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and beauty weeping by the fire and my aunt to her i hardly think i should have had courage to go on until next day but it always went before me and i followed i got that sunday through thi ee and twenty miles on the straight road though not very easily for i was new to that kind of toil i see myself as evening in coming over the bridge at and tired and eating bread that i had bought for supper one or two little houses with the notice lodgings for travellers hanging out had tempted me but i was afraid of spending the few pence i had and was even more afraid of the vicious looks of the i had met or overtaken i sought no shelter therefore but the sky and toiling into � which in that night s aspect is a mere dream of chalk and and ships in a muddy river like s � crept at last upon a sort of grass grown battery overhanging a lane where a was walking to and fro here i lay down near a cannon and happy in the society of the s footsteps though he knew no more of my being above him than the boys at house had known of my lying by the w all slept soundly until morning very stiff and sore of foot i was in the morning and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops which seemed to hem me in on every side when i went down towards the long narrow street that i could go but a very little way that day if i were to reserve any strength for getting to my journey s end i resolved to make the sale of my jacket its principal business accordingly i took the jacket off that i might learn to do without it and carrying it under my arm began a tour of inspection of the various shops it was a likely place to sell a jacket in for the in second hand clothes were numerous and were generally speaking on the look out for customers at their shop doors but as most of them had hanging up among their stock an officer s coat or two and all i was rendered timid by the costly e of their dealings and walked about for a long time without offering my to any one this modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine store shops and such shops as mr s in preference to the regular at last i found one that i thought looked promising at the corner of a dirty lane ending in an full of against the of which some second band sailors clothes that seemed to have the shop were fluttering among some and rusty guns and hats and certain full of so many old rusty keys of so many sizes that they seemed various enough to open all the doors in the world k the personal history and experience into this shop which was low and small and which was darkened rather than lighted by a little window with clothes and was descended into by some steps i went with a heart which was not relieved when an ugly old man with the lower part of his face all covered with a grey beard rushed out of a dirty den behind it and seized me by the hair of my head he was a dreadful old man to look at in a filthy flannel waistcoat and smelling terribly of rum his covered with a tumbled and ragged piece of was in the den he had come from where another little window showed a prospect of more and a lame donkey oh what do you want grinned this old man in a fierce monotonous oh my eyes and limbs what do you want oh my lungs and liver what do you want oh i was so much dismayed by these words and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one which was a kind of rattle in his throat that i could make no answer the old man still holding me by the hair repeated oh what do you want oh my eyes and limbs what do you want oh ray lungs and liver what do you want oh � which he out of himself with an energy that made his eyes start in his head i wanted to know i said trembling if you would buy a jacket oh let s see the jacket cried the old man oh my heart on show the jacket to us oh my eyes and limbs bring the jacket out with that he took his trembling hands which were like the claws of a great bird out of my hair and put on a pair of spectacles not at all ornamental to his eyes oh how much for the jacket cried the old man after examining it oh � � how much for the jacket half a crown i answered recovering myself oh my lungs and liver cried the old man no oh my eyes no oh my limbs no every time he uttered this his eyes seemed to be in danger of starting out and every sentence he spoke he delivered in a sort of tune always exactly the same and more like a gust of wind which begins low up high and falls again than any other comparison i can find for it well said i glad to have closed the bargain i take oh my liver cried the old man throwing the jacket on a shelf get out of the shop oh my lungs get out of the shop oh my eyes and � don t ask for money make it an exchange i never was so frightened in my life before or since but i told him humbly that i wanted money and that nothing else was of any use to
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was like him a century man and who did not escape the and of but whose amiable personality and qualities of made him the principal figure in the like two or three of the conspicuous actors in our later history owes his distinction to the moral elevation of his character quite as much as to his considerable mental gifts for character multiplied into sagacity is better than genius for some kinds of work he was a late comer in the enterprise in the the great year after had brought over a colony composed mostly of servants of the company and of the individual a second company of had been sent over with a commission to as governor on the place assisted by a council a church had been formed at now set in a larger agitation in favor of to new england the course of events in england was so adverse to that those who were devoted to that church which was as yet invisible except to the eye of faith began to look toward america every door for public action in state or church was closed to the in england closed and barred by courts of high commission by the star chamber and by the tower into one of the rooms of the latter had lately gone at the arbitrary command of the king that high spirited martyr to constitutional liberty sir john finding no way by which to come out again except a of deliberately chose to and die in prison the almost hopeless outlook at home the example set by s to new england in and by that of s company in perhaps also the ever active of father white of set among the a interest in the subject some of the leading minds thought it a noble work to a church in a new country since in their view the of england under had taken up its chap iv rise of the great of the book ii note t paper his character notes march backward this purpose of planting a church in america now began to take the first place even the of the indians which had been the chief purpose hitherto fell into the background the manuscript paper entitled reasons for new england to which reference has already been made was widely but secretly and frequently copied after a fashion of that time prevailing especially in the case of tracts or books of a kind to shrink from print it contained arguments in favor of removing to new england with answers to the various objections made against several copies of these reasons or considerations have come down to us in various and the has been attributed now to one now to another to to white of to sir john himself it appears to have been in its earliest form the production of there were horseback journeys some of them by night made about this time for the purpose of secret consultation a country gentleman of in and an attorney in the court of wards was a strict desiring above all a church and the of god in their purity as the phrase of the time went in everything and inclined to ideal aims he had been religious from boyhood had married at a little over seventeen years of age and had been made a justice of the peace while still very the great young he studied divinity and only the of friends kept him from entering the of temper he came to be often consulted upon points of conscience which gave much trouble in that age of and scruples his kindly visits to those who were in any trouble of spirit were highly he himself makes much of the of his nature and of his but generosity and purity of spirit like his are born and not acquired his accompanied by a habit of self criticism in the presence of infinite justice doubtless gave additional vigor to his virtues for the rest he was a man of independent estate of prudent and carriage of a clear but not broad mind what as much as anything else fitted him for his function was that all his virtues were cast in and all his prejudices had a set when the question of was under discussion other gentlemen who thought of going turned to as the natural leader declaring that they would remain in england if he should desert them he was not only the official head but he was indeed the soul of the of and he went to america confident of a call divine like that of moses ix it is a fact worthy of note that the three steps toward the establishment of free government chap iv his influence note o the book ii t plan mass records july in america were due to englishmen who did not themselves cross the sea the great of to the virginia colony and the large patent to the were granted as we have seen under the of sir governor of the virginia company of london the third of the measures which placed government on a popular basis was due to the governor of another engaged in colony planting on the th of july while and his friends were their removal to new england a wealthy and liberal merchant who held the office of governor or as we should say president of the company read in a general court or meeting of the company certain conceived by himself as it is carefully recorded he proposed that for the advancement of the plantation the and encouraging persons of worth quality and rank to themselves and families thither and for other reasons � reasons which probably it was not thought best to spread upon the records but which were the core of the whole matter � for these reasons proposed to transfer the government of the plantation to those that shall there and not to continue it in to a commercial
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that will soon be quite healed i hope said becoming a little in her satisfaction and speaking with an air of significance but did not appear to notice this and as some lady came up he on towards s end handling trifles and standing aloof until who had taken out his purse had finished his transactions my son came with me he overheard saying but he has vanished into some other part of the building and has left all these charitable to me i hope you ll reproach him for his shabby conduct she returned his smile and bow without speaking and he turned away only then observing and nodding to him conscious that was still there busied herself with counting money and avoided looking up she had been well pleased that he had devoted himself to to day and had not come near her they had begun the with an indifferent salutation and both had rejoiced in being aloof from each other like a patient who has actually done without his in spite of former failures in resolution and during the last few days they had even been making up their minds to failures looking to the outward events that must soon come to separate them as a reason for with self conquest in detail moved step by step as if he were being unwillingly dragged until he had got round the open end of the stall and was half hidden by a screen of went on counting her money till she suddenly heard a deep gentle voice saying aren t you very tired do let me bring you something � some fruit or � t i the unexpected tones shook her like a sudden accidental of a harp close by her oh no thank you she said faintly and only half looking up for an instant you look so pale insisted in a more tone i m sure you re exhausted i must you and bring something v the mill on the no indeed i take it are you angry with me what have i done do look at me pray go away said looking at him helplessly her eyes glancing from him to the opposite comer of the which was half hidden by the folds of the old faded green curtain had no sooner uttered this entreaty than she was wretched at the admission it implied but turned away at once and following her upward glance he saw philip seated in the half hidden comer so that he could command little more than that angle of the hall in which sat an entirely new thought occurred to and itself with what he had observed of s manner and with s reply to his observation it convinced him that there had been some former relation between philip and beyond that childish one of which he had heard more than one impulse made him immediately leave the hall and o up stairs to the refreshment room where walking up to philip he sat down behind him and put his hand on his shoulder are you for a portrait he said or for a sketch of that window by george it makes a capital bit from this dark comer with the curtain just marking it off i have been studying expression philip what miss s it s rather of the savage moody order to day i think � something of the fallen princess serving behind a counter her cousin sent me to her with a civil offer to get her some refreshment but i have been as usual there s a natural between us i suppose i have seldom the honor to please her what a you are i said i flushing angrily what because experience must have told me that i m universally pleasing i admit the law but there s some disturbing force here i am going said philip rising abruptly so am i � to get a breath of fresh air this place gets oppressive i think i have done suit and service long enough the two friends walked down stairs together without philip turned through the outer door into the but saying on by the by i must in here went on along the passage to one of the rooms at the other end of the building which were appropriated to the town library he had the room all to himself and a man requires nothing less than this when he wants to dash his cap on the table throw himself a chair and stare at a high brick the mill on thb wall with a frown which would not hare been beneath the occasion if he had been the giant the conduct that issues from a moral conflict has so close a resemblance to vice that the distinction escapes all outward judgments founded on a mere comparison of actions it is clear to you i hope that was not a � capable of deliberate for a selfish end and yet between the indulgence of a feeling and the concealment of it might have made a good case in support of philip s accusation meanwhile at her stall cold and trembling with that painful sensation in the eyes which comes from resolutely repressed tears was her life to be always like this � always bringing some new source of strife she heard the busy voices around her and wished her mind could flow into that easy current it was at this moment that dr who had quite lately come into the hall and was now walking down the middle with his hands behind him taking a general view fixed his eyes on for the first time and was struck with the expression of pain on her beautiful face she was quite still for the stream of customers had lessened at this late hour iq the afternoon the gentlemen had chiefly chosen the middle of the day and s stall was looking rather bare this with her
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the on the fellows who lose how many have you met along the road who could get a job driving four horses for the livery stable and some of them were as as you when they were young and on top of it all you ve got no shout coming it s a mighty big come down from gambling for a continent to gambling for a job just the same oh you ve got it in your blood hall cut him off and why everybody in this country has been gambling for generations it was in the air when you were bom you ve breathed it all your life you who ve never had a white in the game still go on shouting for it and for it but what are all of us to do saxon inquired call in the and stop the game hall recommended it s crooked saxon frowned do what your forefathers didn t do he gk ahead and perfect she remembered a remark of a friend of mine says that is an enchantment it is � in a gambling joint there are a million boys in our public schools right now the of canal boy to president and millions of worthy citizens who sleep sound every night in the belief that they have a say in running the country you talk like my brother tom saxon said failing to comprehend if we all get into politics and work hard for something better maybe well get it after a thousand years or so but i want it now she clenched her hands passionately i can t wait i want it now but that is just what i ve been telling you my dear girl that s what s the trouble with all the they can t wait they want it now � a of and a by ic the valley op the moon fling at the game well they won t get it now that s what s the matter with you chasing a valley in the moon that s what s the matter with aching right now for a chance to win ten cents from me at and wind under his breath you d make a good soap commented and i d be a soap if i didn t have the spending of my father s ill gotten gains it s none of my let them rot they d be just as bad if they were on top it s all a mess � hungry swine and filthy here mrs hall interfered now mark you stop that or you be getting the he tossed his of hair and laughed with an effort no i won t he denied i m going to get ten cents from at a game of he won t have a look in saxon and flourished in the genial human atmosphere of they appreciated in their own estimation saxon felt that she was something more than a girl and the wife of a union she was no longer pent in the narrow working class of a pine street neighborhood life had grown they better physically materially and and all this was reflected in their features in the carriage of their bodies she knew had never been nor in more splendid bodily condition he swore he had a and that she was his second wife � twice as beautiful as the first one he had married and he confessed to him that mrs hall and several others of the had admired her form one day when in for a cold dip in river they had got around her and called her and made her and assume different understood the reference for a marble one with broken arms stood in hall s living room and by ic the valley of the moon the poet had told him the world it as the perfection of female form i always said you had beat a mile said and so proud was his air of possession that saxon blushed and trembled and hid her hot face against his breast the men in the crowd were open in their admiration of saxon in an above board manner but she made no mistake she did not lose her head there was no chance of that for her love for beat more strongly than ever nor was she guilty of over she knew him for what he was and loved him with open eyes he had no book learning no art like the other men his grammar was bad she knew that just as she knew that he would never mend it yet she would not have exchanged him for any of the others not even for mark hall with the heart whom she loved much in the same way that she loved his wife for that matter she found in a certain health and a certain essential integrity which she more highly than all book learning and bank accounts it was by virtue of this health and and integrity that he had beaten hall in argument the night the poet was on the had beaten him not with the weapons of learning but just by being himself and by speaking out the truth that was in him best of ally he had not even known that he had beaten and had taken the applause as good natured but saxon knew though she could scarcely tell why and she would always remember how the wife of had whispered to her afterward with shining eyes oh saxon you must be so happy were saxon driven to speech to attempt to express what meant to her she would have done it with the simple word man always he was that to her always in glowing splendor that was his � man sometimes by herself she would all but weep with joy at recollection of his way of informing some by ic the valley of the moon lent male that he was
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was a large one and was close at hand it was wrong and improper of course but she decided as do in novels to find her old lover to offer him her hand and her gold and with him spend the rest of her life in some spot far from souls she sat for two months alone in s hotel this decision and the picture was a pretty one then she set out in search of assistant on a tea plantation with a more than usually name she found him she spent a month over it for his plantation not in the district at all but r was very little altered and was very nice to her now the particular sin and shame of the whole business is that who really is not worth thinking of twice was and is loved by and more than loved by the whole of whose life he seems to have spoilt worst of all is making a decent man of him and he will be ultimately saved from through her training which is unfair false dawn to night god knows what thing shall tide the earth is and faint � expectant sleepless open eyed and we who from the earth were made thrill with our mother s pain in no man will ever know the exact truth of this story though women may x tales from the hills to one another after a dance when they are putting up their hair for the night and comparing lists of victims a man of course cannot assist at these functions so the tale must be told from the outside � in the dark � all wrong never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears and so preparing the way for you later on sisters are women first and sisters afterwards and you will find that you do harm knew this he made up his mind to propose to the elder miss was a strange man with few merits so far as men could see though he was popular with women and carried enough conceit to stock a s council and leave a little over for the commander in chiefs staff he was a very many women took an interest in perhaps because his manner to them was offensive if you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards the elder miss was nice plump winning and pretty the younger was not so pretty and from men the hint set forth above her style was and both girls had practically the same figure and there was a strong likeness between them in look and voice though no one could doubt for an instant which was the of the two made up his mind as soon as they came into the station from to many the � one at least we all made sure that he false dawn x would which comes to the same thing she was two and twenty and he was thirty three with pay and of nearly fourteen a month so the match as we arranged it was in every way a good one was his name and summary was his nature as a man once said having his resolution he formed a select committee of one to sit upon it and resolved to take his time in our unpleasant the girls hunted in couples that is to say you could do nothing with one without the other they were very loving sisters but their mutual affection was sometimes inconvenient held the balance hair true between them and none but himself could have said to which side his heart inclined though every one guessed he rode with them a good deal and danced with them but he never sue in them from each other for any length of time women said that the two girls kept together through deep each fearing that the other would steal a march on her but that has nothing to do with a man was silent for good or bad and as business likely attentive as he could be having due regard to his work and his beyond doubt both girls were fond of him as the hot weather drew nearer and made no sign women said that you could see their trouble in the eyes of the girls � that they were looking strained anxious and irritable men are quite blind in these matters unless the have more of the woman l � tales from tee hills composition in which case it does not matter what they say or think i maintain it was the hot april days that took the color out of girls cheeks they should have been sent to the hills early no one � man or woman � feels an angel when the hot weather is approaching the younger sister grew more cynical � not to say � in her ways and the of the elder wore thin there was more effort in it now the station wherein all these things happened was though not a little one off the line of rail and suffered through want of attention there were no gardens or bands or amusements worth speaking of and it was nearly a day s journey to come into for a dance people were grateful for small things to interest them about the beginning of may and just before the final of hill when the weather was very hot and there were not more than twenty people in the station gave a moonlight riding at an old tomb six miles away near the bed of the river it was a a ark and there was to be the usual arrangement of quarter mile intervals between each couple on account of the dust six couples came altogether including moonlight are useful just at
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the in america next to the but a very beautiful one with bright green drooping foliage handsome and a shaft exquisitely straight and round and regular forming extensive forests by itself in many places it lifts its tops into the sky close together with as even a growth as a field of grain no ground has been better for wheat than these mountains for trees they were by mighty and and and by the broad streams that flowed from the ice as they were withdrawn at the close of the period in proportion to its weight when dry timber is perhaps stronger than that of any other large in the country and being tough and elastic it is admirably suited for ship building piles and heavy in general but its hardness and to when it is cut into boards render it unfit for fine work in the lumber of it is wild of the west tl called pine when is going on in the best woods especially about sound many of the long slender are saved for and so superior is their quality that they are called for in almost every in the world and it is interesting to follow fortunes and and dragged to tide water they are raised again as yards and for ships given iron roots and canvas foliage decorated with flags and sent to sea where in glad motion they go cheerily over the ocean in every latitude and singing and bowing to the same winds that waved them when they were in the woods after standing in one place for centuries they thus go round the world like meeting many a friend from the old home forest some like themselves some standing head downward in muddy holding up the of and others doing all kinds of hard timber work or hidden this wonderful tree also grows far northward in british and southward along the coast and middle regions of and flourishing with the wherever it can find an opening and with the sugar pine yellow pine and in the it extends into the san san and san mountains of southern it also grows well on the mountains s our national where it is called red pine and on many parts of the rocky mountains and short interior of the great basin but though thus widely distributed only in washington and some parts of british does it reach perfect development to one who looks from some high over its vast breadth the forest on the west side of the seems all one dim dark monotonous field broken only by the white along the summit of the range back in the wilderness a deep carpet of brown and yellow covers the ground like a garment pressing about the feet of the trees and rising in rich softly and kindly over every rock and trunk leaving no spot for and small and the meadows and the banks of streams not seen in general views we find besides the great a considerable number of trees � oak ash wild apple cherry s and in some places chestnut in a few favored spots the broad grows to a height of a hundred feet in forests by itself sending out large limbs in magnificent arches covered with and thus forming lofty sky gardens and rendering the delightfully cool no finer forest ceiling is to be found than these arches while the wild of the west ornamented with tall and vines and cast into by the moss covered roots of the trees matches it well passing from beneath the heavy shadows of the woods almost anywhere one steps into lovely gardens of lilies and wild roses along the lower slopes especially in where the woods are less dense there are miles of making glorious masses of purple in the spring while all about the streams and the lakes and the meadows there is a rich of cherry apple and with of flowers and abundance of other more delicate such as and the lovely of the north beside all these there are wonderful about the many misty some of the ten feet high others the most delicate of their tribe the the rocks within reach of the dust of the spray while the trees on the cliffs above them leaning over look like eager listeners anxious to catch every tone of the restless waters in the autumn of every color and flavor abound enough for birds bears and everybody particularly about the stream sides and meadows where sunshine reaches the ground red blue and black some growing close to the ground others on m our national ten feet high called al by the indians salmon an inch in growing in dense the flowers like wild roses still more beautiful than the fruit and the and meadow are in great part made up of these bushes and vines but in the depths of the woods there is not much of any kind � only a thin growth of and vine notwithstanding the against the last winter in washing n that farms towns and villages were included in them and that all business was threatened or blocked nearly all the mountains in which the lie are still covered with virgin forests though has long been carried on with tremendous energy along their boundaries and home have the woods for available for farms however small one may wander in the heart of the for weeks without meeting a human being indian or white man or any conspicuous trace of one indians used to ascend the main streams on their way to the mountains for wild whose wool furnished them clothing but with food in abundance on the coast there was little to draw them into the woods and the monuments they have left there are scarcely more conspicuous than wild of the west those of birds and far less so than those of the which have streams and made that will endure for centuries nor is
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management of the house and servants the two elder sisters killed time in the way they thought would give least offence to their neighbours being all st s girls the conversation immediately turned on life was madam this there had madam that left garden chapel school hall were visited every was passed in review and in the lightness and gaiety of the memories even these maiden ladies flushed and looked fresh again the conversation came to a pause and then allusion was made to the disturbed state of the by muslin c and to a gentleman who it was reported was going to be married as did not know the person whose were being called into question she took an early opportunity of asking if she cared for riding no they never went to ride now they used to but they came in so fatigued that they could not talk to so they had given up riding did they care for driving r yes pretty well but there was no place to drive to except into and as people had been unjust enough to say that they were always to be seen in they had given up driving � unless of course they went to call on friends then tea was brought in and of a casual reference to toast the five girls talked until nearly six o clock of their of things that would never have any farther influence in their lives of happiness they would never experience again at last and pleaded that they must be going home as they walked across the fields the girls only spoke occasionally strove to see clear but her thoughts were clouded scattered diffused force herself as she would still no conclusion seemed possible all was vague and contradictory she had talked to these seen how they lived could guess what their past was what their future must be in that neat little house their life away in maiden idleness neither hope nor despair broke the of their days � and yet was it their fault no for what could they do if no one would marry them � a woman could do nothing without a husband by muslin there is a reason for the existence of a pack horse but none for that of an unmarried woman she achieve nothing � she has no but by herself out to shield herself from the attacks of ever friends had looked forward to a husband and a home as the certain accomplishment of years now she saw that a woman of her own will may remain single i wonder she said forgetting for the moment she was speaking to i wonder none of those married you can t call them ugly girls and they hare some money how dreadfully lonely they must be living there by themselves i think they are far happier as they are said and her brown eyes set in liquid blue looked strangely at as she helped her over the low wall the girls walked in silence through the stillness of the silver their thoughts as sharp as the needles that scratched the pale sky it may seem odd of me to say of course i would not say this to anyone but you � but i assure you even if i were as tall as you are dear nothing would induce me to marry i never took the slightest pleasure in any man s conversation do you but i know you do she said breaking off suddenly � i know you like men i feel you do don t yon v well since you put it so plainly i confess i should like to know nice men i don t care for those i have met hitherto particularly those i saw at dinner the other night but i believe there are nice men in the world oh no there aren t by muslin well i don t see how you can speak so positively as that you have seen as yet very little of the world ah yes but i know it i can guess it all i know it instinctively and i hate it there is nothing else so we must make the best of it but there is something else � there is god and the love of beautiful things i spent all day yesterday playing s passion music and the hours passed like a dream until my sisters came in from walking and began to talk about marriage and men it made me feel sick � it was horrible and it is such things that make me hate life � and i do hate it it is the way we are brought back to earth and forced to realize how vile and degraded we are society seems to me no better than a but in the beautiful � that we shall alas never see again � it was not so there at least life was pure � yes and beautiful do you not remember that beautiful white church with all its white pillars and statues and the dark and the girls their falling from their bent heads they often seemed to me like angels i am sure that heaven must be very much like amazed looked at her friend for she had never heard her speak like this before but did not see her the prominent eyes of the mystic were veiled with strange and with divine she the sweetness of the vision and after a long silence she said by muslin i often wonder how you can think as a do and strange to say no one you are an you re so good in all except that one point but surely dear it isn t a merit to believe it is hardly a thing that we can call into existence you should pray for faith i don t see how i can pray if i haven t faith you re too clever but
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us i feel it more said mrs it was a very cold day with cutting of wind mrs s peculiar corner of the fireside seemed to me to be the and in the place as her chair was certainly the easiest but it didn t suit her that day at all she was constantly complaining of the cold and of david of its a in her back which she called the at last she shed tears on that subject and said again that she was a lone and went with her it is certainly very cold said everybody must feel it so i feel it more than other people said mrs so at dinner when mrs was always helped immediately after me to whom the preference was given as a visitor of distinction the fish were small and bony and the potatoes were a little burnt we all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment but mrs said she felt it more than we did and shed tears again and made that former declaration with great bitterness accordingly when mr came home about nine o clock this unfortunate mrs was knitting in her corner in a very wretched and miserable condition had been working cheerfully ham had been up a great pair of water boots and i with little em ly by my side had been reading to them mrs had never made any other remark than a forlorn sigh and had never raised her eyes since tea well mates said mr taking his seat and how are you we all said something or looked something to welcome him except mrs who only shook her head over her knitting what s amiss said mr with a clap of his hands cheer up old mr meant old girl mrs did not appear to be able to cheer up she took out an old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes but instead of putting it in her pocket kept it out and wiped them again and still kept it out ready for use what s amiss dame said mr nothing returned mrs you ve come from the dan l why yes i ve took a short spell at the willing mind to night said mr i m sorry i should drive you there said mrs drive i don t want no driving ned mr with an honest laugh i only go too ready very ready said mrs shaking her head and wiping her eyes yes yes very ready i am sorry it should be along of me that you re so ready along o you it an t along o you said mr don t ye believe a bit on it yes yes it is cried mrs i know what i am i know that i m a lone and not only that goes with me but that i go everybody yes yes i feel more than other people do and i show it more it s my i really couldn t help thinking as i sat taking in all this that the misfortune extended to some other members of that family besides mrs but mr made no such retort only answering with another entreaty to mrs to cheer up the personal history experience i an t wliat i could wish myself to be said mrs i am far from it i know what i am my troubles has made me i feel my troubles and they make me i wish i did nt feel em but i do i wish i could be hardened to em but i an t i make the house uncomfortable i don t wonder at it i ve made your sister so all day and master here i was suddenly melted and roared out no you have nt in great mental distress it s far from right that i should do it said it an t a fit return i had better go into the house and die i am a lone and had much better not make myself here if thinks must go with me and i must go myself let me go contrary in my parish dan l i d better go into the house and die and be a mrs retired with these words and herself to bed when she was gone mr who had not exhibited a trace of any feeling but the sympathy looked round upon us and nodding his head with a lively expression of that sentiment still his face said in a whisper � she s been thinking of the old un i did not quite understand what old one mrs was supposed to have fixed her mind upon until on seeing me to bed explained that it was the late mr and that her brother always took that for a received truth on such occasions and that it always had a moving upon him some time after he was in his that night i heard him myself repeat to ham poor thing she s been thinking of the old un and whenever mrs was overcome in a similar manner during the remainder of our stay which happened some few times he always said the same thing in of the and always with the tenderest so the fortnight slipped away varied by nothing but the of the tide which altered mi s times of going out and coming in and altered ham s engagements also when the latter was he sometimes walked with us to show us the boats and ships and once or twice he took us for a row i don t know why one slight set of impressions should be more particularly associated with a place than another though i believe this with most people in reference especially to the associations of their childhood i never hear the name or read the name of but i am reminded of a certain sunday morning on the beach the bells ringing for church little em
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her sister s tbe origin of one all selfish vanity of tbe other all generous attachment anne saw nothing thought nothing of tbe brilliancy of tht room her was from within her eyes were her cheeks glowed but she knew nothing about il was thinking only of the last half hour and as to lier mind took a hasty over it is choice of subjects expressions still more bis ner and look bad been as she could sea in only one light of inferiority an o ni be had to hia � at in bis as to a first strong � begun lie not tiu il eyes and than � all all declared that had a returning to at least er meat were do more and that tbey were hu i e� by hip aud but by the � of the past � of the of the c could not m the change ae less ha these were with their attendant vi occupied and her too much to her any power of observation and she passed along the room without a glimpse of him without even trying to discern him when their es where determined on and were � ii properly arranged she looked round to t e if he should to be in the same part of the room but he was not her eve r s li him and the n just opening ihe must consent tor a time to be happy in an way the party was divided and disposed of on two benches was among those on the foremost and mr had so well with the of his friend colonel as to have a seat by her miss by her cousins and the principal object of colonel s gallantry was quite contented anne s mind was in a most favourable state far the enters t of the evening it was just occupation enough had feelings for the tender spirits for the gay attention for the scientific and patience for the wearisome and had never liked a concert better at l during the first act toward the close of it in the interval succeeding an italian son the words of the song to mr they a concert bill between them this said she is nearly the sen of the words for certainly the s� song must not be talked of � but it i as i give for i do not pretend r rather the i nearly the understand the are i see you know of the knowledge enough of the language to at sight these italian into clear english need not say any more of your ignorance u ra ia proof i will not oppose politeness but b sorry to be d by s real i have not the pleasure of visiting in � o long replied he without knowing of anne � and do regard her as one who ia too for the world ii to be of half her too highly for modesty to be natural in ny j other woman r � � for shame i for � this ia too much of flattery t forget what wa are to have next turning to the bill perhaps mr speaking low i have ft longer with your character than you an of i indeed i how so i you can have been with it only since i came to bath excepting ns you might v me previously spoken of in ray own family i knew you by report long before you came to had heard you described by those who knew you intimately i liave been acquainted with you by character many your person your disposition accomplishments � they were all described they were all present to me mr was not disappointed in the interest he b raise one can withstand the charm of such a ry to have been described long to a recent by nameless people is irresistible and anne waa all he wondered and questioned him eagerly but in vain he delighted in being asked but be would nut tell no no � some time or other perhaps but not now would mention no names now but such he could had been the fact he had many years t such a description of anne as had inspired with the highest idea of her merit and excited the i curiosity to know her could think of no one so likely to have spoken with partiality of her many years ago as the mr of captain s brother he him i in been in mr e company but bud courage to ask tbe the name of be long bad an interesting sound to me very long it possessed a over my and if i dared i would that tbe name might never change such she believed were his words but ij had received sound than ber attention was caught by other bounds immediately behind her which rendered every thing else trivial her father and lady were speak a well looking said sir a very a very fine young man indeed i a d lady more air than one often seen in irish i dare no i know bis name a bowing acquaintance � captain of the navy hia sister married my tenant in the who before sir had reached this point anne s eyes bad caught the right direction and captain standing among a cluster of men at a little as ber eyes fell on bim bis seemed to be withdrawn from her it had that appearance it seemed as if she had been one moment too late and as long as she dared observe be did not look again but the performance was and she was forced to seem u restore her attention to tjie and look straight forward when could give another glance be bad moved away he could not nearer to her if be would waa io surrounded and shut in but she would rather have caught bis eve the
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and manly simplicity with which it touches on the history of the unfortunate subject of the mrs s ball a christmas book was published in december but its author had long been preparing for a more serious undertaking some time before he had some chapters entitled pencil sketches of english society which he had offered to the late mr for in the now monthly magazine it formed a portion of a continuous story of a length not yet determined and was rejected by mr after consideration the papers which mr had contributed to the new monthly were chiefly slight comic stories � perhaps the least favourable specimens of his powers they wore indeed not inferior to the common run of magazine papers and were certainly not equal to his to � in fact as a to the new the monthly he had achieved no remarkable success and his papers appear to have been little in demand there whether the manuscript had been offered to � the magazine in which had secured popularity and where he was certainly more at home we cannot say � happily the author of pencil sketches of english society though his projected work did not abandon it he saw in its opening chapters � certainly not the best portions of the story when completed � the foundations of a work which was to secure him at last a fame among contemporary writers in his own proper name the success of mr s shilling monthly parts suggested to him to make it the commencement of a work of fiction to be month by month with illustrations by the author the work grew up by degrees and finally took shape under the better title of vanity fair it was during this time the latter part of that he removed to his house at no young street a favourite locality with him in which house he resided for some years he also at this time occupied chambers at and the m m of letters no crown office row temple the comfortable retirement in which up four pair of stairs with its grand view when the sun was shining of the chimney pots over the way he has himself described his friend mr tom the and had chambers in the same house and we believe on the of no crown office row wrote a poem published in the pages of punch in which if we remember rightly mention is made of the fact of s having resided there mr was called to the bar by the hon society of the middle temple in though he never practised and never probably intended to do so the however were not insensible to the addition to the numerous literary associations with their venerable and quiet retreat which they thus gained after his death there was some proposition to bury him in the temple of which he was a member amid those towers the which on thames broad back do ride where now the student lawyers have their where wont the knights to bide tiu they decayed through pride there is buried and s ashes the would have been laid near those of the author of the of whose brilliant genius he so heartily and whose many he so tenderly touched upon in the lectures on the but after consultation with his family it was deemed better that he should rest with his own people in green this decision the sanction of the to within the of the temple church had been asked and cheerfully accorded and when the green was finally decided upon the were requested to permit the of a memorial in their church their reply to this was that not only should they be honoured by such a but that if allowed they would have it erected at their own cost letter of mr in the art and the of letters chapter iy van it v fair � first monthly number � notices of the � a little christmas book � let ter on the dignity of literature � annoyed by criticism � notice of the times begins to deliver his in america � his success � notices of news papers � preface to an american edition of his publication of henry � incident in with the publication of the � second journey to the united states � lectures on the � address to the of oxford � the election � and � correspondence the first monthly portion of vanity fair was published on the st of february in the yellow which served to distinguish it from mr s stories and which afterwards became the standard colour for the monthly of mr s stories the work was continued monthly and finished with the number for july of the following year the the friends of mr and all those who had watched his career with special interest saw in it at once a work of greater promise than any that had appeared since the dawn of mr s fame but the critical journals received it somewhat coldly one of the most influential of these journals in the first numbers perhaps best the tone of its reception at this early period it is generally acknowledged that to the thoughtful and article in the review of january the first eleven numbers of the work only is due the merit of first calling attention to the great power it displayed the writer was evidently one who knew mr well for he gives a sketch of his life and having met him some years before painting in the in paris in forming says this judicious writer our general estimate of this writer we wish to be understood as referring principally if not exclusively to i vanity fair a novel in monthly parts though still unfinished so superior in our opinion is this to every other known production of his pen the and the mm of letters great charm of this work is its entire freedom from
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crowd and went into an upper room which faced towards the street the windows however in with those of every other room in ihe house were up inside in order that out of doors all might appear quite dark they laid him on a in this chamber perfectly insensible but john immediately a surgeon who took from him a large quantity of blood he came to himself as he was for the time too weak to walk they had no difficulty in persuading him to remain there all night and got him to bed without loss of a minute that done they gave him cordial and some toast and presently a pretty strong ht under the influence of which he � soon fell into a and for a time forgot his troubles the who was a very hearty old and a worthy man had no of going to bed himself for he had received several threatening from the and had indeed gone out that evening to try and gather from the conversation of the mob whether his house was to be the next attacked he sat all night in an easy chair in the same room � a little now and then � and received from time to time the reports of john and two or three other persons in his employ who went out into the streets as and for whose entertainment an ample allowance of good cheer which the old despite his anxiety now and then attacked himself was set forth in an adjoining chamber these accounts were of a sufficiently alarming nature from the first but as ihe night wore on they grew so much worse and involved such a fearful amount of riot and destruction that in comparison with these new tidings all the previous to nothing the first intelligence that came was of the taking of and the escape of all the prisoners whose track as they made up and into the adjacent streets was proclaimed to those citizens who were shut up in their houses by the rattling of their chains which formed a dismal concert h and was heard in every direction as though so many were at work the flames too shone so brightly through the s that the rooms and below were nearly as light as in broad day while the distant shouting of the mob seemed to shake the very walls and at length they were heard approaching the house and some minutes of terrible anxiety ensued they came close up and stopped before it but after giving three loud went on and although they returned several times that night creating new each time they did nothing there having their hands full shortly after ey had gone away for the first time one of the came running in with the news that they had stopped before lord s house in square soon afterwards there came another and another and then the first returned again and so by little and little their tale was this � that the mob gathering round lord s house had called on those within to open the door and receiving no reply for lord and lady were at that moment escaping by the forced an entrance according to their usual custom that they then began to the house with great fury and setting fire to it in several parts involved in a common ruin the whole of the furniture the plate and jewels a gallery of pictures the collection of ever possessed by any one private person in the world and worse than all because nothing could replace this loss the great law library on almost every page of which were notes in the judge s own hand of value � being the results of tiie study and experience of his whole life that while they were howling and round the fire a troop of soldiers with a magistrate among them came up and being too late for the mischief was by that time done began to the crowd that the riot act being read and the crowd still resisting the soldiers received orders to fire and their shot dead at the first discharge six men and a woman and wounded many persons and again fired another but over the people s heads it was supposed as none were seen to fall that thereupon and by the shrieks and tumult the crowd began to and the soldiers went away leaving the killed and wounded on the ground which they had no sooner done the came back and taking up the dead bodies and the wounded people formed into a rude procession the bodies in the front that in this order they off with a horrible merriment fixing weapons in the dead men s hands to make them look as if alive and preceded by a fellow ringing lord s dinner bell with all his might the reported further that this party meeting with some others who had been at similar work elsewhere they all united into one and off a few men with the killed and wounded marched away to lord s country seat at wood between and bent upon destroying that house likewise and lighting up a great fire there which from that height should be seen all over london but in this they were disappointed for a party of horse having arrived before them they retreated faster than they went and came straight back to town there being now a great many parties in the streets each went to work according to its humour and a dozen houses were quickly blazing including those of sir john and two and four in � one of the greatest in london � which were all burning at the same time and burned until they went out of themselves for the people cut the engine and would not suffer the to play upon the flames at one house near they found in one of the rooms some birds
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and they could hardly get him along at all this long meadow a lane which their at the end of it was to cross and when the party bad all reached the gate of exit the carriage advancing persuasion in the same direction which had been some time heard was just coming up and proved to be admiral s he and his wife had taken their intended drive and were returning home upon hearing how long a walk the young people had engaged in they kindly offered a seat to any lady who might be particularly tired it would save her full a mile and they were going through the invitation was general and generally declined the miss were not at all tired and mary was either offended by not being asked before any of the others or what called the pride could not endure to make a third in a one horse chaise the walking party had crossed the lane and were an opposite and the admiral was putting his horse into motion again when captain cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister the something might be guessed by its effects miss i am sure you are tired cried mrs do let us have the pleasure of taking you home here is excellent room for three i assure you if we were all like you i believe we might sit four you must indeed you must anne was still in the lane and though instinctively beginning to decline she was not allowed to proceed the admiral s kind came in support of his wife s they would not be refused they compressed themselves into the smallest possible space to leave her a corner and captain without saying a word turned to her and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage yes he had done it she was in the carriage and felt that he had placed her there that his will and his hands had done it that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue and his resolution to give her rest she was ter persuasion much affected by the view of his disposition towards her which things made apparent this little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before she understood him he could not forgive her but he could not be though her for the past and considering it with high and unjust resentment though perfectly careless of her and though becoming attached to another he could not see her suffer without the desire of giving her relief it was a remainder of former sentiment it was an impulse of pure though friendship it of warm and amiable heart which she could not contemplate without emotions so of pleasure and pain that she knew not which prevailed her answers to the kindness and the remarks of her companions were at first unconsciously given they bad travelled half their way along the rough lane before she was awake to what they said she then found them talking of he certainly means to have one or other of those two girls said the admiral but there is no saying which he has been running after them too long enough one would think to make up his mind ay this comes of the peace if it were war now he would have settled it long ago we miss cannot afford to make long in time of war how many days was it my dear between the first time of my seeing you and our sitting down together in our lodgings at north we had better not talk about it ray dear replied mrs pleasantly for if miss were to hear how soon we came to an understanding she would never be persuaded that we could be happy together i had known you by character however long before well and i had heard of you as a very pretty and what were we to wait for besides i do not like persuasion having such things so long in hand i would spread a little and bring us home one of these young ladies to then thi would always be company for them and very ni young ladies they both are hardly know one the other very good humoured unaffected girls indeed mrs in a tone of calmer praise such as made anne suspect that her powers might i either of them as quite worthy of her brother j and a veiy respectable family one could not be connected with better people my dear admiral that post we shall certainly take that post but by coolly giving the reins a better self they happily passed the danger and by once afterwards putting out her hand ihey neither fell into a nor ran foul of a cart and anne with some amusement at their style of driving which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance affairs found herself safely deposited by then at the cottage c x t he i e dow approached for lady a the day was even fixed and anne being engaged to join her as soon as she was was looking forward to an early removal to and beginning to think how her own comfort was to be affected by it it would place her in the same village with captain within half a mile of him they would have to frequent the same and there must be intercourse between the two families this was against her but on the other hand he spent so much of his persuasion s a like lee them cross that in removing thence might be considered rather as leaving him behind than as going towards him and upon die whole she believed she must on this interesting question be the almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society in leaving poor mary for lady she wished it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing captain at
