into honey the of this hive claims a great many advantages ia the peculiar arrangements of his and honey boxes which we do not care a fig about but we do think the wire screen a good one and sec no reason why any common box hive may not be used upon it to good raw and raw and is no manufacture � which has more to what are called the of life than that of which we are now about to treat possessing the united of splendor and comfort we find in it all the conditions supplied by cotton and wool while it those useful materials in the richness and of its surface and the round and of its folds if it the of the rich it occasionally the wounded pride of the poor the silk gown is in fact the only true of social d among women the s wife in her sunday finery feels herself to return with interest the contemptuous stare of the lawyer s lady � while in spite of her affected the latter is frequently envious of the superior good taste and even elegance of her neighbor s attire in a philosophical point of view the history of the silk manufacture some curious subjects for reflection owing its origin to one of the most | 19 |
live in bath chapter iii i must take leave to observe sir walter said mr shepherd one morning at hall as he laid down the newspaper that the present juncture is much in our favor this peace will be turning all our rich naval officers ashore they will be all wanting a home could not be a better time sir walter for having a choice of tenants very responsible tenants many a noble fortune has been made during the war if a rich admiral were to come in our wa sir walter � he would be a very lucky man shepherd replied sir walter � that s all i have to remark a prize indeed would hall be to him rather the greatest prize of all let him have taken ever so many before � hey shepherd mr shepherd laughed as he knew he must at this wit and then added � this peace on march the allied armies entered pan s and on following napoleon signed the articles of miss s to contemporary events are singularly few and like the present one are of the character chapters from jane i presume to observe sir walter that iii the way of business gentlemen of the are well to deal with have had a little knowledge of their methods of doing business and i am free to confess that have very liberal notions and are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one should meet with therefore sir walter what i would take leave to suggest is that if in consequence of an getting abroad of our intention � which must be contemplated as a possible thing because we know bow difficult it is to keep the actions and designs of one part of the world from the notice and curiosity of the other � consequence has its tax � i john shepherd might conceal any family matters that i choose for would think it worth their while to observe me but sir walter has eyes upon him which it may be very difficult to and thus much i venture upon that it will not surprise me if with all our caution some of the truth should get abroad in the supposition of which as i was going to observe since will unquestionably follow i should think any from our wealth naval particularly worth attending to and beg leave to add that two hours will bring me over at any time to save you the trouble of replying sir walter nodded but soon rising and pacing the room he observed � there are few among the gentlemen of the navy i imagine who would not be surprised to find themselves in a house of this description they would look around them no doubt and bless their good fortune said mrs clay for mrs clay was present her father had driven her over nothing being of so much use to mrs clay s health as a drive to but i quite agree with m father in thinking a sailor might be a ver desirable tenant i have known a good deal of the profession and besides their liberality they are so neat and careful in all their ways persuasion these valuable pictures of yours sir walter if ou chose to leave them would be safe everything in and about the house would be taken such excellent care of the gardens and would be kept in almost as high order as they are now you need not be afraid miss of your own sweet flower garden s being neglected as to all that rejoined sir walter coolly supposing i were induced to let my house i have by no means made up my mind as lo the privileges to be to it i am not particularly disposed to favor a tenant the park would be open to him of course and few officers or men of any other description can have had such a range but what i impose on the use of the pleasure grounds is another thing i am not fond of the idea of m being s and i should recommend miss to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden i am little disposed to grant a tenant of hall any extraordinary favor i assure you be he sailor or soldier after a short pause mr shepherd presumed to say � id all these cases there are established which make everything plain and between landlord and tenant your interest sir walter is in pretty safe hands depend n me for taking care that no tenant has more than his just rights i venture to hint that sir walter cannot be half so jealous for his own as john shepherd will be for him here anne spoke � the navy i think who have done so much for us have at least an equal claim with any other set of men for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give sailors work hard enough for their comforts we must all allow very true very true what miss anne says is ver true was mr shepherd s and oh chapters from jane certainly was his daughter s but sir walter s remark was soon afterwards � the profession has its utility but i should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it indeed was the reply and with a look of surprise yes it is in two points offensive to me i have two strong grounds of objection to it as being tlie means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction and raising men to honors which their fathers and grandfather never dreamed of and secondly as it cuts up a man s youth and vigor most horribly a sailor grows old sooner than any other man i have observed it all my life a man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted | 26 |
of all the squire s to judge by the that is going on in the below stairs the first to retire will be your affectionate son richard p s � i forgot to say that made the most pointed inquiries as to i had any other profession than that of landscape painting would it not be strangely if he should himself to get some civil appointment i almost he must have been thinking of doing so from some scraps of talk i heard him let fall at dinner curiously enough by the by who should have been sitting at his right hand but fi jack s brother good heaven you will say suppose it had been jack himself it was not chapter viii tho hour retired to his couch he as up the next morning he as and eager to explore of the ho se that had been so nearly his inheritance for t was not without a stubborn contest that the law had deprived him of what he still believed to be his rights nor had in his eyes as we have hinted only the interest of might it bad that of be also if not absolutely sanguine he was certainly far from hopeless of fortune making him that great amends at all events while the opportunity was him which he well knew might be lost forever by his own or through the caprice of another he resolved not to n it it was broad daylight yet not a was stirring in all the stately nothing but the echo of his own as he trod the corridor and entered the great picture gallery met his attentive ear the of old masters at was varied and valuable he could have spent hours among them with infinite pleasure if the thought that they all might be one day his own had not been present to mar their charms he regarded them less as an admiring or a than as an the homely life scenes of the of paul the warmth of and the of were all measured by one that of price the contents of this one room alone he represent no moderate fortune when his eye strayed to the tall windows and rested on the wooded acres which owned in mad a master the beauty of and touched him not at all i wonder now sighed he how much of this is dipped it was a good sign he thought that in one room be found a cabinet containing no less th fifty antique for if the pressure of pecuniary had really to be severe the squire would surely have parted with what must have been in his view useless lumber and was so easily into cash the library offered a strange spectacle chairs thrown down and broken glasses bore witness to the of last night s the splendid carpet was strewn with the ends and ashes of cigars and with of cards and on the table scratched in directions by the sharp of still lay the and the atmosphere was so heavy with the of wine and smoke that was glad to escape from it through a half opened window into the morning s in the bone how bright and it much there was of of wholesome in the mere of it how much of delight in the mere of the turf the trees to which the had lent its jewels but such cheap are not only to chose who axe sleeping off their of the past night during tbe brightest hours of the day tbey are also lost upon these who rise early iu the morning lo follow the strong drink of and expectation richard enjoyed them not save that he felt his play more freely a of were at upon the lawn of one of whom he asked the way to the stables the report of the completeness and perfection of which had often reached him the and its nay the house and its inmates � were of less consequence in the squire s eyes than the arrangements of his loose boxes the old ty of was re established at the horse bare sway or was at least held in higher account than the human the horse the hound the the bag fox and man were there the of and a compound half man half was by a not of the master of all had never fed his with human flesh but there was a legend that he had rubbed a friend over with seed and offered that dainty morsel lo his dogs the victim was snatched away again however by some who hia interference upon the ground that the would have been spoiled by such an indulgence and the squire had him this was one of the stones about the master of which divided tlie country into those who believed it and those did not i but walter had told it to richard as a characteristic tact the stables were indeed a marvel not only of cleanliness and comfort bnt if it had been possible by any arts of to make them such would s horses have become they had looking in their own glossy coats and yet it was not well for one of them to be an especial favorite with its master it more than once happened that ho would ride such so often and so long that it fell him killed with kindness overwhelmed with his oppressive favor on such occasions if the squire happened to have been as devoted as usual to his brandy he would shed copious tears which many as a proof that he was neither nor cold hearted the were of vast proportions in by high through the of which many a black now like ill tempered women or uttering shrill of despair as with his hands buried in his pockets for they cold though his head was too well provided with hair to be conscious of the absence | 25 |
could have helped you he sighed the pot she flushed but kept her eyes on his it s just that � don t you see she reproached him just that � the fact that i could be of use to you the fact that as you say things have changed since you painted mrs i haven t seen the later portraits but they tell me � oh they re just as bad you ve sold your talent and you know it that s the dreadful part you did it she cried with passion oh deliberately he grimly assented and you re not ashamed � you talk of going on i m not ashamed i talk of going on she received this with a long shuddering sigh and turned her eyes away from him oh why � why � why she lamented it was on the tip of well s tongue to answer that i might say to you what i m saying now � but he replied instead a man may paint bad pictures and be a decent fellow look at after all the had an unexpected effect s colour faded suddenly and she sat motionless with a stricken face there s a difference � she began at length abruptly the difference you ve always insisted on mr as well as he can he has no idea that his pictures are � less good than they might be the pot so he can t be accused of doing what he does for money � of sacrificing anything better she turned on him with troubled eyes it was you who made me understand that when used to make fun of him smiled i m glad you still think me a better painter than but isn t it hard that for that very reason i should starve in a hole if i painted badly enough you d see no objection to my at the ah don t joke about it she murmured don t in it i see no reason to at present said but i won t pretend to be ashamed when i m not i think there are occasions when a man is justified in doing what i ve done she looked at him solemnly what occasions why when he wants money hang it she drew a deep breath money � money has s example been nothing to you then it hasn t proved to me that i must starve while on again her face changed and she stirred uneasily and then rose to her feet there s no occasion which can justify an artist s sacrificing his convictions she exclaimed rose too facing her with a mounting which sent a flush to his cheek the pot can t you conceive such an occasion in my case the wish i mean to make things easier for � to help you in any way you might let me her face reflected his blush and she stood gazing at him with a wounded wonder and i � you imagine we could on money earned in that way well made an impatient gesture you ve got to live on something � or he has even if you don t include yourself her blush deepened miserably but she held her head high that s just it � that s what i came here to say to you she stood a moment gazing away from him at the lake he looked at her in surprise you came here to say something to me yes that we ve got to live on something and i as you say and since an artist cannot sacrifice his convictions the sacrifice must � i mean � i wanted you to know that i have promised to marry mr well cried with a sharp note of irony but her white look checked it on his lips i know all you are going to say she murmured with a kind of nobility which moved him even through his sense of its but you must see the distinction because you first made it clear to me i can take money earned in good faith � i can let live on it i can the pot many mr because though his pictures are bad he does not his art she b an to move away from him and he followed her in silence along the frozen path when re entered his the dusk had fallen he lit his lamp and out some writing materials having found them he wrote to to say that he could not paint mrs van and did not care to accept any more orders for the present he sealed and stamped the letter and flung it over the for the to post then he dragged out his unfinished head of replaced it on the and sat down before it with a grim smile the best man the best man dusk had fallen and the circle of light shed by the lamp on governor s writing table just rescued from the surrounding his own imposing bulk thrown back in a deep chair in the lounging attitude habitual to him at that hour when the governor of rested he rested completely five minutes earlier he had been bowed over his desk an with the state on his shoulders now his working hours over he had the air of a man who has spent his day in pleasure and means to end it in the enjoyment of a good dinner this freedom from care threw into relief the hovering of his sister mrs who just outside the circle of haunted the gloom of the hearth from which the wood fire now and then shot up an exploring flash into her face mrs s presence did not usually minister to repose but the governor s calm was too deep to be easily disturbed and he felt the composure of a man who knows there is a in the room but has drawn the | 10 |
but for the author there was a world still larger than this the world of their own creation in which to indulge their fancy and lay up stores of to dispense them � cheers no one knew better than he did the trials and anxieties of an author s life owing to public caprice � the change of fashion or a variety of other causes he was old enough to remember the time when lord y was dazzling the world with the of his wild and extraordinary genius and which induced crowds of after fame to endeavour to follow his footsteps lord died � his failed � and the public did not care a single straw about either poets or their poetry for the next quarter of a century again thanking them for the honour they had conferred upon him he would now introduce to them the name of their old friend charles � cheers � of whom he must be allowed to say that no man had earned a deeper popularity or a more just and lasting reputation having by his exertions raised and dignified art as much as he had his own profession � cheers it had been said by lord that popularity such as that possessed by mr could only be obtained by touching the hearts of the whole people of england that had mr done no man ever possessed such a mastery over the hearts of all � the rich and the poor � the of the cottage or the palace � as that gentleman and moreover he used that power for the best of all purposes that of working out a remedy for acknowledged social in and elsewhere and to the morals and condition of the people � cheers mr had done more to hold the mirror up to nature to the passions to excite the tears of sympathy and to show that however high might be honoured the poor were equally honourable for their virtues than any author of modem times and his works had become and would remain household words so long as the saxon language continued to exist � cheers he felt the greater pleasure in proposing that by ic gentleman s health on the present occasion because he had first become thoroughly acquainted with the real character of mr in his position as actor and stage manager of those gentlemen who by their talents had endeavoured to promote the interests of the of literature to which mr had referred when he stated what he was sure all who knew him would readily admit that mr possessed a heart as large as his genius he could not say more to recommend to their cordial reception the toast he was about to propose � health and long life to mr charles one of the of the general theatrical fund and his brother � cheers mr rose amidst renewed cheering which lasted some time and said he could assure them that he really was not using a common form of words but was honestly expressing the feeling of the moment when he himself at some loss both to thank the company for their hearty greeting and to thank his generous friend in the chair for the terms in which he had referred to him sir absolute was of opinion that in love matters it was best to begin with a little aversion and if he mr could only have started with a little coldness on the part of his friend in the chair or even a moderate warmth on the part of that audience it was quite unknown into what an admirable speech he should have presently but a tribute so noble and a welcome so cordial he found to be very bad preparations indeed for such an achievement before referring to the fund which was the main object of interest with all of them that evening y he would take leave to say that he was exceedingly glad that his friend the had happened to allude to him in that company in his stage capacity because he did particularly desire to express his conviction in such a company of all others that the dramatic profession were very ill served by some friends when they supposed that it could possibly be injured by or could possibly regard with anything like resentment or jealousy amateur � cheers he had for a brief space assumed the functions of an amateur manager and actor in of a cause in which his warmest sympathies and aspirations are � like those of his friend in the chair � and to represent that the stage could possibly be injured or could fairly claim any right to consider itself injured by such performances was to it from the position assumed in such wise by every other liberal art � cheers in literature there were received freely and without of all kinds � lawyers officers of the army and navy clerks who travelled and saw strange countries � lords and ladies of various degrees � anybody who had anything to say � and possibly now and then somebody who had nothing to say � cheers and laughter during the whole of the last season a gallery was opened in pall for the exhibition of pictures of amateur artists yet he never heard that the members of the royal academy were much by the circumstance or very desperately alarmed by its public patronage and success so in music he believed it was generally acknowledged that some excellent lessons had been given to the public and c by ic the profession by the knowledge and patience oc in chorus singing and that the production of some of the most admired works of the old masters were due to the exertions of without the least injury to the regular professors of the art the liberal and generous feeling which thus distinguished other kindred arts surely was to be claimed for the stage as its just | 8 |
