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no hope whatever of being the fashion and making your bow before � or if you have that hope it is wildly play on my friend play on � the sounds make are very agreeable and seem to imply that you are happy i wonder if you are � or if like me you are going rapidly to the devil the music grew softer and more plaintive and was now accompanied by the rattle of against the a wind whistled under the door and roared down the chimney � a wind cold as the grasp of death searching as a knife i shivered � and bending close over the smoky lamp prepared to read my news as i opened the envelope a bill for fifty pounds to me at a well known london banker s fell out upon the table the sorrows of satan my heart gave a quick bound of mingled relief and gratitude why jack old fellow i wronged you i exclaimed � your heart is in the right place after all and profoundly touched by my friend s ready generosity i eagerly his letter it was not very long and had evidently been written off in haste dear i m sorry to hear you are down on your luck it shows what a crop of fools are still flourishing in london when a man of your cannot gain his proper place in the world of letters and be acknowledged i believe it s all a question of wire pulling and money is the only thing that will pull the wires here s the fifty you ask for and welcome � don t hurry about paying it back i am doing you a good turn this year by sending you a friend � a real friend mind you � no sham he brings you a letter of introduction from me and between ourselves old man you cannot do better than put yourself and your literary affairs entirely in his hands he knows everybody and is up to all the of management and newspaper he is a great besides � and seems particularly fond of the society of the clergy rather a queer taste you will say but his reason for such preference is as he has explained to me quite frankly that he is so wealthy that he does not quite know what to do with his money and the reverend gentlemen of the church are generally ready to show him how to spend some of it he is always glad to know of some quarter where his money and influence he is very influential may be useful to others he has helped me out of a very serious and i owe him a big debt of gratitude i ve told him all about you � what a smart fellow you are and what a lot dear old thought of you and he has promised to give you a lift up he can do anything he likes very naturally seeing that the the sorrows of satan whole world of morals civilization and the rest is to the power of money � and us stock of cash appears to be use him he is willing and ready to be used � and write and let me know how you get on don t bother about the fifty till you feel you have over the storm ever yours i laughed as i read the absurd signature though my eyes were dim with something like tears was the given to my friend by several of our college companions and neither he nor i knew how it first arose but no one except the ever addressed him by his proper name which was john � he was simply and he remained even now for all those who had been his i and put by his letter and the for the fifty pounds and with a passing vague wonder as to what manner of man the might be who had more money than he knew what to do with i turned to the consideration of my other two relieved to feel that now whatever happened i could settle up with my landlady the next day as i had promised moreover i could order some supper and have a fire lit to cheer my chilly room before attending to these creature comforts however i opened the long blue envelope that looked so like a threat of legal proceedings and the paper within stared at it what was it all about � the written characters danced before my eyes � puzzled and bewildered i found myself reading the thing over and over again without any clear comprehension of it presently a glimmer of meaning flashed upon me startling my senses like an electric shock no � no � � impossible fortune never could be so mad as this � never so wildly capricious and grotesque of humour it was some senseless that was being practised upon me and yet if it were a joke it was a very elaborate and remarkable one with the i the sorrows of satan majesty of the law too upon my word and by all the that govern human affairs the news seemed actually positive and genuine ii my thoughts with an effort i read every word of the document over again deliberately and the of my wonder increased was i going mad or sickening for a fever or could this startling this piece of information be really true because � if indeed it were true good heavens � i turned giddy to think of it and it was only by sheer force of will that i kept myself from with the agitation of such sudden surprise and ecstasy if it were true � why then the world was mine � i was king instead of beggar � i was everything i chose to be the letter � the amazing letter bore the printed name of a noted firm of
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spit on when he was yes well no look as though he wish to go away with you his face all change and she pointed to s countenance i am speaking to my husband not to you woman said shook her beautiful head and smiled woman wrong word i great lady here lady whom he love but no marry � till you die alas still seemed unable to speak and positively choked with wrath so perhaps to prevent any awkward pause continued the conversation who those she asked pointing with her finger at and dick who with the were making their way towards the platform your come to look after you and him oh i know that gentleman you love him for who you turn into the street oh i know i know old woman down there with white head and she pointed to who was watching all this scene with the interest she have magic she show me his ugly face in water he swim about in water with the tail � an of a snake head � man heart � snake you understand yes show you some magic too if you like now at last shook himself free from his he said why have you come here really i begin to wonder she answered while she gathered herself together for i don t seem very welcome do i also this place isn t pleasant its inhabitants are too fond of personal remarks then she paused and presently flung her words at him few and swift and straight i come to ask you to answer the riddle which that blind old has been amusing himself by putting to you at such length will you return to your duty and your deserted wife or will you stop here as the � the friend of that person and head priest of her please said be a little in your language these people are peculiar and my power here is limited if you apply such names to and they come to understand them i cannot answer for the consequences i did not ask you to answer for the consequences i asked you to answer my question replied biting her white lips it seems to require some thought said sadly then he lifted his hand and addressed the audience who were watching what passed with wondering eyes brothers and sisters he said a wonderful thing has happened in speaking to you to day about the crimes that have been done in i told you my own story for an example then the teacher yonder showed me how weak and evil i really was and put a question to me as to whether should she appear and ask it i would take back the wife of that story she that had wrought me evil in the past now this wife stands before me and demands the decision which i said i would give when the time came it has come � that evil day has dawned upon me who never thought to see it forgetting that things have io of tbe spirit changed in the matter of my fortunes across the sea yet my brethren shall i be wrong if i ask for a while to think if for instance i say that when we meet again as is our custom on this same day of the next month i then decide and not before no no you will be right they murmured the blind old mystic leading them with his shrill voice we will have it so more great men among them stood up here and there and shouted that he should not go that they would gather their servants and guard the pass and if need be keep him prisoner or � and they looked at dick and his companions translated their remarks adding on his own account this people in damned nasty temper � very private people and very fierce who love you must not make them angry or perhaps they kill us all i came here to interpret not to have throat cut dick also seizing the situation with remarkable swiftness was equally urgent and out spoken don t show off any of your airs and graces here please he said i am not anxious to follow the example of our friend the god upon the platform and the world in a wider fashion that little of a woman would jump at a chance of us and she can do it if she likes only weary with standing sank down on to a block of stone and incidentally into the lap of a native who already occupied it and scarcely his wild struggles to be free herself with a broad hat and remarked do not trouble if they kill us they kill us it is very interesting to hear them say their minds so well i am most glad that we came you hear their answer said and you must understand my position have you any objection to make i understand your position perfectly and i am � and quite aware that a man may find it difficult � most difficult to escape from certain kinds of and she glanced at and paused wrong word again murmured that lady with a sweet smile no what you call it no only one great rope of love too thick to cut too strong to break � much as for objections went on without this melodious and poetic interruption i could make scores but since we don t wish to be by your amiable perhaps i had better hold my tongue and give you a month in which to come to your right mind only i am by no means sure that i shall stop here all that time don t stop if you no like broke in again please not � the road it always open give you give you soldiers give you food and write you letter afterwards to tell you
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interposed i sure that uncle has some sinister design in this sneered you want the jewels for yourself took a pinch of snuff and looked doubtfully at me it might be as you say mr he remarked i never yet knew your uncle to forgive his enemies don t go don t go said my mother drawing back let the diamonds be you want them for your son but the dead man s diamonds they are mine by right and i mean to have them come she shuddered and gave one despairing glance around m sky sun and sea then by her husband s will she followed him into the leaving the three of us looking at one another you are afraid to go i see said with a look at me no i answered i intend to see this out i suspect something is wrong but if does not keep his eyes open i shall my mother s objections with a kiss i slipped into the gallery after jack and his wife and in a few minutes i found myself standing with them on the lips of the hole which led into the of the mine the three of us were now fully committed to the adventure would that we had foreseen the end and had retired while there was yet time ill the situation was enough to try the nerves of a stronger woman than mrs and she leaned against the sides of the faint with terror seeing this her husband administered a sup of brandy from his travelling and so her up for the adventure she became as anxious as he to find the jewels and her to descend into the shaft whence she had shrunk some minutes before taking advantage of this sudden access of courage made ready for the descent it will be awkward for you to scramble down by this rope he said kneeling on the edge of the shaft the dead man s diamonds here s a rope ladder that s capital i shall go down first you follow me and then if mr chooses to come he can do so mr does choose to come i said sharply but how are you going to lower this and by this rope of course replied drawing up the cord which swung by the rope ladder see i ll tie them to the end and lower them so the shaft is not so deep as i thought we heard the of the iron as axe and at the bottom of the shaft afterwards with a word to his wife cautiously descended the and bending over the yawning mouth i could see the candle fastened in his cap twinkling in the thick gloom after the of some minutes he apparently reached the ground for we heard him shout faintly and felt the guiding rope violently shaken now mrs it is your turn said i and as she started nervously back i added do not be afraid i will tie the end of this rope to your waist and you will thus be supported while descending the ladder with an effort she consented and pulling the rope up i bound the end round her waist then she swung herself fearfully on to the shaking ladder and i let the cord pay out slowly through my hands as she down in a few minutes she accomplished the descent also and like glow worms the at the bottom of the shaft without hesitation i the rope and making no use of the ladder i myself into the abyss accustomed as i was to climbing it was easy work for me to descend and shortly i found myself standing beside the pale wife and the anxious husband in the of the earth by this time the effect of the spirit had died out in mrs and in the wavering light of the candles her the dead man s diamonds face looked curiously pale notwithstanding her awe of i believe she would have fled but that it was now too late to retreat her husband with flushed face and bright eyes paid little attention to her agitation but he about for the rope which as mentioned in uncle s letter would guide him to the place where the jewels were hidden here it is he cried in an tone picking it up from the side of the gallery look after my wife and follow me as i liked her i was sorry for the poor woman she my hand with the courage of despair and we hurried along the gallery after jack the proceeded in a direction for some distance until it stopped short at another chasm down which depended a rope ladder our descent was accomplished in the same manner as before and again we walked on i judged that by this time we were under the sea so that the adventure was even more perilous than we had deemed it hark i said pausing a moment with s hand in mine we are under the ocean do you hear the of the waves we all listened intently and heard distinctly the of the waters overhead the grating of the rocks grinding along the bed of the sea and the drowsy swell of the waves on the rugged beach by the lights of the candles we could see that the rocks within which we were were quite dry and here and there a of light was struck from the veins of ore the sides of the the air was thick and so thai we could hardly breathe oh jack i am afraid � i am afraid moaned in wide eyed terror let us go back what after coming so far not if i know it was his response and he seized his wife as she sank on the rocky floor get up and come along you fool the dead man s diamonds passive in his hands from sheer terror she
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have danced with george i am so sorry she has not had a partner we shall do better another evening i hope was mr s consolation the company began to when the dancing was over enough to leave space for the remainder to walk about in some comfort and now was the time for a heroine who had not yet played a very distinguished part in the events of the evening to be noticed and admired every five minutes by removing some of the crowd gave greater for north anger abbey charms she was now seen hy many young men who had not heen near her not one started with wonder on her no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room nor was she once called a by any body yet was in very good looks and had the company only seen her three years before they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome she was looked at however and with some admiration for in her own hearing two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl such words had their due effect she immediately thought the evening pleasanter than she had found it before her humble vanity was contented she felt more obliged to the two yoimg men for this simple praise than a true quality heroine would have been for fifteen in of her charms and went to her chair in good humour with every body and perfectly satisfied with her share of public attention chapter iii morning now brought its regular duties shops were to be visited some new part of the town to be looked at and the pump room to be attended where they up and down for an hour looking at everybody and speaking to no one the wish of a acquaintance in bath was still uppermost with mrs and she repeated it every fresh proof which every morning brought of her knowing nobody at all they made their appearance in the lower rooms and here fortune was more favourable to our heroine the master of the ceremonies introduced to her a very gentleman like young man as a partner his name was he seemed to be about four or five and twenty was rather tall had a pleasing countenance a very intelligent and lively eye and if not quite handsome was very near it his address was good and felt herself in high luck there was little leisure for speaking while they danced but when they id were seated at tea she found liim as agreeable as she had given him credit for being he talked with and spirit and there was an and in his manner which interested though it was hardly understood by her after some time on such matters as naturally arose from the objects around them he suddenly addressed her with � i have hitherto been very madam in the proper attentions of a partner here i have not yet asked you how long you have been in bath whether you were ever here before whether you have been at the upper rooms the theatre and the concert and how you like the place altogether have been very but are you now at leisure to satisfy me in these particulars if you are i will begin directly you need not give yourself that trouble sir no trouble i assure you madam then forming his features into a set smile and softening his voice he added with a air have you been long in bath madam about a week sir replied trying not to laugh really with affected astonishment why should you be surprised sir why indeed said he in his natural tone but some emotion must appear to be raised by your reply and surprise is more easily assumed and not less reasonable than any other now let us go on were you never here before madam never sir indeed have you yet honoured the upper rooms yes sir i was there last monday have you been to the theatre yes sir i was at the play on tuesday to the concert yes sir on wednesday and are you altogether pleased with bath yes i like it very well i l now i must give one more and then we may be rational again turned away her head not knowing whether she mi ht venture to laugh i see what you think of me said he gravely i shall m ke but a poor figure in your journal to morrow my journal yes i know exactly what you will say friday went to the lower wore my muslin robe with blue plain black shoes appeared to much advantage but was strangely harassed by a queer half man who would make me dance with him and distressed me by bis nonsense indeed i shall say no such thing shall i tell you what you ought to say if you please i danced with a very agreeable young man introduced by mr king had a great de of conversation with him seems a most extraordinary genius hope i may know more of him that madam is what i wish you to say but perhaps i keep no journal perhaps you are not sitting in this room and i am not sitting by you these are points in which a doubt is equally possible not keep a journal how are your absent cousins to understand the of your life in bath without one how are the and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be unless noted down every evening journal how are your various dresses to be remembered and the particular state of your complexion and curl of your to be described in all their without having constant recourse to a journal my dear madam i am not so of young ladies ways as you wish to believe me it is this delightful habit of which largely to form the easy style of writing for which
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i found the coming in search of me she pushed open the door of my bedroom which was next to the room in which the children had slept come in here she said i have something to tell you i have not had a chance before of saying anything to you i won t burden you with my thanks only my friendship i just want to say thank you once and then have done with it as far as talking goes my acts dear will speak for themselves i hope and i want you to accept this and to wear it for my sake in the memory of a deed of a broken heart healed and made whole again she put upon one of my fingers a very large diamond ring � i mean that it had a very large diamond surrounded by smaller it was thickly set in a smooth setting almost like that which is called i cried out in my astonishment at the beautiful gift it is too good r i said the magic wheel nothing could be too good it is merely a small token i chose it in that form because i thought you could wear it always and keep me in your memory and partly as an omen that my crooked story has come straight and to give you hope that yours might come so too francis hasn t joined me in this which is from me alone he wishes to show you his gratitude in another way � in quite another way his idea is to help you to find your husband oh but the time did seem so long the days went by and nothing was done the duke haunted the other house but in spite of all his influence he could not bring up to any decision at last when the new year had come and gone he came to me one day in what was for him a very bad temper mrs he said i have been down to see again the fellow s no good he s not trusted by his party and he has no personal influence at all i can t think how they ever came to make him first lord of the the man s an ass he continued thrusting his hands into his pockets and s hope deferred walking about the room he s an ass and a and a fool the worst of it is i can t tell anybody outside � either him or anybody else and it s quite hopeless duke i suppose he must have heard the intense disappointment in my tones for he turned round quickly and seized hold of my hands it s quite hopeless so far as the government is concerned he replied in a brisk business like sort of voice but bless my life heart and soul mrs the government isn t everybody i have pressed the point very hard because i thought it might be better for your husband and it might be better for other naval men who get lost sight of in the same kind of way � it might in fact create a precedent � but you see the unfortunate part of it is government won t recognize our sources of information they won t see that there may be something in they won t an inch without some definite and distinct evidence which as that ass puts it will justify the expenditure of public money such the magic wheel and i must give it up i said in a choking voice by no means my dear friend give it up anything else no i came round to day because i see that it is hopeless to try and get any official help therefore why waste time any longer the wife and i have only been waiting this decision of s or his department or whatever it is to make our own plans fit in with yours we have always intended to take a long tour my wife is a splendid sailor and loves the sea the children have never been ill in their lives now i came to day to tell you that we shall be very glad to make this search the object of a long sea voyage in our own and i have come in my wife s name and my own to invite you to accompany us as soon as the can be fitted out and we can get away and make a start the magnitude of this offer positively took my breath away do you realize what all this means i asked yes perfectly well we have been round the world before it s no great things tons hope deferred would rather go on such a voyage fifty times over than she would spend one season round the and running up against half the uninteresting people we know then we may take it as a settled thing and make our arrangements for getting oflf without the delay of a single day i did not realize then what getting off without the delay of a single day meant when the duke left me i had a wild idea that we should leave london i mean england in about a week s time but when they came to inquire into the condition of the a great deal had to be done before a long journey could be undertaken the short january days crept away one by one february came in and february went out the duke and talked of little or nothing else when i saw them you see they were fitting the out for a year s and the arrangements which had to be made seemed to me almost careful in their of detail so the days crept on � crept dragged and i did indeed taste the full bitterness of the verse which says � hope deferred the the magic wheel heart sick there was such a choosing
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much too here is my dwelling master we entered a low old fashioned room walked straight into from the street and found there mrs who was the dead image of only short she received me with the utmost humility and to me for giving her son a kiss observing that lowly as they were they had their natural affections which they hoped would give no offence to any one it was a perfectly decent room half parlor and half kitchen but not at all a snug room the tea things were set upon the table and the kettle was boiling on the there was a chest of drawers with an top for to read or write at of an evening there was s blue bag lying down and papers there was a company of s books commanded by mr there was a corner cupboard and there were the usual articles of furniture i don t remember that any individual object had a bare pinched spare look but i do remember that the whole place had it was perhaps a part of mrs s humility that she still wore weeds notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since mr s she still wore weeds i think there was some compromise in the cap but otherwise she was as as in the early days of her mourning this is a day to be remembered my i am sure said mrs making the tea when master pays us a visit i said you d think so mother said if i could have wished father to remain among us for any reason said mrs it would have been that he might have known his company this afternoon i felt embarrassed by these compliments but i was sensible too of being entertained as an honored guest and i thought mrs an agreeable woman my said mrs has looked forward to this sir a long while he had his fears that our stood in the way and i joined in them myself we are we have been we shall ever be said mrs i am sure you have no occasion to be so ma am i said unless you uke the personal history and experience thank you sir retorted mrs heap we know our station and are thankful in it i found that mrs heap gradually got nearer to me and that gradually got opposite to me and that they respectfully plied me with the of the on the table there was nothing particularly choice there to be sure but i took the will for the deed and felt that they were very attentive presently they began to talk about and then i told them about mine and about fathers and mothers and then i told them about mine and then mrs began to talk about fathers in law and then i began to tell her about but stopped because my aunt had advised me to observe a silence on that subject a tender young cork however would have had no more chance against a pair of or a tender young tooth against a pair of or a little against two than i had against and mrs they did just what they liked with me and things out of me that i had no desire to tell with a certainty i blush to think of the more especially as in my frankness i took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that i was quite the patron of my two respectful they were very fond of one another that was certain i take it that had its effect upon me as a touch of nature but the skill with which the one followed up whatever the other said was a touch of art which i was still less proof against when there was nothing more to be got out of me about myself for on the and life and on my journey i was dumb they began about mr and threw the ball to mrs mrs caught it and threw it back to kept it up a little while then sent it back to mrs and so they went on tossing it about until i had no idea who had got it and was quite bewildered the ball itself was always changing too now it was mr now now the excellence of mr now my admiration of now the extent of mr s business and resources now our domestic life after dinner now the wine that took the reason why he took it and the pity that it was he took so much now one thing now another then everything at once and all the time without appearing to speak very often or to do anything but sometimes encourage them a little for fear they should be overcome by their humility and the honor of my company i found myself perpetually letting out something or other that i had no business to let out and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of s nostrils i had begun to be a little uncomfortable and to wish myself well out of the visit when a figure coming down the street passed the door � it stood open to air the room which was warm the weather being close for the time of year � came back again looked in and walked in exclaiming loudly is it possible it was mr it was mr with his eye glass and his walking stick and his shirt collar and his genteel air and the roll in his voice all complete my dear said mr putting out his hand this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the and uncertainty of all human � in short it is a most extraordinary meeting walking along the street reflecting upon the probability of something turning up of which i am at present rather ill h op david sanguine i find
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there to dinner with that gang of of and bet i make a whole lot more money some of those tin horns that spend all th got on dress suits and haven t got a decent suit of to their name hey what do you think of this mrs was strangely unmoved by the tidings from uie real estate and column of the advocate times i street � j k to i thomas april x i i and this morning was too to entertain her with from recorded he rose as be looked at her bis eyebrows seemed than usual suddenly yes maybe � kind of shame to not keep in touch with folks like the we might try inviting them to some evening oh thunder let s not waste our good time thinking about our little bunch has a lot liver times than all those just compare a real human hke you with these birds like � all talk and dressed i like a you re a great old girl he covered his of softness with a complaining say don t let go and eat any more of that poison for heaven s sake try to keep her from her i tell you most folks don t appreciate how important it is to have a good and regular habits be back bout usual time i guess he kissed � he didn t quite her � he laid lips against her cheek he hurried out to the muttering ex rd what a family and now is going to get pathetic on me because we don t train with this lord sometimes i d like to quit the whole game and the office worry and detail just as bad and i act and � i don t mean to but i get � so dam i z l� � chapter m to george f as to most prosperous citizens of his car was poetry and tragedy love and hero i the office was his ship but the car his perilous e ashore among the tremendous of each day none was dramatic than starting the engine it was slow on cold was the long anxious of the and sometimes he had to into the of the c which was so very interesting that at lunch he would chronicle it drop by drop and calculate how much each drop had cost him this morning he was darkly prepared to find something wrong and he felt when the mixture exploded sweet and strong and the car didn t even brush the door and with many by as he backed out of the he was confused he shouted morning to sam with more cordiality than he had intended i s green and white dutch house was one of three in that block on road to the left of it was the residence of mr samuel secretary of an excellent firm of his was a comfortable house with no manners whatever a large wooden box with a tower a broad porch and glossy paint yellow as a of mr and mrs as from their house came midnight music and laughter there were � of and fast rides they furnished with many ha y evenings of discussion during which he announced firmly i m not and i don t mind seeing a f ow throw in a drink once in a but when it comes to trying to get a lot of raising all the like the do it s too rich for my on the other side of lived d in a strictly modem house whereof the lower part was dark red brick with a the upper part of pale like clay and the roof red was the great scholar of the neighborhood the authority on everything in the world except babies cooking and y he was a bachelor of arts of college and a doctor of philosophy in of he was the manager and counsel of the street company he could on ten hours notice appear before the board of or the state and prove with figures all in rows and with from and new that the street car company loved tlie public and its that all its stock was owned by and and that whatever it desired to do would benefit property owners by increasing and help the poor by lowering rents all his acquaintances to when they desired to know the date of the battle of the of the word the future of the mark the translation of or the number of of coal tar he awed by that he often sat up till midnight reading the figures and in government reports or with amusement at the author s mistakes the latest volumes of and but s great value was as a spiritual example despite his strange he was as strict a r and as firm a republican as george f he the business men in the faith they knew only by passionate instinct that their of industry and manners was perfect dr proved it to them out of history and the of had a good deal of honest pride in being the neighbor of such a and in ted s intimacy with at sixteen was interested in no save those regarding the ages and of motion picture stars but � as put it � she was her father s daughter the difference between a light man like sam and a really fine character like was revealed in their appearances was young for a man of ei t he wore his on the back of his head and bis red face was wrinkled with laughter but was old for a man of forty two he was tall broad thick his gold were in the folds of his long face his hair was a tossed mass of greasy blackness he puffed and as he talked his key shone against a black he of old pipes he was altogether and and to and the of
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with the idea that he was among the most virtuous and disinterested heroes in the world � and laughed again i hear he said smoothly as he stood among them with a great measure of liquor in his hand and filled their glasses as quickly and as often as they chose i hear � but i cannot say whether it be true or � that the men who are in the streets to night are half disposed to down a chapel or two and that they only want leaders i even heard mention of those in duke street s inn fields and in street golden square but common report you know � you are not going � to do nothing master eh cried no and for and me they must be frightened out of that leaders are wanted are they now boys a most impetuous cried secretary ha ha a courageous boisterous most vehement fellow a man who � there was no need to finish the sentence for they had rushed out of the house and were far beyond hearing he stopped in the middle of a laugh listened drew on his gloves and clasping his hands behind him paced the deserted room for a long time then bent his steps towards the busy town and walked into the streets they were filled with people for the rumour of that day s proceedings had made a great noise those persons who did not care to leave home were at their doors or windows and one topic of discourse prevailed on every side some reported that the were put down others that they had broken out again some said that lord george had been sent under a strong guard to the tower others that an attempt had been made upon the king s life that the soldiers had been again called out and that the noise of in a distant part of the town had been plainly heard within an hour as it grew darker these stories became more and mysterious and often when some frightened passenger ran past with tidings that the were not far off and were coming up ie doors were shut and barred lower windows made secure and as much consternation as if the city were invaded by a foreign army walked stealthily about listening to au he heard and or whenever he had an opportunity such false intelligence as suited his own purpose and busily occupied in this way turned into for the twentieth time when a great many women and children came flying along the street � often panting and looking back � and the confused murmur of numerous voices struck upon his ear assured by these tokens and by the red light began to flash upon the houses on either side that some of his friends were indeed approaching he begged a moment s shelter at a door which opened as he passed and running with some d other persons to an upper window looked out upon the crowd they had among them and the chief faces were distinctly visible that they had been engaged in the destruction of some building was sufficiently apparent and that it was a catholic place of worship was evident from the spoils they bore as which were for the of priests and rich fragments of altar furniture covered with and dirt and dust and lime their garments torn to rags their hair hanging wildly about them their hands and faces jagged and bleeding with the wounds of rusty nails and hurried on before them au hke hideous them the dense throng came fighting on some singing some shouting in triumph some quarrelling among themselves some menacing the spectators as they passed some with great wooden fragments on which they spent their rage as if they had been alive them limb from limb and the scattered high into the air some in a drunken state unconscious of the hurts they had received from falling bricks and stones and beams one borne upon a in the very midst covered with a dingy cloth a senseless ghastly heap thus � a vision of coarse faces with here and there a blot of smoky light a dream of demon heads and savage eyes and sticks and iron bars uplifted in the air and whirled about a bewildering horror in which so much was seen and yet so little which seemed so long and yet so short in which there were so many not to be forgotten all through life and yet so many things that could not be observed in me glimpse � it flitted onward and was gone as it passed away upon its work of wrath and ruin a piercing scream was heard a knot of persons ran towards the spot who just then emerged into the street among them he was on outskirts of the little and could not see or hear what passed within but one who had a better place informed him that a widow woman had her son among the is that all said the secretary turning his face well i think this looks a little more like business chapter li � � � as were to s view and much like business as they looked they extended that night no farther the soldiers were again called out again they took half a dozen prisoners and again the crowd dispersed after a short and hot and drunken though they were they had not yet broken au bounds and set au law and government at defiance something of their habitual deference to the authority erected by society for its own preservation yet remained among them and had its majesty been in time the secretary would have had to a bitter disappointment by midnight the streets were clear and quiet and that there stood in two parts of the town a heap of nodding walls and pile of rubbish where there had been at sunset a rich and
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real did subsequently take place must have mistaken a consequence which precisely those who arc most concerned for the historical reality of the are the least in a j to admit if then the appearance and the conversation directly each other the question is which of the two can better lie now the purport of the conversation is so confirmed by xi i while the is so improbable by all kinds of difficulties that there cannot be much doubt as to the decision according to this it appears here as in some former cases that two proceeding from quite and having arisen also in different times have been enough combined in p i v s s i � u r� in ui aud t s i � i s h i f i j the life of the passage containing the conversation proceeding from the probably earlier opinion that the prophecy concerning had its in john the of the doubtless originated at a period when it was not that in the time of only have appeared fig in person of the � when it was fitting that he should also liave shown personally and literally if in no than a transient appearance before a i witnesses a public and more influential one being well not to have taken place in order next to understand how such a narrative could arise in a manner the first feature to be considered on tlie examination of which that of all rest will most easily follow is the splendour of the countenance of and tlie lustre of his clothes to the oriental and more particularly to the hebrew imagination the beautiful the majestic is the the poet of the song of songs his to the hues of morning to the moon to the sun vi y the man l by the blessing of god is compared to the sun going forth in his v and above all the future lot of the is to the of the sun and stars dan xii xiii t hence not only does god appear clothed in light and angels with countenances and shining i s dan vii f x xxiv i lu fi but also the pious of hebrew as adam the full and among subsequent instances more particularly and i ai e represented as being distinguished by such a splendour and the later tradition celestial splendour even to eminent in exalted s but the most celebrated example of tliis kind is the luminous countenance of which is mentioned iy and as in points so in this a conclusion vas drawn from him in relation to the a mi nor i ad such a mode of arguing is indicated by the paul iii ff though be to of the letter not but in accordance with the occasion of the and christian of the it ov and the glory of the latter which surpassed the glory of moses is au object of e a to be attained only in the future life but especially in the l himself it was expected that there would be a splendour which would to that of moses nay it and a writing which takes no notice of our history of the quite in the spirit of the u an � to i objection s u t p f x up p ft et r t xx ap i � x de � n i ii there in according to the inter ul t u non dirt on op jews of the first when it tliat cannot have been the because his countenance had not the splendour of the countenance of to say nothing of a higher splendour such doubtless heard by the early from the jews and partly by their own minds could not in the early church a tendency to introduce into the life of an imitation of that trait in tlie life of nay in one respect to it and instead of a shining countenance that might be covered with a veil to to him a radiance but which was diffused even over his garments that illumination of the countenance of moses served as a type for tiie of is besides proved by a series of particular feature moses obtained his splendour on mount of the of also the scene is a mountain moses on an earlier ascent of the mountain which might easily be confounded with the later one after his countenance became luminous had taken with him besides the seventy elders three friends and to in the vision of xxiv � so takes with his most confidential that so far as their powers were they might be witnesses of the sublime spectacle and their immediate object was according to v to just as calls with the three companions and the elders to come on the mountain that might worship at a distance aa when ascended with the of the b a covered the mountain as a cloud v f as called to out of the cloud until at the latter entered into tlie cloud v � so we have in our narrative a cloud re iti and the heavenly forms a voice out of the cloud t� t f i c and in an f mu of the into the cloud the first part of the address pronounced by the voice out of the cloud consists of the declaration out of ii and la which had already sounded heaven at the of the second part is taken from the words with which moses in the passage of quoted earlier xviii according to the usual interpretation to the le the future and them to obedience towards t p ap qui de ad ro ut dr hue j h f ob ad t at non it turn h in f thin the the hy o � r l� d the interval � ihe i � l� y which the two from detailed in the foregoing chapter for of ad of on
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of him poor fellow mr said mrs g in a tone which implied that her indignation would and a little though she was determined to keep it up you d far better hold your tongue mr doesn t want to know your opinion nor mine neither there s folks in the world as know better than eve ry b else why i should think that s you if we re to trust your own tale said mr beginning to boil up again oh i say nothing said mrs my advice has never been asked and i don t give it � it be the first time then said mr � it s the only thing you re over ready at giving i ve been over ready at then if i haven t been over ready at giving said mrs there s folks i ve lent money to as perhaps i shall repent o money to kin come come come said mr soothingly but mr was not to be of his retort you ve got a bond for it i reckon he said and you ve had your five per cent kin or no kin sister said mrs drink your wine and let me give you some and sorry for you said mrs g very much with the feeling of a cur that the opportunity of his bark toward the man who carries no stick it s poor work talking o and sister don t be so said mrs beginning to cry a little you may be struck with a the kill on thb fit getting bo red in the face after dinner and we are but just out o all of us � and all wi gowns alike and just put hj � it s very bad sisters i should think it is bad said mrs things are come to a fine pass when one the other to her house o purpose to quarrel with her and abuse her softly softly jane � be reasonable � be reasonable said mr but while he was speaking mr who had by no means said enough to satisfy his anger burst out again who wants to quarrel with you he said it s you as can t let people alone but must be at em forever i should never want to quarrel with any woman if she kept her place my place indeed said mrs getting rather more shrill there s your mr as are dead and in their grave treated me with a different sort o respect to what you do � got a husband as sit by me and see me abused by them as ud never ha had the chance if there hadn t been them in our family as married worse than they might ha done if you talk o that said mr my family s as good as yours � and better for it t got a ill tempered woman in it well i said mrs rising from her chair i don t know whether you think it s a fine thing to sit by and hear me swore at mr but i m not going to stay a minute longer in this house you can stay behind and come home with the � and til walk home dear heart dear heart mr in a melancholy tone as he followed his wife out of the room mr how could you talk so said mrs with the tears in her eyes let her go said mr too hot to be by any amount of tears let her go and the sooner the better she won t be trying to over me again in a hurry sister said mrs helplessly do you think it ud be any use for you to go after her and try to her better not better not said mr you ll make it up another day then sisters shall we go and look at the children said mrs drying her eyes no proposition could have been more mr felt very much as if the air had been cleared of flies now the women were out of the room there were few thb on thb things be liked better a witb mr whose close to business allowed the pleasure very rarely mr he considered was the man of his acquaintance and he had besides a ready of tongue made an agreeable to mr s own tendency that way which had in rather an inarticulate condition and now the women were gone they could carry on their serious talk without frivolous interruption they could exchange their views concerning the duke of whose conduct in the catholic question had thrown such an entirely new light on his character and speak of his conduct at the battle of which he would never have won if there hadn t been a great many englishmen at his back not to speak of and the who as mr had heard from a person of particular knowledge in that matter had come up in the very nick of time though here there was a slight mr that he was not disposed to give much credit to the � the build of their vessels together with the unsatisfactory character of transactions in beer him to form rather a low view of pluck generally rather beaten on this ground mr proceeded to express his fears that the country could never again be what it used to be but mr attached to a firm of which the returns were on the increase naturally took a more lively view of the present and had some details to give concerning the state of the especially in hides and which soothed mr s imagination by throwing into more distant perspective the period when the country would become utterly the prey of and and there would be no more chance for honest men uncle sat by and listened with twinkling eyes to these high matters he didn t understand politics
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to do something it its bank and joined the flood water that was hemmed between two in black and white low hills just where the of the main line crossed when a good part of a rain fed river and a few acres of flood water make a dead set for a nine foot the may its finest but the water cannot all get out the manager upon one leg with excitement and his language was improper he had reason to swear because he knew that one inch of water on land meant a pressure of one hundred tons to the acre and here were about five feet of water forming behind the railway over the workings of twenty two you must understand that in a coal mine the coal nearest the surface is worked first from the central shaft that is to say the may clear out the stuff to within ten twenty or thirty feet of the surface and when all is worked out leave only a of earth by some few pillars of coal in a deep mine where they know that they have any amount of material at hand men prefer to get all their out at one at i shaft rather than make a number of little holes to tap the comparatively unimportant surface coal and the manager watched the flood the a nine foot but the water still formed and word was sent to clear the men out of twenty two the came up crammed and crammed again with the men nearest the pit eye as they call the place where you can see daylight from the bottom of the main shaft all away and away up the long black galleries the lamps were and dancing like so many fire flies and the men and the women waited for the rattling thundering to come down and fly up again but the out workings were very far off and the word could not be passed quickly though the heads of the and the assistant shouted and swore and and stumbled the manager kept one eye on the great troubled pool behind the and prayed that the would give way and let the water in black and white through in time with the other eye he watched the come up and saw the counting the roll of the with all his heart and soul he swore at the who controlled the iron drum that wound up the wire rope on which hung the in a little time there was a down draw in the water behind the � a all yellow and the water had smashed through the skin of the earth and was pouring into the old shallow workings of twenty two deep down below a rush of black water caught the last gang waiting for the cage and as they in the whirl was about their the cage reached the pit bank and the manager called the roll the were all safe except gang gang and gang eighteen men with perhaps ten basket women who loaded the coal into the little iron carriages that ran on the of the main galleries these were in the out work at twenty two three quarters of a mile away on the extreme fringe of the mine once more the cage went down but with only two englishmen in it and dropped into a roaring current that had almost touched the roof of some of the lower side galleries one of the wooden with which they had propped the old workings shot past on the current just missing the cage if we don t want our ribs knocked out we d better go said the manager we can t even save the company s the cage drew out of the water with a splash and a few minutes later it was reported that there were at least ten feet of water in the pit s eye now ten feet of water there meant that all other places in the mine were except such galleries as were more than ten feet above the level of the bottom of the shaft the deep workings would be full the main galleries would be full but in the high workings reached by from the main roads would be a certain amount of air cut in black and white off so to speak by the water and squeezed up by it the little science explain how water when you pour it down test the of twenty two was an illustration on a large scale � � � � � � � by the holy grove what has happened to the air it was a son thai of gang in no gallery and he was driving a six foot way through the coal then there was a rush from the other galleries and gang and gang stumbled up with their basket women water has come in the mine they said and there is no way of getting out i went down said � down the slope of my gallery and i felt the water there has been no water in the cutting in our time the women why cannot we go away be silent said long ago when my father was here water came to ten � no eleven � cutting and there was great trouble let us get away to where the air is better at twenty the three and the basket women left no gallery and went further up no at one turn of the road they could see the black water on the coal it had touched the roof of a gallery that they knew well � a gallery where they used to smoke their and conduct their seeing this they called aloud upon their gods and the who are thrice strove to recollect the name of the prophet they came to a great open square whence nearly all the coal had been extracted it was the end of the out
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gradually disappeared the windows which had before been as black on a lighter expanse of wall became illuminated and were to squares of light on the general dark body of the night landscape as it absorbed the outlines of the edifice into its gloomy not another word was spoken for some time and they climbed a hill then another hill piled on the summit of the first an additional mile of followed from which could be discerned two on the coast they were on the horizon with a calm lustre of another was reached a little lay like a nest at their feet towards which the driver pulled the horse at a sharp angle and descended a steep slope which under the trees like a rabbit s they sank lower and lower is inside here continued the man with the reins this part about here is west lord s is east and has a church to itself pa son is the pa son of both and backward and forward ah well tis a funny world a b there was once a where this house stands the man who built it in past time scraped all the for earth to put round the and laid out a little paradise of flowers and trees in the soil he had got together in this way whilst the fields he scraped have been good for nothing ever since how long has the present incumbent been here maybe about a year or a year and half t two years for they don t him yet and as a rule a parish begins to the pa son at the end of a pair of blue eyes two years among em familiar but he s a very nice party ay pa son knows me pretty well from often driving over and i know pa son they emerged from the bower swept round in a curve and the chimneys and of the became darkly visible not a light showed anywhere they alighted the man felt his way into the porch and rang the bell at the end of three or four minutes spent in patient waiting without hearing any sounds of a response the stranger advanced and repeated the call in a more decided manner he then fancied he heard footsteps in the hail and sundry movements of the door but nobody appeared perhaps they at home sighed the driver and i promised myself a bit of supper in pa son s kitchen lovely mate and and and drops o cordial that they do keep here all right be ye rich men or be ye poor men that ye must needs come to the world s end at this time o night exclaimed a voice at this instant and turning their heads they saw a individual round from the back door with a horn lantern dangling from his hand time o night a b and the clock only gone seven of em show a light and let us in william worm oh that you robert nobody else william worm and is the visiting man a come yes said the stranger is mr at home that a is sir and would ye mind coming round by the back way the front door is got stuck wi the wet as he will do sometimes and the can t open a pair of blue eyes en i know i am only a poor man that ill never pay the lord for my making sir but i can show the way in sir the new arrival followed his guide through a little door in a wall and then a and a kitchen along which he passed with eyes rigidly fixed in advance an horror of forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household entering the hall he was about to be shown to his room when from the inner of the front entrance whither she had gone to learn the cause of the delay sailed forth the form of her start of amazement at the sight of the visitor coming forth from under the stairs proved that she had not been expecting this surprising flank movement which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of william worm she appeared in the prettiest of all feminine that is to say in with plenty of loose curly hair tumbling down about her shoulders an expression of uneasiness pervaded her countenance and altogether she scarcely appeared woman enough for the situation the visitor removed his hat and the first words were spoken looking with a deal of interest not with surprise at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality i am mr smith said the stranger in a musical voice i am miss said her was over the great contrast between the reality she beheld before her and the dark sharp elderly man of business who had in her imagination � a man with clothes smelling of city smoke skin sallow from want of sun and talk with � was such a relief to her that smiled almost laughed in the new comer s face a pair of blue eyes smith who has hitherto been hidden from us by the darkness was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance and barely a man in years judging from his look london was the last place in the world that one would have imagined to be the scene of his such a face surely could not be nourished amid smoke and mud and fog and dust such an open countenance could never even have seen anything of � the weariness the fever and the fret of the second his complexion was as fine as s own the pink of his cheeks as delicate his mouth as perfect as s bow in form and as cherry red in colour as hers bright curly hair bright sparkling blue gray eyes a boy s blush