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to say to me he said i ft yes lord but not before these that which i have to i � is secret j father and daughter hesitated have no fear lord said reading his thoughts � see i am then he commanded the others to go and when the door had closed behind them he looked at her tell me lord who am i asked throwing the from her head and turning her face to the glare of the how can i know who you are wanderer yet had i met you by chance i should have said that you were of our blood that is so lord i am of your blood cast your mind back and think if you can remember a certain daughter whom you loved many years ago but who through the workings of your foes was chosen to be a bride to the snake and she paused speak on said in a low voice perchance you can recall lord that moved to it by love and pity on the night of the sacrifice you helped that daughter to escape the of the snake i remember something of it he replied cautiously but tidings were brought to me that this woman of whom you speak was overtaken by the vengeance of the god and died on her journey that is not so lord i am your daughter and you are none other than my father i knew you when first i saw your face though you did not know me prove it and beware how you lie he said show me the secret sign and whisper the hidden word into my ear then glancing suspiciously behind her came to him and made some movements with her hands in the shadow of the table next bending forward she whispered a while into his ear when she had finished her father looked up and there were tears in his aged eyes welcome daughter he said i thought that i was alone and that none of my issue lived anywhere upon the earth welcome your life is to the snake but forgetting my vows i will protect you ay even at the cost of my own then the two embraced each other with every sign of tenderness a spectacle that would have struck anyone acquainted with their characters as both curious and in resting the people of the mist presently left the and having dismissed the attendant priest and his great niece s a who were waiting outside he returned and prayed his daughter explain the reason of her presence in the train of first you shall swear an oath to me my father said and if you swear it not i will tell you no word of my story you shall swear by the blood of that you wiu i do nothing against the life of that queen with whom i hither for the others you may work your i upon them but her you shall not harm why should i swear this daughter he asked you shall swear it because i whom you love love her and also because so shall you gain the greater honour who am i that i should lift my hand against the gods daughter i swear it by the blood of and if i break my oath then may j l deal with me as once he dealt with then went on freely for she knew that this was a vow that could not be broken beginning at its commence j ment she told him all the story of her life since forty years j ago she had from among the people of the mist pass i ing on rapidly however to that part of it which had to do i � with the capture and rescue of from the slave and with the promise that she had made to as the price of his assistance this promise she was careful to explain she had not intended to fulfil until she was forced to do so by herself then she gave him a minute history of the object and details of their expedition down to her final quarrel with and her mistress on the previous day to say that the old priest was at i extraordinary revelations would be too little he was over � to overwhelmed that for a while he could i it is fortunate for this of a mistress of yours who dares to make a mockery of our goddess that she may steal her wealth that i have sworn to save her from harm daughter he gasped at length else she had died and j swiftly at least the others remain to me and he sprang i to his feet j stay a while father said catching his cloak j what is your plan my plan to drag them to the temple and them what else ia there to do father and daughter and thereby yourself who proclaimed m gods i think i have a better tell it then daughter is this do you pass in before the gods this day to the gods praying them to change the face of the heavens that the sun may shine telling them also that strange talk has come to your ears by the mouth of and the other women of words that have been spoken by the god j i which would seem to show that he is no god but that of this you believe nothing as yet then say to them that if the face of the heavens remains grey on the morrow yon will know that this talk is true and that they will be brought to the temple there to be judged and dealt with according to the finding of the people who have heard these things also and what if the weather should change daughter it will not change yet a while but if that should chance we must make another plan just now
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were to c ob w son iy jt � did i he i m a a a m el that e � x of � how did i that the � iy ant a as i hear m� � i next cane ike be oat was taken an immediate and in the but a of what i it an it not been � o f to bs in a lowered race then his too he and jet hia d aa wood ton rob it of in our h p n md in which � hare been spent t f yon d to the condition of a entrance and b o be eager to pass die room has contained itself more real and comfort than any other apartment of the hand in the could possibly again assured him no alteration of die kind should be attempted yoa ate a good he warmly makes me easy it a little farther and it will make me happy tell me that not only house win remain the same bat that i shall ever find you and yours as unchanged as your dwelling and that you consider me the kindness which has made to yon so dear m me the ms s daring the whole of the at once his affection and happiness shall we see you to to said mn he was i do not ask you to come in the for we walk to the to call on lady he to be with hj t dock chapter xv s visit to lady took plate the next day and two of her daughters went with hei but excused herself from being of the party under some trifling pretext of employment and her mother who concluded that a promise had been made by the night before of calling on her while they were absent was perfectly satisfied with her remaining at home on their return from the park they found s and servant in waiting at the cottage and was convinced that her conjecture had been just so far it was all as she had but on entering the house she beheld what no t had taught hei to expect they were no sooner in the passage than ma came hastily out of the parlour apparently in violent affliction with her handkerchief at her eyes and without noticing them ran up stairs surprised and alarmed they proceeded directly into the room she had just quitted where they found only who was leaning against the mantel piece with his back towards them he turned round on their coming in and his countenance showed that he strongly partook of the emotion which overpowered is anything the matter with ber i cried mrs as she entered � i hope not he replied to look and with a forced smile presently added it is i who expect to be id � far i tm n� a i for z am keep tn t � a f t mrs bu this a poor n to i h� ve my d m of � � ad � of ed i � � now come to t my of to � ai l almost this moment � this is un be obliged and not de a a i hope he as he yoa an i have no of n m visits to his smith are n r ii ti � � � in die ne � � bi i for can � mm te a his sad � i ci he yoa are loo good mn at felt equal fat a few t� wm silent mis i have to add ny dear � sat at cottage a will be i will to return hen yon � can bow might be to md oa t s i to my st of a tbat � i dare ax myself he stopped mrs was too v speak and another this m by who said with a it is fe ty v in this i will � and by among friends whose society it is impossible for me now to enjoy he then hastily took leave of them all and left the room they saw him step into hia and in a minute it was out of sight mrs felt too much for speech and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned s uneasiness was at least equal to her mother s she thought of what had just passed with anxiety and distrust a behaviour in taking leave of them his embarrassment and affectation of cheerfulness and above all his to accept her mother s invitation � a so unlike a lover so disturbed her one moment e feared that no serious design had ever been formed on his side and the next that some unfortunate quarrel had taken place between him and her sister the distress in which had quitted the room was such as a serious quarrel could most reasonably account for though when she considered love for him was a seemed almost impossible but whatever might be the particulars of their separation her sister s affliction was and she thought with the tenderest compassion of that violent sorrow whidi was in all probability not merely giving way to as a relief but feeding and encouraging as a duty in about half an hour her mother returned and though her eyes were red her countenance was not our dear is now some miles from said she as she sat down to work and with how heavy a heart does he travel i it is all very strange so suddenly to be gone i it seems but the work of a moment and last night he was with us so happy so cheerful so affectionate and now after only ten minutes notice � gone too without intending to return i something more than what he owned to us must have happened he did
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the dull eyes of the river be certain that it is only for a little the heavenly ones have heard thee and presently justice will be done gk now mother to the flood again men and cattle are thick on the the banks the villages melt because of thee but the the bridge stands the turned into the as rose it is ended said the there is no more justice from the heavenly ones ye have made shame and sport of who asked no more than a few score lives of my who lie under the leaf roofs of the village of the young girls and the young men who sing to them in the of the child that will be bom next of that which was to night said and when all is done what profit to morrow sees them at work ay if ye swept the bridge out from end to end they would begin anew hear me i is drunk always his people with new nay but they are very old ones the said laughing hears the talk of the schools and the dreams of the holy men thinks only of his fat but i� i live with these my people asking for no gifts and so receiving them and very tender art thou of thy people said the they are my own the old women dream of me the bridge turning in their sleep the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their hy the river i walk hy the young men waiting without the gates at dusk and i call over my shoulder to the white ye know heavenly ones that i alone of us all walk upon the earth continually and have no pleasure in our heavens so long as a green blade springs here or there are two voices at twilight in the standing crops wise are ye but ye live far off forgetting whence ye came so do i not forget and the fire carriage your ye say and the fire carriages bring a thousand where but ten came in the old years true that is true to day but to morrow they are dead brother said said the bull as leaned forward again and to morrow what of to morrow this only a new word creeping from mouth to mouth among the common a word that neither man nor god can lay hold of � an a little lazy word among the common folk saying and none know who set that word that they weary of ye heavenly ones the laughed together softly and then beloved they said � and to cover that weariness they my people will bring to thee and to thee at first greater and a louder noise of worship but the word has gone abroad and after they will pay fewer to your fat next they will forget your but so slowly that no man can say how his f b an the bridge i i knew i i spoke this also but they would not hear said the we should have we should have slain i it is too late now ye should have slain at the beginning when the men from across the water had taught our folk nothing now my people see their work and go away thinking they do not think of the heavenly ones altogether they think of the fire carriage and the other things that the bridge have done and when your priests thrust forward hands asking they give a little unwillingly that is the beginning among one or two or five or for i moving among my people know what is in their hearts and the end of the gods what shall the end be said the end shall be as it was in the beginning o son of i the flame shall die upon the and the prayer upon the tongue till ye become little gods of the names that the hunters of rats and of dogs whisper in the thicket and among the rag gk ds pot of the tree and the mark as ye were at the beginning that is the end for thee and for of the common people it is very far away also it is a lie many women have kissed they told him this to cheer their own hearts when the grey hairs came and he has told us the tale said the bull below his breath their gk ds came and we changed them i took the the bridge woman and made her twelve armed so shall we twist all their said their this is no question of their gk one or man or woman the matter is with the people they move and not the gods of the said so be it i have made a man worship the fire carriage as it stood still breathing smoke and he knew not that he worshipped me said the they will only change a little the names of their i shall lead the of the bridges as of old shall be worshipped in the schools by such as doubt and despise their fellows shall have his and the donkey drivers the and the of toys beloved they will do no more than change the names and that we have seen a thousand times surely they will do no more than change the names echoed but there was an uneasy movement among the they will change more than the names me alone they cannot kill so long as a maiden and a man meet together or the spring follows the winter rains heavenly ones not for nothing have i walked upon the earth my people know not now what they know but i who live with them i read their hearts great kings the beginning of the end is bom already the fire carriages shout the names of new that are not the old under new names drink now and
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in exploring of physical science superstition of inclined to believe in weapon remedy for given by n scruples against shown by bacon the virginia rebel last illness of a divine judgment ii n ii bacon s laws of m m n bacon s natural history m n m n n bacon s rebellion in virginia people warned of by signs s m m m n n the observed virginia plants necessary to salvation of not always to be had in new england saving virtue ascribed to n value attached to by the people n the gate n index of the people in general use in colonies n implements of s historical of new m n s new york collection m s inner life of the of the m n or sub colony of s method of a in new england and virginia n n translated into the indian tongue by the n system prevailed generally in new england n s medical and physical journal m john the observations n william on n travels m a book n s n bay book used as a reader see also new england book pierce inspired to write by of n de s bishop practice of piety esteemed as almost divine authority translated into indian tongue of much read in virginia plan of salvation in reason for popularity of ethereal in n good to strengthen the called n bear the favorite sunday amusement not imported to america eaten on fish days s e n s fortress of the faithful n s history of england m n i bees produced by in n s de n s jacob de n s new m benevolence of new england more effective than that of the south sir william absolute in virginia und der der m s history of virginia n n m stone a universal notion of origin used as a remedy in the colonies called by de v n powder of n seven kinds of n bible influence of translation of excluded from the service birds of proved to grow on trees hiding places of bishop escorted by one hundred and fifty named black powder s a cure for and diseases method of preparation n of not to the on in his n james efforts of for william and mary college reply of to held his place as bishop s for half a century fifty years service brought no honors to students fired blank at n instructions to from general assembly n bland s e m blanket a colored called a suppressed by laws and military orders punishment for derived from n the of civilization used by and other humble of attributed to execution of a blood circulation of the on in and blue book for n in belief in being n concerning circulation of the blood s directions n the of early new england book learning lack of for ii book of essence in � e text m books read in the colonies sent to virginia in old of century the first s voyages n boston first witch trial at in magistrate s wife at hanged for a witch boston common a part of the original common land ol the town n boston gates of closed on sunday boston town records m m the foremost science s causes n s famous on the sabbath s robert n s m m s m anne of new england poetry on relation between elements and of body sings of the number four n wrote verses in imitation of du may have seen hamlet in england n a right du n example of an educated woman in new england n s drunken n m s general view of the colonies to sermon of n and s history of n breakfast no for a meal not generally reckoned with none in henry viii s time n elder had been a in holland s m m s lectures n on school s john for our grammar m m m n n n n s john m m m m m m n n n n john works of most instructive to student of the of education n england chief of trade r l established a school in british universal from tiie sir thomas superstition of s sir thomas vulgar errors m m m n n m brown s travels in s m s confessed their sins whenever a rich prize in sight george called the prince of poets of our time n a name for the white man origin of called com bull forbidden by the colony of east n s dialogue against the fever n s virginia m s conscience awakened by the practice of piety burning to death in boston and cambridge index george the minister hanged for his strength s of melancholy m n m n bury wills society n n n burying in gardens and turkey n butler s feminine n william of of n the first man sent to england for education s dividing line m calamity every provoked by a particular sin col papers state paper office m m papers n s n cambridge platform of n s new loi m m s charles history of virginia m s lord lives of the n n n by en cards men and women at s richard survey of m n colonel john will of n the leader of elizabeth s time of tied to laws of jews opposed to pagan names for children s m the italian s n n n n i a on n s natural o de n m n n n cat the black assembly s n s n s of n n n of john robinson n of thomas n ii n the the comer stone of the country school in holland n writing of regarded as a sort of heavenly of to cure of century n cathedral scholars sustained in each n cathedral commission first report n i n cattle
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prize then it occurred to him that the boat in which had been searching for him was at the stern of the steamer and by the adventures of a naval officer he decided to get into it as soon as practicable and bid a final adieu to his dangerous locality he heard the bell ring for the engine to start and it did start the wheels began to turn and was nearly drowned by the waters which they heaped upon him presently he heard the chain rattling above him then the bells were rung to stop and her and it was evident that the had discovered the mischief which had been done now s my time i thought and he began to move from brace to brace aft it was not his time yet and he soon discovered his mistake for men were sent to the stem to repair the damage done to the chain the precise nature of the mischief was soon ascertained but it required nearly an hour to the chain and it again it was now broad daylight though the fog was as dense as ever crawled as far as he dared he saw the boat which he and had arranged the method by which he intended to get into her at the proper moment the steamer started again but was vexed to find that she was still headed down the sound � that the delay had not induced to abandon his purpose she continued on her course for a few minutes and then stopped again our felt that he had done all he � for his country and that it was time to do some by ob thing for himself he had delayed the steamer and it was possible that this delay had favored his friends though in what manner he was unable to tell he felt that the present was his own and as soon as the wheels ceased to turn he worked his way and seizing the painter of the boat drew it up so that he could jump into it he then tried to un the painter where it was attached to the boat but finding this possible he stood up in the bow and reached over the of the steamer to it at the ring at that moment a man who had been lying on the deck sprang forward and seizing the by the collar of his coat jerked him on the deck as he would have whipped a from the water i ve got you my little exclaimed the fellow who had done this unkind act for him have you got him shouted who had stationed himself near the stem apparently for the purpose of witnessing the performance which had just taken place yes sir replied the man tell the captain to go ahead again said hastening to witness the discomfiture of his troublesome prisoner hold on tight there was no need of this latter caution for held our unfortunate in a grip of iron and it was utterly impossible for him to make any resistance how does your head feel my little fellow de by ic tee adventures of a naval officer in mocking tones i thought i struck heavy enough but i declare you have got the skull even for a yankee that ever i saw rs made no reply he was very much out of spirits and did not feel a bit like giving or taking a joke ordered to tie hand and foot and make him fast to a which was done in the most faithful manner by yankee ob chapter � shot from the had fallen into a which had been set for him mr had not for one moment abandoned his hope of recovering his prisoner the conversation which had taken place between him and and which was in so low a tone that the intended victim could not hear it was the one thing needful to enable to keep out of the hands of his enemy when went on board of the steamer had suggested to him that the yankee would make his way into the boat and cast off at the first favorable opportunity it was only necessary to watch the boat and the game if there was any game there could be quietly in a few minutes assented to the plan and the boat started but the broken apparatus had produced a long and gave himself up for lost half a dozen times when the men who were the chain came within a few feet of his perch on the brace by the adventures of a naval officer when the steamer started the man had been placed on the deck so that he could not be seen to watch him and the boat as did not hurry out from his concealment it was believed that the motion of the boat prevented his operations and she was stopped for a moment to afford him an opportunity to be caught unfortunately for him he had improved this opportunity though it was his last chance of escape and had been captured he was now a prisoner and bound hard and fast to a the worst fate in his own opinion that could possibly befall him had overtaken him he was not only a prisoner which was certainly appalling enough as the treated their prisoners but he was in the power of the clouds hung dark and black over him his personal misfortune was not the only nor even the worst side of the picture for if he had succeeded in saving the cotton from capture he would have been in a great measure for the of being captured but even this comfort was denied him for the rebel steamer with two guns and a of trained was hastening down to undo what the s people had done it was useless to fret and he tried to make the best of the circumstances which surrounded him
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shall put so much of myself my experiences notions convictions and modes of thought as these recollections i give with small reserve my mental history whatever view may be taken of s opinions and all will that he has been and is a man of industry of strong convictions of continual and immense intellectual activity and of wide spread influence laboring in the metropolis f the country he has there planted and with his own life a journal whose political and social ideas have been powerful in viii circular the public mind beyond any other one agency and he himself intimately associated as he has been with all tlie great men and great events of the time is a singularly interesting character the mental history of such a man and tlie varied reminiscences of his life and experience cannot fail to attract the attention and excite the interest of all who take any pains to understand the history of the day while the practical hints to young men and tlie familiar chat about political literary agricultural social and personal topics contained in the book must make it welcome to the general reader of the illustrations the views of mr s various homes c it is only necessary to say that they have been engraved from the most sources � generally photographs the fine portrait of mr b engraved on steel by mr j and that of the accomplished and lamented margaret fuller is from the artistic hand of mr w j whose personal remembrance of that gifted lady has been aided by an excellent portrait in every way the have endeavored to make the book one and desirable by all and feel sure that it will prove its own best apology these owe their existence wholly to an impulse external to their author who of his own choice writes on many topics himself not included when years ago he was introduced to mr james and that he had been chosen by that gentleman as the subject of a volume he said that every person whose career was in some sense public was a fair subject for public comment and criticism but that he could not furnish materials for nor in any wise make himself a party to the undertaking as it had never occurred to him that he should have time and inclination to write concerning himself he had never saved even a scrap with reference to such and he has chosen not to avail himself of mr s labors in order that the following chapters should so far as possible justify their title of mr robert is justly entitled to the credit or otherwise of having called these recollections into even though fleeting existence he had previously invited me to write for his and had paid me liberally for so doing but our engagement and intimacy had long ceased when on the occasion of the by my of he a long suspended correspondence and once more urged me to write for his columns suggesting a series of reminiscences which x apology i at first declined to on mature reflection however i perceived that he had me to commend to many thousands of mainly young persons convictions which are a part of my being and of public events and interests which might never so fairly their attention if i this opportunity and that therefore i ought not to reject it hence i soon recalled my hasty negative him that i would accept his offer and immediately commenced writing as i could snatch time from other pressing duties the printed that they are less personal and more political than mr would have wished them i was early aware yet he allowed all but two of them to appear and to have the post of honor in successive issues of his excellent and widely i have added somewhat however to nearly half of them in them for publication in this shape but the reader who may note the will be so just as to attribute it to the proper source in a single instance only was i requested by mr to change an expression in one of the numbers he published and therein he was clearly right as i instantly the papers which i have chosen to add to my recollections in giving them this permanent form my views on certain topics which i was not able to present fully in my to the yet which i hoped would reward the attention of most readers that in which protection is explained and commended was printed as it was hurriedly written more than twenty five years ago i present it now without the change of a sentence as a statement of views contemptuously rejected by most writers on political economy in our day who never really i i apology gave them consideration or thought that they deserve a different and more respectful treatment i profoundly believe the public must judge between me and their i hope to be spared to write hereafter a fuller and more of political economy from the stand point and i do not expect henceforth to write or print any other work whatever if then my friends wiu accept the essays which conclude this volume as a part of my mental biography i respectfully this book as my account of au of myself that is worth their consideration and i will cherish the hope that some portion at least of its contents lessons of and patience which wiu not have been set forth in the with mr respecting marriage and divorce which is printed at the end of the volume was wholly on my part yet i had so clearly though provoked mr s first letter that i could not refuse to print it and i could not suffer it to appear without a reply my a response and so the discussion ran on till each had said what seemed to him on a subject of wide and enduring
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story which i see interests you very much well count it seems that michael clear was an the silent house actor who bore a strong resemblance to mr save that he had not a on his face at bath was always clean shaven now he wears a long white beard but that is neither here nor there clear had a moustache but when that was shaved off he looked exactly like for purposes of your own which you can easily guess you made the acquaintance of this man a and a and proposed for a certain sum of money to be paid to his wife that he michael clear should nd live in the silent house in square under the name of you knew that clear was slowly dying of consumption and drink so you trusted that he would die as that mrs � who i believe is in the plot � would recognise the corpse by the description in the newspapers and that when clear was buried as she would get the assurance money and you that is clever said the count with a sneer but is it true you know best answered coolly however all turned out as you expected for clear died as � or rather was murdered at your command as he did not die quickly enough � his body was recognised by mrs buried as her husband and she got the assurance money the only thing that remains for your conspiracy to be entirely successful is that mrs should marry you and � as i was told by mr � that has pretty well been arranged the silent house do you think then that would let his daughter marry a man who has done all this said who was now very pale i don t believe knows anything about it replied coldly you and mrs made up this pretty plot between you himself told me how you him from and took him to mrs clear s in where he passed as her husband although as she she kept him as a kind of prisoner but this is wrong cried trying to laugh this is most foolish how would a man of his own will pass as the husband of a woman he knew not a sane man would not but none knew better than you count that was not sane and that you him with and let mrs clear keep him locked up in her house until you put him in the asylum was a in your hands and you locked him up in an asylum a fortnight after the man who him was murdered you intended to marry mrs and keep her wretched husband in that asylum all his life � the best place for a lunatic said ah i cried then you admit that that was mad i admit nothing not even that he is alive if what you say is true said the italian how came it that the murdered man had the on his cheek he might have been like eh but not so much the silent house mrs clear explained that replied quickly you made that count with or some such stuff you don t know for nothing i see i am quite ignorant of said sullenly heard a different story in in i did ask about me there said the count in alarm he did and heard some strange tales count come now it is no use your trying to this matter further can prove that you put into his asylum under the name of clean miss can prove that the so called clear is her father and mrs clear � who has turned queen s evidence � has exposed the whole of your conspiracy the game s up count sprang from his seat and began to walk hastily up and down the room he looked haggard and pale and years older as he recognised his position for he saw very plainly that he was and that nothing remained to him but flight but how to fly he stopped opposite to what do you intend to do he demanded in a hoarse voice have you arrested along with mrs replied making this threat to force into defending himself or mrs is innocent � she knows nothing about this conspiracy as you call it i planned the whole thing myself the silent house you admit then that the so called was really michael clear yes i got him to the man so that i could get the assurance money when i married i chose clear because he was like i made the on the cheek and i thought he would die soon being and you killed him no no i swear i did not kill him did you not take that from no i never did i am telling the truth i do not know who killed clear did you not visit in street yes i was the man saw in the back yard i was waiting for mrs clear to take her to and in the meantime i thought i would climb over the fence and see clear but the girl saw me so i ran away and joined mrs clear up the road i was not aware at the time that the woman who saw me was afterwards i went to with mrs clear to sec did you buy the cloak i that girl in co s told a lie for me i was warned by mrs that you had made questions about the cloak so i went to the girl and told her you were a jealous husband and paid her to say it was not i who bought the cloak she did so quite ignorant of the real reason i wished her to deny knowing me the silent house why did you buy the cloak asked satisfied with this explanation i bought it for he asked me to buy it but what he wanted it for
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toward thomas a constant attitude w was composed of equal parts of insult contempt chapter x with w � if my be those relations which t between master or yet between king and i am to no more than a toy and he mc no more than a a toy my is to amuse and so long h i all goes well but let him become bored or let im have one of his black moods come upon him and it once i un from cabin to while at tbe same time i am fortunate to escape with my life and a � body he loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon eh there is not a man aboard but hates or fears him is there a man whom he does not despise he with the tremendous power that is in him and that seems never to have found adequate expression in works he is as would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of ghosts this loneliness is bad enough in itself but to iti ike it worse he is oppressed by the melancholy of the race knowing him i review the old ith clearer understanding the white fair i l wi ages who created that terrible were m fibre as he the of the li i is no part of him when he laughs it is from a humor that is nothing else than ferocious but ho l ui he is too often sad and it is a sadness as j teaching as the roots of the race it is the race i c the sea wolf the sadness which has made the race sober clean lived and moral and which in thb latter connection has among the english in the church and mrs in point of fact the chief vent to this has been religion in its more but th of such religion are denied wolf his brutal will not permit it so when hi blue moods come on nothing remains for him but to b devilish were he not so terrible a man i could om times feel sorry for him as instance three mornings ag when i went into his state room to fill his water bottle an came unexpectedly upon him he did not see me hi head was buried in his hands and his shoulders were ing as with sobs he seemed torn by mighty grief as i softly withdrew i could hear groaning god god i god not that he was upon god it was a mere but it came from hi soul at dinner he asked the hunters for a remedy for ache and by evening strong man that he was he wa half blind and about the cabin i ve never been sick in my life he said as guided him to his room nor did i ever have a except the time my head was healing after having laid open for six inches by a bar for three days this blinding headache lasted and h suffered as wild animals suffer as it seemed the way oi ship to suffer without without sympathy alone this morning however on entering his state room t make the bed and put thin s in order i found him and hard at work table and were tlie sha i and on a large transparent sheet i and square in hand he was what ap tu be a scale � f some sort or other he me i m just the finishing touches want to sec it work hut what is it asked a saving device or reduced to simplicity he answered from a child will be able to a ship no more long calculations all you need is one star in the on a dirty night to know instantly where you arc look plate the transparent scale on this star map revolving the scale on the north i on the scale i ve worked out the circles of the of all i do is to put it on a star the scale till it is opposite those figures on the map underneath and i there you are the ship s precise there was a ring of triumph in his voice and his eyes clear blue this morning as the sea were sparkling with you must be well up in i said where did you go to school never saw the inside of one worse luck was the answer i had to dig it out for myself and why do you think i have made this he demanded abruptly dreaming to leave on the sands of time he laughed one of his l n mocking laughs not at all to get it lo make money from it to in with ill ni lu in while other men do the work that s my i v also i have enjoyed working it out the joy murmured i guess that s what it ought to be called i the sea wolf another way of expressing the joy of life in that it is alive the triumph of movement over matter of the quick over the dead the pride of the because it is and i threw up my hands with helpless of his and went about making the bed he continued lines and figures upon the transparent scale it was a task requiring the utmost and precision and i could not but admire the way he tempered his strength to the and delicacy of the need when i had finished the bed i caught myself looking at him in a fascinated sort of way he was certainly a handsome man � beautiful in the masculine sense and again with never failing wonder i remarked the total lack of or wickedness or in his face it was the face i am convinced of a man who did no wrong and by this i do not wish to be misunderstood what i mean is
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if he were here for he thinks exactly as i do on the subject we were speaking of it only yesterday and agreeing how fortunate it was for that there should be such a girl in for her to associate with mr i shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case you are so much used to live alone that you do not know the value of a companion and perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex after being used to it all her life i can imagine your objection to smith she is not the superior young woman which s friend ought to be but on the other hand as wants to see her better informed it will be an to her to read more herself they will read together she means it i know has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old i have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through � and very good lists they were very well chosen and very neatly arranged � sometimes and sometimes by some other rule the list she drew up when only fourteen � i remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit that i preserved it some time and i dare say she may have made out a very good list now but i have done with expecting any course of steady reading from she will never submit to anything requiring industry and patience and a of the fancy to the understanding where miss failed to i may safely affirm that smith will do nothing you never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished you know you could not i dare say replied mrs smiling that i thought so then but since we have parted t can never remember s to do anything i wished there is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that said mr and for a moment or two he had done but i he soon added who have had no such charm thrown over my senses must still see hear and remember is spoiled by being the of her family at ten years old she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen she was always quick and assured slow and and ever since she was twelve has been mistress of the house and of you all in her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her she her mother s talents and must have been under to her i should have been sorry mr to be dependent on your recommendation had i quitted mr s family and wanted another situation i do not think you would have spoken a good word for me to anybody i am sure you always thought me unfit for the office i held yes said he smiling you are better placed here very fit for a wife but not at all for a but you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at you might not give such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise but you were receiving a very good education from her on the very material matrimonial point of your own will and doing as you were bid and if had asked me to recommend him a wife i should certainly have named miss thank you there will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as mr why to own the truth i am afraid you are rather thrown away and that with every disposition to bear there will be nothing to be borne we will not despair however may grow cross from the of comfort or his son may plague him i hope not that it is not likely ko mr do not vexation from that quarter indeed i only name possibilities i do not pretend to s genius for and i hope with all my heart the young man may be a in merit and a in fortune but smith � i have not half done about smith i think her the very worst sort of companion that could possibly have she knows nothing herself and looks upon as knowing everything she is a in all her ways and so much the worse because her ignorance is flattery how can imagine she has anything to learn herself while is presenting such a delightful inferiority and as for i will venture to say that she cannot gain by the acquaintance will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to she will grow just refined enough to be un vol i � comfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home i am much mistaken if s doctrines give any strength of mind or tend at all to make a girl herself to the varieties of her situation in life they only give a little polish i either depend more upon s good sense than you do or am more anxious for her present comfort for i cannot lament the acquaintance how well she looked last night oh you would rather talk of her person than her mind would you very well i shall not attempt to deny s being pretty pretty say beautiful rather can you imagine anything nearer perfect beauty than altogether � face and figure i do not know what i could imagine but i confess that i have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers but i am a partial old friend such an eye � the true eye and so brilliant � regular features open countenance with a complexion � oh what a bloom of
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court for mark you here mr david we could no doubt find some men of the who would swear to your but once they were in tho box we could no longer check their testimony and some word of your friend mr must certainly crop out which from what you have let fall i cannot think to be desirable well sir said i here is my way of it and i opened my plot to him but this would seem to involve my the man says he when i bad done i think indeed sir said i dear doctor cries he rubbing his brow dear doctor no mr david i am afraid your la i say nothing against your friend mr i know nothing against him and if i did � mark this mr david � it would be my duty to lay bands on bim now i it to you is it wise to meet he may have matters to his charge he may not told you all his name may not be even cries the lawyer twinkling for some of these fellows will pick up names by the roadside as another would gather i go in quest op my inheritance � you must be the judge sir said i but it was clear my plan had taken hold upon his fancy for he kept musing to himself till we were called to dinner and the company of mrs and that lady had scarce left us again to ourselves and a bottle of wine ere he was back on my proposal when and where was i to meet my friend mr j was i sure of mr t s discretion supposing we could catch the old fox would i consent to such and such a term of an agreement � these and the like questions he kept asking at long intervals while ho thoughtfully rolled his wine upon his tongue when i had answered all of th m seemingly to his contentment he fell into a still deeper muse even the being now then he got a sheet of paper and a pencil and set to work writing and weighing every word and at last touched a bell and had his clerk into the chamber said he i must have this written out fair against to night and when it is done you will be so kind as put on your hat and be ready to come along with this gentlemen and me for you will probably be wanted as a witness what sir cried i as soon as the clerk was gone are you to venture it why so it would appear says he filling his glass but let us speak no more of business the very sight of brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago when i had made a with the poor at the cross of each had gone his t proper aud and when it came four o clock had been taking a glass and did not know his master and i who had forgot my was so blind them that i give you my word i did not know my own and thereupon he laughed heartily i said it was an odd and smiled out of but what held me all the afternoon in wonder he kept returning and dwelling on this story and telling it again with fresh details and laughter so that i began at last to be quite put oi countenance and feel ashamed for my friend s folly towards the time i had appointed with we bet ont from the house mr and i arm in arm and following behind with the deed in his pocket and a covered basket in his hand all through the town the lawyer was bowing right and left and continually being button by gentlemen on matters of or private business and i could see he was one greatly looked up to in the county at last we were clear of the houses and began to go along the side of the haven and towards the inn and the pier the scene of my misfortune i could not look upon the place without emotion recalling how many that had been there with me that day were now no more taken i could hope from the evil to come passed where i dared not follow him and the poor souls that bad gone down with the in her last plunge all these and the herself i had and come through these hardships and fearful i go in quest of my inheritance perils without my only thought should have been of gratitude and yet i could not behold the place without sorrow for others and a chill of recollected fear i was so thinking when upon a sudden mr cried out clapped his hand to his pockets and began to laugh why he cries if this be not a adventure i after all that i said i have forgot my glasses at that of course i understood the purpose of his anecdote and knew that if he had left his spectacles at home it had been done on purpose so that he might have the of s help without the awkwardness of him and indeed it was well thought upon for now suppose things to go the very worst how could swear to my friend s identity or how be made to bear evidence against myself for all that he had been a long while of out his want and had spoken to and recognised a good few persons as we came through the town and i had little doubt myself that he saw reasonably well as soon as we were past the where i recognised the landlord smoking his pipe in the door and was amazed to see him look no older mr changed the order of march walking behind with and sending me forward in the manner of a i
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i don t but such words as yours make me feel that it might possibly be so that s all a woman then they went down the stairs together stopping to get his hat and stick from the table in the hall i fancy i left my stick down here too said margaret searching among the various sticks and in the stand now when you are ready � i am really quite ready he said half then they went out into the bright morning air passed across the road into the park choosing the and most retired road in all that wide and lovely expanse for this their first step on way together chapter xxv memories but will it mend the road before to grieve for that behind � after this the news was soon all over the town captain wrote at once to dr and all his women relations came and called upon mrs and margaret now as a matter of fact was very well off for relations in the first place he had three handsome sisters all in london at that time all younger than himself all well married and all rather pleased that their brother should be thinking of settling down and taking his proper place in society i am really very glad that dear old is settling himself said mrs when she called the following day at the house in queen s gate of course i don t know your cousin very well but i am very glad that he has chosen her i have seen a good deal of my brother the last five years especially since he left the service and was more or less in london and i assure you the way that he has been run after has made me quite indignant and it is a great pleasure to me and a great satisfaction to me to feel that he is going to marry somebody whom i have not seen him with attentions of that kind no the attentions have been all on the other side said mrs somewhat indignantly yes that of course i have seen for myself they ought to be on the other side there is something wrong memories about a woman who has to do her own as it is my brother s engagement is an unbounded satisfaction to me but he has had great attentions from families with whom i really should not have cared to identify myself so you see it is a great pleasure to me to come and wish miss north every happiness and prosperity the other sisters who called later on gave vent to much the same kind of sentiments we shall do everything we can to make margaret feel welcome and happy among us said mrs who was the next to appear for many reasons i must say that i am very pleased that she and have made a match of it i am more pleased than if he had married any other girl that i know in london yes i am sorry that she is not at home but you will tell her with my love won t you that i came to her my best congratulations and to say how very pleased we all are that she and have decided to make a match of it and i hope she will come and see me any afternoon about five when i am generally at home but i am always to be found on sunday of course if they have any engagement i shall not expect them but if they are doing nothing it will give me much pleasure to see them next sunday afternoon but these of course were but preliminary to future friendship each one of captain s relations made a dinner party in margaret s honour mrs also gave a large dinner party in return and so the month sped happily on the days indeed seemed to fly there was no thought or question of margaret going back to excepting for three days during the week preceding her wedding she was to be married in town and was to be her only she had no time to think during these four brief weeks for besides all the of a brilliant season that was dying hard and unwillingly she had also to find time to attend to the details of her costly to arrange with mrs who should be asked to the wedding and to receive and acknowledge wedding presents which her in hundreds you will let me come down to with you said a few days before margaret left london oh do you care to go she exclaimed it is such a dull place a woman i like to go he said rather wistfully i should like to go for reasons of al i want to be in the place where you and i first met for just a few days with you and shall i tell you margaret i have been so unhappy in i would like to take my revenge out of the old place and feel that it had paid something of its debt towards me just as you like she said and i would like to buy you something at the big where we used to look in at the windows to see what new things they had got so if you don t mind i really would like to go oh just as you like i shall be very busy all the time i must turn all my things over i have many clothes and which i should like to give away or destroy before i give up my little room for ever but why don t you bring them to oh doubtfully would you i think so there is plenty of room there and you can turn them out at your leisure what sort of things do you wear oh i have hosts of possessions music books pictures photographs dresses all manner
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her into accepting me because if liable to such defects of temper she could not contribute much to my felicity sir you quite me said mrs alarmed is only in such matters as these in every thing else she is as good natured a girl as ever lived i will go directly to mr and we shall very soon settle it with her i am sure she would not give him time to reply but hurrying instantly to her husband called out as she entered the library � oh mr you are wanted immediately we are all in an uproar you must come and make marry mr for she vows she will not have him and if you do not make haste he will change his mind and not have her mr raised his eyes from his book as she entered and fixed them on her face with a calm which was not in the least altered by her communication i have not the pleasure of understanding you said te le when she had her speech of what an you f of mr and declares she will not have mr and mi begins to say that he will not have and what am i ta do cm the it a hopeless business speak to about it yourself tell her that you upon her marrying him let her be called down she shall hear my opinion mrs rang the bell and miss elizabeth was summoned to the library come here child cried her father aa she appeared i have sent for you on an affair of importance i under stand that mr has made you an of marriage is it elizabeth replied that it was very well � and this offer of marriage yon have refused very well we now come to the point your mother upon your accepting it is it not ao mrs i yea will never her again an unhappy is you elizabeth from this day you must be a to one of your parents your mother will never see you again if you do not marry mr and i will never see you again if you do elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a beginning but mrs who had persuaded that her husband regarded the affair as she wished was excessively what do you mean mr by talking in this way you promised me to upon her marrying my dear replied her husband i have two sm to request first that you will allow me i use of my understanding on the present occasion aiid of my room i shall be glad to have the to myself as soon as may be not yet however in spite of her and prejudice husband did mrs up the point she talked to elizabeth again and again and threatened her by turns she endeavoured to secure jane in her interest but jane with all possible declined interfering and elizabeth sometimes with real earnestness and sometimes with playful gaiety replied to her attacks though her manner varied however her determination never did mr meanwhile was meditating in solitude on what had passed he thought too well of himself to com on what motive his cousin could refuse him and though his pride was hurt he in no other way his regard for her was quite imaginary and the possibility of her deserving her mother s reproach prevented his feeling any regret while the family were in this confusion came to spend the day with them she was met in the by who flying to her cried in a half whisper i am glad you are come for there is such fun here what do you think has happened this morning mr has made an offer to and she will not have him had hardly time to answer before they were joined by who came to tell the same news and no sooner had they entered the breakfast room where mrs was alone than she likewise began on the subject calling on miss for her compassion and her to persuade her friend to with the wishes of all her family pray do my dear miss she added in a melancholy tone for nobody is on my side nobody takes part with me i am cruelly used nobody feels for my poor nerves s reply was spared by the entrance of jane and elizabeth ay there she comes continued mrs looking as as may be and caring no more for us than if we were at york provided she can have her own way but i tell you what miss if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way you � never get a husband at all � and i am sure i do not know who is to maintain you when your father is and dead shall not be able to keep you � and so i warn y i have done with you from this very day told vou in the library you know that i should never speak to you again and you will find me as good as my word i have no pleasure in talking to children not that i have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body people who as i do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking nobody can tell what i but it is always so those who do not complain are never pitied her daughters listened in silence to this sensible that any attempt to reason with or soothe her would only increase the irritation she talked on therefore without interruption from any of them till they were joined by mr who entered with an air more stately than usual and on perceiving whom she said to the girls � now i do insist upon it that you all of you hold your tongues and let mr and me have a little conversation tc elizabeth
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the have to pay not only to th cook so that she ll use twice as much as she can give away three or four times as much to the poor as she ought but have to be seen to and boys and all that come high for the reason oh no flat life isn t the life for anybody i say give me a good first class am i not right john yes indeed said mr every time i lived in a flat once and it was an awful nuisance above me lived a who gave lessons at every hour of the day in the room directly over my study so that i was always being disturbed at my work while below me was a music teacher who was all night so that i could hardly sleep worst of all on the same floor with me was a miserable person of tendencies who always my door for his when he came home after midnight and who gave some quite people two floors below to believe that it was i and not he who sang comic songs between three and four o clock in the morning there has not been too much love lost between the and but i cannot be so i as to recommend liim to live in a flat i can bear testimony to the same effect put in mr brief who was two weeks in and anxious to his landlady testimony to the effect that mr sang comic songs in the early morning said the idiot nonsense i i don t believe it i have lived in this house for two years mr and i ve never heard him raise his voice in song yet i didn t mean anything of the sort retorted mr brief you know i didn t don t to me said the idiot to mr he is the man you have wronged what did he say put in mr with a stern look at mr brief i didn t hear what he said i didn t say anything said the lawyer except that i could bear testimony to the effect that your experience with flat life was similar to mine this young person with his customary nerve tries to make it appear that i said you sang comic songs in the early morning i try to do nothing of the sort said the idiot i simply expressed my belief that in spite of what yoa said mr was innocent and i do so because my experience with him has taught me that he is not the kind of man who would do that sort of thing he has neither time voice nor inclination he has an ear � two of them in fact � and an mind but � oh interrupted the school master when i need a you may spare yourself the trouble of flying to my rescue i know i said the idiot but with me it s a question of can and can t i m willing to attack you personally but while i live no other shall do so wherefore i tell mr brief plainly and to his face that if he says you ever sang a comic song he says what is not so you might hum one but sing it � never we were talking of i believe said mr yes said the idiot and these persons have changed it from flat talk to sharp talk well anyhow put in mr brief i lived in a flat once and it was anything but pleasant i lost a case once for the simple and only reason that i lived in a flat it was a case that required a great deal of on my part and i invited my to ray home to my plan of action i got interested in the scheme as i unfolded it and spoke in my usual impassioned manner as though addressing a jury and would you believe it the opposing counsel happened to be visiting a friend on the next floor and my eloquence floated up through the air shaft and gave our whole plan of action away we were on the point we had supposed would pierce the enemy s and lay him at our feet for the wholly simple reason that that abominable air shaft had made my move a matter of public knowledge that s a good idea for a play said the idiot a roaring farce could be built up on that basis villain and on one floor innocent victim on floor above plot up air shaft innocent victim villain and say ha ha for three acts and take a back seat in the fourth with a grand showing the in the county jail as a write it up with lots of live stock wandering in and out bring in and and show up some of the of flat life if there be any such call it a hole in the flat and put it on the stage nine hundred nights is the very shortest run it could have which at fifty dollars a night for the author is in good hard dollars mr poet the idea is yours for a say the word thanks said the poet with a smile vm not a then i ll have to do it myself said the idiot and if i do good bye shakespeare that s ro said mr nothing could more effectually ruin the dramatic art than to have you write a play people seeing your work would say here this will never do the stage must be discouraged at all costs a throws the into disgrace an brings shame upon education and an lawyer gives the bar a bad name i think you are just the man to ruin shakespeare then i ll give up my ambition to become a and stick to said the idiot but to come back to your feeling in regard to