interior it looks more like a beautiful picture gallery or magnificent hall than like a place of worship the were painted by and it contains many royal monuments in one of the churches we looked through an iron barred gate at a number of engaged in religious services and certainly they looked as holy pure and inspired as the highest ideal of an angel thousands of beautiful statues are seen in the churches and i shall never forget the veiled christ or the statue of modesty each covered with a veil there are so many pictures and works of art that one cannot think at night of what he has seen during the day the national museum scott this immense museum contains the of many of the most valuable works of art in the world and in it are most of the treasures dug up at and the ornaments and household furniture t l pictures statues and implements from the buried cities are very interesting from the water works of two thousand years ago there is a gi eat brass stop cock with the pipe so closed up that the water imprisoned in it twenty centuries is still there and may be plainly heard when the thing is moved a day in the wish of my life was realized i saw the buried city of i only saw the part that had shores or been dug up it is fourteen miles through a beautiful country where it is country for most of the way the road lies the villages on the shores of the bay we entered the city near the villa of and in this place professor told us something about the city it was on ground at the foot of sloping to the bay it is supposed that the shore was considerably nearer the city than now the and ashes having filled up a portion of tlie bay was a rather aristocratic sort of a place for it seems to have more fine houses and important public buildings than most places of its size under in it became a roman colony february an earthquake threw down the buildings of a greater part of the city and the inhabitants abandoned the city for a time but they returned and while they were still employed in the august the of occurred which buried it in ashes and it is thought that many of the citizens came back to the site of the city and removed as much of their property as they could dig up while engaged in this work they built dwellings on the spot but another in buried the city still deeper probably it was then out of sight and out of mind for even the memory of it passed away except so far as it was recorded in the books in a man digging a well discovered a painted chamber filled with statues and other works of art have been carried on till the present time though not with much till within a few years the government has possession of the buried city young america in italy and who wear a uniform and charges two admission for each visitor the city was walled in and � probably the sea washed one of its sides they were two miles in extent and were provided with towers the city was entered at eight gates the streets are generally narrow tlie drive way of the being only eleven feet they are with high above the pavement of the street they are paved with irregular blocks of flat on the top raised stepping stones are frequently to be seen placed across the drive way for the convenience of passengers in wet weather and the high seem to render them necessary the pavement is with the of in the narrow streets the city was supplied with under the principal avenues though the water must have run deep in the streets in rainy weather on some of the walls the lists are painted in red of shows and of are also to he seen and in the sections last dug up the signs of the merchants and are still fresh on the fronts of the buildings they look as though some skilful clerk witli a marking brush had recently painted them only about two of the area of the city have been dug over and some of the recent discoveries are the most interesting men women and boys as lively as were at work with baskets carrying out the ashes and the houses had flat roofs made of wood and were either burned or crushed in by the hot matter from the above the buried city the soil has been renewed the trees grow and the land is improved by sunny shores or farms none of the houses had chimneys and they probably burned in for some of this fuel has been found in the rooms we made our first halt at the villa of just outside of the walls a esq lived here and his tomb is opposite the house � ye living men come view the ground where you must shortly lie he does not lie for a skeleton supposed to belong to a d was found near the garden gate the bones of another man near him appeared to be those of his servant one had a key in his hand the other a bag of gold and silver of the time of and o the of eighteen persons two of them children were discovered in the cellar where the family retreated when the shower of ashes came on the establishment was a first class with dining reception and bath rooms and a gallery overlooking the sea we walked up the street of the and the ruins of them reminded us that their tenants lived before and in the time of near the gate is the villa of nobody knows whether or not he ever lived here but in one | 36 |
these � who have no consideration for decent orderly people � but your heart is with the boys that go for liberty you see i know you and am not to trust you perchance you have tell of one horse shoe robinson who lived over here at the i have heard many stories about that man replied the miller well i won t tell you that he is in your house to night for fear the might take you to account for such a never do well but you have got a poor fellow under your roof that has had a hard run to get here in my house exclaimed horse shoe robinson and then after a pause he continued well well there is no rule of war that a christian in refusing aid and comfort to a and hunted stranger who comes with no thought of harm to a peaceful family hearth i take no part in the war on either side and in your ear friend robinson i take none against you or the brave men that stand by you your hand again said horse shoe reaching towards the miller i have come to you under a sore press of heels an officer of the continental army and me have been travelling through these here parts and we have been most by a half wild cat half bull dog known by the name of captain who us in the night at s ford heaven have mercy on the man who has anything to do with exclaimed the miller s wife amen mistress responded the for a piece of flesh there s not in these wild woods giving you the choice of bear or what not we were upon continued the by this bully and a of his and made prisoners but i took a chance to slip the this morning and after riding plump into a s nest at s where i put on a new face and the guard out of a dinner and this here old sword i took a bo shoe oh course for this mill people along the road where i should find and so after making some and into the woods until night came on to keep clear of the here i am and the officer said he is in the hands of the yet � most likely now at s what might be his name major butler � a bold warm gentleman � that s been used to tender life and good fortune he has lands on the sea coast � unless that new court at that they call the court of has made them and void � as they have been making the estates of better gentleman than they could ever pretend to be taking all the best lands you see to themselves the cursed where did you come from with this gentleman a long way off mr � from old � but lastly from s s wife is a relation of my family then he is a filthy disgrace to all who claim kin with him was the man who put us into the s claws � at least so we had good reason to think there was a tidy and smart little there � tut man � i am talking of your own and kindred for her name was mary our girl said the dame with an animated emphasis our own mary what of her mr horse shoe robinson u that she is as good a child mistress as any honest parent wish for she got some sort of of what was contrived and so she appeared to major butler in a dream � or her ghost mercy on us the child has not been hurt cried the mother not ma am said robinson but it is as true as you are there she gave us somehow or other a warning that there was harm in the wind and we took her advice but it didn t do i wish the child were home said horse shoe robinson at day light boy saddle a horse and be off to s for mary the nephew promised to do the errand come mr robinson draw near the table and eat some thing with right good heart replied horse shoe but it s a kind of camp rule with me before i taste food � no matter where � just to look after captain peter that s my horse friend so by your leave just go take a peep to see that the captain is a good beast is a sort of right arm in times and as god ha n t given them the gift of speech we must speak for them shall save you the trouble replied a good horse never loses anything by the eye of his master said horse shoe u so i ll go with you in a short time the returned into the house and took his seat at the table where he fell to at what was set before him with a how far off he inquired is the nearest tory post mr colonel has some light corps stationed within two miles if you had been a little earlier you would have found some of them at my mill repeated horse shoe i thought had these parts under command so he has replied the miller but he has lately joined the garrison at rocky mount ha ha ha ejaculated robinson that s a pot into which will be dipping his before long all the land between and broad belongs to tom let mad cap do his best we mr have a little touch of the in us we travel pretty much where we please now i will tell you friend very plainly what i am after i don t mean to leave these parts till i see what is to become of major butler and put together sha n t hinder me from looking after | 29 |
a lawless and desperate life hie a lady s life in letter voice trembled and tears rolled down his cheek was it semi conscious acting i wondered or was his dark soul really stirred to its depths by the silence the beauty and the memories of youth we reached park at noon of the following day a more successful ascent of the peak was never made and i would not now exchange my memories of its perfect beauty and extraordinary for any other experience of in any part of the world yesterday snow fell on the summit and it will be inaccessible for eight months to come tip the letter viii park � big in � scenery � flowers and an awful road � onr log cabin � � a miniature world � our topics � a night alarm � a morning glories � daily routine � the panic wait for the � a musical evening park territory october how time has slipped by i do not know this is a glorious region and the air and life are i live mainly out of doors and on horseback wear my half dress sleep sometimes under the stars on a bed of pine boughs ride on a saddle and hear once more the low music of my spurs there s a stranger heave a brick at him is said by many travellers to express the feeling of the new in these this is not my experience in my cheery mountain home how the ring as i write with songs and mirth while the pitch pine logs blaze and in the chimney and the fine snow dust drives in through the and forms on the floor and the wind and and plays among the creaking pine branches and a lady life in letter vi � them short off and the lightning plays round the top of long s peak and the hardy divert themselves with the thought that when i go to bed i must turn out and face the storm you will ask what is park thia name with the quiet sound suggests park well a lodge with a woman deer and a queen anne mansion such as it is park is mine it is no man s land and mine by right of love and appreciation by the of its and its glorious its blazing its sharp and furious its wild its glories of mountain and forest of lake and river and the them all in my memory mine too in a better than the s sense are its which play and fight under the pines in the early morning as securely as deer under our english oaks its graceful black tails swift of foot its superb big horns whose noble leader is to be seen now and then with his classic head against the blue sky on the top of a colossal rock its mountain lion with his hideous the great the beautiful the wary who is always making lakes and turning streams cutting down young cotton woods and setting an example of and industry the wolf greedy and so o u c w o � letter vm the rocky mountains cowardly the and the and all the of cat hare fox and as well as things that fly from the eagle down to the blue may their number never be less in spite of the hunter who for food and gain and the who and for but still i have not answered the natural question what is park among the striking peculiarities of these mountains are hundreds of high lying valleys large and small at heights varying from to feet the most important are north park held by hostile indians middle park famous for hot springs and south park rich in and san park south park is feet high a great rolling miles long well and watered but nearly closed by snow in winter but are scattered throughout the mountains most of them and others by the hunters or who have made them their temporary they always lie far within the flaming foot hills their exquisite stretches of pastures dotted with of trees sloping to bright swift streams full of red nor should at this time had not henry lord and the field the charms and of these happy hunting grounds with the certain result of directing a stream of into the solitary beast haunted paradise a lady s life in or running up in soft the dark forest above which the snow peaks rise in their infinite majesty some are bits of meadow a mile long and very narrow with a small stream a dam and a pond made by industry hundreds of these can only be reached by riding in the bed of a stream or by up some narrow till it on the fairy like stretch above these are the feeding grounds of innumerable wild animals and some like one three miles off seem chosen for the process of casting the grass being covered for at least a square mile with the magnificent horns of the park the beauties of all dismiss all thoughts of the for park there are mountains forest skirted feet high for a lodge two peaks of granite guarding the only entrance and for a queen anne mansion an log cabin with a vault of sunny blue overhead the park is most shaped and contains hardly any level grass it is an of slopes and about eighteen miles in length but never more than two miles in width the big a bright rapid stream snow born on long s peak a few miles higher takes all sort of vanishing and unexpectedly glancing among rushing through romantic the rocky mountains everywhere making music through the still long nights here and there the are so smooth the trees so a lake makes such an artistic or a comes tumbling down with such an apparent feeling for the picturesque that i am almost angry | 20 |
were thick upon the and nothing moved upon its dreary face can you see anything nothing but hark what is that a low moan had fallen upon our ears there i death on the r s again upon our left i on that side a ridge ol ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a strewn slope on its jagged face was some dark irregular object as we ran towards it the vague outline hardened into a definite shape it was a prostrate man face downwards upon the ground the head doubled under him at a horrible angle the shoulders rounded and the body together as if in the act of throwing a so grotesque was the attitude that i could not for the instant that that moan had been the passing of his soul not a whisper not a rustle rose now from the dark figure over which we stooped laid his hand upon him and held it up again with an exclamation of horror the gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his fingers and upon the ghastly pool which slowly from the crushed of the victim and it shone upon something else which turned our hearts sick and faint within the body of sir henry there was no chance of either of us forgetting that peculiar ruddy suit � the very one which he had worn on the first morning that we had seen him in baker street we caught the one clear glimpse of it and then the match and went out even as the hope had gone out of our souls groaned and his face white through the darkness the brute the brute i i with clenched the round of the b a e r vi ll ji hands oh i shall never forgive for having left him to his fate i am more to blame than you in or to have my case well rounded and complete have thrown away the life of my it is the greatest blow which has befallen me in my career but how could i know � how could i know � that he would risk his alone upon the in the face of all my that we should have heard his screams � my god those screams � and yet have been unable to save him i where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death it may be lurking among these rocks at this instant and is he he shall answer for this deed � he shall i will see to that uncle nephew have been murdered � the one frightened to death by the very sight of a beast which he thought to be supernatural the other driven to his end in his wild flight to escape from it but now we have to prove the connection between the man and the beast save from what we heard we cannot even swear to the existence of the latter since sir henry has evidently died from the fall but by heavens cunning as he is the fellow shall be in my power before another day is past we stood with bitter hearts on either side of the body overwhelmed by this sudden and disaster which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end then i death on the the moon rose we climbed to the top of the rocks over which cur poor friend had fallen and from the summit we gazed out over the shadowy halt silver and half gloom far away miles off in the direction of a single steady yellow light was shining it could only come from the lonely abode of the with a bitter curse i shook my fist at it as i gazed why should we not seize him at once our case is not complete the fellow is wary and cunning to the last degree it is not what we know but what we can prove if we make one false move the villain may escape us yet what can we do there will be plenty for us to do to morrow to night we can only perform the last offices to our poor friend together we made our way down the slope and approached the body black and clear against the stones the agony of those limbs struck me with a of pain and my eyes with tears we mu t send for help we cannot carry him all the way to the hall good are you mad he had uttered a cry and bent over the body now he was dancing and laughing and wringing my hand could this be my stern self contained friend these were hidden fires indeed a beard a beard the man has a beard the hound op tbe a beard it is not the � it is � why it is neighbour the with feverish haste we had turned the body over l and that dripping beard was pointing up to the cold � l clear moon there could be no doubt about the i forehead the sunken animal eyes it was j indeed the same face which had glared upon in the light of the candle from over the rock � the face of the criminal then in an instant it was all clear to me i remembered how the had told me that he had handed his old wardrobe to had passed it on in order to help j in his escape boots shirt cap � it was all sir j henry s the tragedy was still black enough but this man had at least deserved death by the laws of his country i told how the matter stood my heart over with and joy then the clothes have been the poor i death said he it is clear enough that the i hound has been laid on from some article of sir j henry s � the boot which | 4 |
john meadows then come on come a thousand strong with the devil at your back � and then i ll beat yon i and for a moment the respectable man was almost grand a man rock standing earth and heaven mr meadows he turned and there was a word sir will is in the town in such a passion come to stop the wedding � he was taking a glass of ale at the and and you might hear him all over the yard what is he going to do � sir he has bought an uncommon heavy whip he was showing it in the yard this is for john meadows s back said he and i will give it him before the girl he has stolen from my brother if she takes a dog instead of a man it shall be a dog says he meadows rang the bell harness the mare to the four wheel chaise you know what to do � well i can guess but first get him told that i am always at at six o clock � but you won t go there this even it is never too late to mend j of course � why not � n t you afraid be � afraid of wiu why yon hare never looked at me i ao notice your eyes are always on the ground when i was eighteen one evening it was harvest home and all the folk had their wit and manners out i found a farmer s wife in a lane hemmed in by three great ignorant brutes that were for kissing her or some nonsense and she crying help and murder and ready to faint with fright it was a decent woman and a neighbor i interfered as thus i knocked the first fellow senseless on back with a blow before they knew of me and then the three were two i fought the two giving and taking for full ten minutes and then i got a chance and one went down i put my foot on his and kept him down for all he could do and over his body i fought the best man of the lot and him so that his whole was like a ball of when he was quite sick he ran one way and t other got up roaring and ran another and they had to send a for no dame gave me of her own accord what all the row was about and more than one and hearty ones too i assure you and had me in to supper and told her man and he shook my hand a good one why sir you don t mean to say the woman you fought for was mrs � but tell you it was and i had those two boys on my knee two pulling at my curly hair � why do i talk of these things o i remember it was to show you i am not a man that can be i am a much better man than i was at eighteen i won t be married in a black eye if i can help it but when i am once married here i stand against all comers and if you hear them or threaten you tell them that any sunday afternoon when there is nothing better to be done i throw my cap into the ring and fight all the that ever one down at on then turning quite and contemptuous all in a moment he said these are words and we have work on hand and even as he spoke he strode from the room after by at six o clock meadows and were walking arm in arm in the garden presently they saw a man advancing towards them with his right hand b ind him why it is wiu cried come to thank you � i think not by the look of him replied meadows coolly will you be so good as to take your hand from that man s arm i have got a word to say to him did more than seeing at once that mischief was coming she clung to william s right arm and while he ground his teeth with ineffectual rage for she was strong as her sex are strong for half a minute and to throw her off he must have been much with her than he chose to be � men came behind unobserved by all but meadows and captured him on the old judgment and having represented him as a violent man they literally laid the grasp of the law on him but i have got the money to it remonstrated william � pay it then but my money is at home give me two days i write to my and she will send it me the officers with a coarse laugh told him he must come with them meantime meadows whispered i ll pay it for him to morrow they took off william in meadows s four wheeled where are they taking him john � to the county jail o don t let them take him there can you not trust him � yes then why not pay it for him � but i don t carry money in my pocket and the bank is how unfortunate i � it is never too late to mend � but i hi send it over to morrow early and we will have him out o yes poor fellow the very first thing in the morning � yes the first thing � after we are married soon ter this meadows bade affectionately farewell and rode off to to buy his gloves and some presents for his bride on the road he overtook william going to jail leaned over his saddle as he by and said mrs meadows will send the money in to free you in the morning then on again as cool as | 9 |
