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was the principal of our family miss or miss as my poor mother always called her when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidable personage to mention her at all which was seldom had been married to a husband younger than herself who was very handsome except in the sense of the homely handsome is that handsome does � for he was strongly suspected of having beaten miss and even of having once on a disputed question of supplies made some hasty but determined arrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs window these evidences of an of temper induced miss to pay him off and effect a separation by mutual consent he went to india with his capital and there according to a wild legend in our family he was once seen riding on an elephant in company with a but i think it must have been a or a any how from india of david b tidings of his death reached home within ten years how they affected my aunt nobody knew for immediately upon the separation she took her maiden name again bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea coast a long way off established herself there as a single woman with one servant and was understood to live secluded ever afterwards in an my father had once been a favorite of hers i believe but she was by his marriage on the ground that my mother was a wax doll she had never seen my mother but she knew her to be not yet twenty my father and miss never met again he was double my mother s age when he married and of but a delicate constitution he died a year afterwards and as i have said six months before i came into the world this was the state of matters on the afternoon of what j may be excused for calling that and important friday i can make no claim therefore to have known at that time how matters stood or to have any remembrance founded on the evidence of my own senses of what follows my mother was sitting by the fire but poorly in health and very low in spirits looking at it through her tears and heavily about herself and the little stranger who was already welcomed by some of prophetic pins in a drawer up stairs to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival my mother i say was sitting by the fire that bright windy march afternoon very timid and sad and very doubtful of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her when lifting her eyes as she dried them to the window opposite she saw a strange lady coming up the garden my mother had a sure at the second glance that it was miss the setting sun was glowing on the strange lady over the garden fence and she came walking up to the door with a fell of figure and composure of countenance that could have belonged to nobody else when she reached the house she gave another proof of her identity my father had often hinted that she seldom conducted herself like any ordinary christian and now instead of ringing the bell she came and looked in at that identical window pressing the end of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dear mother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment she gave my mother such a turn that i have always been convinced i am indebted to miss for having been born on a friday my mother had left her chair in her agitation and gone behind it in the corner miss looking round the room slowly and began on the other side and carried her eyes on uke a s head in a dutch clock until they reached my mother then she made a frown and a gesture to my mother like one who was accustomed to be obeyed to come and open the door my mother w ent mrs david i think said miss the emphasis referring perhaps to my mother s mourning weeds and her condition yes said my mother faintly the personal history and miss said the visitor you have heard of hot i dare say my mother answered she had had that pleasure and she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure now you see her said miss my mother bent her head and begged lier to walk in they w ent into the parlor my mother had come from the fire in the room on the other side of the passage not being lighted � not been lighted indeed since my father s funeral and when they were both seated and miss said nothing my mother after vainly trying to restrain herself began to cry oh tut tut tut said miss in a don t do that come come my mother couldn t help it notwithstanding so she cried until she had had her cry out take off your cap child said miss and let me see you my mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this odd request if she had any disposition to do so therefore she did as she was told and did it with such nervous hands that her hair which was luxuriant and beautiful fell all about her face why bless my heart exclaimed miss you are a baby my mother was no doubt unusually youthful in appearance even for her years she hung her head as if it were her fault poor thing � and said sobbing that indeed she was afraid she was but a childish widow and would be but a childish mother if she lived in a short pause which ensued she had a fancy that she felt miss touch her hair	8
cities used now to the company manners and ladies who almost think it vulgar to smile broad how could ye do it i � i didn t think about how i was altered i said the conscience stricken girl i used to kiss him and he used to kiss me before he went away but that was years ago my dear i o yes and for the moment i forgot he seemed just the same to me as he used to be well it can t be helped now you must be the well beloved careful in the future he s got lots of young women warrant and has few thoughts left for you he s what they call a and he means to be a great genius in that line some day they do say well i ve done it and it can t be mended moaned the girl meanwhile the of fame had gone onward to the house of his father an man of trade and commerce merely from whom nevertheless accepted a yearly allowance the famous days to come but the elder having received no warning of his son s intended visit was not at home to receive him looked round the familiar premises glanced across the common at the great yards within which eternal were going to and fro upon eternal blocks of stone � the very same and the very same blocks that he had seen there when last in the island so it seemed to him � and then passed through the dwelling into the back garden like all the gardens in the isle it was surrounded by a wall of dry and at its further extremity it ran out into a corner which the garden of the he a sketch of a temperament had no sooner reached this spot than he became aware of a murmuring and sobbing on the other side of the wall the voice he recognized in a moment as s and she seemed to be con her trouble to some young friend of her own sex oh what shall i do i what shall i do she was bitterly so bold as it was � so how could i think of such a thing he will never forgive me � never never like me again he ll think me a forward and yet � and yet i quite forgot how much i had grown but that he ll never believe the accents were those of one who had for the first time become conscious of her womanhood as an unwonted possession which and frightened her did he seem angry at it inquired the friend o not angry worse cold and haughty o he s such a fashionable person now � not at all an island man but there s no use in talking of it i wish i was dead retreated as quickly as he could he grieved at the incident which had brought such pain to this innocent soul and yet it was beginning to be a source of vague pleasure to him the well beloved he returned to the house and when his father had come back and welcomed him and they had shared a meal together again went out full of an earnest desire to soothe his young neighbour s sorrow in a way she little expected though to tell the truth his affection for her was rather that of a friend than of a lover and he felt by no means sure that the i p g f f j who ever since his boyhood had flitted from human shell to human shell an indefinite number of times was going to take up her abode in the body of a sketch of a temperament the is assumed to be true i ii it was difficult to meet her again even though on this lump of rock the difficulty lay as a rule rather in than in meeting but had been transformed into a different kind of young woman by the self consciousness of her impulsive greeting and notwithstanding their near neighbourhood he could not encounter her try as he would no sooner did he appear an inch beyond his father s door than she was to earth like a fox she bolted upstairs to her room anxious to soothe her after his slight he could not stand these long the manners of the isle were primitive and straightforward even among the well to do and noting her disappearance one day he followed ii the well beloved her into the house and onward to the foot of the stairs he called yes mr pier why do you run upstairs like that only because i wanted to come up for something well if you ve got it can t you come down again no i can t very well come dear that s what you are you know there was no response well if you won t you won t he continued i don t want to bother you and went away he was stopping to look at the old fashioned flowers under the garden walls when he heard a voice behind him mr � i wasn t angry with you when you were gone i thought � you might mistake me and i felt i could do no less than come and assure you of my friendship still turning he saw the blushing immediately behind him you are a good dear girl said he and a sketch of a temperament seizing her hand set upon her cheek the kind of kiss that should have been the response to hers on the day of his coming darling forgive me for the slight that day say you do come now and then til say to you what i have never said to any other woman living or dead will you have me as your husband ah � says i am only one of many you are not dear	45
