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in the world if anything could increase her delight it was perceiving that the baby would soon have its first set of caps the news was universally a surprise wherever it spread and mr had his five minutes share of it but five minutes were enough to the idea to his quickness of mind he saw the advantages of the match and rejoiced in them with all the constancy of his wife but the wonder of it was very soon nothing and by the end of an hour he was not far from believing that he had always foreseen it it is to be a secret i conclude said he these matters are always a secret till it is found out that everybody knows them only let me be told when i may speak out i wonder whether jane has any suspicion he went to the next morning and satisfied himself on that point he told her the news was not she like a daughter his eldest daughter � he must tell her and miss being present it passed of course to mrs mrs and mrs immediately afterwards it was no more than the were prepared for they had calculated from the time of its being known at how soon it would be over and were thinking of themselves as the evening wonder in many a family circle with great sagacity in general it was a very well approved match some might think him and others might think her the most in luck one set might recommend their all removing to and leaving for the john and another might among their servants but yet upon the whole there was no serious objection raised except in one habitation � the there the surprise was not softened by any satisfaction mr cared little about it compared with his wife he only hoped the young lady s pride would now be contented w and supposed she had always meant to catch if she could and on the point of living at could exclaim he than i but mrs was very much posed indeed poor poor fellow � sad business for him she was extremely concerned for though very eccentric he had a thousand good qualities how could he be so taken in did not think him at all in love � not in the least poor there would be an end of all pleasant intercourse with him how happy he had been to come and dine with them whenever they asked him but that would be all over now poor fellow no more exploring parties to made for her oh no there would be a mrs to throw cold water on everything extremely disagreeable but she was not at all sorry that she had abused the housekeeper the other day shocking plan living together it would never do she knew a family near grove who had tried it and been obliged to separate before the end of the first quarter chapter passed on a few more to and the party from london would be arriving it was an alarming change and was thinking of it one morning as what must bring a great deal to and grieve her when mr came in and distressing thoughts were put by after the first chat of pleasure he was silent and then in a graver tone began with � i have something to tell you � some news good or bad said she quickly looking up in his face i do not know which it ought to be called oh good i am sure i see it in your countenance you are trying not to smile i am afraid said he his features i am very much afraid my dear that you will not smile when you hear it indeed � but why so i can hardly imagine that anything which pleases or you should not please and amuse me too there is one subject he replied i hope but one on which we do not think alike he paused a moment again smiling with his eyes fixed on her face does nothing occur to you do not you recollect smith her cheeks flushed at the name and she felt afraid of something though she knew not what have you heard from her yourself this morning cried he you have i believe and know the whole no i have not i know nothing pray tell me you are prepared for the worst i see and very bad it is smith robert martin gave a start which did not seem like be ng prepared and her eyes in eager gaze said no this is impossible but her lips were closed it is so indeed continued mr i have it from robert martin himself he left me not half an hour ago she was still looking at him with the most speaking amazement you like it my as little as i feared � i wish our opinions were the same but in time they will time you may be very sure will make one or the other of us think differently and in the mean while we need not talk much on the subject you mistake me you quite mistake me she replied herself it is not that such a circumstance would now make me unhappy but i cannot believe it it seems an impossibility you cannot mean to say that smith has accepted robert martin you cannot mean that he has even proposed to her again � yet you only mean that he it i mean that be has done it answered mr with smiling but determined decision and been accepted good god she cried well then having recourse to her work basket in excuse for leaning down her face and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she must be expressing she added well now tell me everything make this intelligible to me how where when let me know it all | 26 |
precaution for securing the favor of heaven the virginia company thought the indian of due to the � ins of and excess of in the colony the company in london wrote to in charge of their settlement to make good laws for the of il chap iv bacon s laws of md xvi i duke of york s so led note self in morals des in va society young s of mass compare iso the of civilization chap iv s directions for health e e t society v letter in s v mass v s scruples about and other if you ever expect a comfort or blessing of god upon our plantation the first church was organized in during an to the lord s wrath in his journal is able to point out the particular sin that provoked almost every calamity of fire illness death and financial loss that any individual one man for example ventured to work too late on saturday evening the beginning of the sabbath and his child forthwith fell into a on sunday night and was drowned in the time of king philip s indian war the of a town by and was traced not to the lack of a and a garrison but to the doomed town s neglect to secure an able of the word of god the of that extinguished all hope of wealth from the growth of wheat in was attributed by the common people to the execution of the and the indian wars of and were thought a punishment for laws but the party proceeded in the latter year to make the laws against more the governor of south thought that a fever in that colony was due to the of viii in the century there was much fear of into by lord and measures of conduct bacon the pouring of wine into newly dug earth for the effect of the but he adds the caution that it be not taken for a heathen sacrifice or to the earth the in the body of liberties of which made it a capital to have any other god but the lord god could have had no practical aim unless it was the of many members of the in that colony regarded the english as a gross idol and refused to march behind it because it had a cross in it the new england thinking three of a cross no cross at all cut off one arm of it in the colors wrote a paper to prove the harmless but the rising zeal against the cross of st george from the colors of the in after this the red flag d only a white field in the upper corner for a union for similar reasons the early omitted the saint from familiar names for long generations englishmen had paid rents and wages on the day of september when the harvest was fully in hand for such purposes it had been the habit for ages to count the year from to and the term could hardly be spared in it was into so that neither mass nor might get any good of it in the first half of the century and later there were scruples chap iv s journal i note mass records and elsewhere s letter in mass s ii s journal l i i i ben s the of civilization chap iv s and others s s ii against using the ordinary names of months and days of the week on account of their pagan numbers were introduced instead to avoid in boston said the royal of charles ii neither days months seasons churches nor are known by their english names the practice of the days gradually passed out of fashion after it became a of efforts to revive it in the last years of the century were vain the pinch of the inconvenient scruple was got over by a trick of words the names of the days were from by being called names but new england continued to refuse to speak of the lord s day as sunday from persecution in virginia refused to take an oath of fidelity to the government of because the officers of had sworn not to roman and what was that but swearing to countenance and anti christ and so by many links through their oaths to the government and church and through the and their oaths and through the with their saints and images these tender would at last be drawn into a long distance not only was there danger in those perilous times that the individual might fall into without knowing it but the were ever on the alert to keep the land and measures of conduct from being by soon after the earliest settlement of governor cut down one false god the at a few years later in the general court went further and the natives from their ancient custom of in the land of their forefathers weird dances accompanied by and with and inarticulate cries were naturally taken for worship of a false god or of a devil the virginia company had much earlier proposed to capture the indian medicine men and thus put an end to such heathen mysteries the ancient that dominion hath its foundation in grace was accepted in the earliest colonies and hence christians by right divine one writer that some of the virginia about the middle of the century carried their christianity so far as to believe that a pagan had no right to property for which a christian might have use ix the sense of moral proportion was obscured and confused in a dread of offending god the english custom of drinking was deemed an abominable practice and put under ban in new england and later in not for the promotion of alone but mainly because it was a profane mixing chap iv s public good without private interest young s of mass trifling note the of | 11 |
and blooming month but the charms of this time of year are by their contrast with the winter season august has no such advantage it comes when we remember nothing but dear skies green fields and sweet smelling flowers � when the of snow and ice and bleak winds has faded from our minds as completely as they have disappeared from the earth � and yet what a pleasant time it is i and ring with the hum of labor trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground and the com piled in graceful or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it as if it the the landscape with a golden hue a mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth the of the season seems to extend itself to the very wagon whose slow motion across the well field is perceptible only to the eye but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear as the coach rolls past the fields and which skirt the road groups of women and children papers of the fruit in or gathering the scattered ears of com pause for an instant from their labor and the face with a still hand gaze upon the passengers with curious while some stout too small to work but too mischievous to be left at home over the side of the basket in which he has been deposited � or security and and screams with the stops in his work and stands with folded arms looking at the vehicle as it past and the rough cart horses bestow a sleepy glance upon the smart coach team which says as plainly as a horse s glance can it s all very fine to look at but slow going over a heavy field is better than warm work like that upon a dusty road after ail you cast a look behind you as you turn a comer of the road the women and children have resumed their labor the once more to his work the cart horses have moved on and all are again in motion the influence of a scene like this was not lost upon the well regulated mind of mr intent upon the resolution he had formed of exposing the real character of the in any quarter in which he might be pursuing his designs he sat at first and brooding over the means by which his purpose could be best attained by degrees his attention grew more and more attracted by the objects around him and at last he derived as much enjoyment from the ride as if it had been undertaken for the reason in the world delightful prospect sam said mr beats the pots sir replied mr touching his hat i suppose you have hardly seen anything but the club pots and bricks and mortar all life sam said mr smiling i t always a boots sir said mr with a shake of the head i a s boy when was that inquired mr when i first pitched neck and crop into the world to play at leap with its troubles replied sam i a s boy at then a s then a a boots now a gen l m n s i shall be a n myself one these days perhaps with a pipe in my month and a house in the back garden who knows shouldn t be surprised for one ton are quite a philosopher sam said mr it runs in the i b sir replied mr my father s much in that line now if my mother in law blows him up he she flies in a passion and breaks his pipe he steps out and gets another then she screams loud and into and he comfortably till she comes to a n s hy sir a n t it a very good substitute for it at all events replied mr laughing it must have been of great service to you in the course of your rambling life sam sir exclaimed sam you may say that i nm away from the and afore i took up with the i had s for a fortnight lodgings said mr yes � the arches of bridge fine sleeping place � within ten minutes walk of all the offices � only if there is any objection to it it is that the s too airy i see some queer sights ther papers of ah i suppose you did said mr with an air of considerable interest sights sir resumed mr as ud penetrate benevolent heart and come out on the other side you don t see the lar there trust em they knows better than that young beggars male and female as hasn t made a rise in their profession takes up their quarters there sometimes but it s generally the worn out starving s as themselves in the dark comers o them places � poor s as a n t up to the rope and pray sam what is the rope inquired mr the rope sir replied mr is just a cheap house where the beds is a night what do they call a bed a rope for said mr bless your innocence sir that a nt it replied sam the lady and gen l m n as keeps the hot el first begun business they used to make the beds on the floor but this wouldn t do at no price instead o taking a moderate o sleep the used to lie there half the day so now they has two ropes bout six foot apart and three � rom the floor which goes right down the room and the beds are made of slips of coarse stretched across em well said mr well said mr � the o the plan s at six o clock every they lets go the ropes at one end and down falls all the | 8 |
her into the house leaving and me to follow here by sign language unmistakable we were informed that all they possessed was ours no was ever more generous in the expression of giving while i am sure that few were ever as generous in the actual practice we quickly discovered that we dare not admire their possessions for whenever we did admire a particular object it was im the high seat of abundance presented to us the two according to the way of got together in a discussion and examination of feminine while and i went over fishing tackle and wild to say nothing of the device whereby are caught on forty foot poles from double admired a sewing basket � the best example she had seen of it was hers i admired a hook carved in one piece from a pearl shell it was mine was attracted by a fancy of straw thirty feet of it in a roll sufficient to make a hat of any design one wished the roll of was hers my gaze lingered upon a that dated back to the old stone days it was mine dwelt a moment too long on a wooden bowl shaped with four legs all carved in one piece of wood it was hers i glanced a second time at a gigantic it was mine then and i held a conference in which we resolved to admire no more � not because it did not pay well enough but because it paid too well also we were already brains over the contents of the for suitable return presents christmas is an easy problem compared with a giving feast we sat on the cool porch on s best while dinner was preparing and at same time met the villagers in and and groups they strayed along shaking hands and uttering the word of greeting � pronounced yo the men big fellows were in with here and there no shirt while the women wore the universal a sort of that flows in the of the the high seat of abundance graceful lines from the shoulders to the ground sad to see was the that afflicted some of them here would be a comely woman of magnificent proportions with the port of a queen yet by one arm four times � or a dozen times � the size of the other beside her might stand a six foot man erect mighty with the body of a god yet with feet and so swollen that they ran together forming legs monstrous that were for all the world like elephant legs no one seems really to know the cause of the south sea one theory is that it is caused by the drinking of water another theory attributes it to through a third theory charges it to the process of on the other hand no one that stands in dread of it and similar diseases can to travel in the south seas there will be occasions when such a one must drink water there may be also occasions when the let up biting but every precaution of the one will be useless if he runs across the beach to have a swim he will tread where an case trod a few minutes before if he himself in his own house yet every bit of fresh food on his table will have been subjected to the be it flesh fish fowl or vegetable in the public market at two known run and heaven alone knows through what channels arrive at that market the daily supplies of fish fruit meat and vegetables the only happy way to go through the south seas is with a careless without apprehension and with a christian science like faith in the fortune of o the of the your own particular star when you see a woman afflicted with wringing out cream from meat with her naked hands drink and reflect how good is the cream forgetting the hands that pressed it out also remember that diseases such as and do not seem to be caught by contact we watched a woman with swollen distorted limbs prepare our cream and then went out to the cook shed where and were cooking dinner and then it was served to us on a box in the house our hosts waited until we were done and then spread their table on the floor but our table we were certainly in the high seat of abundance first there was glorious raw fish caught several hours before from the sea and the intervening time in lime with water then came roast chicken two sharply sweet served for drink there were that tasted like and that melted in the mouth and there was that made one regret that his yankee ever attempted then there was boiled boiled and m which last are nothing more or less than large red colored cooking we at the abundance and even as we a pig was brought on a whole pig a pig in green leaves and upon the hot stones of a native oven the most honorable and triumphant dish in the and after that came black delicious native grown on the of s fishing tackle fascinated me and after we arranged to go fishing and i decided to re the high seat of abundance main all night again and again my brought the disappointment and the smile of acquiescence to his face was my next port it was not so far away but that made the passage back and forth between it and so i invited to go that far with us on the then i learned that his wife had been born on and still owned a house there she likewise was invited and immediately came the counter invitation to stay with them in their house in it was monday tuesday we would go and return to wednesday we would sail by and off a certain point a mile | 21 |
became suddenly poor would on his linen not his drinks she has told me nothing � but there is something fresh i know � brave as she is between i see a soul in torment matters have reached an acute stage i said things have been forced on her against her will and i am anxious about her she wants distraction amusement � to be taken out of herself or i won t answer for her brain or her conduct cried with flashing eyes but will � and for too one woman knows another as a man never can she will never hurt anyone but herself t the i said and we must not let her do that these next few weeks will be the turning point of her life � she is like a chestnut that is in two minds � whether to to pieces the trap to which she is or be to the firm bit gentle touch the encouraging word � and these if you love you must give � above all she wants gaiety you won t find it such a punishment � a few weeks at the flower filled end of the town in june � and you know great ladies have their duties and you sadly neglect yours h cried and quoted mrs if you do not go here and there it will be supposed you were not asked and then the false aims and multitude of small ends to be oh depend upon it there is no like the life of a woman of the world and you see it in the expression of the face it is not late hours that bring the anxious restless look on the contrary i believe you might sit up till morning singing till the lark interrupted you and be none the worse it is the perpetual struggle to be and do and the eternal dissatisfaction with all one is and does that eats away the freshness of life it won t eat yours i said come promise will make no difficulties only bargain to be allowed to run up and down and finally i her into promising later in the day when with a fine contempt the thing alive for wet feet insisted on walking across the park to suddenly she caught my hand and said paul looking back we often stand aghast at such and such an act of selfishness cruelty or wrong doing � yet at the time probably we were passing through some phase of mental agony that us to all other things � and a number of wrong or curious results sprang from that act � but not from the phase � which remains i know but that s all over declared this was not so � that memory kept on her with a hat pin � memory must be a woman she so but she was quite cheerful by the time we reached and the white house with its green shutters looked very peaceful the scent of flowers and shrubs new washed by the late rain all about it just inside the square hall with its of lilies of the valley was curly s favourite dog and nurse grace in act of descending the shallow oak staircase exclaimed with joy at sight of us while a cheery voice from above shouted down come up both of you he is better whispered to nurse grace but the latter shook her head it is his way she said and then we found ourselves in a delightful apartment adjoining his bedroom the walls covered with illustrations taken from sporting papers while curly on a the couch waved something high above his head in welcome as we approached my first story � better than he said with the little laugh they all missed so in the regiment accepted then we saw that it was a proof he was and of which he was evidently extremely proud he shook hands joyfully with us as he pointed us to seats near him he wore a silk shirt his tie was as of old but for the of his face and his quiet body you would never know anything was amiss with him and when gave him the bunch of forget me out of her gown he told her they were not half such a nice blue as her eyes upon which she called him an absurd boy and they talked utter nonsense for some time � vivid nonsense peculiar to curly with which he always his company while nurse grace and i exchanged glances i seemed to see him lying alone at night all the pretence and the high spirits gone out of him counting the long hours listening for signs of awakening day a revolver i had seen before was lying on the table beside him as he picked it up our eyes met on wet days i practise with it he said lady are your nerves in good order she nodded and he turned his head � took aim at an intricate arrangement of glass balls suspended from a and smashed the particular one at which he aimed then picked the thing alive out another � i had never seen a truer aim even with men who practised trick shooting you ve no idea how fast the days go he said was here last week somehow we never meet in town i said and he comes to when i am not there as like as ever � more so said curly but there s a heart of gold under that rough manner and a big brain beneath those shaggy locks nodded i love him she said but he me i shall have to sham ill and call in street how is mrs she added having purposely i think delayed her inquiry as long as possible on she s fine said curly carelessly � too carelessly i thought she is lying down for a bit now | 17 |
eyes had discovered that the rest of the house was in even worse condition than this parlor which by the way miss ward considered quite a grand apartment she had been down near the coast trying to teach school and there the desolation was far greater than here both armies having passed back and forward over the ground out and the torch at work more than once will there ever come a change for the better thought the keeper as he walked homeward what an enormous stone has got to be rolled up hill but at least john you need not go to work at it you are not called upon to lend your shoulder none the less however did he call out pomp that very afternoon and sternly teach him e and f using the smooth white sand for a and a stick for chalk pomp s was a government hanging on the wall of the it read as follows � in this repose the remains of fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty one united states soldiers tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream for the soul is dead that and things are not what they seem life is real life is earnest and the grave is not its goal dust thou art to dust was not spoken of the by j ig the only known instance of the government s to poetry the keeper had thought when he first read this it was placed there for the instruction and of visitors but no visitors coming he took the liberty of using it as a for pomp the large letters served the purpose admirably and pomp learned the entire quotation what he thought of it has not miss ward came over daily to see her cousin at first she brought him and various from her own kitchen � the once the dining room where the soldier had taken refuge after his last dismissal from hospital but the keeper s were richer and free from the taint of smoke his martial laws of neatness even old pomp dared not and the sick man soon learned the difference he thanked the girl who came bringing the dishes over carefully in her own hands and then when she was gone he sent them away by chance miss ward learned this and wept bitter tears over it she continued to come but her poor little and she brought no more one morning in may the keeper was working near the when his eyes fell upon a procession coming down tlie road which led from the town and turning toward the no one ever came that way what could it mean it drew near entered the gate and showed itself to be walking two and two � old and young men and girls and even little children all dressed in their best a very poor best sometimes gravely ludicrous of or sometimes mere rags bravely patched together and adorned with a strip of black or of black ribbon not one was without a of mourning all carried flowers common blossoms from the little gardens behind the that stretched around the town on the outskirts � the new forlorn with their chimneys of piled stones and ragged patches of com each little had his and marched solemnly along rolling his eyes around but without even the beginning of a smile while the elders moved forward with gravity the irrepressible of the negro subdued by the new bom dignity of the memorial day thought the keeper i had forgotten it will you do us de to take de head ob de said the leader with a bow now the by l i keeper had not much sympathy with the of flowers north or south he had seen the beautiful ceremony more than once turned into a political demonstration here however in this small isolated interior town there was nothing of that kind the whole population of white faces laid their roses and wept true tears on the graves of their lost ones in the village churchyard when the southern memorial day came round and just as naturally the whole population of black faces went out to the national with their flowers on the day when throughout the north spring blossoms were laid on the graves of the soldiers from the little village to the stretching ranks of from to the far western burial places of san the keeper joined the procession and led the way to the parade ground as they approached the the leader began singing and all joined swing low sweet chariot sang the and their hymn rose and fell with strange sweet harmony � one of those wild which the north heard with surprise and when after the war bands of singers came to their cities and sang the songs of slavery in order to gain for their children the education swing low sweet chariot sang the and two by two they passed along the graves with flowers till all the g een was dotted with color it was a pathetic sight to see some of the old men and women ignorant field hands bent and past the possibility of education even in its simplest forms carefully placing their poor flowers to the best advantage they knew dimly that the men who lay beneath those had done something wonderful for them and for their children and so they came bringing their blossoms with little intelligence but with much love the ceremony over they retired as he turned the keeper caught a glimpse of miss ward s face at the window hope we s not too free said the leader as the procession with many a bow and scrape took leave but we s de day now two years you came and we s de en to keep it the keeper returned to the cottage not a white face he said certainly not replied miss ward i know some | 4 |
of such had been prince henry for the kingdom of and such was now for spain the illustrious de la per ji i or chapter iii of cot s to the of arrived at early in i he was disappointed however in his hopes of immediate he found it impossible to obtain even a hearing de prior of instead of being secured to his interests by the recommendation of de looked upon his plan as extravagant and impossible indeed the slender interest on be founded liis hopes ti engaged in of the in person arrived at the was like a military camp the rival kings of bo the called also el and the nephew generally termed el had just formed a and their league for prompt and e ly in the ring the marched off to lay to the city of and the it she was continually employed in troops and supplies to the army and at the same time attending to the multiplied of civil on the i th of june she repaired to the camp engaged in the siege of and both s remained for some time in the of the war with vigour they had barely returned to to their by when they were obliged to set out to suppress a of the count of from thence they repaired to for the winter this brief picture of the occupation and the bustling life of the spanish sovereigns during the first year after the arrival of may ve an idea of their throughout the term of his which precisely with tb war with the the court was continually from place to place according of the were either on journeys or in the field and when had an interval of repose from tbe ragged toils of war they had a thousand claims on their time and attention from the and which they were throughout their c til life and ge of amidst such pressing concerns of domestic and so to the treasury it is not to be wondered at that the should find little time to attend to a scheme of foreign discovery which required much called for great expense and was generally esteemed the wild dream of an it is a question even whether for some time bis application reached their ears de who was to have been his of communication was to his cause and was himself taken up with military concerns and absent with the court in its being one of tlie who the queen in this as it was termed holy war during the summer and autumn of the period of the campaign and transactions just alluded to remained at he continued to support himself it is believed by maps and and trusted to time and exertion to make him and friends of influence warmly into his views by the aid of these friends he was introduced to the celebrated de of and grand cardinal of this was the most important personage about court the king and queen had him always at their side in peace and war he accompanied them in their and they never took any measure of consequence without consulting him he was called by peter martyr the third king of spain he was a man of a clear understanding eloquent judicious and of great quickness and capacity in business simple yet curiously nice in his apparel lofty and venerable yet gracious ai d gentle in his though an elegant scholar the grand cardinal like many learned men of his day was but httle skilled in and was in his ous scruples when the theory of was first mentioned to him it struck him as opinions with the form of the earth as described in the sacred further explanations had their force with a man of his quick apprehension and sound sense he perceived that at any rate there could be nothing in attempting to extend the bounds of human knowledge and to ascertain the works of creation his scruples once removed he gave a courteous and attentive hearing the latter knowing the importance of his exerted himself to produce conviction the clear headed cardinal listened with profound attention he saw the grandeur of the conception and felt the force of the arguments he was pleased likewise with the noble and earnest manner of and became at once a firm and serviceable friend page translation t l c l c t � � the of cardinal f b he before fur lit fi ll as k afterwards in his letters an in ihe hand of to accomplish its designs was too a e of men not � a the character of � pen soaring might be his and ma the scheme had and practical his ambition was b uie possibility of more important than tho e which had shed such glory upon still as usual he was cool and wary and determined to take the opinion of the men in t i� kingdom and to be guided by their decision he the matter to de the prior of him to the and to hold a chapter iv tht council at the interesting conference relative to the proposition of took place in the great seat of learning in spain it was held in the of st in was lodged and entertained with great hospitality during the course of the examination religion and science were at time and more especially in that country closely associated the treasures of learning were in and the professors chairs were exclusively filled from the the of the clergy extended over the state as well as the church and posts of honour and influence at court with the exception of hereditary were almost entirely confided to it was even common to find and in and at the of armies for the had been thrown bv for the lance during the holy war against the the era was for the revival of but still more for the of religious zeal | 48 |
in their superstitious fear they might send back and kill her to the evil fate now swallow said there is but one thing for us to do and it is to seek refuge among my people the whose mountain lies at a distance of four days journey from this place but to speak truth i am not sure how they will receive me seeing that i parted from them in anger twelve years ago having quarrelled with them first about a matter of policy and secondly about a matter of marriage and that my the son of my father by a slave was promoted to rule in my place still to them we must go and with them we must stay if they will suffer it until we find an opportunity of travelling south in safety if it must be so answered sighing per swallow will escort us to the house of the before he turns for they will think the more of us if they see us at the head of a great army to this plan and his captains assented with gladness for they loved and honoured the swallow and were sore at heart because their fears forced them to leave her alone in the wilderness but first they made sure that the mountain lay to the west and not to the south for not one step to the southward would they allow to travel with them on the morrow then they marched and the evening of the third day they set their camp in a mountain pass which led to a wide plain before sunrise next morning woke dress yourself swallow she said and come to see the light break on the house of my people so they went out in the grey dawn and climbing a in the mouth of the pass looked before them at first they could distinguish nothing for all the plain beneath was a sea of mist through which in the distance loomed something like a mountain till presently the rays of the rising sun struck upon it and the of parted like curtains that are drawn back and there before them was the mountain fortress of separated from the pass by a great space of mist clad plain looked and knew it she said it is the place of my vision and none other see the straight sides of red rock the five upon the eastern slope fashioned like the thumb and fingers of the hand of a man yes and there between the thumb and first finger a river runs i told you that it was so from the beginning swallow for in all the country there is no other such hill as this how became a and because of the aspect of those when seen from a distance it is named the mountain of the great hand before the words had left her lips another voice spoke at the sound of which nearly fell to the earth good day to you it said in dutch and was silent did you hear she gasped do i dream or did van speak to me you did not dream answered for that voice was the voice o and no other and he is hidden somewhere among the rocks of yonder cliff wall quick swallow kneel behind this stone lest he should shoot she obeyed and at that moment the voice spoke again out of the shadows of the cliff that bordered the pass twenty or thirty paces from them what it said is that little witch telling you that i shall fire on you had i wished i could have shot you three times over while you were standing upon that rock but why should i desire to kill one who will be my lover i wished to shoot indeed but her familiar set her so that the bullet must pass through you to reach her heart you are going to hide yourself among the people of the oh yes i know your plan well when once you are behind the walls of that mountain it may be difficult to speak to you for a while so listen to me you thought that you had left me far away did you not but i have followed you step by step and twice i have been very near to you although i could never find a chance to carry you off safely well i wish to tell you that sooner or later i shall find that chance sooner or later you will come out of the mountain or i shall get into it and then it will be my turn so love swallow till that hour fare you well stay i forgot i have news for you your husband the english is dead at this tidings a low moan of pain broke from s lips be silent and take no heed whispered who was kneeling at her side behind the shelter of the stone he does but lie to torment you the bullet and the water together were too much for him went on and he died on the second night after he reached the stead your father came to seek me in the place you know and was carried home badly wounded for his pains but whether he lived or died i cannot tell you but i heard that your mother the good is very sick for things have so fallen out lately thai her mind is troubled and she flies to drink to comfort it now when she heard this could keep silence no longer but cried in a mocking voice get you gone bull head and take lessons in lying from your friends of my trade the witch doctors for never before did i hear a man bear false witness so on the third night of his illness the husband of swallow was alive and doing well the was not wounded at all and as for the never in her | 18 |
our duty to strengthen and maintain our party organization as the best agency to preserve constitutional liberties � declares that a measure so would deprive the several states of self government and as its object the of and class control over of the union � the bill agricultural depression as a result of unnecessary on raw materials and considers increased tax on tin plate an especial blow to every of fruit or vegetables adding immensely to the cost of of the a or every dwelling of every kitchen and of the jn which the carries his meal � speaker reed and use of money j� control and to punish and prevent such no resolutions were passed june reform � free and fair count and assembly to system with improvements labor � laws to secure protection of in life or limb or to him reasonable working hours and fair and its prompt � it is the of this that the demands of the time are imperative that the whole energies rf the government of the united states and of th� j c states and � should be to all and of capital whereby the prices of any of the necessaries of life and and all rf whereby the expense of carrying tlie of the farm is placed at such figures as to amount to of l farm and labor we maintain that no or company should be i to get more a reasonable per cent on actual capital invested and es for its officers and that on watered stock are robbery we recognize the wisdom of past republican as y the fact by the recent decision of the courts in the trust case that take only such powers as are expressly conferred by law and that cannot be formed for the purpose of or that cannot find a home in our state and we demand of ttie general assembly tlie same vigilance in the future as in the past on this subject � use of both gold and silver as money schools � a education law which will to all children of state ample opportunity for acquiring such an education as will fit them for the ent performance of ic and political duties without interference with right of parents or to their children at private schools also the of so much of law as for public of private schools liquor � we recognize tiie importance of the question and favor all proper and practical methods for the evils of the liquor traffic the administration � the wise an patriotic ti of president and governor the record of the republican in its to in the interest of the american people miscellaneous � protection and bill civil service reform and to protect railroad and june the � that required to administer government should bo raised from internal taxes and duties on articles of luxury the bill as the of an unjust t printed at length in for state and and and others by tlie � it as a species of vicious and unjust class and right of to tax whole people to raise money to pay a or to any private enterprise school s � the party heartily the public school system of the state of and it declares that the parental right to direct and control the education of the child should forever remain and that the provisions of the law of commonly known as the education that right should be at once a laws for compelling parents to their children for and child labor miscellaneous � eight hour removal of all unnecessary on of silver system election of u s and and by direct vote party to deposit state funds in banks for not taxes a d demands of state board of honest of the law republican september the administration � we the of and the able elected as his and as being wise vigorous and patriotic it has kept the made to the people has carefully guarded and promoted their welfare and elevated the condition of the public service � heartily the action of under brilliant and fearless of thomas b reed � service bill and generous republican � belief in protection doctrine of free trade and land � we believe that the soil of the united states should be reserved for its own citizens and as may become citizens and favor such by aad the state as will prevent becoming the owners of the land needed for homes for independent american farmers labor and � protection against or labor of employment of young children in and mines of a uniform railroad car protection of in and mines between and employer and to of farmers and for and lawful promotion of their mutual interests v o have and efficient laws on these subjects all a� d tending to affect price of and state looking to their � miscellaneous � republican action in as to silver demand for to secure fair improvement of rivers and le to promote sale of pure food under proper names the administration � we the administration of for its deliberate of civil service reform for its use of cabinet positions and other high stations in payment of financial campaign debts for treating the public i as a family instead of a public trust and a host ol relatives by blood and by marriage upon the national treasury for honest and competent public servants in of solemn because of their political opinions and their places with men devoid of character or capacity and whose only title to rested upon work for its with questionable gift for its complete to wall street and the money power and its hostility or indifference to the rights and interests of the producing and laboring masses � we the as the most outrageous measure of t ever proposed in the american we are in favor of that wide measure of commercial freedom proposed by which would benefit the farmers and of the | 19 |
acts ii ff iii ft v fl and elsewhere now his appeared to be the article in his destination to lie had for tiie sins of his people and of mankind viii ff xx john i john ii his blood poured out on the cross like that which on the day of the high priest sprinkled on the mercy seat rom iii he the pure lamb by whose blood the believing arc pet i f the eternal high priest by the oft of his own body at once effected that which the high priests were unable to effect by their perpetually sacrifices of animals x if c but the who exalted to the right hand of god could not have been a common man not only was he with divine spirit in a greater measure than any prophet acts iv x not only did he prove himself to be a divine messenger by miracles and signs acts ii but also according as the one idea or the other was most readily he was by the holy spirit and i or he had descended as the and of god into an earthly body john i as before his on the earth he was in the bosom of the rather in divine majesty john xvii so his descent into the world of mortals and still more his submission to an death was a voluntary humiliation to which he was moved by his love to mankind ii if the risen and ascended will one day return to wake the dead and judge the world i xvii he even now takes charge of his church rom john ii in the government of the world as he originally did in its creation xx viii john i col i f in to all this every trait in the image of the as by the popular expectation was with necessary or to nay the imagination stimulated invented new characteristic how richly with blessing and elevation with encouragement and consolation were tho thoughts the early church derived from this view of the christ by the mission of the son of god into the world by his delivery of himself to death for the sake of the world heaven and earth are reconciled v is ff i col i by this most the love of god is securely to man rom v s ft viii if i john iv and brightest are revealed to him did the son of god become man then are men his and as children of god and with christ to the treasure of divine rom viii f the relation of man to go i as it existed under the law has ceased love has taken the place ul the fear of the punishment threatened by the law rom viii iv ft very arc from the of the law by christ s of himself as he suffered a death on which the law had laid a iii is ow is no longer imposed on us the impossible task of satisfying all the cl of the law iii f � a task which as experience shows no man rom i lt � iii which by of his sinful nature no man can i rom v ft and which only him who to fulfil it more and more deeply m the most miserable with himself vii ft he who believes in christ and in tlie of his death possesses the favour of god not by works and of his own but by the free mercy of god is the man who throws himself on that mercy just before god by which all self exaltation is rom iii m as the law is no longer binding on the he being dead to it with christ vii ft as moreover by the eternal and all of christ the and service is therefore the wall which separated the jews and is broken down the latter who before were and strangers to the without god and without in the world arc now invited to in the new and free access is opened to them to the paternal god so that the two portions of mankind formerly c by hostile opinions are now at peace with each other in of the body of christ � stones in tlie spiritual building of hia church ii ft but to have faith in death of christ is to die him that is to die to sin and as arose from t ie dead to a new and immortal life so must the in him arise from the death of sin to a new life of and oft the old man and put on the new rom vi ff in christ himself him by his spirit who those whom he with spiritual and makes them ever more and more free from the slavery of sin rom viii ft nor alone will the spirit of christ those in whom he dwells but also for at the end of their earthly course god through christ will their bodies as he did the body of christ rom viii christ whom the bonds of death and the world could not import of the ufe of s hold has both for us and has delivered the from tjie fear of these dread powers which rule over viii f i xv ff ii f liis not on his death horn iv but at the same time is the pledge of our own future of our share in christ in a future hfe in his kingdom to the of wliich he will at his second advent lead all liis people meanwhile wo may console ourselves that we have in an who from his own experience of the weakness and of our nature he assumed and in which he was in all points tempted as we are but sin knows how indulgence and aid we need ii f iv f the of describing in forms the riches of their faith in christ was early | 14 |
neglect to be sure she said laughing there is � but she is terrified of these woods even by day and no powers would draw her here after nightfall v and you say no one at home knows of this haunt of yours he went on in a dissatisfied tone supposing you fell ill here or were robbed and murdered by some stranger or i wear no ornaments she said and strangers and do not know the way am not i a stranger he said looking at her keenly and would you have treated anybody as kindly as you treated me s turned her head aside to hide a smile here was that jealousy which seemed to all her male extending even to chance acquaintances but she was grave again as she said � you were mother s friend and job s � and frank s and you will tell me all about yourself some day � for i must be going back to my hay now yes he said looking at her eagerly as a man may at something he knows to be forbidden to him but that soon will have passed beyond the reach of his power to behold it yet the present was his � he would beat out his little span of joy to its utmost limit � had he by hard longing for intense wishing had brought her her footsteps to the only to let her go so quickly let us make a bargain he said give me another lecture � just a little one � and i ll tell you all about frank � and myself the hay will do well enough without you tell me something of the daylight life of these woods and how you spend your hours in them how can i tell you said the girl men don t understand these things � even father does not and you would think i was away my time when i am learning something new at every step anyone could learn the avenues in a day but half a dozen miles of broken are another matter and there are such beautiful things outside the wood � in our own grounds in the meadows everywhere tell me of some of them he pleaded happy only so long as her young voice ran on i am going to settle down in the country myself before very long and i expected to be dull but your knowledge will help me what can tell you she said if you have not lived among such things if you have never been caught in a e a thicket of thorn never followed the plough and the sweet fresh earth never watched a hang all its downwards at sunset or a fold its heart into a red cup at even � � never marked the little snowy half closed made by the or seen the at sunset on a field of bridges tossed from de to blade of grass and stronger than any made by hands since the heaviest will not break them � have you been any of these no he said as she paused and he saw that she had forgotten him in her thoughts i have seen none of these things but i will look for them all some day there is always some new delight she went on softly as if to herself some lovely accident as think but set there to help us to live more nearly as we pray one day it may be a sunset to one into a real understanding of heaven another it will be a sheet of grass shining through a row of tall just into brown � or it will be a carpet of blue in january when no other flower is abroad or to see a field of and wheat sway to the breeze scarlet in one light gold in another � � or she paused and burst out laughing at herself oh what nonsense i am talking she said as if a soldier ld be expected to know or care anything about such matters i but it has been a great relief to me to say it all the same she added nodding and i am very much obliged to you indeed for to me i shall remember it all he said and thought how he not fear for her since she had real religion of a al fearless life that beat in entire harmony with the works of her creator have you ever tried to write down your thoughts your father was a celebrated in bis youth no she said slowly i have never tried and i think i never shall but if i had tried to write do you know how it would have ended i should have gone on trying all my life and when i had become quite old i should have called my friends together and asked them to hear the fruits of my labours and then they would all cry out but it is centuries old t and i would say yes it is the last chapter of the book of but it has my soul my best effort in it and i have no better you have chosen a sad form of expression child he said struck by the solemn stillness of her voice and look are not the young sad she said or why does one s heart ache in spring when older people cannot tell it from early summer i think it must be because our suffering is before us theirs is behind them � why must you suffer he said his heart sinking as he looked at her god forbid that you should why should i not she said looking at him gravely it is the lot of all and the happiest the best beloved are always those who suffer most where did you learn all this he said hardly knowing whether to be glad or sorry | 17 |
of them he noted that her eye was first for the horse and next for him oh what a beauty she had cried at sight of bob the shining light in her eyes and the face filled with daylight delight he would scarcely have believed that it belonged to the young woman he had known in the office the young woman with the controlled subdued office face i didn t know you rode was one of her first remarks i imagined you were wedded to get there quick machines ive just taken it up lately was his answer beginning to get stout you know and had to take it off somehow she gave a quick glance that embraced him from head to heel including seat and saddle and said � but youve ridden before � she certainly had an eye for horses and things connected with horses was his thought as he replied � not for many years but i used to think i was a regular when i was a up in eastern away from camp to ride with the cattle and break and that sort of thing thus and to his great relief were they on a topic of mutual interest he told her about bob s tricks and of the whirl and his scheme to overcome it and she agreed that horses had to be handled with a certain rational severity no matter how much one loved them there was her which she had had for eight years and which she had had break of stall kicking the process had been painful for but it had cured her you ve ridden a lot daylight said i really can t remember the first time i was on a horse she told him i was bom on a you and they couldn t keep me away from the horses i must have been bom with the love for them i had my first pony all my own when i was six when i was eight i knew what it was to be all day in the saddle along with by the time i was eleven he was taking me on my first deer i d be lost without a horse i hate indoors and without here i suppose i d have been sick and dead long burning daylight you like the country he at the same moment catching his first glimpse of a in her eyes other than gray as much as i the city she answered but a woman can t earn a living in the country so i make the best of it � along with and she told him more of her life in the days before her father died and daylight was pleased with himself they were getting acquainted the conversation had not in the full half hour they had been together we come pretty close from the same part of the country he said i was raised in eastern and that s none so far from the next moment he could have bitten out his tongue for her quick question was � how did you know i came from i m sure i never mentioned it i don t know he temporarily i heard somewhere that you were from wolf sliding up at that moment sleek footed and like a shadow caused her horse to shy and passed the awkwardness off for they talked dogs the conversation drifted back to horses and horses it was all up the grade and down the other side when she talked he listened and followed her and yet all the while he was following his own thoughts and impressions as well it was a thing for her to do this riding and he didn t know after all whether he liked it or not his ideas of women were prone to be old fashioned they were the ones he had in the early day frontier life of his youth when no woman was seen on anything but a side saddle he had grown up to the fiction that women on horseback were not it came to him with a shock this sight of her so in her saddle burning daylight but he had to confess that the sight looked good to him just the same two other immediate things about her struck him first there were the golden spots in her eyes queer that he had never noticed them before perhaps the light in the ofl ce had not been right and perhaps they came and went no they were of color � a sort of diffused golden nor was it golden either but it was nearer that than any color he knew it certainly was not any shade of yellow a lover s thoughts are ever colored and it is to be doubted if any one else in the world would have called s eyes golden but daylight s mood on the tender and melting and he preferred to think of them as golden and therefore they were golden and then she was so natural he had been prepared to find her a most difficult yoimg woman to get acquainted with yet here it was proving so simple there was nothing about her company manners � it was by this homely phrase that he this on horseback from the with the office manners whom he had always known and yet while he was delighted with the with which everything was going and with the fact that they had foimd plenty to talk about he was aware of an imder it all after all this talk was empty and idle he was a man of action and he wanted her the woman he wanted her to love him and to be loved by him and he wanted all this glorious then and there used to forcing issues used to men and things and bending them to his will he felt now the same of mastery he wanted to | 21 |