then got a one you see he in his face he is of the most and discontented and at the same time conceited looking men in the house he is of he i in his own eye one of the most important men within the walls of parliament he not only must needs speak on question of that is to say if he is to catch the s as if there were something in everything he says but he has the often to attempt to get possession of the house immediately after some of the members of the have with the to them he is a man of ir talents but nothing more he speaks considerable when ho makes a set speech because in that case he writes it out at full length and it to memory in the same way as a school boy does his task but when he attempts speaking on the spur of the moment he often and has to correct and re correct his ill constructed sentences his voice is feeble bnt clear and distinct in tones his gesture is to raise his ht arm spread out his fingers and turn his face and body one port of the house to the other hut when he which he often does � that he is saying something unusually clever and of commanding importance he strikes the books or box on the table with his right hand with great violence � having before his speech removed for that purpose his usual seat to one close to the table mr is in person he is much under the middle size end is so slender withal that he has quite a boyish appearance his countenance is of a pale and complexion it has very little flesh on it his nose is rather prominent and his eyes are large and sunken there is a so visibly impressed on his brow that the merest in must observe it he is in mr thirty third year he ie not a favourite in the and the limited popularity he has acquired out of doors to be od the decline he is not the author of the which are published weekly in but written various articles fur same years past in the review tail s and the review of tlie latter work he is one of the leading hia brother in law mr thomas being the editor mr the member for st though so little known a few years ago that hia name was hardly ever mentioned out of is now one of the most popular men in the country i mention as a striking instance of mr ward s popularity out of doors that it was intended � though i am not he is up to this moment himself aware of it � to invite him to stand at the last election for the of in opposition to sir william home and in the same interest as sir samuel a resolution a tliis effect was agreed on by a large majority of the leading men in the and there could not have been a doubt of mr ward a return � which his admirers engaged should be effected tree of expense to him � but it was moat confidently by individuals who to speak that he and his at st were so attached to each other that he would not on any consideration the connection the of therefore were to look out for another person to represent them when owing to a variety of accidental tlie choice fell on mr henry it was mr ward s celebrated motion with the speech which preceded it in the right of to appropriate the property of the of ireland to other than purposes � that first brought him into notice before owing in some measure to his long residence abroad his principles were unknown to almost all members in the house the general indeed was that he was a tory but that motion and the bold and able speech with which he it at once earned the reputation of being a man of liberal opinions and of superior talents since then mr ward has spoken on important and every speech he made the accuracy of the regarding from the speech and motion to which i have referred iii not a line speaker there ia too much tt lord hb manner and his voice is quite � it has also a certain degree of about it he with rapidity and seemingly with ease his is and vigorous and his matter is in most cases highly he is much respected in the house by men parties mr ward is about forty years of age he is rather and his complexion is his face is full and round his nose to his hair is of a light brown he sports unusually large whiskers his countenance has a pleasing good natured expression but has nothing particularly intellectual about it he is the son of mr ward the celebrated author of and other novels and is often confounded with him lord member for is a whose name does not appear very often in the reports of the in the house but he strong claims on friend of freedom and humanity were it only for the he made in favour of the poles both within and without the house at the time of their late great with the events have proved that he felt much more strongly in the cause of than did mr though the latter managed to make a much greater parade of his exertions in that country s behalf lord a with the poles was fervent pure and lasting it mid its origin in the best principles of our common nature and was fed and by that which called it into his was the feeling of a christian and a lover of his race his exertions first to their re by and afterwards to administer pecuniary to such of | 24 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william � will come and with this in her hand she went to the door of the room and out upon the stairs on second thoughts turning back for a moment to put on her husband s hat and cloak � not the one he was daily wearing � that if seen in the twilight she might at a casual glance appear as some lad or on of one of the household women thus she descended a flight of circular a of noble stairs at the bottom of which was a door opening upon the terrace towards the west in the direction of her brother s position her object was to slip out without the seeing her get to the stables arouse one of the and send him ahead of her along the highway with the note to warn her brother of her approach to throw in her lot with his she was still in the shadow of the wall on the west terrace waiting for the to be quite out of the way when her ears were greeted by a voice saying from the adjoining shade � here i be the tones were the tones of a woman lady made no reply and stood close to the wall my lord the voice continued and she could recognize in it the local accent of some girl from the little town of close at hand i be tired of waiting my dear lord i was you would never come i lady flushed hot to her toes how the loves him she said to herself reasoning from the tones of her voice which were plaintive and sweet and tender as a bird s she changed from the home to the wife in one moment she said my lord you told me ten o clock and tis near twelve now continues the other how could ye keep me waiting so if you love me as you said i should have stuck to my lover in the lady parliament troops if it had not been for thee my dear lord there was not the least doubt that lady had been mistaken for her husband by this here was a pretty business here were sly here was here was a precious surprised in the midst her wicked husband whom till this very moment she had ever deemed the soul of good faith � how could he lady retreated to the door in the closed it locked it and ascended one round of the staircase where there was a hole i am not coming i lord despise ye and all your wanton tribe she through the opening and then crept up stairs as firmly rooted in principles as any man in the castle her husband still slept the sleep of the weary well fed and well drunken if not of the just and lady quickly herself without assistance � being indeed supposed by her woman to have retired to rest long ago before lying down she noiselessly locked the door and placed the key under her pillow more than that she got a and creeping up to her lord in great tied the lace in a tight knot to one of his long locks of hair the other end of the lace to the for being tired herself now she feared she might sleep heavily and if her husband should wake this would be a delicate hint that she had discovered all a of noble it is added that to make assurance sure her gentle when she had lain down to rest held her lord s hand in her own during the whole of the night but this is old wives gossip and not what lord thought and said when he awoke the next morning and found himself so strangely is likewise only matter of conjecture though there is no reason to suppose that his rage was great the extent of his as regards the was this much that while halting at a cross road near that day he had with a pretty young woman who seemed nothing and had invited her to the castle terrace after dark � an invitation which he quite forgot on his arrival home the subsequent relations of lord and lady were not again greatly by quarrels so far as is known though the husband s conduct in later life was occasionally eccentric and the of his public career in long exile the siege of the castle was not regularly undertaken till two or three years later than the time i have been describing when lady and all the women therein except the wife of the then governor had been removed to safe distance that memorable siege of fifteen days by and the surrender of the old place on an august evening is matter of history and need not be told by me lady the man of family spoke across to the colonel when the club had done smiling declaring that the story was an absolutely faithful page of history as he had good reason to know his own people having been engaged in that he asked if the colonel had ever heard the equally well though less martial tale of a certain lady who lived in the same century and not a score of miles from the same place the colonel had not heard it nor had anybody except the local historian and the was induced to proceed forthwith dame the eighth i by the man of family in going out of by the low lying road which eventually to the town of you see on the right hand an by towers and more than usually distinguished by the size of its many windows though still of good capacity the building is much reduced from its original grand proportions it has moreover been of the fair estate which once to its lord with the exception of a few acres of immediately around the mansion this was formerly the 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desert and render with melody the silence of night it may be said that in this busy world there is little employment for the imagination � little scope for the exercise of poetical associations i grant � for i am compelled to do that poetry should be out of our working world to make room for machinery but i see no reason why the same train of thought and course of reasoning should not be carried on i grant that the materials are different but why should we not still endeavour to raise an altar in our minds for a higher worship than that of the of this world why should we fix our attention solely upon the material part of the universe satisfying ourselves with the names of substantial things with their variety and properties why should we confine ourselves to counting the pillars in the temple of nature its magnitude and measuring its height without referring all our calculations through the highest range of imagination to the wonder working power of the great habits and of it may be said that we dwell too much in cities and lead too artificial a life to be able to perceive the of divine wisdom in all the events that pass beneath our observation if this be the case there is the more need that we should rouse ourselves by fresh efforts to penetrate beyond the polished surface of the world in which we live into the deeper mysteries that lie beyond � there is the more need that we should endeavour to perceive in the practical affairs of busy life those great principles by which the laws of nature are governed and the system o� the universe if for instance we live in the heart of a thickly peopled city with the rush of its busy multitudes around us and the labour of man s hand and the efforts of his ingenuity perpetually before our eyes there is no reason why we should look only at the splendour of its amuse our fancy with the outward aspect of its varied of art or regard with disgust the occupations of the because he handles the raw material and touches what is gross would it not be more consistent with the exercise of an enlightened mind to contemplate the wonders of that power which the creator has to the use of man so that he lays hold as it were of the elements of nature and makes them submit to his will night falls not with stillness and repose upon the city but we walk as through a living blaze and shall we pass on like children pleased with the glitter and the show without reflecting that man has been able to convert the darkest substance from the of the earth into the very source of all this light mountains and valleys tracts of women of england land and floods of between us and our distant friends but we fly to them with a rapidity which a few years ago would have been pronounced even by impossible and shall we move like senseless matter even through the very heart of the mountain calculating only the speed at which we travel without to the momentous fact that by the ingenuity of man mere as it is for its weakness and in the creation has been converted into the master power by which the mighty operations of men are carried on we take our daily walks through the bustling city and gaze at the splendid of taste and learn the names of those who are most skilled in music and painting and all the sister arts and we speak in the cant terms that are most in and think we display superiority of mind and intelligence to use them well but should we not at the same time cultivate the habit of bearing in remembrance the principles of beauty and of referring back to them whatever is to our admiration in the form of art we speak of the degrading cares and sordid views that occupy the working world but how have we endeavoured to pass beyond these and to connect them with the world of thought we hear of the vast amount of labour carried on and the relative expenses incurred and the things that can be made and done within a given time but why should we not sometimes make a transition of thought from the material to the means of working it � from the means to the power � and from the power that is imparted to the creator who to day the habits and of his busy tools to morrow his hand may have become rigid and motionless beneath the stroke of death thousands and of thousands pass away from the scene of their labours but the labour still goes on for the laws of nature change not and the principles upon which the labour of man is carried into effect remain the same we are too apt because we mingle in and busy scenes and feel the necessity of moving with the tide to forget that what we see and hear what is obvious to the senses and palpable to the touch is not all that we live for or even all that we live amongst we should endeavour to find breathing times even amidst the hurry and the rush of present things we should sometimes pause amongst the multitude and listen mentally to the beating of the mighty pulse of a tumultuous city and ask whether the creator and of this living mass is not beholding the operation of the various powers he has set in motion marking its defects supplying its and the whole we should then be enabled to perceive something of the working of the inner plan how one class of human beings depends upon another � how the principles of justice establish and counter so that no single power shall be how poverty | 41 |
follows mrs was prompt in sending the of herself and mr to mrs and at the same time s acceptance was despatched although she was at first disposed to send her regrets she was only fond of those pleasures which make the life social she was a good but a more excellent and she pre a rebellious heroine talking to dancing but the of what are known as stair talks at dances oppressed her nor did she look forward with any degree of pleasure to what we might term confidences which in these luxurious days have become so large a in for was of a practical nature she had once chilled the heart of a young poet by calling little realized when he wrote this how he would have suffered had he carried out � his original intention and to the city of the sea and a to her was a thing for mid day and not for midnight she was therefore not particularly anxious to spend an evening � which began at an late hour instead of at a a chapter from with notes s reasonable time thanks to a social custom which has its foundation in nothing short of absolute insanity � in the pursuit of nothing of greater value than dancing stair talks and confidences but mrs soon persuaded her that she ought to go and go she did it was a beautiful night that of the d of july was at her best the morning had been warm but along about three in the afternoon a series of short and sharp storms came and as quickly went the heated city and up the air until it was as clear as crystal and refreshing as a draught of cold spring water at the mansion on avenue all was in readiness for the event the s had arrived with a rebellious heroine their dainty contents and had gone and now the band was sending forth over the cool night air those beautiful and weird waves of melody which entrance the most unwilling ear about the broad and spacious grounds lights hung from tree to tree here and there little rose scented for h talks were set from within streaming through the windows in beauty came the lights of the vast the reception rooms and the beautifully designed dining hall � lately added by young black the to mrs s already perfect house on the floor are some ten or twenty couples gracefully to the strains of and in the midst of these we see a chapter from with notes her way across the room with some difficulty attended by mr and mrs they have just arrived as walks across the hall she every one there is that about her which commands attention at the instant of her entrance count is on the qui he cries as he gracefully against the doorway opening into the my dear friend my idea of truly woman her name that is miss of new york count the person addressed replies she is up here with the i her says the count his eye following as she walks up to mrs and is greeted by that lady go a rebellious heroine is pale and appears anxious even to the author the ways of the women in his works are inscrutable so upon this occasion she is pale but i cannot say why can it be that she has an knowledge that to night may decide her whole future life who can tell woman s are great and there be those who say they are true one by one with the exception of count the young men among mrs s guests are presented � prefers to await a more favorable opportunity � and to all appears to be the beautiful woman she is hers is an instant success a new beauty has dawned upon the horizon let us describe her as she stands note � there is a blank space left a chapter from with notes here at first i thought it was because wished to reflect a little before drawing a picture of so superb a woman as he seemed to think her and go on to the conclusion of the chapter the main incidents being hot in his mind and the purely descriptive matters more easily left to calmer moments he me however that such was not the case when i came to describe her as she stood he said she had disappeared and i had to search all over the house before i finally found her in the so i changed the chapter to read thus after a half hour of dancing and holding court � for s triumph was truly that of a queen it was so complete � miss turned to mr and took his arm a rebellious heroine let us go into the she said in a whisper i have heard so much about mrs s i should like to see them seeing that she was tired and slightly bored by the incessant chatter of those about her escorted her out through the broad door into the as she passed from the the dark eyes of count flashed upon her but she them not moving on into the bower in apparently serene of that person s presence here got her a chair will you have an ice he asked as she seated herself beneath one of the lofty palms yes she answered simply i can wait here alone if you will get it il the dark eyes of count flashed a chapter from with notes passed out and soon returned with the ice but as he came through the doorway stopped him and whispered something in his ear certainly count right away answered come along needed no second bidding but followed closely and soon stood expectant before miss said may i have the pleasure of presenting count the count s head nearly with his toes in the bow that | 27 |