village she was in a blue dress and she lifted the veil of her bonnet and said � ram give my to the and tell him that i shall meet him next month at then i ran away because i was afraid what said or did i do not know br word of mouth ram declares that he said but walked up and down the all the cold night waiting for the to come up the hill and stretching out his arms into the dark like a madman but no came and next day he went on to cross questioning the bearer every hour ram could only say that he had met mrs and that she had lifted up her veil and given him the message which he had faithfully repeated to to this statement ram he did not know where was had no friends at and would most certainly never go to even though his pay were doubled is in and has nothing whatever to do with a doctor serving in the it must be more than twelve hundred miles from went through without halting and returned to there to take over charge from the man who had ben for him during his tour there were some accounts to be explained and some recent orders of the surgeon general to be noted and altogether the taking over was a full day s work in the evening told his who was an old friend of his bachelor days what had happened at and the man said that ram might as well have chosen while he was about it at that moment a telegraph came in with a from ordering not to take over charge at but to go at tales from the hills once to on special duty there was a nasty outbreak of at and the being as usual had borrowed a surgeon from the threw the across the table and said � well the other doctor said nothing it was all that he could say then he remembered that had passed through on his way from and thus might possibly have heard the first news of the impending transfer he tried to put the question and the implied suspicion into words but stopped him with � if i had desired that i should never have come back from i was shooting there i wish to live for i have things to do but i shall not be sorry the other man bowed his head and helped in the twilight to pack up s just trunks ram entered with the lamps where is the going he asked to said softly ram s knees and boots and begged him not to go ram wept and howled till he was turned out of the room then he wrapped up all his and came back to ask for a character he was not going to to see his die and perhaps to die himself so gave the man his wages and went down to alone the other doctor bidding him good bye as one under sentence of death to be held for reference eleven days later he had joined his and the government had to borrow a fresh doctor to cope with that at the first lay dead in d k to be held for reference by the of the wild goat up tossed from the where she lay in the sun fell the stone to the where the daylight is lost so she fell from the light of the sun and alone now the fall was ordained from the first with the goat and the and the but the stone knows only her life is accursed as she sinks in the depths of the and alone oh thou who has the world oh thou who hast lighted the sun oh thou who hast darkened the judge thou the sin of the stone that was hurled by the goat from the light of the sun as she sinks in the mire of the even now even now from the papers of say is it dawn is it dusk in thy bower thou whom i long for who longest for me oh be it night � � be it � � o plain tales from the hills here he fell over a little that was sleeping in the where the horse and of the from central asia live and because he was very drunk indeed and the night was dark he could not rise again till i helped him that was the beginning of my acquaintance with when a and drunk sings the song of the bow er he must be worth he got off the s back and said rather thickly � t � i � i m a bit but a dip in will put me right again and i say have you spoken to about the mare s knees now was six thousand weary miles away from us close to where you mustn t fish and is le and stable a half mile further across the it was strange to hear all the old names on a may night among the horses and of the then the man seemed to remember himself and sober down at the same time he leaned against the and pointed to a comer of the where a lamp was burning � i live there said he and i should be extremely obliged if you would be good enough to help my feet thither for i am more than usually drunk � most � most tight but not in respect to my head my brain cries out against � how does it go but my head rides on the rolls on the hill i should have said and the i helped him through the of horses and he on the edge of the in front of the line oi c to for t a thanks o and little stars to think that a man should so	39
the literary tastes of the public and at the same time serve the best interests of your pupils books relating to history to biography and to travel will form a the book lover veiy large portion of your but books of fiction � such as are known to be � should not be excluded and poetry should occupy the place of honor upon your shelves for the younger children you should not neglect to supply a few books of that type referred to in the preceding chapter � stories which cultivate the imagination and strengthen the understanding while they at the same time allow a and from the studies of the no book should be bought merely because it is a good book but because it can be made in the of certain desired ends the brief lists in the following chapters it is hoped will assist you somewhat in making a wise selection as well as in directing to a judicious use of books for the selection of a book is only half of a teacher s or a parent s duty the proper and profitable use of it is the other half and this lesson should be early taught to all young people the proper and profitable use of books � the library in the school this many things in the first place eveiy child should learn how to handle them as things of greater worth than mere dead matter there is scarcely anything more painful to the book lover than to see books abused and yet how few people seem to regard them as more than so many of waste paper having a certain money value how few among au those who read appear to recognize in a good book the precious life blood of a master spirit how few treat these silent yet expressive friends with anything approaching due respect the example of may be quoted as that genuine love of books which their owner to care for them as for his dearest companions he had an almost fondness for books � books themselves � and said that he could not bear to treat them or see them treated with he told us it gave him pain to see them turned on their faces stretched open or dog s or carelessly flung down or in any way the book lover he told us this holding a in his hand with a caressing gesture as though he it affectionately and for the pleasure it had given him he spoke like one who had known what it was in former years to buy a when its involved a sacrifice of some other object horn a not over stored purse we have often noticed this in book lovers who like ourselves have had volumes come into cherished possession at times when their glad owners were not rich enough to easily book purchases charles lamb had this tenderness for books caring nothing for their gaudy clothing but a rare all the nearer to ins heart for its worn edges and shabby binding the first lesson learned by pupils having access to a school library should be such as will lead them to have this reverence for good books care should be taken that no species of injury shall occur a book when once taken of writers hy charles and mary the library in the school from its shelf should be returned in due time in perfectly good condition soiled hands should not be permitted to much less to open a volume the child should be taught that imder no circumstances should he turn the leaves with fingers or fold the comers to mark the place or lay the open book down upon its face where he has left off reading he should moreover be led to a proper admiration of handsome � an admiration which will handling and induce that instinctive respect which all feel for beauty of dress for this latter reason i the custom � useless as it seems to me � of covering library books with those covers which do but provoke and if teachers do their duty in this matter uncovered books will those subjected to such and how much more pleasant when standing in front of the shelves to see the smiling faces of our looking down upon us than to a monotonous array of brown bundles w the book lover as devoid of expression as they are lacking in beauty to the care of the books should be considered the order and manner in which they are read i would not advise that teachers or even parents should every time select the books which a child is to read a boy will generally read with much more zest and interest a book which he has chosen for himself but the teacher should give such general instruction and directions as will while they leave some latitude for choice always lead to a wise selection as the pupil advances in the acquisition of knowledge he should be given more definite instruction as to the manner in which he may his reading so as to lead to the best possible results more than this he should on occasion be held to as strict in the matter of his reading as in that of any other part of his school work and he should be brought so constantly into contact with books that he will acquire a ready skill in using them for of reference the library in the school it too often happens in schools where the ordinary methods of instruction are closely followed that the pupil s interest in his studies is upon the and ends with the examination the text book to ordinary minds is a of � or theories � so that only the brightest succeed in discovering any relationship between its world of and the real world of life and thought around us but suppose that in each school there were a small	23