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traditions of earlier and more savage developing the power of the individual for a time and the energy of a nation loosely bound but when they came in contact the and they melted away as snow in april � only like that thereof yet lingering in the mountains and islands of europe no external pressure of famine or political oppression can hold the in ireland together or ve them national unity of action enough to resist the saxon foe doubtless in other days this very peculiarity of the irish has done the world some service nations succeed each other as races of animals in the and like them also perish when their work is done the peculiar character of a nation does not appear without relief and shadow as the waters of the in coming from the mountains have caught a stain from the they have traversed which the tinge of the mountain snow that gave them birth so the peculiarities of each nation become modified by the circumstances to which it is exposed though the character of a nation it seems has never been changed only when the blood of the nation is by additions from another stock is the altered now while each nation has its peculiar genius or character which does not change it has also and accordingly a particular work to perform in the economy of the world a certain idea to and develop this is its national task for in god s world as in a shop there is a regular division of labor sometimes it is a limited work and when it is done the nation may bo dismissed and go to its repose non w is as true of nations as of men one has a genius for one thing another for something different and the idea of each nation and its special work depend on the genius of the nation men do not gather grapes of thorns in addition to this specific genius of the nation and its work there are also various accidental or subordinate qualities which change vith circumstances and so vary the nation s aspect that its peculiar genius and peculiar political destination of america duty are often hid from its own consciousness and even obscured to that of the philosophic on these subordinate peculiarities will depend first on the peculiar genius idea and work of the nation and next on the transient circumstances � historical and � to which the nation has been exposed the past helped form the circumstances of the present age and they the character of the men now living thus new of the national type continually take place new variations are played but on the same old strings and of the same old tune once circumstances made the entirely agricultural now as completely commercial but the same trust in god the same appear as of old as one looks at the history of the he sees unity of national character a of idea and of work but it appears in the midst of variety for while these remained ever the same to complete the economy of the world subordinate qualities � sentiments ideas actions � changed to suit the passing hour the nation s course was laid towards a certain point but they stood to the right hand or the left they sailed with much canvas or little and swift or slow as the winds and waves compelled � nay sometimes the national ship to and lies j ith her head to the wind regardless of her destination but when the storm is her course men will carelessly think the ship has no certain aim but only the most marked characteristic of the american nation is love of freedom of man s natural rights this is so plain to a student of american history or of american politics that the point requires no arguing we have a genius for liberty the american idea is freedom natural rights accordingly the work laid out for us to do seems this to the rights of man this is a problem hitherto on a national scale in human history often enough attempts have been made to the powers of priests kings in a � powers which had no foundation in human duties or human rights but solely in the selfishness of strong men often enough have the of men been organized but not the rights of man surely there has never been an attempt made on a national scale to the rights of man as man rights resting on the nature of political destination of america things rights derived from no conventional compact of men with men not inherited from past generations nor received from and or secured bj their � but rights that are derived straightway from god � the author of duty and the source of right � and which are secured in the great of our being at first view it will be said the peculiar genius of america is not such nor such her idea nor that her destined work it is true that much of the national conduct seems exceptional when measured by that standard and the nation s course as crooked as the it is true that america sometimes seems to liberty and the freedom of three million men for less than three million annual of cotton � true she often on the most and sacred rights yet when one looks through the whole character and history of america � spite of the exceptions nothing comes out with such relief as this love of freedom this idea of liberty this attempt to right there are numerous subordinate qualities which conflict with the nation s idea and work coming from our circumstances not our soul as well as many others which help the nation perform her work they are signs of the times and it is important to look carefully at the most prominent among them where indeed one finds striking the first
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us this tendency towards the use of an inferior and more economical article has not been so much felt owing to a variety of causes the principal of which is no doubt the greater comfort and prosperity of our working classes as no certain exist on which a correct estimate can be formed of the value of th different branches of the manufacture or of their amount we have taken the trouble to collect the following particulars which though not from official sources may be relied upon as tolerably a � the great exhibition annual yards of silk flush at an coat of j per yard jl the above amount of will make hats worth at i yards of silk at an of per yard this amount will make hats worth at yards of cotton french and german at per yard be out of the quantity worth at at u and hare s imported france and germany these materials are used for the bodies of and the making of and soft about of these latter de of hats are made in at an average of tbey will make amount of other goods used by a bands to the greater part of are imported men s silk st quality men s silk hats d quality men s silk hats d quality men s or soft hats men s and boys caps total in the manufacture of the above there are employed one half of them are men and the remainder the consumption of straw hats to about � j of which are imported the average is each hat the capital invested in the trade in country is little short of one of the most singular features of the competition induced by hke the present is the struggle to new ideas from common place materials or by a high sounding to impart importance to objects that would fail to the attention in the manufacture of this latter eats fi an character the extremes to which it is carried while it also serves to for the lack of interest from that of material and style to which it has heen reduced hy the absurd of taste if therefore we occasionally fall into a train of reflections suggested hy the grotesque images presented lo our minds the must take it in good part if our impressions do not always with the which he seeks to produce selecting rather with a view to the gratification of the whim of the moment than with reference to the quality of the articles exhibited let us commence our task by an of that small case belonging to of the narrow compass of that glass are contained objects whose features are familiar to our recollection and names that occupy a large space in the annals of our e might incline to the belief that in the choice of his models are worthy french intended at once to the country of his birth and flatter the political tastes of the country of his were it not for the association with them of one of the great historic titles of � a name too dear to the english aristocracy k hats only possessed a share of the of their owners we cannot help thinking how strangely uncomfortable these would feel in such close to each other but let us proceed with our examination in that f of rabbit s and which in the comer were conceived vast designs and ambitious hopes which ended in the overthrow of a and the ruin of the republic that succeeded it many a time have we seen that remarkable in the energy of passionate to stir the hearts of the masses that thronged the hotel de or to into the elements that were and foaming in the bosom of the national assembly every of that hat brought down with it either the thundering of the or the tumultuous murmurs of the of or imperial pretensions and yet in its inclination modest brim and trim compliance with the prevailing of the day we recognize rather the harmless of the � � the great exhibition f n than the re energy and fat ice of the in the unusual width oi the crown however the observer will detect that large which would the conclusions to which these appear might otherwise lead as you that hat jou would do well to reflect upon the of human and the and s of all things its owner is now an e il and a like the oi the monarch whom he to e that directed the foreign of france and stretched the vigorous aim oi her power to the oi the earth e ther to protect her or lo her rights cannot now e en to the title of a french or look to a last resting place beneath that maternal sod which to virtues and our faults ou lock upon the hat of i in appropriate lu with this and towering in the ty of its hangs that and whose appearance n the streets of re j hopes and among the and served as a to the bold in the audacity ot its style we can read at a glance the character of that celebrated who con to create an um in of the ot police and to frighten the wits out of the the high crown of the empire with the broad oval deeply brim of the d epoch exaggerated to alarming proportions its first aspect one with astonishment succeeded by feelings of respect and admiration for the hardy spirit which had the genius to conceive and the courage to wear such an unique of felt we can readily conceive the enthusiasm with which this glorious creation was said to have been regarded by his from the effect which it had upon ourselves it was a somewhat to that which must have experienced on beholding the head of his first or that of liis winged bull we no
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in neither she however nor her sister mary was the first wife of their respective husbands james first married anne daughter of general who presented him with one only daughter before she off this mortal this daughter however is of some importance to our present purpose partly because her name being jane elizabeth she is the � p� � ni � � mm � � va � ch n and knights frequently referred to in our letters and partly because in november thought fit to marry the rev afterwards of the ben of the letters who lied in and thus gives me a upon which to hang a few other and show how they come to be so often mentioned by at jane mrs b had one on and six daughters and died in once upon a time there was a thomas of who married a of an estate not far from that cathedral city and had a son who lived some time at married elizabeth and two sons the one of was named while the other rejoiced in the of mm letters of jane on ir peter george fellow of all souls of near � ent m and in husband of anne of sister of sir and father of two sons the younger of whom was the who married our whilst tlie elder was henry of house who also became and married a and died in when his brother succeeded him in the living of the three to which had been purchased by mr he must have been immediately preceded in the by dr tlie grandfather of mary to family we shall also and allusions in the earlier letters there was a great intimacy between tlie of and ton and mrs was a valued friend of jane s up to the time of her death in which was occasioned by a fall from lier horse after this little i must return to james who is keeping all the rest of his family waiting in the most manner a jt j on ii and i liis wife was two mary mid in survived her twenty four years lie only survived his sister jane two years died nt in december james the writer of the of smith esq of and died in leaving a numerous family he took the name of in addition to that of inherited in under the will of tlie widow of his maternal uncle james of whom more anon as the old nay widow died in g and his sister who never married died in u letters of ob n to be as far as i can discover them that my worthy great uncle s want of of purpose was evinced by his trying various professions one after the other without any particular success in any i gather from the letters before us that his sister his character pretty well and did not anticipate much success for his career he seems to have had a after a soldier s life for some time then he went into a bank in he became general for and also a banker in london and whilst he lived there helped his sister jane with her business in his bank broke upon which he became a clergyman and went out as to in he married twice which seems to have been the general habit of the family his first wife being his first cousin madame de n e mr is mistaken in saying that his grandfather had only one sister he had two who rejoiced in the names of philadelphia and the latter died single the former married mr and her daughter married the de and when he liad been unlucky enough to be ob ii and in tiie french revolution took her cousin henry en died in and left liim until when he consoled himself with daughter of henry of london by his wife who was one of the of he had no children and died in at wells having i believe had no except the of which on the death of hia brother james in he held for a short time until hia nephew william knight was old enough to take it � a comfortable family arrangement i cannot henry without giving to my readers the only example of his powers with which i am acquainted and which s letters of jane os xl do get on sir where i can i you stupid fellow i was the any fool can do that i want you to get on where you can t i of the two sailor brothers of jane francis and charles � mr gives a fuller history than of the others because he thinks that their honourable career accounts for jane partiality for the navy as well as for the readiness and accuracy with which she wrote it however this may be there can be no doubt that their career was most honourable and that they were both of them as good examples of british sailors as could well be i believe that both of them were much loved in their profession as they certainly were by their relations old and young the us that francis was upon one occasion spoken of as ta officer who at church which reminds me of an anecdote which my mother used to tell of one admiral having whispered to the other at the commencement of divine service � brother what do you think it is that people mostly say into their hats when they come into church for my part i always say for what i am going to receive the lord make me truly thankful and ch u and i am not prepared to say that he could have improved on the petition as i am upon anecdotes let tell one also of sir francis since it shall never be said that i omitted that which i have heard of him all my life as one of the t
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her and quite unconscious of what he was doing knelt down beside her so that he could open the letter at her knee and they made a pathetic picture the father and mother whom grief had aged before their time the soft april wind playing with their grey hairs and the flush of excitement on their cheeks it was a short letter written by the clergyman of a church in a little among the distant wheat of and it ran thus � march y th madam � it is my sad duty to write to you concerning your son robert gray whom i was called a long distance to see yesterday only to find him d of a severe attack of of the lungs contracted through exposure in one of the most terrible we have had for many years i had not met or heard of him before as the place where he has been working as hired man is thirteen miles from my and difficult of access it seems he had been there for about ten months working for a decent well to do german jew to whom he has given the land o the the greatest satisfaction being sober industrious and of an amiable disposition i was grieved to find him too weak to say much but he was to tell me a little about himself and to instruct me to carry out his last wishes he had been wandering about a good deal as young men must do out here without introduction or but so far as i could gather he had never been in any sore straits though sometimes in rather low water i was surprised to find him possessed of a university training though indeed i have met many similar instances he did not detail to me his reasons for having left a home so comfortable and happy and the memory of which he cherished so passionately that i was quite overcome one thing you may take to comfort you that he has not been living a prodigal s life out here but the reverse he was reserved about his own state of mind but told me quite frankly he had no fear of death he asked me to send you the enclosed which i have not opened but which he told me he had carried within his next his heart during the last two years i remained with him till his death which was and beautiful and i feel sure that you may with the utmost confidence look forward to a happy re union in a world where these sorrows are unknown i regret that my letter most of necessity be meagre and unsatisfactory as i only saw him once he has been buried in a little not far from the farm on which he died his employer the whole expenses and all the neighbours turned out showing that he was a general favourite if there is anything further you would like to know pray write and i shall do my best to reply � meantime with sincere christian sympathy i remain madam yours faithfully they were able to read the letter through with that wondrous self control which had distinguished them throughout and to the string and cut the which held their boy s iq to them there was no letter within lay a little old testament with brass which his mother had given him on the day he first went to church the were but would not close over something within � a thick roll of american the land o the dollar bills they fell out upon her lap and then the book seemed to open naturally where lay the of ivy now dry and faded which had once been living green on the end of on that open page two passages were deeply � a message from the unseen to those who had now no child as ye know that ye were not with things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of christ as of a lamb without and without spot and again behold we count them happy which endure the lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy by what ways that wandering soul had returned to the fold they would never know and though the hand of god seemed heavy upon them they were not without their of comfort bowed his head now so nearly white on his wife s knee and a great sobbing shook him like the wind of winter in the trees but she sat still and quiet with a wondering and deep light in her meek sweet eyes conscious for the moment that the veil between the seen and the unseen was so thin that her sharpened vision could almost pierce it her life during the past two years had been one long prayer and lo the sore of lier soul had its answer � her boy was safe being thus assured she could wait for daybreak and the l t of heaven so she is waiting still worthy of his hire i worthy of his hire mrs was waiting for her husband to come to tea it was a quarter past five on a january afternoon and the light and day by day still lingered in that pleasant dining room where solid comfort reigned it was furnished in warm crimson the substantial mahogany chairs in rich the walls were a sea green and several fine chiefly of times adorned them the recesses on either side of the fireplace held well made mahogany filled in every shelf a black marble clock and handsome decorated the which was further relieved by two graceful glasses filled with white the did not dine late but had a set tea at five o clock it was very spread the linen was of the and finest the china good the silver shining the land o the mary was sitting on a before the fire glad of its
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is mixed with horror seldom causes tears while add but to the bitter tide one drop of gratitude or joy and tears immediately become the natural relief of the over heart why grace said as he led his cousin away from the house of mourning lest by again yielding to her own emotion she should be the cause of interruption or alarm to others � how is you are overwhelmed with gratitude because a stern old man is melted into common feeling by the death of his son for my part i should have felt more pity for him had he the t received the first intelligence more like � father and a christian man we cannot all feel alike said grace nor make the same display of sorrow when we do feel it i confess like you i waa shocked at the seeming with which our intelligence was at first received but those fearful groans george they surely tell of more than common grief � the gray dawn of the morning had hy this time given place to the full light of day though it was one of the darkest and the of those which in the storms of winter the of the preceding had occasionally been interrupted by a rushing wind which now swelling into a strong gale blew fiercely over earth and ea sweeping across the bosom of the troubled ocean and the spray of the rising one vast bed of the tide was rolling out but it retreated with an angry roar as if with th work of destruction it had already accomplished all the distance from the village to the beach was now scattered with groups of s people who some of them from mere curiosity and some from feelings of deeper in had left homes to hear if there were any tidings of the body or to learn if anything more remained to be told than the melancholy story which had already from house to house with the usual number of variations and additions among these groups was many a poor mother with her children clinging to her cloak all look ing anxiously toward the sea and yet all afraid to behold the object o which they were in search there were men blessing and comforting themselves that their sons were not as this prodigal who would never more return to his s house there were young women who looked and looked again and all the while kept close together calling back to remembrance the kindness the freedom and the generous of him who was lost and there were old telling of their own escapes and wondering at and settling and again the manner of the young man s death and still the deep rolled on telling its dark s to none thb and his cousin approached the n ne of interest from one point his mother and sister with their household attendants from another way was respectfully made for all and they stood together for some time without uttering a word except to ask and tell in what manner old had borne the intelligence of his loss all look ed toward the sea and grace though she trembled violently dashed away her hair from her eyes and looked more in than any of the there see see said mrs there is old himself � and alone and there indeed he stood the aged father leaning on his staff with his hair floating in the wind he stood alone too except for a faithful dog that never left his side he stood alone for he had held no fellowship with others in the common and interests of life and there fore it was the necessary consequence that in his grief they should hold none with him yet there was something almost more than human nature could endure to see a father alone on such an occasion and grace iso the ton left aunt and and stealing quietly np to the ridge of high ground on which he had stationed himself stooped down and patted his dog that she at least be ready if he wish for any one to be near him encouraged by having escaped a direct grace at last to stand bearer and from a natural impulse upon which she acted almost unconsciously she said in so meek and quiet a voice that it could not have offended any one sir will you not lean upon me the wind is very strong lean upon you child said old why should i lean � you v and he turned half away from her t look again at the sea without interruption perhaps it was well that he had not ac the offered aid of his young ion for the next moment she was shooting an arrow across the sands straight on to a of black rock which was just beginning w stand out above the shallow waves and beside which some of the were now seen to be gathering themselves into a group what be the matter with grace said mrs the strange of her niece she seems in have quite lost her senses with this you were wrong in taking her with you george she would have been much better at home she has no spirits for such as these you are mistaken in i assure you said she was of the greatest possible to me this morning and really behaved like a heroine but see they have found him they have found him at last i am sure that is the body it was as had said the wretched man had not been washed by the waves to any great distance from the i ot where he perished probably owing to his dress having become entangled among the rocks f and there he stretched out the sand one of his cold hands still an iron grasp the of s coat which he had torn when they for the last time nothing
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our own will you come he extended his hand courteously to assist her across the of the vessel and in a few minutes the royal party were landed and the was left to the and servants who soon had all hands at work preparing the dinner which was to be served during the return sail chapter xi � in the king and queen followed by their and their guests walked leisurely off the pier and down a well made road sparkling with crushed sea shells and powdered coral towards a group of tall trees and green grass which they perceived a little way ahead of them there was a soothing everywhere � save for the singing of birds and the soft ripple of the waves on the sandy shore it was a silent land in which it seemed always afternoon � all round the coast the languid air did � breathing like one that hath a weary dream the queen paused once or twice to look around her she was vaguely touched and charmed by the still beauty of the scene it is very lovely she said more to herself than to any of her companions the world must have looked something like this in the first days of creation � so and fresh and simple the walking with sir walter glanced at her and smiled it is she said � a sort of without or do all the inhabitants go to sleep or disappear in the i wonder not all i imagine replied sir walter for here comes one though judging from the of his walk he is in no haste to welcome his king the personage he spoke of was indeed approaching and all the members of the royal party watched his advance with considerable curiosity he was tall and upright in bearing but as he came nearer he was seen to be a man of great age with a countenance on which sorrow and suffering had left their traces there were power on that face which tears had out f z their flowing and the high intellectual brow bo lines and wrinkles of anxiety and pain which were soul s pen marks of a tragic history he was attired simple s garb of rough blue when he was within a few paces of the king he raised his cap from his curly silver hair with an old world ce and courtesy sir de went fc to meet him and to explain the situation his majesty the king he said has wished to a surprise visit to his people of the islands � and he is here in person with the queen can you oblige him with an escort to the principal places of interest the old man looked at him with a touch of amusement and derision there are no places here of interest to a king he said unless a poor man s house may serve for his curious comment i am not his majesty s subject � but i live under his protection and his laws � and i am willing to offer him a welcome since there is no one else to do so he spoke with a refined and accent and in his look and bearing evinced the breeding of a gentleman and your name asked sir courteously my name is he replied i was on this coast years ago finding myself cast here by the will of god here i have remained as he said this sir remembered what he had casually heard at times about the life philosopher who had built for himself a dwelling on the islands out of the of wrecked vessels this must surely be the man delighted at having thus come upon the very person most likely to provide some sort of diversion for their and to wait at a distance for a moment he hastened back to the king and explained the position whereupon the monarch at once advanced with alacrity and as he approached the venerable personage who had him the only hospitality he was likely to receive in this part of his realm he extended his hand with a frank and kindly cordiality accepted it with a slight but not over salutation we owe you our thanks said the king for � in ing us thus readily and without notice which is surely the truest form of hospitable kindness that we are strangers here is entirely our own fault due to our own neglect of our island subjects and it is for this that we have sought to know something of the place privately before visiting it with such public and state as it deserves we shall be indebted to you greatly if you will lend us your aid in this intention your majesty is welcome to my service in whatever way it can be of use to you replied slowly as you see i am an old man and poor � i have lived here for well nigh thirty years making as little demand as possible upon the resources of either rough nature or smooth civilization to provide me with there is poor attraction for a king in such a simple home as mine more than all men living a king has cause to love simplicity returned the monarch as with his swift and keen glance he noted the old man s proud figure fine worn features and clear though deeply sunken eyes � for the glittering shows of ceremony are chiefly irksome to those who have to suffer their daily monotony let e present you to the queen � she will thank you as i for your kindly consent to play the part of host to us may nay � murmured � no thanks � no thanks f then as the king said a few words to his fair and she received the old man s respectful salutation in the cold grave way which was her custom he raised his eyes to
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the young lady by name at luncheon she had talked a great deal of influences and and had between apologies for the mutton and affected surprise that the bewildered maid servant should have forgotten to serve the coffee and m usual was almost sorry that he had come miss was still beautiful � almost as beautiful as when two days earlier against the leafy background of a june garden party he had seen her for the first time � but her mother s and her beauty as sign posts a solitude mrs s eye was perpetually between her daughter and like an empty cab a coward in quest of a miss the young man decided was the kind of girl whose surroundings off on her or was it rather that mrs s were of a nature to color every one within reach looking across the table as this alternative occurred to him was sure that they had not colored mr but that perhaps was only because they had him instead mr car style was quite it would have been impossible to guess his native tint his wife s qualities if they had affected him at all had acted he did not for the mutton and he wandered off after luncheon without pretending to wait for the coffee and while the few remarks that he had contributed to the conversation during the meal had not been in the direction of abstract of life as he strayed away with his vague step and the stoop that suggested the habit of who was still in the age of found himself wondering what life could be worth to a man who had evidently resigned himself to travelling with his back to the wind so that mrs s allusion to her daughter s lack of advantages imparted while searched the house for an had an by the speaker if mr had chosen that lady repeated a coward we might have had our city home she never used so small a word as town and could have mixed in the society to which i myself was accustomed at her age her sigh pointed to a past when young men had come to luncheon to see her the sigh led to look at her and the look led him to the unwelcome conclusion that took after her mother it was certainly not from the paternal stock that the girl had drawn her warm bloom mrs had contributed the high lights to the picture mrs caught his look and appropriated it with the complacency of a beauty she was quite aware of the value of her appearance as s development into a fine woman but perhaps she continued taking up the thread of her explanation you have heard of mr s extraordinary mr knows that i call it so � as i tell him it is the most charitable view to take she looked coldly at the sofa and at the young man who filled a comer of it you may think it odd mr that i should take you into my confidence in this way after so short an acquaintance but somehow i can t help regarding you as a friend already i believe in those don t you they have never me � r a coward her drooped � and besides i always tell mr that on this point i will have no false where truth is concerned i am inexorable and i consider it my duty to let our friends know that our way of living is due entirely to choice � to mr s choice when i married mr it was with the expectation of living in new york and of keeping my carriage and there is no reason for our not doing so � there is no reason mr why my daughter should have been denied the intellectual advantages of foreign travel i wish that to be understood it is owing to her father s deliberate choice that and i have been imprisoned in the narrow limits of society for myself i do not complain if mr chooses to place others before his wife it is not for his wife to his course may be noble � i do not allow myself to pronounce judgment on it though others have thought that in sacrificing his own family to strangers he was the most sacred obligations of domestic life this is the opinion of my and of other valued friends but as i have always told them for myself i make no claims where my daughter is concerned it is different � it was a relief to when at this mrs s discharge of her duty was cut short by her daughter s had been unable to a coward find a for mr and her mother with beaming suggested that in that case she had better show him the garden the house stood but a few yards back from the brick paved street and the garden was a very small place unless measured as mrs probably intended that it should be by the extent of her daughter s charms these were so considerable that walked back and forward half a dozen times between the porch and the gate before he discovered the of the domain it was not till had accused him of being sarcastic and had confided in him that the girls were furious with her for letting him talk to her so long at his aunt s garden party that he awoke to the of his surroundings and then it was with a touch of irritation that he noticed mr s bent above a newspaper in one of the lower windows had an idea that mr while reading the paper had kept count of the number of times that his daughter had led her companion up and down between the bushes and for some reason he resented mr s observation more than his wife s zealous self to a man who is
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day and night they did not object however to my speaking occasionally to the lady and to the servant maid to the latter i said under my breath i shall escape impossible returned she in the same manner do not attempt it you will only be i laugh at i replied i have worn them so long already i then bade her presently gossip with the guards she complied with and while they were i rushed out never looking behind me i took at once the open country and made for the coast leaping over two or three streams the very first of which probably brought the to a pause then i ran across fields and through woods and after three hours of sharp s pace arrived here expecting to find a vessel we had engaged lying off the coast instead of which a government ship watches the harbour and is evidently on the watch for us nothing remains therefore for me but to double like a hare and take to the hills they are doubtless looking out for you said but sleep � sleep peacefully i will watch beside you as if you were a brother you must be up at three in the morning if you would pursuit but how without a guide i myself will start you off and wake you at the right time and stooping over him he kissed him looked moved and said how shall i ever you t you will wake me on the first alarm v rely on me thank you said and the next minute he was asleep it was still bright when they were up and away and over the hills who knew every path led the way but his companion kept closely up with him and when after an hour s hard walking they reached a solitary tract where they could draw breath conversed with his generous guide as friend with friend and told him his personal history it was a sad tale of wrongs and injustice of false and and burning and unworthy escapes and unexpected one thing was too evident if false had found innocent and truthful they had not left him so his mind was and by the poisonous moral atmosphere he had been compelled to breathe but yet he had not lost all his original nobility his love of his country was touching his sentiments original and often fine he had been high in command had held offices of trust and been the stern opponent of and when dared no longer proceed with him they embraced like brothers and he wistfully watched him out of sight chapter v the old country house his steps the greater part of the way he was so in thoughts on what had recently happened as to be insensible to the of the distance at length he struck into a lane between high banks which presently descended into a fertile valley by a very road which led to an old country mansion at t iq of this mansion stood a dusty travelling carriage surrounded by a small knot of people which instantly filled with surprise and excitement and made him his walk into a run here he comes cried one of the group who hastening towards him exclaimed the has arrived my sister cried how delightful a i surprise and hurrying in doors he sprang up the marble stairs clearing three of the shallow steps at a time and entered the di a large lofty apartment with on the doors and a ceiling where three or four persons were talking all together with the greatest glee ah here is cried the old gentleman of the house on which a young lady in a travelling dress ran to welcome him what what exclamations there was a baby boy also to be introduced and admired i am lost in wonder said who would have thought of seeing you dearest v nobody can be more surprised than myself said it is all owing to s kindness he has lately been � oh i cannot describe to you how good happening to say one day lately what pleasure and delight it would give me to see you all again he said quite quietly and why should you not v i never was more surprised can you really be in earnest � said i certainly said he i always mean what i say so then he told me how it might all be arranged as nicely as possible and said that as doctor and his wife were starting for the he would me to the care of and the rest of the way he will come and fetch me home himself very shortly but where is aunt at her beads i suppose is she as much of a as ever do come with me and see me surprise her away flew the gay with at her heels along a large and lofty at the end of which she tapped at a door come in said a voice within and peeping in with a face saw a withered old lady without a cap her thin hair in a very small knot on the top of her head getting up a few fine things exclaimed she dropping her yellow bits of lace and extending her arms it cannot be v who is it then aunt v said laughing and kissing her wonderful wonderful repeated the bewildered old lady and � is not here but he has sent the baby to represent him the baby ah the precious child where is he let me see him aunt you are just like all the world you forget the mother in the child you will be miserably disappointed in the little gave her a look as if uncertain whether to believe her or not but led the way to the where the grandmother and foster nurse were in close conference over the baby after enjoying her aunt s exclamations of
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thou better than i the thoughts that i am teaching now are thine own thoughts related to me often on thy return from the hills and collected by me in faithful memory hast forgotten having said to me the world cannot be all men may not be saved only a few by the grace of god i said these things to thee but what did i say but my thoughts and what are my thoughts lighter than the bloom of floating on the hills it is not to our own thought we must look for guidance but god s thoughts which are deep in us and clear in us but we do not listen and are led away by our reason my sin was to have preached john as well as myself i strayed beyond myself and lost myself in the love of god a thing a man may do if he love not his fellows my sin was not to have loved men enough but we are as god made us and must do the best we can with ourselves waited for to answer him but made no answer but sat like a stone his head hanging upon his chest why dost thou not answer he the brook said and answered my thoughts were away i was thinking of last night of our talk together in that balcony � i was thinking how sweet life is in the beginning and how it grows bitter in the mouth and the end seems bitter indeed when we think of the gladness that day when we walked through the streets of our first day together in it was in the of our lives and of the year how delightful it was for me to find one like thee so eager to understand the life of the so eager to join us such delight i shall not find again we spoke last night of our journey from to and across the thou not follow thy father s trade but would lead flocks from the hills and in time the best shepherd it is said ever known in the hills no one ever had an eye for a ram or like thee and of thy cure for all the are envious we were proud of our shepherd but he met john and came to me saying that god had called him to go forth and convert the world since god has placed thee here i said how is it that he should come and call thee away now and thou eager with explanation up and down the till we reached the bridge we crossed it and followed the path and under the cliffs till we came to the road that leads to it was there we said farewell two years or more passed away and then joseph brought thee back a tired suffering man whose wits were half gone and who recovered them slowly but who did not recover them while leading his flock how often have we talked of its increase and now we shall never talk again of and nor of thy meditations in the desert and on the and in the cave at night so much to me were these sweet of thee from the hills that my hope was that the dawn was drawing nigh when thou return no more to the hills and was a happy night when we sat together on the balcony indulging the brook in recollection thinking that henceforth we should live within sight of each other s faces always my hope last night was that it would be thou that close my eyes and lay me in a rock out of reach of the but my hopes have all vanished now thou art about to leave me the brethren no they will not leave me but even should all remain if thou be not here i shall be as alone but all may be as thou the jews will welcome me answered i am no longer the enemy paul is the enemy of and i am become the testimony he says is the root that bears the branches and if i go to and tell the jews that the whom put upon the cross still lives in the flesh they will rejoice exceedingly and send agents and after him wherever he goes paul persecuted me and my and now it would seem that my hand is turned against him remain with us cried forget the world leave it to itself and fear not one lie more will make no difference in a world that has lived upon lies from the beginning of time a counsel that me for i would begin no persecution against paul but the lie has spread and will run all over the world even as a single seed and the seed is of my all returns to me that paul was able to follow the path is certain testimony that he was sent by god to me and that i am called to be about my father s work as thou things repeat themselves farewell farewell my father in the faith so there is no thee my dear son and rising from his seat put a staff in hand and hung a about his neck if thy business be done perhaps but no let us indulge in no false hopes neither will look upon the other s face again did not answer and returning to the balcony said i will sit here and watch thee for the last time the brook but did not raise his eyes until he reached the bridge and then he took the path that led by the of other days and walked hastily for he was too agitated to think a little in front of him some hundred yards a great rock the path and when he came there he stopped for it was the last point from which he could have sight of the balcony
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others and as an earnest of his resolve he struck the messenger s horse so sharply across the quarters that the animal s head went down between his knees and he plunged so violently that the messenger was cast upon the ground the roared with laughter and joseph at the success of his begged to wait a little longer for he was curious to see if the messenger would succeed in his horse at present the horse seemed in no humour to allow himself to be mounted whenever the messenger approached he so that everybody laughed again is there none amongst ye that will help me to catch the horse the poor messenger cried after the departing travellers we have a long day s march in front of us said and he warned joseph not to beat his mule into a gallop at the beginning of the journey or he would repent it later words that came true sooner than joseph had expected for before midday he was asking how many miles would bring them to the in about another hour answered and joseph said he had begun to hate his mule for it would neither trot nor gallop only walk thou rt thinking of the and would like to the brook be after them flourishing a lance said and � afraid that he was being laughed at � joseph made no answer after the rest at midday it seemed to him to be his duty to see that his mule had been properly fed and he bought some from the driver but while he was giving it to his mule remarked that he was only other animals of their fair share of it is hard he said to do good without doing wrong to another but the present is no time for philosophy we must start again and the moved on through the hills avoiding the steep and by paths and joseph who had not seen a shepherd leading his flock for some years became all of a sudden delighted by the spectacle the sheep running forward the fresh with which the hills were covered as with dark velvet a little later they came into view of a flock of near a wood and sought to improve the occasion by a little on the destructive nature of the goat of late years a rarely escaped them and still more was the carelessness of the shepherd who left the branches they had torn down to become dry like he spoke of many forest fires and told all the stories he could remember in the hope of joseph s thoughts from the length of the journey we are now about half way he said the truth we shall see the city upon the evening glow in about another hour the longest hour that i have ever known joseph complained two hours later and laid his cloak over joseph s saddle dost feel more comfortable a little the child answered at the sight of the city thy heart will be lifted again and the suffering forgotten and joseph believed him but towards the end of the day the miles seemed to stretch out and at five o clock he was crying shall we ever get to for i can sit on this the brook mule no longer nor shall i be able to stand straight upon my legs when i alight promised they would be at the gates in a few minutes but these few minutes seemed as if they would never pass away but they did pass and at the joseph from his mule and just managed to into the inn at which they were to sleep that night too tired to eat he said too tired he feared to sleep pressed him to swallow a cup of soup and he prepared a hot bath for him into which he poured a bottle of an excellent remedy he reported this to be against and it showed itself to be such for next morning joseph was quite free from and said he could walk for miles samuel s rock cannot be more than a few hundred yards distant so miles are not necessary answered as they stepped over the threshold into a delightful morning all smiles and greetings and subtle invitations to come away into the forest and fields full of promises of flowers and songs but in conflict with their project which was to inquire out their way from the maidens at the fountain who would be sure to know it and in its shade to read the story of david and first and other stories afterwards but the gay morning drew their thoughts away from and without being aware of their they had already begun to indulge in hopes that the maidens would be late at the fountain and leave them some time to by the old that brought the water in a tiny stream to fall into a marble an maybe said as he gathered some water out of it with his hands and drank telling joseph to do likewise there were clouds in the sky so the sun kept coming and going a great lantern joseph said that god holds in his hands answered and when tired of waiting for maidens who did not appear their was continued by shadows advancing and retreating across the brook the the town was an enchantment in the still morning but when they rose to their feet their eyes fell on a greater enchantment � the hills clothed in moving light and shade so beautiful that the appeal to come away to the woods and fields continued in their hearts after they had lowered their eyes and would not be denied though they prayed for strength to to their original project it had died out of their hearts through no fault of theirs as far as they could see and wondering how they might get from it they strode about the city
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present altogether his mind a flew back to his past life and the waste of time that had resulted from his not having been able to make up his mind which of the many fashions of art that were coming and going in change was the true point of departure for himself he had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited as much as any living man of his own age of his fellows in years and experiences who had never thought specially of the matter but had applied themselves to whatever form of art confronted them at the moment of their making a move were by this time acquiring renown as new lights while he was still unknown he wished that some accident could have hemmed in his eyes between inexorable and sped him on in a channel ever so worn thus balanced between believing and not believing in own future so delicately that a feather of opinion either was to the scene without by hearing the notes of a solemn familiar hymn rising in subdued from an valley below he listened more it was his old friend the new sabbath which he had never once heard since the days of childhood and whose existence much as it had then been to him he had till this moment quite forgotten where the new sabbath had kept itself all these years � why that sound and hearty melody had disappeared from all the parish churches and ease that he had been acquainted with during his to life and until his ways had become irregular and � he could not at first say but then he that the tune i to the old west gallery period of church music to the great and the rule of � that old time when the repetition of a word or of a verse was not considered a disgrace to an choir willing to be interested in anything which would keep him pf doors dismounted from the and descended the hill before him to learn whence the singing proceeded a chapter he found that it had its origin in a building standing alone in a field and though the evening was not yet dark without lights shone from the windows in a few moments stood before the edifice being just then en t with by reason of his recent occupation he could not help murmuring j a perhaps this exclamation being one rather out of date since the discovery that himself often nodded to an amazing extent would not have been indulged in by but for his condition of returned prodigal which caused professional opinions to advance themselves to his lips whenever occasion offered the building was in short a recently erected chapel of red brick with classic and the white regular joints of mortar could be seen its surface in from top to bottom the roof was of blue slate clean as a table and unbroken from to the windows were glazed with sheets of plate glass a temporary iron stove pipe passing out near one of these and running up to the height of the ridge where it was finished by a covering like a walking round to the end he perceived an white stone let into the wall just above the on which was inscribed in block letter george l erected � at th sole expense of john power esq m p the new sabbath still proceeded line by line with all the and that had of old the tune and the body of harmony that it implied a large congregation within to whom it was plainly as familiar as it had been to church of a past generation with a sense of at the of his once favourite air moved away and would have quite withdrawn from the field had he not at that moment observed two young men with of water coming up from a stream hard by and hastening with their burdens into the chapel by a side door almost as soon as they had entered they emerged again with empty and proceeded to the stream to fill them as before an operation which they repeated several times went forward to the stream and waited till the young men came out again you are carrying in a great deal of water he said as each dipped his one of the young men modestly replied yes we filled the this morning but it and requires a few more why do you do it there is to be a sir was not moment sufficiently interested to develop a further conversation and observing them in silence till they had again vanished into the building he went on his way reaching the brow of the hill he stopped and looked back the chapel was still in view and the shades of night having deepened the lights shone from the windows yet a i a more brightly than before a few steps further would hide them and the edifice and all that belonged to it from his sight possibly for ever there was something in the thought which led him to linger in a way he had not at all expected the chapel had neither beauty nor to recommend it the between the new of the place and the scenes of venerable which had occupied his daylight hours could not well be exceeded but as has been said was an instrument of no narrow he had a key for other touches tee even on such an excursion as this his mind was arrested by the intense and busy energy which must needs belong to an assembly that required such a glare of light to do its religion by in the heaving of that tune there was an earnestness which made him thoughtful r d the shine of those windows he had ugly reminded him of the shining of the good deed in a naughty world the chapel and its shabby plot of ground from
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my power to tell you the or whether it may not expressly be forbidden me this tale of whose truth my companions were passionately desirous to convince themselves was greatly applauded they visited singly without confiding their intention to me or to each other the spot i had indicated found the the and the fountain but at a distance from one another they at last confessed it for at that age it is not easy to keep a secret but here was the beginning of strife one declared the objects never changed their places but preserved always the same distance fi om one another the second that they changed and went farther apart a third agreed that they moved but thought they approached one another a fourth had seen something still more remarkable the trees in the midst and and fountain on the sides opposite the spot where i had seen them about the door they varied as much in their impressions and thus i had an early example how men in cases quite simple and easy of decision form and maintain the most contrary opinions as i refused a to the adventure a repetition of this first part was frequently i took care never materially to vary the circumstances and the of the converted fable into truth for my hearers � und the acting out the mystery into life the calmness of survey and the of feeling above all the at the end and want of point to a tale got up with such an eye to effect as he goes along mark well the man that was to be even so did he demand in even so resolutely open the door in the first part of even so seem to play with himself and his in the second part of and yet was he deeply earnest in his play not for men but for himself to himself as a part of nature it was important to grow to lift his head to the light in nature he bad all confidence for man as a part of nature infinite hope but in him as an individual will seemingly not much trust at the earliest age the history of his marks his course they were entered into with passionate eagerness but always ended in an observation of the intellect and he left them on his road as the snake leaves his skin the first man he met of force to command a large share of his attention was and the benefit of this intercourse was critical not genial of the good he soon perceived the weakness again commanded his respect but the force of also was cold but in the grand duke of he seems to have met a character strong enough to exercise a decisive influence upon his own was not so and worldly that a little man could ever have become his me in the and her son he found that practical sagacity large knowledge of things as they are active force and genial feeling which he had never before seen combined the wise mind of the gave the first impulse to the noble course of but that her son should have availed himself of the foundation she laid is praise enough in a world where there is such a from u j parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path the duke availed himself of guidance though with a perfect independence in action the had the unusual wisdom to know the right time for giving up the reins and thus maintained her authority as far as the weight of her character was calculated to give it of her was thinking when he wrote the admirable woman is she who if the husband dies can be a father to the children the duke seems to have been one of those characters which are best known by the impression their personal presence makes on us resembling an and force rather than wearing the features of an individuality describes him as is gifted with an instinctive spontaneous force which at once without calculation or foresight chooses the right means to an end as these beings do not calculate so is their influence their repose has as much influence over other beings as their action even as the thunder cloud lying black and distant in the summer sky is not less imposing than when it bursts and gives forth its quick such men were and they had also distinct talents but their influence was from a perception in the minds of men of this spontaneous energy in their natures sometimes though rarely we see such a man in an obscure position circumstances have not led him to a large sphere he may not have expressed in words a single thought worth but by his eye and voice he rules all around him he stands upon his feet with a firmness and calm security which make other men seem to halt and in their gait in his deep eye is seen an infinite comprehension an infinite reserve of power no accent of his voice is lost on any ear within hearing and when he speaks men hate or fear perhaps the disturbing power they feel but never dream of but hear himself the boy believed in nature in the and the intelligent and unconscious to discover somewhat which manifested itself only through contradiction and therefore not be comprehended by any conception much less by a word it was not divine for it seemed without reason not human because without understanding not devilish because it worked to good not because it betrayed a love of mischief it was like chance in that it proved no it suggested the thought of providence because it indicated to this all our seem it seemed to play at will with all the elements of our being it compressed time and dilated