i came of a hard headed stock which had been away from the soil long enough to gain a new perspective when a thing satisfied my judgment i did it forthwith and downright no matter how extravagant it seemed take the old orchard worthless worse than worthless old nearly died of heart disease when he saw the i had upon it and look at it now there was an old ruin where the now stands i put up with it but i immediately pulled down the cow bam the the chicken houses everything � made a clean sweep they shook their heads and groaned when they saw such wanton waste by a widow struggling to make a living but worse was to come they were when i told them the price of the three beautiful c s � pigs you know � which i bought sixty dollars for the three and only just then i the chickens to market them with the white the two cows that came with the place i sold to the butcher for thirty dollars each paying two hundred and fifty for two blue blooded and money on the exchange while by ic the valley of the moon and the rest went right on with their that couldn t give enough milk to pay for their board nodded approval remember what i told you about horses he to saxon and assisted by his hostess he gave a very creditable on and its management from a business point of view when he went out to smoke mrs led saxon into talking about herself and and betrayed not the slightest shock when she learned of his prize and he s a splendid young man and good she assured saxon his face shows that and best of all he loves you and is proud of you you can t imagine how i have enjoyed watching the way he looks at you especially when you are talking he respects your judgment why he must for here he is with you on this pilgrimage which is wholly your idea mrs sighed you are very fortunate dear child very fortunate and you don t yet know what a man s brain is wait till he is quite fired with enthusiasm for your project you will be astounded by the way he takes hold you will have to exert yourself to keep up with him in the meantime you must lead remember he is city bred it will be a struggle to him from the only life he s known oh but he s disgusted with the city too saxon began but not as you are love is not the whole of man as it is of woman the city hurt you more than it hurt him it was you who lost the dear little babe his interest his connection was no more than casual and compared with the depth and of yours mrs turned her head to who was just entering have you got the hang of what was you she asked pretty close to it he answered taking the indicated big chair it s this by ic the valley of the moon one moment mrs checked him that is a beautiful big strong chair and so are you at any rate big and strong and your little wife is very weary � no no sit down it s your strength she needs yes i insist open your arms and to him she led saxon and into his arms placed her now sir � and you look delicious the pair of you � register your objections to my way of earning a living it ain t your way quickly your way s all right it s great what i m trying to get at is that your way don t fit us we couldn t make a go of it your way why you had pull � well to do acquaintances people that knew you d ben a an your husband a professor an you had here he a moment seeking for the idea he still vaguely grasped well you had a way we couldn t have you were educated an � an � i don t know i guess you knew society ways an business ways we couldn t know but my dear boy you could learn what was necessary she shook his head no you don t quite get me let s take it this way just suppose it s me with jam an a into that swell like you did to talk with the top why i d be place the moment i stepped into his office worse n that i d feel place that d make me have a on my shoulder an for trouble which is a poor way to do business then too i d be he was i was a whole lot of a to be jam what d happen t i d be at the drop of the hat i d be he was i was on my foot an i d beat him to it in him he was on his foot don t you see it s because i was raised that way it d be take it or leave it with me an no jam sold what you say is true mrs took up brightly but there is your wife just look at her by ic the valley op the moon she d make an impression on any business man he d be only too willing to listen to her a forbidding expression springing into his eyes what have i done now their hostess laughed i ain t got around yet to on my wife s looks he right you are the only trouble is that you both of you are fifty years behind the times you re old american how you ever got here in the thick of modem conditions is a miracle you re van who ever heard in | 21 |
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 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 wiu was married was his partner at a five 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 cm a bench while the others in the room beyond was masculine and he s hand he put his arm carelessly about her shoulder tl she said sharply you re a cunning thing he offered patting the back of her shoulder 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 her knee she sprang up started and to wash the dishes he helped her he was too lazy to adventure further � and too used to women in his profession she was grateful for the of his talk it enabled her to gain control she knew that she had skirted wild thoughts a month after on a party under the robes in the bob he whispered you pretend to be a but you re nothing but a his arm was about her she resisted don t you like the poor lonely bachelor he in a way no i don t you don t care for me in the least you re just on me you re so mean i m terribly fond of you fm not of you and i m not going to let myself be fond of you either he persistently drew her toward him she clutched his arm then she threw off the robe climbed out of the after it with harry at the dance which followed the ride was devoted to the watery of and was interested in getting up a virginia without seeming to watch she knew that he did not once look at her that was all of her first love affair he gave no sign of remembering that he was fond she waited for him she in longing and in a sense of guilt because she longed she told that she did not want part of him unless he gave her all his devotion she would never let him touch her and when she found that she was probably lying she burned with scorn she fought it out in prayer she knelt in a pink flannel her thin hair down her back her forehead as full of horror as a mask of tragedy while she identified her love for the son of god with her love for a mortal and wondered if any other woman had ever been so she wanted to be a and observe perpetual adoration she bought a but she had been so reared as a that could not bring herself to use it yet none of her in the school and in the knew of her abyss of passion they said she was so when she heard that was to marry a girl pretty young and from the cities she congratulated carelessly ascertained from him the hour of marriage at that hour sitting in her room pictured the wedding in st paul full of an ecstasy which her she followed and the girl who had stolen her place followed them to the train the evening the night she was relieved when she had worked out a belief that she wasn t really shameful that there was a relation between herself and so that she was yet with and had the right to be she saw during the first five minutes in she stared at the passing at and the girl beside him in that fog of of emotion had no normal jealousy but a conviction that since through she had received s love then was a part of her an self a heightened and more beloved self she was glad of the girl s charm of the smooth black main street hair the head and young shoulders but she was suddenly angry glanced at her for a quarter second but looked past her at an old roadside bam if she had made the great sacrifice at least she expected gratitude and recognition raged while her conscious mind her to control this insanity during her first half of her wanted to welcome a fellow reader of books the other half to find out whether knew anything about s former interest in herself she discovered that was not aware that he had ever touched another woman s hand was an amusing curiously learned child while was most describing the glories of the and this on her training as a she was that this girl was the child bom of herself and and out of that she had a comfort she had not known for months when she came home after supper with the and she had a sudden and rather from devotion s ie into her room she her hat on the bed and i don t care i m a lot like except a few years older i m light and quick too and i can talk just as well as she can and i m sure men are such fools i d be ten times as sweet to make love to as that dreamy baby and i am as good looking but as she sat on the bed and stared at her thin defiance away she mourned no i m not dear god how we fool ourselves i pretend i m spiritual i pretend my legs are graceful | 42 |
i had heard and all that i could remember of those dreadful days when we the lords of the country side had been chased across it as if we had been wolves with the howling mob still at the pier head to shake their fists and their stones at us i too that it was this very who was speaking to me who had thrown oil upon the flames in those days and whose fortunes had been s by uncle founded upon our ruin as i looked across at him i found that his keen grey eyes were fixed upon me and i could see that he had read the thought in my mind we must let be said he those are quarrels of the last generation and and you represent a new one my cousin had not said one word or taken any notice of presence but at this joining of our names she glanced at me with the same hostile expression which i had already remarked come said her father you can assure your cousin louis that so far as you are d any family misunderstanding is at an end it is very well for us to talk in that way father she answered it is not your picture that in the hall or your coat that i the wall we hold the castle and the land but it is for the heir of the de to tell us if h is satisfied with this her dark scornful eyes were fi ed upon me as she waited for my reply father hastened to f r c � is not a very to e in which io greet your cousin said he harshly it has so by the owner of chanced that louis has fallen to us but it is not for us to remind him of the fact he needs no reminding said she you do me an injustice i cried for the evident and malignant scorn of this girl me to the quick it is true that i cannot forget that this castle and these grounds belonged to my ancestors � i should be a indeed if i forget it � but if you think that i harbour any bitterness you are mistaken for my own part i ask nothing better than to open up a career for myself with my own sword and never was there a time when it could be more easily and more brilliantly done cried my uncle there are great things about to happen in the world and if you are at the emperor s you will be in the middle of them i understand that you are content to serve him i wish to serve my country by serving the emperor you do so for without him the country becomes chaos from all we hear it is not a very easy service my cousin i should have thought that you would have been very much more comfortable in ir by uncle england � and then you would have been so much safer also everything which the girl said seemed to be meant as an insult to me and yet i could not imagine how i had ever offended her never had i met a woman for whom i conceived so hearty and rapid a dislike i could see that her remarks were as offensive to her father as they were to me for he looked at her with eyes which were as angry as her own your cousin is a brave man and that is more than can be said for else that i could mention said he for whom she asked never mind he snapped and jumping up with the air of a man who is afraid that his rage may master him and that he may say more than he wished he ran from the room she seemed startled by this retort of his and rose as if she would follow him then she tossed her head and laughed i suppose that you have never met your uncle before said she after a few minutes of embarrassed silence by ic the owner of never answered i well what do you think of him now you have met him � such a question from a daughter about her father filled me with a certain vague horror i felt that he must be even a worse man than i had taken him for if he had so completely the loyalty of his own nearest and dearest your silence is a answer said she as i hesitated for a reply i do not know how you came to meet him last night or what passed between you for we do not share each other s confidences i think however that you have read him aright now i have something to ask you you had a letter from him inviting you to leave england and to come here had you not yes i had did you observe nothing on the outside i thought of those two sinister words which had puzzled me so much what it was you who warned me not to come yes it was l i had no other means of doing it by uncle bat why did you do it because i did not wish you to come here did you think that i would harm you she sat silent for a few seconds like one who is afraid of saying too much when her answer came it was a very unexpected one i was afraid that you would be you think that i am in danger here i am sure of it you advise me to leave without losing an instant from whom is the danger then again she hesitated and then with a reckless motion hke one who throws prudence to the winds she turned upon me it is from my father said she but why should he harm me that is for your sagacity to discover | 4 |
england do our best we shall hardly avoid injustice in our opinion of the changes of time and the advance of ideas have rendered a sympathetic judgment of him difficult above all he was not like and a high he sought to make the english church catholic and yet he would on no account attach it to rome like he made the church dependent on royal authority and in this he was far removed chap iv rise of notes character of the book ii from the earlier there was nothing spiritual in his nature his personal devotion had neither agony nor exaltation he had none of the enthusiasm that prompted the of his contemporary for example and elevated the master of little to a amiable and touching notwithstanding the energy of s devotion his nature was as shallow and as it was sincere it has been remarked that when spoke of the beauty of he meant no more than decorum in public worship the beauty of a well ordered church and of proper and he seemed to touch a modern note when he proposed to suppress the futile debate between and because it tended to disturb christian charity but s christian charity like his was purely external it was merely quiet submission to one and one form of discipline his and even cruel temper toward showed him incapable of of charity in any spiritual sense he disliked because it put obstacles in the way of and he had no taste for debate because it tended to authority his intellect was utterly practical and acute it was energetic and its energy was by its his attachment to the church had no relation to the beneficent of the church the church was a for which he was ready to die without the great a murmur in his zeal he was reckless of personal danger and sometimes of the moral complexion of his actions his was so with his zeal that he could not separate one from the other nor can the student of his character a to him was an to almighty god the very honesty of such a man is a little might have softened the outward of his hard nature unhappily there was not even or to moderate his all but activity which pushed his to its possibilities and with a vigilance to penetrated to the details in the administration of church and state he even filed papers giving the elements of the on good works as an evidence of carried on between and cotton in the cabin of new england for the rest he presents the one expects in so marked a character while he had no taste for the of his time he showed a certain relish for in dreams and yet he had none of the timidity of superstition he was moreover fearless in peril and he faced without stubborn and with the clergy and the and pitiless with those who had offended him or his king or his church he was and in his relations with those in power his unworthy yielding to his early patron the earl of chap iv the book ii letter to in art in a matter which concerned his conscience gave him a bitter and repentance his to and his devotion to charles seem a little he was even willing at the last to make terms with parliament when it became plain that parliament was the new master though he was the farthest possible from a coward and he accepted death on the with the serene composure of a martyr political conditions promote iv the great to new england set in soon after the beginning of s in the government of england it as he declined and ceased forever with his fall there is a witty in the phrase by which a historian the father of new england other had contented themselves with crushing the but with characteristic boldness and logical struck at the powerful party which had for more than half a century to remain in the church of england while protesting against the discipline and service of the church the arbitrary government of the new king the dissolution of parliament and the imprisonment of liberal leaders cut off hope of securing church reform or a of oppressive laws high church with arguments in favor of the king s absolute authority and the duty of the great obedience while the declared principles of the king and his court left the property liberty and life of the subject exposed to the or the of those in power in view of these things some of the began to think the american wilderness a better place of residence than england v the state of the church was even more a reason for removal than the of the government persecution had failed to drive ministers or their followers into what they deemed the capital sin of they hated the of the communion with the and the absence of a rigid discipline but they had been sustained through long years of waiting by the hope of delivering the church from those who oppressed and her they proposed whenever they could gain power to the from the wheat and they probably destined the to swift destruction but the hope of seeing a church without spot or prayer book or bishop died under the policy of and and many came to look with favor on a project whose full import was only whispered in the ear to found in the of america a particular church as they it � a new church with a right of in a new land and backed by the sanction of the government of the country it was no modem general chap iv motives for the book ii fear of life and letters of i love of liberty civil or religious but a desire to find a place where they might make real their ideal of church organization that brought the out | 11 |
cavalry where the captain was looking eastward down the town from the same favoured the long perspective of houses declined and they in the highway across the the white of road disappeared over grey s bridge a quarter of a mile off to plunge into rustic shy shades and solitary up hill and down for one and twenty till it exhibited itself at park comer as a smooth bland surface in touch with a busy and fashionable world to the had recently arrived the � th a regiment new to the locality almost before any acquaintance with its members had been made by the a report spread that they were a crack body pf men and had brought a a changed man splendid band for some reason or other the town had not been used as the of for many years the various troops stationed there having consisted of casual only so that it was with a sense of honour that everybody � even the small from whom the married hired tables and chairs � received the news of their crack quality in those days the still wore over the left shoulder that attractive attachment or half coat hanging loosely behind like the wing of a bird which was called the though it was known among the themselves as a it added to their l women s eyes and in the eyes of men also the who lived in the house with the window sat during a great many hours of the day in that for he was an invalid and time hung heavily on his hands unless he maintained a constant interest in proceedings without not more than a week after the arrival of the his ears were assailed by the shout of one to another in the street below have ee heard this about the they are haunted yes � sl ghost troubles em he has followed em about the world for years a haunted regiment that was a new idea for either invalid or the listener in the came to the conclusion that there were some lively characters among the � th he made captain s acquaintance in an manner at an afternoon tea to which he went in a wheeled chair � one of the very rare that the state of his health permitted showed himself to be a handsome man of or thirty with an attractive hint of wickedness in his manner that was sure to make him with good young women the large dark eyes that lit his pale face expressed this strongly a changed man though such was the of their rays that could think they might have expressed sadness or seriousness just as readily if he had had a mind for such an old and deaf lady who was present asked captain what s this we hear about you they say your regiment is the captain s face assumed an aspect of grave even sad concern yes he replied it s too true some younger ladies smiled till they saw how serious he looked when they looked serious likewise said the old lady yes we naturally don t wish to say much about it no no of se not but � how well the � thing as i u call it follows us in quarters or town abroad or at home it s just the same how do you for it h m lowered his voice some crime committed by certain of regiment in past years we suppose dear me how very horrid and singular but as i said we don t speak of it much no no when the was gone a young lady a long suppressed interest asked if the ghost had been seen by any of the town the lawyer s son who always had the latest news said that though it was seldom seen by any one but the themselves more than one and woman had already set eyes on it to his or her terror the phantom mostly appeared very late at night under the dense trees of the town avenue nearest the it was about ten feet high its teeth with a dry naked sound as if they were those of a skeleton and its hip bones could be heard grating in their during the darkest weeks of winter several timid s a changed man persons were seriously frightened by the object answering to this cheerful description and the police began to look into the matter whereupon the appearances grew less frequent and some of the boys of the regiment stated that they had not been so free from ghostly for years as they had become since their arrival in this playing at ghosts was the most innocent of the amusements indulged in by the choice young spirits who inhabited the red brick building at the top of the town bearing w d and a broad arrow its far more serious � relating to love wine cards � were talked of with no doubt more or less of exaggeration that the captain included were the cause of bitter tears to several young women of the town and country is true despite the fact that the of the young men wore a more staring colour in this old fashioned place than they would have done in a large and modem city ii regularly once a week they rode out in marching order returning up the town on one of these occasions the romantic flapping behind each s shoulder in the soft wind captain glanced up at the a mutual nod was exchanged between him and the person who sat there reading the reader and a friend in the room with him followed the troop with their eyes all the way up the street till when the soldiers were opposite the house in which lived that yoimg lady became in the balcony they are engaged to be married i hear said the friend who � and never � | 45 |
