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forgetfulness but of deepest thought which it is so complete that the almost forgets himself to stone and it seems like an intrusion to ask what the figures mean we feel that they mean all things the style and spirit of the architecture is so pure that when an it he must carry it out as far as the details are concerned nothing can with propriety be added to or taken from them they are things fixed if a man uses the we demand a pure greek and everybody knows what it ought to be to these details in greek spirit to modern needs this is what classic architecture has in modern times to do the who have accomplished this feat in a satisfactory manner in modern times are so few that one may number them on his fingers and scarce need his left hand to do this a man must be a greek and more than a greek he has to live in the past and present at the same time he must be independent of his time and yet able to enter fully into it the and the architecture on the other hand make no such all but impossible demands � or at least did not at the time in which they flourished though it is no less hard for us to enter into their spirit than into the the � perhaps even harder since the principle of the is complex and the ideas which controlled both it and the have told their errand and have past away from the world the being conceived in a more universal spirit to absolute perfection has in it the principle of life it has been the parent of the others and yet green and strong while its offspring have passed into it would be well for us once for all to abandon the attempt to hither the architecture the noble trees yet stand in the old world but their seeds are decayed the that we by this name can only excite a sigh or a smile at its utter want of harmony and use a few fine churches we may have like church in new york but they can be only to foreign works there is nothing new to be done in architecture its infinite as they seem are in fact limited and are exhausted not so with the it is not indeed to be expected that we shall make more perfect specimens than were made two thousand years ago but we may those in endless new this is what and did and new and would always find room the a green and cloud of the folds in soft above the where deeper pines high over arch and the heavy stooping shade there yellow spring in show and golden rods in secret clusters blow there fill the helpless air and chattering black birds hold their gossip by and near i saw the tender maiden hair with the fine breeze born white the though undisturbed by human art has richer treasures than the busy voyage to voyage to i left boston or rather wharf on friday the th of march in the olive m bound for there was a fine strong breeze in the afternoon on which we sailed and when we began to cast off the swung round by the stern see and straining on her � apparently very impatient to be under way and we were soon going down the bay at the rate of six or seven knots an hour always and i suppose it is the same with you and most people have some little scrap or other running silently through my head whenever i am at all excited and as we sailed rapidly down the bay passing object after object i began with the ancient the ship was cheered the harbor cleared merrily did we drop below the � below the hill below the top c die but directly nearly all having disappeared except the hill monument these fragments gave way to s let it rise to meet the sun in his coming c let it be the last object on which the eye of the shall linger c c but had not time to see whether or not the facts of the case would bear out the wishes of the orator before these scraps gave place in their turn to others of a different character among which were certain from don s sea voyage about the c and this from king � began sick oh sick aside or else i ne er trust poison i took but little notice of what was going on during the first three days of the voyage i recollect on the third night out there was much noise on deck the captain and crew being up nearly all the time and a strong wind blowing which caused the to labor so much that i was obliged to hold on to the side of my berth but i made no inquiry supposing that although it seemed very rough to me it was a matter of ordinary at sea they told voyage to me in the morning that it had been blowing a severe gale and that we had been to under a top sail and i then learnt for the first time that to lay to means to take in all sail except enough to steady the vessel turn her head as near to the wind as possible and then let her drift backwards on the fourth though the sea ran rather high the weather was fine and i crawled out on deck as i was lying on the trying to read i heard the captain the man at the for shipping without understanding seaman s duty where did you come from asked the captain from g near sir was the answer i looked round at the sailor he was a good looking young man of about eighteen or twenty i thought | 37 |
on her knee while i stood kicking her chair and complaining at last i said i can t think why he won t take us v i don t know said my sister timidly but he said something about not affording it and about trade being bad and he was afraid there would be great distress in the town what has that to do with us i shouted father s a doctor trade won t hurt him just then my father came into the room the door was open and he must have heard my last speech but he only said would any young man here like to go with me to see a patient i went willingly and we were soon in the street before long we left it for a one and then turned off into a dirty dark lane where surely the sun never shone i had never seen anything like it before the pathway was broken up children cried at the doors and in the street which was strewn with rags and bones and bits of old iron and shoes my father hurried me on as fast as he could and we turned at last into one of the houses we up staircase after staircase till we reached the top of � do you like flowers the house and stumbled through a door into the garret i thought at first that the room was empty but a faint good morning from the comer near the window drew my eyes that way there stretched on a sort of bed lay the patient we had come to see he was a young man about twenty six years old and two in the comer told that he was a his face lighted up with a glow of pleasure when my father came in i looked around the room there was nothing in it except the bed upon which the sick man lay and a small table the window was patched with newspaper but through the glass panes that were left in full glory streamed the sun and in the midst of the blaze stood a pot of in full bloom the soft yellow flowers looked so sweet that i was lost in admiration till i found the sick man s eyes fixed on mine you are looking at my bit of green he said in a pleased tone do you like flowers i asked coming up to the bed do i like them he exclaimed in a low voice yes i love them well enough � well enough and he looked fondly at the plant though it is long since i saw any but these you have not been in the country for a long time i asked i felt sad to think that he had perhaps lain there for months without a taste of fresh air or a run in the fields i never was in the country young gentleman i looked at my father yes he said in answer to my glance william was bom here he got hurt when a boy and has been lame ever since he was never out of town and never saw a green field the tears rushed to my eyes it is such a shame i said i am very sorry for you the sick man s eyes turned kindly upon me and he said thank you heartily you mean very kindly i used to say the same thing when i was younger and knew no better i used to think it was very hard but i know now how many things i have to be thankful for i looked around the room and began to count the furniture � one two three the many things were certainly not chairs and tables but he went on while i could work i got good wages and laid by a bit so i have what will keep me while i live and then i knew your father and the neighbors have be n very kind i have many who would have thought i could keep a bit of green like that plant of mine alive in a place like this but the sun could not come into a king s room better than it comes into mine indeed indeed i have much to be thankful for i ventured to ask him where did you get your plant he smiled that s a long story but it was this way my father died quite young and my mother soon after so that my brother ben and i were left alone but we were very fond of each other and got on very well i had plenty of work to do weaving and baskets and ben worked at the factory one saturday night he came home and said there was to be a cheap trip on monday into the country neither he nor i had ever been out of the town and he had made up his mind that we must go well you see the landlord had been there that day and had said he must have the rent by tuesday or he would turn us out i had some of it laid by and was looking to ben s wages to make it up but i couldn t bear to see his face for a bit of fresh air and so i thought i could stay at home and work on monday and he need never know so i pretended i didn t want to go and sent him off on monday without me it was late at night when he came back he had flowers in his hat and flowers in all his he had his handkerchief filled with hay and was carrying something under his coat he began laughing and crying eh bill you have missed something but i ve brought you a bit of green lad and then he lifted up his coat and there was the plant we did | 23 |
fashioned ideas � it identity of interests yes but whose interests asked � your wife s man she owns the mills hesitated i would rather talk of my wife s interest in the mills than of her interests there but well keep to the if you prefer it personally i believe the terms should be in the conduct of such a business i m glad to hear that said mr quickly since it s precisely the view we all take s colour rose are he said before you adopt mine perhaps i had better de it a little farther what i mean is that s interests in should be regulated by her interest in it � in its welfare as a social body aside from its success as a commercial enterprise if we agree on this definition we are at one as to the other namely that my relation to the matter is defined by hers the fruit of the tree he paused a moment as if to give bis wife time to contribute some sign of assent and encouragement but she maintained a puzzled silence and he went on there is nothing new in this i have tried to make understand from the beginning what obligations i thought the of and how i hoped to help her them but ever since our marriage all definite discussion of the subject been put off for one cause or another and that is my reason for urging that it should be brought up at the meeting tomorrow there was another pause during which glanced at mr and then said with a lovely rise of colour but john i sometimes think you forget how much been done at � the mothers club and the play ground and all � in the way of carrying out your ideas mr dropped his glance to his cigar and mr sounded an irrepressible note of approval and encouragement smiled no i have not forgotten and i am grateful to you for giving my ideas a trial but what has been done hitherto is purely superficial s eyes clouded and he added hastily don t think i it for that reason � heaven knows the surface of life needs improving but it s like picking flowers and sticking them in the ground to make a the fruit of the tree garden � unless you the flower with its roots and prepare the soil to receive it your garden will be faded tomorrow no radical changes have yet been made at and it is of radical changes that i want to speak s look grew more pained and mr exclaimed with unwonted upon my soul the tone you take about what your wife has done doesn t strike me as the way of encouraging her to do more i don t want to encourage her to do more on such a basis � the sooner she sees the of it the better for the broke out with a flutter of tears in her voice but before her father could mr ar had raised his hand with the gesture of one accustomed to the my dear child i see s point and it is best as he says that you should see it too what he desires as i understand it is the complete of the present state of things at and he is right in saying that all your good works there � night and nursery and so forth � leave that issue untouched a smile quivered under mr l s moustache he and both knew that mr s of the justice of his adversary s claim was merely the first step to it but could the fruit of the tree never be made to understand this and always felt hei self deserted and betrayed when any side but her own was given a hearing i m sorry if all i have tried to do at is useless � but i suppose i never understand ness she murmured vainly seeking consolation in her i father s eye this is not business broke in it s the question of your personal relation to the people there � the last thing that business considers mr uttered an impatient exclamation i wish to heaven the owner of the mills had made it clear just what that relation was to be i think he did sir answered steadily in leaving his wife the control of the property he had under mr s thrust but his voice betrayed do irritation and rewarded him with an unexpected beam of sympathy she was always up in arms at the least of his being treated as an intruder i am sure papa she said a little that poor richard though lie knew i was not clever felt he could trust me to take the best advice ah that s all we ask of you my child her father sighed while mr interposed we are merely time by this let me the fruit op the tree that should give us an idea of the changes he wishes to make at as he turned to answer remembered with what ardent faith in his powers of persuasion he had responded to the same appeal three years earlier he had thought then that all his cause needed was a hearing now he knew that the practical man s readiness to let the talk with the busy parent s permission to destructive infancy to run out and play they would let him state his case to the four comers of the earth � if only he did not expect them to act on it it was their policy to let him in argument and to listen to him so politely and patiently that if he failed to enforce his ideas it should not be for lack of opportunity to them and the alternative struck him as hardly less to be feared supposing that the incredible happened that his reasons prevailed with his | 10 |
he could not but think what a blessed thing it would have been for this man if he had taken a lesson from the gentlemen who were so kind as to take the nation s affairs in charge and had learnt how not to do it mr hot and for about five minutes and then began to cool and clear up come come said he we shall not make this the better by being grim where do you think of going dan i shall go back to the factory said dan why then we ll all go back to the factory or walk in that direction returned cheerfully mr won t be by its being in bleeding heart yard bleeding heart yard said i want to go there so much the better cried mr come along as they went along certainly one of the party and probably more than one thought that bleeding heart yard was no destination for a man who had been in official correspondence with my lords and the � and perhaps had a also that herself might come to look for lodgings in bleeding heart yard some ugly day or other if she over did the office chapter xi let loose a late dull autumn night was closing in upon the river the stream like a looking glass in a gloomy place reflected the clouds heavily and the low banks leaned over here and there as if they were half curious and half afraid to see their darkening pictures in the water the flat expanse of country about lay a streak occasionally made a little ragged by a row of trees against the sunset on the banks of the river it was wet solitary and the night deepened fast one man slowly moving on towards was the only visible figure in the landscape might have looked as lonely and avoided with an old at his back and a rough stick cut out of some wood in his hand his shoes and trodden out his hair and beard the cloak he carried over his shoulder and the clothes he wore with wet along in pain and difficulty he looked as if the clouds were hurrying little from him as if the wail of the wind and the shuddering of the grass were directed against him as if the low mysterious of the water murmured at him as if the fitful autumn night were disturbed by him he glanced here and he glanced there sullenly but and sometimes stopped and turned about and looked all round him then he on again toiling and muttering to the devil with this plain that has no end to the devil with these stones that cut like knives to the devil with this dismal darkness itself about one with a chill i hate you and he would have visited his hatred upon it all with the he threw about him if he could he a little further and looking into the distance before him stopped again i hungry thirsty weary you where the lights are yonder eating and drinking and warming yourselves at fires i wish i had the of your town i would repay you my children but the teeth he set at the town and the hand he shook at the town brought the town no nearer and the man was yet and and when his feet were on its jagged pavement and he stood looking about him there was the hotel with its and its smell of cooking there was the with its bright windows and its rattling of there was the s with its of red cloth on the there was the s with its ear rings and its for there was the tobacco dealer s with its lively group of soldier customers coming out pipe in mouth there were the bad of the town and the rain and refuse in the and the faint lamps across the road and the huge diligence and its mountain of luggage and its six grey horses with their tails tied up getting under weigh at the coach office but no small for a traveller being within sight he had to seek one round the dark corner where the leaves lay trodden about the public at which women had not yet left off drawing water there in the back street he found one the break of day the windows clouded the break of day but it seemed light and warm and it announced in with appropriate of cue and ball that at the break of day one could play that there one could find meat drink and lodging whether one came on horseback or came on foot and that it kept good and brandy the man turned the handle of the break of day door and in he touched his hat as he came in at the door to a few men who occupied the room two were playing at one of the little tables three or four were seated round the stove conversing as they smoked the table in the centre was left alone for the time the landlady of the daybreak sat behind her little counter among her cloudy bottles of baskets of cakes and leaden for glasses working at her needle making his way to an empty little table in a corner of the room behind the stove he put down his and his cloak upon the ground as he raised his head from stooping to do so he found the landlady beside him one can lodge here to night madame little perfectly said the landlady in a high sing song cheery voice good one can dine � sup � what you please to call it ah perfectly cried the landlady as before then madame if you please something to eat as quickly as you can and some wine at once i am exhausted it is very bad weather said the landlady cursed weather and a very long 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wicked but i hardly know � the misery that you have inflicted � i hardly know what could have made it worse will you repeat to your sister when she is recovered what i have been telling you let me be a little lightened too in her opinion as well as in yours you tell me that she has forgiven me already let me be able to fancy that a better knowledge of my heart and of my present feelings will draw from her a more spontaneous more natural more gentle less dignified forgiveness tell her of ray misery and my � tell her that my heart was never to her and if you will that at this moment she is dearer to me than ever i will tell h all that is necessary to what may comparatively be called your justification but you have not explained to me the particular reason of your coming now nor how you heard of her illness last in lane i ran against sir john and when he saw who i was for the first time these two months he spoke to me that he had cut me ever since my marriage i had seen without surprise or resentment now however his good natured honest stupid soul full of indignation against me and concern for your sister could not resist the temptation of telling me what he knew ought to though probably he did not think it would vex me as as he could speak it therefore he told me that was dying of a fever at � a letter that morning received from mrs sense and sensibility declared her danger most imminent � the are all gone off in fright i was too much shocked to be able to pass myself off as insensible even to the sir john his heart was softened in seeing mine suffer and so much of his ill will was done away that when we parted be almost shook me by the hand while he reminded me of an old promise about a what i felt on hearing that your sister was dying and dying too believing me the greatest villain upon earth me in her latest moments � for how could i tell what horrid projects might not have been one person i was sure would represent me as capable of any thing what i felt was dreadful i my resolution was soon made and at eight o clock this morning i was in my carriage now you know all made no answer her thoughts were silently fixed on the injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness and luxury had made in the mind the character the happiness of a man who to every advantage of person and talents united a disposition naturally open and honest and a feeling affectionate temper the world had made him ant and vain � extravagance and vanity had made him cold hearted and selfish vanity while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another had involved him in a real attachment which extravagance or at least its offspring necessity had required to be sacrificed each in leading him to evil had led him likewise to punishment the attachment from which against honor against feeling against every better interest he had outwardly torn himself now when no longer governed every thought and the connection for the sake of which he had with little scruple left her sister to misery was likely to prove a source of to himself of a far more nature from a reverie of this kind she was recalled at the end of some minutes by who rousing himself from a reverie at least equally painful started up in preparation for going and said � there is no use in staying here i must be off are you going back to town no � to i have business there from to town in a day or two good by sense and he held out his hand she could not refuse to give him hers he pressed it with affection and you do think better of me than you did said he letting it fall and leaning against the mantel piece as if forgetting he was to go assured him that she did that she forgave pitied wished him well � was even interested in his happiness � and added some gentle counsel as to the behavior most likely to promote it his answer was not very encouraging as to that said he i must rub through the world as well as i can domestic happiness is out of the question if however i am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions it may be the means � it may put me on my guard � at least it may be something to live for to be sure is lost to me for ever were i even by any blessed chance at liberty again stopped him with a reproof well he replied once more good by i shall now go away and live in dread of one event what do you mean your sister s marriage you are very wrong she can never be more lost to you than she is now but she will be gained by some one else and if that some one should be the very he whom of all others i could least bear � but i will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good will by showing that where i have most injured i can least forgive good by � god bless you i and with these words he almost ran out of the room chapter for some time after he left her for some time even after the sound of his carriage had died away remained too much oppressed by a crowd of ideas widely in themselves but of which sadness was the general result | 26 |
against any sudden assault had still some hopes that might be to government and might be gradually brought into life and voyages of bis plans or that the garrison would be disposed to desert tempted by the life which he permitted among his followers in the neighbourhood was die town inhabited by here were thirty soldiers under the command of captain de repaired thither with his armed force hoping to and his party but the captain shut himself up with his men in a fortified house refusing to permit them to hold any with the latter threatened to set fire to the house but after a little consideration contented himself with seizing their store of provisions and then marched towards fort which was not quite half a league distant l� c cap chapter v the to the in relief of fort conception � his interview with the had received intelligence of the proceedings of yet for a time he hesitated to set out in pursuit of him he had lost all confidence iii the loyalty of the people around him he knew not how far the conspiracy extended nor on whom he could rely de of the fortress of la together with de and de all principal men were in league with he feared that the commander of fort conception might likewise be in the plot and the whole island in arms against him he was reassured however by tidings from that loyal wrote to him letters for representing the weakness of his garrison and the increasing forces of the don now hastened to his assistance with his accustomed and threw himself with a into the fortress being ignorant of the force of the and doubtful of the loyalty of his own followers he determined to adopt mild measures understanding that was at a village but half a league distant he sent a messenger to him on the � life and voyages of of his the injury it was calculated to in and the certain ruin it must bring upon himself he summoned him to appear at the fortress his word for his personal safety repaired accordingly to fort conception where the held a with him from a window demanding the reason of his appearing in arms in opposition to royal authority replied that he was in the service of his sovereigns defending their subjects from the men who sought their destruction the ordered him to surrender his staff of office as mayor and to submit to superior authority refused to resign his office or to put himself in the power of don whom he charged with seeking his life he refused also to submit to any trial unless commanded by the king pretending however to make no resistance to the exercise of authority he offered to go with his followers and reside at any place the might the latter immediately the village of the the same native of the islands who had been in spain and had since married a daughter of objected pretending that there were not sufficient provisions to be had there for the of his men and departed that he would seek a more eligible residence elsewhere he now proposed to bis followers to establish themselves and take possession of the remote province of the who had returned from thence had given accounts of the life they had led there of the of the soil the sweetness of the climate the hospitality d l c cap i and gentleness of the people their i dances and various amusements and above all the beauty of the women for they had been by the naked charms of the dancing of in this delightful region from the iron rule of tlie and relieved from the necessity of irksome labour they might lead a life of perfect freedom and indulgence and have a world of beauty at their command in short drew a picture of loose enjoyment such as he knew to be irresistible with men of idle and habits his followers with joy to his proposition some preparations however were necessary to carry it into effect taking advantage of the absence of the he suddenly marched off with bis band td and entering it in a manner by surprise endeavoured to the with which they might sail to don hearing the tumult issued forth with several persons of distinction but such was the force of the and their menacing conduct that he was obliged to withdraw with a number of his most faithful into the fortress held several with him and offered to submit to his command provided he would set himself up in opposition to his brother the his proposition was treated with scorn the fortress was too strong to be assailed with success he found it impossible to the and feared the might return and he be enclosed between two forces he proceeded therefore in all haste to make provisions for the proposed expedition to still pretending to act in his official capacity and to do every thing from loyal motives for the protection and support of the oppressed subjects of the crown he broke open the royal shouts of long live the king supplied his followers with arms am vol ii k life and voyages of and whatever they desired from the public stores proceeded to the where the cattle and other european animals were kept to breed took whatever he thought necessary for his intended establishment and permitted his followers to kill such of the remaining cattle as they might want for present supply having committed this he marched in u out of reflecting however on the prompt and vigorous character of the he felt that his situation would be but little secure with such an active enemy behind him who on himself from present would not fail to pursue him to his proposed paradise of he determined therefore to march again to the and endeavour either to get possession of the person of the | 48 |
over again just as he had seen them at the time and they did not shake him what of it they were dead and dead long since they weren t about it they weren t on their across a boat and waiting to die death was easy � easier than he had ever imagined and now that it was near the thought of it made him glad a new vision came to him he saw the feverish city of his dream � the gold metropolis of the north perched above the on a high earth bank and far spreading burning daylight across the flat he saw the river tied to the bank and lined against it three deep he saw the working and the long dog with double behind supplies to the and he saw the gambling houses banks stock and all the gear and and the chances and opportunities of a vastly bigger gambling game than any he had ever seen it was hell he thought with the a working and that big strike coming to be out of it all life thrilled and stirred at the thought and once more began uttering his ancient lies daylight rolled over and off the boat leaning against it as he sat on the ice he wanted to be in on that strike and why shouldn t he somewhere in all those wasted muscles of his was enough strength if he could gather it all at once to up end the boat and it quite the idea suggested itself of a share in the town site from and joe they would sell a third interest cheap then if the strike came on the he be well in on it with the town site if on the he not be quite out of it in the meantime he would gather strength he stretched out on the ice full length face downward and for half an hour he lay and rested then he arose shook the flashing blindness from his eyes and took hold of the boat he knew his condition accurately if the first effort failed the following efforts were doomed to fail he must pull all his rallied strength into the one effort and so thoroughly must he put all of it in that there would be none left for other attempts he lifted and he with the of him as well as with the body himself body and spirit in the effort the boat rose he thought he was ta but he continued to lift he t ie bo x n burning daylight started on its downward slide with the last of his strength he himself into it landing in a sick heap on s legs he was beyond attempting to rise and as he lay he heard and felt the boat take the water by watching the tree tops he knew it was whirling a shock and flying fragments of ice told him that it had struck the bank a dozen times it whirled and struck and then it floated easily and free daylight came to and decided he had been asleep the sun that several hours had passed it was early afternoon he dragged himself into the stem and sat up the boat was in the middle of the stream the wooded banks with their base lines of flashing ice were slipping by near him floated a huge pine a of the current brought the boat against it crawling forward he fastened the painter to a root the tree deeper in the water was travelling faster and the painter as the boat took the tow then with a last giddy wherein he saw the banks and swaying and the sun swinging in sweep across the sky daylight wrapped himself in his rabbit skin robe lay down m the bottom and fell asleep when he awoke it was dark night he was lying on his back and he could see the stars shining a subdued murmur of swollen waters could be heard a sharp jerk informed him that the boat slack into the painter had been straightened out by the moving pine tree a piece of stray drift ice against the boat and along its side well the following jam hadn t caught him yet was his thought as he his eyes and slept again it was bright day when next he opened his eyes the sun showed it to be midday a glance at the banks and he knew that he was on the mighty sixty mile could not be far away he was burning daylight weak his movements were slow and accompanied by panting and head swimming as he dragged himself into a sitting up position in the stem his rifle beside him he looked a long time at but not see whether he breathed or not and he was too far away to make an investigation he to dreaming and meditating again dreams and thoughts being often broken by stretches of wherein he neither slept nor was nor was aware of anything it seemed to him more like slipping in his brain and in this way he the situation he was still alive and most likely be saved but how came it that he was not lying dead across the boat on top the ice rim then he recollected the great final effort he had made but why had he made it he asked himself it had not been fear of death he had not been afraid that was sure then he remembered the and the big strike he believed was coming and he knew that the spur had been his desire to sit in for a hand at that big game and again why what if he made his million he would die just the same as those that never won more than then again why but the blank stretches in his thinking process began to come more frequently and he surrendered to the delightful that | 21 |
sufficient to this sentiment to a high place amongst those that are most influential in their operations upon the human mind i appeal to the young or rather to the old who have not forgotten their youth whether love has not at some period of their existence given a life and to the aspect of creation a music to sound and an intensity to au their of simple and natural delight which while the enchantment lasted seemed to raise the pleasures of earth above sphere though in remembrance it claims nothing but a passing smile or perhaps a faint sigh of regret that we have lost so much of what the life of our early existence we smile because we have lived to awake from our delusion � to know that the sunshine which then appeared to us a flood of radiance pouring its golden streams over hill and grove and the principle of happiness through an the secret mysteries of nature was but the ordinary light of day liable to be obscured by mists and hid from us by the of dense gloomy clouds we smile because the brook that murmured at our feet with such continuous and unbroken melody to our young pure and clear and vivid like the secret springs of feeling since then has wearied us with the constant monotony of its sound seeming to tell of little else pebbles and clear water we smile because the song of at least half the birds whose voices were then all music has into a mere but most of all we smile because that bright being whose brow was with a glory � at whose feet we would have laid the accumulated treasures of the whole world had we possessed them � the idol whom we had placed upon the high altar of the soul has stepped down from that exalted and passing forth into the world endowed with the customary functions of humanity has mixed in the common of life and become an eating drinking bargain man or if after such a perchance we sigh it is not so much with any positive regret as with a vague sense of some indefinite loss � a mere illusion � a false colouring � a tone � an charm which owed its existence to the of the mind and yet we sigh because not the longest period of man s natural life not the rapid and entire success of all our schemes not the riches of prosperity poured into our lap around our feet and even beyond the circle of our hopes can restore what is lost to us when we are driven to the conviction that we can love no more it was an idle we tell ourselves in after life and we join in the ridicule that this foolish passion but would we not give all that time and tears have purchased for us to sit again in the bright sunshine to look round upon the fields and the woods to listen to the singing of the birds and without the excitement of art or the aid of borrowed attributes to feel each individual moment sufficient in its fulness of felicity to lull the memory of the past and soothe down the anxieties of the future into one point of present time all that we spend years in search of and without purchase and without sacrifice in one single isolated of experience the happiness for which countless are in vain it is a strong proof of the poetical character of love that all the contempt and all the ridicule it meets with in the world are unable to deprive it of the legitimate place which it holds in the popular works of our best authors is the only novel that occurs to me in which the interest of the story is in no way connected with love the author has supplied this deficiency by conducting the reader through his pages with an intensity of anxiety scarcely equalled elsewhere but well as this story is we arrive in the end at the unsatisfactory conviction that we have been reading an hard bad book the whole tenor of which is in direct opposition to the good providence of it may be remarked in the poetry op life with the same fact that sir walter scott after he had spell bound the public by the easy natural flow of his first poems tried his skill upon the battle of and produced one which it is difficult to read though the same master hand is there e has since for this want of to the tender passion by the most delicate and judicious distribution of it through the whole of his novels where we find enough and what is saying a great deal for the writer never too much at the same time however that love forms an essential part in our popular works of fiction it seems to be with the genius of the english nation to make it the entire or even the leading any particular work approaches the nearest to this extreme but his novels are more remarkable in this day for presenting minute descriptions of human character of the social habits and customs of the times in which he lived than as upon love miss porter kind as she is in all her characters and marching them off the stage in couples gives us battles innumerable with lively of patriotism and various other passions good and evil among which her love scenes form a very small and certainly a very inferior part and miss the great who love with more tact and often with exquisite pathos it always with due to that substantial sound moral which to the honour of her sex and the benefit of her fellow creatures she makes the chief object of her clear well regulated and comprehensive mind we have no work in our language which bears any resemblance to the sorrows of | 41 |
by some thick a door with a letter box and an iron bell pull that was all that could be seen of the s l on took the bell pull in both hands and danced furiously upon the side walk the bell itself was just upon the other side of the wall it responded to his activity and scattered an alarming far and wide into the night a window was thrown open in a house across the street and a voice inquired the cause of this uproar providence and the i i wish the said he has been in bed this hour returned the voice he must get up again retorted and he was for the bell pull once more you will never make him hear responded the voice the garden is of great extent the house is at the farther end and both the and his housekeeper are deaf said pausing the is deaf is he that explains and he thought of the evening s concert with a momentary feeling of relief ah he continued and so the is deaf and the garden vast and the house at the far end and you might ring all night added the voice and be none the for it you would only keep me awake thank you neighbor replied the singer you shall sleep and he made off again at his best pace for the s was still walking to and fro before the door he has not come asked not he she replied good returned i am sure our s inside let me see the case i shall lay this siege in form i am angry i am indignant i am inclined but i thank my maker i have still a sense of fun the unjust judge shall be in a set him up � and set him up he had the case opened by this time struck a few and fell into an attitude which was irresistibly spanish now he continued feel your voice are you ready follow me the and the two voices in harmony and with a startling the chorus of a song of old b s � � bat sa new nights the stones of le thrilled at this audacious hitherto had the night been sacred to repose and and now what was this window after window was opened matches scratched and candles began to swollen sleepy faces peered forth into the there were two figures before the s house each bolt upright with head thrown back and eyes the heavens the shouted and like an and the voices with a crisp and spirited delivery hurled the appropriate burden at the s window all the echoes repeated the s name it was more like an in a farce of re s than a passage of real life in the if he was not the first was the last of the neighbors to yield to the influence of music and furiously throw open the window of his bedroom he was beside himself with rage he leaned far over the window sill and the of his white night cap danced like a thing of life he opened his mouth to dimensions hitherto and yet his voice instead of escaping from it in a roar came shrill and choked and tottering a little more and it was clear he would be better acquainted with the i scorn to his language he touched upon too many serious topics by the way for a quiet although he was known for a man who was prompt with his tongue and had a power of strong expression at command he himself so remarkably this one maiden lady who had got out of bed like the rest to hear the was obliged to shut her window at the second even what she had heard her conscience and next day she said she scarcely reckoned as a maiden lady any longer tried to explain his but he providence and the received nothing but threats of arrest by way of answer if i come down to you cried the aye said do i will not cried the you dare not answered p at that the closed his window all is over said the singer the was perhaps ill judged these have no sense of humor let us get away from here said with a shiver all these people looking � it is so rude and so brutal and then giving way once more to passion � brutes she cried aloud to the candle lit brutes brutes brutes qui said you have done it now and taking the in one hand and the case in the other he led the way with something too to be merely called from the scene of this absurd adventure chapter iv to the west of le four rows of venerable lime trees formed in this night a avenue with two side of pitch darkness here and there tone benches were disposed between the trunks there was not a breath of wind a heavy atmosphere of perfume hung about the and every leaf stood stock still upon its hither after vainly knocking at an inn or two the came at length to pass the night after an amiable insisted on giving his coat to and they sat down together on the first bench in silence made a which he smoked to an end looking up into the trees and beyond them at the of which he tried vainly to recall the names the silence was broken by the church bell it rang the four quarters on a light and measure then followed a sing le deep stroke that died slowly away with a thrill and stillness resumed its empire one said four hours till daylight it is warm it is i have matches and tobacco do not let us � the experience is positively charming i feel a glow within me i am born again this is the poetry of life think of | 38 |
of what he may have heard from lady to contradict the late shocking reports his answer came this morning which i shall to you as i think you will like to see it i wish it was more satisfactory but it seems written with such a determination to think well of lady that his assurances as to marriage etc do not set my heart at ease i say all i can however to satisfy your father and he is certainly less uneasy since s letter how provoking it is my dear that this unwelcome guest of yours should not only prevent our meeting this christmas but be the occasion of so much vexation and trouble i kiss the dear children for me your affectionate mother c xiv mr de to sir my dear � i have this moment received your letter which has given me astonishment than i ever felt before i am to thank my sister i suppose for having represented me in such a light as to injure me in your opinion and give you all this alarm i know not why she lady should choose to make herself and her family uneasy by an event which no one but herself i can affirm would ever have thought possible to such a design to lady would be taking from her every claim to that excellent understanding which her bitterest enemies have never denied her and equally low must sink my pretensions to common sense if i am suspected of matrimonial views in my behavior to her our difference of age must be an objection and i entreat you my dear father to quiet your mind and no longer harbor a suspicion which cannot be more injurious to your own peace than to our i can have no other view in remaining with lady than to enjoy for a short time as you have yourself expressed it the conversation of a woman of high intellectual powers if mrs would allow something to my affection for herself and her husband in the length of my visit she would do more justice to us all but my sister is unhappily prejudiced be the hope of conviction against lady from an attachment to her husband which in itself does honor to both she cannot forgive the at preventing their union which have been attributed to selfishness in lady but in this case as well as in many others the world has most injured that lady by supposing the worst where the motives of her conduct have been doubtful lady had heard something so materially to the disadvantage of my sister as to persuade her that the happiness of mr to whom she was always much attached would be wholly destroyed by the marriage and this while it explains the motives of lady s conduct and all the blame which has been so on her may also convince us how little the general report of any one ought to be since no character however upright can escape the of if my sister in the security of retirement with as little opportunity as inclination to do evil could not avoid censure we must not condemn those who living in the world and surrounded with temptations should be accused of errors which they are known to have the power of committing i blame myself severely for having so easily believed the tales invented by charles smith to the prejudice of lady as i am now convinced how greatly they have her as to mrs s jealousy it was totally his own invention and his account of her miss s lover was scarcely better founded sir james martin had been drawn in by that young lady to pay her some attention and as he is a man of fortune it was easy to see her views extended to marriage it is well known that miss m is absolutely on the catch for a husband and no one therefore can pity her for losing by the superior attractions of another woman the chance of being able to make a worthy man completely wretched lady was far from intending such a conquest and on finding how warmly miss resented her lover s determined in spite of mr and mrs s most urgent entreaties to leave the family i have reason to imagine she did receive serious proposals from sir james but her removing to immediately on the discovery of his must her on that article with any mind of common tou will i am sure my dear sir feel the truth of this and will learn to do justice to the character of a very injured woman i know that lady in coming to was governed only by the most honorable and amiable intentions her prudence and economy are her regard for mr equal even to his deserts and her wish of obtaining my sister s good opinion merits a better return than it has received as a mother she is her solid affection for her child is shown by placing her in hands where her education will be properly attended to but because she has not the blind and weak partiality of most mothers she is accused of wanting maternal tenderness every person of sense however will know how to value and commend her well directed affection and will join me in wishing that may prove more worthy than she has yet done of her mother s tender care i have now my dear father written my real sentiments of lady you will know from this letter how highly i admire her abilities and esteem her character but if you are not equally convinced by my full and solemn assurance that your fears have been most idly created you will deeply and distress me i am etc b de xv mrs to lady de mt mother � i return you s letter and rejoice with all my heart that my father is made easy hy it tell | 26 |
it money asked eagerly mrs drew her shawl tightly round her massive form i don t know rightly what it is she said in her heavy voice says very little but what he does say shows that major will never let miss leave that house and she s not mad poor lamb she s a poor innocent angel the sport of i ll go now mr and mind i have word to say you have said as she turned away but if you want to help miss only one man can help her interrupted the woman and he must be her lover who will stand against these devils on her behalf but she never sees a man since mr went away unless old counts so what chance has she there she ended abruptly i have told you more than i ought to the drink the drink would kill me if he knew curse and curse the drink and she returned slowly to the striking her forehead and repeating the drink the drink the drink remained on the bridge for a few minutes and the sealed message then retired to bed not to sleep but to think deeply he had enough to occupy his thoughts throughout that long summer night mrs as the saying goes had given the show away from the remark about the car felt certain that mrs had meant a loss of money apparently if escaped from the s house would lose an income which belonged to the girl but of this the young man could not be sure and until he had more information he could do nothing still his suspicions had certainly proved to be correct the negro was s creature and had been posted in village to guard the s house and its occupants felt that he was on the track of the mystery but could not follow it up until he talked it over with another person two heads were better than one in this instance and was very shrewd therefore fell asleep with a resolution to explain matters to the lawyer when he went to london meanwhile he had to meet in the moonlight on the night and that thought alone was sufficient to fill his mind to the of less romantic matters next morning was as and obedient as usual evidently he had neither found nor had he heard anything to awaken his suspicion while visiting the s house watched him closely and weighed every look every of the voice but in every case he was satisfied that the negro had not the slightest idea that his guest had the enchanted castle when the time came for to drive to the negro himself appeared on the box of the trap said climbing in and seeing that his was all right this is an honor oh no said the negro showing his splendid teeth you ver good to at de � the sealed message maid i wish you to come here again an � an tell ob dis place i ll tell said when the trap started and i ll be back soon to stay me for a few days i must then get on to st as a friend is awaiting me there what i miss about added the young man in a careless tone is that there are no pretty girls no no you to see for de pretty you come from then yes me and servant to major him was in command ob a fine black m t was indeed and simply told what had gathered from the wife however to shield her he expressed suitable surprise i wonder you don t go back to after the this place must be chilly and extremely dull in winter it dull replied the negro but i de inn and de wife and de family so i getting on well but some day i go back to port royal to money and den i a grand in this way all the long way to and told quite a lot about his life with major the negro appeared to be quite devoted to his old master that had saved his life when it was in danger from what asked idly said i lose one eye in and after this remark he became silent had heard of js l v the sealed message and having an in his company would have liked from literary curiosity to learn more but by this time the trap was entering and descending the steep high street so refused to say anything more the loss of his eye was evidently a sore subject with him and small wonder that he loved if the sight of the other eye had been saved by that military gentleman when drove away leaving at the prince s head that individual thought deeply chapter vn love being saxon had not the instincts of a and was therefore somewhat rough and ready in arranging for a secret meeting with however love his wits and he excused himself to the landlady of the prince s head for being absent after midnight on the plea that he had to ride out and see an old friend in the ordinary course of things there was no reason why he should explain at all but to make matters entirely safe should mr play the spy � which was just what the creature would do � thus arranged for an explanation after dinner he called in mrs and ordered a horse obtaining at the same time the key of a side door so that he could admit himself when he returned somewhere about one o clock in the morning then he gave orders that he was to be called in time for the early morning train and afterwards snatched forty in order to prepare himself thoroughly for the of the night the sealed message owing to the excessive heat of the weather usually wore loose white from morning until evening but | 12 |
not fail to produce the most unhappy effects there could not be any security for that species of property is absolutely necessary to the salvation of the south in he wrote to our minister in england if should not be attached to the united states we cannot maintain that institution of ten years and probably not half that time so the south must have and extend slavery over that soil whence the had it out the north prevent it most certainly even new england could have prevented it mr who thanks god that he did not slumber over that danger says new england might have prevented it if she but her people would not be roused but long before new learned to the pr ant hinges of the knee that may follow the most disinterested enthusiasm of this day � long directed slavery in general fought against this special act and a few noble men spoke loud and long but to reluctant speech in hall not th m art ears and cold hearts had been followed we should have had no no invasion no war but a idea had gone abroad m new england � that southern slavery is profitable to the north the and the morality have one common � not the love of their country nor the love of but the love of gun so new england assented to the north assented a the fatal of slavery in her land with the expectation of a war the south has its wish the north its reward the nation the of her constitution the of her great men � it was by slavery and to that her sons have bowed the neck she the of her honor � it was betrayed by slavery she for thousands of her children � were murdered by slavery � which still for more behold the be of the end � which is not the end itself art n � powers greek slave thb appearance of mr powers statue among us and the feeling of earnest admiration with which it has n received afford us an occasion to say a few words not so much with reference to the and his work as to art in general of which it may be said that there is no one side of human knowledge concerning which the ideas of men are so vague and inadequate to explain what it truly is to place it in its true relations to make every man feel that it is of importance to him and that its is essential to the highest development of mankind will be the future work of genius through many ages if we cannot give a reason for that is in us we can still protest against and indifference it will assist us in our endeavour if we the views and feelings with which art is regarded i we have the large class who have no thought on hie subject but to whom music or any work of art not beyond the range of their is a source of the highest gratification an art n those in whom a partial or development has the natural balance of the thus the man whose life has been devoted to action in the world is accustomed to view art as action without a useful end or else sees in it only a means of pleasure and gratification the thinks its doubtful or dangerous to the interests of on and morality m those persons who are not wanting in a due sense of the value of art but who see it only in parts and fragments or are influenced by fashion or some dominant and are thus incapable of it as a whole iv we could wish there were a class to be added but in this age of the world when we are made familiar with the works of times without selection to the whole and through the mass of works that obscure it seize the clear image of art itself as the did must be to genius industry aad opportunity ere may be but a class we say and more or less we believe that ood made man in his what are the attributes that we involuntarily attach to the supreme being are they not creation that action that love that us and in we exist the life of man is passed in the exercise of these same attributes or faculties we believe that on is love to god and man to action man is by from the first moment of his being when he ceases to act he is dead man lives and he now feels the necessity to create the natural in melody in imitation first points out the way he makes a he draws a rude and art exists this nature of man religious practical and artistic is rarely if ever confided by nature in full measure to the same individual always the one and thus we have the priest the poet and the man of action or m early times the man of action par excellence � the soldier aod this is the reason for the fascination that the military still the soldier has been in au times the visible of the man of action the harmonious development of these three attributes is necessary to the harmonious development of the individual man which that perfection of development that was in individuals in the earlier ages so that whilst the progress has still been towards on art the improvement of the race we can point to no more perfect specimens than the jews and the possessed in all times it has seemed to be the design of providence to make some peculiar race the of the divine fire of a new idea or at least the means of its and interpretation to mankind and by the steady progress of the idea m such a race an individual development has been attained that has served as a | 37 |