assert itself where many are gathered together working side by side all made a harmony the wonderful pictures collected from many lands and many centuries each with its meaning and its message from the past the memories of the painters themselves who had worked and and conquered and the living human beings each with his wealth of earnest endeavour and hope meanwhile the old man read on until two hands were put over his book and a gentle voice said mr you have had no lunch again an of london do you know i begin to hate he always makes you forget your food the old man looked up and something like a smile passed over his face when he saw bending over him ah he answered you must not hate have had more pleasant s with him than with any living person he rose and came forward to examine her copy of s portrait yours is better than mine he said in fact mine is a e i think i shall only get a small price for mine indeed i doubt whether i shall get sufficient to pay for my funeral you speak she answered smiling i missed you yesterday he continued half i left my work and wandered through the rooms and i did not even read something seemed to have gone from my life at first i thought it must be my favourite or the but it was neither the one nor the other it was you that was strange was n t it but you know we get accustomed to anything and perhaps i should have missed you less the second day and by the end of a week i should not have missed you at all we have in us the power of forgetting i do not wish to plead for myself she said but i do not believe that you or any one could really forget that which call forgetfulness might be called by the better name of resignation an of london � i don t care about talking any more now he said suddenly and he went to his and worked silently at his picture and glanced at him and thought she had never seen her old companion look so forlorn and desolate as he did to day he looked as if no gentle hand had ever been placed on him in and affection and that seemed to her a terrible thing for she was one of those minded persons who persist in believing that affection is as needful to human life as rain to flower life when first she came to work at the gallery � some twelve months ago � she had noticed this old man and had wished for his companionship she was herself lonely and sorrowful and although had to fight her own battles and had learned something of the difficulties of fighting and this had given her an experience beyond her years she was not more than twenty four years of age but she looked rather older and though she had beautiful eyes full of meaning and kindness her es were decidedly plain as well as there were some in the gallery who said among themselves that as mr had waited so many years before talking to any one he might have chosen some one better worth the waiting for but they soon became accustomed to seeing and mr together and they laughed less than before and meanwhile the acquaintance into a sort of friendship half sulky on his part and wholly kind on her part he told nothing about himself and ve a n w an of london herself for weeks he never even knew her name sometimes he did not speak at all and the two friends would work silently side by side until it was time to go and then he waited until she was ready and walked with her across square where they parted and went their own ways but occasionally when she least expected it he would speak with glowing enthusiasm on art then his eyes seemed to become bright and his bent figure more erect and his whole bearing proud and dignified there were times too when he would speak on other subjects on the of free thought and on those who had died to free thought � on of blessed memory on him and scores of others too he would speak of the different schools of philosophy he would laugh at himself and at all who having given time and thought to the study of hfe s complicated problems had not reached one step further than the old world perhaps he would quote one of his favourite philosophers and then suddenly into silence returning to his abstraction and to his indifference to his surroundings had learned to understand his ways and to appreciate his mind and without on him in any manner had put herself gently into his life as his quiet champion and his friend no one in her presence dared speak of the old man or to make fun of his tumble down appearance or of his worn out silk hat with a crack in the side or of his rag of a black tie which to an of london with his overcoat had seen better days once she brought her needle and thread and the torn sleeve during her lunch time and though he never knew it it was a satisfaction to her to have helped him to day she noticed that he was painting badly and that he seemed to take no interest in his work but she went on busily with her own picture and was so engrossed in it that she did not at first observe that he had packed up his and was preparing to go home three more strokes he said quietly and you will have finished your picture i shall never finish mine perhaps you will be good enough to set it | 39 |
noon she made her escape with her work to the east room that she might have no concern in another and as she deemed it most unnecessary of the first act which henry was just proposing desirous at once of having her time to herself and of avoiding the sight of mr a glimpse as she passed through the hall of the two ladies walking up from the made no change in her wish of retreat and she worked and meditated in the east room undisturbed for a quarter of an hour when a gentle tap at the door was followed by the entrance of miss am i right yes this is the east room my dear miss d price i beg four but i have made mj way to yon on purpose to entreat your help quite surprised endeavoured to show herself of the room by her and looked at the t bars of her empty grate with thank you � i am quite warm very warm allow me to stay here a while and do have the goodness to bear me my third act i have t my book and it you would but it with me i should be obliged i i came here to day intending to it � by ourselves � against the evening but he u not tn the way and if he were i do not i could go through it with him till i have hardened myself a little for really is a speech or two you will be so good won t you was most civil in her assurances though she could not give them in a very steady voice have you ever to look at the part i meant continued miss opening her book here it is i did not think much of it at first � but upon my � � � there look at thai speech and that and thai how am i ever to look him in the and say such things t could ou do but then he is your cousin which makes all the difference you must it with me that i may fancy you him and get on by degrees you have a look oi ia sometimes have it� i will do my best with the greatest � but i must read the part for i can ray very little of it it i suppose you are to have the book of course now for it we must have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to the front of the stage there � very good school room chairs not made for a theatre i dare say much more fitted for girls to sit and kick their feet against when they are learning a lesson what would your and your uncle say to see them used for a purpose could sir thomas look in upon us just now he would bless himself for we are all over the house is away in the i heard him as i came upstairs and the is engaged of course by those and if they are not i thai be part i f the b e i looked in upon five ago and it happened to be exactly at one of the when tbey were trying net to embrace and mr witli me i thought he began to look a little queer i turned it off as well as i could by to him we shall have an excellent there is bo in her manner so completely in her voice and was not well done of me t he up directly now for my began and in with all the modest the idea of representing was so calculated to inspire but with looks and voice so truly j as to be no very good picture of a man an however miss had courage enough mad had got half the scene when a tap at the door brought a pause and the of the next moment suspended it all consciousness and pleasure in each of the on this unexpected meeting and as on the veiy same business that had brought consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than in them he too had his book and was seeking to ask her to with him and help him to prepare for the evening without knowing miss to be in the house and great was the joy and of being thrown of comparing and in praise of s kind offices could not equal them in their warmth her spirit sank under the glow of theirs and she felt herself becoming too nearly nothing to both to have any comfort in having been t by either they must new together proposed urged entreated it � till the lady not very at first could no longer � and was wanted only to prompt and observe them she was invested indeed with the office of judge and critic and earnestly desired to exercise it and tell them all their but from doing so every within her shrank she could not would not not attempt it had she been otherwise for criticism her conscience must have r� her from venturing at s park to feel too much of it in the for honesty oc in to prompt them most be enough for her and it was sometimes for she could not always pay attention to the book in watching then � be forgot herself and agitated by the increasing v of s manner had once the page and turned away exactly as he wanted help it was to very reasonable weariness and she was thanked and pitied bat she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would at last scene was over and forced to add her praise to the compliments each waa the other and when again alone and to recall the whole she was inclined lo their would indeed have such nature and feeling in it as must th� | 26 |
in her walk and trembling the terrible decision of adam s tone shook her with fear she presence of mind left for the reflection that arthur would have his reasons for not telling the truth to adam her words and look were enough to determine adam he must give her the letter you perhaps can t believe me because you think too well of him � because you think he loves you better than he does but got a letter i my pocket as he wrote himself for me to give you i ve not read the letter but he says he s told you the truth in it but before i give you the letter consider and don t let it take too much hold on you it been good for if he d wanted to do such a mad thi as marry yon it ud ha led to no happiness i th end nothing she felt a revival of hope at the mention of a letter � which adam had not read there would be something quite different in it fi om what he thought adam took out the letter but he held it in his hand still while he said in a tone of tender entreaty don t you bear me ill will because i m the means o bringing you this pain god knows td ha borne a good deal worse for the sake o it you and think � there s nobody but me knows about and fu take care of you as if i was brother you re the same as ever to me for i don t believe you ve done any wrong had laid her hand on the letter but adam did not loose it till he had done speaking she took no notice of he said � she had not listened but when he the letter she put it into her pocket without opening it and then began to walk more as if she wanted to go in you re in the right not to read it just yet said adam read it when you re by yourself but stay out a little bit longer and let us call the children you look so white and ill aunt may take notice of it heard the it recalled to lier the necessity of her native powers of concealment which had half given way under the shock of adam s words and she had the letter in her pocket she was sure there was comfort in that letter in spite of adam she ran to find and soon reappeared with recovered color leading who was making ii sour face because she had been obliged to throw away an apple that she had set her small teeth in said adam come and ride on my shoulder � ever so high � you ll touch the tops o the trees what little mid ever refused to be comforted by that glorious sense of being seized strongly and swung upward i don t believe cried when the eagle earned him away and perhaps deposited him on jove a shoulder at the end down complacently from her secure height and pleasant was the sight to the mother s eyes as she stood at the house door and saw adam coming with his small burden bless your my pet she said the mother s strong love filling her keen eyes with as leaned forward and put out her arms she had no eyes for at that moment and only said without looking at her you go and draw some ale the are both at the cheese after the ale had been drawn and her uncle s pipe lighted there was to be taken to bed and brought down again in her night gown because she would cry instead of going to sleep then there was supper to be got ready and must be continually in the way to give help adam staid till he knew mrs expected him to go engaging her and her husband in talk as constantly as he could tor the sake of leaving more at ease he lingered because he wanted to see her safely through that evening and he was delighted to find how much self command she showed he knew she had not had time to read the letter but he did not know she was up by a secret hope that the letter would contradict every thing he had said it was hard work for him to leave her � hard to think that he should not know for days how she was her trouble but he must go at last and all he could do was to press her hand gently as he said good by and hope she would take that as a sign that if his love could ever be a refuge for her it was there the same as ever how busy his thoughts were as he walked home in pitying for her folly in referring all her weakness to the sweet of her nature in arthur with and less inclination to admit that his conduct might be too his at s suffering � and also at the sense that she was possibly forever out of his own reach � him to any plea for the friend who had wrought this misery adam was a clear sighted man � a fine fellow indeed morally as well as physically but if the just was ever in love and jealous he was at that moment not perfectly and i can not pretend that adam in these painful days felt nothing but righteous indignation and loving pity he was bitterly jealous and in proportion as his love made him indulgent in his judgment of the found a vent in bis feeling toward arthur her head was likely to be turned he thought when a gentleman with his fine manners and fine clothes adam and his white hands and that way | 14 |
affect for she looked anxiously at him and said are you going away no i shall stay here at until you are better and then you will go away too never to the again no i shall live poorly and get my own bread well dearest you shall do what you would like best but i wish you could go to sleep now try to rest quietly and by you will perhaps sit up a little god has kept you in life in spite of all this sorrow it will be sinful not to try and make the of his gift dear you will try � and little brought you some once you didn t notice the poor little thing but you will notice her when she comes again will you not i will try whispered humbly and then closed her eyes by the time the sun was above the scattering the clouds and shining with pleasant morning warmth the window was asleep gently the tiny hand cheered with good news and made his way to the village with a thankful heart that had been so far herself again evidently the sight of him had blended naturally with the memories in which her mind was absorbed and she had b en led on to an of herself that might bo the beginning of a complete restoration but her body was so � her soul so bruised � that the utmost tenderness and care would be necessary the next thing to be done was to send tidings to sir and lady then to write and summon his sister under whose care he had determined to place the even if she had been to return thither would he knew be the most home for her at present every scene every object there was associated with still anguish if she were for a time with his mild gentle sister who had a peaceful home and a little boy might attach herself anew to life and recover partly at least the shock that had been given to her constitution when be had written his letters and taken a mb s l ve t rt hasty breakfast he was soon in his saddle again on his way to where he would post them and seek oat a medical to whom he might confide the moral causes of s condition chapter xx in less than a week from that time was persuaded to travel in a comfortable carriage under the care of mr and his sister mrs whose soft blue eyes aid mild manners were very soothing to the poor bruised child the more so as they had an air of equality which was quite new to her under lady s good will bad always retained a certain and awe and there was a sweetness before unknown in having a young and gentle woman like an elder sister bending over her and speaking in low loving tones was almost angry with himself for feeling happy while s mind and body were still trembling on the verge of decline but the new delight of acting as her guardian angel of being with her every hour of the of everything for her comfort or watching for a ray of returning interest in her eyes too absorbing to leave room for alarm or regret on the third day the carriage drove up to the door of where the rev presented himself on the door step eager to greet his returning and holding by the hand a broad haired boy of five who was a miniature hunting whip with great vigor nowhere was there a lawn more walks better swept or a porch more pi with than at standing sheltered by and half way down the pretty green which was surmounted by the church and overlooking a village that at its ease among pastures and meadows surrounded by wild and broad trees as yet by improved methods of farming brightly the fire shone in the great parlor and brightly in the little pink bedroom which was to be s b use it looked away from the churchyard and on to a farm with its little cluster of and placid groups of cows and cheerful sounds of healthy labor mrs with the instinct of an woman had written to her husband to have this room prepared for contented scratching for the rarely found com may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of there is something irresistibly in the of sheep dogs and patient cart horses enjoying a drink of muddy water in such a home as this a nest of comfort without any of the that would carry a suggestion of mr was not unreasonable in hoping that might gradually shake off the haunting vision of the past and recover from the languor and which were the physical sign of that vision s presence the next thing to be done was to arrange an exchange of duties with mr s that might be constantly near and watch over her progress she seemed to like him to be with her to look uneasily for his return and though she seldom spoke to him she was most contented when he sat by her and held her tiny hand in his large protecting grasp but the broad boy was perhaps her most with something of his uncle s person he had inherited also his uncle s early taste for a domestic and was very imperative in demanding s sympathy in the welfare of his guinea pig and with him she seemed now and then to have of her childhood coming the leaden clouds and many hours of winter went by the more easily for being spent in s nursery mrs was not and had no instrument but one of mr s cares was to procure a and have it placed in the drawing room always open in the hope that some day the spirit of music would be in and | 14 |
in the proceeds to the account of an unknown person at one of the large london banks the person was by some supposed to be himself under an assumed name but few if any had certain knowledge of that ct the el ant new residence was sold with the rest of his possessions and its was no other than now a man in the and one whose growing family and new wife required more accommodation than was afforded by the little house up the narrow side street s old habitation was bought by the of the body in that town who pulled down the time honoured dwelling and built a new chapel on its site by the time the last hour of that to year had every of him had disappeared from the of his native place and the name became extinct in the of port after having been fi living therein for more than two hundred year � ix one years and six months do not pass setting a mark even upon stone and triple brass upon humanity such a period works nothing less than in s old young children with bones like india rubber had grown up to be stable men and women men and women had dried in the skin withered and sunk into while from every class had been consigned to the of differences the greatest was that a railway had invaded the town tying it on to a main line at a a dozen miles off s house on the harbour road once so new had acquired a respectable with ivy virginia damp patches and even constitutional of its own like its elder fellows its architecture once so very improved and modern had already become stale in style without having reached the dignity of being old fashioned trees about the harbour road had increased in or disappeared under the saw while the church had had such a tremendous practical joke played upon it by some or other as to be scarce by its dearest old friends during this long interval george had never once t een seen or heard of in the town of his z o fellow it was the evening of a market day and some middle aged farmers and were lounging round the bar of the black hotel occasionally dropping a remark to each other and less frequently to the two who stood within the counter in a attitude of attention these latter sighing and making a private observation to one another at odd intervals on more interesting experiences than the present days get shorter said one of the as he looked towards the street and noticed that the was passing by the farmers merely acknowledged by their countenances the propriety of this remark and finding that nobody else spoke one of the said yes in a tone of painful duty come fair day we shall have to light up before we start for home along that s true his neighbour with a gaze of and after that we shan t see much further difference all s winter the rest were not unwilling to go even so far as this the sighed again and raised one of her hands from the counter on which they rested to scratch the smallest surface of her face with the smallest of her fingers she looked towards the door and presently remarked i think i hear the coming in from station the eyes of the and farmers turned to the glass door dividing the hall from the porch and in a minute or two the drew up outside then there was a down of luggage and then a man came into the hall followed by a porter with a on his which he deposited on a bench the stranger was an elderly with curly z l tales white hair a deeply outer comer to each and a countenance baked by innumerable to the colour of its hue and that of his hair like heat and cold he walked and gently like one who was of disturbing his own mental but whatever lay at the bottom of his breast had evidently made him so accustomed to its situation there that it caused him little practical inconvenience he paused in silence while with his eyes fixed on the he seemed to consider himself in a moment or two he addressed them and asked to be for the night as he waited he looked curiously round the hall but said nothing as soon as invited he disappeared up the staircase preceded by a and candle and followed by a lad with his trunk not a soul had recognized him a quarter of an hour later when the farmers and had driven off to their in the country he came downstairs took a and one glass of wine and walked out into the town where the radiance from the shop windows had grown so in volume of late years as to flood with cheerfulness every standing cart stall and that occupied the whether shabby or genteel his chief interest at present seemed to lie in the names painted over the shop fronts and on door ways as far as they were visible these now differed to an ominous extent from what they had been one and twenty years before the traveller passed on till he came to the s where he looked in through the glass door a fresh faced young man was standing behind the counter otherwise the shop was empty the gray haired observer entered asked for some by way of paying for admission and with his elbow on the counter began to turn over the pages he had bought though that he read nothing was obvious i a fellow at length he said is old mr still alive in a voice which had a curious youthful in it even now my father is dead sir said the young man ah i am sorry to hear it said | 45 |
fm sorry to have kept you waiting olive but i can t go with you tell lady i am very sorry i m going to my room oh my dear not going and now that you re dressed allowed herself to be persuaded if she went to bed now she would not sleep she went to the ball with lady and as she went round in the giving her hand first to one and then to the other she heard a voice crying within her why are you doing these things they don t interest you at all eternal night oh lovely night oh holy night of love rapture succeeded rapture and the souls of the lovers rose nearer to the surface of life in a shudder of silver he saw them float away like little clouds towards the low rim of the universe but at that moment of escape reality broke in upon the dream had betrayed them and heard king by s noble and grave reproaches like a prophecy thou my friend and deceive me he sang and his melancholy motive seemed to echo like a cry along the shore of s own life amid calm and mysteriously exalted expressive of the terror and of fate fulfilled s resolve took shape and as he fell the melancholy mark motive was heard again and again asked what meaning it might have for him he heard the applause loud in the growing faint as it rose tier above tier baskets of flowers wreaths and were thrown from the boxes or handed up from the the curtain was rung up again and her name was called from different parts of the theatre and when the curtain was down for the last time he saw her in the middle of the stage talking to and the garden scene was being carried away and to escape from it took s hand and ran to the spot where was standing she the hand of her stage lover and dropping a held out two small hands to covered with violet powder the of the great love scene was still in her eyes it still he could see in her blood she had nearly thrown herself into his arms seemed regardless of those she seemed to have only eyes for him he heard her say under her breath that music me then with sudden composure but looking at him intently she asked him to come upstairs with her for the last few days he had been engaged in and last night he had been visited by dreams the significance of which he could not doubt but his reading of her had been or else he had failed to understand the answers that he was a momentous event in her life seemed clear yet all the signs were set against their marriage but what was happening had been revealed � that he should stand with her in a room where the carpet was blue and they were there that the furniture should be of last century and he examined the in the comers which were satin wood with delicate and on the walls were many and gold and mahogany frames the maid came from the dressing room you have some friends in front you can go and sit by with them i sha want you till the end when the door closed their eyes met and they trembled and were in dread come and sit by me she indicated his place by her side on the sofa we are all alone talk to me how did i sing to night never did the music ever mean so much as it did tonight he said sitting down what did it mean everything all the beauty and the woe of existence were in the music to night their thoughts wandered from the music and an effort was required to return to it do you remember she said with a little gasp in her voice how the music sinks into the slumber motive hark beloved then he answers let me die yes and with the last note the tune of the begin in the is heard warning them they sat looking at each other li sheer desperation she said � and that last phrase of all when the souls of the lovers seemed to float away over the low rim of the universe � like little clouds and then he tried to speak of his ideas but he could not collect his thoughts and after a few sentences he said i cannot talk of these things the room seemed to sway and cloud and her arms to reach out instinctively to him and she would have fallen into his arms if he had not suddenly asked her what had been decided at sir s let me kiss you he said or i shall go mad no this is not nice of you i shall not be able to ask you to my room again he let go her hand and she said � fm not going to marry sir but i must not let you kiss me but you must you must why must i do you not feel that it is to be what is to be i do not know what but i have been drawn towards by so long a while � long before i saw you ever since i heard your name the moment i saw that old photograph in the music room i knew what did you know when i heard your name it called up an image in my mind and that image has never wholly left me � it comes back often like a ghost when you were thinking of something different i am your destiny or one of your her eyes were fixed eagerly upon him his darkness and the mysteries he represented attracted her and she even felt she could follow at the same moment his eyes seemed the most beautiful | 15 |
house rooms to several others clerks a book about myself who looked and proved to be a genial sort holding a kind of on the front steps of an evening i now turned to the morning papers going first to the which had its in a handsome building one of the or three high buildings in the city the city editor me graciously but could promise nothing at the which was published in a three story building at and diamond streets i found a man who expressed more interest he was a slender soft spoken one man on very short acquaintance i found him to be shrewd and gracious always exceedingly and and an excellent judge of news and plainly his job not so much by reason of what he put into his paper as by what he kept out of it he wanted to know where i had worked before i came to whether i had been connected with any paper here whether i had ever done feature stuff i described my experiences as nearly as i could and finally he said that there was nothing now but he was expecting a to occur soon if i could come around in the course of a week or ten days i drooped sadly � well then in three or four days he thought he might do something for me the salary would not be more than eighteen the week my spirits fell at that but his manner was so agreeable and his hope for me so keen that i felt greatly encouraged and told him i would wait a few days anyhow my friend in had promised me that he would wire me at the first opening and i was now expecting some word from him this i told to this city editor and he said well you might wait until you hear from him anyhow a thought of my possible lean purse did not seem to to him and i at the casual manner in which he assumed that i wait thereafter i the city and its and to my delight found it to be one of the most curious and fascinating places i had ever seen from a store i first secured a map and figured out the lay of the town at a glance i saw that the greater part of it stretched eastward along the tongue of land that was between the and the and that this was proper across a book about myself the m the north side was the city of an individual but so completely connected as to be identical with it and connected with i by many bridges across the on the south side were various towns mt washington i was interested especially in because of the long and bitter contest between the steel workers and the company which for six months and more in had space on the front page of every newspaper in america having studied my map i going first across the river into here i found a city built about the base of high granite hills or between in hollows called or runs with a street or car line and twisting directly over them a charming park and system had been laid out with the city hall a market and a public library as a the place had dry goods and business houses on another day i crossed to the south side and ascended by an inclined plane such as later i discovered to be one of the features of the called mt washington from the top of which walking along an avenue called view which skirted the brow of the hill i had the finest view of a city i have ever seen in later years i looked down upon new york from the heights of the and the hills of island on rome from the on from san and on and los from the slopes of mt but never anywhere have i seen a scene which impressed me more than this the rugged beauty of the mountains which the city the three rivers that run as threads of bright metal dividing it into three parts the several cities joined as one their streets presenting a pattern here and there by the darkened of churches and the walls of the taller and and office buildings as in most american cities of any size the was just being introduced and being welcomed as full proof of the growth and wealth and force of the city no city was com a book about myself without at least one the more of course the had a better claim to the as a commercial necessity than any other american city that i know tongue of land which lies between the and the very likely not more than two or three square miles in extent is still the natural heart of the commercial life for fifty a hundred miles about here meet the three large rivers all here again the natural runs and of the various hills about as well as the which pursue the banks of the streams and which are the natural or for railroad lines street cars and streets come to a common whether by bridges from the south bank of the or the or along the shores of the or within the city of itself all meet somewhere in this level tongue and here of necessity is the business so without the tall building i cannot see how one tenth of the business which and should be here would ever come about chapter two or three tall buildings the city of was then of a simple and a few blackened a small dark city hall and an old market place a long stretch of blast black as night and the li constructed bridges over the rivers gave it all an airy grace and charm since the houses up here were very simple mostly s cottages and the streets | 43 |
it v but she had no leisure for critical accuracy her guide pressed on heedless of the difficulties of the way she would pass between huge rocks that had rolled so near together as to leave but a very narrow passage between them then grasping the tangled roots that projected from the side of the mountain and placing her feet in the of the rocks or in the little channels that had been worn by the continual dropping from the mountain she would glide over swiftly and safely as if she had been on the beaten highway they were sometimes compelled in the depths of the to prostrate themselves and creep through narrow a england tale in the rocks it was impossible to and jane felt that she was passing over immense masses of ice the perhaps of a hundred she was and and inspired with almost supernatural courage she though a woman naturally born to fears followed on till they came to an immense rock whose and giant form rested on broken masses v that on every side were this mighty monarch of the scene for the first time crazy bet seemed to remember she had a companion and to give a thought to her safety jane said she go carefully over this lower ledge there is a narrow foot hold there let not your foot slip on the wet leaves or the soft moss i am in the spirit and i must mount to the summit jane obeyed her directions and when without much trouble she had attained the further side of the rock she looked back for crazy bet and saw her standing between heaven and earth on the very point of the high rock she on the branch of a tree she had broken off in her struggle to reach that lofty station the moon had declined a little from the her rays did not penetrate the depths where jane stood but fell in their full brightness on the face of her above her head as we have noticed was dressed with vines and flowers her eyes were in a fine frenzy rolling from earth to heaven and heaven to earth she n t a tale looked like the wild of the savage scene and she seemed to breathe its spirit when after a moment s silence she sang with a powerful and thrilling voice which the sleeping echoes of the mountain the � tell them i am said to moses while earth heard in dread and smitten to the heart at once above t around au without voice or sound replied oh lord thou in vain jane called upon her in vain she en treated her to descend she seemed some heavenly vision aiid she stood mute again and motionless till a bird that had been scared from its nest in a of the rock bj the wild sounds fluttered over her and lit on the branch she still held in her hand oh exclaimed she messenger of love and omen of i am content and she swiftly descended the sloping side of the rock which she hardly seemed to touch now said jane soothingly you are rested let us go on rested yes my body is rested but mj has been the way of the eagle in the air you cannot bear the revelation now child come on and do your earthly work they walked on for a few yards when bet aud turned to the left and ascended the tain which was there less steep and rugged than at any place they had passed at a short distance a new tale before her jane perceived glimmering through the trees a faint light heaven be praised said she that must be john s cottage as they came nearer the dog the old man coming out of the door signed to jane to sit down � n a log which answered the purpose of a rude door step and then speaking to bet in a f which to jane s ut surprise tee obeyed � take off said he you mad those from your head stroke your hair back like a decent christian woman get into the house but mind you say not a word to her crazy bet entered the house and john turning to jane said you are an angel of goodness for coming here to night though i am afraid it will do no good bu since you are here you shall see her see her see what john interrupted jane that s what i must tell you miss but it is a piercing story to tell to one that looks like you it s telling the deeds of the pit to the angels above he then went on to state that a few days before he had been searching the mountains for some roots when his attention was suddenly arrested by a low moaning sound and on going in the direction from whence it came he found a very young looking creature with a ne w born infant wrapped in a shawl and lying in her arms he spoke to the mother but she made no reply and seemed quite unconscious of every things till he attempted to take the child from her she then a new england tale grasped it so firmly that he found it difficult to remove it he called his wife to his assistance and placed the infant in her arms pity for so young a sufferer the old man with unwonted strength and enabled him to bear the mother to his hut there he used the simple his skill dictated but nothing produced any effect till the child with whom the old woman had taken pains revived and cried the sound he said seemed to life in a dead body the mother extended her arms as if to feel for her child and they gently laid it in them she felt the touch of its face | 6 |
his comrade and threw more wood on the fire as it began to flame up the circle of eyes drew farther back he glanced casually at the dogs he rubbed his eyes and looked at them more sharply then he crawled back into the blankets henry he said h henry the of the meat henry groaned as he passed from sleep to waking and demanded what s wrong now came the answer only there s seven of em again i just counted henry acknowledged receipt of the information with a that slid into a as he drifted back into sleep in the morning it was henry who awoke first and his companion out of bed daylight was yet three hours away though it was already six o clock and in the darkness henry went about preparing breakfast while bill rolled the blankets and made the ready for say henry he asked suddenly how many dogs did you say we had six wrong bill proclaimed triumphantly seven again henry no five one s gone the hell henry cried in wrath leaving the cooking to come and count the dogs you re right bill he concluded s gone an he went like once he got started couldn t ve seen m for smoke no chance at all henry concluded they swallowed m alive i bet he was as he went down their throats damn em white he always was a fool dog said bill but no fool dog ought to be fool enough to go off an commit suicide that way he looked over the remainder of the team with a eye that up instantly the traits of each animal i bet none of the others would do it i couldn t drive em away from the fire with a club bill agreed i always did think there was wrong with anyway and this was the of a dead dog on the trail � less scant than the of many another dog of many a man chapter n the she wolf eaten and the slim camp lashed to the the men turned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness at once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad � cries that called through the darkness and cold to one another and answered back conversation ceased daylight came at nine o clock at midday the sky to the south warmed to rose color and marked where the of the earth between the sun and the northern world but the swiftly faded the gray light of day that remained lasted until three o clock when it too faded and the pall of the night descended upon the lone and silent land as darkness came on the hunting cries to right and left and rear drew closer � so close that more than once they sent of fear through the toiling dogs throwing them into short lived at the conclusion of one such panic when he and henry had got the dogs back in the traces bill said i they d strike game an go away an leave us alone white they do get on the nerves horrible henry they spoke no more until camp was made henry was bending over and adding ice to the pot of beans when he was startled by the sound of a blow an exclamation from bill and a sharp cry of pain from among the dogs he straightened up in time to see a dim form disappearing across the snow into the shelter of the dark then he saw bill standing amid the dogs half triumphant half crest fallen in one hand a stout club in the other the tail and part of the body of a sun cured salmon it got half of it he announced but i got a at it the same d ye hear it what d it look like henry asked couldn t see but it had four legs an a mouth an hair an looked like any dog must be a tame wolf i reckon it s damned tame whatever it is in here at time an its of fish that night when supper was finished and they sat on the box and pulled at their pipes the circle of gleaming eyes drew in even closer than before i they d spring up a bunch of or an go away an leave us alone bill said thb she wolf henry with an that was not all sympathy and for a quarter of an hour they sat on in silence henry staring at the fire and bill at the circle of eyes that burned in the darkness just beyond the i we was into right now he began again shut up your an your v henry burst out angrily your stomach s sour that s what s you swallow a of an you ll up wonderful an be more pleasant company in the morning henry was aroused by that proceeded from the mouth of bill henry propped himself up on an elbow and looked to see his comrade standing among the dogs beside the fire his arms raised in his face distorted with passion henry called what s up now s gone came the answer no i tell you yes henry leaped out of the blankets and to the dogs he counted them with care and then joined his partner in cursing the powers of the wild that had robbed them of another dog was the strongest dog of the bunch bill pronounced finally white an he was no fool dog neither henry added and so was recorded the second in two days a gloomy breakfast was eaten and the four remaining dogs were to the the day was a repetition of the days that had gone before the men toiled without speech across the face of the frozen world the silence was unbroken save by the cries of their that unseen hung upon their rear | 21 |
time mr committee for leave to present the n of the united lion any foreign or the attempt of the government v an ml of or or th republic of ins being made the resolutions were not i the southern members showing a � as the subject i of pi of persons ing a fixed determination to bring into the union declaring that they had assurances of the and that they prefer a dissolution of the union to the of expressing however at the same time their confidence that if the could be effected the people of the free states would submit to it and the institutions of the slave states would be secured and ourselves however with brief glance at some of the most prominent evidence in relation to the subject we submit to yon whether the project of seems to be abandoned and whether there be not imminent danger of its speedy accomplishment unless the entire mast of the people in w state become aroused to a conviction of danger and oat and act ia reference od either o although perfectly aware that m h which its attempt to th new york in march in that speech after stating that he saw objections to the of that the purchase of and furnished no precedent for it that the cases were not parallel and that na such policy or necessity as led to that required the of i we hold that there is not only no political for it � � no advantages lo be derived from it there is no constitutional power to any department of the national government to it that no act of obligation upon the several states of this union to submit to such an act or to receive into their family and such mu torn ten and wo hesitate not to say that by any act or proceeding of the eminent or any of its � old he a it� and the great entered into its formation of a character so p and and would bo an attempt to an institution and a power of a nature the t but fully the people of free ought mil io it but we say with would hot submit to it we know pro ent temper and spirit on this subject too well to believe for a moment that they would become in any inch subtle contrivance tor the of an institution which tho wisest and best men who formed our constitution as well from the slave ss the free states regarded as an evil and a turn soon to become extinct under the operation of laws to be passed the slave trade and the influence of the principles of the revolution to prevent the success of this project to preserve from such gross the con ot our country adopted expressly to the bless in gi of and not the of slavery � and to prevent the speedy and violent dissolution of the union � we invite von to unite without distinction of in an immediate expression of your views on this subject in such manner as you may deem best calculated to answer the end proposed j b c mr being selected in his stead by a body which bad been supposed pledged to the ex president � excited considerable feeling especially among the of new york a number of their leaders united in a letter termed the secret circular their brethren while they supported and to be careful to vote for for who would set their faces as a flint against here is the circular you wi the late con party at the north difficulty we i� � � l l � � with the of � reasons which had no relation to the principles of the party nor was that all the went beyond the authority to its members and adopted a resolution on the subject of a subject not before the country when they were elected upon which therefore they were not instructed which seeks to into the party creed a new principles and i f u if y r m majority d abandon the c should it support the the tion and taking care that their support should be la o prevent ib i been p the above address was drawn by hon m gates of new york at the suggestion of john and sent to members of at their after the close of the for their many more than the approved heartily of its positions and objects and would have signed it but for its premature publication through mistake mr of mass was one of these with of course i mr declined it the letters of messrs clay and tan taking ground against without the consent of as an act of bad faith and which would necessarily result in war which appeared in the spring of make slight allusions if any to the slavery aspect of the case in a later letter mr clay declared that he did not oppose on account of slavery which he regarded as a temporary institution which therefore ought not to stand in the way of a permanent acquisition and though mr clay s last letter on the subject prior to the election of and all his objections to under the existing circumstances he did not include the existence of slavery the defeat of mr van at the wisely for we c of their opinion will their om and that proper efforts will secure the of such members of as will reject the scheme now pressed upon the country with these views assuming that yon feel on this subject as we do we have been desired to address you and invite the of yourself and other friends throughout tho state i of such persons as in these opinions it your views in this matter with ours please write to some one of ns and a draught of the proposed letter will be forwarded very respectfully p | 19 |
anger than that they are the result of a reasonable conviction or condition of your own heart and intellect in no way can i admit that my conduct has been of a nature to give offence to you or to the holy see for i have only in all things sought to obey the teaching of our lord christ upon whose memory our faith is founded your desires me first to cease every with the only relatives left to me on earth � my brother in law and his daughter the daughter of my dead sister my niece you demand the of these bonds of nature because my niece has produced a work of art for which she alone is responsible i venture most humbly to submit to your that this can scarcely be called true christian justice to me � for whereas on the one side i cannot be made for the thoughts or the work of a separately responsible ax t hand i should the master christian not be from my influence if necessary on the future career of those related to me by blood as well as to me by duty and affection my niece has suffered more cruelly than most women and it is entirely owing to her refusal to speak that the memory of her late husband is not openly as that of a criminal instead of being as now merely under the shadow of suspicion for we know that he was her � all rome feels the truth � and yet being dead his name is left open to the benefit of a doubt because she who was so nearly slain by him she loved and is silent i submit to your that this forgiveness and silence true christianity on the part of the poor child who has fallen under your displeasure � and that as the christian creed goes your pity and consideration for her should somewhat soften the ban you have set against her on account of the work she has given to the world as a servant of holy church i deeply the subject of that work while fully admitting its merit as a great conception of art � but even on this point i would most humbly point out to your that genius is not always under the control of its possessor for being a fire of most searching and quality it does so command the soul and through the soul the brain and hand that it would appear as if the actual creator of a great work is the last to be considered in the scheme and that it has carried out by some force altogether beyond and above humanity therefore speaking with all humility and sorrow it may chance that s picture the coming of christ may contain a required lesson to us of the church as well as to certain sections of certain people and that as all genius comes from god it would be well to earnestly whether we do not p in these days need some hint or warning of the kind to recall us from ways of error ere we wander too far but having laid this matter before your i am nevertheless willing to to your desire and see my young niece and her father no more for truly there is very little chance of my so doing as my age and health will scarcely permit me to travel far from my again if indeed i ever return to it the same statement will apply with greater force to v the master christian formed with him whom you call � your is mistaken in thinking that i have assisted him in his work among the poor and desolate of london � though i would it had been possible for me to do so for i have seen such misery such such despair such self destruction in this great english city the admitted centre of civilization that i would give my whole life twice ay three times over again to be able to relieve it in ever so small a degree the priests of our church and of all churches are here � they preach but do very little in the way of practice and few like sacrifice their personal their daily life their sleep their very thoughts to help the suffering of their fellow men holy father the people whom works for never believed in a god at all till this man came among them yet there are religious here and teachers � sunday after sunday the message of the gospel is pronounced to ears and souls and yet all have remained in darkest in hopeless misery till their earnest patient tender brother the so called came to persuade them out of darkness into light and made the burdens of their living lighter to bear and will you not admit him as a christian surely he must be for as our lord himself declares not every man that shall say unto me lord lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that the will of my father which is in heaven and of a certainty the will of the father is that the lost should be found the saved the despairing comforted � and all these things has done and is yet doing but i do not work with him � i am here to look on � and looking on toy regret my lost youth touching the miracle attributed to me at i have gone over this ground so often with your both by letter and personally while in rome that it seems but foolish to repeat the story of my complete innocence in the matter i prayed for the crippled child and laid my hands upon him in blessing from that day i never saw him � never have seen him again i can bear no witness to his recovery � your news came from persons at and not | 33 |
body � and you saw the soul so clearly that you forgot the it wore he began his sermon simply announced the theme spoke of its importance glanced over the surface for a moment � then out his plan as the farmer out his field which he is to plough up inch by inch he began simply calmly and rose higher and higher as he went on each thought deeper and nobler than the last his conscience and his faith went into the audience till he held them breathless lifted out of their common consciousness � till they forgot their own forgot the preacher soul and body and thought only of his thought felt only his feeling there was never such preaching in boston never prayers his word sunk into men as the sun into the ground in summer to send up grass and flowers did he speak of sin the youth saw its with creeping hate � of the dignity of human nature you longed to be such a man � of of his goodness his love you wondered you could ever doubt or fear it was our good fortune in earlier years to hear him often in his noblest efforts often too on the same day have we listened to the eloquence of another good minister now also immortal a man of rare piety and singular power in the pulpit � we mean the younger ware more sentimental than more native with an intellect less and a range of subjects by no means so broad he yet spoke to the native soul of man with a sweet persuasion rarely equalled ware told you more of heaven � more of earth that you might make it heaven here it was his conscience and his trust in god that gave him power what strength there is in what force in truth what magic in religion that voice so and feeble a woman s word � it was heard above the roar of the street and the clatter of it went beyond the it passed over the din of the atlantic waves and became a winning and familiar no iv william sound m our mother land that hand so thin and it seemed a might shine through � it held a which no of our time � the power of justice of all faith that feeble form tiiat man with body than a girl s � he had an influence which no man that speaks the tongue now equals he spoke not to men as members of a party or a or tribe or nation but to the universal nature of man and that something that doth live in our embers answered to his call he became conscious of his power it could not be wise when his word thus came echoed back from the heights and depths of society but this only made him yet more humble a name in both gave him no pleasure but as a means of and of power but made him more zealous and more powerful to tions he put aside without reading and abuse had small effect on did proud men scorn his humanity and base men affect to pity � it was only the pity which he returned yet when a letter from a poor man in england came to thank him for his words of lofty cheer he could well say this is honor when a nursery man forgot his plants and his customers to express an interest in hun or a retired family was moved by his presence then he could say this is better than a thousand times forgive if that made him proud we remember well his lecture on the elevation of the laboring classes and the with which it was received by some that heard it at the tune and we shall not soon forget the feelings it brought to our heart when one day in a little town in a valley we saw in the shop of an who was also the a copy of that lecture in the german tongue it was printed at that place and was the second edition the word which some sneered at here was gone to the to comfort the poor under the shadow of the we know that men sneer at the pulpit it a low and no seat of power we know why they sneer and lame them not but if there is a man in the pulpit with a man s mind heart soul the pulpit is no mean place it shall go hard if his power is not felt in boston there are well nigh of out of these were there like dr fifty more in new york and yet another fifty in the of philadelphia let them be of all ways of thinking � catholic or � only let them love god as and man as well only let love and as well as he and labor with as much earnestness to reform society church and state what cities should we have what churches what a society what a state would there be the the tiie ignorance among the people the � the sheer and utter lust of gain now takes of the most influential men of the nation oh no � there would have been no of for a new slave garden no war against no holy alliance in america between and to secure the of our sister republic there would not be three of slaves in the united states and a slave on the throne of the nation � for t is a throne we speak of and tiie people only subjects of a base aristocracy no longer citizens did we speak of fifty in boston � were there only ten they would make this city as we think too good to hope for but there are not ten such men � nay there are not but we will not count them are still | 37 |
as though the reins of government had been transferred into his hands he interfered in public affairs ordered various persons to be arrested called to account the officers employed by the and paid no respect to don who remained in command during the absence of his brother the astonished at this presumption demanded a sight of the ill sion under which he acted but treated him with great replying that he would show it only to the admiral on second thoughts however lest there should be doubts in the public mind of his right to interfere in the affairs of the colony he ordered his letter of from the sovereigns to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet it was brief but comprehensive to the following purport and other persons who by our orders are in the we send to you our groom of the chambers who will speak to you on our part we command you to give him faith and credit the report now that the of and his family was at hand and that an had arrived to hear and the of the public this was originated by himself who threw out of rigid and signal it was a time of for every started up into an every one who by or crime had incurred the wholesome of the laws was loud in his against the oppression of there were ills enough in the colony some incident to its situation others produced by the of die all were ascribed to the of the admiral he was made responsible alike for the evils produced by others and for his own stern ah the old complaints were against him and his brothers and the usual and cause given for their that they were foreigners who sought merely their own interest and at the expense of the and the of destitute of to perceive what was true and what false in these complaints and a only to condemn r life and op saw in every thing testimony of the of he intimate and perhaps thought that the admiral was keeping at a distance from through fear of his in the fulness of his presumption he even set out with a body of horse to go in quest of him a vain and weak man in power is prone to have of his own description the empty and followers of wherever they went spread among the natives of the might and importance of their chief and of the punishment he intended to inflict upon in a little while the report through the island that a new admiral had arrived to administer the government and that the former one was to be put to death the news of the arrival and of the conduct of had in the interior of the island he to to give him a meeting of his approach also returned there as every one knew the lofty spirit and temper of his high sense of his services and his jealous maintenance of � is official dignity a violent explosion was anticipated at the impending interview also expected something of the kind but secure in his royal letter of he came fortified with the swelling of a little mind the result showed how difficult it is for petty spirits to the conduct of a man like in any striking situation his natural heat and had been subdued by a life of trials he had learned to bring his passions into to his judgment he had too true an estimate of his own dignity to enter into a contest with a shallow like above all he had a profound reverence for the authority of his sovereigns for in his spirit prone to deep feelings of reverence his loyalty was inferior only to hi f religion he received therefore with the most grave and courtesy he repeated his own ordering that the letter of should be again proclaimed by sound of in presence of the he listened to it with solemn deference and assured of his readiness to in whatever might be the pleasure of his sovereigns this unexpected moderation while it astonished the and disappointed he had come prepared for a scene of and had hoped that co in the heat and impatience of the moment would have said or done something that might have been into a for the authority of the sovereigns he endeavoured in fact some months afterwards to procure from the public present a prejudiced statement of the interview but the deference of the the royal letter of had been too marked to be and all the were highly in his favour continued to in public a and the respect and forbearance with which he was uniformly by and the of the latter in all his measures to the of the colony were regarded as proofs of the of his spirit he was looked upon as a declining man and hailed as the lord of the every spirit who had any lurking ill will any real or imaginary cause of complaint now hastened to give it utterance perceiving that in gratifying his malice he was his interest and that in the admiral he was gaining the friendship of � ind l c vol it life voyages of a the poor too by the of the white men rejoiced in tlie prospect of a of rulers vainly that it might a of their many of the who had promised to the admiral after their defeat in the now assembled at the house of the brother of near the river where they joined in a formal complaint against whom they considered the cause of all the evils which had sprung from the and the vices of his followers now considered the great object of bis mission fulfilled he had collected information sufficient as he thought to the ruin of the admiral and his brothers and prepared to return to spain resolved to do the same he felt that it | 48 |