person with every heavenly gift the procession advances and the seats himself on the throne with the and of the empire on his right and those of italy on his left hand shouts and music accompany the proceedings after which divine service vi the spirit of the thus are the self servants of the highest constrained by earthly to embrace mighty as it were choice and hand the italian unto one who with a sour humoured grin professed at first to antiquity scorn limp smile at and level down to i � hey advancing swiftly on that track whereby his active fair child makes strange decline now labours to achieve the thing it spirit of the years thou ever � even as if a self formed force had urged his loud career spirit sinister do not the s accents thin his lips with laughter grow while blessing one whose aim is but to win the golden seats that other b s have warmed f spirit of the years scorn not so skilled even made to feel by one men call the dame the act i shade of the earth tea that and remain j is an owned flaw in her men love to dame nature � that lay shape they use to hang phenomena upon � whose in fairest is about by terms inexorable spirit sinister the lady s remark is and reminds me that i may as well hold my tongue as desired for if my casual scorn father tears should set thee trying to prove that there is any rhyme or reason in the universe thou wilt not accomplish it by small blame to her however she must cut her coat according to her cloth as they say down below there spirit of the years o would that i could move it to thee and shut thee up a thousand years to a grim tale of one thy like thou of the worlds as they would say below there spirit of the would thou but move that above it cannot be scene vi the shade of the earth the spectacle proceeds spirit sinister and we may as well give all what is doing in other is not worth our meanest can take note of the dull show of evils going on there the in the cathedral continues napoleon goes to the front of the altar the steps and taking up the crown of places it on his head napoleon tis god has given it to me so be it let any who shall touch it now beware of applause the of the mass on reads the oath in a loud voice give ear napoleon emperor of the french and king of italy is crowned and congregation long live the emperor and king music the te the act i spirit of the that vulgar stroke of he displayed in planting on his brow the crown means sheer of the and lets confusion loose on europe s peace for many an year i from this rash hour but waits her opportunity by secret of her to link her to his foes � speak to him he throws a whisper into napoleon s ear lieutenant would it not be to shut thy heart to these � render thee to whom thou fair liberty t napoleon who spoke to me not i not a soul napoleon dear my queen call my name i spoke not vi the on thou not tender i know it such harsh utterance was not thine twas but fancy working upon a mind the service the clergy advance with the to the foot of the throne and the procession forms to return to the palace spirit of the years and dost not heed the cause of things which some of us have to thee here else thou not have hailed the emperor whose acts do but its governing spirit of the as i must this tale of will and by i cannot take spirit of the years let me then once again show to thy eye the very streams and currents of this all power y and bring conclusion to thy the act i scene vi the scene the before mentioned and there is again beheld as it were the interior of a brain which seems to manifest the of an universal will of whose the personages of the action form portion spirit of the enough and yet for very i cannot own the weird real i spirit of the years affection ever was spirit aside how should the own to such logic � a mere � who only came into being in what the call their age the scene changes the exterior of the cathedral takes the place of the interior and the point of view the whole into distance and becoming like a rare delicately carved ornament the city itself sinks to miniature the show afar as a white the and the gulf of appear on this and that hand with italy between them till clouds cover the act second scene i the the rock is seen rising behind the town and the gardens and the english fleet rides at anchor in the bay across which the spanish shore from to point in the west southward over the strait is the african coast spirit of the years our now presents an outlook on the rocky as preface to the vision of the spanish and french linked for fell sings angel their motions and since the fame of s at swept swift through europe s have stretched the english mind to wide many well based which strange report o the act n much as to the pondered blow flutter the public pulse all points in turn � ireland british ind � being held as for force like theirs of lavish numbers and aim where y where is f questions every tongue � how views he so a scheme their slow uncertain apprehensions ask when puts to sea | 45 |
lights had been hung out kid was and by his side sat joe pondering over the events of the night he could no longer blind himself to the facts his mind was in a whirl of apprehension if he had done wrong he reasoned he had done it through ignorance and he did not feel shame for the past so much as he did fear for the future his companions were thieves and robbers � the bay of whose wild deeds he with the bay had heard vague tales and here he was right in the midst of them already possessing information which could send them to state s prison this very fact he knew would force them to keep a sharp watch upon him and so lessen his chances of escape but escape he would at the very first opportunity at this point his thoughts were interrupted by a sharp which hurled the over till the sea rushed kid quickly at the same time off the main sheet then single handed � for french remained below � and with joe looking idly on he proceeded to down the which had so nearly the was of short duration but it marked the rising of the wind and soon puff after puff was shrieking down upon them out of the north the was the wind and and about till it seemed it would tear itself to pieces the was the of the ing wildly in the quick sea which had come up everything was in confusion but even joe s eye showed him that it was an orderly confusion he could see that kid just what to do and just how to do it as he watched him he learned a lesson the lack of which has made failures of the lives of many men � the value of of one s own kid knew what he was able to do and because of this he had confidence in himself he was cool and self possessed working hurriedly but not carelessly there was no every point was drawn down to stay other accidents might occur but the next or the next forty would not carry one of those knots away he called joe for ard to help stretch the by means of swinging on the peak and throat to lay out on the long and put a single in the was a slight task compared with with the bay what had been accomplished so a few moments later they were again in the under the other lad s directions joe down the sheet and going into the cabin let down a foot or so of the excitement of the struggle had chased all unpleasant thoughts from his mind after the other boy he had retained his coolness he had executed his orders without and at the same time without undue together they had exerted their strength in the face of violent nature and together they had her he came back to where his companion stood at the and he felt proud of him and of himself and when he read the praise in kid s eyes he blushed like a girl at her first compliment but the next instant the thought flashed across him that this boy was a thief a common thief and he instinctively his whole life had the of the been sheltered from the things of the world his reading which had been of the best had laid a upon honesty and and he had learned to look with upon the criminal classes so he drew a little away from kid and remained silent but kid all his energies to the handling of the had no time in which to remark this sudden change of feeling on the part of his companion but there was one thing joe found in himself that surprised him while the thought of kid being a thief was repulsive to him kid himself was not instead of feeling an honest desire to him he felt drawn toward him he could not help liking him though he knew not why had he been a little older he would have understood that it was the lad s good qualities which appealed to him � his coolness and self reliance his and bravery and a certain and sympathy in his with the bay nature as it was he thought it his own natural which prevented him from kid but while he felt shame at his own weakness he could not the warm regard which he felt growing up for this particular bay take in two or three feet on the s painter commanded kid who had an eye for everything the was with too long a painter and was very badly every once in a while it would hold back till the tow rope then come leaping ahead and and dropping slack till it threatened to its nose under the huge which roared so on every hand joe climbed over the rail to the slippery and made his way to the to which the was fastened be careful kid warned as a heavy puff struck the her over on her side keep the of the one turn round the and heave in on it when the painter it was work for a joe threw off all the turns save the last which he held with one hand while with the other he attempted to bring in on the painter but at that instant it with a tremendous jerk the boat sharply into the crest of a heavy sea the rope slipped from his hands and began to fly out over the stern he clutched it and was dragged after it over the sloping deck let her go let her go kid shouted joe let go just as he was on the verge of going overboard and the dropped rapidly he glanced in a way at his companion expecting to be sharply for his awkwardness but kid | 21 |
well calculated to strike terror to the hearts of and to impress them with an adequate idea of the stem majesty of the law in front of a big in a big chair behind the club a big table and before a big volume sat mr looking a full size larger than any one of them big as they were the table was adorned with piles of papers and above the farther end of it appeared the head and shoulders of mr who was busily engaged in looking as busy as possible the party having all entered carefully closed the door and placed himself behind master s chair to await his orders mr threw himself back with thrilling solemnity and the faces of his unwilling visitors now who is that person said mr pointing to mr who as the of his friends stood hat in hand bowing with the utmost politeness and respect this here s your wash up said come none o that ere old strike a light interposed mr himself into the front rank beg your pardon sir but this here officer o in the tops never earn a decent as a master o the ceremonies this here sir continued mr thrusting aside and addressing the magistrate with pleasant familiarity this here is s this here s mj that ere s mr and on next him on the f other side mr � all nice gen l m n sir as you ll be happy to have the acquaintance on so the sooner you these here officers o to the tread mill for a month or two the sooner we shall begin to be on a pleasant understanding business first pleasure as k ing the third said he the t other king in the tower afore he smothered the vol n papers of at the conclusion of this address mr his hat with his right elbow and nodded to who had heard him throughout with unspeakable awe who is this man said the magistrate rate character your wash up replied he attempted to rescue the prisoners and the officers so we took him into and brought him here you did quite right replied the magistrate he is evidently a desperate he is my servant sir said mr angrily oh he is your servant is he said mr a conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice and murder its officers s servant put that down mr mr did so your name fellow thundered mr replied sam a very good name for the said mr this was a joke so all the and went into fits of laughter of five minutes duration put down his name mr said the magistrate two l s old said sam here an unfortunate special laughed again whereupon the magistrate threatened to commit him instantly it is a dangerous thing to laugh at the wrong man in these cases where do you live said the magistrate the club ever i can replied sam put down that mr said the magistrate who was st rising into a rage score it under said sam he is a vagabond mr said the magistrate he is a on his own statement is he not mr � certainly sir then commit him til commit him as such said mr this is a impartial country for justice said sam there a n t a magistrate going as don t commit himself twice as often as he other people at this sally another special laughed and then tried to look so solemn that the magistrate detected him said mr with passion how dare you select such an and person for a special as that man how dare you do it sir i am very sorry your wash up stammered very sorry i said the furious magistrate you shall repent of this neglect of duty mr you shall be made an example of take that fellow s staff away he s drunk you re drunk fellow � i am not drunk your worship said the man you are drunk returned tiie magistrate how dare you say you are not drunk sir when i say you are doesn t he smell of spirits horrid your wash up replied who had a vague impression that there was a smell of rum somewhere papers of i knew he did said mr i saw he was drunk when he first came the room by his excited eye did you observe his excited eye mr certainly sir i haven t touched a drop of spirits this morning said the man who was as sober a fellow as need be how dare you tell me a falsehood said mr isn t he drunk at this moment mr certainly sir replied mr said the magistrate i shall commit that man for contempt make out his mr and committed the special would have been only who was the magistrate s adviser having had a legal education of three years in a country attorney s office whispered the magistrate that he thought it wouldn t do so the magistrate made a speech and said that in consideration of the special s family he would merely and discharge him accordingly the special was abused vehemently for a quarter of an hour and sent about his business and and all the other murmured their admiration of the of mr now mr said the magistrate swear was sworn directly but as wandered and mr s dinner was nearly ready mr cut the matter short by putting leading questions to which answered as nearly in the affirmative as he could so the examination went off all very smooth and comfortable and two were proved against mr and a threat against mr and a push against mr when the club all this was done to the magistrate s satisfaction the magistrate and mr consulted in whispers the consultation having lasted about ten minutes mr retired to his end of the table and the magistrate with a preparatory | 8 |
in so sudden and close an intimacy with this at once so wise and so artificial woman creature but he had his idea moreover he trusted her of course you are she asserted that s just where the beauty of it all comes in you re the infant one has only to look into your face to see that � don t go and up now you belong to another order of doctrine and practice to that current in society gazed at the floor still making herself small the palms of her hands pressed together between her knees the far horizon and that s just why you can be useful to me awfully useful if you choose � i don t mean money business anything of the kind i m perfectly competent to manage my own affairs thank you but you re good for me somehow you rest me she began to rock herself gently backwards and forwards but without taking the heels of her shoes off the ground yes you rest me you rest me she repeated i am glad said he felt pleased thankful almost again glanced at him sideways yes i believe you are she said and that shows things have happened to you � in you more likely � since we last met you have come on a great piece i doubt if i have come on so much as gone back to influences of long ago he answered to things which had been by the dust of my working years almost to the point of was it pleasant to go back asked not at all the going was painful it required some courage to brush off the dust it usually does require courage � at least that s my experience � to brush off the dust made no immediate answer he was a little startled at his companion s acute reading of him a little touched by her confidence her words seemed to suggest the possibility of a relationship which fitted in admirably with the development of his idea he sat looking away across the room and doing so became aware that the said room possessed unexpected characteristics calculated to his impressions of its owner s character it was a man s room rather than a woman s innocent of and two low wide well furnished with cushions and the far horizon in dark red fitted into the comers on either side the double doors a couple of large and a book table occupied the centre of the room an upright piano in an case draped across the back with an indian � of looking glass set in worked yellow holes forming the border of it � stood at right angles to the wall just short of the bay window in the window placed wise was a carved black oak writing table a long row of photographs stuck up against the back shelf of it the walls were hung with a set of william s prints strong dark distinct slightly sinister in effect a fine of s and in noticeable contrast to this last a of s picture of lady spinning upon the book table were a silver ash tray and box the air was unquestionably with the of tobacco which the burning of scent sticks quite failed to while mr thus noted the details of his surroundings his companion observed him closely intently suddenly she flung herself back against the piled up cushions let the dust lie let it lie sh cried almost and as turned to her surprised at her vehemence she added yes it s safest so let it lie till it grows thick all the surface so that treading on it one s footsteps are muffled making no sound jumped up crossed swiftly to the writing table swept the long row of photographs together and pushed them into a drawer there you go face downwards every man jack of you she said and for all i care there you may stay the far horizon then she turned round who had risen also her head carried high her teeth set you may not grasp the connection of ideas � i don t the very least see how you should and i ve no extra special wish that you should but you must just take my word for it that s one way of the dust in my particular case and not half a bad way either she pushed the heavy masses of her hair up from her forehead crossed the little room again and stood before smiling her hands clasped behind her back yes you rest me she said you do even more than i expected i wanted awfully to see you and yet i was half afraid if i did we t pull the thing off but we are going to pull it off aren t we this direct appeal demanded a direct answer and looking down at her felt to a certain of resolve yes we are he said gravely that at least is my purpose i have very few friends i should value a new one then he added with a certain i am glad you are not disappointed ah you have come on � not a question about it cried sit down again you needn t go yet and we are through with for this afternoon anyhow an anti as the weather reports put it is extending over all our i feel quite happy let me enjoy the anti while it lasts � and i ll give you your tea but of that tea was fated not to drink a ring at the bell a at the front door followed by the advent of an elderly bearing a card on a small tray his says if you re engaged he could wait a little ma am but he wants particularly to see you to day the far horizon took the card glanced at it and then at i | 32 |