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tc in the are intimately connected with known genuine history or bear in and of probability that the while he tin form may retain the as the ia the moat to and i s only a negative when the ia l on the one as to the possibility of its being a detail of and when on the other it no attempt a particular thought it may im that the entire owes its birth to the imagination ot the poet remarks on the and spontaneous of in gi the which ia with the matters of fact in the is not he er es the product of design and invention it has on the contrary l in of itself as it were en the c of time and in the course of and speaking of philosophical ht says the of antiquity in an not only in o ideas to the ap jn hi of a � l who must w an by i i le but also on ou n ai m i in di ideas and ill ability to give � n to ir dim they t to wliat was obscure in n by means of w c i tliat the mode of the old iv could ho only so long a t the � were to be or so the it those and others who this who the view of the sacred histories c opinion that the h of in could bo rightly understood t it were they are not the of an eye witness bat are a of traditions their in being admitted we to surprised at the traces which they of a subsequent age at together with other and at tlie twilight hangs many of the an i at ii m that the of the u not old during their passage through the wilderness contend tliat wc a great of the marvellous contained in tlie to tradition we do violence to of the of der in g stock it� t m l die a m r im did � a s mo if explanation waa still more hy by al of a large ot la to lost the a � he says wc intention if the if tliat be not to satisfy the t tor by n of ii but la delight or the or to some al or truth then i narrative no lo ui of strictly hi t li t of view may not be lie historical be may be a poetical not indeed as a drawing from bat as by and depending on poetry to himself is evidently the case the details aa tide matter of things which are and which are contrary not only to experience bnt to the laws of nature of this description spring out of tradition tradition says is and partial its tendency is not but rather patriotic and and since the sentiment is gratified by hu that national pride the more tjie more honourable the more i n re e il it is and where tradition has i any nt steps in and them up and since he a gi eat part of the historical books of old bear this it been believed possible on the of the natural to separate the and from the substance and still to consider them as of this might indeed be done liad wc besides the ni some other purely historical account of events but tliis is not the case witli regard to old testament we arc solely dependent on those which wc cannot recognize as purely tliey con no by which to between the true und the false arc blended and set forth aa of j to ue the whole mode of explanation is set a by the only means ol with a history is the which we com it md beyond the cannot go in the case this reports to ns only a of events whidi wc must either receipt or reject if we it we determine to know nothing at all it aud arc not in allowing ourselves to invent a natural course of events which the i totally silent it is moreover and lo refer the dress in the of the old are clothed lo and to preserve the events i rather do the and the dress i� they i con a whole belonging to the pi of and l or � do u � � s it op tub point op if with be in the ot at im it ia that an � in to say no c il the hail a in mi ml in a or in ii waking vision in other that a ii iti he in the spirit of off to god � if the who thus k t knows such in s mind the them l if the w� know nothing � his of and know tliey id in him general t � re in this be of � land of not lit rally in mind it is i that tile i ii they had ih ome a in won of land i in order lo render ann t i i� by i a own er back to r who so employed the natural explanation in n to e ld tea lament perceived in to tlie in t i� sc a to the be we not to attempt to into a natural occurrence because ia violence if once an event acquired a miraculous owing to the of some notion tim occurrence the natural fact can be only we a second account not ne like a concerning tl e death of have not the narrative in the acts but also tliat of t � we have no account concerning the of critic to the natural course of from ri � lion of will only a of se � a which as en ea at once many of tho of tlie histories it ia difference the natural and mj of which to point out
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de it s much prettier than captain then as i remained silent she said from something let fall to night you would appear to be giving your mind to sin may be clasped so close with as first lieutenant why not i said though i could not wonder at the difficulty found in her eyes to my new of life one might do worse � and indeed as i looked at her i how very much worse in the past i had done yet it was only because at one time everything had bored me while she bored me less than others that i had frequented her society look here i said you may sneer as you like but i have cut the old life and i want you to cut it also start some healthy interest some even � think of other people instead of yourself you will make jealous she said with a look that made ugly the little pallid high bred face now you know that is a lie i said quietly and is no better than she said furiously no � but never took consolation � you have � of which you are taking away the greatest she said and closed her eyes and leaned her fair head back against the chair looking so beautiful that had it been only a few weeks ago i should have kissed her i don t think we can blame each other i said you had i o the quarrelled with and we just drifted together a careless woman a bad careless man � but all that s over for my ideas of life and duty have undergone a radical change because you loved me she said timidly but now you think it was � wrong there was no love in our bond i said there never is in the yet gross of our kind there was in mine she said your very wretchedness i said proves that you are fitted for something better no she said frankly my despair is only because you are leaving me td be good if i had you near me paul and she stretched a hand to stroke my hair but i drew it down and held it fast with its fellow in mine poor little girl i said all that s over � pull yourself together � i want helping up as much as you do � for god s sake don t let us kick each other down it s no good paul she said oh we can all do without a break the thing we have set ourselves to do till a tremendous temptation comes and throws the whole machine out of gear � on our link � which breaks don t you think i know that s feeling for is a finer thing than yours ever was for me because she is a finer woman than i am but as i am so must i remain � sin may be clasped so close no no i cried make this a beginning take no new lover forget yourself try to do a little good in the world � and i will help you hates me she said no � but she has lived her own starved life so bravely that when she sees women with everything they want yet who want more she is angry a beast she said sullenly and as i said before every bit as bad as no � for is a gentleman � is not but come � it is twelve o clock and is always up with the lark yet as we passed through the endless it was of i was thinking not of the scorn that would have flashed in her great brown eyes could she have heard the conversation that had just taken place when we reached the green drawing room it was empty and our side by side in the hall looked reproach at us don t you see them pointing at us like and s virtuous fingers said scornfully good night mr teacher and dreams to you good night i answered and as she vanished murmured i said � and meant her hair chapter xvii we cannot see its face and i kept in touch with curly through flying visits to usually for week ends and through nurse grace who wrote me frequently these letters were human documents that often moved to tears for never was there such devotion such splendour of love on either side as this poor mother and her son and while he made as brave a fight as gay a show as ever each hid from the other their one aim and his that no abrupt turn in his illness should deprive her of her one joy in tending and beholding him � hers that he might die quickly and so be spared the last lingering and stages and so night and morning the one prayed for life and the other for death and each thought nurse grace blind to the working of their hearts yet in spite of her for the gallant boy i think this was the happiest time had known for years especially as the servants had been going on fairly well managing them we cannot see its face selves so that as put it there was peace in ell and for the first time she had to bestow as i had so far taken her into my confidence that she knew she was using another man s money not mine i had written to tom and received a reply from him he knew now that i had put my hand to the plough and there was to be no looking back but our letters were carefully in mine i mentioned my schemes and announced the death of general h well the last stages of whose illness had been cut short by heart failure to the great happiness of his widow and satisfaction of his
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yard together if you give me any trouble about going with me as you agreed i shall just put you out of the wagon you understand in the first woods we come to and drive on alone � that s all they call at a lawyer s office the interior looked at his frame and noticed the cool and determined manner with which he spoke and concluded that his wisest course was to submit why said if i said upon my honor i suppose i must go but i wish you d listen to reason and go off i could get you out of harm s way in eight and forty hours m made no reply and mounting their wagon they rode on after a few hours they arrived at the town their place of destination and by m s direction drove up to the door of a small square building by the side of the road in the middle of the village opposite to it was a handsome dwelling with a certain correspondence between its appearance and that of the office which indicated they were but parts of one establishment remained at the door with his horse while m went into the office the door opened at once into a small room which small as it was occupied the whole interior of the building a table was before the fire with newspapers of letters and bills and sundry law books lying upon it a few shelves of books all in law calf were against the wall on one side and over the wooden mantle piece were nailed to the wooden holding and and letters of uncouth shapes and coarse at a desk by a window sat a very respectable looking man of elderly appearance writing it was in fact our old friend squire how do you do sir said he addressing the stranger take a seat m sat down in a chair near the table and laid his hat by his side upon the floor isn t it mr m continued the lawyer yes squire replied m i suppose i shall want some of your help the cliffs of conversation in the office with lawyer i am surprised to see you here sir i understood there were some proceedings against you yes and i want every thing to be done lawful and thought i should like to get you to look after my case have you got yes � leg said m coolly what made your escape asked the lawyer with a look of much surprise and interest no they have not got me yet not arrested then how dare you be about here why to tell the truth squire i am tired of this kind of life i am guilty and i have concluded to deliver myself up and i want you to look after my case a little just to see that all is fair but mr m said the lawyer hesitating and looking upon his with surprise this is a strange business i don t know that you are under any obligation to deliver yourself up in this way i don t do it because there is any obligation what then because i am tired of this kind of life and i want to have the punishment over and then begin again new squire looked at him a moment in silence he scarcely knew what to make of such an application after a short pause m resumed and gave him an account of his first escape his retreat at the cliffs his sickness the visit and conversation of the doctor and his subsequent determination to settle up his affairs as he called it entirely and forever squire sat in silence slowly with his the top of his and occasionally looking up at the speaker when he concluded there was another pause at length suddenly looking up he said but why then head mr promises to attend to m s case have you left home at all why didn t you stay and allow yourself to be arrested there because replied the criminal i want to have it plainly understood that give myself up of my own accord when i was entirely at liberty do you suppose i would stay there to be taken like a rat in a trap n here was another pause at length the lawyer laid down his pen and looking up to his said with the air and tone of concluding the conversation well mr m i don t see but you are right � that is if you are sincere and i suppose i have no reason to think you are not i believe you judge wisely it is the only way by which you can lay any solid foundation for peace of mind and happiness when your sentence shall have expired you can begin anew as you have said otherwise you would have impending for a burden on your mind all the rest of your days as a lawyer perhaps i should have given you different advice but as a man i believe you have judged right to suffer the penalty is the easiest and shortest way to the terrible consequences of crime and mr m he continued it is very well for you that there is another way for you to seek the of your sins against god yes sir said m taking up his hat i know there is and that is what put it into my head to give up bad courses and be a new man and i am in earnest about it so i may depend upon you when my case comes on he added going toward the door certainly replied the lawyer the disappeared from the room and the noise of the wagon moving from the door gave notice of his departure the lawyer shook his head as he returned to his work he seems to have some idea of justification through the cliffs
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dogs on several each of beans a day would travel slowly nevertheless the men who travelled with them on a pinch would have the dogs themselves to eat but the men who remained when the pinch came would have no dogs it was for this reason that daylight and took the more desperate chance they could not do less nor did they care to do less the days passed and the winter began into the spring that comes like a of suddenness it was the spring of that was preparing each day the sim rose farther east of south remained longer in the sky and set farther to the west march ended and april began and daylight and lean and wondered what had become of their two comrades every ia burning in generous for good measure the time was long since past when they should have returned without doubt they had met with disaster the party had considered the possibility of disaster for one man and that had been the principal reason for the two in directions but that disaster should have come to both of them was the final blow in the meantime hoping against hope daylight and out a meagre existence the had not yet begun so they were able to gather the snow about the ruined and melt it in pots and and gold allowed to stand for a while when off a thin deposit of was foimd on the of the vessels this was the the trace of it scattered through thousands of yards of snow also in this occurred at intervals a water soaked tea leaf and there were in it fragments of earth and litter but the farther they worked away from the site of the the thinner became the trace of flour the smaller the deposit of was the older man and he weakened first so that he came to lie up most of the time in his an occasional tree kept them alive this fell upon daylight and it was hard work with but thirty of he dared not risk a miss and since his rifle was a he was compelled to shoot the small creatures through the head there were very few of them and days went by without seeing one when he did see one he took infinite precautions he would stalk it for hours a score of times with arms that shook from weakness he would draw a sight on the animal and refrain from pulling the his was a thing of iron he was the master not till absolute was his did he shoot no matter how sharp the pangs of and desire for that morsel of chattering life he refused to burning take the slightest risk of a miss he bom that he was was gambling in the bigger way his life was the stake his cards were the and he played as only a big could play with infinite care with infinite precaution with infinite consideration as a result he never missed each shot meant a and though days elapsed between shots it never changed his method of play of the nothing was lost even the skins were boiled to make the bones into fragments that could be and swallowed daylight through the snow and found occasional patches of at the best were composed practically of seeds and water with a tough of skin about them but the he found were of the preceding year dry and and the nourishment they contained on the quantity scarcely better was the bark of young for an hour and swallowed after prodigious april drew toward its close and spring smote the land the days stretched out their length under the heat of the sim the snow began to melt while from down imder the snow arose the of tiny streams for twenty four hours the wind blew and in that twenty four the snow was diminished fully a foot in depth in the late the melting snow again so that its became ice capable of supporting a man s weight tiny white snow birds appeared from the south lingered a day and their journey into the north once high in the air looking for open water and ahead of the season a of wild northward and down by the river bank a of dwarf into bud these yoimg seemed to possess an encouraging took heart of hope though he was cast down again when daylight failed to find another of b d burning the sap was rising in the trees and daily the ca unseen became louder as the frozen land came back to life but the river held in its bonds of frost winter had been long months in them and not in a day were they to be broken not even by the of spring may came and stray last year s but harmless crawled out of rock and rotten logs began to and more and ducks flew overhead and still the river held by may tenth the ice of the with a great and snapping tore loose from the banks and rose three feet but it did not go down stream the lower up to where the flowed into it must first break and move on until then the ice of the could only rise higher and higher on the increasing flood beneath when the would break was two thousand miles away it flowed into sea and it was the ice conditions of sea that would determine when the could rid itself of the millions of tons of ice that its breast on the twelfth of may carrying their sleeping robes a an axe and the precious rifle the two men started down the river on the ice their plan was to gain to the boat they had seen so that at the first open water they it and drift with the stream to sixty mile in their weak condition without food the going was slow
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truly termed mean the beach and of the pacific they infamous lives and added their own to the vices of the islands turning the district into a perfect sink of in which they were known by letter xv the early � such as the devil c the coming of the and the settlement of moral orderly on have slowly created a public opinion averse to and the outrageous license of former years would now meet with legal many of the old are dead and others have drifted to regions beyond influences but stiu the crowd is not considered up to the mark most of the present set of foreigners are englishmen who liave married native women it was in such quarters as this that the great influence to the complete of the natives was created and it is from suspicious sources that the on missionary work are usually derived has its own beauty � the grand plain the gigantic sweep of the mountain curves the incessant changes of colour and the morning view of with the pure snow on its ragged dome rose flushed in the early sunlight i don t agree with that happiness is atmosphere yet constant sunshine and a climate which never one with discomfort or ills certainly to cheerfulness i am quite interested with a native lady here the first i have met with who has been able to express her ideas in english she is extremely shrewd and intelligent very and a great she very cleverly the way in which white people express their admiration of scenery and in fact admiration of scenery for itself she evidently thinks us a worrying forlorn race we she said are q xv always happy we never grieve long about anything when any one dies we break our hearts for some days and then we are happy again we are happy all day long not like white people happy one moment gloomy another we ve no cares the days are too short what are always unhappy about perhaps she expresses the general feeling of her careless pleasure loving mirth loving people who whatever they dis obey fulfil the one take no thought for the morrow the of the beautiful i before wrote of is a favourite occupation of native women and they make all their own and their husbands clothes but making going into the woods to collect materials for them talking riding bathing visiting and otherwise amusing themselves take up the greater part of their time perhaps if we white women always wore of one shape we should have fewer gloomy moments i l b f xvi valley i am sitting at the door of a grass lodge at the end of all things for no one can pass ther by land than this huge lonely about thirty natives are sitting about me all staring laughing and chattering and i am the only person in the region we have all had a meal sitting round a large of and a fowl which was killed in my honour and in one of their stone i have forgotten my knife and have had to help after the primitive fashion of not without some fear for some of them i am sure are in an advanced stage of the brown limbs of one man are stretched across the mat the others are sitting cross legged making one man is making fishing lines of a beautifully white and fibre obtained from an plant possibly different from the new nearly all the people of the valley are outside having come to see the only one white woman and she of having been seen in before i am really alone miles of mountain and lie between me and the nearest this is a wonderful place a about three miles long and i three quarters of a mile wide without an means of being walled in by from to feet high five from the at its head and unite to form a placid river up to a horse s body here and deep enough for a horse to swim in a httle below dense forests of various shades of green fill up the greater part of the valley concealing the into which the leap and the grey of the is mostly hidden by at the open end two bald one of them feet in height the pacific and its load surf comes up to within one hundred yards of the house where i am writing but is off by a heaped up barrier of colossal hot and silent a sunset world of an endless afternoon it seems a palpable and living dream and a few of these people i understand have dreamed away their lives here never having been beyond their valley at least by land but it is a dream of ceaseless speech and rippling laughter they are the people i have yet seen and doubtless their isolated life is dear to them i wish i could sketch this most picturesque scene in the which is formed of two handsome youths and five women in green red and orange all with of round their hair are on the ground outside of this there is a pavement of large stones and in all colours and including some much old people crouching in red and yellow blankets sitting and lying there some are small dogs and a number of native curiosity lai e ones with a whole tribe of cats are picking bones surf boards i ad spurs gear and bundles of ti leaves are lying about thirteen horses are outside some of which brought the who escorted me triumphantly from the head of the valley the of the opposite are in the sunset and between them and me horses and children are constantly swimming across the broad still stream which the village into two parts and now and then a man in a and children who have come up the river swimming with their clothes
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and courtesy i am glad to have the chance i love nature are those wild ducks i see on the lake flying about oh yes we have lots of them they are not allowed to be shot that s why they come here we have too there is a whole flock of that comes here every winter i feed them right out here at the dock every day why where can they come from i asked this is a long way from the sea i know it he replied it is strange they come it a at forty over the from the i suppose you will see them on the too if you go there i don t know they come though sometimes they leave for four or five days or a week but they always come back the captain of the steamer tells me he thinks they go to some other lake they know me though when they come back in the fall and i go out to feed them they make a great fuss they are the same then the very same i had to smile those two ducks are great friends of mine too he went on referring to the two i had seen following him they always come up to the dock when i come out and when i come back from my row they come again oh they make a great clatter he looked at me and smiled in a pleased way the train which i at was a through express from to with special cars for paris and it was crowded with of a ruddy solid variety health warmth assurance defiance i never saw a more marked contrast than existed between these on the train and the local outside the latter seemed much paler and less by contrast though not less intellectual and certainly more refined one stout german lady with something like eighteen had made a veritable express room of her second class the average entitled to a seat beside her would take one look at her and pass on she was beyond any hope of successful attack i watched to see how the character of the people soil and climate would change as we crossed entering germany the frontier into germany every other country i had entered had presented a great contrast to the last after passing fifteen or twenty towns and small cities perhaps more we finally reached and there the crew was changed i did not know it being busy thinking of other things until an immense conductor appeared at the door and wanted to know if i was bound for i looked out it was just as i expected another world and another atmosphere had been for that of already the cars and were different heavier i thought more heavy german were in evidence the cars the vast majority of them here bore the of imperial germany � the wide winged black eagle with the crown above it painted against a white background with the inscription post a station master erect as a soldier very large with parted whiskers arrayed in a blue uniform and cap regulated the departure of trains the and of italy here became and and the of every italian station was here the endless german and es st also came into evidence we rolled out into a wide open flat plain with only the thin of france in evidence and no of any kind and then i knew that was truly no more if you want to see how the lesser countries vary from this greater one the dominant german empire pass this way from into germany or from germany into holland at as i have said we left the mountains for once and for all i saw but few frozen peaks after as we approached they seemed to grow less and less a at forty and beyond that we entered a flat plain as flat as and as as the valley which stretched unbroken from to and from to judging from what i saw the major part of germany is a vast as flat as a and as thickly strewn with orderly new bright towns as england is with quaint ones however now that i was here i observed that it was just these qualities which make germany powerful and the others weak such such force such universal truly it is amazing once you are across the border if you are at all sensitive to national or individual you can feel it vital glowing entirely superior and more ominous than that of or italy and often less pleasant it is very much like the heat and glow of a furnace germany is a great or it with the industry of a busy nation it has all the daring and assurance of a successful man it commands itself at every turn you would not want to witness greater variety of character than you could by passing from through france into germany after the and civility of the english and the lightness and spirit of france the blazing force and defiance of the comes upon you as almost the most amazing of all in spite of the fact that my father was german and that i have known more or less of all my life i cannot say that i admired the of the german empire the little that i saw of it half so much as i admired some of the things they had apparently achieved all the stations that i saw in germany were in order new bright well ordered big blue signs indicated just the things you wanted to know entering germany the station were exceedingly well built of red tile and white stone the tracks looked as though they were laid on solid ties the train ran as smoothly as if there were no in t anywhere and it ran swiftly i had to smile as occasionally on a platform � the
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the forward carriage repeated i told you to keep of her she went to the forward car with replied the porter be quick the train is starting in the forward carriage middle had only time to leap upon the middle carriage for the train was already in motion he is gone but he will soon return said o whose plan had worked far better he had dared to hope it would o o you have saved me again exclaimed trembling with emotion we have not a moment to spare added the young leading her to a train which was on the point of starting for seven miles distant and went only to this place in half an hour they were in but could easily trace them there the situation was full of difficulties for the villain would not go beyond the first station before he discovered that was not in the train and then he would follow her to o carefully studied a map he carried with him and having satisfied himself that his i ould trace him to he decided to take a carriage to a station ten miles distant on the railroad to who would be obliged to travel by carriage from the point where he left the train to would be at least two hours behind him and would be too late for the train going east o explained his plan to and engaged the vehicle at the railroad station for he did not care to his off the track but where are you going o asked the fair italian when they were seated in the carriage if we return to we shall encounter on the road if we wait for the train to rome he will be in before we leave if we take the train to where we are now going we shall be at at midnight then you are going to it seems to me that is tlie safest place to go for you will be among friends there i am acquainted with many people there besides the family of o i be at home there said with probably neither your uncle nor is there added o i have no doubt they are pursuing you from to and into egypt but will be at home and she will take care of me was delighted after all her wanderings with the idea of returning to the home of her good friend in they arrived at half an hour before the train for did not cross their path again he traced the to but he was too late for the train and the next one passed the station five hours later sunny shores or at midnight o with his fair who was entirely exhausted by fatigue obtained admission to the hospitable mansion of where his lady gave them a warm welcome as o supposed and with the count di ra were away in search of and the last news of them was tiiat they had sailed for egypt tlie young officer thought they were rather hasty in their movements for if they had looked up the case thoroughly in they might have ascertained that had returned to that city the next day a man was sent to to ascertain where and his nephew were and he brought back the intelligence that both of them had sailed for egypt some days before while the young lady was at breakfast called to see her and claimed possession of her as the agent of her legal guardian but would not permit him to see her before night at her he was under arrest charged with and conspiracy for which a month later he was convicted and to a long term of imprisonment for the present and until t ie return of was safe letters and were sent to egypt and to assure the absent ones of the return of the fair wanderer after a brief rest which he needed after the of his journey o returned to and joined the just as she was sailing for a overwhelmed him with the expressions of her gratitude at his departure and possibly he was very sorry that her engagement to the count di in italy and spoiled the romance so far as he was personally concerned the academy was at anchor hi the harbor of on the passage from mr had arranged his plan for the excursions to the lakes and the interior cities of italy the possession of the american prince the matter for the steamer could make the trip in six hours to however the wind might blow or fail to blow on the morning after tlie arrival of tlie at the watch of the prince went on shore and after seeing the city proceeded to thence to the lakes of and ma and staying from one to four days in each place and finishing the tour in the ship s company of the was then transferred to the steamer and she sailed for where she arrived at one o clock the s people were landed and after seeing the city visited all the places mentioned before in reverse order ending the journey at where their vessel in charge of the forward officers would wait to receive them the american prince immediately returned to reaching this port at eight o clock in tlie evening the next morning tlie port watch of the ship followed the and for the next two weeks kept one day them at daylight the same day the steamer sailed for again with the s ship s company on and they followed the s people one day behind them the sunny shores or american prince remained at port till the arrival of her ship s company during the and autumn tlie yellow fever prevailed veiy in and to some extent in the other eastern ports of spain which the academy was to visit next and the principal delayed his departure from for a couple of weeks
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know it at the time you know you wrote me just after i went out west but i always think of you as robinson � same s when we went to school together i married first with a sands but i lost him when we had only been married three years said without any appearance of regret and then i married of i ve been a widow country by ways now these fourteen years tie was a ship master and used to sail out o when i first met with him and after that he was master of the fleet wing out o boston for a good many years he was lost at she was never heard from after they left i wa n t left very well off we d had considerable sickness and his father and mother and a foolish sister made it their home with us and was considerable expense i always set a great deal by father though he was a real good man and be always did what he could he got frost bit down to the banks one winter and his hands and feet were crippled we had hard one spell but my boys and girls got so s they could work and then there wa ii t any more trouble i ve had a good deal to be thankful for but i ve seen the time i d a laid down and died i was so discouraged i live with my youngest daughter now and she s got as handsome a little farm as you ever see and a husband he s doing well too they are always thinking o things to please me both of em i ain t got a child i ve been sorry for and that s a good deal to say there s a sight of risk in up six of em but i want to know how it s been with you i see by the that your brother had been miss pilgrimage yes said miss with a sigh lie was a dreadful loss to me we d been together so many years and there never was a man like joseph any way he was known all through part of the west we d talked about coming on and it s real sad to come without him but i feel s if it was just what be d want me to do if he knew it i hoped i should see him stand up and preach in the old meeting house some of his sermons were thought a great deal of i could n t always understand the deeper thought in em said miss proudly we set a good many times to come on and we did get as far as new york once to the meetings of the american board and then somehow there was always some place we thought we must go to first out west it ain t that we ve stayed right in the same place all these years she explained my brother used to travel about a good deal seems to me coming back this way i miss him more than ever i keep thinking o things i ought to tell him when i get back to it s been right hard to get reconciled then you re not coming back to settle asked mrs i thought first that perhaps you was there we re a getting into but i don t suppose i should know my way round lived here long of my first husband and i always liked the country by ways u t remember coming when i was a young girl to stop with my aunt for a spell over on the shore we ve got to go across the river have n t we i should n t wonder if you could see the house my alive how good and fresh the salt water smells don t it i declare how it car me back exclaimed miss the wind must have come round into the east said mrs wisely it was a little north of west when i started this morning and i thought i should have a good day but then we re going right back into the country who are you expecting to stop with i wrote to cousin because i ve been in the habit of hearing from her every year and one of her sons is living west and has stopped with us several times i did n t get any answer for i started off pretty sudden i found i was going to have company as far as i can go to the tavern if it don t seem to be convenient for i don t know but it would be just as well any way for i feel as ii i was almost a stranger i should n t mind the ex she added with a good deal of satisfaction i know they won t let you go to no folks will have altered a good deal if they have come to that exclaimed mrs in a miss s pilgrimage way that was gratifying you find more that is glad to see you than you ve any idea of if you don t find anybody a waiting for you you come right home with me to sister s and then they take you over to s after tea or in the morning just as you are a mind to you know it s right on the way there and won t think nothing of � our stopping long of me as we fell in with each other in the cars but it seemed very lonely to miss who was tired with her long journey and she became uncertain of her reception and almost wished she had not undertaken the pilgrimage she began to understand how changed the place must be and how little it would be like the she had left and
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judge him sir as you would judge others outside the gates he has been there so long i never saw him outside but i can understand that he must have grown different in some things since my thoughts will never be unjust or harsh towards him believe me not she said with a air as the evidently crept upon her that she might seem to be him not that he has anything to be ashamed of for himself or that i have anything to be ashamed of for him he only requires to be understood i only ask for him that his life may be fairly remembered all that he said was quite true it all happened just as he related it he is very much respected everybody who comes in is glad to know him he is more than any one else he is far more thought of than the is if ever pride were innocent it was innocent in little when she grew of her father it is often said that his manners are a true gentleman s and quite a study i see none like them in that place but he is admitted to be superior to all the rest this is quite as much why they make him presents as because they know him to be he is not to be blamed for being in need poor love who could be in prison a quarter of a century and be prosperous what affection in her words what compassion in her repressed tears what a great soul of fidelity within her how true the light that shed false brightness round him if i have found it best to conceal where my home is it is not because i am ashamed of him god forbid nor am i so much ashamed of the place itself as might be supposed people are not bad because they come there i have known numbers of good honest people come there through misfortune they are almost all kind hearted to one another and it would be ungrateful indeed in me to forget that i have had many quiet comfortable hours there that i had an excellent friend there when i was quite a baby who was very little fond of me that i have been taught there and have worked there and have slept soundly there i think it would be almost cowardly and cruel not to have some little attachment for it after all this she had relieved the faithful fulness of her heart and modestly said raising her eyes to her new friend s i did not mean to say so much nor have i ever but once spoken about this before but it seems to set it more right than it was last night i said i wished you had not followed me sir i don t wish it so much now unless you should think � indeed i don t wish it at all unless i should have spoken so that � that you can scarcely understand me which i am afraid may be the case he told her with perfect truth that it was not the case and putting himself between her and the sharp wind and rain sheltered her as well as he could i feel permitted now he said to ask you a little more concerning your father has he many oh a great number i mean who keep him where he is oh yes a great number can you tell me � i can get the information no doubt elsewhere if you cannot � who is the most influential of them said after considering a little that she used to hear long ago of mr i as a man of great power he was a or a board or a or something he lived in square she thought or very near it he was under government � high in the office she appeared to have acquired in her infancy some awful impression of the might of this formidable mr of square or very near it and the office which quite crushed her when she mentioned him it can do no harm thought arthur if i see this mr the thought did not present itself so quietly but that her quickness it ah said little shaking her head with the mild despair of a lifetime many people used to think once of getting my poor father out but you don t know how hopeless it is she forgot to be shy at the moment in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising and looked at him with eyes which assuredly in association with her patient face her fragile figure her spare dress and the wind and rain did not turn him from his purpose of helping her i even if it could be done said she � and it never can be done now � where could father live or how could he live i have often thought that if such a change could come it might be anything but a service to him now people might not think so well of him outside as they do there he might not be so gently dealt with outside as he is there he might not be so fit himself for the life outside as he is for that here for the first time she could not restrain her tears from falling and the little thin hands he had watched when they were so busy trembled as they clasped each other it would be a new distress to him even to know that i earn a little little money and that a little money he is so anxious about us you see feeling helplessly shut up there such a good good father he let the little of feeling go by before he spoke it was soon gone she was not accustomed to think of herself or to trouble any one
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for others that is all but i have noticed lying at my station below the ford that the stairs of the new bridge are cruelly hard to climb both for old people and young children the old indeed are not so worthy of consideration but i am grieved � i am truly grieved on account of the fat children still i think in a little while when the of the bridge has worn away we shall see my people s bare brown legs bravely through the ford as before then the old will be honored again but surely i saw wreaths floating off the edge of the only this noon said the wreaths are a sign of reverence all india over an error � an error it was the wife of the she loses her year by year and cannot tell a log from me � the of the i saw the mistake when she threw the for i was lying at the very foot of the and had she taken another step i might have shown her some little differ the second book ence yet she meant well and we must consider the spirit of the offering what good are wreaths when one is on the rubbish heap said the hunting for but keeping one wary eye on his protector of the poor true but they have not yet begun to make the rubbish heap that shall carry me five times have i seen the river draw back from the village and make new land at the foot of the street five times have i seen the village on the banks and i shall see it built yet five times more i am no fish hunting i at to day and to morrow as the saying is but the true and constant of the ford it is not for nothing child that the village bears my name and he who watches long as the saying is shall at last have his reward have watched long � very long � nearly all my life and my reward has been and blows said the ho ho ho roared the ih august was the born the rains fell in september now such a fearful flood as this says he i can t remember the there is one very unpleasant peculiarity about the at uncertain times he suffers from acute attacks of the or in his legs and though he is more virtuous to behold than any of the who are all immensely respectable he flies off into wild war dances half opening his wings and his bald head up and down while for reasons best known to himself he is very careful to time his worst attacks with his remarks at the last word of his song he came to attention again ten times than before the though he was full three seasons old but you cannot resent an insult from a person with a a yard long and the power of driving it like a the was a most notorious coward but the was worse we must live before we can learn said the and there is this to say little are very common child but such a as i am is not common for all that i am not proud since pride is destruction but take notice it is fate and against his fate no one who or walks or runs should say anything at all i am well contented with fate with good luck a keen eye and the custom of considering whether a the second book creek or a has an to it ere you ascend much may be done once i heard that even the protector of the poor made a mistake said the true but there my fate helped me it was before i had come to my full growth � before the last famine but three by the right and left of how full used the streams to be in those days yes i was young and and when the flood came who so pleased as i a little made me very happy then the village was deep in flood and i swam above the and went far inland up to the rice fields and they were deep in good mud i remember also a pair of glass they were and troubled me not a little that i found that evening yes glass and if my memory serves me well a shoe i should have shaken off both shoes but i was hungry i learned better later yes and so i fed and rested me but when i was ready to go to the river again the flood had fallen and i walked through the mud of the main street who but i came out all my people priests and women and children and i looked upon them with benevolence the mud is not a good place to fight in said a get and kill him for he is the of the the ford not so said the look he is driving the flood before him he is the of the village then they threw many flowers at me and by happy thought one led a goat across the road how good � how very good is goat said the hairy � too hairy and when found in the water more than likely to hide a cross shaped hook but that goat i accepted and went down to the in great honor later my fate sent me the who had desired to cut off my tail with an axe his boat upon an old which you would not remember we are not all here said the was it the made where the sank in the year of the great � a long that lasted three floods there were two said the an upper and a lower ay i forgot a channel divided them and later dried up again said the who himself on his memory
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must have everybody must have i returned h thank you master said for that remark it is so true as i am i know it is so true i oh thank you master he himself quite off his stool in the excitement of his feelings and being off began to make arrangements for going home mother will be expecting me he said referring to a pale faced watch in his pocket and getting uneasy for though we are very master we are much attached to one another if you would come and see us any afternoon and take a cup of tea at our lowly dwelling mother would be as proud of your company as i should be i said i should be glad to come thank you master returned putting his took away upon a shelf � i suppose you stop here some time master i said i w as going to be brought up there i believed as long as i remained at school oh indeed exclaimed i should think i ou would come into the business at last master i protested that i had no views of that sort and that no such scheme was entertained in my behalf by anybody but insisted on replying to all my assurances oh yes master i should think you would indeed and oh indeed master i should think you would certainly over and over again being at last ready to leave the office for the night he asked me if it would suit my convenience to have the light put out and on my answering yes instantly extinguished it after shaking hands with me � his hand felt like a fish in the dark � he opened the door into the street a very little and crept out and shut it leaving me to my way back into the house which cost me some trouble and a fall over his stool this was the cause i suppose of my di about him for what appeared to me to be half the night and dreaming among other things that he had launched mr s house on a expedition with a black flag at the mast head bearing the inscription s practice under which he was carrying me and little em ly to the spanish main to be drowned i got a little the better of my uneasiness when i went to school next day and a good deal the better next day and so shook it off by degrees that in less than a fortnight i was quite at home and happy among my new companions i was awkward enough in their games and backward enough in their studies but custom would improve me in the first respect i hoped op david and hard work in the second accordingly i went to work very hard both in play and in earnest and gained great and in a very little while the and life became so strange to me that i hardly believed in it while my present life grew so familiar that i seemed to have been leading it a long time doctor strong s was an school as different from mr s as good is from evil it was very gravely and ordered and on a sound system with an appeal in everything to the honour and good faith of the boys and an intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it which worked wonders we all felt that we had a part in the management of the place and in its character and dignity hence we soon became warmly attached to it � i am sure i did for one and i never knew in all my time of any other boy being otherwise � and learnt with a good will desiring to do it credit we had noble games out of hours and plenty of liberty but even then as i remember we were well spoken of in the town and rarely did any disgrace by our appearance or manner to the reputation of doctor strong and doctor strong s boys some of the higher scholars in the doctor s house and through them i learnt at second hand some particulars of the doctor s history � as how he had not yet been married twelve months to the beautiful young lady i had seen in the study whom he had married for love as she had not a sixpence and had a world of poor relations so our fellows said ready to swarm the doctor out of house and home also how the doctor s manner was to his being always engaged in looking out for greek roots which in my innocence and ignorance t supposed to be a on the doctor s part especially as he always looked at the ground when he walked about � until i understood that they were roots of words with a view to a new dictionary which he had in contemplation our head boy who had a turn for had made a calculation i was informed of the time this dictionary would take in on the doctor s plan and at the doctor s rate of going he considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty nine years counting from the doctor s last or sixty second birthday the doctor himself was the idol of the whole school and it must have been a badly composed school if he had been anything else for he was the kindest of men with a simple faith in him that might have touched the stone hearts of the very upon the wall as he walked up and down that part of the court yard which was at the side of the house with the stray and looking after him with their heads cocked as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he if any
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jl s life ik letter cure they kindly say that if the snow me here they also will remain they tell me that they were when i arrived as they thought that they could not make me comfortable and that i had never been used to do anything for myself and then we each other all round to morrow weather permitting i set off for a ride of miles and my next letter will be my last from the j thk letter a home � intense gold � a purple san � a grim jest � a perilous ride � frozen eyelids � long mount � the � hardships of life � a s the little � and jim s lower ton once again here in and society with harmonious voices about me and dear sweet loving children whose winning ways make this cabin a true english home england with all thy faults i love thee still i can truly say where er i whatever i see my heart fondly turns to thee if it a little in the islands it is true to the pole surely one advantage of travelling is that while it much prejudice against foreigners and their customs it one s appreciation of the good at home and above all of the and purity of english domestic life these reflections are forced upon me by the sweet child voices about me and by the exquisite consideration and tenderness which the a lady s life in xvi atmosphere some would call it the atmosphere of this house but with the bare hard life and the bare bleak mountains around who could find fault with even a atmosphere if it can such a flower of paradise as sacred human love the is eleven degrees below and i have to keep my ink on the stove to prevent it from the cold is intense � a clear brilliant cold so dry that even in my flannel riding dress i do not suffer from it i must now take up my narrative of the which have all the interest of to me we all got up before daybreak on tuesday and at seven i have not seen the dawn for some time with its fires deepening red and the snow peaks flushing one by one and it seemed a new miracle it was a west wind and we all thought it promised weu i took only two pounds of luggage some the mail bag and an additional blanket under my saddle i had not been up from the park at sunrise before and it was quite glorious the purple depths of m s from which at a height of feet you look down on the park feet below lying in a red haze with its needle shaped peaks framed by dark with pines � my glorious solitary unique mountain home i the purple sun rose in front had letter the rocky mountains i known what made it purple i should certainly have gone no farther then clouds the morning mist as i supposed lifted themselves up rose lighted showing the sun s as purple as one of the in a s window and having permitted this glimpse of their king came down again as a dense mist the wind round and the mist began to hard soon and myself were a mass of it was a true fog i galloped on hoping to get through it unable to see a yard before me but it and i was obliged to into a trot as i rode on about four miles from the cabin a human figure looking gigantic like the of the with long hair white as snow appeared close to me and at the same moment there was the flash of a pistol close to my ear and i recognised mountain jim frozen from head to foot looking a century old with his snowy hair it was ugly altogether certainly a s grim jest and it was best to accept it as such though i had just cause for displeasure he and dragged me off the pony � for my hands and feet were with cold � took the bridle and went off at a rapid stride so that i had to run to keep them in sight in the darkness for we were oflf the road in a thicket of looking like white branch coral i knew where then we came suddenly on his cabin and a lady s life in letter dear old white like all else and the insisted on my going in and he made a good fire and heated some coffee raging all the time he said everything against my going forward except that it was dangerous all he said came true and here i am safe your letters however everything but danger and i decided on going on when he said i ve seen many foolish people but never one so foolish as you � you haven t a grain of sense why i an old wouldn t go down to the plains to day i told him he could not though he would like it very much for that he had turned his horses loose on which he laughed heartily and more heartily still at the stories i told him of young so that i have still a doubt how much of the dark moods i have lately seen was assumed he took me back to the track and the interview which began with a pistol shot ended quite pleasantly it was an ride one not to be forgotten though there was no danger i could not recognise any every tree was and the fir tree of needles looked like white tlie snow lay a foot deep in the with its hard smooth surface marked by the feet of innumerable birds and beasts ice bridges had formed across all the streams and i crossed them without knowing when looked the rocky mountains
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more and more when you ve folks one mile you like to see em try to go the next themselves � not sit right down in the road had said more than once and not without reason poor mary had sheltered her behind various which had excused her from active in the world s affairs though when anything was going forward in which she cared for any reason to join it had often been noticed that she would step forward with the best a funeral had such attractions for her that nothing short of her own death bed would divert her attention or keep her at home she had vast of strength and will but she passed most of a farmer her time in an complaining state her house was forlorn and her boys had grown used to her feeble and appeals and rarely took much notice of what she said except to escape from the and scolding as soon as they could there was a good deal in her life which was pitiable but still more for which one might blame her and it was her house with its dreary shaded bit of land to which the once busy old farmer had fled for refuge the trees that henry had planted had grown too in that damp place and the grass underneath was all in coarse mixed with a rank growth of leaves beside a fine nursery of young which that summer had started up in a corner mr felt more and more and disturbed all the way and the drive to the mills seemed very long and hot he had little to say to his companion though he sometimes commented upon the different fields and pastures that skirted the roads one neighbor s potatoes and another s corn looked strong and flourishing he took note of them with i m done � i m done he said once or twice half to himself he stopped at last at his daughter s door and while his companion took the a farmer little trunk down from the wagon he went in search of the mistress of the house there was a strong of in the darkened close front room and a voice asked feebly who was there i ve come to stop with you for a spell answered the old man i have been laid up and not good for much of anything and she carried too many guns for me and i thought perhaps you might like to have ny there was a pathetic attempt at joking which would have touched the heart of a stone and mary was quick to catch at this advantage over her sister and rose slowly from her couch the old man s eyes were blinded at coming into this darkness from the glare of sunlight without and he could not see a yard before him he already felt and would have given anything if he had not brought trunk which was just now set down on one end heavily in the entry just behind him i m real pleased to see you though i wish you had come last week when i could have enjoyed you more i don t know when i have been so well in health as i was last week but to day i am so troubled with in my head that i can hardly live i do know what there is for dinner i told the boys they must pick up a lunch somehow or other for i could n t go near a stove the heat of it would kill a farmer me we will get along somehow though she added more cheerfully suddenly of the man from the farm and anxious that he should not carry hack anything hut a good report of her father s reception i declare it does me good to see you and she came forward and gave her guest unwelcome as he had heen the moment before a most affectionate kiss for all that when washington had driven away down the street to do some errands at the stores for before he went home mr watched him sadly from the door and felt as if he had burnt his ships behind him but his daughter was very cheerful all that day and it seemed to him in the evening as if he had done the right thing he would not look upon it as a permanent change by any means but what could be more likely than that not being quite fit for work he should come to pay a visit to his younger daughter he imagined that everybody would wonder at his being there and for it to every one who came in he received a good deal of attention for a time being well known in his county and much respected and he had long talks with mrs who dearly liked conversation and together they recalled people and events of years before and the virtues of mrs a farmer who had been a busy and soul of better sense and deeper affections than either of her daughters the farmer was fond of saying in your mother s day when he spoke to his children indeed the later years of his life had been a sad contrast to the earlier though he had not felt the change and loss half so keenly until the last few months when he could no longer spend an almost strength and energy in the ceaseless round and routine of his work was not over fond of hearing her mother s day referred to and resented the implied superiority to her own but during the first of the visit mary and her father talked about the good woman to their hearts content and mr said that it seemed more than the old place itself ever did nowadays s child was not a pleasant boy and he tired and fretted his grandfather in a miserable way