route but he had scarcely expected it yet and the s sudden appearance led dare to ask himself the ominous question whether had discovered his trick and was in the mood for prompt measures a ii a there is no more for me to do here said the boy man hastily to de miss power does not wish to ask me any more questions i may as well proceed on my way as you advised de who had also gazed with dismay at s passing figure though with dismay of another sort was recalled from his vexation by dare s remarks and turning upon him he said sharply well may you be in such a hurry all of a sudden true i am superfluous now you have been doing a foolish thing and you must suffer its � will i am sorry for one thing i am sorry i ever owned you for you are not a lad to my mind you have disappointed me � disappointed me almost beyond endurance i have acted according to my illumination what can you expect of a man bom to that s mere before you knew anything of me and while you thought you were the child of poverty on both sides you were well enough but ever since you thought you were more than that you have led a life which is intolerable what has become of your plan of alliance between the de and the powers now the man is gone upstairs who can overthrow it all if the man had not gone upstairs you wouldn t have complained of my nature or my plans said dare if i mistake not he will come down again with the in his ear however i have done my play is played out all the rest remains with you but captain grant me this if when i am gone this difficulty should vanish and things should go well with you and your suit should prosper will you think of de and him bad as he is who first put you on the track of such happiness and let him know it was not done in vain i will said de promise me that you will be a better boy very well � as soon as ever i can afford it now i am up and away when i have explained to them that i shall not require my room dare fetched his bag touched his hat with his umbrella to the captain and went out of the hotel de sat down in the and wondered what other time had in store for him a waiter in the had announced to the group upstairs started as much as at hearing the name and power stared at them both if mr wishes to see me on business show him in said in a few seconds the door was thrown open for on receipt of the pointed message he guessed that a change had come time absence ambition her uncle s influence and a new seemed to account sufficiently well for that change and he accepted his fate but from a instinct to show that he could regard her with the that became a man a desire to ease her mind of any fear she might entertain that his connection with her past would render him troublesome in future induced him to accept her permission and see the act to the end how do you do mr said power with he had been far enough a about the world not to be greatly concerned at s apparent particularly when it helped to reduce him from the rank of lover to his niece to that of professional adviser miss de faltered a welcome as weak as that of the maid of and said coldly we are rather surprised to see you perhaps there is something urgent at the castle which makes it necessary for you to call there is something a little urgent said slowly as he approached her and you have judged rightly that it is the cause of my call he sat down near her chair as he spoke put down his hat and drew a note book from his pocket with a despairing sang that was far more perfect than had been s just before perhaps you would like to talk over the business with mr alone murmured to miss power hardly knowing what she said oh no said i think not is it necessary she said turning to him not in the least replied he a penetrating glance upon his s face which seemed however to produce no effect and turning towards he added you will have the goodness i am sure miss de to excuse the of professional details he spread some on the table and pointed out certain modified features to as he went on and exchanging occasionally a few words on the subject with mr power by the distant window in this dialogue over his sketches de and i s head and s became very close the temptation was too much for the young man under cover of the rustle of the he murmured i could not get here before in a low voice to the other two she did not reply only herself the more with the notes and sketches and he said again i stayed a couple of days at and some days at san and but it is not the least concern of mine where you stayed is it she said with a cold yet look do you speak seriously whispered concluded her examination of the drawings and turned from him with disregard he tried no further but when she had signified her pleasure on the points submitted packed up his papers and rose with the bearing of a man altogether superior to such a class of misfortune as this before going he turned to speak a few words of a general kind to mr power and you | 45 |
mark upon us all and not only rouse the savages against us but disguise themselves and murder and burn with as hot a hand as the worst red devil of them all whilst charles is allowed to it over the good people of the province we may hope for nothing better did you see will i did and have news from him that the and with twenty more on the side are ready to cross the river at the first signal have a care lieutenant whispered as he cast his eye towards the here comes a boat with that fellow one of his s it would do you no good to be seen in with me we meet to night at by ic rob op the bowl s let me see you there and now to your own concerns i will not to go to s worthy master replied the lieutenant whilst he now turned aside to look after his beast what ho garret send me some one to horse i he cried out as he thrust his head into the door of the inn instead of the the summons was answered by who with a courtesy announced that both master and the landlady were abroad and upon being made with the lieutenant s wish took upon herself the business of and led off the to the stable whilst entered the at the same instant arrived at the door perhaps you could tell me master he inquired whether is likely to be at home faith most unlikely as i should guess replied the with a at the whilst his allows the savages to shoot down and the honest people of the province here under his very nose a wise man will learn who his visitor may be before he will allow himself to be seen master has nothing to fear from me said i would i might see him he added with an earnestness that forcibly attracted s attention why what in the devil s name have you to do with more than you suspect sir i would speak with him on affairs of importance it perhaps may concern you to hear what i have to say wounds man i � speak out if thou hast aught to say against me or my friends this shall be a free land for speech by ic rob of the bowl master � free to all men it is so already let me tell you to us who wear our swords � however his and his s church would fain force it down our throats to be silent with what you call your is but spent breath master if you will allow me an instant s private speech with you i will open myself in somewhat that may be for your interest to hear the bench of a public tavern does not well become the matter of my speaking ha a private conference and on matter of moment i ejaculated then follow me master by the town house path amongst the on yon bank now sir you may speak your mind though it were enough to hang a said as he strode slowly in advance of the until they found themselves enveloped by the thicket of i have heard it whispered the since my arrival in the port that you and others have been mischief and are like to come to with his s men of the and dost thou come to me with this fool s errand master interrupted the are you sent hither to drain me of a secret which you may commend to the notice of the for your own advancement in his good favor by my i have a mind to rap thee about the with my cool thy courage captain or spend it where it may give thee more profit i come to thy hell with new of my own � not to it i say again i have heard it whispered that you have bloody fancies in the wind i care not to inquire what they are but knowing you have no good will towards the council and their friends i by ic t rob of the bowl have a hand to help in any devil s your plot may give life to besides the olive branch is a more than she looks to be � and you may perchance stand in need hereafter of a salt water i can commend her to liking captain gazed with a steadfast and eye for some moments in the face of the at last he asked � art thou in earnest master f � by q � if thou here to me i will have thee so bestowed that the shall feed upon thy before the breath be out of thy body and so they may if i deceive you replied the coolly put me to the proof captain � put me to the proof and if i fail you may all the of st mary s with my body are you to say this before witnesses inquired a if they hate the friends of the council as i hate them then come to night to master s you shall find me and others there then it may be wise that we hold no more discourse together and so now we part promised to keep the appointment and took his leave of the who walked onward to the town house here found of the busy in setting up against the trunk of the a sheet of paper designed according to the custom of the town to some matter of interest to the inhabitants to the question what have you in the wind � the s reply was an invitation to the captain to inform by a perusal of the paper he accordingly read as follows by ic rob op the bowl order or license to and ta play a prize at the several weapons belonging to tbe science such aa | 29 |
d force hath made supreme above his equals farewell happy fields where joy for ever dwells hail horrors hail infernal world and thou hell receive thy new possessor one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time the mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven what matter where if i be still the same and what i should be all but less than he whom thunder hath made greater here at least we shall be free the almighty hath not built here for his envy will not drive us hence here we may reign secure and in my choice to reign is worth ambition though in hell better to reign in hell than serve in heaven but wherefore let we then our faithful friends the associates and of our loss lie thus astonished on the pool and call them not to share with us their part in this unhappy mansion or once more with rallied arms to try what may be yet regained in heaven or what more lost in hell so satan and him thus answered leader of those armies bright which but the none could have foil d if once they hear that voice their pledge of hope in fears and dangers heard so oft in worse extremes and on the perilous edge of battle when it raged in all their signal they will soon new courage and revive though now they lie and prostrate on yon lake of fire as we astounded and amazed no wonder fall n such a height he scarce had ceased when the superior was moving toward the shore his ponderous shield john ethereal temper large and round behind him cast the broad hung on his shoulders like the moon whose through glass the artist views at evening from the top of or in to new lands rivers or mountains in her globe his spear to equal which the pine on hills to be the mast of some great were but a he walk d with to support uneasy steps over the burning not like those steps on heaven s and the smote on him sore besides with fire he so endured till on the beach of that sea he stood and call d his angel forms who lay thick as leaves that the in where the shades high over arch ij or scatter d afloat when with fierce winds arm d hath vex d the red sea coast whose waves and his chivalry while with hatred they pursued the of who beheld from the safe shore their floating and broken chariot wheels so thick abject and lost lay these covering the flood under amazement of their hideous change he so loud that all the hollow deep of hell princes warriors the flower of heaven once yours now lost if such astonishment as this can seize eternal spirits or have ye chosen this place after the toil of battle to repose your wearied virtue for the ease you find to slumber here as in the of heaven i or in this abject posture have ye sworn to the conqueror who now vol ii z the english poets and rolling in the flood with scattered and till anon his swift from heaven gates discern the advantage and descending tread us down thus drooping or with linked us to the bottom of this � awake arise or be for ever they heard and were d and up they sprung upon the wing as when men wont to watch on duty sleeping found by whom they dread rouse and themselves ere well awake nor did they not perceive the evil plight in which they were or the fierce pains not feel yet to their general s voice they soon obeyed innumerable as when the potent rod of s son in egypt s evil day d round the coast a cloud of on the eastern wind that o er the realm of hung like night and d all the land of so were those bad angels seen hovering on wing under the cope of hell upper and surrounding fires till at a signal given the uplifted spear of their great waving to direct their course in even balance down they light on the firm and fill all the plain a multitude like which the north pour d never from her fi to pass or the when her barbarous sons came like a on the south and spread beneath to the sands forthwith from every and each band the heads and leaders thither haste where stood their great commander shapes and forms human and powers that in heaven sat on though of their names in heavenly records now be no memorial blotted out and john milton by their rebellion from the books of life nor had they yet among the sons of eve got them new names till wandering o er the earth through god s high for the trial of man by and lies the greatest part of mankind they to god their creator and the invisible glory of him that made them to oft to the image of a brute d with gay of pomp and gold and devils to for then were they known to men by various names and various through the heathen world say muse their names then known who first who last roused from the slumber on that fiery couch at their great emperor s call as next in worth came singly where he stood on the bare strand while the crowd stood yet aloof the chief were those who from the pit of hell to seek their prey on earth fix their seats long after next the seat of god their by his altar gods adored among the nations round and abide thundering out of sion between the yea often placed within his itself their and with cursed things his holy rites and solemn and with | 45 |
nearer nearer inch by inch the boy crept up and passed yes passed winning by a head from the chinese i came to myself in a group of they were yelling tossing their hats and dancing around like so was i when i came to i was waving my hat and murmuring by the boy wins the boy wins i tried to check myself i assured myself that i was witnessing one of the horrors of and that it was shameful for me under such circumstances to be so light hearted and light headed but it was no use the next event was a donkey race and it was just starting so was the fun the last donkey in was to win the race and what complicated the affair was that no rider rode his own donkey they rode one another s the result of which was that each man strove to make the donkey he rode beat his own donkey ridden by some one else naturally only men possessing very slow or extremely had entered them for the race one donkey the of the of the had been trained to in its legs and lie down whenever its rider touched its sides with his heels some strove to turn around and come back others developed a for the side of the track where they stuck their heads the railing and stopped while all of them around the track one donkey got into an argument with its rider when all the rest of the had crossed the wire that particular donkey was still arguing he won the race though his rider lost it and came in on foot and all the while nearly a thousand were laughing at the fun anybody in my place would have joined with them in having a good time all the foregoing is by way of to the statement that the horrors of as they have been painted in the past do not exist the settlement has been written up repeatedly by and usually by who have never laid eyes on it of course is and it is a terrible thing but so much that is lurid has been written about that neither the nor those who devote their lives to them have received a fair deal here is a case in point a newspaper writer who of course had never been near the settlement vividly described crouching in a grass hut and being nightly by starving on their knees wailing for food this hair raising account was copied by the press all over the united states and was the cause of many indignant and protesting well i lived and slept for five days in mr s grass hut which was a comfortable wooden cottage by the way and there isn t a grass house in the whole settlement and i heard the of the wailing for food � only the wailing was peculiarly harmonious and and it was accompanied by the music of instruments and also the wailing was of various sorts the brass band and two singing societies and lastly a of excellent voices so much for a lie that should never have been printed the wailing was the which the glee clubs always give mr when he returns from a trip to is not so as is imagined i went for a week s visit to the settlement and i took my wife along � all of which would not have happened had we had any apprehension of the disease nor did we wear long gloves and keep apart from the on the contrary we mingled freely with them and before we left knew scores of them by sight and name the precautions of simple cleanliness seem to be all that are necessary on returning to their own houses after having been among and handling the non such as the and the merely wash their faces and hands with mildly soap and change their coats that a is however should be insisted upon and the of from what little is known of the disease should be rigidly maintained on the other hand the awful horror with which the has been regarded in the past and the frightful treatment he has received have been unnecessary and cruel in order to some of the popular of i want to tell something of the relations between the and non as i ob the of the served them at on the morning after our arrival and i attended a shoot of the rifle club and caught our first glimpse of the of affliction and that the club was just beginning a prize shoot for a cup put up by mr who is also a member of the club as also are dr and dr the resident who by the way in the settle pa u on morning of fourth of july ment with their wives all about us in the shooting were the and non were using the same guns and all were rubbing shoulders in the confined space the majority of the were sitting beside me on a bench was a directly in front of me in the stand was an american a of the civil war who had fought on the side he was sixty five years of age but that did not prevent him from running up a good score clad were also shooting as were chinese and � the utter are native in the settlement who are non and on the afternoon that and i climbed the two thousand foot and looked our last upon the the of settlement the the doctors and the mixture of and of and non were all engaged in an exciting game not so was the and his greatly misunderstood and feared disease treated during the middle ages in europe at that time the was considered and dead he was placed in a funeral procession and led to the church where the burial service was read over | 21 |
the laughing stock of the priest whence come you and whither do you go s the man who would be king � from have i come shouted the priest waving his from blown by the breath of a hundred devils across the sea o thieves robbers the blessing of on pigs dogs and who will take the protected of god to the north to sell charms that arc never still to the the shall not the sons shall not fall sick and the wives shall remain faithful while they are away of the men who give me place in their who will assist me to the king of the with a golden with a silver heel the protection of be upon his labours he spread out the skirts of his and between the lines of horses there starts a from to in twenty days said the my go do thou also go and bring us good luck i will go even now shouted the priest i will depart upon my winged and be at in a day ho he to his servant drive out the but let me first mount my own he leaped on the back of his beast as it knelt and turning round to me cried come thou also a little along the road and i will sell thee a charm � an that shall make thee king of then the light broke upon me and i followed the phantom the two out of the till we reached open road and the priest halted what d you think o that said he in can t talk their so i ve made him my servant he makes a handsome servant t for nothing that i ve been knocking about the country for fourteen years didn t i do that talk neat we ll on to a at till we get to and then we ll see if we can get for our and strike into for the o lor put your hand under the and tell what you feel i felt the butt of a and another and another twenty of em said placidly twenty of em and to correspond under the and the mud heaven help you if you are caught with those things i said a is worth her weight in among the fifteen hundred of capital � every we could beg borrow or steal � are invested on these two said we won t get caught we re going through the with a regular who d touch a poor mad priest have you got everything you want i asked overcome with astonishment the man who would be king not yet but we shall soon give us a of your kindness brother you did me a service yesterday and that time in half my kingdom shall you have as the saying is i slipped a small charm compass from my watch chain and handed it up to the priest � bye said giving me his hand cautiously it s the last time we ll shake hands with an englishman these many days shake bands with him he cried as the second passed me leaned down and shook hands then the passed away along the dusty road and i was left alone to wonder my eye could detect no � in the the scene in the proved that they were complete to the native mind there was just the chance therefore that and would be able to wander through without detection but beyond they would find death � certain and awful death ten days later a native correspondent giving me the news of the day from wound up his letter with there has been much laughter here on account of a certain mad priest who is going in his estimation to sell petty and insignificant which he as great charms to h h the of he passed through and associated himself the phantom to die second summer that goes to the merchants are pleased because through superstition they imagine that such mad fellows bring good fortune the two then were beyond the border i would have prayed for them but that night a real king died in europe and demanded an notice the wheel of the world through the same phases again and again summer passed and winter thereafter and came and passed again the daily paper continued and i with it and upon the third summer there fell a hot ni t a night issue and a strained waiting for something to be from the other side of the world exactly as bad happened before a few great men had died in the past two years the machines worked with more clatter and some of the trees in the garden were a few feet taller but that was all the difference i passed over to the press room and went just such a scene as i have already described the nervous was stronger than it had been two years before and i felt the beat more at three o clock i cried print oc nd turned to go when there crept to my chair what was left c a man he was bent into a his head was sunk between his shoulders the man who would be king and he moved his feet one over the other like a bear i could hardly see whether he walked or crawled � this rag wrapped who addressed me by name crying that he was come back can you give me a drink he for the lord s sake give me a drink i went back to the office the man following with groans of pain and i turned up the lamp don t you know me he gasped dropping into a chair and he turned his drawn face surmounted by a shock of gray hair to the light i looked at him intently once before had i seen eyebrows that met over the nose in an black band | 39 |
see its skin turned to such an account as this the texture is more than that of ordinary but it gives evidence of having all the other of shoe leather in of pressure it would be quite equal to for dry weather while it would probably be more this curiosity � for such it is � was by c h he calls his novel article patent leather it took a in the london exhibition the exhibition and trunks this head we propose to do justice to most of heavier articles on exhibition which chiefly from leather first ol saddle s the is known it probably ne er hid origin but has been a gradual growth from the f necessity beginning with a mere piece of and to the beautifully finished and com fu i t as u ring modern saddle the saddle was not known among the a sort of or being all they used by this latter name a portion of riding apparatus s known to the present day the same was also used by the we have good evidence that in anything approaching the modern arrangement of were totally unknown to the ancient in the description by the great physician of their time of certain diseases caused among their cavalry by the of their legs on horseback the first mention of is that we have in connection with the history of a brother of the first christian emperor got up a plot to deprive him of his in the course of its execution he is represented as having made his way into the midst of the where was mounted on a saddle from which he suddenly threw himself before that time square were in use by as may be seen represented in ancient statues such as that which still graces the roman in the code there is a curious of the legal weight of a saddle and bridle they were to weigh not more than bs a law of the reign of henry vii shows that in more modern times attempts were made to the use of the nobility were compelled to use them the cost which they were made harness and trunks to must have even to class judging by the of richard ii having no less than four hundred cows for the saddle which he used in his expedition to ireland for the purpose of for his assumption of the title of at least so the history of the time the earliest of a saddle of which we any account was granted in though one is said to have been in existence in england as early as great improvements have been made hi within fifty years as a comparison of the specimens in the exhibition with the relics of a former day will show in this respect tlie english are behind the american although the manufacture receives great encouragement from the nobility and gentry owing to their racing and fox hunting habits the same material skin is used for the best in both countries on account of its softness and capacity for exposure to the sun and rain in this country is frequently used for the seat and the horns of ladies particularly among the of foreign we find none but the � that is no attempts at fine and other so common in this country these come from the of great britain and ireland which are the only foreign countries represented in this line except germany from the latter there are some of a very pretty and peculiar pattern whose maker has not thought it worth while to attach his name from london robert has sent two men s and one lady s and also a racing saddle latter is smaller and lighter than the others the seats are all flatter than those of corresponding american articles while the skirts of the side are and shorter � a fault from which the soiled skirt of the fair rider would soon suffer of one man s saddle and one the weight of the latter is put down at and the selling price at � this is certainly a well made and neat article but the price that the is expected to pay for his fancy an equally good saddle could be furnished for in new york its light weight is certainly a especially for hunting purposes and curiously the great exhibition with go k rule but the price as it ow a good way short of the worth of four hundred at any conceivable all the in the american department are of patterns as though fighting were really the chief employment of our of st louis has of that are very and no doubt w ell adapted to the pomp and circumstance of glorious war the is of wide gilded lace and the is very neat the appear much lighter than usual which is a most merciful improvement there is in this case what might be called an tree which is said to be in use among the and which was adopted by scott and during their presenting no check to while leaving the column of the horse entirely u t u h d t s also a humane invention a still more saddle s shown by may of f n t was as their card us by be j s e it presents the peculiarity of having no c tl up a before pass g t the ha s we must mention an improvement in bridle reins ol which w a the is the it is designed for either riding or driving he calls it the safety rein ordinarily there are two reins to every bridle one of which with a and the other with a this improvement to dispense with one of these altogether a single leather rein is attached to the bit a short elastic or false rein is attached at one end to the main rein and at the other to the | 19 |
from uie north j s poet ae ul ram � of hi ii order which and their we are rare will from the a reception with their merits they are essays which would do to the of any s m� keep more to text own and are less a theory of their own mn the of di g tis of history than to take a calm and of events and opinions � � well worthy of an lift � � � the ns is and with a good deal of interest th exhibit of remark an their beyond the mere book dear in the paper the treatment requires pains a larger and more liberal in and so w s times a marked and � great power and interest in freedom of opinion and in ot judgment the writers are to oar own but we think there is less brilliancy and point in them though on that very account there is and justice rich as we are in tliis department of literature we gladly accept another contribution to biography the american writers the worship of j being an examination of the doctrine announced ff d p � that to our are of is left but a worship rf genius that is a reverence lor those great spirits who create in the progress of the human race and in whom taken the god like itself to us most fully and thus having reference to the views unfolded in the work entitled i f v� ly car s and the character tr essence of t an essay relative to modem speculations and the present state translated from the german of c by post vo ss general view of the of the work t the stages of development through christianity itself has passed the same phases in the views wliich ave been taken of it s christianity as doctrine under this head are both and as a moral law the of a christianity as the religion of s de s the above two works are the peculiar significance and influence of character the views of and his christ as the of the union of the and human in one importance of this truth for the d� of the of christianity o christianity as the perfect ii from the preceding is and of argument application of the idea of faith application to the church in one volume post v so the catholic there are many and and developed and n and is dear and simple tliat adopted often by oar brethren in treating such topics � is la it important and original intelligent british christians who are inclined to take of tlie christian faith will find to delight and them � � r fr sources his translated from the german second edition a engraved doth s d the of which extends only to his year is one of uie most interesting studies of a poet s childhood ever given to the � f magazine has an vehement irresistible crushing in pieces the problems piercing into the most hidden of things and tlie most distant an imagination vague sombre splendid or appalling brooding over the rf wandering and before us in its dim religious light shapes of brilliancy solemnity or terror a fancy of for it its treasures with a whidi knows no limit hanging like the sun a jewel on every grass blade and tlie earth at large ith pearls but deeper than all these lies humour tlie ruling quality of as it were the central fire that per and his whole being he is a from his in most soul he thinks as a he acts feels as a sport is the element in which his nature lives and works thomas with such a writer it is no common treat to be intimately acquainted in ttie of great and virtuous minds we a portion of their feel as ts say a are with the same of faith hope and patient endurance are furnished with for clearing up and working out the intricate problem of life and are inspire like them with the of immortality no reader or sensibility can rise m tlie perusal of these volumes without becoming both wiser and better � we find in the present biography much that does not so much amuse and instruct as to adopt a phrase from the religious world positively the reader the life of is indeed a moral and a religious as much as a literary treat to all who have a sense exercised to religion and morality as a thing essentially from mere and the two volumes ns be read without the reader like a good sermon to self and in this reject they are is a thorough christian and i a christian with a large glowing human i heart tlie of his biography j in an form cannot but be regarded as a great boon to the best interests of the � apart from the interest rf the work as the life of paul the reader of german life and german and is introduced to during its most and tlie great fixed stars of germany in with paul were there surrounded by and admiring women rf the most refined and exalted natures and of rank it is passages so attractive and valuable that it is to make a selection as examples of its character � this be found very valuable as an introduction to the study of one of the most and of germany paul s writings are so much the paul himself that every light that shines upon the one inevitably the other the work is a of a great and amiable man who of the feelings and tlie most brilliant to a purpose that humour of which is the great grandfather and one of the ancestors and contrasted it an exaltation of feeling and a poetry are entirely bis own let us that it will complete the work by s essays | 37 |
in which the brain like a shaking himself is trying its he had some dim notion of an unusual proceeding but the realities of his situation soon conjecture on the other subject he waited in to discern some mental pointing he knew that if any intention of his concluded over night did not vanish in the light of morning it stood on a basis to one of pure reason even if by impulse of feeling that it was so far therefore to be trusted he thus beheld in the pale morning light the resolve to separate from her not as a hot and indignant instinct but of the which had made it and bum standing in its bones nothing but a skeleton but none the less there no longer hesitated at breakfast and while they were packing the few remaining articles he showed his weariness from the night s effort so that was on the point of revealing all that had happened but the reflection that it would anger him grieve him him to know that he had instinctively manifested a fondness for her of which his common sense did not approve that his inclination had his dignity when reason slept again her it was too much like laughing at a man when sober for his deeds during it just crossed her mind too that he might have a faint recollection of his tender and was to allude to it from a conviction that she would take advantage of the it gave her of appealing to him anew not to go he had ordered by letter a vehicle from the nearest town and soon after breakfast it arrived she saw in it the beginning of the end � the temporary end at the woman pays least for the revelation of his tenderness by the incident of the night raised dreams of a possible future with him the luggage was put on the top and the man drove them off the miller and the old expressing some surprise at their departure which attributed to his discovery that the mill work was not of the modem kind which he wished to investigate a statement that was true so far as it went beyond this there was nothing in the manner of their leaving to suggest o or that they were not going together to visit friends their route lay near the from which they had started with such solemn joy in each other a few days back and as wished to wind up his business with mr could hardly avoid paying mrs a call at the same time unless she would excite suspicion of their state to make the call as as possible they left the carriage by the leading down from the high road to the house and descended the track on foot side by side the bed had been cut and they could see over the the spot to which had followed her when he pressed her to be his wife to the left the in which she had been fascinated by his harp and far away behind the the which had been the scene of their first embrace the gold of the summer picture was now grey the mean the rich soil mud and the river cold over the gate the saw them and came forward throwing into his face the kind of deemed appropriate in and its vicinity on the of the newly married then mrs emerged from the house and several others of their old acquaintance though and did not seem to be there bore their sly attacks and friendly which affected her far otherwise than they supposed in the agreement of husband and of the d wife to keep their a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary and then although she would rather there had been no word spoken on the subject had to hear in detail the story of and the latter had gone home to her father s and had left to look for employment elsewhere they feared she would come to no good to the sadness of this recital went and bade all her favourite cows good bye touching each of them with her hand and as she and stood side by side at leaving as if body and soul there would have been something peculiarly sorry in their aspect to one who should have seen it truly two limbs of one life as they outwardly were his arm touching hers her touching him facing one way as against all the facing the other speaking in their as we and yet like the poles perhaps something stiff and embarrassed in their attitude some awkwardness in acting up to their profession of unity different from the shyness of young couples may have been apparent for when they were gone mrs said to her husband � how the brightness of her eyes did seem and how they stood like images and talked as if they were in a dream didn t it strike ee that twas so had always strange in her and she s not now quite like the proud young bride of a well be doing man they re entered the vehicle and were driven along the roads towards and lane till they reached the lane inn where dismissed the fly and man they rested here a while and entering the were next driven onward towards her home by a stranger who did not know their relations at a point when had been passed and where there were cross roads stopped the conveyance and said to that if she meant to return to her mother s house it was here that he would leave her as they could not talk with the woman pays freedom in the driver s presence he asked her to accompany him for a few steps on foot along one of the branch roads she assented and directing the man to wait a few minutes they strolled | 45 |
begun to think that they meant perhaps to kill her as soon as it was dark and cut up her body for gradual cooking the suspicion crossed her that the fierce eyed old man was m fact the devil who might drop that transparent disguise at any moment and either into the grinning blacksmith or else a fiery eyed monster with s wings it was no use trying to eat the and yet the thing she most dreaded was to offend the by betraying her extremely opinion of them and she wondered with a of interest that no could have exceeded whether if the devil were really present he would know her thoughts what you don t like the smell of it my dear said the young woman observing that did not even take a of the try a bit � come no thank you said all her force for a desperate effort and to smile in a friendly way i haven t time i think � it seems getting darker i think i must go home now and come again another day and then i can bring you a basket with some jam and nice things rose from her seat as she threw out this devoutly hoping that was but her sank when the old woman said stop a bit stop a bit little lady we ll take you home all safe when we ve done supper you shall ride home like a lady sat down again with little faith in this promise though she presently saw the tall girl putting a bridle on the donkey and throwing a couple of bags on his back now then little said the younger man rising and leading the donkey forward tell us where you live � what s the name o the place is my home said eagerly my father is mr � he lives there what a big mill a little way this side o st s yes said is it far off i think i should like to walk there if you please no no it ll de getting dark we must make haste and the donkey carry you as nice as can be � you ll see he lifted as he spoke and set her on the donkey she felt relieved that it was not the old man who seemed to be going with her but she had only a trembling hope that she was really going home here s your pretty bonnet said the younger woman putting that recently despised but now welcome article of thb hill on ths tame on s head and you ll say we re been very good to you won you and what a nice little lady we said you was oh yes thank you said ma e i m very much obliged to you but i wish you d go with me too she thought any thing was better than with one of the dreadful men alone it would be more cheerful to be murdered by a larger party ah you re o me aren t you the woman but i can t go you ll go too fast for me it now appeared that the man also was to be seated on the donkey before him and she was as incapable of against this arrangement as the donkey himself though no nightmare had ever seemed to her more horrible when the woman had patted her on the back and said good by the donkey at a strong hint from the man s stick set off at a rapid walk along the lane toward the point had c from an hour ago while the tall girl and the rough also furnished with sticks escorted them for the first hundred yards with much screaming and not in that midnight excursion her phantom lover was more terrified than poor in this entirely natural ride on a short d donkey with a behind her who considered that ne was earning half a crown the red light of the setting sun seemed to have a meaning with which the alarming of the second donkey with the log on its foot must surely have some connection two low cottages the only houses they passed in this lane to add to its they had no windows to speak o and the doors were closed it was probable that they were inhabited by and it was a relief to find that the donkey did not stop there at last � oh sight of joy � this lane the longest in the world was coming to an end was opening on a broad high road where there as actually a coach passing i and there was a finger post at the comer she had surely seen that finger post before � to st s miles the really meant to take her home then he was probably a good man after all and might have been rather hurt at the thought that she didn t like coming with him alone this idea became stronger as she felt more and more certain that she knew the road quite well and she was considering how she might open a conversation with the injured and not only gratify his feelings but e ce the impression of her cowardice when as they reached a cross road caught sight of some one on a white faced horse hill on thb oh stop stop she cried out there s my father oh father father i the sudden joy was almost painful and before her father reached her she was sobbing great was mr s wonder for he had made a round from and had not yet been home why what s the meaning o this he said checking his horse while slipped from the donkey and ran to her father s the little miss lost herself i reckon said the she d come to our tent at the far end o lane and i was bringing | 14 |
a regular school if he could afford to do better but if any one wanted his boy to get superior instruction and training where he would be the companion of his master and that master a first rate fellow i know his man i wouldn t mention the chance to every body because i don t think every body would succeed in getting it if he were to try but i mention it to you � between ourselves the fixed glance with which mr v� l i tl bis end b face became quite the mill on ay now let s hear he said himself m his chair with the complacency of a person who is thought worthy of important communications he s an oxford man said mr shutting his mouth close and looking at mr to observe the effect of this information what i a parson said mr rather doubtfully yes � and an m a the bishop i understand thinks very highly of him why it was the bishop who got him his present ah said mr to whom one thing was as wonderful as another concerning these phenomena but what can he want wi tom then why the fact is he s fond of teaching and wishes to keep up his studies and a clergyman has but little opportunity for that in his duties he s willing to take one or two boys as pupils to fill up his time the boys would be quite of the family � the finest thing in the world for them � under s eye continually but do you think they d give tho poor lad twice o said mrs who was now in her place again he s such a boy for as never was an a growing boy like that � it s dreadful to think o their him and what money ud he want said mr whose instinct told him that the services of this admirable m a would bear a high price why i know of a clergyman who asks a hundred and fifty with his youngest pupils and he s not to be mentioned with the man i speak of i know on good authority that one of the chief people at oxford said might get the highest honors if he chose but he didn t care about university honors he s a quiet man � not noisy ml a deal better � a deal better said mr but a hundred and fifty s an uncommon price i never thought o so much as that a good education let me tell you � a good education is cheap at the money but is moderate in his terms � he s not a grasping man i ve no doubt he d take your boy at a hundred and that s what you wouldn t get many other to do i ll write to him about it if you like mr rubbed his knees and looked at the carpet in a meditative manner but he s a bachelor observed mrs in the interval an no opinion o there was my brother as ia dead an gone bad a et � xi thb mill ok the took half the feathers oat o the best bed an packed em up an sent em away an it s unknown the linen she made away with � her name was it ud break my heart to send tom where there s a housekeeper an i hope you won t think of it mr you may set your mind at rest on that score mrs mr for is married to as nice a little woman as any man need wish i r a wife there isn t a kinder little soul in the world i know her family well she has very much your complexion � light curly hair she comes of a good family and it s not every offer that would have been acceptable in that quarter but s not an every day man rather a fellow as to the people he chooses to be connected with but i think he would have no objection to take your son � i think he would not on my representation i don t know what he could have against the lad said mrs with a slight touch of indignation � a fresh lad as any body need wish to see but there s one thing i m on said mr turning his head on one side and looking at mr after a long perusal of the carpet wouldn t a parson be almost too high to bring up a lad to be a man o business my notion o the was as they d got a sort o learning as lay mostly out o sight and that isn t what i want for tom i want him to know figures and write like print and see into things quick and know what folks mean and how to wrap things up in words as aren t it s an uncommon fine thing that is concluded mr shaking his head when you can let a man know what you think of him without paying for it oh my dear said mr you re quite under a mistake about the clergy all the best are of the clergy the who are not of the clergy are a very low set of men generally ay that is at the interposed mr to be sure � men who have failed in other trades most likely now a clergyman is a gentleman by profession and education and besides that he has the knowledge that will ground a boy and prepare him for entering on any career with credit there may be some who are mere but you may depend upon it is not one of them � a man that s wide awake let me tell you drop him a hint and that s enough you talk of figures | 14 |
the application of a little soap all pretty much of one colour hats coats c g are all fastened to the railing along the whole front of the upper gallery then there are the gods the name by which they have always been called since delivered one of his celebrated in which when that portion of the audience in the immediate neighbourhood of the ceiling he exclaimed and you ye gods to merit never a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind a very large proportion of the on such of chimney sweep who are by far their limited means the most liberal of the drama a considerable number of their are always to be seen in the front seats where their black oddly contrast with their and the of their eyes which are displayed to great advantage on such occasions there is also a fair of on box night who are sure to be seen sitting cheek by with the youthful knights of the brush a large number of those who people the upper regions of the house appear in their shirt their coats are the heat of the place has become others are swearing and fighting while cries of turn him out turn him out order order p silence there your ears from all quarters it were impossible indeed to witness a more scene than that in exhibited on such occasions the unlimited play which the give their lungs on these nights often in act has the effect of entirely drowning the voices of the actors on the stage the truth is that they claim a right to be as noisy as they please on box night and all efforts to preserve order would be perfectly useless has the reader ever seen a piece on its first production condemned or to use theatrical damned � in any of the larger no one who has not witnessed such a scene can form any idea of it the audience on such occasions are in a perfect mr o even when in his most violent and most forcible moods never produced so much agitation in any assemblage of the finest in the world as is exhibited in lane or garden when a new piece is the process of utter tion the great majority of the audience seem the iti the matter a feel as i� some insult bad been d tb in by tbe of an or the scarcely less unfortunate of the theatre they will in cases rise from their seats and express their indignation not only loud groans c but by the most violent gestures but perhaps a better idea of a scene of this kind will be afforded by the following account of a particular one which was exhibited last season at garden and which i up immediately its occurrence the piece was called the fortune of war a national military drama what the incidents were it would have been impossible under any circumstances from the of the piece to discover but that impossibility if there be not an in the expression was rendered still more impossible from tbe manner in which it was received it is questionable if ever an or any other drama was more damned the first act � it was in two acts � had not proceeded far wh i symptoms of the coming of began to manifest themselves the audience in different parts of the house commenced the scene by faint in a few minutes afterwards the with which the leading the by the way the of the piece were in one of the scenes called forth a burst of fi m all parts of e house a more awkward than the troops was never exhibited either on the stage or on the none of them seemed capable of making a single tolerable movement at one time were all mingled together french and english in glorious at another they all rushed some in one direction and some in another off the stage without any reason which the au could perceive for their sudden exit for the next minute or two the stage was entirely deserted neither frenchman nor englishman nor any other was to be seen or heard the audience � and really it was no wonder � now began to lose all patience and cries of � off off from all parts of the house if these cries were loud and more general in one part than another it w in the second and third of boxes the uproar had by this time become so great and general that not one word of what was said on the stage with one or two occasional exceptions was heard the first act however was eventually brought to a close without the audience an absolute int to the piece but the second had no sooner m the theatres than the yet more stupid and clumsy of the troops � all of the actors on one occasion appeared as soldiers � raised the indignation of the audience to so high a pitch that the cries of this is an insult to us � give us back our money and � return us our tin off off r c became so loud and general that it was found impossible to proceed with the piece in the midst of the uproar and confusion mr the stage manager came forward to address the audience but he was for some time assailed with such a of and that his efforts to make himself heard were altogether ineffectual cries of hear him hear him at last proceeded from several parts of the which had the effect of partially restoring order mr then commenced thus � ladies and gentlemen i most respectfully appeal to the liberal part of the audience � here mr s voice was drowned amidst the storm of which again proceeded from the galleries and the pit � i have every reason to think that � renewed uproar which prevented | 24 |
the life to which i am now condemned i nt do i never have done k i forgot that this scene the earth expressly meant to be a scene of gloom and hardship and dark for the creatures who are made out of its dust i might have tenderness for its but i have no such tenderness if i little not know that we are every one the subject most justly the subject of a wrath that must be satisfied and against which mere actions are nothing i might at the difference between mc here and the people who pass that yonder but i i e it as a grace and to be elected to make the satisfaction i am making to know what i know for certain here and to work out what i liave worked out here my affliction might otherwise have had no to me hence i would forget and i do forget nothing e� i am contented and say it is better with me than with as she spoke these words she put her hand upon the watch and it to the precise spot on her little table which it always with her touch upon it she sat for some moments � looking at it steadily and half during this had been strictly attentive his eyes on the lady and his with his two hands mr had been a little l petty and now struck in there there there said he that is quite understood mrs and you have spoken and well mr i is not of a pious cast on the sir that gentleman protested snapping his your pardon it s a part of my character i am sensitive ardent conscientious and imaginative a sensitive ardent conscientious and imaginative man mr must be that or nothing there was an of suspicion in mr s face that he be nothing as he out of his chair it was characteristic of this man as it is of all men marked that whatever did he though it were sometimes by only a hair s breadth approached to take his leave of mrs � with what will appear to you the of a sick old woman � w she then said though really through your accidental allusion i liave been led away into the subject of myself and my being so considerate as to visit me i hope you will be likewise so � as to overlook that don t compliment me if you p j � e for he was going to do it mr iu be happy to render you any service and i hope your stay in this may prove agreeable mi thanked her and kissed his hand several times is an old room he remarked with a sudden of looking round when he got near the door i have been interested that i have not observed it but it s a genuine old � � j r to take me through the rooms on my way out he could hardly me more an old house is a weakness with me i have many a but none greater i love and study the picturesque in all i have been called picturesque myself it ia mv tt be � i have greater perhaps � but i be by accident sympathy i tell you beforehand mr that you ll find it dingy and very bare said taking up the candle i not worth your looking at but mr him in friendly manner on the back only bo ihe kissed his hand again to mrs and they went out of room together you don t care to go up stairs said on the landing on the contrary mr if not tiresome to you i be mr therefore himself up the mr followed close they ascended to ike great room which arthur had occupied on the night of his return mr said showing it i hope you may that worth coming so high to see i s i don t mr being they walked other passages and came down the staircase again by this i mr had remarked that he never found the visitor h at any room after throwing one quick glance around but d the visitor looking at him mr with this tin his thoughts he turned about on the staircase for ai he and on the instant of their fixing another the visitor n that ugly play of nose and i laughed as he had done at every similar moment since they mrs s chamber a silent laugh as a much shorter man than the visitor mr was at the physical disadvantage of being thus at from a height and as he went first down the staircase and was usually i step or two lower than the other this disadvantage was at the increased he postponed looking at mr again until thi accidental was removed by their having entered the mr s room but then twisting suddenly round upon him he found his look unchanged a most admirable old house smiled mr so mysterious do you never hear any haunted noises here noises returned mr no nor see any devils not said mr grimly himself at his not any that introduce themselves under that name and in that a portrait here i see still looking at mr as if he were the portrait it s a portrait sir as you observe may i ask the subject mr mr deceased her husband former owner of the remarkable watch perhaps said the visitor mr who had cast his eyes towards the portrait twisted himself about again and again found himself the subject of the same look and smile yes mr he replied it m and his uncle s before him and lord knows whose he ae him d that s all i can tell you of its that s a strongly marked character mr our mend yes sir said twisting himself at the visitor again as did the whole | 8 |