again in more impetuous tones and then looked round at the who turned the too felt that the could not be ended there informing the man that a gentleman had come to see her with whom she wished to walk a little way she moved off with d across the field when they reached the first section he held out his hand to help her over it but she stepped forward on the of the earth rolls as if she did not see him you will not marry me and make me a self respecting man he repeated as soon as they were over the i cannot but why you know i have no affection for you but you would get to feel that in time perhaps � as soon as you really could forgive me never why so positive i love somebody else the words seemed to astonish him you do he cried somebody else but has not a sense of what is morally right and proper any weight with you no no no � don t say that anyhow then your love for this other man may be only a passing feeling which you will overcome no yes yes why not i cannot tell you you must in honour well then i have married him by of the d he exclaimed and he stopped dead and gazed at her i did not wish to tell � i did not mean to she pleaded it is a secret here or at any rate but dimly known so will you please will you ke from questioning me you must remember that we are now strangers strangers � are we strangers for a moment a flash of his old marked his face but he it down is that man our husband he asked mechanically by a sign the who turned the machine that man she said proudly i should think not who then do not ask what i do not wish to tell she begged and flashed her appeal to him from her face and lash eyes d was disturbed but i only ask for your sake he retorted hotly angels of heaven � god me for such an expression � i came here i swear as i thought for your good � don t look at me so � i cannot stand your looks there never were such eyes y before christianity or since there � i won t lose my head i dare not i own that the sight of you has up my love for you which i believed was extinguished with all such feelings but i thought that our marriage t be a for us both the husband is by the wife and the wife is by the husband i said to but my plan is dashed from me and i must bear the disappointment he reflected with his eyes on the ground married married well tiiat being so he added quite calmly tearing the slowly into and putting them in his pocket that being prevented i should like to do some good to you and by the convert husband whoever he may be there are many questions that i am tempted to ask but i will not do so of course in opposition to your wishes though if i could know your husband i might more easily benefit him and you is he on this farm no she murmured he is far away far away you what sort of husband can he be o do not speak against him it was through you he found out ah is it so that s sad yes but to stay away from you � to leave you to work like this he does not leave me to work she cried springing to the defence of the absent one with all her he don t know it it is by my own arrangement then does he write i � i cannot tell you there are things which are private to ourselves of course that means that he does not you are a deserted wife my fair in an impulse he suddenly to take her hand the glove was on it and he seized only the rough leather fingers which did not the life or shape of those within you must not � you must not she cried fearfully slipping her hand from the glove as from a pocket and leaving it in his grasp o will you go away � for the sake of me and my husband � go in the name of your own christianity yes yes i will he said abruptly and thrusting the glove back to her turned to leave facing however he said as god is my judge i meant no hi in taking your hand a of hoofs on the soil of the field which they had not noticed in their ceased close behind them and a voice her ear s by op the d what the devil are you doing away from your work at this time o day farmer had the two figures from the distance and had ridden across to learn what was their business in his field don t speak like that to her said d his face with something that was not christianity indeed and what mid pa sons have to do with she who is the fellow asked d turning to she went close up to him go � i do beg you she said what and leave you to that t i can see in his face what a he is he won t hurt me he s not in love with me i can leave at lady day well i have no right but to obey i suppose but � well good bye her whom she dreaded more than her having reluctantly disappeared the farmer continued his which took with the greatest coolness that sort of attack being independent of sex to have as a master | 45 |
as an event that would immediately succeed the fall of which in later years could no longer be the expectation as this immediate of the two ia not so expressly made by it has been supposed that this gives the as it was modified by experience that the s advent and the end of the world had iu followed close on the destruction of f in opposition to these two opinions that the prophecy in question had a supernatural source and tiiat it was only made after the issue it is sought in a third to show that what is predicted might really have known in a natural way j on the one hand it is held in highest degree astonishing that the result should so closely with the most minute features of prophecy of on tlie other there are by this correspondence is called in question the of with armies say they ia precisely what according to impossible to be � it ia predicted that a x po would be cast about the city while us that after the first attempt at forming an x f had been rendered useless by an act of on the part of from his scheme of false arising in the interval between the death of and the destruction of history says nothing the among nations and the natural phenomena in that i are far from being so as they are here represented but above all in these especially as they are given in and mark it is not the destruction of which ia but solely that of the temple plain of the prophecy from the result which would not exist if a supernatural glance into the future or a poet were concerned according to these we are on wrong track in the of these in the result since it was backwards on types presented in the past tliat the looked a mass of such types was furnished by the conception of circumstances which would the advent of the and war famine and and in the heavens of manners persecution of the faithful servants of were held to be the immediate of the kingdom moreover in the there are descriptions of the � s in am x t s f f d� in n t ex e u i j s he l � in � b j v xii to army nut � my by of and tke � m other b j v xi it i the life op which and accompany tho day of the coming of xiii ff i ii ff ff iii ff iv � i ff ii xiv ff mai iii ff or wliich the kingdom of the saints dan � xii ad also expressions in inter so with our as to put it question hat the description which it gives of time of the s advent is drawn from a circle of ideas which had long been current among the jews another question i whether the feature in the picture before us the of the temple and the of as to the coming of the may also he shown to have made part of the po conception in the time of in writings we the notion that the birth of the would with tlie of the but this idea was formed after the fall of the temple in order that a fountain of consolation might spring out of the lowest depth of misery finds in daniel together with what relates to a of the of the state by the but as this is not tiie object in any of the visions in daniel might first make this interpretation alter the issue in which case it would prove nothing as to the time at nevertheless it is conceivable that in the time of the jews might attribute to the of daniel a reference to events yet future although these in fact related to a far earlier period and they might do so on the same grounds as those on which the christians of the present age still look forward to tho full of xxiv and xxv as after the fail of the kingdom made of iron mixed with clay and of the that speaks and makes war against the saints the coming of the ou of man in the clouds and the of the everlasting kingdom of the saints is while this result had not by any means succeeded the defeat of there was an still to look to the future not only for the heavenly kingdom but also since they were immediately to it for the caused by the kingdom � s ms it � s � t s f x x xi after having interpreted little horn of he briefly add n tame manner d a � j that be made � them di i s sup x d the iron dan li represented the i to it k over the earth he explains its the at still ant x x i declare the meaning n ihe to the king but i not think proper to it i have undertaken or things but nut t future now d n ii tlie to the heavenly which would destroy the iron one but would endure fur ever � a particular on which does not choose to but interpreted the iron legs of the image signify tbe n empire and the feet of iron mixed with the empire which out of lee de in n t ii op on his advent g ot iron and clay among which by witli what as predicted of tlie horn the of tlie temple was conspicuous while tiie prophecy in daniel only the of the temple and interruption of the worship together with the partial destruction of the city in the discourse before us complete destruction is predicted to the temple � and likewise to tlie city not merely in where the expressions are very marked but in the two other also as | 14 |
the topic at present handled was a highly popular and frequent one � the personal character of mrs the owner of the surrounding woods and groves my brother in law told me and i no reason to doubt it said that she d sit down to her dinner with a frock hardly higher than her elbows oh you wicked woman he said to himself when he first see her you go to your church and sit and kneel as if your knee were with very saint s and tell off your hear us good lords like a business man counting money and yet you can eat your such a figure as that whether she s a character by this time i can t say but i don t care the who the man is that s how she went on when my lived there did she do it in her husband s that i don t know � hardly i should think considering his temper ah here threw grieved remembrance into physical form by slowly his head to and letting his eyes water that man not if the angels of heaven come down he said shall you do another day s work for me yes � he d say anything � anything and would as soon take a winged creature s name in vain as yours or mine i well now i must get these home along and to morrow thank god i must see about using em an old woman now entered upon the scene she was mr s servant and passed a great part of her time in crossing the yard between the house door and the shed whither she had come now for fuel she had two one of a soft and kind she used in doors when assisting about the parlor or up stairs the other with stiff lines and comers when she was bustling among the men in the house or out of doors ah said john it do do my heart good to see a old woman like you so and stirring when i bear in mind that after fifty one year counts as two did afore but your smoke didn t rise this morning till twenty minutes past seven by my and that s late if you was a full sized man john people might take notice of your scornful but your growing up was such a and scanty business that really a woman couldn t feel hurt if you were to spit fire and itself at her here she added holding out a to one of the workmen from which a long black � here s something for thy breakfast and if you want tea you must fetch it from in doors mr is late this morning said the bottom yes was a dark dawn said mrs even when i op the door so late as i was you couldn t have told poor men from gentlemen or john from a l and i don t think s slept at all well the to night he s anxious his and i know what that is for i ve cried for my own when the old woman had gone said he ll fret his green if he don t soon hear from that maid of his well learning is better than houses and lands but to keep a maid at school tiu he is taller out of than her mother was in em � tis tempting providence no time ago that she was a little play ward girl said young i can mind her mother said the hollow always a delicate piece her touch upon your hand was as soft and cool as wind she was for the and had it beautifully fine just about the time that i was out of my � ay and a long twas i served that master of mine six years and three hundred and fourteen days the hollow pronounced the days with emphasis as if considering their number they were a rather more remarkable fact than the years mr s father walked with her at one time said old but mr won her she was a child of a woman and would cry like rain if so be he her whenever she and her husband came to a in their walks together he d take her up like a half penny doll and put her over without her a speck and if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding school he ll make her as as her mother was but here he comes just before this moment had seen crossing the court from his door he was carrying an open letter in his hand and came straight to his gloom of the preceding night had quite gone rd no sooner made up my mind to go and see why grace didn t come or write than i get a letter from her � wednesday my dear father says she i m coming home to morrow that s to day but i didn t think it worth while to write long beforehand the little rascal and didn t she now as you are going to market to day with your apple trees why not join me and grace there and we ll drive home all together f the he made the proposal with cheerful energy he was hard ly the same man as the man of the small dark ever it happens that even among the the tendency to he cheered is stronger than the tendency to he cast down and a so l stands permanently less than that of the sea of into which it is thrown though not replied to this suggestion with something like alacrity there was not much that grounds for cutting off her hair were substantial enough if s eyes had been a reason for keeping it on as for the timber merchant it was plain that his invitation had been | 45 |
found well read in the art of concealing a the possibility of false to the drawers did not escape her and she felt round each with anxious in vain the place in the middle alone remained now and though she had never from the first had the smallest idea of anything in any part of the cabinet and was not in the least disappointed at her in success thus far it would be foolish not to examine it thoroughly while she was about it it was some time however before she could the door the same difficulty in the management of this inner lock as of the outer but at length it did open and not vain as hitherto search her quick eyes directly fell on a roll of paper pushed back into the further part of the apparently for concealment and her feelings at that moment were indescribable her heart fluttered her knees trembled and her cheeks grew pale she seized with an unsteady hand e precious manuscript for half a glance to ascertain written characters and while she acknowledged with awful sensations this striking of what henry had foretold resolved instantly to every line before she attempted to rest the of the light her candle made her torn to it with alarm but there was no danger of its sudden it had yet some hours to bum and that she might not have any greater difficulty in the writing than what its ancient date might occasion she hastily it alas it was and extinguished in one a lamp could not have expired with more effect for a few moments was motionless with horror it was done completely not a of light in the could give pe to the breath darkness impenetrable and filled the room a violent gust of wind rising abbey with added fresh to the moment trembled from head to foot in the s a like receding and the of a distant door on her n could support no more a cold at of a on h the from ip hand ai d her i aj to the bed she jumped in md so k me of ago y hy far u a tbe to close her eyes in sleep that night she felt i be y of the question with a c j s wi ei an feelings in every way so agitated r must a t impossible the storm too abroad so dread l h d not used to feel from w but now w mt seemed with awful the ma f i so wonderfully found so wonderfully t b ing s l it be for it contain to it relate fo � e j ld it have been long ai d k � y g that it should to her lot tp discover it t h herself its i he neither repose nor comfort and the m je p was determined to it l t many w tf � wi hours must yet e s about in her be and envied every w p storm still an various were i f f � f even than the wind which struck at on ber f tor ld ear the veiy curtains of her ed se sit in motion and at another t of her do g c ti w by the attempt of jt n seemed to creep the e more than o ca her blood was chilled by the of ui q after hour passed away and t ie wearied gathering had heard three proclaimed all in the t the tempest subsided or she fell fast a b chapter xxii turn s folding back her window shutters at o clock the n ct day was the sound which first roused and she opened her eyes wondering that they could ever have been closed on objects of cheerfulness her fire was already burning and a bright morning had succeeded the tempest of the night with the of existence returned her recollection of the and springing from her bed in the veiy moment of maid s going away she eagerly every scattered sheet had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground and flew back to enjoy the of their perusal on her pillow she now saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the of what she over in books for the seeming to consist entirely of small sheets was altogether but of trifling and much less than she had supposed it to be at first her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page she started at its import could it be possible or did not her senses play her an of linen in coarse and modern characters seemed all that was before her if the evidence of sight might be trusted she held a washing bill in her hand she another sheet and saw the same articles a third a fourth and a fifth presented nothing new shirts stockings and faced her in each two others by the same hand marked an expenditure scarcely more interesting in letters shoe string and breeches ball and the larger sheet had enclosed the rest seemed by its first line to chestnut mare a s bill such was the of papers left perhaps as she could then suppose by the of a servant in the place whence she had taken them which had filled her with expectation and alarm and had robbed her of half her m s rest she felt to the dost could the adventure of the chest have taught abbey her wisdom a comer of it catching her eye as she lay seemed to rise up in judgment against her nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies to suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained in a room as that so modem so or that she should be the first to possess the skill of a cabinet the key | 26 |
or other � the country of which he or the creed in which he had lost faith or the life of the english which he could by no means understand never mourned she played little songs on the v r and to hear her sing o cry again was always a fresh pleasure she knew all the songs that have ever been sung from the war songs of the south that make the old men angry with the young men and the young men angry with iv black and white the state to the love songs of the north where the swords like angry in the pauses between the kisses and the passes fill with armed men and the lover is torn from his beloved and cries ai at she knew how to make up tobacco for the a so that it smelt like the gates of paradise and you gently through them she could strange things in gold and silver and dance softly with the moonlight when it came in at the window also she knew the hearts of men and the heart of the city and whose wives were faithful and whose and more of the secrets of the government offices than are good to be set down in this place her maid said that her was worth ten thousand pounds and that some night a thief would enter and murder her for its possession but said that all the city would tear that thief limb from limb and that he whoever he was knew it so she took her and sat in the win on the city wall dow seat and sang a song of old days that had been sung by a girl of her profession in an armed camp on the eve of a great battle � the day before the of the ran red and fled fifty miles to with a at his horse s tail and another on his saddle bow it was what men call a and it said � their warrior forces before the led the children of the sun and fire behind him turned and fled and the chorus said � with them there fought who rides so free with sword and red the warrior youth who his fee at peril of his head at peril of his head said in english to me thanks to your government all our heads are protected and with the at my command � his eyes � i might be a distinguished member of the local in black and white tion perhaps in time i might even be a member of a council don t speak english said bending over her afresh the chorus went out from the city wall to the blackened wall of fort which the city no man knows the precise extent of fort three kings built it hundreds of years ago and they say that there are miles of rooms beneath its walls it is peopled with many ghosts a of garrison and a company of in its prime it held ten thousand men and filled its with at peril of his head sang again and again a head moved on one of the � the gray head of an old man � and a voice rough as skin on a sword sent back the last line of the chorus and broke into a song that i could not understand though and wall listened intently what is it i asked who is it � on the city wall a consistent man said wall he fought you in when he was a warrior youth re fought you in and he tried to fight you in but you had learned the trick of blowing men from guns too well now he is old but he would still fight if he could is he a then why should he answer to a if he be � or said i i do not know said he has lost perhaps his religion perhaps he wishes to be a king perhaps he is a king i do not know his name that is a lie if you know his career you must know his name that is quite true i belong to a nation of i would rather not tell you his name think for yourself finished her song pointed to the fort and said simply � hm said if the pearl chooses to tell you the pearl is a fool i translated to who laughed i in black white choose to tell what i choose to tell they kept in said she they kept him there for many years until his mind was changed in him so great was the kindness of the government finding this they sent him back to his own country that he might look upon it before he died he is an old man but when he looks upon this his country his memory will come moreover there be many who remember him he is an interesting said pulling at the he returns to a country now full of and political reform but as the pearl says there are many who remember him he was once a great man there will never be any more great men in india they will all when they are boys go after strange gods and they will become citizens � fellow citizens � illustrious fellow citizens what is it that the native papers call them seemed to be in a very bad temper looked out of the window on the city wall and smiled into the dust haze i went away thinking about who had once made history with a thousand followers and would have been a but for the power of the supreme government the senior captain commanding fort was away on leave but the his had drifted down to the club where i found him and inquired of him whether it was really true that a political prisoner had been added to the | 39 |