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the great heat past the breeze had died away and in the stillness the largest of the islands looked lovely as it lay in the golden light between us and the sun forest covered to its steep summit its rocky running out into calm deep green water and forming almost by shores of white coral sand backed by dense groves of palms whose shadows lay dark upon the sea here and there a house in the shade indicated man and his doings but it was all silent on a high steep point there is a small clearing on which stands a mat with an roof and below this there is a mat police station but it was all desolate nothing stirred and though we had intended to spend the early hours of the night at the we only lay a short time in the deep shadow upon the clear green water watching scarlet fish playing in the coral forests and the exquisite beauty of the island with its dense foliage in dark relief against the cool sky peace over the quiet shores heavy the golden of night blooming plants wrapped us round the sun sank suddenly the air became cool it was a dream of beauty those sounds seemed to have something them with the tragedy of which the peaceful looking was lately the scene and of which you have doubtless read a chinese gang down upon the house from behind beating and shouting captain got up to see what was the matter and was by a calling out to his wife for his revolver this had been abstracted and the locks had been taken off his pieces the fled to the in the confusion taking with her the three children the youngest only four weeks old the wretches then mrs s skull with the and having stunned mrs who was visiting her they pushed the senseless bodies imder the bed and were preparing to set fire to it when something made them depart no more is likely to be known the police must either have been cowardly or treacherous the called the next day and brought the corpse mrs whose reason was and mrs on here it is supposed that the chinese secret societies have justice a wretch is to be hanged here for the crime this morning on his own confession but it is believed that he was doomed to sacrifice himself by one of these societies in order to screen the real the contrast was awful between the island looking so lovely in the evening light and this horrid deed which has it the approaches close to the but the of had given place to lofty forest covered and a white coral strand fringed with palms it was a lovely night the north letter xvii a sunrise east was fresh and steady and the stars were glorious it was very hot below but when i went up on deck it was cool and in the coloured dawn we were just running up to the island group of which is the chief and reached the channel which it from island just at sunrise all these islands are wooded and have rocky shores the high mountains of the native state of close the view to the north and on the other side of a very narrow channel are the palm groves and sugar of province the island looked beautiful in the morning with its houses under the and the island of with its lofty peak dense woods and shores fringed with palms each with its drawn up on the beach looked impressive enough the fierce glory of a sunrise is ever a new delight it is always the sun of the nineteenth with the prevailing yellow colour of the eastern sky in one spot a cool lingering freshness a deepening of the yellow east into a brilliant rose colour tiu suddenly like a glory the broad sun wheels above the horizon the dew bathed earth the air is with vitality all things which rejoice in light and heat come forth night birds and night retire and we pale people hastily put up our to avoid being in less than ten minutes from the first appearance of the sun from the or palm is the proper name of the island but out of compliment to george iv it was called prince of wales island is the name of the capital but by an odd we call the town and spell it with an e instead of an i there were a great many ships and at anchor and the huge p and steamer and there was the golden a state of universal hurry and excitement for a large number of the officials of the government and of the protected states are here to meet sir w the governor who is on his way home on leave there are little studies of human nature going on all round most people have to grind there are people pushing rival claims some wanting promotion others leave some frank and above board in their ways others descending to mean acts to gain favour or the good reputation of their neighbours everybody wanting something and usually as it seems at the expense of somebody else mr who had got up his men in most imposing costume the close to the and at once went on board with the with the gold and presented by the of in the meantime the governor sent for me to breakfast on board and i was obliged to go among clean trim people without having time to change my travelling dress on deck i was introduced by the governor to mr low the in who has arranged for my thither and to mr the assistant i was so glad that i had no claims of my own to push when i saw the many and anxious faces i sat next sir william robinson at breakfast and found him most kind
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to be suspected of it mrs general gravely inclined her head i cannot therefore put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if i can render them but which i could not render in mere return for any consideration neither do i know how or where to find a case parallel to my own it is peculiar no doubt but how then mr not hinted could the subject be approached i cannot object said mrs general � though even that is disagreeable to me � to mr s in confidence of my friends here what amount they may have been accustomed at intervals to pay to my credit at my mr bowed his permit me to add said mrs general that beyond this i can never resume the topic also that i can accept no second or inferior position if the honor were proposed to me of becoming known to mr s family � i think two daughters were mentioned two daughters i could only accept it on terms of perfect equality as a companion protector and friend mr in spite of his sense of his importance felt as if it would be quite a kindness in her to accept it on any conditions he almost said as much i think repeated mrs general two daughters were mentioned two daughters said mr again it would therefore said mrs general be necessary to add a third more to the payment whatever its amount may prove to be which my friends here have been accustomed to make to my mr lost no time in referring the delicate question to the county and finding that he had been accustomed to pay three hundred pounds a year to the credit of mrs general arrived without any severe strain on his at the conclusion that he himself must pay four mrs general being an article of that surface which suggests that it is worth any money he made a formal proposal to be allowed to have the honor and pleasure of regarding her as a member of his family mrs general that high privilege and here she was in person mrs general including her skirts which had much to do with it was of a dignified and imposing appearance ample rustling gravely always upright behind the she might have been taken � had been taken � to the top of the and the bottom of without a fold in her dress os little a pin if her and hair had rather a appearance as though from living in some genteel mill it was rather because she was a creation altogether than because she mended her complexion with violet powder or had turned grey if her eyes had no expression it was probably because they had nothing to express if she had few wrinkles it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face a cool blown out woman who had never lighted well mrs general had no opinions her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions she had a little circular set of mental or rails on which she started little trains of other people s opinions which never overtook one another and never got anywhere even her propriety could not dispute that there was in the world but mrs general s way of getting rid of it was to put it out of sight and make believe that there was no such thing this was another of her ways of forming a mind � to all articles of difficulty into lock them up and say they had no existence it was the easiest way and beyond all comparison the mrs general was not to be told of anything shocking accidents miseries and were never to be mentioned before her passion was to go to sleep in the presence of mrs general and blood was to change to milk and water the little that was left in the world when all these were made it was mrs general s province to in that formation process of hers she dipped the smallest of into the largest of pots and the surface of every object that came under consideration the more cracked it was the more mrs general it there was in mrs general s voice in mrs general s touch an atmosphere of round mrs general s figure mrs general s dreams ought to have been � if she had any � lying asleep in the arms of the good saint with the snow falling on his house top chapter iii on the road the bright morning sun dazzled the eyes the snow had ceased the mists had vanished the mountain air was so clear and light that the new sensation of breathing it was like the having entered on a new existence to help the delusion the solid ground itself seemed gone and the mountain a shining waste of immense white heaps and masses to be a region of cloud floating between the blue sky above and the earth far below some dark in the snow like knots upon a little thread beginning at the door and winding away down the descent in broken which were not yet together where the little brethren were at work in several places clearing the track already the snow had begun to be foot again about the door were busily brought out tied to the rings in the wall and laden strings of bells were on burdens were adjusted the voices of drivers and sounded some of the earliest had even already resumed their journey and both on the level summit by the dark water near the and on the downward way of yesterday s ascent little moving figures of men and reduced to by the around went with a clear of bells and a pleasant harmony of tongues in the supper room of last night a new fire piled upon
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torrents against the windows and everything seemed to speak the of her situation to retire to bed however on such a point would be vain since sleep must be impossible with the consciousness of a cabinet so mysteriously closed in her immediate vicinity again therefore she applied herself to the key and after moving it in every way for some with the determined of hope s last effort the door suddenly yielded to her hand her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory and having thrown open each folding door the second being secured only by of less wonderful construction than the lock though in that her eye could not discern l o north anger abbey anything unusual a double range of small drawers appeared in view with some larger drawers above and below them and in the centre a small door closed also with lock and key secured in all probability a of importance s heart beat quick but her courage did not fail her with a cheek flushed by hope and an e straining with curiosity her � grasped the of a drawer and drew it forth it was entirely empty with less alarm and greater eagerness she seized a second a third a fourth � each was equally empty not one was left and in not one was anything found well read in the art of concealing a treasure the possibility of false to the did not escape her and she felt round each anxious in vain the place in the middle alone remained now and though she had u never from the first had the smallest idea of finding anything in any part of the cabinet and was not in the least disappointed at her ill 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 was her her quick eyes directly fell on a roll of paper pushed back into the further part of the for concealment and her feelings at that moment � indescribable her heart fluttered her knees and her cheeks grew pale she seized with an hand the precious manuscript for half a glance j to ascertain written and while she with awful sensations this striking ex of what henry had foretold resolved ri y to every line before she attempted to abbey l l the of the light her candle made her turn 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 it alas i it was and extinguished m one a lamp could not have expired with more awful effect for a few moments was motionless horror it was done completely not a remnant of light in the could give hope to the breath darkness impenetrable and filled the room a violent gust of wind rising with sudden fury added fresh horror to the moment trembled from head to foot in the pause which succeeded a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her ear human nature could support no more a cold sweat stood on her forehead the manuscript fell from her hand and groping her way to the bed she jumped hastily in and sought some of agony by creeping far underneath the clothes to close her eyes in sleep that night she felt must be entirely out of the question with a curiosity so justly awakened and feelings in every way so agitated repose must be absolutely impossible the storm too abroad so dreadful she had not been used to feel alarm from wind but now every blast seemed with awful intelligence the manuscript so wonderfully found so wonderfully the morning s how was it to be accounted for what could it contain to whom could it relate by what means could it have been so long concealed and how singularly strange that it should fall to her lot to discover it till she had made herself mistress of its contents however she could have neither repose nor comfort and with the sun s first rays she was determined to l it but many were the tedious hours which must yet she shuddered tossed about in her bed and envied every quiet the storm still raged and various were the noises more terrific even than the wind which struck at intervals on her startled ear the very curtains of her bed seemed at one moment in motion and at another the lock of her door was agitated as if by the attempt of somebody to enter hollow murmurs seemed to creep along the gallery and more than once her blood was chilled by the sound of distant hour after hour passed away and the wearied had heard three proclaimed by all the in the house before the tempest subsided or she fell fast asleep ji the s folding back her at eight o clock the next 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 consciousness of existence returned her recollection of the manuscript and springing from her bed in the very moment of the maid s going away she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow she now plainly saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the of wliat she had shuddered over in books for
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x ray and screen fixed in position relative to an interposed object it is evident that a straight line passing from the point of the to any point of the shadow cast on the screen must pass through the corresponding point of the object as in one plane in fig then as if the be moved into another position while the object remains stationary the same will hold true and another line be obtained which must pass through the same point of the object thus the of those two lines will determine the position of the point in question this applied to foreign bodies in the is the principle of the method first described by with the and sensitive plate set in definite known relation to each other two are made of the part the foreign body and between the two the is moved through a definite measured path parallel to the plate then the relative positions of and plate are and rays from the point of the in its two positions are represented by threads passing to two corresponding points of the shadows formed of the foreign body by the crossing of these threads is indicated the position in space of that point of the object relative to the plane of the plate during exposure to make possible this of the relative positions and to the ascertained position in space into terms which may direct a surgeon several points must be carefully attended to and several more or less complicated arrangements have been devised and two similar arrangements of a simple type for the special tables are also made some with a section and plate changing box below while the is set above the patient others allowing exposure with the below but the principle is the same in all on the plate in figures on the transparent part of the table or in the simplest arrangement on the plate are two cross wires at right angles and under these the plate must be placed so as to have their position on it in exposure of foreign bodies with the patient in position these wires leave on his skin f an must be made permanent either by previously the wires or by later tracing with an pencil the x ray must first be set with the above the crossing of the wires at a of about lo inches or the actual height may vary without affecting the result but when fixed the distance between the and the sensitive plate must be carefully measured and noted this of the may be assisted by use of a line or by the on the upright in i ig c which the latest form of the in that form the scale marked on the upright a convenient and method of measuring and the distance of the from the sensitive plate for this purpose the upright is at its base it is first set up on the plate or and the piece without the t in figure is set to the so that its two ends are in the same plane as the the height may then he read on the scale and noted but the upright should be removed without the position of the b the h k upright practical x ray work so that when its base is set on the as in the figure the position of the is directly the position of the foreign body having been observed by a previous the patient is now placed in position so that the object will lie somewhere near the centre of the area crossed by the wires those may be covered meanwhile by a board until the patient is placed and comfortably settled then the board removed place a coin or other mark such as an indicating number above the fig plate in one of the cross wires and mark the same on the patient s skin so as to prevent after confusion in the record the patient thus set move the x ray through a distance of as provided for on the arm of its this arm as in and must be set parallel to one of the cross wires so that the travel of the will be in the same plane the actual extent within limits of this movement like the height does not affect the final result provided that the distance be measured and noted so that it can be exactly later if the sensitive plate be not in position the may now be of foreign bodies and then the plate placed in position under the the plate being in position make a first then move the to a point other distance as noted on the other side of its central position and make a second exposure this second exposure may he made on the same plate as the first but is made on a fresh plate one plate may serve if the part exposed be very thin and the foreign body very dense or if a plate changing box be not provided and changing of the plate be therefore liable to disturb the setting of the part before removing the patient see that the cross wires are well marked on his skin along with an indication of the which is marked on the plate then develop the plates and when they are dry proceed with the next part of the this may be done with loss of time if drying of the plates be hastened after thorough by a bath of spirit or in pig the latest form of the cross thread now employed to interpret the recorded on the glass surface of the table are marked two a crossing at right angles which correspond to the cross i l on the i e practical x ray work wires on the plates exposed this surface is illuminated from below by a plane mirror the angle of which is the upright already referred to with the addition of a t
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bother me any more for some days or a week an it please you for i cannot abide come i like that i didn t want to talk i tried to get out of talking if you didn t want to hear my what did you keep your conversation on me for i i never dreamed of such a thing well you did it anyway and i have a right to feel and i do feel hurt to have you treat me so it seems to me that when a person and crowds and in a manner forces another person to talk it is neither very fair nor very good to call what he says oh � do and break your heart you poor thing somebody fetch this sick doll a sugar rag look you sir de do you feel absolutely certain about that thing what thing why that and are going to take of all the lay except the duke d i think there is not a doubt of it s if mark twain the bearer was deep in and dreams a few moments then the silk and velvet expanse of his vast breast rose and fell with a sigh and he said dear dear what a lift it is it just shows what luck can do well i don t care i shouldn t care to be a painted accident � i shouldn t value it i am to have climbed up to where i am just by sheer natural merit than i would be to ride the very in the and have to reflect that i was nothing but a poor little accident and got shot up there out of somebody else s to me merit is � in fact the only thing all else is just then the blew the assembly and that cut our talk short chapter xxv the days began to waste away � and nothing decided nothing done the army was fuu of zeal but it was also hungry it got no pay the treasury was getting empty it was becoming impossible to feed it under pressure of it began to fall apart and � which pleased the trifling court exceedingly s distress was pitiful to see she was obliged to stand helpless while her victorious army dissolved away until hardly the skeleton of it was left at last one day she went to the castle of where the king was she foimd him consulting with three of his robert le a former of france d and the of was present also and it is through him that we know what happened threw herself at the king s feet and embraced his knees saying noble hold no more of these long and numerous but come and come quickly to and receive crown d asked is it your voices that command you to say that to the king yes and mark twain then will you not tell us in the king s presence in what way the voices communicate with you it was another sly attempt to trap into and dangerous pretensions but nothing came of it s answer was simple and straightforward and the smooth bishop was not able to find any fault with it she said that when she met with people who doubted the truth of her mission she went aside and prayed complaining of the distrust of these and then the comforting voices were heard at her ear saying soft and low go forward daughter of god and i will help thee then she added when i hear that the joy in my heart oh it is the said that when she said these words her face lit up as with a flame and she was like one in an ecstasy pleaded persuaded reasoned gaining ground little by little but opposed step by step by the council she begged she implored leave to march when they could answer nothing further they granted that perhaps it had been a mistake to let the army waste away but how could we help it now how could we march without any army raise one said but it will take six weeks no matter � begin let us begin it is too late without doubt the duke of has been gathering troops to push to the of his on the yes while we have been ours � and recollections of of arc pity tis but we must throw away no more time we must ourselves the objected that he could not venture toward with those strong places on the in his path but said we will break them up then you can march with that plan the king was willing to venture assent he could sit out of danger while the road was being cleared came back in great spirits straightway everything was stirring were issued calling for men a camp was established at in and the and the began to flock to it with enthusiasm a deal of the month of may had been wasted and yet by the th of june had swept together a new army and was ready to march she had eight thousand men think of that think of gathering together such a body as that in that little region and these were soldiers too in fact of the men in france were soldiers when you came to that for the wars had lasted generations now yes most were soldiers and admirable too both by practice and inheritance they had done next to nothing but run for near a century but that was not their fault they had had no fair and proper � at least leaders with a fair and proper chance away back king and got the habit of being treacherous to the leaders then the leaders easily got the habit of the king and going their own way each for himself and nobody for the bt no mark twain body could win that way hence running
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his few home hours had an awe of him against which she struggled as something unfair to her consciousness of wider thoughts and deeper motives but it was of no use to struggle a character at unity with that what it every impulse and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible � is strong by its very you may imagine that tom s more and more obvious to his was well fitted to the maternal and and mr s favorable reports and to mr concerning tom s for business began to be discussed amongst them with various acceptance he was likely it appeared to do the credit without causing it any expense and trouble mrs had always thought it strange if tom s excellent complexion so entirely that of the did not argue a certainty that he would turn out well his errors of running down the and general to his only indicating a tinge of blood which he had doubtless mr who had contracted a cautious thb mill on thb fl b liking for ever since his spirited and sensible behavior when the execution was in the house was now into a resolution to further his prospects � some time when an opportunity offered of doing so in a prudent manner without ultimate loss but mrs observed that she was not given to speak without book as some people were that those who said least were most likely to find their words made good and when the right moment came it would be seen who could do something better than talk uncle a r silent meditation for a period of several came distinctly to the conclusion that when a young man was likely to do well it was better not to with him tom meanwhile had shown no disposition to rely on any one but himself though with a natural towards all indications of favorable opinion he was lad to see his look in on him sometimes in a friendly way during business hours and glad to be invited to dine at his house though he usually preferred declining on the ground that he was not sure of punctual but about a year ago something had occurred which induced tom to test his s friendly disposition bob who rarely returned from one of his rounds without seeing tom and awaited him on the bridge as he was coming home from st s one evening that they might have a little private talk he took the liberty of asking if mr tom had ever thought of making money by trading a bit on his own account trading how v tom wished to know why by sending out a bit of a cargo to foreign ports because bob had a particular friend who had offered to do a little business for him in that way in goods and would be glad to serve mr tom on the same footing tom was interested at once and begged for full explanation wondering he had not thought of this plan before he was so well pleased with the prospect of a speculation that might change the slow process of addition into that he at once determined to mention the matter to his father and get his consent to appropriate some of the in the tin box to the purchase of a small cargo he would rather not have consulted his father but he had just paid his last quarter s money into the tin box and there was no other resource all the were there for mr would not consent to put the money out at interest lest he should lose it since he had in the purchase of some com and had lost by it he could not be easy without keeping the money under his eye tom approached the subject carefully as he was seated on thi mill on the hearth with his father that evening and mr listened leaning forward in his arm chair and looking up in tom s face with a glance his first impulse was to give a positive refusal hut he was in some awe of tom s wishes and since he had had the sense of being an unlucky � he had lost some of his old and determination to be master he took the key of the from his pocket got out the key of the large chest and fetched down the tin box � slowly as if he were trying to the moment of a painful parting then he seated himself against the table and opened the box with that little key which he in his waistcoat pocket in all vacant moments there they were the dingy bank notes and the bright sovereigns and he counted them out on the table � only a hundred and sixteen pounds in two years after au the how much do you want then he said speaking as if the words burnt his lips suppose i begin with the thirty six pounds father said tom mr separated this sum from the rest and keeping his hand over it said � it s as much as i can save out o my pay in a year yes father it is such slow work � saving out of the little money we get and in this way we might double our ay my lad said the father keeping his hand on the money but you might lose it � you might lose a year o my ufe � and i haven t got many tom was silent and you know i wouldn t pay a with the first hundred because i wanted to see it all in a and when i see it i m sure on t if you trust to luck it s sure to be against ine it s old harry s got the luck in his hands and lose one year i shall never pick it up again � death overtake me mr s voice trembled
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show the in greater perfection than it here in of twenty to forty acres wood also becomes far more abundant in the region and continues so nearly up to the walls of paris and other trees of slender foliage being planted in rows across the fields as well as by the streams and road sides the vine which had vanished with the bolder scenery of the only within sight of paris where many of the cultivated fields a or of cultivation unworthy of the neighborhood of a great metropolis i presume there will be more and half within twenty miles of paris than in all i find paris and france in a state of connected with the debate in the assembly on the proposed of the constitution the best speeches are yet to be made but already the attention of the people is fixed on tlie discussion and it will be followed to the end with daily increased that end as is well known will be a defeat of the proposed and of all schemes looking to the legal and peaceful of or the of louis napoleon and this discussion this result will have immensely strengthened the republic in the hearts of the french millions as well a in the general conviction of its and if with the crippled as it is and probably must continue to be a heartily republican president can be elected here next may an impulse will be given to the movement throughout europe which can scarcely be live the republic paris to london london july thb and most usual route from paris to london is that by way of and but as i had ed that once and part of it twice i resolved to try another for my return and chose the and most direct of all � that by way of new haven and the railroad � which is miles shorter than the route but four times as long a passage and so is spun out to more than twice the length of the other we left paris at yesterday morning halted at the fine old town of before noon were in at p m but there we waited for a boat till after then were eight hours crossing the channel had to wait at new haven till after this morning before the custom house scrutiny of our baggage was begun so that only a few were enabled to take the first train thence for london at a quarter to i was not among the lucky ones but had to hold on for the second train at a quarter past and so did not reach this city till after or twenty six hours from paris though with a little enterprise and a decent boat on the channel the trip could easily be made in hours � four for the french side six for the channel two for the english side and two for custom delay and of all kinds if or mr would only take compassion o if and t at europe europe in the matter of building and establish a branch of his business on this side of the atlantic he would do the cause of human progress a service and contribute to the of the sum of mortal misery the night was mild and fair the wind light the sea consequently smooth and i suffered less and repented my choice of a route less than i had expected to but consider the facts here was the most direct route by railroad and between the two great of europe � a route constantly by multitudes from all parts of world � yet the only boats provided for the liquid portion of the way are two little black concerns each perhaps seventy feet long by fifteen wide with no deck above the water line and not a single berth for even a lady passenger though making one passage each night who could suppose that two tolerably civilized nations would endure this in the middle of we were nearly two hundred passengers and the boat just about decently held us but had not sitting room for all above and under the deck but as about half being second class had no right to enter the main cabin those who had that right were enabled to sit and and try to cheat themselves into the notion that they would sleep to their aid after a while occasionally on or two having left for a turn on deck some drowsy mortal would stretch himself on a at full length but the of others seats would soon compel him to resume a half upright posture and so the passage wore away and between and this morning we reached new haven a petty sea port at the mouth of the little river where we were permitted promptly to land our baggage and repair to a convenient inn here i with several others invested two british shillings in a chance to sleep but the venture at least in my case proved a losing one vi i xi k to pa t to london bed and the incessant ringing of bells c kept us for the most part awake and called us up at a very early hour to for the recovery of our baggage and lose the early train at last the country stretching north westward from paris to miles is less thoroughly cultivated than any other i have seen in europe out of italy i saw more and thin and ragged wheat than i had noted elsewhere grass is the chief after leaving the garden covered vicinity of paris though wheat and are cultivated the root crops promise poorly indian corn is hardly seen though the vine is considerably grown this region is generally well wooded but in a straggling accidental way which has the effect neither of of plantation nor of the natural of genuine forests fruit is not abundant is considerably the dwellings of the majority
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to tint without delay replied lord calmly his hand before you execute this terrible threat will yon not hear me will you not listen to my entreaty lord never did you before deny request of mine give me time mr has solemnly pledged himself in our next interview to reveal his history � to acknowledge our marriage his birth something tells me is equal to mine but even should it not prove so i will still be true to my vows if inexorable to my entreaty you persist in this cruel exposure which will avail nothing i will not remain another day in england oh that i had s lips to persuade you to grant me delay her words delivered with passionate emotion seemed to move lord s resolution he laid down his pen a am of joy sparkled in her beautiful eye delay i upon what plea do you ask it where now is mr in england he has been at twice within the last five months and a few evenings ago if i not s words you were nearly him yourself replied she with a faint smile you did not meet then i am i to understand it was for the purpose of all that mr came � for this sole purpose i truly and firmly believe my lord the near the walk was our place of but that fearful storm do you remember it alone exposed to its fury i shall never forget the horrors of that night � for mr came not but the table was wet with oh my how can i account for this asked lady � strange i did mr ever previously allude to any dispute likely to lead to a hostile encounter asked lord thoughtfully after an interval of a few seconds he hinted at some painful mystery which forbade the immediate of our marriage replied she and you have not since met � no now will you grant my petition will you give me a few weeks delay so far as this i will if within the next fourteen days mr comes to me an honorable explanation of the mystery which him and his pretensions to to your hand i can have nothing further to say in the matter excepting that i recognize the ceremony which passed between you at only in the light of a if on the contrary i hear nothing m or of mr i cannot suffer you to remain longer his with such fearful advantages on his side i will give you back your liberty and you must then use it as you please the earl paused and then presently added have you nothing in your possession which might help us to this mystery nothing that can throw light on mr s position in life or on what he is now employed slowly she drew the clasp from her bosom and laid it before the earl never before had any eyes but her own gazed upon it since the evening mr hung it round her neck this is all i have see it it was the to en bj which mr claimed my solemn promise to meet him where he should indicate on reception of one half of it that i received under your s roof a few evenings ago lord attentively examined the clasp here are mr s plain enough but what does this on the centre signify can he have another in what name did he marry you asked the earl still examining the clasp surely you know this what signature did mr to your marriage added the earl quickly as she replied not i cannot tell the whole appeared to me a dream do you then the name of the clergyman who performed the ceremony lady demanded lord impatiently a mr a clergyman of the church of england and mr s travelling companion and friend lord did not speak again for some minutes lady with folded arms sat before him watching the expression of his countenance and she thought it relaxed a little from its look of stem decision he still held the jewel in his hand the only clergyman of the name of whom i ever heard of is a gentleman who formerly held the small living of in this neighborhood he it some years ago to accept the appointment of to lord observed the earl at length deliberately lady started violently and the blood her face and neck j did you never ask mr to explain the meaning of this letter c s never until lately i always concluded it was the of my own name � she paused suddenly and lately what have you concluded the letter asked lord promptly fixing a searching look on her face � nothing my lord resumed lady hastily in the bewilderment of my mind improbable visions have risen to vanish almost as soon as formed have you remarked this before asked the earl suddenly interrupting her and he pointed to a small crest � a lion holding a drawn in its mouth so very and delicately engraved on the reverse of the jewel that when the clasp parted there appeared but a faint scratch on either division yes i observed it this morning but i know no one who bears a similar crest again there was a long silence tell me truly are your suspicions excited more towards one person than another and have you any reason for supposing mr to be of higher rank than he � said lord emphatically she hesitated a wild conjecture to day flitted across my mind lord but it is too improbable too devoid of possibility for me to such an idea nevertheless let me hear it i cannot hastily responded she nay i view it as a kind of presumption to dare hope that my error could be rewarded by the prosperous result my dream i see our suspicions both centre at the same point � i will
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of the best and most brilliant and at once ordered the that my very soul seemed what a sense of expectation quivered in my veins as i prepared the mixture whose influence pushed wide the gates of � with what a lingering ecstasy i to the two full glasses of it � enough let me tell you to unsteady a far more slow and stolid brain than mine the sensations which followed were both and mentally than on the previous evening � and when i at last left the and walked home at about midnight my way was with the strangest for example there was no moon and clouds were still hanging in the skies enough to obscure all the stars � yet as i sauntered leisurely up the es a bright green planet suddenly swung into dusky space and its lustre full upon my path its dazzling beams com surrounded me and made the wet leaves of the trees overhead shine like jewels and i watched the burning spreading about me in the fashion of a wide watery rim knowing all the time that it was but an image of my fancy � the secret so sought for by philosophers and � j had found it even i � i was as a god in the power i had obtained to create and enjoy the of my own fertile brain � for truly this is all that even high can do � namely to command worlds to be borne by the action of his thought � and again to bid them die by an effort of his will the huge force of all time and all space can be no more than an endless and immense imagination and one spark of this imagination is perhaps the only divine thing we have in our mortal composition � though of course like reason it can easily be to false and criminal ends but we of paris care nothing as to whether our thoughts run in wholesome or morbid channels so long as self indulgence is my thoughts for instance were poisoned � but i was satisfied with their poisonous tendency and i was in no wise disconcerted or dismayed when on reaching home and ascending the steps i found the door draped with solemn black as if for a funeral and saw written across it in pale yet � la quietly i put out my hand and made as though i would touch these seemingly substantial � they rolled away like rolling smoke � the dismal inscription vanished and all was clear again entering i found my father sitting up for me art late i he said as i came towards w him et smiling good as he spoke thou hast been at the de not to night i answered carelessly i have only walked to the and back a new sort of amusement for thee is it not thou art not likely to become a and he clapped me kindly on the shoulder as we ascended the stairs together to our respective but no thou hast worked too well and to have such a suggestion made to thee even in jest i am well pleased with thee mon � i know how difficult thy duties have been during my absence and how admirably thou hast fulfilled them i received his praise without remark and he continued � for the next week take holiday and for the week after that again i then comes thy marriage � and i will strive to do without thee for a full two months where wilt thou spend thy de f where in paradise of course i i answered with a forced smile my father laughed � brushed his bearded lips against my cheek an old french custom of his whenever he felt particularly affectionate and we parted for the night what a sound sleep that good man would have i thought as i watched him turn into his room and saluted him respectfully in response to his last cheerful nod and glance he would not see what saw when i entered my own chamber i was there asleep � she lay on my couch her head resting on my pillows � her lips parted in a sweet drowsy smile � while over her whole fair form fell a veil of green like mist hanging above the lakes and mountains in a noon ah gentle soul � image of child like innocence and � there she was reflected on the mirror of my brain as purely and faithfully as she had been cherished in my thoughts for and many a day i i stood silently looking on for a space at the beautiful phantom of my lost idol � looking as gravely as sadly and as as i would have looked at the dead then extending my hands slowly as a might do i attempted to touch that delicate figure � and lo � it melted into bed was once more smooth bare and empty � of even the of delight i threw myself down upon it fatigued in body and mind yet not so � closing my aching eyes i wandered away into a cloudy realm of confused and fantastic vision and dreaming fancied that i slept xv that same week st returned from and two days after her arrival in paris my father and i were invited to dine with the de our good friend the cure being also of the party i was amused at the whole affair � it went off so well and there were two such admirable actors at table namely myself and trust a woman to every one in the art of i she was a mere brilliant of dazzling mirth and from the beginning of the dinner to its end it was only pretence i knew but who would have thought she could have pretended so well now and then i was smitten with a sudden at
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crimes is an in the land � a hunted wolf whose life any man may take at any time command that robber to depart i will not depart said no cried the king no by the lord said upon that the king arose from his seat and making passionately at the robber and seizing him by his long hair tried to throw him down but the robber had a dagger underneath his cloak and in the the king to death that done he set his back against the wall and fought so desperately that although he was soon cut to pieces by the king s armed men and the wall and pavement were with his blood yet it was not before he had killed and wounded many of them you may imagine what rough lives the kings of those times led when one of them could struggle half drunk with a public robber in his own dining hall and be in presence of the company who ate and drank with him then succeeded the boy king who was weak and sickly in body but of a strong mind and his armies fought the the and or the sea kings as they were and the six b y kin s called and beat them for the time and in nine years died and passed away then came the boy king � fifteen years of age but the real king who had the real power was a named � a clever priest a little mad and not a little proud and cruel was then of abbey whither the body of king the magnificent was carried to be buried while yet a boy he had got out of his bed one night being then in a fever and walked about church while it was under repair and because he did not tumble off some that were there and break his neck it was reported that he had been shown over the building by an angel he had also a harp that was said to play of itself � which it very likely did as which are played by the wind and are understood now always do for these wonders he had been once by his enemies who were jealous of his favor with the late king as a and had been bound hand and foot and thrown into a marsh but he got out again somehow to cause a great deal of trouble yet the priests of those days were generally the only scholars they were learned in many things having to make their own and on grounds that were granted to them by the crown it was necessary that they should be good farmers and good or their lands would have been too poor to support them f ff the of the where they prayed and for the comfort of the where they ate and a a child s history of england drank it was necessary that there should be good good good painters among them for their greater safety in sickness and accident living alone by themselves in solitary places it was necessary that they should study tho virtues of plants and and should know how to dress cuts burns and and how to set broken limbs accordingly they taught themselves and one another a great of variety useful arts and became in medicine and and when they wanted the aid of any little piece of machinery which would be simple enough now but was then to impose a trick upon the poor they knew very well how to make it and did make it many a time and often i have no doubt of abbey was one of the most sagacious of these he was an ingenious smith and worked at a in his little cell this cell was made too short to admit of his lying at full length when he went to as if that did any good to any body � and he used to tell the most extraordinary lies about and spirits who he said came there to him for instance he related that one day when he was at work the devil looked in at the little window and tried to tempt him to lead a life of idle pleasure whereupon having his in the fire red hot he seized the devil by the nose and put him to such pain that his were heard for miles and miles some people are inclined to think this nonsense a part of s madness for his head never quite recovered the fever but i think not i observe that it in s and the six boy the ignorant people to him a holy man and that it made him very powerful which was exactly what he always wanted on the day of the of the handsome it was remarked by odd of who was a by birth that the king quietly left the feast while all the company were there much displeased sent his friend to seek him finding him in the company of his beautiful young wife el her mother a good and virtuous lady not only abused them but dragged the young king back into the hall by force some think did this because the young king s fair wife was his own cousin and the objected to people marrying their own cousins but i believe he did it because he was an imperious audacious ill priest who having loved a yoimg lady himself before he became a sour hated all love now and every thing belonging to it the young king was quite old enough to feel this insult had been in the last reign and he soon charged with having taken some of the last king s money the fled to very narrowly escaping some who were sent to put out his eyes as you will wish they had when you read what follows and his abbey was given to priests who were
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and cold is cheap so it is with poor folks t is a great pity you ve no now to keep your fire in for you t is very strange there do be no turf in this f country a little captive maid and she looked at the captain with a winning smile the captain smiled back again in spite of himself stood looking out of the window she seemed to be thinking of herself instead of the invalid what did you say your name was asked the old gentleman a moment later frowning his eyebrows at her like pieces of sir i m from the outside o she made him the least bit of a courtesy as if a sudden wind had bent her like a long flower how came you here his mouth straightened into a smile as he spoke in spite of a determination to be severe i m but two weeks over sir i come over to me cousins the seeking me fortune i d like tis a fine place sir but i m very i m as fast to be going back as i was to be coming away and she gave a soft sigh and turned away to brush the hearth well you must be a good girl said the captain with great propriety after a pause a little captive maid deed sir i am that responded sincerely no one had a word to fling af ther me and i coming away but crying me nobody tell anything to my shame when my name be spoke at home my mother brought me up well god save her she did then this unaffected report of her own good reputation was pleasing to s employer the sight of s simple pleasant irish face and the freshness of her youth was the most delightful thing that had happened in many a dreary day he felt in his waistcoat pocket with sudden impulse sure of finding a bit of money there with which might buy herself a ribbon he was strongly inclined toward making her feel at home in the old house which had grown to be such a prison to himself but there was no money in the pocket as there always used to be when he was well he had not needed any before in a long time he began to fret about this and to wonder what they had done with his pocket book it was to be treated like a while he over his wrongs heard mrs s hurrying footsteps in the hall but as she slipped away it was a little captive maid plain that she had found time enough to bestow her entire sympathy and even upon the captain in this brief interview he s dull poor gentleman � he s very sad all day by himself and so pleasant spoken the cr she said to herself indignantly as she went running down the stairs it was not long before to everybody s surprise captain gained strength and began to feel so much better that was often posted in the room or the hall close by to run his frequent errands and pick up his newspapers as they fell this gave mrs and a chance to look after their other business affairs and to take their ease after so long a season of close attendance the captain had a way of asking where s that little girl as if he only wished to see her to and was always ready to come with her sewing or any bit of that could be carried and to entertain her master by the hour the more irritable his temper the more unconscious and merry she always seemed i was down last night wit me cousins so i was she informed him one morning while she brushed up the floor about the fireplace a little captive maid on her hands and knees you d ought to see her little sir she s the darling cr i never saw any one so and smart for the size of her she ain t the of a bee s knee sir who is n t inquired the captain attracted for the moment by the pleasing me cousin s little sir answered with a fear that she had failed in her choice of a subject t is no more than the of a bee s knee she is the and has every talk to you like a little grandmother � the big words of her to come sideways out of her mouth i d like it well if her mother would dress her up and d go fetch her for you to see the captain made an expressive sound of disdain and brushed away at the rug in silence he looked out of the window and on the arm of his chair it was a very uncomfortable morning there was a noise in the street and pricked up her ears with her head alert like a young hare stood up on her knees and listened warrant it s me heart s darling at the she exclaimed a little captive maid nothing but a parcel of boys grumbled the captain it s he then the lad said by this time close to the other front window look at him now sir goin by he s b y in the church and a lovely voice in him me cousins is going to have him learn music that s the girl i left behind me he s got in the old now hard to tell what it is growled the captain anything for a i dare say sir i was thinking the tune come out of it tail first agreed with ready sympathy he s the big brother to the little i told you of just now twas dan gave the old himself used to play it in a company there s a or two gone i m anyway there s teeth gone
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his mother you can take our carriage and let alfred drive you and so follow along after our party only in that case you would not have any company you would be in a carriage alone never mind that said i should like that i would put the top back and then i could see all around i should have a grand ride i ll go i wish had not gone to bed she could have gone with me no replied his mother is not well to night she has got cold and she went to bed early on that account but she will be very glad to have you go and see her so went into s room as soon as he opened the door pushed aside the curtains and said � ah is that you i am very glad that yon have come in paris j� i to at i can t stay bat a little while said i am going to take a ride with mother are yon going with mother asked not in the carriage with her replied bat i am going in the same party i am going to have a carriage all to myself no said in a tone don t go away stay here with me please i am all alone and have not any body to me but you will go to sleep pretty soon said no replied i am not sleepy the least in the world see here opened her eyes very wide and looked fall in the face by way of that she was not sleepy felt very much perplexed when he pictured to himself in imagination the idea of whirled rapidly through the on such a pleasant summer evening in a carriage which he should have all to himself with the top down so that he could see every thing au around him and of the brilliant windows of the shops the multitudes of ladies and gentlemen taking their coffee at the little round tables on the in front of the the crowds of people coming and going and the s and looking at and carriages the streets the view was so that it was very hard for him to give np the promised pleasure he however determined to do it so he said � well stay i will go out and tell mother that i am not going to ride and then i will come back for the first half hour after mrs holiday went away was occupied with in looking over some very pretty french picture books which mrs holiday had bought for her that day to amuse her because she was sick had looked them all over before but now that had come it gave her pleasure to look them over again and talk about them with him sat up in the bed leaning back against the pillows and and sat in a large and very comfortable arm chair which he had brought up for this purpose to the bedside the books lay on a monstrous square pillow of down half as large as the bed itself which according to the french fashion is always placed on the top of the bed and would take the books one at a time and look them over talking about the pictures and showing the prettiest ones to each other thus the time passed very pleasantly at length however having looked over all the books drew in the of herself down into tho bed and began to ask where he had been that day i have been with uncle george said he said that he was going about to see a great many different places and that i might go with him if i chose though he supposed that most of them were places that i should not care to see but i did i liked to see them all what places did you go to asked why first we went to see the i did not know before that there were so many uncle george says that paris is one of the greatest places in the world only they make things by hand in private shops and not in great by machinery uncle george says there must be as much as eight or ten square miles of these shops in paris they are piled up to six or eight stories high some of the streets look like of cliffs facing each other such as wo see at some places on the sea shore what do they make in the shops asked all sorts of curious and beautiful things they have specimens of the things that they make up put up like pictures in a frame in little glass cases on the wall next the street we walked along through several streets and looked s narrative the of artificial flowers at these specimens there were and and watches and gold and silver chains and beautiful and and of all kinds and ribbons and opera glasses and dressing cases and every thing you can think of yes said i have seen all such things in the shop windows in the royal and in the ah those are the shops where they sell the things said but these shops that uncle george and i went to see are where they make them we went to one place where they were making artificial flowers and such beautiful things you never saw the rooms were full of girls all making artificial flowers why did not you bring me home some of them asked i don t know replied i did not think to ask if i could buy any of them then after we had gone about in the till we had seen enough we went to the to see the paintings though on the way we stopped to see a pronounced the word very much as if it bad been crash a crash exclaimed did a building tumble down in a in