an can take away the taste that o my time past i the solid put me through wan the tin between and lights out blew the oft a wiped me moustache the back me hand an slept on ut all as quiet as a little child but ut s over � ut s over an come back to me not though i prayed for a week sundays was there any wan in the ould to touch ril that same was turned out for i met him woman that was not a witch was worth the in those days an man was my dearest or � i had stripped to him an we knew which was the the tu i was ril i not ha changed the colonel � no nor yet the in chief i be a there was i not be mother look at me am i now we was in a big � tis no manner use names for ut might give the � an i was the the earth to my own mind an wan or tu women thought the same small blame to we had lain there a year the colour e ny an took a wife that was lady to some big lady in the station she s dead now is � died in child bed at or ut may ha been � seven � nine years gone an he married but she was a pretty woman her to society she had eyes like the brown a s wing the sun catches ut an a waist no thicker than my arm an a little button the solid a mouth i ha gone through all asia bay to get the kiss an her hair was as long as the tail the colonel s � foi ve me that in the same with � but twas all gold an time was a lock ut was more than di to me there was pretty woman yet an i ve had a few open the door to twas in the chapel i saw her first me oi rolling round as usual to see was to be seen you re too good for my love thinks i to but that s a mistake i can put straight or my name is not now take my for ut you there an an out the married quarters � as i did not no good comes ut an there s always the chance your bein found your face in the dirt a long in the back your head an your hands playing the on the tread another man s twas so we found o he that killed six years gone when he to his death his hair o his teeth out the married quarters i say as i did not tis tis dangerous an tis else that s bad but � o my tis while ut lasts i was always about there i was off duty an wasn t but a sweet word did i get from tis the the i to an gave my cap another cock on my head an straightened my back � twas the back a major in the solid those days � an oflf as tho i did not care all the women in the married quarters i was � most are fm � that no woman born woman stand against me i up me little finger i had reason for that way � till i met time an i was in the dusk a man go past me as quiet as a cat that s thinks i for i am or i should be the only man in these parts now what can be up to thin i called myself a for such things but i thought all the same an that mark you is the way a man wan i said � mrs no to you who is that ril man � i had seen the though i get sight his face � w io is that ril man that comes in always i m goin away mother god i she as white as my belt have you seen him too seen him i i have did ye want me not to see him for � we were in the outside the s quarters � you d tell me to shut me eyes i m mistaken he s come now an sure enough the ril man was to us his head down as though he was ashamed good night mrs i very cool tis not for me to interfere your a but you might manage some things more i m off to i the solid i turned on my heel an away i give that man a that him about the married quarters for a month an a week i had not ten paces before was on to my arm an i feel that she was all over stay me she you re flesh an blood at the least � are ye not i m all that i an my anger away in a flash will i want to be asked twice that i slipped my arm round her waist for i fancied she had at discretion an the honours war were mine is this she up on the tips her dear little toes the mother s milk not on your mouth let go she did ye not say just now that i was flesh and blood i i have not changed since i an i my arm where ut was your arms to she an her eyes sure tis only human nature i an i my arm where ut was nature or no nature says she you take your arm away or i ll tell an he ll alter the nature your head d you take me for she a woman i the prettiest in a wife she the in that i dropped my arm fell back tu paces an saluted for i saw that | 39 |
objects which painfully the unnatural condition of things not simply in but in the country of which it is the capital nor is the impression diminished by the of these different buildings the finest of which are scattered over the city with seeming attention to regularity or fitness of place the contrast produced is often very disagreeable it is not uncommon to see a small adjoining some large and stately pile and acting as a silent upon that mixture of and want of splendor and mean the writer of these sketches has since visited some of the best cities of the continent no one of which in bis opinion may disdain a comparison with making a proper allowance for the of members and wealth it not be thinks to the french metropolis similar objects also to those which serve as to the better of are every where in paris the dwelling s of the poorer classes in the latter city exhibit little of the appearance of comfort of its r too excepting the there is not one which can compare with dame or streets not to mention several others little inferior two of the best streets in paris are the du and the st and a visitor might be safely to find in all one which offers the foot passenger such miserable as either of these in the opinion also of the writer that native politeness which has been said to distinguish the lowest of the has either been greatly exaggerated or was nearly during the tragic scenes of the revolution if what the of france asserted upon this point during the past century and what lady has recently repeated be true the citizens of its boasted metropolis have at least evinced how soon they could forget the rules of and be in the of a barbarous and blood thirsty philosophy from what actually fell under the traveller s observation he is persuaded that the of paris have now the properties as ihey have uniformly had the elements of a character more foul and savage than ever disgraced the of london or of vol i excursion from to ness of parade and wretchedness which is too conspicuous in various other objects of daily observation we dined to day with mr d the gentleman whom i have mentioned as having accompanied us from to the attentions of this gentleman to us considering the circumstances under which our acquaintance was formed are characteristic of the frank and confiding hospitality peculiar to the irish it struck me as a good rule when i commenced my travels not to mention unless some desirable opportunity should present the country from which i came especially in any of the public a foreigner is saved thereby no little at the where he chances to stop a matter of some moment in such a country as this and he has an opportunity of gaining more information in regard to the opinions entertained of his own nation than he could by openly declaring the land of his origin such information is seldom expected or desired an american is not concerning the place of his birth nor need he fear that it will be detected unless he so wishes he will pass without question as an englishman or perhaps more properly as a and should he mention his country the first impression produced will be that of surprise the principle to is to be understood however as merely to the traveller that is to one actually moving from place to place at which time too he is supposed to be daily and even changing his associates provided that he the stage coach conveyance which on the greater is always most eligible in the instance of first meeting with the gentleman at whose house we this day dined this practice unexpectedly led to a slight embarrassment learning that we were just from scotland he took it for granted that we were natives of or its and his conversation proceeded on that supposition no distinct inquiry being made no explanation was of course given as a few hours we supposed would forever our intercourse with this gentleman but in this we had mistaken his feelings and wishes finding that we were travelling solely for observation and perhaps gathering from some inquiries which we made that though strangers personally to we had some friends in he evinced in our behalf an interest which we did not anticipate and seemed desirous of our views by all the information he could impart on leaving us he gave his card with an invitation that we would take dinner with him to day a fashionable hour his departure was unexpectedly abrupt just as the coach stopped amidst a crowd at the post office and left no time for explanation or even a return of cards on the following day however we called upon him when he seemed amused with the mistake under which he had in regard to our true country and evinced an higher interest in us from our being foreigners and americans we have been indebted to him for other excursion from to lies since besides the pleasure we this day received at his board we find this gentleman a distinguished character as a merchant regarded for his general worth and intelligence surrounded with a very pleasing family circle and in the enjoy ment of the as well as comforts of life he was well with e the irish american and an regard for that popular exile at his table to day we met a very pleasant company of and on to the drawing room found a small circle of ladies who had been invited to tea it is unnecessary to say that the remainder of the evening passed greatly to our satisfaction and that the various which we experienced were the more welcome from being thus unexpected as well as � as mr and myself were walking yesterday morning towards the castle we met | 48 |
and the rapid expresses that passed from time to time between them the fact was that the finding of the tea pot proved a very fortunate discovery and was attended by a no less important result than the breaking up of the tea drinking that existed in the village we have now solved and explained this great mystery � and like all other mysteries discovery put an end to it made humble and sufficient apologies for having been drawn into the grievous of tea drinking as a token that the wickedness was for ever the was brought out and smashed with all due ceremony father too was induced to issue from the altar so severe an against the forbidden as suppressed the practice throughout the parish ob the defeated young was descended from a long line of private and of course exhibited in his own person all the practical wit sagacity cunning and of invention which the natural genius of the family sharpened by long experience had created from generation to generation as a standing capital to be handed down to son there was scarcely a trick plot scheme or that had ever been resorted to by his ancestors that had not at his finger ends and though but a lad of sixteen at the time we present him to the reader yet be it observed that he had had his mind even at that age admirably trained by four or five years of keen vigorous practice in all the resources necessary to meet the vigilance and stealthy of that animal � the in feet s talents did not merely consist in an acquaintance with the hereditary tricks of his these of themselves would prove but a miserable defence against the ever varying ingenuity with which the skill of the still hunter his approaches and his on the contrary every new plan of the must be met and defeated by a equally novel but with this in the of both that whereas the s devices are the result of mature deliberation � s from the very nature of the circumstances must be necessarily and rapid the hostility between the parties b ok being as it is carried on through such varied on both sides and by such and able by so many quick and unexpected turns of incident � it would be utter in either to rely upon tricks and stale their relative position and occupation do not therefore merely exhibit a contest between law and that mountain liberty or between the board and the � it presents a more interesting point for observation namely the struggle between mind and mind � between wit and wit � between and it might be very amusing to detail from time to time a few of those keen of practical cunning which take place between the and his eyed foe the they are curious as throwing light upon the national character of our people and us evidences of the surprising readiness of wit of invention and irresistible humour which they mix up with almost every actual concern of life no matter how difficult or critical it may be nay it mostly happens that the character of the peasant in all its fulness rises in to what he is called upon to encounter and that the laugh at or the upon the keeps pace with the difficulty that is overcome but now to our short story two men in the garb of gentlemen were riding along a remote by road one morning in the month of october about the year or not certain which the air was remarkably clear keen and a frost for the few preceding nights had set in and then lay upon the fields about them melting gradually however as the sun got strength with the exception of the sides of such hills and valleys as his beams could not reach until evening chilled their influence too much to the whiteness which covered them our had nearly reached a turn in the way which we should observe in this place skirted the brow of a that lay on the right lu point of fact it was a the defeated t inclined plane or slope rather than a but be this as it may the flat at its foot was studded over with bushes which grew so close and level that a person hi almost imagine it possible to walk upon their surface o coming within about two and fifty yards of this a the noticed a lad not more than sixteen on towards them with a upon his back the eye of one of them was immediately lit with that sparkling of habitual sagacity which marks the practised among ten thousand for a single moment he drew up his horse an action which however slight in itself intimated more plainly than he could have wished the obvious interest which had just been excited in him short as was the pause it betrayed him for no sooner had the lad noticed it than he crossed the ditch and disappeared round the angle we have mentioned and upon the side of the to gallop to the spot cross the ditch also and pursue him was only the work of a few minutes we have him said the we have one thing is clear he cannot escape us � speak for yourself replied his companion � � � as for me not being an officer of his majesty s i decline taking any part in the pursuit � it is a fair battle so fight it out between you � i am with you now only through curiosity he had scarcely concluded when they heard a voice singing the following in a spirit of that hearty which a cheerful contempt of care and an utter absence of all apprehension oh she you are my true lover you are all the riches that i do i solemnly swear now i ll ne er have my | 50 |
designed of nature was and wider than any built by man but its size was the least of the wonders of the place for running in rows its length were gigantic pillars of what looked like ice but were in reality huge it is impossible for me to convey any idea of the overpowering beauty and grandeur of these pillars of white some of which were not less than twenty feet in at the base and sprang up in lofty and yet delicate beauty sheer to the distant roof others again were in process of formation on the rock floor there was in these cases what looked sir henry said exactly like a broken column in an old temple while high above depending from the roof the point of a huge could be dimly seen and even as we gazed we could hear the process going on for presently with a tiny splash a drop of water would fall from the far off on to the column below on some columns the drops only fell once in two or three minutes and in these cases it would form an in calculation to discover how long at that rate of dripping it would take to form a pillar say eighty feet high by ten in that the process was in at least one instance slow the following instance will suffice to show cut on one of these pillars we discovered a rude likeness of a by the head of which sat what appeared to be one of the egyptian gods doubtless the of some old world in the mine this work of art was executed at about the natural height at which an idle fellow be he workman or british is in the habit of trying to himself at the expense of nature s namely about five feet from the ground yet at the time that we saw it which have been nearly three thousand years after the date of the execution of the drawing the column was only eight feet high and was still in process of formation which gives a rate of growth of a foot to a thousand years or an inch and a to a century this we knew because as we were standing by it we heard a drop of water sometimes the took strange forms where th dropping of the water had not always been on the same spot thus one huge mass which must have weighed a hundred tons or so was in the form of a pulpit beautifully fretted over outside with what looked like lace others resembled strange beasts and on the sides of the cave were fan like ivory such as the frost leaves upon a pane out of the vast main aisle there opened here and there smaller exactly sir henry said as open out of great some were large but one or two � and this is a wonderful instance of how nature carries out by ic king solomon s mines her by the same laws utterly of size � were tiny one little nook for instance was no larger than an unusually big doll s house and yet it might have been the model of the whole place for the water dropped the tiny hung and the columns were forming in just the same way we had not time however to examine this beautiful place as thoroughly as we should have liked to do for unfortunately seemed to be indifferent to and only anxious to get her business over this annoyed me the more as i was particularly anxious to discover if possible by what system the light was admitted into the place and whether it was by the hand of man or of nature that this was done also if it had been used in any way in ancient times as seemed probable however we consoled ourselves with the idea that we would examine it thoroughly on our return and followed on after our guide on she led us straight to the top of the vast and silent cave where we found another doorway not arched the first was but square at the top something like the of egyptian temples are ye prepared to enter the place of death asked evidently with a view to making us feel uncomfortable lead on said good solemnly trying to look as though he was not at all alarmed as indeed did we all except who caught good by the arm for protection this is getting rather ghastly said sir henry peeping into the dark doorway come on don t keep the old lady waiting and by ic king solomon s mines he politely made way for me to lead the van for which i inwardly did not bless him tap tap went old s stick down the passage as she trotted along and still overcome by some unaccountable of evil i hung back come get on old fellow said good or we shall lose our fair guide thus i started down the passage and after about twenty paces found myself in a gloomy apartment some forty feet long by thirty broad and thirty high which in some past age had evidently been by hand labor out of the mountain this apartment was not nearly so well lighted as the vast cave and at the first glance all i could make out was a massive stone table running its length with a colossal white figure at its head and life sized white figures all round it next i made out a brown thing seated on the table in the centre and in another moment my eyes grew accustomed to the light and i saw what all these things were and i was out of it as hard as my legs would carry me i am not a nervous man in a general way and very little troubled with of which i have lived to see the folly but i am free | 18 |
with unless you prefer to hurt my feelings and me seriously that i should be yery sorry to do but i cannot ride with mr � cannot and why how can you ask mamma how can you wish me to associate intimately with the sort of man he is what are you fighting now for a sensible girl you are the i ever met with what do you mean you surely know what i mean mamma you know that has been one of the most dissipated men in the city so have forty other men been who are yery good husbands now or whose wives are too prudent to make a fuss about it if they are not � i do not think it yery creditable to a young lady to be seeking information of this sort about young men i have not sought it i never dreamed looked in her mother s face that my mother would introduce a man to me who as we both have heard on good authority has kept a mistress since he was eighteen and h changed her as often as suited his caprice bat having heard this i surely will not disregard it you are scrupulous and very unjust my dear has entirely given up all this sort of thing � he assured me he had and you took his assurance mamma and would not listen for one moment to that poor penitent assurance oh that s quite a different thing i see no difference excepting that the one is the strong party the other the weak � the one the the other the betrayed the fact of the girl seeking honest employment is evidence in favour of her truth you talk so and to speak plainly i do not think it over delicate continued mrs with a curl of her lip for an unmarried lady of nineteen to be discussing subjects of this though it may be quite often your aunt s fashion te do so it is very much my aunt s fashion to strip off the and look for the � to throw away the world s current and keep the real gold probably she would think it far more to receive a man her society than te express her opinion of his vices and i know she thinks it not only but and te certain vices in men for which women are and hunted down mercy on us what an for nothing truly you and your aunt with your country evening morals � re very competent judges of town society it seems te my poor common sense that you are rather a partial of your you are quite willing to receive this young woman with her h child and you would doubly bar and bolt the door against a very charming young man who has sown his wild oh surely mamma this is not the true state of the case the one ty is a man of fashion received and current the other a poor young outcast who seems more against than probably the victim of some such charming young man as as women as professed followers of christ my dear mother ought we not to help her out of the pit into which she has fallen may we not guard her from future danger and misery mrs stood foi a moment silent and before the gentle earnestness of her daughter but after a moment she rallied and said with a forced laugh � you had best join the society at once they will give you plenty of this fancy missionary work to do i confess it is not quite to my taste made no reply she was too much pained by her mother s levity and she took refuge in writing the incidents of the morning to that aunt in whose pure atmosphere she had been reared sickening with fatigue and disappointment helped on her way by an returned to the intelligence office where she had left her bundle the official gentleman there on hearing the story of her said well it s no fault of mine � you can t expect a good place without a good reference oh i expect nothing replied i hope for nothing but that my baby and i may lay down together and die � very soon if it please god i am sorry for you i declare i am said the man h who though his sensibility was pretty much worn away by daily could not look without pity upon the pale beautiful young creature humble and gentle and trembling in every fibre with exhaustion and despair you are tired out he said � and your baby wants taking care of there s a decent lodging house in the next street no where you may get a night s lodging for a to morrow morning you ll feel better � the world will look brighter after a night s sleep come back to me in the morning and i will give you some more chances i won t go according to rule with you thanked him kissed her baby and again with trembling wavering steps went forth she had but just turned the comer when overcome by she sat down on a door step as she did so a woman coming from the pump turned to go down into the area of a room she rested her on the step and cast her eye on god save us she cried i i ve found you at last � just as i expected god punish them that s wronged you can t you to me don t you know o oh yes replied faintly my only friend in this world indeed i do know you and indeed and indeed you cannot come amiss to me � you are welcome as if you were my own to every thing i have in the world rise up give me the god s pity on | 6 |
my commission if therefore miss would not allow me to introduce the subject in the customary hall manner it became necessary to the arrange ment of my plans that i should adopt some other method of bringing the question to a final decision it was doubly painful to me to have no other alternative because i knew that her fortune and her position in society had rendered a m te proposal of marriage a circumstance of such common occurrence in her experience as to be despatched in the most summary manner yet i trusted to her good sense and generosity for in me what she had left me no means to avoid nothing could be more embarrassing to me however than the perfect silence with which my proposal was at last received i could see that she was affected by it � per too much affected for words but in what manner i was at a loss to comprehend and i had nothing left but to her to answer a question on which depended my happiness here and perhaps hereafter then i will treat you with a frankness equal to your own said die and briefly answer � no i whether my answer is dictated by duty or inclination can be of little consequence to you to know it is as u as if you were to me the least at being upon earth there remained little more for me to say for there was a firmness in the tone and manner of miss which left no doubt as to the strength of heir tion we were therefore pursuing our walk in silence when i perceived with that while she often turned away her head as if to look at the plants by the way or the prospect we were leaving tears were streaming from her es so fast that it was no longer possible to conceal them from my observation encouraged by this evidence of emotion whatever might be its secret cause i very naturally resumed the subject of our con to which however she only plied with more firmness and decision do not said she i entreat you do not mention this subject to me again the convictions which have already dictated my reply are not to be set aside by persuasion one thing however i would ask of you and i ask it in all humility � do not take my an � r do not let it separate us as friends i have been by the hall most behavior to you that i could be nothing more to you nor you to me and i am pained to the heart that you have not better understood me you understand me now i and i repeat again � do not let this foolish business separate us as friends i have no brother � i might almost say i have no father now do not utterly me in my desolation i told her then for the first time that i was about to return to india she started but immediately went on � � let us be like fellow travellers then who know that at the next stage they must separate for ever let us part kindly for the dream of our friendship will indeed have passed when you leave your native land again of all the different kinds of romance which take possession of the female mind there is none more unintelligible to man and few more than that friendship which she sometimes to him in the place of love had i better understood the character and situation of i should have known in her case at least that � he both offered it herself and needed it from me no or trifling degree and that the kindness she asked of me in melancholy and humble manner she had richly earned the right to demand by tiie noble sacrifice she was making as she be in my favor it may easily be supposed that after this interview i became a less frequent at the hall for i had never even when a youth been sufficiently poetical to understand the luxury of a hopeless attachment i consequently busied myself with tions for my return to india and thought as of my disappointment as i could i observed whenever we met was much altered she attempted to be lively but her forced spirits failed her more than ever and it was not difficult to perceive that some mental or rather spiritual conflict was absorbing every thought my sister often wished that she had some experienced adviser with whom she might converse i but happily for her she had already begun to feel that there is a beyond what human love can � a friend whose counsels are more than those of any earthly adviser hall with tbe exercise of a mind thus engaged and unable to in its deep experience i became gradually from the society of my sister s friend an indescribable feeling that our destiny was tending different ways seemed to keep me at a distance from her though whenever we met there was an humble and a expression in her features which made my heart ache to think what she was suffering or had suffered at times i wished to escape from the pain of seeing her thus altered and then again i wished more earnestly that i might stay and be ever near her if by this means it would be possible for me to partake of that influence which i could not but be sensible was and her character it is often observed that before the hour of final dissolution the appearance of the human a striking and almost supernatural change as if preparatory to that great event and is it not often to a certain extent the same before some of those fearful trials which mark the most important of human existence and merciful it is in the of providence that hall bo | 41 |
s was the same though one had lived beyond sixty years and one but twenty four a female his grace of creature of such beauty of such temper bred in such manner among such companions by such parents � what fate could be before her averted his eyes tossed to the wolves he said tossed to the pack � to harry and to over god s mercy as they rode he heard the story lord having related such incidents as he naturally knew to my lord twas a bitter history to whose the late lady had been and who was a sober and god fearing gentleman to whom irregular habits and the reckless of fortune were things and this was the substance of the relation which was so far out of the common as to be almost monstrous his disgust at the birth of this ninth girl infant had so sir that he had refused even to behold it and had left it to its fate as if it had been an ill made blind but two of her s other children had survived their infancy and of these two their father knew nothing whatever but that they had been called and anne that they showed no promise of beauty and lived their bare little lives in the otherwise deserted west wing having as their sole companion and a certain mistress � a poor his grace of tion who had taken the position in the wretched household to save herself from starvation and because she was fitted for no other her education being so poor and her understanding so limited that no or careful family would have accepted her as or companion her two poor little charges learned the few things she could teach them and their meek gave her but little trouble their dead mother s suffering and their father s rough contempt on the rare occasions when he had chanced to behold them had them to from their there was none who wanted them none who served or noticed them and there was no circumstance which could not restrain them no person who was not their ruler if twas his will but the ninth one was not like them said my lord the blood of the fierce devils who were the chiefs of her house centuries ago woke in her veins at her birth tis strange indeed how such things break forth � or slumber � in a race should you trace as you trace through the past her nature would be made clear enough they have been splendid devils some of them � devils who fought shrieking with ferocious laughter in the face of certain horrible death devils whose spirit no torture of rack or flame could conquer his grace of beings who could endure in silence horrors almost supernatural who could bear more more suffer more defy more than any other human thing and this child is one of them said he said but little as they rode onward and he listened there was within him a certain for what seemed to him the unnatural tumult of his feelings a girl child of twelve in boys clothes was not a pleasing picture but in one sense a tragic one and certainly not such as should set a man s heart beating and his cheek to flame when he heard stories of her fantastic life and character on this occasion he did not understand himself if he had been a he would have his own seeming levity but he was not so and frankly felt himself restless and ill at ease the name given to her had been and from her she had been as as her sisters were mild none could manage her her baby training left wholly to neglected and loose living servants she had spent her first years in and stables the stables and the stable boys the and their were loved better than aught else she learned to the language of and she cursed and swore as they did she heard his grace of their songs and stories and was as familiar with and language as other children are with until she was five years old sir never set eyes upon her then a strange chance threw her in his way and sealed her fate through the house having escaped from her woman the child had reached the big hall and upon the floor playing with a powder she had found twas sir s and he coming upon her not knowing her for his own offspring not that such a knowledge would have his passion he sprang upon her with curses and soundly her either of her sisters anne or would have been with terror but this one was only roused to a fury as much greater for her size than sir was bigger than herself she flew at him and poured forth oaths she shrieked at him and beat his legs with his own crop which she caught up from the floor where it lay within reach she tore at him with tooth and nail and with such strength and infant as arrested him in his frenzy and caused him to burst forth laughing as if he had gone mad from that hour she was a doomed creature my lord ended what else can a man call the poor helpless thing she is his companion and and the toy and jest of his his grace of comrades it is the scandal of the county at twelve she is as near a woman as other girls of fourteen at fifteen � and he stopped speaking have been safer for her to have died beneath her dead mother s body said almost fiercely yes safer said his � yet what a woman � what a woman � and here he broke off speech again chapter in which my lady writes of a scandal scarce two years later king william riding in the park at | 13 |
order to decide between these wc examine whether prior lo tlie death of and of that event ideas of the age included the characteristics of and death if already in the lifetime of it was the opinion that the must die a violent then it is highly probable that this idea as a part of his convictions and it to his who in that case could so much the less have remained on this point and overwhelmed by the actual result iu the degree alleged und s t t i t of relating to death by the if on the contrary th it idea was not diffused among his before the death of it still remains possible that might arrive at that idea by his private it is a prior possibility that were the to adopt the characteristics of suffering and death into their conception of the after they had l een taught by the issue the question whether the i of a suffering and dying i c was already diffused among the jews in tiie time of is one of the most points of discussion among and one concerning which they are the least agreed and the of the question does not lie in the interests of party so that it might be hoped that with the rise of impartial investigation subject would cease to be for as has shown both the and the interest may alternately tend in each direction and we in fact find of both on both t the lies in the deficiency of information and in the uncertainty of that we do possess li the old testament contained the doctrine of a suffering and dying it might certainly thence be inferred with more than mere probability that this doctrine existed among the jews in the time of as however according to the most recent the old testament while it does indeed contain the doctrine of an of the sins of the i to take place at the era xiii dan ix has no trace of tliis being by the suffering and of the there is no decision of the question before us to be expected from this quarter the books of the old testament lie nearer to the time of but as these are altogether silent concerning the in al � there can be no discussion as to their containing that special feature again if we turn to and the two who wrote after the in question we find tiie latter silent as to the e of his nation j and though the former does j l of times and a hero he says nothing of sufferings on his part if thus there remain as sources of information on this the new testament and the later writings in the new testament almost is calculated to give the impression that a suffering and dying was among the jews who were with tu the majority of the jews we are told the doctrine of a u l er den un l die n � tt to in the it t s� he t in ue u u s ti ff h for tlie existence of the idea iu in lime of by in the ve i r if ami l v e t t a ir it tm t for o i it o l y da ut p i it ue l il l i f i � lit ut iso � � ii ut h� i a the ufe op was a and ihe were at a loss to understand in his repeated and explicit of death this not look as if the doctrine of a liad current among the jews of that period on the contrary these circumstances accord fully with the declaration which the puts into the mouth of the � s xii namely that they had heard in the law vo that for ever on indeed for a general of the of a suffering among tlie jews of that period even those who take affirmative side in this argument do not contend but admitting that the hope of a worldly reign was to endure for ever was tlie one they only maintain and with t that a less numerous party � according to the according to tlie letter and more part of the in � held the belief that the would appear in a humble guise and only enter into through suffering and death in support of they appeal especially to two passages one out of the third and one out of the fourth gospel when is presented as an infant in the temple at the aged among other particularly concerning the ion which her son would to encounter to mary yea a sword shall pierce throw h thine own ii words which seem to her maternal sorrow at the death of her son and consequently to represent the opinion that a death awaited the as one already current before christ still more is the idea of a contained in the words which the fourth makes the utter on seeing be ihe of god which away ihe sin of the i i this viewed in its relation to would in the mouth of the likewise tend to prove that the idea of suffering on tlie part of the was in existence before the time of but both these passages have been above shown to be and from the fact that primitive christian legend was led a considerable lime after the issue to attribute to persons whom it held inspired a of the di ine decree with respect to the death of it can by no means be concluded that this insight really existed prior to the death of in conclusion it is urged that at the c and refer to the idea of a suffering and dying in the old testament whence it is thought to conclude that this ion of the old testament passages connected with our present subject was not | 14 |
your personal assurance of its being otherwise m d the contents of her last note to him were these what am i to imagine by your behavior last night again i demand an explanation of it i was prepared to meet you with the pleasure which our separation naturally produced � with the familiarity which our intimacy at appeared to me to justify i was indeed i have passed a wretched night in to excuse a conduct which can scarcely be called less than insulting but though i have not yet been able to form any reasonable apology for your behavior i am perfectly ready to hear your justification of it you have perhaps been or purposely deceived in something concerning me which may have lowered me in your opinion tell me what it is explain the grounds sense and on which yoa acted and i shall be satisfied in being able to satisfy yoa it would grieve me indeed to be obliged to think ill of you but to learn that you are not what we have hitherto believed you that your regard for us all was that your behavior to me was intended only to deceive let it be told as soon as possible my feelings are at present in a state of dreadful i wish to you but certainty on either side will be ease to what i now suffer if your sentiments are no longer what they were you will return my notes and the lock of my hair which is in your possession m d that such so full of affection and con could have been bo for s sake would have been unwilling to believe but her condemnation of him did not blind her to the of their having been written at all and she was silently over the which had such proofs of tenderness not by anything preceding and most severely condemned by the event when perceiving that she had finished the letters observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation i felt myself she added to be as solemnly engaged to him as if the legal had bound us to each other i can believe it said but unfortunately he did not feel the same and he did feel the same � for weeks and weeks he felt it i know he did whatever may have changed him now and nothing but the art employed against me can have done it i was once as dear to him as my own soul could wish this lock of hair which now he can so readily give up was begged of me with the most earnest had you seen his look his manner had you heard his voice at that moment have you forgot the last evening of our being together at the morning that we parted tool when he told me that it might be many weeks before we met again � his distress � can i ever forget his distress for a moment or two she could say no more but when this emotion had passed away she added in a firmer tone � i have been cruelly used but not by dearest who but himself by whom can he have been by all the world rather than by his own heart i could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance together to ruin me in his opinion than believe his nature capable of such cruelty this woman of whom he writes � whoever she be � or any one in short but your own dear self mamma and edward may have been so barbarous to me beyond you three is there sense and � a creature in the world whom i would not rather suspect of evil than whose heart i know so well would not contend and only replied whoever may have been so your let them be cheated of their malignant triumph my dear sister by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own innocence and good intentions your spirits it is a reasonable and pride which such no no cried misery such as mine has no pride i care not who knows that i am wretched the triumph of seeing me so may be open to all the world they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like � may resist insult or return mortification � but i cannot i must feel � i must be wretched � and they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can but for my mother s sake and mine � i would do more than for my own but to appear happy when i am so miserable � oh who can require it again they were both silent was employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window from the window to the fire without knowing that she received warmth from one or objects through the other and seated at the foot of the bed with her head sense and leaning against one of its posts again took np s letter and after shuddering over every sentence exclaimed � it is too much i oh could this be yours cruel cruel � nothing can you nothing can whatever he might have heard against me ought he not to have suspended his belief ought he not to have told me of it to have given me the power of clearing myself the lock of hair repeating it from the letter which you so bestowed on me � that is where was your heart when you wrote those words oh insolent i � can he be justified no in no possible way and yet this woman � who knows what her art may have been � how long it may have been and how deeply contrived by her i � who is she � who can she be � whom did i ever hear him talk of | 26 |
love for the children o f your mother is an impossibility sir i am not to blame for my mother s disposition true � very true you are not to blame but you ist and that you do exist is a fact of national importance will you not sit down at your command sir and the prince seated himself opposite his father who having studied his cigar sufficiently replaced it between his lips and went on smoking for a few minutes before he spoke again then he resumed � power your existence i repeat is ti of n to you falls the throne when i ha done with it and life has done with � ie th ef ore yo conduct � your mode of life � your in � concern not me so much as the you say th you cannot trust as a friend because i you is not this a somewhat childish remark your part we live in a very practical age � love is n a necessary tie between human beings as things go � the bond of ip rests on the has of cash accounts i am perfectly aware of that said the prince his fine dark eyes full on his father s face � and ye after all love is such a vital necessity that i l t look at you in order to realize the failure and t� e trying to do without it the king gave him a glance of si so � you have begun to notice what i have know for years he said lightly � clever young man fine fairy finger is pointing out to you my while supplying your own do you learn to th value of love while contemplating the groves and of the islands do you poetry there � or write it or talk it prince coloured � then grew very pale when i my time sir he said � � surely will then be needful to me on the manner i which i spend it � but not till then fairly put answered the king � but i have a idea � it may be a mistaken idea � still i have it � tha you are your time and this is th cause of our present little discussion if i knew that yo occupied yourself with the pleasures your ag and rank i should be more at ease what do you consider to be the pleasures m age and rank asked the prince with a touch of satire making a fool of myself the king smiled well � it would be better to make a fool of generally than particularly folly is not so spread like jam ov a v hole of bread but it ma cause a life long if swallowed in one secret of sweetness if i loved you i the prince moved uneasily m you think i am you � and you resent it but my dear boy let me again remind you that you are in a manner to the nation for your actions and especially to that particular section of the nation called society society is the least and worst part of the whole community � but it has to be considered by such servants of the public as ourselves you know what james the first of england wrote concerning the on the conduct of a prince and future king a king is set as one on a stage whose smallest actions and gestures all the people do behold and however just in the discharge of his office yet if his ir be light or in indifferent actions the p op who see but the outward part conceive of the king s inward intention which although time the of all truth will by the evidence of the effect yet and will in the meantime breed contempt the mother of rebellion and disorder poor james of the eyes and large hysterical heart as describes him do you not agree with his of a royal position i am not aware sir that my behaviour can as yet be called light or replied the prince coldly with a touch of i do not call it so � said the king � to the best of my knowledge your conduct has always l een most but with all your excessive decorum you are mysterious that is bad society will not endure being kept in the dark or outside the door of things like a bad child it wants to be in the room and know everything and everybody and this reminds me of another point on which the good english james offers sound advice remember to be and sensible in your language for besides it is the tongue s office to be the messenger of the mind it may be thought a point of of spirit in a king to speak much ore as if he stood in awe of any in uttering thoughts that is precisely j our mood at the moment � you land in awe � of me r of else � in uttering your thoughts power pardon me sir � i do not stand in awe of you or anyone said the prince � i simply d choose to utter my thoughts just now the king looked at him in surprise and with a of admiration the defiant air he had unconsciously a became him � his handsome face was pale an liis dark eyes coldly brilliant like those of his with the steel light of an resolve you do not choose said the king after a pause you decline to give any explanation of your long of absence � your constant visits to the islands ar your neglect of those social duties which should keep at court i decline to do so for the present replied the your man i can see no harm in my preference f � rather than noise � for scenes of nature � | 33 |
all to herself the last morning it would have park been an unspeakable indulgence but though her wishes were there was no spirit of murmuring within her on the contrary she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted or to have any thing take place at all in the way she could desire that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far than to at the which followed shortly afterwards sir thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination by her to go immediately to bed advise was the word but it was the advice of absolute power and she had only to rise and with mr s very cordial pass quietly away stopping at the entrance door like the lady of hall one moment and no more to view the happy scene and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work � and then creeping slowly up the principal staircase pursued by the ceaseless country dance feverish with hopes and fears soup and sore footed and fatigued restless and agitated yet feeling in spite of every thing that a ball was indeed delightful in thus sending her away sir thomas perhaps might not be thinking merely of her health it might occur to him that mr been sitting by her long enough or he might mean to recommend her as a wife by showing her chapter ball was over � and the breakfast was soon too the last kiss was given and william was gone mr had as he foretold been very punctual and short and pleasant had been the meal after seeing william to the last moment walked back into the breakfast room with a very heart to grieve over the melancholy change and there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace perhaps that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm and that the remaining cold pork bones and in william s plate might but divide her feelings with the broken shells in mr s she sat and cried con as her uncle intended but it was con and no other william was gone and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares and selfish with him s disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt in the and of her own small house without herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together much less could her feelings her of having done and said and thought every thing by william that was due to him for a whole fortnight it was a heavy melancholy day soon after the second breakfast bade them good by for a week and mounted his horse for and then all were gone nothing remained of last night but which she had nobody to share in she talked to her aunt � park must talk to of the ball but her aunt had seen so little of what had passed and had so little that it was heavy work lady was not certain of any body s dress or any body s place at supper but her own she could not recollect what it was that she heard about one of the or what it was that lady had noticed in she was not sure whether colonel had been talking of mr or of william when he said that he was the finest young man in the room somebody had whispered something to her she had forgot to ask sir thomas w hat it could be and these were her longest speeches and communications the rest was only a languid yes � yes � very well � did you did he � i did not see � i should not know one from the other this was very bad it was only better than mrs s sharp answers would have been but she being gone home with all the to nurse a sick maid there was peace and good humour in their little party though it could not boast much beside the evening was heavy like the day � i cannot think what is the matter with me said lady when the tea things were removed i feel quite stupid it must be sitting up so late last night you must do something to keep me awake i cannot work fetch the cards � i feel so veiy stupid the cards were brought and played at with her aunt till and as sir thomas was reading to himself no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckoning of the game � and that makes thirty one four in hand and eight in you are to deal ma am shall i deal for you thought and thought again of the difference which twenty four hours had made in that room and all that part of the house last night it had been hope and smiles bustle and motion noise and brilliancy in the drawing room and out of the and every where now it was languor and all but solitude a good night s rest improved her spirits she could think of william the next day more cheerfully and as the morning afforded her an opportunity of talking over thursday night park with mrs grant and miss in a very handsome style with all the of imagination and all the laughs of which are so essential to the shade of a departed ball she could afterwards bring her mind without much effort into its every day state and easily to the tranquillity of the present quiet week they were indeed a smaller party than she had ever known there for a whole day together and he was gone on whom the comfort and cheerfulness of every family meeting and every meal chiefly depended but this must | 26 |
and turned away he was sure she knew that he had taken the the touch of review and he felt that he was beginning to hate her again i haven t time for such things he said indifferently as he moved to the door he heard her take a hurried step forward then she paused and sank without speaking into the chair from which he had risen a vanished hand xi as in the raw february sunlight mounted the road to the he felt the that comes with an abrupt of physical pain he had reached the point where self analysis ceases the impulse that moved him was purely he did not even seek a reason for it beyond the obvious one that his desire to stand by margaret s grave was prompted by no attempt at a sentimental but rather by the need to affirm in some way the reality of the tie between them the of death had brought mrs back to share the hospitality of her husband s last lodging but though knew she had been buried near new york he had never the touch of visited her grave he was oppressed lis he now the long avenues l y a vision of her return there was no family to follow her she had died alone as she had lived and the distinguished who had formed the escort of the famous writer knew nothing of the woman they were committing to the grave could not even remember at what season she had been buried but his mood indulged the fancy that it must have been on some such day of harsh sunlight the february brightness that gives without warmth the white avenues stretched before him lined with of affliction as though all the ever uttered had been turned to marble and set up over the dead here and there no doubt a urn or an angel imprisoned some grief as the most words may become the vehicle of rare a vanished hand l ut for the most part the endless of monuments seemed to those easy about death that do not disturb the repose of the living s eye as he followed the way pointed out to him had instinctively sought some low mound with a quiet he had forgotten that the dead seldom plan their own houses and with a pang he discovered the name he sought on the base of a shaft its height at the angle of two avenues how she would have hated it i he murmured a bench stood near and he seated himself the monument rose before him like some dwelling he could not believe that margaret lay there it was a sunday morning and black figures moved along the paths placing flowers on the frost bound noticed that the neighbouring graves had been the touch of thus newly dressed and he fancied a blind stir of through the sod as though the bare spread a surface to that rain he rose presently and walked back to the entrance of the several stood near the gates and turning in at the first he asked for some flowers in the line asked the man behind the counter shook his head just cut flowers this way then the unlocked a glass door and led him down a moist green aisle the hot air was choked with the scent of white white lilies white all the flowers were white they were like a a mystic of the long rows of marble and their perfume seemed to cover an of decay the rich atmosphere made dizzy as he leaned in a vanished hand the doorway waiting for the flowers he had a penetrating sense of margaret s � not the presence of his inner vision but a hfe that beat warm in his arms the sharp air caught him as he stepped out into it again he walked back and scattered the flowers over the grave the edges of the white like burnt paper in the cold and as he watched them the illusion of her faded shrank back frozen the touch of xii the motive of his visit to the remained save as a final effort of escape from his wife s acceptance of his shame it seemed to him that as long as he could keep himself alive to that shame he would not wholly have to its consequences his chief fear was that he should become the creature of his act his wife s indifference degraded him it seemed to put him on a level with his margaret would have the deed in proportion to her pity for the man the sense of her pity drew him back to her the one woman knew but did not understand the other it sometimes seemed understood without knowing a vanished hand � in its last disguise of remorse his self pity a desire for solitude and meditation he lost himself in morbid in visions of what life with margaret might have been there were moments when in the strange of his view the wrong he had done her seemed a tie between them to indulge these emotions he fell into the habit on sunday of solitary walks prolonged till after dusk the days were there was a touch of spring in the air and his wanderings now usually led him to the park and its regions sunday tired of he took a cab at the park gates and let it carry him out to the drive it was a grey afternoon with east wind s cab advanced slowly and as he leaned back gazing with absent at the deserted paths that wound under bare boughs the touch of between grass banks of premature ness his attention was arrested by two figures walking ahead of him this couple who had the path to themselves moved at an pace as though their gait to a conversation marked by meditative intervals now and then they paused and | 10 |