commission of inquiry into and how to quiet that country with its disagreeable reform association made up of and and john and university and other more interested in other people s business than in their own i appointed it did it stop their mouths no they merely pointed out that it was a commission composed wholly of my the very men whose acts were to be inquired into they said it was equivalent to a commission of wolves to inquire into committed upon a nothing can satisfy a cursed englishman and were the fault frank with my this visit had a more fortunate result than was anticipated one member of the commission was a leading official another an official of the government in the third a it was feared that the work of the commission would not be more genuine than that of innumerable so called by local officials but it appears that the commission was met by a very of awful testimony one who was present at a public hearing writes men of stone would be moved by the stories that are being unfolded as the commission into the awful history of rubber collection it is evident the were moved of their report and its bearing upon the issue presented by the conditions in the state something is said on a page of this certain were ordered by the in the one section visited but the latest word is that after its departure conditions were soon worse than before its coming � m t lo p k i i only what h me � � � p lo king s character they could not be more so if i were a a peasant a they remind the world that from the earliest days my house has been chapel and combined and both working full time that i practised upon my queen and my daughters and them daily shame and that when my queen lay in the happy refuge of her coffin and a daughter implored me on her knees to let her look for the last time upon her mother s face i refused and that three years ago not being satisfied with the stolen spoils of a whole alien nation i robbed my own child of her property and appeared by in court a spectacle to the civilized world to defend the act and complete the crime it is as i have said they are unfair unjust they will and give new to such things as those or to any other things that count against me but they will not mention any act of mine that is in my favor i have spent more money on art than any other monarch of my time and they know it do they speak of it do they tell about it no they do not they prefer to work up what they call ghastly into offensive object lessons whose purpose is to make sentimental people shudder and prejudice them against me they remark that if the innocent blood shed in the state by king ii y v t king s were put in and the placed side by side the line would stretch miles if the of his ten millions of starved and dead could rise up and march in single file it would take them seven months and four days to pass a given point if together in a body they would occupy more ground than st louis covers world s fair and if they should all clap their bony hands at once the crash would be heard at a distance of � it makes me tired i and they do similar miracles with the money i have from that blood and put into my pocket they pile it into egyptian they carpet with it they spread it across the sky and the shadow it casts makes twilight in the earth and the tears i have caused the hearts i have broken � oh nothing can persuade them to let them alone meditative pause well no matter i did beat the anyway there s comfort in that reads with mocking smile the president s order of recognition of april the government of the united states its sympathy with and approval of the humane and benevolent purposes of my scheme and will order the officers of the united states both on land and sea to recognize its flag as the flag of a friendly government possibly the would like to take that back now but they will find that my agents are king s not over there in america for nothing but there is no danger neither nations nor can afford to confess a blunder a contented smile begins to read from report by rev pf m american missionary in the free state i furnish some of the many incidents which have come under my own personal observation they reveal the organized system of plunder and outrage which has been and is now being carried on in that unfortunate country by king of i say king because he and he alone is now responsible since he is the absolute sovereign he himself such when our government in laid the foundation of the free state by its flag little did it know that this j concern under the guise of was really king of one of the most heartless and most rulers that ever sat on a throne this is apart from his known corrupt morals which have made his name and his family a in two our government would most certainly not have recognized that flag had it known that it was really king who was asking for recognition had it known that it was setting up in the heart of africa an absolute had it known that having put down african slavery in our own country at great cost of blood and money it was a worse form of slavery right in africa j with evil yes i certainly was | 34 |
y regarding human life the indian laughed and said that no one who was ignorant of divine things could comprehend things relating to man no one however could very strongly affirm that this statement is true from writers with an introduction many prose and parallel passages from classical authors � � t by j d cl ll d d london co hill rights reserved preface ml n the present volume embraces the contents of the little work entitled � religious and moral rendered from writers f c y published by messrs nor gate in together with three of subsequently printed but not published and a of the pieces contained in volumes ii and v of my original c in the notice to the former publication i have acknowledged my obligations to dr o s large collection of all the from works of a more recent date than the and many from that great poem itself are drawn from his book the sources to which i am indebted for the parallel passages from classical writers are mostly indicated at the head of each quotation in the previous published collection i stated that almost all those then given from latin writers had been taken from s c i am indebted to dr e l for the greater portion of the to the and suggesting and to professor e b for the translation in page contents introduction miscellaneous consequence of the knowledge of the belt the great spirit to the god of hymn to by the and of the divine divine all aim known to the s secret not the corrected by advice the bad checked by ill gotten gains tail to benefit the of tbe gods give wisdom to those whom they and and evil not always apparent at first sight the pools mistake good a doomed man is killed by the c the wine ao faith in holy scripture an indian free s fate tbe indian in denial of a future life and of a ood and ridicule of the doctrine of final as nothing than s discourse and s reply unreal and useless the rule of duty to ascertain for death tbe only inseparable friend what is your life t it is even a no io the grave for we brought nothing into this world and it i certain we am carry nothing out s bow tbe wise ought to live a dialogue ease eat drink and be merry viii contents miscellaneous tr t� rf final overthrow of the wicked good and bad seem to be equally favoured hero not so here after strait is the gate and narrow is the way which life no second youth to man the lapse of time not practically noticed all men think all men mortal but themselves who are the really blind deaf and dumb remember thy sin removed by repentance never do what would distress thee on a sick bed men should think on their end men devout when hi distress d men love the fruits of virtue not virtue itself effects of habitual sin and virtue a small part of the toil endured in gaining wealth would final action keeping in view the future daily self examination improvement of time virtue difficult vice easy c good slowly acquired the condition of acquiring knowledge knowledge a treasure which cannot bo lost the essence of books to be got the condition of the mysteries of destiny the same of life do not always lead to the ends the same poverty a relish to food the vanity of human ambition the path of salvation the road to knowledge the of sin leads to knowledge final and the self power of the doctrine regarding it a guide through the gloom s saying the of whither knowledge leads death is not the of the good the of wisdom the indian and mary a story wonderful attributes of the among r r� � io � contents s knowledge to be from all which all from s no of final b low man by honour due not to but to tha nobility of manhood virtue of nine than birth the true � the what make a man a the true to a so the same without great wealth to b honour m the real the than men who u e in the world retirement from the world not for self condemnation of what the character of e the of mere knowledge and inward purity truth better than the u of truth and falsehood sweet of good to be of virtue the only real the righteous always prosper more valuable than the value of depends on the purity of the los fate of those who have no belief in virtue of faith moral essential true piety and and their the most gift lis two of paradise the beat use of wealth it is duty good easy evil difficult to a noble effort not the test of goodness evil intentions if not punished virtue lies in the thought not in the act virtue must be a man s own l kind and heartless men th� humble are wise x contents o� ud of man ir dot f or own tie fi worse then lu do good end hoping for t ths � do to yon s � l the of dot to be s the not to the door of good i do not to others thou st not have done to thee s if which you reward have ye i the of the deity t the vi � to iq he woe not again if hunger food him i of j not to be empty away l ttie s narrow end large bo to ell man r a may u from thi j l bo � men are formed by their men to l bo of good and men a praise l the tongue can no man tame casting before l of the bad good to be wasted an | 28 |
stocks and not very scrupulous as to how r made it thomas was lean as to a little suspicious of black haired narrow minded and single minded had but one idea and that was to get up in the world the money jacob was a stout rosy german a butcher originally not very clever in anything but let in on certain because of his vote and his rubber stamp like they came with tips of their own recommended by and was a little of some phases of his new but seeing to what circle they belonged it was not possible to them he had to be nice he refrained from giving any save the safest advice to this small but if they had tips and wished him to carry out instructions he could not do less than act faithfully in the matter brother joseph was now his floor man at sixty dollars a week brother edward was his inside office man and alter both were as faithful as it was possible for men to be their admiration for brother frank was unbounded it was rather an unusual combination but was an unusual man and he felt that he could trust his brothers he was sympathetic toward them without being in any way partial or unfair to others he had always them as boys and now as a man he put them into the traces of his vehicle of success without much thought that they were ever to be anything more than all these years he had felt that they were not going to be as strong as he was and he felt sorry for them at the same time he felt that this was as good a way as any for them to get their preliminary training his father who by the way was now vice president of his bank might find something better for them later on this gang as brother joe described them to brother ed looked suspicious to both but was a strong man and master of his affairs he kept a attitude a cross between keen interest and severe which at once won and kept in their place this uncertain and crew such men as state and others to say nothing of butler he was only the too to keep they represented to him something � he could scarcely say what � vast possibilities principally something seemed to tell him that these men might be useful to him at some time and while not in any way on his fixed principles of business he went as far as he could in being gracious and the others though he ignored them only as business in a small way � pretending an interest he did not feel it was to butler that he turned now and in this hour of desire and hope the latter did not fail him so you wanted a portion of those state bonds to sell is that it the latter asked when in response to permission requested called to see him concerning this matter it was in the evening spring was coming on but it was early and cool a grate fire was burning in mr butler s private and he was in a large comfortable leather chair well now that isn t so easy you ought to know more about that than i do i m not a as you well know and he grinned smiled it s a matter of influence i don t know the ropes well enough to know how this is managed it s largely a matter of that i know and company and and company have connections at they have men of their own looking after their interests the attorney general and the state are hand in glove with them even if i put in a bid and can that i can handle the loan it won t help me to get it other people have done that i have to have friends � influence you know how it is them things butler said solemnly is easy enough if you know the right parties to approach now there s he ought to know something about that was the district attorney serving at this time and incidentally free adviser to mr butler the in many ways he was also accidentally a personal friend of the state how much of the loan do you want five million five million mr butler sat up man what are you talking about five million that s a good deal of money where are you going to sell all that i want to bid for five million softly i only want one million but i want the of putting in a bid for five million it will do me good on the street mr butler sank back somewhat relieved five million you want one million well now that s different that s not such a bad idea we ought to be able to get that he rubbed his chin some more and stared into the fire liked his comforting we liked this great solid he liked his history he was just enough and practical minded enough to like to see such men get along he had met mrs butler a rather fat and irish woman who cared nothing at all for show and still liked to go into the kitchen and the cooking but who was not without a world of hard sense she had told her husband that was a shrewd young man he had met and butler the boys and and the girls was the one who up the steps the first day he had called on mr butler several seasons before he recalled her red cape and rosy cheeks since then he had seen more of a remarkable girl who could play and in a way brilliantly on the piano and sing she was seventeen now just into long dresses with a figure which was her manner was boyish at | 43 |
so and or ill bred as he wished to appear his temper t pe be a little by finding like many of his that through some bias in of he was the husband of a veiy silly woman she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be hurt by it it was rather a wish of distinction she which im his treatment of everybody and his general abuse of before him it was the of appearing superior to other people the motive was too common to be wondered at but the means however they t succeed by establishing his superiority in ill breeding were not to attach any one to him except his wife oh my dear miss said mrs soon afterwards i have got such a favour to ask of you and your sister you come and spend some time at this christmas t now pray do � and come while the are with us you cannot think how happy i shall be it will be quite delightful my love applying to her husband don t you long to have the miss come to t certainly he replied with a sneer i came into with no other view there now said his lady you see mr you so you cannot refuse to come tliey both eagerly and resolutely declined her invitation but indeed you must and shall come i am sure you will like it of all things the will be with us and it will be quite delightful you cannot think what a sweet place is and we are so gay now for mr is always going about the country against the election and so many people come to dine with us that i never saw before it is quite charming but poor fellow it is very to him for he is forced to make everybody like him could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation how charming it will be said when he is in parliament i� won t it t how i shall laugh t it be so � f to see all his letters directed to him with aa m p but do a he says he will never for me i he declares he won t don t you mr mr took no notice of her he cannot bear writing yon know she he says it is quite no said he i never said anything so don t palm all your of language upon me there now you see how droll he is this is always the way with him i sometimes he won t speak to me for half a day t and then he comes out with something so droll � all about anything in the world she surprised very much as they returned into the drawing room by asking her whether she did not like mr excessively certainly said he seems very agreeable well i am so glad you do i thought you would he is so pleasant and mr is pleased with you and your sisters i can tell you and you can t think how disappointed he will be if you don t come to i can t imagine why you should object to it was again obliged to decline her invitation and by changing the subject put a stop to her entreaties she thou t it probable that as they lived in the same county mrs might be able to give some more particular account of general character than could be gathered fix m the partial acquaintance with him and she was eager to gain from any one such a of his merits as t remove the possibility of fear fix m she b an by if they saw much of mr at and whether they were intimately acquainted with him oh dear yes i know him extremely well replied mrs � not that i ever spoke to him indeed but i have seen him for ever in town somehow or other i never happened to be staying at while he was at saw him here once before but i was with my uncle at however i dare say we should have seen a great deal of him in if it had not happened veiy that we should never have been in the md he is very little at i believe but if he were ever so much there i do not think mr would visit him for he is in the opposition you know and besides it is such a way o� i know why you about him veiy well � your sister is to many him i am monstrous glad of it for then i shall have her for a ne you know upon my word replied you know much more of the matter than i do if you have any reason to expect such a match i don t pretend to deny it because you know it is what everybody talks oc i assure you i heard of it in my way through town my dear mrs upon my honour i did i met colonel monday morning in bond street just before we left town and he told me of it directly you surprise me veiy colonel tell you of it surely you must be mistaken to give such to a person who could not be interested in it even if it true is not what i should e colonel to do but i do assure you it was so for all that and i will tell you how it happened when we met him he turned back and walked with us and so we began talking of my brother and sister and one thing and another and i said to him so colonel there is a new family come to cottage i hear and mamma sends me word they are very pretty and that one of them is going to | 26 |
actions mean yes i go to write a note here if you don t mind sleep over it � it is the best plan � and write to morrow meantime go there to that window and sit down and look at my humanity show i am going to dine out this evening and have to dress here out of my i bring up my things like this to save the trouble of going down to my place at and back again knight then went to the middle of the room and flung open his and drew near the window the streak of sunlight had crept upward edged away and vanished the slept a dusky gloom pervaded the room and now another volume of light shone over the window there said knight where is there in england a spectacle to equal that i sit there and watch them every night before i go home softly open the beneath them was an alley running up to the wall and thence turning sideways and passing under an arch so t knight s back window was immediately over the h and commanded a view oi j xv v a fair of blue eyes crowds � mostly of women � were bustling and pacing up and down glared from the of flesh to of orange and like the wild of s later pictures while the and of tongues of every pitch and mood was to this human what the ripple of a brook is to the natural forest nearly ten minutes passed then knight also came to the window well now i call a cab and vanish down the street in the direction of square he said his waistcoat and kicking his morning suit into a corner rose to leave what a heap of literature remarked the young man taking a final longing survey round the room as if to abide there forever would be the great pleasure of his life yet feeling that he had almost his his eyes rested upon an arm chair piled full of newspapers magazines and bright new volumes in green and red yes said knight also looking at them and breathing a sigh of weariness something must be done with several of them soon i suppose you needn t hurry away for a few minutes you know if you want to stay i am not quite ready those volumes while i put on my coat and i ll walk a little way with you sat down beside the arm chair and began to tumble the books about among the rest he found a in one volume the court of castle by field are you going to review this inquired with apparent and holding up s which o that i i may � though i don t do much now but it is how do you mean knight never liked to be asked what he meant mean i mean that the majority of books published are neither good enough nor bad enough to io and t that book does provoke it a pair of eyes by its goodness or its said with some anxiety on poor little s score its it seems to be written by some girl in her said not another word he did not care to speak plainly of after that unfortunate slip his tongue had made with regard to her having committed herself j and apart from that knight s severe � almost dogged and self willed � honesty in was by the humble wish of a youthful friend like knight was now ready turning off the gas and together the door they went down the stairs and into the street chapter xiv we while tis may it has now to be not only supposed but clearly realized that nearly three quarters of a year have passed away in place of the scenery that formed a setting to the previous we have now before us the summer of the year following is in india away at an office in occasionally going up the country on professional errands and wondering why people complained so much of the of the climate upon their never had a young man a finer start than seemed now to present itself to it was just in that exceptional of prosperity which shone over about ten years ago that he arrived on the scene building and partook of the general speculation moved with an every successive day the only disagreeable connected with it being the possibility of a had never told her father of the four and twenty hours with nor had it to her knowledge come to his ears by any other route it was a secret trouble and grief to the girl for a short time and s departure was another in her sorrow but possessed special for getting rid of trouble after a decent interval while a slow nature was a misfortune little by little she had swallowed the whole agony of it at a and was brightening again she could off a sadness and replace it by a hope as easily as a a limb and two such excellent h ld x t � sc selves one was bringing out the w � ii notices in the papers which v a i v pa r of blue eyes short so far had served to divert her thoughts the other was from the to the more old house of mrs overlooking the same valley mr at first disliked the idea of to feminine soil but the obvious advantages of such an accession of dignity reconciled him to the change so there was a radical move the two ladies staying at as had been arranged the going to and fro mrs considerably enlarged s ideas in an aristocratic direction and she began to forgive her father for his marriage certainly in a worldly sense a handsome face at three and forty had never served a man in better stead the new | 45 |
not without some self reference a fellow may be good looking and yet not be a six foot like master tom here ah it s poor talking about and � anybody may think it s a mercy they re straight said aunt s that mis made son o� lawyer s � i saw him at church to day dear dear to think o the property he s like to have and they say he s very queer and lonely � doesn t like mu h company i shouldn t wonder if he goes out of his mind for we never come along the road but he s a out o the trees and at the red this wide statement by which mrs represented the feet that she had twice seen philip at the spot indicated produced an effect on which was all the stronger because tom opposite her and she was intensely anxious to look indifferent at philip s name she had blushed and the blush deepened every instant from consciousness until the mention of the red made her feel as if the whole secret were betrayed and she dared not even hold her tea spoon lest she should show how she trembled she sat with her hands clasped under the table not daring to look round happily her father was seated on the same side with herself beyond her uncle and could not see her face without stooping forward her mother s voice brought the first relief � turning the conversation for mrs was always alarmed when the name of was mentioned in her husband s presence gradually recovered composure enough to look up her eyes met tom s but he turned away his head immediately and she went to bed that night wondering if he had gathered any suspicion from her confusion perhaps not perhaps he would think it was only her alarm at her aunt s mention of before her father that was the interpretation her mother had put on it to her father was like a disease of which he was obliged to endure the the ok the but was exasperated to have the existence recognised by others and no amount of in her about her father could be surprising thought but tom was too keen sighted to rest satisfied with such an interpretation he had seen clearly enough that there was something distinct from anxiety about her father in s excessive confusion in trying to recall all the details that could give shape to his suspicions he remembered only lately hearing his mother for walking in the red when the ground was wet and bringing home shoes with red soil still tom retaining all his old for philip s shrank from to his sister the probability of feeling more than a friendly interest in such an unfortunate exception to the common run of men tom s was a nature which had a sort of superstitious to everything exceptional a love for a man would be odious in any woman in a sister intolerable but if she had been carrying on any kind of intercourse whatever with philip a stop must be put to it at once she was her other s strongest feelings and her brother s express commands besides herself by secret meetings he left home the next morning in that watchful state of mind which turns the most ordinary course of things into that afternoon about half past three o clock tom was standing on the wharf talking with bob about the probability of the good ship coming in in a day or two with results highly important to both of them eh said bob as he looked over the fields on the other side of the river there goes that crooked young i know him or his as far off as i can see em i m lighting on him o that side the river a sudden thought seemed to have darted through tom s mind i must go bob he said i ve something to attend to hurrying off to the where he left notice for some one to take his place � he was called away home on business the pace and the shortest road took him to the gate and he was pausing to open it deliberately that he might walk into the house with an appearance of perfect composure when came out at the front door in bonnet and shawl his conjecture was fulfilled and he waited for her at the gate she started violently when she saw him tom how is it you are come home is there anything the matter spoke in a low tremulous voice i m come to with you to the � a thb mill ok thb philip the central fold in his brow whidi had become habitual with him deepening as he spoke stood helpless � pale and cold by some means then tom knew everything at last she said fm not going and turned round yes you are but i want to speak to you first where is my father out on horseback and my mother in the yard i think with the poultry i can go in then without her seeing me they walked in together and tom entering the parlor said to come in here she obeyed and he closed the door behind her now tell me this instant everything that has passed between you and philip does my father know anything said still trembling no said tom indignantly but he s know if yon attempt to use deceit towards me any further i don t wish to use deceit said flushing into resentment at hearing this word applied to her conduct tell me the whole truth then perhaps you know it never mind whether i know it or not tell me exactly what has happened or my father shall know everything i tell it for my father s sake then yes it becomes you to profess affection for | 14 |
known him it is said that a broken heart is a most valuable possession for a young man perhaps it was so to the rest of the dragged wearily for him but he worked like fury he would succeed he would rise he would show mrs who he was mrs having reached home began at once to lead her daughter back to what she esteemed a way of thinking than she had fallen into this opportunity came in the shape of a college commencement with a consequent boat race and all the that this cuts the knot mrs was in her way devoted to her daughter and had a definite and what she deemed an exalted ambition for her this meant that she be the best dressed girl in society be a and finally should make the most brilliant marriage of her to wit the marriage she had dreamed at times of a marriage that make her friends wild with of a title a high title had beauty style wealth and vivacity she would grace a and mamma would be madam the s mother but mamma encountered an unexpected obstacle when mrs building her air castles casually let fall her idea of a title for there was a sudden and unexpected storm from an for quarter usually in his wife s hands had two or three prejudices that were principles with him as to these he was rock his daughter was his idol for her from the time she had opened her blue eyes on him and at him vaguely he had toiled and until his hair had turned from brown to gray and then had disappeared from his round strongly set head for the love he bore her he had served longer than jacob served for and the time had not appeared long the suggestion that the money he had for from youth to age should go to some foreigner to pay his nearly threw him into a his ancestors had been driven from home to starve in the wilderness by such creatures before any d� d foreign should have a dollar of his money he would a lunatic asylum with it so mrs refrained from pressing this subject any further at this time and built her hopes on securing the next most advantageous alliance � a wealthy one she preferred to any of the other young men for he was not only rich but the were an old and established house and mrs was one of the old of the state whose word was law above that of even the of the new leaders to secure would be almost as good as a title an intimacy was cultivated with dear mrs and the dear boy was often brought to the house he and did not take to each other in the way mrs had hoped they simply became the best of friends and mrs had the mortification of seeing a tall and of s capture while appeared totally indifferent to him what made it harder to bear was that mrs s mother a widow with barely enough to live on was quietly walking off with the prize which mrs and a number of other mothers were striving to secure and made no more of it than if it had been her right it all came of her family connections that was the way with those old families they were so exclusive and so proud they held themselves superior to every one else and appeared to despise wealth mrs did not believe mrs really did despise wealth but she admitted that she made a very good show of doing it mrs her failure with was fain to accept in his place who though certainly not s equal in some respects was his superior in others to be sure was said to be a somewhat reckless young fellow and mr did not fancy him but mrs argued boys will be boys and you know mr you have told me you were none too good yourself on this growled that a man was a fool ever to tell his wife anything of the kind and that at least he never was in that young s class all of which mrs put aside and sacrificed herself to achieve success for her daughter and compel her to forget the little episode of the young southern with his tragic air ah the dreams of the how silly they are golden clouds at the top and just as they are reached mrs cuts the knot some little jack comes along and down the and all so mrs dreamed and a trifle anxious over s persistent reference to the charms of spring woods and a southern climate after a week or two of driving down town and eager choosing of hats and fitting of dresses started off with the girl on the of mr a wealthy dignified and cultivated friend of her husband s he had always been fond of and now got up a for her to see the boat race had thought that the time when he should leave the region where he had been so long would be the happiest hour of his life yet when the day came he was conscious of a strange at his heart these people whom he was leaving and for whom he had in his heart an opinion very like contempt on account of their ignorance and appeared to him a wholly different folk there was barely one of them but had been kind to him hard they might appear and petty but they lived close together and break through the crust one was sure to find a warm heart and often a soft one he began to understand dr s speech i have lived in several kinds of society and i like the simplest best one can get nearer to men here i do not ask gratitude i get affection had given notice that the school | 46 |
effect of a throng of busy angry insects but richard knew better he had penetrated their disguise a disguise assumed to their ultimate purpose with the greater certainty he knew them to be human he knew their purpose to be a moral one and looking upon them the spirit which animated them he was taken with a reverence and sympathy for average toiling humanity by him before for he saw that by these the workers the final issues are inevitably decided by these the final verdict is pronounced they may be contemptible but in their intelligence strength they are little short of majestic of art letters practical even religion even in a degree nature herself they are alike and judges it must be s progress sa it always has been so time out of mind in point of fact and then he wondered why they were so patient of why had they not risen long ago and the pretensions of those indolent the of the honey � those of whom by birth and wealthy and he was himself so conspicuous an example but then clearer understanding of this whole strange matter came to him � they like all else � mighty though they are in their intention � are obedient to fate they can only act when the time is ripe and then he understood still more clearly their purpose in here whether they were conscious of it or not was they were present to witness and to accomplish an act of justice � richard paused a moment struggling with his own thought and then he saw quite plainly that he himself was the object of that act of justice he himself was the centre of that dimly apprehended approaching event his his by means of that punishment was that which had brought this great multitude together here to night he was awed yet with that awe came gratitude an immense sense of relief he need not seek self losing himself among far away or the ice bound regions of the south he could stay here sit quite still even � and that was well for he was horribly tired and spent he need only wait when the time was ripe they would do all the rest � do it for him by doing it to him � how finely simple it all was incidentally he wondered if it would hurt very much not that that mattered for beyond lay peace only he hoped they would get to work pretty soon so that it might be over before the end of the second act when the would come back richard s face had grown very youthful and eager his eyes were bright and still he gazed down at that great company his heart went out to it he loved it loved each and every member of it as he had never conceived of loving heretofore he would hke to have gone down among them and become part of them one with them in purpose a of their strength but that was forbidden they were his yet in that capacity they were not the less but the more they were welcome to exact full justice he longed after them longed after the pain it was their mission to inflict � and they were getting ready surely they were getting ready there was a sensible movement among them they turned pale faces away sir richard from the brilliantly lighted stage and towards the great of them they were busy insects again and they � angrily they yet even while noted all this greatly moved by it its inner meaning its profound relation to himself and the drama of his own existence he was not wholly of the progress of the opera and the charm of the graceful and music which saluted his ears he was aware of the entrance of the hero of his greeting by his clad followers he felt kindly just off the surface of his emotion so to speak towards this of the young actor s appearance was attractive his voice fresh and sympathetic his bearing modest but the aristocratic occupants of the boxes treated him the famous tenor whose name was on the programme having failed to arrive this local and comparatively artist had been called upon to fill his part therefore the smart world talked more loudly than before while the occupants of the jealous for the reputation of their fellow citizen broke forth into stormy protest and richard could have found it in his heart to protest also for it was a waste of energy this senseless conflict it was unworthy of the dignity of that dull coloured multitude on whom his hopes were so strangely set � of the men in whose hands are the final rewards and by whose voice the final judgment is pronounced it pained him to see these ministers of the eternal justice thus led away by trivial and their attention distracted from the main issue for what in god s name did he and his sentimental love amount to this pretty fellow of a player this hero of the modern stage weighed in the he and his whole occupation and calling were lighter surely than vanity itself rightly considered he and his singing were but as a as some glittering trifle of upon the veil still hiding the awful yet countenance of that tremendous and so surely ai event � let him sing away then sing in peace for the sound of his singing might help to the weariness of the hours until the supreme hour should strike and the glittering veil be torn asunder and the countenance it covered be at last and wholly revealed reasoning thus richard raised his opera glasses and swept those many of and the aspect of them was to him very sinister for everywhere he seemed to encounter soft faces of hot s progress colour and costly clothing devised to the physical of womanhood | 32 |
he had to look pleased under that touch the more demanding in its softness he was impatient he wanted to flee out to a hard sure man world through hear delicate and caressing fingers she may have caught something of his she left him � he was for the moment relieved � she dragged a to his feet and sat up at him but as in many mm the of a dog the of a frightened child rouse not pity but a surprised and cruelty so her humility only � annoyed and he her now as middle aged as to be old even while be detested his own thou ts they rode him she was old he he noted how the soft flesh was into folds beneath her chin her eyes at the base of her wrists a patch of her had a minute ess like the from a rubber old she was younger in years than yet it was sickening to have her yearning up at him with rolling great eyes � as if he shuddered his own aunt were making love to him he fretted inwardly i m with this around i m going to cut her out she s a dam decent nice woman and i don t want to hurt her but hurt a lot less to cut her right out like a good clean operation he was on his feet he was speaking by every of self esteem he had to prove to her and to himself that it was her fault i maybe i m kind of out of sorts to night but honest honey when i stayed away for a while to catch up on work and everything and figure out where i was at you ought to have been and waited till i came back can t you see dear when you made me come i� being about an average bull headed � my tendency was to resist listen dear i m going now � not for a while precious no right now and then sometime well see about the future what do you mean dear about the future have i done something i t to oh i m so dreadfully sorry he resolutely put his hands behind him not a thing god bless you not a thing you re as good as they make em but it s just � good lord do you realize i ve got things to do in the world i ve got a business to attend to and you might not believe it but i ve got a wife and that i m awful fond of then only during the murder he was committing was he able to feel nobly virtuous i want us to be but i can t go on this feeling i got to come up here so often � oh darling darling and i ve always told you so carefully that you were absolutely free i just wanted you to come around when you were tired and wanted to talk to me or when you could enjoy our parties � she was so reasonable she was so gently right it took him an hour to make his escape with nothing settled and everything horribly settled in a barren freedom of icy northern wind he signed thank god that s over i poor poor darling decent i but it is over absolute i i m f chapter his wife was when he came in did you have a good time she did not i had a rotten time i anything else i got to explain george how can you speak like � oh i don t know what s come over good lord there s nothing come over why do you look for trouble all the time he was warning himself careful stop being so disagreeable course she feels it being left alone here all evening but he forgot his warning as she went on why do you go out and see all sorts of strange people i suppose say you ve been to another committee meeting this evening i i ve been calling on a woman we sat by the fire and each other and had a whale of a good time if you want to well � from the way you say it i suppose it s my you went there i i probably sent you well upon my word � you hate strange le as you call em if you had your way i d be as much of an old stick in the mud as you never want to have anybody with any to em at the house you want a bunch of old that sit around and gas about the weather you re doing your level best to make me old well let me tell you i m not going to have � she bent to his and in answer she mourned oh dearest i don t think that s true i don t mean to make you old i know perhaps you re partly right s i am slow about getting acquainted with new people but when you think of all the dear good times we have and the supper parties and the a� d all � with true masculine he not only convinced himself that she had injured him but by the of his voice and the of his attack he convinced her also and presently he had her for his having spent the evening with he went up to bed well pleased not only the master but the of the household for a distasteful moment after he had lain down he wondered if he had been altogether just t to be ashamed her maybe there is her side to things maybe she hasn t had such a time but i don t good for her to get up a little and i m going to keep free of her and and the at the and | 42 |
some time before whether he could not make her a rocking horse as perhaps my readers will recollect and they may also recollect that he replied that he might possibly make the but he did not think that he could make any horse it finally occurred to john that he might set a box upon a pair of and call it john at s work in a rocking boat and this was the plan that he finally carried into execution he resorted to quite an ingenious contrivance for drawing the curve to which the were to be cut he first chose a board of about a foot in width to make the of and off two firom it each four feet long he laid down one of these boards upon the floor and then going off to a distance of three or four feet exactly opposite to the middle of it he drove a small nail into the floor as the floor was a rough one such as is generally used in sheds and out buildings this did no damage he then took a long and making a in one end of it he slipped the over the nail and then going with the other end to the board he drew it tight to the farther edge of the board here he wound the around the pencil thus the kept the pencil always at the same distance from the nail and by moving the point of the pencil to the right and left along the board he described the arc of a circle upon it fi om the nail as a centre he then this board in his vice and a with the he cut away the wood on the lower edge of it to this mark and so gave to the edge of the board the form of a when this board was finished he used it as a pattern to make the other by and so he had a pair of he then nailed two narrow boards across from one of these to the other on the r edge of them and another broader one in the middle setting the broad one up so as to brace the apart as it were and hold them stiff in their proper position this made what might be called a rocking � and though of course there was no convenient place to sit upon it could not wait to have the top made and put on but seemed to have a great desire to get upon the frame and rock himself upon it to and fro notwithstanding the extremely uncomfortable position he must have been in in due time however john made a sort box with pretty high ends and low sides for convenience of getting in and two seats on the inside one at each end john s work in summer this he fastened upon the rocking frame so as to make what he called a rocking boat and used to get into this boat and rock themselves a great deal they thought it was the best thing that john ever made the box of this rocking boat was made to extend over the on each side nearly eight inches this was a plan which suggested in order that the rocks being thus well under the box and out of the way the children could not get their toes under them when standing near john was so careful about his work and his tools that he very seldom met with any accident in any of his operations one accident nevertheless during the building of the rocking boat which however very fortunately led to no serious consequences it seems that after he had drawn his circular arc upon the board by means of the nail in the floor and the he forgot to draw out the nail after he had done using it and in running about there afterward tripped over it and tumbled down he was somewhat hurt and quite a more frightened and he made at first a loud john however soon in him and then drew out the nail besides these john made several other things in the course of this summer but there is not room to describe them a l here u john oat b wore in summer chapter ship although it is generally a fine thing when working with carpenter s tools to take a great deal of pains and do everything ia the most perfect manner so that what you make shall have a real and lasting value still sometimes when you are at only some temporary purpose a great deal of pleasure may be afforded by m of work very hastily and slightly done an illustration of this occurred one day in the case of a fleet of vessels which john made for and which he and sent to sea on long voyages from which they never returned toward the end of the summer � i believe it was in the very last week of august � john and were sitting one day together upon a seat in the garden when they heard a sound as of distant thunder they looked toward the west and then they saw a range of rounded ship building masses of rising up into the sky these clouds were of the kind the boys call thunder heads they were of a dark color in general though the upper of them were here and there of a silvery brightness which was by the rays of the sun reflected from them below they passed into a uniform expanse of cloud which was very dark indeed and which extended all along the western horizon it was from this lower expanse of gathering blackness that the sound of thunder appeared to come there said i hear it again yes said john we are going to have a thunder shower and i am glad of it � what for asked because then we | 22 |
that lie has let me see you so there will never be the girl made that would not scorn you i had borne a good deal pretty patiently but this was over the mark david ton haye no right to speak to me like tliat said l what have i done bat to be good to yoa oi to f and here is my t it is too much v she kept looking at me with a smile ck w� ard i said she the word in your throat and in your father s cried i have dared him this day already in your interest i will dare him again the nasty pole cat little i care which of us should fall said i back to the house with us let us be done with it� let me be done with the whole crew of you i you will see what you think when i am dead she shook her head at me with that same smile i could have struck her for o smile away i cried � i have seen your father smile on the wrong side this day that i mean he was afraid of course i added hastily but he preferred the other way of it what is this p she asked when i offered to draw with him said l you offered to draw upon james she cried and i did so said i and found him backward enough or how would we be here p there is a meaning upon this said she what is it you are meaning p he was to make you take me i replied and i would not have it i said you should be free and i david most speak with yon alone little i supposed it would be such a speaking i and what if i refuse f says he � then it must come to the throat cutting says for i no more have a husband forced on that young lady than what i would have a wife forced upon myself these were my words they were a friend s words have i been paid for them i now you have refused me of your own clear free will and there lives no father in the or out of them that can force on this marriage i will see that your wishes are respected i will make the same my business as i have all through but i think you might have that decency as to affect gratitude deed and i thought you knew me better i i have not behaved quite well to you but that was weakness and to think me a coward and such a coward as that � my there was a for the last of it i how would i guess she cried this is a dreadful business i me and mine � she gave a kind of wretched cry at the word � me and mine are not fit to speak to you i could be kneeling down to you in the street i could be kissing your hands for your forgiveness i i will keep the kisses i have got from you already cried i i will keep the ones i wanted and that were something worth i will not be kissed in what can be of this miserable girl f says she david what i am trying to tell you all this while i said i that yon had best leave me alone whom yon can make no more if yon tried and attention to james more father with whom yoa are like to have a queer to wind that i must be going ont into the world alone with a man she cried and seemed to catch herself in with a great effort but trouble yourself no more for that said she he does not know what kind of nature is in my heart he will pay me dear for this day of it dear dear will he pay she turned and began to go home and i to accompany her at which she stopped i will be going alone she said it is alone i must be seeing him some little while i raged about the streets and told myself i was the worst lad in anger choked me it was all very well for me to breathe deep it seemed there was not air enough to supply me and i thought i would have burst like a man at the bottom of the sea i stopped and laughed at myself at a street corner a minute together laughing out loud so that a passenger looked at me which brought me to myself well i thought i have been a and a and a soft long enough time it was done here is a good lesson to have nothing to do with that accursed sex that was the ruin of the man in the david be and will be so to the end ood knows i was enough before ever i saw her ood knows i can be happy enough again when i have seen the last of her that seemed to me the chief affair to see them go i upon the idea fiercely and presently slipped on in a kind of to consider how very poorly they were like to fare when was no longer by to be their milk cow at which to my own very great surprise the disposition of my mind turned bottom up i was still angry i still hated her and yet i thought i owed it to myself that she should suffer nothing this carried me home again at once where i found the drawn out and ready fastened by the door and the father and daughter with every mark upon them of a recent was like a wooden doll james more breathed hard his face was d with white spots and his nose upon one side ab | 38 |
had some connection however frail with the world without if we could only use it to some purpose and time if we had made this discovery at first i should have felt that our was secure but my companions had grown already very weak and a few hours more must needs decide their and if thej died it seemed impossible to me that i should survive them there was not a moment therefore to be lost i bade them change their place to one almost immediately beneath the and then we all took turns to pull gently but firmly at the string exactly as though we were ringing a bell the effect of this would be of course to shake the tree which all in blossom as it was and standing quite alone was a most noticeable object to any person upon the fell my hope was that the same calm weather might still hold which had prevailed on that fatal monday that seemed now long ago so that the swaying of the tree not be attributed to natural causes and even if it should be stormy there was still a chance of the groom sending the messenger for the as his master had directed him to do in my hearing as it happened this latter circumstance did not occur on account of all hands at the tower being employed in looking for me in the wrong direction but i had cause to bless that which so often the execution of orders given in the country since if the boy had brought that home an the y we three of the giant would never have him alive v ih the ot � a chanced to cross the fell and was attracted by our signal never shall i forget the joy of that moment when we heard him hail us � though we could not catch his words � or the eager cry for help that seemed to well up from our very heart in response i instantly issued our last of and was about to divide the brandy between my two when whispered that i should give it all to and it was fortunate that i did so for else i scarcely think the poor girl could have survived the suspense that followed from the accidental absence of the guide who had the charge of the the key could not be found and the iron gates had to be forced ere we could be released it was past midnight before we heard the shouts of our and beheld the flashes of their the hateful gloom the experience of those three days lodging in the heart of was a profoundly serious one but it has borne very pleasant fruit besides tower there are now two other roof trees near to where i always find a welcome � the cottages of jack and who married their respective within a few months of their rescue i was present at the double wedding and had the duty of in conferred upon me the year has got the most sensible husband and the but the latter has got sense enough for both when romantic people ask me whether i have ever met with a heroine in real life i tell them yes for had not only the heroism to look death in the face but the greater courage to contemplate the ct ik the of � hill tliat her handsome lover would assuredly console himself for her loss by marrying somebody else lor and so i should ha done said with a grin he is himself not a romantic person when i revealed to him what had said a man s heart ain t stone you know like the heart of a hill a bad night i have noticed in fiction that when any quite in occurrence is about to the author his statement with the remark that what is about to follow is literally true he his word as it e while admitting that the affair has an ugly look that his readers shall not be but after all what is his word what is any man s word when weighed in the balance with one s own sense of and how much less weight has the word of an author � the mere shadow of a shade we believe him or not just as we do other folk for that matter as we feel inclined hence it is therefore that i from to the following any such heading as strange but true or stranger than fiction although it is very strange and although it happened to myself again before i begin let me to the conventional use of sleep in fiction to account for a gentleman or lady their personal experiences among ghosts and other unusual company always upon the of the impressions they describe and then the they are s a bad with a who eats human flesh when in endeavouring to his from some sensitive portion of their persons with the they awake and lo twas all a dream to offer an explanation of this sort for any phenomenon is in my opinion to insult the intelligent reader no the thing i have got to tell happened to me five years ago but may possibly happen to you tomorrow and is just as real and an occurrence as the i had to the by the by on the very day in question but i was not do not entertain that idea for a single moment i was as sober as any student at his examination before his s but i had to dine in town and accompany some country cousins with their children to a exhibition � a proceeding which to an old bachelor like myself is not of an nature � and i was dog tired and utterly knocked up if you know what it is to be almost too fatigued to and to fall asleep as you down on | 25 |