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died � through the long hours of horrible unnatural of pain � when cold sweat stood in drops on her childish face she would clutch my hands and cry out eternal for ever and ever and ever � could it be like this � for ever and ever and ever y then she would sob out god god god in terrible helpless prayer she had not strength for other words sprang to his feet and thrust out his hand his pallid face don t tell me any more he said i cannot � i cannot bear it she bore it said until death ended it was there no to save her cried was she terrified like that when she died the man who afterwards took her child � the man d answered was a kindly soul at the last moment he took her poor little hand and patted it and told her not to be frightened she turned to him as if for refuge he had a big mellow voice and a tender protecting way he said don t be frightened it s all right and his were the last words she heard god bless the fellow he is exclaimed i should like to grasp his hand � the john delivered his lectures in many in connection with the de claim cities that year the discussion they gave rise to had the natural result of awakening a keen interest in them there were excellent souls who and them there were excellent souls who condemned there were even ministers of the gospel who preached against the man as an and a pagan and forbade their to join his but his lecture halls were always crowded and the hundreds of faces to him when he arose upon his platform were the faces of eager breath less yearning creatures he was a man speaking to men not an echo of old he uttered no threats he painted no he called aloud to that god in man which is his soul that god which is in you � in me he proclaimed has lain because man having made for himself in the dark ages gods of wood and stone demanding awful sacrifice called forth for himself later a deity as material though embodied in no physical form � a god of vengeance and everlasting this is the man created deity and in his name man has so that the god which is man s soul has been silenced let this god rise and he will so demand justice and noble mercy from all creatures to their fellows that temptation and suffering will cease what can we do no good deed without the promise of paradise as reward can we refrain from no evil unless we are driven to it by the threat of hell are j we such base that we make of our j souls and bargain for them across a counter let us awake i say to you from the deepest depths of my aching soul � if there were no god to bargain with then all the more awful need that each man constitute himself a of justice pity and mercy � until the world s wounds are healed and in connection with the claim each human thing can stand erect and claim the joy of life which is his own on the morning of the day he said these words to the crowd which had to hear him he had talked long with for some weeks he had not been strong the passion of intensity which ruled him when he spoke to his was too strong an emotion to leave no physical trace after a lecture or sermon he was often pallid and shaken i have things to say he exclaimed to there are things which must be said the spoken word lives � for good or evil it is a sound sent echoing through all the ages to come some men have awakened echoes which have thrilled throughout the world to speak one s thought � to use mere words � it seems such a small thing � and yet it is my conviction that nothing which is said is really ever forgotten and his face was white his eyes burning when at night he leaned forward to fling forth to his hearers his final i say to you were there no god to bargain with then all the more awful need that each man constitute himself a god of justice pity and mercy � until the world s wounds are healed and each human thing can stand erect and claim the joy of life which is his own the people went away after the lecture murmuring among themselves some of them carried away awakening in their eyes they all spoke of the man himself of his compelling power the fire of meaning in his face and the musical far reaching voice which carried to the remotest corner of the most crowded buildings it is not only his words one is reached by it was said in connection with the de claim it is the man s self truly he cries out from the depths of his soul this was true it was the man himself nature had armed him well � with strength with force with a tragic sense of the anguish of things and with that brain which labours far in advance of the thought of the hour men with such brains � brains which work fiercely and even in their own despite � reach conclusions not yet arrived at by their world and are called some are madly some have been made but their spoken word passes onward and if not in their own day in that to morrow which is the to day of other men the truth of their harvest is and bound into at the closing of his lectures men and women crowded about him to speak to him to grasp his hand
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was only the pair of us and then glanced over his own two men who had joined him surely he had little reason to be afraid he like a above wolf he must have measured six feet eight or nine inches in stature and i subsequently learned his weight � pounds and there was no fat about him it was all bone and muscle a return of apprehension was apparent when at the top of the wolf invited bim low but he reassured himself with a glance down at his host � a big man himself but by the of the giant so all vanished and the pair descended into the cabin in the meantime his two as was the wont of visiting sailors had gone forward into the to do some visiting themselves suddenly from the cabin came a great choking the sea i followed by all the sounds of a s struggle it waa the and the lion and the lion made all the noise wolf was the vou � ce the of our hospitality i said bitterly to she nodded her head that she heard and i noted in her the signs of the same sickness at sight or sound of violent struggle from which i had suffered so severely during my first weeks on the wouldn t it be better if you went forward � ay by the until it is over i suggested she shook her head and gazed at me she was not frightened but appalled rather at the human of it you will understand i took advantage of the opportunity to say whatever part i take in what is going on and what is to come that i am compelled to take it � if you and i are ever to get out of this scrape with our lives it is not nice � for i added i understand she said in a weak far away voice and her eyes showed me that she did understand the sounds from below soon died away then wolf t ji came alone on deck there was a slight flush under his bronze but otherwise be bore no signs of the battle send those two men aft m r van he said i obeyed and a minute or two later they stood before him in your boat he said to them hunter s decided to stay aboard awhile and doesn t want it alongside in ur boat i said he repeated this time in tones as they hesitated to do his bidding the sea wolf who knows you may have to sail with me for a time he said quite softly with a silken threat that the softness as they moved slowly to and we might as well start with a friendly understanding lively now death makes you jump better than that and you know it i their movements quickened under his and as the boat swung i was sent forward to let go the wolf at the wheel directed the g after the s second weather boat under way and with nothing for the time being to do i turned my attention to the situation of the boats the third weather boat was being attacked by two of ours the fourth by our remaining three and the turn about was taking a hand in the defence of its nearest mate fight had opened at long distance and the were steadily a quick sea m as being kicked up by the wind a condition which prevented fine shooting and now and again as we drew closer we could see the bullets from wave to wave the boat we were pursuing had away was running before the wind to escape us and in the course of its flight to take part in general boat attack attending to sheets and now left me little time to see what was taking place but i happened to be on the when wolf ordered the two strange sailors forward and into the they went sullenly but they went he next ordered miss below and smiled at the instant horror that into her eyes you ll find nothing down there he said only an man securely made fast to the ring bullets are liable to come aboard and i don t want yoa killed you know the sea even as he spoke a bullet was by a spoke of the wheel between his hands and through the air to you see he said to her and then to mr van will you take the wheel had stepped inside the so that only her head was exposed wolf had procured a rifle and was throwing a into the barrel i begged her with my eyes to go below but she smiled and said we may be feeble land creatures without legs but we can show captain that we are at least as brave as he he gave her a quick look of admiration i like you a hundred per cent better for that he said � � books and brains and bravery you are well rounded a blue fit to be the wife of a chief we ll discuss that later he as a bullet struck into the cabin wall i saw his eyes flash golden as he spoke and i saw the terror mount in her own we are i hastened to say at least speaking for myself i know i am than captain it was i who was now favored by a quick look he was wondering if i were making fun of him i put three or four over to a sheer toward the wind on the part of the g and then her wolf lar n was still waiting an explanation and i pointed down to my knees � � you will e there i said a slight it is because i am afraid the flesh is afraid and i am afraid in my mind because i do not wish
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was still a quiet and natural growth the towns and made new purchases of lands from the indians a very memorable event took place in the colonies of by ic grandfather s chair and new haven formed a union for the purpose of assisting each other in difficulties and for mutual defence against their enemies they called themselves the united colonies of new england were they under a government like that of the united states inquired no replied grandfather the different colonies did not compose one nation together it was merely a among the it somewhat resembled the league of the which you remember in history but to return to our chair in it was highly honored for governor sat in it when he gave audience to an from the french governor of or a treaty of peace between and the french colony was then signed did england allow to make war and peace with foreign countries asked and the whole of new england was then almost independent of the mother country said grandfather there was now a civil war in england and the king a you may well suppose had his hands full at home and could pay but little attention to these remote colonies when the parliament got the power into their hands they likewise had enough to do in keeping down the thus new by ic s england like a young and hardy lad father and mother neglect it was left to take care of itself in king charles was then became protector of england and as he was a himself and had risen by the of the english he showed himself a loving and indulgent father to the colonies in america grandfather might have continued to talk in this dull manner nobody knows how long but suspecting that would find the subject rather dry he looked sideways at that little fellow and saw him give an involuntary whereupon grandfather proceeded with the history of the chair and related a very entertaining incident which will be found in the next chapter d by fi chapter vi according to the most records my dear children said grandfather the chair about this time had the misfortune to break its leg it was probably on account of this accident that it ceased to be the seat of the of for assuredly it would have been ominous of evil to the if the chair of state had upon three legs being therefore sold at � alas what a for a chair that had figured in such high company � our venerable friend was knocked down to a certain captain john this old gentleman on carefully examining the chair discovered that its broken leg might be with iron and made as serviceable as ever here is the very leg that was broken exclaimed throwing himself down on the floor to look at it and here are the iron how well it was mended when they had all sufficiently examined the broken leg grandfather told them a story about captain john and the pine tree shillings the captain john was the master of and all the money that was made there this was a new d by line of business for in the earlier days of the colony the current consisted of gold and silver money of england and spain these being scarce the people were often forced to their instead of selling them for instance if a man wanted to buy a coat he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it if he wished for a barrel of he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards were used instead of the indians had a sort of money called which was made of and this strange sort of was likewise taken in payment of debts by the english bank bills had never been heard of there was not money enough of any kind in many parts of the country to pay the of the ministers so that they sometimes had to take of fish of corn or of wood instead of silver or gold as the people grew more numerous and their trade one with another increased the want of current money was still more sensibly felt to supply the demand the general court passed a law for establishing a of shillings and captain john was appointed to manufacture this money and was to have about one shilling out of every twenty to pay him for the trouble of making them by ic all the old silver in the colony was handed over to captain john the battered silver and i suppose and silver and broken and silver buttons of worn out coats and silver of swords that had figured at court � all such curious old articles were doubtless thrown into the melting pot together but by far the greater part of the silver consisted of from the mines of south america which the english � who were little better than � had taken from the and brought to all this old and new silver being melted down and the result was an immense amount of splendid shillings and each had the date on the one side and the figure of a pine tree on the other hence they were called pine tree shillings and for every twenty shillings that he you will remember captain john was entitled to put one shilling into his own pocket the soon began to suspect that the master would have the best of the bargain they offered him a large sum of money if he would but give up that twentieth shilling which he was continually dropping into his own pocket but captain declared himself perfectly satisfied with the shilling and well he might be for so diligently did he labor by ic s chair that in a few years his pockets his money bags land his strong box were overflowing with shillings this was probably the case when he came into possession of
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of time the had at that minute let go the engines had started and they were gliding slowly away from the there was no help for it but to remain unless the could be made to put back and that would create a great disturbance gave up the idea and submitted quietly her happiness was sadly now the woman whose presence had so d her was mrs she seemed to haunt like a shadow after several minutes vain endeavor to account for any design mrs could have in watching her decided to think that the encounter was accidental she rt that the widow in her restlessness was often visiting the village near which was her original home and it was possible that she chose water with the idea of saving expense what is the matter v q v ing before her a pair of blue eyes nothing more than that i am rather depressed i don t much wonder at it that wharf was we seemed underneath and inferior to everything around us but we shall be in the sea breeze again soon and that will you dear the evening closed in and dusk increased as they made way down water and through the s disturbance of mind was such that her light spirits of the foregoing four and twenty hours had entirely deserted her the weather too had grown more gloomy for though the showers of the morning had ceased the sky was covered more closely than ever with dense leaden clouds how beautiful was the sunset when they rounded the north the previous evening now it was impossible to tell within half an hour the time of the s going down knight led her about and being by this time accustomed to her sudden changes of mood overlooked the necessity of a cause in regarding the conditions � and looked stealthily to the other end of the vessel mrs was sitting at the stern � her eyes steadily re let us go to the she said quickly to knight see there � the man is fixing the lights for the night knight assented and after watching the operation of fixing the red and the green lights on the port and bows and the of the while light to the he walked up and down with her till the increase of wind rendered difficult s eyes were occasionally to be found gazing to learn if her enemy still sat there nobody was visible now shall we go below said knight seeing that the deck was nearly deserted no she said if you will kindly get me a rug from mrs i should like if you don t mind to stay here she had recently fancied mrs might be a first class passenger and dreaded meeting her by accident knight appeared with the rug and they sat down behind a weather cloth on the side just as the two red eyes of the needles upon them from the gloom pointed t g v o n t a pair of ue e yes against the sky it became necessary to go below to an eight o clock meal of kind and was immensely relieved at finding no sign of mrs there they again ascended and remained above till mrs staggered up to them with the message that mrs thought it was time for to come below knight accompanied her down and returned again to pass a little more time on deck partly and lay down and soon became unconscious though her sleep was light how long she had lain she knew not when by slow degrees she became of a whispering in her ear you are well on with him i can see well provoke me now but my time will come you will find that was the utterance or words to that effect became broad awake and terrified she knew the words could be only those of one person and that person the widow the lamp had gone out and the place was in darkness in the next berth she could hear her step mother breathing heavily farther on breathing more heavily these were the only other legitimate occupants of the cabin and mrs must have stealthily come in by some means and retreated again or else she had entered an empty berth next s the fear that this was the case increased s till it assumed the dimensions of a certainty for how could a stranger from the other end of the ship possibly contrive to get in could it have been a dream t impossible raised herself higher and looked out of the window there was the sea and rushing against the ship s side just by her head and thence stretching away dim and moaning into an expanse of and far beyond all this two placid lights like stars now almost fearing to turn her face again lest mrs should appear at her elbow meditated whether or not to call to keep her company the four bells sounded and she heard voices which gave her a little courage it was not worth while to call at any rate could not xv no h a pair of blue eyes at the risk of being again disturbed by that dreadful whispering so herself up hurriedly she emerged into the passage and by the aid of a faint light burning at the entrance to the saloon found the foot of the stairs and ascended to the deck dreary the place was in the extreme it seemed a new spot altogether in contrast with its self she could see the glow worm light from the compass and the dim outline of the man at the wheel also a form at the bows not another soul was apparent from stem to stern yes there were two more � by the one proved to be her harry the other the mate she was glad indeed and on drawing closer found they were holding
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being nothing else for them to do a long contemplation of the likeness completed in his emotions what the letter had begun he loved the woman dead and inaccessible as he had never loved her in life he had thought of her but at distant intervals during the twenty years since that parting occurred and only as somebody he could have wedded yet now the times of youthful friendship with her in which he had learned every note of her innocent nature up into a yearning and passionate attachment by regret beyond words that kiss which had offended his dignity which she had so given him before her consciousness of womanhood had been awakened what he would have offered to have a quarter of it now was almost angry with himself for h the his feelings of this night so strong were they towards the lost young how senseless of me he said as he lay in his lonely bed she had been another man s wife almost the whole time since he was from her and now she was a corpse yet the absurdity did not make his grief the less and the consciousness of the almost radiant purity of this new sprung affection for a flown spirit forbade him to check it the flesh was absent altogether it was love and refined to its highest he had felt nothing like it before the next afternoon he went down to the club not his large club where the men hardly spoke to each other but the homely one where they told stories of an afternoon and were not ashamed to confess among themselves to personal weaknesses and follies knowing well that such secrets would go no farther but he could not tell this so and was the story that to convey it in words would have been as hard as to cage a perfume they observed his altered manner and said he was in love admitted that he a young man of forty was and there it ended when he reached home he looked out of his bedroom window and began to consider in what direction from where he stood that darling little figure lay it was straight across there under the young pale moon the symbol signified well the divinity of the silver bow was not more pure than she the lost had been under that moon was the island of ancient and on the island a house framed from to chimney top like the isle itself of stone inside the window the moonlight her winding sheet lay reached only by the faint noises inherent in the isle the of the in the the of the tides in the bay and the grumbling of the currents in the never race he began to divine the truth the departed one though she had come short of inspiring a passion had yet possessed a absent from her rivals without which it seemed that a fixed and full rounded constancy to a woman could not flourish in him like his own her family had been for centuries � from roman british times hence in her nature the well beloved as in his was some mysterious sucked from the isle otherwise a instinct necessary to the absolute of a pair thus though he might never love a woman of the island race for lack in her of the desired refinement he could not love long a � a woman other than of the island race for her lack of this of character such was s view of things another fancy of his an artist s superstition merely may be mentioned the like some other local families suggested a roman more or less on the stock of the their features recalled those of the italian to any one as familiar as he was with them and there were evidences that the roman had been and in and near this comer of britain tradition urged that a temple to once stood at the top of the roman road leading up into the isle and possibly one to the of the this what so natural as that the true star of his soul would be found nowhere but in one of the old island breed after dinner his old friend came in to smoke and when they had talked a little ii a young man of forty while alluded casually to some place at which they would meet on the morrow i sha n t be there said but you promised i yes but i shall be at the island � looking at a dead woman s grave as he spoke his eyes turned and remained fixed on a table near followed the direction of his glance to a photograph on a stand is that she he asked yes rather a affair then acknowledged it she s the only sweetheart i ever alfred he said because she s the only one i ought to have cared for that s just the fool i have always been but if she s dead and buried you can go to her grave at any time as well as now to keep up the sentiment i don t know that she s buried but to morrow � the academy night of all days why go then i don t care about the academy � you are our only inspired you are our or rather our you are almost the only man of the well beloved this generation who has been able to mould and forms living enough to draw the idle public away from the popular paintings into the usually deserted lecture room and people who have seen your last pieces of stuff say there has been nothing like them since sixteen hundred and � since the of the great race lived and died whenever that was well then for the sake of others you ought not to rush off to that forgotten sea rock just when you are
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still gazing weighing calculating and said again not yet s hard driven battle corps raged on like an toward the waiting advance guard suddenly these conceived the idea that it was flying in panic before and so in that instant it broke and away in a mad panic itself with and cursing after it now was the golden time drove her spurs home and waved the advance with her sword follow me she cried and bent her head to her horse s neck and sped away like the wind we swept down into the confusion of that fl and for three long hours we cut and and at last the sang halt the battle of was won of arc dismounted and stood that field lost in thought presently she said the praise is to god he has smitten with a heavy hand this day after a little she lifted her face and looking afar off said with the manner of one who is thinking aloud in a thousand years � sl thousand years � the english power in france will not rise up from this blow she stood again a time thinking then she turned toward her and there was a glory in her face and a noble light in her eye and she said ii � mark twain i i oh friends friends do you know � do you comprehend france is on the way to be f and had never been but for of arc said la hire passing before her and bowing low the others following and doing likewise he muttering as he went i will say it though i be damned for it then after of our victorious army swung by wildly cheering and they shouted live forever maid of forever while smiling stood at the salute with her sword this was not the last time i saw the maid of on the red field of toward the end of the day i came n her where the dead and lay stretched all about in heaps and our men had wounded an english prisoner who was too poor to pay a and from a distance she had seen that cruel thing done and had galloped to the place and sent for a priest and now she was holding the head of her dying enemy in her lap and him to his death with comforting soft words just as his sister might have done and the womanly tears running down her face all the time lord of arc p says discovered this story in the of of arc s page louis de who was probably an eye witness of the scene this is true it was a part of the testimony of the author of these personal recollections of of arc given by him in the proceedings of � chapter had said true france was on the way to be free the war called the hundred years war was very sick to day sick on its english side � for the very first time since its birth ninety one years gone by shall we judge battles by the numbers killed and the ruin wrought or shall we not rather judge them by the results which flowed from then i any one will say that a battle is only truly great or small according to its results yes any one will grant that for it is the truth judged by results s place is with the few great and imposing battles that have been fought since the of the world first resorted to arms for the settlement of their quarrels so judged it is even possible that has no peer among that few just mentioned but stands alone as the of historic for when it began france lay gasping out the remnant of an exhausted life her case wholly hopeless in the view of all political when it ended three hours later she was and nothing requisite but time and ordinary nursing to bring her back to perfect health the physician of them all could see this and there was none to deny it mark twain many death sick nations have reached through a series of battles a procession of battles a weary tale of wasting stretching over years but only one has reached it in a single day and by a single battle that nation is france and that battle remember it and be proud of it for you are french and it is the fact in the long annals of your country there it stands with its head in the clouds and when you grow up you will go on pilgrimage to the field of and stand uncovered in the presence of � what a monument with its head in the clouds yes for all nations in all times have built monuments on their battle fields to keep green the memory of the deed that was wrought there and of the name of him who wrought it and will neglect and of arc not for long and will she build a to their rank as compared with the world s other fields and heroes perhaps � if there be room for it imder the arch of the sky but let us look back a little and consider certain strange and impressive facts the years war began in it raged on and on year after year and year after year and at last england stretched france prone with that fearful blow at cr but she rose and struggled on year after year and at last again she went down another blow � she gathered her crippled strength once more and the war raged on and on and still on year after year after children were bom grew up married died � the recollections of of arc war raged on their children in turn grew up married died � the war raged on their children growing saw struck down again this time imder the incredible disaster of �
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could be a member of parliament any day in new thus i fear that we cannot lay claim to any special high in but are as susceptible as the rest of the world to filthy and its charms he and his wife abode a month at the mount the guests of the and then they went back to new taking the old man with them mrs told me that he went with them as pleased and happy as a child and that it was a sight to see the three together and for twelve months was without its adam then there came a letter to mrs which did not surprise her very much l i into bloom all the hall woods and the burn with the white snug little cottage on the p bum all ready for a new tc that i was at the for and mrs was kin see through it i never ss little place and the had a quaint window on the road had in it some of old bits of furniture from w reluctantly not knowing tt stored in one of mrs more important still who was less able than of y taste of youth had a christmas feast noon when brought his father back to the little prepared for him but of which he was till that day in ignorance peter was hanging in his cage at the door and standing within the porch all smiles though her spectacles were dim with tears what s this john asked the old man as his son set wide the painted garden gate where are you taking me to your own home father since your heart has been here so long and i pray god you may have health and comfort in it for many a day then peter who had been singularly and languid all day his rusty feathers and gave vent to the familiar followed by an extraordinary burst of speech weather for the keep up your then in tones and with a peculiarly knowing gleam in his seeing eye a s worth o an a back having thus emptied himself of his whole in one fell burst peter into his customary state of dignified silence and spoke no more till the day of his death the land the so the old man content and satisfied now that he had seen the new world and his son s settled down happy as a king among his bees and his flowers and is the picture of content to this day among the treasures he proudly shows to his many friends are the photographs of his two who have been early taught to love and his name and on the new mail day he may be seen at the quarter to four o clock in the afternoon crossing the bridge on his way to the post office to await the out of the letters and though sandy nothing of keeping the himself waiting while he reads all the and draws his own conclusions regarding handwriting and he is always ready for the both with his letter and a cheery word there ye are news to ye an plenty o t the old man has lived forty two years in one place without making an enemy or rousing the of the most yet some of us can hardly live a week without casting out with somebody a christmas feast god grant then that adam be long spared for on the day that we carry him down the to the a sweet will be lost to which could never be restored but for him when that day shall come it will be but a joyful step higher into the larger room m my aunt my aunt in my boyhood i stood considerably in awe of my aunt otherwise miss of the my father was at the fits and we lived in a but very dreary house right in the middle of the rows our outlook was upon refuse heaps and hills and my mother to the last day of her life the terrible difficulties of housekeeping in such surroundings in these circumstances it was a great treat to me to get away up to the for a few days or even for a saturday afternoon especially as my grandfather and i were great old as he was familiarly called was one of the most genial and good hearted of men and at a certain stage in my career the playing stage i loved him a good deal better than my own father whose ideas of justice and discipline i considered extreme many a time has my dear old stood between me v daughter aunt wc my mother was a little face which never lost its aunt was very her manner her st and reserved in the extreme her very with i know that her order capable of heroism and self sacrifice appalled my mother s without to still one of my sweetest po it should be but a memory was always delicate aunt that she had never had a d but though the sisters j t jt j t j a my aunt the offices at the mine were large and and there was work sufficient for a dozen clerks among so many there was a good deal of change and variety and when i was old enough to begin my career on a stool there i soon learned that it is possible to run the whole of human nature within the four walls of a counting house we were generally on pretty good terms with the office fellows � that is my father encouraged them to come about the house and my mother did what she could to make them feel that in her they had a friend aunt came a good deal too of course and no doubt she was an attraction � two or three of them were always in love with her at one time
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behind him for some time the two looked upon each other in perfect silence then mr jones moved forward to the table took a seat and still without once changing the direction of his eyes addressed the young man you are right he said it is for me the blood money is offered and now what will you do it was a question to which was far from being able to reply taken as he was at unawares in the man s own coat and surrounded by a whole of the keeper of the lodging house was silenced yes resumed the other i am he i am that man whom with impotent hate and fear they still hunt from den to den from disguise to disguise yes my landlord you have it in your power if you be poor to lay the basis of l o the superfluous mansion your fortune if you be unknown to capture honor at one snatch you have an innocent widow and i find you here in my apartment for whose use i pay you in stamped money searching my wardrobe and your hand � shame sir � your hand in my very pocket you can now complete the of your acts by what will be at once the simplest the safest and most the speaker paused as if to his words and then with a great change of tone and manner thus resumed and yet sir when i look upon your face i feel certain that i can not be deceived certain that in spite of all i have the honor and pleasure of speaking to a gentleman take off my coat sir � which but you yourself of this confusion that which is but thought upon thank god need be no burden to the conscience we have all guilty thoughts and if it flashed into your mind to sell my flesh and blood my anguish in the dock and the sweat of my death agony � it was a thought dear sir you were as incapable of acting on as i of any further question of your honor at these words the speaker with a very open smiling countenance like a father offered his hand it was not in the young man s nature to refuse forgiveness or generosity he the superfluous mansion l l instantly and almost without thought accepted the grasp and now resumed the now that i hold in mine your loyal hand i lay by my apprehensions i dismiss suspicion further � by an of will i banish the memory of what is past how you came here i care not enough that you are here � as my guest sit ye down and let us with your good permission improve acquaintance over a glass of excellent so speaking he produced glasses and a bottle and the pair pledged each other in silence confess observed the smiling host you were surprised at the appearance of the room i was indeed said nor can i imagine the purpose of these changes these replied the are the devices by which i continue to exist conceive me now accused before one of your unjust conceive the various witnesses appearing and the singular variety of their reports i one wiu have visited me in this drawing room as it originally stood a second finds it as it is to night and to morrow or next day all may have been changed if you love romance as artists do few lives are more romantic than that of the obscure individual now addressing you obscure yet famous mine is an infernal glory by infamous means i x the superfluous mansion work toward my bright purpose i found the liberty and peace of a poor country desperately abused the future smiles upon that land yet in the meantime i lead the existence of a hunted brute work toward appalling ends and practice s glass in hand contemplated the strange before him and listened to his heated with indescribable ment he looked him in the face with curious saw there the marks of education and wondered the more profoundly sir he said � for i know not whether i should still address you as mr jones jones by all or any of these you may address me said the for all i have at some time borne yet that which i most price that which is most feared hated and obeyed is not a name to be found in your it is not a name current in post offices or banks and indeed like the celebrated m i may justly describe myself as being nameless by day but he continued rising to his feet by night and among my desperate followers i am the was with the name but he politely expressed surprise and gratification i am to understand he continued the superfluous mansion that this you follow the profession of a the had resumed his seat and now the glasses i do he said in this dark period of time a star � the star of � has risen for the oppressed and among those who practice its use so thick beset with dangers and attended by such incredible difficulties and disappointments few have been more and not many he paused and a shade of embarrassment appeared upon his face not many have been more successful than myself i can imagine observed that from the sweeping consequences looked for the career is not devoid of interest tou have besides some of the entertainment of the game of hide and seek but it would still seem to me � i speak as a � that nothing could the author of the original has here a long passage conceived in a style too oriental for the english reader we a specimen and it seems doubtful whether it should be printed as prose or verse any who writes shall find in me a and he goes on if we
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a short time now before he should have to return to his law office and she to her in that is the hardest thing i have to tell you she said with an effort i am not to go back there they are thinking of another school nearer here but at any rate i cannot return to the old one they do not want me to be near you nor near either she added lowering her voice i never knew them so set in anything before mamma does not say much but i can see that she with him was quite upset by this piece of tion i hardly care whether i go or not then he answered with a look i have borne the trouble at the house because i thought that in a few weeks you and i would be where we could see each other with no difficulties in the way if this keeps on i shall give up my studies they will drive me to it oh no she exclaimed not displeased nevertheless to receive this evidence of the regret that he felt at her information you must in your profession whatever happens i should hate to think that i had done anything to your success in life will be there she added with a trace of mischievous meaning so you will not be wholly s tub bi don t that hurts me he protested it should not she replied gently she and are the dearest friends i know i could trust with you i know i could trust you anywhere only don t be very careful don t do anything to make her think you care for her it it would be cruel he said hush in a whisper and then carried her to a sofa near by and placed her upon it she was a good weight for him to bear but what lover ever realized the meaning of when his beloved one was the object you are the sick one to day the last time it was i he said laughing now it is my turn to play the nurse all the medicine i need is to have you by me she murmured it was all i needed too if i had been so candid as to own it he smiled they talked about the school affair and could not reconcile themselves to it but it was agreed that wherever she was sent he would find his way thither as often as circumstances would permit and that each would write daily for the present they were to meet every other day in the summer house at the same hour mary brought a lunch at seven and they tasted it together but neither was hungry for material food grew more and more charming as she regained her spirits and they built a splendid future out of the very limited materials at hand in the course of the evening not once did the fair girl refuse or even question his right to all the kisses he wanted s protest which were numerous and when he reflected afterward thought he had behaved very well indeed considering his temptations chapter xxi s protest had never tried to ni daughter in anything until there came up this matter of she had been as free to follow her inclination in everything as though she were of full age and he had always congratulated himself that there was nothing in which they seemed likely to differ in this case however he had determined to use all of his efforts to put a stop to the intimacy of the young couple believing that their further friendship could only result in subsequent pain and mortification to what might have happened had the girl set herself in opposition to his wishes in an open way it is difficult to say he would have it hard to use severe measures and she might have been the victor but as time passed on and she appeared to recover rapidly from the shock which he had been compelled to give her mr congratulated himself that he had pursued the right course and that the love of the young man had not been so deeply in his child s heart as he bad feared in the course of a fortnight she went about her duties with very nearly the appearance of the former the big am t time she wore a subdued air that was new to her but there was nothing to show that she suffered from grief it was clear to her father and to her as well that the ill effects were passing rapid away mrs had long been in delicate health and it happened at this season that she was taken with a sudden failing which alarmed her husband seriously the physician who attended her recommended a trip to the and se about arranging to carry out his s school term would have begun soon but the girl settled that matter by saying that she had had enough of study for the present she would much rather she said remain and attend to the household affairs which would enable her mother to her visit east as much as she wished her parents came to the conclusion that it would be best to allow her to make her choice she had already a fair education and if she was content to remain at home it was undoubtedly better that she should do so had been giving some uneasiness to his father of late by the condition of his health he had become paler than usual and his appetite was he appeared to care for nothing but would lie for hours at a time in a with his eyes fixed on sometimes having to be called several times before he heard the person who him ascribed this state of affairs to his son s fondness for but assured himself that it would soon pass off
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a thirst for a s immortality had him was little the tailor � a remarkable for the vast between the of his person and the greatness of his aspirations and still more remarkable for an walk and an ambitious erect carriage of the head stricken with the grandeur of lieutenant s achievements and of like glory in the field of he had by degrees himself into an intimacy with the lieutenant who one day in a settled the little hero s destiny by him for a special campaign with the in the course of this tour of duty which lasted sixty days ned by ic rob of the bowl had the good fortune to capture three women whom he took for warriors belonging to the tribe of king � a chief whose name diffused a common terror through the province the to the hazard and glory of this and his commander exalted him to the honorable and responsible duties of a ever since that event the tailor looked upon himself as a approved in battle and entitled to boast of his being thus into the list of fame he became a devoted of the lieutenant and as is customary amongst the of greater men than even lieutenant george he suffered himself to be embarked in all the and committed to all the consequences of his leader s political the s time was divided between the needle and the � at one season when work was slack playing the man of war in and at another when fighting was and decayed with a tranquillity of spirit such were the principal personages who were now to deliberate upon the course of that secret rebellion which in a few years later than this period terminated in what is known in the history of as the revolution their more immediate purpose was to devise measures for the rescue or of the towards the accomplishment of this design the discontented in various parts of the province had associated under private forms of organization and held themselves in readiness to obey the signal for an outbreak whenever the leaders amongst the should determine the fit moment to have arrived when these persons were once together in arms their plan was to drive matters to an immediate issue with the by seizing the fort and even by his person their general scheme of rebellion was sup by ic rob of the bowl posed to derive its hopes of success not only from the bitterness which daily grew up between the two religious but from the inclination of the court at white hall to give an established church to the province and to the exercise of religious towards the catholic party add to this the fact that a majority of the inhabitants were of the faith and it will be seen that the had no very strong reason to apprehend any fatal of their scheme it was late before made his appearance in this assembly he had gone into the inn where he remained in solitude until after nightfall and when the retiring day had left everything in shade he forth and indulged his moody and temper in lonely musing as he through the town and along the margin of the river as he was to the ordinary of humanity it cost him a struggle to pursue his purpose to the extent of making war against that faith the devotion to which in his bosom was superstition � a superstition that clung to his mind through all the of his life amongst the brothers of the coast and which he to his self on this subject had wrought him up to a state of mind that bordered upon insanity exhibiting itself at times in bursts of apparently and driving him to the of strong drink his absence from s began to be remarked master had already let fall � when spoke of his interview with the � some expressions of distrust in the sincerity of such a as the tale implied and more than one of the company hinted at a trick contrived by the to them private of dissatisfaction and threats of were growled in whispered tones was remarkably fierce and by my sword by ic rob op the bowl i he said with a an i find it should turn out that we have been with by that it shall go hard with him bat he shall find that i wear cold iron � if he learn as much from never a man in the town beside and as we are all here together where we may speak our minds he added in a stage whisper with a significant solemnity of manner i would have you know i do not put too much faith in the honesty of these and men they are � masters he said laying his finger against his nose and looking mysterious to my seeming this richard ever had a hang dog ay that s true � a hang dog devil in his looks said himself taking the from the speaker as he strode into the room immediately behind the who stood near the door his brow was flushed his air hurried and disturbed and he had entered the outer door without knocking or ceremony of announcement and thus came into the apartment where the meeting was assembled at unawares and at the moment that his name was upon the s lips his cap was drawn over one side of his forehead and his sword detached from the belt was borne in his hand a constrained gave a disagreeable and unusual expression to his features and there was an air of affected in his carriage when he interrupted the and the company nay master you need not shrink for your brave speaking tis a license of a man of the wars to rail at such b leave their colors and as i have left mine i stand under your reproof � god
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mrs was full of heart she declared throwing the assertion across the room much as though it was a stone in the direction of the figure at the window drew herself up with a rustle i wonder exactly what means by that she commented inwardly i think it very odd of course she must have some meaning and i wonder what it is she seems to be changing her line i am glad i stayed i am afraid is rather i excuse george of deceit i believe george to be true but he is sadly influenced by i am rather sorry for george so she is mrs resumed � s too full of heart as i tell her she is forever thinking of others and their comforts she the far horizon neither time nor money does not there is nothing calculating or cheese about her � not enough i often think fish game poultry and all of the very best � where the profits are to come from with a bill of fare like that passes my powers of and so i point out to her i hope it is appreciated � yes i do hope that mr � there the speaker became extremely and playful a little bird sometimes seems to to me that it is and yet i am sure i don t know the members of your sex are very mr do not par yourself now you cannot take me in and a certain gentleman is very close you know and stand it is not easy to get at his real sentiments is it now laid back her ears so to speak i was quite right to stay she reflected i think mr is unusually considerate miss george said he is quite sensible of mrs s kind attentions but naturally he is very of her household arrangements and giving additional trouble and then the position of a bachelor is delicate miss you must admit mrs in that s what i always tell it may do all very well in their younger days to be but as gentlemen get on in life they do need their own private i am sure i am sorry for them in chambers or even in good rooms like those at lodge for it is not the same as a home miss and never can be there must be on both sides at times especially when it comes to illness then the great gathered herself together for it appeared to her her had been just and that she was indeed marching to victory yes there is no denying all that she said and i chapter the wind blew strong and bleak and dreary against the windows of the at the back of the house the complaint of the tree as the branches upon one another was long drawn and loud these sounds reached in the sitting room where he sat alone and before the fire for more than a week now he had been confined to the house he had set the door of communication between the two rooms open so as to gain a greater sense of space and that he might take a little exercise by walking the whole length of them the cry of the wind and the moan of the branches was very yet he made no effort to shut it out to begin with he was so weak that it was too much trouble to move to go on the melancholy sounds were not ill suited to his present humour for a great depression was upon him a weariness of spirit which might be felt out of doors london shivered houses and sky and the expanse of s green with its trees and iron livid a upon them as of fear had no quarrel with this either indeed it gave him a certain bitter satisfaction as offering a not setting to his own thought though not robust he was tough and so that illness of a nature as to his remaining within doors was a new and trying experience crossing bridge on the ten days previously the chill of the river had struck through him yet this in all reasonable probability would merely have resulted in passing physical discomfort but for the moral and spiritual hurt immediately preceding it how far the mind has the far horizon when an opportunity occurred of speaking in private to her cousin she did so with the utmost cordiality i do hope george she said you will not think any more of our little i can truly say i never bear malice i own i was annoyed for i felt i had not been quite fairly treated by but of course i may have been mistaken i am quite willing to believe so and to let be and stay as pressed me to do until i go to my cousin lady in december of course it would be more convenient to me in some ways but i am not thinking of that i am thinking of you and i should not like to disappoint her by leaving her when she wants me to help entertain your friend mr of course i cannot pretend i take easily to strangers mamma was very particular whom we associated with and so i have always been to strangers and i cannot pretend i am partial to making new acquaintances still i should be very sorry to seem or to hurt you and by refusing to stay and assist you thank you truly i am sure you are very kind the good man answered and the best or the worst of it was he actually believed he was speaking the truth the far horizon familiar contents by tears it was an hour of supreme nothing is left he said half aloud nothing the future is as blank as the present if this is to grow old then indeed those whom the gods have need enough to die
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absorbed in beloved toil how much less for a young gentleman haunted by and awaiting the arrival of a corpse i he sat down cleared away a piece of the table and attacked the cold luncheon in his basket in case of any subsequent inquiry into the fate of it was desirable he should be little seen in other words that ho should spend the day entirely in the house to this end and further to his fable he had brought in the leather case not only writing materials but a of large size music paper such as he considered suitable for an ambitious character like s and now to work said he when he had satisfied his appetite we must leave traces of the wretched man s activity and he wrote in bold characters orange op j b f score the jim n i suppose ihey never do begin like this reflected but then it s quite out of the question for me to tackle a full score and was so a would be found convincing i believe to let me see to william by his obedient servant the and now some music i had better avoid the it seems to present difficulties let s give an air for the tenor key � o something modem � seven and he made a business like signature across the and then paused and for a while on the handle of his pen melody with no better inspiration than a sheet of paper is not usually found to spring in the mind of the amateur nor is the key of seven a place of much repose to the he cast away that it will help to build up the character of remarked and again waited on the muse in various keys and on divers sheets of paper but all with results bo that he stood aghast it s very odd thought he i seem to have less fancy than i thought or this is an off day with me yet must leave something and again he bent himself to the task presently the penetrating chill of the began to attack the very seat of life he from his trial and to the audible annoyance of the rats walked briskly up and down the cabin still he was cold this is all nonsense said he i don t care thb box about the risk but i will not catch a i most get out of this den he stepped on deck and passing to the bow of his looked for the first time up the river he started only a few hundred yards above another lay among the it was very and span an elegant hung at the stem the windows were concealed by snowy curtains a flag floated from a the more looked at it the more there mingled with his disgust a sense of impotent surprise it was veiy like his uncle s it was exceedingly like it was identical but for two circumstances he could have sworn it was the same the that his had gone to might be explained away by that of purpose which is so common a trait among the more than usually manly the second however was it was not in the least like mr to display a banner on his floating residence and if he ever did it would certainly be in hues of propriety now the like the vast majority of the more manly had drawn knowledge at the wells of cambridge � he was wooden spoon in the year and the flag upon the streamed on the afternoon air with the colors of that seat of that cradle of that home of the and the � oxford still it was strangely like thought and as he thus looked and thought the door opened the tb and a young lady stepped forth on deck the dropped and fled into his cabin it was through the window he watched her draw in the get on board of it cast off and come dropping down stream in his direction well all is up now said he and he fell on a seat gk od afternoon miss said a voice on the water knew it for the voice of his landlord af replied but i don t know who you are do i oh yes i do though you are the nice man that gave us leave to sketch from the old s heart leaped with fear that s it returned the man and what i wanted to say was as you couldn t do it any more you see i ve let it let it cried let it for a month said the man seems strange don t it can t see what the party wants with it it seems very romantic of him i think said what sort of a person is he in her the landlord in his were close alongside and holding on by the of the so that not a word was lost on he s a music man said the landlord or at least that s what he told me miss come down here to write an op ra cried i never heard of anything so thb box delightful i we shall be able to slip down at night and hear him i what is his name said the man repeated and her memory in vain but indeed our rising school of english music so many professors that we rarely hear of one till he is made a are you sure you have it right made him spell it to me replied the landlord j i m s o n� and his op ra s called � some kind of tea ome bind of tea cried the girl what a very singular name for an opera what can it be about and heard her pretty laughter flow abroad we must try to get acquainted with this mr i feel sure he
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country and the brightest of literature we daily hear of of failures and they are trifling which from their excite but little astonishment or sympathy but it is not often that we hear of a man s letting immortality slip through his fingers and when he does meet with such a misfortune who would deny him the comfort of his calamity next to the laid upon our commerce the greatest public annoyance is the laid upon our work in consequence whim and opinions of which the produce of my wits like that of my country must remain at home and m y ideas hke so many in port or in the away in the mud of my own brain i know of few things in this world more than co be interrupted in the middle of a favourite story at the most interesting part where one expects to shine or to have a conversation broken off just when you are about coming out with a score of jokes not one of which but was good enough to make every figure in literally split her sides with laughter � in some such am i placed at present and i do protest to you my good looking and well beloved readers by the chop sticks of the immortal i was on the very brink of treating you with a full of the most ingenious and instructive essays that your precious were ever with in the first place i had with infinite labour and pains and by consulting the divine sir john and others fully of esq all those wild theories respecting the first settlement of our country and proved beyond contradiction that america so far from being as the writers of europe it the new world is at least as old as any in existence not excepting egypt china or even the land of the which according to the traditions of that ancient people has already assisted at the of thirteen and four hundred and seventy thousand i had likewise written a long on certain discovered on those fragments of the moon which have lately fallen with singular propriety in a neighbouring state and have thrown considerable light on the state of literature and the arts in that planet � showing that the universal language which there is high dutch thereby proving it to be the most ancient and original tongue and the opinion of a celebrated poet that it is the language in which the serpent tempted our grandmother eve to support the department i had several very ready written whim and opinions wherein no quarter was shown either to authors or actors and i was only waiting to determine at what plays or performances they should be as to the grand spectacle of which is to be represented this season i had given it a most showing that it was neither tragedy comedy nor farce � that the incidents were highly improbable � that the prince played hke a perfect � that the white were merely powdered for the occasion � and that the new moon had a most outrageous copper nose but my most profound and essay in is an review of these which i had written partly in revenge for the many jokes played off against me by my and partly for the purpose of saving much invaluable labour to the and of the age by and exposing all the etc etc which occur in this work i hold it downright for any of esq author to write or even to think in the same manner with any other writer that either did doth or may exist it is a sage of law � � � � and the same has been extended to literature so that if an author shall publish an idea that has been ever hinted by another it shall be no for him to plead ignorance of the feet all therefore that i had to do was to take a good pair of spectacles or a glass and with in hand and a table full of books before me to mouse over them alternately in a comer of library carefully comparing and all odd ends and fragments of sentences little did honest suspect when he sat lounging and in his elbow chair with no other to draw upon than his own brain and no other authority to consult than the sage � little did he think that his careless would receive such scrupulous investigation by laborious and patiently words where sentences and ideas did not correspond i have detected sundry sly whim opinions and of which tu be bound himself is ignorant thus for instance � the little man in black is t no less a personage than old or something from the spectator who her from s � wrinkled with age grown � my friend has taken the honest old woman dressed her up in the cast off suit worn by in and endeavoured to palm the upon the enlightened inhabitants of � proof of the fact need be given than that was taken for a witch and the man in black for a and that they both in villages the inhabitants of which were distinguished by a most respectful of and � to be sure the astonishing ends here but surely that is enough to prove that the man in black is no other than in the disguise of a white witch thus also the sage in a for a of studying may pretend to originality of idea op esq and to a familiar acquaintance with the of the east � but this trick will not pass here � i refer those who wish to detect his to one of those or of science which like a tailor s or a pie are for scientific fragments of all sorts and sizes the reader learned in dictionary studies will at once perceive i mean an there under the title of cards or i