own taste and fancy � her biography in one of these the circumstance of her having been so long mistaken for one of the male sex was ascribed to a way she had in common with a great female in france of going about in men s clothes in another she was the daughter of an who had secretly married beneath him and had taken to light literature and pronounced opinions in revenge for his declining to acknowledge her as his legitimate offspring these flights of fancy were occasionally mingled with of truth one journal described her as a who had charmed the son of the house who had in consequence been discarded by his father her pen now maintained her husband � unhappily a ma who spent her magnificent in every description of another was compelled by a sense of public duty to give the statement which it had however received upon the beat for what it t neither the essays nor the novel of so m i � i e st v st own at the s composition but had been written by her old an who in total ignorance of their literary value had sold them to her for and twenty shillings the lot in consequence of this interesting information old and others sprang up like in various places in the country claiming their i and appealing to a public for a few shillings to keep life and soul together in genius wronged all this rubbish however only tended to raise higher and higher the flame of her the for for photographs for a few words in your own handwriting expressing a sentiment or for a quotation from your admirable works flowed in invitations to dinners to afternoon and even to from the most high placed � of the first rank � rained in upon her by every post not only were all the of literary in town eager to add her to their collection but even those of the provinces these latter indeed to whom the of their existence had probably a certain desperation were more audacious and than the others she was invited to half a dozen country seats by as many female whose apology for addressing her must be found they said in the fact that in the of the they recognised not only a genius � which indeed all the world acknowledged � but in the highest and noblest sense a friend if their of respect did not impress miss elizabeth dart quite so deeply as in some cases they were obviously expected to do they afforded her very considerable amusement as her address was unknown they were all addressed to her to be forwarded by the editor of the who most bitterly complained of the it was about the only thing in those days that had to complain of s love had renewed for him not indeed his youth � for he was still comparatively a young man � but that light hearted gaiety which fails and on our road through middle life as though the coming stupor of old age beheld from afar had us with its prospect one day with eyes that with fun he brought a letter to her of the kind which usually came in it was an envelope containing a dinner card k ss of the heir of the ages it is very kind of her said rather coldly but i don t see why it should not have been forwarded with the others the idea of his having made an exception in favour of her grace was very disagreeable to her she exceedingly resented the notion of patronage under any circumstances and that this example of it should have had the recommendation of her was particularly distasteful my dear she is a remonstrated it was very seldom that he could get a rise out of whose sense of humour was indeed much stronger than his own and he enjoyed his opportunity immensely at all events i have not the honour of her acquaintance was the reply that is why she seeks it i suppose i did not bring her invitation with the others as you call them because she herself me to place it in your hands oh she is a friend of your own is she exclaimed with an air of relief there is as much friendship between us as is possible between persons of such different positions in life i am sometimes asked to at homes at house we are not absolutely confidential though she sometimes bows to me quite sweetly in the park when there is no one looking you are going yourself however i suppose to this dinner i certainly not there is a reception in the evening however to which i am invited � you must remember my darling for looked very much that her grace is quite unaware of our engagement does she ask me then to come alone no she has very kindly included in the invitation i have another card here which i am to give her if you accept but not otherwise then i consider this lady exceedingly impertinent my dear she is a i shall certainly not go then i think you will make a mistake my love in my opinion you should never lose an opportunity of a new experience copy exclaimed with indignation i am not a newspaper � ow those grounds i should indeed be a fitting guest c ia � at the s my dear do be reasonable there is in the first place no obligation in the matter or if any it lies on her grace s side if her own admiration for genius is not very genuine you will meet others at her house of another i don t pretend that it will be a new world to you a palace a host of servants and an interminable dinner do not as is too commonly supposed constitute a paradise the	25
i can not assent to the vital proposition so generally assumed as self evident by the free trade that the ability to give employment to labor is always in proportion to the amount of capital and that the increase of capital as compared with population necessarily leads to an increase of wages i will not deny that such ought to he the result in a perfect state of society that it is the result is plainly contradicted by glaring facts the french tion diminished greatly the of property in france as compared with its population yet the average rewards of labor s political economy labor were thereby the amount of capital as compared to population is less in america than in yet the rewards of labor are here higher on the contrary there are many instances where the wealth of a people has increased yet the condition and rewards of its with the demand for labor have political economy has yet to take to itself a broader field than that of discovering the means whereby the wealth of a nation may be increased it must consider also how its labor may be most fully and equally rewarded and by what means the largest proportion of the increase of wealth and comforts may be secured to those who have produced them i am not unaware that at present the current of opinion on this subject sets or seems to set against me � that the dead fish all float that way i realize that the great majority of authors and professors who treat of political economy are free � that their writings are admired and commended as liberal beneficent and of while ours of the contrary part are as narrow partial and impelled by a transient or selfish i perceive that the tendency of our time is toward adventure and speculation � that the great mass of the educated and intellectual are making haste to be rich and generally by buying and selling other men s labor or its fruits rather than by laboring themselves commerce and fortunes and the great journals with and found and fashion the public sentiment of the comfortable class with regard to labor its position and i see that the very progress hitherto made in the useful arts under the shelter of duties the progress still making by virtue of the impulse thus given may render the existence of decided and protection less obviously necessary than it was in the infancy of our country and her hints toward industry yet i see too that we who stand for protection read study and endeavor to understand both sides of the question � are familiar with our arguments have considered them and think we see why and wherein they are mistaken and while they habitually treat our arguments with studied contempt or with a radical which gross ignorance or i can not doubt that this country is now losing many millions per for want of a more efficient and protection of its industry though some articles are really others partially protected by it and that our labor is receiving in the average at least one eighth less than it would be under a thoroughly while hundreds of thousands stand idle and earn nothing whom that would amply employ and reward so believing i can not but hope that time and discussion and contemplation and the down of party and the progress of events will work a silent but thorough revolution in our national and that the adequate and comprehensive protection of will again be regarded by and people as among the most urgent essential and beneficent duties of the government and its effects ix their essential nature and necessary effect the human constitution is a peculiar combination of and it is a compound unknown to nature but by art from certain vegetable in a peculiar stage of dissolution the first step toward producing is the death of the grain or fruit destined to yield it when the life of any substance is destroyed that substance by a law of the universe to decay and dissolution more accurately with the of life the laws of vitality by which the peculiar of elements forming the the apple the of wheat or was created and sustained now lose their power over this matter and the opposite laws of take effect upon it causing its several to enter into new with each other and with other wherewith they are brought in contact by the ac tion of air water and otherwise thus the sugar which � in the form of or forms one of the of certain and fruits is dissolved in an early stage of the process of decay and with other or and enters upon the stage known as prepared by request of the national division of the sons of and published under the direction of a committee at the of may � s hints toward reform that of in this stage is produced a fiery nearly transparent liquid which by itself is a most and deadly poison to mankind as well as to nearly or quite every animal had been originally and uniformly produced and of other there can be no question that it would have been recognized and as a deadly as any other vegetable poison but does not naturally manifest itself of other the water which forms so large a proportion of the the apple the the and which must be with the in order to produce the remains combined with the after the has produced it some small portion also of the other of the original substance are held in solution or combination by their with the water or or both united indeed it was not till the ninth century that was separated and recognized as a distinct substance by an has been very generally practised more or less rudely from a very early age and of course produced and just as naturally followed how or	19