he was with what heights called a crowd yet neither of them acknowledged it in matrimonial geography the distance between the first mute recognition of a break and the admission thereof is as great as the distance between the first faith and the first doubting as he began to drift away he also began to see her as a human being to like and dislike her instead of accepting her as a comparatively part of the furniture and he that husband and wife relation which in years of married life had become a separate and real he recalled their high lights the summer in virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains their tour through and the of and the birth of their building of this new house planned to comfort them through a happy old age � they had said that it might be the last home either of them would ever have yet his most softening remembrance of these dear moments did not keep him from barking at dinner going out f few hours don t sit up for me he did not dare now to come home drunk and though he rejoiced in his return to high morality and spoke with gravity to and about their drinking he at s and meditated that a fellow couldn t ever learn to handle himself if he was always by a lot of women he no longer wondered if wasn t a bit worn and sentimental in contrast to the complacent he saw her as swift and air borne and radiant a fire spirit tenderly stooping to the hearth and however he on his wife he longed to be with then mrs tore the decent cloak from her and the astounded male discovered that she was having a small determined rebellion of her own m they were beside the fire place in the evening she said you haven t given me the list of your household expenses while i was away no i � haven t made it out yet very we must try to keep down expenses this year that s so i don t know where all the money goes to i try to but it just seems to i suppose i t to spend so much on cigars don t know but what i ll cut down my smoking maybe cut it out entirely i was thinking of a good way to do it the other day start on these and they d kind of disgust me with smoking oh i do wish you would it isn t that i care but honestly george it is so bad for you to smoke so much don t you think you could reduce the amount and george � i notice now when you come home from these and all that sometimes you smell of you know i don t worry so much about the moral side of it but you have a weak stomach and you can t stand all this drinking weak stomach hell i guess i can carry my about as well as most folks well i do think you ought to be careful don t you see dear i don t want you to get sick sick rats i m not a baby i guess i ain t going to get sick just because maybe once a week i shoot a that s the trouble with women they always so george i don t think you ought to talk that way when i m just speaking for your own good i know but all that s the trouble with women they re always and and bringing things up and then they say it s for your own good why george that s not a nice way to talk to answer me so short well i didn t mean to answer short but talking as if i was a not able to one without calling for the st mary s a fine idea you must have of me oh it isn t that it s just � i don t want to see you get sick and � my i didn t know it was so late don t forget to give me those household accounts for the time while i was away oh thunder what s the use of taking the trouble to make em out now let s just em for that period why george in all the years we ve been married we ve never failed to keep a complete account of every penny we ve spent no maybe that s the trouble with us what in the world do you mean oh i don t mean anything only � sometimes i get so sick and tired of all this routine and the at the office and expenses at home and and and and wearing myself out worrying over a lot of that doesn t really mean a thing and being so careful and � good lord what do you think i m made for i could have been a good orator and here i fuss and fret and worry � don t you suppose i ever get tired of i get so bored with ordering three meals a day three hundred and sixty five days a year and my eyes over that horrid sewing machine and looking after your clothes and s and ted s and s and everybody s and the and and going down to the to market and bringing my basket home to save money on the cash and � everything well with a certain astonishment i suppose maybe you do but talk about � here i have to be in the office every single day while you can go out all afternoon and see folks and visit with the neighbors and do any thing you want to yes and a fine lot of good that does me just talking over the same old things with the same old | 42 |
other more was that a horse is a poor which drinking nothing but water has to be up and warmed outside but a master being a creature ever filled with good beer has a store of inward heat that him to the skin and renders a cloak a mere of idle vanity each of the fell in love with his theory and to tell the truth both had taken a hair or two of the dog that had bitten their master to the brain so their voices presently rose so high that the green began to growl instead of in their heat they did not notice thi ere long the argument took a turn that sooner or later was pretty sure to a discussion in that age holding the bridle with his right band gave a sound with his left returned it with interest his right hand being free and at it they went over the horse s mane one another and the poor beast till he ran backward and with iron heel upon a of the green lord he like the stung by s spear started up howling with one hand clapped to the smart and the other at his the servants amazed with terror let the horse go he galloped off the men in pursuit of him crying out with fear and the green noble after them curses his naked sword in his hand and his body from hedge to hedge in his headlong but career down the narrow lane in which turned his back on them all and went calmly south glad to have saved the four tin he had got ready for but far too heavy hearted even to smile at their drunken extravagance the sun was nearly setting and who had now for some time been hoping in vain to find an inn by the way was very ill at ease to make matter worse black clouds gathered over the sky quickened his pace almost to a run it was in vain down came the rain in torrents the bewildered traveller and seemed to the very sun for his rays already fading could not cope with this new on dark and wet and in an unknown region to leave margaret said he the and the hearth presently the he was entering a great wood huge branches shot across the narrow road and the stranger bis way in what seemed an interminable and cave with a rugged floor on which he stumbled and stumbled as he went on and on and on with shivering limbs and empty stomach and faint heart the wolves rose from their and all round the wood his hair but he grasped his and prepared to sell bis life dear there was no wind and his excited ear beard light feet at times over the newly fallen leaves and low branches rustle with creatures gliding swiftly past them presently in the sea of ink there was a great fiery star close to the ground he hailed it as he would his patron saint candle a candle he shouted and tried to run but the dark and rugged way soon stopped that the light was more distant than he had thought but at last in the very heart of the forest he found a house with lighted candles and loud voices inside it he looked up to see if there was a sign board there was none not an inn after all said he sadly no matter what christian would turn a dog out into this wood to night and with this he made for the door that led to the voice he opened it slowly and put his head in timidly he drew it out abruptly as if in the and into the rain and darkness he had peeped into a lai but low room the middle of which was filled by a huge round stove or day oven that reached to the ceiling round this wet clothes were drying some on lines and some more on these latter with the wet of the day but the dirt of a life and lined with what another traveller in those parts calls rank and compound in steaming clouds in one comer was a travelling family a large ne thence flowed into the common stock the peculiar sickly smell of neglected til ed up the of the air and all this with closed window and intense heat of the furnace and the breath of at least forty they had just now like most artists had sensitive organs ai u the potent dismay into him but be rain lashed him outside and the light and the fire tempted him in he could not force his way all at once tl the palpable but he returned to the light again and again like the at last he discovered that the various smells did not entirely mix no being there to stir them of family in two rustic reigned supreme in the centre and in the noisy group by the window he found too by hasty analysis that of these the described the smallest and the scent of rustic darted farthest a as if ancient or the of all had drawn through a river and were here dried by so crept into a corner close to the door though the of the main isolated them somewhat the heat and and made the walls and the b me found something like a cold snake wind about bis legs and his head turn to a great lump of lead and next be felt like sweetly and dying all in one he was within an of but recovered to a deep sense of disgust and ment and settled to go back to holland at peep of day this resolution formed he plucked up a little heart and being faint with hunger asked one of the men of whether this was not aa inn after all � whence come you who | 9 |
the kindred of a natural between the north south was utterly unknown to the men of the revolution before the declaration of independence but during the intense which preceded it and distracted public attention from everything else lord had rendered his judgment from the king s bench which slavery from england and ought to have destroyed it in the as well the in this famous case was james a native of africa carried to virginia as a slave taken thence by his master to england and there in to resist the claim his master to hie services and assert his right to liberty in the first recorded case the of modern in england it was held that being usually bought and sold among merchants as and � se being there might be a property in sufficient to maintain but this waa by chief justice from the king a bench ruling that so soon as a lands in england he is free and again ui that there is no such thing as a slave by the law of england this judgment proving ex troublesome to and merchants from slave holding colonies mother country with their servants the concerned in the american trade in pro cured from and the attorney general and of the grown a written opinion that elsewhere might be held as slaves in england and that even was no bar to the matter s claim this opinion was in held lo be sound law by now lord sitting as judge on the ground that if the ruling of lord were it would slavery in or virginia as well as in england british law being fat each thus the stood until lord in s case reversed it with evident v and after having vainly endeavored to bring about an accommodation between parties when delay would serve no and a judgment must be rendered declared it in these memorable words we cannot direct the law the law the state of is of such a nature that h � � incapable of on reasons moral or political but only by positive law which force long after the reasons and time whence it was created is the memory it ll so odious that nothing can be to support u bet law whatever therefore follow f om the decision i cannot say that this allowed or approved by the law of england and fore the black must be discharged thb for the natural if not effect of this decision on slavery in these colonies had their connection with the mother country been is obvious under the the disposition or management of to the thirteen recent now as independent states early became a subject of solicitude and of among those states and in bv the terms of their of the colonies bad an indefinite extension and were only limited by the power of the many of these w th each same territory being included within the limits of two or e totally distinct colonies as the expenses of the struggle began to bear on the resources of the states it was keenly felt by some that their share in the of the expected triumph would be l� m than that of others new york virginia north and laid claim to spacious of their proper boundaries while new save in island new and south possessed no such boasted resources meet the war debts constantly tbey urged therefore with obvious justice that these advantages ought to be and all the lands included within the limits of the union but outside of the proper and natural boundaries of the several states should be to and held by in trust for the common benefit of all the states and proceeds employed in satisfaction of the debts and of the this reasonable was ultimately but with some to the continental under the articles of ck assembled at philadelphia but next day to md the house was soon left without a and so continued most of the time � of course doing no business � till the ist of march when the from virginia in df instructions from the of that signed the deed of to the of her claims to of the river new t and had already made similar to the of their respective claims to territory westward of their present limits appointed messrs of virginia chase of and of island a select committee to report a plan of gk for the western territory this plan drawn up by thomas provided for the government of ill the western territory including that portion which had not yet been but which it was reasonably expected ik be surrendered to the by uie s of north and and which now forms the states of and as well as that which had already by the more the report of the committee was in the following words the that the or to he by individual to the united states the same have been purchased of the indian inhabitants and offered for sale by the united states � hall be formed into additional states bounded in the following manner as nearly as such will admit that is to say and by of latitude so that each state shall comprehend from to north two degrees of latitude beginning to count from tiie completion of thirty one degrees north ot the then southern boundary of the u s but any of the forty seventh degree make of the state below and and they shall be bounded those on the id by that river on one side and the of the lowest point of the of we on the other and those adjoining op the east by the same on their western side and on their eastern by the of the western cape of the mouth of the great and the territory eastward of this la t between the lake and shall be one state that the within the territory so to be purchased and offered for sale | 19 |
for a certain fee and reward my poor opinion as a medical man precisely as i may give it any day to jack or tom then why do i say our simply because i hear the phrase constantly repeated about me such is the involuntary operation of the mental faculty in the man mr believe you never take snuff you should these remarks on the part of the doctor and the lengthened and pinch with which he followed them up took a seat at the board as a man as ever he has been within the reader s knowledge it is too common with all of us but it is especially in the nature of a mean mind to be by fine clothes and fine furniture they had a very decided influence on now you two gentlemen have business to discuss i know said the doctor and your time is precious so is mine for several lives are waiting for me in the next room and i have a round of visits to make after � after i have taken em having had the happiness to introduce you to each other i may go about my business good bye but allow me mr before i go to say this of my friend who sits beside you that gentleman has done more sir his snuff box solemnly to reconcile me to human nature than any man alive or dead good bye with these words bolted abruptly out of the room and proceeded in his own official department to impress the lives in waiting with a sense of his keen in the discharge of his duty and the great difficulty of getting into the by feeling their looking at their tongues listening at their ribs them in the chest and so forth though if he didn t well know beforehand that whatever kind of lives they were the would accept them readily he was far from being the that his considered him and was not the original but a imitation mr also departed on the business of the morning and and were left alone i learn from our friend said drawing his chair towards with a winning ease of manner that you have been thinking � oh then he d no right to say so cried interrupting i didn t tell him my thoughts if he took it into his head that i was coming here for such or such a life and adventures of purpose why that s his look out i don t stand committed by that said this enough for over and above the habitual distrust of his character it was in his nature to seek to revenge himself on the fine clothes and the fine furniture in exact proportion as he had been unable to withstand their influence if i come here to ask a question or two and get a document or two to consider of i don t bind myself to anything let s understand that you know said my dear fellow cried clapping him on the shoulder i your frankness if men like you and i speak openly at first all possible misunderstanding is avoided why should i disguise what you know so well but what the crowd never dream off we companies are all birds of prey mere birds of prey the only question is whether in serving our own turn we can serve yours too whether in our own nest we can put a single into yours oh you re in our secret you re behind the scenes we make a merit of dealing plainly with you when we know we can t help it it was remarked on the first introduction of mr into these pages that there is a simplicity of cunning no less than a simplicity of innocence and that in all matters a faith in he was the most of men if mr had preferred any claim to high and honourable dealing would have suspected him though he had been a very model of but when he gave utterance to s own thoughts of everything and everybody began to feel that he was a pleasant fellow and one to be talked to freely he changed his position in his chair not for a less awkward but for a more attitude and smiling in his miserable conceit rejoined you an t a bad man of business mr you know how to set about it i will say tut tut said nodding and showing his white teeth we are not children mr we are grown men i hope assented and said after a short silence first spreading out his legs and sticking one arm to show how perfectly at home he was the truth don t say the truth interposed with another grin it s so like greatly charmed by this began again the long and the short of it is � better muttered much better � that i didn t consider myself very well used by one or two of the old companies in some i have had with em � once had i mean they started objections they had no right to start and put questions they had no right to put and carried things much too high for my taste as he made these observations he cast down his eyes and looked curiously at the carpet mr looked curiously at him he made so long a pause that came to the rescue and said in his manner take a glass of wine no no returned with a cunning shake of the head none of that no wine over business all very well for you but it wouldn t do for me what an old hand you are mr said leaning back in his chair and at him through his half shut eyes shook his head again as much as to say you re right there and then resumed not such an old hand either but that i ve | 8 |
appear like toys said you must have been in then b � at i m thinking said john ah by the by you are i remember you come from where they sing � e e� do you know now interrupted with a forced smile that went off into something very like a sob that s just what i can t stand i can t you said john with surprise and at the same time a passenger at the other end of the deck who had caught the fragment of the air john was humming took it up on a strange is not it said his eyes filling so fast that he was quite ashamed of himself strange that a bi of a tune like that should make me see my mother at her cottage door looking toward the cow pastures and my sister who has long been dead coming across the meadow in the evening sun � � he could it no longer as says in king but fairly laid his head down the on his arms and wept as if his heart would break poor fellow poor fellow said john i ve heard something before of this strange disease you are subject t y � de pay j not quite so bad as that said wiping his eyes and then out again tis that i say and nothing short of it said john positively malady de pay � short for malady i ve heard my lord speak of it you ll have to go back to your own country my poor fellow nothing else will cure you oh yes it s passing oflf said drying his eyes do you know said john i was about to ask you some questions about that country of yours because it s a land i much desire to see and very likely see next summer but as you re so tender upon it i won t allude to it any more � ask me what questions you mil replied i i the nothing will do me so much good as i talking of it and for the next two hours the two men were in earnest and almost continuous conversation on only pausing now and then to bestow a passing and pre occupied attention on the ever changing beauties of the river banks john had so many questions to put wholly and some of them enough to that the dialogue for some time took the form of a but at length it gave place to almost continuous narrative went over his own history then went back to the early history and of the not the glorious return of all which to hear did john seriously incline they sat a little way apart from every one but an sick or sleepy wrapped in his cloak with his cap pulled over hi eyes lay on a bench a little way off and who after a few muttered and at having his own meditations or disturbed by so much talking at length applied i the himself quietly to listen to every word that was said and found himself not paid amiss for his trouble once or twice an irrepressible smile at john s remarks only escaped observation under shelter of his cloak collar once or twice as related the fortitude and of his people or spoke of the various exercises his own constancy had been exposed to the became intently interested once or twice even a tear strange i found its way into his eye at length john suddenly finding himself very hungry and observing other people going to dinner said he must go and make friends with some one going below and bade accompany with a smile shook his head and produced a roll ha i cried john tis that low diet that ruins your constitution and makes the least thing upset you come along with me declined and when john had left him resumed his book a couple rather tired of themselves and of each other amused themselves at a distance from him by � the r what his book was likely to be at length to settle the they approached i you seem interested in your reading my i fellow said the gentleman very pray what may your book be the bible sir said do you wish to buy it no e said the other very hastily add retreating with his companion he observed to her in english sharp practice that i never knew a cooler thing in my life i the lady the gentleman was going to make some additional remark when he was checked by s stepping up to him why did you say sharp practice sir said he respectfully in english you asked me of your own accord the name of my book it was the last i had on hand of many that i have been selling about the country and as in many instances they have been purchased with as containing the pearl of great price i thought it possible you might desire to have one that was all the and he to his old place as gently as he came hang the fellow said the gentleman laughing rather foolishly who would have thought of his knowing english john came up at this moment see what i ve got for you here said he producing sundry apples and nuts these are the things you ll like i know you spare with low spirits and weak are always fond of these and i like them too they don t with me nothing does but the german water so now wo u go nature has given us good nut i ve been thinking of you while i was away and the sum of my thoughts is that if you would have plenty of boiled beef and roast beef and horse boiled mutton and three times a day you d have no more of this by the time they approached these | 2 |
hurried to his story hoping that the incident of the lock would secure him attention i think i convinced her that i liked spring days her better than that other fellow we were standing by the lock � i really do think you might listen my dear fellow i am listening you were both looking at the sunset it really is too bad of course if you don t want to hear and would prefer to go to sleep you have only to say so my dear fellow i assure you i wasn t asleep i only closed my eyes because i can t bear the glare of that candle i know where you were � you were looking at the sunset no we weren t weren t they are you asleep no i am not asleep do hold your tongue i want to hear the story you were standing by the lock mr ah yes so they were i felt it was my duty so i told her that i felt it was my mission to save � to save her from that man and i made her promise me not to see him again then it is all right nobody can be more glad than i am i hate the fellow she will not keep her promise of course she may only have done it to me but as we were going home she said she could not walk out of the room if she happened to be there when he called nor could she leave word with the servants to say that they were not at home � she made a lot of excuses what are you laughing at mrs i am really very sorry mr but i could not help wondering if she would change her mind again if you were to go back to the lock spring days frank took up the candle and turned to go don t go murmured faintly i am very sorry mr � if circumstances permitted i would do all i could to help you this was delicate ground and woke up what do you want me to do have you anything to suggest yes it struck me that we might both go round to the fellow s hotel � you call him i think and you might tell him that his visits must cease at the house and that he must not speak to your sister if he should happen to meet her that should bring the matter to an end he is in � he is staying at the grand we might go round there to morrow morning he might kick us out i only hope he may try i would give him such a but you need not be afraid of that it would not do to have s name mentioned in connection with a vulgar � people are not too charitable my idea is that this business should be conducted in the and most gentlemanly manner possible i think i had better speak to father first no necessity he will be only too glad to get rid of the brute don t you think so mrs i do they then spoke of other things � of the shop the profit they had made on and the losses that had resulted from over themselves with flour at last a loud brought the conversation to a full stop and frank hurriedly bade them good night will let you out said vith a sigh of relief ki spring days the little girl had pulled on her stockings and tied a round her waist so you are going to be married oh you have been listening is she very nice she must be very nice for you to marry her i should like to marry you would you and why oh because you are so very handsome but you will come and see us all the same and let me sit on your knee of course i will and now good night next morning declared himself ready to go and see mr charles and to tell him that he was not to call any more at the house or speak to miss if he should happen to meet her frank wondered if this decision was owing to mrs influence i slept last night at the grand it seemed odd sleeping in the same house � perhaps within a few doors of him if you only knew how i love her if i could only tell you you would pity me you ought to know what i feel � the anxiety the heart ache i know you have gone through it all yes i think i know what it is replied thoughtfully mr is staying here will you inquire at the office sir while the books were being searched the young men consulted together frank said send up your card and say you will be glad to speak to him on a matter of importance of course he will see you but before you speak about you must for my presence you must say that i am a very particular spring days friend and that you thought it better that the interview should take place in the presence of a witness i wish it were all over i would not do what i am doing for any one else i can tell you frank mr is in the hotel sir will you give him my card and say i should be glad to speak to him on a matter of importance very good sir in an to frank was that right quite right oh one thing i had forgotten to ask you am i to shake hands with him you mean if he you his hand yes it is impossible to settle everything beforehand one must act according as the occasion requires that s all very well for you but i am a slow man and am lost if i don | 15 |
yet struck still it was near at hand the desire of freedom long ago bad taken root in the nations though this was not much talked of the roots were long thought dead when unexpectedly they sent up new shoots and at some more favorable opportunity will rapidly grow up to a sturdy trunk hitherto it has been for honorable and trust worthy to be established in the financial of m and till this is done all attempts to improve the state of are as they always have been when the emperor is to receive a the have been so bj their that thej will try to steal it before or after it comes into his hands and will be cunning at least to get half of it and beside that by and other improper means when it is possible wiu get also another for themselves in this manner financial schemes continually fail of producing satisfactory results but not the less do they and the people while the in their political waste and the money got with such pains throughout all the political administration of russia a certain is perceptible this appears very obvious in the financial operations every thing undertaken bears the mark of remarkable promises to last but while and commonly has a most injurious effect so a boy a flower garden and will soon lose half his plunder on his way to the brook and will throw in the other half when he gets there the garden is robbed and trampled down to no purpose what was designed to bear fruit and furnish seed for other fields is torn away from its native soil and scattered in spots which will bear nothing this financial system is a very natural result of the character of this and government the wild tree can produce only poor and coarse till mind approaches it then it must be down to give place to some nobler growth the time when attempts at improvement could be made is passed by � the worm has already bored too deep the a part of it remains only to feed the fire while has already collected in the hollow of the trunk a preparation for death and for another and a new life in general the emperor is inclined to favor what is gross and especially in commonly he strongly to and will be an if he were not of a coarse nature he would abandon the political course which his cabinet has followed hitherto and pursue a more spiritual direction but in all probability he can only look at the material side of things and the clinging to dead forms is entirely natural to him he is incapable of any lofty spiritual of any comprehension of ideas and can appreciate none but mere as ministers of the mu art � of the relating to ihe condition of the in talk much about the in our fathers treated the of the country the discussion will have one good effect if it awaken us to the more earnest consideration of our own duty toward the feeble and scattered remnant of those once powerful tribes the whole number of indians within the limits of the is eight hundred and forty seven of these none are allowed the many are under and many are not allowed any individual in ihe lands of the tribe they are practically children with all the confirmed bad habits in many cases of mature age we acknowledge the question of their treatment is a one chiefly if not entirely however through our own mistakes and neglect we talk long and loud about religious liberty while the state till very recently out after the most approved european modes to the poor red skins a state religion at their own expense we most brave words not to be sure at the bridge � but on every th of july about the great and indispensable of jury boxes and boxes to the moral and nature of man but we keep meanwhile these eight or nine hundred persons in a perpetual and himself could not be more careful lest they get into dangerous to the or the we protest with a violence which is indignant and would be contemptuous if contempt were consistent with hearty hatred against but would smile could he see the sincere vigilance with which we guard our pupils from selfishness and the risks of individual property it must however be acknowledged that has much improved upon the example of that magnificent conspiracy justice which we call by courtesy the government of the united states our does not spend all its time in gathering up the ribbons of a race or after the spoils of a political triumph it finds or makes some time to attend to the legitimate business of government it plans for the better treatment of we will not call them all it the insane it all except indians and the colored race in boston i the h the report of this of last winter is another evidence of our interest in our duties the labor of preparing it must have been and undertaken as it was with hearty good will it has resulted in an appeal to the right feeling and good sense of the state which we cannot think will be in vain every thing needed for the basis of seems to be contained in it arranged precisely stated and bearing evidence of thorough and accurate investigation there are it seems eleven tribes within the or rather enough to the names of eleven tribes these are the gay head fall river or pond or and the whole number of indians or people of color connected with them not including the tribe is eight hundred and forty seven there are but six or eight indians of pure blood in the state all the rest are of mixed blood mostly indian and african the past policy of the state in regard to | 37 |
remember when you asked me if i thought that in hopeless cases of suffering people should be released i was wrong � and it is curly who has altered my opinion he proves the contrary � hope out of despair � and god � worked a miracle � i turned away that she might not see my eyes � might not judge condemn me i said abruptly did you ever paint anyone but me with your fingers never she said and coloured i have to thank you she said abruptly for giving me through lord and lady and lady the most delightful time a girl ever had confided to me the other day i said that he was glad of the friendship between you and because now he was able to get a little of his wife s society oh said there was room on the merry go round of fashion for us all lady declared so she reached down and pulled me up beside her and merrily we ride with the p not far behind us and i am left out in the cold i said while you and merrily ride she shook her head the i see you everywhere she said � just a man of the world racing at playing foolish games at � amusing yourself as other men of your class and yet i thought how little she knew that one look from her eyes one word from her lips on a certain christmas night would have saved me from becoming what i now was � then i said quietly i heard hood ask you to marry him last night she started where at � at dinner the band was playing loudly � and i hear every word in a noise is it not taking rather a mean advantage of others she said gravely i find it very useful at times � and she looked at me quickly with that look of inner vision that i feared what are you doing she said almost in a whisper at times you have a reckless look of of indifference that me � where are you going to heaven through i said harshly ask she frowned as at a answer but was too proud to press the point then said at queen anne s yours and lady s lives almost seem to each other if i met you both as strangers i should say you were husband and wife � perfect comrades with a hundred ties and only one aim between you we have the same aim i said but again shook her head and placed on the an exquisite study of as if to what it was i really liked i did not know you were painting her i said with a sudden of discomfort yet had met often it was indeed impossible to go to any well known house or place without that very lovely person � and had distinguished by a most particular cordiality so that the painting of this portrait was not so very strange had dealt tenderly with her bringing out rather her rare loveliness and the helpless of her type than its hidden wickedness � in the bosom of her white gown was tucked a bunch of that matched her eyes it is a good name for her � said and added quite unconscious i believe of thinking aloud but little love is sweeter lit love � the way she said it expressed the whole book of love with hot colour and scent of flowers pressed close between � yet there was pain in her eyes yes and hunger the who calls her that i said sharply all the blood in my face was silent looking at me and i began to understand things better now i think it was said music is the literature of the heart it where speech ends but s eyes always said more than any music i ever heard do not tell me i said quietly i will go straight to her and have it out why should you do that she said quietly it was an accident � the letter fell out of her pocket at my feet the very first time i met her in square � as i picked it up to give it her i could not help seeing the beginning and the date of last year i said and she answered coldly no � of this � and this very month after i came she was very pale � somehow i knew then that not her proud how the mood of passionate desire in which i so abruptly left her in america had passed or that i had constructed for myself a life in which love and she had no part had her half so much as this one little note to which had a date � that after i came was the greatest admission i had yet won from s lips possibly i said quietly you regard me as at queen anne s of s type who when a fresh appeared on the scene copied his love letters out of les at that moment tea was brought and the man arranged it near the window where we could look out on the gay scene below this is almost as good as one of your in new york i said as the man departed to fetch cakes and my voice was harsh that is why we came here she replied love it you are very quiet this afternoon i said as she poured out tea no crowd she smiled she was very pale with a wonderful new light in her eyes it is such a wonderful of life to be rude to people you don t want so i gave myself a treat � and denied myself to but you and lady nothing could have shown more clearly how entirely i was dismissed in the character of a lover yet often it had | 17 |
as sweet as an apple blossom kneeling in front of the altar i watched her � i see her now � the late sunlight through the stained glass window fell like a glory on her pretty hair and on the little white folded so across her bosom and on her small hands and the brown that was twisted round her fingers she was praying so she told me afterwards to her guardian angel � i wonder what that personage was about just then i anyhow to her petition came no answer but a ii the master christian devil in me � i made her love me � i her by every subtle and persuasion i could think of � i can never even now think of that time without wondering where all the eloquent evil of my tongue came from and � well � she never was able to ask the guardian angel any more and i think i loved her for a while � but no i am not sure � i believe there is no such good thing as absolute love in my composition anyway i soon left and had almost forgotten her when she wrote to tell me of the birth of her child � a son i gave her no reply and then she wrote again � such a letter � such words at the mo ment they burnt me � me � positively hurt me � and i was not then easily hurt she swore she would bring the boy up to curse his father � and to put it quite briefly � she did she died when he was twenty and it now appears the lad took an oath by her death bed that he would never rest till he had killed the man who had his mother and broken her heart and brought him into the world with a on his name no filial respect you see and tried to force a smile to do the boy justice he apparently means to keep his oath � he has not rested he has been at infinite pains to discover me he has even been at the trouble to write me a warning letter and is now in paris watching me i in my turn take care to protect myself � i am followed by and am at enormous pains to guard my life not for my own sake but for his an odd of circumstances is it not i cannot have him arrested because he would at once relate his history and my name would be ruined and that would be quite as good a vengeance for him as the other thing you will admit that it is a very dramatic situation it is a said the cardinal in a low voice and a terrible one yes i suppose it is i imagined you would consider it in that light and half closed his eyes leaning back in his chair languidly but here i am willing to set things as straight as i can and it really seems impossible to arrange matters i am to die soon according to the doctors � and so i have made my will leaving everything i possess to this ridiculous boy who wishes to kill me and it is more than probable that he � the master christian considering how he has been brought up and educated � will cast all the money into the dirt and kick at my grave but what can i do nothing said the cardinal you can do nothing that is the worst of having inflicted a wrong upon the innocent � you can never by any means it you can repent � and it is probable that your very repentance your forgiveness at a higher than that of earth s judgment � but the results of wrong cannot be wiped out or done away with in this life � they continue to exist and alas � often even the harsh or unjust word cannot be recalled and however much we may regret having uttered it somehow it is never forgotten but � here leaning forward he laid one hand gently on s arm my dear friend � my dear brother � you have told me of your sin � it is a great sin � but god forbid that i should presume to judge you harshly when our lord himself declared that he came not to call the righteous but to repentance it may be that i can find a way to help you arrange for me to see this son of yours � and i will endeavour to find a means of to him and to the memory of his mother before you pass away from us � if indeed you are to pass away so soon under the levity you assume i perceive you have deep feeling on this matter � you shall not die with a wrong on your soul � you shall not if i can prevent it for there undoubtedly is another life you must go into it as purely as prayer and can make you i thought said the speaking somewhat that you might when you heard all some of rome s upon me what am i and what is rome compared with the master s own word said the cardinal gently if our brothers sin against us seventy times seven we are still to forgive and they are still our brothers judgments and of one another are not any part of our lord s commands rose up and held out his hand will you take it he said as a pledge that i will faithfully do whatever you may see fitting and right to the past � and to clear my son s soul from the thirst of vengeance which is it ii the master christian cardinal clasped the extended hand warmly there is your answer he said with smile which his fine countenance with | 33 |
i am about a good deal better than some of the rest of you you are all ready to go tom but if you don t have some one to lay out the work for you you couldn t do a thing that s so i don t ask any place or power for myself but i don t want to see the thing as it was at when you were going off so finely palace and cottage or do you mean to say that was my fault demanded i don t care whose fault it was the affair was a failure you were going into your boat while was in his berth below don t fight about it interposed i don t want to fight and don t intend to do so continued little but i want this business better managed than it was before you snapped at me because i said something to you don t know what you had no right to speak to him without letting some of us know it persisted all right i m under censure and i submit said little you are the chief go ahead and put the thing through you needn t get mad about it i don t intend to get mad tell me what to do and i ll do it the coast will be clear to night if you let this chance slip by you will never go take my word for that i don t see how we are to get the knights on board of the added after he had considered the matter a little do you know what boats are to be sent for the s fellows i don t replied as little did not afford the information do you monkey i do i have a friend at court who tells me what i want to know � s said no matter who it is i got the order just as it was given by the captain to the first lieutenant young america in france and i i what boats are they the s the first the professors and the second i don t see that this arrangement will help our plan any the knights are scattered in all these boats you are a louis xiii and you need a laughed little you have the problem all you have to do is to solve it given thirty knights of the golden in four boats to get them all into the same boat when only eight of them are to be found in any single boat i did not intend to do the thing in this way replied vexed at the of his companion did you intend to do the thing in any way mr commander of the order of course i did all right then we will obey orders as knights sir tom what is your plan if you don t object to stating it i don t object to stating it though i have not fully made it up yet added of course such an affair as this can t be carried out without a great deal of contrivance you can t tell beforehand how things are going to be and what you do is liable to go wrong we know all that interposed little impatiently but in this case we do know how things are going to be the will be left to night with no one on board of her but the cook and two i was going to tell you my plan but if you don t want to hear it i don t care about telling it replied rather palace and cottage or let us know what it is said we are going to paris monday i believe monday night added little who seemed to know everybody s plans just so and the darker the better one of these railway carriages here has about four which seat six or eight each we must contrive it so as to have all the knights get into the last carriage by hurrying up a little we can easily manage that but if we happen to get two or three other fellows in it won t much matter we can give them the slip what do you think of that plan asked who seemed to think he had invented a big idea i don t see through it yet answered little too coldly to please the commander of the expedition don t you well you are not so sharp as i thought you were sneered i see what you mean plainly enough but i want to hear the whole plan before i give an opinion what do i mean inquired the leader in you intend to the car and be left behind of course what in the station no after you get a mile or two out of the city i should do it when we are in some lonely place on the road then we can just make our way back to go on board the and put to sea without any delay that s what you mean but there are some trifling obstacles suggested little in the first place we shall all be locked into the young america in france and locked in what do we care for that isn t there a window big enough for a man to get out to say nothing of a boy added contemptuously when we were going from to i got out of the window on one side went over the top of the carriage and came in again at the window on the other side just for the fun of it there may be no difficulty about that but if the last carriage should be a mail car or something of that sort no matter if it is we can break up the train and when it stops all we have to do is to get out and make tracks for all right grant | 36 |
mentioned that his overcoat would n t do him any harm if he had it then and he and went away together while turned toward the other direction suppose you be out to town meeting called after him it was fairly amazing that nobody should have spoken about the great day of which were in every man s mind to a greater or less degree had not been without his hopes of running for � to tell the truth he had looked forward all the week before to his cause among his neighbors by a friendly word in season on sunday but his uncle s wrongs had driven his own political interests quite out of his head he walked slowly home in the fast gathering spring the noise of the brook growing fainter and fainter he a slight reaction from his enthusiasm and wished he had not spoken a farmer warmly against his cousins mary s a poor dragging he said to himself and as for she s near and set in her own way but she may treat the old gentleman well for shame s sake i don t know but i was hasty but i don t care if was it wa n t the right thing for her to do and then there s by way of any harm he might have done he held his peace in his own household and refrained from the of a sunday evening by introducing this most interesting subject of conversation he had a way of keeping things to himself at times which his wife found most provoking but he was possessed of that trait of many people of telling his secrets generously and even if he once was forced to break through the first barrier of reserve the next morning was clear and not cold but the warmth and influence of the day before was not to be felt it was commonplace new england spring weather and had a relationship to the melting of snow and the lingering of winter which was most a large number of persons had taken violent and the preserved a discreet silence wore not only his overcoat to town meeting but a round a farmer ms throat as well and he from time to tune angrily as if it were a note of and contempt there was a grand quarrel over the laying out of a new piece of road and it was at first found very difficult to choose the town officers there was a monotonous repetition of the house and when lost at last the position of he had become so angry with some of his and so tired with the noisy war that the glory of the occasion was very much it was over at four o clock and nobody had had any dinner except a slight refreshment of apples and very watery and sour which could be bought at abominable prices over the of one of the which were fastened in long rows to the fences near the old meeting house which had been given over to purposes was by no means a favorite among his he was very and had saved considerable money for which it was supposed had married him he was of the opposite party in politics to and he had been the opposing and successful candidate for the office which had lost s wagon was next but one and the two men their horses without looking at each other went home pre a farmer to believe any report of cruelty or on the part of his uncle s children and full of the intention to tell the story of their in his own household but he was not even to have this pleasure on that unlucky day his wife asked him reproachfully as he entered why he had said nothing of what everybody had been talking about who went by the house and which would have been no story at all without his own report already much of the meanness and of the next morning resumed his business of from which he had taken a two days but the excitement had been a good deal of a strain upon him and he worked without much enthusiasm for a few hours and about eleven o clock laid down his tools altogether the spoke was so dull that it needed grinding and there was nobody to turn the and his head ached a little he did not feel inclined to start out upon a new piece of work and taking a disgusted look around the shop at the limbs of various old and new he threw off his apron and went to the house which was only a few rods distant along the road outside the shop door were some of wheels in various stages of decay and and two or three old wagon bodies and chaise tops were rest a farmer ing on the ground in most forlorn condition as if they had been exposed to all the winter weather the wood work of one new farm cart was set up on and had received its first coat of paint but that was the only sign of any progress of the art that was carried on within one would think from the outward appearance of a s shop that it was also a of worn out carriages of every description the trade is apparently never carried on without much useless rubbish unless one may venture the suggestion that it is necessary to have a collection of specimens showing the advances and effects of various diseases of wheels as are furnished forth with on the seat of an old wagon there was perched a large rag doll and when saw it he smiled for the first time that morning he was very fond of his little girl to whom the doll belonged he pushed open the kitchen door with some faint of pleasure for a great of a well | 40 |
dear asked not very bright answered bravely a cup of tea will do me good it s all right � oh don t take any notice of me i m not going to faint or anything of that kind � j felt sick coming into those this warm light room a little after being np stairs i m all right she sat down and took the cup of tea which he handed to her but refused to eat anything with it and presently as she drank the hot she came more to her own senses and was able to look at her sister s admirer with differently interested eyes to those with which she had looked at him before she saw then how easily she might have been mistaken he was not unlike her dick for he was tall and fair with a determined turn of the chin and a gracious ease of manner which undoubtedly had helped to make him one of the most popular men in dear me said mrs to i wonder where your sister and lord are oh don t disturb them mrs said captain good well that s very pretty at a dance said the mother with an amused laugh but when it is afternoon tea and hot i don t tb e think that it s kind to let people idle about a damp or some equally uncomfortable or place do you oh i don t know he returned � i think if i was happy i d rather be left at the bottom of a well than be brought up to all the tea and in the world but i don t know that they are happy said mrs smiling i hear their voices said they are there was a faint light glimmering in the which lay between the drawing room and the morning room opened the door and came in followed by a tall fair haired man oh fancy your not letting us know that tea was ready � how detestable of you she said speaking to them generally lord let me introduce you to my much beloved sister m e chapter xi the pain of an old wound set thy heart aright and constantly endure for a moment there was profound silence then taught in the school of patience to endure looked up into the eyes of the only man that she had ever loved and held out her hand to him i am very pleased to meet you she said in an ice cold voice and ji came from between his teeth but turned abruptly away and went back to the tea table where she sat down by who was there and began to turn her idly round and round in her cup who had seen nothing gathered nothing of the tragedy which had taken place between these moan two sat down on a not far from the table and made a gesture to that he should come and sit beside her i do think it was too bad of you not to let us know that tea was ready she went on in a gay laughing voice don t you think so lord oh i do he said promptly trying hard to speak in a natural voice frank old fellow i think it was real mean of you yes dick always pitch into the younger son that s the worst of being a younger son captain went on to the room in general he s a sort of everlasting to his swell of an elder brother and then knew why this lover of s had deceived her for a moment into thinking that he was dick for he and dick were brothers my dear chap said lord as he fetched s cup of tea trying to catch a glance of s eyes the while you ve had the best of it all along i ve got the title and tm s and the money put in captain quietly yes yes the money but not everything then he took his own cup of tea seeing that resolutely avoided looking at him and sat down on the beside handsome by the by mrs he said after a minute or so changing his tone to one of ordinary gravity my brother and i secured seats at the theatre to night it is almost the end of the and i assure you it s really won t you give us the pleasure of going there with us i shall be charmed said mrs quite charmed i was very lucky to get eight seats and i have asked two other men � and sir john � won t you dine with me early at the hotel before we go to the theatre oh it would be most pleasant said mrs mc graciously but do you mean all of us he looked round with an odd little smile i why yes he said which of you could leave out it seemed like an eternity to before they themselves away but in reality it was not very long for captain s dog cart came round to the door in less than half an hour after he and she had met for the first time how hard he tried to get just one word alone with but it was impossible she never raised her eyes to his she answered his remarks and questions only in and the little hand that she gave him when he went away � although as he said by way of excuse it was but au instead of good bye � might have been the hand of a dead girl is that said he to his brother as they drove along the dusky lanes is that the sister you told me about frank � the one that was at school in yes and isn t she pretty pretty i shouldn t have thought of using the term pretty to her � no i | 30 |