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it here he asked in a low voice no no the alley is on the other side the young heir glanced round with a gloomy face it s no wonder my uncle felt as if trouble were coming on him in such a place as this said he it s enough to scare any man i ll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months and you won t know it again with a thousand candle power swan and right here in front of the hall door the avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf and the house lay before us in the fading light i could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected the whole front was draped in ivy with a patch bare here and there where a window or a coat of arms broke through the dark veil this central the hound of the b as e e block rose the twin towers ancient ui pierced with many to right and left ol the were more modem wings ol black granite a dull light shone through heavy windows and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep high roof there sprang a single black column of smoke welcome sir henry welcome to i i a tall man had stepped from the shadow of the i porch to open the door of the the figure of a woman was against the yellow light of the hall she came out and helped the man to hand down our bags you don t mind my driving straight home henry said dr my wife is expecting me surely you will stay and have some dinner no i must go i shall probably find work awaiting me i would stay to show you the house but will be a better guide than i good bye and never hesitate night or day to send for me if i can be of service the wheels died away down the drive while henry and i turned into the hall and the heavily behind us it was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves large lofty and heavily with huge of age blackened oak in the great old fashioned fireplace behind the j iron dogs a log tire and snapped hall henry and i held out our hands to it for we from our long drive then we gazed round us at the high thin window of old stained glass the oak the heads the coats of arms upon the all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp it s just as i imagined it said sir henry it it not the very picture of an old family home tc that this should be the same hall in which for five hundred years my people have lived it strikes me solemn to think of it i saw his dark face lit up with boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him the light beat upon him where he stood but long shadows down the walls and hung like a black above him had returned from taking our luggage to our rooms he stood in front of us now with the subdued manner of a well trained servant he was i looking man tall handsome with a square black beard and pale distinguished features would you wish dinner to oe served at once sh is it ready in a very few minutes sir you will find hot water in your rooms my wife and i will be happy sir henry to stay with you until you have made fresh arrangements but you will understand that under the new conditions this house will require a considerable staff s the hound of the what new conditions i only meant sir that sir charles led a very retired life and we were able to look after his wants you would naturally wish to have more company and so you will need changes in your household do you mean that your wife and you wish leave only when it is quite convenient to you sir i but your family have been with us for several generations have they not i should be sorry to begin my life here by breaking an old family connection i seemed to discern some signs of emotion the butler s white face i feel that also sir and so does my wife but to tell the truth sir we were both very much at to sir charles and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us i fear that we shall never again be easy in our at but what do you intend to do i have no doubt sir that we shall succeed in establishing ourselves in some business sir charles s generosity has given us the means to d so and now sir perhaps i had best show you to your rooms a square gallery ran round the tt j of the old hall approached by a double stair from this central point two long extended the whole th of the building from which all the i is i ba hall opened my own was in the same wing as s and almost next door to it these rooms appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house and the bright paper and numerous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind but the dining room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom it was a long chamber with a step separating the where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their at one end a s gallery overlooked it black beams shot across above our heads with a smoke darkened ceiling beyond them with rows of to light it up and the colour and rude of an old time
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of popular rage against me is likely to be less violent in view of the fact that this one proved so plainly mt dead t do not wear my heart upon my sleeve and shrink x fix m the of matters purely personal upon an indifferent public i have aimed in the series closed to mainly such facts and incidents as seemed likely to be of use either in the young and for the battle of life or in to their acceptance convictions which i deem sound and important my life has one of rarely labor � of efforts to achieve other than personal ends � of efforts which have absorbed most of the time which others freely devote to social and to fireside of those i knew and loved iq youth a majority have already crossed the dark river and i will not impose even their names on an among them is my and life long friend who after long illness died in this city in my first partner already named who was drowned while bathing in and a young poet of promise who was slowly yielding to consumption when the tidings of our disaster snapped short his thread of life � as it would have snapped mine it been half so frail as his the faces of many among the departed whom i have known and loved come back to me as i gaze the vista of my half century of active life but i have no right to lift the veil which and their long repose i will name but those who are a part of myself and whose loss to earth has profoundly affected my subsequent career since i began to write these reminiscences my mother s recollections of a busy ufe last brother john has deceased aged seventy two leaving the old i understand to some among his children so has my father s brother aged eighty leaving so far as i know but one of the nine brothers john still living my father himself died on the th of december last aged eighty six he had for twelve years or more been a mere wreck first in body only but his ultimately his mind so that when i last visited him a year before his death he did not recognize me till after he had sat by my side for a full half hour and he had before asked my oldest sister did you ever � alluding to one of her sons then several years dead he had fitful flashes of mental recovery but he had been so long a helpless victim of hopeless bodily and mental decay that i did grieve when i learned that his spirit had at length shaken off the of its mortal which had ceased to be an instrument and remained purely an of his protracted life forty two years had been spent in or on the verge of new england and forty four in his deliberately chosen steadily retained home my son arthur young bom in march was the third of seven children whereof a son and daughter bom in and in scarcely opened their eyes to a world which they entered but to leave physically they were remarkable for their striking resemblance in hair and features to their father and mother arthur had points of to each of us but with decided superiority as a whole to either i looked in vain through italian galleries two years after he was taken from us for any full parallel to his dazzling beauty � a beauty not physical merely but visibly from the soul his hair was of the finest and richest gold the sunshine of picture never its equal and the delicacy of his complexion at once fixed the attention of like the late n p who had traversed both without having his gaze arrested by any child who could bear a dead � with this one yet he was not one of those sometimes met with whose chatter would a sunday school � who never do or say aught that propriety would not sanction and piety delight in � but thoroughly human and with a love of play and mischief which kept busy and happy the day while rendering him the delight and admiration of all around him the arch delicacy wherewith he suggested when once told a story that his i pose that a lie was characteristic of his nature once when about three years old having chanced to my watch lying on a sofa as i was dressing one sunday morning with no third person present he made a sudden spring of several feet caught the watch by the chain whirled it around his head and sent it against the chimney its face into fragments i inquired rather sadly than angrily how you do me such injury cause i was nervous he replied there were ladies then making part of our household whose nerves were a source of general as well as personal discomfort and this was his of the fact there were wiser and deeper sayings as they fell from his lips but i will not repeat them several yet live who remember the graceful wherewith he charmed admiring circles assembled at our house and at two or three larger of friends of social reform in this city and at the n a in new and i think some grave who were accustomed to help us enjoy our saturday in our rural residence at bay were drawn thither as much by their admiration of the son as by their regard for his parents meantime another daughter was given to us and after six months withdrawn and still another bom who yet and he had run far into his sixth year without one serious his mother had devoted herself to him from his birth even beyond her intense to the care of her other children had never allowed him to partake of animal recollections of
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what were these sounds that broke the silence of the living tomb an instinct told him it was no use asking a so he devoured hfe curiosity and surprise as best he might the next day about the same hour both were again excited by noises from the same quarter equally unintelligible he heard a great of water in against a wall and this was followed by a sort of that seemed to him to come from a human throat this latter however was almost drowned in an chuckle of several persons amongst whom he caught the tones of a called and of the governor himself robinson puzzled and puzzled himself but could not understand these curious sounds and he could see nothing except a quantity of water running out of one of the labor and along till it escaped by one of the two that drained the yard often and often robinson meditated on this and exerted all his ingenuity to conceive what it meant his previous jail experience afforded him no and as he was one of those who hate to be in the dark about anything this new riddle tor r him however the prison was generally so dead dumb and gloomy that upon two such cheerful events as water and creatures laughing he could not help a little out of sympathy without knowing why the next day as robinson was working in the corridor the governor came in with a gentleman whom he treated with unusual and marked respect this gentleman was the of the quarter and one of those who had favored the of the present system mr the prison was justly pleased with its exquisite he questioned the governor as to the health of the prisoners and received for answer that most of them were well but that were some exceptions this appeared to satisfy him he went into the labor yard looked at the examined the numbers printed on each in order to learn their respective and see that the prisoners were not went with the governor into three or four and asked the prisoners if they had any to it is never too late to mend the answer was no he then the governor � and drove home to his own house park there after dinner he said to a brother magistrate i the jail to day was all over it the next morning the came into robinson s cell with a more cheerful countenance than usual robinson noticed it you are put on the said o am i of course you are your sentence was hard labor was n t it i don t know why you were n t sent on a fortnight ago then took him out into the labor yard which he found with about half the of his in the corridor in � of these little quiet a monster called a a is a machine of this sort � there springs out of a post an iron handle which the workman taking it by both hands works round and round as in some country places you may have seen the villagers draw a bucket up from a well this iron handle goes at the shoulder into a small iron box at the top of the post and inside that box the resistance to the is regulated by the who states the value of the resistance outside in cast iron letters thus � etc eighteen hundred per hour said mr in his voice of routine and you are to work two hours before dinner so saying he left him and robinson with the fear of punishment before him lost not a moment in getting to work he found the go easy enough at first but the longer he was at it the it seemed to turn and after about four hundred turns he was fain to breathe and rest himself he took three minutes rest then at it again all time there was no as in egypt nor up of declining energy as in old so that if i am so fortunate as to have a reader aged ten he is wondering why the fool did not confine his to saying he had made the turns my dear it would not do though no mortal the thief at his task the eye of science was in that cell and watched every stroke and her inexorable finger marked it down in english on the face of the was a thing like a with numbers set all round and a hand which somehow or other always pointed to the exact number of turns the thief had made the was an or self and in that respect your superior and mine my little this was robinson s first acquaintance with the the had been the mode in his time so by the time he had made three thousand turns he was rather exhausted he leaned upon the iron handle and sadly regretted his garden and his but fear and dire necessity were upon him he set to his task and to work again i won t look at the again for it always tells me less than i expect i just plough on till that beggar comes i know he will come to the minute sadly and he turned the iron handle and turned and turned again and then he panted and rested a minute and then to his idle toil again he was now so fatigued that his head seemed to have come loose he could not hold it up and it went round and round and round with the handle hence it was that mr stood at the mouth of the den without the other seeing him halt said robinson looked up and there was the him with a discontented air i m done thought robinson here he is as black as thunder � the number not right no doubt what are ye at growled you are forty over
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with its gradual little upward curve is and then her mouth � there never was a prettier mouth the lips curl backward so finely eh think so i cannot endure that sort of mouth it looks so self complacent as if it knew its own beauty � the curves are too immovable i like a mouth that more for my part i think her odious said a it is wonderful what unpleasant girls get into who are these does anybody know them they are quite i have dined with them several times at the the is english miss calls her cousin the girl herself is thoroughly well bred and as clever as possible dear me and the baron a very good furniture picture your is always at the table said i fancy she has taught the girl to oh the old woman plays a very sober game drops a ten piece here and there the girl is more headlong but it is only a book i � the spoiled child i hear she has lost all her to day are they rich who knows ah who knows who knows that about anybody said mr moving oflf to join the the remark that wound her neck about more than usual this evening was true but it was not that she might carry out the serpent idea more completely it was that she watched for any chance of seeing so that she might inquire about this stranger under whose measuring gaze she was still at last her opportunity came mr you know everybody said not too eagerly rather with a certain languor of utterance which she sometimes gave to her clear who is that near the door v there are half a dozen near the door do you mean that old in the george the fourth wig no no the dark haired young man on the right with the dreadful expression dreadful do you call it i think he is an uncommonly fine fellow but who is he he is lately come to our hotel with sir daniel sir yes do you know him no coloured slightly he has a place near us but he never comes to it what did you say was the name of that gentleman near the door � mr what a delightful name is he an englishman yes he is reported to be closely related to the you are interested in him yes i think he is not like young men in general and you don t admire young men in general not in the least i always know what they will say i can t at all guess what this mr would say what does he say nothing chiefly i sat with his party for a good hour last night on the terrace and he never spoke � and was not smoking he looked bored another reason why should like to know him i am always bored i should think he would be charmed to have an introduction shall i bring it about will you allow it book i � spoiled child why not � since he is related to sir it is a new of yours to be always bored continued madame von when mr had moved away until now you have always seemed eager about something from morning till night that is just because i am bored to death if i am to leave off play i must break my arm or my collar bone i must make something happen unless you will go into and take me up the perhaps this mr s acquaintance will do instead of the perhaps but did not make s acquaintance on this occasion mr did not succeed in bringing him up to her that evening and when she re entered her own room she found a letter recalling her home vol l b chapter ii man a secret as two that he may me with his meeting eyes like one who a at bay this was the letter found on her table � dearest child � i have been expecting to hear from you for a week in your last you said the thought of going to how could you be so thoughtless as to leave me in uncertainty about your address i am in the greatest anxiety lest this should not reach you in any case you were to come home at the end of september and i must now entreat you to return as quickly as possible for if you spent all your money it would be out of my power to send you any more and you must not borrow of the for i could not repay them this is the sad truth my child � i wish i could prepare you for book i � the spoiled child it better � but a dreadful calamity has befallen us all you know nothing about business and will not understand it but and co have failed for a million and we are totally ruined � your aunt as well as i only that your uncle has his so that by putting down their carriage and getting interest for the boys the family can go on all the property our poor father saved for us goes to pay the there is nothing i can call my own it is better you should know this at once though it my heart to have to tell it of course we cannot help thinking what a pity it was that you went away just when you did but i shall never reproach you my dear child i would save you from all trouble if i could on your way home you will have time to prepare yourself for the change you will find we shall perhaps leave at once for we hope that mr who wanted it before may be ready to take it oflf my hands of course we cannot go to the � there is not a
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his baggage the old man with the cut might or might not be his father he might or he might not be on the true scent but he was certainly on the edge of an exciting mystery and he promised himself that he would not his observation until he had got to the bottom of the secret from the window of his new apartment francis commanded a complete view into the garden of the house with the green blinds immediately below him a very comely chestnut with wide boughs sheltered a pair of rustic tables where people might dine in the height of summer on all sides save one a dense vegetation concealed the soil but there between the tables and the house he saw a patch of gravel walk leading from the to the studying the places from between the boards of the which he not open for fear of attention francis observed but little to indicate the manners of the inhabitants and that little argued no more than a close reserve and a taste lor solitude the garden was the house had the air of a prison the green blinds were all drawn down upon the outside the door into the ver the diamond was closed the garden as far as he could see it was left entirely to itself in the evening sunshine a modest curl of smoke from a single chimney alone to the presence of living people in order that he might not be entirely idle and to give a certain color to his way of life francis had purchased s in french which he set to copy and on the top of his and seated on the floor against the wall for he was equally without chair or table from time to time he would rise and cast a glance into the of the house with the green blinds but the windows remained closed and the garden empty only late in the evening did anything occur to his continued attention between nine and ten the sharp of a bell aroused him from a fit of and he sprang to his in time to hear an important noise of locks being opened and bars removed and to see mr carrying a lantern and clothed in a flowing robe of black velvet with a skull cap to match issue from under the and proceed leisurely toward the garden gate the sound of and bars was then repeated and a moment after francis perceived the into the house in the light of the lantern an individual of the lowest and most appearance half an hour afterward the visitor was to the street and mr setting his light upon one of the rustic tables finished a cigar with great deliberation under the foliage of the chestnut francis peering through a clear space among the leaves was able to follow his gestures as he threw away the ash or enjoyed a copious and beheld a cloud upon the old man s brow and a forcible action of the lips which to some deep and probably painful train of thought the cigar was already almost at an end when the voice of a young girl was heard suddenly crying the hour from the interior of the house new nights in a moment replied john and with that he threw away the stump and taking up the lantern sailed away under the for the night as soon as the door was closed absolute darkness fell upon the house francis might try his as much as he pleased he could not detect so much as a single of light below a blind and he concluded with great good sense that the bed chambers were all upon the other side early the next morning for he was early awake after an uncomfortable night upon the floor he saw cause to adopt a different explanation the blinds rose one after another by means of a spring in the interior and disclosed steel shutters such as we see on the front of shops these in their turn were rolled up by a similar contrivance and for the space of about an hour the chambers were left open to the morning air at the end of that time mr with his own hand once more closed the shutters and replaced the blinds from within while francis was still at these precautions the door opened and a young girl came forth to look about her in the garden it was not two minutes before she re entered the house but even in that short time he saw enough to convince him that she possessed the most unusual attractions his curiosity was not only highly excited by this incident but his spirits were improved to a still more notable degree the alarming manners and more than life of his father ceased from that moment to prey upon his mind from that moment he embraced his new family with and whether the young lady should prove his sister or his wife he felt convinced she was an angel in disguise so much was this the case that he was seized with a sudden horror when he reflected how little he really knew and how possible it was that he followed the wrong person when he followed mr the porter whom he consulted could afford the s diamond little information but such as it was it had a mysterious and questionable sound the person next door was an english gentleman of extraordinary wealth and eccentric in his tastes and habits he possessed great which he kept in the house beside him and it was to protect these that he had fitted the place with steel shutters elaborate and de along the garden wall he lived much alone in spite of some strange visitors with whom it seemed he had business to and there was no one in the house except and an old woman servant is his daughter inquired francis
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o � ver roared a fifth while numerous voices in desiring mr thomas to go home to his mother all these mr thomas received with supreme contempt the low crowned hat a little more on one side whenever any reference waa made to his personal appearance aiid standing up with his arms a expressing defiance the � to which these various sounds had been an ad accompaniment � concluded the second piece began and mr thomas by proceeded to behave in a most sketches by and outrageous manner first of all he the shake of the principal female singer then groaned at the blue fire then affected to be frightened into of terror at the appearance of the ghost and lastly not only made a running in an audible voice upon the dialogue on the stage but actually awoke mr robert who hearing his companion making a noise and having a very indistinct notion where he was or what was required of him immediately by way of a good example set up the most and appalling howling that ever audience heard it was too much turn them out i was the general cry a noise as of shuffling of feet and men being knocked up with violence against was heard a hurried dialogue of come out � i won t � you shall � � i shan t � give me your card sir � you re a scoundrel sir and so forth succeeded a round of applause the approbation of the audience and mr robert and mr thomas found themselves shot with astonishing swiftness into the road without having had the trouble of once putting foot to ground during the whole progress of their rapid descent mr robert being one of the slow and having had quite enough of fast going in the course of his recent to last until the quarter day then next at the very least had no sooner emerged with his companion from the of milton street than he proceeded to indulge in to the beauties of sleep mingled with distant allusions to the propriety of returning to and the influence of their patent over the locks to which they belonged mr making a night of it thomas however was and thej had come out to make a night of it and a night must be made so mr robert who was three parts dull and the other dismal assented and they went into a wine to get materials for assisting them in making a night where they found a good many young ladies and various old gentlemen and a plentiful of and cab drivers all drinking and talking together mr thomas and mr robert drank glasses of brandy and large glasses of until they began to have a very confused idea either of things in general or of anything in particular and when they had done treating themselves they began to treat everybody else and the rest of the was a confused mixture of heads and heels black eyes and blue mud and gas lights thick doors and stone then as standard inform us � all was a blank and in the morning the blank was filled up with the words station house and the station house was filled up with mr thomas mr robert and the major part of their wine vault companions of the preceding night with a comparatively small portion of clothing of any kind and it was disclosed at the police office to the indignation of the bench and the astonishment of the spectators how one robert aided and by one thomas had knocked down and beaten in divers streets at different times five men four boys and three women how the said thomas had obtained possession of five door two bell handles and a bonnet how robert his friend had sworn at sketches by least forty pounds worth of oaths at the rate of five shillings a piece terrified whole streets full of her majesty s subjects with awful shrieks and of fire destroyed the of five and committed various other too numerous to and the magistrate after an appropriate mr thomas and mr robert ye shillings each for being what the law terms drunk and thirty four pounds for seventeen at forty shillings a head with liberty to speak to the the were spoken to and messrs and lived on credit for a quarter as best they might and although the expressed their readiness to be twice a week on the same terms they have never since been detected in making a night of it chapter xii the prisoners van we were passing the comer of bow street on our return from a lounging excursion the other afternoon when a crowd assembled round the door of the attracted our attention we up the street accordingly there were thirty or forty people standing on the pavement and half across the road and a few were patiently stationed on the opposite side of the way � all evidently waiting in expectation of the bs van some we waited too a few bnt nothing occurred so we turned round to an who was standing next us with his hands under the of his apron and put the usual question of what s the matter the eyed us from head to foot with contempt and replied now we were perfectly aware that if two men stop in the street to look at any given object or even to gaze in the air two hundred men will be assembled in no time but as we knew very well that no crowd of people could by possibility remain in a street for five minutes without getting up a little amusement among themselves unless they had some absorbing object in view the natural inquiry next in order was what are all these people � her majesty s carriage the this was still more extraordinary we could not imagine what earthly business her majesty s carriage
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the groves displayed masses of pale purple and brown the sounds of the storm with this wild of light and motion the profound bass of the naked branches and like the quick tense of the pine needles now rising to a shrill whistling hiss now falling to a murmur the rustling of laurel groves in the and the keen click of leaf on leaf � all this was heard in easy analysis when the attention was calmly bent the varied gestures of the multitude were seen to fine advantage so that one could recognize the different species at a distance of several miles by this means alone as well as by their forms and colors and the way they reflected the light all seemed strong and comfortable as if really enjoy v the mountains of ing the storm while to its most enthusiastic greetings we hear much nowadays concerning the universal struggle for existence but no struggle in the common meaning of the word was manifest here no recognition of danger by any tree no but rather an invincible gladness as remote from exultation as from fear i kept my lofty perch for hours frequently closing my eyes to enjoy the music by itself or to feast quietly on the delicious fragrance that was streaming past the fragrance of the woods was less marked than that produced during warm rain when so many and leaves are like tea but from the of branches against each other and the incessant of of needles the gale was to a very degree and besides the fragrance from these local sources there were traces of brought from afar for this wind came first from the sea against its fresh waves then through the rich and spreading itself in broad over many a flower ridge of the coast mountains then across the golden plains up the purple foot hills and into these woods with the varied incense gathered by the way winds are of all they touch however much or little we may be able to read them telling their wanderings even by their alone detect the perfume of d winds far at sea and sea winds carry the fragrance of and far inland where it is a wind storm in the forests � quickly recognized though mingled with the of a thousand land flowers as an illustration of this i may tell here that i breathed sea air on the of forth in scotland while a boy then was taken to where i remained nineteen years then without in all this time having breathed one breath of the sea i walked quietly alone from the middle of the valley to the gulf of on a excursion and while in far from the coast my attention wholly bent on the splendid tropical vegetation about me i suddenly recognized a as it came through the and blooming vine which at once awakened and set free a thousand associations and made me a boy again in scotland as if all the intervening years had been most people like to look at mountain rivers and bear them in mind but few care to look at the winds though far more beautiful and sublime and though they become at times about as visible as flowing water when the north winds in winter are making upward sweeps over the of the high the fact is sometimes published with flying snow a mile long those portions of the winds thus embodied can scarce be wholly invisible even to the darkest imagination and when we look around over an agitated forest we may see something of the wind that it by its effects upon the trees yonder it in a rush of water like and sweeps over the bending pines from hill to hill nearer we see detached and leaves now by on the mountains op level currents now whirling in or escaping over the edges of the soaring aloft on grand of air or tossing on flame like smooth deep currents falls and sing around every tree and leaf and over all the varied of the region with telling changes of form like mountain rivers to the features of their channels after tracing the streams from their fountains to the plains marking where they bloom white in falls glide in crystal gray and foam filled in choked and slip through the woods in long tranquil reaches � after thus learning their language and forms in detail we may at length hear them all together in one grand and comprehend them all in clear inner vision covering the range like lace but even this spectacle is far less sublime and not a whit more substantial than what we may behold of these storm streams of air in the mountain woods we all travel the way together trees and men but it never occurred to me until this while swinging in the wind that trees are in the ordinary sense they make many journeys not extensive ones it is true but our own little journeys away and back again are only httle more than tree � many of them not so much when the storm began to i dismounted and sauntered down through the woods the storm tones died away and turning toward the east i beheld the countless hosts of the forests hushed and tranquil towering above one another a wind storm in the forests on the slopes of the hills like a devout audience the setting sun filled them with light and seemed to say while they listened my peace i give unto you as i gazed on the impressive scene all the ruin of the storm was forgotten and never before did these noble woods appear so fresh so joyous so immortal chapter xi the river floods the rivers are every spring by the melting of the snow as regularly as the famous old they begin to rise in may and in june high water mark is reached but because
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about climbing the rustic steps holding on by the to his particular dining shop i wonder where is said lady and at that moment she came slowly and languidly down the rustic stairs the looked at her then away they did not admire the � she was all very well for a but there was not enough of her and her expression at once and sullen obscured her beauty though if had walked through that crowd no more than a passing glance would have been given her only the s few women there would have decided that what the understood about we don t even know the of what have you been doing all the morning inquired lady � writing letters spoke wearily she hated the place as cordially as her aunt did it was only the thought of s approaching arrival that enabled her to get on at lady raised her eyebrows as she looked at the title of the book held in her hand occasionally when glancing at the gross productions of certain women was moved to wonder where they had met the men they described and whom they found irresistible � men with manners that would have them a from a male relation of any decent women only unfortunately the of these books were as assuredly not as the men made no pretensions to being in clutch swayed like com in a gale and so jolly sentimental too that they keep the flowers dead in the that their lovers or husbands have sent she added faced as they were by the melancholy of affection each person was surrounded by a of dishes all square all quite small a portion in each � black bread butter fruit and in heaped up at intervals down the tables composed entirely of innocent of salt dressing or anything to give it save the of poured over it the women did not eat they it with both hands and talking all the while the men with them no disgust as they probably felt none but to lady san did not even try to eat it this was a daily stumbling block that became no easier as time went on it happened to be an indulgence day and some extra ib followed the of meat before lady s plate was set a smaller portion than that for the man who had not yet arrived next her � she looked longed half stretched out a hand to exchange it for her own when the man in the place beyond caught her she drew her hand back then boldly outstretched it again made the exchange and a roar of laughter ran round the table when presently the lawful owner appeared and sat down to his portion opposite them sat a woman with a round pretty face a dan nose a straw hat and big diamonds in her ears it was after first seeing her that lady announced how in addition to the two kinds of ladies she knew she had discovered a third � the kind that wore diamonds as big as nuts on its ears and fingers by day really the woman was quite nice and why on earth that scarlet of blood could not have settled than in the tip of a really charming member was one of those things that a providence who has fits of spite she talked m french across the table to lady white san sat silent and rather dull with the uncomfortable peculiar to those planted in the midst of those who speak strange tongues even when she went to buy soap she could only get it by rubbing her hands briskly together for and provision was made at but for the english � they were not wanted there poor san was thoroughly for something english � she missed her garden no one here the only attempt at a very half hearted one was outside the men s bath house an building than the one devoted to women it was the same in all the surrounding country might drive miles without seeing a single flower and a s simple garden w a thing unknown there seemed a total to the beauty of nature in in clutch and in tones of horror ejaculated i have got a garden party in my mouth san rather admired a blue eyed very fat with hair who made one of a family group at a little distance all held in by the business of eating with at the past discontent with the present hope for the future � after all was not their point of view very much that of the average christian s religion the woman opposite ate her of mutton but turned dan up at the and the fruit the russian on san s right ate only what she fancied and to lady frankly owned to her hunger pangs at one of the many outside � in fact you had only to pass the gates to find yourself in the midst of temptation with every opportunity of indulging your tastes the economy in labour at was amazing at odd moments you would see the clean at lightning speed down a table the girls with magnificent who and you at ten handed hateful and so on at one did your bedroom and at odd moments no one was idle for a moment the non came out much later than the others when san and lady presently escaped to the bad they met no one on the way but some sweeps in tall hats with in their hands chapter ii and her maidens the bad was a picturesque and lovely spot something like a little wood that fell away on three sides in winding walks and ways and terminated in a by a seat that san called the tower where one overlooked the city in its summer heat far below thank god we have it to ourselves said lady when she had exchanged
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human heart the approach of foreseen anguish � seems hurrying on the moment when the shadow of dread will be followed up by the reality of despair how cruelly hasty that summer of seemed to surely the roses vanished earlier and the on the mountain ash were more impatient to and bring on the autumn when she would be face to face with her misery and witness giving all his gentle tones tender words and soft looks to another before the end of july captain had written word that lady and her daughter were about to fly from the heat and gaiety of bath to the shady quiet of their place at and that be was invited to join the party there letters implied that he was on an excellent footing both the ladies and gave no hint of a rival bo that sir was more than usually bright and cheerful after reading them at length towards the close of august came the announcement that captain was an accepted lover and after much complimentary and correspondence between the two families it was understood that in september lady and her daughter would pay a visit to when would make the acquaintance of her future relatives and au needful arrangements could be discussed captain would remain at till then and accompany the ladies on their in the interval every one at had something td do by way of preparing for the visitors sir was occupied in with his steward and lawyer and in giving orders to every one else especially in on to finish the saloon mr had ther of a lady s horse miss being a great rider lady had unwonted calls to make and invitations to deliver mr turf and gravel and flower beds were always at such a point of neatness and that nothing extraordinary could be done in the garden except a little extraordinary scolding of the and this addition mr did not neglect happily for she too had her task to fill up the long dreary it was to finish a chair cushion which would complete the set of embroidered covers for the drawing room lady year long work and the only bit of in the over this she sat with cold lips and a heart thankful that this miserable sensation the seemed to the tendency to tears which returned with night and solitude she was most frightened when sir approached her the s eye was brighter and his step more elastic than ever and it seemed to him that only the most leaden or souls could be otherwise than brisk and in a world where every thing went so well dear old he had gone through life a little mr s flushed power of his will and now his latest plan was succeeding and would be inherited by a grand nephew whom he might even yet live to see a fine young fellow with at least the down on his chin why not one is still young at sixty sir had always something playful to say to now little monkey you must be in your best voice you re the of the you know and be sure you have a pretty gown and a new ribbon tou must not be dressed in though you are a bird or perhaps it is your turn to be next but don t you learn any naughty proud airs i must have let off easily s for the old helped her to summon up a smile as he her cheek and looked at her kindly but that was the moment at which she felt it most difficult not to burst out crying lady s conversation and presence were less trying for her felt no more than calm satisfaction in this family event and besides she was further by a little jealousy at sir s anticipation of pleasure in seeing lady in his memory as a beauty of sixteen with whom he had exchanged looks before he went on his first travels lady would have died rather than confess it but she couldn t help hoping that he would bo disappointed in lady and rather ashamed of having called her so charming mr watched through these days with mixed feelings her suffering went to his heart but even for her sake he was glad that a love which could never to good should be no longer fed by hopes and how could he help saying to himself perhaps after a while win be tired of about that and then at length the much expected day arrived and the brightest of september was lighting up the yellow lime trees as about five o clock lady s carriage drove under the seated at work in her own room heard the rolling of the wheels followed presently by the opening and shutting of doors and the sound of voices in the remembering that the dinner hour was six and that lady had desired her to be in the drawing room early she started up to dress and was delighted to find herself feeling suddenly brave and strong curiosity to see miss � the thought that was in the house � the wish not to look were feelings that brought some color to her lips and made it easy to attend to her they would ask her to sing this evening and she would sing well miss should not think her utterly insignificant so she put on her gray silk gown and her cherry colored ribbon with as much care as if she had been herself the not forgetting the pair of round pearl ear rings which sir had told lady to give her because s little ears were so pretty quick as she had been she found sir and lady in the drawing room with mr and telling him how handsome miss was but how entirely unlike her apparently resembling her father only said sir as he turned to look at what do you
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can go to in the morning and let them take us up there no i shall like nothing better than this very well we ll do the same to morrow but we must be turning in soon i shall put about iso chapter a la d o la � when met and on the staircase his mind was seriously he had just been summoned to the second interview with his mother in two hours after his parting from her he knew that the princess had left the hotel and so far as the purpose of his journey to was concerned he might himself have set off on his way to to deliver the letter from joseph and get possession of the family chest but mixed mental conditions which did not resolve themselves into definite reasons him from departure long after the farewell he was kept passive by a weight of feeling he lived again with the new of memory through the exciting book vii � the mother and the son scenes which seemed past only in the sense of preparation for their actual presence in his sou he allowed himself in his solitude to sob with perhaps more than a woman s of compassion over that woman s life so near to his and yet so remote he beheld the world changed for him by the of ties that altered the of hopes and fears and gave him a new sense of fellowship as if under cover of the night he had joined the wrong band of and found with the rise of morning that the tents of his kindred were far off he had a quivering imaginative sense of close relation to the grandfather who had been animated by strong impulses and beloved thoughts which were now perhaps being roused from their slumber within himself and through all this passionate meditation and were always present as beings who clasped hands with him in sympathetic silence of such quick fibre was made under that mantle of self controlled reserve into which early experience had thrown so much of his young strength when the persistent ringing of a bell as a signal reminded him of the hour he thought of looking into and making the brief daniel der necessary preparations for starting by the next train � thought of it but made no movement in consequence wishes went to and what he was to get possession of there � to london and the beings there who made the strongest of his life but there were other wishes that clung in these moments to and they kept him where he was by that force which us to linger over an interview that carries a of final farewell or of sorrow did not formally say i will stay over to night because it is friday and i should like to go to the evening service at the where they must all have gone and besides i may see the again but simply instead of packing and ringing for his bill he sat doing nothing at all while his mind went to the and saw faces there probably little different from those of his grandfather s time and heard the spanish hebrew which had lasted through the seasons of wandering generations like a plant with wandering seed that gives the far off lands a to the exile s home � while also his mind went towards with anxious remembrance of what had been and with a half admitted impression that it would be hardness in him willingly book vii � the mother and the son to go away at once without making some effort in spite of s probable dislike to manifest the continuance of his sympathy with her since their abrupt parting in this state of mind he deferred departure ate his dinner without sense of rose from it quickly to find the and in passing the porter asked if mr and mrs were still in the hotel and what was the number of their apartment the porter gave him the number but added that they were gone out that information had somehow power enough over to divide his thoughts with the memories among the and keen dark faces of whose way of taking awful prayers and with the easy familiarity which might be called hebrew italian made him reflect that his grandfather according to the princess s hints of his character must have been almost as exceptional a jew as but were not men of ardent zeal and far reaching hope everywhere exceptional � the men who had the visions which as said were the and of the world � and feeding the more passive life which without them would and into the narrow of insects by thoughts vol iv i daniel beyond the reaches of their something of a mournful impatience perhaps added itself to the solicitude about a solicitude that had room to grow in his present release from immediate cares as an to hasten from the and choose to take his evening walk towards the always a favourite haunt with him and just now attractive with the possibility that he might be in time to see the come in from their in this case he resolved that he would advance to greet them deliberately and any grounds that the husband might have for wishing him elsewhere the sun had set behind a bank of cloud and only a faint yellow light was giving its farewell kisses to the waves which were agitated by an active breeze slowly within sight of what took place on the strand observed the groups there their attention on a sailing boat which was advancing swiftly being rowed by two men amidst the talk in various languages held it the means of getting information not to ask questions but to elbow his way to the and be an witness of what was were being used and book vii � the mother and the son loud
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mr a from had made it that five of the nine judges reside south of and s line is unworthy of a it is not denied that a man may be as honest if he live on the one side of the line as on the other � the man who can in his heart believe that five judges would decide this question on grounds must be prepared to pronounce them corrupt and unworthy of their stations an opinion justified by no event oi their past lives we would say nothing except for the truth s sake to the character of the supreme court or at all disturb the praises which mr has seen fit to bestow on the members of it but it is a fact well known to all who choose to inquire that the for the last fifteen or twenty years have been party that the just alluded to before their appointment and it may be to gain that were warm � more conspicuous for party activity than for eminence in their profession nor was the power mr remained in office as secretary of the treasury the s d of september on which day he was dismissed on that same day the d mr was appointed and on the th in with the will of the president he performed the act of his signature to the order for the of the and made himself a to what the integrity of his to execute the report of the secretary of the treasury mr j in the first pan with a of the fact if this assertion p i have directed is regarded in any other than a mere formal sense it is not true the secretary may have been the instrument the clerk the in whose name the order was issued � of henry clay m th of the in the of the considered with those impartial feelings the reasons of the secretary mr i am constrained to say that he has entirely failed to make out his justification the secretary has entirely mistaken the case � remarks of john c in the on the january is in what manner and for what purpose was the present of the treasury ht into office he came into office through a breach in the constitution and his very appointment was the means of the law and the public faith he was brought into his present station to be the instrument of � speech of mr on the tn the of a� on confined to t em for there were men less active in party politics � more devoted to their profession and much more distinguished in it � and drawing to themselves a great deal more of the confidence of the country who could have been found to fill the offices for no one need try to conceal the ct that the present supreme court on very important questions does not possess we confidence of the people in such a degree as a supreme ou t to be most useful in matters of individual claim where party and feelings are not at all aroused are but such is the case many state courts that could be mentioned we are not among the number of those who believe as one would be inclined to think mr did in an entire of character for tiie better by an appointment to the supreme court if a man is mean before it he will be mean true he may mingle less in crowds he may engage less in matters that interest most men his temptation may be less but so far as his office goes he will the same being � only a man and having the trials of one but thinks that this question will be decided strictly on constitutional grounds and that the majority of the court who may be the five judges that in the states and in the midst of a population will not be at all influenced in their judgment on grounds indeed he goes so far as to say that he who believes so must be prepared to pronounce them corrupt and that a man may be as honest on one side of and s line as on the if we could bring ourselves to believe that really thought this question would be decided as he has represented or that he had no design of g the influence of the court to bear against the who made the remark or of attempting himself to it we should be led to suppose him a very and man and therefore an of any power for does he not know tiiat the southern members the majority of tiie court themselves practise tiie system and some of we do not intend to the pro or of the the foregoing to which many others of a purport be added are given simply to prove what view was taken of the present character by men now of both parties mr was to his present office on the death of by general by whose direction the were removed speeches on slavery pretty deeply that if they pronounce it constitutional even in the they do much to strengthen it everywhere and greatly increase their popularity at the south if they will be called there be rendered odious among the and find it next to impossible may we not say impossible to reside among them as they now do does he not know indeed that to decide it in any way is almost if not quite to giving up their present situations and what with most men is above all things of losing caste among their associates whose practice they think most whose opinions they most value and for whose society they are best fitted this loss of caste or consideration indeed the certainty of being made odious at the south in the event of entertaining or of being strongly suspected of entertaining anti slavery sentiments has
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relationship than anything else there to mr with his coat his white his heavy gold watch chain and his creaking boots but this was before the arrival of mr and mrs hie lawful relatives who soon presented themselves my dear paul mrs murmured as she era him the beginning i hope of many joyful � you said mi grimly do you do mr john � bow do you do air said he gave mr his hand as if he feared it might mr took it as if it were a fish or or some such substance and immediately returned it to him vith exalted politeness perhaps said mr slightly turning bis head in his as if it were a you would have preferred a fire oh my dear paul no said mrs who had ii to keep her teeth from chattering not for and son mr john said mr you are not sensible of any mr john who had already got both his hands in his pockets over the wrists and was on the very threshold of that same chorus which had given mrs so much offence on a former occasion protested that he was perfectly comfortable he added in a low voice with my � when he was stopped by who announced � miss and enter that fair with a blue nose and frosty face to her being very clad in a of fluttering odds and ends to do honor to the ceremony how do you do miss said mr miss in the midst of her spreading went down altogether like an opera glass shutting up she so low in acknowledgment of mr s advancing a step or two to meet her i can never forget this occasion sir said miss softly tis impossible my dear i can hardly believe the evidence of my senses if miss could believe the evidence of one of her senses it was a very cold day that was quite clear she took an early opportunity of the circulation in the tip of her nose by secretly it with her pocket handkerchief lest by its very low temperature it should astonish the baby when she came to kiss it the baby soon appeared carried in great glory by while in of that active young brought up the rear and though whole party were dressed by this in lighter mourning than at first there enough in the appearance of the children to make the day no brighter the baby too � it might have heen miss s nose � began to cry thereby as it happened preventing mr from the fulfilment of a very honest purpose be bad j which was to make of for this gentleman insensible to the superior claims of a perfect perhaps on account of having honor to be united to a and being familiar with really liked her and showed that he liked her and was about to show it in his own way now when paul cried � nd his stopped him short now child said her aunt briskly what are you doing love show yourself to him engage his my dear the atmosphere became or might have become colder and colder when mr stood watching his little daughter who clapping her hand standing on before the throne of his sou and heir him to bend down from his high estate and look at her some honest act of s may have aided the but he did look down and held peace as his sister hid behind her nurse he followed her with his eyes and when she peeped out with a merry cry to him he sprang up and � laughing outright when she ran in upon him and seeming to her curls with his tiny hands while she smothered him with kisses was sir pleased to see this he no pleasure by the of a tokens of any kind of feeling jf any stole into the r k e but outward unusual with him j light the children j and son at their play it never reached his face he looked aa and coldly that the warm light vanished even from the laughing eyes of little when at last they happened to meet his it was a dull gray autumn day indeed and in a minute s pause and silence that took place the leaves fell sorrowfully mr john said mr referring to his watch and assuming his hat and gloves take my sister if you please my arm to day is miss s you had better go first with master paul be very careful in mr s carriage and son miss mrs and in a little carriage following it and the owner mr looking out of window without as a relief from the embarrassment of the large face of that gentleman and thinking whenever anything rattled that he was putting up in an appropriate pecuniary compliment for herself once upon the road to church mr clapped his hands for the amusement of his son at which instance of parental enthusiasm miss was enchanted but exclusive of this incident the chief difference between the party and a party in a mourning coach consisted in the colors of the carriage and horses arrived at the church steps they were received by a mr dismounted first to help the ladies out and standing near him at the church door looked like another a less gorgeous but more dreadful the of private life the of our business and our miss s hand trembled as she slipped it through mr s arm and felt herself escorted up the preceded by n cocked hat and a collar it for a moment like that other solemn institution wilt thou have this man tea i will please lo bring the child in out of ihe air there whispered the open the inner door of the church paul might have asked n ill into my grave m chill and wa the place the tall pulpit