a short distance above the edge of the fall and it was also open below the fall where there was a great foaming and tumbling and whirling of currents looked at it a moment and then he concluded that it would be better for him to go with i have seen said he to himself pretty much all of the machinery and i shall be very tired of waiting here an hour so he concluded that he would run down quick and see if had gone when he got down stairs and out at the door he found that the was not at the post he ran around the comer and saw at some distance just at the foot of a hill he ran after l im calling jo � jo just at this time stopped to let the mill horse walk up the hill and so he heard calling for the bells did not make so much noise when the horse was walking as they did so stopped until overtook him and they went on the rest of the way together chapter ix difficulty although it was winter when the boys were taking this ride yet the sun was shining in a very warm and pleasant manner and the snow was every where softening in the fields and melting in the roads indicating that the spring was coming on there was a little stream of water down the hill in the middle of the road and forming a long pool at the bottom turned his horse to one side to avoid this pool of water and waited until came up well said he � tired of the mill already why no said only i thought that on the whole rather go with you i didn t think that you were be gone so long it is about two miles said where are you going said to see about some logs i thought yoa heard your father teu me to go and see about some logs what about the logs said why to make the boards of for the bam o replied didn t know that yes continued when we want boards we have to go to somebody who owns some pine timber in the woods and get him to cut down some of them and haul them to the mill then they saw them up and make boards what mill said at that saw mill near the mill the mill down in the village you know is a mill by this time the boys had got to the top the hill and they got into the and rode along presently they came to a place where was going to turn off into a sort of by road which led away into the woods where the pine trees grew the man that owned the trees lived pretty near in a is that the road that we are going in asked on a farm ik winter yes said but it not look very promising the road was filled up nearly full of snow it had been hard so that they could travel upon it pretty well but the warm sun had softened the snow so much that the horses feet sunk down into it in some places very deep however went along as well as he could let us get out and walk said no said that will not do much good for it is the weight of the horse himself that makes him sink into the snow not the weight of the so the boys both continued to ride in the they soon came into the woods where the ground being sheltered by the trees above the snow lay more upon it and though the horse a little ye he got along very comfortably at length however they came out of the woods into an opening the road went along under a high bank with a deep brook on the other side wind during the storms in the winter had blown in over this bank and filled up the road entirely f now said i am afraid we re in difficulty why said is that a very bad place yes said it looks like a very bad place saw that the snow was very deep on the upper side of the road and that it away in such a manner that it would be very difficult for them to get along even if the road way was hard perhaps it is hard said no said i think it cannot be for the bank slopes to the south and the sun has been shining upon it all day however we must try it the horse hesitated a moment when he came to this place for he � new by instinct that it would be very hard for him to get through it come general said though stop a moment perhaps we had better get out and walk or the may upset so they got out walked by the horse keeping on the upper side of the road went behind taking hold of the back on a farm in winter part of the so as to hold it in case it should tip down too far they went on thus for some distance tolerably well the horse sometimes got in pretty far and for a moment would plunge and as if he could hardly get along but then h would work his way out and go on a little farther at length however the old general came to a full stop he sank down shoulders under in the snow the more he struggled to get free the deeper he got in stepped on before him and patted him on the head and tried to quiet him said let us stop i don t believe we can go any farther nor i said at least i don t think we can get the old general any farther nor back again either said as	22
time for thought he at once put the ghost upon her course � a course which meant the seal herd and not harbor but the men were no longer eager as they pulled and hauled and i heard curses amongst them which left their lips smothered and as heavy and lifeless as were they not so was it with the hunters smoke the irrepressible related a and they descended into the with laughter as i passed to of the on my way aft i was approached by the engineer we had rescued his face was white his lips were trembling good g xl sir what kind of a craft is this he cried you have eyes you have seen i answered almost what of the pain and fear at my own heart your promise i said to i was not thinking of taking them aboard when i made that promise he answered and anyway you u agree i ve not laid my hands upon them tlie sea wolf far from it far from it he laughed a moment later i made do reply i was incapable of speaking my mind was too i must h time to i knew this woman sleeping even now in the spare cabin was a responsibility which consider and the rational thought that through my mind was that i must do nothing hastily if i were to be any help to her at all chapter xx the remainder of the day passed the young slip of a gale having our proceeded to moderate the fourth engineer and the three after a warm with wolf were with from the assigned es un der the hunters in the various boats and watches on the vessel and forward into the they went but their voices were not loud they were awed by what they had already seen of wolf s character while the tale of woe they speedily beard in the took the last bit of rebellion out of them miss � we had learned her name from the engineer � slept on and on at supper i requested the hunters to lower their voices so she was not disturbed and it was not till next morning that she made her appearance it had been my intention to have her meals served apart but wolf put down his foot who was she that she should be too good for cabin table and cabin society had been his demand but her coming to the table had something amusing in it the hunters fell silent as and smoke alone were stealing stealthy glances at her now and again and even taking part in the conversation the other four men their eyes on their plates and steadily and with thoughtful their ears moving a id in time with their like the ears of so many animals the sea wolf i i little to say at first doing no more than reply when he was addressed not that he was abashed far from it this woman was a new type to him a different breed from any he had c cr known and he was curious he studied her his eyes rarely leaving her face unless to follow the movements of her hands or shoulders i studied her myself and though it was i who maintained the conversation i know that i was a bit shy not quite his was the perfect the supreme confidence in self which nothing could shake and he was no more of a woman than be was of storm and battle and when shall we arrive at she asked to him and him in the eyes there it was the question flat the jaws stopped working the ears ceased and though eyes remained on plates each man listened for the answer in four months possibly three if the season early said she caught her breath and stammered i � i thought � i was given to understand that was only a day s sail away it � here she paused and looked about the table at the circle of faces staring hard at the plates it is not right she concluded that is a question you must settle with mr van there he replied nodding to me with a mischievous t� mr van is what you may call an authority on such things as rights now i who am only a sailor would look upon the situation somewhat differently it may possibly be your misfortune that u have to remain with us but it is certainly our good fortune � i it a the sea wolf he regarded her her eyes fell before his gaze but she lifted them again and to mine i read the question there was it right but i bad decided that the part i was to play must be a one so i did not answer what do you think i she demanded that it is unfortunate if you have any engagements falling due in the course of the next several months but since you say that you were to for your health i can assure you that it will improve no better anywhere than aboard the ghosts i saw her eyes flash with indignation and this time it was i who dropped mine while i felt my face flushing under her gaze it was cowardly but what else could i do mr van speaks with the voice of authority wolf laughed i nodded my head and she having recovered herself waited not that he is much to speak of now wolf went on but he has improved wonderfully you should have seen him when he came on board a more pitiful specimen of humanity one could hardly conceive isn t that so thus directly addressed was startled into dropping his knife on the floor though he managed to developed himself by potatoes and washing dishes again that worthy look at him now true he is not what you would term muscular	21