wood he seemed surprised at seeing me so i sat down with him on the live oak log he had been cutting and made the mountains of to give a reason for my appearance in his si explaining that i was anxious to find out si about the mountains and meant to make my way up creek next morning then he invited me to camp with him and led me to his little cabin situated at the foot of the mountains where a small spring out of a bank wn with wild rose bushes after supper when the daylight was gone he explained that he was out of candles so we sat in the dark while he gave me a sketch of his life in a mixture of spanish and english he was bom in his father irish his mother spanish he had been a hunter etc rambling always and wearing his life away in mere waste but now he was going to settle down his past life he said was of no account but the future was promising he was going to make money and marry a spanish woman people mine here for water as for gold he had been running a into a spur of the back of his cabin my prospect is good he said and if i chance to strike a good strong flow i soon be worth or for that flat out there referring to a small irregular patch of two or three acres in size that had been deposited by creek during some flood season � that flat is large enough for a nice and the bank behind the cabin will do for a a and after watering my own trees and i will have some water left to sell to my neighbors below me down the valley and then he continued i can keep bees and make money the mountains of that way too for the mountains above here are just full of honey in the summer time and one of my neighbors down here says that he will let me have a whole lot of on shares to start with you see i ve a good thing i m all right now all this in the sunken choked flood bed of a mountain stream leaving the bees out of the count most would as soon think of settling on the summit of mount next morning wishing my hopeful good luck i set out on my shaggy excursion about half an hour s walk above the cabin i came to the fall famous throughout the valley as the finest yet discovered in the san mountains it is a charming little thing with a low sweet voice singing like a bird as it from a in a short ledge some or forty feet into a round mirror pool the face of the cliff back of it and on both sides is smoothly covered and with against which the white water shines out in relief like a silver instrument in a velvet case hither come the san lads and to gather and away their hot holidays in the cool water glad to escape from their commonplace palm gardens and orange groves the delicate grows on rocks within reach of the spray while broad and cast soft mellow shade over a rich profusion of bee flowers growing among in front of the pool � the fall the flowers the bees the rocks and leafy shade forming a charming little the bee pastures poem of the last of a series extending down the slopes of mount san through the rugged foam beaten of the main from the base of the fall i followed the ridge that forms the western rim of the basin to the summit of one of the principal peaks which is about feet above sea level then turning eastward i crossed the middle of the basin forcing a way over its many subordinate and across its eastern rim having to contend almost with the and most impenetrable growth of honey bushes i had ever encountered since first my began most of the is leafy nearly to the ground here the main stems are naked for three or four feet and with dead twigs forming a stiff through which even the bears make their way with difficulty i was compelled to creep for miles on all and in following the bear often found of hair on the bushes where they had forced themselves through for feet or so above the fall the ascent was made possible only by tough cushions of club moss that clung to the rock above this the ridge away to a thin knife blade for a few hundred yards and thence to the summit of the range it carries a mane of here and there small occur on rocky places commanding fine views across the cultivated valley to the ocean these i found by the tracks were favorite and resting places for the wild animals � bears wolves etc � which abound here the mountains of and would have to be taken into account in the establishment of bee in the deepest i found wood rat villages � groups of huts four to six feet high built of sticks and leaves in rough piles like rat i noticed a good many bees too most of them wild the tame honey bees seemed languid and wing weary as if � they had come all the way up from the valley after reaching the summit i had time to make only a hasty survey of the basin now glowing in the sunset gold before hastening down into one of the in search of water emerging from a particularly tedious breadth of i found myself free and erect in a beautiful park like grove of mountain live oak where the ground was planted with and roses while the glossy foliage made a close overhead leaving the gray dividing trunks bare to show the beauty | 28 |
mountains for trees they were by mighty and and and by the broad streams that flowed from the ice as they were withdrawn at the close of the period in proportion to its weight when dry timber is perhaps stronger than that of other in the country and being tough and elastic it is admirably suited for ship building piles and heavy in general but its hardness and to it is cut into boards render it unfit for fine in lumber of it is wild of the west called pine when is going on in the best woods especially about sound many of the long slender are saved for and so superior is their quality that they are called for in almost every in the world and it is interesting to follow l fortunes and and to tide water they are raised ain as and for ship given iron ro and canvas foliage decorated with flags and sent to sea where in glad motion they go cheerily over the ocean in every latitude and and bowing to the same winds that waved them when they were in the woods after standing in one e for centuries they thus round the world like many a friend from tiie old home forest some like themselves some standing head downward in muddy holding up the of and others doing all kinds of hard timber work or hidden this wonderful tree also grows far northward in british and southward along the coast and middle regions of and flourishing with the wherever it can find an opening and with the sugar pine yellow pine and in the it extends into the san san and san mountains of southern it also grows well on the mountains national where it is called red pine and on many parts of the mountains and short interior of the great basin but thus widely distributed only in washington and some parts of british does it reach perfect development to one who looks from some high over its vast breadth the forest on the west side of the seems all one dim dark monotonous field broken only by the white along the summit of the range back in the wilderness a deep carpet of brown and yellow covers the ground like a garment pressing about the feet of the trees and rising in rich softly and kindly over every rock and trunk leaving no spot for and small and the meadows and the banks of streams not seen in general views we find besides the great a considerable number of trees � oak ash wild apple cherry s and in some places chestnut in a few favored spots the broad grows to a height of a hundred feet in forests by itself sending out large limbs in magnificent arches covered with and thus forming lofty sky gardens and rendering the delightfully cool no forest ceiling is to be found than these arches while the floor it wild of the west ornamented with tall and vines and cast into by the moss covered roots of the trees matches it well passing from beneath the heavy shadows of the woods almost anywhere one steps into lovely gardens of lilies and wild roses along the lower slopes especially in where the woods are less dense there are miles of making glorious masses of purple in the spring while all about the streams and the lakes and the meadows there is a rich of cherry apple and with of flowers and abundance of other more delicate such as and the lovely of the north beside all these there are wonderful about the many misty some of the ten feet high others the most delicate of their tribe the the rocks within reach of the dust of the spray while the trees on the cliffs above them leaning over look like eager listeners anxious to catch every tone of the restless waters in the autumn of every color and flavor abound enough for birds bears and everybody particularly about the stream sides and meadows where sunshine reaches the ground red blue and black some growing close to the ground others on national ten feet high called al by the indians salmon an inch in growing in dense the flowers like wild roses still more beautiful than the fruit and the and meadow are in great part made np of these and vines but in the depths of the woods there is not much of any kind � only a thin growth of and vine notwithstanding the the last winter in washington that farms towns and es were included in them and that all business was threatened or blocked nearly all the mountains in which the lie are stiu covered with virgin forests though has long been carried on with tremendous energy along their boundaries and home have the woods for available for farms however one may wander in the heart of the for weeks without meeting a human being indian or white man or any conspicuous trace of one indians used to ascend the main streams on their way to the mountains for wild whose wool furnished them clothing but with food in abundance on the coast there was little to draw them into the woods and the monuments they have left there are scarcely more conspicuous than wild of the west those of birds and far less so than those of the which have streams and made that will endure for centuries nor is there much in these woods to attract cattle some of the first made farms on the small bits of and in the comparatively open and valleys of washington but before the gold period most of the from the eastern states settled in the fertile and open of even now when the search for land is so keen excepting the of the rivers around sound there are few cleared spots in all western washington on every meadow or opening of any sort | 28 |
all thursday friday and saturday and did not know what was become with him once thought to write to him but then her spirit rose against that however this morning he came just as we came home from church and then it au came out how he had been sent for wednesday to street and been talked to by his mother and all of them and how he had declared before them all that he loved nobody but and nobody but would he have and how he had been so worried by what passed that as soon as he sense and sensibility had went away from his mother s house he had got upon his horse and rid into the country somewhere or other and how he had stayed at an inn all thursday and friday on purpose to get the of it and after thinking it all over and oyer again he said it seemed to him as if now he had no fortune and no nothing at all it would he quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement it must he for her loss for he bad nothing hut two thousand pounds and no hope of anything else and if he was to go into orders as he had some thoughts he could g t nothing hut a and how was they to live upon that he could not bear to think of her doing no better and so he begged if she had the least mind for it to put an end to the matter directly and leave him to shift for himself i heard him say all this as plain as could possibly be and it was entirely for her sake and upon her account that he said a word about being off and not upon his own i will take my oath he never dropped a syllable of being tired of her or of wishing to marry miss or anything like it but to be sure would not give ear to such kind of talking so she told him directly with a great deal about sweet and love you know and all that � oh la i one can t repeat such kind of things you know � she told him directly she had not the least mind in the world to be off for she could live sense and with him upon a trifle and how little he might have she should he very glad to have it all you know or something of the kind so then he was monstrous happy and talked on some time about what they should do and they agreed he should take orders directly and they must wait to he married till he got a living and just then i could not hear any more for my cousin called m below to tell me mrs was come in her coach and would take one of us to gardens so i was forced to go into the room and interrupt them to ask if she would like to go but she did not care to leave edward so i just run upstairs and put on a pair of silk stockings and came off with the i do not understand what you mean by interrupting them said you were all in the same room together were not you ko indeed not us la miss dash wood do you think people make love when anybody else is by oh for shame to be sure you must know better than that laughing no no they were shut up in the drawing room together and all i heard was only by listening at the door how cried have you been repeating to me what you only learned yourself by listening at the door i am sorry i did not know it before for i certainly would not have suffered you sense and to give me particulars of a conversation yoa ought not to have known yourself how could you behave so by your sister h la there is nothing in that i only stood at the door and heard what i could and i am sure would have done just the same by me for a year or two back when and i had so many secrets together she never made any bones of hiding in a closet or behind a chimney board on purpose to he what we said tried to talk of something else but miss could not be kept beyond a couple of minutes from what was uppermost in her mind edward talks of going to oxford soon said she but now he is lodging at no � pall what an ill natured woman his mother is a n t she and your brother and sister were not very kind however i sha n t say anything against them to you and to be sure they did send us home in their own chariot which was more than i looked for and for my part i was all in a fright for fear your sister should ask us for the she had gave us a day or two before but however nothing was said about them and i took care to keep mine out of sight edward have got some business at oxford he says so he must go there for a time and after as soon as he can light upon a bishop he will be ordained i wonder what he will get i good gracious vol ii � sense and as she spoke i d lay my life i know what my cousins will say when they hear of it they will tell me i should write to the doctor to get edward the of his new living i know they will but i am sure i would not do such a thing for all the world la i shall say directly i wonder how you could think of such a thing write to the doctor | 26 |
son tells me that you first became acquainted said mrs as she and i were talking at one table while they played at another indeed i recollect his speaking at that time of a pupil younger than himself who had taken his fancy there but name as you may suppose has not lived in my memory he was very generous and noble to me in those days i assure you ma am said i and i stood in need of such a friend i should have been quite crushed without him he is always generous and noble said mrs proudly i to this with all my heart god knows she knew i did for the of her manner already towards me except when she spoke in praise of him and then her air was always lofty it was not a fit school generally for my son said she far from it but there were particular circumstances to be considered at the time of more importance even than that selection my son s high spirit made it desirable that he should be placed with some man who felt its superiority and would be content to bow himself before it and we found such a man there the personal history and experience i knew that knowing the fellow and yet i did not despise him the more for it but thought it a quality in him � if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as my son s great capacity was tempted on there by a feeling of voluntary and conscious pride the fond lady went on to say he would have risen against all but he found himself the monarch of the place and he determined to be worthy of his station it was like himself i echoed with all my heart and soul that it was like himself so my son took of his own will and on no to the course in which he can always when it is his pleasure every she pursued my son me mr that you were quite devoted to him and that when you met yesterday you made yourself known to him with tears of joy i should be an affected woman if i made any pretence of being surprised by my son s inspiring such emotions but i cannot be indifferent to any one who is so sensible of his merit and i am very glad to see you here and can assure you that he feels an unusual friendship for you and that you may rely on his protection miss as eagerly as she did everything else if i had seen her first at the board i have fancied that her figure had got thin and her eyes had got large over that pursuit and no other in the world but i am very much mistaken if she missed a word of this or lost a look of mine as i received it with the utmost pleasure and honored by mrs s confidence felt older than i had done since i left when the evening was pretty far spent and a tray of glasses and came in promised over the fire that he would seriously think of going down into the country with me there was no hurry he said a week hence would do and his mother said the same while we were talking he more than once called me which brought miss out but really mr she asked is it a nick name and why does he give it you is it � eh � because he thinks you young and innocent i am so stupid in these things i colored in replying that i believed it was oil said miss now i am glad to know that i ask for information and i am glad to know it he thinks you young and innocent and so you are his friend well that s quite delightful she went to bed soon after this and mrs retired too and i after lingering for half an hour over the fire talking about and all the rest of them at old house went up stairs together s room was next to mine and i went in to look at it it was a picture of comfort full of easy chairs cushions and worked by his mother s hand and with no sort of thing omitted that could help to render it complete finally her handsome looked down on her darling from a portrait on the wall as if it were even something to her that her likeness should watch him while he slept i found the fire burning clear enough in my room by this time and the curtains drawn before the windows and round the l ed giving it a very snug appearance i sat down in a great chair upon the hearth to on my happiness and had enjoyed the of it for of david some time when i found a likeness of miss looking eagerly at me from above the chimney piece it was a startling likeness and necessarily had a startling look the painter hadn t made the but made it and there it was coming and going now confined to the upper lip as i had seen it at dinner and now showing the whole extent of the wound inflicted by the hammer as i had seen it when she was passionate i wondered why they couldn t put her anywhere else instead of her on me to get rid of her i quickly extinguished my light and went to bed but as i fell asleep i could not forget that she was still there looking is it really though i want to know and when i awoke in the night i found that i was uneasily asking all sorts of people in my dreams v it really was or not � without knowing what i meant xxi little em ly there | 8 |
painfully obvious to every tr in ireland yet i have chosen to pass them over lightly and hurriedly and shall not to them they are in the main sufficiently well known to the civilized world and apart from suggestions of their contemplation can neither be pleasant nor profitable i will only add here that though in spite of poor laws and union poor houses there are still much actual want suffering and in ireland yet the beggars here are by no means so numerous nor so as in italy though the excuses for are far greater what propose now to bring under hasty review are the principal plans for the removal of ireland s woes and the of her of into independent and comfortable i shall speak of these in succession beginning with the oldest and closing with the that has come under my observation and first then of the hope of obtaining from the british crown and parliament the concession of a separate of m their o vn seems nearly to have died out of the hearts of the irish millions the death of o deprived the measure of its advocate famine and other dis followed and projects of have since to a great extent it in the popular mind yet it is to day most palpable that such a is of the highest moment to the national well being and that its concession would work the greatest good to ireland without injury to england nay i see fresh reasons for my hope that such concession is far nearer than is generally imagined on all hands it is perceived and that the amount of required by the vast widely scattered and constituted portions of the british empire is too great to be properly affected by any body parliament is just closing a long yet leaving very much of its proper business untouched for want of time and that to ireland is especially neglected then it has just passed a most unwise and act with regard to the titles of the catholic which because every act of parliament must extend to ireland unless that country is expressly excluded is allowed to operate there though the bad reasons given for its at ah have no application to that country while the it will do there are ten times greater than all it can effect in great britain had ireland a separate parliament no british minister would have been mad enough to propose the extension of this act over that country where it is certain to excite and arouse and the march of national and social improvement an irish parliament with powers and duties akin to those of an american state would be a great relief to a british and a great support to irish loyalty and irish improvement and no harm to any body these truths seem to me so palpable that i think at they cannot long be disregarded but that some one of the political changes frequently in great britain will secure to ireland a restoration of her domestic neither canada nor any other british colony can show half so good reasons for a domestic � tenant the agitation for tenant right in is destined to fail � in fact has failed already the imperial parliament will never that right nor will any constituted and yet the demand has the and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice as any fair mind must confess what is that demand simply that the creator of a new value shall be entitled to that value or in case he is required to surrender it to another shall be paid a fair and just equivalent here is a farm for instance whereof one man is recognised by law as the owner and he lets it for three lives or a specific term of years to a for ten fifteen or twenty shillings per acre the tenant it it pays the rent and it at the close of his term he is found to have built a good house on it instead of the old he found there while by and he has doubled its productive capacity and consequently its annual value he wishes to cultivate it still and offers to renew the lease for any number of years and pay the rent but no says the landlord you must pay twice as much rent as hitherto why so because the land is more valuable than it was when you took it certainly it is but that value is wholly the fruit of my labor � it has cost you c n t help that sir you improved for your own benefit and with a full knowledge that the value would to me on the of your lease so pay my price or clear out v � is this right the law says yes but justice says no public good says even more no the laws of the land should encourage every to improve the land he holds to capital and employ labor upon it so as to increase its value and productive capacity from year to year but the law of the british empire improvement and the employment of labor by taking the product from the and giving it to the landlord yet the landlord influence in parliament is so so overwhelming that no no even of this great wrong is probable and every demand for it is by a senseless against still the agitation for tenant right does good by the popular mind with some idea of the monster evil and wrong of the of land � an idea which will not always remain is now proceeding with gigantic strides and is destined for some time to continue i think a full third of the present population of ireland are anxious to leave their native land and will do so if they shall ever have the means before better prospects are opened to them are constantly with at all the principal ports | 19 |
looking upon that mother now taking of her surroundings st s young indignation once again hot while since it was the tendency of her mind to run eagerly towards theory to pass from the particular to the general and instinctively to apprehend the relation of the individual to the mass looking thus upon she not only against the doom of this one woman but against that doom of universal womanhood of which she offered s progress just now only too eloquent an example and a burning compassion animated for all feminine as against all masculine creatures for the bitter patience demanded of the passive as against the large latitude permitted the active principle for the perpetual humiliation of the and spiritual under the heavy yoke of the and practical for the brief joy and long of all those who are condemned to obey and to wait merely as against those who are bom to command and to create from a child she had been aware of the element of tragedy inherent in the fact of womanhood it had quickened of sentiment in her at times and pushed her into not a little knight � witness the affair of lady s engagement but though more sober in judgment than of old and less ready to set her lance in rest the existence of that tragic element had never disclosed itself more to her than at the present moment nor had the necessity to attempt the of the smart of it called upon her with more urgent voice yet she recognised that such attempt all her all her imaginative sympathy and tact very free criticism of the master of the house of his sins of and commission alike were in the chapel room and in the presence of her late companions the subject unhappily had called for too frequent mention by now for any to be incumbent in the discussion of it but here in the brooding quiet of this bed chamber and in lady s presence all that was changed statements of opinion words of blame were the sinner if spoken of at all must be spoken of with due and respect his ignored the of his conduct gently even eagerly explained away and therefore it came about that this fair champion of womanhood though fired with the zeal of righteous anger had to go very softly and set a watch before her lips but as she paused fearful to break in too abruptly upon lady s repose she began to question fearfully whether speech was in truth still available as a means of communication between herself and the object of her solicitude for lady lay so very still her sweet face showed so transparent against the rose silk muslin covered pillows that the younger woman was shaken by a swift dread that dr s melancholy had already found fulfilment and that the lovely labour wasted body had let the love wasted soul depart cousin dear cousin she called very sir richard gently under her breath and then waited almost sensible to the point of distress alike of the profound quiet which it seemed as an act of to have even to break and of the activity of those little figures so wildly in the chimney space and on the hearth seconds to of duration elapsed before lady gave sign of life at length she moved her hands as though gathering with infinite tenderness some small and helpless creature close and warm against her bosom s vision grew somewhat and misty then with along drawn fluttering sigh looked up at the tall straight figure dick � ah youve come in my beloved � have you had good sport she said sat down on the end of the sofa bowing her head alas alas it is only me cousin nothing better than me st would that it were better and her voice broke but lady had come into full possession of herself my dear i must have been and my thoughts had wandered far on the backward road as is the foolish habit of thoughts when one grows old and is not altogether well and strong � spoke faintly yet with an air of sweetly playful apology one is liable to be confused under such circumstances when one first wakes � and � you have the smell of the and the freshness of the upon you she paused and then added � but indeed the confusion of sleep once past i could hardly have dearer for my eyes first to light on than your very dear self hearing which gracious words indignation in the cause of this woman burning compassion for the wrongs and sorrows of universal womanhood both of which must be denied utterance worked very forcibly in she bent down and taking lady s hand kissed it and as she did this her eyes were those of an ardent yet very lover and so when next she spoke were the tones of her voice but still anxious to repair any defect in her recognition and greeting and still with that same effect of playful self spoke first i had been many things with the help of thomas k here before i became so drowsy the dear man lays his finger upon all the weak places in one s fancied of it is sometimes not quite easy to be s progress altogether grateful to him for instance he has pointed out to me that i grow selfish oh come come answered in loving thomas is acute to the point of lying if he has convinced you of that unhappily no returned i know it i fear without any pointing of thomas s finger but i rather admission of my knowledge � well for the very bad reason that i wanted very badly to put off the day of now the holy man has touched my witness and � she turned her head against the pillows and looked full at the younger | 32 |
perhaps not necessary once more to discuss perhaps bordered on shakespeare s forest of and the doctrines concerning agricultural and commercial prosperity were suited to that neighbourhood it would be pleasant to hear and discuss them taking opposite sides certainly is english but certainly too the english poets kept school there and uncle or henry occupied the in whatever or county situated we know better than any other village its sweet confusion of rural sounds is in our ears we have seen its children hanging on the venerable preacher s gown we have played from the stem and trembled in his presence we know the of the ale house clock and have felt the old plain pathos of the s ballad and we grieve that is departed it may be a weak retreat into the age of sentiment and simplicity and perhaps we ought rather in the triumphs of modem and the progress of modem science still the flowers of an old garden smell sweet and the bush is white under which lovers whisper the ballad of and the of and mark the extremes of s somewhat limited range in verse any reader of the ballad who pleases may make a face along with of street at the of dr s and may seek elsewhere some liquor we feel differently for we have heard this ballad in the open air from mr s manly throat while in her new ribbons in the hay to us the love stranger is an century cousin � and so perhaps a little � of and those earlier bore themselves no doubt more gallantly with more of but none was more sweetly discovered than s pretty pilgrim by her blush and glance and rising breast in the of we have a miniature farce and good himself among the persons to be laughed at is the most mischievous and the most playful the and the of how much better we know because has shown him to us in his acting off the stage and do we as often think of in any attitude as in that of smiling non listener to the critical � when they talked of their and stuff he shifted his trumpet and only took snuff would that portraits of johnson and had been added i edward from the deserted village sweet loveliest village of the plain where health and plenty cheered the where smiling spring its earliest visit paid and parting summer s lingering delayed dear lovely of innocence and ease seats of my youth when every sport could please how often have i o er thy green where humble happiness each scene how often have i paused on every charm the sheltered cot the cultivated farm the never failing brook the busy mill the decent church that the neighbouring hill the bush with seats beneath the shade for talking age and whispering lovers made how often have i the coming day when toil lent its turn to play and all the village train from labour free led up their sports beneath the spreading tree while many a in the shade the young as the old surveyed and many a o er the ground and of art and of strength went round and still as each repeated pleasure tired succeeding sports the band inspired the dancing pair that simply sought renown by holding out to tire each other down the of his face while secret laughter round the place the virgin s looks of love the matron s glance that would those looks these were thy charms sweet village sports like these with sweet succession taught even toil to please these round thy their cheerful influence shed these were thy charms � but all these charms are fled the english poets sweet smiling village loveliest of the lawn thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn amidst thy the tyrant s hand is seen and desolation all thy green one only master the whole domain and half a thy smiling plain no more thy brook the day but choked with works its way along thy a solitary guest the hollow sounding guards its nest amidst thy desert walks the flies and their echoes with cries sunk are thy in ruin all and the long grass o the wall and trembling shrinking from the s hand far far away thy children leave the land the land to hastening ills a prey where wealth and men decay princes and lords may flourish or may fade a breath can make them as a breath has made but a bold their country s pride when once destroyed can never be supplied a time there was ere england s began when every of ground maintained its man for him light labour spread her wholesome store just gave what life required but gave no more his best companions innocence and health and his best riches ignorance of wealth but times are altered trade s train the land and the along the lawn where scattered rose wealth and pomp repose and every want to allied and every pang that folly pays to pride those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom those calm desires that asked but little room those sports that the peaceful scene lived in each look and brightened all the green these far departing seek a kinder shore and rural mirth and manners are no sweet parent of the hour thy forlorn confess the tyrant s power here as i take my solitary rounds amidst thy walks and ruined grounds and many a year elapsed return to view where once the cottage stood the grew remembrance wakes with all her busy train at my breast and turns the past to pain in all my wanderings round this world of care in all my � and god has given my i still had hopes my latest hours to crown amidst these humble to lay me down to husband out life s at the close and keep | 45 |
pardon me the expression of your interest is so � tom should be so proud of it � i know this is but i am so compelled to admire being so impulsive she said mrs no you know i make no pretence with you you know i am a sordid piece of human nature ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum and altogether incapable of any proceeding whatever i am waiting she returned for your reference to my brother you are rigid with me and i deserve it i am as worthless a dog as you will find except that i am not false � not false but you surprised and started me from my subject which was your brother i have an interest in him have you an interest in anything mr she asked half and half if you had asked me when i first came here i should have said no i must say now � even at the hazard of appearing to make a pretence and of justly awakening your incredulity � yes she made a slight mo s ment as if she were trying to speak but could not find voice at length she said mr i give you credit for being interested in my brother thank you i claim to deserve it you know how little i do claim but i will go that length you have done so much for him you are so fond of him your whole life mrs expresses such charming self on his � pardon me again � i am running wide of the subject i am interested in him for his own sake times she had made the slightest action possible as if she would have risen in a hurry and gone away he had turned the course of what he said at that instant and she remained mrs h resumed in a lighter manner and yet with a show of effort in assuming it which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed it is no offence in a young fellow of your brother s years if he is heedless and expensive � a little dissipated in the common phrase is he yes allow me to be frank do you think he games at all i think he makes mr waiting as if that were not her whole answer she added i know he does of course he loses yes everybody does lose who may i hint at the of your sometimes supplying him with money for these purposes she sat looking down but at this question raised her eyes and a little me of impertinent curiosity my dear mrs i think tom may be gradually falling into trouble and i wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience � shall i say again for his sake is that necessary she seemed to try to answer but nothing came of it candidly to confess everything that has occurred to me said james again gliding with the same appearance of effort into his more airy manner i will confide to you my doubt whether he has had many advantages whether � forgive my � whether any great amount of confidence is likely to have been established between himself and his most worthy father i do not said flushing with her own great remembrance in that wise think it likely or between himself and � i may trust to your perfect of my meaning i am sure � and his highly esteemed brother in law she flushed deeper and deeper and was burning red when she replied in a fainter voice i do not think that likely either mrs said after a short may there be a better confidence between yourself and me tom has borrowed a considerable sum of you you will mr she after some she had been more or less uncertain and troubled throughout the conversation and yet had in the main preserved her self contained manner you wiu understand that if i tell you what you press to know it is not by way of complaint or regret i would never complain of anything and what i have done i do not in the least regret so spirited too thought james when i married i foimd that my brother was even at that time heavily in debt heavily for him i mean heavily enough to oblige me to sell some they were no sacrifice i sold them very willingly i attached no value to them they were quite worthless to me either she saw in his that he knew or she only feared in her conscience that he knew that she spoke of some of her husband s gifts she stopped and again if he had not known it before he would have known it then though he had been a much man than he was since then i have given my brother at various times what money i could spare in short what money i have had confiding in you at all on the of the interest you profess for him i will not do so by since you have been in the habit of visiting here he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds i have not been able to give it to him i have felt for the consequences of his being so involved but i have kept these secrets until now when i trust them to your honor i have held no confidence with any one because � you anticipated my reason just now she abruptly broke off he was a ready man and he saw and seized an opportunity here of presenting her own image to her slightly disguised as her brother mrs though a person of the worldly i feel the utmost interest i assure you in what you tell me i cannot possibly be hard upon your brother i and share the | 8 |
made his apology in form as as be could say anything after taking a chair sense and sensibility mrs told me said he that wished to speak with me � at least i understood her so � or i certainly should not have on you in a manner though at the same time i should have been extremely sorry to leave london without seeing you and your sister especially as it will moat likely be some time � it ia not probable that i should soon have the pleasure of meeting you again i go to oxford to morrow you would not have gone however said recovering herself and determined to get over what she so much dreaded aa soon as possible without our good wishes even if we had not been able to give them in person mrs was quite right in what she said i have something of consequence to inform you of which i was ou the point of communicating by paper i am charged with a most agreeable office breathing rather faster than usual as she spoke colonel who was here only ten minutes ago has desired me to say that understanding you mean to take orders he has great pleasure in offering you the living of now just vacant and only wishes it were more valuable allow me to congratulate you on having so respectable find well judging a friend and to join iu his wish that the living � it ia about two hundred a year � were much more considerable and such as might r enable you to � as it ib ft sense and temporary accommodation to yourself � short as might establish all your views what edward felt as he could not say it himself it cannot be expected that any one else should say for him he looked all the astonishment which such unexpected such of could not fail of exciting but he said these two words � colonel yes continued gathering more as some of the worst was over means it as a testimony of his what has lately passed � for cruel situation in which the conduct of your family has placed you � a concern which i am sure myself and all your friends must likewise as a proof of his high esteem of general character and his particular of your behavior on the present occasion colonel give me a can be possible the of your own relations has mad you astonished to find friendship anywhere no replied he with sudden consciousness not to find it in you for i cannot be ignorant that to you to your goodness i owe it all i feel it � i would express it if i could � but as you know i am no orator m b lid l sense and sensibility tou are very much i do you that you owe it entirely at least entirely to your own merit and colonel s of it i have had no hand in it i did not j know till i understood hia design that the ng was vacant nor had it ever occurred to me that he might have had such a living in his gift i friend of mine of mj family he may perhaps indeed i know he has still greater pleasure a it but upon my word you owe nothing to my truth obliged her to acknowledge some small share in the action but she was at the same time to appear as the of edward that she acknowledged it with hesitation � which probably to fix that suspicion in his mind which had recently entered it for a short time he sat deep in thought after had k at last and as if it were an effort he said � colonel a man of great worth and respectability i have always heard him spoken of as such and your brother i know bim he is undoubtedly a sensible man and in his manners perfectly the gentleman � indeed replied i believe that you � will find him on further acquaintance all that you have heard him to be and as you will be such neat neighbors for i th e o sense and age in almost close to the it ia par that lie should be all this edward no answer but when she had turned her head gave her a look so serious earnest so aa seemed to say that he might hereafter wish the distance between the and the mansion house much greater colonel i think in st james s street said he soon afterwards rising from his told him the number of the house i must hurry away then to give him t thanks which you will not allow me to give you y to assure him that lie has made me a very � exceedingly happy n did not to detain him and they j parted with a very earnest assurance on her side of her good for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him on his with rather an attempt to return the s good will than the power of expressing it when i see him again said to hai self as the door shut him out i see i the husband of and with this pleasing anticipation she sat down to the past recall the words and endeavor to com re all the feelings of edward and of course to reflect on her own with discontent they b side v i lame l him h sense and sensibility when came seeing people whom she hai seen before and oi whom therefore she mu a great deal to say her mind was so much n by the important secret in her by anything else that she to it again a appeared well my dear she cried i sent you up e young man did not i do right and i you had no great difficulty � | 26 |
always able and more than ready to condemn a without reading it mat an honest me was a man b� l god name was john god s good tt was may time in england � � the last breath of a long winter had blown its final farewell across the hills � the last frost had melted the broad low lying fields its iron grip from the of rich red brown earth which now soft and broken were � thick with the corn s tender green it had been a hard season many a time since february onward had the too eagerly pushing of trees and shrubs been by cruel cold � many a biting east wind had withered e first pale green leaves of the and the � and the stormy of a chill northern spring had played with all the dainty blossoms that should according to the ancient shepherd s have been fully with the and but during the closing days of april a sudden grateful warmth had set in � nature the divine goddess seemed to awaken from long slumber and stretch out her arms with a happy smile � and when may morning dawned on the world it came as a vision of glory in clear sunshine and with skies birds broke into song � young and apple boughs quivered almost visibly every moment into pink and white bloom � and raised their heads from comers in the grass and expressed their innocent thoughts in sweetest � and in and through all things the glorious thrill tiie mysterious joy of renewed life hope and love from the creator to his creation it was may time � a real old fashioned english may such as and sang of when all is with blossoms the ground with grass the with leaves the bushes with god s good man and when whatever promise our existence yet holds for ns seems far enough away to inspire ambition yet close enough to encourage fair dreams of fulfilment to experience this and of the time of the year one must be in the country for in the towns the of spring is and feverish � it sick and weary regrets but scarcely any positive ecstasy the close streets the people the high buildings and of chimneys which only permit the patches of sky to be visible the incessant noise and movement the self absorbed crowding and crushing � all these things are so many to nature and are as dead walls of obstacle set against the and forces with which she her children of the forest field and mountain out on the wild in the heart of the woods in the deep where the scent of moss and pine boughs fills the air with influences or by the quiet rivers flowing peacefully under bending and past wide beds where the down with the sun ray and the timid hen to and from her nest among the � in such as these the advent of a warm and brilliant may is with that tremor of delight which gives birth to beauty and concerning which that ancient and picturesque sir thomas writes like as may and in many gardens so in likewise let every man of worship flourish his heart in this world there was a certain man of worship in the world at the particular time when this present record of life and love begins who found himself very well disposed to flourish his heart in the manner prescribed when after many dark days of cold and general depression may at last came in rejoicing seated under broad apple boughs which spread around him like a studded with rosy bud jewels that shone glossy bright against the rough dark brown stems he surveyed the smiling scenery of his own garden with an air of satisfaction that was almost boyish though his years had run well past forty and he was a parson to boot a gravely would have seemed the more fitting expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling � a kind of of the sunshine as part of the universal of things � or a consciousness of the bursting apple blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior god s good man � circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided the john however was one of those rarely gifted individuals who cannot assume an aspect which is foreign to temperament he was of a cheerful even sanguine disposition and his countenance faithfully reflected the ordinary bent of his humour seeing him at a distance the casual observer would at once have judged him to be either an or an there was no superfluous flesh about him he was tall and muscular with well knit limbs broad shoulders and a head altogether lacking in the humble or which all worldly wise cultivate for the benefit of their rich it was a proud head � almost � of strong character and self reliance well poised on a full throat and set off by a considerable quantity of dark brown hair which was in brushing inclined to curls and dashed with grey a broad forehead deeply set dark blue eyes a straight and very prominent nose a strong jaw and obstinate chin � a firmly mouth round which many a sweet and tender thought had drawn kindly little lines of gentle smiling that were scarcely hidden by ihe silver brown moustache � such briefly was the appearance of one who though only a country clergyman of whom the great world knew nothing was the living representative of more powerful authority to his little cure of souls than either the bishop of the or the king in all his majesty he was the sole owner of one of the smallest in england � an obscure deeply hidden but perfectly and beautiful of days situated in one of the loveliest of and known as the village of st best sometimes | 33 |
manners and so extremely accomplished for her age her performance on the is exquisite it is amazing to me said how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are all young ladies accomplished my dear charles what do you mean yes all of them i think they all paint tables cover and net i scarcely know any one who cannot do all this and i am sure i never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time without being informed that she was very accomplished your list of the common extent of accomplishments said has too much truth the word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by a purse or covering a but i am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general i cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen in the whole range of my acquaintance that are really accomplished nor i i am sure said miss then observed elizabeth you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman yes i do comprehend a great deal in it oh certainly cried his faithful assistant no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly what is usually met with a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music singing drawing dancing and the modem languages to deserve the word and besides all this she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking the tone of her voice her address and expressions or the word will be but half deserved all this she must possess added and to pride and prejudice all this she must yet add something more substantial in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading i am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women i rather wonder now at your knowing are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this never saw such a woman never saw such capacity and taste and application and elegance as you describe united mrs and miss both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description when mr called them to order with bitter complaints of their to what was going forward as all conversation was thereby at an end elizabeth soon afterwards left the room said miss when the door was closed on her is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by their own and with many men dare say it but in my opinion it is a paltry device a very mean art undoubtedly replied to whom this remark was chiefly addressed there is meanness in the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for whatever bears to cunning is miss was not so entirely satisfied with this reply as to continue the subject elizabeth joined them again only to say that her sister was worse and that she could not leave her urged mr jones s being sent for immediately while his sisters convinced tliat no country advice could be of any service recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent this pride and prejudice she would not hear of but she was not so unwilling to with their brother s and it was settled that mr jones should be sent for early in the if miss were not decidedly better was quite uncomfortable his sisters declared that they were miserable they their wretchedness however by after supper while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister ct ji elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister s room and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from mr by a and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters in spite of this however she requested to have a note sent to desiring her mother to visit jane and form her own judgment of her situation the note was immediately and its contents as quickly complied with mrs accompanied by her two youngest girls reached soon after the family breakfast had she found jane in any apparent danger mrs would have been very miserable but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming she had no wish of her recovering immediately as her restoration to health would probably remove her from she would not listen to her daughter s proposal of being carried home neither did the who arrived about the same time think pride and prejudice t it at all advisable after sitting a little while with jane on miss s appearance and invitation the and three daughters all attended her into the breakfast parlour met them with hopes that mrs had not found miss worse than she expected indeed i have sir was her answer she is a great deal too ill to be moved mr jones says we must not think of moving her we must a little longer on your kindness removed cried it must not be thought of my sister i am sure will not hear of her removal you may depend upon it madam said miss with cold civility that miss shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us mrs was in her i am sure she added if it was not for such good friends i do not know what would become of her for she is very ill indeed and suffers a vast deal though with the greatest patience in the world which is always the way with her for she has without exception the sweetest temper i ever met with i often tell my | 26 |
that were good would be withdrawn and if to these losses the loss of were to be added what would remain of cheerful or of rational society within their reach mr to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort no longer walking in at all hours as if ever willing to change his own home for theirs how was it to be and if he were to be lost to them for s sake if he were to be thought of hereafter as finding in s society all that he wanted if were to be the chosen the first the dearest the friend the wife to whom he looked for all the best blessings of existence what could be increasing s wretchedness but the reflection never far distant from her mind that it had been all her own work when it came to such a pitch as this she was not able refrain from a start or a heavy sigh or even walking about the room for a few seconds and ihe source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn was in the resolution of her own better conduct and the hope that however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past it would yet find her more rational more acquainted with herself and leave her less to regret when it were gone chapter the weather continued much the same all the following morning and the same loneliness and the same melancholy seemed to reign at but in the afternoon it cleared the wind changed into a softer quarter the clouds were carried off the sun appeared it was again with all the eagerness which such a transition gives resolved to be out of doors as soon as possible never had the exquisite sight smell sensation of nature tranquil warm and brilliant after a storm been more attractive to her she longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce and on mr s coming in soon after dinner with a disengaged hour to give her father she lost no time in hurrying into the there with spirits and thoughts a relieved she had taken a few turns when she saw mr passing through the garden door and coming towards her it was the first intimation of his being returned from london she had been thinking of him the moment before as unquestionably sixteen miles distant there was time only for the arrangement of mind she must be collected and calm in half a minute they were together the how d ye do s were quiet and constrained on each side she asked after their mutual friends they were all well when had he left them only that morning he must have had a wet ride yes he meant to walk with her she found he had just looked into the dining room and as he was not wanted there preferred being out of doors sh and th thought he looked nor cheerfully first possible cause for it suggested hy her ears was that he had perhaps been communicating his plans to his brother and was pained by the manner in which they had received they walked together he was silent she thought he was often looking at her and trying for a fuller view of her face than it suited her to give and this belief produced another dread perhaps he wanted to speak to her of his attachment to he might be watching for encouragement to begin she did not could not fee equal to lead the way to any such subject he must do it all himself yet she could not bear this silence with him it was most unnatural she considered resolved and trying to smile began � you have some news to hear now you are come bade that will rather surprise you h have ii said he quietly and looking at her of wh h nature h oh the best nature in the a wedding after waiting a moment as if to be sure she intended to say no more he replied � if you mean miss and frank have heard that how is it possible cried turning her glowing cheeks towards him for while she spoke it occurred to her that he might have called at mrs s in his way i had a few lines on parish business from mr this morning and at the end of them he gave me a brief account of what had happened was quite relieved and could presently say with a little more composure � u probably have been less surprised than any of us for you have had your suspicions i have not forgotten that you once tried to give me a caution i wish i had attended it � but with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh l seem to have been doomed to blindness ox for a moment or two nothing was said and she was of having excited any particular interest till she found her arm drawn within and pressed against his heart and heard him thus saying in a tone of eat sensibility speaking low � time my dearest time will heal the wound your own excellent sense your exertions for your father s sake i know you will not allow yourself her arm was pressed again as he added in a more broken and subdued accent the feelings of the warmest friendship � indignation � abominable scoundrel and in a louder tone he concluded with he will soon be gone they will soon be in i am sorry for her she deserves a better fate understood him and as soon as she could recover from the flutter of pleasure excited by such tender consideration replied � you are very kind but you are mistaken and i must set you right i am not in want of that sort of compassion my blindness to what | 26 |
approve of � in a most way you should have known how improper such conduct is a woman can t be too careful not to be seen alone with i don t know whom c you saw us papa and have never said a word my fault of course my fault what the deuce could i be thinking of he a s son and we connections of the we have been to nothing for centuries and now i believe we have got there what shall i next invite here i wonder began to cry at this very aspect of affairs o papa papa forgive me and him we care so much for one another papa � o so much and what he was going to ask you is if you will allow of an engagement between us till he is a gentleman as good as you we are not in a hurry dear papa we don t want in the least to marry now not until he is richer only will you let us be engaged because i love him so and he loves me mr s feelings were a little touched by this appeal and he was annoyed that such should be the case certainly not he replied he pronounced the and so that the not sounded like n o o o t no no no don t say it i a fine story it is not enough that i have been and disgraced by having him here � the son of one of my village � but now i am to make him my son in law heavens above us are you mad you have seen his letters come to me ever since his first visit papa and you knew they were a sort of � and since he has been here you have let him be a pair of blue eyes alone with me almost entirely and you guessed you must have guessed what we were thinking of and doing and you didn t stop him next to love making comes love winning and you knew it would come to that papa the this common sense thrust i know � since you press me so � i know i did guess some childish attachment might arise between you i own i did not take much trouble to prevent it but i have not particularly it and how can you expect that i should now it is impossible no father in england would hear of such a thing but he is the same man papa the same in every particular and how can he be less fit for me than he was before he appeared a young man with well to do friends and a little property but having neither he is another man you inquired nothing about him i went by s introduction he should have told me so should the young man himself of course he should i consider it a most thing to come into a man s house like a treacherous i don t but he was afraid to tell you and so should i have been he loved me too well to like to run the risk and as to speaking of his friends on his first visit i don t see why he should have done so at all he came here on business it was no affair of ours who his parents were and then he knew that if he told you he would never be asked here and would perhaps never see me again and he wanted to see me who can blame him for trying by any means to stay near me � the girl he loves all is fair in love i have heard you say so yourself papa and you yourself would have done just as he so would any man and any man on discovering what i have discovered would also do as i do and mend my mistake that is get shot of him again as soon as the laws of a pair of blue eyes hospitality will allow but mr then remembered that he was a christian i would not for the world seem to turn him out of doors he added but i think he will have the tact to see that he cannot stay long after this with good taste he will because he s a gentleman see how graceful his manners are went on though perhaps s manners like the of owed their in her eyes rather to the of his person than to their own excellence ay anybody can be what you call graceful if he lives a little time in a city and keeps his eyes open and he might have picked up his by going to the galleries of theatres and watching stage drawing room manners he reminds me of one of the worst stories i ever heard in my life what story was that oh no thank you i wouldn t tell you such an improper matter for the world if his father and mother had lived in the north or east of england gallantly persisted though her sobs began to interrupt her anywhere but here � you � would only regarded � him and not them his station � would have � been what � his profession makes it � and not fixed by � his father s humble position � at all whom he never lives with � now though john smith has saved lots of money and is better off than we are they say or he couldn t have put his son to such an expensive profession and it is clever and � honourable � of to be the best of his family yes let a beast be lord of beasts and his shall stand at the king s mess you insult me papa she burst out you do you do he is my own he is that may or may not be | 45 |