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stand there in that recess and she would deck it with all the old china she could get together of course she had not nearly enough but still there was already enough to make a fair show and she would pick it up bit by bit and why what was the meaning of this in her day dreams about the old oak w c the money sense she had unfolded the sheet of paper which had left by mistake upon the floor it was a sheet of her own with her in one corner and the address of the house neatly printed in red in the one opposite and written on it in s handwriting was this order � to messrs street be good enough to supply miss page with any goods she may select to the value of stared at the letter as if she could not believe what she saw written there supply miss page � to the value of and who in the world was miss page and how came to be supplying miss page or miss anybody else with goods to the value of anything then it flashed across her mind that s name was page of course she had meant to call her page but had preferred to use her christian name lest people should think she had started a page boy a buttons so that was the little game was it that was why her spending a few paltry shillings on a like old china when her only desire for it was to make his house look more i well two could play at such a game oh yes was fond of saying the money sense that no one could get over that he was a jew � but ran s angry thoughts am something more difficult to tackle than a jew shall find out what it is to pit himself against an outraged woman yet in spite of her anger her fury she hid the paper away in her desk and locked it securely and presently when came in to fetch something from the she found her mistress still occupied with the morning post she watched the girl closely all the same and saw that she cast an anxious glance about the room and mrs gave a bitter smothered laugh as went out in unmistakable disappointment the young lady is uneasy she said to herself she cannot think what she has done with the precious order no ordinary words will describe the tumult of feelings which passed through s mind that never to be forgotten morning she felt baffled enraged upset hurt and surprised all by turns she remembered what mrs the departed cook had said � i only you may never find out she felt outraged that she a christian woman of good had given herself body and soul � yes body and soul that was the worst of it � to the money sense this jew who had scorned her so much valued her so little that he had deliberately arranged an affair with her servant her serving maid a great scorn filled her whole soul and the first bitter heart pang which she had felt since her marriage came to add to her suffering then for the first time she thought of her old love for the first time since she had borne her new name she recalled him with a mighty regret if only had been true if only he had been brave brave enough to risk poverty for her sake all this could never have happened she would never have known the fever and fret of a london life of a london failure of a marriage of ways and means and then just as she was on the point of melting into a flood of blessed tears which would have brought her relief which would have washed the greater part of her away a of what was suddenly came to her a remembrance that she was wife the mother of his child in a moment her tears were dried at the her eyes blazed and burned like fires of living coal her whole soul rose up and herself and him and the little life bound up with her own most intensely of all she got up and paced about the handsome room up and the money sense to and fro as if she were trying to beat her fury into the carpet which covered the floor oh she was so angry so hurt it would have been bad at any time even if she had been given to quarrelling with if she had been bad and disagreeable to him but when she could only look back and recall how over and over again she had sacrificed her own inclinations to his how she had suffered from the pains and of continuing the race his race how she had identified herself with his people his set had visited almost exclusively among jews and they not of the best how she had practically given up her own friends and to a certain extent turned her back upon her own people and for such an end as this � well could have thrown herself down upon the floor and aloud in her grief and her despair but even in the face of a shock and dire grief a morning cannot last for ever in time came to lay the table for lunch and her mistress went upstairs and mechanically made her toilet for the afternoon as was her custom open a small bottle of champagne she said when she was seated at table i don t feel very well opened the champagne as she was the money sense and asked in rather a tremulous voice if there was anything else that she could get replied in the negative and then looking keenly at remarked that she was looking very ill what is the matter she asked her self possession was really
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aristocracy that it was a mistake on your s part and that a loan only was meant be this as it may i the irish agent hope a thought has been vouchsafed to me � which the matter may under providence assume more agreeable character for all parties last my lord immediately after family worship found myself much refreshed in mind but rather in my poor sinful body after the of le day � for indeed i had ridden a good deal since however i desired � a pious person who acts as children s maid and my habits � to procure me a little hot and sugar into which out of a necessary health which is imposed as a duty on us all i a httle brandy partly for and to the water having swallowed a tie of this i found the two principles combine almost like kindred spirits and i experienced both nourishment and the draught it was then my lord that it � given me to turn my mind upon the transaction to i mean the condition of paying two pounds for the privilege of managing your indeed the thing was vouchsafed to me this light � your property my lord is not resented in the grand of the county which a serious loss to you as there is no one � e to advocate your interests especially since poor m mr s would that they were all only of the body i have caused him to attend the grand jury less frequently many arrangements might be made by which your would indirectly benefit � that is the money so to speak might be made to go into one pocket in order that it should be transferred to yours then you have not a magistrate on your estates devoted to your special interests as you ought to have this is a very necessary thing my lord and to which i humbly endeavour to direct your attention i my lord you have no magistrate of true and principles who from time to time might manifest to the government that you did not forget their interests no more than your own now my lord what man can be or is better qualified to serve your in all these than that and mr m in what individual could the commission of peace more or rest your own agent i therefore beg your to turn this in your mind and if advised by one humble i would suggest the trial of a short prayer previous to entering on it should j exert your influence for that purpose with government the gracious i trust i may call it so thb irish agent � would be immediately made and i ink i know the grateful disposition of mr m sufficiently well to assure your that cm a thorough christian sense of your kindness le two thousand pounds will be on that condition in your s hands i have the honour to be my lord solomon m p s mr m is ignorant that a suggestion well calculated to advance the best interests of general religion has been graciously intimated to one so unworthy as i am lord to solomon m esq it is done � a bargain � i have arranged the business here with the secretary and i am obliged to you my sleek little saint for suggesting it i wonder m himself did not think of it i feel glad the old have dropped for i am sure that between you and him you will take out of these sums all that can be taken of course m nd you are at liberty to revive any thing you hke provided it be done properly what is it to me who go there i do believe was not an easy fellow but a fool as to glove money � dealing money � duty fowls � and duty work � i tell vol i m you again provided you increase my an work the cash out of these fellows you may upon as many of them as you can get yours p s � what my little saint did you mean by that charitable blunder concerning the widow in your last letter i never knew before that a woman waa a widow merely because her husband was transported as he ought to be for sheep stealing or because he happened to live by in another country however no matter give her for me whatever yoa think proper and add it to your bill of costs as you will do solomon m esq to lord � my gracious lord as i have never varied from truth i could not bear even for a moment to seem to fall into the opposite principle i was certainly very busy on the day i had the honour and privilege of writing to your and much distracted both in mind and heart by the of a member of our congregation on looking over the copy of the letter however i perceive one thing that is gratifying to me my lord i made no the irish agent it is not perhaps known to your ere are two descriptions of widow � the real vegetable that is the widow by death and low by local separation from her husband the latter is a class that requires as much and comfort as the other � being re numerous and suffering all the poor things except its reality the ion my lord is and taken from occupation of for animal k for any other purpose travelling a journey or the like the other is h turned into some park or grassy deed generally more comfortable ban if still with the yoke fellow for which the return of the latter is seldom very ly desired by the other i am happy to tell f lord that some very refreshing in world have recently occurred here i trust will cause true religion to spread
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with which you and then give reasons for your ff the owl critic who stuffed that white owl no one spoke in the shop the was busy and he couldn t stop the customers waiting their turns were all reading the daily the herald the post little the young man who out such a blunt question not one raised a head or even made a suggestion and the kept on don t you see brown cried the youth with a frown how wrong the whole thing is how preposterous each wing is how the head is how down the neck i � in short the whole owl what an ignorant wreck tis i make no apology i ve learned owl i ve passed days and nights in a hundred and cannot be blinded to any arising from fingers that fail to stuff a bird right from his to his tail brown brown do take that bird down or you ll soon be the all over town and the kept on by james t fields an american and author the owl critic studied and other night fowls and i tell you what i know to be an owl cannot with his limbs so no owl in this world ever had his s curled ever had his legs ever had his bill ever had his neck into that attitude he can t do it because tis against all bird laws teaches an owl has a toe that can t turn out so i ve made the white owl my study for years and to see such a job almost moves me to tears brown fm amazed you should be so gone as to put up a bird in that posture absurd to look at that owl really brings on a the man who stuffed him don t half know his and the kept on examine those eyes tm with surprise should pass oflf on you such poor glass so unnatural they seem make scream and john laugh to encounter such do take that bird down have him stuffed again brown v and the kept on with some and bark i could stuff in the dark an owl better than that i could make an old hat look more like an owl than that horrid fowl stuck up there so stiff like a side of coarse leather in fact about him there s not one natural feather just then with a wink and a sly normal the owl very gravely got down from his perch walked round and regarded his fault finding critic who thought he was stuffed with a glance and then fairly as if he should say your learning s at fault this time anyway don t waste it again on a live bird i pray i m an owl you re another sir critic good day and the kept on mrs s umbrella lecture that s the third umbrella gone since christmas what were you to do why let him go home in the rain to be sure i m very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil take cold indeed he doesn t look like one of the sort to take cold besides he d better have taken cold than taken our umbrella do you hear the rain mr i say do you hear the rain don t think me a fool mr don t insult me he return the umbrella anybody would think you were bom yesterday as if anybody ever did return an umbrella i should like to know how the children are to go to school to morrow they shan t go through such weather i m determined no they shall stay at home and never learn anything � the blessed creatures � sooner than go and get wet and when they grow up i wonder whom they ll have to thank for knowing nothing � who indeed but their father but i know why you lent the umbrella oh yes i know very well i was going out to tea at dear mother s to morrow � you knew that � and you did it on purpose don t tell me you hate to have me to go there and take every mean advantage to by william an english humorous writer hinder me but don t you think it mr no sir if it comes down in til go all the more no and i won t have a cab where do you think the money s to come from you ve got nice high notions at that club of yours a cab indeed cost me sixteen pence at least � sixteen pence � two pence for there s back again indeed i should like to know who is to pay for them i can t pay for them and i m sure you can t if you go on as you do throwing away your property and your children do you hear the rain mr i say do you hear it but i don t care � i ll go to mother s to morrow i will and what s more i ll walk every step of the way and you know that will give me my death don t call me a foolish woman it s you that s the foolish man you know i can t wear and with no umbrella the wet s sure to give me a cold � it always does but what do you care for that nothing at all i may be laid up for what you care as i dare say i shall � and a pretty doctor s bill there ll be i hope there will it will teach you to lend your umbrella again i shouldn t wonder if i caught my death and that s what you lent your for of course nice clothes i shall get too through weather like this my gown and bonnet will be spoiled quite needn
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and punch s shows used to lean against the dead wall in street while their were dining elsewhere and the dogs of tho made meet in the same locality w e re t w o or three small houses at the entrance end of street which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject on to a fashionable situation and whenever one of these little was to be let which seldom happened for they were in great request house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town inhabited solely by the ite of the beau if a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow mai in bad not been essential to the blood of the this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among let us say ten thousand houses offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of tbe money as it was mr finding his gentlemanly residence extremely inconvenient and extremely dear always laid it as a public servant at the door of the country and it as another instance of the country s came to a s iu � house witli a bowed front little dingy windows and a little dark area like a � pocket which he found to be twenty four street square to the sense of smell the house was like a of bottle filled with a strong of and when tho footman opened the door he seemed to the out the footman was to the s wliat the house to the square houses admirable in liis way his way va a back and a bye way his was not with � and both in complexion and he had suffered from the of his a sallow was upon when ho the out and presented the bottle to mr s nose be bo good as to give that card to mr and to say i have just now seen tho younger mr who recommended � call here the footman who had as many large buttons with the crest them on the of his pockets as if he wore the family strong box � carried the plate and jewels about with him up pondered liver the card a little then said walk in it required some judgment do it without the door open and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen � the however brought himself up safely on the ni � t ll the footman said walk in so the visitor followed him at the inner door another bottle seemed to be presented and another taken out this second appeared to be filled with provisions and extract of from the after a in the narrow passage occasioned by the footman s opening the door of the dismal room with confidence finding some one there with consternation and on the visitor with disorder the visitor was shut up his announcement in a close back parlor there he had an opportunity of refreshing himself with both the at once looking out at a low blinding wall three feet off and on the number of families within the bills of who lived in such of their own free choice mr would see him would he walk up stairs he and he did and in the drawing room with his leg on a rest he found mr himself the express image and f it mr dated from a better time when the country was not so and the office was not so he wound and folds of white round his neck as ho wound and wound folds of and paper round the neck of the and were hia voice and oppressive sc had a large watch chain and of a coat to inconvenience a waistcoat up to inconvenience un pair of trousers a stiff pair of boots he was altogether si massive overpowering and he seemed to hare been sitting for his portrait to sir thomas oil the days of his life mr said mr be seated mr became seated you have called on me i believe said er at the � giving it the air of a of about five and twenty office i have taken that liberty mr solemnly bent his head as who should say i do not deny that it is a liberty proceed to take another liberty and let me know your business allow me to e that i have u for some years in china am quite a stranger at home and have no motive or interest in the i am al out to make mr his fingers on the table and its if he were now sitting for his portrait to a new and strange artist to say to liis visitor if you will be good enough to take me with my x expression i shall feel obliged i have found a in the mar i� a prison of the name of who has been there many i h to investigate his confused affairs far as to ascertain whether it may not ik possible after this lai e of time to his condition the name of mr has been mentioned to me as re some highly st among his am correctly d it being one of the principles of the office never on account whatever to give a straightforward answer � r possibly on ik half of the crown may i ask or as a private individual si the ir air lied may have possibly recommended � possibly � i cannot say � that some public claim against the estate of a or to this person may have belonged should be enforced the question may have been in course of official business referred to the department for its consideration the department may originated or a minute making that recommendation i assume this to be the case then the department said mr is not for any gentleman s may i how i can obtain official 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head sank down upon her bosom � what what exclaimed the but ere he could complete the question the timid creature fell upon the floor for a long time she lay in that friendly trance for such in truth it was to a delicate being subjected to an ordeal so as that she was called upon to pass through we have that there is in the young especially in those of the softer sex a feeling of terror and shame and confusion when called upon by their parents to disclose a forbidden passion that renders its perhaps the most formidable task which the young heart can it is a fearful trial for the youthful and one which parents ought to conduct with surpassing delicacy and unless they wish to drive the spirit into the first steps of falsehood and deceit father said john i think you may rest satisfied with what you witness and i am sure it cannot make you or my mother happy to see poor miserable who been during greater part of her supported in her weeping and alarmed mother s arms now opened her eyes and after casting an look about the room she hid her face in her mother s bosom and exclaimed as distinctly as the violence of sobbing grief would permit her oh mother dear have pity on me bring me up stairs and i will tell you the of � i do i do pity you said the mother kissing her i know you ll be a good girl yet said her father placing his hand gently on her shoulder was i ever harsh to you or did i � father dear she returned interrupting him i would have told you and my mother but that i was afraid there was something so utterly innocent and in this reply that each of the three persons present felt sensibly affected by its extreme and simplicity don t be afraid of me continued the but answer me truly like a good girl and i swear upon my that i won t be angry do you love the son of this not father because he s s son said whose face was still hid in her s bosom i would rather he wasn t but you do love for three years he has scarcely been out of my mind something that might be termed a smile crossed the countenance of th at this intimation god help you for a foolish child said he you re a poor when left to defend your own cause she won t defend it by a falsehood at all events observed her and affectionate brother no she wouldn t said the mother and i did her wrong a while ago to say that she d anything about it and are you and o promised to other inquired the father again but it wasn t that proposed the promise returned oh the desperate villain exclaimed her father to be guilty of such a thing but you took the promise you did you did i needn t ask no replied vol l� l z the mi ok no re echoed the father then you did not give the promise i mean she rejoined that you needn t ask oh faith that the case now this all this promising that has passed you and o is mere folly if you prove to be the good girl that i hope you are you ll put him out of your head and thin you can give back to one another whatever promises you made this was succeeded by a silence of more than a minute at length arose and with a energy of manner that was evident by her sparkling eye and blood less cheek she approached her father and calmly kneeling down said slowly but firmly father if nothing else can satisfy you will give back my promise but then father it will break my heart for i know i feel how i love him and how i m loved by him i ll get you a better husband replied her father far more wealthy and more respectable than he is ril give back the promise said she but the man is not living except o that will ever call me wife more wealthy more respectable oh it was only himself i loved father i m on my knees before you and before my mother i have only one request to make oh don t break your daughter s heart god direct us exclaimed her mother it s hard to know how to act if it would go so hard upon her sure � amen said her husband may god direct us to the best i m sure god knows he continued now much affected that i would rather break my own heart than yours get up dear rise john how would you advise us i don t see what serious objection after all replied the son either you or my mother can have to o he is every way worthy of her if he is equal to his character and as for wealth i have often k ths of li na heard it said that his father was a richer man than yourself all said the mother she might be very well him i ll tell you what i ll do then said the let us see the ould man himself and if he settles his son in life as he can do if he wishes why i won t see that poor foolish innocent girl breaking her heart who sat with her face still averted now ran to lier father and throwing her arms about his neck wept aloud but said nothing ay ay said the latter it s very fine now that you have ever your own way you but sure you re all the daughter we have and it would be too bad not to let you have a little
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grace of little hand to his lips his lashes somewhat moist as he hung over his treasures you scarce can believe that he is here the whispered with a touching softness indeed i scarce believe it myself twas not fair of him to keep us waiting five years when we so greatly for his coming perhaps he waited knowing that we expected so much from him � such beauty and such wisdom and such strength let us look at him together love the physician will order you away from me soon but let us see first how handsome he is she thrust the covering aside and the two heads � one golden and one brown � pressed closer together that they might the better behold the infant charms which were such joy to them i would not let them bind his little limbs and head as is their way she said from the first hour i spoke with his chief nurse i gave her my command that he should be left free to grow and to kick his pretty legs as soon as he was strong enough see john he them a little now they say he is of wondrous size and long and finely made and indeed he seems so to me � and tis not only because i am so proud is it i know but little of their looks when they are so young sweet her lord answered his voice and eyes as tender as her own for in he felt his grace of ii himself moved as he had been at no other hour in his life before though he was a man of a nature as gentle as twas strong i will own that i had ever thought of them as strange red things a man almost held in fear and whose a woman but loved because she was near angel but this one � and he drew nearer still with a grave countenance � surely it looks not like the rest tis not so red and � its tiny face hath a sort of it hath a broad brow and its eyes will sure be large and well set the slipped her fair arm about his neck � he was so near to her twas easy done � and her smile trembled into sweet tears which were half laughter ah we love him so she cried how could we think him like any other we love him so and are so happy and so proud and for a moment they remained silent their cheeks pressed together the scent of the spring flowers up to them from the terrace the church bells out through the radiant air he was bom of love his mother whispered at last he will live amid love and see only honour and he will grow to be a noble gentleman said my lord duke and some day he will love a his grace of noble lady and they will be as we have been � as we have been beloved and their faces turned towards each other as if some law of nature drew them and their lips met � and their child stirred softly in its first sleep chapter ii he is the king the bells at intervals throughout the day in at least five villages over which his grace of was lord � at they at at at at � and in each place when night fell were lighted and oxen whole while there were dancing and and drinking of ale on each village green in truth as dame had said he had begun well � walter john of and well it seemed he would go on he in such a way as was a wonder to his and nurses the first gentlemen finding themselves with no occasion for their skill since he suffered from no infant whatsoever but fed and slept and grew and fairer every hour he grew so finely � perhaps because his young mother had defied ancient custom and forbidden his limbs and body to be bound � that at three months he was as big and strong as an infant of half a year twas plain he was built for a tall man with broad shoulders and noble head but a few months had passed before his his grace of baby features themselves into promise of marked beauty and his brown eyes gazed back at human beings not with infant but with a look which had in it somewhat of question and reply his of serving women were filled with such ardent pride in him that his chief nurse had much to do to keep the peace among them each wishing to be first with him and being jealous of another who made him laugh and crow and stretch forth his arms that she might take him the in chief of the nurses was no ordinary female she was the widow of a poor � her name mistress � and she gratefully rejoiced to have had the happiness to fall into a place of such honour and responsibility she was of sober age and being as well as discreet kept such faithful watch over him as few children begin life under the figure of this good woman throughout his childhood stood out from among all others surrounding him with singular distinctness she seemed not like a servant nor was she like any other in the household as he in years he that in his earliest memories of her there was a recollection of a certain grave respect she had seemed to pay him and he saw it had been not mere deference but respect as though he had been a man in miniature and one to whom despite his tender youth dignity and reason should his grace of be qualities of nature and therefore might be demanded from him in all things as early as thought began to form itself clearly in him
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while there was no longer any doubt that peter was dead with his right hand clasping the keys and his left hand lying on the heap of notes and gold book iv three love problems chapter ist such men as this are feathers and no weight no force d bat levity is too and makes the sum of weight for power finds its place in lack of power advance is and the driven ship may ran because the s thought lacked force to balance it was on a morning of may that peter was buried in the neighbourhood of may was not always and sunny and on this particular morning a chill wind was blowing the blossoms from the surrounding gardens on to the green of churchyard swiftly clouds only now and then allowed a gleam to light up any ol whether ugly or beautiful that happened to stand its golden shower in the churchyard the objects were remarkably various for there was a little country crowd waiting to see the the news had spread that it was to be a big burying the old gentleman had left written directions about everything and meant to have a funeral beyond his this was true for old had not been a p a whose passions had all been devoured by the ever lean and ever hungry passion of saving and who would drive a bargain with bis beforehand he loved money but he also loved to spend it in gratifying his peculiar tastes and perhaps he loved it best of all as a means of making others feel his power more or less if any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old i will not presume to deny this but i must observe that goodness is of a modest nature and when much in early life by vices is apt to retire into extreme privacy so that it is more y believed in by those who a selfish old gentleman than by those who form the judgments based on his personal acquaintance in any case he had been bent on a and on persons bid to it who would rather have stayed at home he had even desired that female relatives should follow him to the grave and poor sister had taken a journey for this purpose from the she and jane would have been altogether cheered in a tearful manner by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been fond of their presence when he should have become a if the sign had not been made by being extended to mrs whose expense in handsome seemed to imply the most hopes by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly sue was not a blood relation but of that generally objectionable class called wife s kin we are all of us imaginative in some form or other for images are the brood of desire and poor old who laughed much at the way in which others themselves did not escape the fellowship of illusion in writing the pro for his burial he certainly make clear to himself that his pleasure in the little drama of which it formed a part was confined to anticipation in over the he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid presence and so far as he was with a future life it was with one of gratification inside his coffin thus old was imaginative after his fashion however the three mourning were filled according to the written orders of the deceased there were on horseback with the richest and and even the had of woe which were of a good well quality the black procession when dismounted looked the larger for the of the churchyard the heavy human and the black shivering in the wind seemed to toll of a world strangely with the lightly dropping blossoms and the of on the the clergyman who met the procession was mr � also according to the request of peter prompted as usual by reasons a contempt for whom he always called he was resolved to be buried by a clergyman mr was out of the question not merely because ne declined of this sort but because had an especial dislike to mm as the of his own parish who had a on the land in the shape of also as the of morning sermons which the old man being in his and not at all sleepy had been obliged to sit through with an inward he had an objection to a parson stuck up above his head preaching to him but his relations with mr had been of a different kind the stream which ran through mr s land took its course through s also so mr was a parson who had had to ask a favour instead of preaching moreover ne was one of the high gentry living four miles away from book iv love problems and was thus exalted to an equal sky with the of the county and other vaguely r as necessary to the eastern of things there would oe a in being buried by mr whose v y name offered a fine opportunity for if you this � conferred on the of and was the reason why mrs made one of the group that watched old s funeral from an upper window of the she was not fond of visiting that house but she liked as she said to see of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral and she had persuaded sir james and the lady to drive the and herself to in order mat the visit might be altogether pleasant i will go anywhere with you mrs had said but i don t like oh my dear when you have a in your family you must your tastes i did that very
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so as scarce to seem a personality to its with the t then stood erect with the infant on beside t basin the next sister held the prayer book open before h as tlie clerk at church held it before the parson and th the girl set about her her figure looked tall and imposing as i stood in her long white cable of t dark hair hanging straight down her to her the kindly of the weak candle d f her form and features the little which might have revealed � tho upon her and the weariness of her eyes � her high enthusiasm h� vi a effect upon the face which had been i showing it as a of beauty wi an impress of dig which was almost i tho ut ones kneeling round their sleepy eyes and awaited her preparations full of a suspended wonder which their at that hour would not allow to become active maiden no more eldest of them be you going to him the girl n plied in a ave s his name going to lie she had not of that but a name came into her head as she proceeded with the and now sh e pronounced it i thee in the name of the father and b son and of the holy ghost ihe the water and there was silence say amen children b tiny voices in obedient response � went on we receive tliis child � and so forth � and do sign with the sign of the cross here she dipped her hand into the basin and fervently an immense cross upon the baby with lier forefinger continuing with the customary sentences as to his fighting against sin the world and the devil and being a faithful soldier and servant his life s end she duly went on with s prayer the en it after her iu a thin like wail till at the conclusion raising their voices to clerk s they again into the silence amen then their sister with confidence in the of this poured forth fi om the bottom of her heart the that follows uttering it boldly and in the note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech which will never be forgotten by those who knew her the ecstasy of faith almost her it set upon her n glowing and brought a red spot into the ii l of each cheek while candle flame in her eye pupils shone like a diamond i ail up at her with more and more and no i had a will for questioning she did not look like of the d to them now but as a being towering awful � a with whom they had nothing in poor sorrow s campaign against sin tho world and the devil was doomed to be of limited brilliancy � luckily perhaps for himself considering his in the blue of tbe morning tliat fragile soldier and servant his last and when the other children awoke cried bitterly and begged to have another pretty baby the calmness which had possessed since tlie remained with her in s loss in indeed she felt her terrors about his soul to have been somewhat whether well founded or not had no uneasiness now reasoning that if providence would such an act of she for one value the kind of heaven lost by the � t for herself or for her child so passed away sorrow the i � creature tliat gift of nature who not the ci il law a to whom time had been a i matter of days merely who knew not that things as years and centuries ever e to whom the cottage j was the universe the week s weather climate new i human existence and the instinct to i knowledge who mused on tho a good deal wondered if it were to secure a burial for the nobody could tell tliis but of the parish and he was a new comer and a very man she went to house after dusk and stood by gate but could not summon courage to go in the would have been abandoned if she had not by met him coming homeward ns she turned away in gloom she did not mind speaking freely i should like to ask you something sir he l his to listen and she told l� i i no more lot of the baby s and the and now sir she added earnestly can yon tell me � will it be just the same for him as if yon had having the natural feelings rf n at finding that a job be should have been called in for had been by his among themselves he wag disposed to say no yet the dignity of the girl the strange tenderness in her voice combined to affect his nobler impulses � or those that he had left in him after ten years of endeavor to belief on actual the man and the fought within him and the ry fell to the man my dear i ho said it will be just the same then will you give bim a christian i she asked the felt himself hearing of the baby s lie had come to the house after nightfall to perform the and unaware that the refusal to admit him had come from s father and not from he could not allow the plea of necessity � � h � that s another matter he said a � why asked rather warmly � t would willingly do so if only we two were con bnt i must not � for reasons t for once sir i must not sir for pity s sake she seized his band as he withdrew it shaking his head then i don t like you she burst out � and i ll never � ut your church no more ont so � i
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unite any two terms of this in the same thought there is his whole difficulty all discussion concerning the nature of the son we suggest that the two terms and spirit are not only capable of union but that the term father covers the whole ground of both practically and of what consequence is it then how a of is if its terms are the religious mind is not compelled to find its satisfaction in the of mr no x mr and hu any more than in that speculation the which is the supposed ground and explanation of the other mr holds the idea but objects to any attempt to and explain it next to believing a thing which cannot be proved is that more unfortunate ten to believe a thing because it cannot be proved when we speak of proving a thing we do not mean that logical processes can every object worthy of our faith the whole man must advance to the proof of a spiritual problem and he must test it by his of thought and feeling then faith in a thing becomes a rational of reason but it must not contradict scientific laws it may pass beyond them and out of their province but still it cannot be at with them if it them no individual sentiment can make it worthy of belief mr is at with scientific laws inasmuch as it the two modes or phases father and spirit therefore it is an and not a legitimate object of belief this leads us to say a word or two concerning that which mr with aversion how could he do otherwise with his individuality will he he he must reject it until a fresh shake of the throws his powers and sentiments into another combination but in the meantime it may be possible to convince all those who with mr that none of those christian graces which are claimed as results of a scheme with or without a a too sweeping is involved in the statement that under the scheme of virtue will be the virtue of and the mind s soaring will be that of contemplation not of prayer we can imagine that to have been with the of a volume or two of essays and poems hanging about the writer s sense if a man is by nature his prayer will be whether he be a or an or a moderate what an there is to fix such characteristics as appear objectionable to any one or are not in ha with one upon this or that creed but if a man be a he win display the virtue of and all the articles cannot make him more and dependent when mr proceeds to add that in the school of all virtue will be practised under a sense of de and his and that prayer itself w gradually cease since it is the natural fruit only of a faith which us by a living tie god � we are on the point of growing indignant and filling the rest of this review with notes of amazement whom did mr have in his eye to withal a whole we hasten to a devout mind of a consideration which must be to it no living tie with god why is very little else the merciful suggesting presence of god in the intellect and soul of his children is the central thought from which the whole action and of the proceeds the consciousness of that great fact has slowly made him what he is and affection thought and will are meekly to faith in that glorious presence � no not to the but to the presence can virtues grow stern and can prayer cease in the heart of any child who lives and thinks walks the streets and his business with an absorbing sense of the and the minute of the infinite father pray god that mr may become acquainted with the heart of some another is contained in the following paragraph it may be said that this school make much on the contrary of inspiration but they make too much of it k all is inspired nothing is inspired and that presence of g k is nothing to me which i share with the he has here a rare with a scientific is it really in the of god that a devout cannot be there is much among the of the east there has been some in germany a few men both there and in this country may have been betrayed from the very excess of a united to a poetic temperament without analysis into the of this doctrine but even to them the presence of god is something more personal practical and than it is to a given a and indeed gk d presence will not be very and impressive given a holy soul and the doctrine is robbed of its horrors but we venture to affirm that a legitimate in alliance with keen eyed and science is fast what little exists upon the subject of the of god k mr would successfully oppose the oriental of he must become a and believe in inspiration mr or and mb march we are therefore in full harmony both by theory and temperament with that fine passage on the page of his lecture where mr speaks of the fellowship of the holy spirit the depths of and the added grace or power which secret prayer gives to the justice and discretion of the it is a fine strain and the direction of mr influence and again what wisdom there is though accidentally overlooked here and there by the in this passage i have i trust learned the wisdom of being slow in my experience has taught me that in this too discretion is the better part of and that it is more as well as modest to explain what we deem to be the truth than to display
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that i dropped off at to get a newspaper and the train left me behind o i exclaimed who had turned to look how very pretty miss certainly was so this morning she was standing by a again and was dressed in a morning robe of the finest texture and the faintest pink it had a down the back of lace down the front and the close high of lace around the throat which seemed to be a weakness with her i should like to see her hair was dressed high upon her head and showed to advantage her little ears and as much of her slim white neck as the did not conceal but lady did not share s enthusiasm she looks like an she said if the trees were painted canvas and the roses artificial one might have some patience with her that kind of thing is scarcely what we expect in then she turned to i had the pleasure of meeting her yesterday not long after she arrived she said she had diamonds in her ears as big as peas and rings to match her manner is just what one might expect from a young woman brought up among gold and silver it struck me as being a very unique and interesting manner said it is chiefly noticeable for a sang which might be regarded as rather she was good enough to tell me all about her papa and the silver mines and i really found the a fair it scarcely customary for english young women to confide in their masculine travelling companions to such an extent remarked my lady grimly she did not confide in me at all said therein lay her attraction one cannot submit to being confided in by a strange young woman however charming this young lady s remarks were solely with an cool she evidently did not desire to appeal to any emotion whatever and as he leaned back in his seat he still looked at the picturesque figure which they had passed as if he would not have been sorry to see it turn its head toward him in fact it seemed that notwithstanding his usual good fortune was doomed this morning to make remarks of a nature objectionable to his relation on their way they passed mr s mill which was at work in all its vigor with a and of machinery and a slight of oil in its surrounding atmosphere ah i said mr putting his single into hie eye and it j to ihe of i did not think you had any thing of that sort here who put it up the man s name replied lady bald severely is pretty good idea isn t it remarked good for the place � and all that sort of thing to my mind answered my lady it is the worst possible thing which could have happened mr francis dropped his and at once into his normal condition � which was a condition by no means favorable to argument so he said slowly pity isn t it under the circumstances and really there was nothing at all for her to do but preserve a lofty silence she had scarcely recovered herself when they the station and it was necessary tc lay farewell as complacently as possible we will hope to see you again before many days she said with dignity if not with warmth mr francis was silent foe a a a slightly expression flitted across lis face thanks yes he said at last certainly it is easy to come down and i should like to see more of when the train had puffed in and out of the station and was driving down high street again her s feelings rather got the better of her if is a wise woman she remarked she will take my and get lid of this young lady as soon as possible it appears to me she continued with exalted piety that every well trained english girl has reason to thank her maker that she was bom in a civilized land perhaps suggested softly miss has had no one to train her at all and it maybe that � that she even feels it deeply the feathers in her s bonnet trembled she does not feel it at all i she an she is an impertinent � i looking up t chapter looking up were others who echoed her lady ship s words afterward though they echoed them privately and with more caution than my lady felt it is certain that miss did not improve as time and she had enlarged for studying the noble example set before her by on his arrival in new york martin to his daughter and sister per atlantic cable informing them that he might be detained a couple of months and bidding them to be of good cheer the arrival of the message in its official envelope so alarmed miss that she was supported by mary anne while it was read to her by who received it t any surprise whatever for some time after its completion had privately in a the atlantic cable and until this occasion had certainly in the existence of people who received messages through it in fact on first finding that she was the of such a message miss had made immediate preparations for fainting quietly away being fully convinced that a had occurred which had resulted in her brother s death and that his had chosen this method of breaking the news a message by atlantic cable she had gasped don t � don t read it my some one else do that poor � poor child trust in providence my love and � and bear up ah how i wish i had a stronger mind and could be of more service it s a message from father said � nothing is the matter he s all right he got in on saturday
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con at all there is no reason why knowledge should be limited knowledge as wc have seen is now what grounds have we for supposing that the must be for on this ground alone can knowledge be that our knowledge of the universe is in point of fact no one will question new objects and new for o are presented to us every day and if by knowledge we an of facts and observations tliis is a defect in kind as well as degree wo cannot safely until wc have gathered the universe into a heap and weighed measured and the whole of it this however being knowledge is so too or else the theory is wrong it will not help us at all to call our present knowledge an as if it were only in degree there is not the slightest hope that all mankind in any imaginable lapse of ages could even a single grain of sand � for this reason � that matter is di and can be stretched to match any extent of time this however is at least as fatal to knowledge ae to any other of what use ia it to talk about a partial when the part must be an infinitely or rather small quantity � and a merely abstract or imaginary amount degree and kind arc here one we either know or else the argument against absolute knowledge falls to the ground here again the theory is beaten by own weapons it for its authority to experience or common sense but common j the sense claims to know and moreover to know the i s tlie distinction between the and the essence is altogether foreign to it the contradiction in the tliat the universal can lie contained in a in other words that particular things are real � exists therefore in its whole strength in the theory itself as we have already sh wn the perception even of phenomena things then ought not even to to be for this e the contradiction it is not enough to say that objects make impressions on our senses � for they make also on other objects � one stone for instance on another � hut there being no no sensation is caused the of with does not indeed seem to satisfy even oar author in its practical working says he is a single instance in some cases sufficient for a while in others of instances without a single exception known or presumed go such a very little way toward establishing an universal proposition can answer this question knows more of the of logic than the wisest of the and has solved the great problem of tliat this should occur is indeed most natural for wore the theory sound ought to proceed in exact proportion to the amount of facts collected the force of evidence ought to he with precision � a certain number of instances being given we must know � the number being less believe or conjecture accordingly but without having the slightest intention of measuring ourselves with even the less wise among the wc think the answer to the problem a very plain one � simply tliis that in some cases wo apprehend the idea at once and at times a long time for it the difficulty is confined to the system and our business in this examination has been only to show this and thereby to answer the arguments founded upon it as to the question what us the theory of knowledge we do not propose to go much into it at present all or systems of philosophy are necessarily self contradictory since the problem proposed is with the means employed for its solution to know is to but cannot be accomplish s the � d by sensation nor by any of sensations for t ic reason that sensation and has to do only with particulars whereas to is to perceive the secondary and dependent nature of particulars and thus that the faculty to particulars � namely sensation � ia a subordinate one of this indeed the theory n partly conscious for that less weight is given to particulars as such and a more or less distinct feeling that the point is what is common to all of them but its error consists in this tliat instead of seeing that the common principle must be the one itself under these various it sees in it only an accidental coincidence of certain attributes to be got at by the other attributes instead of a common principle therefore we have as many as there are attributes by the understanding it is thus a system of we hear various that of for instance or blamed for their by writers of this school but the of all is the for it i great principle is abstraction and its results are abstract attributes v� it seeks again to by them to fancied � the existence of which it does not always even pretend to believe and can in no instance show where do we find such a string of as in the modern english � their philosophy par excellence f � la and tlie rest any one ever seen these so far from it that it is not pretended that tliey are things at all yet a separate existence is given to them and they are supposed to be induced upon or imparted to matter now to the philosophy if consistent is no that is has not material existence � is hence the of c � in which qualities arc supposed to exist yet to matter that is to exist and not exist at the same time thus for instance it was formerly fancied by that u communication must take place by means of a and accordingly they up for the occasion not only the but through tlie nerves for it to run in but the es found to be solid and meanwhile offering itself as a
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jew above all the make him as a pattern of tlie most faith because in the conviction that could cure at a distance he prevented him from going to his house whereas in john on the contrary he is blamed for weak faith which required signs and wonders l ic thought the presence of in his house necessary for the purpose of the cure these are certainly important enough to be a reason with those who regard them from a certain point of view for maintaining the distinction of tiie fact lying at the foundation of the from that reported by john only tliis accuracy of � see the of i in lot miracles of � at a distance i must be carried throughout and the the two themselves must not be overlooked first even in the of the person of the patient are not perfectly in calls him a servant who was d to the in the latter him it ta f wliich may equally mean either a son or a servant and as the when v of his er ant uses the word while the cured is v spoken of as it seems most probable that the former sense waa intended with respect to his disease the man is described by as ct of a i uke is not only silent as to tliis species of disease but he i thought by many to a one since after the expression ix v being ill he adds was mad to die and is not generally a rapidly fatal malady but the most is one which runs the entire narrative namely that all according to the does in his own person is in done by messengers for here in the instance he makes the entreaty not as in but the medium of the elders and � when he afterwards to prevent from entering his house he not come forward himself but some friends to act in his stead to reconcile this it is usual to refer to the n etc t if then it be said and indeed no other conception of the matter is possible to who make such an appeal � well knew that between the and everything was by of but lor the sake of he employed the figure of above alluded to and represented him as himself is perfectly in his remark tliat scarcely any historian would so that through an entire narrative in a case where on the one hand the figure of speech is by no means so obvious as for example that is to a general which is done by his soldiers and where on the han l precisely this whether the person acted for himself or through others is of some consequence to a full estimate of his character with therefore as he believed it necessary to refer the narrative of the fourth gospel to a separate fact from that of the first and third on account of the im so on account of the which he found between tlie two last also to be of two separate events if any one wonder that at different times entirely similar a cure should have happened at the same place for according to john also the patient lay and was cured at on his side wonders how it can be regarded as r s t de l i u s j s c den u i f s ji the life op ia the least improbable tliat in at two different periods two have had each a servant and that again at another time a nobleman should have had a sick son at place that the second should have history of the first have applied in a similar manner to and sought to his example of humility as the first to whom tlie earlier of the nobleman was known wished to weak of the latter ami lastly that cured all three in the same manner at a distance but the incident of a distinguished official person applying to to cure a dependent or relative and of at a on the latter in such a manner that about the time in which pronounced the word the patient at home recovered is so singular in its kind that a repetition of it may be regarded as impossible and c the supposition that it occurred twice only has hence it is our task to ascertain the three may not be traced to a single root now the narrative of the fourth is most generally held to bo distinct has not only an with the in the outline already given but in many remarkable details either one or the other of the more closely with than with his fellow thus while in patient as � f may be held to accord with the of john at least as probably as with the of and john decidedly in this tliat according to both the at in his own son to and not as in by on the other hand the account of john witli tiiat of in its description of the state of the in is there any mention of the of which speaks but the patient is described as near death in by the words v in john by i d m addition to which it is incidentally implied in the tut v that the disease was by a in the account of the manner in which effected cure of the patient and in which his cure was made known john stands ag on the side of in opposition to while the latter has not an express assurance on tlie part of that the servant was healed the two former make him say to the officer in very similar terms the one u g u thy j and as thou believed so it be done unto i the other ov b t way thy son and the sion of also oi b ry i j has at in
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for at every meeting the were never made and it would not do to mr jones s bills too closely unless you gave up all hope of a to office one curious effect of political aspirations in county was to shut the eyes that they could not see to close the ears that they could not hear and to destroy the sense of smell but not being a the pen without and the within and saw everywhere the fraud and heard the echo of jones s cruelty a weak eyed girl admitted him and as he did not wish to make his business known at once he affected a sort of idle interest in the place and asked to be allowed to look around the weak eyed girl watched him he found that all the women with children twenty persons in all were obliged to sleep in one room which owing to the hill slope was partly under ground and which had but half a window for light and no except the chance from the door jones had declared that the women with children must stay there � he t goin to have a over the whole house here were vicious women and good women with their children crowded like chickens in a for market and there were as usual in such places helpless women with children of course this room was the scene of perpetual and occasional fighting in the quarters devoted to the insane people slightly de and it waa precious little so far as went that he learned from her for she never could c of as a place q any regard veiy from t where she her life but learned charitable institution the weak eyed girl had been called away for a n stood looking into a cell where there waa a with a gay red in his hat and a of red flannel about his he up and down like a i am general he began people don t believe it but i am i had my head shot off at and the new one that on isn t nigh bo good as the thb ma old one it s on one that s why they take of me to shut me up bnt i know some things my head is on one side bnt it s all right on t other when i know a thing in the left side of my head i know it lean down here let me tell you something out of the left side not out of the side mind ye i wouldn t a told you if he hadn t locked me up fer nothing jones is a thief he the bodies of the dead and then the empty back to the county but that a n t au just then the weak eyed girl came back and as moved away called out that a n t all i ll tell the rest another time and that a n t out of the side you can depend on that that s out of the left side sound as a nut on that but began to wonder where he should find s mother don t go in there i cried the weak eyed girl as was opening a door s in there and she ll you oh well if that s all her curses won t hurt said pushing open the door but the of and vile language that he received made him the old paced the floor everybody that came in her way and by the window in the same room feeling the light that struggled through the dusty glass upon her face sat a sorrowful intelligent english woman noticed at once that she was english and in a few moments he discovered that her sight was could it be that s mother was the room mate of this creature whose and did not for a moment a charitable institution happily the weak eyed girl had not dared to brave the of stepped forward to the woman by the window and greeted her is this mrs that is my name sir she said her face toward who could not but remark the contrast between the thorough refinement of her manner and her coarse scant frock of blue i saw your daughter yesterday did you see my boy there was a in her voice and an agitation in her manner which disclosed the emotion she strove in vain to conceal for only the day before bill jones had informed her that would be bound out on saturday and that she would find that goin him a business so much as some others he mention told her about s safety i shall not write down the conversation here critics would say that it was an scene as if all the world were as cold as all i can tell is that this refined woman had all she could do to control herself in her eagerness to get out of her away from the of away from the of jones away from the sights and sounds and smells of the place and above all her eagerness to fly to the little head from whom she had been banished for two years it seemed to her that she could gladly die now if she could die with that head upon her bosom and so in spite of the opposition of bill jones s son who threatened her with every sort of if she left wrapped mrs s blue in s shawl thk and tlie feeble woman oflf to and as they drove away a sad voice cried from ihe of the upper window by good by turned and that it waa poor for whom was no and ood hi h t all the way back pronounced mental on the society not for sending to the five points or the south sea islands whichever it was but for so blind a institution to