borne towards us on the wind again we lost her and again she rose two men were gone the agony on shore increased men groaned and clasped their hands women shrieked and turned away their faces some ran wildly up and down along the beach crying for help where no help could be i found myself one of these imploring a knot of sailors whom i knew not to let those two lost creatures perish before our eyes of david they were making out to me in an agitated way � i don t know how for the little t could hear i was scarcely composed enough to understand � that the life boat had been bravely an hour ago and could do nothing and that as no man would be so desperate as to attempt to oft with a rope and establish a communication with the shore there was nothing left to try when i noticed that some new sensation moved the people on the beach and saw them part and ham come breaking through them to the front i ran to him � as well as i know to repeat my appeal for help but distracted though i was by a sight so new to me and terrible the determination in his face and his look out to sea � exactly the same look as i remembered in with the morning after s flight � awoke me to a knowledge of his danger i held him back with both arms and implored the men with whom i had been speaking not to listen to him not to do murder not to let him stir from oft that sand another cry arose on shore and looking to the wreck we saw the cruel sail with blow on blow beat off the lower of the two men and fly up in triumph round the active figure left alone upon the mast against such a sight and against such determination as that of the calmly desperate man who was already accustomed to lead half the people present i might as have entreated the wind r he said cheerily grasping me by both hands if my time is come tis come if tan t bide it lord above bless you and bless all mates make me ready i m a going oft i was swept away but not to some distance where the people around me made me stay urging as i perceived that he was bent on going with help or without and that i should the precautions for his safety by troubling those with whom they rested i don t know what i answered or what they rejoined but i saw hurry on the beach and men running with ropes from a that was there and penetrating into a circle of figures that hid him from me then i saw him standing alone in a seaman s frock and a rope in his hand or to his wrist another round his body and several of the best men holding at a little distance to the latter which he laid out himself slack upon the shore at his feet the wreck even to my eye was breaking up i saw that she was parting in the middle and that the life of the solitary man upon the mast hung by a thread still he clung to it he had a singular red cap on � not like a sailor s cap but of a finer color and as the yielding between him and destruction rolled and and his death rung lie was seen by all of us to wave it i saw him do it now and thought i was going distracted when his action brought an old remembrance to my mind of a once dear friend ham watched the sea standing alone with the silence of suspended breath behind him and the storm before until there was a great retiring wave when with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body he dashed in after it and in a moment was with the water rising with the hills falling with the valleys lost beneath the foam then drawn again to land they hauled in hastily o o the personal history and experience he was hurt i saw blood on his face from where i stood but he took no thought of that he seemed hurriedly to give them some directions for leaving him more free � or so i judged from the motion of � and was gone as before and now he made for the wreck rising with the hills falling with the valleys lost beneath the rugged foam borne in towards the shore borne on towards the ship striving hard and the distance was nothing but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly at length he the wreck he was so near that with one more of strokes he would be clinging to it � when a high green vast side of water moving on from beyond the ship he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound and the ship was gone some fragments i saw in the sea as if a mere had been broken in running to the spot where they were in consternation was in every face they drew him to my very feet � insensible � dead he was carried to the nearest house and no one preventing me now i remained near him busy while every means of restoration were tried but he had been beaten to death by the great wave and his generous heart was for ever as i sat beside the bed when hope was abandoned and all was done a who had known me when and i were children and ever since whispered my name at the door sir said he with tears starting to his weather beaten face which with his trembling lips	8
as he had not been put to the expense of sending angel np to cambridge he had felt it his to set by a sum of money every year towards the purchase or lease of land for him some day that he might not feel himself as far as worldly wealth goes continued his father you will no doubt stand far to your brothers in a few years this old mr s part led angel ard to the other and dearer subject he observed to lis father that he was then six and twenty and that when v should start in the farming business he would require s in back of his head to see to all matters � some be necessary to the domestic labors of his establishment whilst he was would it not be well therefore for him to his father seemed to think this idea not unreasonable md then put the question what kind of wife do u think would be best for me as a hard working a truly christian woman who will be a help and a comfort to you in out and your in beyond that it really matters httle such an one can be found indeed my minded friend and neighbor or chant � bat ought she not to be able to milk cows � good butter make know how to � t and and rear chickens to direct a field of in an and the oi i te s of the tes a s wife yes it be d mr e the elder liad plainly never though of these before i wiu going to add that for a ui e and will not o more to your true advantage and not i your mother s mind and my own than friend men whom yon to show a certain interest in it is t that my neighbor chant s daughter has lately caught i i the fashion of tlie younger round about ns for de the communion table � altar as i was shocked i hear her call it one day � with flowers and other stuff o i festival occasions but her father who is quite as to aa i says that can cured it is mere girlish outbreak which i am sure will not be i yes yes mercy is good and i know but father don t you think that a y woman and virtuous as chant but one who in of tl lady s accomplishments the of farm life as well as a himself would u better t his father persisted in that a i of a farmer s wife s duties came second to a v of and tlie impulsive angel wishing ta li i bis father s feelings and to advance the cause of i at the same time gi he said tliat i providence had in his way a woman who p to be the of an and was decidedly of a serious turn of mind he v not say whether or not had attached herself to sound low school of his father but she i probably bo open to c� on that point she m church of simple faith d p intelligent graceful to a degree ns a i and in personal appearance is she of a family such os you would core to many ii � the lady in short t asked his mother who had softly into the study during the � she is not what in common is called a lady said angel for she is a s daughter as i am to say but she is a lady nevertheless � in feeling and nature mercy chant is of a very good family � what s the advantage of that mother said quickly how is family to avail the wife of a man who has to rough it as i have and shall have to do j mercy is and have their charm returned his mother looking al him through her silver spectacles as to external what will be the use of them in the life i am going to lead f � while as to her reading i can take that in hand she ll be apt pupil enough as you say if you knew her she s of � poetry if i may use the she what paper poets only write and she is an christian i am sure perhaps of the very tribe and species you desire to o angel you are mocking mother i beg pardon but as she really does attend almost every sunday morning and is a good christian girl i am sure you will any social � for the sake of tliat quality and feel that i may do sm choose her angel almost unconsciously on that rather in his be � � r which never dreaming that it might stand in h good stead he had been prone to b ip ht when ol it practised by her and the other less l l of than of it� obvious � in lives essentially ij their sad doubts as to whether their son had right to the title he claimed for the unknown j woman mr and mrs began to feel it as an em op the d not to be that she at least was in her views especially as the of the have arisen by chance or l for i would have made a of his cl they said finally that it was better not to act in a but that they would not object to see her angel therefore refrained from more now he felt that single minded and his were there yet existed certain ut � of theirs as middle class people which would � some tact to overcome for at i to do as he chose and though their r iu could make no practical difference to their ii � in the probability of her h far away from li	45