suddenly the line flashed through his hand even through the the supposed to protect it he s a give him room to his strength cried dan i help ye no you won t snapped as he hung on to the line it s my first fish is � is it a whale dan peered down into the water alongside and flourished the big ready for all chances some captains courageous thing white and oval and fluttered through the green i lay my an share he s over a hundred are you so anxious to land him alone s were raw and bleeding where they had been against the his face was purple blue between excitement and exertion he with sweat and was half blinded from staring at the about the swiftly moving line the boys were tired long ere the who took charge of them and the for the next twenty minutes but the big flat fish was and hauled in at last s luck said dan wiping his forehead he s all of a hundred looked at the huge gray creature with unspeakable pride he had seen many times on marble ashore but it had never occurred to him to ask how they came inland now he knew and every inch of his body ached with fatigue ef was along said dan up he d read the signs plain s print the fish are smaller an smaller an you ve took as a s we re apt to i ll lay my an share s over a hundred captains courageous find this trip yesterday s catch � did ye notice it � was all big fish an no he d read them signs right off says on the banks is signs an can be read wrong er right s deeper n the whale hole even as he spoke some one fired a pistol on the we re here and a basket was run up in the fore what did i say that s the call fer the whole crowd s something er he d never break this time o day up an we pull back they were to of the just ready to the over the still sea when sounds of woe half a mile off led them to who was around a fixed point for all the like a gigantic the little man backed away and came down again with enormous energy but at the end of each his swung round and herself on her rope we to help him else he root an seed here said dan what s the matter said this was a new world where he could not lay down the law to his elders but had to ask captains courageous questions humbly and the sea was horribly big and anchor s s always losing em lost two this trip � on sandy bottom too � an says next one he loses sure s he give him the that u d break s heart what s a said who had a vague idea it might be some kind of marine torture like in the big stone of an anchor you kin see a in the bows fur s you can see a an all the fleet knows what it means they d him dreadful could n t stand that no more n a dog with a to his tail he s so sensitive stuck again don t try any more o your come up on her and keep your straight up an down it does n t move said the little man panting it does n t move at all and indeed i tried everything what s all this s nest for ard said dan pointing to a wild of spare oars and all together by the hand of captains courageous oh that said proudly is a spanish mr showed me how to make it but even that does n t move her dan bent low over the to hide a smile once or twice on the and behold the anchor drew at once haul up he said laughing er she stuck again they left him regarding the weed hung of the little anchor with big pathetic blue eyes and thanking them oh say while i think of it said dan when they were out of ear shot ain t quite all he ain t dangerous but his mind s give out see is that so or is it one of your father s judgments asked as he bent to his oars he felt he was learning to handle them more easily ain t this time s a sure no he ain t exactly so much a harmless it was this way you re quite so an i tell you cause it s right you know he was a preacher once jacob his name told me an he lived with his wife an four children out captains courageous way well he took his folks along to a � camp most like � an they stayed over jest one night in you ve talk o considered yes i have but i don t know why it sticks in my head same as both was big accidents � s why well that one single night and his folks was to the hotel was wiped out dam bust an her an the houses struck adrift an into each other an sunk i ve seen the pictures an they re he saw his folk drowned all n a heap fore he rightly knew what was his mind give out from that on he happened up to but for the poor life of him he could n t remember what an he jest drifted an he did n t know what he was nor what he bin an way he run uncle who was n city ha af my mother s folks they live scattered inside o an uncle he visits uncle he captains courageous kinder adopted well what | 39 |
his horns as did his before him � the lion the and the tiger only with their and their to fury and even the ihe same and uses the s improvements in war and as did his before the flood man blessed with the mind goes on from to discovery � and his powers of destruction the tremendous weapons of deity itself and tasks creation to assist him in his brother worm in proportion as the art of war has in improvement has the art of preserving peace ad in equal and as we have discovered in this age of wonders and inventions that is the most formidable in war so have we discovered the no less ingenious of maintaining peace by perpetual a treaty or to speak more correctly a therefore according to the o experienced learned in these matters is no longer an attempt to accommodate to ascertain rights and to exchange of kind offices but a of skill between two powers which shall over � reach and take in the other it is a cunning en � to obtain by peaceful and th of those advantages which nation would otherwise have by force o arms in the same manner that a and becomes an excellent no t� are the best s citizen himself with � eating his neighbour out of that property he ould formerly have seized with open violence in bet the only time when two nations can be said to be in a state of perfect is when a is open and a treaty then as there are no entered into no bonds to the will no specific limits to awaken the jealousy of right in out nature as each party has some advantage to hope and expect from the other then it is that the two nations are so gracious and friendly to each other their ministers the highest mutual regard exchanging making fine speeches and indulging in all those little and that do so the good humour of the respective nations thus it may be aid that there is never so good an understanding between two nations as when there is a little misunderstanding � and that so long as they are on no terms they are on the best terms in the world i do not by any means pretend to claim the merit of having made the above political discovery it has in ct long been secretly acted upon by j h w td ruin enlightened and is er divers other notable theories privately copied out of the common place book of an gen who has been member of and the unlimited confidence of heads of de j to this principle may be ingenuity that has been op years in � hence the cunning measure of ai some im and and u m the art of or whose errors and may be a plea for refusing to iii engagements and hence too that most l so popular with our of sending out a brace of who i m h an individual will to consult character establish and interest to promote you ma as well look for and n tm lovers with one mistress two dogs with one or two naked with one pair of breeches this therefore is continually breed ing and in consequence o� which the goes on � much as there is no prospect of its ever coming a � war fu � d v by md but in a to i exposed all time is in so much time � with what does modem political economy i now au that i have here advanced so i to take up the readers with treating of matters many a time have stared them in the face but die to which i would most call attention is this that though a be the most hi of all na yet a treaty of peace is a great political evil and one of the most fruitful sources l ha e rarely seen an instance of any special contract between individuals that did not produce j and often downright between them nor did i ever know of a between two nations that did not occasion how many worthy neighbours have i known who after living in and good fellowship for years have been into a state of distrust and by some ill agreement about fences when are binding runs of water and stray cattle and how many well meaning nations who would otherwise have remained in the most disposition towards each other have been brought to swords points about the or of some treaty which in an evil hour they had concluded by way of making their more sure at best are but with so as interest requires their consequently they are binding on the weaker party only or in plain truth they are not binding at all no nation will go to war with an other if it has nothing to gain thereby and therefore needs no treaty to restrain it from violence and if it have any thing to gain i much question from what i have witnessed of the righteous conduct of nations whether any treaty could be made so strong that it could not thrust the sword through � nay i would hold ten to one the treaty itself would be the very source to which resort would be had to find a pretext for thus therefore i conclude � that though it is the best of all for a nation to keep up a constant with its neighbours yet it is the summit of folly for it ever to be into a treaty for then comes on the non fulfilment uke courtship and then remonstrance then then then and finally open war in a word is like courtship a time of sweet words gallant speeches soft looks and caresses � but the marriage ceremony is the signal for s chapter iv how peter was greatly by his the moss | 48 |
so noble and glorious are on the other side of the world by little insects like this the prime minister bowed and made some answer which i did not understand the king returned me to my little table by the salt cellar and then went on with his talk i suppose said he that these little creatures live and think much as we do they have their titles and their fashions they have tiny nests and which they call houses they have fine dresses and carriages and think themselves great they love they fight they push one another about they cheat they scramble they boast of their deeds and small as they are they think themselves the greatest and wisest people under the sun he said much else that made me both angry and ashamed i never felt myself so small and weak as i did while listening to him how i through the country it was the custom of the king to make frequent visits to the various cities and towns in his the queen often went with him upon these journeys and she never failed to take me and my little nurse along at such times i saw and heard many things and thus learned much about the great country of as it is called the kingdom itself is about six thousand miles long and from three to five thousand broad it is bounded on three sides by the ocean and on the fourth side by an range of mountains what lies on the other side of the mountains nobody has yet discovered but if i were allowed to guess i should say that very likely the continent of north america is there there are no in the kingdom for all around the coast the ocean is too shallow to float vessels of any great size in the interior the rivers are broad and deep and there are many ships sailing upon them the country is very thickly settled there are cities and a great number of towns and villages the streets of the cities are all the time thronged with busy people the queen had a box made for me in which i was carried when on a journey it was smaller than that which i used as a bedroom at the palace it was square with a window on each of three sides my little nurse usually sat in the queen s coach and my box was not too large to be held in her lap but often when i became tired of the a servant on horseback would take the box and it upon a cushion in front of him it was very pleasant to ride there when the weather was fine and the horse moved gently from my three windows i could look out over all the country this box was so comfortable and handy that my nurse used it at home when she wished to carry me about the streets or the king s gardens thus at different times she took me to all the interesting places in the capital i saw the shops and the stores the temples and the great market places the king s palace is a huge building about seven miles round the rooms are more than two hundred feet high and broad and long in proportion the kitchen is a wonderful place the oven is as broad as the dome of st paul s cathedral in london if i should tell you about the kitchen grate the big pots and and the huge joints of beef which i saw there you would not believe me the king s stables are on the same grand scale there were about six hundred horses there when i visited them these horses were from fifty to sixty feet high when the king rides out on holidays he is attended by a guard of five hundred i shall never forget the first time that i saw him and his guard galloping down the street it was a splendid sight how i escaped many dangers everything was so great and large in that strange country and i was so small that i have often wondered how i escaped with my life one day my nurse left me alone in the garden while she took a short walk with her suddenly a came up the fell fast and thick they were about the size of balls and i was in great danger of having my brains dashed out i was indeed knocked to the ground but i made out to creep under a large leaf where i lay in much pain and fear until the storm was over when my nurse found me i was bruised from head to foot she put me to bed and it was ten days before i could go out again at another time i was in still greater danger in the same garden i was sitting alone in the shade of a of grass when i heard a strange sound near me i looked up and saw the gardener s dog coming before i could cry out he seized me m his mouth i gave myself up for lost but the animal had been so well taught that he did not bite me he held me gently and ran his tail to his master then he set me on the ground without having me in the least the gardener who knew me well was in great fright he took me up in both his hands and asked if i was hurt it was a minute or two before i could speak just then my nurse came running to me in alarm she the gardener sharply for letting his dog come into the garden but she was afraid of the queen s anger and so never told her of my narrow escape at another time as i was walking in the garden a hawk that was in the air down | 23 |
in her hand the fair form of the young bride that never came home gathered from the radiance an aspect of life and seemed to float forth from the dark canvas like a holy spirit of beauty and blessing shadow and substance � dead mother and living child � these twain gazed on each other through cloud of impenetrable mystery � nor is it impossible to conceive that some contact between them might through the of a thought a longing a prayer have been at that mystic moment with a sudden cry of irresistible emotion stretched out her arms and dropping on her knees broke out into a passion of tears oh mother mother i she sobbed � oh darling mother i how i would have loved j tn such under the silent of the lost and loving dead tie long deserted old received back the sole daughter of its to that protection which we understand or did understand at one time in our history as home home was once a safe and sacred institution in england there seemed no of its ever being by the public that it has in a great measure been so is no advantage to the and that many women young and old prefer to be seen in over dressed taking their meals in eating houses rather than essay the becoming grace of a simple and sincere hospitality to their friends in their own homes is no evidence of their improved taste or good breeding s was in every sense home in the old english sense of the word its ancient walls by long tradition formed a peaceful and sweet harbour of rest for a woman s life � and the tranquil dignity of her old world surroundings with all the legends and memories they awakened soon had a effect on s temperament which under her aunt s influence had been more or less and uneasy she began to feel at peace with herself and all the world � while the relief she experienced at having deliberately severed herself by both word and act from the attentions of a too persistent and detested lover in the person of lord future duke of was as keen and as that of a child who has run away from school she was almost confident that the fact of her having thrown off her aunt s protection together with all hope of her aunt s wealth would be sufficient to keep him away from her for the future for it is aunt s money he wants � not me she said to herself � he doesn t care a about me personally � any woman will do provided she has the millions and when he knows i ve given up the millions and don t intend ever to have the millions he ll leave me alone and hell go over to america in search of somebody else � some proud daughter of oil or pork or steel i � and what a blessing that will be i god s good man meanwhile such excitement as had been caused in st rest by the return of th squire s and by the almost dismissal of had weu nigh a new agent had been appointed and though had left the immediate vicinity having employment on sir s lands he had secured a cottage for himself in the small hamlet of he also undertook some work for the reverend in assisting him to form an collection for the private museum at hall mr had a singular fellow feeling for insects � he studied their habits and collected specimens of various kinds in bottles or pinned them on � he was an interested observer of the manners practised by the harvest and the sagacious customs of the spider � as well as the many surprising and agreeable talents developed by the common s hatred of was not lessened by the apparently useful and scientific nature of the employment he had newly taken up under the guidance of his reverend � and whenever he caught a butterfly and ran his pin through its quivering body at s bland command he thought of her and wished that she might perish as swiftly and utterly as the winged lover of the flowers every small bright thing in nature s garden that he and brought home as inspired him with the same secret fierce desire the act of killing a beautiful or harmless creature gave him pleasure and he did not disguise it from himself the reverend was delighted with his and with the many valuable additions he made to the specimen cards and bottles and the two became constant companions in their search for fresh victims among the and fields st rest as a village was only too glad to be rid of s long detested presence to care anything at all as to his further occupations or future career � and only kept as he said an eye on him was a somewhat curious personage � as he showed himself on most occasions he was both shrewd and no stone was more than he when he chose in his heart he had set as second to none save his own master john � her beauty and grace her firm action with regard to the rescue of the five sisters and her quick dismissal of had all inspired him with the most unbounded admiration god s good man and respect and he felt that he now had a interest in life � the � and the lady of the but he found very little opportunity to talk his new and cherished theme of miss and miss s many attractions to � for john always shut him up on the subject with quite a and decision whenever he so much as mentioned her name which conduct on the part of one who was generally so willing to hear and patient to listen somewhat surprised for he argued | 33 |
brothers smiled but spoke not are ye my sons said the father in tears and will you who were ever obedient and dutiful disregard me now in this one thing we must said john we how you not now as our father am i right said he addressing his brothers you are right they replied in this thing he is mt our father great god said the priest trembling with m absolute dread at a scene so from any he had ever witnessed merciful father hear our prayers and drive the evil spirits of vengeance and blood out of the hearts of these wicked men amen said their father and rescue them from the strong temptations of the devil which are in them and upon them why do you not even pray to god � � for strength to do it � we did and we do said john interrupting him father looked at them and there they stood pale silent and with a smile upon their lips which filled him with a description of awe and fear that were new to him their father was little better the perspiration stood on his brow and as he looked at them he at times began to doubt their very identity and to that the whole interview might be a or a hideous dream you have sworn an oath said the priest rash and sinful men you dared to take as it were the almighty into a league of blood do you not know that the creature you are about to is the work of your creator even as you are yourselves and what power have you over his life i see i see he added you have taken a oath of blood we have taken an oath of blood said they and wc will keep it the but is this just to your sister said the priest do you believe in the justice of an providence is there no probability that if this man lives circumstances may come to by which her fair and character may be to the world on the contrary should you now take his life you prevent any such possibility from ever happening and your own and crime will be the means of sending her name down to po and spotted with the of a woman s worst guilt is that love for your sister father now began to see that he must argue with their passions � or with that strong affection for their sister upon which these fearful passions were founded � rather than with their reason or their prejudices which in point of fact were now set in the dark determination of crime do you forget he added that there are laws in the country to pursue and overtake the murderer do you forget that you will die an death and that instead of acting an honourable part in life as becomes your ancient and noble name you will nothing to your parents but an inheritance of shame and we have thought of all this before said john m no not all said the youngest not all but nearly well nearly said the other then said the priest you will not hesitate to your most foul and intention we have sworn it said john and it must be done to this the others calmly assented well then said this earnest christian since you fear neither disgrace nor shame nor the force of human laws nor the dread of human punishment you are not so hardened as to bid defiance to the almighty by whom you will be judged has he not said thou shalt do no murder and that who so blood by man shall his blood be shed i now ask you said he as one of the of his messengers do you believe in god and fear him we are sworn said john the blood of him who has our sister s name we will shed and it is neither priest nor parent who will or shall prevent us is not a rash and oath a crime said father yes and you know it is better broken than kept i call upon you now as your spiritual and guide to that oath of blood and in the name of the the irish agent almighty and all powerful god i command you to do it we deny your right to interfere replied john we are not now at confession � keep within your limits for as sure as there is death and judgment so sure as we will fulfil our oath in the disgrace of our that ends all and we will speak no more the good old man began to fear that he should be put to the most painful necessity of lodging before a magistrate and thus become the means of bringing disgrace and evil upon the family when it occurred to him to ask them a last question my dear young men said he i have forgotten in the agitation of mind occasioned by the disclosure of your evil and wilful intentions to ask if you so far god as to refuse to worship him kneel down and let us pray he himself and their father knelt but the three brothers stood as sullen and immovable as before the priest uttered a short prayer but their conduct so completely perplexed and shocked him that he rose up and with tears in his eyes exclaimed � i am now an old man and have witnessed many instances of error and sin and deep crime but never before have i seen in persons of your early years vol m such instances � such awful terrible instances � of in which the heart setting aside and his sacred is given over to the h ness of final i can do no more as of christ but i must not stand by see a fellow creature � oh thank god he exclaimed a thought | 50 |
tore through its slight buildings them as if they had been built of cards and every moment or two one would see a huge rock come through the upper air above the smoke clouds and go plunging down through the roofs fire broke out and columns of flame and smoke rose toward the sky presently the changed the weather the sky became and a strong wind rose and blew away the smoke that hid the sh then the spectacle was fine gray walls and towers and streaming bright flags and of red fire and of white smoke in long rows all standing out with sharp against the deep leaden background of the sky and then the began to knock up the dirt all us and i felt no more interest in the scenery there was one english gun that was getting our position down finer and finer all the time presently pointed to it and said fair duke step out of your tracks or that machine will kill you the duke d did as he was bid but du took his place and that cannon tore his head off in a moment recollections of op arc was watching all along for the right time to order the assault at last about nine o clock she cried out now � to the assault r and the blew the charge instantly we saw the body of men that had been appointed to this service move forward toward a point where the concentrated fire of our guns had the upper half of a broad stretch of wall to ruins we saw this force descend into the ditch and begin to plant the we were soon with them the lieutenant general thought the assault e but said ah gentle duke are you afraid do you not know that i have promised to send you home safe it was warm work in the the walls were crowded with men and they of stones down upon us there was one gigantic englishman who did us more hurt than any dozen of his brethren he always the places easiest of assault and down exceedingly troublesome big stones which smashed men and both � then he would near burst himself with laughing over what he had done but the duke settled accounts with him he went and the famous le and said train your gun � kill me this demon he did it with the first shot he hit the englishman fair in the breast and knocked him backward into the city the enemy s resistance was so effective and so stubborn that people began to show signs of mark twain doubt and dismay seeing this raised her inspiring battle cry and descended into the herself the dwarf helping her and the sticking bravely at her side with the standard she started up a ladder but a great stone flung from above came crashing down upon her and stretched her wounded and upon the but only for a moment the dwarf stood her upon her feet and straightway she started up the ladder again crying to the assault friends to the assault � the english are ours it is the appointed hour there was a grand rush and a fierce roar of and we over the like the garrison fled we was ours the earl of was hemmed in and surrounded and the duke d and the of demanded that he surrender himself but he was a proud nobleman and came of a proud race he refused to his sword to saying i will die rather i will surrender to the maid of alone and to no other and so he did and was courteously and used by her his two brothers retreated fighting step by step toward the bridge we pressing their despairing forces and cutting them down by scores arrived on the bridge the slaughter still continued alexander de la pole was pushed overboard or fell over and was drowned eleven hundred men had fallen john de la pole decided to give up the struggle recollections of of arc but he was nearly as proud and particular as his brother of as to whom he would surrender to the french officer nearest at hand was who was pressing him closely sir john said to him are you a gentleman yes and a knight no then sir john him himself there on the bridge giving him the with english coolness and tranquillity in the midst of that storm of slaughter and and then bowing with high courtesy took the sword by the blade and laid the of it in the man s hand in token of surrender ah yes a proud tribe those de la poles it was a grand day a memorable day a most splendid victory we had a crowd of prisoners but would not allow them to be hurt we took them with us and marched into next day through the usual tempest of welcome and joy and this time there was a new tribute to our leader from everywhere in the packed streets the new squeezed their way to her side to touch the sword of of arc and draw from it somewhat of that mysterious quality which made it invincible end of volume i j i signs the list of personal recollections of of arc the louis de and thb original d manuscript in thi national of france vol ii by f v du york and london ft op arc vol ii x and by printed in the united states of america h contents book ll � her doom i fierce xxx the red field of france begins to live again the joyous news flies fast s five great deeds the of the the heir of france is crowned hears news from home again to arms the king cries forward we win but the king xl treachery the maid will march no more book iii i the maid in chains ii sold | 34 |
and also that this concession had been granted in obedience to the request of that friend or enemy she shook her head and toiled on the time for the rat catching arrived at last and the h mt b an the creatures had crept downwards with the of the till they were all together at the bottom and being now from their last refuge they ran across the open in au directions a loud shriek from the by this time informing her companions that one of the rats had invaded her person � a terror which the rest of the women had guarded against by various schemes of skirt and self elevation the rat was at last and amid the barking of dogs masculine shouts feminine screams oaths and confusion as of her by the convert last the drum the and she stepped from the machine to the her lover who had only looked on at the rat catching was at her side what � after all � my insulting slap too said she in an she was so utterly e that she had not strength to speak louder i should indeed be foolish to feel offended at anything you say or do he answered in the voice of the time how the little limbs tremble you are as weak as a calf you know you are and yet you need have done nothing since i arrived how could you be so obstinate however i have told the farmer that he has no right to employ women at steam it is not proper work for them and on all the better class of farms it has been given up as he knows very well i will walk with you as far as your home o yes she answered with a gait walk wi me if you will i do bear in mind that you came to marry me before you knew o my state perhaps � perhaps you are a little better kinder than i have been thinking you were whatever is meant as kindness i am grateful for whatever is meant in any other way i am at i cannot sense your meaning sometimes if i cannot our former relations at least i can assist you and i will do it with much more r ard for your feelings than i formerly showed my religious or whatever it was is over but i retain a little good i hope i do now by all that s tender and strong between man and women trust me i have enough and more than enough to put you out of anxiety both for yourself and your parents and sisters i can make em all comfortable if you will only show confidence in me have you seen lately she quickly yes they didn t know where you were it was only by chance that i found you here by op the d the cold moon looked upon s face between the twigs of the i hedge as she paused outside the e which was her temporary home d pausing beside her don t mention my little brothers and don t make me down quite she said if you want to help them � god knows they need it � do it without telling me but no no she cried i will take nothing from you either for them or for me he did not accompany her further since as she lived with the household all was public indoors no sooner had she entered herself in a washing tub and shared supper with the family than she fell into thought and withdrawing to the table under the wall by the light of her own little lamp wrote in a passionate mood � mv own husband � let me call you i � ven if it makes you angry to think of such an unworthy wife as i i must cr to you in mv � i have no one else i am so exposed to temptation angel i tear to say who it is and i do not like to write about it at au but i cling to you in a way ou cannot think can you not come to me now at once before any terrible happens o i know you cannot because you are so far away i think i must die if you do not come soon or me to come to you the punishment you have measured out to me is deserved � i do know that � well � and you are right and just to be angry with me but angel please please not to be just � only a little kind to me even if i do not deserve it and come to if you would come i could die in your arms i would be well content to do that if so be you had angel i live entirely for you i love you too much to blame for going away and i know it was you should find a farm do not think i shall say a word of sting or bitterness only come back to me i am desolate without you my darling o so i do not mind having to work but if you will send me one little line and say am coming soon i will bide on o so cheerfully it has so much my religion ever since we were married to be faithful to you in every it and look that even when a m speaks a compliment to me before i am aware it seems have you never felt one little bit of what you used to feel when we were at the if you have how can you keep away from me i am the same woman ai as you fell in love with yes the veiy same � not the one you disliked but never saw what was the past to me as soon as i | 45 |
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in regard to him at the repeated use of that name colored have you gone so far as to acknowledge your mistake he asked thrice in the last three minutes you have called him are you willing to admit that that is his name there was a wise look on the lawyer s wrinkled countenance yes he answered slowly i am obliged to admit it now then you have been mistaken all along mr shook his head his name ts and i have not been mistaken he repeated for that riddle a long explanation is necessary and i think should be given by mr in person perhaps he paused and consulted his watch perhaps it will be best to send for him now as things have taken such a turn and have it over with gray stared at his companion then you know where he is he asked women queer precisely he is in jail on what charge attempting to gray out of more than two hundred thousand dollars felt his brain growing light first had promised to save his wife to him and now he talked of recovering his lost fortune it surely was a dream it could not be reality i am going to send for at once continued and have you listen to his story right where you are it is not safe to let you go out of here with only a partial knowledge of the truth in more than one case a little learning is a dangerous thing will you promise not to allude to anything in connection with your wife while that man is in your presence because without that promise there is no use in bringing him after a moment s reflection agreed to the proposition and the lawyer several notes by various messenger boys who responded to his call the first response was from a who was to take a report of the conversation it was expected would and shortly afterwards two appeared leading a prisoner between them love gone astray chapter a cross examination except on the stage no man whose hands are and who is in the of officers of the law looks comfortable was not an exception to the rule but when he saw mr gray he put on an air of which he doubtless thought would conceal the agitation of his mind he nodded recognition and when his irons were removed at mr request rubbed his wrists with a and remarked that of that kind was not to his liking then when the had withdrawn into the outer office and he was left alone with the lawyer the and mr gray he settled himself easily in a chair and asked whether there was anything he could do to make the occasion more agreeable to all parties i have sent for you replied the quiet voice of mr in order that you may make whatever statement you think best before this gentleman indicating as to your connection with the estate your words will be taken down in and drawn up in the form of an to which should you wish you can make oath i offer you no for this you are to leave the future entirely to me as far as my action is concerned but if you think best to tell the truth in relation to the matter you now have an opportunity of doing so a there is something in the pushing of a s pencil over the pages of a deeply impressive to those who have occasion to know for the first time that their words are being with absolute precision i have already told you all there is to tell was s answer as he eyed the pencil what i ask then is that you repeat the statement for the benefit of mr gray and in the hearing of this secretary if you prefer to decline but to this instantly he was quite ready he said to answer all questions put to him m i thought you would be said with a grim smile now let me say one thing more let your answers refer wholly to the point at issue and not by any stray beyond it if you have anything further to say to mr gray or to any one let it remain until the has gone gray looked up gratefully as this suggestion was made for he had feared that in the course of the examination something might be uttered which he would rather third parties did not hear there was sufficient strain already upon his brain he was trying to rest on the assurance of the lawyer that his wife had not been false to him with this man though he could see no way to establish an innocence which he thought she had herself but whatever the truth of that matter the letter that had found in the papers of colonel as the author of her original fall which was enough to make his presence most hateful love gone astray to her husband buried his face in his hands and listened anxiously for the testimony to proceed what is your true name was the first question mr put to his witness was the ready answer christian name gray looked up astounded have you ever known any one by the name of yes two my father and my brother by a second marriage the lawyer had maintained that this man was named and yet that he was a fraud and a cheat already he had proved the truth of those in answer to then went on to tell how his father had contracted marriage with miss within a year of the death of his first wife and how the lady had died shortly after giving birth to her son the father was a fellow who left the boys in charge of a housekeeper being absent for months at a time the children attended school at their home in new south | 1 |
in the city of paris they had traversed the place de la con with its its fountains and its memories of a great past and after creeping at that s pace which is the delight of the along the magnificent way they paused at the arch of triumph which stands the wonder of nations in the place de paris always lovely from april to october is at its best in june and this particular afternoon was as nearly perfect as one could desire the gentlemen were both young if being on the sunny side of thirty a man to that distinction each was in fact nine and twenty years of age and they had known each other ever since their boyhood days when they attended the same in one of the american cities though the husband friend attached of friends they were little alike either in their views of life their habits of thought or their manner of address was the name of the of the pair a bright sunny faced fellow with a good color a pair of blue eyes and an build he seemed to his own spirits into everything and entertained his companion with a constant fire of running small talk in reference to the sights of their drive the other was of mould with more of the aspect of the student in his make up and it would not have taken a very close observer to have detected in his appearance on this june morning a that seemed almost unnatural as soon as the carriage in which the friends rode paused before the arch of triumph burst into enthusiastic of it both as a work of art and for the genius which it is meant to to all of the praises which he his companion returned however only replies for a time was too much taken up with the of his own to note his friend s mood but at length it dawned upon him that his interest in the monument was not being wholly shared and he paused in the midst of an unusually glowing period to ascertain the reason it occurs to me my dear he said with a smile that you are not paying as strict attention to my as a good should give to his guide are you fully of tht fact that you are standing before the arch that the world now possesses if not as i believe the it ever has owned do df the place l know that this spot on which you are with its twelve great avenues from this star is the centre of all that is beautiful in france and the envy of every other capital in the other gentleman acknowledged the question by a slight bow but gave no indication of being particularly impressed by the points you must not forget harry he replied pleasantly that this is not the first time i have seen this arch i rode past here on sunday on my way to the i am quite sure for all that responded his friend that this does not explain your coolness people usually find the monument growing upon them with each visit i know it has been so with me the same as it was with the church of st peter at rome if i were to come here every day for a year i think it would impress me more and more to the end you have seen it twice and your interest in it is exhausted you have not a word to say in its praise there is no astonishment in your gaze no lighting up of your countenance in the presence of the perfect work grew slightly uneasy at the knowledge that he was being forced to make an answer he did not relish i will take no issue with you he said on its beauties but oh confound it don t bring your notions into such a discussion as this y cried harry with an expression of the greatest aversion try to understand what this arch truly represents it the vi y tones of the greatest soldier who ever the her s earth a nation does well to remember its noblest sons and france has done no wiser thing than to rear this arch to napoleon and to build that house for his ashes whose dome you can see over there at the the cab driver happy in knowing that he was to be paid by the hour sat on his box in the sun and wondering what the two were talking about so earnestly a slight gesture of impatience you know very well harry that i consider that sort of thing stuff and nonsense said he was simply and solely an ambitious soldier of fortune who coldly sacrificed a million mistaken followers to gain for himself an empire the greatest in the world and perished miserably in a prison as he deserved all talk about his grandeur is lost on me as for this monument if one could consider it solely by itself it is indeed a thing of beauty if i were able to forget what it means i might become as enthusiastic as you are but when i look at it with the light of history in my eyes i can see only the of an butcher let us drive on the memories that this arch calls up will be likely to put me in an ill temper and the sooner we get away from it the better harry met these rather expressions with a musical laugh and bidding the coachman continue the drive into the he entered the carriage with his friend as they passed down the avenue de la e he resumed the conversation at the point where it had been left off as you are of along line of french rulers if not of princes through your ancestors the i am surprised at you in the place l is it is | 1 |
fairer than thee they began said then be thou the first to leave off at thy request ray she then whispered it was only to make you you are you are sad judge whether i care for the of these little fools or the admiration of these big fool dear would were what they take me for you should not be so sad sighed deeply and shook his head but to by the earnest young tones the jet black locks much as one strokes the head of an t dog at this moment a drifting slowly down stream got entangled for an instant in their ropes for the river turning suddenly they had shot out into the stream and this came between them and the bank in it a lady of great beauty was seated under a with and standing behind her looked up at the interruption it was the princess he coloured and withdrew his hand from s head was all admiration ladies said she here is a rival an ye will those were coloured by like mine peace child i peace said make not too free with the great why she heard me not oh what a lovely creature two of the females had been for some time past putting their heads together and casting glances at one of them now addressed her do you love the speaker had a of them yes i love them when i can get them said and the fruit with ill concealed desire but yours is not the hand to give me any i you are much said the other here catch i and suddenly threw a double handful into s lap brought her knees together by an irresistible instinct you are caught my lad cried she of the nuts tis a man or a boy a woman still her knees to catch the nuts the in her apron but a man his for fear they shall fall between his confess now never wear ere to day give me another handful sweetheart and tell thee there i i said he was too handsome for a woman they have found me out observed the calmly an the vowed it was impossible and all glared at the goddess like a battery but struck in and reminded the gaping of a recent in which they had with an not often found among laughed and him to scorn for saying that men were as beautiful as women in a true s eye where are ye now this is my boy you have all been down on j our knees to him ha i but oh my little ladies when lie you and flung your your and your back in your f tis then i was like to burst a my colours ha i the little i duck him i what for cried in dismay and lost his rich but the females collected round him and vowed nobody should harm a hair of his head the dear child i how well his pretty little ways become him oh what eyes and teeth i and what eyebrows and hair i and what lashes v and what a nose i the sweetest little ear in the world i and what health i touch but his cheek with a pin the blood should who would be so cruel he is a washed in dew and they themselves for their admiration of her by all their tenderness on him but one there was who was still among these but no longer of them the sight of the princess had torn open his wound scarce three months ago he had declined the love of that creature a love and insane but at least refined how much had he fallen now how happy he must have been when the of that might have melted an could not tempt him from the path of loyalty now what was he he had blushed at her seeing him in such company yet it was daily company he hung over the boat in moody silence and from that hour another phase of his began and grew upon him some wretched fools try to drown care ii the of vanish the care remains and must be faced at last � with aching head a stomach and spirit depressed s conduct had been of a piece with to survive his terrible blow he all his forces his virtue his health his habits ol labour and the calm sleep that is labour s above all his piety yet all these to wounded hearts he away and trusted to moral its brief fled the heart lay heavy as lead within his bosom but now the dark remorse sat upon it it broken health means wasted innocence fled margaret parted from him by another gulf than the grave i the hot of despair passed away the cold fit of despair came on then this miserable young man his gay companions and all the world he wandered alone he drank wine alone to himself and a moment the dark foes to man that upon his soul he wandered alone amidst the temples of old rome and lay stony eyed woe among ruins worse wrecked than they the and the health last of all came the climax to which solitude that gloomy jet foe of minds the hopeless he wandered alone at night by dark streams and eyed them and eyed with there glided peace perhaps what else was left him these dark have been broken by kind words by loving and cheerful voices the friend the afflicted one possesses may speak or look or smile a between him and that worst madness now was where his hearty kind old they would see by their homely but swift they would see and save no they knew not where he was or whither he was gliding and is there no mortal eye upon the poor wretch and the dark road he is going yes one | 9 |
they work well everywhere but at home because they everywhere else find the more powerful class ready to employ them instruct them pay them in ireland alone are they required to work for six pence to eighteen pence per day and even at these stand idle half the year for want of anything to do so that the rent which they would readily double for better if they were fully employed and fairly paid now and them and their little patches of land which ought to be in the highest degree productive are often the worst cultivated of any this side of the ignorance want and have their energies and the consequent decay of the has involved most of the aristocracy in the general ruin the estates commission is now rapidly passing the soil of ireland out of the hands of its into those of a new generation may these be wise enough to profit by the warning before them and by to the condition of the laboring millions place their own prosperity on a solid and lasting foundation general aspects the south of ireland is decidedly more fertile and inviting than the north or west there is a deeper richer soil with far less stone on the level low lands the railroad from to runs throughout over a level plain and though it passes from the valley of the across those of the the and the to that of the no perceptible ridge is crossed no traversed and very little rock or required although the are often carried over the track at an absurd expense while the principal d p ts are made to thrice what general aspects should i still cannot account for the great on irish they would have been built at one half the cost in the states where the wages of labor are thrice as much as here who pockets the difference of course there is stealing in the of land but so there is everywhere when i was in way a case was tried in which a proprietor whose was crossed by the railroad the company for more than the had him and it was proved on the trial that his utterly worthless before had been partially drained and considerably increased in value by the railroad there seems to be no conscience in of those who invest their money often most reluctantly in of which the main benefits are universal in ireland they have and greatly every class but the and these they have well nigh ruined there are fewer remains of dwellings recently cleared and thrown down in the south than in the west of ireland though they are not unknown here but i saw no new ones going up save in immediate connection with the in either section if government and ideas are to remain as they have been the country may be considered absolutely finished with nothing more to do but decay i trust however that a new leaf is about to be turned over still it is mournful to pass through so fine a country and see how the hand of death has it even at the head of ship on the glorious of the with through the heart of this kingdom for sixty or eighty miles above it shows scarcely a recent building except the railroad d pot and the union poor house while its general aspect is that of decline and decay the smaller towns between it and have a like gloomy appearance � with its deserted and its towering ruins looking most dreary of ice at all happy is the who in a new land and amid the and hopes which it is spared the daily contemplation of his country s ruin and yet there are brighter shades to the picture nature and imperative does her best to remedy the ills created by man s to man the south of ireland seems far better wooded than either the north or west and young forests and tree soften the gloom which and would naturally suggest though the railroad runs wholly through a tame dull level sweeping of hills appear at intervals on either side exhibiting a lovely of cultivation grass and forest to the delighted the hay crop is badly saved so far and some that has been cut several days is still under the weather while a good deal though long ripe remains the wheat looks to me thin and the principal grain here are short and generally poor but i never saw he more luxuriant or promising and the area covered with this noble root is most extensive the poor have a fashion of planting in beds three to six feet wide with narrow between which though extra labor must a large yield and presents a most luxuriant appearance little was sown but that little is very good is suffering from the stormy weather but is quite yet there is much land either wholly neglected or only yielding a little grass while i perceive even less than in the west i did not anticipate a tour of pleasure through ireland but the reality is more painful than i anticipated of all i have seen at work in the fields to day cutting and carrying turf potatoes shaking out hay fee at least one third were women if i could believe that their fathers and husbands were in america clearing lands and for their future homes should not regret this but the probability is that only aspects a few of them are there or employed anywhere while hundreds of neglected patches of cultivation show that narrow as the mainly are they are yet often cultivated the end of this is of course whence the next stage is the union work house alas unhappy ireland prospects of ireland tuesday august of irish irish irish irish misery the world has heard enough i could not wholly avoid them without giving an essentially false and account of what must be | 19 |
he declared expected to be better than white folks like white folks ain been free sense de begin he however shortly returned to his theme well thing i one sunday i down in my house an come p all done fixed up a high collar on high as master s an a better breeches on n i wear in my life an a an a cane an a i he comes in de do an he in he han sort o so an he off he hat o an say good pa an ma he � dot she � manners she ain know no better but i ain like nobody to me an i say look boy don fool me i ain well to day an ef you fool me when i done you you feel well you self den he o let he feathers down an he say he warn me to him three dollars an a half i ax him what p b he warn do it i know i to him � well money to a rat hole � an he say lie warn it for a hi i i say p what air a i out you see like i ain what he meek correspondence to an he start to say a pa � but i for a barrel by o amiable like an he stop like young mule see mud in road an say a � a is you a a pole an rides hard as you kin an de pole at a ring an � when he gets right i s him an i say p says i ta raised de o folks i s raised de at s in an i a fish an an but i ain witness like � a a bard as he kin an of it a i you s bout a race i says s de on yes thing i a rides in you know sub be broke in suddenly you and i a seen many a race we come f om right down f om live p an we done see races at the se used to run could beat an so i bim i bim i nobody but a po folks call a race a an i bim i reckon de pole be bout de ry used to tune de boys backs didn ride cut him down might ly him o de i done out bim but be say nor tis a long pole you tb oo a ring an de one de be crown de queen i bim de on yes queen i bout a cow master bad de prize at de state in one year but be a queen and be warn dollars an a to get bim a new an to pay be part ov de supper den i bim ef be i give bim dollars an a for f be i big a fool as be be begin to act o i for i could ner women to be sullen me an i gi bim de ef i bim f p any i ride him tell he know he ain t a mule an i have ry pole too den i him he go long back to mis i done hire him to an when he see me pick up de barrel an start to roll up my sleeve he went an i he jim an s what me into all what got you in i inquired in some doubt as to his meaning p rid it i an what s mo he won de queen � one o man bob s � an when he come to crown her he crown her s ring was a subdued murmur of amusement in the group behind him and i could not but inquire how he came to perform so extraordinary a ceremony i don know but so information i had on it when i went down to mis s to get he s i received de on de way he had done an mis ring had by de same road at de same time correspondence me p might ly i hadn raised p no a ways as he was s son to be an i he but still i hadn respect him to steal mis ring she on her finger ev y day an too i want de bout de fo dollars an a half so i went long but soon as mis see me she began to i tell her i just come to de o de matter an i ain got tall to say bout p like on fire she n she so i her i ain had nobody to bout me i b to o an i ax her ef she de she say nor she ain know em nor she ain beam on em an she wished she hadn on me an my boy � s p well tell then i mighty bout p but when she said she ain on the i ain altogether b p done her ring cause i ain know whether she got any ring though i know the he mean enough for anything an i her so an i her i raised quality � she is p s ain know the i ain her no mo bout de bible say you is not to cast pearls � an i had de corn house keys many a time an ann used to go in trunks same as herself right she a me ef she bad that p warn ann s son hut she ain know de an in she ain de servants so she don know it well sub she an she pitch yo a talk so in yo life an thing i knew she gone in de house she say she a gun an run me off but i ain wait for don nobody have to gun to run me off i my foot | 46 |
chance passenger got very rare for who wants to go into the city after six o clock t as for the knife board i was all alone there like a bachelor in the bed of ware and when i heard the door at street i thought we lights and shadows had lost all our this however was far from being the case i � ay cried the conductor taking a cotton handkerchief out of his hat and wiping his forehead � here s a go sir if there ever was one i what s the matter inquired i at the same time that he would hold on to the and let his forehead alone till he got down i can t help it returned he � i never was so taken in my life did you see them ere two who just got out i saw the top of their hats said i and they were very bad ones and so they ought to be observed my friend with indignation nothing but the poverty can excuse what they have been and done why what have they done inquired i well they ve been and got in returned the conductor we re to street and from street to the city and beyond those distances says our table of of london life inside we re sixpence now if these � no wouldn t behave so shabby � if these haven t got out and paid their and now got in again in order to pay their by which means they will save a penny apiece by the transaction now don t that beat all to nothing it is very ingenious said i and shows great of mind but i am not sufficiently acquainted with the details respecting to offer an opinion what have you not heard about the as is at say bill here my friend endeavoured to draw the driver s attention to the humorous fact of any person such as myself not being aware of all the circumstances connected with the animal in question but fortunately the noise of the traffic drowned his cries it is unnecessary my good friend observed i that two people should tell me this story your testimony will be quite sufficient pray begin at lights and shadows the beginning i know nothing about it and indeed i was not even aware that was the name of a horse at all no more it t bless ye it s a mare she fi a now at s and a drawing her thousands and yet would you believe it she used to be a and never more than her eighteen at a time if so many talk about why how do you think they starts the desert born � that s what they calls it � on her wild career i they crack a whip at the wing i suppose said i remembering how m s mare in the kin s butterfly is to action of the kind sir observed the conductor triumphantly they a door and calls out right just as we do and then the moves on accordingly the excitement of the here rose to such a pitch that he shook his head in the negative at two old ladies him to stop and take them in � over there s a or a of london life or of that in the piece which upon this ere and how do you think they makes her stop why by out i t which is the place she used to run to when in harness oh ain t it a pretty game here the conductor once more had resort to his hat for his pocket handkerchief and wiped his eyes with amazing vigour but when is this to be seen my good friend inquired i as i descended at the in order to walk quietly down street and so to the club house why it s to be seen every night � to night if you like now do you go sir and after dinner during which i the above incident amid marked applause i did go accordingly and more than one guest fellow went with me everybody knows that s is a very different place from what it used to be in the days of and saw dust indeed it is now per lights am shadows the most comfortable theatre in all london but during the performance of there was one charming circumstance which vividly brought back the old times to my mind and seemed almost to renew my youth i allude to that overpowering of � i know not what � which hangs like an atmosphere about all and them only with the single exception of shows it can t be got in a mere stable it is a subtle perfume made up of a combination of various in which nothing although saw dust d gas and orange have all their proper places in it and the whole my intelligent to whom i was indebted for this theatrical experience was mistaken i perceived in one particular it was not the horse who played but a maiden called in the bills miss whose graceful and classical acting combined with power genius and courage threw a new light upon lord s d this of london life was true and especially the last part of it next to the extraordinary peculiarity of a horse as suggested acting i should think may be placed the fact of a female that part it is generally it seems played by a for said the notice in this drama miss as the fearful on horseback and fights her which has hitherto been done by the literature of our drama is said to be in the hands of the french but let us be thankful that that of our is still english there were expressions in that one at s which never could have entered into the mind of a foreigner and with | 25 |