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entitled to the high privilege of calling and leading oe the first dance and no little indignation was felt at the lower end of the room when any of the leading couples retired from their duties and did not condescend to dance up and down the whole set we may rejoice that these causes of irritation no longer exist and that if such feelings as jealousy and discontent ever touch celestial in the modern ball room they must arise from different and more sources i am tempted to add a little about the difference of personal habits it may be asserted as a general truth that less was left to the charge and discretion of servants and more was done or by the masters and with regard to the it is i believe generally understood that at the time to which i refer a hundred years ago they took a personal part in the higher branches of as well as in the of home made and of for domestic which are nearly allied to the same art ladies did not disdain to spin tha thread of which the household linen was woven some ladies liked to wash with their own hands their choice china after breakfast or tea in one of my earliest child s books a little girl the daughter of a gentleman is taught by her mother to make her own bed before leaving her chamber it was not so much that they had not servants to do all these things for them as that they took an a of jane au ten interest in such occupations and it must be borne in mind how many sources of interest enjoyed by this generation were then closed or � ery opened to ladies a small of them cared much for literature or science music was not a common and ing was a still accomplishment in some form or other was their chief employment but i doubt whether the rising generation are equally aware how much gentlemen also did for in those times and whether some things that i can mention will not be a surprise to them two homely were held in higher estimation in my early days than they are now the master s eye mi es the horse fat and if you would be well served serve yourself some gentlemen took pleasure in being their own performing all the scientific and some of the manual work themselves well dressed young men of my acquaintance who had their coat from a london tailor would always brush their evening suit themselves rather than it to the carelessness of a rough servant and to the risks of dirt and in the kitchen for in those days halls were not common in the houses of the clergy and the smaller country gentry it was quite natural that should have contrasted the magnificence of the offices at abbey with the few in her father s a young man who expected to have his things packed or for him by a servant when he travelled would have been a of jane thought fine or lazy when my uncle undertook to teach me to shoot his first lesson was how to clean my own gun it was thought on the evening of a hunting day to turn out after dinner lantern in hand and visit the stable to ascertain that the horse had been well cared for this was of the more importance because previous to the introduction of about the year it was a difficult and tedious work to make a long hunter dry and comfortable and was often very imperfectly done of course such things were not practised by those who had and and plenty of well trained servants but they were practised by many who were gentlemen and whose occupying the same position in life may perhaps be astonished at being told that such things were i have drawn pictures for which my own experience or what i heard from others in my youth have supplied the materials of course they cannot be universally such details varied in various circles and were changed very gradually nor can i pretend to tell how much of what i have said is descriptive of the family life at in jane s youth i am sure that the ladies there had nothing to do with the mysteries of the pot or the preserving pan but it is probable that their way of life differed a little from ours and would have appeared to us more homely it may be that useful articles which would not now be produced in drawing rooms were hemmed and marked and in the old fashioned parlor a of but all this only the outer life these was as much and refinement of mind aa now with probably more studied courtesy and ceremony of manner to whilst certainly in that family literary pursuits not neglected i remember to hare heard of only two little things from modern customs one was that on hunting mornings the young men usually took their hasty breakfast in the kitchen the early hour at which hounds then met may account for this and probably the custom began if it did not end when they were boys for they hunted at an early age in a sort of way upon any pony or donkey that they could procure or in de of such luxuries on foot i have been told that sir francis when seven years old bought on his own account h must be supposed with his father s permission a pony for a guinea and a half and after riding him with great success for two seasons sold him for a guinea more one may wonder how the child could have so much money and how the animal could have been obtained for so little the same authority me that his first cloth suit was made from a scarlet habit which according to the fashion
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a king at all times chapter xvi england under the first called it was now the year of our lord one thousand two hundred and seventy two and prince edward the heir to the throne away in the holy land knew nothing of his father s death the however proclaimed him king immediately after the royal funeral and the people very willingly consented since most men knew too well hy this time what the horrors of a contest for the crown were so king edward the first called in a not very complimentary manner because of the of his legs was peacefully accepted by the english nation his legs had need to be strong however long and thin they were for they had to support him through many difficulties on the fiery sands of asia where his small force of soldiers fainted died deserted and seemed to melt away but his made light of it and he said i will go on if i go on with no other than my groom i a prince of this spirit gave the a deal of trouble he at which place of all places on earth i am sorry to relate he made a frightful slaughter of innocent people and then he a child s of england went to acre where he got a of ten years from the he had very nearly lost his life in acre through the treachery of a noble called the of j who making the that he had some idea of turning christian and wanted to know all about that religion sent a messenger to edward very � with a dagger in his sleeve at last one friday in week when it was very hot and all the sandy prospect lay beneath the blazing sun burnt up like a great and edward was lying on a couch dressed for coolness in only a loose robe the messenger with his face and his bright dark eyes and white teeth came creeping in with a letter and down like a tame tiger but the moment edward stretched out his hand to take the letter the tiger made a spring at his heart he was quick but edward was quick too he seized the traitor by his throat threw him to the ground and him with the very dagger he had drawn the weapon had struck edward in the arm and although the wound itself was slight it threatened to be mortal for the blade of the dagger had been with poison thanks however to a better surgeon than was often to be found in those times and to some wholesome and above all to his faithful wife who nursed him and is said by some to have sucked the poison from the wound with her own red lips which i am very willing to believe edward soon recovered and was sound again as the ring his father had sent entreaties to him to return home he now began the journey he had got as far as italy when he met the messengers who � i ward thb brought him intelligence of the king s death hearing that all was so quiet at home he made no haste to return to his own but paid a visit to the pope and went in state through various italian towns where he was welcomed with as a mighty champion of the cross from the holy land and where he received presents of purple and horses and went along in great triumph the shouting people little knew that he was the last english monarch who would ever in a or that within twenty years every conquest which the christians had made in the holy land at the cost of so much blood would be won back by the but all this came to pass there was and there is an old town standing in a plain in france called when the king was coming toward this place on his way to england a french lord called the count of sent him a polite challenge to come with his knights and hold a fair with the count and his knights and make a day of it with sword and lance it was represented to the king that the count of was not to be trusted and that instead of a holiday fight for mere show and in good humor he secretly meant a real battle in which the english should be defeated by superior force the king however nothing afraid went to the appointed place on the appointed day with a thousand followers when the count came with two thousand and attacked the english in earnest the english rushed at them with such that the count s men and the count s horses soon began to be tumbled down all over the field the count himself seized a child s history of england the king round the neck but the king tumbled him out of his saddle in return for the compliment and jumping from his own horse and standing over him beat away at his iron like a blacksmith on his even when the count owned himself defeated and offered his sword the king would not do him the honor to take it but made him yield it up to a common soldier there had been such fury shown in this fight that it was afterward called the little battle of the english were very well disposed to be proud of their king after these adventures so when he landed at in the year one thousand two hundred and seventy four being then thirty six years old and went on to westminster where he and his good queen were crowned with great magnificence splendid took place for the feast there were provided among other four hundred oxen four hundred sheep four hundred and fifty pigs eighteen wild three hundred of bacon and twenty thousand fowls the fountains and in the streets flowed with
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received sufficient provocation to excuse even such extreme measures and that the fate he will if summary at least be richly deserved i so too said though it would be painful to be compelled to witness it terrible agreed miss let us hide our eyes dear stay alfred miss implored have some pity think � with all your faults you are a keen � you would not shoot even a rabbit sitting give mr a start of a few seconds � let him have a run before you fire all this time alfred was still for and the obstinate weapon i decline to run peter cried from his seat he knew too well that he could not stir a limb shoot me sitting or not at all but don t keep me waiting any longer i his prayer seemed likely to be granted for alfred had at last succeeded in the revolver but before he could take aim the bank manager and the man ran in and interposed hold on one minute sir they said we too have business with the gentleman on the seat there and you will admit that it must be concluded before yours if it is to be settled at all we must really ask you to your little we have finished we will not keep you waiting any longer than we can help the judge with an indifference had strolled away to the smoking room probably to avoid being called upon to decide so nice a point as this disputed his daughter miss and had turned their backs and stopping their ears were begging to be told when all was over alfred was struggling to free his pistol arm which was firmly held by the other two men and all three were talking at once in hot and � support of their claims as for peter he sat and looked on to his seat by terror if he had any preference among the he rather hoped that alfred would be the person to gain his point all at once he saw turn round and with her fingers still pressed to her ears make energetic of her lips evidently for his benefit after one or two he made out the words she was for it he interpreted quick you with his habitual respect for her advice he rose and finding that the power of motion had suddenly returned he did run for it he slipped quietly round the comer and down the passage to the other side of the ship where he hoped to reach the saloon entrance and eventually regain his cabin unhappily for him the grim lady from had noted his flight and anticipated its object long before he got to the open doors he saw her step out and bar the way she had an open in her hand which she was preparing to use as a butterfly net lie turned and fled abruptly in the opposite direction intending to cross the bridge which led aft to the second class saloon deck where he might find cover but as he saw on turning the corner the manager had already occupied the passage peter turned again and doubled back across the ship making for the but he was too late for the man was there before him and cut off all hope of retreat in that quarter there was only one thing left now he must take to the and accordingly the next moment scarcely knowing how he came there he was up the for dear life i higher and higher he climbed slipping and stumbling and catching his feet in the at every step and all the way he had a dismal conviction that as yet he had not nearly exhausted the check he had drawn he must have at least another couple of hours to get through not to mention the compound interest which the bank seemed enough to be paying first still if he could only stay quietly up aloft till his time was up he might escape the worst b � l e ne yet surely it was a sufficient penalty for his folly to have himself wi every creature he knew to have been about the deck of an ocean steamer by three violent men each for his blood and to be reduced to mount the like an escaped monkey a few more steps and he was safe at last just above was a huge yard on the upper surface with a partially sail behind which he could unseen his hands were almost upon it when a and bearded face appeared above the canvas � it was one of the english crew beg your pardon sir said the man enough but i shall ave fur to trouble you to go down please in s orders sir passengers ain t allowed to amuse climbing the my good man i said peter between his do i as if i was amusing myself i am pursued i tell you as an honest british seaman � which i am sure you are � i entreat you to give me a hand up and hide me it � it may be life or death for me � the man wavered the desperate plight peter was in seemed to arouse his compassion as it well might i could yer i suppose come to that he said slowly but it s too late to think o that now look below sir peter glanced down between his feet and saw two climbing the like cats lower still he had a bird s eye view of the deck about which his enemies were posted in readiness for his arrival the manager exhibiting liis boots to sir william who shook his head in mild the old lady shaking her in angry while her brother flourished his and alfred stood covering him with his revolver prepared to pick him off the instant he came within range and peter hung there
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indeed i and quite aa soon as � n a dependence on such sources ut t n o h i ft w o hit t ease by ui i s w l v � about � nd with oil s he liad so well talked hia mind ii � to k were tha and the b which e to sir bis i ns r u and in him tu tha � ft the of own in tlie of hia waa never to be done late he how to tl e nay people be r whidi maria and had been always at home where the and flutter of their aunt been t with hi own he how ill he bad ia expecting to wliat wrong in mn iu in clearly that he had bnt increased the bj teaching to repress their spirits in hia presence ao u te make real unknown to him and sending them all their ni es to a person who bad been able to attach by the of her and the excess of her here had been bat as it ha gradually grew to feel that it not been the moat in his plan of something have been v or time would have worn away much of lu lie feared that principle active principle bad been wanting that bad been properly taught to govern their and by sense of duty can � they bud been in their region never to bring it into daily practice to be ance and the of their youth could have bad no useful that way no moral on the mind he had meant them to bo good but his cares had been directed to tbe understanding and manners not the he feared they had never heard from any lips that them bitterly did he a deficiency whidi now ho c comprehend to have been possible li with all the and care of an and i he had brought up hia daughters without thi i their or being acquainted with spirit and strong of mrs were made known to him only in their sad waa not to be prevailed on to leave mr marry bim and tliey continued together e was be that such hope was vain and ill � ment and arising from the conviction so and her for him so like at a each other s ami t vo separation � sha bad lived with to be in no ho hoped to its r um thin that the had what can the misery a mind in mr had no in a and ended a contracted m to any better end the effect of good not to be reckoned on she had despised him and loved another and he had been aware that it bo of and the of passion con httle pity bis aa did a deeper tha deeper of his wife he wai released from the engagement to be and unhappy till some other pretty attract him into again and he might set on a and it is to be hoped more of ths if to be at least good and luck while she must withdraw with infinitely to a retirement and reproach whit could allow no second of hope or character where could be placed became a subject of most momentous consultation mrs whose attachment seemed to with the of her niece would had her at home and by them all thomas would not hear of it and mrs a anger against was bo much the greater from ber aa the she persisted in placing hie to her though sir thomas very solemnly assured her that had there been no young woman in question had then been no j of either sex to him to be by the � or by the character of mrs he would never have so an to the as to expect it to notice lier as a he hoped a penitent one die bo protected by him secured in every comfort and supported by every to do right which relative hut farther than that he could not go had destroyed her character and he would not b a vain attempt to restore what could be restored be his to vice or in seeking to lessen its disgrace be to another s m he had known it ended in s to quit and devote to ber maria and in an being in another country remote and where shut np together with little society on one side no on the an judgment it may be that mutual a was the great comfort of sir s his opinion of her had been sinking fl tlie day of return from in transaction that period in their daily intercourse in or in had been regularly losing ground in his esteem i r � either time had done ber � d � v over n� a m he felt bet m b� w� is s he van as no ah of it� but ir th life she n part of be home for to be a felicity had not bi her there might of k to approve the evil pro such a she wm by no one at she had to even those she loved and since mrs a her temper been in stale of of to make her ever where not even bid tor not even she was gone that better than maria was in to a of and but in a greater degree to her been less the darling of that very and her beauty and held but a second she had been used to think a little inferior to maria her temper was naturally the of the two her feelings though quick were more and education had not given her so very a degree of self consequence ba submitted the beat to the in henry after the first of the conviction of being was over she had been tolerably soon in fair way m not thinking of
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own country and i am not a � i am a product � a product that also i owe to you and yours that i cannot make an end to my sentence without quoting from your authors he pulled at the and mourned half half in earnest for the shattered hopes of his youth was always mourning over something or other � the country of which he or the creed in which he had lost faith or the life of the english which he could by no means understand never mourned she played little songs on the j r and to hear her sing o cry again was always a fresh pleasure she knew all the songs that have ever been sung from the of the south that make the old men angry with the young men and the young men angry with the state to the love songs of the north where the swords like angry in the pauses between the kisses and the passes fill with armed men and the lover is torn firom his beloved and cries ai she knew how to make up tobacco for the so that it smelt like the gates of paradise and you gently through them she could strange things in gold and silver and dance softly with the moonlight when it came in at the window also she knew the hearts of men and the heart of the city and whose wives were � and whose in black and white and more of the secrets of the government offices than are good to be set down in this place her maid said that her was worth ten thousand pounds and that some night a thief would enter and murder her for its possession but said that all the city would tear that thief limb from limb and that he whoever he was knew it so she took her and sat in the and sang a song of old days that had been sung by a girl of her profession in an armed camp on the eve of a great battle � the day before the of the ran red and fled fifty miles to with a at his horse s tail and another on his saddle bow it was what men call a and it said � their warrior forces before the the children of the san and fire behind him turned and fled and the chorus said � with them there fought who rides so free with sword and red the warrior youth who his fee at peril of his head at peril of his head said in english to me thanks to your all on the city wall our heads are protected and with the at my command � his eyes � i might be a distinguished member of the local administration perhaps in time i might even be a member of a council don t speak english said bending over her afresh the chorus went out from the city wall to the blackened wall of fort which the city no man knows the precise extent of fort three kings built it hundreds of years ago and they say that there are miles of rooms beneath its walls it is peopled with many ghosts a of garrison and a company of in its prime it held ten thousand men and filled its with at peril of his head sang again and again a head moved on one of the � the gray head of an old man � and a voice rough as skin on a sword sent back the last line of the chorus and broke into a song that i could not understand though and listened intently what is it i asked who is it a consistent man said he fought you in when he was a warrior youth you in and he tried to fight you in if but you had learned the trick of blowing men in black and white from guns too well now he is old but he would still fight if he could is he a then why should he answer to a if he be � or said i i do not know said he has lost perhaps his religion perhaps he wishes to be a king perhaps he is a king i do not know his name that is a lie if you know his career you must know his name that is quite true i belong to a nation of i would rather not tell you his name think for yourself finished her song pointed to the fort and said simply hm said if the pearl chooses to tell you the pearl is a fool i translated to who laughed i choose to tell what i choose to tell they kept in said she they kept him there for many years until his mind was changed in him so great was the kindness of the government finding this they sent him back to his own country that he might look upon it before he died he is an old man but when he looks upon this his country his memory will come moreover there be many who remember him he is an interesting said h on the city wall pulling at the he returns to a country now full of and political reform but as the pearl says there are many who remember him he was once a great man there will never be any more great men in india they will all when they are boys go after strange gods and they will become citizens � fellow citizens � illustrious fellow citizens what is it that the native papers call them seemed to be in a very bad temper looked out of the window and smiled into the dust haze i went away thinking about who had once made history with a thousand followers and would have been a but for the power of the supreme government the
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woman to let him know whether he was a member of the or not but she was the only living person who knew his address and as the idea had seemed to please her in common with their whole charming conspiracy this was what she called it had been content a story of west and east when he had become convinced that his eyes would never again be blessed with the sight of a white man or his ears with the sound of intelligible speech the cart rolled through a between two hills and stopped before the of the station at it was a double of red but � for this could have taken it in his arms � it was full of white men they were excessively they were lying in the in long chairs and between each chair was a well worn trunk got himself out of the cart his long legs with difficulty and his muscles one by one he was a mask of dust � dust beyond sand storms or it had the of his clothing and turned his black american four button to a white it had done away with the distinction between the hem of his trousers and the top of his shoes it dropped off him and rolled up from him as he moved his fervent thank god i was extinguished in a dusty cough he stepped into the rubbing his eyes good evening gentlemen he said got anything to drink no one rose but somebody shouted for the servant a man dressed in thin silk the yellow and ill fitting as the on a dried and absolutely as to his face nodded to him and asked languidly who are you for no have they got them here too said to himself in that brief question the universal of the commercial traveller he went down the long line and twisted each hand in pure joy and before he began to draw the east and the west and to ask himself if these idle silent could belong to the profession with which he had stories and political opinions this many a year in smoking cars and hotel offices certainly they were and of the joyous brazen animals whom he knew as the of the west but perhaps � a in his back reminded him � they had all reached this sink of desolation country cart he thrust his nose into twelve inches of and and remained there till there was no more then dropped into a vacant chair and surveyed the group again did some one ask who i was for i m for myself i suppose as much as any one � travelling for pleasure a story of west and east he had not time to enjoy the absurdity of this for all five men burst into a shout of laughter like the laughter of men who have long been from mirth pleasure cried one o lord i pleasure you ve come to the wrong place it s just as well you ve come for pleasure you d be dead before you did business said another you might as well try to get blood out of a stone i ve been here over a fortnight great scott what for asked we ve all been here over a week growled a fourth but what s your lay what s your guess you re an american ain t you yes the statement had no effect upon them he might as well have spoken in greek but what s the trouble why the king married two wives yesterday you can hear the going in the city now he s trying to a new regiment of cavalry for the service of the indian government and he s quarrelled with his political resident i ve been living at colonel s door for three days he says he can t do anything without authority from the supreme government i ve tried to catch the king when he goes out pig shooting i write the every day to the prime minister when i m not riding around the city on a and here s a bunch of letters from the firm asking why i don t collect at the end of ten minutes began to understand that these washed out representatives of half a dozen in and were hopelessly this place on their regular spring campaign to collect a little on account from a king who ordered by the ton and paid by the scruple he had purchased guns dressing cases ornaments work the christmas tree glass balls four in hands scent bottles instruments and by the dozen gross or score as his royal fancy prompted when he lost interest in his purchases he lost interest in paying for them and as few things amused his fancy more than twenty minutes it sometimes came to pass that the mere purchase was sufficient and the costly packing cases from were never opened the ordered peace of the indian empire forbade him to take up arms against his fellow sovereigns the only lasting delight that he or his ancestors had known for thousands of years but there remained a certain modified interest of war in with bill on one side stood the political resident of the a story of west and east state planted there to teach him good government and above all economy on the other side � that is to say at the palace gates � might generally be found a commercial traveller divided between his contempt of an and his english reverence for a king between these two his majesty went forth to take his pleasure in in racing in the of his army in the ordering of more and in the fitful government of his who knew considerably more of each commercial traveller s claims than even the prime minister behind these was the government of india refusing to payment of the king s debts and from time
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to have me do them all just that way that is day by day as i experienced them i found that quite impossible however once he wanted to know if i had any special preference in or and i knew very well why he asked another time he overheard me make the statement that i had always longed to eat rich cheese from germany done he exclaimed we shall have it for christmas but papa up we don t all have to have it at the same time do we no my dear replied solemnly with that and parental air which always me a sort of gay always lurking behind it a christmas call only mr need have it he is german and likes it i assumed as german a look as i might � profound and i believe you like mr jones s he observed on another occasion referring to an american which he had heard me say in new york that i liked we shall have some of those are american like english inquired young charles now heaven only knows i replied i have never eaten english ask your father merely smiled i think not he replied christmas is certainly looking up i said to him if i come out of here alive � in condition for paris and the � i shall be grateful he beamed on me well finally to make a long story short the day came or at least the day before we were all assembled for a joyous christmas eve � t sir the dearest aunt and the charming cousin extremely intelligent and artistic women both the four children s very clever and appealing secretary and myself there was a delightful dinner spread at when we all assembled to discuss the prospects of the morrow it was on the as i discovered that i should arise and accompany his aunt his cousin and the children to a abbey church a lovely affair i was told on the bank of the thames hard by the old english town called while who positively refused to have anything to do with religion of any kind quality or description was to go and a certain neighboring household of which more anon and to take young james he of the for a fine and long anticipated ride on his mo a at forty tor lord and t were to remain behind to discuss art perhaps or literature being late if there was to be any which the children doubted owing to s rather grave to the contrary there having been a number of reasons why a severely righteous might see fit to remain away he was not to make his appearance until rather late in the afternoon meanwhile we had all to the general living room where a heavy coal fire blazed on the hearth for once and candles were lighted in profusion the children sang songs of the north accompanied by their i can see their quaint faces now gathered about the piano lord and myself indulged in various artistic and mrs the aunt told me the brilliant story of her husband s hfe � a great philosopher and � and finally after coffee nuts and much music and songs � some comic ones by � we retired for the night it is necessary to prepare the reader properly for the morrow to go back a few days or weeks possibly and tell of a sentimental encounter that me one day as i was going for a walk in that green world which level it was a most delightful spectacle along the road before me with its border of green grass and green though trees there was approaching a most interesting figure of a woman a dashing bit of � at once the presumption owing to various accompanying details was mine wife mother � as charming a bit of womanhood and family sweetness as i had yet seen in england english women by and large let me state here are not smart at least those that i encountered but here was one dressed after the french fashion in n close fitting blue her form perfectly a little a christmas call cap of snowy whiteness set over her ear her smooth black hair parted over her forehead a white warming her hands and white the trim leather of her foot gear her eyes were dark brown her cheeks rosy her gait smart and tense i could scarcely believe she was english the mother of the three year old in white and red wool a little girl who was sitting a white donkey which in turn was led by a trim maid or nurse or in brown � but it was quite plain that she was there was such a wise sober look about all this such a that i was enchanted it was such a delightful picture to encounter of a clear december morning that in the fashion of the english i exclaimed my word this is something like i went back to the house that afternoon determined to make inquiries perhaps she was a neighbor � a friend of the family of all the individuals who have an appropriate and superior taste for the smart efforts of the fair sex commend me to his interest and enthusiasm neither flags nor fails being a of discretion he knows exactly what is smart for a woman as well as a man and all you have to do to make him up his ears attentively is to mention beauty as existing in some form somewhere � not too distant for his what s this i can see his eye lighting beauty a lovely woman when where this day finding in the garden some bushes i had said do you know any family that keeps a white donkey paused and scratched his ear no sir i t say has i do sir i might sir a at forty down in the
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what he says the only he ever uses is a slight movement of right arm he is nevertheless much respected is the house and is generally listened to by those to whom he is audible with attention he is very decided in his political opinions and la firm and fearless m the expression of them he is a man of very respectable talents of private as well as public character he a humane mind and has greatly distinguished himself by his efforts to the of our code ir is in stature about the middle size and of � make his complexion is somewhat sallow his s are and his altogether his is of a dark brown and he generally wears it long he young being only about years of age r the member for a a man who is al � to with great attention in the house and who s mb thomas exercises some influence there though he not speak often lost he only one speech worthy the this wag owing to ill health which made it impossible for him to attend to hia the speech refer to was made on mr b motion respecting the ap e of the of to the office of et the court of russia mr then chiefly the which had been made in the course of the on the first government of lord of which he was a prominent member to these attacks mr replied with great energy and he is not a fine speaker but when addressing the house on any question important principles he always with much and feeling and as already remarked commands tbe deepest attention of the hia voice is strong and though not without a degree of which is not always pleasant lo the ear his command over it seems to be complete he raises it and it at pleasure and with excellent his utterance is usually rapid but is sometimes by his ideas crowding too fast on his mind his action when bis manner is animated is generally violent his use of his arms is on occasions and he turns about hia whole body from one part of the house to another in a manner not unlike the movements of a on a windy day in stature he is above the middle size and his face is round his complexion sallow and his hair of a dark brown hia countenance has a good natured about it but is t no means intellectual he is however a man of superior talents his principles are liberal in the extreme though not absolutely radical he was understood to l e the most liberal member of lord s first cabinet and certainly be was one of the most honest men in it as well as the and most in the assertion of hia opinions the delicate slate of his health which renders a residence in italy desirable is the cause assigned by lord s friends for his not having been included in the for the of nobleman s cabinet mr is apparently about fifty years of age mr thomas the member for does not possess that or influence in the house which his great popularity and influence among out of doors would have led one lo expect before hia election hit � e the extreme of but he is or ot a vigorous mind with the question indeed ba ie intimately acquainted but hia knowledge of is but limited he is a man of one idea thb t idea is ihe necessity of a paper this he holds to be the only for the evils of the country � this the grand remedy for hence whatever be the subject of debate � the treaty of alliance � the of the in the west indies � the policy of � the vote by � poor for ireland or anything else � he is sure if he take any part in the discussion to in a small note and to hammer away at the idea through at of his speech whether long or short i never yet knew him make a speech since big admission into parliament in which the matter was not a paper mr much private worth and bis public character stands is not a more honest in the house he knows not what it is to com promise or conceal his opinions the word has no place in his you see the mind of the man the moment he his mouth and you him to be as as if he had never for one moment the of a region � instead of it for three years � in which and compromise and are often the order of the day as a speaker mr does not rank high he speaks with sufficient ease and his language without being it tolerably correct but be a broad voice by a strong provincial which sounds in the ears of those who bear him if you heard mr speaking and did not see or who he was a would be sure i conclude tliat some farmer was addressing ou the word he always in the possible accent and this too though every time he does it he is by the loud laughter of the house his gesture is not violent neither can it be said to be it principally consists of a gentle movement up and down of his right arm accompanied with a slight occasional of his eye and face one part of the house to ihe other mr is about forty five years of age lie is middle it of complexion are both dark mr politics of mr but he i a with elected member for bath i tempered and ea ly hia hair and bis re the sane aa a very person in many ji opponent at the time he was e him the character of an his conduct in the house well aa out of it has proved the character he
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little after caused many people to turn their heads with a look of interest at last the troublesome deceased was got into the ground to be buried no more and the stately stalked back before ihe solitary as if she were bound in honour to have no notion of the way home those the being thus appeased he left her i must have a very short cry before i cheer up for good said the little creature coming in because after all a child is a child you know it was a longer cry than might have been expected it wore itself out in a shadowy corner and then the came forth and washed her face and made the tea you wouldn t mind my cutting out something while we are at tea would you she asked her friend with a air dear child the old man will yon never rest t oh i it s not work cutting out a pattern isn t said miss with her busy little already at some paper the truth is i want to fix it while i have it correct in my mind u have you seen it to day then asked yes saw it just now it s a that s what it is thing our wear you know explained in consideration of his another faith our mutual friend and what have you to do with that why replied the yon must know that we professors who live upon our taste and invention are obliged to keep our eyes always open and you know already that i have many extra expenses to meet just now so it came into my head while i was weeping at my poor boy s grave that something in my way might be done with a clergyman what can be done asked the old man not a funeral never fear returned miss his objection with a nod the public don t like to be made melancholy i know very well i am seldom called upon to put my young friends into mourning not into real mourning that is court mourning they are rather proud of but a doll clergyman my dear � glossy black curls and whiskers � two of my young friends in matrimony said miss shaking her forefinger is quite another affair if you don t see those three at the altar in bond street in a my name s jack robinson with her expert little ways in sharp action she had got a doll into brown paper orders before the meal was over and was displaying it for the of the mind when a knock was heard at the street door went to open it and presently came back in with the grave and courteous air that sat so well upon him a gentleman the gentleman was a stranger to the but even in the moment of his casting his eyes upon her there was something in his manner which brought to her remembrance mr pardon me said the gentleman you are the t am the sir s friend yes sir replied miss instantly on the and s friend here is a note from her you to to the request of mr the bearer mr chances to know that i am mr and will tell you so bent his head in will you read the note it s very short said with a look of wonder when she had read it there was no time to make it longer time was so very precious my dear friend mr is dying the clasped her hands and uttered a little piteous cry is dying repeated with emotion at some distance from here he is sinking under injuries received at the hands of a villain who attacked him in the dark i come straight from his bedside he is almost always insensible in a short restless interval of sensibility or partial sensibility i made out that he asked for you to be brought to sit by him hardly on my own interpretation of the indistinct sounds he made i caused to hear them we were both sure that he asked for you vol ii r mutual the with her hands still clasped looked from the one to the other of her two companions if yon delay he may die with his request with his last wish � to me � we have long been much more than brothers � i shall break down if i try to say more in a few moments the black bonnet and the stick were on duty the good jew was left in possession of the house and the side by side in a chaise with was out of town chapter x the d ll a word a darkened and hushed room the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean a figure on the bed and and bound lying helpless on its back with its two useless arms in at its sides only two days of usage so the little with this scene that it held the place occupied two days ago by the recollections of years he scarcely moved since her arrival sometimes his eyes were open sometimes closed when they were open there was no meaning in their stare at one spot straight before them unless for a moment the brow into a faint expression of anger or surprise then would speak to him and on occasions he would be so far roused as to make an attempt to pronounce his friend s name but in an instant consciousness was gone again and no spirit of was in s crushed outer form they provided with materials for her work and she had a little table placed at the foot of his bed sitting there with her rich shower of hair falling over the chair back they hoped she might attract his notice with the same object she would sing just above her breath when he opened his
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to run them down ay said marking tom s astonishment there are such men one of em is a friend of mine upon my word and honour thought tom this s young gentleman is in a state of mind which is very serious indeed all idea of conversation he did not venture to say another word but he was careful to keep a tight hold upon s arm lest he should fly into the road and making martin another and a more successful attempt should get up a private little before the eyes of his tom was so afraid of his committing this rash act that he had scarcely ever experienced such mental relief as when they arrived in safety at mrs s house walk up pray mr pinch said miss for tom halted at the door i am doubtful whether i should be welcome replied tom or i ought rather to say i have no doubt about it i will send up a message i think but what nonsense that is returned miss speaking apart to tom he is not at home i am certain i know he is not and merry hasn t the least idea that you ever no interrupted tom nor would i have her know it on any account i am not so proud of that i assure you ah but then you are so modest you see returned miss with a smile but pray walk up if you don t wish her to know it and do wish to speak to her pray walk up pray walk up miss pinch don t stand here tom still hesitated for he felt that he was in an awkward position but cherry passing him at this juncture and leading his sister upstairs and the house door being at the same time shut behind them he followed without quite knowing whether it was well or ill judged so to do merry my darling said the fair miss opening the door of the usual sitting room here are mr pinch and his sister come to see you i thought we should find you here mrs how do you do mrs and how do you do mr though it s of no use asking you the question i am well aware each of these parties as she addressed them with an smile miss charity presented mr i believe you have seen him before she pleasantly observed my sweet child bring me a chair the sweet child did as he was told and was then about to retire into a corner to mourn in secret when miss charity calling him in an audible whisper a little pet gave him leave to come and sit beside her it is to be hoped for the general cheerfulness of mankind that such a little pet was never seen as mr looked when he complied so life and adventures of was his temper that he showed no outward thrill of ecstasy when miss placed her lily hand in his and concealed this mark of her favour from the vulgar by covering it with a corner of her shawl indeed he was infinitely more then than he had been before and sitting upright in his chair surveyed the company with watery eyes which seemed to say without the aid of language oh good gracious look here won t some kind christian help me but the of mrs were sufficient to have furnished forth a score of young lovers and they were chiefly awakened by the sight of tom pinch and his sister mrs was a lady of that happy temperament which can be without any other cause than a general desire to establish a large and profitable connection she added daily so many strings to her bow that she made a perfect harp of it and upon that instrument she now began to perform an why goodness me she said mrs to think as i should see beneath this blessed which well i know it miss my sweet young lady to be a as there is not a many like worse and it ware not so which then this tearful would be changed into a guardian mr to think as i should see beneath this roof mr pinch i take the liberty though almost and do assure you of it sir the and sweetest face as ever mrs i see my dear good lady and your good lady s too sir mr if i may make so bold as speak so plain of what is plain enough to them as needn t look through mrs to and out is wrote upon the wall behind which no offence is meant ladies and gentlemen none bein took i hope to think as i should see that and sweetest face which me and another of mine took of among the down london bridge in this place is a in deed having contrived in this happy manner to invest every member of her audience with an individual share and immediate personal interest in her address mrs dropped several to and shaking her head a great many times pursued the thread of her discourse now ain t we rich in beauty this here joyful martin i m sure i knows a lady which her name i ll not deceive you mrs is her husband s brother bein six foot three and marked with a mad bull in boots upon his left arm on account of his precious mother been by one into a s shop when in a which blessed is the man as has his quiver full of as many times i ve said to when words has rage us on account of the expense � and often have i said to mrs oh mrs ma am your countenance is quite a angel s which but for it would be no says she you best of hard working and industrious as ever was at any price which you are quite
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sure they were not foul so that he could pull down the sail in an instant if necessary while he was thus engaged a dull heavy roar fi om attracted his attention it increased in volume and seemed to travel like the lightning needed no second warning but casting off the hauled down the sail as rapidly as though his life depended upon the of his movements and indeed it did the came down upon the boats with appalling speed and violence and had only time to the of cape ann a couple of the stops on his before it struck the flag and she under the blast till the young began to fear that she would go over even with no sail upon her it was by far the heaviest he had ever seen almost to a le i saw that the over of the boat was caused by a portion of the sail taking the wind it was impossible to stand up so savage was the tempest but he succeeded in the lift and bringing the boom down so that he could secure the canvas the continued for several � they seemed like hours to the young � and terrific were the roaring and howling of the blast the crash of the thunder and the blinding glare of the lightning it was awful even to one accustomed to the sea when the elements rage in their wildest it was one of those moments when nothing human seems to be abiding and man upon the arm of god who his power and his majesty in the of the fierce tempest the was over in two or three minutes but the storm king appeared not to be satisfied with thb flag or the tumult he had created and though the blast subsided th wind still blew a gale from the westward as though there were still empty chambers to be filled by the currents as the tempest of winds subsided the rain began to pour down in torrents and s sunday suit was soon he had closed up his to keep it dry but he dared not take shelter within lest the boat should come to harm for the want of a help help the came to him through the thick mists formed by the rain near the surface of the water he was thinking whether the boat had the when these appalling sounds came to him above tlie howling of the gale by this tune the sea had been lashed into fury and the waves were covered with white caps and flying spray help j help came the wail again through the blast and the rain it might have been repeated twenty times for until a moment before the voice if it had been that of a could not have been heard above the young of cape ann the roar of the storm the flag was now leaping and in the angry sea occasionally dipping in the water over her wash board while the spray dashed furiously upon her half deck a cry of distress touches the sailor s heart and � had enough of the spirit of the true seaman to be deeply moved by the summons but the tempest was still fearful and it was little better than madness for him to his help help again came the tones of the through the storm and this time it sounded like a voice from a could not resist the appeal for he felt that it would be better to die in a noble and manly t to save his fellow beings in distress than to lie idly by counting up the perils of the attempt taking off the stops he hastily put two in his though the work was not accomplished until the cry had been several times repeated with much doubt and anxiety he hoisted the sail the wind came in and the beat and as though it were part of the a the flag or the carefully secured and the ends down so they would not foul if it were again necessary suddenly to reduce sail he the swaying boom and reached the the main sheet the wind filled the sail the boat over till the water rushed in over the lee side the young her off a little and she and then she darted ofi leaping over the wild waves as if in utter contempt of their impotent now had the flag under perfect control and she flew towards the wreck from which proceeded the drowning cry of the two men when the blast came too fresh he off the sheet giving the sail no more wind than it could safely carry the boat behaved admirably lifting herself on the instead of plunging her nose down into them strained his eyes to catch a glimpse through the dense mists of the men who needed his assistance but he was quite near when he obtained his first view of them the boat had been upset with her still set she was full of water though she had partially and not the new york public library and k l � the young of cape ann being heavily she did not go down the was flapping madly in the gale and the two men were clinging to the wreck for then lives rounded to under the stem of the boat and her seizing the leaped on board the flag save me save me cried the in terror as he saw the flag fall off and drift out of his reach i ll save you mr hold on tight for a moment longer shouted and in his main sheet he brought the flag up again until the was within the officer s reach god bless you exclaimed mr as he crawled in over the bow and made his way to the standing room you have saved my life i always pick up anything i find adrift replied coolly the
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farmer again at a word from the the the wagon out of the yard and went away down the lane with and they wore gone vii was correct in bis the gave a very vague outline of � s history mr had gone through of her nay more at the time he had intended the ceremony should be for his wife lay ing a miles os and had at this period great from her aunt mrs this mrs was the possessor of farm she waa a queer tempered woman and a severe this not prevent her allowing and a yearly which helped to maintain them in homely comfort and she used to throw out mysterious hints that at her death tho pair would be better off than other relations of hers who dressed and held their heads higher at present unfortunately tor this was alive at the period when a was discovered by old the said aunt had never done anything of the kind herself nobody had ever married her and she could not conceive how such a thing could take place without the woman being in as well as tho man bo she was very about it and her good offices the wished to apply the law at once to but be found means to and the old soldier young inexperienced and honest was easily to in s and she never doubted that upon his wife s death who was known to be ill would do ample right so meantime she agreed to do hei self mrs died within a short time of the but another person died a week or wo before her and that person was s aunt ko will appeared except an old one which was duly by the old lady herself in the following manner all the words wore out a pen secondly most of them were lastly a formal was and witnessed rendering the said instrument as well as ble this unfortunate testament farm to jack white her nephew he had her after the will was so she the will the nephew afford to smile at these evidences of wrath he happened to be her heir at law and succeeded to in the absence of all testament o the contrary was with hia dying wife in the news about reached him and he secretly resolved to have nothing more to do with to carry out tliis with more security the wretch by clouds and sunshine wrote her affectionate time to time giving in and bo ho carried on the game for three after his was dead he then dropped the mask and so matters went on for some years until one day the nephew finding work a bore farm to let poor had his heart this and c not hate it his thought he should like to rent it he came up and made bis ol er vas accepted ae tenant the reader knows i believe but what chapter viii the events we have recorded had no sooner taken place than a great seemed to come over mrs she went about her bs usual but not with the and her spirits were then female servants honest country that were not london to in the house but themselves seeing the gloom of the house and mrs crying who never cried before began to for hj and l e house was a house robert had disappeared and they all felt it was a charity not to ask where or to go near him for a while all but the mother who could not resist the of a mother s chance evil should him mrs hen after many lo go through her usual gave way and sat herself down in her own parlor aud way i over all the sorrow that had come on the and as all generous natures do if you give to think she blamed herself more than any one else and wished herself dead and ont of the f if by that means the rest could y be made happy as they used to bo while she was in this m mid her head buried in her hands she beard a slight noise and looking up saw a sorrowful face at the door it was mr i am come lo bid you good by mrs come to bid me good by yes all my things ai o np except this which i hope yon will do me favor lo accept since i am going and shall never yon again you never me that i know said mrs very gently what is it sir it is my collection of birds eggs will you look at it � yes why hero are a hundred different sorts and no two kinds should think not how they look when yon see thorn in such numbers i they are nature is very we don t take half as many from her as we might do yon observe these eggs all of one color � these these exquisite dr if you ever wish ti tl of own head i know hoped we should make these experiments together but it was not to be good by dear mrs i did not think you came to quarrel with me heaven forbid but yon love somebody no i don t yes you know you do and you rejected me morning i remember i was rude to you sir i knocked a flower out of your by clouds as sunshine hand does ia heart j s it is for your sake am going not out of know that very well i know no such it is out of and a pretty to show your spite when my heart is breaking if you went to please me you would wait till i bid you go tou don t bid me go tl it does n t seem like it you hid me stay not i sir don t let me keep yon here against