are to be found at present only in the forms of higher classes of the same type for instance the so common in tbe of new york precisely resemble the forms of the and the are principally whose form is an early or one of our present species c there seems however to he not so much a weakness of animal life itself as of direction thus number of species is in many instances much greater than at present but their organization is lower their distribution not distinct the different types not ao definitely and their forms more and fantastic hence it is concluded that there is u manifest progress in the succession of beings on the surface of the in an increasing to the living and among the especially j in their resemblance to man this connection is to be sought in the view of the creator himself j whose aim in forming the earth in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which has pointed out and in creating all the different types of animals which have passed away was to introduce man upon the surface of our globe we must remark that the connection of plan throughout the animal kingdom has been made more prominent in our than it will he found in the work itself indeed after the importance given to a purely scientific principle in mr lectures we must confess ourselves somewhat pointed not to find it penetrating the details somewhat more of than it does here perhaps it will be said that this would not be advisable for a work intended for bat on the one hand ct are much easier and better learned when we have a principle to string them on and an interest is thus given to some who would not otherwise be attracted � on the other if students are to learn bj they may as well and better learn principles than bare ts as mere natural history the work before us has immense advantages over most similar ones in having been executed and by thoroughly scientific men and not by as is generally the case in some passages we trace the marks of a foreign indicating that they were conceived in another language from that in which they are written hence occasional for example p � wheat taken from the of egypt has been made to and grow in ome page life is made to consist in the of nourishment and waste � the opposite of the truth death and not life being what is meant is some expressions are too e g p animals will not be recognized under the names of and � p paved teeth would not be intelligible to the � p is translated of prey � p of groups of should stand parts c there are some of e g said and the might be somewhat in another edition the work has we believe been somewhat delayed and therefore probably hurried at the close in this way are apt to show marks of haste as one of which we presume the very slight mention of mr e must be considered as if we are rightly informed the of a large part of the work is due to him this is doubtless owing merely to want of consideration of the force of phrases in this comparatively unimportant part of the work of slavery art iv � of slavery of the great which are now a the community not one deserves a more careful and earnest tion not one higher considerations of duty than does the of the united states when rightly interpreted support slavery we propose to consider question as briefly as is consistent with clearness of course only that slavery which is legal can be constitutional but it is argued that all slavery is law is defined to be a natural permanent principle any rule it is not existing in the nature of i or that is not permanent universal and in its application is no law the civil rights of men it is are defined by the and principle of natural justice justice must be either absolute or relative an absolutely just act is just at all times in all places and under all circumstances a just action is just only at some particular time and place and under me particular circumstances consequently the rule of relative justice is constantly changing with time place and therefore it cannot be on this theory therefore it cannot be law because law is law on this then must be with absolute justice without denying that it is possible for the human race ultimately to acquire a knowledge of the test of that which is absolutely just and right it is sufficient for the purposes of our argument that it is evident that no such test at present exists but if law is with absolute justice if we cannot tell what is absolute justice we cannot tell what is law and consequently not prove even slave holding to be but law is a practical science to remain so we cannot take our notions it seems to argue this point the author of this theory strangely enough admits the present non existence of a test of what is naturally just he says whenever the natural law is sufficiently certain to all men s minds to justify its being it is sufficiently certain to need no on the other hand ii be thus there is danger of doing by it it should be left open to be discussed by any body who may be disposed to question it and to be judged of by the proper the he therefore admits that in some cases we cannot now tell what natural justice demands of us but if we had a test of natural justice we could decide all cases of of relative justice as its test and declare not to be law every rule which we believe to be unjust	37
no use of the tense in her reminiscences of the master s intellectual life of his habits of thought and work she never wearied of talking she knew the history of each poem by what scene or episode each image had been how many times the words in a certain line had been how long a certain had been sought and what had at last suggested it she could even explain that one impenetrable line the torment of critics the joy of the last line of the old felt that in talking of these things she was no mere echo of s thought if her identity had appeared to be in his it was because they thought alike not because he had thought for her posterity is apt to regard the women whom poets have sung as chance on which they hung their but mrs s mind was like some fertile garden wherein inevitably s imagination had rooted itself and began to see how the muse s tragedy many threads of his complex mental the poet had owed to the of her temperament with his in a certain sense had herself created the to to be the of s inner self the door as it were to the had at first seemed to so comprehensive a privilege that he had the sense as his friendship with mrs advanced of forcing his way into a life already crowded what room was there among such towering memories for so small an as his quite suddenly after this he discovered that mrs knew better his fortunate friend was bored as well as lonely you have had more than any other woman he had exclaimed to her one day and her smile flashed a light on his blunder fool that he was not to have seen that she had not had enough that she was young still � do years count � tender human a woman that the living have need of the living after that when they climbed the of the hanging park resting in one of the little ruined temples or watching through a ripple of foliage the remote blue flash of the lake they did not always talk of or of literature she encouraged to speak of himself to confide his to her she asked him the questions which are the wise woman s substitute for advice the muse s tragedy yoa must write she said the most exquisite flattery that human lips could give of course he meant to write � why not to do something great in his turn his best at least with the resolve at the outset that his best should be the best nothing less seemed possible with that in his ears how she had divined him lifted and his groping laid the awakening touch on his spirit with her let there be light it was his last day with her and he was feeling veiy hopeless and happy you ought to write a book about him she went on gently started he was beginning to dislike s way of walking in you ought to do it she insisted a complete interpretation � a up of his style his purpose his theory of life and art no one else could do it as weu he sat looking at her suddenly � dared he guess i couldn t do it without you he faltered i could help you � i would help you of course they sat silent both looking at the lake it was agreed when they parted that he should her six weeks later in there they were to talk about the book the muse s tragedy iii d august ij when i said good by to you yesterday i promised to come back to in a week i was to give you your answer then i was not honest in saying that i didn t mean to go back to or to see you again i was running away from you � and i mean to keep on running if you won t must somebody must save you from marrying a disappointed woman of � well you say years don t count and why should they after all since you are not to marry me that is what i dare not go back to say you are not to marry me we have had our month together in such a good month was it not and now you are to go home and write a book � any book but the one we � didn t talk of � and i am to stay here among my memories like a sort of female the of this enforced immortality but you shall know the truth i care for you or at least for your love enough to owe you that you thought it was because had loved me that there was so little hope for you i had had what i wanted to the full wasn t that what you said it is just when a man begins to think he understands a woman that he may be sure the muse s tragedy he doesn t it is because didn t love me that there is no hope for you i never had what i wanted and never never never will i stoop to wanting anything else do you begin to understand it was all a sham then you say no it was all real as far as it went you are young � you haven t learned as you will later the thousand signs by which one one s way through the of human nature but didn t it strike you sometimes that i never told you any foolish little anecdotes about him his for instance of a paper knife round and round between his thumb and forefinger while he talked his for saving the backs of notes his for wild the little ones his childish delight in and his way of always calling	10