nodded with the weariness of the day s toil while she for herself ideas from the dainty garments that had under her passing iron say saxon i got a new name for you you re my topic kid that s what you are the kid you ll never get tired of me she tired why we was made for each other by the valley op the moon isn t it wonderful our meeting we might never have met it was just by accident that we did we was bom lucky he proclaimed that s a maybe it was more than luck she ventured sure it just had to be it was fate nothing could a kept us apart they sat on in a silence that was quick with love till she felt him slowly draw her more closely and his lips come near to her ear as they whispered what do you say we go to bed many evenings they spent like this varied with an occasional dance with to the and to bell s or to the moving picture shows or to the friday night band in city hall park often on sunday she prepared a lunch and he drove her out into the hills behind prince and king whom s employer was still glad to have him exercise each morning saxon was called by the alarm clock the first morning he had insisted upon getting up with her and building the fire in the kitchen stove she gave in the first morning but after that she laid the fire in the evening so that all that was required was the touching of a match to it and in bed she compelled him to remain for a last little ere she called him for breakfast the first several weeks she prepared his lunch for him then for a week he came down to dinner after that he was compelled to take his lunch with him it depended on how far distant the was done you re not starting right with a man mary you wait on him hand and foot you u spoil him if you don t watch out it s him that ought to be on you he s the bread saxon replied he works harder than i and i ve got more time than i know what to do with � time to bum besides i want to wait on him because i love to and because well anyway i want to by ic chapter ii despite the of her housekeeping saxon once she had it found time and to spare on her hands especially during the periods in which her husband carried his lunch and there was no midday meal to prepare she had a number of hours each day to herself trained for years to the routine of factory and work she could not abide this idleness she could not bear to sit and do nothing while she could not pay calls on her friends for they still worked in factory and nor was she acquainted with the wives of the neighborhood save for � one strange old woman who lived in the house next door and with whom saxon had exchanged of conversation over the back yard division fence one time diversion of which saxon took advantage was free and unlimited in the orphan asylum and in s house she had been used to but one bath a week as she grew to womanhood she had attempted more frequent but the effort proved disastrous first s derision and next her wrath had in the era of the weekly saturday night bath and any increase in this function was regarded by her as putting on airs and as an against her own cleanliness also it was an extravagant of fuel and occasioned extra in the family wash but now in s house with her own stove her own tub and and soap and no one to say her nay saxon was guilty of a daily true it was only a common that she placed on the kitchen floor and filled by hand but it was a luxury that had taken her twenty four years to achieve it was from by ic the valley op the moon the woman next door that saxon received a hint dropped in casual conversation of what proved the joy of bathing a simple thing � a few drops of s in the water but saxon had never heard of it before she was destined to learn much from the strange woman the acquaintance had begun one day when saxon in the back yard r hanging out a couple of covers and pieces of her finest the woman leaning on the rail of her back porch had caught her eye and nodded as it seemed to saxon half to her and to the on the line you re newly married aren t you the woman asked i m mrs i prefer my first name which is and i m mrs saxon replied thrilling to the of the on her tongue my first name is saxon strange name for a yankee woman the other com oh but i m not yankee saxon exclaimed i m la la laughed i forgot i was in america in other lands all americans are called it is true that you are newly married saxon nodded with a happy sigh sighed too oh you happy soft beautiful young thing i could envy you to hatred � you with all the man world ripe to be twisted about your pretty little fingers and you don t realize your fortune no one does until it s too late saxon was puzzled and disturbed though she answered readily oh but i do know how lucky i am i have the finest man in the world sighed again and changed the subject she nodded her head at the garments i see you like pretty things it is good judgment for | 21 |
we met the silent that know the seven seas for down a cruel ice lane that opened as he sped we saw dead henry steer north by west his dead so dealt god s waters with us beneath the roaring skies so walked his signs and all naked to our eyes but we were heading homeward with trade to lose or make � good lord they slipped behind us in the of our let go let go the now at heart are we to bring so poor a cargo home that had for gift the sea let go the great bow � ah fools were we and blind � the worst we stored with utter toil the best we left behind the � cross seas � round the world and back again whither flaw shall fail us or the trades drive down plain sail � storm sail � lay your and tack again � and all to bring a cargo up to london town the seven seas m hymn lord thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream an taught by time i it so � always steam from to guide i see thy hand o god in the stride o yon rod john might ha the same � enormous certain slow � ay wrought it in the furnace flame � my i cannot get my sleep to night old bones are hard to please i ll stand the middle watch up here � alone wi god an these my engines after ninety days o race an rack an strain m hymn through all the seas of all thy world home again bang too much � they knock a � the are loose but thirty thousand mile o sea has them fair excuse fine dear an dark � a full draught breeze wi out o sight an hay old girl ye u walk tonight his wife s at seventy � one � two � three since he began � three turns for mistress and who s to blame the man there s none at any port for me by fast or slow since went to thee lord thirty years ago the year the sands was burned oh roads we used to tread to � to the seven seas not but they re on the board yell hear sir say good m back again an how s your to day but me my chair to drink wi three the fleet engineer that started as a � when steam and he were low i mind the time we used to serve a broken pipe wi tow ten pound was all the pressure then � eh eh � a man drive an here our give one fifty five we re on wi each new � less weight an larger power there ll be the next an thirty knots an hour thirty an more what i ha seen since ocean steam began leaves me no for the machine but what about the man m hymn the man that counts wi all his runs one million mile o sea four time the span from earth to moon how far o lord from thee that beside him night an day ye mind my first it the on his way to wi the saloon three feet were on the floor � just to an fro � an cast me on a furnace floor i have the marks to show marks i ha marks o more than burns � deep in my soul an black an times like this when things go smooth my comes back the sins o four and forty years all up an down the seas an repeat like half fed s our nights when i d come on deck to mark wi envy in my gaze the seven the couples in the dark between the stays years when i the ports wi pride to fill my cup o wrong � judge not o lord my steps aside at gay street in blot out the hours of mine in sin when i abode � jane s an number nine the an grant road an than all � my sin � rank an wild i was not four and twenty then � ye judge a child seen the first that run � new new smells new air � how could i tell � blind wi sim � the was there by day like scenes the shore slid past our sleepy eyes by night those soft stars fi om those velvet skies m in port we used no cargo steam down the streets � an in a dream � for shells an an sticks o carved an stuffed an dried � my wi the chief put till off head ye mind i heard a ca milk warm wi breath o an bloom m come t firm clear an low � no haste no hate � the ghostly whisper went just facts all argument your s god s a the shadow o got out o books by clean oil heaven an hell they him in the o cold an dirt a jealous lad that s only strong to hurt the seven seas ye ll not go back to him again an kiss les rod but come wi us now who were th y an know the god that does not souls for sport or break a life in jest but the an the woman s breast an there it stopped cut off no more that quiet certain voice � for me six months o twenty four to leave or take at choice twas on me like a � it me through an through � temptation past the show o speech an new � the sin against the holy ghost an under all our screw that storm blew by but left behind her swell all my heart an mind thou lord i fell m hymn third m the mary then and first that night in yet | 39 |
reason on their side and in any attack from us always placed it to the fore � since now it would only be a to them in their wider operations say good by to it and will not rest until they make it all dark around them until they take away from the people all means of and have condemned the free use of natural judgment as the first of all sins formerly when they themselves still depended upon the well being and comfortable manner of life of our priests was an to them now that they fare with full sails the moderate of our temples which they have made themselves masters of are much too small to satisfy the needs of their pride and their vanity already now their at rome � through the liberality of rich and foolish whose dreamy they know very well how to use through the most hunting and a thousand by martin other tricks of this kind � put themselves in a position to the first persons in the state in pomp expenditure and but all these springs although grown to streams through ever new will not satisfy these ones they will find a thousand ways never heard of before to upon the of men and even the sins of the world will they through their magic art to golden fountains and to make them yield the more they will think up a monstrous multitude of new sins of which the and the had never a suspicion wherefore do i say all this what does it matter to us what these people do or don t do and how well or ill they shall administer their new government over the sick souls of men and through lust and slavery even the are themselves deceived they too know not what they do but we who see clear in all this � it us to treat them with forbearance as sick and insane and in the future to show them as much kindness as their own will give us opportunity poor whom do they harm but themselves when they of their own free will rob themselves of the beneficent influence whereby has become the school of wisdom and of art and rome the law bearer and of the earth through which influence both cities reach a grade of culture to which not even the better descendants of these who now have it in mind to divide among themselves the lands and riches of these and will ever be able to raise themselves again for what shall be the fate of men from whom the and graces philosophy and all the beauty breeding arts of life and of a finer enjoyment of life together with the gods their and have withdrawn themselves i foresee at a glance all the evil that will come in in the place of the good all the the the monstrous and the that these of beauty will pile up on the ashes and fragments of the works of genius � and i at the sight away with it for so sure as i am it shall not be so forever although centuries shall pass by before mankind reaches the deepest depths of its and still more centuries before with our help it shall again rear itself above the mire the time shall come when they shall seek us again call upon us for aid once more and confess that without us they by her martin have no power the time shall come when with labor they shall once more draw out of the dirt or dig up from its deep bed of and rubbish every shattered or of the works which under our influence sprang from the soul and the hands of our of art and shall weary themselves in vain by an affected enthusiasm to imitate those wonders of true inspiration and the very of divine power � surely shall it come that time i see it as if it stood before me in the full splendor of the present again shall they set up our images gaze upon them astonished with a thrill of feeling and of admiration take them as models for their which in those hands had become ugly and � oh what a triumph their shall be proud to build for us under another name the most splendid temple with a great full of in his � here s to the future to my daughter here s to the time when you shall see all europe changed into a new filled with and and shall hear the voices of philosophy from the midst of the german forest sound forth perchance and clearer than from the halls ot and shaking her head a little � i am glad father to see you in such good courage at this present juncture but you must pardon me if i believe as little in a new as i do in a new to � that peter with the double key who is to be my successor � i can t get him out of my head how is it with this key is it actual or a natural or a magic key where did he get it and what will he open with it � all that i can tell you about it is that with this key he for whom he will the gates of heaven or of hell � he may hell for whom he will for all me but heaven � that s another story � in fact they have arranged to people heaven with such a great multitude of gods of their own that there won t be any room left for us old ones � let me look out for that our temples and landed properties on earth they could very easily get away from us but we have been established in too long to by martin be for the rest as a proof of our | 4 |
that it was he and not she that was acting had sunk into his hearty and the truth of it overcame him it was he who had been acting he had pretended an anger which he did not feel and it was quite true that whatever she did he could not really fed anger against her she was in his heart the dream of his whole life he could feel anger against himself but not against her she was right he must forgive her for how could he live without her into what he had been foolishly in these convictions which broke like in his heart and brain spreading a strange illumination in much darkness he saw her beauty and sex and in the vision were the eyes and of the dead wife and all the yearning and of his own life seemed reflected back in this f air oval face lit with luminous eager eyes and in the of gold hair fallen about her ears and thrown back hastily with long fingers and the wonder of her sex in the world seemed to shed a light on distant and he understood the strangeness of the common event of father and daughter standing face to face divided or divided by the mystery of the passion of which all things are made his own sins were remembered they fell like soft fire breaking in a dark sky and his last sensation in the whirl of complex diffused and passing sensations was the thrill of terror at the little while remaining to him wherein he might love her a few years at most his eyes told her what was happening in his heart and with that beautiful movement of rapture so natural to her she threw herself into his arms i knew father dear that you d forgive me in the end it was impossible to think of two like us living and dying in i should have killed myself and you dear you would have died of grief but i dreaded this first meeting i had thought of it too much and as i told you i had acted it so often have i been so severe with you that you should dread me no darling but of course i ve behaved � there s no use talking about it any more but you could never have been really in doubt that a lover could ever change my love for you � i mustn t speak about him only i wish you to understand that i ve never ceased to think of you i ve never been really happy and i m sure you ve been miserable about me often enough but now we may be happy winter storms in the may you know the lied in the first act of the and now that we re friends i suppose you ll come and hear me tell me about your choir she paused a moment and then said my first thought was for you on landing in england there was a train waiting at victoria but we d had a bad crossing and i fell so ill that i couldn t go next day i waa i had not the courage and he proposed that i should wait till i had song margaret so depended on the success of my first appearance he was afraid that if i had had a scene with you i might break down you say but doesn t he put her to sleep on a fire surrounded rock he puts her to sleep on the rock but it is she who asks for flames to protect her from the unworthy her request and throws herself into his arms let the coward s rock � for but one shall win the bride who is than i the god oh that s it is it then with what flames shall i surround you i don t know i ve often wondered the flame of a promise � a promise never to leave you again father i can promise no more i want no other promise the eyes of the portrait were fixed on them and they wondered what would be the words of the dead woman if she could speak announced that the coachman had returned father i ve lots of things to see to i m going to stop to dinner if you ll let me i m afraid � you need not trouble about the dinner � and i will see to that we have made all necessary arrangements is that your carriage you ve got a fine pair of horses well one can t be for nothing but if you re stopping to dinner you d better stop the night i m giving the to morrow i m giving it in honour of it was he who helped me to overcome father you shall tell me all about after dinner he walked about the room singing the lied winter storms in the may and he stopped before the thinking he saw her still there and his thoughts sailed on as clouds in a spring she had come back his most wonderful daughter had come back he turned from his wife s portrait fearing the thought that her joy in their daughter s return might be than his but unpleasant thoughts fell from him and happiness sang in his brain like spring awakened and the scent in his nostrils was of young leaves and flowers and his very flesh was happy as the warm earth in spring winter storms he sang in the may with tender radiance the spring i must hear her sing that i must hear her at s feet his eyes filled with happy tears and he put questions aside she was coming to morrow to hear his choir and what would she think of it a shadow passed across his face if he had known she was coming he d have taken | 15 |
lower edge of it he wore a high button a button and a pin and none of it mattered he was and swift and flushed hia eyes which he believed to be candidly eager but he not over gentle he waved his band at poor and yes i guess we re pretty ridiculous and and i rather guess our new b some it and while youve admiring your let me tell you it might add to your manly beauty if v ml some of that egg off your momentary victor in the greatest of great y wars which is the family war ted looked at ber then shrieked at for the love o quit pouring the sugar bowl on your com when and ted were gone and groaned to his wife nice family i must i don t to be any lamb and maybe i m a little at breakfast sometimes but the way they go cm i simply can t stand it i swear i fed like going off place where i can get a little peace i do think after a man s spent his lifetime trying to give his a chance and a decent education it s pretty to bear them all the time ing like a of and de er � and never � curious here in the papa it says � never silent for one mom � seen the morning p yet no dear in twenty three years of married life mrs had seen the papa her husband just times lots of news terrible big in the south hard all right but this say this is beginning of the end for those fellows new york assembly has passed bills that ought to completely the and there s an strike in new york and a lot of boys are taking their places that s the and d n by k hum in s thi � this de be dead right by all these paid with german gold anyway and we got no business interfering with the irish or any other foreign government keep our hands strictly off and another well from russia that is dead that s fine it s beyond me why we just in there and kick those out that s so said mrs and it says here a was mayor in preacher tool what do you think of he searched f an attitude but neither as a republican a an nor a real estate did he have any doctrine about preacher laid down for him so be granted and went on she looked sympathetic and did not bear a later she would read the the society columns and the department store what do you know about still doing the as heavy as ever here s what that woman says about last ni t never it with the big big s flattered than when are to partake of good cheer at the distinguished and of ur and l u they were hit night set in its and one of the crowning royal ridge but merry and despite it mighty and its for their home wai thrown open last night for a dance in of un t notable guest j of the wide hall ii lo in its proportions that it made a perfect its floor reflecting the above its polished surface even the delights of dancing before the opportunities for i t� tes that the to in tiie long library before the fireplace or in the drawing room with its deep its shaded lamps fast made for a whisper of pretty all a or d n by b die mm could take a cue ud s m � t game that and there ms more a great deal in the best style of miss pearl the popular editor of the advocate times but not abide it he he wrinkled the he protested can you beat iti i m willing to hand a lot of credit to when we were in college together he was just as hard up as any of us and he s made a million good out of and hasn t been any or t any more than was necessary and that s a good house of his � it ain t ai stone walls and it ain t worth the ninety thousand it cost him but it comes to talking as though and all that set of his are any blooming bunch of of it makes me timidly from mrs i would like to see the inside of their house thou it must be lovely i ve never been i lots de o times to see about business in the evening it s not so i wouldn t to go there to dinner with that gang of of hi and iii bet i make a whole lot more money than some of those tin that spend all th got on dress suits and haven t got a decent suit of to their h l what do you think of mrs was strangely unmoved by the from the real estate and building column of the advocate street � j k to thomas april x and this morning b was too to her with from and d n by he rose as he looked at lier his eye seemed than usual suddenly maybe � of shame to not keep in touch with folks the we mi t try inviting them to some evening oh thunder let s not waste our good time our little bunch has a lot liver times than au those just compare a real human like with these birds like � all hi talk and dressed like a you re a great old girl hon i he covered his of softness with a complaining don t let go and eat any more of that poison nut don t let go and eat any more of that poison nut for heaven s sake try to keep her from i tell | 42 |
of those who merely give back what they have received more or less changed in form or in manner he has been as a in politics as a in religion and in literature as the of a succession of schools the reasons for and against these charges cannot be examined here and there seems something specially in treating of in a tone of apology at the same time both his life and works the relations between which are peculiarly intimate often require to be protected from some of the with which they have been visited many of our poets have been subjected to criticism but none has so to speak been so r as he was the of ancestors on both the father s and the mother s side his own according to an adversary of the poet s � was a committee man and one of his maternal cousins was a peer of s creation nothing could therefore be more natural or becoming than that on the protector s death then a young man of twenty seven should have sung the praises of our prince generally selecting for qualities which even s enemies would not have denied him to have possessed that the author of the heroic should with the restoration have forth as a no at all it should not be forgotten that the restoration was not a mere party act and that much had happened between it and the death of what ever may have been the hereditary politics of and john was a bom and with the restoration his political changes were at an end poetry was the fashion of the age and the and readiness of dry den s genius made it easy for him to in this kind of composition to be sure even the most willing and the most muse must rapidly such a theme as the virtues of king charles ii and in his written on the king s death found little to add to what he had sung in the composed in honour of the restoration � except that his majesty died hard in shorter pieces in honour of the king the of york and lord displayed the same talent for waving gorgeous the poets b of in he hailed the birth of a whom half the regarded as a before he and his parents were no has ever earned like dr den the butt of which the economy of king james new reign off from his salary of all the de force by him however the most extraordinary is that in which he undertook to flatter the nation as well as the to the top of their bent the fire and spirit of the are nothing short of when the which beset the though partly by his own choosing are remembered there was first the of his subject which as a perusal of the poem cannot fail to reveal to the most reader was by no means made up altogether of materials for yet the must really have d me good to the public even at the present day it agreeably the john bull sentiment of patriotism and prejudice in the comer of an englishman s heart another difficulty but in this instance a self imposed one was the form of verse in which the poem was written it was chosen for the sake of its dignity but as well knew and told from whose it was borrowed it put a far greater strain upon the ingenuity and skill of the author thus though has written that is more thoroughly he has written nothing that is more characteristic of himself than this long series of the glorious dash of the performance is his own and so is the victorious struggle against the drag of a difficult and rather dull but it was a yet different kind of poem by which the loyal of the throne first became a in english politics no modem reader whether his sympathies be with the or whether he think that there may be something to be said even in favour of the is likely to refuse his admiration to the greatest � greatest without even a suggestion of of english political this position in a literature rich in of the same kind to political and a or rather the first part of the satire owes to the reason which made it so singularly effective at the season of its publication besides being executed with vigour and and as finished in detail as it is impetuous in flow it has the supreme merit for a work of this kind of being completely adapted to its special purpose and is a political satire pure and simple not like john dr a on a whole full of political and religious the form of the satire while so familiar in itself as to save all trouble in the author s just for the real theme beneath a decent disguise but it by no means with a quality necessary for the of the work � its accordingly every shaft flies home in every character from and to the lesser which are as it were merely touched in passing precisely those features are marked as to which it is desirable to strengthen and the suspicions of the popular instinct the object of the writer being not to furnish a narrative of a complete historical episode but to give a striking picture of the influences which had led to the situation existing at the time when was to be placed on his trial for treason the real completion of the plot of the poem would have been furnished by the event which it was designed to bring about � namely the conviction and condemnation of its treacherous hero thus the first part with its vehement and fervent enthusiasm a moderation proving the author s hand to be that of a shrewd as well as a keen the blows are not dealt as | 45 |
events consider that she had done enough to encourage confidence such a reflection was caused neither by nor it was miss dart s way to thread the of the mind of others and track a motive x l a harmless she was ci � s the heir op the ages of the beating heart which if as yet they had her nothing had certainly added interest to a hfe devoid of ordinary they had now arrived at the summit of a great which however still stretched before them what was beyond fifty yards away from the green track they were pursuing was a little eminence devoid of its usual fir crown and mary proposed that while the horses rested for a few minutes they should visit it we are still some distance from our journey s end but from s yonder you will see your future home and what is s inquired miss dart as they moved swiftly over the elastic turf to the spot in question � a bare green mound with on it which time had almost healed it is a it is supposed but if it has anything to do with farmer which � not being a � is improbable it must be connected with some exceedingly remote some say it is s but though they have dug it half away no one has discovered whose it is what did they find in it how i should like to have been at the exclaimed miss dart you would like to be everywhere and at everything i do believe exclaimed mary laughing they only found some bones and what the call implements which it is very difficult for persons to identify with anything particular now here s a view for you i the sea cried miss dart in a transport well of course it is i have not seen the sea for years answered the other in hushed tones how grand it is she stood drinking in the scene before her with content it was really a remarkable spectacle the downs came to an end abruptly and looked down hke a terrace on a garden on an immense tract of low flat land which seemed to grow higher as it arrived at its boundary � the ocean this tract had no fences of any kind but was with there were a few farms on it but not so farms as old square churches tliat marsh explained mary the out the sea from it to the great oi i i t the journey who thought it labour lost if it were not for the tho whole district would be under water but the people � there seems to be no population it is very peopled the air as its neighbours say who do not live there is bad in winter worse in summer and only fit for cattle which feed on the marsh in great numbers but the cattle don t go to church why are there so many churches that has puzzled wiser heads than ours � i beg your pardon i mean mine said mary smiling after the left the were kept up by the of and their graces it is supposed caused churches to be built in excess of the population they are all very old and some of them i am sorry to say falling into decay the same thing is to be seen on marsh that was the colony and where the landed who were to william iii was it not observed the with great interest i d� � e say it was i wish i knew as much as you do about things said mary simply well at and the sea has retreated leaving them as it were but at it has not quite deserted us we are still a port though it must be confessed but little we are contemptuously spoken of as getting and every day never mind said miss dart that often happens even inland we don t mind miss we are very well satisfied with ourselves i do assure you and are we not picturesque observe that while that great sweep of down for the most part only a terrace standing on a marsh the portion of it above is still a cliff as the rest of it once was and look at our grey httle town yonder with its dear tumble down old castle its ancient church built on a rock as it should be and its magnificent hill it is magnificent indeed but it is surely not an ordinary hill it looks to me something artificial � hke this very for instance only twenty times bigger mary clapped her hands together and uttered a httle shout of gratification what does it really strike you so es ti how delighted ia the of the ages to hear about it that is the great test of intelligence with him � whether people think battle hill was raised by human hands or not it must have taken a good many hands and i am afraid you will find yourself in but a small upon the subject a new will however be only hailed with the more rapture battle hill you call it said miss dart thoughtfully there was an attraction for her in the object in question for which she could not account it almost seemed to her that she had seen it before though if it was so it could only have been in dreams was there then a battle fought there it is said so others again maintain it to be hill mr jones our upon it that it was called bacon hill because of its having at one time produced nuts which the swine fed upon and he are hardly upon speaking terms in consequence they rejoined the carriage which pursued a level track for miles with only a low expanse of down on either hand but battle hill was persistently before the mental eyes of the | 25 |
newspaper in the world contains politics of bell s new weekly are decidedly liberal they verge indeed on extreme hence it is popular among those holding that class of principles its leading articles are more remarkable for the tone of good sense which them than for anything brilliant in conception or vigorous in expression it has on several occasions brought itself into notice by its bold exposure of cases of individual corruption as well of the or of bodies of persons it a great proportion of its space to of new which are always written with an evident desire to be courteous and im partial it very properly the ex of any opinion of its own for or against a book by one or more so that the public may themselves decide whether or not the praise or censure has been justly the only justification of other journals not acting on the same principle especially where the book is severely condemned is to be found in the comparatively limited space of most of them weekly papers bell s new weekly messenger a good deal of attention to the drama who the writer of the theatrical notices is i know not but he is one who is clearly in the habit of mixing a good deal amongst the professors of the art it is no less that he is a good judge of dramatic pieces new weekly messenger occasionally a great deal of spirit in its anxiety to bring its claims before the public it has in several cases gone to considerable expense in getting wood bearing on some sub or event in which the public felt a deep in at the time at the end of last year it gave in addition to the usual variety of matter the most interesting portions of the three leading its enterprise was on that occasion rewarded by an extra sale of about making the entire impression of that number above the sunday times is one of the best known of the weekly papers it was established in by mr daniel the ber for a great deal of money was expended in bringing it fairly before the public its exertions for some years to commend itself to the country were as as they were great it met its in a very large the newspaper press circulation and in the of a great many mr some after its disposed of his interest in it for a very considerable sum between the money paid down and the which mr received for some years the purchase money was considered equal to mr the extensive of red lion court fleet street was the and he retained the property for four years mr conducted it during the time it was in mr s hands at the end of four years mr c the of great street purchased a ma of shares from mr and mr was appointed editor in the room of mr son mr had been previously favour known as a literary gentleman from being editor of the sunday times he eventually became part proprietor but still continued to discharge the functions as formerly under his management tlie sunday times a somewhat middle course between the and it rarely expressed an opinion on any great subject of po influence one way or other but when it did the leaning obviously was towards the liberal the leading articles were written but they were in energy m aad � or no mr good judgment in of matter the sunday under hia management as a paper as one could bare wished there was ton attractive in its very appearance mr gasp s with it both aa and editor early in who the new are � tor i understand there are several of them � i have not heard mr at a on the morning chronicle and some years since editor of the c br a few months was chosen one of the a sub editor i on mr the pi r who the other gentleman is i have not the means of knowing mr did not long continue bis with the sunday times he quitted this country in the end of last year or the beginning of the present for where he now is as the correspondent of the morning chronicle under the new the sunday has taken an part in politics it is thoroughly liberal in its opinions and them with great seal the chief of ii h l its is the too frequent use o mostly from pop poets these if appropriate and used � give of and to an article but if they are pressed too liberally into the writer s they only the impression his own observations are calculated to produce tliis is the only essential alteration made in the mode of conducting the sunday times the other attractive features which originally gained it its great popularity are still retained it is still as a paper as one could wish to see it gives brief literary notices here it has improved on what it formerly was for ite if so they might be called then only consisted of six or seven lines and it was but seldom any definite opinion of the book was expressed either way now its notices still brief are deserving the name of notices and do convey to reader what the of the work to he is referring occasionally the opinion expressed is by one or two varying in length from an eighth to a fourth or third of a column tlie sunday times has l een an excellent paper for week y i it is � o still it gives � a considerable quantity saturday s news when the most spirited to be made by the to merit patronage it often an entire double sheet without making any extra to the public it gives in these double sheets of important bills and sometimes the themselves lengthened report of interesting in or matter | 24 |
that s estimate of mrs s brain was a perfectly correct one she did not in any way connect the conversation about the missing will with the death of the all she knew was that mr had found an ancient ment which would probably transfer the property to as the of john s and for this reason she worshipped the rising sun had she guessed that there was any doubt about the l of the will or any danger of its not being found she would have held her tongue until such time as she saw on what side it was best to range herself but in the conversation she had overheard had seemed so certain that would lose the property and as certain that his cousin would get it that mrs had lost no time in the position s conduct had justified her action for he had promised her an whenever he came into his own and to gain a certain income the housekeeper was quite willing to see her kind hearted young master driven as a from his house some natures are so strangely constituted that they resent kindness and the more they receive the more do they hate the person who them mrs was a woman of this class and all s consideration for many years had only increased the dislike she had felt when she first set eyes on him moreover she detested for her beauty and sweetness and for the certain happiness which the marriage with would surely give her mrs knew enough of the girl s nature to be sure that no amount of money would make up to her for the loss of her promised husband she did not like getting a fortune through her father but that could not be helped and after all the breaking of the engagement would assuredly prevent the girl from enjoying the same therefore the good lady smiled comfortably to herself as she went about her duties and rejoiced the lost to think as she put it in quite a way that the pride of the young couple would soon be brought low she might not have rejoiced so had she guessed the contents of the after dinner letter which her master wrote but she did not and in her fool s paradise would be made miserable would be made a and she who had brought about these things would retire on an of two hundred a year for her services as she thought that could not possibly g ve her less meanwhile after a meal to which he gave little attention retired to the snug little library of the big house and sat down to his desk after a few moments of reflection he wrote a long and letter to setting forth what had taken place in the study of the late he pointed out that what the had had actually come to pass for in possession of the secret now deliberately accused him of the crime added that he had been given a week to think over things and then asked whether it would not be well to dismiss mrs at once lest she should act in a further treacherous manner finally the young man ended with inviting to come down and stay at the big house until everything was put straight that any fee liked to demand would be g ven to him for his services in a significantly added that if got the property would either receive less or none at all therefore and this was the end of the letter � it remained for to say whether he would give his services on these doubtful terms having placed the position before the thus fairly and slipped the into an envelope addressed and sealed it and sent a special messenger to post it in the village afterward as there was no more to be done he lighted his pipe and sitting in one chair with his feet on another he began to read the morning paper which he had not yet glanced at so deeply had he been involved in the direction of his own affairs but the young man s brain declined to interest itself in public doings and before he knew where he was found himself thinking of what had happened in connection with laying the newspaper on his knee and placing his hands behind his head he leaned back to think what was best to be done he sorely needed a soul to converse with and there was no one so fitted to help him as s request for a fee had placed him in the position of a business man rather than in that of a friend so there was nothing to be gained in that quarter but always understood and always gave good advice and always soothed his feelings longed for her looks and touch and words so much that he very nearly decided to cross the park and visit the cottage but two considerations caused him to alter his mind one was that now openly hostile would be present at the interview the other was that he could not speak to the girl seeing that her father had so much to do with the matter knew that her parent was what is known as a hard case and had not much respect or affection for him since he did not deserve the first nor demand the last all the same it was impossible as felt for him to the lost tell the g frankly that her father was little more than a with such a delicate perception of what was right and just as possessed such a course of action was not to be thought of so he subsided again into his chair whence he had risen and determined to carry his heavy burden all by himself and considering that the young man had no experience of burdens he carried it well and bravely then fate who | 12 |
was not considered a live town i decided to travel eastward and t a ticket to in ai t of the tumbling waves of lake i was taken back in thought to my d rs in and all those who had already dropped out of my life forever what a queer thing this living was i where should be tomorrow what doing � the next year � the year after i ever have any money any standing any friends f so i tortured myself arriving in at the close of a smoky gray afternoon i left my bag at the station and sought a room then walked ont to see what i should see i knew no one not a friend anywhere within five hundred miles my sole resource my little skill as a newspaper buying the afternoon and morning papers i examined them with care down their room then me to a small for food u v i the next morning i was up to see as much as i could to visit the offices of the afternoon papers before noon then to look in upon the city of the two or three morning papers the latter proved not very friendly and there appeared to be no opening anywhere but i to remain here for a few days studying the city as a city and visiting the same each day or as often as they would s s a book about myself endure me if nothing came of it within a week and no came from my friend h in me i proposed to move on to which city i had not as yet made up my mind the thing that interested me most then vas that it was so raw dark dirty smoky and yet possessed of one thing force semi intelligent force america was then so new in the furnace stage of its existence everything waa in the making fortunes art social and commercial life the most impressive things were its rich men their homes office buildings and of commerce and pleasure generally and this waa as of as of any other city in america indeed the thing which held my attention after i had been in a day or two and had established myself in a room in a neighborhood once occupied by the very rich were those great and new in avenue with wide and iron or stone statues of and dogs and deer which were occupied by such rich men as john d tom johnson and henry m only a year or two before had given millions to the almost university of then a small college and was accordingly being hailed as one of the richest men of america he and his and were already casting a over they were all living here in avenue and i was to look up their homes them their wealth of course and wishing that i were famous or a member of a wealthy family and that i might some day meet one of the beautiful girls i thought must be here and have her fall in love with and make me rich physically or or materially there was nothing to see but business a few large hotels like those of every american city and these few great houses add a few and commonplace churches all american cities and all the inhabitants were busy with but one thing commerce they ate drank and slept trade in my wanderings i found a huge steel works and a world of low smoky pathetic little � bout it although i was not as yet given to about a book about myself the profound of equality under this evidence of the brain toiling for the big one me with great force and produced a good deal of thought later on the paper with which i waa eventually connected was the leader which represented all tiiat was in the local life wandering into its office on the second or third day of my stay i was met at the desk of the city by a small looking person of a like countenance who wanted to know what i waa after i told him and be said there was nothing but on hearing of the papers with which i had been connected and the nature of the work i had done he suggested that possibly i might be able to do something for the sunday edition the sunday editor proved to be a tall melancholy man with sad eyes a sallow face sunken cheeks narrow shoulders and a general air of weariness and depression what is it now you he asked slowly looking up from his your city editor suggested that possibly yon might have some sunday work for me to do i ve had experience in this line in and st louis yes he said not asking me to sit down now what do you think you could write about this was a being new to the city i had not thought of any particular thing and could not at this moment i told him this there s one thing you might write if you could did you ever hear of a new style grain boat they are patting on the lakes called back t i interrupted back went on the editor indifferently well there s one here now in the harbor it s the first one to come here do you think you could get up something on that i m sure i could i d like to try do you use pictures you might get a or two we could have drawings made from them a book about i started for the door eager to be about this when he said we don t pay very much three dollars a that was bat i filled with the joy of doing something on my way ont i stopped at the and ht a copy of the last sunday proved to be a | 43 |
them on and stretched his feet upon the i positively sometimes can t believe it said then our pleasures dear me they are but they are quite wonderful when we are at home here of an evening and shut the outer door and draw those curtains � which she where could we be more snug when it s fine and we go out for a walk in the evening the streets abound in enjoyment for us we look into the glittering windows of the shops and i show which of the diamond eyed up on white satin rising grounds i would give her if i could afford it and shows me which of the gold watches tbat are and and engine turned and possessed of the escape movement and all sorts of things she would buy for me if she could afford it and we pick out the and forks fish butter knives and we should both prefer if we could both afford it and really we go away as if we had got them then when we stroll into the squares and great streets and see a house to let sometimes we look up at it and say how would that do if i was made a judge and we parcel it out � such a room for us such rooms for the girls and so forth until we settle to our satisfaction that it would do or it wouldn t do as the case may be sometimes we go at half price to the pit of the theatre � the very smell of which is cheap in my opinion at the money � and there we thoroughly enjoy the play which believes every word of and so do i in walking home perhaps we buy a little bit of something at a cook s shop or a little at the s and bring it here and make a splendid supper about what we have seen now you know if i was lord we couldn t do this you would do something whatever you were my dear thought i that would be pleasant and amiable and by the way i said aloud i suppose you never draw any now really replied laughing and i can t wholly deny that i do my dear for being in one of the back rows of the king s bench the other day with a pen in my hand the fancy came into my head to try how i had preserved that accomplishment and i am afraid there s a skeleton � in a wig � on the ledge of the desk after we had both laughed heartily wound up by looking with a smile at the fire and saying in his way old i have a letter from that old � rascal here said i for i never was less disposed to forgive him the way he used to than when i saw so ready to forgive him himself from the exclaimed no among the persons who are attracted to me in my rising fame and of david fortune said i looking over my letters and who discover that they were always much attached to me is the self same he is not a now he is retired he is a magistrate i thought might be surprised to hear it but he was not so at all how do you suppose he comes to be a magistrate said i oh dear me replied it would be very difficult to answer that question perhaps he for somebody or lent money to somebody or bought something of somebody or otherwise obliged somebody or for somebody who knew somebody who got the lieutenant of the county to him for the commission on the commission he is at any rate said i and he writes to me here that he will be glad to show me in operation the only true system of prison discipline the only way of making sincere and lasting and � which you know is by solitary confinement what do you say to the system inquired looking grave no to my accepting the offer and your going with me i don t object said then i write to say so you remember to say nothing of our treatment this same turning his son out of doors i suppose and the life he used to lead his wife and daughter perfectly said yet if you read his letter you find he is the tenderest of men to prisoners convicted of the whole of said i though i can t find that his tenderness extends to any other class of created beings shrugged his shoulders and was not at all surprised i had not expected him to be and was not surprised myself or my observation of similar practical would have been but scanty we arranged the time of our visit and i wrote accordingly to mr that evening on the appointed day � i think it was the next day but no matter � and i repaired to the prison where mr was powerful it was an immense and solid building erected at a vast expense i could not help thinking as we approached the gate what an uproar would have been made in the country if any man had proposed to spend one half the money it had cost on the of an school for the young or a house of refuge for the deserving old in aa office that might have been on the ground floor of the tower of it was so constructed we were presented to our old who was one of a group composed of two or three of the sort of and some visitors they had brought he received me like a man who had formed my mind in years and had always loved me tenderly on my introducing mr expressed in like manner but in an inferior degree that he had always been s guide philosopher | 8 |
the belief in the of god and the brotherhood of man and the of as you do of course looked respectable and thought about having tea and that s all you need teach in sunday school it s the personal influence then there s the library board you d be useful on that and of course there s our women s study � the are they doing anything or do they read papers made out of the miss shrugged perhaps but still they are so earnest they will respond to your interest and the does do a good social work � they ve made the city plant ever so many trees and they run the rest room for farmers wives and they do take such an interest in refinement and culture in fact so very unique was disappointed � by nothing very she said politely think them all over i must have a while to look around first miss darted to her smoothed her hair peered at her oh my dear don t you suppose i know first tender days of marriage � they re sacred to me home and children tiiat need you and depend on you to keep them alive and turn to you with their little smiles and the hearth and she hid her face from as she made an activity of patting the cushion of her chair but she went on with her former i mean you must help us when you re ready fm afraid you ll think i m i am so much to all this treasure of american and and opportunity maybe not at palm beach but thank heaven we re free from such social distinctions in i have only one good quality � belief in the brains and hearts of our nation our state our town it s so strong that sometimes i do have a tiny effect on the haughty ten i shake em up and make em believe in � yes in themselves but i get into a of teaching i need young critical things like you to punch me up tell me what are you reading been re reading the of ware do you know it yes it was clever but hard man wanted to tear down not build up cynical oh i do hope i m not a but i can t see any use in this high art stuff that doesn t encourage us day to on ensued a fifteen minute argument about the oldest topic in the world it s art but is it pretty tried to be eloquent regarding honesty of observation miss stood out for sweetness and a cautious use of the uncomfortable properties of light at the end cried main street don t care how much we it s a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops let s make rock to its foundations let s have afternoon tea instead of afternoon coffee the delighted helped her bring out the folding sewing table whose yellow and black top was with dotted lines from a s tracing wheel and to set it with an embroidered lunch cloth and the glazed tea set which she had from st paul miss confided her latest scheme � moral motion pictures for country districts with light from a to a ford engine was twice called to fill the and to make toast when came home at five he tried to be as the husband of one who has afternoon tea suggested that miss stay for supper and that invite the much praised lawyer the poetic bachelor yes could come yes he was over the which had prevented his going to sam s party regretted her impulse the man would be an heavily about the bride but at the entrance of she discovered a personality was a man of perhaps thirty slender still his voice was low it was very good of you to want me he said and he offered no humorous remarks and did not ask her if she didn t think was the little in the state she fancied that his even might reveal a thousand tints of and blue and silver at supper he hinted his love for sir thomas arthur charles he presented his but he expanded in s in miss s praise in s of any one who amused his wife wondered why went on digging at routine law cases why he remained in she had no one whom she could ask neither nor would understand that there might be reasons why a should not remain in g her she enjoyed the faint mystery she felt triumphant and rather literary she already had a group it would be only a while now before she provided the town with and a knowledge of she was doing as she served the emergency of and she cried to don t you think we ought to get up a dramatic chapter when the first november snow had down with white the bare in the fields when the first small fire had been started in the furnace which is the shrine of a home card began to make the house her own she dismissed the parlor the golden oak table with brass the chairs the picture of the doctor s ie went to to through department stores and small tenth street shops devoted to and high thought she had to ship her treasures but she wanted to bring them back in her arms had torn out the between front parlor and back parlor thrown it into a long room on which she yellow and deep blue a with an of gold thread on stiff which she hung as a against the wall a couch with pillows of velvet and gold bands chairs which in seemed she hid the sacred family in the dining room and replaced its stand with a square cabinet on which was a blue jar between yellow candles decided against a fireplace well have | 42 |