for consolation to soothe nor anguish to � a grief unto itself in its terrible individuality this was the man for whom i had prayed and wept and my had been that his heart might be changed his heart was changed and i had no right to complain in my desire to administer comforts and to one who had enjoyed in early life a more than common share i had practised a degree of economy at with my usual habits and when idle comments were made upon my lately acquired to spare every unnecessary expense i felt a secret exultation burning in my cheeks and lighting up my eye with more happiness than i could have derived from any merely selfish gratification but this secret spring of enjoyment was destined to be dried up like many others with which i had been wont to refresh myself in the wilderness of life could now and he too had his hidden purpose for which he toiled and a calculation as accurate as could be made of all that i had spent upon him was entered into at his desire by his sister and the supposed amount laid before me in genuine and current coin i resisted with all the spirit that was left me and denied the of the sum � but all in vain there was something cool and imperative in his manner that awed me into obedience and i received the money with that sickness of soul which most frequently upon its resignation nothing however could have induced me to spend this sum upon myself it was hid in a secret where it might have remained until this day had not an opportunity occurred of sending it forth through a more worthy channel the health of was failing rapidly and when the summer came with its from the toils of education it appeared highly necessary that some plan should be adopted to restore her wasted powers and enable her to renew her accustomed labours her thoughts were so far removed from all false delicacy and paltry pride that she could accept a kindness with the grace and dignity of one who gives and when i pressed upon her the advice of her physician my own scheme for removing her to the south of england she answered me with tears of gratitude as she would wish to be answered in similar circumstances herself it was once she said the happiness of my life to be generous and it is now my part to receive and i thank my god that i have one friend who is both able and willing to assist me we are dependent creatures bound to each other by innumerable obligations which constitute the strength and of social fellowship it may appear to those who think more noble to be above receiving assistance but were all too proud to t pictures of private life i duty of giving freely and cheerfully would find no room to operate and if none were willing to he helped how should we exercise the christian graces of kindness and charity i h ve struggled hard that i might not the ground nor upon the of others were it probable that you would ever feel the want of what is now to my necessities believe me i would rather die than my life at the expense of you but you tell me and i cannot doubt your word that you are well able to assist me and i will not deny you the happiness of binding up the broken reed my kind father ever too indulgent to his children and not averse to my project added more than was sufficient to my store and if when i set off with my precious charge to the southern coast the of my heart was not in tune with perfect happiness the fault was not in my friend nor in the sense of satisfaction which upon our kindest and most actions as we proceeded slowly on our journey was the countenance of that friend turned towards me with looks of tenderness while she pressed my hand but spoke not for there was even between us one subject one of intense and mutual interest now seemingly forbidden i at least could find no words for my feelings and struggled long with hers before she could convey an idea of them to me nor was it possible even then that her sympathy could be equal to my need hers was a gentle spirit bound passing through the of tears with no desire but to point out the celestial city to other by the way and to gather in the nearest and dearest beneath the shelter of the sacred walls i was a in the wilderness lighting up my lone cave spreading forth my store and preparing rest for the weary traveller but the traveller had passed on and the desert was more dreary the cave more lonely than before i knew that he had gone forth to seek a better land and that all who seek may find yet was i unable to bless his parting footsteps for i was behind no it was impossible that should wholly with me those who live for heaven cannot feel with those who live for earth i who had prayed that the wanderer might be in any way on any terms and had added in the of the moment even without my or now found that my prayer was granted and acknowledged that i was not happy yes i was almost happy when i felt the of the gentle breezes and met the pleased and animated look of my friend the first view of the wide ocean had burst upon us as we descended into a peaceful valley where the green slopes and the rich of foliage a mild and genial atmosphere such as the wasted and the weary delight to breathe we were not long in fixing upon a low | 41 |
mrs tj ing the pillow tightly in its case f little s that s what i mean when did you begin to think otherwise never begun to think otherwise at all said mrs seeing as patted the pillow into its place on the that he was still looking at her as if waiting for the rest of her reply she gave it a great in the middle and asked how could i help how could you help yourself fix m being married course said mrs it was no doing o mine never thought of it i d got something to do without thinking indeed she kept me to it when she could go about and she could go about then weu well echoed mrs that s what i said myself well what s the use of considering if them two clever ones has made up their minds to it what s left for to do i was it my mother s project then the lord bless you arthur and forgive me the wish cried speaking always in a low tone if hadn t been both of a mind in it how could it ever have been never me t ant likely that ho would after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he d done ho said to me one day he said he said now i am going to tell you something what do what do i think of it i says yes he said because you re going to take it ho said take it i says mi ah oh he s a clever one went on to spread the upper sheet over the bed and the blanket over that and the over that as if she had quite concluded her story well said arthur again well echoed mrs again how could i help myself he said to me you and me must be married and i ll tell you why she s failing in health and she ll want pretty constant attendance up in her room and we shall have to be much with her and there ll be nobody about now but ourselves when we re away from her and altogether it wiu be more convenient she s of my opinion he i said if you ll put your bonnet on next monday morning at eight we u get it over mrs tucked up the bed weu well repeated mrs i think so i i sits me down � and says it well � then says to mc as to next sunday being the third time of asking for i ve put em up a fortnight is my reason for monday she ll speak to you about it and now she ll find you prepared that same day she spoke v to mc and she said so i that you and mc going to be married i am glad of it and so are you with reason it ig a very good thing for you and very welcome under the circumstances to me he is a sensible man and a man and a man and a pious man what could i say when it had ine to that why if it had been � a instead of a wedding mrs flint cast about in her mind with great pains for of expression i couldn t have said a word upon it against wn two clever ones in good faith i believe so and you may arthur what girl was that in my mother s room just now said mrs flint in a rather sharp key it was a girl surely whom i saw near almost hidden in the dark comer oh she little i � nothing she of it was a peculiarity of that she never spoke of mrs by name but there s another sort of girls than that have you forgot your old sweetheart long and long ago i u bo bound i suffered enough from mv mother s separating us to remember her i recollect her very well have you got another no here s news for you then she s well to do now and a widow and if you like to have her why you can and how do you know that them two clever ones have been speaking about it � there s on the stairs she was gone in a moment mrs had introduced into the web that his mind was weaving in that old where the loom of his youth had stood last thread wanting to the pattern the airy folly of a boy s love had found its way even into that house and ho had been as wretched under its as if the had been a castle of romance little more than a week ago at the face of the pretty girl from whom he had parted with t had had an unusual interest for him and a tender hold upon him because of some resemblance real or l to this first face that had out of his gloomy life into the bright glories of fancy he leaned ui on the sill of the long low window and looking out upon the blackened forest of chimneys again began to dream for it had been the tendency of this man s life � so much was wanting in it to think about so much that might have n better directed and happier to upon � to make him a after all chapter iv mrs has a dream mrs dreamed she usually dreamed unlike the son of her old with her eyes shut she had a curiously vivid in am that and bi she had left the son of her old mistress many hours in fact it was not at all like a it was so very real in n ct it � in this wise bed chamber by mr and mrs was within a few paces of that to | 8 |
very wood of the pen that confined him and first last and most of all he hated beauty but beauty smith had a purpose in all that he did to white one day a number of men gathered about the pen beauty smith entered club in hand and took the chain from oflf white s neck when his master had gone out white turned loose and tore around the pen trying to get at the men outside he was terrible fully five feet in length and standing two and feet at the shoulder he far a wolf of corresponding size from his mother he had inherited the heavier proportions of the dog so that he weighed without any fat and without an of superfluous flesh over ninety pounds it was all muscle bone and � fighting flesh in the finest condition the door of the pen was being opened again white paused something unusual was happening he waited the door was opened wider then a huge dog was thrust inside and the door was shut behind him white had never seen such a dog it was a but the size and fierce aspect of the intruder did not him here was something not wood nor iron upon which to his hate he leaped in with a flash of that down the side of the s neck the shook his head growled the reign of hate and plunged at white but white was here there and everywhere always and and always leaping in and with his and leaping out again in time to escape punishment the men outside shouted and applauded while beauty smith in an ecstasy of delight over the and performed by white there was no hope fo r the m from the first he was too ponderous and slow in the end while beauty smith beat white back with a club the was dragged out by its owner then there was a payment of and money in beauty smith s hand white came to look forward eagerly to the gathering of the men around his pen it meant a fight and this was the only way that was now vouchsafed him of expressing the life that was in him tormented to hate he was kept a prisoner so that there was no way of satisfying that hate except at the times his master saw fit to put another dog against him beauty smith had estimated his powers well for he was invariably the victor one day three dogs were turned in upon him in succession another day a full grown wolf fresh caught from the wild was in through the door of the pen and on still another two dogs were set against him at the same time this white was his fight and although in the end he killed them both he was himself half killed in doing it in the fall of the year when the first were falling and ice was running in the river beauty smith took passage for himself and white on a bound up the to white had now achieved a reputation in the land as � the fighting wolf he was known far and wide and the cage in which he was kept on the steam boat s deck was usually by curious men he raged and at them or lay quietly and studied them with cold hatred why should he not hate them he never asked himself the question he knew only hate and lost himself in the passion of it life had become a hell to him he had not been made for the close confinement wild beasts endure at the hands of men and yet it was in precisely way that he was treated men stared at him sticks between the bars to make him and then laughed at him they were his these men and they were the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by nature nevertheless nature had given him where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken he adjusted himself and lived and at no expense of the spirit possibly beauty smith the reign of hate and was capable of breaking white s spirit but as yet there were no signs of his succeeding if beauty smith had in him a devil white had another and the two of them raged against each other in the days before white had had the wisdom to down and submit to a man with a club in his hand but this wisdom now left him the mere sight of beauty smith was sufficient to send him into of fury and when they came o close and he had been beaten back by the club he went on growling and and showing his the last growl could never be extracted from him no matter how terribly he was beaten he had always another growl and when beauty smith gave up and withdrew the defiant growl followed after him or white sprang at the bars of the cage his hatred when the arrived at white went ashore but he still lived a life in a cage surrounded by curious men he was as the fighting wolf and men paid fifty cents in gold dust to see him he was given no rest did he lie down to sleep he was stirred up by a sharp stick � so that the audience might get its money s worth in order to make the exhibition interesting he was kept in a rage most of the time but worse than all this was the atmosphere in which he lived white he was regarded as the most fearful of wild beasts and this was borne in to him through the bars of the cage every word every cautious action on the part of the men impressed upon him his own terrible ferocity it was so much added fuel to the flame of his there | 21 |
the library door and in the fulness of her heart forgetful of the decorum of knocking she entered and mr sitting with his little girl on his knee mary i am glad to � ee thee � aid the child i cannot get a word from father he is just as if he was asleep only his eyes are wide open mary regardless of the child s announced the news she bad just heard mr coldly replied that he knew it already and mary left the room a little hurt that he had not condescended to tell her and wondering what made him so indifferent and then wondering whether it was indifference but as she could not relieve her mind she resolved to go immediately to jane with whom the habits of their early lives and her continued kindness had given and established the right of free intercourse she found jane alone and not looking as happy as she expected you have come to give me joy mary she said smiling mournfully as she extended her hand to her friend yes replied mary i came with that intention and you look as if joy was yet to be given well she continued after a pause i thought you and mr were different front every body else in the world but now you puzzle me more than ever i expected to see your aunt look � that s natural to her when q a n� w i tale any good any one else and who every body knows has been setting her cap every way for ever since she was old enough to think of a husband she has a right to have her eyes as red as a s but there is mr looking as sorrowful as if he had seen some great trouble and could not relieve it and y oil my dear child i have seen you pass through many a dark passage of your life with a happier face than you wear now when u are going to have the pride of the county for your husband to be mistress of the beautiful house on the hill and have every thing heart can desire jane made no explanation nor reply and after a few moments consideration mary to be sure i could wish was more like mr but then he is six or eight years younger than mr and in that time with your you may make him a good deal like mr mr was mary s beau ideal of a man that is if your are blessed it is true i always thought you would not marry any man that was not religious not but what tis au for even professors do it but then jane you are more particular and consistent than a great many professors and i know you think there is nothing hearts together like religion � that bead where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage poor jane had listened to mary s and with considerable calmness but now she laid her head in her friend s lap and gave vent to the feel a new england ta e she had been all day arguing down by a flood of tears ah my dear jane is it there the shoe i sorry te find you have thought of it though if the candle of the lord is lighted np in the heart we ought to look at every thing by that light but now you have decided turn to bright side i know much about mr he is called a young man and who knows what he may become when he sees how good and how beautiful it is to have the whole heart and life ordered and governed by the christian rule i often think to myself jane that your life and mr s too are better than preach ing don t take on so my child she continued soothingly you have scripture for you for the bible says the believing wife may the husband and must mean that her counsel and example shall win him back to the right w and persuade him to walk in the paths of r cheer up my child there is a good before you and i feel as if you had many happy days to come yet those that sow in tears shall reap with joy it is a load off my mind at any rate that you are away from your aunt s and under good mrs s roof i stopped at your aunt s on my way here and she raised a hue and cry about your leaving her house suddenly she said your grand fortune had turned your head she was not disappointed she had never expected any gratitude from you but twas not for worldly hire she did her duty poor poor soul i would not judge her i a new england tale i do believe she has the hope that will perish i just took no notice of her and came as i was passing through the kitchen says io ine mrs may look out for other for now miss jane the only righteous one is gone out from us i sha nt stay to hear nothing but and and prayers but says i you don t object to the prayers yes says she i don t like lip prayers � it is nothing but a mockery has too much reason replied jane but now mary you must not think from what you have seen that i am not happy for i have reason to be grateful and i ought to be very very happy ought j thought mary she may be contented and resigned and even cheerful because she ought � but happiness is not duty work however she had discretion enough to suppress her homely and patting jane s head affectionately she replied yes my child and if you wish it i will set these tears | 6 |
wild timid herd some part of the forest is selected a deer to which the deer are to be driven a great number of hill men and who thoroughly understand what they are about ore then sent to the farthest extremity to bring all the deer they can collect to this spot the passes of course being well blown are occupied by the with their the drivers sometimes and sometimes giving their wind gradually contract their circle the deer are huddled together and finding the only clear ground in the direction of the slowly and cautiously take their doomed way there is often great difficulty in driving them as they are always obliged to go with the wind which their natural instinct of self preservation makes them very unwilling to do and if they possibly can they always face it the implements of the deer are his rifle his and his hounds of these latter mr says that lord has a very superior they are for the most part a breed between the and but some are between the and the former are reckoned the best his s sets great store by them and tells you that when choosing a cold that is an in company with they are so knowing that should give them the slip at a bum or mountain stream and run down it they stop their pursuit of the recover his track and hold him at bay all night should no one com to their relief that no beer inferior animal should attend the deer may be inferred from the � that a with his fore leg broken will often beat the a very singular result of the hind leg of a being broken is that in running he is almost certain to the other whether from the additional weight thrown upon it or some other cause seems not to be known red deer are as cunning as and as game in illustration of their cunning they have been observed to keep a dog at bay till he exhausted himself with barking and then waiting till he had his fill of water they bolted away refreshed and rested and soon left their behind it should be borne in mind that deer are powerless in the water the all important agent however of such as have the good fortune to take their pleasure among the in pursuit of the good deer is the rifle this description of piece if it may be so called or more properly sporting piece has like everything in undergone great improvement within the last twenty years it is now frequently two though it has been urged against this plan that the extreme impulse given to a ball by a whole turn in the of the barrel occasions a sacrifice of and consequently of range the by this mode of is made to two or three times as often as under the principle is foimd to be quite sufficient for projecting the plain ball with deer accuracy and effect with the common sort of rifle the best size for red deer shooting will be that which carries an ball the length of the barrel should be from two feet four to two feet six inches thb red desk talking the red deer is also known as the and the the height of the british is somewhere about four feet and he arrives at great weight in some in the duke of quarters it is asserted that have been shot which weighed upwards of thirty stone at we are told they have reached thirty four stone while the of the present is said to have killed one which alter the ofi d was removed weighed thirty stone the royal is the of the wild there was a tame one once kept at a shooting lodge of lord s which attacked all who came near it except the and at last was removed to the park at he became so savage and expert with his that mr was informed he had killed two horses and that no one dared to pass his haunt unless he knew them the red deer is fond of water to which he has recourse as well for pleasure as for protection when pressed by hounds we passed during the day writes a several forest in full use � that is moss holes where the plunge up to the neck and roll about to cool themselves in summer and autumn when they come out again black as pitch they look like the evil of the mountain in former times used to fasten with the points upwards in these places and when the threw himself into the hole he became the full grown both male and female during the summer season have back and of a brown with a row of pale yellow spots on the sides and a black streak along the in the winter these parts assume a grey brown the quarters and tail only remaining a pale the head neck belly and legs are of a grey brown tint a broad brown streak passing down the forehead and nose as the age of the animal its colours become darker and most particularly the male this description is intended only to apply to the family of european as a race those of the british islands are distinguished by that peculiar tint which has obtained for them the title of red deer the is known from the hind by his horns by a beard of hair under the throat and by in the upper jaw the young of both sexes are called the male to three years old is a at four a at five a and afterwards in the royal he is entitled a royal the which the growth of the horns appear at about six months in the shape of two covered with a hairy coat in the second year the horns come forth but generally straight and single | 50 |