never want to see dick or any of you again that is unlucky for me said but since i have reached this nice place i shall stay here the month and talk with perhaps if he and that pretty lady will have me i shall stay longer but i too do not want the company of dick as for you dear if you wish to go they told you the road is open it will save much trouble to everybody i shall not go exclaimed why should i leave my husband with that woman who has no right to him i am not so sure answered thoughtfully if my little dog is caught in a trap and is ill and i kick it into the street and leave it there to starve and some kind lady comes and takes my little dog and gives it a good home for years can i say that she has no right to it just because i find out after all that it is a valuable little dog and that i am � oh so fond of it please stop talking nonsense about little dogs is not a dog no but then why should he have been treated as one if such a dog would have learned to love its new mistress is it wonderful that he should do the same but have you learnt to care for him at last that you should want him back so much he who lives here good and happy i don t know snapped but i won t leave him with that other woman if i can help it i don t trust all that nonsense i am going to bed and she went but still sat for a long time and gazed at the desert there making her accustomed prayers oh god in heaven she ended them help those two poor people whom thou hast tried so sorely and as she spoke the words a conviction came into her mind that they would be heard then feeling comforted she too went to her bed in the morning received a note from it was the first time that she had seen his handwriting for many a year it ran dear � i will not debate the strange circumstances in which we find ourselves and i write to ask that during the month you will avoid all allusion to them the facts are known to us both to discuss them further can only lead to unnecessary bitterness and perhaps prevent a peaceful solution of the trouble if you agree to this i write on behalf of the lady and myself to say that we are ready to enter into a like undertaking and that we shall be happy to see you here whenever you wish i of tbe if on the other hand you do not agree then i think that we had best keep apart until the day when i have promised to give an answer to your question a messenger will bring me your written reply thought a while then she took a piece of paper and wrote upon it with a pencil i agree p � i a letter which i have for you he wrote it shortly before he died also there are some from the lawyers after all she reflected to herself as she saw the depart swiftly carrying her packet on the top of a stick it will give me a little time to look round in peace is right it is no use moreover he and that woman are masters here and i must obey within an hour the returned again bearing another note from which in very queer english asked them both to honour them with their company at the midday meal they went and on the way met dick who had received a similar invitation on arriving at the town they found seated beneath the of his house and upon the ground around him a considerable number of people all of them suffering from various complaints together with some women who held sick children in their arms he bowed to them and called out in a cheerful voice forgive me for a little while i have nearly finished my morning s and perhaps you had better stand back for some of these are and dick took the hint at once riding their animals into the shade of a tree a little way off not so descending from her donkey with a she marched straight to and shook his hand two minutes later they perceived that she was helping him to wounds and dispense how she can exclaimed and the worst of it is she is sure to bring some filthy disease back with her just think of taking to all those horrid people they say he is uncommonly clever at it answered dick and will ride for miles to see a sick person perhaps that is why they are so fond of him why don t you go to help him asked you studied medicine for two years before you went to the bar thanks he answered i think it is pleasanter sitting under this tree with you at present i am not a candidate for popular affection so i don t see why i should take any risks doesn t mind risks said no he said one of his characteristics always was to like what is disagreeable and dangerous in that fact lies your best chance he may even make up his mind to abandon an existence which seems to suit him exactly and return to the joys of you are even than usual dick she said why did you come here at all we never asked you you cannot pretend that gentleness has been your prevailing note of late for the rest considering that on the results of this inquiry depended whether i should be one of the richest men in england or a beggar it is	18
tear away the objects of my lore oh heaven how wind i am how helpless and alone her afflicted father hung his head and offered do reply but is his and sorrow she had been but a short time in this passion of regret ihe on the hearth unheard by all but her began to not merrily but in a ion faint way it was so mournful that her tears began to flow and when the presence which had been beside the all night appeared her pointing to her father they fell down like rain she heard the voice more plainly soon and was through her blindness of the presence hovering about her father mary said the blind girl tell me what my home ft what it truly is it is a poor place very poor and bare indeed the house will scarcely keep out wind and rain another winter it is as roughly from the weather dot in a low clear voice as your poor father in his coat the blind girl greatly agitated rose and led the b little wife aside those presents that i took such care of that came almost at my wish and were so dearly welcome to she said trembling where did they come from did you them v no who then dot saw she knew already and was silent the blind girl spread her hands before her face again but in quite another r now dear mary a moment one moment more this way on the hearth m p softly to me you are true i know you d not deceive ine now would you � no indeed no i am sure you would not you have too much pity for me mary look across the room to where we were now to here my father is � my father so compassionate and loving to me � and tell me what you see i see said dot who understood her well an old man sitting in a chair and leaning sorrowfully on the back with his resting on his hand as if his child should comfort him yes yes she will go on he is an old man worn with care and work he is a spare dejected thoughtful grey haired man i see him now ent and bowed down and striving against nothing but i have seen him many times before and striving hard in many ways for one great sacred object and i honor his grey head and bless him the blind girl broke away from her and throwing herself upon her knees before him took the grey head to her breast it is my sight restored it is my sight she cried i have been blind and how my eyes are open i never knew him to think i might have died and never truly seen the ther who has been so loving to me there were no words for s emotion there is not a gallant figure on this earth exclaimed the blind girl holding him in her embrace that i would love so dearly and would cherish so as this the and w the dearer father never let them say i am blind there s not a in his face there s not a hair upon his head that shall be forgotten in my prayer and thanks to heaven managed to articulate my and in my blindness i believed said the girl caressing him with tears of exquisite affection to be bo and having him beside me day by day so of always never dreamed of the blue coat said poor the fresh smart father he s gone nothing is gone she everything is here � in you the father that i never whom i first began to such sympathy for me all to me the soul of all dearest father no le father that i loved bo well and never knew the love lie had you nothing is dead ar to me is � here with the worn face a father any longer course upon he ihe little clock was within id the grey head and i am not blind had been during this daughter but looking now towards the meadow she saw that the and fell here she is ever told me anything of im afraid returned into a nervous and excited state father said hesitating yea my dear returned there is no change in her you i her that was not true i should have done it my dear f if i could have made her than she was but i must have changed her for the worse if i had changed her at all nothing could improve her confident as the blind girl had been when she asked the question her delight and pride in the reply and her renewed embrace of dot were charming to behold more changes than you think for may happen though my dear said dot changes for the better i mean changes for great joy to some of us you mustn t let them yoa too on the hearth much if any such should ever happen and affect are those wheels upon the road you ve a quick ear are they wheels yes very fast � i � i � i know you have a quick ear said dot placing her hand upon her heart and evidently talking on as fast as she could to hide its state because i have noticed it often and because you were so quick to find out that strange step last night though why you should have said as i very well recollect you did say whose step is that and why you have taken any greater observation of it than of any other step i don t know though as i said just now there are great changes in the world great changes and we can t do better than prepare ourselves to be surprised at hardly anything wondered what this meant	8