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went with a friend of mine to visit the house of parliament that noble pile of buildings on the banks of the thames for days i had been about them interested in other things the clock tower with its great round clock face � twenty three feet in some one told me � had been staring me in the face over a stretch of park space and intervening buildings on such evenings as parliament was in and i frequently with myself whether i should trouble to go or not even if some one invited me i grow so weary of standard completed things at times however i did go it came about through the hon t p o m p an old admirer of sister who hearing that i was in london invited me he had just finished reading the night i met him and i shall never forget the kindly glow of his face as on meeting me in the dining room of the house of he exclaimed ah the of that poor girl and how charming she was too ah me ah me i can hear the soft in his voice yet and see the gay romance of his irish eye are not the irish all anyhow i had been out in various poor sections of the city all day on that shabby mass that have nothing know nothing dream nothing or do they it was most as dark fell to return through long humble streets alive with a home hurrying mass of people � clouds of people not knowing whence they came or why and now i was to return and go to dine where the laws are made for all england a at forty i was escorted by another friend a mr m since dead who was when i reached the hotel quite disturbed lest we be late i like the man who takes society and social forms seriously though i would not be that man for all the world m was one such he was if you please a for law and order the houses of parliament and the of the hon t p o meant much to him i can see o s friendly comprehensive eye understanding it all � understanding in his deep literary way why it should be so as i hurried through westminster hall the great general entrance once itself the ancient parliament of england the scene of the of edward ii of the condemnation of charles i of the trial of and the of the head of i was thinking thinking thinking what is a place like this anyhow but a of names if you know history the long strange of steps or actions by which life wise from nothing to nothing you know that it is little more than this the present places are the thing the present forms and that dream of the mind which makes it all into something as i walked through into central hall where we had to wait until mr o was found i studied the high arches the walls the figures of the general it was all rich gilded dark lovely and about me was a room full of men all with a sense of their own importance � lords possibly call boys and here and there persons crying of division division while a bell somewhere there s a vote on observed mr m perhaps they won t find him right away never mind he come he did come finally with after his first greetings a some more about london well now we ate drink and be merry and then we went in at table being an old member of parliament he explained many things swiftly and how the buildings were arranged the number of members the and the like he was he told me a member from liverpool which by the way returns some irish members which struck me as rather strange for an english city not at all not at all the english like the irish � at times he added softly i have just been out in your east end i said trying to find out how tragic london is and i think my mood has made me a little color blind it s rather a dreary world i should say and i often wonder whether law making ever helps these people he smiled that genial smile of the irish that always the bland acceptance of things as they are and tries to make the best of a bad mess yes it s bad � and nothing could possibly suggest the of a that went with this � but it s no worse than some of your american cities � fall river trust the irish to hand you an intellectual you re another conditions in are as bad as anywhere i think but it s true the east end is pretty bad you want to remember that it s typical london winter weather we re having and london smoke makes those gray buildings look rather forlorn it s true but there s some comfort there as there is everywhere my old irish father was one for thinking that we all have our rewards here or hereafter perhaps theirs is to be hereafter and he rolled his eyes and an able man this full as i knew from reading his a at forty weekly and his books of a deep kindly understanding of life but one who despite his knowledge of the of existence refused to be cast down he was going up the shortly in a house boat with a party of wealthy friends and he told me that george the champion of the poor was just making oflf for a winter on the but that i might if i would come some morning have breakfast with him he was sure that the great would be glad to see me he wanted me to call at his rooms his london
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little beating well look to it then that thou dost not kill the man he is no tree trunk to thy claws upon but what are those master words i am more likely to give help than to ask it � stretched out one and admired the steel blue at the end of it � still i should like to know i will call and he shall say them � if he will come little brother my head is ringing like a bee tree said a sullen little voice over their heads and slid down a tree trunk very angry and indignant adding as he s hunting reached the ground i come for and not for fat old that is all one to me said though he was hurt and grieved tell then the master words of the that i have taught thee this day master words for which people said delighted to show off the has many tongues know them all a little thou but not much see o they never thank their teacher not one small has ever come back to thank old for his say the word for the hunting then � great scholar we be of one blood ye and i said giving the words the bear accent which all the hunting people use good now for the birds repeated with the s whistle at the end of the sentence now for the snake people said the answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss and kicked up his feet behind clapped his hands together to himself and jumped on to s back where he sat sideways with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at there � there that was worth a little said the brown bear tenderly some day thou wilt remember me then he turned aside to tell how he had begged the master words from the wild elephant who knows all about these things and how had taken down to a pool to get the book the snake word from a water snake because could not pronounce it and how was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the because neither snake bird nor beast would hurt him no one then is to be feared wound up patting his big stomach with pride except his own tribe said under his breath and then aloud to have a care for my ribs little brother what is all this dancing up and down had been trying to make himself heard by pulling at s shoulder fur and kicking hard when the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice and so i shall have a tribe of my own and lead them through the branches all day long what is this new folly little of dreams said yes and throw branches and dirt at old went on they have promised me this ah s big off s back and as the boy lay between the big fore he could see the bear was angry said thou hast been talking with the log � the monkey people looked at to see if the was angry too and s eyes were as hard as stones thou hast been with the monkey people � the gray � the people without a law � the of everything that is great shame when hurt my head said he was still on his back i went away and the gray s hunting came down from the trees and had pity on me no one else cared he a little the pity of the monkey people the stillness of the mountain stream the cool of the summer sun and then man and then and then they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat and they � they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said i was their blood brother except that i had no tail and should be their leader some day they have no leader said � they lie they have always lied they were very kind and bade me come again why have i never been taken among the monkey people they stand on their feet as i do they do not hit me with hard they play all day let tne get up bad let me up i play with them again listen said the bear and his voice like thunder on a hot night i have taught thee all the law of the for all the of the � except the monkey folk who live in the trees they have no law they are they have no speech of their own but use the stolen words which they when they listen and peep and wait up above in the branches their way is not our way they are without leaders they have no remembrance they boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten we of the have no dealings with them we do not drink where the drink we do hot go the book where the go we do not hunt where they hunt we do not die where they die hast thou ever heard me speak of the log till to day no said in a whisper for the forest was very still now had finished the people put them out of their mouths and out of their mind they are very many evil dirty and they desire if they have any fixed desire to be noticed by the people but we do not notice them even when they throw nuts and on our heads he had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs down through the branches and they could hear and and angry high up in the air among the thin branches the monkey people are forbidden said
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in every way we shall be able to add another improvement to the by it on paper about as fine and heavy as that used by the london journals without increasing its price although we have evidence that the art of waa pursued hy of those nations whose very names are now almost lost in the lapse of ages � witness the in the egyptian palace to prove its great antiquity � and has been practised more or less successfully by the nations of modem europe during several centuries yet it is only till within a very few years that it has been known in the united states for though the trade of waa probably introduced into this country with the first press yet its earliest footing here as an art dates back only a very few years to which all hooks were bound as s of peter fame were made � to sell and in each case with a result equally to the it would not perhaps be too much to assert that in no pursuit has such a general improvement recently taken place as in that under notice whether considered with regard to the greater of the the better materials used or above all to the more correct taste displayed at the present day both as regards the style of and of covering for as were all other defects yet in this latter essential was the greatest necessity for evident therefore it was that american gained scant at the great of � m fact the made at the time in london were by no means encouraging to future competition the justice of the condemnation however lay far more in the want of taste than in the quality of the though it has since been admitted that this latter was far from deserving to be considered as a favorable specimen of what could have been shown h american many of whom deemed b the great it folly to with the old and famous houses in europe where their so attained the dignity of au art and where of all of binding suitable to any kind of work are so easily accessible while in this country the majority of even our most celebrated lacking such are absolutely ignorant of the names and origin of the various practised in europe this deficiency in a knowledge of the first principles of their art has prevented many gentlemen of wealth and taste who have collected costly probably containing many rare works of early date from giving that legitimate encouragement to the which in other countries is so liberally bestowed the owners of such valuable works preferring to endure the reproach of meanness rather than see their highly volumes by and outward � a mortification to which several of our most distinguished have been subjected the truth of these wiu we venture to say not be disputed by those who are most deeply interested in this matter the themselves and although as before stated a great improvement in taste is perceptible here even within two years especially noticeable in one or two instances yet till the as a body have more thoroughly educated into a knowledge of their trade in all its bearings especially in the of the style of covering to the contents of the volume to be bound they will do well to imitate more closely foreign when they find themselves at a loss if in addition they would encourage among themselves and bestow and permanently rewards upon such as execute their work in the best taste we believe tlie trade would speedily be to an extent little anticipated estimated by the display in the crystal palace our views are certainly by no means borne out but this arises from the fact that the nations of europe with the exception of one or two specimens from england have not entered the field as rivals we should have been pleased to have had an opportunity of comparing the merits of our best with men of such reputation as cape and other eminent french artists of the present day and we likewise regret that the less splendid but more works of the best english houses such as and others have not a single representative at our world s pair to enable us to judge of their merits we do find a solitary specimen from france and the few from england are on the whole inferior to those in the american department and as the british worthy of any notice are so few in number we will proceed to dispose of them first a collection of books exhibited by mr h g the eminent affords decidedly the best of to be found in the english department we do not know by what house they were done as the s name is not given nor do we suppose they were sent as model specimens of english but merely consist of a random selection from the large stock of the and are placed there we think rather to show the different adopted in for various kinds of work than for any other purpose foremost among the display stands s british in two volumes bound in green of beautiful quality and grain they are ornamented with a rich border composed of heavy rolls and of a style very appropriate for large and richly illustrated works there are a other in this case all and richly bound and serving to show a good and appropriate style for costly intended for valuable many and otherwise might also profit considerably by examining the smaller books containing sundry volumes of s classical and standard in calf extra calf antique and other suitable for library as mere specimens they are by no means remarkable still they generally look well and are all in correct taste mr of has a large volume entitled scotland which at least in the attention of most persons in that department of the building it is bound in red
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j and with when it makes an dish � should be baked two hours or more according to the size of the pie i to th n take a couple of fine ones and cut them tip put them into a pan season with and salt some and some powdered pour in a pint of warm water and over a slow fire till the are quite tender adding when they are about half done some bits of butter rolled m flour put the pieces of rabbit on a hot dish and pour the may be with and serve with made of liver and in melted butter and salt may be or and are very good baked in a pie poultry si o grown poultry is not so good as the full vn when it is still young old poultry is tough especially to discover whether poultry is observe if the skin is thin and tender the moist and the eyes full and bright the bill and feet of a goose are smooth and of an old one they are red and hairy when poultry is eaten on the same day it is killed it is and often in drawing poultry the should not be broken or its bitterness affects the liver before picking poultry it should be in hot water before cooking it hold it before the blaze of a fire to the hairs about the skin the head neck and feet should be cut away and the legs in the body a string bound round the body keeps it firm ad hour is for common sized chickens to roast a smart fire is better than a slow one but they must be tended closely of bread and put into the stomach not the crop are excellent chickens boiled � when they are di lay the chickens in milk for about two hours then put them cold water cover them close and set them oyer a slow fire and them well as soon as they have boiled slowly take them from the fire and let them in the water close covered for half an hour th i drain and serve with white � take the skin off of it cut up a chicken and roll each piece in powder and flour together a of flour to half an of two or three in butter when of a light brown put in the meat and them together till the meat becomes brown then them together with a little water for two or hours more water may be added if too thick � the chickens are cut to pieces and covered with warm water to draw out the blood then put into a with three quarters of a pint of water or salt flour butter sweet and boil it half an if it is too fat it a little just before it is done mix the of two eggs with a of cream stir it up till it is thick and smooth squeeze in half a if you like some with the other chicken pie � cover the bottom and sides of a deep dish with a thick having cut up your chickens and them to your taste put them in and lay on the top several pieces of butter rolled in flour fill up the dish about with cold water then lay on the top of the crust and in a moderate oven � chicken � boil a chicken that not more than a pound and a half when very tender take it up cut it in small and make the following and turn over it � boil four eggs three minutes � then take them out of the shells and mix them with a couple of table of olive oil or melted butter two thirds of a of a of mixed a tea of salt a little and essence of if vou have it� if not it can be with in making chicken the dressing should not be put on till a few minutes before the is sent in as by laying in it the and will become hard ss � to a pair lie the bodies firmly round strings which should be wet or to keep them from and them on the before a clear brisk fire them t with a little salt and water and then witli their own them lightly with flour at the last they will generally be done in less than an hour after boiling the and hearts chop them and put them into the having it and it with a little flour back ducks generally be done enough in half send to table with them and have to place under the plates other wild and may be in about half an hour before cooking them all night in salt and to draw out whatever or taste they may happen to have and which may otherwise render them then early in the morning put them in fresh water without salt changing it several times before yon spit them what remains of a wild duck may be the nest day in with when it is excellent ducks may be and with a glass of port wine into the to roast a goose � chop a few sage leaves and two very fine mix them with a good lump of butter a tea of and two of salt put it in the goose then spit it lay it down and dust it with flour it is thoroughly hot ba te it with nice if it be a one it wilt require an hour and a half before a good clear fire when it is done enough and it pull out the spit and pour in a little boiling water it may be with bread or potatoes and should be served with apple goose pie � lone a goose season it well with and lay the meat in your dish and place on the top of it eight
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an hour later one of the who of course was quite aware that the squire s illness was serious was surprised to hear a bold and decided step descending the stairs from the direction of mr s room accompanied by the humming of a tune she knew that the doctor had not paid a visit that morning and that it was too heavy to be the or any other a group of noble man servant looking up she saw squire fully dressed descending toward her in his and boots with the swinging easy movement of his prime her face expressed her amazement what the devil looking at said the squire did you never see a man walk out of his house before his humming � which was of a defiant sort � he proceeded to the library rang the bell asked if the horses were ready and directed them to be brought round ten minutes later he rode away in the direction of behind him trembling at what these movements might they rode on through the pleasant and the monotonous straight lanes at an equal pace the distance traversed might have been about fifteen miles when could perceive that the squire was getting tired � as weary as he would have been after riding three times the distance ten years before however they reached without any and put up at the squire s accustomed inn almost immediately proceeded on foot to the inn which had given as his address it being now about four o clock had already dined � for people dined early then � and he was staying indoors he had already received mrs s reply to his letter but before acting upon her advice and starting for king s he made up his mind to wait another day that s father might at least have time to write to him if so minded the returned traveller much desired to obtain the squire s assent as well as his wife s to the proposed visit to his bride that nothing might seem harsh or forced a group of noble in his method of taking his position as one of the family but though he anticipated some sort of objection from his father in law in consequence of mrs s warning he was surprised at the announcement of the squire in person formed the of possible to as they stood each other in the best parlour of the tavern the squire hot tempered impulsive generous reckless the younger man pale tall self possessed � a man of the world fully bearing out at least one in his still in king s church which places in the of his good qualities engaging manners cultivated mind adorn d by letters and in courts d he was at this time about five and thirty though careful living and an even temperament caused him to look much younger than his years squire plunged into his errand without much ceremony or preface i am your humble servant sir he said i have read your letter writ to my wife and myself and considered that the best way to answer it would be to do so in person i am vastly honoured by your visit sir said mr bowing well what s done can t be undone said though it was mighty early and was no doing of mine she s your wife and there s an end on t but in brief sir she s too young for you to claim yet we mustn t reckon by years we must reckon by nature she s still a group of noble a girl tis of ee to come yet next year will be full soon enough for you to take her to you now courteous as could be he was a little obstinate when his resolution had once been formed she had been promised him by her birthday at latest � sooner if she were in robust health her mother had fixed the time on her own judgment without a word of interference on his part he had been hanging about foreign courts till he was weary was now a woman if she would ever be one and there was not in his mind the shadow of an excuse for putting him off longer therefore fortified as he was by the support of her mother he but firmly told the squire that he had been willing to his rights out of deference to her parents to any reasonable extent but must now in justice to himself and her insist on maintaining them he therefore since she had not come to meet him should proceed to king s in a few days to fetch her this announcement in spite of the with which it was delivered set in a passion oh sir you talk about rights you do after stealing her away a mere child against my will and knowledge if we d begged and prayed ee to take her you could say no more upon my honour your charge is quite sir said his son in law you must know by this time � or if you do not it has been a monstrous cruel injustice to me that i should have been allowed to remain in your mind with such a stain upon my character � you must know that i used no or temptation of any kind her mother assented she assented i took d a group of noble them at their word that you was really opposed to the marriage was not known to me till afterwards professed to believe not a word of it you sha n t have her till she s full � no maid ought to be married till she s � and my daughter sha n t be treated out of so he on till who had been listening in the next room entered suddenly declaring to that his master s life was in danger if the
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make a good breakfast while i go in with the tray she disappeared leaving little to over the meaning of her scattered words she soon came back again and at last began to take her own breakfast talking all the while you see my dear said measuring out a or two of some brown liquid that smelt like brandy and putting it into her tea i am obliged to be careful to follow the directions of my medical man though the flavor is anything but agreeable being a poor creature and it may be have never recovered the shock received in youth from too much giving way to crying in the next room when separated from arthur have you known him ion as soon as little comprehended that she had been asked this question � for which time was necessary the galloping pace of her new having left her far behind � she answered that she had known mr ever since his return to be sure you couldn t have known him before unless you had been in china or had neither of which is likely returned for travelling people usually get more or less mahogany and you are not at all so and as to corresponding what about that s very true unless tea so it was at his mother s was it really that you knew him first highly sensible and firm but dreadfully severe � ought to be the mother of the man in the iron mask mrs has been kind to me said little really i am sure i am glad to hear it because as arthur s mother it s naturally pleasant to my feelings to have a better opinion of her than i had before though what she thinks of me when i run on as i am certain to do and she sits at me like fate in a � shocking comparison really � invalid and not her fault � i never know or can imagine shall i find my work anywhere ma am asked little looking timidly about can i get it you industrious little fairy returned taking in another cup of tea another of the prescribed by her medical man there s not the slightest hurry and it s better that we should begin by being confidential about our mutual friend � too cold a word for me at least i don t mean that very proper expression mutual friend � than become through mere not you but me like the boy with the fox biting him which i hope you ll excuse my bringing up for of all the tiresome boys that will go tumbling into every sort of company that boy s the little her face very pale sat down again to listen hadn t i better work the while she asked i can work and attend toe i would rather if i may her earnestness was so expressive of her being uneasy without her work that answered well my dear whatever you like best and produced a basket of white handkerchiefs little gladly put it by her side took out her little pocket her needle and began to hem what fingers you have said but are you sure you are well little oh yes indeed put her feet upon the and settled herself for a thorough good romantic disclosure she started off at score tossing her head sighing in the most manner making a great deal of use of her eyebrows and occasionally but not often glancing at the quiet face that bent over the work you must know my dear said but that i have no doubt you know already not only because i have already thrown it out in a general way but because i feel i carry it stamped in burning what s his names upon my brow that before i was introduced to the late mr f i had been engaged to arthur � mr in public where reserve is necessary arthur here � we were all in all to one another it was the morning of life it was bliss it was it was everything else of that sort in the highest degree when rent asunder we turned to stone in which capacity arthur went to china and i became the statue bride of the late mr e uttering these words in a deep voice enjoyed herself immensely to paint said she the emotions of that morning when all was marble within and mr f s aunt followed in a glass coach which it stands to reason must have been in shameful repair or it never could have broken down two streets from the house and mr f s aunt brought home like the fifth of november in a rush chair i will not attempt suffice it to say that the hollow form of breakfast took place in the dining room down stairs that papa too freely of salmon was ill for weeks and that mr f and myself went upon a continental tour to where the people fought for us on the pier until they separated us though not for ever that was not yet to be the statue bride hardly pausing for breath went on with the greatest complacency in a rambling manner sometimes to flesh and blood i will draw a veil over that dreamy life mr f was in good spirits his appetite was good he liked the he considered the wine weak but and all was well we returned to the immediate neighbourhood of number thirty little street london and settled down ere we had yet fully detected the in selling the feathers out of the spare bed flying upwards with mr f to another sphere his with a glance at his portrait shook her head and wiped her eyes i the memory of mr f as an man and most indulgent husband only necessary to mention and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing
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it the men o j was more in the of his neck that the height lay than in any honesty o bone and five feet and a few odd inches may have been his real height the remainder came out when he held up his head and feet seven he was upon the door i took his measure in chalk on a chair and next to him but a made man ruddy and of a fair countenance was � that they called the fir he was but feet five and a child beside i and when the three walked out together they made a run through the colony o the ran round them as though they had been the giant trees in the valley � these three men o it was perfectly ridiculous a � that one little place should have contained maybe the three men upon the face o the earth now the order o things for it led to the finest big drink in and ax sore heads the mom that endured for a week i am against liquor but the event to follow was a justification you must understand that many call at wi strangers o the profession in the spring time when the young were the trees o the forests were putting forth their leaves there came an american man to and he was six foot three or it may have been four in his stockings he came on business from but he stayed for pleasure wi the men o less than a half o the population were in their and stature ye will understand � and merchants five feet nine or he had business with those two and he stood above them from the six feet o his height till they went j life s to drink in the course o conversation he said as tall men wiu things about his height and the trouble of it to him that was his pride o the flesh as the longest man in the island he said but there they took him up and asked if he were sure i say i am the longest man in the island he said and on that i ll bet my substance they laid down the bed plates of a big drink then and there and put it aside while they called from his house near by among the how s a wi you said and came in by the side o the two inches or it been one taller than he you re long said the man opening his eyes but i am longer an they sent a whistle through the night an out sandy from his bit and he came in an stood by the side o an the pair just the room to the ceiling cloth the man was a player and a most profane you hold both he said but the is with me fair an softly says s here says that man putting his leg through the window and coming in like an o the desert by one foot in and one in and a hand in north it may be are you suited said when the hinder end o was through the sill an the head of was lost in the smoke away above the american man took out his card and put it on the table b longer is my name america is my nation is my resting place but this here beats creation said he boys giants � side show giants � i the men lar t minded to slide out of my bet if i had been on the strength of the riddle on this board i would have done it if you had me even by three inches but when it comes to feet � yards � miles i am not the man to the biggest drink that ever made the travellers joy palm blush with indignation or the and the howl with envy set them up and continue till the final mon i tell you twas an awful sight to see those four giants about the house and the island and down the pillars thereof an throwing palm trees and their long legs round the hills o an sight i was there i did not mean to tell you but it s out now i was not overcome for i e en sat me down under the pieces o the table at four the mom an meditated upon the strangeness of things yon s the breakfast and the german flag across the deck in his pink a cup of tea in one hand and a in the other when the steamer was down the coast on her way to he drank beer all day and all night and played a game called with three i washed said he in a voice of but is no use washing on these hell seas look at me � i am still all wet and it is der tea dot makes me so boy bring me on ice you will die if you drink beer before breakfast said one man beer is the worst thing in the world for i know � der liver i no liver i shall not die at least i will not die dot no beer fit to if i should died i will don so a before in in new york in in und all over der inside of south also in should i died or in but i am here und der are my dot i have all the to find he pointed towards the wheel where in two rough wooden boxes lay a mass of vegetation supposed by all the ship to represent of value now do not grow in the main streets of towns k by co and the german flag and had gone far to get his there was nothing that he had not collected that year from king to white now said he
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affections and possess her heart i bow i john stared at him in his outburst as if with some idea that be had gone mad what is due to this young lady said mr is money and this young lady right well knows it you the young lady the young lady you with your affections and hearts and returned mr it s of a piece with the rest of your behavior i heard of these doings of yours only last night or you should have heard of em from me sooner take your oath of it i heard of em from a lady with as good a head piece as the ber t and she knows this young lady and i know this young lady and we all three know that it s money she makes mutual a stand for � money money money � and that you and your affections and hearts are a lie sir mrs said quietly turning to her for your delicate and kindness i thank you with the warmest gratitude good by i miss good by i and now my dear said mr laying his hand on s head again you may begin to make yourself quite and i hope you feel that you ve been but was so far from appearing to feel it that she shrank from his hand and from the chair and starting up in an passion of tears and stretching out her arms cried o mr before you go if you could but make me poor again i i make me poor again somebody i beg and pray or my heart will break if this goes on i pa dear make me poor again and take me home i i was bad enough there but i have been so much worse here don t give me money mr i won t have money keep it away from me and only let me speak to good little pa and lay my head upon his shoulder and tell him all my nobody else can understand me nobody else can comfort me nobody else knows how unworthy i am and yet can love me like a little child i am better with pa than any one � more innocent more sorry more glad p so crying out in a wild way that she could not bear this drooped her head on mrs s ready breast john from bis place in the room and mr from his looked on at her in silence until she was silent herself then mr observed in a soothing and comfortable tone there my dear there you are f now and it s all right i don t wonder i m sure at being a little by having a scene with this fellow but it s all over my dear and you re and it s � and it s all right i which mr repeated with a highly satisfied air of completeness and i hate yon i cried turning suddenly upon him with a stamp of her little foot � at least i can t hate you but i don t like you i lo i exclaimed mr in an amazed you re a scolding bad old creature i cried i am angry with my ungrateful self for calling you names but you are you are you know you are i mr stared here and stared there as that he must be in some sort of fit i have heard you with shame said with shame for myself and with shame for you tou ought to be above the base tale bearing of a time serving woman but you are above nothing now mr seeming to become convinced that this was a fit rolled his eyes and loosened his when i came here i respected you and honored you and i soon loved you cried and now i can t bear the sight of you at least i don t know that i ought to go so far as that � only you re a � j ou re a monster i having shot this bolt out with a great expenditure of force laughed and cried together the best wish i can wish you is said returning to the ge that you had not one single in the world if any true friend and well could our make you a you would be a duck but as a man of property you are a demon after this second bolt with a still greater expenditure of force laughed and cried still more mr pray stay one moment pray hear one word from me before you go i am deeply sorry for the reproaches you have borne on my account out of the depths of my heart i earnestly and truly beg your pardon as she stepped toward him he met her as she gave him her hand he put it to his lips and said god bless you no laughing was mixed with s crying then her tears were pure and fervent there is not an word that i have heard addressed to you � heard with scorn and indignation mr � but it has wounded me far more than you for i have deserved it and you never have mr it is to me you owe this account of what passed between us that night i parted with the secret even while i was angry with myself for doing so it was very bad in me but indeed it was not wicked i did it in a moment of conceit and folly � one of my many such moments � one of my many such hours � years as i am punished for it severely try to forgive it do with all my soul thank you thank you i don t part from me till i have said one other word to do you justice the only fault you can be truly charged with in having spoken to
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in short might he then he asked me tenderly if i remembered our boyish games at sums and how we had gone together to have me bound and in effect how he had ever been my favorite fancy and my chosen friend if i had taken ten times as many glasses of wine as i had i should have known that he never had stood in that relation towards me and should in my heart of hearts have the idea yet for that i remember feeling convinced that i had been much mistaken in him and that he was a sensible practical good hearted prime fellow by degrees he fell to such great confidence in me as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs he mentioned that there was an opportunity for a great and of the com and seed trade on those premises if enlarged such as had never occurred before in that or any other neighborhood what expectations � alone was wanting u the of a vast he considered to be more capital those were the two little words � more capital now it appeared to him that if that capital were got into the business through a sleeping partner sir which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in bj self or whenever he pleased and examine the books � and walk in twice a and take his profits in his pocket to the tune of per c nt � it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property which would be worthy of his attention but what did i think he bad great confidence in my opinion and what did i think i gave it as my opinion � wait a bit i the united vas ness and distinctness of this view so struck him that he no longer if he might shake with me but said he really must � and did we drank all the wine and mr pledged himself over and over again to keep joseph up to tho mark i don t know what mark and to render me and constant service i don t know what service he also made known to me for the first time in my life and certainly after having kept his secret wonderfully wall that he had always said of me that boy is no boy and mark me his will be no com mon he said with a tearful smile that it was a thing to think of now and i said so too finally i went out into the air with a dim perception that re was something unwonted in the conduct of the a � and found that i had got to the without having taken any account of the road i re i was roused by mr s ho was a long way down the sunny street and t expectations was making gestures for me to stop i stopped and he came up breathless no my dear friend said he when he had recovered wind for speech not if i can help it this occasion shall not entirely pass without that on part � may i as an old friend and well may we shook hands for the time at least and he ordered a young out of my way with the greatest indignation then he blessed me and stood waving his hand to me until i had passed the in the road and then i turned into a field and had a long nap under a hedge before i pursued my way home i had scant luggage to take with me to london for little of the little i possessed was adapted to my new station but i began packing that same afternoon and wildly packed up things that i knew i should want next morning in a fiction that there was not a moment to be lost so tuesday wednesday and thursday passed and on friday morning i went to mr s to put on my new clothes and pay my visit to miss mr s own room was given up to me to dress in and was decorated with dean expressly for the event my clothes were rather a disappointment of course probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the s expectation but after i had had my new suit on some half an hour and had gone through an of with mr s very limited dressing glass in the futile en to see my legs it to fit me better it being market morning at a neighboring town some ten expectations miles off mr was not at home i bad not told him exactly when i meant to leave and was not to shake hands with him again before departing this was all as it should be and i went oat in mj new array fearfully ashamed of having to pass the and suspicions after all that i was at a personal disadvantage something like joe s in his suit i went to miss s by all the back ways and rang at the bell on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves pocket came to the gate and positively back when she saw me so changed her shell countenance likewise turned firom brown to green and yellow you said she you good gracious what do you want i am going to miss pocket said i and want to say good by to miss i was not expected for she left me locked in the yard while she went to ask if i were to be admitted after a very short delay she returned and took me up staring at me all the way was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table leaning on her stick the room was lighted as of and at the sound
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and warriors collected along the line of the shore one lay in some rifle by the mouth of the they were commanded by and with this party probably as the most to was the war correspondent john of english birth but american this gentleman had been for some time representing the new york affairs of and world in a very effective manner always in the front living in the field with the and in all of weather toiling to and fro with his his wisdom was per not equal to his energy he made himself conspicuous going about armed to the teeth in a boat under the stars and and on one occasion when he supposed himself fired upon by the had the to empty his revolver in the direction of their camp by the light of the moon which was then nearly down this party observed the two boats and the which they describe as almost sinking with men the boats keeping well out towards the the at the moment apparently heading for the shore an extreme agitation seems to have reigned in the rifle what were the what was their errand were they or had they a mind to attack the was hailed in and did not answer it was proposed to fire upon her ere she draw near and at last whether on his own suggestion or that of hailed her in english and in terms of l o eight years of trouble in unnecessary do not try to land here he cried if you do your blood will be upon your head who had never the least intention to touch at the put up the head of the to her true course and continued to move up the with an of some seventy or eighty yards along all the and of the beach across the mouth of the and through the startled village of and seven or eight others to keep up spreading the alarm and rousing re as they went presently a man on horseback made his appearance on the opposite beach of and the natives distinctly saw him signal with a lantern which is the more strange as the captain plantation manager of had never a lantern to signal with the kept in many men in white were seen to stand up step overboard and to shore at the same time the eye of panic a of foreign stones brick upon the beach are prepared to day to swear to its existence i believe affairs of and although no such thing was ever made or ever intended in that place the hour is doubtful it was the hour when the streak of dawn is seen the hour known in the warfare of heathen times as the hour of the night attack says the official account a native whom i met on the field declared it was at captain on the other hand is sure it was long before the day it was dark at least and the moon down darkness made the bold uncertainty as to the composition and purpose of the landing party made them desperate fire was opened on the one of whom was here killed the returned it and effected a on the beach and the died again to silence it was at this time if not earlier that returned to here then were and the ninety men of the landed on the beach in no very posture the woods in front filled with enemies but for the time successful meanwhile and the boats had gone outside the and were to land on the other side of the at io eight years of trouble in by the buildings of the plantation it was part to go and meet them his way led straight into the woods and through the midst of the who had but now ceased firing he went in the saddle and at a foot s pace feeling speed and concealment to be equally helpless and that if he were to fall at all he had best fall with dignity not a shot was fired at him no effort made to arrest him on his errand as he went he spoke and even with the and they answered in good part one fellow was leaping yelling and tossing his axe in the air after the way of an excited f go it said and the fellow laughed and his exertions as soon as the boats entered the fire was again opened from the woods the fifty blue jumped overboard down the boats to be a shield and dragged them towards the landing place in this way their and what was more unfortunate some of their miserable provision of forty rounds got but the men came to shore and the plantation house without a meanwhile the sound of affairs of and the firing from immediately renewed the at the on shore decided that must be at once guided to the house and the accepted the dangerous errand like he was suffered to pass without question through the midst of these enemies he found some way inland on a engaged the woods around him filled with who were re enforced in three successive charges cheering as they ran the blue burst through their scattered and made good their with four men only remained upon the field the other wounded being helped by their comrades or dragging themselves painfully along the force was now concentrated in the house and its immediate patch of garden their rear to the was but on three sides they were on the left the occupied and fired from some of the plantation offices in front a long rising crest of land in the commanded the house and was lined with the and eight years of trouble in on the right the hedge of the same afforded them a dangerous cover it was in this place that a sharp was knocked over by with his own hand the
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air that he could not see the ground o said i don t believe it said james and the boy continued begun to be very much afraid he could not get down so he began to climb down when he got down a considerable way he saw a hole and he crawled into it he found the tree was hollow and very large inside it grew larger and larger and larger and he found a great many large in there they were running about and he began to chase them up and down the trunk of the tree and into the hollow branches by this time the boys had all got out of the garden and were following as he walked along towards the barn at the gate stopped with them to finish the story they were all listening with the most eager interest presently continued he heard a sound as of somebody knocking he r binding promises thought the men had come to cut down the great tree and that he should get killed so he was very much frightened he clung to the inside of the tree with his fingers in a crack and tried to scream but he could not scream very loud he could only say � h h h and then he woke up woke up said and james both together yes said and found himself in bed lying on his back with the nightmare so there s your story with these words walked off leaving the boys mute and motionless pondering over this extraordinary dream after he had gone a little way called out to him and asked who the boy was i was the one said and the noise was knocking for me to get up so went off to his work and the boys to their play chapter vi and demands was standing one afternoon in the yard near a great log of wood which he was idly with his when he heard the door open and looking up he saw his cousin coming out to find him the people in the house had told her that was out in the yard somewhere said she i have come to play with you well said walking along towards her that is exactly the thing i wanted somebody to go down into the woods with me what are you going to do down in the woods asked o i am going to clear a piece of land said i am going to have a little farm a little farm said yes said father says i may r and demands cut down as many bushes as i please and there is one good level place there where there is nothing but bushes come we ll cut them down and burn them up and have our farm there we ll plant some corn come said well with a tone of satisfaction and pleasure as if she liked the plan and she followed along towards the great gate but she said in a minute or two won t there be too many roots to plant our corn o no said i don t think there will be a great many roots besides we can dig em up began to open the great gate for and himself to go through when he happened to think that they had not got any when he went down to work in the woods he always used to carry a to get water out of the brook for like other children was always wanting a drink of water there said he i have forgotten the now you just go back and get it and demands you know where it hangs on my little nail behind the door o no said we shall not want any yes we shall replied i always want a drink when i am working and better go and get it no answered besides you ought to go and get the as you are the one who is going to want to drink no said i have got the and that is my share come you must go back and get it so saying he gently pushed with one hand and with the other he held the gate so as to prevent her going through smiled but looked a little vexed retreated a little and then going along by the fence a few steps she began to climb over looking good at who was holding the gate all the time ran to where was climbing over and began to reach up his hands to stop her said he in an irritated tone r and demands stopped and seeing that was really beginning to be angry she stepped back off from the fence and began to walk slowly away thought from her that she was not going after the besides he felt somewhat guilty and self condemned he stood a moment watching through the bars of the fence and then said where are you going turned around and looked at rather sorrowfully but she kept walking on slowly backwards i don t know where to go to said she i came to play with you but you won t let me i think you ought to go and get the said i don t think you have any right to make me go said nor i either said a voice that sounded like s which came from towards the garden they both looked that way and saw s head over the garden fence said what said and demands paused in fact he had not any thing to say at length however he looked up again and said don t you think that ought to go and get the v v that is a question for her to consider said if she should ask me for my advice about it perhaps i should give it to her but you ought not to trouble yourself about her duty did not answer the
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laughter and uproar � the provisions had not been altered him how he reads � the were in every respect loud cheering followed by of laughter the question was read it � read it and great uproar � the question was just so read it � the question was great cheering and laughter whether the should be o to all or he for ever under the control of mere where s the man what laughter and cries of order from the speaker public order and great uproar which the speaker evidently excited was calling for order the scene here was indescribable the preceding quotation will give idea of the scenes occasionally to be witnessed in the house of the general scenes have usually their origin in the impatience of honourable members to get away from the house for the night but who dare not venture to leave before the division lest the non appearance of their names in the lists of the majority and the morning should lead to some unpleasant questions from their respective if not to a to resign their seats allude to only one more scene of this kind it oc scenes in the house towards the close of last an honourable member whose name i suppress rose amidst the most tremendous uproar to address the house he spoke and was received as nearly as the confusion enabled me to judge as follows � i rise sir cheers mingled with all sorts of sounds i rise sir for the purpose of stating that i have oh oh and sounds resembling the of a sheep mingled with loud laughter hon gentlemen may endeavour to put me down by their but i have a duty to perform to my con cheers loud and yawning extending to an incredible length followed by bursts of laughter i say sir i have who on this occasion expect that i cries of should sit down and shouts of laughter they expect sir that on a question of such importance o o a a u and loud laughter followed by cries of order order from the speaker i tell honourable gentlemen who choose to conduct themselves in such a way that i am not to be put down by groans and various animal sounds some of which closely the of a dog and the of a pig with of laughter i appeal cock e o co the imitation in this case of the of a cock was so remarkably good that not even the most staid and orderly members in the house could preserve their gravity the laughter which followed drowned the speaker s cries of order order i say sir this is most conduct on the part of an assembly calling itself de tow and bursts of laughter sir may i ask have honourable gentlemen who can and renewed sir i claim the protection of the chair the speaker here again rose and called out order order in a loud and angry tone on which the uproar in some measure subsided if honourable gentlemen will only allow me to make one i will not further on their attention but sit down at once this was followed by the most tremendous cheering in earnest i only beg to say sir that i think this is a most dangerous and measure and will therefore vote against it the honourable gentleman then resumed his seat amidst applause in presenting the reader with of the leading members of all parties in the house it will be expected that i be in with the late and present the office of speaker is one of such great importance and is regarded with so much respect by the members however from him in politics � as lo sir charles manners and mr to a of notice charles manners filled the office of speaker for eighteen years having been chosen in in the room of the right honourable charles who then resigned from ill health sir charles presided during five successive he was a great favourite men of all parties in the house indeed he could not have been otherwise for a man of more bland and gentlemanly manners never crossed the threshold of st s he was at all times accessible and to every member the most and most radical though he himself was one of the most decided in the house was treated by in the house at his public dinners and in the private he was obliged frequently to have with men of all parties � with the same courtesy and apparent respect ae the most influential of his own party he never his political prejudices strong as they were to interfere with the of gentlemanly intercourse the perfect gentleman was visible in everything he said and did nay it was visible in his very person whether you saw him walking the streets or filling the chair in the house of there was a and good nature in his features which could not fail to strike a stranger the moment he saw him and which was of every one in his favour with these softer and more amiable features there was blended a dignity and energy of character which invariably the respect of the members no man knew better how to unite firmness and decision with the greatest of manner in a member who had the rules of the house or sir charles manners the which one gentleman ought to observe towards another he possessed great presence of mind i have seen him time after time conduct himself in scenes of the greatest confusion and in cases of great difficulty with as much coolness self possession and judgment as if he had been quietly on some point to the orders and of the house in his own study i do not recollect to have seen him so much disconcerted as on one occasion when having on a division said he thought the had it � mr the late
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bill to run now about a fortnight t � k a fashionable did you it i did mr sparkle required me to do so to show that tiie bill came properly into his possession this second bill you say is required to enable miss to leave town yes she is going to for the winter i gave mr a steady piercing look of inquiry pray sir i said could you meet that one hundred pounds bill supposing it could not be paid by the meet it the poor fellow wiped from his forehead the perspiration which suddenly broke out at the bare hint of a probability that the bill would be � meet it no i am a married man with a family and have nothing but my salary to depend on then the sooner you get it taken up and the less you have to do with miss s bill af the better she has always been punctual hitherto that may be i pointed to the cross writing on the document and said deliberately this bill is a at these words the poor man turned pale he snatched up the document and with many rushing toward the door when i called to him in an tone to stop he paused � his manner indicating not only doubt but fear i said to him don t yourself i only want to serve you you tell me that you are a married man with children dependent on daily labor for daily bread and that you have done a little for miss out of your e now although i am a bill i don t like to see such men look at the body of this bill � look at the signature of your lady customer the drawer don t you detect the same fine thin sharp pointed handwriting in the words a fashionable accepted the man convinced against his will was at first overcome when he recovered he he would expose the honorable miss if it cost him his bread � he would go at once to the police office i stopped him by saying roughly don t be a fool any such steps would seal your ruin take my advice return the bill to the lady saying simply that you cannot get it leave the rest to me and i think the bill you have to sparkle will be paid comforted by this assurance fearfully changed from the nervous but hopeful man of the morning departed it now remained for me to exert what skill i possessed to bring about the desired result i lost no time in writing a letter to the honorable of which the following is a copy � madam � a bill to be drawn by you has been offered to me for there is something wrong about it � and though a stranger to you i advise you to lose no time in getting it back into your own hands � d d i intended to deal with the affair and without any view to profit the fact is that i was sorry � you may laugh � but i really was sorry to think that a young girl might have given way to temptation under pressure f pecuniary difficulties if it had been a man s case i doubt whether i should have interfered by the return of post a lady s maid entered my room decorated with lace and with she brought a letter from her mistress it ran thus � sir � i cannot sufficiently express my thanks for your kindness in writing to me on the subject of t bills of which i had a fashionable also heard a few hours previously as a perfect stranger to you i cannot estimate your kind consideration at too high a value i trust the matter will be explained but i should much like to see you if you would be kind enough to write a note as soon as you receive this i will order it to be sent to me at once to square i will wait on you at any hour on friday you may i believe that i am not mistaken in supposing that you business for my friend sir john and you will therefore know the to be his handwriting again thanking you most allow me to remain your much and deeply obliged this note was written upon delicate french paper with a coat of arms it was in a fancy envelope � the whole richly and rank and fashion its contents were an implied confession of silence or three lines of indignation would have been the only innocent answer to my letter but miss thanked me she let me know by that she was on intimate terms with a name good on a west end bill my answer was that i should be alone on the following afternoon at five at the hour fixed punctual to a moment a drew up at the corner of the street next to my chambers the honorable miss s card was handed in presently she entered swimming into my room richly yet simply dressed in the extreme of good taste she was pale � or rather she had fair hair fine teeth and a fashionable voice she threw herself gracefully into the chair i handed to her and began by a string of phrases to the effect that her visit was merely to consult me on pecuniary difficulties a fashionable according to my mode i allowed her to talk putting in only an occasional word of question that seemed rather a random observation than a significant at length after walking round and round the subject like a timid horse in a field around a groom with a of she came nearer and nearer the subject when she had fairly approached the point she stopped as if her courage had failed her but she soon recovered and observed i cannot think why you