speaking to any body at length however his civility was so far awakened as to of elizabeth after the health of her family she answered him in the usual way and after a moment s pause added � my eldest sister has been in town these three is have you never happened to see her there she was perfectly sensible that he never had but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the and jane and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet miss the subject was pursued no farther and the gentlemen soon afterwards went away chapter colonel s manners were very admired at the and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasure of their engagements at it was some days however before they received any invitation thither for while there were in the house they could not be necessary and it was not till day almost a week after the gentlemen s arrival that they were honoured by such an attention and then they were merely asked on leaving church to come there in the evening for the last week they had seen very little of either lady or her daughter colonel william had called at the more than once during the time but mr they had only seen at church ride and the invitation was accepted of course and at a proper hour they joined the party in lady s her received them hut it was plain that their company was hy no means so as when she could get nobody else and she was in fact almost engrossed by her speaking to them especially to much more than to any other person in the room colonel seemed really glad to see them thing was a welcome relief to him at and mrs s pretty friend had moreover caught his fancy very much he now seated himself by her and talked so agreeably of and of travelling and staying at home of new books and music that elizabeth had never been half so well entertained in that room before and they conversed with so much spirit and flow as to draw the attention of lady herself as well as of mr his eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned towards them with a look of curiosity and that her after a while shared the feeling was more openly acknowledged for she did not scruple to call out � what is that you are saying what is it you are talking of what are you telling miss let me hear what it is we are speaking of music madam said he when no longer able to avoid a reply of music then pray speak aloud it is of all subjects my delight i must have my share in the con if you are speaking of music there are few people in england i suppose who have more true enjoyment of music than myself or a natural taste if i had ever learnt i should have been a great and so would anne if her health had allowed her to apply i am confident that she would have performed how does get on mr spoke praise of his sister s i am very glad to hear such a good account of her said lady ca and pray tell her from me that l pride and she cannot expect to if she does not practise a great deal i assure you madam he replied that she does not need such advice she yery constantly so much the it cannot he done too much and when i next write to her i shall her not to neglect it on any account i often tell young that no excellence in music is to he acquired without constant practice i have told miss several times that she will never play really well unless she more and though mrs has no instrument she is very welcome as i have often told her to come to every day and play on the piano in mrs s room she would he in nobody s way you know in that part of the house mr looked a little ashamed of his s ill breeding and made no answer when coffee was over colonel reminded elizabeth of having promised to play to him and she sat down directly to the instrument he drew a chair near her lady listened to half a song and then talked as before to her other nephew till the latter walked away from her and moving with his usual deliberation towards the piano stationed himself so as to command a full view of the fair s countenance elizabeth saw what he was doing and at the first convenient pause turned to him with an arch smile and said � you mean to frighten me mr by coming in all this state to hear me but i i ill not be alarmed though your sister does play so well there is a about me that never can bear to be frightened at the of others my courage always rises with every attempt to me i shall not say that you are mistaken he replied because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you and i have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find � great enjoyment in occasionally opinions which in fact are not your own and heartily at this picture of herself and said to colonel your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me and teach you not to believe a word i say i am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so well able to expose my real character in a part of the world where i had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit indeed mr it | 26 |
sense i think you now and then discover sense said hark there is calling to us beneath the window said running to the will some of you come down cried he we cannot we are dressing wait a little while i cannot wait he replied i have run down the lane to tell you i shall not be able to go with you to mrs a old has sent over express for mr good so i can t be spared oh what a disappointment yes it is a disappointment however i am in tha � place to that you know will make some amends added he laughing where is f i know she can t have her hair in curl papers oh there you are good by give my love to my mother looks quite like a it is a pity is not here to play i am glad you have such a cool day kissed his hand and ran off exact to the time appointed mrs s carriage and to the ladies praise be it spoken it was not waiting the five miles drive was extremely pretty and was enchanted with the scenery the weather and the easy motion of the a neat lodge gate admitted them into mrs s grounds and after passing through a winding plantation they found themselves at the the house was such a mixture of all that it was difficult to say whether castle cottage or villa no one would ever have designed a whole such as it now stood and it was evident that each had run up his own portion of the edifice with more regard to his own peculiar taste than to what already displayed that of his time had thrown its hue over all and a variety of creeping plants connecting balcony and what was seen and hid what was in a small hall lighted with coloured glass mrs was waiting to receive her guests accompanied by a f young lady whom she introduced as her niece un and had been laid aside e village s and preliminary subjects discussed mrs proposed a walk through the saying she thought it would be pleasanter to go oyer the grounds in the cool of the evening are you fond of v� rs asked miss of as they proceeded towards the yes said but is much the best perhaps you are like me and think it pleasanter to smell look at flowers than to learn their long names i never could conquer the and of the dictionary or perhaps luckily in my superficial education the learned languages were neglected and i must say i infinitely prefer the poetical and simple names of our flowers to your latin there is a great deal of sentiment in many of them what can be prettier for instance than s eye which men call the eye of the or heart s ease which in france they call again does the ugly word convey any sentimental ideas but forget me not at once reminds us of the of the slain at and the tale of the gallant knight who plunged into a lake to gather a of flowers for his lady love arid had only time to fling them on shore and exclaim forget me not when he was in the watery deep where did you find that romantic story maria mrs i read it in a book aunt i assure you thou not in the magazine the lady must have been very passionately fond of flowers if she did not think them too dearly purchased said mrs and the gentleman must have been a very modest to have set his life at the same value as a of forget me not added mrs oh you ladies view the matter in too straight forward a light how could he take a better method of proving how highly he valued her slightest wishes a method which we need not fear will become too no indeed every spark of romance is now extinguished i should like to tell the story to charles he would say the man not mean to drown or else question the of the story that is the way people meet with any thing which they cannot reconcile to their own of thinking and acting oh i will tell the story to charles and mr hope hy and hy and hear what they say to it so thought other mr and are expected do you visit the hopes said miss turning to no ah i thought the must be too great too great indeed thought but there are distances of rank as well as of � charles can make only one objection to mr hope pursued maria that he does not employ he has offered to introduce them to each other the next time he is in town only think of an introduction being to a tailor strange indeed pray who is charles oh my brother i forgot you did not know him by same charles is a great in dress he has written some valuable notes i assure you on the he says if he ever it shall be a little work which he has long had by him and to which he is making continual additions on the subject of hats he wishes to create a standard of taste oh you laugh but the manuscript really exists and is full of and now do not let me prejudice you against charles by these little anecdotes for he is one of the best creatures in the world only a little inclined to satire and and miss had made the tour of the long before mrs and had sufficiently examined half its contents shall we wait or proceed to the picture gallery said maria oh the picture gallery by means replied � this way then to tell you the truth i am delighted to leave that atmosphere what can be more intolerable than a at the beginning | 2 |
sir hawk with whom were his friend and pupil and a small train of gentlemanly dressed men of characters more doubtful than obscure the proprietor in a low voice bade sir good day sir in the same tone bade the proprietor go to the devil and turned to speak with his friends there was evidently an irritable consciousness about him that he was an object of curiosity on this first occasion of showing himself in public after the accident that had befallen him and it was easy to perceive that he appeared on the race course that day more in the hope of meeting with a great many people who knew him and so getting over as much as possible of the annoyance at once than with any purpose of enjoying the sport there yet remained a slight upon his face and whenever he was recognised as he was almost every minute by people in and out he made a restless effort to conceal it with his glove showing how keenly he felt the disgrace he had undergone ah hawk said one very dressed personage in a coat a choice and all other life a d of of the most kind how d ye do this was a of and and the person of all others whom sir moat and dreaded to meet they shook hands cordiality and how are yon now old fellow hey quite well quite well said sir that s right said the other how d ye do he s a little pulled down our mend here � rather out of condition still hey it should be observed that the gentleman had white teeth and that when there was no excuse for he generally finished with the same which he uttered so as to display them he s in very good condition there s nothing the matter w ith him said the young man carelessly upon my soul i m glad to hear it rejoined the other have you just returned from we only reached town late last night said lord sir turned away to speak to one of own party and feigned not to hear now upon my life said the mend affecting to speak in a whisper it s an bold and game thing in hawk to show himself so soon i say it there s a vast deal of courage in it you see he has just long enough to excite curiosity and not long enough for men to have forgotten that unpleasant � by the bye � you know the rights of the affair of course why did you never give those confounded papers the lie i seldom read the papers but i looked in the papers for that and may i be look in the papers interrupted sir turning suddenly round � to morrow � no next day will you upon my life my dear i seldom or never read the papers said the other his shoulders but i will at your recommendation what shall i look for good day said sir turning abruptly on his heel and drawing his with him falling again into the careless pace at which they had entered they out arm in arm i won t give him a case of murder to read muttered sir with an oath but it shall be something very near it if whip cord cuts and his companion said nothing but there was something in his manner which sir to add with nearly as much ferocity as if his friend had been himself i sent to old before eight o clock this morning he s a one he was back with me before the messenger i had it all from him in the first five minutes i know where this hound is to be met with � time and place both but there s no need to talk to morrow will soon be here and at s to be done to morrow inquired lord sir hawk honoured him with an angry glance but condescended to return no verbal answer to this inquiry both walked sullenly on as though their thoughts were busily occupied until they were quite clear of the crowd and almost alone when sir wheeled round to return stop said his companion i want to speak to you � in earnest don t turn back let us walk here a few minutes what have you to say to me that you could not say yonder as well as here returned his his arm hawk rejoined the other tell me i must know � must know interrupted the other t go on if you must know of course there s no escape for me must know must ask then returned lord and must press you for a plain and straight forward answer � is what you have just said only a mere whim of the moment occasioned by your being out of humour and irritated or is it your serious intention and one that you have actually contemplated why don t you remember what passed on the subject one night when i was laid up with a broken limb said sir with a sneer perfectly well then take that for an answer in the devil s name replied sir and ask me for no other � such was the he had acquired over his and such the latter s general habit of submission that for the life op moment tlie young man half to die lie soon overcame feeling however if it had restrained him at all and retorted angrily if i remember what passed at the time you i expressed a strong opinion on this subject and said that my knowledge or consent you never do what yoa threaten now will you prevent me asked sir with a laugh ye es if i can returned the other a very proper saving that last said sir and one you stand in need of oh look to your own business and | 8 |
to a of ice what do you mean she asked abruptly and with an air ol surprise the minister s httle like eyes drooped under their and he on the seat with uncomfortable embarrassment he answered her in the of mild voices you are unlike yourself my dear he said with a soothing gesture of one of his well trimmed white hands you are generally frank and open but to day i find you just a little � well � what shall i say � yes we will call it i oh and mr laughed a gentle little laugh you must not pretend ignorance of what i mean all the neighbourhood is talking of you and the gentlemen you are so often seen with concerning sir philip � the evil tongue of rumour is busy � for according to his first plans when his arrived here he was bound for the north cape � and should have gone there days ago truly i think � and there are others who think also in the same spirit of interest for you � that the this young man leaves our peaceful the better � and the less he has to do with the maidens of the district the safer we be from the risk of scandal and he heaved a pious sigh turned her eyes upon him in i do not understand you she said coldly why do you speak of ot rs no others are interested in what i do why should they be why should be there is no need i mr grew slightly excited he felt like a the winning post oh you wrong yourself my dear he murmured softly with a sickly attempt at tenderness in his tone you really wrong yourself it is impossible � for me at least not to be interested in you � even for our dear lord s sake it troubles me to the inmost depths of my soul to behold in you one of the foolish whose light hath been extinguished for lack of the saving oil � to see you wandering as a lost sheep in the paths of darkness and error without a hand to rescue your steps from the near and dreadful precipice ay truly my spirit for you as a mother for an own babe � fain would i save you from the devices of the evil one � fain would i here the minister drew out his handkerchief and pressed it lightly to his eyes � then as if with an effort his emotion he added with the the land of the midnight sun gravity of a butcher presenting an bill but first � before mine own humble desires for your salvation � first ere i go further in converse it me to enter on the lord s business bent her head slightly with an air as though she said indeed pray do not be long about it and leaning back against the porch she waited somewhat impatiently the image i have just restored to you went on mr in his most and ponderous manner you say belonged to your unhappy mother she was not unhappy interposed the girl calmly ay ay and the minister nodded with a superior air of wisdom so you imagine so you think � you must have been too young to judge of these things she died i saw her die again she interrupted with a musing tenderness in her voice she smiled and kissed me � then she laid her thin white hand on this and closing her eyes she went to sleep they told me it was death since then i have known that death is beautiful mr � little cough of quiet incredulity he was not fond of sentiment in any form and the pensive manner annoyed him death beautiful it was the one thing of all others that he dreaded it was an unpleasant necessity concerning which he thought as little as possible though he preached frequently on the peace of the grave and the joys of heaven � he was far from believing in either � he was nervously terrified of illness and fled like a frightened from the very rumour of any disorder and he had never been known to attend a death bed and now in answer to he nodded and rubbed his hands and said yes yes no doubt no doubt all very proper on your part i am sure but concerning this same image of which i came to speak � it is most imperative that you should be brought to recognise it as a purely object a maiden s eyes to rest upon the true followers of the gospel are those who strive to forget the sufferings of our dear lord as much as possible � or to think of them only in spirit the minds of alas are easily influenced � and it is both and dangerous to gaze freely upon the semblance of the lord s limbs i yea truly it hath oft been considered as to the soul � more especially in the cases of women as who encourage themselves in an undue familiarity with our lord by gazing long and earnestly upon his body nailed to the accursed tree here mr paused for breath was silent but a faint smile gleamed on her face wherefore he went on i do you as you desire grace and to utterly cast from you the vile i have � heaven knows how reluctantly returned to your keeping � to upon it and it as a device of satan he stopped surprised and indignant as she raised the much abused emblem to her lips and kissed it reverently it is the sign of peace and salvation she said steadily to me at least you waste your words mr i am a catholic oh say not so exclaimed the minister now thoroughly roused to a pitch of enthusiasm say not so poor child | 33 |
the domestic virtues to those influences and to the improving society of my friend from boyhood commend me with your best wishes ah said affectionately now standing near him so that they both stood in one little cloud of smoke i would that you answered my three questions what is to come of it what are you doing where are you going t and my dear returned lightly away the smoke with his hand for the better of his frankness of face and manner believe me i would answer them instantly if i could but to enable me to do so i must first have found out the troublesome long abandoned here it is tapping his forehead and breast riddle me riddle me perhaps you can t tell me what this may be � no upon my life i can t i give it up our mutual friend chapter vii ix which a friendly move is originated the arrangement between mr and his literary man mr so far altered with the altered habits of mr s life as that the empire usually declined in the morning and in the eminently aristocratic family mansion rather than in the evening as of and in s bower there were occasions however when mr seeking a brief refuge from the of fashion would present himself at the bower after dark to anticipate the next forth of and would there on the old settle pursue the downward fortunes of those and masters of the world who were by this time on their last legs if had been worse paid for his office or better qualified to discharge it he would have considered these visits complimentary and agreeable but holding the position of a handsomely he resented them this was quite according to rule for the servant by employed is always against his employer even those born noble and right honorable creatures who have been the most in high places have uniformly shown themselves the most opposed sometimes in distrust sometimes in insolence to their employer what is in such wise true of the public master and servant is equally true of the private master and servant all the world over when mr did at last obtain free access to our house as he had been wont to call the mansion outside which he had eat so long and when he did at last find it in all particulars as different from his mental plans of it as according to the nature of things it well could be that far seeing and far reaching character by way of asserting himself and making out a case for compensation affected to fall into a melancholy strain of musing over the mournful past as if the house and he had had a fall in life together and this sir would say to his patron sadly nodding his head and musing was once our house this sir is the building from which i have so often seen those great creatures miss elizabeth master george aunt jane and uncle � whose very names were of his own � pass and and has it come to this indeed ah dear me dear me so tender were his that the kindly mr was quite sorry for him and almost felt that in buying the house he had done him an injury two or three the result of great en mr s part but assuming the mask of careless yielding to a combination of circumstances him towards had enabled him to complete his bargain with mr bring me round to the bower said when the bargain was vol i q cot mutual closed next saturday evening and if a glass of old warm should meet your views i am not the man to it you are aware of my being poor company sir replied mr but be it so it being so here is saturday evening come and here is mr come and ringing at the bower gate mr opens the gate a sort of brown paper under mr s arm and remarks in a dry tone oh thought perhaps you might have come in a cab no mr replies i am not above a parcel above a parcel no says with some dissatisfaction but does not openly growl a certain sort of parcel might be above you here is your purchase mr says politely h h ing it over and i am glad to restore it to the source from whence it � flowed says now this affair is concluded i may mention to you in a friendly way that i ve my doubts whether if i had consulted a lawyer you could have kept this article back from me i only throw it out as a legal point do you think mr bought you in open contract you t buy human flesh and blood in this country sir not alive you can t says shaking his head then bone as a legal point asks as a legal point i am not competent to speak upon that mr says and growing something louder but upon a point of fact i think myself competent to speak and as a of fact i would have seen you � will you allow me to say further i wouldn t say more than further if i was you mr suggests � before i d have given that packet into your hand without being paid my price for it i don t pretend to know how the point of law may but i m thoroughly confident upon the point of fact as mr is irritable no doubt owing to his disappointment in love and as it is not the cue of mr to have him out of temper the latter gentleman soothingly remarks i only put it as a little case i only put it ha then i d rather mr you put it another time is mr s retort for i tell you candidly i don t | 8 |
why the boys used to go birds of a sunday morning and a capital thing ask any farmer and very it was to see the strings o hanging np in poor people s houses you ll not see em nowhere now mr who himself on his reading and waa in the habit of asking casual acquaintances if they knew anything of it is right enough that the lower orders should be instructed but this within the church ought to be put down in point of fact these are not at all there no better than what are they inquired mr who often said his father had given him no and he didn t care who it he could buy up most o th men he d ever come across the said mr in rather a louder tone than before holding that every appeal for information must naturally be addressed to him are a founded in the reign of charles i by a man named john who all the brood of that crawl about in dirty and the lord of the in order to get a few yards of ground for their pigeon house no no said mr you re out there is derived from the word meaning an elder don t contradict me sir i say the word is derived from john a miserable who wore a suit of leather and went about from town to village and from village to hamlet the vulgar with the of come that seems a deal more said mr in a tone apparently of opinion that history was a process of ingenious it s not a question of it s a known fact i could fetch you my and show it to you this moment i don t care a straw sir either for yon or your said mr a of false information of which you picked up an imperfect copy in a cargo of waste paper will you tell mc sir that i don t the origin of i sir a man known through the county with the a� of half a score s while yoa or are ignored by the very that invest the miserable alley in which you are bred a loud and general laugh with you d better let him alone you ll not get the better of in a hurry drowned the retort of the too well informed mr who white with rage rose and walked out of the bar a fellow gentlemen continued mr i was determined to be rid of him what does he mean by thrusting himself into our company a man with about as much principle as he has property which to my knowledge is considerably less than none an gentlemen a fit to sit in the chimney corner of a pot house and make comments on the one greasy newspaper by i will not suffer in my company a man who speaks lightly of religion the signature of a fellow like would be a blot on our protest and how do you get on with your said mr the doctor who had presented his la ge top person within the bar while mr was speaking mr had just returned from one of his long day s rounds among the farm houses in the course of which he had sat down to two hearty meals that might have been mistaken for dinners if be had not declared them to be and as each snap had been followed by a few glasses of mixture containing a less liberal proportion of water than the articles he himself with that name he was in that condition which his groom with poetic by saying that master had been in the sunshine under these circumstances after a hard day in which he had really had no regular meal it seemed a natural to step into the bar of the red lion where as it was saturday evening he should be sure to find and hear the latest news about the protest against the evening lecture have you ben yet he continued as he took two chairs one for his body and the other for his right leg � no said mr the church shaking his head ben has a way of keeping himself in everything and he doesn t like to oppose his father old is a regular but we haven t got your name yet grim tut tut said mr you don t expect to sign he s got a dozen his treatment nothing like cant and for producing a of i thought as had declared himself a we should be sure to get on our side mr was not a man to sit quiet under a sarcasm nature having endowed him with a considerable share of self wit in his most sober moments he had an in his speech and as copious gin and water stimulated not the speech but the he had time to make his retort sufficiently bitter why to tell you the truth he there s a report all over the town that you shall take her you as one of the and they say there s to be a fine crowd at your door the morning you start to see the row knowing your tenderness for that member of the fair sex i thought yoa might find it impossible to deny her hang back a little from on that account as might not take the protest well if went with you mr was a small sleek headed bachelor of five and forty whose scandalous life had long furnished his more moral neighbors with an after dinner joke he had no o her striking characteristic except that he was a of temperament so that you might wonder why he had been chosen as clergyman s if i did not tell you that he had recently been elected through mr s exertions in order that his zeal against the threatened evening lecture might be backed by | 14 |
future prospects the river had been high in flood during the week and the grass which towards the water was still wet and heavy to the tread but limited his walk to the broad summit of the bank being aware that the river just below flowed over a muddy into which should a man chance to fall it would be death and fast burial at one and the same moment and set a rather value on his own life as most men do whose lives are of no sort of consequence to the world so he was careful to walk where there was the least danger of the master christian lit an excellent cigar and puffed the faint blue rings of smoke out into the clear atmosphere he was in a very agreeable frame of mind he was and clever in his way � one of those to whom the yankee term would apply in its fullest sense � and he had the happy of forgetting his own mistakes and follies and his own sins with as much ease as though he were one of the blood royal of nations vices he had in plenty in common with most men � except that his particular form of was distinguished by a and cruelty in which there was no touch of quality as a child he had loved to tear the wings off flies and other insects and one of his keenest delights in boyhood had been to watch the of into whose soft bodies he would stick long pins � the would live under this treatment four and five hours � sometimes longer and while observing their agonies he enjoyed that contented mind which is a perpetual feast now that he was a man he delighted in human beings after the same methods applied mentally whenever he could find a part through which to thrust a sharp spear of pain the eminent cardinal he mused now what is he to me i if i could force the of into high favour at the instead of this foolish old saint it would be a better thing for my future after all it was at that the miracle was performed � the city should have some credit i and bon pre has a he is growing old and feeble � possibly he is losing his wits and then is that boy he started violently as a fantastic shadow suddenly crossed his path in the moonlight and a peal of violent laughter assailed his ears en in mon � � grace a and the creature known as la stood before him her long black hair streaming over her bare chest and gaunt arms her eyes dilated and glowing with the mingled light of madness and despair turned a livid white in the moon rays � his blood grew icy cold what i after two years of about the streets of to m tiu this wretched the master christian woman whom he had and betrayed had she found him at last i when did you come back from the fair cried the girl i lost you there you know � and you managed to lose me � but i have waited � waited patiently for news of you and when none came i still waited making myself beautiful see � and she thrust her fingers through her long hair throwing it about in disorder than ever you thought you had killed me � and you were glad � it makes all men glad to kill women when they can but i � i was not killed so easily � i have lived for this night � just for this night listen and she sprang forward and threw herself violently against his breast do you love me now tell me again � as you told me at the fair � you love me he staggered under her weight � and tried for a moment to thrust her back but she held him in a grip of iron looking up at him with her great feverish dark eyes and grasping his shoulders with thin burning hands he trembled � e was beginning to grow horribly afraid what devil had sent this woman whom he had ruined so long as two years ago across his path to night would it be possible to soothe her � he began yes yes say it again she cried wildly say it again sweet � sweet and tenderly as you said it then poor your pale ugly face seemed the face of a god to her once because e thought you loved her � we all find men so beautiful when we think they love us yes � your cold eyes and cruel lips and hard brow � it was quite a different face at the fair so was mine a different face � but you � you have made mine what it is now � look at it what � you thought you could murder a woman and never be found out you thought you could kill poor and that no one would ever know hush hush said his teeth chattering with the cold of his inward terror i never killed you � i loved you � yes listen for she was looking up at him with an attentive almost sane expression in her eyes i meant to write to you after the fair � and come to you hush hush said the girl let me hear this i� the master christian this is strange news he meant to write to me yet he let me die by inches in an agony of waiting � till i dropped into the darkness where i am now he meant to come to me oh it was very easy to come if he had chosen to come � before i wandered away into all this strangeness � this shadow � this confusion and fire but you see it is too late now and | 33 |
the honor of knowing you at an earlier period i was not always the wreck you at present behold i hope mrs and your family are well sir said my aunt mr inclined his head they are as well ma am he desperately observed after a pause as and can ever hope to be lord bless you sir exclaimed my aunt in her abrupt way what are you talking about the of my family ma am returned mr in the balance my employer here mr left off and began to the that had been under my directions set before him together with all the other he used in making punch your employer you know said mr dick his arm as a gentle my good sir returned mr you recall me i am obliged to you they shook hands again my employer ma am � ir � once did me the favor to observe to me that if i not in the receipt of the to my engagement with him i should probably be a about the country a sword blade and eating the devouring element for anything that i can perceive to the contrary it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a by personal while mrs their unnatural by playing the barrel organ mr with a random but expressive flourish of his knife the personal history and experience signified that these performances might be expected to take place after he was no more then resumed his with a desperate air my aunt leaned her elbow on the little round table that she beside her and eyed him attentively notwithstanding the aversion with which i regarded the idea of him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily i should have taken him up at this point but for the strange proceedings in which i saw him engaged whereof his putting the into the kettle the sugar into the the spirit into the empty and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a were among the most remarkable i saw that a crisis was at hand and it came he all his means and implements together rose from his chair pulled out his pocket handkerchief and burst into tears my dear said mr behind his handkerchief this is an occupation of all others requiring an mind and self respect i cannot perform it it is out of the question mr said i what is the matter pray speak out you are among friends among friends sir repeated mr and all he had reserved came breaking out of him good heavens it is principally because i am among friends that my state of mind is what it is what is the matter gentlemen what is not the matter is the matter is the matter deception fraud conspiracy are the matter and the name of the whole mass is � my aunt clapped her hands and we all started up as if we were possessed the struggle is over said mr violently with his pocket handkerchief and fairly striking out from time to time with both arms as if he were swimming under difficulties will lead this life no longer i am a wretched being cut off from everything that makes life tolerable i have been under a in that infernal scoundrel s service give me back my wife give me back my family substitute for the petty wretch who walks about in the boots at present on my feet and call upon me to a sword to morrow and i do it with an appetite i never saw a man so hot in my life i tried to calm him that we might come to something rational but he got and and wouldn t hear a word i put my hand in no man s hand said mr gasping puffing and sobbing to that degree that he was like a man fighting with cold water until i have � blown to fragments � the � a � detestable � serpent � i partake of no one s hospitality until i have � a � moved mount � to � on � a � the abandoned rascal � refreshment � a � underneath this roof � particularly punch � would � a � me � unless � i had � previously � the eyes � out of the head � a � of � interminable cheat and liar � i � a � i know nobody � and � a � say nothing � and � a � live nowhere � until i have crushed � to � a � � the � and immortal and � i really had some fear of mr s dying on the spot the op david manner in which he struggled through these inarticulate sentences and whenever he found himself getting near the name of fought his way on to it dashed at it in a fainting state and brought it out with a vehemence little less than marvellous was frightful but now when he sank into a chair steaming and looked at us with every possible color in his face that had no business there and an endless procession of following one another in hot haste up his throat whence they seemed to shoot into his forehead he had the appearance of being in the last extremity i would have gone to his assistance but he me off and wouldn t hear a word no � no communication � a � until � miss � a � from wrongs inflicted by scoundrel � i am quite convinced he could not have uttered three words but for the amazing energy with which this word inspired him when he felt it coming secret � a � from the whole world � a � no exceptions � this day week � a � at breakfast time � a � everybody present � including aunt � a � and extremely friendly gentleman | 8 |
suddenly yes � and i told him what the doctor had said i hate him burst out suddenly an devil i ve done a round of the doctors here and he is the worst have you ever taken any interest in the subject of i started violently � why h he hesitated coloured only my mother saw in a newspaper that at a banquet held by the new york medical association some remarks were made in support of the of life under certain conditions i felt myself suddenly grow tense i would have liked to see that i said i have the cutting here in my pocket book � he felt in his breast pocket think not ambition wise may i see it we paused outside where it was light as day and after a momentary hesitation he gave it me it said that while the difficulties in the way of the practical application of the doctrine seemed not beyond the bounds of possibility of course it would be necessary to have the advice and approval of men of the highest scientific the city might be divided into districts and every application should be considered most carefully not merely by but by some eminent selected for the purpose and of course there should be the consent of relatives and the consent even the request of the patient himself but where all these conditions were fulfilled and where the of life was simply the of hopeless agony it would seem proper that such a patient should quietly decently modestly be allowed to end his sufferings and that such a course would be a step forward in and a step farther away from silently i gave it back to him understanding the trouble in his suddenly face much better than he supposed and then he produced another cutting which i also read it was headed medical murder and ran thus � french medical opinion has been strongly moved by a theory openly by a the certain section of medical men in the united states that in certain stages of hopeless suffering it is to hasten the patient s death the new york state medical association is stated to have given its sanction to this theory by the immense majority of french medical men the theory is as bad both and since many instances could be quoted of recovery after the case had been pronounced hopeless in a medical journal by dr french doctors record their protest against what they describe as medical murder a doctor s function they contend is always to preserve life never to it as he replaced both in his he said i don t believe in one s on other people but i may as well tell you that my mother sent me over here to find out if what you have just read about the american attitude was true i ve been to three doctors � was one � and they say it s false � that no doctor made those remarks only a minister � and that no one here would dare to entertain such an idea they laughed in my face when i offered a fee of a thousand pounds to come over and give my father an of what the doctor gives him daily not dare my god � his voice choked � i d dare fast enough if i knew how to release peacefully my dear old think not ambition wise i said he nodded gave me some dreadful details and we walked on suddenly there to me a remark of his the day before what a blessed observer you are getting you every face in the street as if you were looking for your long lost br r other and it was true i never ceased to watch for those who might be in need of tom s but hitherto had not seen one while by my very side this boy walked who had crossed the atlantic to find a doctor who gave him a stone for bread i understood now s with me that afternoon probably he thought all the english were mad on one subject � he might find them still before they had done look here i said forget it for the moment � we will talk it over some other time now let us get back and dress and dine and do a play but long after the boy had up and dined and declared that he could not see that the beautiful were any different to ours in town � that they all smiled at the while ordering the dinner and were at once as eager and unwilling to take off their long gloves i was thinking of how badly s younger brother was wanted how much work there was close to his hand crying out to be done chapter v the heavenly hills left behind me the merry go round of the where a hundred swift cars furiously upon you at the same moment a very of traffic and danger and found myself at last on s wonderful bridge for awhile i pushed forward then looked back � looked back to a scene that no poet or painter alive could re create that caught the very breath between my lips for pure rapture for tis distance enchantment to the view and far away fairy like ran a living wall of splendour as of a million caught in reaching to heaven and between me and it water and the great hollow of the town whose lights did not count � nothing counted but that with illuminated tower and and keep seemingly falling sheer away to the flowing darkness and silence and mystery of the river from below shot out like lights i the heavenly that added to the illusion of a fairy palace set on a hill from somewhere in the hollow rose a smoke wreath that might have been the breath of earth that sought to | 17 |
could have devised or something but as it was the nature of this world depressed me so that i could not have written anything very much worth while if i had wanted to there was the for that horrible place daily from the ever flowing waters about new york there were or washed up in all stages and degrees of the and of the great city its its victims � its what i came here often it stood at the foot of east twenty sixth street near hospital and invariably i found the same old brown in charge a creature so thick and so and so mentally generally that it was au i could do to extract a of recognition out of him yet if handed a cigar occasionally or a bag of tobacco he would trouble to get out of his chair and let you look over book or containing the roughly down police descriptions all done in an amazing of the height a book about myself color of clothes if any complexion of hair and eyes these were still probable length of time in water contents of pockets or money if any etc i hich same were to be noted in connection with any mystery or disappearance of a person and there was always some one turning up missing and i noticed with considerable that rarely if ever was there any money or reported as found by the police that would be too much to expect being further persuaded or tips of one kind and another this would lead the way to a shelf of drawers reaching from the floor to the chest height of a man or higher and running about two sides of the room and opening those containing the latest supposing you were interested to look would allow you to gaze upon the last of that strange which once as a human being here on earth the faces the decay the clothing i stared in sad horror and promised myself that i would never again look but duty to the paper compelled me so to do again and again and then there was itself that gray black collection of brick and stone with connecting bridges of iron which faced in winter time at least the gray icy waters of the east river i have never been able to forget it so and bleak was it all the of in their brown cotton suits to be seen wandering here and there or hovering over the large number of half well charity about in gray green their faces sunken and pinched their hair poorly and the and yet often coarse and vulgar and always young doctors and nurses and paid attendants generally one need but remember that it was the of the most corrupt period of hall s political control of new york mr being still in charge quite all of those old buildings have since been replaced and surrounded by a tall iron fence and bordered with an attractive lawn in those days it was a little different there was the hospital proper with its various wards its hospital for a book about myself the criminal or insane or both the and a world of smaller stretching along the and by walks or covered or iron bridges but the dignity and care of the later there was too the dark which any badly or managed institution that something which as a cloud over all and at that time had that air and that it more of a jail and a i combined than of a hospital and so it was i think at that time it was a world of medical and political and social a kind of human hell or poor fish who live in comfortable and protected homes and find their little theories and religious ready made for in some church or social atmosphere should be permitted to take an occasional peep into a world as this was then at this very time there was an investigation and an exposure on in connection with this institution which had revealed not only the murder of helpless bnt the usual in connection with food clothing etc furnished to the called charity officials and and brutes of nurses and attendants of course the number of and or complaining or troublesome or beaten or thrown out and even killed and the number and quality of operations conducted by or indifferent was known and shown to be large one need only return to the of that date to come upon the truth of this but the place was so huge and crowded that it was like a city in itself for one thing it was a ground for all the gathered by the x and the charity to say nothing of being a realm of soft for political of all kinds on such days as relatives and friends of charity or those detained by the police were permitted to call the i room fairly with people who were pushed and here and there like cattle and always like slaves i myself visiting as a stranger subsequently was often so treated a book about myself what s his talk a little louder can t matter with your tongue f over there over there out that door there so we came procured our little cards and passed in or out and the wretched creatures who were cured or written down enough to walk and so before a serious illness had been properly treated and because they were not able to pay were out into the world of the well and the strong with whom they were supposed to once more and make their way i used to see them coming and going and have talked to scores men and women who had never had a dollar above their needs and who once illness overtook them had been swept into this only to be turned out again at the end of a | 43 |
whatever the risk with leave or without it i would try to find him by this time i could walk well and indeed was almost strong again so about midnight when the moon was up for i had no other light i crept from my bed threw on my garments and a knife which was the only weapon i possessed opened the door of my room and started now when i was carried from the rock chamber where and i had been together i took note of the way first reckoning from my sleeping place there was a passage thirty paces long for i had counted the of my then came a turn to the left and ten more paces of passage and lastly near certain steps run the first ordeal to some place unknown another sharp turn to right which led to our old chamber down the long passage i walked stealthily and though it was pitch dark found the turn to the left and followed it till i came to the second sharp turn to the t that of the gallery from which rose the stairs i crept round it only to retreat hastily enough as well i ought for at the door of s room which she was in the act of on the outside as i could see by the light of the lamp that she held in her hand stood the herself my first thought was to fly back to my own chamber but i abandoned it feeling sure that i should be seen therefore i determined i� she discovered me to face the matter out and say that i was trying to find and to learn how he so i crouched against the wall and waited with a beating heart i heard her sweep down the passage and � yes � begin to mount tile stair now what should i do to try to reach was useless for she had locked the door with the key she held go back to bed no i would follow her and if we met would make the same excuse thus might get tidings or perhaps � a dagger thrust so round the comer and up the steps i went as a snake they were many and winding like those a church tower but at length i came to the head of where was a little landing and opening from it a door it was a very ancient door the light streamed through cracks where its had and from the beyond came the sound of voices those of the and the have you learned aught my niece i heard bid also heard her l little a very little i my thirst for knowledge i grew bold j to the door looked through one of the cracks in opposite to mc in the full flood of light i net thrown by a hanging lamp her hand resting on a table at which was seated stood the truly she was a sight for she wore robes of royal purple and on her brow a little of gold beneath which her curling hair streamed down her neck and bosom seeing her i guessed at once that she had arrayed herself thus for some secret end her loveliness by every art and grace that is known to woman was looking at her earnestly with fear and doubt written on even his cold features what passed between you then he asked peering at her i questioned him closely as to the reason of his coming to this land and wrung from him the answer that it was to seek some woman � he would say no more i asked him if she were more than i am and he replied with courtesy � nothing else i think � that it would be hard to say but that she had been different then i said that though it me not to speak of such a matter there was no lady in men held to be so fair as i moreover that i was its ruler and that i and no had saved him from the water aye and i added that my heart told me i was the woman whom he sought have done niece said impatiently i would not hear of the arts you used � well enough doubtless what then then he said that it might be so since he thought that this woman was bom again and studied me a while asking me if i had ever passed through fire to this i replied that the only fires i had passed were those of the spirit and that i dwelt in them now he said show me i your hair and i placed a lock of it in his hand presently f he let it fall and from that which he wears about his neck drew out another of hair � oh my uncle the loveliest hair that ever eyes beheld for it was soft as silk and reached from my to the ground the first ordeal moreover no s wing in the sunshine ever shone as i did that fragrant yours is beautiful he said but see they are not tiie same i answered since no woman ever wore j locks you are right he replied for she whom i seek was more than a woman and then � and then � though i tried him in many ways he would say no more so feeling hate against this unknown rising in my heart and fearing lest i should words that were best i left him now i bid you search the books which are open to your wisdom and tell me of this woman whom he seeks who she is and where she dwells oh search them swiftly that i may find her and � kill her if i can aye if you can answered the and if she lives to kill but say where shall we begin our | 18 |
in all my professional experience lord if you had seen him the brightest young chap and he was what some folks well bom too he was the that is though in a left handed sort of way it s � of mad of about whose death the papers were so full a month ago or so and that in my judgment was the secret of all his misfortune it was the blood as did it to take his own way in the world to seek nobody s advice nor use it if twas given to be spoiled and by all the women and half the men as came nigh him to own no master nor authority to act without thought and to scorn well that was bt ed in ihe bone with him then he had never any one to look after him at home i reckon mr f well yes he had a mother and though she was a queer one too she loved him dearly she was the woman used to say as ever he had to do with and a perfect lady too mind you she worked to get the poor ud off like a slave and when all was over instead of breaking down aa most would she swallowed her pride and went down on her knees lo that old devil the and to his son in likewise they lived down cross key where was it � at and begged and prayed him to join in i in her son s favor she got down there the very day after his lying daughter was married to solomon he as has got and is a big man now but he ll never he any thing but a lot if he was to be king o i shall never forget the way he insulted that poor young when he was took up i would have ven a ten pound note to have had charged with something and i d ha seen that the weren t loo big for his wrists neither and this refused to help did he f why of course he did he broke her heart poor soul i saw her when she passed through afterward and she looked twenty years older than before that trial even then she didn t give the matter np but laid it before the crown but poor had offended � helped some fool or another through one of them public he had wits enough for any thing had that young fellow but i can t a bear to talk about him and yet somehow i can t help doing on it when i get into this room he sat just where that gentleman sits yonder i think i see him now smoking the best of cigars one of which he offered to me � for he was free as free but i was to restore it for i couldn t take a gift from one as i was just a going to thank yon says i but let us have no misunderstanding and no poor fellow poor fellow no more was said about the of richard but it was evidently a standing topic with the of the george and club a yearning to behold and embrace that mother who bad done and suffered so much his sake took possession of richard s soul his heart had been against her when he found under her roof the objects ef his and but he felt now that that must have come lo pass with some intention of benefit to himself the very truth indeed upon him that she entertained some plan of his revenge against with the idea of protecting him from the consequences that were to from it and he forgave her while he hated his foes the more he would out his design to the but very cautiously and with a that he would certainly not have used bad his own safety been alone concerned and then when he had himself and her he would disclose himself to her the statement he had just heard affected him deeply but in opposite ways the justification of himself in no way moved him � he did not need that it was also far too late for his heart to be touched by the expression of the old s good will though the time bad been when he would have thanked mm for its utterance with honest tears but the revelation of his mother s toil and suffering in his behalf al ills love for her while it made his purpose firmer than ever lo be the of her enemies and his own as he went to bed that night the clock struck twelve it was just four and hours since he had left bis victim in the of if a free pardon could have been offered to him for the crime and the mine been filled with gold for him to its mouth he would not have stretched out his hand to save him in the chapter mr for his indifference to the wares of lie news boy hy sending him next morning to the station for all the local papers in each rs he expected was a paragraph headed and as an account as ingenuity devise of the unaccountable departure of mr solomon from his house at the missing man was much respected and as the prosperous owner of the mine which had yielded so largely so many years he could certainly not have been pressed by and therefore the idea of was oat of the unlikely as it seemed in the of one who knew the well the most probable explanation of the was that the unfortunate gentleman in taking a walk by night along the top must have slipped into the sea the weather had been very rough of late and the wind blowing from off the land which would have accounted � if this supposition was the body | 25 |