a farm or two a expression for the sale of land but then i have often heard yon say that it was a misfortune for a young fellow to have too much money it is worse however for him to have none observed the other bad for a boy and much worse for a delicate woman like mrs we are not beggars yet my dear fellow answered carelessly but with a blush that betrayed even more than the succeeding sentence i have been extravagant no doubt but what helps to keep me short is a certain charge upon the estate which is a family secret this news astonished mr and he looked grave enough not because of the secret however but because of s reference to his being already short � which he rightly judged could not have occurred to one in his position unless things had gone very very far indeed of course it is not my business old fellow end i know i am pressing the of an old friend to its extreme limit but i would remind you that you are not now alone in the world you have sometimes me concerning my opinions but you know it is stated in the bible that a man who does not make provision his wife and children is worse than an the text has reference it is supposed to a marriage settlement you don t say so said dick simply well i made no settlement would not hear of such a thing yon can make one without her hearing of it true i ll think about it there is a pair of horses to be sold at s this morning if you drive round with me but there you don t know a horse from a and off he walked a little out of humor i know an ass when i see him sighed mr to himself for he knew the value of dick s i ll think about it it was creditable in to venture upon any subject that was distasteful to another because it was always twice as distasteful to himself but this did not prevent him from to the matter only this time he made his appeal elsewhere � to herself her position so brilliant as it looked so pitiful as it was � her bright smile with the heavy care behind it had touched his heart and he was resolved to save her from the coming ruin if it should be possible some fresh act of extravagance on her husband s part � for which he had not long to gave him the ed opportunity and he seized it dick will never be old he said if he lives to be a thousand no he wears the yoke of matrimony as if it were a flower answered no one can accuse me of having crushed him the yoke is light to bear in his case mrs but i wish he would think a little more of his s face darkened i have nothing to complain of in my husband mr of course not it is i who complain of him as the friend of both of you don t be angry with me it is no fault of his only there has been a certain in his arrangements for the future that i would venture to speak about and the more so because i know it has not struck you may i say one word on a mere matter of business business i am the person in the world my dear mr to understand such a thing true but the very first who ought to understand it one word from you to your husband would i am sure set right a matter that concerns you most nearly and which is very very far from right at present s face was paler than it had been in days of and it now grew paler yet i am sure that whatever you may have to say will be dictated by kindness mr she said i found out that quite early when i brought you out at the imperial but i cannot hear anything that blame to my husband not blame dear mrs he has only made a mistake which the expression of a wish on your part � � n ft i ma u n ok less black than were fainted he did right she said i brought him nothing and i accept of nothing yon speaking of the past he said i am looking to the and i also mr i look at nothing else her trembled a little as she said these words but grew firm again as she added i thank you from my heart for your good intentions but the matter to which yon refer is one on which i alone can be the judge her tone the possibility of further discussion and after a few mr took hb leave his reflections were identical with those awakened by his late interview with richard only no man even to himself ever calls a pretty woman an ass this is madness was his thought on this occasion to a false and absurd sense of obligation to her husband she is about to sacrifice herself and her babe the poor soul thinks she can support all three by her singing chapter � it is difficult � very difficult � to find a test that shall be of a good husband a man may be very domestic and ail the worse for it or devoted and yet desperately jealous he may be kind and indulgent and yet careless of his wife s health or how he taxes it or he may be a model husband � whose attractions are often found too great to be resisted by his neighbor s there is nothing certain to be gathered of the real merits of a from this or that attribute but perhaps the best test � if test be | 25 |
of any thing no matter what the sharp sword impending over his head should be instantly shown him he should be strictly examined as to what he knew or suspected should be severely handled by them his masters and should be kept in a state of abject moral bondage and slavery until the time when they should see fit to permit him to purchase his freedom at the price of half his possessions if said mr by of he had in saying only v he trusted to his comrade brother and partner not to hesitate to set him right and to his weakness it might be more according to the rights of things to say two thirds it might be more to the rights of things to say three on those points he was ever open to mr having his attention to this discourse over three successive of tea signified his in the views advanced mr extended his right hand and declared it to be a hand which never yet without entering into more minute particulars mr sticking to his tea briefly professed his belief as polite forms required of him that it was a hand which never yet but con mutual himself with looking at it and did not take it to his bosom brother said when this happy understanding was established i should like to ask you something you remember the night when i first looked in here and found you floating your powerful mind in tea tea mr nodded assent and there you sit sir pursued with an air of thoughtful admiration as if you had never left off i there you sit sir as if you had an unlimited capacity of the article there you sit sir in the midst of your works looking as if you d been called upon for home sweet home and was the company a � from home splendor in o give you preparations again tho birds stuffed so sweetly that can t be expected to come at your call give yon these with the peace of mind dearer than all home home home sweet home � be it ever added mr in prose as he glanced about the shop ever so ghastly all things considered there s no place like it you said you d like to ask something but you haven t asked it very io manner your peace of mind said offering your peace of mind was in a poor way that night how s it going on is it looking up at all she does not wish replied mr with a mixture of indignant obstinacy and tender melancholy mutual to regard herself nor yet to be regarded in that particular light there s no more to be said ah dear me dear i exclaimed with a sigh but him while pretending to keep him company in the fire such is woman i and i remember you said that night sitting there as i sat here � said that night when your peace of mind was first laid low that you had taken an interest in these affairs such is coincidence p her father rejoined and then stopped to swallow more tea her father was mixed up in them you didn t mention her name sir i think no you didn t mention her name that night pleasant in � deed i cried pleasant there s something moving in the name pleasant dear me i seems to express what might have been if she hadn t made that unpleasant remark � and what she ain t in consequence of having made it would it at all pour into your wounds mr to inquire how you came acquainted with her i was down at the water side said taking another of tea and mournfully at the fire � looking for � taking another and stopping mr hinted to his attention you could hardly have been out shooting in the british climate sir no no no said i was down at the water side looking for home by sailors to buy for � and looking for a nice pair of to ai for a � when i was doomed to fall in with her and deal with her it was at the time of that in the river her father had seen the discovery being in the river i made the of the subject a reason for going back to improve the ao and i have never since been the man i was my very bones is rendered by brooding over it if they be to me loose to sort i hardly have the face to claim em as mine to such an extent have i fallen off under it mr less interested than he had been glanced at one shelf in the dark why i remember mr he said in a tone of friendly for i remember every word that falls from yon sir i remember that you said that night you had got up there � and then your words was never mind � the that i bought of her said with a rise and fall of his eyes yes there it lies on its side dried up except for its very like myself never had the heart to prepare it and i never shall have now with a disappointed face mentally consigned this to regions more than tropical and seeming for the time to have lost his power of assuming an interest in the woes of mr fell to his wooden leg as a preparation for departure its performances of that evening having severely tried its constitution after had left the shop hat box in hand and had left mr to lower himself to oblivion point with the requisite weight of tea it greatly on his mind that he had taken this artist into at all he bitterly felt that he had himself in the beginning by grasping at s mere of hints now shown to be | 8 |
the soft of the waves against the boat seemed to be a suited to the of the scene and the lovely form before him clad in soft that set it off the fair face and gentle voice appeared to fill everything with had more than once in the past few weeks considered how he would bring the subject up and what he would say if he ever addressed her he did not however go about it in the way he had planned it seemed to him to come up under the spell of the summer night they had drifted into talking of old times and they both softened as their memory went back to their youth and their friendship that had begun among the southern woods and had lasted so many years she had spoken of the influence his opinions had had with her do you know he said presently i think you have exerted more influence on my life any one else i ever knew after i grew up she smiled and her face was softer than usual i should be very glad to think that for i think there are few men who set out in life with such as you had and afterwards realize them thought of his father and of how steadily that old man had held to his through everything i have not realized them he said firmly i fear i have lost most of them i set out in life with high which i got from my father but somehow i seem to have changed them she shook her head with a pleasant light in her eyes i do not think you have do you remember what you said to me once about your ideal he turned and faced her there was an expression of such softness and such sweetness in her face that a kind of happiness fell on him yes and i have always been in love with that ideal he said gravely she said gently yes i knew it the old ideal did you asked in some surprise i scarcely knew it myself though i believe i have been for some time she said i knew that too bent over her and took both her hands in his i love and want love in more than i can ever tell you a change came over her face and she drew in her breath suddenly glanced at him for a second and then looked away her eyes resting at last on the distance where a ship lay her sails hanging idly in the dim haze it might have been a dream ship at s words a picture came to her out of the past a young man was seated on the ground with a fresh bush behind him spring was all about them he was young and slender and with deep burning eyes and close drawn mouth with the future before him whatever with the hope and the courage to conquer he had conquered as he then said he would to the young girl seated beside him when i love he was saying she must fill fall the measure of my dreams she must me she must have beauty and sweetness she must choose the truth as that bird chooses the flowers and to such an one i will give worship without end years after she had come across the phrase again in a poem and at the words the same picture had come to her and a sudden hunger for love for such love � the love she had missed in life � had seized her but it was then too late she had taken in its place respect and companionship a great establishment and social for a moment her mother sitting calm and calculating in the little room at her future and teaching with commercial the advantages of such a union flashed before her and then once more for a moment came the heart hunger for what she had missed why should she not take the gift thus held out to she liked him and he liked her she trusted him it was the best chance of hat she would ever have besides she could help him he had powers and she could give him the opportunity to develop them love would come who could perhaps the other happiness might yet be hers why should she throw it away t would not life bring the old dream yet could it bring it here was this man whom she had known all her life who filled almost the measure of her old dream at her feet again but was this was this the worship without end t as her heart asked the question and she lifted her eyes to his face the answer came with it no he was too cool too calm this was but friendship and respect that same safe foundation she had tried this might do for some but not for him she had seen him and she knew what he could feel she had caught a glimpse of him that evening when was so attentive to the little girl she had seen him that night in the theatre when the fire occurred he was in love but it was with and happiness might yet be his the next moment s better nature itself the picture of the young girl sitting with her serious face and her eyes came back to her moved by her sympathy and friendship had given her a glimpse of her true heart which she knew she would have died before she would have shown another she had confided in her absolutely she heard the tones of her voice why mrs i dream of him he seems to me so real so true for such a man i i could worship him then came the sudden lifting of the veil the straight confiding appealing glance the opening of the soul and the rush to | 46 |
they were treading so and earnestly the same pathway of light and yet an imaginary barrier separated his child liim the correspondence which passed between them when joseph was preparing for the the of the father s heart and the of his there are many pleasing sketches of persons and events scattered through the book we close this imperfect notice by a little whose simple beauty will tempt the reader to look for more in the book itself they dwelt in a small plain house one little of ten feet containing all that was requisite for their comfort the himself tended a little shop in front of the parlor filled with needles pins quality binding � that most common luxury � with a pair of scales to weigh a s worth the always wore a full suit of very li ht with white cotton stockings and silver knee and a full white wig always powdered his exquisitely were tamed back while he was in the shop under white linen sleeves or and a white linen apron preserved the purity of the fine his solitary mate sat in the little three parlor whose fire place was an and built into the comer the forming successive little shelves things could be kept warm there she sat all day at her and notices round table with needle work dressed in an old fashioned with an exquisite lawn handkerchief folded over it and with a neatness where the litter of children s sports never came in the childhood of the writer it was a blessed to be permitted to go and drink tea with the old fashioned pair the visitor sat upon the stair that came down into the room and observed the process of making tea when the bright copper kettle was placed before the fire and the waiter with small china took the place of the work basket upon the round table there as the shades gathered in their little room and the sang louder and louder the mate of this solitary nest came in from the shop his white wig was exchanged for a linen cap the and the apron laid aside and the of the silver shoe but not taken out his place was at another small table where were writing materials and the of the little establishment it was the proud office of the childish visitor to be permitted to the smoking cup of tea across the few steps that divided the tables without a drop more than rewarded by the smile the courteous politeness of the old gentleman yes although he sold snuff bv the copper s worth he was a true to his companion whom he called my love while she addressed him by the placid title of neighbor obeying no doubt the of scripture to love her neighbor as herself in this secluded manner passed the evening of a life that had once been more and with means of expense and in retaining the costume of better days to the business of tne small shop they retained what to their own self respect the old lady always folded her work and closed her evening in the words of dr i i of modes and forms and paid to fellow worms their their rain and empty stuff but i can never have enough of thy dear company in my childish simplicity it seemed a beautiful compliment to her companion but as i now understand its significance it seems almost a upon their quiet life � christianity its transition state and probable development by j a b formerly of college oxford and perpetual of prior and non � mo xii and here is another book from a fellow of oxford which shows a tendency of thought in earnest men quite counter to the common of the day the author treats of the condition of the churches inspiration of the miracles and prophecy the divinity of christ doctrines and articles prospects and conclusion it is not a profound book the author seldom going down to first principles nor yet a learned one but it is liberal mr takes things at second hand short bat he takes good he thus speaks of the of the churches the dry bones of all are to stir and like dead under the stroke of a battery even the and ss receive a momentary and from the shock of excitement from the ancient heart of from rome herself a faint is still felt the and a lingering hope seems to be entertained that new wine may be pat � a spirit has penetrated into the very of and itself is seeking for the practical and essential hi regard less of external forms and the of a y a few ago the common room at was the constant scene those of intellect which the liberal of the age has into the of discussion amongst the most of the were white and men admitted even by their to have possessed considerable learning character and si ity the of the has now cleared away and after the of a few years let a again observe the position of the the sensitive and honest white after having attached himself after his from to the liberal church to the and to the at length died in the profession of what the world calls the devout and after a long and painful struggle being to find a place for the sole of his within the pale of his church in primitive of heart staff in hand a pilgrimage to rome the language of oar forms no longer describes the actual and wants of the except in the expression of those general of natural religion which are common to all times and its hold on the affections of the people if hold it has is founded on a sentiment for alone it is thus by for ever looking back that the her as leader of christian civilization and allows the world | 37 |
fields in the same way and along the rivers in to collect the honey of the delightful vegetation of the banks in egypt they are taken far up the and floated slowly home again gathering the honey harvest of the various fields on the way their movements in accord with the seasons were similar methods pursued in the productive season would last nearly all the year the average elevation of the north half of the is as we have seen considerably less than that of the south half and small streams with the bank and meadow gardens dependent upon them the bee pastures are less abundant around the head waters of the feather and rivers the extensive of are planted with pines through which the sunshine reaches the ground with little here a scattered gi of golden and similar plants with cherry and thorn in ragged patches on the cooler hill slopes at the of the great central plain the and coast curve around and lock together in a of mountains and valleys throughout which their are mingled making at the north with its temperate climate and copious a perfect paradise for bees though strange to say scarcely a single regular bee has yet been established in it of all the upper flower fields of the is the most and may yet pass in fame the celebrated honey hills of and regarding this noble mountain from a bee point of view encircled by its many and sweeping aloft from the plain into the frosty we find the first feet from the summit generally snow clad and therefore about as as the sea the base of this region is by a belt of crumbling measuring about feet in breadth and is mostly free from snow in summer beautiful the faces of the cliffs with their bright colors and in some of the there are a few of wall flowers and but notwithstanding the mountains of these bloom freely in the late summer the as a whole is almost as as the icy summit and its lower edge may be taken as the honey line immediately below this comes the forest covered with a rich growth of chiefly silver rich in and honey dew and with countless garden many of them less than a hundred yards across next in orderly succession comes the great bee its area far that of the icy summit and both the other combined for it goes sweeping around the entire mountain with a breadth of six or seven miles and a of nearly a hundred miles as we have already seen is a fire mountain created by a succession of of ashes and which flowing over the lips of its several grew outward and upward like the trunk of a tree then followed a strange contrast the winter came on the mountain with ice which flowed slowly outward in every direction from the summit in the form of one vast � a down crawling mantle of ice upon a fountain of fire crushing and gi for centuries its brown with incessant activity and thus and the entire mountain when at length the period began to draw near its close the ice mantle was gi melted around the bottom and in receding and breaking into its present condition irregular and heaps of matter were stored upon its the the bee pastures of most of the produces composed of rough sub of moderate size and of gi and sand which freely to the power of running water magnificent floods from the ample fountains of ice and snow working with sublime energy upon this prepared it out and earned down immense quantities from the higher slopes and it in smooth like around the base and it is these flood beds joined together that now form the main honey of the old thus by forces seemingly and destructive has mother nature accomplished her beneficent designs � now a flood of fire now a flood of ice now a flood of water and at length an outburst of life a way of snowy and wings the rugged mountain like a cloud as if the beating against its sides had broken into a foam of plant bloom and bees as sea waves break and bloom on a rock shore in this wilderness the and rejoicing in the of the sun eagerly through and ringing the bells of the now humming aloft among and now down on the ground among and and anon plunging deep into snowy banks of cherry and they consider the lilies and roll into them and like lilies they toil not for they are impelled by sun power as water wheels by and when the one has plenty of high the mountains of sure water the other plenty of sunshine they hum and quiver alike in the bee lands in the sun days of summer one may readily infer the time of day from the comparative energy of bee movements alone � drowsy and moderate in the cool of the morning increasing in energy with tlie ascending sun and at high noon thrilling and quivering in wild ecstasy then gradually declining again to the stillness of night in my excursions among the i occasionally meet bees that are hungry like s who venture too far and remain too long above the bread line then they and like autumn leaves the are s better fed than any others ill th their field work is one perpetual f � but however the sunshine or l the supply of flower s they are always and seldom set foot upon a flower ut on the wing in front of it and reach forward as if were through but bees though as dainty as they their favorite flowers with profound cordiality and push their blunt fa � es against them like babies on their mother s bosom and fondly too with eternal love does mother nature clasp her small bee babies and them multitudes at | 28 |
company n b they don t even say send a stamped envelope said jim i wonder what it is yours is the best fist so you write to day and find out in due time when the row of had still further a letter arrived in the shabby house in street setting out full particulars of the new scheme the two boys read the circular with attention not much in it said they want us to take out a policy for our own keys likely when we ve got the as low as it is now that we shall spend a shilling of it in our own keys my keys he went on ha ha the key of my trunk the latch key the key of the shed where we keep our what have you got latch key answered jim house � two boxes � and my at the ah yes you re better off for keys than i am do you think you could get any shillings at the a little mystery i don t know i don t mind trying you see after all you get a very decent and i know a good many people of sorts in london people to whom a shilling wouldn t be much it s better than selling tea selling tea echoed yes one of the fellows at the out his living by selling tea and another one goes in for a special brand of ah you have the advantage over me said at the you fellows are all or at all events if you re not personal youve with one another excepting you old chap i never meet any fellow that i am on terms with you walk into an office in search of work you only see a few jack a doing watch dog and they re told to keep you and they do it but you know lots of people in town come now more than i do lots of people said bitterly do i well you know yes i know she must have a bunch of keys i she has you might as well ask her it s doing her a favour i don t like doing it said oh i don t see that if you want to live and you want to make money you must put your pride in your pocket otherwise there s nothing but a corner for it � until the begin to come in that is love and twenty well in the end the two friends went round on a sad little pilgrimage among the houses of their friends who were not very many nor very influential and at the end of the first week between them they had got twenty persons to take up the new this added a trifle to their a trifle that was indeed very welcome but so many people asked jim whether he had his own keys that he determined to do it on the principle that it was ridiculous to ask other people to take a precaution which you neglected yourself consequently he filled up in his own name one of the forms which he had induced others to accept during the past few days and on to his modest bunch of keys he slipped by means of the split ring it had attached a little bearing a number and the name of the royal company at poor old his thoughts ran as he played idly with the bunch of keys i don t wonder he hates it as he does he s so proud that comes of having a father on the council of india with eighteen and all that sort of thing and then after all coming down to live in a dingy street off the road and in the of that and to around among one s friends for a commission that brings one in a like this ah poor old chap i don t wonder he hates it so and then as he sat there some wandering devil of evil slipped into jim s heart a curious twisted ray of light seemed to shine in upon him he ejaculated that would be an easy way of making a few shillings of course it isn t quite a little mystery square but when your starving � it isn t like taking it from an individual it s no different to what they do on the stock exchange when they buy for a rise and sell a fall for some minutes jim sat staring at the reverse side of the on which an inscription ran thus any person finding this bunch of keys and taking it to the police station will receive five shillings reward by the company after of owner that was the beginning of a long course of deception it is not necessary for me to go into the actual details of how these two struggling boys managed to make money out of the royal company of suffice it to say that every week three or four of keys were lost and found within the area always a visit to a different police station it was no such great find in the way of but it did manage to keep two starving bodies and two ambitious souls together and for some time the royal company of continued to pay the five shillings reward without any question then a communication was received by jim saying that the company had noticed that a very large of his were unfortunate in losing their keys jim wrote back that he was sorry that it was true but his acquaintance was largely among the student class the company promptly withdrew the appointment but all the same for some weeks jim continued to of keys and to claim an reward and then one fine morning love and twenty came in triumphant having been appointed sub editor of a not very important weekly journal at a salary of twenty | 30 |
use for one thing she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a dictionary speaking and for another thing where could they find out whether it was right or not for she was the only cultivated dog there was by and by when i was older she brought home the word a dog s tale one time and worked it pretty hard all the week at different making much and despondency and it was at this time that i noticed that during that week she was asked for the meaning at eight different and flashed out a fresh definition every time which showed me that she had presence of mind than culture though i said nothing of course she had one word which she always kept on hand and ready like a life a kind of emergency word to on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way � that was the word s when she happened to fetch out a long word which had had its day weeks before and its prepared gone to a dog tale her pile if there was a stranger there of course it knocked him for a couple of minutes then he would come to and by that time she would be away down the wind on another tack and not expecting anything so when he d hail and ask her to cash in i the only dog on the inside of her game could see her canvas a moment � but only just a moment � then it would belly out and full and she would say as calm as a summer s day it s with or some long of a word like that and go placidly about and away on the next tack perfectly comfortable you know and leave that stranger looking profane and embarrassed and the the a dog s tale floor with their tails in and their faces with a and it was the same with phrases she would drag home a whole phrase if it had a grand and play it six nights and two es and explain it a new way every time � which she had to for all she cared for was the phrase she wasn t interested in what it meant and knew those dogs hadn t wit enough to catch her anyway yes she was a she got so she wasn t afraid of anything she had such confidence in the ignorance of those creatures she even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family and the dinner guests laugh and shout over and as a rule she got the of one chestnut a dog s tale another chestnut where of course it didn t fit and hadn t any point and when she the she fell over and rolled on the floor and laughed and in the most insane way while i could see that she was wondering to herself why it didn t seem as as it did when she first heard it but no harm was done the others rolled and privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn t any to see you can see by these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous character still she had virtues and enough to make up i think she had a kind heart and gentle ways � a dog s tale and never for done her but put them easily out of her mind and forgot them and she taught her children her and from her we learned also to be brave and prompt in time of danger and not to run away but face the peril that threatened friend or stranger and help him the best we could without stopping to think what the cost might be to us and she taught us not by words only but by example and that is the best way and the and the most lasting why the brave things she did the splendid things she was just a soldier and so modest about it � well you couldn t help admiring her and you couldn t help her not even a king charles span a dog s tale could remain entirely in her so as you see there was more to her than her education ii hen i was well grown at last i was sold and taken away and i never saw her again she was broken hearted and so was i and we cried but she comforted me as well as she could and said we were sent into this world for a wise and good purpose and must do our duties without take our life as we might find it live it for the best good of others and never mind about the results they were not our affair she said men who did like this would have a noble and beautiful reward lo m � � � � � � a dog tale by and by in another world and although we animals would not go there to do well and right without reward would give to our brief lives a and dignity which in itself would be a reward she had gathered these things from time to time when she had gone to the school with the children and had laid them up in her memory more carefully than she had done with those other words and phrases and she had studied them deeply for her good and ours one may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head for all there was so much lightness and vanity in it so we said our and looked our last upon each other through our tears and the last thing she said ii a dog s tale � keeping it for the last to make me remember it the better i think � was in | 34 |
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behavior to all his visitors and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion and only prevented from being bo always by too great an to fancy himself as much superior to people in general as he must feel himself to be to mrs and for the rest of his character and habits they were marked as fat as could perceive with no traits at all in hia sex and time of life he was nice in his eating uncertain in hia hours fond of hia child though affecting to slight it and away the mornings at which ought to have boon devoted to business she liked him however upon the whole much better than she had expected and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more not sorry to be driven sense sensibility by the of hia hia selfish i ness and hia conceit to rest with complacency f on the remembrance of edward s temper simple taste and feelings of edward or at least of some of hia concerns i she now received intelligence from colonel who had been into lately and i who treating her at once as the disinterested i friend of mr and the kind of i talked to her a great deal of the at described its and told what he meant to do himself towards removing em his behavior to her in this as well as in � other particular his open pleasure in meeting her after an absence of only ten days his with her and his deference for � r opinion might very well justify mrs s persuasion of his attachment and would i been enough perhaps had not still h from the first believed hia real favorite to make her suspect it herself but aa it was a notion had scarcely ever entered her head by mrs s suggestion and she not help believing the observer of the two she watched hia eyes while mrs thought only of hia behavior and while his looks of anxious solicitude on s feeling k her head and throat the beginning of a heavy i because by words entirely � and the latter lady a she could discover in them the quick feelings aud needless alarm two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there not merely on the dry gravel of the but all over the grounds and especially in the most distant parts of them where there waa something more of than in the rest where the trees were the oldest and the grass was the longest and had assisted by the still greater of in her w et shoes and stockings given a cold so violent as though for a day or two with or denied would force itself by increasing on the concern of body and the notice of herself poured in from all quarters and as usual were all declined though heavy and feverish with a pain in her limbs a cough and a throat a good night s rest waa to cure her entirely and it was with difficulty that prevailed on her when she went to bed to try one or two of the the got lip the nest morning at her i time to every inquiry replied that she was better i and tried to prove herself by engaging in her but a spent in i sitting shivering over the fire with a book in her which she was unable to read or in lying and languid on a sofa did not speak much a favor of her and when at last she f ent early to bed more and more was only astonished at her i � sister a composure who though attending and her the whole day against s inclination and forcing proper on her at night like to the certainty and of sleep and felt no real alarm i a very restless and feverish night however r disappointed the expectation of both and when after in rising confessed herself unable to sit up and returned voluntarily to her bed was very ready to adopt mrs s advice of sending for the examined his patient and though miss to expect that a very r mn and fi w days would restore her to health yet by her disorder to have a tendency and allowing the word to pass his lips gave instant alarm to mrs on her s account mrs who had been inclined from the first to think s complaint more serious than now looked very grave on mr s report and s fears and caution urged the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant and mr though treating their as idle found the anxiety and of ma wife too great to be her departure therefore was fixed on and within an hour after mr s arrival she set off with her little boy and hia nurse for the house of a near relation of mr s who lived a few miles on the other side of bath whither her promised at her earnest entreaty to join her in a day or two and whither she was almost equally urgent with her mother to accompany her mrs however with a kindness of heart which made really love her declared her resolution of not stirring from as long as remained ill and of by her own attentive care to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from and found her on every occasion a most willing and active desirous to share in all her and sense and often by her better experience in nursing of mute use poor languid and low from the na re of her malady and feeling herself universally ill could no longer ie that to morrow would find her recovered and the idea of what to morrow would have produced hut fur this | 26 |
operation when he no th� god s domain longer he would get up and stalk away from them but after a time he grew even to like the children still he was not he would not go up to them on the other hand instead of away at sight of them he waited for them to come to and still later it was noticed that a pleased light came into his eyes when he saw them approaching and that he looked after them with an appearance of curious regret when they left him for other amusements all this was a matter of development and took time next in his regard after the children was judge scott there were two reasons possibly for this first he was evidently a valuable possession of the master and next he was white liked to lie at his feet on the wide porch when he read the newspaper from time to time white with a look or a word � tokens that he recognized white s presence and existence but this was only when the master was not around when the master appeared all other beings ceased to exist so far as white was concerned white allowed all the members of the family to pet him and make much of him but he never gave to them what he gave to the master no caress of theirs could put the love into his throat and try as they would they could never persuade white g him into against them this expression of abandon and surrender of absolute trust he reserved for the master alone in fact he never regarded the members of the family in any other light than possessions of the love master also white had early come to between the family and the servants of the household the latter were afraid of him while he merely refrained from attacking them this because he considered that they were likewise possessions of the master between white and them existed a and no more they cooked for the master and washed the dishes and did other things just as had done up in the they were in short of the household outside the household there was even more for white to learn the master s domain was wide and complex yet it had its and bounds the land itself ceased at the country road outside was the domain of all gods � the roads and streets then inside other fences were the particular of other gods a laws governed all these things and determined conduct yet he did not know the speech of the gods nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience he obeyed his natural impulses until they ran him counter to some law when this had been done a the ood s domain few times he learned the law and after that observed it bat most potent in his education were the of the master s hand the censure of the master s voice because of white s very great love a from the master hurt him far more than any beating gray or beauty smith had ever given him they had hurt only the flesh of him beneath the flesh the spirit had still raged splendid and invincible but with the master the was always too light to hurt the flesh yet it went deeper it was an expression of the master s and white s spirit under it in point of fact the was rarely administered the master s voice was by it white knew whether he did right or not by it he trimmed his conduct and adjusted his actions it was the compass by which he and learned to the manners of a now land and life in the the only animal was the dog all other animals lived in the wild and were when not too formidable lawful spoil for any dogs all his days white had among the live things for food it did not enter his head that in the it was otherwise but this he was to learn early in his residence in valley around the comer of the house in the early morning he came upon a chicken white that had escaped from the chicken yard white s natural impulse was to eat it a couple of bounds a flash of teeth and a frightened and he had in the adventurous fowl it was and fat and tender and white licked his and decided that such fare was good later in the day he chanced upon another stray chicken near the stables one of the ran to the rescue he did not know white s breed so for weapon he took a light whip at the first cut of the whip white left the chicken for the man a club might have stopped white but not a whip silently without he took a second cut in his forward rush and as he leaped for the throat the groom cried out my and staggered backward he dropped the whip and his throat with his arms in consequence his was open to the bone the man was badly frightened it was not so much white s ferocity as it was his silence that the groom still protecting his throat and face with his torn and bleeding arm he tried to retreat to the bam and it would have gone hard with him had not appeared on the scene as she had saved dick s life she now saved the groom s she rushed upon white in wrath she had been right she had known better than the gods all her the god s domain were justified here was the ancient up to his old tricks again the groom escaped into the stables and white backed away before s wicked teeth or presented his shoulder to them and round and round but did not give over as was her wont after a decent | 21 |
the fact that conversation is employed more than any other means for such a purpose is a convincing proof of its importance and its power it is so natural to converse that one of the inflicted upon degraded human nature is that of being denied the liberty of speech how desirable is it then that what is done every hour in all classes of society and under almost every variety of circumstance should be done for some good purpose and done in the best possible manner to converse well in company is a point of ambition with many women and few are insensible to the homage paid by the most sincere of all � a group of attentive the of listeners so far as this talent a woman of elevated mind to give a higher tone to conversation in general it is indeed a valuable gift but that of being able to converse in an agreeable and appropriate manner in a sick room with an aged parent or distressed relative or with a friend in delicate and trying circumstances is a of far higher and more character i have already remarked that attendance upon the sick is one of the most frequent and familiar at the same time that it is one of the most sacred of the duties upon the class of women here described it is much to be able gently and to smooth the pillow for the aching head to administer the cordial draught to guide the feeble steps and to watch through the sleepless and protracted hours of night but these are services rendered only to the suffering body the mind � the mind may all the while be sorely in need of the oil with which its lamp should still be trimmed and how shall this be administered the practised nurses hired for the sion make rude and ill advised attempts tp raise the ing spirits of the patient by their vulgar books are too wearisome and tell only of far off and by gone things when the whole interest of the sufferer is ted into t ie present moment and fixed upon himself it happens more frequently and more happily amongst the middle classes in england that nurses and cannot be hired and that the chief attention required by the patient upon the females of the family how differently in this case is the sufferer dealt with is no appearance of coming in expressly to converse lit of with him but while a gentle and kind hearted woman with noiseless tread about the room arranging every article of comfort and giving to the whole apartment an air of refreshment or repose she is watching every indication of an opening for conversation that may the lingering hours of their and lead the sufferer to forget his pain there are moments even in seasons of sickness when a little well timed is far from being she watches for these and turns them to account by going just so far in her as the exhausted frame can bear without injury when sympathy is called for as it is on such occasions almost she it freely and fully though not to any prolonged extent as regards the case immediately under her care but continuing the same tone and manner and with evidently the same feeling she speaks of other cases of suffering of some friend or neighbour and the more recent and immediate the instances the more likely they will be to divert the mind of the patient from himself these of course are not brought forward with anything like a ing that the patient is not worse than others but simply as if her own mind was of the impression they are calculated to excite and by these means her voice and her countenance to the facts she is relating she them with an interest which even to the selfish invalid is irresistible varying with every change in the temper and mood of the patient her conversation every variety that is calculated to please always subdued and kept under by such delicate touches of feeling such intense of and such lively sensibility that the faintest shadow cannot pass across the aching brow nor the slightest indication of a smile across the lips but it serves as an index for her either to change the subject of her discourse to be silent or to proceed there is along with all this a kindness in her voice which no pen was ever so eloquent as to describe and there are moments of appealing weakness on the part of the invalid when she forth the full tide of her affection in language that prosperity and health would never have taught her how to use beyond these seasons of intercourse however and of far deeper value are those in which the soul of him who feels himself to be fast hastening to the of eternity will sometimes seek a human ear for the utterance of its anxieties and fears and appeal to a human heart for counsel in its hours of need it may be that the individual has never been accustomed to converse on these subjects knows not how to begin � and is ashamed to condemn as he feels that he must do the whole of his past life who then but the friend who has been near him in all his re cent and trials who has shared them both to her very utmost and thus obtained his confidence � who but his patient and nurse can mark and understand the struggle of his feelings and lead them forth by partial so gently that he is neither pained nor by the whole confession perchance it is at the hour of midnight when fever gives him strength and darkness hides his countenance and ha hears the sweet tones of that encouraging voice now to the expression of a sympathy the most intense and of a love that many waters | 41 |
cloth some two feet high was placed round the edge of the there was a yell of impotent rage because a portion of the sight � the lowering of the dead bodies in their � would be thereby lost to them they cheered the when he came out to the ropes as the herald of their coming treat they grew impatient last occasion of a moral lesson in the old a live rat was let loose and ran about the people s heads unable to find any opening for its descent op london life as the clock grew near the stroke of eight and some called time i am afraid an idea crossed my mind that if all the people there present except those at the windows could be put out of tlie way like those whose last agonies they had come to see it would be no great loss it is not eight but it is very near a little dog in danger of being trodden to death is rescued by the police amid approbation and placed safety upon the block � where the rest their burdens � at the top of the street that is a good sign perhaps it is better to pity dogs than st s bell begins to toll although the inarticulate roar of voices almost its solemn boom and there is a sharp and sudden cry of hats off and the carpet shows like a white sheet instantly where the are in street the and like the waves of a summer sea and where the are they are only by their living burdens there is a dreadful of officials lights and shadows at the prison door and five men are brought forth one after another to be let us turn our backs upon that scene my friends if you please and look rather upon the forty thousand eager faces receiving their moral lesson they are not so impressed that they are silent � no not for one instant but their roar has a certain satisfaction in it like that of a cat over its prey then a hiss breaks forth and here and there the word cur is heard that is because one of the wretched victims has fainted and must needs be seated in a chair and then there is a tempest of applause because the fifth man goes to his doom with as an air as his arms will permit the priest is speaking the last few words that these wretches shall hear from mortal tongue they are kissing through those terrible caps the he holds in his hand and in a few seconds they will have crossed the threshold of life and entered upon the mysteries of eternity surely if the moral lesson is to give any visible sign of or london life its working it must be now it gives no sign whatever the never ceases there is no hush no reverence no fear only after a certain dreadful grinding noise � which is the fall of the a flood of uproar suddenly bursts forth which must have been pent up before this the truth is is the voice of the curious the fast the vicious spell bound for a little by the awful spectacle while the ceaseless though lesser din arose from the professional the thieves in ease the in who are impressed by nothing save by the touch of the fatal slip knot under their own right ears singularly enough the crowd increased after the execution persons of delicate temperament joining it i suppose who had not nerves enough for a hanging out who knew how to appreciate a cutting down the present writer has never been in favour of the of capital because notwithstanding nature s purity he thinks they greatly add to his security lights and shadows of london life and in the second place because his sympathies are contrary he knows to what is usual rather with the murdered persons than with the people who kill them nothing that he beheld on the morning of the nd of february has shaken that opinion which is entertained even more strongly by those of his companions who went out upon the and beheld face to face the class for whom seed grows but with respect to the of the moral lesson this home correspondent believes it to be bad and that it should be forthwith the end london printed by and house t street messrs and s list of new works the life of from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of joseph esq f s a francis esq esq m a f r s miss and other original with an sketch of the art of in england by by permission to the right hon w e complete in vo with portraits and other illustrations bound price s this is the life of to the expected appearance of which i referred at � extract from a letter to the author by the right hon w e this very beautiful book contains that life of which for the last fifteen years miss has had in view and to which the family and all who have papers valuable in relation to its subject have been cordially in his admirable sketch of given at it was to the publication of this biography that mr looked forward with pleasure it is a very accurate and valuable book to give their fullest value to the of works of art which largely the volumes the biography has been made by its a choice specimen of their own art as neither care nor cost have been � the appearance of such a work as miss s life of is an event of importance in the sister of literature and art the of our great has more than ordinary fitness for the fulfilment of her labour of love she is an enthusiastic admirer and a practised of art and she brings the | 25 |
your scotch ancestors you are a slave to the of your grandmother and your grand you obey them but do we not inherit our reason just as much as we inherit our feelings they had argued that point she could not remember what his argument was but she remembered that she had held her ground that he had her not forgetting however to take the credit of the improvement in her intellectual to himself which indeed was no more than just she would have been nothing without him how he had altered she had come to think and feel like him she often caught herself saying exactly by what he would say in certain and having heard him say how affected him she had tried to acquire a like sensibility unconsciously she had a great deal that little trick of his using his eyes a certain way that knowing little glance of his had become habitual to her she had met men who were more profound never anyone whose mind was more alert more amusing and sufficient for every occasion she a moment and then remembered further they now ate the same dishes and no longer had need to consult each other before ordering dinner in their first week in paris she had learnt to look forward to in the morning before she got up and this taste was to her for it reminded her of him in the picture galleries she had always tried to pick out the pictures he would like if they could not decide how a passage should be sung or were in doubt regarding the attitude and gesture best fitted to carry on a dramatic action she had noticed that if they separated so that they might arrive at individual conclusions they almost always happened upon the same to each other they now affected not to know from whom a certain quaint notion had come � clearly it had been inspired by him but which had first expressed it was not sure � that the three great type were and the of and la h nor were they sure which had first suggested that in the last week of her stage career she should appear in all three parts as la h would set musical london by the ears she had often wondered whether by having absorbed so much of s character she had proved herself deficient in character maintained on the contrary that the sign of genius is the power of and that which is necessary to the development of he mentioned s life which he said was but the tale of a long of ideas the narrow barren soul is narrow and barren because it cannot acquire we come into the world with nothing in our own right except the capacity for the acquisition of ideas we cannot invent ideas we can only gather some of those in circulation since the beginning of the world we them with the colour and form of our time and if that by colour and form be of supreme quality the work is preserved as representative of a period in the history of a name may or may not be attached to each specimen genius is merely the power of only the fool he would go still further he maintained that if the circumstances of a man s life admitted the acquisition of only one set of ideas his work was thin but if on the contrary circumstances threw him in the way of a new set of ideas a set of ideas different from the first set yet sufficiently near for the same brain to then the work produced by that brain would be endowed with richer colour or in form the idea was he said to a work of art what salt is to meat � it preserved works of art against the action of time how they had talked i how they had discussed things i they had talked about everything and she remembered all he said as she recalled the arguments he had used the scene of this last conversation passed and in vanishing � on the they had stopped there on their way to where she was going to sing the maidens and their gold the fire surrounding the death of the hero the end of the legends these she knew but of she knew nothing � the story or the music the time was for him to tell it the flame of the candle burnt in the still midnight and she had listened with breath she could see leaning forward telling the story and she could even see her own listening face as he related how the poor fool rises through of faith and of doubt how he the sick king with the sacred spear and becomes himself the high priest of the it had seemed to that she had been carried beyond the limits of earthly things the thrill and shiver of the dead man s genius haunted the liquid ripple of the river the moment was the deep night was full of the haunting ripple of the and she remembered how she had clasped her hands her very words came back to her it is wonderful and we are listening to the we shall never forget this midnight at that moment the bell rang and she re by why she had stayed in church she wished to discover what remnant or of her early faith still clung about her she wished to put her to the test she wondered if at the moment of she would be compelled to bow her head the bell rang again she grew tremulous with expectation she strove to refrain but her head bowed a little and her thoughts expanded into prayer she was not sure that she actually prayed for her thoughts did not divide into explicit words or phrases there certainly followed a beautiful softening of her whole being the bitterness of | 15 |