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so rapidly in tom s eyes for he saw that she was poor and that this good had sprung up in her from among the sordid of her life that she might have been a very in a minute more if miss had not entered with her mend mr thomas pinch said charity performing the ceremony of introduction with evident pride mr where s my sister gone miss mrs answered she had appointed to be home ah said charity looking at tom oh dear me she s greatly altered since she s been � since she s been married mrs observed my dear said miss in a low voice i verily believe you have said that fifty thousand times in my hearing what a prose you are this was succeeded by some trifling love passages which appeared to with if not to be wholly carried on by miss at any rate mr was much slower in his than is customary with young lovers and exhibited a of spirits which was quite oppressive he did not improve at all when tom and he were in the streets but sighed so that it was dreadful to hear him as a means of cheering him up tom told him that he wished him joy joy cried ha ha wliat an extraordinary young man thought tom the has not set his seal upon you you care what becomes of you said tom admitted that it was a subject in which he certainly felt some interest i don t said mr the elements may have me when they please i m ready tom inferred from these and other expressions of the same nature that he was jealous therefore he allowed him to life and adventures op take his own course which was such a gloomy one that he felt a load removed from his mind when they parted company at the gate of inn it was now a couple of hours past john s and he was walking up and down the room quite anxious for tom s safety the table was spread the wine was carefully and the dinner smelt delicious why tom old boy where on earth have you been your box is here get your boots off instantly and sit down sorry to say i can t stay john replied tom pinch who was breathless with the haste he had made in running up the stairs can t stay if you go on with your dinner said tom i tell you my reason the while i mustn t eat myself or i shall have no appetite for the there are no here my good fellow no but there are at said tom john was perfectly confounded by this reply and vowed he would not touch a morsel until tom had explained himself fully so tom sat down and told him all to which he listened with the greatest interest he knew tom too well and respected his delicacy too much to ask him why he had taken these measures without communicating with him first he quite in the of tom s immediately returning to his sister as he knew so little of the place in which he had left her and good proposed to ride back with him in a cab in which he might convey his box tom s proposition that he should sup with them that night he rejected but made an appointment with him for the morrow and now tom he said as they rode along i have a question to ask you to which i expect a manly and straightforward answer do you want any money i am pretty sure you do i don t indeed said tom i believe you are deceiving me no with many thanks to you i am quite in earnest tom replied my sister has some money and so have i if i had nothing else john i have a five pound note which that good creature mrs of the handed up to me outside the coach in a letter begging me to borrow it and then drove off as hard aa she could go and a blessing on every in her handsome face say i cried john though why you should give her the preference oyer me i don t know never mind i bide my time tom and i hope you ll continue to bide it returned tom gaily for i owe you more already in a hundred other ways than i can ever hope to pay they parted at the door of tom s new residence john sitting in the cab and catching a glimpse of a blooming little busy creature darting out to kiss tom and to help him with his box would not have had the least objection to change places with him well she was a cheerful little thing and had a quaint bright about her that was infinitely pleasant surely she was the best for ever invented the potatoes seemed to take a pleasure in sending up their grateful steam before her the upon the pint of porter to attract her notice but it was all in vain she saw nothing but tom tom was the first and last thing in the world as she sat opposite to tom at supper one of tom s pet tunes upon the table cloth and smiling in his face he had never been so happy in his life and adventures of chapter xiii service in walking from the city with ms sentimental friend tom had looked into the face and brushed against the sleeve of mr man of mystery to the disinterested loan and life company mr naturally passed away from tom s remembrance as he passed out of his view for he didn t know him and had never heard his name a there are a vast number of people in the huge metropolis of england who rise up every morning not knowing where their heads will rest
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clock that means that you will be unfit to listen you think so responded and leaning on he stumbled onward the two passing close in front of the doorway where stood concealed but i am more ready to understand wisdom when drunk than when sober my you do not understand i am a human � the result of an between a and an angel believe me i will listen to with all my devil soul � you will listen to her with all your loving longing heart � and with us two thus attentive the opinions of the rest of the audience will scarcely matter how the street how the old moon dances so did she whirl when clasped his egyptian queen and lost remember the fate of would have been seized and controlled by men such as you are long before now � if there had not always been a woman in the case � a � or a still laughing foolishly he half supporting half leading him with grave and compassion they were soon out of sight and leaving his dark crossed the bridge with an alert step and mounted a steep street leading to the from between the tall leaning houses a glimpse of the sea by the dying moonlight flashed now and again and in the silence of the night the low ripple of small waves against the could be distinctly heard a sense of holy calm impressed him as he paused a moment and the words of an old verse came back to him from some far oflf depth of memory lord christ i would my soul were clear as air with only thy pure radiance falling through he caught his breath hard � there was a sense as of tears in his eyes so proudly and so he muttered yet � has not the and been whose is the blame not with the people secret service who despite the prophet s warning still put their trust in princes � but with the and of the system is like an old ship stuck fast in the and unfit for sailing the wide seas � with of custom and prejudice � and in every gale of wind pulling and straining at a rusty chain anchor but the spirit of change is in the world a hurrying movement that has wings of fire and might possibly be called revolution it is better that the torch should be lighted from the throne than from the he went on his way quickly � till reaching the outer wall of the he was by a to whom he gave the in a low tone the man drew back satisfied and went on mounting from point to point of the cliff till he reached a private gate leading into the wide park lands which skirted the king s palace here stood a muffled and figure evidently watching for him for as soon as he appeared the gate was noiselessly opened for his and he passed in at once then he and the person who had awaited his coming walked together through the scented woods of pine and and talking in low and confidential voices slowly disappeared chapter xiv the king s the de was a heavy and for some time had been growing than was advisable for the dignity of a prime minister he had been defeated of late years in one or two important measures and his had by gradual degrees succeeded in himself into such close connection with the rest of the members of the cabinet that he felt himself being edged out only from political but from the profits so growing somewhat indifferent as well as disgusted at the course affairs were taking he had made up his mind to retire from office as soon as he liad carried through a certain bill which in its results would have the effect of the people of the country while helping on his own interests to a considerable degree at the immediate moment he had a chance of large on the political horizon could not do anything of very great importance without him they were both too deeply involved together in the same schemes in point of fact if could bring the to a fall the could do the same by the two depended on each other and conscious that if gained any fresh accession of power it would be to his s advantage was gradually preparing to gracefully resign his position in the younger and more ambitious man s favour but he was not altogether comfortable in his mind since his last interview with the king the king had shown unusual signs of self will and obstinacy he had presumed to give a command affecting the national policy and moreover he had threatened if his command were not obeyed to address parliament himself on the subject in hand from the throne such an i the king s idea was very to the s mind it had cost him a sleepless night and when he woke to a new day s work he was in an extremely irritable humour he was doubtful how to act � for to complain of the king would not do and to the members of the cabinet as to his majesty s declared determination to dispose of certain difficulties with a foreign power which the had fully up into a flame of war might possibly awaken a storm of and discussion we all want money said the gloomily as he rose from his tumbled bed to take his first breakfast and read his early morning letters � and to crush a small and insolent race whose country is rich in product is simply the act of an orange for the necessary life would be lost of course but we are over and a good war would rid the country of many and and could be provided for by national invested as the think fit and
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the deer and stumbled on the wall of a floor and because he smelt man now they were at the head of the one crooked village street and the beat with his at the barred windows of the blacksmith s house as his the second book torch blazed up in the shelter of the up and out cried and he did not know his own voice for it was years since he had spoken aloud to a man the hill falls the hill is falling up and out oh you within it is our said the blacksmith s wife he stands among his beasts gather the little ones and give the call it ran from house to house while the beasts cramped in the narrow way and huddled round the and puffed impatiently the people hurried into the street � they were no more than seventy souls all told � and in the glare of their they saw their holding back the terrified while the plucked at his skirts and sat on his and roared across the valley and up the next hill shouted leave none behind we follow then the people ran only hill folk can run for they knew that in a you must for the highest ground the valley they fled through the little river at the bottom and panted up the fields on the far side while the and his brethren followed up and up the opposite mountain they climbed calling to each other by name � roll call of the village � and at the miracle of their heels toiled the big by the failing strength of at last the deer stopped in the shadow of a deep pine wood five feet up the his instinct that had warned him of the coming slide told him he would be safe here dropped fainting by his side for the chill of the rain and that fierce climb was killing him but first he called to the scattered ahead stay and count your numbers then whispering to the deer as he saw the lights gather in a stay with me brother stay � till � i� go there was a sigh in the air that grew to a and a that grew to a roar and a roar that passed all sense of hearing and the on which the villagers stood was hit in the darkness and rocked to the blow then a note as steady deep and true as the deep c of the organ drowned everything for perhaps five minutes while the very roots of the pines quivered to it it died away and the sound of the rain falling on miles of hard ground and grass changed to the muffled drums of water on earth that told its own tale never a � not even the priest � was bold enough to speak to the who had saved their lives they crouched under the pines and waited the s� till the day when it came they looked across the valley and saw that what had been forest and field and track ground was one raw red fan shaped with a few trees flung head down on the that red ran high up the hill of their refuge back the little river which had begun to spread into a lake of the village of the road to the shrine of the shrine itself and the forest behind there was no trace for one mile in width and two thousand feet in sheer depth the mountain side had come away bodily dean from head to heel and the villagers one by one crept through the wood to pray before their they saw the standing over him who fled when they came near and they heard the wailing in the branches and moaning up the hill but their was dead sitting cross legged his back against a tree his under his and his face turned to the north east the priest said behold a miracle after a miracle for in this very attitude must all sunny be buried therefore where he now is we will build the temple to our holy man they built the temple before a year was ended a little stone and earth shrine and they called the bill the s hill and they worship there with the miracle of lights and flowers and to this day but they do not know that the saint of their worship is the late sir k c i e d c l d etc once prime minister of the and enlightened state of and or corresponding member of more learned and scientific societies than will ever do any good in this world or the next the second book a song of oh light was the world that he weighed in his hands oh heavy the tale of his and his lands he has gone from the and put on the and departed in guise of now the white road to is mat for his feet the and the must guard him from heat his home is the camp and the waste and the crowd � he is seeking the way a he has looked upon man and his are clear there was one there is one and but one the red mist of doing is to a � he has taken the path a to learn and discern of his brother the of his brother the brute and his brother the god he has gone from the council and put on the can ye hear a letting in the veil them cover them wall them round blossom and and weed let us forget the sight and the sound and the smell and the touch of the breed fat black ash by the here is the white foot rain and the does bring forth in the fields and none may them again and the blind walls unknown o and none may again you will remember if you have
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much gratified by the unusually courteous of the young ladies that he was quite regardless for the moment of martin who stood leaning thoughtfully against the finger post and who after of his fair charge had hardly lifted his eyes from the ground the perfect silence which ensued upon the bustle and departure of the coach together with ttie sharp air of the wintry afternoon roused them both at the same time they turned as by mutual consent and moved off arm in arm how melancholy you are said tom what is the matter nothing worth speaking of said martin very little more than was the matter yesterday and much more i hope than will be the matter to morrow i m out of spirits pinch well cried tom now do you know i am in capital spirits to day and scarcely ever felt more disposed to be good company it was a very kind thing in your john to write to me was it not why yes said martin carelessly i should have thought he would have had enough to do to enjoy himself without thinking of you pinch just what i felt to be so very likely tom rejoined but no he keeps his word and says my dear pinch i often think of you and all sorts of kind and considerate things of that description he must be a devilish good natured said martin somewhat because he can t mean that you know i don t suppose he can eh said tom looking wistfully in his companion s face he says so to please me you think why is it likely rejoined martin with greater earnestness that a yoimg man newly escaped from this of a place and to all the delights of being his own master in london can have much leisure or inclination to think of anything or anybody he has left behind him here i put it to you pinch is it natural after a short reflection mr pinch replied in a more subdued tone that to be sure it was unreasonable to e q any such thing and that he had no doubt martin knew best martin of course i know best martin observed yes i feel that said mr pinch mildly i said so and when he had made this they fell into a blank silence again which lasted they reached home by which time it was dark now miss charity in consideration of the inconvenience of carrying them with her in the coach and the impossibility of preserving them by artificial means until the family s return had set forth in a couple of plates the fragments of yesterday s feast in virtue of which liberal arrangement they had the happiness to find awaiting them in the parlour two heaps of the remains of last night s pleasure consisting of certain bits of some various masses of the cake and several entire captain s that choice liquor in which to steep might not be wanting the remains of the two bottles of wine had been poured together and with a curl paper so that every material was at hand for making quite a heavy night of it martin beheld these preparations with infinite contempt and stirring the fire into a blaze to the great destruction of mr s coals sat down before it in the most comfortable chair he could find that he might the better squeeze himself into the small comer that was left for him mr pinch took up his position on miss mercy s stool and setting his glass down upon the hearth rug and putting his plate upon his knees began to enjoy himself if coming to life again could have himself tub and au into mr s parlour and could have seen tom pinch as he sat on mercy s stool with his plate and glass before him he could not have faced it out though in his mood but must have smiled good the perfect and entire satisfaction of tom his surpassing appreciation of the which in his mouth like the unspeakable relish with which he swallowed the thin wine by drops and his lips as though it were so rich and generous that to lose an of its were a sin the look with which he paused sometimes with his glass in his hand proposing silent to himself and the anxious shade that came upon his i h and of contented face when wandering round the room in its his glance encountered the brow of his companion no in the world though in his hatred of its men a very could have these things in thomas pinch some men would have him on the back and pledged him in a of the wine though it had been the � ay and its too some would have seized him by his honest hand and thanked him for the lesson that his simple nature taught them some would have laughed with and others would have laughed at him of which last class was martin who unable to restrain himself at last laughed loud and long that s right said tom nodding cheer up that s capital at which young martin laughed again and said as soon as he had breath and gravity enough i never saw such a fellow as you are pinch didn t you though said tom well it s very likely you do find me strange because i have hardly seen anything of the world and you have seen a good deal i pretty well for my time of hfe rejoined martin drawing his chair still nearer to the fire and spreading his feet out on the deuce take it i must talk openly to somebody i talk openly to you pinch do said tom i shall take it as being very friendly of you i m not in your way am i inquired martin glancing down at mr pinch who was by
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for the through which i have dragged it and forgiveness of my stomach for the which i have thrust into it have been to the and slept in the and eaten in the also i have run away from the after my two unsuccessful attempts to penetrate the casual ward i started early and joined the desolate line before three o clock in the afternoon they did not met in till six but at that early hour i was number while the news had gone forth that only twenty two were to be admitted by four o clock there were thirty four in line the last ten hanging on in the slender hope of getting in by some kind of a miracle many more came looked at the line and went m the people of the abyss is concerned he is a broken man his only chance to earn a living was by heavy work he is now incapable of performing heavy work and from now until he dies the the and the streets are all he can look forward to in the way of food and shelter the thing happened � that is all he put his back under too great a load of fish and his chance for happiness in life was crossed off the books several men in the line had been to the united states and they were wishing that they had remained there and were cursing themselves for their folly in ever having left england had become a prison to them a prison from which there was no hope of escape it was impossible for them to get away they could neither scrape together the passage money nor get a chance to work their passage the country was too by poor devils on that lay i was on the man who had lost his money tack and they all with me and gave me much sound advice to sum it up the advice was something like this to keep out of all places like the there was nothing good in it for me to head for the coast and bend every effort to get away on a ship to go to work i� possible and scrape together a pound or so with which i might bribe some steward or to the give me chance to work my passage they envied me my youth and strength which would sooner or later get me out of the country these they no longer possessed age and english hardship had broken them and for them the game was played and up there was one however who was still young and who i am sure will in the end make it out he had gone to the united states as a young fellow and in fourteen years residence the longest period he had been out of work was twelve hours he had saved his money grown too prosperous and returned to the mother country now he was standing in line at the for the past two years he told me he had been working as a cook his hours had been from a m to p m and on saturday to a p m � hours per week for which he had received twenty shillings or five dollars but the work and the long hours was killing me he said and i had to the job i had a little money saved but i spent it living and looking for another place this was his first night in the and he had come in only to get rested as soon as he emerged he intended to start for a one hundred mile walk where he thought he would eventually get a ship for the states i the people of the abyss but the men in the were not all of this some were poor wretched beasts inarticulate and but for all of that in many ways very human i remember a evidently returning home after the day s work stopping his cart before us so that his young hopeful who had run to meet him could climb in but the cart was big the young hopeful little and he failed in his several attempts to swarm up whereupon one of the most degraded looking men stepped out of the line and hoisted him in now the virtue and the joy of this act lies in that it was service of love not hire the was poor and the man knew it and the man was standing in the line and the knew it and the man had done the little act and the had thanked him even as you and i would have done and thanked another beautiful touch was that displayed by the and his woman he had been in line about half an hour when the woman his mate came up to him she was fairly clad for her class with a bonnet on her gray head and a covered bundle in her arms as she talked to him he reached forward caught the one stray of the white hair that was flying wild it between his fingers and tucked it back properly behind her ear from all of which one may conclude many things he the liked her well enough to wish her to be neat and tidy he was proud of her standing there in the line and it was his desire that she should look well in the eyes of the other who stood in the line but last and best and all these motives it was a sturdy affection he bore her for man is not prone to bother his head over neatness and in a woman for whom he does not care nor is he likely to be proud of such a woman and i found myself questioning why this man and his mate hard workers i knew from their talk should have to seek a lodging he had pride pride in his
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i knew that the tears meant that she felt herself to be one of those who seemed to very happy misfortunes of many kinds came heavily upon the family after the head was gone the great house was my parents were both dead and my grandmother had entire charge of me but from the moment that i received the gift of the spectacles i could not resist their fascination and i withdrew into myself and became a solitary boy there were not many companions for me of my own age and they gradually left me or at least had not a hearty sympathy with me for if they me i pulled out my spectacles and surveyed them so seriously that they acquired a kind of awe of me and evidently regarded my grand father s gift as a concealed weapon which might be drawn upon them at any moment whenever in our games there were quarrels and high words and i began to feel about my dress and to wear a grave look they all took the alarm and shouted look out for s spectacles and scattered like a flock of scared sheep nor could i wonder at it for at first before they took the alarm i saw strange sights when i looked at them through the glasses if two were quarrelling about a marble or a ball i had only to go behind a tree where i was concealed and look at them leisurely then the scene changed and it was no longer a green meadow with boys but a spot which i did not recognize and forms that made me shudder or smile it was not a big boy a little one but a young wolf with glistening teeth and a lamb before him or it was a dog faithful and or a star going slowly into � or a rainbow fading � or a flower blooming � or a sun rising � or a moon the revelations of the spectacles determined my feeling for the boys and for all whom i saw through them no shyness nor awkwardness nor silence could separate me from those who looked lovely as lilies to my illuminated eyes but the vision made me afraid if i felt myself warmly drawn to any one i struggled with the fierce desire of seeing him through the spectacles for i feared to find him something else than i fancied i longed to enjoy the luxury of ignorant feeling to love without knowing iso to float like a leaf upon the of life drifted now to a sunny point now to a solemn shade � now over glittering now over gleaming � and not to determined ports a trim vessel with an inexorable but sometimes mastered after long struggles as if the condition of the spectacles were using them i seized them and sauntered into the little town putting them to my eyes i peered into the houses and at the people who passed me here sat a family at breakfast and i stood at the window looking in o meal fantastic vision the good mother saw her lord sitting opposite a grave respectable being eating but i saw only a bank bill more or less and tattered marked with a larger or lesser figure if a sharp wind blew suddenly i saw it tremble and flutter it was thin flat i removed my glasses and looked with my eyes at the wife i could have smiled to see the tenderness with which she regarded her strange is life only a game of blind man s of droll cross purposes or i put them on again and then looked at the wives how many stout trees i saw � how many tender flowers � how many placid pools yes and how many little streams winding out of sight shrinking before the large hard round eyes opposite and slipping off into solitude and shade with a low inner song for their own solace in many houses i thought to see angels or at least women and could only find or hurrying about rattling and in a state of shrill activity i made calls upon elegant ladies and after i had enjoyed the of silk and the delicacy of lace and the glitter of jewels i slipped on my spectacles and saw a s feather and and fluttering or an iron rod thin sharp and hard nor could i possibly mistake the movement of the for any of the thing draped or mysteriously chilled i saw a statue of perfect form or flowing movement it might be or bronze or marble � but sadly often it was ice and i knew that after it had shone a little and frozen a few eyes with its despairing perfection it could not be put away in the of palaces for ornament and proud family tradition like the or bronze or marble statues but would melt and shrink and fall coldly away in and useless water � be absorbed in the earth and utterly forgotten but the true sadness was rather in seeing those who not having the spectacles � � m � � � j to � � to � to w v w v i � t � thought that the iron rod was and the ice statue warm i saw many a gallant heart which seemed to me brave and loyal as the pursuing through days and nights and a long life of devotion the hope of lighting at least a smile in the cold eyes if not a fire in the icy heart i watched the earnest enthusiastic sacrifice i saw the pure resolve the generous faith the fine scorn of doubt the impatience of suspicion i watched the grace the the glory of devotion through those strange spectacles how often i saw the noblest heart all other hope all other ambition all other life than the possible love of some one of those statues
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should never regret it he interrupted her quickly if you would be my wife innocent i be the man alive ah dear � do put all your fancies aside and try to what good you would be doing to the old man if he felt quite certain that you would be the little mistress of the old farm he loves so much � i will not speak of myself � you do not care for me � but for him she looked up at him with a sudden light in her eyes could we not pretend she asked what do you mean why pretend that we re engaged � just to satisfy him couldn t you make things easy for me that way i don t quite understand he said with a puzzled air � how would it make things easy why don t you see and she spoke with hurried eagerness � when he comes home to night let innocent him think it s all right � and then � then i ll run away by myself � and it will be my fault innocent what are you talking about � and he flushed with vexation my dear girl if you dislike me so much that you would rather run away than marry me i won t say another word about it i ll manage to smooth things over with my for the present � just to prevent his himself � and you shall not be worried you must not be worried either she said tou will not understand and you do not think � but just suppose it possible that after all my own parents did remember me at last and came to look after me � and that they were perhaps dreadful wicked people robin smiled the man who t you here was a gentleman he said � uncle told me so this morning and said he was the finest looking man he had ever seen innocent was silent a moment you think he was a gentleman to desert his own child she asked robin hesitated dear you don t know the world he said � there may have been all sorts of dangers and difficulties � anyhow don t bear him any grudge he gave you to farm she sighed and made no response they had walked beyond the orchard and were now on the very edge of tiie little thicket where tomb of the de through the shadow of the leaves innocent quickened her steps come die said he followed her reluctantly almost he hated the old stone knight which served her as a subject her fancy and his fact for so many fancies and feelings and when she beckoned him to the spot where she stood beside the he showed a certain irritation of manner which did not escape her tou are cross with him she said reproachfully you must not be so he is the founder of your family and the finish of it i suppose he answered abruptly he stands between us two innocent � a cold stone creature with no heart � and you prefer him to me oh the folly of it all how can you be so cruel she looked at him wistfully � almost her resolution failed her he saw her momentary hesitation and came close up to her you do not know what love is he said catching her hand in his own � innocent you do not know if you did � if i might teach you she drew her hand away very quickly and decidedly love does not want teaching she said � it comes � when it will and where it will it has not come to me and you cannot force it robin if i were your wife � your wife without any wife s love for you � i should grow to hate farm � yes i should � i should pine and die in very place where i have been so happy � and i should feel that le � here she pointed to the � would almost rise from this tomb and me she spoke with sudden almost dramatic vehemence and he gazed at her in mute amazement her eyes flashed and her face was lit up by a glow of inspiration and resolve you take me just for the ordinary sort of girl she went on � a girl to caress and and marry and make the mother of your children � now for innocent that you might choose among the girls about here any of whom would be glad to have you for a husband but do you think i am really fit for that sort of life always � can t you believe in anything else but marriage for a woman as she thus spoke she unconsciously created a new impression on his mind � a veil seemed to be suddenly lifted and he saw her as he had never before seen her � a creature removed isolated and through the force of some intellectual quality which he had not previously suspected he answered her very gently � dear i cannot believe in anything else but love for a woman he said � she was created and intended for love and without love she must surely be unhappy � ah yes she responded quickly � but marriage is not love his brows contracted you must not speak in that way innocent he said seriously � it is wrong � people would you her eyes lightened and she smiled yes � i m sure people would die answered � but people don t matter � to me it is truth that matters � truth � and love he looked at her perplexed why should you think marriage is not love he asked � it is the one thing all lovers wish for � to be married and to live always oh they wish for it yes poor she
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doctor but i don t ff � twist think it is exactly the tale for a practised police officer nevertheless why not demanded rose because my pretty cross replied the doctor because viewed with their eyes there are many ugly about it he can only prove the parts that look iu and none of those that look well confound the fellows they will have the why and the wherefore and will take nothing for granted on his own showing you see he has been the companion of thieves for some time past he has been carried to a on a charge of picking a gentleman s pocket he has been taken away forcibly from that gentleman s house to a place which he cannot describe or point out and of the of which he has not the remotest idea he is down to by men who seem to have taken a violent fancy to him whether he will or no and is put through a � window to rob a house and then just at the very moment when he is going to alarm the inmates and so do the very thing that would set him all to rights there rushes into the a dog of a half bred butler and shoots him as if on purpose to prevent his doing any good for don t you see au this i see it of course replied rose smiling at the doctor s but still i do not see anything in it to j the poor child no replied the doctor of course not bless bright eyes of your sex they never see whether for good or bad more than one side of any question and that always the one which first presents itself to them having given vent to this result of experience the doctor put his hands into his pockets and walked up and down the room with even greater rapidity than before the more i think of it said the doctor the more i � � that it will occasion endless trouble and difficulty if we these men in possession of the boy s real story i am certain it will not be believed and even if they can do nothing to him in the end still the dragging it forward and gi to all the doubts that will be cast upon it interfere materially with your benevolent plan of him from misery oh what is to be done cried rose dear dear why did they send for these people twist why indeed exclaimed mrs would not liave liad them here for the world all i know is said mr at last sitting down with a kind of desperate calmness that we must try and carry it off with a bold face the object is a good one and that must be our excuse the boy has strong symptoms of fever upon him and is in no condition to be talked to any more that s one comfort we must make the best of it and if bad be the best it is no fault of ours come in well master said entering the room followed by his and making the door fast before he said any more this t a put up thing and what the devil s a put up thing demanded the doctor impatiently we call it a put up robbery ladies said turning to them as if he pitied their ignorance but had a contempt for the doctor s when the servants is in it nobody suspected them in this case said mrs likely not ma am replied but they might have been in it for all that more on that account said we find it was a town hand said continuing his report for the style of work is first rate j pretty indeed it is remarked in aa tone there was two of em in it continued and they had a boy with em that s plain from the size window that s all to be said at present we j lad that you ve got up stairs at once if you please perhaps they will take something to drink mrs said the doctor his face brightening as if some new thought had occurred to him oh to be sure exclaimed rose eagerly you shall have it immediately if you will why thank you miss said drawing his across his mouth it s dry work this sort of duty that s handy miss don t put yourself out of the way on our what shall it be asked the doctor the young lady to the a little drop of spirits master if it s all the same replied it s a cold ride fix m london ma am twist and i always find that spirits comes home warmer to tlie feelings this interesting communication was addressed to mrs who received it very graciously while it was being conveyed to her the doctor slipped out of the room ah said mr not holding his wine glass by the stem but grasping the bottom between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand and placing it in front a� his i have seen a good many pieces of business like this in my time ladies that crack down in the back lane at said mr assisting his s memory that was something in this way t it rejoined mr that was done by was you always gave that to him replied the family pet i teu you hadn t any more to do with it than i had get out retorted mr i know better do you mind that time when was robbed of his though what a start that was better than any novel i ever see what was that inquired anxious to any symptoms of good humour in the unwelcome visitors it was a robbery miss that hardly anybody would been down upon said this here means ma am interposed of course
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warrant of attorney � take care of that two � take care of them lease and release � bum that ah � come of age or marry � the said � here bum that eagerly throwing towards the old woman a that he caught up for the purpose as she turned her head thrust into the breast of his large coat the deed in which these words had caught his eye and burst into a shout of triumph i ve got it said i ve got it the plan was a good one though the chance was desperate and the day s our own at last demanded what he laughed at but no answer was returned s arm could no longer be restrained the descending heavily and with aim on the very centre of mr s head him to the floor and stretched him on it flat and senseless vol ii k k z i life and ot chapter xxvi in which one scene of this history is closed dividing the distance into two days journey in order that his charge might the less exhaustion aad fatigue from travelling so far at the end of the second day from their leaving home found himself within a very few miles of the spot where the happiest years of his life had been passed and which while it his mind with pleasant and thoughts brought back many painful and vivid recollections of the circumstances in which he and his had wandered forth from their old home cast upon the rough world and the mercy of strangers it needed no such reflections as those which the memory of old days and wanderings among scenes where our childhood has been passed usually awaken in the most insensible minds to soften the heart of and render him more than usually of his drooping friend by night and day at all times and seasons always attentive and and never varying in the discharge of his duty to one so and helpless as he whose sands of life were now fast running out and rapidly away he was ever at his side he never left him to encourage and him administer to his wants support and cheer him to the utmost of his power was now his constant and occupation they procured a humble lodging in a small farm house surrounded by meadows where had often when a child with a troop of merry and here they took up their rest at first was strong enough to walk about for short distances at a time with no other support or aid than that which could afford him at this time nothing appeared to interest him so much as visiting those places which had been m familiar to his friend in days � yielding to this fancy and pleased to find that its indulgence the sick boy of many tedious hours and never to afford him matter for thought and conversation afterwards made such spots the scenes of their daily driving him from place to place in a little pony chair and supporting him on his arm while they walked slowly among these old or lingered in the sunlight to take long parting looks of those which were most quiet and it was on such occasions as these that yielding almost to the interest of old associations would point out some tree that he had climbed a times to peep at the yoimg birds in their nest and the branch � rom which he used to shout to little who stood below terrified at the height he had gained and yet urging him higher still by the of her admiration there was the old house too which they would pass every day looking up at the tiny window through which the sim used to stream in and wake him on the summer mornings � they were all summer mornings then � and climbing up the garden wall and looking over could see the veiy rose bush which had come a present to from some lover and she had planted with her own hands there were the hedge rows where the brother and sister had so often gathered wild flowers together and the green fields and shady paths where they had so n strayed there was not a lane or brook or or cottage near with which some childish event was not and back it came upon the mind � as events of childhood do � nothing in itself perhaps a word a laugh a look some slight distress a passing thought or fear and yet more strongly and distinctly marked and better remembered than the hardest or sorrows of a year ago one of these led them through the churchyard where was his father s grave even here said softly we used to before we knew what death was and when we little thought whose ashes would rest beneath and wondering at the silence sit down to rest and speak below our breath once was lost and after an hour of fruitless search they her fast asleep that tree which shades my father s grave he was very fond of her and said when he took her up in his arms still sleeping that � r he died he would wish to be buried where his dear little had laid her head you see his wish was not forgotten aa z e and adventures of nothing more passed at the time but that night as sat beside his bed started from what had seemed to be a slumber and laying his hand in his prayed as the tears down his face that he would make him one solemn promise what is that said kindly if i can redeem it or hope to do so you know i wiu i am sure you wiu was the reply promise me that when i die i shall be buried near � as near as they can make my grave � to
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and the hunters slowly and filled themselves to the very brim with seal meat and the girl told their tale the two dogs sat between them and whenever their names came in they cocked an ear apiece and looked most thoroughly ashamed of themselves a dog who has once gone mad and recovered the say is safe against all further attacks so the did not forget us said the storm blew the ice broke and the seal swam in behind the fish that were frightened by the storm now the new seal holes are not two days distant let the good hunters go to morrow and bring back the seal i have � twenty five seal buried in their ice when we have eaten those we will all follow the seal on the what do you do said the village in the same sort of voice as he used to richest of the looked at the girl from the north and said quietly we build a house he pointed to the north west side of s house for that is the side on which the married son or daughter always lives the girl turned her hands palm upward with a little despairing shake of her head she was a foreigner picked up starving and she could bring nothing to house keeping jumped from the bench where she sat and began to sweep things into the girl s lap � iron skin tin deer skins embroidered with ox teeth and real such as sailors use � the finest ever given on the far edge of the circle and the girl from the north bowed her head down to the very floor also these said laughing and to the dogs who thrust their cold into the face ah said the with an important cough as though he had been thinking it all over as soon as left the village i went to the singing the second book house and sang magic i sang all the long nights and called upon the spirit of the my singing made the gale blow that broke the ice and drew the two dogs towards when the ice would have crushed his bones my song drew the seal in behind the broken ice my body lay still in the but my spirit ran about on the ice and guided and the dogs in all the things they did did it everybody was full and sleepy so no one contradicted and the helped himself to yet another lump of boiled meat and lay down to sleep with the others in the warm well lighted oil smelling home � � � now who drew very well in the style pictures of all these adventures on a long flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end when he and the girl went north to land in the year of the wonderful open winter he left the picture story with who lost it in the when his dog broke down one summer on the beach of lake at and there a lake found it next spring and sold it to a man at who was on a sound and he sold it to who was afterwards a on board a big steamer that took to the north cape in when the season was over the steamer ran between london and stopping at and there sold the ivory to a for two imitation i found it under some rubbish in a house at and have translated it from one end to the other is a very free translation of the song of the returning hunter as the men used to sing it after seal the always repeat things over and over again our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood our with the drifted snow as we come in with the seal � the seal in from the edge of the au and the dog go and the long crack and the men come back back from the edge of the we the seal to his secret place we heard him scratch below th� second book io the second book we made our mark and we watched beside out on the edge of the we raised our lance when he rose to breathe we drove it downward � so and we played him thus and we killed him thus out on the edge of the our gloves are with the frozen blood our eyes with the drifting snow but we come back to our wives again back from the edge of the and the dog go and the wives can hear their men come hack back from the edge of the red dog for our and our excellent nights � for the nights of swift running fair far seeing good hunting sure cunning for the smells of the dawning ere dew has departed for the rush through the mist and the started for the cry of our mates when the has wheeled and is standing at bay for the risk and the riot of night for the sleep at the mouth by day � it is met and we go to the fight bay o bay it was after the letting in of the that the part of s life began he had the good conscience that comes from paying a just debt and all the was his friend for all the was afraid of him the things that he did and saw and heard when he was wandering from one people to another with or without his four companions would make many many stories each as long as this one so you will never be told how he met and escaped from the mad elephant of who killed two and twenty drawing eleven carts of silver to the government treasury and l the second book scattered the shiny in the dust how he fought the all one long night in the of the north and broke his knife on
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rise into the air with colours waving with them rose a forest huge of and appear d and in thick array of depth anon they move in perfect to the mood of and soft such as raised to height of noblest temper heroes old to battle and instead of rage deliberate breathed firm and unmoved with dread of death to flight or foul retreat nor wanting power to and with solemn touches troubled thoughts and chase th english poets anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain from mortal or immortal minds thus they breathing united force with fixed thought moved on in silence to soft pipes that charm d their painful steps o er the burnt soil and now advanced in view they stand a horrid front of dreadful length and dazzling arms in guise of warriors old with order d spear and shield awaiting what command their mighty chief had to impose he through the armed his experienced eye and soon the whole views their order due their and stature as of gods their number last he sums and now his heart with pride and in his strength glories for never since created man met such embodied force as named with these could merit more than that small d on by though all the giant brood of with the heroic race were join d that fought at and on each side mix d with gods and what in fable or romance of s son with british and knights and all who since or in or or or or whom sent from shore when with all his fell by thus far these beyond compare of mortal yet observed their dread commander he above the rest in shape and gesture proudly eminent stood like a tower his form had yet not lost all her original brightness nor appeared less than ruin d and the excess of glory obscured as when the sun new risen looks through the misty air of his beams or from behind the moon john milton in dim disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations and with fear of change darkened so yet shone above them all the but his face deep of thunder had d and care sat on his faded cheek but under brows of courage and considerate pride waiting revenge cruel his eyes but cast signs of remorse and passion to behold the fellows of his crime the followers rather far other once beheld in bliss condemned for ever now to have their lot in pain millions of spirits for his fault of heaven and from eternal flung for his revolt yet faithful how they stood their glory d as when heaven s fire hath the forest oaks or mountain pines with top their stately growth though bare stands on the heath he now prepared to speak their doubled ranks they bend from wing to wing and half him round with all his attention held them mute thrice he d and thrice in spite of scorn tears such as angels weep burst forth at last words with sighs found out their way o of immortal spirits i o powers but with the almighty and that strife was not though the event was dire as this place and this dire change hateful to utter but what power of mind or from the depth of knowledge past or present could have fear d how such united force of gods how such as stood like these could ever know for who can yet believe though after loss that all these whose exile hath emptied heaven shall fail to self raised and their native seat for me be witness all the host of heaven the english poets if counsels different or dangers d by me have lost our hopes but he who monarch in heaven till then as one secure sat on his throne by old consent or custom and his state put forth at fuu but still his strength concealed which tempted our attempt and wrought our fall henceforth his might we know and know our own so as not either to provoke or dread new war provoked our better part remains to work in dose design by fraud or what force effected not that he no less at length from us may find who by force hath overcome but half his foe space may produce new worlds whereof so there went a fame in heaven that he ere long intended to create and therein plant a generation whom his choice regard should favour equal to the sons of heaven thither if but to shall be perhaps our first thither or elsewhere for this infernal pit shall never hold celestial spirits in bondage nor the abyss long under darkness cover but these thoughts full counsel must mature peace is despair d for who can think submission war then war open or understood must be resolved he and to confirm his words out millions of flaming swords drawn from the of mighty the sudden blaze far round hell highly they raged against the highest and fierce with grasped arms on their sounding the din of war defiance toward the vault of heaven there stood a hill not far whose top d fire and rolling smoke the rest entire shone with a glossy sign that in his was hid ore the work of thither winged with speed john milton a numerous hasten d as when bands of with and arm d the royal camp to a field or cast a led them on the least erected spirit that fell from heaven for e en in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward bent admiring more the riches of heaven s pavement trodden gold than aught divine or holy else enjoy d in vision by him first men also and by his suggestion taught d the centre and with hands the of their mother earth for treasures better hid soon had his crew open d into the hill
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king smiled because birds voices were to be heard in the trees and bushes and something golden bright was rising out of the edge of the ocean and sparkling light danced on the waves it rose higher and higher and grew so dazzling and wonderful that he threw out his little hand with a shout of joy the next moment he started back because there rose near him a loud and beating of powerful wings as a great bird flew out of near by and high into the radiant morning heavens it is the eagle who is our neighbor said the ancient one he has l and gone to give his greeting to the sun f the land of the blue flower and as the little king sat upright he saw that from the dazzling brightness at the edge of the world there leaped forth a ball of living gold and fire and even he knew that the sun had risen at every day s dawn it leaps forth like that said the ancient one let us watch together and i will tell you stories of it so they sat by the and the stories were told they were stories of the small lying hid in the dark earth waiting for the golden heat of the sun to draw them forth into life until they covered the fields with waving wheat to make bread for the world they were stories of the seeds of fair flowers warmed and until they j burst into scented blossoms they were i i fl � m p i the land of the blue flower stories of the roots of trees and the rich sap drawn upward by the heat until great branches and thick waved in the summer air they were stories of men women and children walking with light step and glad because of the gold of the sun every day it every day it draws every day it and gives life and there are many who forget the wonder of it lift your head high as you walk young king and often look upward never forget the sun at every dawning they rose and saw together the wonder of the day and the first time the sky was heavy with gray clouds and the sun did not leap upward from behind the edge of the world the ancient one said another thing the burning gold is behind the � i � i the land of the blue flower lowering gray and purple the clouds are heavy with soft rain when they break they will drop it in showers or splendid storms and the thirsty earth will drink it up the will drink it and the seed and the roots and the world will be joyous and rich with fresh life the springs will up like crystal and the will rush through the green of the forest the drinking places for the cattle will be full and clear and men and women will feel rested and cool lift your head high when you walk young king and often look upward never forget the clouds so hearing these things every day king learned the meaning of both sun and cloud and loved and felt himself brother to both w� � � i i m mm r m h w i h i� � i t fm ma � � � � � m the land of the blue flower the first time he remembered seeing a storm the ancient one took him to the again and together they watched the dark clouds pour down their floods while their purple was by the dazzling of the lightning and the thunder rolled and and seemed to asunder things no human eye could see and the wind roared round the castle on the mountain and beat against its towers and tossed the branches of the trees and whirled the rain in sheets over the land � and king stood erect and strong like some little soldier though he wondered where the small birds were and if the eagle were in his nest through all the tumult the ancient one stood still he looked taller than � � i i k � i m tn m � m m m t t i � w w h n i i i t i the land of the blue flower i ever in his long gray robe and strange eyes were deep as the sea i at last he said in a slow calm voice this is the voice of the power men � i know not no man has yet quite i understood � though it seems to speak j to it let your soul stand j silent listen young king hold your head high as you walk and often look j upward never forget the storm j so the king learned to love the storm be one with it knowing no fear but perhaps � it might be because j he had been laid on the scented moss i and had without knowing it saluted j i them on the first night of his life � he i felt nearest to and loved most his brothers the stars every fair night through the king s i earliest years the ancient one carried i t t i i i i the land of the blue flower him to the and let him fall asleep beneath the shining but first he would walk about bearing him in his arms or sit with him in the splendid silence sometimes relating wonders to him in a low voice sometimes uttering no word only looking calmly into the high vault above as if the stars spoke to him and told him of perfect peace when a man looks long at them he said he grows calm and forgets small things they answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds hold your soul still and
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is true test of the prosperity of a country their welfare is the welfare of the state and all just and reasonable calculated to maintain and advance the present high standard of in this regard and to to all the full enjoyment of the fruits of their labor should receive our earnest approbation and support governor s � the council in firmly yet courteously its duties as bv the constitution and as by the and in serving as a check upon and arbitrary action has fulfilled its high constitutional function and deserves the of the people of the for s patriotic co operation invited � in support of the principles in the foregoing we the co of all i � men without to and e� of all working men to whom than to any a v� p nd a ain we are th of this and of its influence in the country at large and e� of all working men to whom s � � free and � e trade would alike prove the evil and results of and of its influence in the country at large ave become so manifest as to the people and to prove that in all efforts to promote food and their chief reliance is as the best and highest of the country of and business in foreign and domestic affairs te state and nation demand of party and the triumph of its es and that we are to achieve de r b to the of the national party people on the ul and patriotic administration of governor k and excellent of s department by tlie incumbent wm d t ir j wo a d members of ill as well as ba ta p lo by being mode oc un table to tho n s wo ih ms of in al address in i bo boards and and also m at the of the in to give the the lull r removal tjie council we th� of the io ji ol il the of tb thy action by the or the in of fit mn e � y till t o t the unfair of ad by the which the of a council tliat t ly political of the schools � wo b in school h t it l only hi their e but in their in i r w� ore ib oc of tar i t r and of m the ant hi f we ht the � mad by ft in his � and ihe of l lu in for an of of tj the people that an to the constitution is this year submitted for that which requires the payment of a tax as a for � we regret that the of a republican candidate tor governor who ae a against this renders it necessary that we should urge every friend of the to vote yea at the election sympathy with all wise and constitutional measures in the interest of manual labor upon this subject in platform of last year contained in the governor s message and his action in regard to evils of system ca last state platform in to wider powers to cities and towns and tm act of last giving to right to furnish gas and electric light � demand for of provisions which of duty for of a genuine measure ot reform and that iii taxes upon food and and also upon t e crude or partly materials necessary in tbe process of our domestic should be � administration for destroying the of the for the sake of furnishing political spoils to bring for the of of the civil service law the of the civil service com for the dismissal of who have openly defied the law and for the active if f i politics the of government tor purposes � lu honest money tjie and of the and in tt t into such to� fl ion t the form policy of the n i of t we r wc bt li vn that by the t i should be of that um by g � inn should be in sold or n win t the r t of the r t at the discretion ul th of the ve declare ru our opposition t� it which n its to tend to credit and to in less than t while v by j eve in th use pr sold nd silver the y and in the of latter metal bv int i we r or i os i to the free and d ot e of silver br our government of the ai t� of other nations tf tho a slim t en at the last of state and x la � of bid tor and th of the silver by tlie administration as to silver in with the bargain then made th� t p rt has since missed an act ing the purchases of by the treasury from about to i this measure dictated by the of by the own rs who demanded a government on their product of au e of honest money and could not have become a law without the of ttie re members of from this act increasing two and a times the of eighty o ts worth of sa into a dollar compelling the treasury to become the eveiy day of tons of or more than the whole � f w l year to the of tb the maintenance ol a sound and stable and if not repeated to ihe � tion of and bring the of the to a silver basis we therefore the claim o� the of this state that they e the friends of a sound as false and and charge them with the � le and direct re for the present of the t people s action of conference at on and demands that and sale of all be conducted by or demands that au public be subject