down his foot he can not be with those he loves best � he wants quiet at home in order to mature his plans and perfect his operations if he the are set going and what man can stand the april showers of feminine sorrow he gives way at last and throws down the money demanded hoping that some great news by the next some turn of luck in his business will make it up to him perhaps it does and he on perhaps it don t and this last feather has broken the elephant s back the end however near or distant is morally certain treated always as a mine to be opened at will he finally grows desperate and rushes into reckless speculation or crime and is overwhelmed with ruin selfish villain say the ignorant crowd how could he run such a career how we pity his family � no doubt of it but if you knew more perhaps you would pity him in the navy in the navy the division of the human species on shore the individuals into men and women on into officers and men though the latter term very expresses the light in which are regarded by officers the crew are practically hands sometimes legs also at others backs but as to any clear conception that they are truly men it is neither expressed nor implied in our theory or practice of naval discipline in the contemplation of that discipline the crew are beasts dogs anything but men a seaman into the navy by the notion of serving his country and helping to maintain and extend the glory of the stars and he has the faults of his class and condition � is reckless easily provoked to quarrel and has an appetite for and other yet he means to behave himself and to do his duty and for a time no complaint is made but as a part of his an allowance of liquor is daily dealt out to him � not enough to make him drunk but quite enough to maintain and increase the appetite for if he has already acquired it and to create it if he has hitherto escaped or overcome it not to drink it would be to subject himself to ridicule and dislike among his so he lakes it down by and by the ship reaches port and he with others has a few hours liberty to go on shore with for liquor thus formed or increased on the jolly mess themselves in hot haste to the shop first and then to other of and when their leave has expired some are too confused and clearly to know or seriously to care where they are or what they are doing hints toward if all hurry on board at the last moment some of them are pretty certain to be which is of course a offence these are to be hauled up as soon as the ship s convenience will permit their backs stripped and lashed with a heavy cutting whip known as the cat o nine tails plied with all the strength of an sub officer one dozen lashes is the usual allowance for such an offence as and each lash makes at least a black and blue the s back of the width of your finger � often takes off the skin and causes the blood to fly freely leaving the back as raw as a more serious are punished with more lashes � striking an officer with death but is the great reliance for di on board our republican navy and many officers resort to it on the most trifling looking at an officer is one of the more serious while there are cases reported by the themselves where men have been thus for not cooking an officer s dinner to his liking for water on the deck not a away neatly c c six thousand lashes such as i have described have been dealt out during one to the crew of a single vessel � that is so many were reported to the navy department by the commander while it is notorious that nothing like all are reported and officers have boasted that they never would report all nor any more than they chose that men have been by the dozen for no better reason than such as the of their superior supplied is notorious the appetite for cruel spectacles grows by what it on and an officer accustomed to order and the of half a men just before morning prayers might as well be expected to do without his as without the added of flesh and blood if there are no real his gloomy fancy � l t v v or in the navy imagine some for the sake of the they so what must be the effect of this on the whether personally or spared they have no hope of promotion � no chance of ever rising to the quarter deck � no prospect of an honorable in history nor of laying their bones beneath a marble monument if they are lucky enough to spend their last days in a hospital and be buried at all they do well every year sees a new of � mere boys and not favorable specimens at that � sent aboard the ship not to learn and serve but to govern and direct these sons and of or local of some sort are often provided with in the navy because their past of idleness and have them for usefulness on shore and rendered them a burden if not a terror to their respective families of course there are many of a different order but there are many of this stamp as well they step on except in knowing not even the of their novel profession but thoroughly that they are and thus gentlemen while sailors are the dust beneath their feet let an old salt who fought with | 19 |
look at a sentence of the for life the monotony takes the heart out of you � that and the heat the killing heat at last the warming pan of a sun went down and the dark came quick and i on pretty well done and from the top of one of those everlasting bare i saw the white of a couple of showing up about half a mile away it wasn t my camp but it meant something in the way of rest and help at least i thought so at first though there was no smoke and the whole place seemed quiet save for the of a dog looked round at me and spoke as though forcing himself i needn t go into details he said that camp was dead even in the night which decently hides a good deal it was a ghastly place i suppose they d all died of thirst they and the oxen and i had fever on me i shall never know quite all i did see but in one of the i made out a dead woman underneath it a dog was tied a small cur the only thing left alive and it and � and � there had been a child in the a little baby child � and i suppose it had lived longer than the rest and it must have crawled out over the tail of the and fallen close to the dog it lay there a white bundle of a thing in the gloom and the dog with its out across the i the child s chest its eyes showing green straining at the rope which tied it and bending down from the saddle � i was too weak with fever to get off � my horse too would have scared it was half mad at � well � at the death all round it and the � i saw that the brute had torn the child s throat � for � for the blood he paused a moment and when he continued it struck me through all the absorbing terror of his story that was one of those persons who even under stress of adverse circumstance try to be just i know it was starving he said and � which is worse � it was men have done as bad things before now at sea � only i tell you i had to kill that dog i could not afford to but i could spare a couple twice i tried it but my revolver was heavy and i was altogether played out so that my hand shook the bullets only cut the rope and then � then � i was taken with a sort of panic i cleared out of that awful place and the dog came his voice sank and while one hand still held the legs of the stool he sideways and with the other made a slow level motion as of something passing across the floor it kept pace with my horse those dreadful eyes looking up at me � two green the galloping beside me dropping behind for a minute or two coming up with me again mile after mile all through the night and the night seemed years and years long i am afraid it is true even with the most of us that the appetite for horror grows with what it on i am naturally a soft man a in tents of the jacob rather than the order of mind i adventures save of the and five o clock tea sort yet as ceased speaking i was sensible of an craving for more of these horrors and when his silence grew somewhat prolonged i found myself � to my shame � saying � well my dear fellow well that s not the end turned to me with that patient smile of his did i perceive though the faintest of contempt behind it the contempt of the and hunter the dealer in primitive passions for the smooth handed jacob of the club and the pavement and the silver no that s not the end he answered at last that s only the beginning � i need not bother you with the whole set out i was pretty bad for some time though i stumbled across my own people next day and we struck a vein of luck at our place and the it o y rolling in the hand over hand it seemed as if the curse and the gold had come together � as soon as i could move i went down to the coast and got away to sea and i thought it was all right we were a couple of degrees south of the and there had been a bad electric storm which had made us all feel pretty but the rain had come down and the weather was mending else had gone under cover � some music and singing was going on in the saloon � and i was standing forward against the with the doctor he was a nice little keen on travel and on natural history he died of fever a year and a half afterwards i heard exploring somewhere up the ive always been sorry he dropped out there was good stuff in him � but about this affair of mine it must have been about eight and it was very close notwithstanding the rain and very dark but for the glimmer through the of the saloon shutters and right along the length of the deck straight at us came a dog just as hard as it could i only saw its eyes � two glowing green a trifle bigger than a sixpence � but there was no what they were they travelled along about nine inches above the level of the deck sometimes higher sometimes lower as the thing galloped it turned just short of us round the end of the saloon and went | 32 |
of the hill with a the tops being flung into a heap for the cow yard on my way home i paused to inspect the field some of the lay in heaps as they were gathered presenting much variety of shape and hue � as golden yellow like great of gold dark green striped and and some were round and some lay curling their long necks as it were and seeming as if they had life in my walk yesterday i passed an old house which seemed to be quite deserted it was a two story wooden house dark and weather beaten the front windows some of them were shattered and open and others were up trees and were growing neglected so as quite to block up the lower part there was an aged bam near at hand so that it had been necessary to it up there were two old carts both of which had lost a wheel everything was in keeping at first i supposed that there by v ic american note books would be no inhabitants in such a place but passing on i looked back and saw a and old man at the angle of the house its fit the grass however was very green and beautiful around this dwelling and the sunshine falling brightly on it the whole effect was cheerful and pleasant it seemed as if the world was so glad that this desolate old place where there was never to be any more hope and happiness could not at all lessen the general effect of joy i found a small by the roadside where he had crept to warm himself in the genial sunshine he had a back and underneath his shell was yellow and at the edges bright scarlet his head tail and claws were striped yellow black and red he withdrew himself as far as he possibly could into his shell and absolutely refused to peep out even when i put him into the water finally i threw him into a deep pool and left him these gentlemen from the size of a foot or more down to an inch were very numerous in the spring and now the smaller kind appear again saturday october tl � still dismal weather our household being composed in great measure of children and young people is generally a cheerful one enough even in gloomy weather for a week past we have been especially with a httle from boston about seventeen years old but of such a figure that at first view one would take her to be hardly in her she is very and smart laughing and singing and talking all the time � talking sensibly but still the view of matters that a city girl naturally by v ic american note books would if she were larger than she is and of less pleasing aspect i think she might be intolerable but being so small and with a fair skin and as healthy as a wild flower she is really very agreeable and to look at her face is like being shone upon by a ray of the son she never walks but bounds and dances along and this motion in her person does not give the idea of violence it is like a bird from to and merrily all the time sometimes she is rather vulgar but even that works well enough into her character and with it on continued observation one that she is not a little girl but really a little woman with all the and of a woman this gives a new aspect to her while the girlish impression still remains and is strangely combined with the sense that this maiden has the material for the sober bearing of a wife she with the boys runs races with them in the yard and up and down the stairs and is heard scolding at their rough play she asks william to place her on top of that horse whereupon he puts his large brown hands about her waist and swinging her to and fro lifts her on horseback william to two round her neck for having with the other girls and boys upon a load of hay whereby the said load lost its balance and slid off the cart she strings the seed of roses together making a scarlet of them which she about her throat she flowers of everlasting to wear in her bonnet arranging them with the skill of a dress maker in the evening she sits singing by the hour with the musical part of the establish by ic american note books ment often breaking into laughter she is by the tricks of the boys the last thing one hears of her she is up stairs to bed talking or and one meets her in the morning the very image of bright mom itself smiling briskly at you so that one takes her for a promise of cheerfulness through the day be it said with all the rest that there is a perfect maiden modesty in her she has just gone away and the last i saw of her was her face peeping through the curtain of the and nodding a gay farewell to the family who were shouting their at the door with her other merits she is an excellent daughter and her mother by the labor of her hands it would be difficult to conceive beforehand how much can be added to the enjoyment of a household by mere of temper and of disposition for her intellect is very ordinary and she never says anything worth hearing or even laughing at in itself but she herself is an expression well worth studying brook farm october th � a walk this afternoon to cow island the clouds had broken away towards noon and let forth a few and more and more blue sky ventured to appear till at last it was really warm and sunny � | 35 |
notion of each speaker while be c them all to understand that ho was only joking the laughter was interrupted by the bringing in of a letter for mrs a messenger had run with it in great from the it a and as mrs read and it in silence and agitation all eyes were turned on her with anxiety but no one dared to speak looking up at last and seeing the young faces painted with fear she remembered that they might be imagining something worse than the something like her own st dread which made her unable to understand what was written and she said with a sob which was half relief my mr � she paused an instant and then began again mr is drowned started up as if a had been suddenly thrown into the room he could not help himself and s first look was at him but then gathering some self command while mrs was reading what the had written on the paper he said can i do any thing can i carry any word to my father from yes dear tell him i will be ready � he is very good lie says he will go with me to � he will be here at six and help me to get ready she is safe � � is safe � but she must be ill i am sure she must be very ill dear � and � go and your father i will bo quite ready i would not for the world lose another night and bless him for being ready so soon i can travel night and day till we get there and hurried away through the sunshine which was suddenly solemn to them without uttering a word to each other she chiefly possessed by solicitude about any re opening of his wound he struggling with a crowd of thoughts that were an against his better will the oppression being when they were at the gate he said i will leave you to say every thing to ray father if he wants me immediately let me know i shall stay in for ten minutes � only ten minutes who has been quite free from escapes of the imagination desirable on his own future in the presence of another s misfortune sorrow or death the expected promotion or is the common type of a temptation which makes speech and oven prayer a severe of the most thoughts and sometimes raises an inward shame a self that is worse than any other form of unpleasant companionship in s nature the shame was immediate and like an ugly light all the images of what might come which thrust themselves in with the idea that was again them perhaps the more persistently because every of a hope was quickly by a more substantial obstacle before the vision of free rose the vision of rich exalted and if in the former time book � fruit when both their lives were fresh she had tamed from his love with what ground was there for supposing that her heart would be more open to him in the future these thoughts which ho wanted to master and were like a ringing of opposing that ho could not escape from by running during the last year he had brought himself into a state of calm resolve and now it seemed tliat three words had been enough to undo all that difficult work and cast him back into the wretched of a longing which ho recognized as simply and hopeless and at this moment the activity of longing had an that made it repulsive to his excuse poor it was not much more th n eighteen since he had been laid low by an who t i o m o tim c a touches his arrow with a subtle lingering poison the disappointment of a youthful passion has effects as as those of small which may make person plain and a genius another less plain and more foolish another plain without to his folly and leave perhaps the majority without obvious change every thing depends not on the mere fact of disappointment but on the nature affected and the force that it in s well endowed nature brief as the hope had been the passionate stirring had gone deep and the effect of disappointment was though with a beneficent new order which retained most of the old virtues in certain respects he believed that it had finally determined tho bias and color of his life now however it seemed that his inward peace was hardly stable than that of republican and his heart no better than tho alarm bell that work slack and tumult busy s love had been of that sudden penetrating clinging sort which tho knew and sung and in singing made a fashion of talk for many whose experience has been by no means of a fiery character to have the consciousness suddenly with another s personality to have the strongest inclinations possessed by an image which its in spite of change and apart from � i to feel a passion which the faster for the tragic pangs inflicted by a recognized � is a phase of which in tho and common minded has a repulsive likeness to a blind insensible to the higher sway of moral or heaven lit admiration but when this force is present in a nature not cf but of a human dignity that can risk itself safely it may even result in a not unfit to be called divine in a higher sense than the ancient and shakes its head at these unaccountable but they exist as as the winds and waves here a wreck and there a triumphant voyage this sort of passion had in sweet strong and he had made up his mind to its companionship as if it had been an object dear stricken dumb and helpless and turning all the future | 14 |
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