way third mask and after that such without end the music suddenly ceases and a dock astonished what is it first mask wants a quarter sir of twelve second mask then we have time third mask aye time enough for mask and not till midnight comes the shot to pay shuddering what want ye s miscellaneous writings t k mi hand hey to dance a step with thee hand off � fire first mask a spark or so of second mask art dreaming brother third mask music there tht h ns again in ihe distance first mask ng the is biting him second mask hark at the gallows what jovial footing of it third mask thither must i exit first mask below too down in hear ye second mask a stirring there t is time then your servant first mask to till midnight his ha what me here stepping forward down with your violent knocking what horrid uproar next is madness coming on me � voice en open in the king s name ceases es hack i have a heavy dream � sure here is the murderer open open then ma brow has me � scene eighth where is he where � from these merely the jovial stranger easily but now comes the long for d with scene twelfth the she is the withdraw warm no longer strive proud beauty ha wild my bosom � the time is not yet come � � and so forth through four pages of and ice till at last off with the mask then hey the marriage hour off with the mask s one kiss take it tht mask and head dress from her and she at urn a death s head loud thunder and the music ends as shriek in back o horror � the couch is ready there come bridegroom to thy fire she sinks a crashing into the ground out of which all this is bad enough but mere child s play to the scene the last of this strange history with some parts of which we propose to send our readers weeping to their beds scene stranger face is pale hack to the by ha let me fly � come come � with thundering tone t is over now that horrid i � in a tremor on the stranger s breast thou art my friend protect me stranger laughing ha ha ha o save me stranger him force him rounds that t face ia towards he spectators his own is turned away and thus lie looks at him and with thundering voice t is i � a clap of of deepest horror rushes to the ground uttering an inarticulate cry the other a pause continues with cutting coolness is that t ie mighty hell that threatened me � ha me contempt worm of the dust i had reserved thy torment for � myself � descend to other hands be sport for slaves � thou art too small for me rises erect and seems to recover his strength am i not stranger thou no i rising in his whole vehemence accursed ha i am i am down at my feet � i am thy master stranger no more i wildly more ha my bargain stranger is concluded t e mortal sins � stranger the fourth too is committed my wife my and my old father s blood � i l f writings t an er to and here thy own � that ib my thia � was thy most sin ro fig ha spirit of lies d c c stranger in fury down thou accursed he him ly the hair the at this moment amid violent thunder and the scene changes into a horrid in tlie background of which a yawning chasm into this the on au sides rains down so that the whole interior of the seems burning a black over so soon as is got under in ha down thunder and fire both sink the curtain on considering all which supernatural transactions the bewildered reader has no theory for it except that must in dr s phrase have labored under in the region all this of the devil and and so much murder and have been nothing but a waking dream or other and regrets that the poor had not rather applied to some on the subject or even by one sufficient dose of salt on his own have put an end to the whole matter and restored himself to the bosom of his afflicted family such then for dr s part is his method of to which method it may perhaps be objected that there is a want of originality in it for do german not out own british follow precisely the same plan we might answer that if not his plan at least his infinitely superior execution of it must distinguish we rather think his claim to originality rests on a different ground on the ground namely of his entire contentment with himself and with this his and the cool heroism with which on all occasions he that contentment here is no poor begging the public for god s sake not to give him the which he deserves but a bold perpendicular himself as such nay mounted on the top of his and a sharp critical over the drama generally we understand has lately executed a theatrical tour as don did various and thrown stones into most german and at various german play writers of which we have seen only his assault on a feat perhaps ta that � never adventure of the fortune it is said the brave and the prayer of s is not always unheard of heaven in conclusion we congratulate dr on his manager dignity in the theatre a post he seems made for almost as was for the but now like his own doctor must go on � on � on for another and greater doctor has been kept too long waiting | 37 |
right over your window it ill becomes you mary to speak of after the blow that gave pat with his stick at ned s wedding and i must stand by my son and keep him ont of the low irish and he won t be safe until i get him a good wife the low irish indeed it ill becomes you to be talking in that way of your neighbours is it because none of us hare brass on our doors i have seen this pride growing up in you this long while there isn t one in the village that you ve any respect for except the that black who sits behind his counter and makes money and knows no enjoyment in life at all that s your way of looking at it but it isn t mine i set my face against my son marrying and you should have done the same something will happen to you for the cruel words you have spoken to me this day mary you came to ask me to your son s wedding and i had to tell you yes and you ve told me that you won t come and that you hate the and you ve said all you could against them i t to have listened to all you said if i did tis because we have known each other these twenty years but don t i remember well the rags you d on your back when you came to this village it ill followed her to the gate the sounds of wheels and were heard it was the wedding party going by and on the first car whom should they see but sitting between pat and peter good bye and good luck to you i see that pat s coming to our dance after all and she could not speak for want of breath when she got to her door they were all there pat and the and and peter and all their friends but she couldn t speak and hadn t the strength to find the key for she could only think of the black look that had come over s face when she saw pat sitting by on the car and mrs m laughed as she searched for the thinking how quickly her punishment had come and all the while they were telling her how they had met pat at michael s when he saw us he tried to into the yard but i went after him and don t you think i did right was heard to say and as soon as they were inside she said now i ll get the biggest of porter and shall drink one half and pat the other peter was fond of and there were large and small on the some white and brown and some were gilt with pink flowers now you ll say something nice i ll say then said peter this is the happiest day of my life as it should be indeed for haven t i got the girl that i wanted and hasn t pat forgiven me for the blow i struck him for he knows well i wouldn t hurt a hair of his head weren t we boys together but i had a cross drop in me at the time and that was how it was catching sight of s black hair and rosy cheeks which were all the world to him he stopped speaking and stood looking at her of everything and at that moment he looked so good and foolish that more than one woman thought it would be a weary thing to live with him now pat you must make a speech too said i haven t any speech in me he said i m glad enough to be sitting here but i m sore afraid my mother saw me on the car and i think i had better be going home and letting you finish this marriage what s that you re saying said you won t go out of this house till you ve danced a with me and now sit down at the table next to me and you sit on the other side of him so that he won t run away to his mother her eyes were as bright as coals of fire and she calling to her father who was at the end of the table to have another of pig s head and to the who was having his supper in the window to hare a bit more and then turning to pat who said never a word and laughing at him for having nothing to say it was afterwards they remembered that had seemed to put pat out of her mind suddenly and had stood talking to her husband saying he must dance with her though it was no amusement to a girl to dance opposite peter it was afterwards that mary ned s wife remembered how though she had danced with peter in the first had not been able to keep her eyes from the comer where pat sat and that sudden like she had grown weary of peter mary remembered too she had seen a wild look pass in s eyes and that she had gone over to pat and pulled him out for a dance and why shouldn t she for it was a pleasure for a girl to dance opposite to pat so cleverly did his feet move to the pipes was admiring them when pat cried out i m going home i bid you all good night here finish this wedding as you like and before anyone could stop him he had run out of the house go after him said bring him back it would be ill luck on our wedding night for anyone to leave us like that peter went out of the door and was away some time but he came back without | 15 |
so that she might not be late for dinner when she entered the hotel she came suddenly upon on the he was sitting there engaged in conversation with an elderly woman � a woman of about fifty who catching sight of her whispered something to him this is lady sir has been telling me miss what madame said about your voice i do not know how to congratulate you i suppose such a thing has not happened before and her small grey eyes gazed in envious as if seeking to understand how such extraordinary good fortune should have befallen the tall fair girl who stood blushing and embarrassed in her happiness drew a chair forward sit down you look tired no i m not tired but i walked from the arc de walked why did you walk � did not answer and lady said � sir tells me that you ll surely succeed in � that i shall be converted lady is a no my dear i m not a for i recognise the greatness of the music and i could hear it with pleasure if it were confined to the but i can find no pleasure in listening to a voice trying to accompany a hundred instruments i heard last season i was in mrs s box � a charming woman � her husband is an american but he never comes to london i presented her at the last drawing room she had a supper party afterwards and when she asked me what i d have to eat i said nothing with wings oh that swan her grey hair was drawn up and arranged and noticed three diamond rings and an ring on her fat white fingers there had been moments she said when she had thought the people on the stage were making fun of them � such � they had all shouted themselves hoarse � such wandering from key to key hoping i suppose that in the end they d hit off the right ones and that trick of going up in and then they go up in on the half notes i said if they do that again i ll leave the theatre could see that liked lady and her conversation which at first might have seemed extravagant and a little foolish was illuminated with knowledge and a vague sense of humour which was her story of how she had met in her early youth and the praise he had bestowed on her voice and his intention of writing an opera for her seemed fanciful enough but every now and then some slight detail inspired the suspicion that there was perhaps more in what she was saying than appeared at first hearing why did he not write the opera olive it was as he was ill when he lived in and he said he was afraid he was not equal to writing down so many notes poor old man i can still see him sitting in his she seemed to have been on terms of friendship with the most celebrated men of the time her little book entitled of some great was alluded to and mentioned that at that time she was the great beauty but instead of going on the stage i married lord and this early mistake she seemed to consider as sufficient explanation for all subsequent misfortunes wandered what these might be and said � the most celebrated singers are glad to sing at lady s no reputation is considered complete till it has received her sanction that is going too f but it is true that nearly all the great singers have been heard at my house begged to get ready for dinner and as she stood waiting for the lift she saw him resume confidential conversation with lady they were she knew making preparations for her future life and this was the woman she was going to live with for the next few years the thought gave her pause she dried her hands and hastened downstairs they were still talking in the just as she had left them signed to the coachman and told him to drive to s they were dining in a private room and during dinner the conversation constantly back to the success that had achieved that afternoon told the story in well turned sentences his eyes were generally fixed on lady and sat listening and feeling as intended she should feel like the heroine of a fairy tale she laughed nervously when madame s accent he described how she had said if you ll stop with me for a year i ll make something wonderful of you lady leaned across the table glancing from time to time at as if to assure herself that she was still in the presence of this extraordinary person and murmured something about having the honour of assisting at what she was sure would be a great career noticed that seemed and did not respond very eagerly to lady s advances he wondered if she suspected him of having been lady s lover was thinking entirely of lady herself trying to divine the real woman that was behind all this talk of great men and social one phrase let drop seemed to let in some light on the mystery talking of her lady said that it was only necessary to know what road we wanted to walk in to succeed and instantly lady appeared to her as one who had never selected a road she seemed to have walked a little way on all roads and her face expressed a life of many wanderings from place to place there was nothing as she said worth doing that she had not done but she had clearly accomplished nothing as she watched her she feared though she could not say what she feared at bottom it was a suspicion of the influence that lady would exercise must exercise upon her � for were they | 15 |
is now striving to interest himself in the conversation of a group of men twice his age i will not say he is but neither the nor the young girls make any advances towards him the young girls ss of a looking to sweet � in the of their fresh hair flowers dresses and glances � are being introduced are getting up to dance and the hostess is looking round for partners she sees the young man in the doorway but she and goes to some one else and if you asked her why she could not tell you why she avoided him presently the woman of thirty enters she is in white satin and diamonds she looks for him � a circular glance � and calm with possession she passes to a seat she dances the eighth twelfth and with him will he induce her to visit his rooms will they be like mine � strange of color and lamps s taste an old cabinet a faded which the memory of a pastoral century my taste or will it be a library � two leather library chain a large etc be this as it may whether the apartments be the extravagance of artistic impulse or the subdued taste of the student she the woman of thirty shall be there by night and day her statue is there and even when she is sleeping safe in her husband s arms with brow he the young man of refined mind alone and lonely shall kneel and her and should she not visit his rooms if the complex and various accidents of existence should have ruled out her life if the many of sentiment have decided against this last then she will wax to the complete the � the of old � she will never set him free and in the end will be found about his heart one single golden hair she shall haunt his wife s face and words should he seek to rid himself of her by marriage a ss of a young han l bitter sweet a half welcome enchantment she shall and destroy the strength and spirit of his life leaving it desolation a barren landscape burnt and faintly scented with the sea fame and wealth shall slip like sand from him she may be set aside for the of a rhyme for the flowing line of a limb but when the passion of art has raged itself out she shall return to the peace of the a terrible malady is she a malady the knew of and called a beautiful name and of its idea aspect the breast of the in the and the disease is not extinct in these modern days nor will it ever be so long as men shall for the and the who trail their ill fated lives from their chambers to their clubs know of and they call their the woman of thirty ss chapter vi a dressing gown the of whose delights me some fresh honey and milk set by this couch hung with royal and having of this refreshment i call to jack my great that is crawling about after a two months fast i tie up a guinea pig to the pure louis xv the little beast struggles and � the snake his black bead like eyes are fixed how superb are the � now he strikes and slowly and with what exquisite he and is at the organ in the hall he is playing a chant that beautiful hymn the by saint the great poet of the middle ages and having turned over the leaves of les i sit down to write my original intention was to write some thirty or forty stories varying from thirty to three hundred lines in length the nature of these stories is easy to imagine there was the youth who wandered by night into the sabbath and was disputed for by the young and old there was the light o love who went into the desert to tempt the holy man but he died as he yielded and the arms by some miracle to she was unable to free herself and died of starvation as her bondage loosened in decay and i had increased my difficulties by as part of my task the introduction of all sorts of elaborate and in � of a young it an many cases composed and i had begun to feel that i was working in sand i could make no progress the house i was raising and fell away on every side these stories had one merit they were all so far as i can remember perfectly constructed far the art of telling a story clearly and les de s de m i had thoroughly learned from old m the author of a hundred and sixty plays written in with more than a hundred of the best writers of his day including the master himself i frequently met m at breakfast at a neighboring and our conversation turned on i de la piece la situation des etc one day as i sat waiting for him i took up the it contained an article by m la v la science were repeated some half a dozen times hardly able to believe my eyes i read that you should write with as little imagination as possible that plot in a novel or in a play was and and that the art of m was an art of strings and wires etc i rose up from breakfast ordered my coffee and stirred the sugar a little dizzy like one who has received a violent blow on the head echo words heard in an unexpected quarter but applying well to the difficulty of the moment the reader who has followed me so far will remember the instant effect the word had upon me in childhood and how it called into existence a train of feeling that illuminated the and | 15 |
is tlie atmosphere with water the faster the ball falls to the sun the force to fly off is by so much and in morals wild liberty iron conscience natures wit li great impulses have great resources and return from far in politics the sons of will be whilst red iu the father is a of nature to an intolerable tyrant in the next age on the other hand ever more and narrow the and drives them for a of fresh air into conduct of life those liave most of this coarse energy � the who have run the of and tavern tlie county or the state � have their own vices but tliey have the good nature of strength and courage fierce and they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood our politics fall into bad hands and and men of refinement it seems agreed are not fit persons to send to politics is a profession like some poisonous men in power have no opinions but may be had cheap for any opinion for any purpose � and if it be only a question between the most civil and the most forcible i lean to the last these and are really better than the opposition their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast they see against the unanimous of the people how much crime the will bear they proceed from step to step and they have calculated but too justly upon their the new england and upon their honors the new england the messages of the and the resolutions of the are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation which in tha course of events is sure to be in trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity and religious bodies do not commonly make their officers out of saints the hitherto founded by � the the port the american at new harmony at brook farm at � are only possible by as steward the rest of the offices may be filled by good the pious and power n proprietor a not quite so pious and charitable the amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the which guards his orchard of the society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market and in representations of the deity painting poetry and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from hell it is an doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs as if poor decayed of law and order cannot run like wild wolves and that as there is a use in medicine for so the w cannot move without that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the t is not very rare the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with c spirit and good i knew a who for many years kept a public in one of our rural he was a whom the town could ill spare he was a social creature grasping and selfish there was no crime which he did not or could not commit but he made good friends of the served them with his best chop when they at his house and also with his honor the judge he was very cordial grasping his hand he introduced all the male and female into the town and united in his person the functions of bully ba r keeper and he the trees and cut ofi the horses tails of the people in the night he led the and in town meeting with a speech conduct life be was civil fat and easy in his house and precisely the most public spirited citizen was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade trees he for the fountains the gas and the h he introduced the new horse the new the baby aud what not that sends to the admiring citizens he did this the easier that the stopped at his house and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord s premises whilst thus the energy for and work itself by excess and so our axe our own fingers � this evil is not without remedy all the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters especially those of most subtle force shall he then steam fire and or shall he learn to deal with them the rule for this whole class of is � all is good only put it in the right place men of this of blood cannot live on nuts tea and cannot read novels and play cannot satisfy all their wants at the thursday lecture or the boston they pine for adventure and must go to s peak had rather die by the of a than sit all day and every day at a counting room desk they are made for war for the sea for hunting and clearing for adventures huge risks and the joy of living some men cannot endure an hour of calm at sea i remember a poor cook on board a liverpool packet who when the wind blew a gale could not contain his joy blow he cried me do tell you power blow friends and must see tbat some vent for their complexion is provided the who are destined for at home if sent to will cover you with glory and come back heroes and there are and exploring enough to america to find them in to and in to eat the young english are fine animals full of blood and when they have no wars to breathe their in they seek for travels as dangerous as war into swimming up the snowy hunting lion elephant in south africa with borrow in spain and riding in south america with and with among the of | 37 |
latter bowed bade him good and departed when mr said he had some visits t make we must lest the reader might suppose ths they are visits of ceremony follow his steps in to learn the nature of these visits about half a mile from the house of cast the meek and into an abode of misery and sorrow which wool require a far more touching pen than ours to d the irish agent a poor widow sat upon the edge of a little bed with the head of one of her children on another lay in the same bed silent and feeble and looking evidently ill mr remembered to have seen the boy whom she supported not long before playing about the cottage his rosy cheeks heightened into a glow of health and beauty by the exercise and his fair thick clustered hair blown about by the breeze the child was dying and the tender power of a mother s love prompted her to keep him as near her breaking heart as she could during the short space that remained of his brief existence when mr entered the lonely mother looked upon him with an aspect of such utter sorrow of such helpless in her misery as if she said am i left to the affliction of my own heart am i cut off from the piety and comfort which distress like mine ought to derive from christian sympathy and fellowship i have i not even a human face to look upon but those of my dying children such in similar circumstances are the questions which the heart ask she could not immediately speak but th the head of her dying boy upon her heart she sat in mute and unbroken agony every pang of her departing orphan throwing a deeper shade of m tion over her countenance and a of row into her heart the champion of god however was at his post he advanced to the bed side and in tones proclaimed the of his sympathy in hei and with a countenance lit up by that in heaven which long trials of his own and had given him he addressed her h words of comfort and consolation and raised hei heart to better hopes than any which this world o care and trial can bestow it is difficult however to give comfort in such moments nor is it to enforce it too strongly the widow looked her boy s face which was sweetly marked with the graces of innocence even in the of death the light of life was nearly withdrawn from hia dim blue eye but he felt from time to time for the mother s hands and the mother s bosom he was striving too to utter his little complaints attempting probably to describe his sufferings and to beg relief from his unhappy parent but the power of death was on all his faculties his words into each other and were consequently unintelligible mrs for such was the widow s name heard the words addressed to hei by mr she raised her eyes to heaven for t thb irish moment and then them heavy with misery upon her dying boy her heart � her hopes � her whole being were peculiarly in the object before her and though she had imagined that sympathy might support her she now felt that no power could give her consolation the tears were fast from mr s cheeks who felt that until the agonies of the boy were over it would be tain to offer her any kind of support at length she exclaimed � oh i who suffered the agony of the and who loved little children like him let mercy descend upon my beloved i suffer him to come to you hm oh i � hear a mother s prayer for i loved him above all and he was our life core of my heart you are striving to tell your mother what you suffer but the weight of death is upon your tongue and you cannot do it i am here my beloved sufferer � i am here � you struggle to find my hands to tell me � to tell me � but i cannot help you mrs said the we have reason to believe that what appears to us to be the agony of death is not felt so severely as we imagine strive to moderate your grief � and reflect that he will soon be in peace and joy and happiness that will never m end his little sorrows and will soon p over and the bosom of a merciful god will him into life and glory but sir replied the widow the tears streaming down her cheeks do you not see he suffers look at the moisture that is on hi little brow and see how he with the pain he thinks that i can stop it and it is for that h presses my hands during his whole illness tha was still his cry � oh mother take away this pair why don t you take away the pain mr was a father and an affectionate oa and this allusion to the innocence of the sufferer touched his heart and he was silent the widow proceeded there he lies my son � his departed father s image and i looked up to him to be one day my support my pride and my happiness � but see what he is now oh i james james wouldn t i lay down my life to yours you look at the dark side of the picture mrs said the think upon what he may escape by his early and his happy death you know not but that there was crime and sin an affliction before him consider how many parent there are now in the world who would feel the irish agent that their children who bring shame and distress and misery upon them | 50 |
� i cannot sit so near it he was moving towards her to change places but her terrified stopped him and he resumed his seat what hurt can it do you none none but i cannot bear it it s my belief you hate the sight of the very river k i� i do not like it father u as if it wasn t your living as if it wasn t meat and drink to you at these latter words the girl shivered again and lor a moment paused in her seeming to turn deadly faint it escaped his attention for he was glancing over the stern at something the boat had in tow how can yon be so to your best friend the very fire that warmed you when you were a was picked out of the river alongside the coal the very basket that you slept in the tide washed ashore the very that i put it upon to make a cradle of it i cut out of a piece of wood that drifted from some ship or another took her right hand from the it held and touched her lips with it and for a moment held it out lovingly towards him then without speaking she resumed her as another boat of similar appearance though in rather better trim came out from a dark place and dropped softly alongside in luck again said a man with a who her and who was alone i know d you was in luck again by your wake as you come down u ah replied the other u so you re out are you t yes there was now a tender yellow moonlight on the river and the new comer keeping half his boat s length of the other boat looked hard at its track u i says to myself he went on directly you in view tender s and in luck again by george if he ain t it is � don t fret yourself � i didn t touch him this was in answer to a quick impatient movement on the part of the speaker at the same time his on that side and laying his hand on the of s boat and holding to it he s had touches enough not to want no more as well as i make him out been a knocking about with a pretty many tides ain t he such is my out of luck ways you see he must have passed me when he went up last time for i was on the below bridge here i a most think you re like the and scent em out he spoke in a dropped voice and with more than one glance at who had pulled on her hood again both men then looked with a weird interest at the wake of s boat easy does it us shall i take him aboard no said the other in so surly a tone that the man after a blank stare acknowledged it with the retort our mutual m � t been eating nothing as has with you have you why yes i have said i have been too much of that word i am no of yours since when was you no of mine u since you was accused of a man accused of a live man said with great indignation and what if i had been accused of a dead man you couldn t do it couldn t you no has a dead man use for money is it possible for a dead man to have money what world does a dead man belong to world what world does money belong to this world how can money be a corpse s can a corpse own it want it spend it claim it miss it don t try to go the rights and wrongs of things in that way but it s worthy of the spirit that a live man i ll tell you what it is no you won t ih tell you what it is you ve got off with a short time of it for putting your hand in the pocket of a sailor a live sailor make the most of it and think yourself lucky but don t think after that to come over me with your we have worked together in time past but we work together no more in time present nor yet future let go cast off u if you think to get rid of me this way if i don t get rid of you this way i ll try another and chop you over the fingers with the or take a pick at your head with the boat hook cast off pull you pull home since you won t let your father pull shot ahead and the other boat fell s father himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high and taken an position slowly lighted a pipe and smoked and took a survey of what he had in tow what he had in tow itself at him sometimes in an awful manner when the boat was checked and sometimes seemed to try to itself away though for the most part it followed a might have fancied that the passing over it were dreadfully like faint changes of expression on a face but was no and had no fancies chapter tl the man from somewhere mr and mrs were new people in a new house in a new quarter of london everything about the was and span new all their furniture was new all their friends were new all their servants were new their plate was new their carriage was new their harness was new their horses our mutual friend were new their pictures were new they themselves were new they were as newly married as was with their having a new baby and if they had set tip a great grandfather | 8 |
sufficient reason that a breach of confidence would as certainly involve the professional ruin of an attorney as the commission of a an able but eccentric mr was desirous that should be compelled to disclose on oath whatever guilty secrets might be confided to them by their the only objection to which ingenious device for the conviction of being that if such a power existed there would be no secrets to disclose and as a necessary consequence that the attorney would be unable to render his the justice to which every person however criminal is clearly entitled � that of having his or her case presented before the court appointed to decide upon it in the best and most j the life policy manner possible let it not be forgotten either that the attorney is the only real practical of the humble and against the of the rich and powerful � the shrewd agent who gives reality to the eloquence of old when he says that the lightning may flash through the thunder shake the tempest beat upon the english peasant s hut but the king of england with all his army cannot lift the latch to enter in the of course that in this country violence cannot defy or put itself in the place of the law this is quite true and why chiefly because the attorney is ready in all cases of with his potent strip of the great man before her sovereign lady the queen there to answer for his acts and the richer the the more keen and eager mr attorney to the suit however his own for he is then sure of his costs if he succeed again i cheerfully admit the extreme vulgarity of the motive but its effect in protecting the legal rights of the humble is not i contend lessened because the reward of exertion and success is counted out in good honest sovereigns or notes of the governor and company of the bank of england thus much by way of to the narrative of a few incidents revealed in the attorney s privileged throughout which i have of course in order to avoid any possible recognition of those events or incidents changed the name of every person concerned our old city firm then which i am happy to say still under the able direction of our active i will call � the appropriated to us by imaginative ladies and gentlemen who favor the world with the life fancy pen and ink portraits of the lawyer tribe � that of flint and sharp sharp being myself and flint the silver haired old bachelor we buried a few weeks since in green mr said a clerk as he threw open the door of the inner office one afternoon mr good day mr was my prompt and civil greeting i have good news for you take a chair the good rather intelligent and somewhat clouded countenance of the new comer brightened up at these words news from my cousin he asked as he seated himself yes he your late failure and the changed position and prospects of your wife and boy little his you he has not much compassion for inasmuch as he attributes your misfortunes entirely to and the want of common prudence candid certainly grumbled out mr but an odd sort of good news his deeds are kinder than his words he will allow till his majority let me see � how old is that boy of yours now ten he was two years old when his went to india well then you will receive two hundred pounds per half yearly in advance for the next ten years � that is of course if your son lives � in order to enable you to bring him up and him properly that period has elapsed your cousin that he will place the young man and i do not doubt will do something for you should you not by that time have conquered a fair position for yourself � i � � b the life policy is that all said mr all why what did you expect two or three thousand pounds to set me afloat again i know of a safe speculation that with say three thousand pounds capital would realize a handsome fortune in no time mr i may observe was one of that numerous class of persons who are always on the threshold of millions � the only and constant obstacle being the want of a sufficient capital i with him upon his disappointment but as words however civil avail little in the way of capital mr having the first half yearly of the made his exit in by no means a gracious or frame of mind two other half yearly were duly paid him when he handed me the receipt on the last occasion he said in a sort of off hand careless way i suppose if were to die these would cease perhaps not i replied at all events not i should say till you and your wife were in some way provided for but your son is not ill i added no no not at present replied and with a confusion of manner which surprised me not a little it flashed across my mind that the boy was dead and that in order not to risk the or of the had concealed the fact from us let me see i resumed we have your present address � i think yes you have i shall very likely call in a day or two to see mrs and your son t i f the man smiled in a reassured half manner do be answered is alive and very well thank god this confidence the suspicion i had entertained and five or six weeks passed away during which and his affairs were almost as entirely absent from my thoughts as if no such man existed about the of that time mr | 8 |
not like at all and though jou have often me into being reconciled to things that disliked at first i will not be able to do it now i am going to with my aunt yes my aunt has just told me so it is quite settled i am to leave park and go to the white house i suppose as soon as is removed there well and if the plan were not unpleasant to you i should call it an excellent one h it has else in its favour my aunt is acting like a woman iu wishing for you she is choosing a friend and companion exactly where she ought and i am glad her love of money does not interfere you will be what you ought to be to her i hope it does not distress you yery much j indeed it does i cannot like it i love this house and everything in it shall love nothing there you know how feel with her i can say nothing for her manner to you as a child but it was the same witli us all or ly so he never knew how to be pleasant to children but you arc now of an age to be treated better i think she is better already and when you are her only companion you be important to her h i can never be important to any one h what ib to prevent you every my situation my foolishness and i h a to your foolishness and awkwardness my dear h believe me you never have a shadow of either but in using � the so there is no reason in the world k why you should not be important where you are known park yoa hare good and a sweet temper and i am sore have a heart that could never receive kindness wishing to return it i do not know any better for a mend and companion ton are too said colouring at such praise how shall i ever thank you as i ought for thinking so well of me oh cousin if i am to go away i shall remember your goodness to the last moment of my life why indeed i should hope to be remembered at such a distance as the white house you speak as if you were going two hundred miles off instead of across the park but you will belong to us almost as much as ever the two families will be meeting every day in the year the only difference will be that living with your aunt you will necessarily be brought forward as you ought to be here there are too many whom you can hide behind but with her you will be forced to speak for yourself oh do not say so i must say it and say it with pleasure mrs is much better fitted than my mother for having the charge of you now she is of a temper to do a great deal for anybody she really interests herself about and she will force you to do justice to your natural powers sighed and said i cannot see things as you do but i ought to believe you to be right rather than myself and i am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be if i could suppose my aunt really to care for me it would be delightful to feel myself of consequence to anybody here i know i am of none and yet i love the place so well the place is what you will not quit though you quit the house you will have as free a command of the park and gardens as ever even your constant little heart need not take fright at such a change you will have the same walks to frequent the same library to choose from the same people to look at the same horse to ride very true yes dear old grey pony ah cousin when i how much i used to dread riding what it gave me to hear it talked of as likely to do me good oh how have trembled at my uncle s opening his lips if horses were talked of � and then think of the kind you took to reason and persuade me out of my fears and convince me that should like it after a little while and feel how right you proved to he i am inclined to hope you always as well and i am convinced that your being with mrs n will be as good for your mind as riding been for your healthy and as much for your ultimate happiness too so ended their discourse which for any very appropriate service it could render might as well have been spared for had not the smallest intention of taking it had never occurred to her on the present occasion but ad a thing to be carefully avoided to prevent its being expected had fixed on the habitation which could as genteel among the of the white house only large enough to receive herself and her and allow a spare room for a friend of which she made a very particular point i he spare rooms at the had never been wanted but the absolute necessity of a spare room for a friend was now never forgotten not all her precautions however could save her from being of something better or perhaps her very display of the importance of a spare room might have sir thomas to suppose it really intended for lady soon brought the matter to a by carelessly to mrs � think sister we need not keep miss lee any longer when goes to live with you mrs almost started live with me dear what do you mean not to live with you i thought you had settled it with sir never i never spoke a syllable | 26 |
my own efforts to win the of fame so that on the whole i was glad she did not spend that day with us in the woods � of course if i had paid any attention to the trifles which make up the sum of life i should have remembered that had told her he would meet her no more on earth � but i judged this to be a mere trifle of hasty and speech without any meaning so my last twenty four hours of happiness passed away in serenity � i felt a sense of deepening pleasure in existence and i began to believe that the future had brighter the sorrows of satan things in store for me than i had lately ventured to expect s new phase of gentleness and tenderness towards me combined with her rare beauty seemed to that the between us would be of short duration and that her nature too early rendered harsh and cynical by a society education would soften in time to that beautiful which is after all woman s best charm thus i thought in and contented reverie under the foliage with my fair wife beside me and listening to the rich tones of my friend s magnificent voice forth wild as the sunset deepened in the sky and the twilight shadows fell then came the night � the night which dropped only for a few hours over the quiet landscape but for ever over me we had dined late and pleasantly fatigued with our day in the open air had retired early i had grown a heavy and i suppose i must have some hours when i was awakened suddenly as though by an imperative touch from some unseen hand i started up in my bed � the night lamp was burning dimly and by its glimmer i saw that was no longer at my side my heart gave one bound against my ribs and then almost stood still � sense of thing unexpected and chilled my blood i pushed aside the embroidered silken of the bed and peered into the room � it was empty then i rose hastily put on my clothes and went to the door � it was carefully shut but not locked as it had been when we retired for the night i opened it without the least noise and looked out into the long passage � no one there immediately opposite the bedroom door there was a winding oak staircase leading down to a broad corridor which in former times had been used as a music room or picture � an ancient organ still sweet of tone occupied one end of it with dull golden pipes towering up to the carved and ceiling � the other end was lit by a large window like that of a church filled with rare old stained glass representing in various the lives the sorrows of satan of the saints the centre subject being the of st advancing with soft caution to the overlooking this gallery i gazed down into it and for a moment could see nothing on the polished floor but the cross patterns made by the moonlight falling through the great window � but presently as i watched wondering where could have gone to at this time of night i saw a dark tall shadow across the of lines and i heard the smothered sound of voices with my beating furiously and a sensation of in my throat � full of strange thoughts and suspicions which i dared not define i crept slowly and stealthily down the stair till as my foot touched the last step i saw � what nearly struck me to the ground with a shock of agony � and i had to draw back and bite my lips hard to repress the cry that nearly escaped them there � there before me in the full moonlight with the colours of the red and blue robes of the painted saints on the window glowing blood like and about her knelt my wife � arrayed in a garment of white which betrayed rather than concealed the outline of her form � her wealth of hair falling about her in wild disorder � her hands clasped in � her pale face and above her the dark imposing figure of i stared at the twain with dry burning eyes � what did this was she � my wife � false was he � my friend � a traitor patience � patience i muttered to myself this is a piece of acting doubtless � such as chanced the other night with � patience � let us hear this � this comedy and drawing myself close up against the wall i leaned there scarcely drawing breath waiting for voice � for his � when they spoke i should know � yes i should know all and i fastened my looks on them as they stood there � vaguely wondering even in my tense anguish at the fearful light on s face � a light which could scarcely be the reflection of the moon as he backed the window � and at the scorn of his frowning brows what terrific humour swayed him � the sorrows of satan why did he even to my thought appear more than human � why did his very beauty seem hideous at that moment and his aspect hush � hush she spoke � my wife � i heard her every word � heard all and endured au without falling dead at her feet in the extremity of my and despair i love you she i love you and my love is killing me be merciful � have pity on my passion love me for one hour one little hour � it is not much to ask and afterwards � do with me what you will � torture me brand me an outcast in the public sight curse me before heaven � | 33 |
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pleased i should only have laughed at him but now now that i had been of the greatest love which ever shone upon my life i was reluctant to my hold of the hearts which remained to me and prince was the link to the happy past but and mrs de la had already left the room followed by and lord and squire was standing beside me holding a large arm just on a level with my shoulder cherry s child the arrangement of the table placed me between mrs and squire and exactly opposite to prince who had miss de la on his left i only looked at him once just after the soup had been served and then he was bending down to hear some remark of miss de la s and never saw me not that i wanted him to see me on miss de la s other hand was lord de who would i fancy infinitely have preferred being anywhere else too appeared rather dissatisfied but when he saw me looking his way he smiled and so seemed happier after this i devoted myself almost entirely to my dinner partly because i had so little to me from it for mr de la s appetite was about as hearty as the clasp of his hand and the conversation with which he entertained me between the courses was of a description hardly calculated to entertain me at all i knew nothing of english sport and he promptly told me that the roman hunt was very tame and compared with english fox hunting i knew nothing at all about short horns or fat pigs and as to crops � why i should not have known t other from which when i saw them growing he informed me that his of york the third had won the first prize at the royal agricultural show last year i imagined the of york was a cow but was not very clear and he gave me no time to ask also that his pigs were a perfect picture and that if a day or two of good soft rain would come it would do an immense amount of good to the crops it was all dutch to me and i was bored to apparently prince was not bored as i was for i do not quite understand the liquid murmur of his voice scarcely ceased until mrs and mrs de la rose to leave the room i followed in the wake of miss de la and did not look at him i rather dreaded the time which must before the men came into the drawing room for i was of what us had said to me earlier in the day and moreover i had no inclination whatever to talk to her however she followed me to the window seat and settled herself in the comer opposite to mine how nice it must be to live here instead of in a stupid square like ours she remarked graciously yes it is very pleasant here i answered and then you will be going down to royal directly she continued it is a lovely old place so every one tells me i replied i am rather curious to see an english country house i never did you know i suppose not how strange it must be to come back to your own country and find everything quite strange to you i and yet it must be rather a pleasant sensation too if you do not happen to dislike your first impressions oh i did not do that i said my father did not care for england himself but i find it and its people more pleasant than i expected i always thought they were cold and dull the english that is the general idea of them on the continent oh foreigners are so impulsive she returned a little though to be sure no typical englishman could be colder than prince cold i echoed do you think so i cannot say i find him so myself but in general society he is considered remarkably so you know his cherry s child wife was an english woman and they say that he was so unhappy in his marriage that he has vowed never to marry an woman again the whole story was so that i burst out laughing at which she looked politely surprised just then the door opened and the gentlemen came in followed by charles and james bringing coffee that miss de la had no intention of remaining any longer in my out of the way comer was soon evident for she shivered slightly and glanced round at the open window i think i had better move she remarked quite i feel the draught a little i will close the window if it you i answered on no account pray she said rising hastily then she moved away into the centre of the room but none of the men seemed inclined to avail themselves of the vacant seat left on her sofa came in my direction but unfortunately was by mr de la who held him fast not with his glittering eye but with his very substantial hand lord took refuge with mrs and prince after a moment s hesitation crossed the room to me may i sit here he said almost humbly if you like i answered but no more and taking my coffee from charles as i spoke when the man had passed on he said in a low tone � what is the matter i do not know i replied i asked you the same question before dinner and you said nothing but you did not say it in any too polite a manner prince i ended was i rude he asked in a tone of real surprise it i do not quite understand i thought so i answered without raising my eyes from my cup and i thought you unkind too | 30 |
of the hoofs � to the risk of a death by drowning to the risk of a death by � to the men of a million acres to the sons of the golden south to the sons of the golden south stand up i and the life we live and know let a fellow sing o the little things he cares about if a fellow fights for the little things he cares about with the weight of a single blow i to the smoke of a hundred to the sheep on a thousand hills the native born to the sun that never to the rain that never � to the land of the waiting spring time to our five meal meat fed men to the tall deep women and the children nine and ten and the children nine and ten stand up and the life we live and know let a fellow sing o the little things he cares about if a fellow fights for the little things he cares about with the weight of a two fold blow to the far flung where the quick cloud shadows trail to our neighbour s barn in the and the line of the new cut rail to the plough in her league long with the gray lake behind � to the weight of a half year s winter and the warm wet western wind to the home of the floods and thunder to her pale dry healing blue � to the lift of the great cape and the smell of the baked to the growl of the stamp to the and the water gold to the last and the largest empire to the map that is half the native born to our dear dark foster mothers to the heathen songs they sung � to the heathen speech we ere we came to the white man s tongue to the cool of our deep � to the blaze of our main to the night to the palms in the moonlight and the fire fly in the cane i to the hearth of our people s people � to her well windy sea to the hush of our dread high altar where the abbey makes us we to the of the slow ground ages to the gain that is yours and mine � to the bank of the open credit to the power house of the line i we ve drunk to the queen � god bless her � we ve drunk to our mothers land we ve drunk to our english brother and we hope he ll understand we ve drunk as much as we re able and the cross low for the last toast � and your foot on the table � a health to the native born i a health to the native born stand up we re six white men all bound to sing o the little things we care about the native born all bound to fight for the little things we care about with the weight of a six fold blow by the might of our cable tow take hands from the to the horn all round the world and a little to pull it by all round the world and a little to it a health to the native born the king farewell romance the cave men said with bone well carved he went away flint arms the and tips the spear to day changed are the gods of hunt and dance and he with these farewell romance farewell romance the lake folk sighed we lift the weight of years the of the mountain side hold him who our lost hills whereby we dare not dwell guard ye his rest romance farewell farewell romance the soldier spoke by of sword we may not win but mid smoke of and honour is lost and none may tell who paid good blows romance farewell i � farewell romance the cried our ha lain with every sea the king the dull returning wind and tide heave up the wharf where we would be the known and noted breezes swell our sail romance farewell good bye romance the said he vanished with the coal we burn our dial marks full steam ahead our speed is timed to half a turn sure as the we port and port romance good bye i� romance the season tickets mourn he never ran to catch his train but passed with coach and guard and and left the local � late again confound romance and all unseen romance brought up the nine fifteen his hand was on the laid his oil can soothed the worrying his whistle the grade his fog horn cut the banks by dock and deep and mine and mill the boy god reckless still crowned and he his spell where heart blood beat or hearth smoke curled with miracle in a backward gazing world then taught his chosen bard to say our king was with us � yesterday � the rhyme of the three away by the lands of the where the paper glow and the of all the shipping drink in the house of blood street joe at twilight when the breeze brings up the harbour noise and ebb of bay chattering through the in s dining rooms they tell the tale anew of a hidden sea and a hidden fight when the ran from the northern light and the fought the two now this is the law of the that he proves with shot and steel when ye come by his in the smoky sea ye must not take the seal where the gray sea goes between the shelves and the little blue fox he is bred for his skin and the seal they breed for themselves the rhyme of the three for when the seek the shore to drop their the great man seal haul out of the sea a roaring band by band and when the first september | 39 |
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