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to speak it for himself he hardly thought just as he had his happiness and good name in the past now he his happiness in the future but for every pang that he had suffered for the elder he suffered a thousand now as he watched the form from which there came neither sound nor sob though the sod alone knew what bitter tears fell from the eyes pressed close above them and she wept for him though his heart half broke to see her suffer yet exultation swelled it � just as that divine revelation of her love when they had met by the rose bush had at once and stunned him for hopelessly passionately as he loved her he had never looked for or expected any return in kind and beneath that heavenly shock body and soul had cried out fiercely against duty when she had bid him stay and he had with the temptation and cast it out he had put this most exquisite moment of his life almost by and as a beggar into whose hand has been dropped a he had turned away nor thanked her for that precious gift nay had he not even seemed to scorn her when in that strange ghostly meeting in the moonlight he had fled her o e a l stretched hand and the sound of her sweet voice calling him through the wood the echo of those notes of love lingered in his ears yet yet he had taken ones with him when by sheer self mastery he had forced himself from that day only to find that his will compelled him to return so that at the risk of his neck he had leaped from the train soon after it had cleared the station and come straight hither bent on one last secret look at her one last farewell for fresh in his memory was her cold good morning sir spoken with the fine air too proud to be contempt that certain women can assume at will and that had set at such a distance as to make him doubt if his eyes and ears had not played him false and he had half expected to find her indifferent to his departure or at most but a httle ashamed that she had forgotten her legitimate lover to exchange a look of love with a man old enough to be her father and for whom she had always borne the affection of a friend but here in this recess to which her childish hand had once guided him she was herself and unconsciously the true and tender heart was to his gaze perhaps some sense of the wrong he did her by his presence smote him perhaps a sense that his strength was failing him made him resolute to leave her before he should be discovered for with one last long look at the half hidden face one gesture as of despair towards her he turned slowly away something beneath his foot and she sprang up for a moment the gap between her thoughts of in the spirit and his presence here in the flesh was not to be � � her tears her sobs ceased she e stood still as a statue each muscle tense and rigid as steel he said his voice broke the spell once more she breathed and a faint colour her features but into her eyes came a look that fell on him chill as ice as to hide the tears that blotted her face she said have you lord s permission to be here her voice was gentle for was of the sort that can rail at herself but not at her lover or what she loves and though anger alone at his intrusion then filled her mind her eyes and lips told each a different tale yes i have his permission then i will leave you to enjoy it she said and moved to depart what had he not her enough was not her very glance of love by the rose bush won from her under false since he knew himself pledged to another woman and that woman the same he had before her eyes to day i say was not all this enough without returning secretly to spy on her in this her most miserable hour no you will stay he said resolutely and so you love me � i know it now that sir she said with spirit is a lesson very easily is it he said i have learned but one for my love for you is but a of the old then must be satisfied with a new said with a half mocking courtesy he exclaimed what has she to do with me nothing except that she is your � sweetheart my sweetheart echoed frank an angry flush rising fo s to his forehead who has told you such an insane story � but he got no answer had turned her head aside that he might not see the joy that painted her face � joy even though she knew that not all the weight of his love nor hers could bridge the gulf that divided them and you believed it t he said perhaps never having felt the degradation of his position so keenly as then and is that why you said good morning as if i were your footman t does one call one s footman sir t said half turning and showing such happy and eyes still wet of such pure content as read him her heart more sweetly even than her tears had done and you can be happy i he said almost with a groan and after to day we shall never look upon each other s faces again do we not love one another she said at once proudly and gently and is not that enough no it is not enough for me he said and drew his breath hard looking
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miles among fantastic rocks but i lost my way and came to an end of all tracks in a wild about six miles i took another track and rode about eight miles without seeing a creature i then came to strange with wonderful upright rocks of all shapes and colours and turning through a gate of rock came upon what i knew must be as wild and romantic a as imagination ever pictured the track then passed down a valley close under some ghastly peaks wild cold awe inspiring scenery after a creek several times i came upon a decayed looking cluster of houses bearing the name of city and two miles farther on from the top of one of the foot hill i saw the bleak looking scattered houses of the ambitious watering place of springs the goal of my journey of miles i got off put on a long skirt and rode though the settlement scarcely looked like a place where any deference to prejudices was necessary a queer looking place it is out on the bare plains yet it is rising and likely to rise and has some big a lady s life in x hotels much resorted to it has a fine view of the mountains specially of s peak but the celebrated springs are at three miles off in really fine scenery to me no place could be more than springs from its utter i found the s living in a small room which served for parlour bedroom and kitchen and combined the comforts of all it is inhabited also by two dogs a and a it was truly mrs cooked an excellent and her husband got the tea ready they dispense with the comfort and certain discomfort of a hired girl mrs walked with me to the boarding house where i slept and we sat some time in the parlour talking with the landlady opposite to me there was a door wide open into a bedroom and on a bed opposite to the door a very sick looking young man was half lying half sitting fully dressed supported by another and a very sick looking young man much resembling him passed in and out occasionally or leaned on the chimney piece in an attitude of extreme soon the door was half closed and some one came to it saying rapidly quick a candle and then there were about in the room all this time the seven or eight people in the room in which i was were talking laughing and playing and none laughed louder than the landlady who was sitting where she saw that letter x the rocky mountains mysterious door as plainly as i did all this time and during the in the room i saw two large white feet sticking up at the end of the bed i watched and watched hoping those feet would move but they did not and somehow to my thinking they grew and and then my horrible suspicion deepened that while we were sitting there a human spirit and desolate had passed forth into the night then a man came out with a bundle of clothes and then the sick young man groaning and sobbing and then a third who said to me with some feeling that the man who had just died was the sick young man s only brother and still the landlady laughed and talked and afterwards said to me it turns the house down when they just come here and die we shall be half the night laying him out i could not sleep for the bitter cold and the sound of the sobs and groans of the brother the next day the landlady in a made black dress was bustling about proud of the arrival of a handsome coffin i went into the parlour to get a needle and the door of that room was open and children were running in and out and the landlady who was sweeping there called cheerily to me to come in for the needle and there to my horror not even covered with a face cloth and with the sun blazing in through the window lay that thing of terror a corpse on some chairs which were a lady s life in not even placed straight it was buried in the afternoon and from the looks of the brother who continued to sob and moan his end cannot be far off the s say that many go to the springs in the last of consumption thinking that the climate will cure them without money enough to pay for even the board we talked most of that day and i equipped myself with and warm gloves for the mountain tour which has been planned for me and i gave the sabbath she was entitled to on tuesday for i found on arriving at the springs that the day i crossed the divide was sunday though i did not know it several friends of miss called on me she is much remembered and beloved this is not an expensive tour we cost about ten shillings a day and the five days which i have spent en route from have cost something less than the fare for the few hours journey by the cars there are no real difficulties it is a splendid life for health and enjoyment all my luggage being in a pack and my conveyance being a horse we can go anywhere where we can get food and shelter great of the october this is a highly picturesque place with several springs s ill and the virtues of which were well known to the indians near it are places letter x the rocky mountains the names of which are familiar to every one � the garden of the gods s peak monument park and the pass it has two or three immense hotels and a few houses situated it is thronged by thousands of people
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and that upon your own account you white faced fool t it bad enough to have this misfortune thrown in my face by other people or at least of running the risk of having it thrown wherever i am wherever i go without you doing it then why not stay here bill interrupted the woman clasping her hands and speaking very hurriedly no one it here no one ever can know it we have enough and to spare for a long time to come to keep ns as we are living now and who knows but that before it is all gone those expectations of which you speak may turn to realities i will work for you slave for you the s lady told me only yesterday that my lace work if i should ever need to sell it would fetch a great deal among some great folks she knows let us stay here where yon are safe and out of temptation oh never let ns go back again to where all is suspicion and fear and danger and one never knows what shame and sorrow the morrow may bring forth we have never been so well off as we are here what a pleasant house this is to dwell in and only think how cheap in place are the things you value most � more i sometimes think even than me � the brandy and the wine and the tobacco there is something in that observed mr although all the rest is except about the lace work i don t forbid yon to sell any thing for what it will fetch only you must say it s for a charity and not for ourselves it will never do to let folks here suppose that i am any thing else than a gentleman living upon his independent means as indeed i am as he sat with his feet lodged on the comer of the table tobacco upon the carpet and occasionally using a fork instead of a the including the s lady must have been indeed if they assigned to mr william the social rank which he thus to himself but it was plain that the speaker entertained no doubt of their if mrs had had a little more of that wisdom so often attributed to her sex and which the serpent perhaps gave to eve in not excessive compensation for she would have permitted her husband to undisturbed that of reflection for which ho was now obviously inclined and left the seed of her suggestion alone to and of itself but she renewed her dear bill she you can not think how i wish i could persuade you not to leave this place until some really better fortune smiles upon you we have nothing to complain of here � what broke in the man impatiently nothing to complain of it is all very well for you who have got me all to yourself to and make a fool of but it s not well for me why i have not a soul to speak to from morning to night even if there is any body worth speaking to which i deny they can nothing else but french do you think i am one of those who can stare at the sky nd sea a beggar on horseback all day and want no other society than and like that painter who was here last month � you t yes of course i have you who however are neither so young nor so pretty as you used to be � there you need not cry you it s of yours of course and i don t say but what you are well enough in your way only a man wants a man to talk to him and to smoke with him and to drink with him you are no to a long headed fellow like how should you be i am very sorry bill replied the woman sadly i do my best there was a time when you said you could be h with me anywhere and i am sure this place of all others that i have seen or read of seems made to be happy in and she turned towards the window as though to gaze upon the fair prospect it afforded or perhaps to hide her tears i wonder where now did this woman pick up that sort of nonsense observed mr william not from her mother if all tales i have heard of her be true and mn dean the who brought her up i wonder whether he was her uncle he ought to have been something nearer since he gave her a hundred pounds as a wedding and yet she never � could have inherited such notions from him well i suppose i must humor her a bit so long as we are shut up alone together in this wretched hole � look here i am not angry with you you know why should i be it s only that i felt a little i am glad it was only that bill returned she quietly but still keeping her face averted f course it was � now don t be in the remember what my mother told you that you would always find me a good husband if only you kept a smiling face but i do hate black looks and especially in one s wife mrs sighed and turning from the window came towards her husband with the smile required your mother was always very fond of you bill and i am afraid she spoiled you just a little my father made up for that was the sullen reply for he never had a civil word to say to me and as for the old woman she seems to have got over her extreme devotion to her offspring since she has not written to me near a well bill you must allow you don t
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list of plates our at church i am received by mr the friendly waiter and i my musical breakfast and mr changes at home mrs casts a da ip on our departure my magnificent order at the public house i make myself known to my aunt the momentous interview i return to the doctor s after the part somebody turns up my first fall in life we arrive unexpectedly at mr s fireside i make the acquaintance of miss in hovering near us at the dinner party i fall into we are disturbed in our xiv list op plates i find mr going out with the tide mr and mrs my aunt me mr and his partner wait upon my aunt mr some remarks makes a figure in parliament and i report the wanderer and i in conference with the i am married our housekeeping mr dick my aunt s the river mr s dream comes true restoration of mutual confidence between mr and mrs my child wife s old companion i am the bearer of evil tidings the � � � i am shown two interesting a stranger calls to see me page line from bottom of page for bo read from bottom of page make the same from bottom of page make the same from top of page make the same twenty lines in advance make the same line from bottom of page c� nor read personal history and experience david the chapter i i am born whether i shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else these pages must show to begin my life with the beginning of my life i record that i was born as i have been informed and believe on a at twelve o clock at night it was remarked that the clock began to strike and i began to cry simultaneously in consideration of the day and hour of my birth it was declared by the nurse and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted first that i was destined to be unlucky in life and secondly that i was privileged to see ghosts and spirits both these gifts inevitably as they believed to all unlucky of either born towards the small hours on a night i need say nothing here on the first head because nothing can show better than my history whether that was or by the result on the second branch of the question i will only remark that unless i ran through that part of my inheritance while i was still a baby i have not come into it yet but i not at all complain of having been kept out of this property and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it he is heartily welcome to keep it i was born with a which was advertised for sale in the newspapers at the low price of fifteen guineas whether sea going people were short of money about that time or were short of faith and preferred cork i don t know all i know is that there was but one solitary bidding and that was from an attorney connected with the business who offered two pounds in cash and the balance in b the personal and experience but declined to be from drowning on any higher bargain consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss � for as to my poor dear mother s own was in the market then � and ten years afterwards the was put up in a down in our part of the country to fifty members at half a crown a head the to spend five shillings i was present myself and i remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused at a part of myself being disposed of in that way the was won i recollect by an old lady with a hand basket who very reluctantly produced from it the five shillings all in and short � as it took an immense time and a great waste of to endeavour without any effect to prove to her it is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there that she was never drowned but died triumphantly in bed at ninety two i have understood that it was to the last her boast that she never had been on the water in her life except upon a bridge and that over her tea to w hich she was extremely partial she to the last expressed her indignation at the of and others who had the presumption to go about the world it was in vain to represent to her that some tea perhaps included resulted from this objectionable practice she always returned with greater emphasis and with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection let us have no not to myself at present i will go back to my birth i was bom at in or thereby as they say in scotland i was a child my father s eyes had closed upon the light of this world six months when mine opened on it there is something strange to me even now in the reflection that he never saw me and something stranger yet in the shadowy remembrance that i have of my first childish associations with his white grave stone in the churchyard and of the compassion i used to feel for it lying out alone there in the dark night when our little parlor was warm and bright with fire and candle and the doors of house were � almost cruelly it seemed to me sometimes � bolted and locked against it an aunt of my father s and consequently a great aunt of mine of whom i shall have more to relate by and by
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him he will have no a noble artist he has visions of excellence and revelations of beauty which he has neither in character nor embodied in words his life and are but studies for yet nobler experience a man s idea of god to his ideal of himself the he is the more exalted his god his own culture and discipline are a revelation of divinity he the divine character as he his own humanity is the glass of divinity experience of the soul is a revelation of god obedience obedience is the of the soul it is the oi of immediate inspiration the of the it is the method of revelation the law of all culture � the laws of the soul and of nature are and in the spirit of god and are ever themselves through conscience in man and gravity in things man s body and the world are organs through which the of the spiritual universe are justified to reason and sense disease and misfortune are of of the divine law written in the letter of pain and evil worship the of the soul is in her relations to god man nature herself life with its varied duties is her ordained worship labor and meditation her whatsoever this order is and a holy spirit she all times places services and perpetually she her temples and ministers at the of her divinity her flames always toward heaven and the spirit of god to her except a man be bom of water and of spirit he cannot apprehend eternal life is is sight john repent resolve � thus yourself in this of and become a of the kingdom of god conceive of slaughter and flesh eating in tradition tradition the young ages who health or disease insight or ignorance or as the sa g stream of life flows down from of or luxury from times of wisdom or folly honor or shame the world yourself and you shall possess the world yourself and god man s is his duty alone is necessity might this the actual circumstance to do its bidding and the arms of fidelity win the crown of heaven and invest the soul with the attributes of god all men honor and make her their she wins all hearts all vulgar natures do her homage the flee and the and become in her imperial presence she is the of the world gentleness i love to regard all souls as yet in their prime and of being nor would i rudely a fellow creature but treat him as tenderly as an infant i would be gentle gentleness is the of graces and all men joy in it yet seldom does it appear on earth not in the face of man nor yet often in that of woman o but in the countenance of childhood it sometimes even amidst the violence the that beset it there for a little while fed by divine fires the serene flame but soon and dies away choked by the passions and of sense � its embers alone in the of men individuals individuals are sacred institutions as they cherish and reverence the individual the world the state the church the school all are they the of the heart god with bis saints and holds to the same and time her of just v on their heads a man is divine than rulers or powers ordained of time the people look always for a political not spiritual they desire a ruler from the world not from heaven � a monarch who shall both church and state to their and so church and state become functions of the world and with his court of priests and the throne of conscience in the soul to rule saints and for a time is it the of man s conscience it speaks not from the lively of the soul but reads instead from the traditions of men it history not life it as and the of the individual the inspiration of souls and human and between conscience and god it the saints from its bosom and with these as the of also christians christians lean on not on the soul such was not the doctrine of this noble he taught man s independence of all men and a faith and trust in the soul herself christianity is the doctrine of self support it teaches man to be upright not gives his arm to none save those who stand erect independent of church state or the world in the integrity of self insight and cast aside thy o and by faith in the soul arise and walk thy faith alone shall make thee whole the of the soul draws near inspiration silent long is the lips of and and soon shall the vain of men die away and their ears be given to the words of the holy ghost their tongues with celestial eloquence sayings it is because the is immortal that all her organs and are again renewed growth and decay ture and tread fast on the heel of the other birth death death birth the is ever putting off corruption the immortal nature indeed is but the ashes of the departed soul and the body her urn things are of ideas ideas the body of laws laws the breath of god all nature is the of the risen soul life her and scripture her eternity the soul doth not chronicle her age her consciousness opens in the of tradition she is in mystery and her infancy invested in fable yet a celestial light this obscurity of birth and her spiritual of the world prior to time elder than her neither spaces times publish her date memory is the history hope the prophecy of her eternity she is with god c silence silence is the to wisdom wit is silent and her children by their reverence of the of the breast inspiration is dumb a listener to
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hands upon a fly ejaculated x it is very difficult said y with the air of a man who had never tried the last experiment and i have now learned for the first time why the lower orders put their knives in their mouths the principal spectacle of the day was now the four public schools of and had each sent its of eleven apiece to contend for the shield each school had its own uniform and all seemed full of anxiety and de corps the mothers and sisters of these young gentlemen also in great numbers and their heightened colour and eager eyes not only the interest they felt in the but were also exceedingly becoming chairs where allotted to the ladies in the best places to command a view of the proceedings and behind them stood the vast throng of male spectators the first range at by lights and shadows which the boys were to was only two hundred yards so that the could almost be noted without the aid of the s flags these were of three colours white to an outer striking the outside division of the and counting one blue for a centre counting two and red and white for a bull s eye counting three the young stepped out one by one from their took aim with as much deliberation as they pleased and having fired waited with straining eyes and parted lips for the flag to appear from behind the s butt if it was a centre there was a murmur of well done or but if it was a bull s eye there was a round of kid glove hand clapping a waving of embroidered handkerchiefs from the ladies and a or from the men a more pleasant spectacle can scarcely be imagined and the shooting was exceedingly good the however in whom y took an interest such as i should not have supposed him capable of did not come off by of london life victorious which he took great pains to explain to us was owing to their devotion to th ey have no time to give their attention to rifle practice as these other mere dry bob schools can do you see this enthusiasm in such a man for the place of his education was very striking and strange to me tom having as yet taken no root in young at the next a match was going forward which excited scarcely less interest � the contest between the lords and from the circumstance of the former not having their robes and which had been evidently expected by some of the there was no little dispute as to which branch of the the respective belonged it was a comfort however to feel that one s sympathies could not at the worst be thrown away upon anybody under a member of parliament and we enjoyed the schools which have not the advantage of a river in their neighbourhood vol i h by lights and shadows spectacle from that pious feeling that every transport in the when in presence of persons we did not go it as in the former case but when the first range was done and the lords won it we could not forbear to cheer a little let law religion virtue morals die exclaimed x from a well known poem but leave us stiu our old nobility at the same time added he instead of following them to their next range i think we shall find better fun at the deer this animal being of the same size in iron as the living creature and proceeding by at about the same speed runs to and fro between two of earth for twenty or thirty yards or so and has to be shot in if the should miss it altogether he loses nothing but if he spoils the by it on the by or london life the promptly a blue and white flag and the is for the offence the above seven as well as four others for pool were all close together in that portion of the common which was formerly devoted to and the noise of the was therefore very great a red flag would now and then be set up while the left their places of safety to clean this or that but otherwise the firing was incessant add to this that various were being shot for simultaneously at the remaining thirty or forty and it may well be imagined that common was not sacred to silence the of the bullet however is but the whisper of peace there was nothing in it to my ear at least to mar the exquisite serenity of the surrounding scene immediately beneath us lay park and a far reaching range of pasture and breathing prosperous plenty while in is for an obvious reason the local name for this spot h by lights and shadows the distance hung that mighty cloud which ever over the city in the world and yet almost the only one that has neither wall nor nor even a gate to close in the face of a foe i am glad to perceive that the old have not forgotten their cunning and that the young � for whom in my time eyes had no other meaning than mere � are learning to handle their weapons as they should mused i i never look on yonder town and but like a who on some jewel of his own my mind to the and bars and of itself whether the is in working order there are a hundred and seventy thousand such as these said x and even these are nothing to what you shall see now he led the way to another range where the were shooting at an object which i could scarcely discern with the naked eye this was yards away its dimensions feet by of london by its centre feet square its eye but feet
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prey on the souls of men the and the moral of the time seem to foster it with almost zeal you would imagine that a of life had been established by divinity and the care of its execution given into the hands of the utterly yet there is that other form of which has nothing to do with conscious calculation in the vast majority of cases it is without design or the average woman controlled by her affections and deeply in love is no more capable of anything save thought than a child � the desire to give and so long as this state she can only do this she may change hell hath no fury etc but the yielding attitude is the chief characteristic of the mis the and it is this very attitude in to the grasping of established matrimony that has caused so many wounds in the of the latter the temperament of man either male or female cannot help falling down before and this non seeking note it approaches vast distinction in ufe it appears to be related to that last word in art that of spirit which is the first characteristic rf the great picture the great building the great the great � namely a giving freely and without of itself of beauty hence the significance of this particular mood in went up stairs thinking of her for the moment and then of his wife all the of the present combination troubled him sit down sit down you won t take a little you never do i remember now weu have a cigar anyhow now what s this that s you to night extra extra all about the big fire burning down you could hear the voices calling faintly in the distance far off toward the thicker sections just that replied have you heard the news no what s that they re calling it s a big fire out in oh replied butler still not gaining the of it it s burning down the business section there and i fancy it s going to b financial conditions here tomorrow that is what i have come to see you about how are your pretty well drawn in butler suddenly gained the idea from s � expression which was stem though normal enough to all appearances and from the distant calling voices that there was something serious in the wind he put up his the hand as he leaned back in his big leather chair and covered his mouth and chin with it over those big and bigger nose thick and his large eyes gleamed his gray hair stood up in a short even growth all over his head so that s it he said you re trouble tomorrow how are your own affairs i m in pretty good shape i think all told if the money element of this town doesn t lose its head and go wild there has to be a lot of common sense exercised you know we are facing a real panic it may not last long but while it does it will be bad stocks are going to drop to morrow ten or fifteen points on the opening the banks are going to call their some arrangement can be made to prevent them no one man can do that it will have to be a combination of men you and mr and mr might � that is you could if you would persuade the big people to combine to back the market there is going to be a on local street unless they are sustained the bottom is going to drop out i have always known that you were long on those i thought you and mr and some of the others might want to act if you don t i might as well confess that it is going to go rather hard with me i not strong enough to face this thing alone looked at butler meditating on how he should tell the whole truth in regard to well now that s pretty bad said butler calmly and he was thinking of how his own affairs stood exactly a panic was not good for him either � meant considerable trouble for him but he was not in a desperate state he could not fail he might lose some money but not a vast amount � before he could things still he did not care to lose any money how is it you re so bad off he asked curiously he was wondering how the fact that the bottom was the going to drop out of local street would affect so seriously you re not any of them things are you he added it was now a question of lying or telling the truth and was literally afraid to risk lying in this if he did not gain butler s support he might fail and if he failed the truth would come out anyhow i might as well make a dean breast of this mr butler he said throwing himself on the old man s sympathies and looking at him with that brisk assurance which butler so greatly admired in him he felt as proud of at times as he did of his own sons he that he had helped to put him where he was the fact is that i have been street railway stocks but not for myself exactly i am going to do something now which i think i ought not to do but i cannot help myself if i don t do it it will be to injure you and a lot of people whom i do not wish to injure i know you are naturally interested in the of the fall election the truth is i have been a lot of stocks for mr and some of his friends i do not know that all the money has come from the city treasury but i think
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hands and we were proud of it we too were fire men we thought as we danced there white in the the dried grass and caught fire but we did not notice it suddenly a great tree on the edge of the open space burst into flames we looked at it with startled eyes the heat of it drove us back another tree caught and another and then half a dozen we were frightened the monster had broken loose we crouched down in fear while the fire ate around the circle and hemmed us in into ear s eyes came the plaintive look that always accompanied before adam and i know that in my eyes must have been the same look we huddled with our arms around each other until the heat began to reach us and the of burning hair was in our nostrils then we made a dash of it and fled away westward through the forest looking back and laughing as we ran by the middle of the day we came to a neck of land made as we afterward discovered by a great curve of the river that almost completed a circle right across the neck lay several low and partly wooded hills over these we climbed looking backward at the forest which had become a sea of flame that swept eastward before a rising wind we continued to the west following the river bank and before we knew it we were in the midst of the abiding place of the fire people this abiding place was a splendid selection it was a protected on three sides by the river on only one side was it accessible by land this was the narrow neck of the and here the several low hills were a natural obstacle before adam practically isolated from the rest of the world the fire people must have here lived and for a long time in fact i think it was their prosperity that was responsible for the subsequent such calamity upon the folk the fire people must have increased in numbers until they pressed against the bounds of their they were and in the course of their they drove the folk before them and settled down themselves in the and occupied the territory that we had occupied but ear and i little dreamed of all this when we found ourselves in the fire people s we had but one idea and that was to get away though we could not forbear our curiosity by peeping out upon the village for the first time we saw the women and children of the fire people the latter ran for the most part naked though the former wore skins of wild animals the fire people like ourselves lived in the open space in front of the down to the river and in the open space before adam burned many small fires but whether or not the fire people cooked their food i do not know ear and i did not see them cook yet it is my opinion that they surely must have performed some sort of rude like us they carried water in from the river there was much coming and going and loud cries made by the women and children the latter played about and cut up quite in the same way as did the children of the folk and they more nearly resembled the children of the folk than did the grown fire people resemble the grown folk ear and i did not linger long we saw some of the part grown boys shooting with bow and arrow and we back into the thicker forest and made our way to the river and there we found a a real one evidently made by some fire man the two logs were small and straight and were lashed together by means of tough roots and of wood this time the idea occurred simultaneously to us we were trying to escape out of the before adam fire people s territory what better way than by crossing the river on these logs we climbed on board and off a sudden something the and flung it violently against the bank the abrupt almost whipped us off into the water the was tied to a tree by a rope of twisted roots this we before off again by the time we had well out into the current we had drifted so far that we were in full view of the fire people s abiding place so occupied were we with our our eyes fixed upon the other bank that we knew nothing until aroused by a yell from the shore we looked around there were the fire people many of them looking at us and pointing at us and more were crawling out of the we sat up to watch and forgot all about there was a great on the shore some of the fire men discharged their bows at us and a few of the arrows fell near us but the range was too great before adam it was a great day for ear and me to the east the we had started was filling half the sky with smoke and here we were perfectly safe in the middle of the river the fire people s we sat and laughed at them as we dashed by swinging south and to east and even to and then east again and south and on around to the west a great double curve where the river nearly tied a knot in itself as we swept on to the west the fire people far behind a familiar scene flashed upon our eyes it was the great drinking place where we had wandered once or twice to watch the before adam of the animals when they came down to drink beyond it we knew was the patch and beyond that the and the of the we began to for the bank that
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aware and to for this involuntary thought he spoke to her about her religion i used to be religious she said but i am religious no longer i can hardly say my prayers now i said them last night but this morning i couldn t he passed his hand ss his eyes and said � it seems all like a bad dream he felt that he ought to stay with her and at the same time he felt that she was right that his would be for the struggle resided in herself but if she should learn from sir to forget him if he were to lose her altogether if she should never return the thought of such a calamity was the blow of all and the possibility of her going away for a time shocking as it was seemed almost light beside it he struggled against these thoughts for he hated and was ashamed of them they came into his mind and he hoped that they represented nothing of his real feeling suddenly his face changed he remembered his passion for her mother he had suffered what was suffering now she had by divined it by some instinct true they were very much like each other nothing would have kept him from but au that was so long ago good god it was not the same thing and at the very same moment he regretted that it was not a music lesson he was going to for an appointment with introduced a personal interest and if he were not to stay by her it would seem that he was indifferent to what became of her i sha n t go i will stay here i will stay by you but i don t know that i am going away with sir you said just now that you were did i say so father you must keep your appointment with and you must say nothing to if you should meet him you promise me that it rests with me father it is all in the heart he stood looking at her twisting his beard into a point and while she wondered whether he would go or stay she admired the delicacy of his hand think of the disgrace you will bring upon me and just at the time too when is beginning to see that a really great choir in london then father you do think that my going away will prejudice him against you i don say that i mean that this time seems less � of course you cannot go it is very shocking that we should be discussing the subject together a sudden fortitude came upon her and a sudden desire to sacrifice herself to her father then father i shall stay i will do nothing that will interfere with your work my dearest child it is not for me it is yourself she threw herself into his arms begging him to forgive her she wanted to stay with him she loved him better than her voice better than anything in the world he did not answer and when she raised her eyes she caught a slight look of doubt upon his face and wondered what it could mean at the very moment she had determined to stay with him and her love and her art for his sake a keen sense of his responsibility towards her was borne in upon him and the feeling within him crushed like a stone by that he could never do anything for her nor anything else except perchance achieve that of church music upon which his heart was set he understood in that instant that she was sacrificing all her life to his and he feared the sacrifice she was making and anticipated in some measure the remorse he would suffer but he dared not think that she had better go and achieve her destiny in the only way that was open to her he urged himself to believe that she was acting rightly it was impossible for him to hold any other opinion the thoughts that came upon him he strove to think were merely nervous accidents and he forced himself to accept the of the sacrifice he wished not to be selfish but however he acted he always seemed to be acting in his own interest since she had promised him not to go away with sir he was quite free to keep his appointment with and he gathered up his music and he let it fall again fearing that she would interpret his action to mean that he was glad to get away she him to go she said she was tired and wanted to lie down and all the while he spoke she was tortured with an uncertainty as to whether she was speaking the truth or not and he had not been gone many minutes when she remembered that she had not told him that had asked her to meet him that very afternoon in square and that the key of the square lay in her pocket like one with outstretched hands striving to feel her way in the dark she sought to discover in her soul whether she had deliberately suppressed or accidentally omitted the fact of her appointment with it might be that the conversation had taken a sudden turn at the moment she was about to tell him for the thought had crossed her mind that she ought to tell him then she seemed to lose count of everything and was to distinguish truth from falsehood to increase her difficulties she remembered that she had betrayed s confidence she could not quite admit to herself that she had a right to tell her father that it was he but he had guessed it it seemed impossible to do right perhaps there was no right and no wrong as said and a wish rose from the bottom of her heart that it might
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you myself as soon as possible that i continue to get better i will not boast of my handwriting neither that nor my face have yet recovered their proper beauty but in other respects i gain strength very fast i am now out of bed from nine in the morning to ten at night upon the sofa it is true but i eat my meals with aunt in a rational way and can employ myself and walk from one room to another mr says he will cure me and if he fails i shall draw up a memorial and lay it before the dean and chapter and have no doubt of from that pious learned and disinterested body our lodgings are very comfortable we have a neat little drawing room with a bow window overlooking dr s garden thanks to the kindness of your father and mother in sending me their carriage my journey hither on saturday was performed with very little fatigue and had it been it was the corner house in college street at the entrance to i a of jane a fine day i think i should have felt none but it distressed me to see uncle henry and wm knight who kindly attended us on horseback riding in the rain almost the whole way we expect a visit from them to morrow and hope they will stay the night and on thursday which is a con and a holiday we are to get charles out to breakfast we have had but one visit from him poor fellow as he is in sick room but he hopes to be out to night we see mrs every day and william is to call upon us soon god bless you my dear e if ever you are ill may you be as tenderly nursed as i have been may the same blessed of anxious friends be yours and may you possess as i dare say you will the greatest blessing of all in the consciousness of not being unworthy of their love i could not feel this your very aunt j a the following extract from a letter which has been before printed written soon after the former breathes the same spirit of humility and � i will only say further that my dearest sister my tender watchful nurse has not been made ill by her exertions as to what i owe her and the anxious affection of all my beloved family on this occasion i can only cry over it and pray god to bless them more and more throughout her illness she was nursed by her sister often assisted by her sister in law my mother both were with her when she died two of her a of jane brothers who were lived to to be in frequent attendance and to administer the services suitable for a death bed while she used the language of hope to her she was fully aware of her danger though not appalled by it it is true that there was much to attach her to life she was happy in her family she was just beginning to feel confidence in her own success and no doubt the exercise of her great talents was an enjoyment in itself we may well believe that she would gladly have lived longer but she was enabled without dismay of complaint to prepare for death she was a humble believing christian her life had been passed in the performance of home duties and the cultivation of domestic without any self seeking or craving after applause she had always sought as it were by instinct to promote the happiness of all who came within her influence and doubtless she had her reward in the peace of mind which was granted her in her last days her sweetness of temper never failed she was ever considerate and grateful to those who attended on her at times when she felt rather better her of spirit revived and she amused then even in their sadness once when she thought herself near her end she said what she imagined might be her last words to those around her particularly thanked her sister in law for being with h r saying you have always been a kind sister to me mary when the end at last came she sank rapidly and on being asked by her attendants whether there was anything that she north aisle of cathedral a of jane wanted her reply was nothing hut death these were her last words in and peace she breathed her last on the morning of july on the th of that month she was buried in cathedral near the centre of the north aisle almost opposite to the beautiful tomb of william of a large of in tlie pavement marks the place own only attended the funeral her sister returned to her home there to devote herself for ten years to i e care of her aged mother and to live much on the memory of her lost sister till called many years later to her her brothers went to their they were very fond and very proud of her they were attached to her by her talents her virtues and her engaging manners and afterwards to fancy a resemblance in some niece or daughter of his own to the dear sister jane whose perfect equal they yet never expected to see inscription on jane s tomb � jane to mat t bt � in to bt the charms of bt faith and was at in the county of and in this cathedral july xxiv she her witb wisdom and in her tongue b the of � t xxvi s a of chapter xl the chapter chap x of persuasion with all this knowledge of mr and this authority to impart it anne left buildings her mind deeply busy in revolving what she had heard feeling thinking recalling and everything shocked at mr sighing
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bringing his chair closer mrs laughed again him a and wiped eyes you know my dear said mrs that when i was single i might have given myself away in several at one time four after me at once two of them were sons of we re all sons of ma s my dear said mr with pa s i don t mean that replied his wife i mean soldiers � oh i said mr well i m sure i never think of such things now to them and i m sure i ve got as good a husband and would do as much to prove that i was fond of him as � any little woman in the world said mr very good very good j� mr had been ten feet high he could not have expressed a consideration for mrs s fairy like stature and if mrs had been two feet high she could not have felt it more her due but you see said mrs thi being christmas time when all people who can make holiday and when all people who have got money like to spend some i did somehow get a little out of sorts when i was in the streets just now there was so many things to be old such delicious things to eat such fine things to look at such delightful things to have � and there was so much calculating and calculating necessary before i lay out a sixpence for the commonest thing and the basket was so large and wanted so much in it and my stock of money was so small and would go such a little way � you hate me don t you th� man said mr u w ill t you tke his and perhaps will i all bo when i was in the and when i saw a lot ef other ci aiid too that i to think whether i t d � e and happier if i� hadn t� the wedding round again and mrs shook her downcast head aa die turned it i see said her husband quietly if yon hadn t at all or if you had married somebody else yes sobbed mn � that s what i thought bo you hate me now why no said mr i dim t find that i do as yet mrs gave him a thankful kiss and went on i begin to hope you won t now h i am afraid i haven t told you the worst i can t think what over me i don t know whether i was or mad or what i was but i couldn t call up any j that seemed to bind us to other or to reconcile m to my all the and wc had they seemed so poor and insignificant i hated them i could have trodden on them and i think of nothing else except our being p and the number of mouths there were at home well well my dear said mr shaking her hand that s truth after all we are poor and are a number of mouths at home here ah but cried laying her hands upon his neck my good kind patient fellow when i had been at home a very while � how di r t oh h it was i felt as if there was a rush on me all at once that softened my heart and filled it up till it was bursting all our struggles for a all our cares and wants since we have been married all the times of sickness thb a bargain all the of we fl v t hai � or ch d i t ei wm sa y a us and that i u ve tm t w a have been or would have been any other than wife i am then the l lt i h on got to be f iti o and ar hat t t i w and i said ay aj how ver b ave so t bi ir the to do it the good woman quite carried away by hear honest s and remorse was h i j e started tip a am and b h terrified that the children started from their sleep and from their beds about h r i id h fa her i as pointed to a n in a who had into the room � � � � � � v � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � at that than there what does he want my i h� ril ask if you ll me go what s the matter how f � � i saw him in the street wh i ut he at me stood near me i am of him � af w � � � i i � � i don t know i i� a� d stranger � h � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � he had one hand pressed her and ne upon li breast and there was a fluttering all over her and k hurried unsteady of eyes as tf i e had sc are you ill my � � � � � what is it at ii going again she low voice what i tha k away then she abruptly answered lu no i am weu and stood looking at the her husband who had not been altogether free from the the haunted man � tion of her fear at first and whom the present strangeness of her manner did not tend to addressed himself to the visitor in the black cloak who stood still and whose eyes were bent upon the ground what may be your pleasure sir he asked with us i fear that my coming in returned the has alarmed you but you were talking and did not
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their new neighbors who had been trained in another school chap iv cotton to in papers s of new note la l the book ii note i s settlement has become the subject of a literature of its own and of some rather violent and amusing discussion even in our times s new english has been by mr c f for the prince society his account of himself leaves the impression that the author was just the sort of clever and reckless who is most dangerous to in contact with savages and who might be neck and heels from a frontier community holding no scruples of a sort the royal in s xvii and hazard s state papers i sets forth the evil of the sale of arms to the savages but it was at earlier than compare s september and november there are also more or less extended to in the records s journal s plantation s letter to the of in young s of and in other early accounts notes s account of s rise i is traced p g with a bitter pen no doubt but the student as draws him is so much like his later self that one can not but believe that the description of him picking quarrels with the public readers and carrying information against them to the bishop has a basis of fact note writing under the later date of says the page severe in star chamber and the greatness of the and the proceedings to impose ceremonies the and multitudes of ministers for not reading in the church the book for sports to be exercised on the lord s day caused many of the nation both ministers and others to sell their estates and to set sail for new england a late plantation in america where they hold a plantation by patent from the king part h vol i p note we trust you will not be of the main end of our page plantation by endeavouring to bring the indians to a knowledge of the gospel s letter to february young s chronicle also the official letter page where the of the gospel among and the great indians is the aim the royal itself declared that to win and invite the natives of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true god and of mankind is the principal end of this plantation a similar provision was inserted in the in in imitation of that of the common seal of the colony sent over in bore an indian with the inscription come over and help us young s of instructions to the paper of reasons attributed to keeps the of the indians in view but it is blended with that which was in his mind the main end the of a church the first paragraph reads it will be a service to the church of great consequence to carry the into those parts of the world to on the of the of the to raise a against the of christ which the labour to up in those parts life and letters of i the copy of this paper in sir john s handwriting has a written in a nervous style that may well be s own this goes back to the of the indians as a main purpose the of t declares that white of and others had the of the indians in view in to new england says page that the establishing of churches was not in the thoughts of them that were the first in that or of the ministers that were sent over in the beginning the statement is quite too strong but the purpose seems to have grown rapidly when the number of revealed the greatness of the opportunity cotton says book ii chap iv that was made a justice at eighteen but s account of anything needs support held his first court at hall several months after he had attained his majority life and letters i compare page of the same volume of his election to the he wrote to his wife the that i have of in it is that i have assurance that my charge is of the that he hath called me to this life and letters i the government of the colony under was that prescribed for particular in the general order of the virginia company at the time the for the chap iv note page note page note page l b the book ii notes pilgrim colony was granted and like that which was formed at under the compact the form may have been borrowed from this may be considered the form of colony government in the scheme of the virginia company the plan the formation of the virginia company by at least twenty years for it was a form proposed by when in he organized his colony under the title the governor and of the city of in virginia the secondary form of government was that prescribed for virginia in the of which added a lower house by the people this fully developed government could come only when the population had become large enough to render a representative system possible it has been maintained by several writers that the had been with a view to removal see for example s new england i but a paper read before the historical society and printed in the proceedings for december by the late charles shows that such a presumption is in calling the subordinate government of london s plantation in bay in new england the company showed that it proposed to keep its in london it is open to question however whether does not go too far in denying that the gave authority for the transfer in that age the letter of the instrument would probably be counted more than at present and the evidence of the would have less weight the removal of the government was not one