by their decided charm made professor known to a far larger audience than a professional teacher or writer upon such usually reaches is one of the brilliant scholars whose training has been broad and sufficient he is a was born in virginia on october th and educated first at college north and then at whence he was in he studied law at the university of virginia it in then went to university to study history and political economy holding a fellowship there he has occupied the chair of history at and university and since that of at he received in the appointment of upon that subject at university his began in with government his doctor s at a study in american politics which while by some attracted attention at home and abroad for its brilliancy of and freshness and independence of view in appeared the state an able text book on comparative history and administration for the series called of american history he wrote a book on division and in which the influences of the civil war and the subsequent process of recovery are traced from also dates an old by master and other political essays containing a delightful appreciation of adam smith and further papers developing the author s views upon political principles and forms the volume mere literature v displayed his ability as an in the wider sense upon calling for a literary handling an admirable sketch of washington clearly and his characteristics on the social and domestic side appeared in in the present tendency to adopt the scientific method in writing on politics and history and to the and parade of material scholars of professor s type are needed and welcome he not only in his writings upon the necessity and value of the literary method in such studies see the below but in his own person his meaning he is a student who makes past and present vivid by his interpretation of the raw stuff of facts and records the truth of the matter from mere literature and other essays by by permission of co � ive us the facts and nothing but the facts is the sharp of our age to its upon the face of it an eminently reasonable to tell the truth simply openly without is the first principle of all right dealing and have no license to be quit of it unquestionably they must tell us the truth or else get themselves among a very class of persons not often frankly named in polite society but the thing is by no means so easy as it looks the truth of history is a very complex and very matter it consists of things which are invisible as well as of things which are visible it is full of secret motives and of a chance of trivial and yet circumstances it is shot through with transient passions and broken here and there by what seem cruel accidents it cannot all be reduced to or newspaper or recorded statement and so it turns out when the actual test of experiment is made that the historian must have something more than a good conscience must be something more than a good man he must have an eye to see the truth and nothing but a very catholic imagination will serve to by his matter for him nothing less than keen and steady insight will n even illumination yield him the truth of what he looks upon even when he has seen the truth only half his work is done and that not the more difficult half he must then make others see it just as he does only when he has done that has he told the truth what an art of phrase and just selection must he have to take others into the light in which he stands their their ignorance their are to be overcome and driven in like a troop upon the truth the thing is infinitely difficult the skill and of it cannot be taught and so take another way which is easier they tell part of the truth � the part most to their taste or most suitable to their talents � and obtain readers to their liking among those of similar tastes and talents to their own we have our individual in history as in every other sort of literature and there are histories to every taste histories full of the details of personal biography histories that blaze with the of courts and with drum and trumpet and histories that run upon the but greater of the life of the people histories so and so lacking in mark or motive that they might have been set tip out of a dictionary without the of an author and histories so and violent in every judgment that no reader not of the historian s own party can stomach them histories of development and histories that speak only of politics those that tell nothing but what it is pleasant and interesting to know and those that tell nothing at all that one cares to remember one must be of a new and unheard of taste not to be suited among them all the trouble is after all that men do not invariably find the truth to their taste and will often deny it when they hear it and the historian has to do much more than keep his own eyes clear � he has also to catch and hold the eye of his reader tis a nice art as much intellectual as moral how shall he take the of his reader at unawares and get the facts down his throat along with the is there no way in which all the truth may be made to hold together in a narrative so strongly knit and so colored that no reader will have either the wish or the skill to tear its patterns and men will take it all and as it stands rather | 4 |
all the of grace � and and and the solemnity with which polite people was for this once exchanged for gravity and little of merriment the great steamer was for england it was a brilliant moonlight there was a move to the which had four windows old convey lo her lecture ton are a very clever young lady was veiy ingenious i am in yon r friendly consideration of it madam said car tlie ny gave my friends miss it will make i believe it was as good as a play miss and i shall never your again madam with this conclusion miss became a rod and marched the next moment a servant brought a letter she opened it a smile with which she was listening to s admiration became a stone smile as eyes fixed themselves on the paper she gave a cry like one wounded and stretching out her hands with a tender helplessness at once gave the lie to her dress bank insensible into mr � was taking past her window to england chapter v sa i months after this event a young gentleman was seated in a study book in hand but by no could he give his mind to the book he sighed turned the leaves and gave it up in despair � this was whose offended dignity and delicacy had borne him up for five months but could support him no longer he had now had leisure l� remember the many high of her whose one fault he had thought ho had flung away a jewel for a single flaw jewels are rare he began to he had been a fool and to know he was wretched what was to be done he had been silent so long that now be was ashamed to write and when he bad with a great struggle determined ik make the first a letter from his sister had given him a mysterious hint that it now be too late to attempt an was not one of those who and cure themselves in ten days by all their he was silent distracted reserved his own family who guessed tlie cause of his low spirits respected him much to approach the subject or let strangers the secret they permitted him to he miserable in peace he thanked them in his and himself to the full of their he took possession of a room looked on nay court by in that room in the of tlie immortal dead � il s one of these painful i interrupted by a visitor an old e in black and a m it was the james of an old and true friend of both houses and s for many mr had not seen depression without interest he wa acquainted with the the had few secrets from him certain features in every story according to the side we hear it from and mr on his escape from woman he called q to keep his pupil s mind fixed on the subject but to divert bim from it after noticing with regret man s depression he asked to be his i see said he what it is you want some fixed intellectual pursuit will you allow me to recommend you as many as you like dear sir said ri for i am wearied of my life i have nothing to do added he thinking be was throwing dust in his s eyes mr took his cue and then aud there proposed to hia late pupil s attention an pursuit � suited to that part of the country � it is a science said he which lifts you out of ignorant present and yon into various stages of this earth s existence you learn on its what a in this world s great is the the you find that the earth was for millions of years and liquid like a whale � in stone look for no signs of v and still fewer of life then for millions of years the upper l een and water which has into stone and in stone you find things tliat lived or gi very late in the world s in fact within a few million years of w io preceded man by a few thousand years only at least i think so since the flesh of has been found in ice in the old gentleman then hinted a of the eye that this science has also its prose that by breaking stones with iron in them men have repaired their fortunes j that coal silver iron and the e work mr had not what we have that in without a single hard word to their backs find all me gold and all the coal that is found and finds the study at the same be hinted it was amusing to be to plants not by properties but and to call everything by its long name that belongs to twenty other things as well of knowing each by a peculiar title as the vulgar do my reader he knows the boy is in love and and ii is not one folly best cured by another but is this sort of folly especially in a youth born to experience is our safe guide in things � and experience proves that and are roads to other � by b te d by n perched find irregular features � you who love with or ill the two of that books but tho can jump on of his at any turn of tjie road find that which his soul desires the meanest a boy throws at a robin is millions of years older than the and has a history and a sermon tc man i paid for breaking them ho wretched b� t if he bring his mind to do it he is at tiie with these men life is a dream � they are not to low spirits t ey smile away their human day | 9 |
to oppose integrity to be well supported he had only to give his loyal to the treaty to be well supported other would have followed him and a good custom once founded would have turned the balanced scale the right way for ever mr then came forward between two great nations with a letter or and it was addressed to the french authors which promised well for we english have a sense of shame often where we have no other virtue and seldom invite the approval of those we mean to it is a tract sensible here and there downright funny everywhere and in paragraph he is a and offers the french au his hand preparatory to a combat with them the eighth in paragraph he for his french style competition with the french academy but promises to be intelligible in paragraph forgetting he is a prize courteous but hostile he is a a penitent who has long sucked the eggs of and i am here to offer you my on your having at last asserted your rights in the british ere he gets to the end of this paragraph the penitent late is an old fox and a wish to his ways a the character of their correspondent being thus settled as clearly as three of equal authority can settle it mr goes to work and shows the french authors � st that england is a place not worth their attention as a source of income that there are twenty three theatres in london alone but that out of these only three play french pieces his way of proving this not by a list of their pieces but by a reasoning founded on comic sketches of the of piece that is popular at those respective theatres is unique in as well as reasoning it is thomas the broad fact that the english theatre owes little to the french being thus driven he it by particulars in says he the london theatres took but eight pieces out of two hundred and sixty three produced in paris these eight he this startling fact he feels demands a solution he an obliging one � the general and folly of french pieces we used to steal them in days gone by and would steal them now says he but they are no longer worth stealing they history so besides they offend and on this our turns and the french authors on moral grounds for not making their plays a this last statement making allowance for i have found better borne out by le l evidence than any other fact advanced in this not the or for in his for propriety he says one or two things that are none too fit for little girls the eighth less more moral more fit for a use off at a on another line and points out the innumerable and difficulties that must prevent an english manager from buying a french piece of its author he without saying why that the french would not in return for the english s money give him a right to his piece to english but would insist on its being literally translated � and damned in other words he as self evident that his in intelligence must be fools a common he then points out the of the treaty the manager who should a piece would get nothing for his money but a and what manager would buy on such terms when he can steal on the same he then is suddenly seized with a regard for the reputation of his cows and them with visible anxiety against who has been so as to sell le de to an english writer who the is mr has been unable to discover and therefore since he knows nothing about him can tell the french authors all about him it is rich who is going to buy up all the french pieces and them at a profit in such hands he tells them they might make money but would lose reputation now don t set your hearts upon mere money establish a make acquaintance with our best authors singularly enough that phrase always means in this mr mr mr mr mr and mrs and mr our best theatres and actors and think a little of your reputation before you think too much of o by this course he hints they will attain immediate glory and profit at some period remote when he is dead eh la and now considering that this composition is addressed to the french authors by an influential englishman in a strain which however impertinent coming as it does from a mere creature of their talent is not the reader begins to be impatient to know what is that precise thing which mr a it is not love of money that this sort of advice oh dear no g the eighth as manager of a theatre will do for his friends and over the water in return for all they have done for him in years past and all he now to them to forego in favour of him and his the best authors unknown it is a man of business who writes and having told his what he won t do and what he wishes them not to do it is now for him to say what he do in return this reasonable expectation he meets as ck pe welcomed the � gentlemen i have the honour of wishing you a very good morning charles j and exit on the light fantastic toe opinions of the press the era july in general and the conclusions promises a detailed next week and forgets all about it very in our home news fur sunday times it warmly but points out the about the eight pieces and the slippery use made of that in the argument times in a side article of two columns between two opinions and does a bit of says | 9 |
her back den struck up de dance had wheel de out in de hall and somebody say jack had come cross de river an all on em say jack an he come in he fiddle and cause he a notable do i don think he equal to we all s an i know he couldn george cause george a like is an is he a sweet an when he shake bow you couldn help you foot a � not ef you a member of de he a mighty sinful man jack an fiddle had done many souls to torment well in a minute all an jack he like boat on de water an he face right shiny an he look like ear o corn he got in he an he big foot set way out time an george he was in de lead row too ev y chance he he miss � motion right hand across an an � plenty o but i notice ain fail to one an ev y he gin she de chain him once when all down we all s een s o de hall as he her somebody step on her dress an to it i de o de silk an say o lord den she say mine now it an stop for a minute for george to pin it up while went on an george down on he knee an she look down on him mighty sweet out her eyes an say hit don meek no difference an he glance up an her eye an a he a piece right out de silk an it in he bosom an when he got up he say right low in her eyes right deep i dis at my an she look sweet as an ef ever frock i ain see it den bout de l say hit time to have an him to wait a while an jack lay he fiddle down nigh george an he picked t up an de bow cross it to try it an den he struck bout you ll me he hadn mo n de string when you could a pin george he warn an he lay he face on de fiddle he eyes sort o half an her out like he d do some nights at home in moonlight on de porch tell on a sudden he looked up an miss eye for so earnest an all on em list an he an all hands an he into a in virginia jack ain had to play no mo night even de l de fever an he out in de in he long tail coat an high collar an knocked em off de snow bud on de ash bank an chicken in de bread tray right oh he could plank em down oh a christmas like you been read bout an hard to tell which most george or me cause she as as miss an she days ev y on place got he eye on her an she an as kin be is as as de hind leg of a mule a man got to watch em all de time you break em like you kin horses now off mule indicating by a lazy but not light lash of his whip the one selected for his illustration ain no on her at all she go long all day or maybe a week easy an an thing you know you ain know she done knock you brains out ain no to be placed in em tall she as sweet as a kiss one minute an next time she come out de house she got her head up in de air an her ears backed an goin long herself like i ain good for her to walk on fox s oh yes ev y day an s y when george didn de tail cause a bob tail fox � you me he play de fiddle for he but he up in de saddle � he cradle de day went out i bout de tail on miss table over ev one day de ladies went out too miss em on miss gray an george he rid mr s chestnut well he stick so close to gray he mo los fox but lord i he know what he bout � he bout � he know de way de fox as well as he know an all de time he miss she kin de music but he him too as narrow as a hound so when de fox de head o de creek george had miss on de o de flat an he de man see de fox down on side de hounds right rank after him sort o set him back cause by rights de fox ought to a double an come back dis side he out way an two or three had see it too an de horses to de to cause de creek heap too wide to jump an way over you head an hit cold as christmas well when mr he in de lead he in ou virginia for miss too an hit set george on fire he ain said but one wait an set de chestnut s head straight for de creek de fox he up on he back an de dogs on him de ladies screamed an some de for him to come back but he ain mind he went cross flat like a wild duck an when he de water he horse try to but hand on de bridle an in he side an he to it lord a as set up but he for life an he up de bank an in de middle o de dogs time gray jacket an when mr got george in up de tail for miss to see side de creek an de hounds all over de body an i don think mr done got up em he de fox an he some | 46 |
upstairs but we used the sitting room as a common room the first night i sat with at that open window after he had made me quietly welcome i would not have changed places with any king i hope what we have done will be for our mutual benefit my boy he said as he lit his big pipe and put his feet upon the chair opposite to him our first concern must be that we do not bore each other it is good for man to be some times not always alone i took his hint and during all the years we lived together as brothers in these dear old rooms there never was the slightest strain in our relation ship nor did we once feel that we had made a mistake they were rich in every comfort � furnished indeed with a certain sober elegance which rather astonished me just at first coming from the chambers of e j folk in london but when i recollected that must be very well off i did not wonder that he had surrounded himself with so many beautiful objects but it was a man s room essentially absolutely free from feminine such as i have seen gathered in other rooms everything was honest wholesome like the man who lived in them what a training and for me and what had i done i sometimes asked myself to be so singularly and greatly blessed during all the years i lived with i only once saw him roused and out of that incident i learned the sad secret of his life it was impossible to live closely as i did with him without learning that a shadow dwelt perpetually on the man s heart and that nothing but toil that had no end kept it from wholly crushing his life he was often sad often but i never betrayed the smallest desire to obtain his confidence nor the faintest curiosity regarding the cause i knew that if he thought it well he would tell me even in those early days i held that the man or woman who seeks to into the inner r the of another life is little better than the thief who his purse or enters his house at midnight by means the day on which i saw s lion temper roused for the first time we were sitting together in his private room discussing a series of short articles he wished me to undertake when the door opened and some one came in we were used to and as i was taking notes at the time i did not look round at the first movement but sprang up with such haste and force that i started up too in no small amazement there stood within the doorway a man about forty years of age gentlemanly in appearance and very carefully and correctly dressed � not a i saw at a glance his face was handsome without being striking it had a fair saxon beauty which contrasted singularly with the dark rugged face of robert i shall never forget him as he looked then i saw that there was some fearful if not hatred between these two at least on s side his face one moment fiery red suddenly the next leaving him white as death and the stood i folk in london oat on his temples and on his looked as if they to be at the s throat but he never spoke a word nor did the other man for a full minute and i stood still also feeling that it would be in me to depart but i was rooted to the spot i have to began the stranger and at that seeing the of the look on my chiefs face i stepped between them you are right lad said with a laugh which i remember to this day stand there or there will be murder done and just then without waiting to hear further what the man had to say he disappeared through the inner door then i turned to the stranger and bade him go and my bidding was of the sir i said i don t know your business but it is evident that it is little to mr s liking you had better go there is nothing for it evidently but to follow the example of our friend pray tell him however when he returns that it might be to his advantage to hear what i have to say replied the stranger with a certain of manner which the inner quite evidently sought to conceal considerable uneasiness of mind i inclined my head slightly and the stranger moved towards the door i was so concerned about this episode that i could not fix my attention on my work and though i lingered in the office later than usual did not return nor did i see him till late that night long after our usual dinner hour he looked hot and tired as he threw himself into his chair wiping the dust off his brow i have nearly twenty miles since i saw you last but it has done me good it has done me good i got him his pipe without a word and filled my own nor did we utter another word for a good half hour i made no mistake when i asked you to come and live with me david he said at length when his pipe had soothed and comforted him you can keep your own counsel what a gift that is and how very rare it is no man s business to ask about what does not concern him i answered somewhat abashed by his praise � j folk in london nay you are wrong it is the chief business of most people he said with a grim smile but now tell me have ever heard anything about my domestic life from any of the staff nothing i | 17 |
remind each other of nobody knew what they had done last or what they should do next the principle on which the ball had been arranged was this the forty five who had agreed to bear the expense which it was would not exceed � s apiece were supplied each with five tickets to be distributed among their friends by muslin to sa ve money the supper had been provided by the and and day after day the rich smells of roast beef and the salt of boiling along the passages and ascended through the of the in grove and manly park fifty chickens had been killed presents of and were received from all sides salmon had arrived from way cases of champagne from as a wit said has prepared a banquet and is calling us in after much hesitation a grammar built by an landlord for an population that had declined to support it was selected as the most suitable for the it lay about a mile from the town and this was in itself an advantage to the of the rooms may and diligently applied themselves away they went every morning the carriage filled with yards of red cloth branches of oak and flags and chinese you see them mounted on a high ladder may and the maid striving to hand him a long which is to be hung between the windows you see them leaning over the counter of a shop explaining how and pieces of tin are to be provided with places for candles the illumination ot the room had remained an problem until ingenious had hit upon this plan you see them running up the narrow losing themselves in the passages calling for the housekeeper you see them trying to decide which is the gentlemen s which the ladies and wondering if they will be able to hire enough furniture by muslin in the town to arrange a sitting room for the as may said we shall have them hanging about our heels the whole evening if we don t try to make them comfortable at last the evening of the ball arrived and as the were striking eight dressed and ready to start knocked at may s door what dressed already said may as she leaned towards the glass illuminated on either side with wax candles and looked into the whiteness of her bosom she wore a costume of blue velvet and silk the entirely of velvet was pointed back and front and a of lace softened the contrast between it and the cream tints of the skin these and the flame coloured hair were the spirits of the shadowy whereas in her white silk her clear candid eyes was the truer whose ancient and inferior stood on her in a forgotten corner oh how nice you look exclaimed may don t think i ever saw anyone look so pure smiled and the smile may said i am afraid you don t think so much of me i am sure may you look very nice indeed and just as you would like to look to may s mind it was not difficult to suggest a new train of thought and she immediately proceeded to explain why she had chosen her present dress i knew that you and olive and violet and lord � � r by muslin knows how many others would be in white and as we shall all have to wear white at the drawing room i thought appear in this but isn t the whole thing delightful i am engaged already for several dances and i have been the step all day with then singing to herself she in front of the glass at the immediate risk of falling into the bath five and forty baked in a pie when the pie was opened the maids began to wasn t that a dainty dish to set before the king oh dear there s my coming down and dropping on to the sofa the girl up the treacherous article of dress and tell me what you think of my legs she said advancing a pair of stately violet says they are too large they seem to me to be all right but may dear you haven t got a on you can t wear with these tight dresses one can t move one s legs as it is but don t you think you ll feel catch cold not a bit of it no danger of cold when you have leather drawers then overcome by her feelings may began to sing five and forty baked in a pie etc five and forty she said breaking off have i wonder how many will be married by this time next year you know i shouldn t care to be married all at once i d want to see the world a bit first even if i liked a man i shouldn t care to marry him now time enough in about three years time when one is beginning to by muslin get tired of and parties i have often wondered what it most be like just fancy waking up and seeing a man s face on the pillow or for no no may i will not you must not i will not listen to these improper conversations v s now don t get angry there s a dear nice girl you re worse than violet my word you are but we must be off it is a good half hour s drive and we shall want to be there before nine the people will begin to come in about that time mrs was asleep in the drawing room and as they awoke her the sound of wheels was heard on the gravel outside the girls into the carriage mrs pulled herself in and blotted out in a far corner thought vaguely of asking may not to dance more than three times with may to | 15 |
which she could not immediately resist lady said not another word willing to leave the matter to its own operation and believing that could mr at that moment with propriety have spoken for himself � she believed in short what anne did not believe the same image of mr speaking for himself brought anne to composure again the charm of and of lady all faded away she never could accept him and it was not only that her feelings were still adverse to any man one her judgment on a serious consideration of the possibilities of such a case was against mr though they now had been acquainted a month she could not be that she really knew his character that he was a sensible man an agreeable man � that he talked well professed good opinions seemed to judge properly and as a man of principle � this was all clear enough he certainly knew what was right nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct she the past if not the present the names which occasionally of former associations the allusions of former practice and pursuits suggested suspicions not favourable of what he had been she saw that there had been bad habits that had been a common thing that there had been a period of his life and probably not a short one when he had been at least careless on all serious matters and though he might now think very differently who could answer for the true sentiments of a clever cautious man grown old enough to appreciate a fair character how could it ever be that his mind was truly mr was rational discreet polished � but he was not persuasion open there was never any burst of feeling any warmth of indignation or delight the evil or good of others this to anne was a decided her early impressions were she the frank the open hearted the eager character beyond all others warmth and enthusiasm did her still she felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or hasty thing than of those whose presence of mind never varied whose tongue never slipped mr was too generally agreeable various as were the in her father s house he pleased them all he endured too well � stood too well with every body he had spoken to her with some degree of of mrs clay had appeared completely to see what mrs clay was about and to hold her in contempt and yet mrs clay found him as agreeable as any body lady saw either less or more than her young friend for she saw nothing to excite distrust she could not imagine a man more exactly what he ought to be than mr nor did she ever enjoy a sweeter feeling than the hope of seeing him receive the hand of her beloved anne in church in the course of the following autumn chapter it was the beginning of february and j having been a month in bath was growing very eager for news from and she wanted to hear much more than mary communicated it was three weeks since she had heard at all she only knew that was at home again and that though considered to be recovering fast was still at and she was thinking of them all very intently one evening when a thicker letter than usual from mary was delivered to her and to the pleasure and surprise with admiral and mrs s compliments the must be in bath a circumstance to interest her they d people whom her heart turned to very naturally what is this cried sir walter the arrived in bath the who rent what have they brought you a letter from cottage sir oh those letters are convenient they secure an introduction i should have visited admiral however at any rate i know what is due to my tenant anne could listen no longer she could not even have told how the poor complexion escaped her letter engrossed her it had been begun several days back february � � mr dear anne i make no apology for my silence because i know how little people think of letters in such a place as bath you must be a great deal too happy to care for which as you well know affords little to write about we have had a very dull christmas mr and mrs have not had one dinner party all the holidays i do not reckon the as any body the holidays however are over at last i believe no children ever had such long ones i am sure i had not the house was cleared yesterday except of the little but you will be surprised to hear that they have never gone home mrs must be an odd mother to part with them so long i do not understand it they are not at all nice children in my opinion but mrs seems to like them quite as well if not better than her what dreadful weather we have had it may not be felt in bath with your nice but in the country it is some consequence i have not had a creature call on me since the second week in january except charles who has been calling much oftener than was welcome between ourselves i think it a great pity did not remain at as long as it would have kept her a little out of his way the carriage is gone to day to bring and the tomorrow we are not asked to dine with them however till the day after mrs is so afraid of her being fatigued by the journey which is not very likely considering the care that will be taken of her and it would be much | 26 |
he was behind those grim gray walls � and declaring her determination to see him soon the next day he wrote her a letter in reply which he gave to to mail it ran dear petty � i fancy you are a little to think i cannot be with you any more soon but you mustn t be i suppose you read all about the sentence in the paper i came out here yesterday morning � nearly noon if i had time dearest i d write you a long letter describing the situation so as to ease your mind but i haven t it s against the rules and i am really doing this secretly i m here though safe enough and wish i were out of course sweetest you must be careful how you try to see me you can t do me much service outside of cheering me up and you may do yourself great harm sometimes now i think i have done you much more harm than i can ever make up to you for i am to be in the court of special sixth and chestnut on friday at two o clock but you cannot see me there i ll be out in charge of my counsel you must be careful perhaps you ll think better and not come here the this last touch was one of pure gloom the first had ever introduced into their relationship for he had never been in a position where a gloomy thought could intrude itself in regard to her hitherto he had been in the position of the superior being the one who was being sought � although was and had been well worth seeking � and he had thought that he might escape and so grow in dignity and power until she might not possibly be worthy of him any longer he had had that thought but here in it was a different matter s position reduced in value as it was by her long ardent relationship with him was now nevertheless superior to his � apparently so she ought not to become a s bride she ought not to want to and she might not want to for all he knew she might change her mind she ought not to wait for him her life was not yet ruined the public did not know so he thought � not generally anyhow � that she had been his mistress she might marry did he not owe it to her to a sense of fair play in himself to ask her to give him up or at least think over the wisdom of doing so he did her the justice to believe that she would not want to give him up and in his position however it might be to her it was an advantage a connecting link with the finest period of his past life to have her continue to love him he could not however this note in his cell in s presence and giving it to him to mail was kindly keeping a respectful distance though he was supposed to be present refrain from adding at the last moment this little touch of doubt which when she read it struck to the heart she read it as gloom on his part � great depression the was really breaking his spirit then and he had held up so so long she was madly eager to get to him to console him even though it was difficult perilous her father s possible future discoveries in with her did not interest the her he had done his worst since the day she had seen frank she had turned on her father once for all she could not love him any more � she knew that frank was superior the life he had offered her was better than her home life and he need not have gone to the she reasoned if it had not been for old butler that might be good wrath but it certainly was not kindness religion her father could go to the de il now she did not love him any more there was an end of it in spite of s and her feeling that die might be exposed publicly by the reckless desire which still drew her to him she realized in the back of her feverish brain that nothing but marriage with him would save her now her future position whatever it was to be depended on him she was too old too enlightened by him to care for any one but him he must save her in regard to visits from the various members of his family � liis mother and father his brother his wife and his sister � made it plain to them on one of the days on which he was out attending a hearing that even pro it could be arranged he did not think they should come oftener than once in three months he t them or sent word by he expected to be coming out from time to time yet on court orders he really did not care to see much of any of them at present he was sick of the whole social scheme of things he wanted to be rid of the turmoil he had been in seeing it had proved so useless he had used nearly fifteen thousand dollars thus far in defending court costs family maintenance etc but he did not mind that he expected to make some little money working through his family were not utterly without funds sufficient to live in a small way he had advised them to take very commonplace houses which they did � his mother and father and brothers and sister moving to a three story brick of about the of the the old street house and his wife to a smaller less expensive two story one on north twenty first street near the not | 43 |
of the heavy window curtains she was going to play her highest card and it made her feel a little nervous she was afraid of appearing too much interested or excited she felt sure was watching her carefully she knew that with some men what she was about to say would have exactly the contrary effect to that which she desired to produce but she trusted to an almost strain of honour which she had observed once or twice in he would rather do anything than lose the least or of his self respect mrs part ii i will tell you why she said smelling the flowers again and i shall have to say something extremely disagreeable i shall offend your taste horribly i really doubt whether you will ever forgive me but i must consider elizabeth you know she paused � it really was an odious thing to say she wondered what would do � she wondered what frank would think � fortunately he would only hear her version of the story � would be very certain not to mention it in point of fact then you come here too often mr she said there are moments when it is quite impossible to maintain an appearance of philosophic calm was pretty well master of himself on most occasions but just now he could not manage to conceal his feelings he blushed violently and that added most materially to his sense of anger and wretchedness mrs frank did not give him time to speak yes she said quickly looking at him with an air of becoming distraction and stretching out her hands � flowers and all � with a appealing gesture it is a horrible thing to say to you you can never forgive me i have outraged your taste i know and entirely disgusted you but then people will talk and there is nobody to tell you but me speaking is forced upon me � i really cannot help myself this is extremely painful said i ch iii a sketch in black and white am more than sorry that i should have caused you any annoyance or in any way � really it is too unpleasant he added angrily turning away pray pray remember cried mrs frank hastily coming a step nearer to him and speaking � pray remember that elizabeth knows nothing of all this � is absolutely ignorant of it she positively knows nothing of it stood looking down perhaps he had never felt so thoroughly uncomfortable in all his life before he had been trying delicate and philosophic experiments as he supposed and the world at large was him all the while of an ordinary stupid bit of the position seemed to him vulgar he felt enraged with himself enraged with enraged with the whole universe he had got entangled � yes that was what people were saying � with mrs he could fancy the way this and that and the other person talked him over and laughed as they each added their little of gossip to the heap and he had always kept himself so free of this sort of thing oh it really was too odious heavens and earth what a fool he had been and what a commonplace scrape he had got himself into just then elizabeth came in from her walk mrs frank and heard her shut the front door and come lightly and quickly up the stairs they stood together in the shady back drawing room with its soft dusky colours and quaint furniture feeling like two suddenly discovered mrs il chapter iv looking up i saw it was a hung in a little cage � i can t get out i can t get out said the elizabeth certainly looked very handsome as she came into the room she still wore nothing but black but within the last few months she had taken to dressing in a rather superb manner this afternoon she had been paying some visits and was arrayed in a gown of some rich material loaded with jet which glanced and glittered as she moved her mantle � fitting tightly over the shoulders and showing the lines of the bust � matched her gown and was bordered with deep soft black fur she had on a little french bonnet tying with broad strings under the chin � the extreme of which had thrown into a small ecstasy of envy and admiration the first time she saw it perhaps elizabeth s style of dress was more suitable to a woman of forty than to a girl of barely four and twenty but it had the effect of making her look younger and not older than her real age mrs frank had a gift for receiving rapid ch iv a sketch in black and white she glanced up at her sister in law as she entered the room and said to herself � certainly elizabeth is wonderfully distinguished looking glanced up at her too he was sensible of a sharp feeling of longing and regret he was not at all under the impression that he was what is called in love with elizabeth � he was utterly uncertain about the future � but he knew that their pleasant friendship was at an end any way mrs frank had just given it its nothing absolutely nothing could put things back on their old easy footing again had nothing to say he stood silent feeling wretched was the first to regain her presence of mind and moved forward to meet her sister in law with a rather brilliant smile elizabeth quite unconscious of all the plots against her peace took mrs frank s hand and then turning to said cordially � how nice of you both to wait for me what delicious flowers where did you get them oh youve been playing she added turning again to have you brought that thing of s you promised me come into the other | 32 |
they were now in the black by near the e and the hands were crowding in the bell was ringing and the serpent was a serpent of many and the elephant was getting ready the strange old woman was delighted with the very bell it was the she had ever heard i e said and sounded grand she asked him when he stopped to shake hands with her before going in how long he had worked there a dozen year he told her i must the hand said she that has worked in this fine factory for a dozen year and she lifted it though he would have prevented her and put it to her what harmony besides her age and her simplicity surrounded her he did not know but even in this fantastic action there was a something neither out of time nor place a something which it seemed as if nobody else could have made as serious or done with such a natural and touching air he had been at his loom half an hour thinking about this old woman when having occasion to move round the loom for its he glanced through a window which was in his comer and saw her still looking up at the pile of building lost in admiration heedless of the smoke and mud and wet and of her two long journeys she was gazing at it as if the heavy that issued from its many stories were proud music to her she was gone by and by and the day after her and the lights sprung up again and the express whirled in sight of the fairy palace over the arches near little felt amid the of the machinery and scarcely heard above its crash and rattle long before then his thoughts had gone back to the dreary room above the little shop and to the figure heavy on the bed but heavier on his heart machinery throbbing feebly like a fainting stopped the again tiie glare of light and heat the heavy in the black wet night � their tall chimneys rising up into the air like towers of he had spoken to only night it was true and had walked with her a little way but he had his new misfortune on him in which no one else could give him a moment s relief and for the sake of it and because he knew t hard times himself to want that softening of his anger which no voice but hers could effect he felt he might so far disregard what she had said as to wait for her again he waited but she had him she was gone on no other night in the year could he so ill have spared her patient face o better to have no home in which to lay his head than to have a home and dread to go to it through such a cause he ate and drank for he was exhausted � but he httle knew or cared what and he wandered about in the chill rain and thinking and brooding and brooding no word of a new marriage had ever passed between them but had taken great pity on him years ago and to her alone he had opened his heart all this time on the subject of his miseries and he knew well that if he were to ask her she would take him he thought of the home he might at that moment have been seeking with pleasure and pride of the different man he might have been that night of the lightness then in his now heavy laden breast of the then restored honor self reject and tranquillity all torn to pieces he thought of ihe waste of the best part of his life of the change it made in his character for the worse every day of the nature of his existence bound hand and foot to a dead woman and tormented by a demon in her shape he thought of how young when they were first brought together in these circumstances how mature now how soon to grow old he thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her how she had pursued her own lone quiet path � for him � and how he had sometimes seen a shade of melancholy on her blessed face that smote him with and despair he set the picture of her up beside the infamous image of last night and thought could it be that the whole course of one so gentle good and self denying was to such a wretch as that filled with these thoughts � so filled that he had an sense of growing larger of being placed in some new and relation towards the objects among which he passed of seeing the round eveiy misty light turn red � he went home for shelter hard times m chapter a ca family in i ie to which the black ladder had often been raised the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a wife and a brood of hungry babies and added to his thoughts the stem reflection i at of all the of this existence upon earth not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as ii the of birth was nothing to it for say that the child of a king and the child of a were bom to night in the same moment what was that to the death of any human creature who was serviceable to or beloved by another while this abandoned woman lived on from the outside of his home he gloomily passed to the inside with ended breath and with a slow footstep he went up to his door opened it and so into the room quiet and peace were there was there | 8 |
old daniel but he must learn to be fond of baby that will be a comfort to him june george seems to me to be almost beside himself i cannot comprehend what his wife is doing the of a saint to him she has apparently already come to realize that she is not succeeding in and is determined to conquer by display and ways of living she cannot know us very well if she that such means will do here her latest move i find it hard to forgive her i do not understand how george can have done it no matter how much she urged him but i am of course profoundly ignorant how such a woman a man i am afraid one thing which made him attractive to me was that he was so willing to be influenced but we see a man in a light entirely different when it is another woman who shapes his life what once seemed a fine compliance takes on a strange appearance of weakness when we are no longer the moving force but i think i do myself no more than justice when i feel that at least i tried always to influence george for his own good poor miss came over directly after breakfast this morning to tell me she had been brooding over it half the night poor soul and her eyes looked actually withered with crying and lack of sleep i know i it she kept saying and of course he didn t mean to insult me but to think anybody dared to ask me to sell the house the house that our family has lived in for four generations it would have killed my father if he had known i should live to come to this i tried to soothe her and to make her believe that in offering to buy her house george had thought only of how much he admired it and not at all of her feelings which he could not understand of course he could not understand my feelings miss said with a bitterness which i am sure june was unconscious he never had a family and i ought to remember that she grew somewhat more calm as she her heart she told me george had praised the place and said how much he had always liked it he confessed that it was his wife who first suggested the purchase she wanted a house where she could entertain and which would be of more importance than the one in which she lived he said miss went on with a strange mingling of pride and sorrow his wife felt that the house in itself would give any family social standing i don t know how pleased his wife would be if she knew he told me but he said it he told me she meant to have and improvements she must feel as if she owned it already he said she had an iron dog stored somewhere that she meant to put on the lawn think of it an iron dog on our old lawn i then suddenly all the sorrow of her lot seemed to her at once and she broke down completely she sobbed so and with so complete an of herself to her grief that i cried with her even while i was trying to stop her tears it is n t just george s coming to ask me to sell the place she said it is all of it it s my being so poor i can t keep up the name and the family s ending with me and none of my kin even to bury me it s all of the hurts i ve got from life and it s growing so old i ve no strength any longer to bear them oh it s having to keep on living when i want to be dead i threw my arms about her and kissed the tears the of a saint from her wrinkled cheeks though there were about as many on my own don t i begged her don f dear miss tou break my heart i we are all of us your kin and you know we love you dearly she returned my embrace and tried to check her sobbing i know it s cowardly she got out it s cowardly and wicked i never broke down so before won t dear just give me a little time dear miss i made her stay with me all day and indeed she was in no condition to do anything else i got her to take a nap in the afternoon and when she went home she was once more her own brave self she said good night with one of her clumsy joking speeches good by my dear she said the next time i come i try not to be so much like the girl that had a creek in her back and a in each eye she is always when she does not quite trust herself to be serious and i who do not dare to trust myself to think about george and his wife had better stop writing june presented himself at twilight and found me sitting alone out on the i watched his tall figure coming up the bent with age a little but still massive and vigorous and somehow by the time he was near enough to speak i felt that i had caught his mood he smiled as he greeted me where s the baby he demanded i supposed i should find you giving it its supper june there is n t any it in this house was my retort and as for baby s supper you are just as ignorant as a man always is any woman would know that babies are put to bed long before this he grinned down upon me from his height how should i know what time it | 3 |
to mrs q and the family destroy the power of as a rival with the aid of the king of france louis xii he assistance to the latter who comes to and young now fearing for his life at the hands of his treacherous father in law deserts rome and and louis xii proceeds against falls and s wife as representative of the pope aged eighteen is sent to receive the homage of but the plot merely there comes a nice point in here on which comment is the basis it was one time assumed that alexander the father during all these various treated his daughter as his mistress her brother also bore the same relation to her father and son were rivals then for the affections and of the daughter sister to the affections of the son the father has the daughter her husband back to rome from all accounts he was very much in love with his wife who was beautiful but dangerous because of her charms and the manner in which she was by others in when he was twenty and twenty three he was back and the next year because of caesar s jealousy of his of his own wife caesar being perhaps denied his usual freedom was while going up the steps of the palace by his brother in law and that in the presence of his father in law alexander vi the pope of rome according to one account on sight of jumping out from behind a column sought refuge behind alexander the pope who spread out his purple robe to protect him through which drove his knife into the bosom of his brother in law the dear old father and father in law was severely shocked he was quite depressed in fact he shook his head the wound was not fatal however was removed to the house of a cardinal near by where he was attended by his wife and his sister in law wife of both of whom he apparently feared a little for they were compelled first to partake of all food presented in order to prove that it was not poisoned in this in this sick chamber doorway � suddenly and unexpectedly one day there appears the figure of the scene and present is not given is in his bed and this time dies is the crime a at forty not at all this is papa alexander s own this is a family affair and father is very fond of caesar so the matter is hushed up witness the interesting final chapters goes off october to fight the princes in once more among whom are and one of s ex husbands july alexander leaves the palace in rome to fight the one of the two powerful families of rome with the assistance of the other powerful family the in his absence his beloved is acting pope january first or is to son and heir to d whose famous villa near rome is still to be seen neither nor his father was anxious for this union but papa alexander pope of rome has set his heart on it by and threats he brings about a marriage � not being present � celebrated with great pomp at st peter s january arrives in the presence of her new husband who falls seriously in love with her her fate is now to settle down and no further befall on account of her except one a certain an italian noble appears on the scene and falls violently in love with her she is only twenty three or four even now d her new husband becomes violently jealous and result further peace until her death in in her thirty ninth year during which period she had four children by � three boys and one girl as for brother caesar he was unfortunately leading a more career on december when he was only twenty six as a general fighting the allied minor princes in he caused to be in his at and da two who with others had against him some time before at awed by his growing power they had been so foolish as to endeavor to him by for him from their and presenting it to him and allowing themselves to be to his house by of friendship result august father pope alexander vi charming society figure polished gentleman lover of the chase patron of the arts for whom and had worked breathes his last he and caesar had fallen desperately mrs q and the family sick at the same time of a fever when caesar sufficiently to attend to his affairs things are already in a bad way the are to seat a pope to the the spanish on whom he has relied do not prove friendly and he loses his control the funds which papa was wont to supply for his are no longer pope ii succeeding to the throne takes away from caesar the assigned to him by his father for the honor of recovering what our have in may having gone to on a safe conduct for the spanish governor of that city he is arrested and sent to spain where he is thrown into prison at the end of two years he to escape and to the court of his brother in law the king of who him to aid in the castle of a subject here march while elsewhere is peacefully with her he is killed i have given but a feeble outline of this charming mixed in with it are constant or of wealthy and the of their estates whenever cash for the of caesar s wars or the protection of properties are needed the and child loving old pope was exceedingly about these little matters of human life when he died there was a fight over his coffin between priests of different and belonging to caesar the coffin being too short his body was down in | 43 |
together in such a manner that the beans are not broken and on this account the potatoes are well before the beans are put into them this is in a large bowl and a hole made in the middle of it into which a or roll of butter is thrust and then covered up until it is melted after this every one takes a spoon and away with his utmost vigour dipping every morsel into the well of butter in the middle before he puts it into his mouth indeed from the strong competition which goes forward and the rapid motion of each right hand no spectator could be mistaken in the motive of their proceedings to the principle of the old proverb devil take the from another dish made of potatoes in much the same way if there were beans for instance in it would be this practice of many persons eating out of the sim ie dish though irish and not is of very old it at the last supper let us hope however that like the old custom which once pre in ireland of several persons drinking at meals out of the same the usage we speak of will soon be replaced by one of more cleanliness and individual comfort after dinner the began to go round for in these days punch was a luxury almost unknown to the class we arc writing of in ct nobody there knew how to make it but the who wisely kept the secret to herself aware that if the were presented to them in such a shape they would not know when to stop and she herself might fall short of the snug bottle that is usually kept as a treat for x which she continues to pay during the con of her come who was to soften fast it s your turn now to a glass of what never seen � take the glass deed will i� but the is i never it hard no but i ll take a o hot an a grain o sugar an it that an as much seeds as will lie upon a sixpence does me good for god help me the stomach isn t at all me in regard o being up so much at night an deprived of my rest said one of them is it that you war out one night an brought to some grand lady to the wait for poor thing an c i ll for about a o spirits to take the smell o the off it the poor she s a little weak stiu an indeed it s how she stood it out but my dear god s good to his own an fits the back to the burden praise be to his name she then proceeded to the of spirits for herself or in other words to mix a good ladies making it as the phrase goes hot strong and sweet � not forgetting the to give it a this being accomplished she made the wan grace for mrs echo still throwing in a w � d now and then to sustain her part in the conversation which waa now rising fast into mirth lai ter and well but about the lady of quality yon tell us that oh many a thing happened me as well worth if you go to that but i ll tell it to you for sure the curiosity s to why i was one night at home a wan is a kind of small or meal tea with thi aa asleep an i hears a horse s for the bare life up to the door i immediately put my head out an the says are you mrs moan the name that s an me your honour myself dress yourself thin he for you re sadly wanted dress your el and mount behind me for there s not a moment to be lost at the same time i forgot to say that his hat was tied about his ce in a way that couldn t catch a glimpse of it well my dear we didn t let the grass grow feet for about a mile or so now he you must allow yourself to be an it s useless to oppose it for it must be done there s the character maybe the life of a great lady at stake so be quiet till i cover your eyes or he out a great oath it ll be worse for you i m a desperate man an sure enough i could feel the heart of him his ribs as if it would burst in pieces well my wliat could i do in the hands of a man that was strong and desperate so i cover my eyes an welcome only fer the lady s sake make no delay that he dashed his spurs into the poor horse an he an like a lime already any way in about half an hour i found myself in a grand bed room an as was put into the door he whispers me to bring the child to him in the next room as soon aa it would be born well sure i did so after the mother in a ir way but what ud you have of it � the first thing i see an the table was a purse of money an a case of pistols at him i thought the devil lord guard us i was in his � ice he looked so black and terrible about the brows now my good woman he fig you ve acted well but there s more to be done yet take your choice of these two he this purse or the contents of one of these pistols as your reward you must the child on the spot in the name of god an his mother be you man or devil i defy you i an innocent | 50 |