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the old indian s spare figure you can sit down on a flat place yes but if there s no flat place p there are here and roots and sharp things he answered one needs to be a camp stool and fold up to accommodate to such circumstances at all events it s much better than it would be at the top of the hill argued mrs you mean it would be worse there than here ma am i deny it it s here than it was at � i thought was such a nice place returned the lady you always say it was so much than any place in england i only said so of its society madam there if i haven t been sitting on a flint stone i which accounts for the of your observed how do you know that the professor will not discover it to be an ancient flint instrument � it s ia i the action of le it the place for that ix ts u a from a thorn not a of air i and lie wiped his forehead with a it always struck me said the professor that the ancient taking their meals as they did and resting on one elbow must have suffered a good deal from which should make us forgive them much remarked for the crime of invented the latin language for one thing what do you sa p i it answered the boy i think it s capital has not begun latin yet said mr hastily that will all come in due time he thought you referred to the so you like it do you my child he continued softly the pure air and the sunshine eh yes it s very nice lie said there was no air a moment ago muttered mrs scornfully he sees everything through that child s eyes a very rose coloured medium at all events observed mr who perceived that mr had overheard her i wish i saw everything through my child s eyes only miss s are not rose coloured observed smiling i beg her pardon but as a painter and on a question of tint i must be allowed to express that opinion if is so brilliant after one glass of champagne what will he be when he has finished lunch remarked one moment miss don t move i beg he stooped forward and seizing something which she had not noticed on her foot threw it into the air and out of sight lor i what was that a � a as we call it in i exclaimed mrs to whose tongue the champagne had perhaps given some well i am sure i don t wonder at its having occurred to her in my country it s thought to be an omen of good fortune or what ladies think to be so that last of your wife s is not very complimentary to you observed mr whose son s enjoyment of the feast had put in high good humour but i don t believe it was a as you call it at all observed mrs i believe it was a snake a snake exclaimed mr with horror jumping to his feet and clasping his boy in his arms no no it was only a said mr i threw it away because thought it might frighten the ladies my dear one would really think it had been a i said it was a likely spot for remarked the professor quietly if any one gets bitten i should like to see the effect of i ve got a little bottle of it at the hotel along j i ll take yo and things to the op of the exclaimed mr and wi ft m tbe word if tlie professor likes to sacrifice in tlie of science let him you shall not he its victim did you ever see any one so observed mrs to mr well really madam i don t know returned that gentleman if there are i don t consider them a good substitute even at a for soup or fish what do you say mr i think we had better go said i shall stay where i am said mrs with equal firmness there was a moment of general hesitation the influence of authority was very great but in the end that of fear prevailed in five minutes the whole party had shifted their quarters to the summit of the except the professor and his wife that lady had made a great mistake in putting her to a test so but having made it she stuck to her colours to have gone with the rest � to sink from to camp � would have been humiliation indeed i am really very sorry said that mrs should have been left behind j it seems like her she is not left out in the cold at all events observed mr i one couldn t breathe down there she thoroughly deserves it for her obstinacy remarked mrs she was really afraid of for i saw her her feet up and sitting all in a as we came away only she wouldn t own that she was wrong in having counter ordered my directions i confess i am only sorry for the poor professor oh he won t hurt said mr he will adopt some scientific means of defence against set fire to the grass all round him probably that will be nice lor mrs remarked miss and will make it ever so much warmer put in mr there will be as well as there presently suggested i am afraid there was a great deal of laughter at the lady s expense and very little sympathy expressed lor her except by who again said i am very sorry there was no doubt that the change of locality was a great improvement the view was magnificent and after the were disposed of the two young
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stuff leave things so and take the or thine own or s warm thee by s fire and though thy nerves be shrunk and blood be cold ere years have made thee old strike that heat throughout to their defeat as curious fools and envious of thy strain may blushing swear no s in thy but when they hear thee sing the glories of thy king his zeal to god and his just awe o er men they may blood shaken then feel such a flesh to possess their powers as they shall cry like ours the poets in sound of peace or wars no harp e er hit the stars in forth the acts of his sweet reign and raising charles his chariot his song � to from th drink to me only with thine eyes and i will pledge with mine or leave a kiss but in the cup and not look for wine the thirst that from the soul doth rise doth ask a drink divine but might i of jove s sup i would not change for thine i sent thee late a rosy wreath not so much thee as giving it a hope that there it could not withered be but thou only breathe and sent st it back to me since when it grows and smells i swear not of itself but thee to my mere english to thee my way in seems new when both it is the old way and the true thou that cannot be for thou hast seen and and the best have been and mine come nothing like i hope so yet as theirs did with thee mine might credit get from the prose love of the younger about a d author of the of folly monuments if thou but use thy faith as thou then when thou wont f admire not censure men believe still and not judge so � t thy faith is all the knowledge that thou hast on court worm all men are worms but this no man in silk twas brought to court first and white as milk where afterwards it grew a butterfly which was a so die to fool or thy praise or is to me alike one doth not stroke me nor the other strike on op this morning with holy fire i thought to form unto my zealous muse what kind of creature i could most desire to honour serve and love as poets use i meant to make her fair and free and wise of greatest blood and yet more good than great i meant the day star should not brighter rise nor lend like influence from his seat i meant she should be courteous sweet that solemn vice of greatness pride i meant each virtue there should meet fit in that softer bosom to reside only a learned and a manly soul i her that should with even powers the rock the and the control of destiny and spin her own free hours such when i meant to and wished to see my muse bade write and that was she censure � � compare pope s wife of edward third earl of she was also by and daniel the english poets an on a child of queen elizabeth s chapel weep with me all you that read this little story and know for whom a tear you shed death s self is sorry twas a child that so did in grace and feature as heaven and nature seemed to strive which owned the creature years he numbered scarce thirteen when turned cruel yet three filled had he been the stage s jewel and did act what now we moan old men so duly as the thought him one � he played so truly so by error to his fate they all consented but him since alas too late they have repented and have sought to give new birth in to steep him but being so much too good for earth heaven vows to keep him on elizabeth l h thou hear what man can say in a little reader stay underneath this stone doth lie as much beauty as could die which in life did harbour give to more virtue than doth live these children called in the next reign children of her majesty s were trained up to act before the queen had acted in two of s plays in and in when he is supposed to have died ben if at all she had a fault leave it buried in this vault one name was elizabeth the other let it sleep in death where it died to tell than that it lived at all farewell an to himself from where dost careless lie buried in ease and knowledge that sleeps doth die and this security it is the common that eats on wits and arts and that them both are all the springs dried up lies waste doth harp want strings that not a now sings or they as disgraced to see their seats and by chattering if hence thy silence be as tis too just a cause let this thought thee minds that are great and free should not on pause crown enough to virtue still her own applause what though the greedy be taken with of and think it they die with their and only piteous scorn upon their folly � that vol il c the english poets then take in hand thy strike in thy proper strain with s line s chariot for new fire to give the world again who aided him will thee the issue of jove s brain and since our dainty age cannot endure reproof make not a page to that the stage but sing high and aloof safe from the wolf s black jaw and the dull ass s to the of my beloved master william and what he hath left us printed by in hut really from
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or nobler idea of the true purposes and aims of life � i may not confidently trust that i have imparted to one mind a deeper disdain of those luxury ease wealth power popularity honors by which many an ardent and soul has been to its ruin but you are by position scholars and by virtue of that position you must at least in your calmer and better moments when that which is immortal is not stifled within you � that a true life is tlie one thing desirable to man on earth for and in itself � that virtue being truly such all idea of reward and becomes to the spiritual what is to the material world � a law which will not be he who truly fully the one fact that god knows all that can be of morality � knows that no conceivable from the line of of endeavor can possibly be otherwise than in and of itself wholly apart from all conditions and consequences i shall not then you to follow purity and since the would imply a possible ignorance on your part of the existence of the all wise � of the laws of your own being but i may warn you friends of the mistake so commonly made by our educated youth of lingering long by the of active life under the pretence � very often alleged in good faith � of a want of opportunity o deceive not yourselves thus young men to tlie rightly constituted mind to the truly developed man there always is there always must be r opportunity to be and to learn nobly to do and to endure � and what matter whether with pomp and the relations op learning to labor with sound of trumpets and shout of thousands or in silence and seclusion beneath the calm gaze of heaven o realize that no station can be humble on which that gaze is bent � that no work can be which is performed and not impelled by sordid and selfish aims it is a vital defect of our society and our culture which you are bound to against and to overcome that while an of effort is ever needed of true work remains undone we are too generally dissatisfied with that which lies broad and plain before us and waste our hours in seeking long and far for something and nobler we wander to the poles and the vainly seeking for that which to the man at peace with himself is to the nowhere vainly sighing for the opportunity of some other which his genius and ready acceptance have made the basis of an illustrious and dazzling career we neglect and sacrifice our own we speak of the age of chivalry the age of hero or of perilous and doubtful struggle for freedom as if we did not recognize that man s struggle with darkness and evil is ever in progress and that to render any age one of heroism nothing is but heroic souls waiting for the dead past to be acted � over again for our selfish gratification and we suffer the precious and living present to glide away from us and says a deep fearless of our time to day is a king in disguise to day always looks common and trivial in the face of a uniform experience that all great and happy actions have been made up of these same blank to days let us the king as he passes yes my young friends here is our high privilege and our imperative � to discern and honor the disguised angels whom god is ever sending to and bless his earth not from on the times hints toward among the children of ushered into being with boom of cannon and shouts of millions but from amid the sons of obscurity and toil in peril and � from the and the come forth the and of mankind so when all the and glare of our age shall have passed into a fitting oblivion � when those who have enjoyed rare opportunities and swayed vast and been borne through life on the shoulders of shouting multitudes shall have been laid at last to rest in golden to forgotten the stately marble their only monuments it will be found that some humble youth who neither inherited nor found but out his opportunities has uttered the thought which shall render the age memorable by extending the means of and blessing to our race the great struggle for human progress and elevation proceeds noiselessly often often checked and apparently baffled amid the and impelled by greedy selfishness and low ambition in that struggle maintained by the wise and good of all parties all all i call you to bear the part of men heed the lofty summons not the feeble messenger and with souls serene and constant prepare to tread boldly in the path of highest duty so shall life be to you truly exalted and heroic so shall death be a transition neither sought nor dreaded so shall your memory though cherished at first but by a few humble loving hearts linger long and gratefully in human remembrance a to the truthful and an to generous endeavor by the proud tears of admiring affection and fragrant with the of heaven human life human life a lecture to the piercing gaze of an spirit of space which should it from the central of our system this fair globe must afford a spectacle of strange magnificence and beauty rolling on ever on in her appointed round the earth must present new scenes of interest and grandeur with every hour of her revolving progress now the of china and the plains of india with its tiger haunted relieved by the gaunt bleak piles of the piercing the very skies with their of eternal rock and ice then appear the more and of southern and middle europe and with them the and
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t be like my cousin over there for the world she thinks her husband will be turned out at the next election and she s quite wild yes it is mostly the women who are the the men only the cards the pity is that politics are looked on as being a game for just as is a game for not as the serious duties of political how few of us ever think or feel that the nation of every country dwells in the cottage as somebody says yes though i wonder to hear you quote that oh � i am of no party though my relations are there can be only one best course at all times and the wisdom of the nation should be directed to finding it instead of in two courses according to the will of the party which happens to have the upper hand o the well beloved having started thus they found no difficulty in agreeing on many points when went down stairs from that assembly at a quarter to one and passed under the steaming nostrils of an s horses to a which waited for him against the railing of the square he had an impression that the beloved had re emerged from the shadows without any hint or from him � to whom indeed such re was an unquestionably awkward thing in this he was aware however that though it might be now as heretofore the loved who danced before him it was the goddess behind her who pulled the string of that jumping he had lately been trying his artist hand again on the s form in every conceivable phase and mood he had become a one part man � a of her only but his efforts had resulted in failures in her vanity she might be him anew for presenting her so ii she draws close and he could not forget mrs pine s eyes though he remembered nothing of her other details they were round inquiring luminous how that chestnut hair of hers had shone it required no to set it off like that of the he had seen there who had put ten thousand pounds upon her head to make herself look worse than she would have appeared with the muslin cap of a servant woman now the question was ought he to see her again he had his doubts but unfortunately for discretion just when he was coming out of the rooms he had encountered an old lady of seventy his friend mrs � the honorable mrs � and she had hastily asked him to dinner for the day after the morrow stating in the honest way he knew so well that she had heard jo y the well beloved he was out of town or she would have asked him two or three weeks ago now of all social things that liked it was to be asked to dinner as a stop gap in place of some bishop lord or under secretary who couldn t come and when the invitation was by the tidings that the lady who had so impressed him was to be one of the guests he had promised instantly at the dinner he took down mrs pine upon his arm and talked to nobody else during the meal afterwards they kept apart awhile in the drawing room for form s sake but eventually together again and finished the evening in each others company when shortly after eleven he came away he felt almost certain that within those luminous gray eyes the one of his eternal fidelity had verily taken lodgings � and for a long lease but this was not all at parting he had almost involuntarily given her hand a pressure of a peculiar and indescribable kind a little response from her like a mere of the same sort told him that the impression she had made upon him was she was in a word willing to go on but was he able a young man of forty there had not been much harm in the thus far but did she know his history the curse upon his nature � that he was the wandering jew of the love world how ideal his fancies were how the artist in him had consumed the how he was in constant dread lest he should wrong some woman twice as good as himself by seeming to mean what he fain would mean but could not how useless he was likely to be for practical steps towards though he was all the while for domestic life he was now over forty she was probably thirty and he dared not make love with the careless selfishness of a younger man it was unfair to go further without telling her even though hitherto such had not been absolutely demanded he determined to call immediately on the new she lived not far from the long fashionable square and he went hither with expectations of having a highly time at least but somehow the very seemed cold although she had so earnestly asked him to come as the house spoke so spoke the the well beloved much to the astonishment of the the doors he passed through seemed as if they had not been opened for a month and entering the large drawing room he beheld in an easy chair in the far distance a lady whom he across the carpet to reach and ultimately did reach to be sure it was mrs pine but over raising her eyes in a slightly inquiring manner from the book she was reading she leaned back in the chair as if herself in luxurious sensations which had nothing to do with him and replied to his greeting with a few commonplace words the unfortunate though to a degree was at first terribly upset by this reception he had distinctly begun to love and he felt sick and almost but happily his affection
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and to sell spirits are confined to the capital in spite of the bad effect of in the people drink hard and the number of deaths which can be distinctly traced to spirit drinking is quite startling the on selling liquor to natives is the � subject of incessant and in the national probably all the natives agree in regarding it as a of the inferiority of colour but i have been told generally that the most intelligent and thoughtful among them are in favour of its continuance on the ground that if additional for drinking were afforded the in the population would be in the printed proceedings i see that are constantly presented praying that the of spirits may be declared free while a few are in favour of total another prayer is that may have the same privileges as white people in buying and drinking a bill to the distinction was brought into the not long since but the influence of the descendants of the and of an influential part of the white community is so strongly against spirit l the laws drinking as well as against the sale of drink to the natives that the law remains on the book the tone in which it was discussed is well indicated by the language of the present king s rival the imposed by this law do the people no good but rather harm for instead of the principles of honour they teach them to steal behind the bar the stable and the closet where they may be sheltered from the eyes of the law the heavy imposed on the liquor and the against selling to the natives are an of our civil rights binding not only the but the dealer against acquiring and possessing property then mr president i ask where lies virtue where lies justice not in those that bind the liberty of this people by refusing them the privilege that they now of drinking without will you by that this law remain in force make us a nation of or will you it that honour and virtue may for once be yours o a committee of the assembly in on the question of the of the sale of to anybody through its mr stated experience teaches that such could not be enforced without a strong public sentiment to it and such a sentiment does not prevail in this community as is by the fact that the sale of drinks to natives is largely practised in defiance of law and the and that the ture of drinks though is carried on in every district of the kingdom so the question u � is rising in ever country ruled or by is also agitated here with strong feeling on both sides i was led to this by seeing for the first time some very fine plants of the this is truly a plant of renown throughout strange tales are told of it it is said to produce profound sleep with visions more than those of or and that its repetition instead of being is harmless and even wholesome its sale is except on the production of evidence that it has been prescribed as a nevertheless no law on the islands is so it is easy to give it and easy to it or dig it up in the woods so that in spite of the legal it is to an enormous extent it was proposed absolutely to the sale of it though the sum paid for the is no item in the of a kingdom which like many others is the difficulty of making both ends meet bat the committee which sat npon the subject reported that such is not practicable unless its growth and cultivation are prevented so long rs public sentiment the open of the existing laws its sale without rebuke so long will it be of little use to attempt one cannot be a day on the islands without hearing wonderful stones about and its use is defended by some who are strongly opposed to the use as well as abuse of people who like the earl and the doctor delight themselves in the strongly element a p which life delight too in contemplating the preparation and results of the but both are to me extremely disgusting and i cannot believe that a drink which the senses and a human being of the power to exercise reason and will ia anything but to the moral nature while the group one of my who had been for some time in described the preparation of the root being by the teeth of dusky clad maidens but i was an accidental witness of a drinking on and saw nothing but very plain prose i feel as if i must approach the subject mysteriously i had no time to tell you of the circumstance when it occurred when also i was completely ignorant that it was an affair and now with a sort of guilty knowledge i tremble to relate what i saw and to that though i could not touch the i tasted the root which has an taste something like horse with an in addition and i can imagine that the acquired taste for it must like other acquired tastes be perfectly irresistible even without the additional gratification of the results which follow its exercise in the particular instance which i saw two girls who were not beautiful and an old man who would have been hideous but for a set of sound regular teeth were sitting on the ground the root the process being contemplated with extreme interest by a number of � when by careful they had reduced the root to a they tossed it into a large and relieved their mouths of before preparing a fresh this went on till a considerable quantity was provided and then water was added and the mass was and stirred with the hands till it looked like soap
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by the time she was assuring herself that she had left out only what was necessary the faint dawn was stealing through the white blinds and her candles what was the use of going to bed her cold bath was refreshment enough and she saw that a slight trace of fatigue about the eyes only made her look the more interesting before six o clock she was completely equipped in her grey travelling dress even to her felt hat for she meant to walk out as soon as she could count on seeing other ladies on their way to the springs and happening to be seated sideways before the long strip of mirror between her two windows she turned to look at herself leaning her elbow on the back of the chair in an attitude that might have been chosen for her portrait it is possible to have a strong self love without any self satisfaction rather with a self discontent which is the more intense because one s own little core of sensibility is a supreme care but knew nothing of such inward strife she had a book i � the spoiled child delight in her fortunate self which any but the will have some indulgence for in a girl who had every day seen a pleasant reflection of that self in her friends flattery as well as in the looking glass and even in this beginning of troubles while for lack of anything else to do she sat gazing at her image in the growing light her face gathered a complacency gradual as the cheerfulness of the morning her beautiful lips curled into a more and more decided smile till at last she took off her hat leaned forward and kissed the cold glass which had looked so warm how could she believe in sorrow if it attacked her she felt the force to crush it to defy it or run away from it as she had done already anything seemed more possible than that she could go on bearing miseries great or small madame von never went out before breakfast so that could safely end her early walk by taking her way homeward through the in which was the needed shop sure to be open after seven at that hour any m she minded would be either on their walks in the region of the springs or would be still in their but certainly there was one grand hotel the from which eyes might follow her up to mr s door this daniel was a chance to be risked she not be going in to buy something which had struck lier fancy this falsehood through her mind as she remembered that the was s hotel but she was then already far up the and she walked on with her usual floating movement every line in her figure and falling in gentle curves attractive to all eyes except those which discerned in them too close a resemblance to the serpent and objected to the revival of serpent worship she looked neither to the right hand nor to the left and her business in the shop with a coolness which gave little mr nothing to remark except her proud grace of manner and the superior size and quality of tlie three central in the she offered him they had belonged to a chain once her father s but she had never known her father and the was in all respects the ornament she could most conveniently part with who that it is an impossible contradiction to be superstitious and at the same time a romantic superstition ts to the chances of the game and the most as to human sentiments which stand in the way of raising needful money s dominant regret was that after all book i � the spoiled child she had only nine louis to add to the four in her purse these jew were so in taking advantage of christians unfortunate at play but she was the guest in their hired apartment and had nothing to pay there thirteen louis would do more than take her home even if she determined on three the remaining ten would more than suffice since she meant to travel right on day and night as she turned nay entered and seated herself in the to await her friends and breakfast she still wavered as to her immediate departure or rather she had concluded to tell the simply that she had had a letter from her mamma desiring her return and to leave it still when she should start it was already the usual breakfast time and hearing some one enter as she leaning back rather tired and hungry with her eyes shut she rose expecting to see one or other of the the words which might determine her lingering at least another day ready formed to pass her lips but it was the servant bringing in a small packet for miss which had that moment been left at the door took it in her hand and immediately hurried into her own room she looked paler and more agitated than when she had first read her mamma s letter daniel something � she never quite knew what � revealed to her before she opened the packet that it contained the she had just parted with underneath the paper it was in a handkerchief and within this was a scrap of note paper on which was written with a pencil in clear but rapid handwriting � a stranger who has found miss returns it to her with the hope that she will not again the loss of it with the vexation of wounded pride a large corner of the handkerchief seemed to have been torn off to get rid of a mark but she at once believed in the first image of the stranger that presented itself to her mind it was he must have seen her go into the shop
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the way down at the of trail and river and famine the message was that other men might die but that he would pull through triumphant it was the old old lie of life itself believing itself immortal and bound to achieve over other lives and win to its heart s desire and so at times daylight off his and led the way to the bar but a united protest went up his theory that the paid was no longer to be it was contrary to custom and common sense and while it good fellowship nevertheless in the name of good fellowship it must cease the drinks were on ben and ben must buy them all drinks and general treats that daylight was guilty of ought to be paid by the house for daylight brought much custom to it whenever he made a night was the and his argument and was applauded daylight grinned stepped aside to the table and bought a of yellow at the end of ten minutes he weighed in at the scales and two thousand dollars in was poured into his own and an extra sack luck a mere flutter of luck but it was his was added to he was living and the night was his he turned upon his well wishing critics now the sure does pay he said and they surrendered there was no daylight when he on the back of life and rode it and burning daylight at one in the morning he saw henry and joe the lumber jack toward the door daylight interfered where are you all going he demanded attempting to draw them to the bar bed answered he was a lean tobacco new the one daring spirit in his family that had heard and answered the call of the west shouting through the mount desert back pastures and wood lots got to joe added we re out in the daylight still detained them what s the excitement no excitement explained we re just a goin to play your an tackle the upper country don t you want to come along i sure do daylight affirmed but the question had been put in fun and ignored the acceptance we re the he went on al told me he seen some likely bars first time he come down the and we re goin to em while the river s you listen daylight an mark my words the time s when winter be all the go there ll be men in them days that ll laugh at our summer an ground at that time winter was of on the from the moss and grass the land was frozen to bed rock and frozen gravel hard as granite defied pick and in the summer the men stripped the earth down as fast as the sun it then was the time they did their during the winter they their provisions went hunting got all ready for the summer s work and then the bleak dark months through burning daylight in the big central such as circle city and forty mile winter s sure daylight agreed wait till that big strike is made up river then you all see a new kind of what s to prevent wood burning and sinking shafts and drifting along bed rock won t need to timber that frozen and gravel stand till hell is and its mill tails is turned to ice cream why they ll be working pay streaks a hundred feet deep in them days that s i m sure going along with you all laughed gathered his two partners up and was making a second attempt to reach the door hold on daylight called i sure mean it the three men turned back suddenly upon him in their faces surprise delight and incredulity g wan you re said the other a quiet steady man there s my and daylight answered that ll make two and the loads though we all have to travel easy for a spell for them is sure tired the three men were but still a trifle incredulous now look here joe out none of your daylight we mean business will you come daylight extended his hand and shook then you d best be to bed advised we re out at six and four hours sleep is none so long we ought to lay over a day and let him rest up suggested daylight s pride was touched no you don t he cried we all start at six what time do you all want to be called five all right i ll rouse you all out burning daylight you have some sleep gravely you can t go on forever daylight was tired profoundly tired even his iron body acknowledged weariness every muscle was for bed and rest was appalled at continuance of exertion and at thought of the trail again all this physical protest up into his brain in a wave of revolt but deeper down scornful and defiant was life itself the essential fire of it whispering that all daylight s fellows were looking on that now was the time to pile deed upon deed to his strength in the face of strength it was merely life whispering its ancient lies and in league with it was with all its and you all think i ain t yet daylight demanded why i ain t had a drink or a dance or seen a soul in two months you all get to bed i ll call you all at five and for the rest of the night he danced on in his feet and at five in the morning on the door of his new partners cabin he could be heard singing the song that had given him his name � burning daylight you all river burning daylight burning daylight burning daylight chapter vn this time the trail was easier it was better packed and they were not carrying mail against
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it mattered not what i did nor scarce whether i was in her presence or out of it i had caught her like some kind of a noble fever that lived continually in my bosom by night and by day and whether i was waking or asleep so it that after i was come into the fore part of the ship where the broad bows into the i was in no such hurry to return as you might fancy rather prolonged my absence like a variety in pleasure i do not think i am by nature much of an and there had come till then so small a share of pleasure in my way that i might be excused perhaps to dwell on it when i returned to her again i had a faint painful impression as of a slipped so coldly she returned the packet you have read them said i and i thought my voice sounded not wholly natural for i was turning in my mind for what could ail her did you mean me to read all she asked i told her yes with a drooping the last of them as well said she i knew where we were now yet i would not lie to her either i gave them all without i said as i supposed that you would read them i see no harm in any i will be made said she i thank god i am differently made it was not a fit letter to be shown me it was not fit to be written i think you are speaking of your o vn friend grant said i there will not be anything as bitter as to lose a the voyage into holland fancied friend said she quoting my own expression i think it is sometimes the friendship that was fancied i cried what kind of justice do you call this to blame me for some words that a of a has written down upon a piece of paper you know yourself with what respect i have behaved � and would do always yet you show me that same letter says she � i want no such friends i can be doing very well mr without her � or you this is your fine gratitude says i i am very much obliged to you said she i will be asking you to take away your � letters she seemed to choke upon the word so that it sounded like an oath you shall never ask twice said i picked up that bundle walked a little way forward and cast them as far as possible into the sea for a very little more i could have cast myself after them the rest of the day i walked up and down raging there were few names so ill but what i gave her them in my own mind before the sun went down all that i had ever heard of pride seemed quite that a girl scarce grown should resent so trifling an allusion and that from her next friend that she had near wearied me with of i had bitter sharp hard thoughts of her like an angry boy s if i had kissed her indeed i thought perhaps she would have taken it pretty well and only because it had been written down and with a of up i he must in this ridiculous passion it seemed to me there was a want of penetration in the female sex to make angels weep over the case of the poor men we were side by side again at supper and what a change was there she was like milk to me her face was like a wooden doll s i could have indifferently smitten her or at her feet but she gave me not the least occasion to do either no sooner the meal done than she herself to attend on mrs which i think she had a little neglected heretofore but she was to make up for lost time and in what remained of the passage was extraordinary with the old lady and on deck began to make a great deal more than i thought wise of captain sang not but what the captain seemed a worthy man but i hated to behold her in the least familiarity with anyone except myself altogether she was so quick to avoid me and so constant to keep herself surrounded with others that i must watch a long while before i could find my opportunity and after it was found i made not much of it as you are now to hear i have no guess how i have offended said i it should scarce be beyond pardon try if you can pardon me have no pardon to ve said she and the words seemed to out of her throat like i will be very much obliged for all your and she made me an eighth part of a but i had myself beforehand to say more and i was going to say it too there is one thing said l if i have shocked the voyage into holland your by the showing of that letter it cannot touch miss grant she wrote not to you but to a poor common ordinary lad who might have had more sense than show it if you are to blame me i will advise you to say no more about that girl at all events said it is her i will never look the road of not if she lay dying she turned away from me and suddenly back will you swear you will have no more to deal with her v she cried indeed and i will never be so unjust then said i nor yet so ungrateful and now it was i that turned away p chapter xxii the weather in the end considerably the wind sang in the the sea swelled higher and the ship began
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her often no no not very often i think when she was hero last answered mrs she was trying hard to remember but she was a little confused and agitated first by the vehemence and now by the sadness of her husband s manner she had a good memory for small events but the meetings in question had taken place more than a year before and it was slightly to recall them accurately he called here once � i think it was only once � when you were away in july and we met him again at the afterward there he talked a good deal to elizabeth oh well said the who found this piece of information decidedly that does not amount to very much you contradicted it all to mrs i suppose yes i spoke very strongly answered mrs but you see for a long while i have not had elizabeth s full confidence the was always disposed to advance pretty rapidly to the of his niece he could hardly mrs believe that she would lend in any way to work oat an evil destiny for if i know anything of elizabeth ho said quickly she would soon let mr know he was making a considerable mistake if he spoke to her on this subject i can not pretend to say what elizabeth might do answered mrs rather stiffly she was now and then somewhat jealous of her husband s confidence in his niece i only know that this report is most to me well said the influenced by three � first by the of fighting against his fate however unpleasant that fate might be secondly by the sense that he and his wife were beginning to tread on rather dangerous ground and by a growing desire for bis hot bath � well it is a nuisance but i dare say people will forget the whole thing in a few days i dare say mrs made the most of it there i really am so stiff i must go don t vex yourself about it any more i ll think it over and we ll talk about it some other time oh i way he added turning back for a moment just as he was going out of the study door can t we have dinner a quarter of an hour sooner chapter in l opinion dispose do � la la justice et le qui est lo du mrs was not naturally of a disposition and when the progress of events was not altogether as rapid as she desired she had a strong inclination to help it forward with a private she thoroughly enjoyed the exercise of personal power which she was sensible of in thus hurrying conclusions and having an ingenious mind she generally found convincing arguments for proving that her interference was both necessary and legitimate it is a great temptation to women of a certain temperament to play freely with the souls of their acquaintances and to try to force the hand of destiny concerning them by carefully the tricks they lose and rather counting up those they take these good ladies contrive generally to create both in their own minds and in the minds of the an impression of continuous and remarkable success in the playing of their rather dangerous game mrs frank had watched the course of elizabeth and s friendship with sincere interest it had supplied a certain element of refined excitement in her daily life which she keenly mrs she had continually been aware of the situation she expected it would develop but though to be growing somewhat and though elizabeth at times was restless and capricious mrs frank had candidly to confess that the situation did not develop she began to get a little impatient it seemed to her they must have drunk the cup of friendship pretty well to the and she was convinced that in the case of a friendship between a man and a woman love is at the bottom of the cup just as surely as truth is at the bottom of the well mrs frank wanted something to happen she really quite yawned for a change of scene no sooner had she fairly acknowledged her own sense of in face of the present state of things than the most excellent reasons for doing her best to alter that state of things began to crowd in upon her for some time past she had been conscious that elizabeth s intimacy with had provoked a good deal of comment people observed rather curiously upon the fact than whenever they called upon elizabeth that young mr was sure to be there one or two people had asked mrs frank point blank whether there was anything in it and when she answered in a vague and airy manner had put up their eyebrows with an appearance of slight surprise one excellent and well old lady who propriety as decidedly as she scandal had intimated so that she considered the connection a peculiar one that mrs frank felt a growing conviction regarding the absolute duty of prompt interference had decided long ago that elizabeth a in black and white must again she had gone f and decided that she must marry she thought they would suit admirably and be very happy together elizabeth s superfluous would be nicely by s philosophic calm while ho would bo stimulated to greater earnestness of purpose by his wife s strong and ardent sympathies it was a charming arrangement undoubtedly and there was just that of malice about the conception of it which made it specially attractive to s mind she could not forgive s apparent indifference to love and marriage his perfect from all those daily cares and which seem to bo the necessary result of the close relationship of two imperfect human creatures she felt it would be wonderfully refreshing to reduce him to the ordinary level to see him chained to the
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might have no concern in another and as she deemed it most unnecessary of the first act which henry was just proposing desirous at once of having her time to herself and of avoiding the sight of mr a glimpse as she passed through the hall of the two ladies walking up from the made no change in her wish of retreat and she worked and meditated in the east room undisturbed for a quarter of an hour when a gentle tap at the door was followed by the entrance of miss am i right yes this is the east room my dear miss price i beg your pardon but i have made my way to you on purpose to entreat your help quite surprised endeavored to show herself mistress of the room by her and looked at the bright bars of her empty grate with concern � v park thank you � i am quite warm very warm allow me to stay here a little while and do have the goodness to hear me my third act i have brought my book and if you would but it with me i should be so obliged i came here today intending to it with � by ourselves � against the evening but he is not in the way and if he were i do not think i could go through it with him till i have hardened myself a little for really there is a speech or two � you will be so good won t you was most civil in her assurances though she could not give them in a very steady voice have you ever happened to look at the part i mean continued miss opening her book here it k i did not think much of it at first but upon my word � there look at that speech and that and that how am i ever to look him in the face and say such things could you do it but then he is your cousin which makes all the difference you must it with me that i may fancy you him and get on by degrees you have a look of his sometimes have i i will do my best with the greatest readiness but i must read the part for i can say very little of it none of it i suppose you are to have the book of course now for it we must have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to the front of the stage there � very good school room chairs not made for a theatre i dare say much more fitted for little girls to sit and kick their feet against when they are learning a lesson what park would your and your uncle say to see them used for such a purpose could sir thomas look in n us just now he would himself for we are all over the house is away in the dining room i heard him as i came upstairs and the theatre is engaged of course hy those and if they are not perfect i shall be surprised by the by i looked in upon them five minutes ago and it happened to be exactly at one of the times when they were trying not to embrace and mr worth was with me i thought he began to look a little queer so i turned it off as well as i could by whispering to him we shall have an excellent there is something so maternal in her manner so completely maternal in her voice and countenance was not that well done of me he brightened up directly now for my she began and joined in with all the modest feeling which the idea of representing was so strongly calculated to inspire but with looks and voice so truly feminine as to be no very good picture of a man with such an however miss had courage enough and they had got through half the scene when a tap at the door brought a pause and the entrance of the next moment suspended it all surprise consciousness and pleasure appeared in each of the three on this unexpected meeting and as was come on the very same business that had brought miss consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than can field park in them he too had his book and was seeking to ask her to with him and help him to prepare for the evening without knowing miss to be in the house and great was the joy and animation of being thus thrown together of comparing schemes and in praise of s kind offices she could not equal them in their warmth her spirits sank under the glow of theirs and she felt herself becoming too nearly nothing to both to have any comfort in having been sought by either they must now together proposed urged entreated it till the lady not very unwilling at first could refuse no longer � and was wanted only to prompt and observe them she was invested indeed with the office of judge and critic and earnestly desired to exercise it and tell them all their faults but from doing so every feeling within her shrank she could not would not dared not attempt it had she been qualified for criticism her conscience must have restrained her from venturing at she believed herself to feel too much of it in the for honesty or safety in particulars to prompt them must be enough for her and it was sometimes more than enough for she could not always pay attention to the book in watching them she forgot herself and agitated by the increasing spirit of s manner had once closed the page and turned away exactly as he wanted help it was to very reasonable weariness and she was thanked and pitied but she deserved their pity more than park
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his nature and character i went up the field following the smooth little path to the side door as for using the front door that was a matter of great ceremony the long grass grew close against the high stone step and a bush leaned oyer it top heavy with the weight of a vine that had managed to take what the might call a half about the door came to the side door to me he was knitting a blue without looking on and was warmly dressed for the season in a thick blue flannel shirt with white buttons a faded waistcoat and trousers patched at the knees these along were not his fishing clothes there was something delightful in the grasp of his hand warm and clean as if it never touched anything but the comfortable instead of cold sea water and slippery fish what ace the painted for down in the field i hastened to ask and he came out a step or two along the path to see and looked at the as if his attention were to them for the time � folks laughed at me when i first bought this place an come here to he explained they said t wa n t no kind of a field privilege at all no place to raise anything all fuu o stones i was aware twas good land an i worked some on it � odd times when i didn t have else on hand � till i cleared them loose stones all out you never see a prettier piece than tis now now did ye well as for them painted marks them s my i struck on to some heavy rocks that didn t show none but a d be liable to ground on em an so i an em same s yon see they don t trouble me no more n if they wa n t there you haven t been to sea for nothing i said laughing of the pointed one trade helps another said with an amiable smile come right in an set down come in an rest ye he exclaimed and led the way into his comfortable kitchen the sunshine poured in at the two farther windows and a cat was np sound asleep on the table that stood between them there was a new looking light of a pattern on the floor and a large for a household of only one person stood on the bright i to say that somebody must be a good that s me acknowledged the old man with frankness there ain t nobody here but me i try to keep things looking right same s poor dear left em you set down here in this then you can look off an see the water none on em thought i was goin to get along alone no way but i wa n t goin to have my house turned down an all changed about no not to please i was the only one knew just how she liked to have things set poor dear an i said i was goin to make shift and i haye made shift i d rather tough it out alone and he sighed as if to sigh were his familiar consolation along shore we were both silent for a minute the old man looked out of the window as if he had forgotten i was there you must miss her much i said at last m i do miss her he answered and sighed again folks all that time would ease me but i can t find it does no i miss her just the same every day how long is it since she died i asked eight year now come the first of october it don t seem near so long i ve got a sister that comes and stops long o me a little spell spring an fall an odd times if i send after her i ain t near so good a hand to as i be to knit and she s very quick to set to rights she s a married woman with a family her son s folks lives at home an i can t make no great claim on her time but it makes me a kind o good excuse when i do send to help her a little she ain t none too well off poor dear always liked her and we used to contrive our ways together t is full as easy to be alone i set here an think it all over an think considerable when the weather s bad to go outside i get so some days it as if poor dear might step right back country of tee pointed into i keep a as if she might step in to one yes ma am i keep a off an o my that s just how it seems i can t over of her no way nor no how yes ma am that s just how it seems i did not say anything and he did not i so sometimes i have to lay by an go out door she was a sweet pretty long s she lived the old man added mournfully there s that little chair o her n i set an notice it an think how strange t is a like her should be gone an tiiat chair be here right in its old place i wish i had known her mrs told me about your wife one day i said you d have liked to come and see her all the folks did said poor she d been so pleased to hear every ing and see somebody new that took such an int rest she had a kind o gift to make it pleasant for folks i guess likely told yon she was a pretty woman especially in her young days late years too she lier looks
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is bound to provide himself with clothing a gun and and there must be enough and oxen found between them to suffice for their joint use of the the taken one quarter goes to government and the rest to the the most disagreeable part of the system is however yet to come personal service is not all that the resident in the has to the right is in field to articles as well as individuals and to call upon inhabitants to furnish for the as may be imagined it goes very hard on these occasions with the property of any individual whom the field may not happen to like each ward is expected to out its ready and equipped for war and this can only be done by seizing goods right and left one unfortunate will have to find a another to deliver over his favourite span of oxen another his or some slaughter cattle and so on even when the officer making the is desirous of doing his duty as fairly as he can it is obvious that very great hardships must be inflicted under such a system are made more with regard to what is wanted than with a view to an distribution of demands and like the jews in the time of the he who has got most must pay most or take the consequences which may be unpleasant articles which are not such as are supposed to be returned but if they come back at all they are generally worthless in case of war the native tribes living within the borders of the state are also expected to furnish and it is on them that most of the hard work of the campaign generally falls they are put he front of the battle and have to do tiie hand its inhabitants laws and customs si to hand fighting which if of the race they do not object to the of the state is so arranged that the burden of it should fall as much as possible on the trading community and as little as possible on the farmer it is chiefly derived from on trades professions and s per quit rent on farms transfer and court and from such native tribes as can be made to pay them since we have given up the country the has put a very heavy tax on all imported goods hoping thereby to the into paying taxes without knowing it and at the same time strike a blow at the trading community which is english in its the result has been to what little trade there was left in the country and to cause great dissatisfaction amongst the farmers who cannot understand why now that the english are gone they should have to pay twice as much for their sugar and coffee as they have been accustomed to do i will conclude this chapter with a few words about the natives who swarm in and around the they can be roughly divided into two great races the and their and the or tribes all those of blood including the s the the and others are very warlike in disposition and men of fine the who must not be confounded with the cape however differ from these tribes in every respect including their language which is called the only mutual feeling between the two races being their common the of the they do not love war in fact they are timid and cowardly by nature and only fight when they are obliged to unlike the they are much to the arts of peace show considerable for and are even willing to become christians there would have been a far better field for the missionary in the than in and indeed the most successful mission station i have seen in africa is near under the control of mr in person the are thin and weakly when compared to the and it is their consciousness of inferiority both to the white men and their black brethren that together with their natural timidity makes them submit as easily as they do to the of the chapter ii events the in or about the year the of the elected mr their president this remarkable man was a native of the colony and passed the first sixteen or seventeen years of his life he once informed me on a farm sheep he afterwards became a clergyman noted for the eloquence of his preaching but his ideas proving too broad for his congregation he resigned his cure and in an evil moment for himself took to politics president was a man of striking presence and striking talents especially as regards his which was really of a very high class and would have commanded attention in our own house of he possessed however a mind of that peculiarly order that is sometimes met with in with great talents and which seems to be entirely without his intellect was of a like nature and as incapable of being he was always in the clouds and as is natural to one in that elevated position taking a very and more sanguine view of affairs to that which men of a more lowly and perhaps a more practical turn of mind would do s the but notwithstanding his fly away ideas president was undoubtedly a true night and day for the welfare of the state of which he had undertaken the guidance but his patriotism was too exalted for his surroundings he wished to to the rank of a nation a people who had not got the desire to be elevated with this view he contracted railway made wars gold c and then suddenly discovered that the country refused to support him li short he was made of very different clay to that of the people he had to do with he of a great dutch republic with eight millions of inhabitants doing a vast trade with the interior through the
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