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t let us begin by discussing these things don t keep on reminding me that i am not in love with you don t let anybody else know that i am not the most jealous and sensitive and feather headed bride that ever made her friends uncomfortable don t treat me as if we were anything out of the ordinary you will please me so much more if you will always assume both to me and to others that i am everything that you desire because you know i truly am very fond of you i like you immensely he caught hold of her and held her against his breast margaret he said you don t know you don t mean it but every word you utter is like a knife thrust into my very heart if you loved me even a little you could not tell me that you liked me immensely i will do anything that you wish the least little desire of yours shall be gratified if it is in my power to do so but don t tell anybody a woman that you like me immensely because if you do you will give yourself away and me too then said margaret i will not tell anybody bow much or how little i like you after all it matters nothing to anybody but you and me does it and now if you please i should like to go out for i had no sleep last night and i am just for a breath of air come let us take a walk in the park of course will he answered but before we go for our very first step into the world together i want you to kiss me the request almost upset everything almost all that his waiting had brought about for a moment the of feeling was so great that margaret felt she could not do it in one brief moment a hundred recollections of swept like a flood into her mind the thought of how often he had drawn her arms up to his neck and had her kiss him instantly not and as a favour as this man did but and with a tone of absolute command which to her had been sweetness itself but it was only for a moment that she hesitated with the passing of a few seconds of time the dull and heavy thought came back to her � that she had set herself to run a certain course that she had put her hand to the plough from which there could be no looking back that as she was going to marry this man there could be there should be there must be no half measures so and yet with a heart like a stone she raised her face to his and did his bidding still even blinded by love as he was could not shut his eyes to the fact that it was a favour done only at bis bidding he caught her to him and kissed her passionately a dozen times at least margaret he said you are quite sure that you do not in your heart hate me i am sure that i do not hate you she said looking at him steadily and answering without hesitation you don t dislike me even oh no you would not have kissed me of your own free will he went on you only did so because i asked you i believe he added slowly that it was almost to you a swift shiver ran through the slight frame you must not think that she said putting her hands on to his shoulders and looking straight into his eyes you cannot think that � you may not i have promised to marry you i like you very much and because i cannot be quite sure whether i love you or rather whether i am in love with you or not you must not imagine that you are to me oh what a horrible idea truly i think that you owe me an apology for it said he i humbly and with all my heart � i kiss the hem of your garment i am a beggar who ought to be kicked but don t visit it on me margaret i cannot myself any further before you there there she said soothingly you are too much in earnest i am not worth it come let us go out do not let us quarrel on our very first day together so it was she who him back into a happy and pleasant frame of mind i will not be two minutes she said when leaving him two minutes just to put on my hat she disappeared with a wave of her hand and two minutes later came back again with a dainty white sailor hat upon her head and a pair of tan coloured gloves in her hand do i look she asked as she entered the pretty oh my dear exclaimed he almost choked at the thought did she look � she the fairest woman he had ever seen in his life you look he said aloud i am so proud of going out with you i only hope that i shall not run against the lamp posts or knock some old lady into the because i shall have all my eyes for you and only you oh don t be so romantic she exclaimed i am afraid if ou begin so very high that there may come a dreadful day when you don t care to be seen with me at all when you never want to look at me and when you are more likely to run against some lamp post or some person in your eagerness to get out of my road than because you have no eyes for anybody but me margaret you don t think so he took her words quite seriously well no perhaps
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disappointed the sadly for mr jones had left the town and was not expected to return for some days the spirit of the governor was evident in this reply the felt he was at war and his was an energetic but peace loving nature he paced the corridor looking both thoughtful and sad the rough eyed him with interest and he also fell into meditation and scratched his head invariable of thought with it was towards evening and his reverence still paced the corridor down hearted at opposition and wickedness but not hope and full of lovely and charitable wishes for all his flock when the melancholy fit suddenly came out of a prisoners with joy what is amiss asked the this is the matter said and he showed him a deuce of a five � it is too late to mend of hearts and an ace of diamonds and so on two or three cards of each a prisoner has been making these oat of his tracts how could he do that t look here sir he has kept a little till it turned to and then he has three or four leaves of the tracts together and dried them and then cut them into cards but the colors � how could he get them that is what beats me altogether but some of these prisoners know more than the bench of more evil i conclude you mean more of all sorts sir however i am taking them to the governor and he will it if any one can leave one red card and one black with mo while was gone the examined the cards with and that admiration of resource which a superior mind cannot help feeling there they were a fine red deuce of hearts and a fine black four of � cards made without and painted without tut how that was the question the entered upon this question with his usual zeal but happening to reverse one of the cards it was his fate to see on the back of it � the wages op sin are death a tract he at the sight here was an i the sulky brute could amuse himself cutting up my tracts presently the governor came up with his take no out of his cell for punishment at this word the s anger began to cool they brought out so you have been at it again cried the governor in threatening terms now you will tell mo where you got the paint to make these no answer do you hear ye sulky brute no answer but a glittering eye bent on put him in the jacket with an oath and laid each a hand upon the man s shoulder and walked him off stop cried suddenly his reverence is here and he is not partial to the jacket the was innocent enough to make a graceful grateful bow to give him the dark cell for hours continued with a malicious grin the thief gave a cry of dismay and shook himself clear of the anything but that cried he with trembling voice o you have found your tongue have you any punishment but that almost the despairing man leave me my reason you have robbed me of everything else for pity s sake leave me my reason the governor made a signal to the they stepped towards the thief the thief out of their way his eye rolling wildly as if in search of escape seeing this the two darted at him like one on each side this time instead of flying the thief was observed to move his body in a wa to meet them with two motions rapid as light and almost he caught between the eyes with his fist and drove his head like a ram into s belly and the two powerful men went down like in a moment all the within sight or hearing came round and and got up the latter bleeding both staring seeing himself hemmed in robinson ed no further resistance he himself down on the ground and there sat and they had to take it is never too late to mend him ap and carry him to the dark but as they were dragging him along by the shoulders he caught sight of the governor and looking down at him over the rails of corridor b at sight of the latter the thief himself free from his attendants and screamed to him � do yon see this you in the black coat you that told us the other day you loved us and now stand coolly there and see me taken to the to be got ready for the i d ye hear i hear you replied the and gently you called us your brothers you well then here is one of your brothers being taken to hell before your eyes i go there a man but i shall come out a beast and that cowardly murderer by your side knows it and you have not a word to say that is all a poor fellow gets by being your my curse on you all and i give twelve hours more for that roared his eyes i ml break him him ah the thief yon curse me do you d ye hear that the son of a appeals to heaven against me what does this lump of dirt believe there is a god then there must be one then suddenly flinging himself on his knees he cried if there is a god who them that suffer i cry to him on my knees to torture you as you torture us may your name be shame may your life be pain and your death may your skin rot from your flesh your flesh from your bones your bones from your body and your soul split forever on the rock of take him away white as a sheet they tore him away by
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her maternal parent the language of scripture is as clear as any one could desire on this subject god we are told sent forth his son made of a woman it is elsewhere said inasmuch then as the children are of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same there is no instance on record of anything consisting of flesh and blood in oar view of the words being in heaven much less coming down fi om heaven it is due to mr to say that he afterwards made an attempt to explain his words away but that finding they would admit of no other construction than that they taught the doctrine of christ s heavenly humanity he made a sort of of what he had said but this was not only unsatisfactory at the time but was rendered wholly worth the and of less by his in other works and in another form of the same perilous i have not space to go into the question and must therefore content myself by to my readers the triumphant answer of my friend the late dr of given in his letters to the chronicle on the subject dr s letters i ought to mention though originally published in an irish provincial paper have been in a separate form by and of row is there not something lamentable in the fact that after for many years and to mr doctrines respecting the humanity of our lord to which i have been � mr should now have himself fallen into the same errors become their zealous advocate and yet have made no to mr for the injustice he had done him � not even having expressed his regret for that injustice yet i am not sure whether the slaves of mr be not in this matter more than himself they are with the few exceptions who have come out from in consequence of their leader s fearful with regard to the human nature of christ so entirely to mr in their judgments and that they have not ventured � dared would perhaps be a better � to even whisper of tliis new and most dangerous doctrine relative to our lord s humanity � whereas when mr was supposed to have fallen into this error they raised a howl against him the unpleasant of which up till this very hour � after an interval of twenty years � are heard throughout th of as loud and as indignant as ever the truth is that the moment any one he ceases to have any conscience or mind of his own he must surrender both to his new master because the la will accept of nothing less curiosity will no doubt be felt to know in what way mr received the addressed to him with regard to his views of the person of christ or how he met the arguments by which their character was established he had four favourite modes of dealing with those who ventured to dispute his views the first was to call them all col the brethren and his enemies the second was to retort upon them that they not he were in the faith the third mode was to assert that they did not understand him some of them so while the fourth was to load them with all manner of of abuse mr has always been a perfect master to a of captain hall of who had for many years been associated with him but felt compelled by his views of the person of christ to withdraw from fellowship with him � to that entitled grief y in which captain hall and mr s respecting the humanity and sufferings of our lord � mr replies that captain hall s doctrine is so bad that he mr it with horror as a denial of the true sufferings of christ in regard to the line when he to it which he often does the author of a brief notice of the new edition of mr papers on the sufferings of various specimens of the coarse which succeed each other with a marvellous rapidity in his pages among the flowers of this kind of which mr presents to his readers we meet with low paltry miserable contemptible and false but if he does not succeed in by this means those whom he calls his enemies mr an air plays the part of pope practically claims his direct succession in an sense from the paul and his right to exercise a supreme authority over them in his preface to the sufferings of he writes in language which is largely of this he says i have to take my up because they still carry on their warfare and as satan is using them for mischief declare i not spare them nor fail with god s help to make plain the and doctrines which are at the bottom of all this whose spirit is this not certainly the spirit of christ but to return to where i broke oflf after the exhibition of mr s sentiments respecting the of christ no one i am sure will be surprised to learn that he has adopted views with respect to the of christ which make the doctrine of the cross of none effect without in so many words the d� the and of doctrine of the cross the brethren under mr s give such to the doctrine of our lord s as to put the other into the background one of their favourite phrases is that we have not to do with a dead christ in one sense that is true but it is a most phrase unless christ had risen every knows that his death would have been in vain and the whole human race would have perished in their sins the doctrine of our s is therefore a precious doctrine in which every christian as he well may with a joy unspeakable
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was meant but unfortunately the requisite time was not allowed her my daughter means was the girl observed mr to explain but with some impatience of manner poor mrs was more puzzled than ever she had got out of the fields only to find herself in a poultry yard h yes she was quite young observed the good lady confidently i can answer your question miss interposed the suspected bride i could see enough of the young lady to remark that she was far from distinguished looking indeed some people would call her your husband told me he i x a j oo a from a here mrs began to show her teeth to some purpose and would probably have said things had not mrs entered at that moment bearing in her instead of her dog as usual � an enormous book oh my she exclaimed excitedly what do you that mrs should have described the company as my was inexplicable but there are moments in human life when the of social prejudice are broken down and the heart claims the right to speak i have found it all out here is his name in black and white and she touched the volume she had just placed on the table with impressive reverence the name of the gentleman is and he is an honourable you don t say so i ejaculated mrs well i never i cried mrs not intending to convey a vulgar astonishment but only the simple fact that she had never happened to have seen an honourable before mrs regarded her for a moment with withering scorn and then opened the sacred volume this she said is the it is an old edition but that is of small consequence as one does not care for late of course not said mrs with magnificent contempt as though she was speaking of early dinners the word resumed mrs who only needed a glass of water to complete her resemblance to a public appears more than once in these pages but the point of difference is the � the family for example spell their name with a c only this information was hailed with quite a burst of satisfaction from all the ladies including even mrs she did not quite comprehend what the lecture was about but she thought it must be very convenient to any family to spell their name with a single letter the gentleman of whom we are speaking � and who is now staying at this hotel � is a of the house of the title of the eldest son is lord st she paused to allow these mighty names to have their full significance and also to mark their effect she enjoyed the of the situation exceedingly and to use a very because common expression her lips over it dear me exclaimed mrs settling the strings of her lace cap with nervous fingers pray go on here is the record continued mrs alluding to the volume with the same solemnity that a might treat the tables of the law earl of george � evidently a name as you will see � george francis of m sl also the ladies room baron in the of ireland lord lieutenant of of married lady daughter of the earl of and has issue � concluded mrs triumphantly as though in the case of a couple so distinguished such an event was almost more than could be looked charles st maria and � here we have him � george he was forty nine last september me exclaimed mrs with astonishment how in the world did you find that out if you had ever seen a returned mrs like a shocked missionary addressing the heathen you would know that the date of birth of every member of the aristocracy is inscribed in its pages that must be rather hard upon the ladies observed mrs who though to satire had a touch of simple about her unhappily in looking round for approbation of this stroke of humour her eye fell upon miss that that young lady would have liked to have had her name in the was certain yet that revelation as to age would in her case have been a serious she was standing not on the brink of the where womanhood and childhood meet but much lower down the river and she took poor mrs s observation as a personal one � all jokes are vulgar she observed but especially jokes upon a serious subject la miss the ain t the bible pleaded mrs the other ladies their lips and shook their heads in principle they felt they were right though in this particular case their might have the advantage of them i am afraid you are a special sighed mrs and all the other ladies sighed m sympathy like the question is she resumed with the air of one who for an important subject shall we have mr and miss at the table d why dear me how could we keep em out of it exclaimed mrs keep them out echoed mrs her fingers what extraordinary observations mrs you are making this evening i would dream � unless to be sure she added significantly one was an or a � of keeping them out what i meant to inquire was whether they would join the general table to night at all events since the young lady will be tired remarked mrs she is almost sure to have a that i think may he taken for granted x � she ia sure to dine with her pa at a e a from a thorn miss laughed and threw her head up � it was one of those few portions of her frame which her mode of dress left at her own disposal � in impatience and disdain like a horse what have i said now thought poor mrs to make that girl so angry my belief is that the strain
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u by the lord harry he ll have enough of it first and last he d open his eyes that boy would if he knew how empty of learning my young was at his time of life which by the by he probably did know for he had heard of it often enough but it s extraordinary the difficulty i have on scores of such subjects in speaking to any one on equal terms here for example i have been speaking to you this morning about why what do you know about at the time when to have been a in the mud of the streets would have been a to me a prize in the to me you were at the italian opera you were coming out of the italian opera ma am in white satin and jewels a blaze of splendor when i hadn t a penny to buy a link to light you i certainly sir returned mrs with a dignity serenely mournful was familiar with the italian opera at a very early age ma am so was i said � with the wrong side of it a hard bed the pavement of its used to make i assure you people like you ma am accustomed from infancy to lie on down feathers have no idea how hard a stone is without trying it no no it s of no use my talking to you about i should speak of foreign dancers and the west end of london and may fair and lords and ladies and hard times i trust sir rejoined mrs with decent resignation it is not necessary that you should do anything of that kind i hope i have learnt how to accommodate myself to the changes of life if i have acquired an interest in hearing of your instructive experiences and can scarcely hear enough of them i claim no merit for that since i believe it is a general sentiment well ma am said her patron perhaps some people may be pleased to say that they do like to hear in his own way what of has gone through but you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury yourself come ma am you know you were born in the lap of luxury i do not sir returned mrs with a shake of her head deny it mr was obliged to get up from table and stand with his back to the fire looking at her she was such an of his position and you were in crack society devilish high society he said warming his legs it is true sir returned mrs with an affectation of humility the very opposite of his and therefore in no danger of it you were in the fashion and all the rest of it said mr yes sir returned mrs with a kind of social upon her it is unquestionably true mr bending himself at the knees literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud mr and miss being then announced he received the former with a shake of the hand and the latter with a kiss vol i hard times can be sent here asked mr certainly so was sent there on coming in she to mr and to his friend tom and also to but in her confusion omitted mrs observing this the had the following remarks to make now i tell you what my girl the name of that lady by the is mrs that lady acts as mistress of this house and she is a highly connected lady consequently if ever you come again into any room in this house you will make a short stay in it if you don t behave towards that lady in your most respectful manner now i don t care a button what you do to me because i don t affect to be anybody so far from having high connections i have no connections at all and i come of the of the earth but towards that lady i do care what you do and you shall do what is and respectful or you shall not come here i hope said mr in a voice that this was merely an my friend tom suggests mrs said that this was merely an very likely however as you are aware ma am i don t allow of even towards you you are very good indeed sir returned mrs shaking her head with her state of humility it is not worth speaking of who all this time had been faintly herself with tears in her eyes was now waved over by the master of the house to mr she stood looking intently at him and stood coldly by with her eyes upon the ground while he proceeded thus hard times u i have made up my mind to take you into my house and when you are not in attendance at the school to employ you about mrs who is rather an invalid i have explained to miss � this is miss � the miserable but natural end of your late career and you are to expressly understand that the whole of that subject is past and is not to be referred to any more from this time you begin your history you are at present ignorant i know yes sir very she answered i shall have the satisfaction of causing you to be strictly educated and you will be a living proof to all who come into communication with you of the advantages of the training you will receive you will be and formed you have been in the habit now of reading to your father and those people i found you among i dare say said mr her nearer to him before he said so and dropping his voice only to father and sir at least i mean to father when was always there never mind said mr with
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it they were the men seen by � you see i know all about it they probably carried the body to the hut to it whether they or not i do not know nor do i know if it was who killed the doctor all i say is that those two stole the body oh indeed i remarked mr and put the remains of dr the mystery back in the vault i suppose and what did he do with s body i don t know buried it on the very likely mr had not the key of the vault cried indignantly it had been stolen by the quiet gentleman so i understand retort od sharply and who says so mr himself believe me sir he to the that key was never stolen had it in his pocket he lied about that for his own safety i don t believe it said mr was at on the night the crime was committed i know he was i cried with emphasis he was with me and miss you are wrong both of you he came back to on that night and returned to before dawn i understand it is only an hour s journey from here it is not true insisted uneasily i saw mr at eight o clock that night at the hotel i dare say but at ten o clock he was at how can you prove that if you will permit me said and rising he left the room y trouble before mr and could exchange a remark he was back again with a man who had evidently been waiting cried the much annoyed and what has to do with this preposterous story if you ask him he will tell you said politely and resumed his seat the looked indignantly at his who as minor official in the church should have before his superior but there was no or about the old fellow was as malicious as a and as looking more rusty than ever he stood twisting his greasy old hat and shifting from one leg to the other oh i seed muster yes i seed un on the night o the funeral i were in the yard a at em as i d tucked away an i clapped eyes on muster he at the vault where i d put away the last of em he about what time was that asked mr with severity well it might be about ten muster sir and what were you doing out of bed at that hour at em retorted wiping his mouth lor bless you muster i o the mystery all in the yard s m own save some of the old i like to see em all quiet an humble in their narrow homes ay an i seed muster an he i ve come to look round an you needn t say as i ve bin about here s money for ye ay he did say that an me money course i said as there isn t no law folk round to see how them as has passed away is along how long was mr with you it might be about five minutes sir he went to a train at the half hour to go back to miss � i sees you well miss i with a pull of his to the girl who was pale and trembling at this disastrous confirmation why didn t you tell me this lor bless you miss twas little use you sides when i found muster was gone bein put away comfortable like in the vault i did say to muster as it wasn t friendly like of him to upset my but muster he says as he had to do with the of him an how he got out of the vault being and down was more than he knew so he being the squire miss it wasn t my place to say i knows the station of life i ve bin called to trouble i i it was your duty to come to me said the severely shook his head t no good bad blood muster muster in the yard but he didn t take the last of em away i say he did put in with emphasis ay ay you thinks you knows a lot but i tell you you don t if it wasn t that i let slip to that fat un while wi drink as i seed muster you d have know d naught but when the wine s in he talks foolish like ay he as a babe does who is this fat man he speaks of asked my other witness replied promptly yon can go send in the nodded wiped his mouth and backed to the door with a final excuse as i muster t wouldn t be right to blame for the tongue o he muster it so but the red wine � which is to say beer an such like � the heart of glad as holy scripture an i ll go now you an miss happiness an long life after which speech the old sinner the mystery out of the room pulling his you see said with a triumphant look at the other two was in and in the churchyard on that night it would seem so but that does not prove he took away the body put in my second witness can prove that come in the fat man in new clothes rolled into the room said he the turned an angry glance on him this is not the time for playing the fool he said you are a cunning rogue but some day you will yourself now then out with your lie lie i scorn to the truth reverend sir i shall tell the truth in i hope not threw in the laughing in spite of himself at this abuse of quotation which means reverend sir went on the old
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and around it grow those river the lilies on the right hand stately woods slope up from the very bank to the horizon on the left is a good da fishing the miller s garden npon an island with the high broad mill stream running swiftly on its eastern shore almost upon a level flowers goes the great wheel whose shining we see disappear one after one under the low dark and go half a score of little wheels within the of the quaint old wood i house along the main stream beyond the mill race and separated from it by another island the heavy laden with half � dozen horses apiece on one of which the driver sits like a lady sideways with his red cap drooping upon one side and his pipe scarcely k t people are returning along the path many with baskets on their heads but all have a word or a smile of the pleasure boats pass in the distance filled with ladies with brass bands with racing the sees them firom his lofty post and the huge gates slowly part to let them through all this we afar off and have no part with the great stream of existence regarded from its of back waters as for the fishing itself that is very pleasant i always look away when the man puts on the gentle and my friend and i have shilling upon which catches the next we did bet at least at one time until i detected him in the ingenious but of pulling the same perch up again and again by which he not only won half of me but in his shame i love the very dropping of the boat pitch to pitch the careful fixing of it between its two bare poles the measuring with the for length of line the the bread and meal in for the entertainment of the fish the grating of the iron in the x bottom and all the a good day s fishing which is set in motion to me that i am doing something and not nothing better than all perhaps is the after at the old fashioned river inn where jack is stuffed in some peculiarly � manner or there is an especial patent for where awful specimens of both those fish with particularly eyes are suspended in the dining room along with the portrait of some famous and the rules of the local club the heroes of these places are not insolent and puffed up with knowledge as hunters and for the most part are but freely and graciously impart intelligence to the i confess at once that i have caught but two perch all day my mend three perch and jones the man about eight dozen ay ay and very well too the landlord jones is a good rod you should have tried miller s hole with the and so on i have for bigger fish than perch i once went out � went in i should to spear that is a very splendid and almost warlike amusement you see the upon the pebbles beneath silently softly you seize a long spear and measure the distance between you and your prey exactly you think it to be about four feet whereas the real depth of water is six feet at the very least striking under this impression with all your force you throw yourself into the river arrive upon the very spot which the recently occupied and are lucky if you can swim as well as he whenever i attempt anything above my perch indeed i fail miserably the party who occupied my seat in the on the previous day had caught so many he could not half of them away with him a day s fishing and the party who comes the day afterwards again is equally successful but for me i might just as well have my hook with a pack of cards however at the end of this last summer i had one really good day s fishing killing with my single rod and of such magnitude and number as himself would have been proud to tell of and it came to pass in this way the of b whom i call b in conversation with strangers � is a good friend of mine who has known me for many years if he met me in the market place of our his would i am sure say how d ye do or how are you and thank me perhaps for the pains i took about the return of his second son i have dined more than once at the hall during election time and his has not failed to observe to me a glass of wine with you or will you join us my dear sir quite upon each occasion the words may be nothing indeed but his s manner is such that i protest that when he speaks to me i feel as if j had had ike wine well only a month ago he sent me a card permitting me to have one day s fishing in his home preserves tried to persuade me to give it up to him but i said no because he can catch fish anywhere and i do not possess that faculty so he gave me the most minute directions and lent me his � book of flies and his best rod how beautiful looked the grand old park upon that august morning the deer � in and the innumerable ear and tail � with glance the short rich or a good fishing bounding across the in herds the mighty oak trees half an acre each the pools with water fowl rising from their with sudden cry and the winding where shot the frequent from side to side now from their right banks i � now from their left and now that i did not borrow s boots i strode
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was with a feat performed by a wild the bull being let out he was immediately by the on horses back who threw him and held him by pulling in directions he was then tied and a saddle on him by the who was bare legged and had nothing on but a shirt and a kind of something like a scotch die ordinary dress of these people the animal being properly prepared he was suffered to rise with the on his back and ran wild and furious around the leaping plunging and to the great diversion of the spectators while the was continually him with an enormous pair of spurs and him with his whip when the animal was sufficiently tortured in this way the drew his knife and plunged it into the the bull fell as if struck by lightning rolled upon his back with his feet in the air which were not even seen to quiver such is the barbarous amusement of formerly the delight of the representatives of the kings of spain and their in a more enlightened and a happier age confined here to the coarse and vulgar and it is to be hoped that in the progress of science liberty and civilization will disappear for ever p i have already said something of the province of to south america previous to the revolution the beside being the capital of the new was the seat of government of an of which fee c were subordinate districts but it is now as the reader will have perceived con ned to the immediate of its own the population is estimated from one hundred and five to twenty thousand souls of whom about one half reside in the city it contributed formerly as well as fee and to supply the upper provinces with but has been somewhat more agricultural and the inhabitants of the country in the neighbourhood are probably better informed than those of the interior from their greater opportunities there are a great number of small land and rents are hardly known and the produce of their fields has generally increased in value they are greatly devoted to the cause of independence and no people seemed to me more national industry is increasing with the introduction of a variety of artificial wants and the desire of those who are among them a serious evil is however complained of in the want of and the consequent exposure of their crops to be destroyed by the cattle the raising of stock has hitherto occupied their chief attention to the ne j of culture nothing can the of the soil and there is no of doubt but that cotton and sugar can be cultivated here as well as on the banks of the these would at once be sources of great agricultural wealth some has already taken place to this country from europe every encouragement is held out the sober industrious german especially would do well here p from its local advantages which are lar to those of new with the exception of its harbor near the mouth of a vast river which with its branches a country capable of supporting fifty millions of souls must become some day or other a great city there is no town in south america whose position is in any br e s voyage way to be compared with it besides its as a great for the interior provinces it is situated for a trade with the west indies europe the cape of good hope and asia the assertion of that neither nor rome had higher than this city is not exaggerated p los some apparent exists in the political divisions of the united provinces a few remarks may not be unnecessary this confusion arises from the mistake of some of the smaller or with those which property come under the of provinces and considered members of the union governed in the manner prescribed by the it must be borne in mind that the was divided into two four included in each four in the lower country and the like number in upper each of the eight had their subordinate with lieutenant and sub p in the of the term is no longer used that of province having taken its place and at the same time the number of provinces were increased in after the capture of by the division of some of the for instance and were taken from fee and were taken from five new provinces were therefore laid off making the present number including instead oi four they are fee and they are called free provinces because the spanish authorities have ceased to exist although during the contest and were for a short time the seats of war but for the last three or four years the spanish arms have been confined to upper the in their war with have taken possession of part of the province of i a to south america the intention of from against those provinces which are at present united of the nine provinces all are united except fee and the first entered into an arrangement with at the commencement of the revolution but has since resolved to keep aloof from all parties and is therefore to be regarded as a excepting so far as respects since fee has withdrawn itself the town and immediate vicinity only have been free from the of as all the rest of the province has been subjected to the control of the general government part of the was under the of and part of fee the people however of fee are in favour of joining the when they can do it on such terms as they think to their interests whatever may be the intentions of who at present them what may be the ultimate wish of is not known p the five provinces of the union contain four hundred and fifty thousand exclusive of indians and about six hundred
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her at be more mj a ail em h nice � be is hut j he is not the of in reply anxious to his only to the palm of beauty to tbe elder sister but he � ted that was quite enough for ordinary � such as to be fallen m love � er his own age too than he was proceeding to he stood hardly high enough m fr in t to the of and must not look above the younger branch of that ancient tree when who not listened to a word he was saying but had got over her surprise and was now converted to his side by hi r own bim aiid yes aid vm personage carrying out an internal chain of reasons i not but you shall have if you he content with her the boy threw arms round her neck quite content with said be content you dear then his ten fell i forgot said he in the heat of one � forgot what in some alarm t lost her forever pot her hands on her downwards now then said with me thing between a groan and a grin what have you been at he related his interview all but the last congratulated him why it goes yon are very i wonder she spoke to you at all out there all alone in l i rd s cottage i knew she would be she not help i i white lies i her s parting request r cried jou are coming for a there is one that has a head nd blessed her c ij i did not i declined � oh j very n i d with to go alone nevertheless i can t iv do u know what you have made her you that m all himself vas so unjust to refuse me her and then w to amuse that ancient personage looked him in the face like a listen to a the blind said she once there was a little boy madly in love with jam a thing i hate it is false one does not hate jam he came to the store closet where he knew there were a of it oh misery � the door was locked he kicked the door and wept bitterly poor child his grief affects me naturally � a fellow feeling his mamma came and said here is the key and gave him the key and what did he do why he fell to crying and roaring and kicking the door i don t wa wa wa wa nt the key ey ey i wa a ant the oh oh oh oh and to the life the mingled grief and ire of infancy its jam wore a puzzled air but it was only for a moment � the next he hid his face in his hands and cried � fool fool fool i shall not contradict you said his with affected politeness white hei was mj friend who doubts it once acquainted with tf r i visit at she had thought of a way to reconcile my wishes with terrible etiquette that here � she thinks to mare purpose yoa do � much ia dear is left now hut to ask her � and to consent � i am off � no are not and laid a grasp of iron on him will you be � h not one blunder a enough if you go near lier now she will nt you and order the doctor not to to you oh your sex then are of while it lasts luckily with m does last very long take your orders from me te i general � aid tlie young man touching hat don t go near her till you have made doctor s acquaintance that is easily done he walks two hours on the east road every day with his feet in the and his bead in cloud but how am i to t bim out of the clouds with fir t black you meet a black ay i ct her when you can have her ready for in your handkerchief pull a long face and you � me i have the misfortune not to know the greek name of this here say that and behold him launched he will the beast in hebrew and latin ad well as and tell you her down from tlie flood next he will beg her of you and ont will come a cork and m and the creature thus it is tliat loves he has a thousand pinned down at home � and so forth i go n ar the white lies with my be like an t pretend to be going to dean them but it is to see the face he for even a domestic requires to laugh hut i ne er do clean for after ail be is e stupid wicked poor man z i have not therefore the sad courage to him let return to our � what will his about the antiquity of the advance me wretch i one begins a but one heaven knows where she turned suddenly grave all this does not prevent mj pot from being on the fire and her heart of hearts being in the kitchen e saw it was to detain her body so thanking her warmly made at for the east sure enough he fell in with the doctor but not being armed with an insect he had to take refuge in a vegetable � the fallen elm he told st he employed a per on to keep his ears open and if anything at either of the to let him know you have done well said the doctor when the wine goes in the secrets out the next time they met was with an enormous he had found it in a hedge and was struck with its singular size he produced it and with modest and
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he tc in a dreadful knowing way which of ua do you consider the come to see you see the was a bless you when i first come home i used to set everybody laughing but i forget most of the things now there was one day though � here comes your father said mrs snow u now we must n t let him go by or you have to walk way home and aunt hurried out to speak to him while i took my great bunch of which already drooped a little and followed her with mrs snow who confided to me that the captain s nephew jacob had offered to that summer she was over there and she never could see why she didn t have him only love goes where it is sent and was n t one to marry for what she could get if she did n t like the man there was plenty that would have said yes and thank you too sir to jacob that was a pleasant afternoon i reached home when it was growing dark and chilly and the early autumn sunset had almost faded in the west it was � much longer way home around by the road the way i had come across the fields a winter drive is very hard to find s way in winter a w ie has only driven once in t tl the change their appearance so much when the leaves are gone that unless the road is straight and certain and you have a good sense of locality you will be puzzled over and over again in summer a few small trees and a thicket of bushes at he side of the road will look like a bit of forest but in winter you look through them and over them and they i i � j e ji c almost altogether hey are such thin gray twigs and take up so much less room in the world though yon may notice a s nest or some red or a few fluttering leaves which the wind has failed to blow away there is a bare thin aspect of nature which is to look at either before the snow or afterward you long for the poor earth to he country by ways able to warm herself again by the fire ol ihe � an the white bark looks out of season as if they were still wearing their clothes and the wretched which stand on the edges of the look as if they had been intended for but had been somehow unlucky and were in destitute circumstances it seems as if the pines and ought to show christian charity to these � ad and relations the world looks as if it were at the mercy of the wind and cold in winter and it would be useless to dream that such a time as spring would follow these apparently hopeless days if we had not history and experience to us what a sorrowful doom the first winter must have seemed to adam if he ever took a journey to the northward after he was sent from paradise it must have been to him a most solemn death and ending of all vegetable yet he might have taken a grim satisfaction in the thought that no more apples could ever get ripe to tempt or anybody else and that the mischief making fruits of the earth were cursed as well as he in winter there is to my mind a greater beauty in a tree than in the same tree covered with � d weight and glory of summer leaves then it ii great mass of light and shadow against the land a winter drive � cape or the sky but in winter the of the bare branches against a white cloud or a clear yellow sunset is a most exquisite thing to see it is the difference between a fine statue and a well painted picture and seems a higher art like that � but it is always a puzzle to me why a dead tree in summer should be a painful thing to look at one instantly tells the difference between a dead and a live one close at hand such a tree cannot give the pleasure that it did in winter yet it looked almost the same in cold weather when it was alive is it our horror of death or is it that a bit of winter in the midst of summer is like a skeleton at the feast a drive in a town in winter should be taken for three reasons for the convenience of getting from place to place for the pleasure of motion in the fresh air or for the satisfaction of driving a horse but for the real delight of the thing it is necessary to go far out from even the villages across the country you can see the mountains like great of clear ice all along the horizon and the smaller hills covered with trees and snow together nearer at hand and the great expanse of snow lies north and south and west all across the fields in my own part of the country which is heavily v the pine for country by ways give the world a black and white look that is very dismal when the sun is not shining the farmers houses look lonely and it seems as if they had crept nearer together since the leaves fell and they are no longer hidden from each other the hills look larger and you can see deeper into the woods as you drive along nature brings out so many treasures for us to look at in summer and the world with such that after the frost comes it is like an empty house in which one all the pictures and and the familiar voices this was a drive that i liked it was a
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t te great trial of v and � which in scandalous revelations in high life � is proceeding a group of would be has collected waiting with t ie patience of respectable for a chance of admission to the paradise within the paradise at present is full to overflowing and the doors are guarded by a couple of particularly stern and stolid attendants each is trying to wear out the endurance of the rest and to the by behaviour a meek man to after standing in hopeful silence for three quarters of an hour i suppose there ll be a chance of getting in presently eh the placidly none whatever sir the m m but they ll be rising for luncheon in an hour or so some will be coming out then surely not many them as are in stays in mostly the m m with a sudden recollection that he is acquainted with one of the counsel engaged in the case couldn t you take in my card to mr tm sure he ll do anything he could for me the rest regard him with extreme as one guilty of behaviour on the threshold of � it won t be no use � there ain t room in there as it is for a cue � a one � but i ll get it taken in for you if you like he opens the door a very little and passes card to an attendant within junior members of the junior bar in very clean white with thought you had orders to let counsel in before the general public there ought to be some rule about that if there isn t so we do sir but if this gentleman s a friend of mr s and he me to admit him why you see the junior junior the convenience of mere members of the bar must give way naturally the inside attendant returns with card which the the door to receive and then it with a sharp like a wild beast to the m m after card by the dim light i told you it wouldn t be no use sir please wait it says general movement of virtuous satisfaction at this well rebuke the m m wishing he had not put his trust in i � i have waited � but it don t matter addressing first white wig from a timid social impulse the � er � made some remarkable in the box yesterday � his cross examination seemed pretty severe first white wig after a stare at his audacity cross examination not is to the ot w w see that extraordinary decision of old s in v of course they ll appeal i the couple converse in highly terms for some minutes the m m at the next pause it struck me that colonel rather contradicted himself on one or two points second w w very likely to first w w what do you do when you re before one of these confounded common law judges on the threshold of and see he s looking up a point of in a text book during your argument do you wait for him first w w a all the decision of a counsel who was called the before last wait for him no � go on talking about anything you like till he s ready to listen to you again that s what always lo an important stranger bustling up to here i say let me in will you you a witness in this case sir the s after a tell tale pause er � yes � in a sort of way y know then your entrance is down below sir in the central all � you ll see it written up there the i s � well i m not exactly a witness but i m interested in the case y know so are all these gentlemen sir � but they can t get in the i s no � but look here i know the � t least i � don t mean to call em that y know � hope they re all innocent i m sure i like em all danced with em and all that lots of times ah well you see they ain t to day sir tjie i s away there is a stir within the portion of the crowd in court that is visible through the glass doors and presently produces a stout and struggling q c make way there stand aside gentlemen please counsel coming out q c comes puffing followed by his clerk and a first w w as the chasm in t ie crowd again now you can let us in not yet sir to other i see that party last � know � him as was here making all that day afore yesterday i went and ad a drink with im second interested ah and ow was he first oh same as usual � told me he d come up from for a week s � and he seems to be it too ome saturday so he but the on the threshold second grimly he ll be lucky if he gets there saturday fortnight murmurs from the fortunate who can just see the witness box the glass who s that in the box that s colonel � finishing his cross examination � doesn t seem to be enjoying himself see how he s at his moustache � got a nasty one just then i expect � i d as soon believe im as i would er � now � she ain t been in the box yet � no but she s a lar bad lot from what was said in the opening speech they won t change my opinion of r whichever way the case goes well i t followed it closely myself � oh no more have i � but still i ve e up
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generally followed the lead of but whether the be a witness or not all agree that he who in the existence of god who in the darkness of his reason sees not god in the earth with its various and innumerable forms of animal or vegetable life sees him not in the ment � nor yet in the existence of man the most wonderful of his works is excluded is always rare yet we have three times in one county known the attempt made to for that cause the general bad character of the witness for truth and affords no ground for however much it may for in testimony march but even if it had it would not have been established in those cases belief was the only reason urged the error of such belief or want of belief may not merely be � but the entertaining of such sentiments may be deemed the misfortune of his life but because one of the for truth may be wanting it is difficult to perceive why all others remaining in full force and vigor the witness should not be heard � and then after not as the common law does before such hearing some judgment formed by those who are to decide upon the matter in dispute of the truth or of his statements he is excluded only because he is believed if he is to be believed when the truth uttered would expose him to reproach and why not hear him under more favorable circumstances when the rights of others may be involved and then judge him and any outrage may be committed upon him � his property may be robbed � his wife may be � his child may be murdered before hb eyes and the guilty go if he be the only witness not because he cannot or will not tell the truth but because the law will not hear him practically the law is that provided a man s belief be any body whose belief is better and it matters little what it be or may inflict any and all conceivable injuries on his person and property and the law will permit such a criminal to go unless there happens to be present some witness whose belief should square with the idea of is this all it leaves it in the power of any man to be a witness or not a interested for one party and knowing facts adverse to his interest he has only to profess the belief and he is excluded wishing to be a witness and being an he has only to express a change of sentiments and he will be admitted to testify he alone whether he will be heard or not if an and a man of integrity he is shut out if an and he will lie and deny his he is received so that the law does not even protect itself all honest and admitting all provided only that they are willing to render themselves competent by falsehood then the oath without which cannot exist and the great argument for the of testimony by the law is done away with no intelligent of o judge or ever relied upon its security judge of the witness bj his appearance manner answers the probability of his statements comparing them with the lights from every source punish falsehood affecting the rights of others in proportion to the wrong done not with one uniform measure of punishment as if the offence in all cases were the same not two kinds of truth the greater and lesser else both are lost the standard of by requiring it on all occasions and in this way public morality is increased and the real upon which the social fabric rests are strengthened art n � specimens of german die der in von bis die q in von und professor a m vol to this volume contains pieces from two hundred and nine poets of germany who have lived within a hundred years of course the pieces are of very unequal merit all the various form of german poetry are represented here � from the antique to the most piece that is capable of being sung properly speaking the modem poetry of germany begins with and it bears the peculiar mark of that great artist though none has yet equalled the master in composition the work is divided into three parts namely � pure or the of sentiment or the of thought or the of events we give below a translation of a celebrated piece from expectation did i not hear the gate open did i not hear the latch click no it was the wind s low breathing through these thick german march o deck thou roof of foliage green thou shalt receive the of my light ye branches build a shady bower to screen and circle her with the still blessed night and all ye flattering breezes breathe unseen and play around her cheek so pure and bright when her light footsteps softly moving come and bear their gentle burden to her home hush what through the hedges what was the rustling i heard no t was but the moving bushes shaken by the startled bird proud day put out thy torch and thou appear o spiritual night with silence sweet thy purple blossoms spread around us here and let the secret branches o er us meet the joy of love the listener s ear the ray of s heat let only the silent dare to look on us and in our share did i not hear in the whispering voices awake no it was the swan in circles moving on the silver lake around me flow all sweetest the spring is falling with a pleasant noise the flowers are bending to the west wind s kiss and all things living in exchange of joys the � the red in its bliss behind the leaves its ripe
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could not interpret and she could not confide her secret and there was an sadness in these last kisses and s heart seemed to stand still when he said � her last wish was our marriage she would be glad if she could see us hid her face on his shoulders several times he thought she was weeping but her eyes remained dry he came to her room that evening and now that they were lovers again it seemed to him impossible that she could refuse to marry him but she stood looking at him absorbed in the presence of her future life her eyes full of a strange farewell he could no word from her and her eyes retained their strange melancholy till her departure his last memory of her visit was their melancholy chap xxv the forces within her were at she was conscious of a of the moment was one in which she saw as in a mirror her poor vague little soul in its hopeless wandering through life she drew back not daring to see herself and then was drawn forward by a curiosity she felt towards them so differently that she could not think of herself as the same person when she was with as she was when she was with she remembered what she had heard the say and she remembered the sin bat apart from the deception she practised upon both men there was the wrong doing her conscience did not her now but she knew that she would suffer to morrow or next day that sense of sin which she could not from her nature would rise to her lips like a salt wave and poison her life with its bitterness and she asked herself vain questions why had she left her father why had she two lovers why did she rise to seek things that made her unhappy she thought of yesterday s journey to see a dying woman and of to night s performance of and what an unhappy the bitter wave of conscience which rose to her lips and poisoned her taste forced from her an that she would mend her life she foresaw nothing but deception and easily imagined that not a day would pass without lies all her life would be a lie and when her nature rose in vehement revolt she looked round for means to free herself from the and chains in which she had locked herself thinking of she vowed that it must not happen again but what excuse would she give should she tell him that was her lover that was the only way only it seemed so brutal even so she would have a lover and strictly speaking she ought to send them both away very probably that is what she would do in the end in the meantime she would keep them both on her face contracted in an expression of terror and disgust had her then ended in such miserable selfishness as this to escape from her thoughts she looked out at the landscape hoping it would her but she could take no interest in it yesterday it had seemed so beautiful but to day it was all reversed and the light was different she preferred to remember it she thought that they must be the river and she remembered how in one place it ran round a fields making a silver in the green land they had crossed it twice in the space of a quarter of a mile then it followed the railway placid reflecting the trees and sky then like a child it was soon taken with a new idea it ran far away out of sight and thought it would never return but it came hack again turbulent and shallow and with woods on the steep and by a beautiful stone bridge a little later its wanderings grew still more and she was not sure that it had not been joined in some strange way by another river but flowing round a low lying field coming suddenly from behind a bend in the land it had seemed in that place like a pond one bank was lined with bushes the other lay open to a view of a plain divided by three ladies had held their light boat in the deep current and she had wondered who they were and what was their manner of living and their desires and though she would never know these things the image of these ladies in their boat had fixed itself in her mind for ever soon after the train began to speed and nervously she awaited her destiny for she was uncertain whether she would send a telling him to come to park lane or whether she would drive straight to his lodgings at the bottom of her heart she knew that when she arrived at st she would tell the queen s square and an hour later nervous with expectation she sat in the cab seeing the streets pass behind her she was beginning to know the characteristics of the neighbourhood and in the afternoon light they awoke her out of a trembling she recognised the old iron the open space the thirsty fountain and the troop of neglected children she liked the forlorn and rusty square she experienced a sort of sinking anguish while waiting on the lest he might not be at home but when the servant girl said mr dean was upstairs she liked her good smile and she loved the stairs and � it was all wonderful and she could hardly believe that in a few moments more she would catch the first sight of his face she would have to tell some part of the truth and since lady was dead he could not fail to believe he would never think of asking her � she put the ugly thought aside and ran up the second flight in the pauses of their