and spirits dancing in rapture in half a waa at the union street again and the other two proceeding together and had passed them to their dire tion towards the quiet and retired walk where the power of conversation would make tha present hour a indeed and prepare it for all tha which the happiest of their own future lives could bestow there tliey exchanged again feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure every thing but which had been followed by so many years of division and there they again into the past more exquisitely happy perhaps in their re union than when it had been first projected more tender more tried more in a knowledge of each other s character truth and attachment more equal to act justified in acting and there as they slowly paced the gradual ascent of every group around them seeing bustling girls nor nursery maids and they could indulge in and and especially in what had directly preceded the present which were so and so c in interest all ths little of the last week were gone through and at yesterday and lo day there could scarcely be an end she had not mistaken him jealousy of mr bad been the weight the doubt the torment that bad begun to operate in ihe very hour of first meeting her in bath that had returned a short lo ruin tho concert and that had influenced him in every thing ba bad said and done or omitted to say and do in the and hours it had been gradually yielding to the ter hopes which her looks or words or actions encouraged it bad been at last bv those talked those i captain which bad reached him while and under the of which he had a sheet of paper and out hid feelings of he then written was to be r he persisted in loved none but she i never been ua never even believed himself to see her equal thus mu oh indeed he was ad to ed � that he had been constant nay ly tb t he had meant to forget her and believed it to be done he had imagined when he had only been angry and he bad been unjust to her merits because he b� ed a from her was now fixed on bis mind as tion itself maintaining the loveliest of fortitude but he was obliged to that only at had he learnt ta do her and only at had b begun to understand at he lad received of more than one sort the admiration of mr hm at last roused him and tne on tbe and captain s had her superiority in his preceding attempts to attach himself to grove the of angry pride he protested tliat he had lor ever felt it to be impossible that he ha l not not care for though till that day till tbe leisure for reflection which it be had not the perfect excellence of the mind with which s could so ill bear a comparison or the perfect hold it � over his own there he bin learnt to between the of and the obstinacy of between the daring of and the resolution of a collected mind there he had seen every thing to in his estimation tbe woman he had lost and there begun lo the pride the folly the madness of resentment which had kept him from trying to regain her when in i way h from that period his penance had become he had sooner been free from the horror and remorse first few days of s accident no sooner begun lo feel alive again than he bad begun to feel himself though not at liberty b i mud he that i was by u en man that nor hia wife � mutual i to decree could this instantly n i lo that might have felt nay s � i was no at my i i was here in honour wished it i been i bad not thought seriously on before i not considered that my excessive must have its danger of ill on in many ways tint i had no right to be trying whether i could myself to either of the at the risk of raising even an report were th� re no other ill i had been wrong and abide the i he too in short it lie had entangled himself and that precisely as ha became fully of his not for at all ha mast regard himself as bound lo her if ner sentiments for him were what the it determined bim to leave and await ber r� elsewhere he would gladly by any i means whatever feelings or m him exist and he went therefore lo his brother s meaning a while to return to and as t i require � i wm fix with edward said he and saw him i could have no other pleasure i none i after you very particularly asked even if vou were personally altered little suspecting that to my eve you could never alter smiled and let it pass it was too a blunder for a reproach it is for a woman lo be assured in ber eight and twentieth year t site has not lost charm of earlier youth bnt the value of such homage � to anne by comparing it with word and feeling it to be the result not the cause of s r� of his warm attachment he remained in the of his own pride and the of his own i at onr a from n by the is and of lier engagement with here said he worst of my stale for now i at least put e f in tbe way of j i bit myself t io to be waiting so long in only for evil had been dreadful within ihe five i said i | 26 |
it with much benefit to the cause of sacred criticism was anticipated from die discovery of this ms nor has the hope i believe been disappointed i was surprised to find the writing so as a close inspection discovered it but i can easily conceive of its being overlooked and neglected if attention had not been called to it by accident i he ms has been and is we saw also in the library a latin translation of which was one of the earliest specimens of and proves how little comparatively we improved this art the ink is good and the letters making allowance for a in their appearance are very neat in the museum several remarkable were shown one was an ancient harp the self same it is said which was possessed by the brave the renowned whose glories has sung and bade us remember the assured us that it could be traced back and be identified as his by a chain of convincing evidence the frame is carved and was formerly enriched with or the subsequently showed the a printed of this ms which was very beautiful as well as accurate and executed at the expense of the college he has seen some other copies from the same impression in different public one of which is in that of under the tide of of an n to l r of value these however were a long while ago when the harp was sent with the of the irish princes to the pope at rome at least so says the le the museum possesses also many antique and pieces of which have been foimd at different times in various parts of the country under and but our attention was particularly called to two swords of singular make and temper the metal is mixed and proved to be the same composition with that of the swords which have been dug up from the plains of the implements themselves are precisely similar in shape and swords of this kind are known to have been made and used only by these weapons have upon to confirm an opinion that a and friendly intercourse were maintained between ireland and during the prosperity of that republic the museum contains a large number of preparations of the of the human frame many of them are horribly natural in the collection there several full length wax figures of females exhibiting their and representing them in every stage of among other we beheld the skeleton of a man ho died of this is said to have been occasioned by his habits of life he was to and being poor was sometimes obliged to pass his nights upon the bare ground this produced various which terminated in the manner mentioned the skeleton of the famous irish giant was another object his height was feet and an half and the present stature of his skeleton is wonderfully tall although of course materially reduced from the size of the living body animal both stones and gravel were also seen some of a comparatively enormous size two or three of the former measured seven or eight inches in of an to the university kitchen with the whole apparatus is well deserving attention cooking is performed entirely by the agency of steam the are turned by its operation and the meat and vegetables are boiled or rather in it� from the place of the steam engine are carried under the floors of the college chapel and made at proper intervals through the paved by which means the room above is easily and effectually warmed adjoining to the university are extensive and gardens laid out in walks for the exercise and of the officers and students the buildings appropriated to resemble hall at and the front view of the union at the rooms are constructed on a similar principle with those of hall at cambridge at least those which we saw and they seemed to be a specimen of all the whole number of students in college is between and of these notwithstanding the great number of college buildings not much more than can be lodged within the walls the others occupy apartments where they think best in different parts of the city there is a service of prayer in the chapel three times a day the students cannot all be in it at once but they observe some order by which they are each present during one of the seasons at a certain hour each night nine i believe the college gates are closed and the students are obliged under penalty of a fine to report themselves before o clock to the youngest fellow who is called dean to prevent their entering or escaping from the rooms at hours the lower windows are secured by iron bars in the same way as or the funds of the college are invested in real estate chiefly lands which yield about or j sterling three large additional buildings of free stone for the of the students have lately been erected which cost defence f ist � a which has ed the college and suspended two or three other projected works every thing of interest connected the university we took leave of our very obliging about o clock and returned to the commercial buildings the remainder of the morning was occupied with engage on s account who leaves this evening in the packet for this friend has continued with me longer than i had reason to hope on ing but the pleasure which i have had in the lengthened intercourse only adds to the regret which i ex in the present separation the hours which i have passed in his society have left with me many recollections which can never be and which will ever be dear to feeling � t t be continued art iii � i a defence of in reply to the attack of an advocate for y at by ram at pages | 48 |
same nail if you ve changed your mind and want my to come down in the world you d better say so i ve never changed i m a plain now just as i used to be before doctrine came up i world as i find it in trade and everything else i m contented to be no worse than my neighbours but if you wan us to come down in the world say so i shall know better what u do then you talk shall you come down in the world fo want of this letter about your son well whether or not i consider it very of you t refuse it such doings may be lined with religion but outside the have a nasty dog in the look you might as well it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you didn set a going this sort of this spirit wanting to play bi and banker everywhere � if s this sort of makes a man s name if you insist on with me it will be exceedingly to as well as myself said mr with a more eagerness and i don t want to quarrel for my interest � and perhaps fo yours that we should be i bear you no grudge think no worse of you than i do of other people a man who himself and the length in prayers and so on tha you do believes in his religion whatever it may be you could over your capital just as fast with cursing and � plenty o fellows do you like to be master there s no denying that you be first chop in heaven else you won t like it much but you re mi sister s and we ought to stick together and u i she ll consider it your fault if we quarrel because you at a in this way and refuse to do a good turn aiid i don mean to say i shall bear it well i consider it mr rose began to button his and looked steadily a his brother in law meaning to imply a demand for a decisive this was not the first time that mr had begun by ad mr and had ended by seeing a very reflect of himself in the coarse mirror which tha s mind presented to tlie lights and shadows o book n � old and young ms fellow and perhaps his to have warned him how the scene would end but a rail fed fountain will be generous with its waters even in the rain when they are worse than useless and a fine of is apt to be equally irrepressible it was not in mr s nature to directly in of uncomfortable suggestions before changing his course he always needed to shape his motives aad bring them with his habitual standard he said at last � i will reflect a little i will mention the subject to i shall probably send you a letter very well as soon as you can please i hope it will all be � i see you to morrow chapter xiv follows here the strict receipt for that to dainty meat named idleness which many eat and call it sweet f nt like a hound mix well with stir them round with thick oil o and mean lies serve the you choose to if in dead men s mb s consultation of seemed to have had the t desired by mr for early the next morning a letter came could carry to mr as the testimony the old was staying in bed on account of the cold weather and as mary was not to be seen in the sitting room went up stairs immediately and presented the letter to his who propped up comfortably on a bed rest was not less able than usual to enjoy his consciousness of wisdom in and mankind he put on his spectacles to read the up his lips and drawing down their comers under the i will not decline to state my conviction � what fine words the fellow puts he s as fine as an � that on has not obtained any advance of money en promised by mr � promised who said i had ever promised i promise nothing � i shall make as long as i and that considering the of such a proceeding it is unreasonable to presume that a ng man of sense and character would attempt t � h but the gentleman doesn t say you are a young man of sense and character mark you that sir � as to my own concern with any report of a nature i distinctly affirm that i never made any statement to the effect that r son had borrowed money on any pro that might to on mr s � bless mj heart property � � lawyer is to him he couldn t speak finer if he wanted to borrow well mr here looked over his spectacles at while h handed back the letter to him with a contemptuous gesture don t suppose i believe a thing because writes it out fine eh coloured you wished to have the letter sir i think it very likely that mr s denial is as good as the au which told you what he every bit i never said i believed either one or the other now what d you expect � said mr keeping oi his spectacles but his hands under his i expect nothing sir with difficulty from his irritation came to bring you the letter i you uke i will bid you good morning not yet not yet ring the bell i want to come it was a servant who came in answer to the bell teu to come said mr impatiently business had she to go away he spoke in the same tone mary came why couldn t you sit | 14 |
world that its mrs should in certain ways fall short of one cannot understand without laying hands to pitch which is very while there be plenty willing to undertake the experiment all of which is of small concern beyond the fact that it gave mrs ground for grievance and bred for her a greater love in the greek girl s heart the scorn of women iii and in this way things went along for a month � mrs striving to withhold the man from the greek s against the time of s coming the miles each day on the dreary trail her strength against the model woman the straining every nerve to land the prize and the man moving through it all like a flying very proud of himself whom he believed to be a second don it was nobody s fault except the man s that at last landed him the way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know but the way of a woman with a man all conception whence the prophet were indeed unwise who would dare s course twenty four hours in advance perhaps the model woman s attraction lay in that to the eye she was a handsome animal perhaps she fascinated him with her old world talk of the scorn of women palaces and princes she dazzled him whose life had been worked out in and he at last agreed to her suggestion of a run down the river and a marriage at forty mile in token of his intention he bought dogs from � more than one is necessary when a woman like takes to the trail � and then went up the creek to give orders for the of his mines during his absence he had given it out rather vaguely that he needed the animals for lumber from the mill to his and right here is where his fitness he agreed to furnish dogs on a given date but no sooner had turned his toes up creek than himself away in to did she know where mr had gone he had reed to supply that gentleman with a big string of dogs by a time but that one the german had been buying up the brutes and the scorn of women the market it was very necessary he should see mr because of the one he would be all of a week in filling the contract she did know where he had gone up creek good he would strike out after him at once and inform him of the unhappy delay did he understand her to say that mr needed the dogs on friday night that he must have them by that time it was too bad but it was the fault of the one who had bid up the prices they had jumped fifty dollars per head and should he buy on the rising market he would lose by the contract he wondered if mr would be willing to meet the advance she knew he would being mr lip s friend she would even meet the difference herself and he was to say nothing about it she was kind to so look to his interests friday night did she say good the dogs would be on hand an hour later knew the was to be pulled off on friday night also that had gone up creek and her hands were the scorn of women tied on friday morning the official bearing from the governor arrived over the ice besides the he brought news of he had passed her camp at sixty mile and dogs were in good condition and she would doubtless be in on the morrow mrs experienced a great relief on hearing this was safe up creek and ere the greek girl could again lay hands upon him his bride would be on the ground but that afternoon her big st defending her front stoop was by a party of trail starved he was buried beneath the mass for about thirty seconds when rescued by a couple of and as stout men had he remained down two minutes the chances were large that he would have been roughly and carried away in the respective of the attacking party but as it was it was a mere case of neat and came to repair the especially a right fore which had the scorn of women been left a of a second too long in some other dog s mouth as he put on his to go the talk turned upon and in natural passed on to the � er horrid woman remarked incidentally that she intended jumping out down river that night with and further ventured the information that accidents were very likely at that time of year so mrs s thoughts of were than ever she wrote a note addressed it to the man in question and it to a messenger who lay in wait at the mouth of creek another man bearing a note from also waited at that point so it happened that riding his merrily down with the last daylight received the notes together he tore s across no he would not go to see her there were greater things that night besides she was out of the but mrs he would observe her last wish � or rather the last wi b the scorn of women it would be possible for him to observe � and meet her at the governor s ball to hear what she had to say from the tone of the writing it was evidently important perhaps � he smiled fondly but failed to shape the thought confound it all what a lucky fellow he was with the women any way scattering her letter to the frost he the dogs into a swinging and headed for his cabin it was to be a and he had to dig up the costume used at the opera | 21 |
the necessary evidence they bribe them with large sums to� make out of the way by the time the trial comes on what is or to the even of the second class of these houses they will in k few hours some poor flat of p vol i l the houses twice that sum some years ago the great bell in st james s street was when the for y won were laid at tlie party disappeared be fore the time appointed for the trial what would of that have cared to give or to the better surely to pay either of these sums or larger still if less would not be accepted than to be subjected to to the amount of and the probability of being sent to the tread mill for when sufficiently identified they are liable to be sent thither only fancy the stout farmer looking hero of the great house in st constantly working like a for two or three months at the tread mill � as a candidate for the occupation some time ago happily expressed himself at one of our police offices but not only are the of these at all times ready to give large sums tc get against them but they take care to keep on as good terms with the police as possible so as not to be taken by surprise by them it is notorious that of the old police were in the pay of the and more than a suspicion has been expressed by of the in the the houses that some persons belonging to the body are in the same why else as was asked in september last by one of the at the why else did two refuse to take two of square into who were easily within their reach � even though the for their apprehension were produced until some better law than the present be passed it is out of the question to suppose that houses will ever be put down in the metropolis much greater for conviction must be and it is a question whether when the party has succeeded in obtaining a conviction some adequate reward should not be given him at all events it is clear that the law as it at present stands b wholly inadequate to cope with the evil whether we could get such a one as would really root out the who people these of � were any of our to propose i � is a point on which i entertain considerable doubts if it be true and i fear it that the majority of the members of s are and gentlemen belonging to either house of parliament � then it would be really too much to expect that they l the would assist in passing a law which they would most probably be the first to aid in breaking i suspect that if we wait until some such parties as the of in the lords or mr thomas in tho for the of in the metropolis we have to wait until er v society � the higher classes their opinion of themselves � their disregard of the truth � their � extent to which among them their conduct in pecuniary matters � virtue laughed at among them � their want of their social the extent to which among them � remarks on their marriages � their want of benevolence to mankind generally � their notions of di � the opinions they entertain of those below their conduct to their servants � and occasional of their their partiality to to which they must sometimes submit iii money to keep up pecuniary husband which exists among them c the higher classes of in the metropolis i believe everywhere else have the most exalted of themselves if their own es society of their character were to be taken as a correct one they are as far above the great mass of their fellow beings as the latter are above the brute creation pope represents bishop as having possessed every virtue under heaven the fashionable world not only exclusively to itself all the virtues but all the accomplishments which human nature can acquire tbe aristocracy hold up their conduct to the rest of mankind as a perfect pattern for imitation are they then what their own vanity leads them to think they are a glance at their principles and will best answer the question no one has ever had an opportunity of study ing human character as in the con � of the higher classes of this country but must have been struck with their want of regard to the truth they are most prodigal of their promises let those to whom they have been made say how many of them are has a character in one of his plays who lies like truth must have bad one of the of his day who i suppose very much resembled those of our in bis eye when he the expression they see no moral evil in telling a to tell what call a conventional with be the classes coming grace is deemed by them an accomplishment of the most kind it were well if the practice of telling were confined to themselves it is an accomplishment in which they are careful to instruct their to tell a certain class of with ease and effect is in many cases regarded as one of the greatest merits of a servant take for an illustration of my statement the way in which they refuse to see when so disposed any friend who calls on them do they say they are engaged and cannot see any visitor at the time no that would never do the servant is instructed to say the master or mistress is not at home thus the master or mistress tells the in the first instance and then the servant to do the same thus by their in the art of lying | 24 |
much inclined to keep on forever when i was a boy rose up at this point i should like to ask he said mildly if this is supposed to be an audience of children i for one have no wish to listen to the stories of doctor johnson i have come here particularly to night to hear i want story night to compare him with i therefore protest against � there is a roof to this house boat said doctor johnson if mr will retire to the roof with i have no doubt he can be as for solomon s interruption i can afford to pass that over with the silent contempt it deserves though i may add with propriety that i consider his most famous the most absurd bits of hack work i ever encountered and as for that story about dividing a baby between two mothers by it in two it was unless the baby was when i was a boy � as the doctor proceeded and solomon accompanied by the now angry left the room and my account of the story night must stop because though i have never heretofore confessed it all my information concerning the house boat on the has been derived from the of it may be interesting to the read a house boat on the cr to learn however that according to s account the story night was never finished but whether this means that it broke up immediately afterwards in a riot or that doctor johnson is still at work his reminiscences i am not aware and i cannot at the moment of writing ascertain for when i have the pleasure of meeting him invariably the subject xi as to and others it was who spoke i m glad he said that when i embarked at the time of the heavy rains that did so much damage in the old days there weren t any dogs like that fellow about if i d had to feed a lot of beasts like him the ark would have run short of provisions inside of ten days that s very likely true observed mr but i must confess my dear that you showed a lamentable lack of the s instinct when you selected the animals you did a more commonplace lot of beasts were never gathered together and while adam is held responsible for the introduction of sin into the a house boat on the world i attribute most of my to none other than yourself the members of the club drew their chairs a little closer the conversation had opened a trifle and they had retained enough of their to be interested in animal stories adam who had managed to settle his back and house charges and once more acquired the privileges of the club nodded his bead gratefully at mr i m glad to find some one said he who places the responsibility for trouble where it belongs i m round shouldered with the blame i ve had to bear i didn t invent sin any more than i invented the and i think it s rather rough on a fellow who lived a quiet retiring pastoral life his own business and staying home nights to be held up to public for as long a time as i have it be all right in time said just wait � be patient and your as to and others tion will come nobody thought much of the plays bacon and i wrote for shakespeare until shakespeare d been dead a century said adam gloomily wait what have i been doing all this time i ve waited all the time there s been so far and until mr spoke as he did i haven t observed the slightest inclination on the part of anybody to my lost reputation nor do i see exactly how it s to come about even if i do wait you might apply for an committee to look into the charges suggested an american just over get your friends on it and you ll be all right better let sleeping dogs lie said i intend to said adam the fact is i hate to give any further to the matter even if i did bring the case into court and sue for i ve only got one witness to prove my innocence and that s my wife i m not going to drag her a house boat on the into it she s got nervous over her position as it is and this would make it worse queen elizabeth and the rest of these in society won t invite her to any of their functions because they say she hadn t any grandfather and even if she were received by them she d be uncomfortable going about it isn t pleasant for a woman to feel that every one knows she s the oldest woman in the room well take my word for it said kindly it all come out all right you know the old saying history itself some day you will be living back in again and if you are only careful to make an exact record of all you do and have a present before whom you can make an as to the facts you will be able to your innocence i was only condemned on evidence anyhow said adam nonsense you were caught red handed said my grandfather told me so and now that got a chance to as to and others slip in a word i d like to have you explain your statement mr that i am responsible for your errors that is a serious charge to bring against a man of my reputation i mean simply this that to make a show interesting said mr a man has got to provide interesting materials that s all i do not mean to say a word that is in any way to your morality you were a | 27 |
which is working now to night if you have aught to teach me let me profit by it touch my robe did as he was told and held it fast red ivy game poultry meat pigs fruit and punch all vanished instantly so did the room the fire the ruddy glow the hour of night and they stood in the city streets on christmas morning where for the weather was severe the people made a rough but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music in the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings and from the of their houses whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come down into the road below and into artificial little snow storms the house fronts looked black enough and the windows with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the ground which last deposit had been up in deep by the heavy wheels of carts and that crossed and each other hundreds of times where the great streets ofi and made intricate channels hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water the sky was gloomy and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist half whose heavier descended in a shower of as if all the chimneys in great britain had by one consent caught fire and were blazing away to their dear heart s content there was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavored to in vain � the second of the three spirits fi for the people who were away on the house tops wore jovial and full of glee calling out to one another from the and now and then exchanging a � better natured far than many a jest � laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong the were still half open and the were radiant in their glory there were great round pot of shaped like the of jolly old gentlemen at the doors and tumbling out into the street in their there were ruddy brown faced spanish shining in the of their growth like spanish and from their shelves in wanton at the girls as they went by and glanced at the hung up there were and apples clustered high in blooming of s made in the benevolence to from conspicuous hooks that people s mouths might water as they passed there were piles of and brown recalling in their fragrance ancient walks among the woods and pleasant ankle deep through withered leaves there and setting off the yellow of the and and in the great of their persons and to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner the very gold and silver fish set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl though members of a dull and race appeared to know that there was something going on and to a fish went gasping round and round their little world in slow and excitement the oh the nearly closed with perhaps two shutters down or one through those such glimpses it was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound or that the and parted company so briskly or that the were rattled up and down like m a christmas tricks or that the of tea and were grateful to the nose or ev n that the were so plentiful � and rare the so extremely white the sticks of long and straight the other so delicious the fruits so and spotted with sugar as to make the on feel faint and subsequently nor was it that the were moist and or that the french blushed in modest from their highly decorated boxes or that everything was good to eat and in its christmas dress but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day that they tumbled up against each other at the door their baskets wildly and their purchases the counter and came running back to fetch them and committed hundreds of the like mistakes in the best humor possible while the and his people were so frank and that the polished hearts with which they fastened their behind might have been their own worn outside for general inspection and for christmas to at if they chose but soon the called good people all to church and chapel and away they came through the streets in their best clothes and with their faces and at the same time there emerged from scores of bye streets lanes and nameless innumerable people carrying their dinners to the shops the sight of these poor appeared to interest the spirit very much for he stood with beside him in a baker s doorway and taking off the covers as their passed sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch and it was a very uncommon kind of torch for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner who had with each other he shed a few drops of water on them from it and their good humor was restored directly for they said it was a shame to quarrel upon christmas day and so it was i love it so it was the second of the three spirits t in time the bells ceased and the were shut up and yet there was a genial forth of all these dinners and the of their cooking in the of wet above each baker s oven where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too is there a peculiar flavor in what you from your torch v asked � there is my own would it apply to any kind of dinner on this day asked to any kindly given to a poor one most why to a poor one most asked | 8 |
be formed of the glittering of b to ascending and descending should have and he could have it we came from the fall by a lovely winding through tall chestnut bursting into fresh and shrubs heath and sweet and cherry and through the orange of a certain count ah my dear c this is and the girls who met us with whereon we were to ascend the hill to were as beautiful as would have painted wood owes a portion of its fame to this atmosphere of exceeding beauty � the day has been warm and towards noon we crossed la a high peak of the we had a yoke of oxen attached to our four horses to drag us up this three mile ascent k and i walked the greater part of the way and amused ourselves talking with the train of that we accumulated not and lame and blind but stout and pretty children the oxen pulled the taking care to let them do all the work till when we were within a few yards of the summit one of them suddenly stopped and staggered th r master detached them when the poor beast gave a leap and fell dead his owner broke out into the most violent expressions of despair beating his breast clasping his hands off his hat and throwing himself on the ground do not laugh at la me � v truly he me of s over tbe dead body of there could in no case be more of grief our b forgot and gathered him ex their sympathy most while be continued touching the animal s horns and crying out o o io drawing open one and then the other and exclaiming m � to k i this was all unaffected the oxen were probably tbe � ly means of living the poor man � his for bread for himself and his but he showed all he felt they are a people do you remember a story mr of one of our who having left hi wife and children alone in their log habitation to go into the forest found them all � on coming back lying murdered before his door by indians he made no movement no but said quietly well now if this if not too ridiculous la � after crawling to day at a s pace up the immense hill on which the old city stands we were induced to our way by the report of the recent opening of a it it � � bat that � afterward he the of old age la tomb in some of the of this old have sl t for the last years descending the bill in a uttle post carriage and a field we descended a ladder and a doubly locked door b� ng opened to us we entered the tomb of a noble family opposite our entrance hung suspended a bronze in little there are nine small chambers built of square blocks of with a well cut s head in die centre of each ceiling and about it and i think but our survey waa so hasty that i do not for its accuracy one apartment only is left as it was found from the rest the � and ornaments have been removed in this are several of as white as marble and as perfect in all re as when they came the � s hands there was a figure on each to be the of the person whose remains within the a portrait gallery to be opened to after years is it not everything is as fresh and as the laid th dead here the tomb ot the is a to this we had only time for a strange bewildering none to go into a palace ban to � some very � found in the tomb and removed there foe safe keeping and which we told as are on like were better worth seeing than all the rest we are this evening at an inn m a straggling vol a a s la half way up a steep hill where fancy no travelling ever stopped before any rooms with an invalid are better than none and our threatened us th the probability of sleeping in our carriage if we proceeded to the stopping place so here we are in the midst of an italian rustic all serving us all curious and good humoured have been borrowed from a luxurious neighbour a as sent a mile and a half to bring milk for us and our thoughtful provided butter at so you see how extremes meet an isolated western in a like would have had recourse to like but i wonder if ever but in this land where grace and beauty are native to the there was so pretty a rustic as is at this moment with the help of two arranging our beds i can scarce write for looking at her and from that i believe we all feel she returns my glance and a smile into the bargain she is not an italian beauty there is no brilliancy of colouring j but such perfect and such a appealing touching expression she over the floor as a bird over the surface of the water i never saw motion so light and full of grace � it would make die fortune of an of pastoral comedy i must ask her name and of her history her name is and for her she has none she says her father is dead � eveiy one s dies sooner or later her mother is very ta poor neither is that any distinction here and she her bread with these good people of the inn you have never to america no she lied infinite simplicity nor to she would like to go to said her friend ah you have a lover there said l no no i will be a i looked at ha gay coloured | 6 |
by the pose of the a invalid the profound silence that followed this remark was broken by a suppressed sigh the book continued miss dart gravely � though to be sure he is not reading it � is rather it is not the sort of book to judge from the outside i should have expected to see him with it is the history of the saxon observed miss mary just so well he doesn t care about the book you see but is only trying to read it perhaps to please his friend mr a witch a witch cried miss mary clapping her hands go on oh please go on i well i am not sure proceeded miss dart with deliberation i may lose my reputation as a by such a monstrous suggestion but the within me mo to pronounce this young gentleman to ft � � o � it � it is amazing � o i x c tv d the heir of the ages exclaimed miss mary in a breath hush i � they are coming in from the dining room in an instant she had put back the photograph in its place and turning to the piano affected to be busied with her music book the echoing hall was at the same time filled with voices and the three gentlemen in vi asks a favour mr looked in high spirits and slightly flushed the major somewhat bored and the squire like a man who has been put out and has a great objection to the process he brushed by the as if she had been a piece of furniture and took up his usual position with his back to the and his arms under his coat tails instead of the usual satisfaction from that attitude it was plain from the frown on his brow and the way he looked about him that he was in a state of discontent his lips moved not as if in prayer but the contrary miss dart even thought she caught the word idiot pronounced under his breath his eyes were at that moment fixed on the pair by the piano but whether the remark was applied to his daughter or his guest was doubtful perhaps he used it as a of multitude and what have you ladies been doing with yourselves miss dart inquired the major in tones nothing of a very nature i am afraid she answered we have been at photographs what already was his somewhat the governor in his eh and our sisters and our cousins and our not your sister i am surprised to find her conspicuous by her absence not however that she would make a good photograph because she has so much expression why don t you say what one young lady generally does say of another under such circumstances because her beauty lies in her expression because i do not think so to my thinking miss is beautiful in both ways only the sun seldom in the second way asks a it is very kind of you to take that rose coloured view of her does not everybody do so miss dart s eyes involuntarily wandered as she spoke towards the piano at which miss mary was sitting down to play with mr standing at her side regarding her glass in eye with evident he ll break that glass against the keys of the piano i ll bet a guinea before he s turned over half a dozen leaves said the major well i don t know as to everybody brothers you know are not apt to be enthusiastic about their sisters charms i should have thought on the contrary that they would have been the very persons to take pride in them indeed well you see i m only a half brother said the major smiling the cousin by the bye has been trotted out of course the cousin what cousin i don t understand you the poet if the photograph book was exhibited mary has surely introduced you to the young gentleman not by name there was i remember a portrait of a young man an invalid you may call a man so who has of the i suppose but it s a very delicate way of putting it is it really so bad as that poor fellow he has his however in the first place he has a better opinion of his own i beg his pardon of liis than any young man in the world then he is the idol of his mother he has also an independent a mad and there s mary there are very few people who can boast of three creatures who believe in them i should be very glad here the major sank his voice a little to have one these things depend on one s deserts i fancy said the quietly that me altogether returned the major smiling but he did not look extinguished nevertheless his air was gay and his face was bright as he stood beating time to the music which had now begun and he certainly looked a very handsome fellow the with one coat tail ei i tc x e� js r carries his sword now began to e io w k i the heir of the ages the caution of a deer he was fond of music in his way and his dissatisfied soul seemed to become soothed by it though his brow was still far from clear no sooner had he departed from her vicinity than miss dart became conscious of a voice addressing her from above as gently as falls the dew from heaven it was of course the major s voice but as his head was nodding to the music and his eyes fixed on the it was difficult to connect him with it this may be the only opportunity miss dart i may have io say to you it murmured that if yon could your | 25 |
has for its refrain these i to think original lines tie ho for the merry merry merry blue and the black black draught in the these flights of fun were merely indications that mr s mind was disturbed just as serious people under like conditions pitch into their poor relations or passionate persons indulge in bad language his behavior under the solemn circumstances was it must be understood perfectly but it requires a very dull man indeed to be sombre throughout the funeral of any one not personally dear to him as they are performed in this enlightened land the the the horses the are no doubt designed � first to swell the s bill and secondly to make the idea of death as much like a nightmare as possible but human nature the hideous oppression and sometimes breaks out in what we may call the contrary direction in scotland as is well known are the chief public amusements and it is said of a young man that he goes about a good deal to just in the same sense that we his music halls and i it was impossible that a man like who had been a for twenty years and had rejected all of friendship from his neighbors should draw tears from them over his remains the contents of his will on the other hand commanded their attention every one was surprised to find how comparatively poor he had died for though allowed to have been of a generous disposition it was thought that he must have saved money during his long seclusion what there was however was left to my son richard absolutely the very considerable estate of tower and about fifteen thousand pounds the family lawyer and mr being appointed for the lad � an office that was almost a since in a few months he would attain his majority what on earth could have done with bis money was the question that every one put to his neighbor when these facts were made known he was not such a saint after all perhaps whispered one to the squire of he must have had some private expenses not a bit of it answered old pole he has been paying off his � a way of away ready money for which the speaker s tone evinced his profound contempt his observation however was a shrewd one and to some extent correct when succeeded to the family estate he had had to pay large sums borrowed at interest upon his expectations he had now left it free and to his son with one � not in the body of the will but in a found within it for richard s private eye � namely that he should pay four hundred pounds a year to charles de whatever was the general opinion the heir when his grief permitted him to think of such matters which was not until days afterward was more than satisfied with what had to him it seemed to him an ample fortune and then but for his s generous behavior he would have been i he would have acknowledged as much again and again to her if she would have permitted him but her grave pained face forbade it she smiled indeed as she repeated her old jf e you are welcome my dear boy but it was plain the subject was distressing to her he thought this was on account of his father s behavior in the matter which was certainly open to the censure but that was not the case had not only frankly accepted her brother s excuse for his conduct but fully believed in the motives he had attributed to it she knew to what religious would carry even scrupulous men in her pocket was a letter from her spiritual adviser the rev to whom she confessed everything as in duty bound her in th strongest terms for having in a moment of weakness destroyed her father s will she had not informed him � for she did stop somewhere even in obedience to the of the fact of its having been so long concealed from her but had led him to conclude that the document had been quite recently discovered you are flattered no doubt he wrote at having made a e to but i must needs tell you it was not at your own expense but at that of our holy cause you have placed the fortune that would have supported it and been the means of saving souls in the hands of one who will lose his own soul in the money on unworthy objects if you felt your weakness as you acknowledge at the very time you made this false step why did you not at least wait for my advice your punishment will be to see the fruits of this ill judged generosity and indeed poor sister already saw in her mind s eye on the one hand certain excellent institutions for the advancement of true religion for want of funds and on the other the career of a mr s letter contained as well as reproof and even some practical suggestions could she not appeal it hinted to a young man s sense of right not as yet perhaps utterly obscured by evil courses and get something back out of the fire no she could not what she had given she had given the rev knew as he fancied his fair penitent thoroughly but she was different from many of those he had in a far higher rank of ufe in being that � even than a true gentleman � a true her feelings of delicacy generosity and tenderness could resist even authority in a case of this kind and they did resist it if father could have spoken to her in person matters might perhaps have gone better for him but a to the tower at such a time would indeed have been it | 25 |
let us now pause for a moment from the ungrateful task of the course of and turn to the more agreeable duty of tracing the progress of the greek people the year found the population of greece to the testimony of professor in a state of such that the and farmers were without to till their lands the scanty harvest of the year was m a great part the produce of manual labor every town in greece was in ruins which bad been under s government had been from and among others mr who did more injury to the of greece than any other foreigner it is true this was not done since the king majority it be easy to produce many other facts as to the of the d� patch � tjie condition and of again the colony of greek established bj dr at the of was burnt to the ground and the whole island of having remained in the hands of the were almost desolate the schools established by were dissolved and the regular army had melted away the king arrived and the support of the three powers restored order immediately every man sought to his house and every to procure a pair of oxen the price of labor rose to the most extravagant pitch and tiie interest of money advanced to four per cent a month the second volume of the work of professor treats of the measures which the was bound to adopt in order to as much as possible the evils under which greece was suffering he the means of improving the condition of the agricultural population of restoring industry of commerce and of the moral and intellectual state of the people the practical experience of the of great and russia in the of peopled and induced the enlightened men in greece to suppose that the subject must be one well understood by the of these courts and it was concluded would communicate their advice to the and the work of professor however proved useless to his countrymen and the advice of the ministers of great britain and russia had they been really competent to give any would have been rendered of no avail by their the opposition after the arrival of the indeed the way in which the of greece were treated by and foreign ministers affords convincing proof that practical knowledge of is as rare among in the nineteenth as it was in the when their verbal ana magnificent drew from the the celebrated reply to his son fi the advances made by the in social improvement previously to the year were almost entirely due to their own individual exertions the assistance they derived from their own government was unwillingly and accorded and any they received from foreigners has been rather more than it deserves while king or to speak perhaps more a civil list the and of of two hundred dollars a year out of a of two of dollars and count to the amount of thirty thousand dollars and other ten thousand dollars each while orders of and crosses and stars of silver gold and diamonds were on englishmen and while the interest of money was at eighteen per cent on the best and the of the european powers were fortunes as � no step was en by the greek government to the general distress or to improve the social condition of the people in consequence of this neglect the population of the soon suffered a considerable immense numbers of from c asia minor and were compelled to quit greece in which they were unable to settle as the government refused to sell for houses in the towns and villages and rents for the national lands that lay still all the oppressive of the system of were retained by the king s government and their severity was rendered more by farming the under the laws of europe of government officials were alone competent to decide on cases affecting the taxes which were withdrawn from the of the regular courts of the farmers of the received unlimited powers to the proceedings of the during the harvest so that every proprietor who attempted to introduce an improved system of was liable to on the ground that he had the laws the consequence was that almost every was ruined or compelled to abandon his attempt no though reading at a distance any village could reap a field of com out his grain or house his crop without a separate permission for each operation from the farmer of the and after all he was compelled to transport the tenth which fell to the share of the farmer a day s journey to such as the farmer might the nine g to the of the soil became merely an of the one tenth claimed by government and were treated by the government as a fund for it against the consequence of this system on the of greece may be seen from the windows of s pat ace at the land round the royal garden is cultivated the and of in a and more manner than in the wildest province of the empire the commerce of greece was treated with as little intelligence as the laws exposed the of the kingdom to be involved in hostility with the greek subjects of the empire absurd the trade of the kingdom which is composed entirely of coast the internal was abandoned to and french and the sailors of and were compelled to pass half their time m idleness or seek employment in turkey the intellectual and religious culture of the nation was almost as much neglected by the government as the agricultural and commercial interests of the people it is true that mr during his administration took some steps to a complete system of national education but the sub did not meet with due attention from his too mr himself adopted some rash measures regard to the greek church | 37 |
the season by the of christmas books � a kind of literary representing to the debts to the an of value for the most part bearing the stamp of their origin in the of the writer s rather than in the of his genius they suggest by their feeble the of a void brain after the more important of the expired year indeed we should as little think of taking these as examples of the the of letters merits of their authors as we should think of measuring the valuable services of mr the or mr bell the dust by the copy of verses they leave at our doors as a of the expected annual � with which they may fairly be for their worth no less than their ultimate purport upon this and upon some little peculiarities of style in the review such as a passage in which the learned critic compared the author s attempts to the after the pearl of truth whose lustre is in the display of the mr replied in the preface to a second edition of the little book published a few days later and entitled an essay on thunder and small beer the style of the times which was generally attributed to the late mr samuel afforded too tempting a subject for the pen of the author of vanity fair to be passed over the easy humour with which he exposed the affectation of superiority in his critic the style and droll logic of his whom he the not to the awful of house square but to the s man trying to and roar like his awful employer afforded the town through the newspapers which copied the essay an amount of amusement not often derived from an author s defence of himself from adverse criticism the essay was remembered long after when work after work of mr was severely died in the same paper and the recollection of it gave a shadow of support to the theory by which some persons on the recent occasion of mr s death endeavoured to explain the fact that the notice in the and the account of his funeral were more than those of any other journal while the times alone of all the daily papers omitted to a leading article on the subject of the great loss which had been sustained by the world of letters in mr appeared in an entirely new character but one which subsequently proved so to him that to this cause even more than the labours of his pen must be attributed the mm of letter that easy fortune which he had accumulated before he died in may of that year he commenced a series of lectures on the english the subjects were swift and prior gay and pope and and and the lectures were delivered at s the price of admission was high and his audience was numerous and of the most select kind it was not composed of that sort of people who crowd to pick up information in the shape of facts with which they have been previously but those who knowing the eminence of the wished to hear his opinion on a subject of national interest one of the two great of the present age was about to utter his sentiments on the of the age now terminated and the occasion was sufficient to create an interest which not even the attractive power of the great exhibition then open could check the newspapers complained slightly of the low key in which the spoke from which cause many of his best points were sometimes lost to the more distant of his in other respects says the we cannot too highly praise the style of his delivery from and he relied for his effect too on the matter which he uttered and it was singular to see how the isolated pictures which by a few magic touches descended into the hearts of his hearers among the most conspicuous of the literary ladies at this gathering was miss the of jane she had never before the author of vanity fair though the second edition of her own celebrated novel was to him by her with the assurance that she regarded him as the social of his day � as the very master of that working corps who would restore to the state of things mrs tells us that when the lecture was over the descended from the platform and making his way towards her frankly asked her for her opinion this adds miss she mentioned to me not many days afterwards adding remarks almost identical with those which subsequently read in where a similar action on the part of m paul and the of letters is related the remarks of this singular woman upon mr and his writings and her accounts of her with him are curious they will be found scattered about mrs popular biography of the magazine will not have forgotten mr s affectionate and sketch of her which appears some years later in that the course was perfectly successful and the lectures subsequently rank among the most beautiful writings they were delivered again soon afterwards in some of the provincial cities including a droll anecdote was related at this period in the newspapers in connection with these provincial appearances previously to delivering them in scotland the himself of addressing them to the rising youth of our two great of the national mind and it was necessary before appearing at oxford to obtain the license of the authorities � a very arrangement of course the duke of was the who if applied to would have the understood at once the man and his business the duke lives in the broad atmosphere of the every day world and a copy of the papers is on a shelf at castle but his dignity at oxford on whom the modest waited knew less about such trifles as vanity fair and pray | 8 |