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have entangled their private with the cause of american literature we counsel them to themselves as fast as possible in and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great american literature what can have become of the least said is best a literature is no man s private concern but a and result is the affair of a power which works by a of and force to behold the race never dying the individual never spared � and every trait of beauty purchased by of private tragedy the in the wild gardens of nature is never many of the best must die of consumption many of despair and many be stupid and insane before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a and beneficent existence but passing tp a letter which is a generous and a just tribute to von we have it in power to furnish our correspondent and all readers with a sketch though plainly from np very friendly hand of tbe work of that lady who in the silence of and to hold a of genius io germany at last has the long expected of the here appeared it is true her name is not more is the this book to the king also the but partly because her genius shines so put of every line v because this work so directly to her earlier writings appears only as an of them none can doubt who the author is we know not how we should to the reader this most original work or we should say the von her eccentric under the person pf s mother the we the extract from the of the or september a letter whilst she is still a child who sits upon the shawl at the foot of the and devoutly to the mother of the great poet moreover does not conceal that she solely or at any rate principally her views from the and in fact it could not be otherwise since we come to hear the wisdom which makes a strange enough figure in the mouth of s mother if we mistake not the intimate intercourse with is also an essential impulse for von and we must not therefore wonder if the loses her way in pure philosophical wherein she herself of the known phrases of the school it is true she quickly herself again clothes her in poetical garb bravely to the visions or and this happens becomes a her in expressions and off in her cf sketches for the most part the whole dress seems only assumed in order to make the matter which is in the last degree radical less injurious as to the object of these sayings and reported from memory of the since she leads the conversation throughout our sketch must be short it is freedom which the truest being of man man should be free from all traditions from all since every holding on somewhat is spiritual the god s impulse to truth is the only right belief man himself should handle and prove since whoever on a matter has always a better right to truths than who lets himself be on the cheek by an of faith by sin she understands that which from the soul since every and the becoming of the soul in general art and science have only the destination to make free what is bound but the human spirit can rule all and in that sense man is god only we are not arrived so far as to describe the true pure man in us if in the department of religion this principle leads to the overthrow of the whole historical so in the political world it leads to the ruin of all our actual therefore she wishes for a strong as napoleon promised for a time to be who however already in when these conversations are ascribed to the had shown that instead of a world s he would be a world s makes variations on the verse and wake an a hero awake and in this sense is also her to read it were noble if a stronger one should come who in more beautiful moderation in clearness of soul and freedom of thought should plant the tree of where remains the if it is not the a letter of humanity that is the principle in her system the state has the same will the same conscience � for good and evil as the christ yet it itself away into of civil officers against one another the is the own the proof that ity as man has against humanity the old state s doctors who excite it to a will are also its disease but they who do not agree in this will and cannot struggle through relations are the against whom the state so long as it knows not how to bring their sound strength into harmony and precisely to those must it itself since they are its and restoration whilst the others who to it make it more sunken and if it be objected that this her truth is only a poetic dream which in the actual world has no place she answers even were the truth a dream it is not therefore to be denied let us our genius to this dream let us form an ideal paradise which the spiritual of nature requires at our hands is the whole fabric of state she asks only a worse arranged hospital where the selfish ot the ambitious would fasten on the poor human race the foolish fantastic of their for beneficent and with it the political economy so destitute of all genius to bind the useful with the beautiful on which these state s doctors themselves so much and so with their exhibit as a pattern to us a wretched picture of ignorance of selfishness and of when i come on that i feel my veins swell with
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with a strong and intention of course he saw more clearly than ever that she was a fine lady � she drew up her long neck and said as she retreated to her chair again i have a great admiration for mr had paused in the act of drawing his chair to the tea table and was looking on at this scene the comers of his eyes with a perplexed smile would not have wished him to know any thing about the volume of but she was too proud to show any concern he is a worldly and vain i fear said mr he knew scarcely any thing of the poet whose books embodied the faith and of young ladies and gentlemen a said lifting a chair with one hand and holding the book open in the other whose notion of a hero was that he should disorder his stomach and despise mankind his and his and are the most paltry that were ever pulled by the strings of lust and pride hand the book to me said mr let me beg of you to put it aside till after tea said however objectionable mr may find its pages they would the be made by being with and that is true my dear said mr laying down the book on the small table behind him he saw that his was angry ho thought her father is frightened at her how came he to have a nice stepping long for his daughter but she shall see that i am not frightened then he said aloud i should like to know how you will justify your admiration for such a writer miss i should not attempt it with you mr said you have such strong words at command that they make the smallest argument seem formidable if i had ever met the giant i should have made a point of agree ing with him in his literary opinions had that thing in woman a soft voice with a clear utterance her was always charming it was without emphasis and was accompanied with graceful little turns of the head laughed at her thrust with young my daughter is a critic of words mr said the minister smiling complacently and often mine on the ground of which i profess are as dark to me as if they were the reports of a sixth sense which i possess not i am an eager for precision and would fain find language subtle enough to follow the utmost of the soul s but i see not why a round word that means some object made and blessed by the creator should be and banished as a oh your � i know what they are said in his usual they all go on your system of make believe rotten ness may suggest what is unpleasant so you d better say sugar or something else such a long way off the fact that nobody is obliged to think of it those are your that dress up till it looks as well as honesty and shoot with boiled instead of bullets i hate your gentlemanly then you would not like mr i think said that reminds me father that to day when i was giving miss her lesson mr came in and spoke to me with grand politeness and asked me at what times you were likely to b disengaged because he wished to make your better acquaintance and consult you on matters of importance he never took the least notice of me before can you guess the reason of his sudden nay child said the minister politics of coarse said he s on some committee an election is coming universal peace is declared and the have si sincere interest in the lives of the poultry eh mr isn t that it � nay not so he is the close ally of the family who are blind hereditary like the and will drive their ten c to the as if they were sheep and it has even been hinted that the heir who is coming from the east may be another tory date and with the younger it is said that he has enormous wealth and could purchase every vote in the county that has a price he is come said i heard miss tell her sister that she had seen him going out of her father s room tis strange said mr something extraordinary must have happened said for mr to intend us miss said to me only the other day tha she could not think how i came to be so well educated and she always thought were ignorant vulgar people i said so they were usually and church people also in small towns she herself a judge of what is and she is vulgarity � with large feet and the most odious scent on her handkerchief and a bonnet that looks like the fashion printed in capital letters one sort of fine is as c ood as another said no indeed pardon me said a real fine lady does not wear clothes that in people eyes or use or make a noise as she moves she is something refined and graceful and charming and never oh yes said contemptuously and she reads also and � gentlemen of unspeakable woes who employ a hair and look seriously at themselves in the glass and gave a little toss went on a fine lady is a headed thing with small airs and small notions about as to the business of life as a pair of to the clearing of a forest ask your father what those old persecuted would have done fine lady wives and daughters oh there is no danger of said men who are unpleasant companions and make of themselves are sure to get wives enough to suit them my dear said mr let not your betray yon into toward those venerable they struggled and endured in order
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was speedily enlightened concerning it for mr walked straight thither and having called for a of ale announced with an air of majesty which was highly effective that it had pleased his mistress in consideration of his gallant behaviour on the twist cried the man fixing his eyes on and suddenly what the devil s this i beg your pardon sir said i was in a great hurry to get home and didn t see you were coming death muttered the man to himself glaring at the boy with his large dark eyes who would have thought it i grind him to ashes he d start up fi om a stone to come in my way i am sorry stammered confused by the strange man s wild look i hope i have not hurt you rot you murmured the man in a horrible passion between his clenched teeth if i had only had the courage to say the word i might have been free of you in a night curses on your head and black death on your heart you what are you doing here the man shook his fist as he uttered these he advanced towards as if with the intention of a blow at him but fell violently on the ground and foaming in a fit gazed for a moment at the struggles of the madman for such he supposed him to be and then darted into the house for help having seen him safely carried into the hotel he turned his face running as fast as he could to make up for lost time and recalling with a great deal of astonishment and some fear the behaviour of the person from whom he had just parted the circumstance did not dwell in his recollection long however for when he reached the cottage there was enough to occupy his mind and to drive all of self completely from his memory rose had rapidly grown worse before midnight she was a medical who resided on the spot was in constant attendance upon her and after first seeing the patient he had taken mrs aside and pronounced her disorder to be one of a most alarming nature in fact he said it would be little short of a if she recovered how often did start from his bed that night nd stealing out with noiseless footstep to the staircase listen for the slightest sound from the sick chamber how often did a tremble shake his frame and cold drops of terror start upon his brow when a sudden of feet caused him to twist that something too dreadful to think of had even then occurred and what had been the of all the prayers he had ever uttered compared with those he poured forth now in the agony and passion of his for the life and health of the gentle creature who was tottering on the deep grave s verge oh the suspense the fearful acute suspense of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love is trembling in the oh the thoughts that crowd upon the mind and make the heart beat violently and the breath come thick by the force of the images they up before it the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain or lessen the danger which we have no power to the sinking of soul and spirit which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces what can equal these what reflections or can in the full tide and fever of the time them morning came and the little cottage was lonely and still people spoke in whispers anxious faces appeared at the gate from time to time women and children went away in tears all the day and for after it had grown dark softly up and down the garden raising his eyes every instant to the sick chamber and to see the window a� if lay inside late at night mr arrived it is hard said the good doctor turning away as he spoke so young so much beloved but there is very little hope another morning the sun shone brightly as brightly as if it looked upon no misery or care and with every leaf and flower in fuu bloom about her with life and health and sounds and sights of joy surrounding her on every side the fair young creature lay wasting fast crept away to the old churchyard and sitting down on one of the green wept and prayed for her in silence there was such peace and beauty in the scene so much of brightness and mirth in the landscape such music in the songs of the summer birds such freedom in the rapid flight of the overhead so much of life and in all that when the boy raised his aching eyes and looked about the thought instinctively occurred to that this was not a time for death that could never die when things were all so glad and sm twist gay that for cold and cheerless winter l sunlight a nd he almost thought that w for the old and and that they never wrapped i young aad form within their ghastly a from the church bell broke harshly on these ful another again it was for f funeral service a group of humble entered i gate wearing white for the corpse was yon they stood uncovered by a grave and was a a mother once � among the weeping train but the sim al brightly and the birds sang on turned on the many he had received from the young lady and wishing that time come over again that he might never cease showing her how grateful and attached he was he had no for self on the score of neglect or want of thought for he had been devoted to her service and yet a hundred rose up before him on which he fancied he have been more zealous
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characteristic of he laughed when they came into the glow of the house he laughed again he condescended i ve got to hand it to you you re consistent all right i d of thought that after getting this look in at a lot of good decent farmers you d get over this high art stuff but you hang right on well to herself he takes advantage of my trying to be good tell you there s just three classes of people folks that haven t got any ideas at all and that kick about everything and regular the fellows with that and get the world s work done then i m probably a she smiled no i won t admit it you do like to talk but at a show down you d prefer sam to any damn long haired artist well oh well my we re just going to change everything aren t we going to tell fellows that have been making for ten years how to direct em and tell how to build towns and make the magazines publish nothing but a lot of stories about old maids and about wives that don t know what they want oh we re a terror come on now come out of it wake up you ve got a fine nerve kicking about a because it shows a few legs why you re always these greek dancers or whatever they are that don t even wear a but dear the trouble with that it wasn t that it got in so many legs but that it and promised main street to show more of them and then didn t the promise it was peeping tom s idea of humor i don t get you look here now she lay awake while he with sleep i must go on my ideas he calls them i that him watching him operate would be enough it isn t not after the first thrill i don t want to hurt him but i must go on it isn t enough to stand by while he fills an and me bits of information if i stood by and admired him long enough i would be content i would become a nice little woman the village already i m not reading anything i haven t touched the piano for a week i m letting the days drown in worship of a good deal ten more per acre i won t i won t how i ve failed at everything the parties city hall and but it doesn t i m not trying to reform the town now i m not trying to clubs and sit in dean white yearning up at with i am trying to save my soul will asleep there trusting me thinking he holds me and i m leaving him all of me left him when he laughed at me it wasn t enough for him that i admired him i must change myself and grow like him he takes advantage no more it s finished i will go on iv her lay on top of the upright piano she picked it up since she had last touched it the dried strings had snapped and upon it lay a gold and crimson cigar band she longed to see for the of the brethren in the faith but s was heavy upon her she could not determine whether she was checked by fear or him or by � by dislike of the labor of the scenes which would be involved in asserting independence she was like the at fifty not afraid main street of death but bored by the of bad and bad and sitting up all night on windy the second evening after the she summoned and to the house for pop corn and in the living room and the value of manual training in below the eighth while sat beside at the dining table pop corn she was quickened by the speculation in his eyes she murmured do you want to help me my dear how i don t know he waited i think i want you to help me find out what has made the darkness of the women gray darkness and shadowy trees we re all in it ten million women young married women with good prosperous husbands and business women in linen and that out to and wives of and who really like to make butter and go to church what is it we want � and need will there would say that we need lots of children and hard work but it isn t that there s the same discontent in women with eight children and one more coming � always one more coming and you find it in and wives who just as much as in girl college who wonder how they can escape their kind parents what do we want essentially i think you are like myself you want to go back to an age of tranquillity and manners you want to good taste again just good taste fastidious people oh � no i believe all of us want the same things � we re all together the workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the colonies and even a few of the s all the same revolt in all the classes that have waited taken advice i think perhaps we want a more conscious life we re tired of and sleeping and dying we re tired of seeing just a few people able to be we re tired of always hope till the next generation we re tired of hearing the and priests and cautious and the husbands us be calm be patient wait we have the plans for a already made just give us a bit more time and we ll produce main street it trust us we re wiser than you for ten thousand years they ve said
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rights also are respected his rights would be a long drop and a stone cracked sir answered and then changing his manner suddenly he laid his hand upon my uncle s sleeve come come i was his friend as well as you said he but we cannot alter the facts and it is rather late in the day for us to fall out over them your invitation holds good for friday night � certainly i shall bring with me and finally arrange the conditions of our little very good sir i shall hope to see you they bowed and my uncle stood a little time looking after him as he made his way amidst the crowd a good nephew said he a bold rider the best pistol shot in england but a dangerous man i chapter x the men of the ring it was at the end of my first week in london that my uncle gave a supper to the fancy as was usual for gentlemen of that time if they wished to figure before the public as and of sport he had invited not only the chief fighting men of the day but also those men of fashion who were most interested in the ring mr lord say and sir sir john colonel sir thomas the hon and many more the rumour that the prince was to be present had already spread through the clubs and invitations were eagerly sought after the and horses was a well known sporting house with an old prize for landlord and the arrangements were as primitive as the most could wish it was one of the many curious fashions which have now died out that men who were from luxury and high living seemed to find a fi in life by descending to the lowest so that the night houses and gambling in stone garden or the often gathered illustrious company under their smoke blackened it was a change for them to turn their backs upon the cooking of and of or the of old q and to dine upon a porter house washed down by a pint of ale from a pot a rough crowd had assembled in the street to see the fighting men go in and my uncle warned me to look to my pockets as we pushed our way through it within was a large room with faded red curtains a floor and walls which were covered with prints of and race horses brown liquor stained tables were dotted about in it and round one of these half a dozen formidable looking men were seated while one the of all was perched upon the table itself swinging his legs to and fro a tray of small glasses and stood beside them the boys were thirsty sir so i brought up some ale and some whispered the landlord i thought you would have no objection su quite right bob how are you all how are you how are you ah i am very glad to see you the fighting men rose and took their hats off except the fellow on the table who continued the men of the ring to swing his legs and to look my uncle very coolly in the face how are you pretty tidy ow are you say su when you speak to a said and with a sudden of the table he sent flying almost into my uncle s arms see now none o that i said i ll learn you manners joe which is more than ever your father did you re not black jack in a ken but you are noble slap up and it s for you to behave as such i ve always been reckoned a like sort of man said thickly but if so be as i ve said or done what i t ought to there there that s all right cried my uncle only too anxious to smooth things over and to prevent a quarrel at the outset of the evening here are some more of our friends how are you how are you colonel well you are looking vastly better good evening i trust lady was none the worse for our pleasant drive ah you look fit enough to throw your hat over the ropes this instant sir i am glad to see you you will find some old friends here stone amid the stream of and who were into the room i had caught a glimpse of the sturdy figure and broad good humoured face of champion the sight of him was like a of south down air coming into that low oil smelling room and i ran forward to shake by the hand why master � or i should say mr stone i suppose � you ve changed out of all knowledge i can t hardly believe that it was really you that used to come down to blow the when boy jim and i were at the well you are fine to be e what s the news of s oak i asked eagerly your father was down to chat with me master and he tells me that the war is going to break out again and that he hopes to see you here in london before many days are past for he is coming up to see lord and to make inquiry about a ship your mother is well and i saw her in ch on sunday and boy champion s good ed face clouded over he d set his heart very much on here to night but there were reasons why i didn t wish him to and so there s a shadow us the men of the ring it s the first that ever was and i feel it master between ourselves i have very good reason to wish him to stay with me and i am sm e that with his high spirit and his ideas he would never
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thank god we shall be all under one roof again at last three months later punch no longer black sheep has discovered that he is the veritable owner of a real live lovely mamma who is also a sister and friend and that he must protect her till the father comes home deception does not suit the part of a protector and when one can do anything without question where is the use of deception mother would be awfully cross if you walked through that ditch says continuing a conversation mother s never angry says punch she d just say you re a little and that s not nice but fu show punch walks through the ditch and himself to the knees mother dear he shouts i m just as dirty as i can ji ly be black then change your clothes as quickly as you j ly can rings out mother s clear voice from the house and don t be a little � there told you so says punch it s all different now and we are just as much mother s as if she had never gone not altogether o punch for when young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate suspicion and despair all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light and teach faith where no faith was majesty the king his majesty the king where the word of a king is there is power and who may say unto him � what thou and to sleep at ve foot of ve bed and pink book and ve � cause i will be in ve night � and s all miss and now give me one kiss and i ll go lo sleep � so quiet ow ve pink book has under ve pillow and ve iu miss miss i m sa come and me up miss his majesty the king was going to bed and poor patient miss who had advertised herself humbly as a young person european accustomed to the care of little children was forced to wait upon his royal the going to bed was always a process because his majesty had a convenient of forgetting which of his many friends from the s son to the s daughter he had prayed for and lest the deity should take offence was used to toil through his little prayers in all reverence five times in one evening his majesty the king believed in the of prayer as devoutly as he believed in the patient or miss who could reach him down his gun � with caps � one � from the upper shelves of the big nursery cupboard at the door of the nursery his authority stopped beyond lay the empire of his father and mother � two very terrible people who had no time to waste u on his majesty the king his voice was lowered when he passed the frontier of his his majesty the king his actions were and his soul was filled with awe because of the grim man who lived among a wilderness of pigeon holes and the most fascinating pieces of red and the wonderful woman who was always getting into or stepping out of the big carriage to the one belonged the mysteries of the to the other the great reflected wilderness of the s room where the shiny scented hung on miles and miles up in the air and the just seen of the revealed an of bags and white headed there was no room for his majesty the king either in official reserve or he had discovered that ages and ages ago � before even came to the house or miss had ceased over a packet of greasy letters which appeared to be her chief treasure on earth his majesty the king therefore wisely confined himself to his own where only miss and she feebly disputed his sway from miss he had picked up his simple and it to the legends of gods and devils that he had learned in the servants quarters to miss he confided with equal trust his tattered garments and his more serious she would make everything whole she knew exactly how the earth had been born and had reassured the trembling soul of his majesty the king that terrible time in july when it rained for seven days and seven nights and � there was no ark ready and all the had flown away she was the most powerful person with whom he was brought into contact � always excepting the two remote and silent people beyond the nursery door how was his majesty the king to know that six years ago in the summer of his birth mrs turning over her husband s papers hj d come upon the letter of a his majesty the king foolish woman who had been carried away by the silent man s strength and personal beauty how could he tell what evil the overlooked slip of note paper had wrought in the mind of a desperately jealous wife how could he despite his wisdom guess that his mother had chosen to make of it excuse for a bar and a division between herself and her husband that strengthened and grew harder to break with each year that she having skeleton in the cupboard had trained it into a household god which should be about their path and about their bed and poison all their ways these things were beyond the province of his majesty the king he only knew that his father was daily absorbed in some mysterious work for a thing called the and that his mother was the victim alternately of the and the to these she was escorted by a captain man for whom his majesty the king had no regard he doesn t laugh he argued with miss who
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ih y do seem to uke it so much to is true cried in a cheerful la the as r he s to the i dot thought of that this weather will p ay � in the it k lucky r� all her spirits � by il it � charming weather for indeed ns she sat down to the wi happy how much they must enjoy put a little return of anxiety it be i to at this time of year and such a series j of rain shall certainly have very little more of il will soon ft in and in all with st day or two perhaps this can j h last longer � perhaps it to night i at any said wishing to prevent mrs jt th her sister s as as she did dare say we shall have sir john and lady in to� by the end of next week ay my dear i ll warrant you we do mary always i her own way j and n silently she will write to by this day s if she the letter was written and sent away with ft privacy which all her to fact whatever the truth of it lie and fur as was for feeling thorough about it yet while � ha in spirits she could not be very j and in spirits happy in the of and still happier iu her of � i i the morning was chiefly spent in leaving cards at th� j of mr s to inform of he f and in town und ing ihe of sky in air don t you nd it it hm in the there e� t in to ti very d � i hardly keep my hands w� in my ii m i c the m will be out iu a and we have a dear r was diverted and pained and saw every night in the brightness of re and every morning in the of atmosphere the n symptoms of approaching the bad no reason to be led with mrs s of living and set of ai than with her to which invariably kind every thing in her was conducted on the moat plan and a few old to lady a regret had never dropped she visited no one to whom an at all the foi her young pleased to find herself more comfortably m that particular than she had expected was very willing compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any � f their evening which whether at home or abroad only fur cards could liave little to amuse her colonel who had a general invitation to the house was with them almost every day he came to look at and talk to who often derived more from conversing with him than from daily occurrence but who i aw at the same time much hia regard for her sister she feared it was a � regard it grieved her to see the with he watched and his spirits were certainly worse than when at about a week after their it became certain that arrived his card was ou the table when they came in from the morning s drive good cried he has been here while we were out rejoiced to be assured of being in london now ventured to say depend upon il he � a a w to but m� � cl to hour her on mr b t e il with it tlie of restored to of and all r from liar never tlie � j� of him of tlie day her for she insisted on being w the when the others wi out thoughts were full of what might b� passing in street e but a moment s at ber ist r when y il waa i inform h r that had paid visit a note wai just u brought in and on hu tables for tried hastily forward i � no ma am for my but not took it up i it ia fur mrs how provoking i yoa are a letter v said ta be longer a not a short pause vou have no in me ne nay this reproach from � you who have in no one me i returned in some confusion indeed i have nothing tell nor ij energy our then are alike we hate neither of any thing to you you communicate and i because i conceal by charge of reserve in herself she was not at liberty to do away knew not under to press for in soon d and the note b hi r she r� ad it aloud it was lady announcing their arrival in street the ht and ting the of mother and following evening on sir s part and a t old her v their c it in u tt and was accepted but when the f l drew near as it waa iu civility tu mrs i that both ber on a visit t bad j l in tier sister to go t u f � till she had of and d on l more d for t h td unwilling iu i ran the z of ah calling in h r absence was r that ia not altered by h of abode for although settled in sir bad contrived to around bim nearly twenty young people and to them with a ball was an affair lady did not approve in the country was very but in london where the of elegance was more and easily il was too for the of a few girls to it know that lady had given a small of eight or nine two and a mere ur and mrs were of the from the tliey bad not seen before their arrival in town as he waa ful to the appearance of any attention lo bis mother in law came near lier they i no of recognition on e
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the clash of and rolling of drums and shouts of those who went and of those who waited from to the dart there was no port which did not send forth its little fleet gay with and as for a joyous festival thus in the season of the days the might of england put forth on to the waters in the ancient and county of there was no lack of leaders or of soldiers for a service which promised either honor or profit in the north the s head of the and the scarlet fish of the de were waving over a strong body of from and forests de was up in the east and sir john de in the west sir de sir thomas west sir de sir arthur sir walter and stout sir were all marching south with from and while from came sir john sir thomas and sir john with a troop of picked men at arms making for their port at greatest of all the however was that at castle for the name and the fame of sir drew toward him the keenest and spirits all eager to serve under so a leader from the new forest and the forest of from the pleasant country which is watered by the the and the young from the ancient all were pushing for to take service under the banner of the five scarlet roses and now could sir have shown the of land which the laws of rank required he might well hare cut bis into a square banner and taken such a following into the field as would supported the dignity of a but poverty was heavy upon him his land was scant his empty and the very castle which covered him the holding of another sore was his heart when he saw rare and war hardened turned away from his gates for the lack of the money which might and pay them yet the letter which had brought him gave him powers which he was not slow to use in it sir the lieutenant of the white company assured him that there remained in his keeping enough to fit out a hundred and twenty men at arms which joined to the three hundred companions already in france would make a force which any leader might be proud to command carefully and the knight chose out his men from the swarm of many an anxious consultation he held with black sam and other of his more experienced followers as to who should come and who should stay by all saints day however ere the last leaves had fluttered to earth in the and he had filled up his full numbers and under his banner as stout a following of as ever their war bows twenty men at arms too well mounted and equipped formed the cavalry of the party while young peter of and walter ford of the martial sons of martial came at their own cost to wait npon sir and to share with the duties of hia yet even after the there was much to be done ere the party could proceed upon its way for swords and there was no need to take much for they were to be had both better and cheaper in than in with the long bow however it was different indeed might be got in spain bat it was well to take enough and to spare with them then three spare should be for bow with a great store of arrow heads besides the of chain mail the steel caps and the or arm guards which were the proper of the above all the women for miles round were hard at work cutting the white which were the of the company and them with the red lion of st george upon the centre of the breast when all was completed and the muster called in the castle yard the oldest soldier of the french wars was fain to confess that he had never looked upon a better equipped or more warlike body of men from the old knight with his silk sitting his great black war horse in the front of them to john the giant who leaned carelessly upon a huge black bow in the rear of the six score fully half had seen service before while a fair were men who had followed the wars all their and had a hand in those battles which had made the whole world ring with the fame and the wonder of the island six long weeks were taken in these preparations and it was close on ere all was ready for a start nigh two months had been in castle � months which were fated to turn the whole current of his life to divert it from that dark and lonely toward which it tended and to guide it into and more channels already he had learned to bless his father for that wise provision which had made him seek to know the world ere he bad ventured to it for it was a different place from that which he had pictured � very different from that which he had heard described when the master of the held forth to his charges upon the wolves who for them beyond the peaceful folds of there was cruelty in it doubtless and lust and sin and sorrow but were there not virtues to robust positive virtues which did not shrink from temptation which held their own in all the rough of the world how color hm by contrast appeared the which came from inability to sin the which was attained by flying from the enemy bred as he was had and a mind which was enough to form new and to old ones he could not fail to see that the men with whom he was thrown in contact rough fierce and as they were were yet of deeper nature and of
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shall form an idea of the importance of those if we consider that the attributed to their influence are not confined merely to the vicinity of the shore but extend to a considerable distance from it a proof of this is furnished by the vast banks which are found at the extremity of the american continent by the of by green bank by bank � etc etc k all parts of these great banks as we must believe are formed of materials like the sand banks nearer the shore it is evident that their structure and their mode of are of the highest importance in the study of which at the present time are above water and hich at an earlier period have been formed and e e d in the game manner by the agency of the ocean one y � im of which we are v the name of wiu rise the ocean and meaning in from the bosom of the ocean after having long been the abode of a marine population to serve as a dwelling place for the tribes of earth then the of those future ages going about with his hammer and pick axe in hand to explore tiie bosom of this new land will perhaps be a prey to the same doubts and the same as ourselves and experience the same delights while they find in those new in a soil at present in the process of construction some new fact some relations hitherto which permit them to connect their epoch with former ages and in those new to discover the same infinite providence which in our time and all preceding ages has presided over the of our globe thus to comprehend the structure and the form of the soil we we are obliged to go back to the ocean there in the great deep which is the of unhappily our knowledge of the form and the connection of the different is exceedingly imperfect hitherto the minds of men have been to such a degree with the idea that they are dangerous to that we may say of them what the old poets were wont to say of the infernal regions that they were more dreaded than known however we have reason to hope that the of the sea who follow one another with so a zeal along the shores of the two � thanks to the liberal and enlightened ideas which begin to prevail with � will not fail to us more and more into the mystery of those grand operations which take place in silence at the bottom of the sea in another article we will make a more detailed investigation into the of nature in these and these principles to the of the soil we will show what has been done by the ocean in the formation of the and what is due to mere causes s of art in � the of england from the of james ii by t b esq london vo perhaps there is no period m the annals of of more interest to englishmen and americans than the one in the plan of s history from the accession of james the second till near the present time and no one standing in so much need of a good historian we know of no good history of england for the last one hundred and sixty years since the termination of s when it was understood that had undertaken his work it was a subject of general all were f ed that so important and a work had fallen to the ot of perhaps the only man of the age who was supposed to have the learning and genius required for the task mr is well known as the most popular and able of the present or perhaps of any past time many of his articles in the review are of permanent value and have been here m a separate work there be articles in that review that display more profound and exact knowledge in some but there are none so eagerly sought for none that combine so much varied and extensive information on subjects of general interest presented in so popular and a style it is rare that any man so many essential and so many accidental advantages for writing a history of england in addition to great learning and talent as an author he is eminently a practical man well acquainted with the world and its his public life for many years as a member of parliament and a part of the time one of the and of the cabinet has made him intimately acquainted with and and given him an opportunity of knowing from his own experience how the of government is carried on we believe too that he had the reputation of being one of the best in the house of and the powers of speaking well and writing well so rarely found united since the days of this work is more entertaining and contains more of what we wish to know than any other history of the times though it appears to us that the author is sometimes liable to the charge of and dwells too long in a s of and in and description the characters of eminent men are with great skill and much life hut are sometimes drawn out to an length he seems desirous to give a view so full and complete of every part of his subject as not only to prevent the possibility of being misunderstood but also to save the reader all the trouble of or making any conclusions for himself nothing can be more opposite to the manner of though they agree in one respect � in fondness for point and his style is clear and pointed as well as beautiful and brilliant perhaps the splendor is not always genuine and sometimes contrary to the that of rather than the brightness of polished steel the
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things wrong side out a sin to have his hair cut like his father s� or the honourable or this sir philip s� or any other christian man s well i wish it would come into your wise head that christian tongues were not made for railing as to my being serious to day that is entirely out of the question therefore you may spare yourself hint and and go to my aunt and ask her for my blue and but no � she said stopping for she recollected that she had directed the blue because it matched her blue s gift and a secret voice told her she had best under existing circumstances lay that favourite aside ho bring me my pink and my obeyed but not without muttering as she left the room a remonstrance against the of dress was one of those persons in every class of life whose virtues are most conspicuous in sins they are not inclined to we ought perhaps to for so hope humble and disagreeable a personage upon our readers but the truth is she figured too much on the family record of the to be suppressed by their faithful historian those personages in the copious of modern times seem to be a necessary in life and like shoes and smoky rooms constitute a portion of its trials had first found favour with mrs from her religious exterior to employ none but servants was a rule of the and there were certain set phrases and modes of dress which produced no slight impression upon the minds of the to do justice she had many virtues and though her re was of the order and therefore particularly disagreeable to her spiritual mistress yet her household faculties were invaluable for then as now in the interior of new england a faithful servant was like the genius of a fairy tale � no family could hope for more than one long possession s rights and increased her which were naturally most freely exercised on those members of the family who bad grown fi om youth to maturity under her eye in nothing was the sweetness of hope s temper more conspicuous than in the perfect good nature with which she bore the of this who like a cross cur was ready to bark at every by youth and beauty the labours of the toilet and our young friends though on this occasion hope about the in they e to make were not in themselves and when mrs presented herself to attend them to dinner they were her upon my word she said young ladies you have done honour to the occasion it is not every day we have two gentlemen fresh from old england to dine with us i am glad you have shown yourselves of the importance of the it is every woman s duty upon all occasions to look as well as she can and a duty so faithfully performed my dear aunt said hope that i fancy like other duties it becomes easy from habit easy replied with perfect m second nature my dear second nature i was taught from a child to determine the first thing in the morning what i should wear that day and now it is as natural to me as to open my eyes when i wake i should madam said that other and high thoughts were more fitting a rational creature preserved through the night watches hope was exquisitely susceptible to her aunt s but she would fain have sheltered them from the observation of others now my gentle she whispered to miss is not your and this is not lecture day on days slaves were set free you know and why should not follies be miss could not have failed to have made some sage reply to her friend s but the hope of a bell announced the dinner and the young ia arm in arm followed mrs to the dining room just as they entered hope whispered remember the day is sacred and may not be by a sad countenance this was a well timed caution it called a slight tinge to miss s cheeks and relieved her too ex met them at the door the light of his happiness seemed to every object he mrs on her appearance told her she had not in the least changed since he saw her � an implied compliment always after a woman has passed a certain age he congratulated miss upon the very apparent effect of the climate on her health and then breaking through the embarrassment that slightly constrained him in addressing her he turned to hope and they talked of the past the present and the future with spontaneous animation their feelings according and as naturally as the music of the stars when they sang together s i b ue chapter xi our new england shall tell and boast of her a as patient as but not admitting any of his criminal as devout as but not liable to any of his a governor in whom the of christianity made a most improving addition unto the virtues f wherein even without those he would have made a parallel for the great men of or of rome which the pen of a has r the governor s house stood in the main street washington street on the ground now occupied by south row there was a little court in of it on one side a fine garden on the other a beautiful lawn or as it was called green extending to the corner on which the old south church now stands and an ample yard and offices in the rear the mighty master of fiction has but to wave his to present the past to his readers with all the and distinctness of the present but we who follow him at an distance � we who have no s wherewith we can imitate the miracles
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the course of a conversation ith him on the subject of their habits he pointed to the front of a about feet high which is only eight or ten degrees out of the perpendicular there said he i followed a band of them fellows to the back of that rock yonder and expected to capture them all for i thought i had a dead thing on them i got behind them on a narrow bench that runs along the face of the wall near the top and comes to an end where they could n t get away without falling and being killed but they jumped off and landed all right as if that were the regular thing with them what n said i jumped feet perpendicular did you see them do it f � no he replied i did nt see them going down for i was behind them but i saw them go off over the brink and then i went below and found their tracks where they struck on the loose rubbish at the bottom they just sailed right off and the wild sheep landed on their feet right side up that is the mud of animal they is � beats anything else that goes on four legs on another occasion flock pursued by hunters retreated to another portion of this same cliff where it is still higher and on being followed they were seen jumping down in perfect order one behind another by two men who happened to be where they had a fair view of them and could watch their progress from top to bottom of the precipice both and made the frightful descent extraordinary concern the rock closely the of half falling wild sheep jumping a the mountains op half leaping movements by striking at short intervals and holding back with their rubber feet upon small and until near the bottom when they sailed off into the free air and alighted on their feet but with their bodies so nearly in a position that they appeared to be it appears therefore that the methods of this wild become clearly as soon as we make ourselves acquainted with the rocks and the kind of feet and muscles brought to bear upon them the and indians are or rather have been the most successful hunters of the wild sheep in the regions that have come under my own observation i have seen large numbers of heads and horns in the of mount and the beds where the indians had been in stormy weather also in the of the opposite s valley while the heavy arrow heads found on some of the highest peaks show that this warfare has long been going on in the more accessible that stretch across the desert regions of western and considerable numbers of indians used to hunt in company like of wolves and being perfectly acquainted with the of their and with the habits and instincts of the game they were pretty successful on the tops of nearly every one of the mountains that i have visited i found small nest like built of stones in which as i afterward learned one or more indians would lie in wait while their the wild sheep the below knowing that the alarmed sheep would surely run to the summit and when they could be made to approach with the wind they were shot at short range indians hunt in q wild sheep still larger bands of indians used to make extensive upon some dominant mountain much frequented by the sheep such as mount grant on the range to the west of lake on the mountains of some particular spot situated with reference to the well known of the sheep they built a high walled with long guiding wings from the and into this they sometimes succeeded in driving the noble game great numbers of indians were of course required more indeed than they could usually muster mounting in children and all they were compelled therefore to build rows of hunters out of stones along the ridge tops which they wished to prevent the sheep from crossing and without the sagacity of the game these were found effective for with a few live indians moving about excitedly among them they could hardly be distinguished at a little distance from men by any one not in the secret the whole ridge top then seemed to be alive with hunters the only animal that may fairly be regarded as a companion or rival of the sheep is the rocky mountain goat which as its name is more than goat he too is a brave and hardy crossing the wildest and the storms but he is shaggy short legged and much less dignified in than the sheep his jet black horns are only about five or six inches in length and the long white hair with which he is covered the expression of his limbs i have never yet seen a single specimen in the though possibly a few flocks may have lived on mount a comparatively short time ago the of these two are pretty the wild sheep distinct and they see but little of each other the sheep being mostly to the dry inland mountains the goat or to the wet snowy laden mountains of the coast of the continent in washington british and probably more than dwell on the icy of mount and while i was exploring the of i saw flocks of these admirable nearly every day and often followed their through the of bewildering in which they are excellent guides three species of deer are found in � the black white and mule deer the first mentioned is by far the most abundant and occasionally meets the sheep during the summer on high meadows and along the edge of the timber line but being a forest animal seeking shelter and its young in dense it seldom visits the wild sheep in its
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sir john partial success s � a magnificent regiment of fifteen hundred who attacked only two hundred � were and pursued by them under the very cannon of the the hills and the valley through which the ran were enveloped in smoke and the din of the cannon and was incessant eighty heavy we have said without from the imperial lines and those of replied that day by two hundred thousand rounds � a quantity that seems almost incredible of all the attacks made on none appeared bo practicable as one proposed by duke who communicated it by his de camp is there no able who will hasten there and examine this ground for me said looking round him as the rode oflf but so great was the confusion and slaughter that none appeared at hand save the brave who generously forgetting his quarrel made an immediate tender of his services go colonel replied the king gratefully i am much obliged to you l dashing spurs into his horse galloped across the field which was still swept by the fire of the and by the light of the evening sun having the approach as well as the thick that it would permit he returned to the king � losing by the way a faithful who had followed him who was shot by his side said he the attempt is practicable the and sir replied after he saw the hill himself you have made me a true and faithful report yet i must not make my principal impression here it demands at least my whole body of and then the and cavalry are left at the mercy of the enemy who may thus if he assault me in two places at once i duke s troops among which were still the of and carried the hill by storm driving back the with great loss and five hundred of the green under colonel pushed gallantly forward and posted themselves far in advance keeping possession of the ground they had gained until five hundred more of their comrades under lieutenant colonel john came up to strengthen them and these thousand maintained their dangerous post all night colonel was severely wounded in the left side by the of his which a ball had driven against his coat of mail it flat captain lines having exposed himself by flourishing his sword and crying received a ball in the which pierced his brain lieutenant colonel was killed captain of lord s regiment received a shot which pierced his throat and of steel through and through captain of s regiment was struck in the shoulder this account says hath been delivered down to ns by himself a person who at that juncture bore his master some ill will this episode of his life and another which follows are related by somewhat differently from what they are to be found in the pages of and other writers of john of was shot through the head and an immense number of other o� and soldiers were killed and wounded lost one major general and many lieutenant among whom was the count a prince of the empire whose post according to some accounts is said to have taken at the royal i during the engagement while the loss on each side appears to have been about two thousand five hundred killed and wounded another account says that had four thousand killed and thousand wounded so that all the and were filled our of had scarce bodies of left to guard their colours says and the had suffered in an equal degree night was now coming on and several which had advanced too far by the base of the hills were in danger of being cut off by s cavalry as they were too spirited and too highly to retire without an order was extremely anxious to communicate that order to them but the duty seemed with danger as they were far off and several masses of the enemy lay between trusting to the well known generosity of the haughty in his anxiety applied to him and after a few compliments to his character and courage requested him to order those to retreat replied the brave this is the only sir j s military the and service i cannot refuse your majesty j it is a hazard u and drawing his long rode off to execute the duty elated with this opportunity of gathering fresh and of himself before that royal leader by whom he deemed himself injured once more dashed across the field towards the foot of the mountains cutting a passage sword in hand and by main strength of and arm through the bands of straggling who strove to him and delivering the orders of to the in question formed them in column although no longer a officer they knew and him too well to and he conducted their retreat in so and able a manner that the imperial cavalry dared not them it was acknowledged by the whole army that but for s daring and decision these troops must have been utterly cut off he marched them to the king s and now said he his never more shall this sword be drawn in your service this is the last time i will ever serve so ungrateful a prince still remained immovable within his and after ten hours of incessant fighting the troops of drew off the red fire of the died away even the reports from the of the hovering ceased and the twilight darkness of the summer night spread its mantle over the rivers and the corpse covered approaches to the imperial camp � modern vol of sir john chapter xxiv leaves the army a thick mist arose the night became cold and wet and the poor wounded soldiers lay bleeding on the field many of them were half in the water of the or buried under piles of dead men and horses fallen and �
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