morning for both s and s sentence the former was asked by o present himself at the jail at eight o clock in order that here might be ample time for au possible were papers to be filled out and signed and other to be complied with in ordinary cases there vas a wagon which went to the different courts rom the jail carrying prisoners then on trial or subject to sentence and taking them away again and this would lave carried except that for the price he had paid he was able to make a different arrangement � that is with a there was a little connected with every court where prisoners were detained under and produced or returned to jail or discharged as ordered by the court and it was to the most available to these the jail wagon ran or the prisoner was taken in connection with the criminal court part i where had been tried and where he was to be there was such an as we have seen and it was here that he was to be conducted this monday morning in the court room there was a large aisle the same which led to the in which he was first convicted where the first thing n the morning after the court had got through listening � for motions for new trials for etc � the general business of arranging the day s � the prisoners who were to hear their fate on this lay were brought forth they were lined up by in long row if there were many against the wall in this isle and as each prisoner s name was called he stepped the forward to his proper position in front of the court rail gate where the judge could see and hear him then the final of the lawyers for the letters of friends and relatives the prisoner s own statement and anything else that might be either for or against him were considered and the sentence administered accordingly it might have been supposed that in a case of such importance as s and s the two men being fairly prominent they would have been brought in in some way and but such was not the case here judge was a for form and order in his court never giving way except to notable political influence which was lacking in s case so he and had to accept the rather disagreeable arrangement of being brought in with decidedly ordinary and lined up on the side wall in the aisle which was a thing neither of them ever forgot afterward when they reached the court the same little pen in which had awaited the verdict of his jury several months before was waiting to receive them or him owing to a lively sense of possible to come wa not on s entering at once knowing well how offensive the pen was to him we can sit outside here he observed or walk around we got a half hour yet before we need to go in there because it was cold � still snow on the ground � it then occurred to him that they might visit a near by saloon which was visible from where they stood it was a thought quite to s father and to himself in a way though he did not so much mind but could not be expected to see this his standards were of the jail and the average court on it s warm over there he and you can get something to drink if you the ant then him that he was in the presence perhaps a rather company so far as was concerned he added i don t know whether u gentlemen ever take maybe you don t senior was very much opposed to i general to him they were the curse of god the evidence of a personal devil on this he himself never took anything stronger than though these many years for custom s sake and wing to the habits of that superior world which by degrees he had been rising he had allowed one to be served on his table a noted brand of french me in a dusty bottle over which other and men f importance their lips and pretended or a real interest was one thing a saloon filled with and as he fancied them to be � he had never been inside one in his life � was another on this occasion therefore this suggestion hurt an no httle because he was not sure that his several sons night not want to go had to smile for he his father s attitude he had no objection to good bad or indifferent if there were any object n his going into them he drank nothing stronger than except good wine on occasion though he was perfectly willing that others should and bought liberally or those who did joseph and edward had been at bars occasionally for company these many years their father s knowing it however no said father s op � d to that sort of thing we d better go to a senior in spite of his other troubles felt it was something not to have to go to a saloon ven if your son was being � sent to the finally on a near by where was ordered and then when the time was up entered the pen awaiting the order the of the court to have all prisoners up for sentence brought before him co senior and his two free sons were to leave after a moment as it was against the rules for them to remain here they sought places in the court room proper remained with his charge and a by the name of w were in the room and because of their original and pretended now not to sue each other had no objection to talking to his fc associate but he | 43 |
mind to i daily work and common things shows him to us � why look there i � here he pulled from his pocket a small paper bag and opening it showed some dry loose seed � there ain t than that i that s seed � a special stock too � well now if you didn t know how common it is wouldn t it seem a miracle as wonderful as any in the that out o that handful o dust like the finest flowers of purple an yellow will come � ay i some o them two to three inches across an every like velvet an silk i if so be you don t b in a god mr to town opinions you try the business that ll make a man of i if adam had stuck to the business an left the trade alone we d have all been in now i his eyes as glancing round the company he saw that his words had made an impression and awakened a smile � good night t ye i and touching on the shoulder in passing he added you come an see me my lad when you feels like goin a bit in the line i can tell ye a few the learned gentlemen in london don t know anyway a little church goin under won t do you no arm nor your lady neither if she s what i takes her for which is her to be all good as goes an when to his work an tells ye plain as ow everything s ordained for the best an as ow every flower s a miracle of the lord an every bird s song a bit o the lord s own special music it ye up an makes ye more o your own poor mis able self � it do now with another friendly pat on the groom s shoulder and a cheery smile passed out and left the rest of the company in the mother tap room solemnly gazing upon one another he speaks straight he do said farmer an he ain t no � he s just plain an he he means here s to his � a game old boy i said ordering another glass of ale it s quite a treat god s good man to meet a man like bim and i shan t be above that he s got a deal of right on his side but what he says ain t church teaching not said dan but it s s an if you ain t card yet advise ye to go next sunday an if your lady ud make up her mind to go too just for once gave an expressive gesture she won t go � you may depend on that i he said she s had too much of as it is why mrs � that s her american aunt � was regular with em coming of her for their churches and their windows and their schools and their and their poor lame blind sick of all sorts as well as for d they knew she was a lady they t got but one thought � how to get some of the millions out of her there was three kept when we was in london and they d hardly time for bite nor sup with all the work they ad scores of churches and religious folks all together miss s got a complete scare o whenever she see a hat coming she just flew when she was in paris it was the as wanted money � sisters of the poor priests as ad been turned out by the government � and what not � and out in america it was the christian all the time with such a lot of tickets for lectures and as you never saw � then came the with their and altogether the family got to look on all sorts of merely as so many kinds of boxes which if you dropped money into you went straight to the holy and if you didn t you dropped down into the great big d s no i � i don t think anyone need expect to see my lady at church � it s the last place she d ever think of going to i this piece of information was received by his hearers with profound gravity no one spoke and during the uncomfortable pause gave a careless good night i � and took his departure things is come to a pretty pass in this ere country then said mr when the woman who is merely the elevation of the man in public a conviction to whidi her is if the lady who now possesses the were under the submission of a husband he would naturally assume the control which is and so compel her to include the religious considerations of the in her system i i god s good man farmer looked impressed but slightly puzzled you fine mr � you fine he observed respectfully not that i altogether understands ye but that s my want of book and not through the dictionary as i when i was a i makes bold to guess you re at and i you may be right but i m fair bound to own that if it t for mr i shouldn t be found in church o sundays neither but flat on my back in a field wi my face turned up to the sun a of the goodness o god and he d put a hand out to make the crops grow as they should do he be a rare good man and he do speak to the art of ye so wise like and quiet and that s why i goes to hear him and the prayers s writ for me to say and as he asks me to do but if i d been | 33 |
her hand flew open it seemed that a couple of poor families lived in this for two women each among children of her own occupied different portions of the room in the centre stood a grave gentleman in black who appeared to have just entered and who held by the arm a boy here woman he said here s your deaf and dumb son you may thank me for restoring him to you he was brought before me this morning charged with and with any other boy it would have gone hard i assure you but as i had compassion on his and thought he might have learnt no better i have managed to bring him back to you take more care of him for the and won t you give me back my son said the other woman hastily rising and him won t you give me back my son sir who was transported for the same was he deaf and dumb woman asked the gentleman sternly was he not sir you know he was not he was cried the woman he was deaf dumb and blind to all that was good and right from his cradle her boy may have learnt no better where did mine learn better where could he who was there to teach him better or where was it to be learnt peace woman said the gentleman your boy was in possession of all his senses he was cried the mother and he was the more easy to be led astray because he had them if you save this boy because he may not know right from wrong why did you not save mine who was never taught the you gentlemen have as good a right to punish her boy that god has kept in ignorance of sound and speech a a a i the old shop mine you kept in ignorance how many o the girls and boys � ah men and women too � are brought before you and you don t are deaf and dumb in their minds and go wrong in that state and are punished in that state body and soul while you gentlemen are quarrelling among yourselves whether they ought to learn this or that � be a just man sir and give me back my son you are desperate said the gentleman taking out his snuff box and i am sorry for you i am desperate returned the woman and you have made me give me back my son to work for these helpless children be a just man sir and as you have had mercy upon this boy give me back my son the child had seen and heard enough to know that this was not a place at which to ask for she led the old man softly from the door and they pursued their journey with less and less of hope or strength as they went on but with an resolution not to betray by any word or sign her sinking state so long as she had energy to move the child throughout the remainder of that hard day compelled herself to proceed not even stopping to rest as frequently as usual to in some measure for the pace at which she was obliged to walk evening was drawing on but had not closed in when � still travelling among the same dismal objects � they came to a busy town faint and as they were its streets were after humbly asking for relief at some few doors and being they agreed to make their way out of it as speedily as they could and try if the inmates of any lone house beyond would have more pity on their exhausted state they were dragging themselves along through the last street and the child felt that the time was close at hand when her powers would bear no more there appeared before them at this juncture going in the same direction as themselves a traveller on foot who with a to his back leaned upon a stout stick as he walked and read from a book which he held in his other hand it was not an easy matter to come up with him and his aid for he walked fast and was a little distance in at length he stopped k ot i ti the old curiosity shop in his book animated with a ray of hope the child shot on before her grandfather and going dose to the stranger without rousing him by the sound of her footsteps began in a few faint words to his help he turned his head the clapped h hands together uttered a wild shriek and senseless at his feet thb u shop chapter it the poor no other than the poor scarcely less moved and surprised by the sight of the child than she had been on him he stood for a moment silent and confounded by this unexpected apparition without even the presence of mind to raise her m the ground but quickly recovering his self possession he threw down his stick and book and dropping on one knee beside her endeavoured by such simple means a� occurred to him to restore her to herself while her grandfather standing by wrung his hands and implored her with many to speak to him were it only a word she is quite exhausted said the glancing upward into his face you have her powers too far friend she is of want rejoined the old man i never thought how weak and ill she was till now casting a look upon him half and half compassionate the took the child in his arms and bidding the old man gather up her little basket and follow him directly bore her away at his utmost speed there was a small inn within sight to which it would seem he had been directing his steps when so unexpectedly overtaken towards this place | 8 |
has since his to his successor who we understand has adopted much more liberal arrangements there is seldom anything to or complain of as regards the fat of obtaining admission to interesting private houses in england oxford was painted by sir james in some design doubtless of s the purport of which i did not take the trouble to make out � myself with the general effect which was most splendidly and ornamental we were guided through the show rooms by a very civil person who allowed us to take pretty much our own time in looking at the pictures the collection is exceedingly valuable � many of these works of art having been presented to the great duke by the crowned heads of england or the continent one room was all with pictures by and there were works of and many other famous painters any one of which would be to illustrate the meanest house that might contain it i remember none of them however not being in a picture seeing mood so well as s large and familiar picture of charles i on horseback with a figure and face of melancholy dignity such as never by any other hand was put on canvas yet on considering this face of charles which i find often repeated in half and it from the ideal into i doubt whether the unfortunate king was really a handsome or impressive looking man a high thin nose a meagre face and hair and beard � these are the literal facts it is the painter s art that has thrown such pensive and shadowy grace around him on our passage through this of apartments we saw through the vista of open a boy of ten or twelve years old coming towards us from the farther rooms he had on a straw hat a linen sack that had certainly been washed and re washed for a summer or two and gray trousers a good deal worn � a dress in short which an american mother in middle station would have thought too shabby for her darling s ordinary wear this s face was rather pale as those of english children are apt to be quite as often as our own but he had pleasant eyes an intelligent look and an agreeable boyish manner it was lord of the present duke and heir � though not i our old think in the direct line � of the blood of the great and of the title and estate after passing through the first of rooms we were conducted through a corresponding on the opposite side of the entrance hall these latter apartments are most richly adorned with wrought and presented to the first duke by a of they look like great glowing pictures and completely cover the walls of the rooms the designs purport to represent the duke s battles and and everywhere we see the hero himself as large as life and as gorgeous in scarlet and gold as the holy sisters could make him with a three hat and flowing wig in his horse and extending his leading staff in the attitude of next to prince is the most prominent figure in the way of there can never have been anything more magnificent than these and considered as works of art they have quite as much merit as nine pictures out of ten one whole wing of the palace is occupied by the library a most noble room with a vast perspective length from end to end its atmosphere is brighter and more cheerful than that of most a to the old of oxford and perhaps less sombre and suggestive of than any large library ought to be inasmuch as so many brains as have left their deposit on the shelves cannot have without producing a very serious and ponderous result both and ceiling are white and there are elaborate and of white marble the floor is of oak so highly polished that our feet slipped upon it as if it had been new england ice at one end of the room stands a statue of queen anne in her royal robes which are so admirably designed and exquisitely wrought that the spectator certainly gets a strong conception of her royal dignity while the of the statue and feeble doubtless a suitable idea of her personal character the marble of this work long as it has stood there is as white as snow just fallen and must have required most faithful and religious care near keep it so as for the of the library they are within the cases and turn their gilded backs npon the keeping their of wit and wisdom as as if still in the mines of human thought i remember nothing else in the palace except the chapel o which we were conducted last and where we saw a splendid to the first duke and by at the cost it is said of z the design he statues of the deceased and various and and beneath sleep the duke and his proud wife their veritable bones and dust ind probably all the that have since died it is lot quite a comfortable idea that these ancestors still after their fashion the house where their the passing day but the upon the of could not have been unless he palace of his lifetime had become likewise a stately over his remains � and such we felt it all to be after gazing at his tomb the next business was to see the private gardens an scotch under gardener admitted us and led the way and to have a fair prospect of earning the fee all by but by and by another respectable made his appearance and took us in charge proving to be the m person he was extremely intelligent and agree ble talking both and lovingly about trees and of which there is every variety capable of english positively the garden of | 35 |
of no for probably you are ignorant that i am a catholic but i pray you never say again that our priests are or fools till you have proved the justice of your charge it is my dearest hope to be admitted to the holy office i vowed to my life to it as i knelt by my mother s death bed i was bred up in the church of which both my parents were members till i was fourteen years of age at this time the my poor became so ill that he was advised to winter in my mother of course accompanied him i need not dwell upon the sad history he rapidly declined and it was in these dark hours that my mother s mind was called as she saw him on whom she had rested passing in weakness away to turn for support to the friend who never and to hope for in heavenly homes with the beloved one whom affection could not retain on earth she sought relief in the services of the nearest church the touching of these holy rites deeply affected her and in her loneliness she appealed to the sympathy of the he them and before the last change came my mother had the divine joy of receiving together with my father the of the of seeing the extreme administered to him in his agony and after his spirit had departed of having the body buried in consecrated ground and of joining in sublime and masses for his eternal peace you will believe me when i say she returned home by her sorrows i was her only child and we became inseparable companions she directed my studies she guided my prayers she made me her in her works of benevolence and heaven forgive me if as i looked up in her sweet face becoming ever more spiritual as it day by day grew thinner and paler and into those eyes so calmly bright as if the light of another ufe beamed through them and listened to her tones so musical and mild that my melted � heaven foi ve me if i worshipped her my mother must ever be to me a saint she as her dying prayed that i might become an honored minister of god in a few years heaven willing i shall be a priest alas how unworthy a one in contrast with the blessed thousands who through centuries have offered the perfect sacrifice constant there speaks at least a good son you will hear the journal now will you not the words of one so fervent even if enforce attention like sweet harmony vol i no i the rome this morning and am now quietly established at the college the huge building with its massive stones projecting and heavy carved windows looked gloomy as i entered and as our footsteps echoed through the silent court and long passages the thought me that so many years were to be passed beneath these solemn shades but the paternal welcome of father b and the courteous of my fellow students quite cheered my spirits and now that i have once joined in worship in our beautiful little chapel and have arranged my apartment i feel at home i like this high ceiling this deep window with its diamond shaped panes and these dark with age in the sacred recess i have placed my s agony in the s placid face smiles over my table my mother s copy of a is lying by my side and more than all dearest mother thy gentle look me from this miniature well may i feel happy in striving to fulfil your dying wish ad te after walked with a friend to the the sun was setting as we climbed the long ascent of steps and we reached the summit just in time to see the golden rim disappear behind the ridge on the west of the city where umbrella pines stood strongly marked against the sky a haze of glory such as so often dipped his brush in hung for a moment like a brilliant veil over the wilderness of roofs beneath us but as the shadows spread the scene grew clearer and i took my first survey of the holy city in front at the distance of a mile swelled sublime the dark dome of st peter s by the stretching wings of the nearer rose the round tower of st and winding at its foot the was revealed by its reflection of the still bright heaven while to the left stood the columns of and of with the bronze on its top and the eye rested on the low arched roof of the it was no dream i a child from a far land was really taken home to the bosom of the mighty mother who has fed the world with her and learning and art beneath that soaring dome so gracefully light yet so firm were at this moment the si burning the golden lamps around the tomb of st peter within those very walls had been held for centuries the sacred whose the holy spirit to guide under these very roofs which i now looked upon had been trained the hosts of martyr who have carried the cross over burning deserts and and the farthest ocean around me on every side was a vast multitude who had forsaken the world and its for the purity and of a religious life lights on a thousand clouds of incense from swinging of countless and murmured prayers of crowds of priests the very air i was in rome not imperial rome � that blood stained desert � but christian rome with truth the eagle has fallen before the cross the palaces of have the dust of centuries has buried the over which rolled the cars of cruel armies nature s kind have the sands of the from the ruins of barbarous pomp have | 37 |
apparent indifference seemingly he was determined to protect his man and avoid mob justice come what may a mob should not have him if he had to shoot and if he shot it would be to kill finally since the company thus added to did not dash upon him he seemingly decided to scare them off apparently he thought he could do this since they like stop a minute he called to his driver the latter pulled up so did the crowd behind then the stood over the prostrate body of the negro who lay in the wagon beneath him and called back go way from here you people go on now i won t have you after me give us the one in a half half tone of voice i ll give ye just two minutes to go on back out o this road returned the grimly pulling out his watch and looking at it they were about a hundred feet apart if you don t i ll clear you out give us the i know you scott answered the voice i ll arrest every last one of ye tomorrow mark my word the company listened in silence the horses and twisting we ve got a right to f answered one of the men i give ye fair warning said the jumping from his wagon and his pistols as he approached when i count five i ll begin to shoot he was a serious and figure as he approached and the crowd fell back a little out o this now he two the company turned completely and retreated g them we ll him when he further on said one of the men in explanation he s got to do it said another let him a little ways ahead the returned to his wagon and drove on he seemed however to that he would not be obeyed and that safety lay in haste alone his wagon was fast if only he could lose them or get a good start he might possibly get to and the strong county jail by morning his followers however him swiftly as might be determined not to be left behind he s goin to said one of the company of which was a member where s that asked over west o here about four miles why is he going there that s where he lives i guess he thinks if he kin im over there he kin im till he kin more help from i late he ll try an take im over yet to night or early in the shore smiled at the man s english this always fascinated him yet the men hesitating as to what to do they did not want to lose sight of and yet cowardice controlled them they did not want to get into direct with the law it wasn t place to hang the man although plainly they felt that he ought to be hanged and that it would be a stirring and exciting thing if he were consequently they desired to watch and be on hand � to get old and his son if they could who were out looking elsewhere they wanted to see what the father and brother would do the was solved by one of the men who suggested that they could get to by going back to pleasant valley and taking the sand river and that in the meantime they might come upon and his son en route or leave word at his house it was a shorter cut than this the was taking although he would get there first now possibly they could beat him at least to if he attempted to go on the road was back pleasant valley or near it and easily therefore while one or two remained to trail the and give the alarm in case he did attempt to go on to the rest followed by set off at a gallop to pleasant valley it was nearly dusk now when they arrived and stopped at the corner store � supper time the fires of evening meals were marked by smoke from chimneys here somehow the zest to follow seemed to depart evidently the had them for the night the father had not been found neither had perhaps they had better eat two or three had already secretly fallen away they were telling the news of what had occurred so far to one of the two who kept the place when suddenly the girl s brother and several companions came riding up they had been the territory to the north of the town and were hot and tired plainly they were unaware of the of which the crowd had been a part the s got im exclaimed one of the company with that which always the telling of great news in small rural companies he taken him over to in a wagon a hours ago which way did he go asked the son whose hardy figure worn hand me down clothes and hat showed up as he turned here and there on his horse cross lane you won t em that away though he s already over there by now better take the short cut a of voices now made the scene more interesting one told how the negro had been caught another that the was defiant a third that men were still him or over there watching until all the chief points of the drama had been spoken if not heard instantly were forgotten the whole customary order of the evening was once more the company started off on another excited up hill and down through the lovely country that lay between and pleasant valley by now was very weary of this and of his saddle he wondered when if ever this story was to let alone he write it tragic as it might prove he could not nevertheless spend an indefinite period trailing a possibility and | 43 |
to the in her reply she no more reflected on it than she did on the there was in her saying that appearances had very little to do with happiness her object she was convinced was thoroughly it was whose intention was and there was a plan in her mind which when she had carried it out fully would prove how very false a step it would have been for him to descended from his position book � two temptations she returned home by mr s office meaning to call there it was the first time in her life that had thought of doing anything in the form of business but she felt equal i to the occasion she should be ed to do what she ua disliked was an idea which turned her quiet into active f j here was a case in which it could not be enough simply and be serenely placidly obstinate she must act according to her judgment and she said to herself that her judgment was ri ht � if it had not been she would not have wished to act on it mr was in the back room of his office and received with his finest manners not only because he had much sensibility to her charms but because the good natured fibre in him was by his certainty that was in difficulties and that this uncommonly pretty woman � young lady with the highest personal attractions � was likely to feel the pinch of trouble � to find her self involved in circumstances beyond her control he begged her to do him the honour to take a seat and stood before her and himself with an eager solicitude which was chiefly benevolent s first question was whether her husband had called on mr that morning to speak about of their house yes ma am yes he did he did so said the good trying to throw something soothing into his i was about to his order if possible this afternoon he wished me not to i called to tell you not to go any further mr and i beg of you not to mention what has been said on the will you oblige me certainly i will mrs certainly confidence is sacred with me on business or any other topic i am then to consider the commission withdrawn said mr the long ends of his blue with both hands and looking at yes if you please i find that mr ned has taken a house � the one in st peter s place next to mr s mr would be annoyed that his orders should be fulfilled and besides that there are other circumstances which render the proposal unnecessary v ery good mrs very good i am at your commands whenever you require any service of me said mr who felt pleasure in that some new resources had been opened rely on me i beg the shall co no further that evening was a little comforted by observing that was more lively than she had usually been of late and even seemed interested in doing what would please him without being asked he thought if she will be happy and i can rub through what does it all signify it is only a narrow swamp that we have to pass in a long journey if i can get my mind clear again i do he was so much cheered that he began to search for an account of experiments which he had ago meant to look up and had neglected out of that creeping despair which comes in the train of petty anxieties he again some of the old delightful in a inquiry while played the quiet music which was as to his meditation as the of an oar on the evening lake it was rather late he had pushed away all the books and was looking at the fire with his hands clasped behind his head in forgetfulness of except the construction of a new experiment when who had left the piano and was leaning back in her chair watching mm said � mr ned has taken a house already startled and looked up in silence for a moment like a man who has been disturbed in his sleep then flushing with an unpleasant he asked � how do you know i called at mrs s this morning and she told me that he had taken the house in st peter s place next to mr s ly te was silent he drew his hands from behind hia head and pressed them the hair which was hanging as it was apt to do in a mass on his forehead while he rested his shows on his knees he was feeling bitter disappointment as if he had opened a door out of a place and found it walled up out he also felt sure that was pleased with the cause of disappointment he preferred not looking at her and not speaking until ne had got oyer the first of after al he said in his bitterness what can a woman care about so much as house and furniture a husband without them is an absurdity when he looked up and pushed ms hair aside ms dark eyes had a miserable blank non of sympathy in them but he only said coolly � perhaps some one else may turn up i told to be on the look out if he failed with made no remark she trusted to the chance that nothing more would pass between her husband and the until some issue should have justified her interference at any rate she had the she immediately dreaded after a pause she said � how much money is it that those disagreeable people want what disagreeable people those who took the list � and the others i mean how much money would satisfy them so that you need not be troubled any more her | 14 |
minutes i only with my heels upon the hall floor which being of polished oak was fortunately and shouted at the top of my voice for my and peaceful conduct shone out flatter myself by contrast with that of my companion if would come said i all would be forgotten and forgiven but otherwise they must take the consequences the commotion connected with jones lights and shadows at last communicated itself throughout the residence the cry for penetrated into the four reception rooms old himself came down in an awful state of excitement but i did not pay the slightest attention to him i wanted my and at last my came then i reproached him with his conduct in coming to dinner that day and leaving his old friends to come in the evening till i think he looked rather ashamed of himself as for of my last memorable words to him were these now don t you go asking my friend jones again nor me to come to any of these after dinner parties of yours for we don t like em so let this be a warning to you and i suppose that it was a warning to him for the of have never asked either of us to come in the evening from that day to this sap of london life chapter ix last homes of the years ago the last home of even a � wealthy was a crowded vault beneath some church hemmed in by houses while that of the poorer could hardly be called a resting place since sooner or later their bones had to make way for the more recently deceased and were thrown to left and right by the grave higher and higher grew the half human churchyard shutting out window after window of the many peopled houses round from outlook and air and for the one a wall of rank rich grass whose speaks not of life and spring time but of death and corruption and for the other the that in the and the lights and shadows night alike even in the of so called fashionable churches not only were no pains taken to render death less but it was positively made more hideous by circumstance the pomp of and of horses and nodding and all the hired of sorrow went no further than the grave s mouth i remember being present at a certain funeral in those days � a first class it was called in the of the � where all the outward respect that could be provided for the sad occasion had been purchased without regard to expense gentlemen in dusky pairs and overcome with costly emotion preceded the long procession each furnished with what looked like a folded as though they would have followed with their bodily eyes the supposed direction of the late flight of the fashionable spirit then a dusky gentleman alone bearing a board upon his head with feathers on it exactly the italian image boys carry their frail wares then another group of then a sort of muffled of london life major in the deepest mourning and despondency after him the itself with a gentleman more than dusky � for he was a genuine black man � sitting beside the driver the appearance of this person was calculated to excite sympathy even from the most spectator he was bowed no less with rs than with grief and his short hair � which still retained the curl peculiar to his race � was as white as wool i inquired of a relative of the deceased person who this individual was for i did not remember ever to have seen him in that gentleman s household i dare say not returned he for the fact is i never set eyes on him myself before to day mr however assured us that it would be the correct thing to engage him an ancient and valued of the family said he is indispensable on such occasions as these and a black man for purpose is invaluable he is set down in the estimate at � s exclusive of the handkerchief � which to do him justice lights and shadows he applies to his eyes as as is consistent with exhibiting his complexion to the general public after the came of course the mourning and a long train of private carriages full perhaps of grief � for there was nothing else in them at the mouth of the vault we were all arranged in a certain order while mr distributed among us little of coloured paper which i took at first to contain sugar but which in reality held gravel refined to the delicate of at the words ashes to ashes dust to dust whispered be to each of us with a solemn you will be so kind as to the contents upon the and yet i remember when the grim was over and the were packed away and the hired including the ancient themselves for their in the neighbouring public house the coffin of the deceased person s late wife who had been buried but of london life a few years back with the like magnificence and next to which he had wished his own to be laid could nowhere be found the relative before alluded to and myself had remained behind to see that this request was carried out and but for us it would certainly have been disregarded we descended into the vault and only after several hours discovered what we sought all the without the least regard to the relationship of their inmates were bound up in bundles of half a dozen each and fastened together by means of huge black chains how wretched was such a contrasted with a grave that takes the sunshine and the rains such as the very can command in a village churchyard it is true that there are some few quiet and suitable spots for even in | 25 |
him bom into a state of war ho must first or buy the implements for though his are no of to wait till he is ready the fertile often produces sour and the giant forest so in its of tender foliage affords but a to the few birds and animals which or it everywhere is presented the spectacle of species of animated beings struggling desperately for and often devouring each other for food into this man is thrust to fight his way a he can the forest the the the valley the lakes and the ocean must be tamed to hear and heed his voice ere they can be relied on to satisfy bis ui nt needs tlie river long bis ere be the secret of making it bear liim swiftly and on his course the soil tliat shall ultimately yield him is a b useless and hardly until be in and it the lion or tiger whom lie ultimately regards as a show and about for his diversion is quite other than and though exhibiting himself at less than the half and together his log hut in the wilderness and him with wear out your life in such sordid material when the gorgeous of heaven you the glad sim and you and all nature to your gross bodily wants to meditation and self communion the s proper answer should he to give any answer at all would be sir i provide first for my bodily needs and against the fitful of the now genial skies in order that i may by and by have leisure and opportunity for those pursuits you so justly though i could not on god the universe and human destiny with a shivering wife looking me sadly in the face nor with the cries of hungry children ringing in my ears nay i could not so this june morning in full view of the truth that if i were content with meditation to day such would he the appeals of those dependent on me ere june should greet us again what you suggest then is excellent in its time and place but i must and to day in order that my season for contemplation and culture may ultimately come � now this obvious response of the to the philosopher is in essence the material or s answer to the and the saint wealth is power is anxiety � is care luxury the body and the soul these in chorus know and be truly wise your and be rich in the moderation of your physical wants adds the know god and find happiness in and serving him echoes the saint true true but everything in order to render one should meat at command and great spiritual exaltation springs not naturally from a body gaunt with enforced hunger let me surround myself with what is needful for me and mine in the way of food and clothing and shelter not forgetting meantime the nobler ends of my existence but looking also to these thus will i for myself opportunity for that plane of being � you so justly invite me i am not forgetting not tlie to seek first tlie kingdom of god and his i am only that until the legitimate needs of those dependent on my exertions are pi d for it would not he righteous in me to surrender myself tu nor even to devotion and this is the answer of tho of man s external circumstances to those who insist that tho end he is to he attained from within rather than from without � in the apt phrase of charles lane by improvement not of this or it t hut of the vital c we readily admit this hut what then the question how is the end to be attained and we hold that there is no practical cure for the vital woes of the pitiable � v nut involve a preliminary change in their outward conditions you may shower and tracts and on the destitute who tenant thick as knotted the and of our great cities and all will run off them like water from a duck s hack leaving them exactly as it and he cannot fail to see that men are actually better or worse as they have better or worse rulers and institutions before human nature as and thereupon those who nevertheless contrive to make its guidance and government a trade he whether this same abused nature has not done better under other and becomes satisfied that it has then he says to the of human nature and to the of old who take shelter imder their wins you say that man cannot walk erect remove your from feet your from his limbs and let us see you say that he cannot take care of himself then why compel him in addition to take such generous care of you say he is naturally and but how could he be otherwise when he cannot fail to perceive that you who set yourselves up for his guides and are perpetually and him begin by giving back to him the earth which you have taken from under his feet the knowledge you have the privileges you have engrossed and we can better determine whether he needs anything and what from your charity after he shall have recovered what is his own it is a fearful gift this of moral � the ability and tlie will to look straight into and through all traditions and ask what is this for what does it signify if it were swept away what would be really lost to mankind this or whatever may be the � does it really does it even tend to the result or does it not rather with a of and a crust of conceit the and vice is there the old left with only self well does a deep speak of the spirit of reform as walking up and down | 19 |
just missed his head but the man who threw it was not to blame for he was excited and a person who is excited never can throw straight the tumult was very great indeed for a while of arc tn the midst of it a of the cardinal even forgot the so far as to the august bishop of himself p shaking his fist in his face and shouting by god you are a traitor you lie responded the bishop hi a traitor i oh far from it he certainly was the last frenchman that any had a right to bring that charge against the earl of lost his temper too he was a soldier but when it came to the � when it came to delicate and and � he couldn t see any further through a than another so he burst out in his frank warrior fashion and swore that the king of england was being used and that of arc was going to be allowed to cheat the stake but they whispered comfort into his ear give yourself no uneasiness my lord we shall soon have her again perhaps the like tidings found their w ay all around for good news travels fast as well as bad at any rate the presently down and the huge apart and disappeared and thus we reached the noon of that fearful thursday we two youths were happy happier than any words can tell � for we were not in the secret any more than the rest s life was saved we knew that and that was enough france would of arc hear of this day s infamous work � and th why then her gallant sons would flock to her standard by thousands and thousands multitudes upon multitudes and their wrath would be like the wrath of the ocean when the storm winds sweep it and they would themselves against this doomed city and it like the tides of that ocean and of arc would march again t in six days � seven days � one short week � noble france grateful france indignant france would be thundering at these gates � let us count tiie hours let us count the minutes let us count the seconds o happy day o day of ecstasy how our hearts sang in our for we were young then yes we were very young do you think the exhausted prisoner was allowed to rest and sleep after she had spent the small remnant of her strength in dragging her tired body back to the no there was no rest for her with those on her track and some of his people followed her to her straightway they found her dazed and dull her mental and physical forces in a state of they told her she had that she had made certain promises � among them to resume the apparel of her sex and that if she the church would cast her out for good and all she heard the but they had no meaning to her she was like a person who of arc taken a and is dying for sleep dying for rest from dying to be let alone and who mechanically does everything the asks taking but dull note of the things done and but them in the memory and so put on the go vn which and his people had brought and would come to herself by and by and have at first but a dim idea as to when and how the change had come about went away happy and content had resumed woman s dress without protest also she had been formally warned against he had witnesses to these facts how could matters be better but suppose she should not why then she must be forced to do it did hint to the english guards that if they chose to make their prisoner s and than ever no official notice would be taken of it perhaps so since the guards did begin that policy at once and no official notice was taken of it yes from that moment s life in that was made almost do not ask me to upon it i will not do it chapter r rid ay and saturday were happy days for and me our minds were full of our splendid dream of france aroused � france shaking her mane � france on the march � france at the gates � in ashes and free our imagination was on fire we were with pride and joy for we were very young as i have said we knew nothing about what had been happening in the the afternoon we supposed that as had and been taken back into the bosom of the church she was being gently used now and her made as pleasant and comfortable for her as the circumstances would allow so in high contentment we planned out our share in the great rescue and fought our part of the fight over and over again during those two happy days � as happy days as ever i have known sunday morning came i was awake enjoying the lazy weather and thinking thinking of the rescue � what else i had no other thought now i was absorbed in that drunk with the happiness of it of arc s i i i heard a voice shouting far down the street and soon it came nearer and i caught the words of arc has the witch s time has come it stopped my heart it turned my blood to ice that was more than sixty years ago but that triumphant note rings as clear in my memory to day as it rang in my ear that long vanished summer morning we are so strangely made the memories that could make us happy pass away it is the memories that break our hearts that abide soon other voices took up that cry � scores hundreds of | 34 |
at home when the cat s away � said the squire they arrived and there were indications in their manner that they meant to make a night of it of castle was late and they waited a quarter of an hour for him he being one of the pf friends without whose presence no such dinner as this would be considered complete and it may be added with whose presence no dinner which ed both sexes could be conducted with strict propriety he had just returned from london and the squire was anxious to talk to him � for no definite reason but he had lately breathed the atmosphere in which was at length they heard driving up to the door whereupon the host and the rest of his guests crossed over to the dining room in a moment came hastily in at their heels for his i only came back last night you know he said a group f and the truth b i i i i had as as i carry he turned to the squire well � so cunning has stolen your little lamb ha ha what said squire across the dining table round which they were all standing the cold march sunlight in his full face surely th st know what all the town knows � had a letter by this time � tha t has married your yes as fm a living man it was a arranged thing they parted at once and are not to meet for five or six years but i you must know a on the floor was the only reply of the squire they quickly turned he had fallen down like a log behind the table and lay motionless on the oak boards those at hand hastily bent over him and the whole group were in confusion they found him to be quite unconscious though puffing and panting like a blacksmith s his face was livid his veins swollen and beads of perspiration stood upon his brow happened to him said several an fit said the doctor from gravely he was only called in at the court for small as a rule and felt the importance of the situation he lifted the squire s head loosened his ci and clothing and rang for the servants who took the squire upstairs there he lay as if in a sleep the surgeon drew a basin of blood from him but it was nearly six o clock before he came to himself the dinner was a of noble z a group of noble completely and some had gone home long ago but two or three remained bless my soul kept repeating i didn t know things had come to this pass between and his lady i thought the feast he was spreading to day was in honour of the event though privately kept for the present his little maid married without his knowledge as soon as the squire recovered consciousness he gasped tis tis a capital he can be hung where is i am very well now what have ye heard the bearer of the news was unwilling to further and would say little more at first but an hour after when the squire had partially recovered and was sitting up told as much as he knew the most important particular being that s mother was present at the marriage and showed every mark of approval everything appeared to have been done so regularly that i of course thought you knew all about it he said i knew no more than the dead that such a step was in the wind a child not yet thirteen how sue hath me did go up to london with em d ye know i can t say all i know is that your lady and daughter were walking along the street with the footman behind em that they entered a s shop where re was standing and that there in the presence o the and your man who was called in on purpose your said to � so the goes my soul i don t for the truth a group of noble of it � she said will you many me or i want to many you will you have me � now or never she said what she said means nothing murmured the squire with wet eyes her mother put the words into her mouth to avoid the serious consequences that would attach to any suspicion of force the words be not the child s � she didn t dream of marriage � how should she poor little maid go on well be that as it will they were all agreed apparently they bought the ring on the spot and the marriage took place at the nearest church within hour a day or two later there came a letter from mrs to her husband written before she knew of his stroke she related the circumstances of the marriage in the manner and gave reasons and excuses for to the premature union which was now an accomplished fact indeed she had no idea till sudden pressure was put upon her that the contract was expected to be carried out so soon but being taken half unawares she had consented learned that now their son in law was becoming a great favourite at court and that he would in all have a title granted him before long no harm could come to their dear daughter by this early marriage contract seeing that her life would be continued under their own eyes exactly as before for some years in fine she had felt that no other such fair opportunity for a good marriage with a shrewd and wise man of the world who was at the sam time noted for his excellent personal qualities a group of was within the range of probability owing to the lives they led at king s hence she had yielded to s | 45 |
we re for a labour candidate this election lady n i really cannot answer for my husband s views on political matters mr � a � i make it a rule never to interfere mr g jest what my old woman i ve learnt her not to with me on politics but yer see a deal depends on the way a thing is done and � � a good woman like yourself � lady n out a faint little oh i here � oh i m on y yer what yer know already � ud find it easy enough to get her better to vote her way if she chooses you take him some � say a saturday now � when h � the other side of the he s jest ad enough to feel and him into giving his vote to you know ow to do it i and he s the right man mind yer is � the right man t n almost how � how dare you come into my house and offer me this impertinent advice i how the other side of the mr g good easy there lady � no impertinence intended fm sure i shouldn t come in ere on the sacred privacy of the british ome which fm quite aware an englishman s is his castle � and rightly so � if i didn t feel privileged like i m i am lady n you are taking a most liberty and if you have the slightest sense of decency mr g now look ere � don t let us ave a vulgar row over this i ain t goin to lose my temper strike � but ear me if we don t think alike there s no reason why you and me should fall out i put that it s likely enough you don t know joe lady n ith temper i never heard of the man in my life mr g triumphantly see there now that s where comes in d yer ee it s our way of the and of the upper classes well i ll tell yer about im worked as a on a fourteen years for eighteen bob a week ain t that a man of the people for yer and if he into parliament he ll insist on labour bein served he s in favour o hours of labour o ground rents one man one vote and payment o members work by ment for the o the o lords and a free breakfast table ah and he means it too that s what joe is but look ere why not come and ear what he s got to say for he s a small open air in s court this ar past eight you come and bring yer and i ll you a good place close to the cheer i ll yer to him and he ll answer any questions yer like to him � fair and straight lady n feebly thank you very much but � but we are unfortunately dining out this evening so i m afraid mr g more in sorrow than in anger there it ts yer see yer afraid afraid o the truth t trust to listen to both sides but i don t despair of yer yet see ere is it ome rule that us if so it needn t don t care no more for ome t he other side of the rule than that ere do between you and me on y yer see he t say so at present d yer my lady n rings the bell in despair oh if you are so kind i ll take whatever yer goin to ave ain t lady n as the butler appears show this � this gentleman the way out mr g don t you trouble old i can find it for myself to lady n i believe if the truth was known you re round already i ll tell yer what i ll do i ll leave some o these ere little as you might get your good man to run his eye over why i am a the of tory ment ow we are robbed i c and ere s a � the of under the brutal i yer might put it up in yer front � it don t commit yer to nothing yer know � it ll amuse the if you ve any family in his ear will you walk down stairs quietly or shall i have to pitch you mr g roused at last what i m to the push am i an what for eh what ave i done more than you ha bin ever since the started to lady n you come into our without to be invited questions and soft and tracks and coloured � and we put up with it all but as soon as one of us tries it on what do yer do � ring for the out ah and reason enough too � yer know yer u get beaten on the here he is gently but firmly led out by and his observations on the stairs outside stuck up � on the people s brains your time come some day wait till ears o this c c lady n alone thank goodness he s gone � but what an ordeal i really must part with and � whatever the league council may say � i shall have to tell them i must give up i don t think i can do it any more � after this on the threshold of a sketch in the new law courts in anticipation of the very next cause c that may have the good fortune to the sympathies of the british public scene � a corridor outside the courts appropriated to the common law division of t ie high court of justice at each of the doors of the court where | 44 |
feel keenly and i h did than that he was tame in comparison with who knew how to address me on equal terms and how to the wretched people around us this went on until the aunt my took it � to speak to me it waa worth alluding to she nothing but she herself knowing it wa a to suggest that it might bo better if i were a with mr i asked her how could answer for what i ot always answer she replied for my meaning nothing wrong l her but said i would prefer to answer for myself and to other would be grateful for good i other conversation followed and induced me to ber at knew that it was only necessary fur her to make a to am to have it obeyed bid she presume on my birth or on my hire i not bought body and she seemed to think hit nephew gone into a slave market and a it would probably have come sooner or later to the to which it did come but brought tt to its issue at e mr tliat i had on unhappy oa repetition of old wicked injury i withheld no ir bu exposed to her all i had known of her and seen in her mid ail i undergone within myself since i had the of engaged to her nephew told her that mr w� am only i had had in my di that i it ton and that shook it too late but that would me more and i never tour dear friend d mo to my retreat and wi the of the though � � � o t people in their way the best ho bad ever the of breaking mere on the w before and far more truly than i was not acceptance by a woman of such and such power of character but � well well tour dear amused me and amused himself as long as it suited his inclinations and then reminded me that we were both people of the world that we both understood mankind that we both knew there was no such thing as romance that we were both prepared for going ways to seek our fortunes like people of sense and that we both that whenever we one another again we should meet as the best on earth so he said and i did not contradict him it was not very long before i found that he was his present wife and that die had been taken away to be out of his reach i hated her then quite as much as i hate her now and naturally therefore could desire nothing better than that she should many but i was curious to look at her � so curious that i it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me i a little travelled until i found myself in her society and in tour dear mend i think was not known to you then and had not given you any of those signal marks of his which he has bestowed upon you in that company i found a girl in various circumstances of there was a likeness to my own and in whose character i was interested and pleased to see much of the rising against swollen patronage and selfishness calling themselves kindness pro ce and other fine names which i have described as jl inherent in my nature i often heard it said too that she had temper well understanding what was meant by the t phrase and wanting a companion with a knowledge of what i knew i thought i would try to release the girl m her bondage and sense of injustice i have no occasion to relate that i succeeded we have been together ever since sharing my small means chapter who passes by this so late had made his expedition to in the midst of a great pressure of business a certain power with valuable possessions on the map of the world had occasion for the services of one or two quick in invention and determined in execution practical men who could make the men and means their ingenuity perceived to be wanted out of tbe best they could find at hand and who were as bold and fertile in the of such materials to their purpose as in the conception of their purpose itself this power being a one had no idea of away a great national object in a office as wine u hidden light in a c until its and are gone and the who worked in � il es are dust with it on decided and energetic notions of how to do it least respect for or gave any r to the greet political not to do it indeed it had a barbarous way at the ut and mystery dead in the enlightened subject who it accordingly the men who were were sought oat md which was ill itself a most and ol being found they great and which again showed political ignorance and ru i i at once and do what they had to do in short w i as men who meant to do it engaging with other men who it to be done daniel was one of the chosen there was no time whether he would be absent months or his departure and the ur all th details and results of their joint business hi at within a short compass of time which had occupied day ni night he had slipped across the water in first and slipped as quickly back for his farewell with l him arthur now showed with and the o their gains and s bill and daniel m it all in his patient manner and it all h the accounts as if they were a far more ul than he had ci ci constructed and stood at them weighing | 8 |
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