of which probably from small and casual gradually the whole table land embracing beside that of the the broad valley of the po and the intervals of its many which rushing down from the of the mi the west and the north are conducted so as to refresh and the whole plain and finding their way ultimately to the po are thence drawn again by new to render like to the lower flatter intervals of and the northern states no where can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than american has just two arts to learn from � and tree planting nearly all our great might be immensely to the profit of their even where the vicinity of mountains or other high grounds did not afford the facility here taken advantage of i am confident that many plains as well as valleys might be led by lifting water to the requisite f s a q x through little or as here where a head of water may be obtained to supply the requisite power the cost need not be considerable after the first but even though steam power should be requisite in connection with the admirable machinery of our day would pay liberally in thousands of cases such easily as those of new and long island would yield at least double their present product if thoroughly from the streams and in their vicinity water itself is of course essential to the growth of every plant but the benefits of reach far beyond this of the so laboriously and necessarily applied to lands at least three times as great a proportion is carried off in running water as is absorbed and exhausted by the crops grown by their aid so that if simply returned to the land as much as the rains carry off it would with decent increase in from year to year the valley of the is one example among many of what especially from rivers at t highest stage will do for the soil in defiance of the most ignorant and cultivation such streams as the the and most of the new rivers upon the ocean an amount of matter adequate to the comfortable of thousands by calculation association science labor most of this may be saved one hundred thousand of the poor arriving on our shores ought to be employed for years in new alone in the construction of c adequate to the complete of all the level or sloping lands in that state farms are cheaper there to day than in for who can pay for and know how to use them long island can be rendered eminently fertile and productive by and thorough otherwise i that e ct t � at � much of slopes very considerably toward the po so that the water in the larger or is often used to run mills and supply other mechanical power it might be used also for if existed here and nearly every farmer might have a power or so at command for domestic uses if he chose we passed yesterday the completely dry beds of what seemed to be small rivers their water having been entirely drawn away into the on either side while on either hand there were mills busily at work had been for hundreds of years grinding by water power where no stream naturally existed if i mistake not there are many such in this city and in nearly all the cities and villages of if our farmers would only investigate this matter of as thoroughly as its importance deserves they would find that they have neglected mines of wealth all around them more extensive and far more than those of one man alone may not always be able to his farm except at too great a cost but let the subject be commended to general attention and the expense would be vastly diminished ten thousand farms together embracing a whole may often be for less than the cost of supplying a hundred of them separately i trust our agricultural papers will this improvement as to tree planting there can be no excuse for it for no man needs his neighbor s to render it economical or we in america have been destroying trees quite long enough it is high time that we began to them there is scarcely a farm of fifty acres or over in any but the very states that might not be increased in value by expended in tree planting and a little care to protect the young trees from premature destruction all road sides steep hill sides and rocky places should be planted with oak ml pine � at once and many a farm would after a few years yield worth of timber without from the crops otherwise depended on by planting or some other fast growing tree alternately with oak c the former would be ready for use or sale by the time the latter needed the whole ground utility beauty comfort profit all combine to urge immediate and extensive tree planting shall it not be commenced here in there is absolutely no farm however all without its rows of cherry c its roads c and its fields in all directions the vine is very generally trained on a low tree like one of our or small cherry trees so that viewed at a distance or a point near the ground the country would seem one vast forest with an mainly of wheat and indian corn potatoes c are grown but none of them nor is much of the soil devoted to grass there are no forests properly so called but a few rocky hill which occur at intervals mainly about half way from to are covered with which would probably grow to trees if permitted wheat and all summer are very good so is the grass so the indian corn will be where it is not prevented by	19
yourself or in similar words to some that was set to music sometime back i wish you to see it with your eyes and i will pledge with mine turning his back and turning a key mr produced the document holding on by bis usual corner mr holding on by the opposite corner sat down on the seat so lately by mr and looked it over all right sir he slowly and unwillingly admitted in his reluctance to loose hold all right and watched his partner as he turned his back again and turned his key again there s nothing new i suppose said his low chair behind the counter yes there is sir replied there was something new this that old and � mr inquired with a glance toward the s yard or two of smile be i cried yielding to his honest indignation dusty that old and sir turns into the yard this morning to with our property a tool of his own a young man by the name of when i say to him what do you want here young man this is a private yard he out a paper from s other the one i was passed over for this is to to overlook the and to watch the work that s pretty strong i think mr remember he doesn t know yet of our claim on the property suggested then he must have a hint of it said and a strong one that ll his terrors a bit give him an inch and he ll take an ell let him alone this time and what u he do with our property next i tell you what mr it comes to this i must be friend with or i shall fly into several pieces i can t contain myself when i look at liim every time i see him putting his hand in his pocket i see him putting it into my pocket every time i hear him his money i hear him taking liberties with my money flesh and blood can t bear it no said mr greatly exasperated and go further a wooden leg can t bear it but mr urged it was your own idea that he should not be exploded upon till the were away but it was likewise my idea mr retorted that if he came and about the property he should be threatened given to understand that he has no right to it and be made our slave wasn t that my idea mr it certainly was mr it certainly was as you say partner assented put into a better humor by the ready admission very well i consider his planting one of his tools in the yard an act of and and his nose shall be put to the for it it was not your fault mr i must admit said that he got off with the dutch bottle that night as you handsomely say again partner no it was not my fault i d have had that bottle out of him was it to be borne that he should come like a thief in the dark digging among stuff that was far more ours than his seeing that we could deprive him of every grain of it if he didn t buy us at our own figure and carrying off treasure from its no it was not to mutual be borne and for that too his nose shall be pat to the how do you propose to do it mr to put his nose to the i propose returned that man to insult him openly and if looking into this eye of mine he dares to offer a word in answer to retort upon him before he can take his breath add another word to that you dusty old dog and your e a beggar suppose he says nothing mr then replied we shall have come to an understanding with very little trouble and i ll break him and drive him mr i ll put him in harness and ril bear him up tight and i ll break him and drive him the harder the old dust is driven sir the higher he ll pay and i mean to be paid high mr i promise you you speak quite mr sir is it for him that i have declined and failed night after night is it for his pleasure that i ve waited at home of an evening like a set of to be set up and knocked over set up and knocked over by whatever balls � or books � he chose to bring against me why i m a hundred times the man he is sir five hundred times perhaps it was with the malicious intent of urging him on to his worst that mr looked as if he doubted that what was it outside the house at present to its disgrace by that of fortune and worm of the hour said falling back upon his strongest terms of and the counter that i mutual five hundred times the man be ever was sat in all waiting for an errand or a customer was it outside that very house as i set eyes upon him rolling in the lap of luxury when i was a selling half there for a living and am i to in the dust for him to walk over no there was a grin upon the ghastly countenance of the french gentleman under the influence of the fire light as if he were how many thousand and array themselves against the fortunate on premises exactly answering to those of mr one might have fancied that the big headed babies were over with their attempts to reckon up the children of men who their into their by the same process the yard or two of smile on the part of the might have been invested with the meaning all about this was quite	8
asked fiercely c don t be angry don t think me a wet blanket said earnestly c you know i love you better than anything else in all the wide world and you know i would do anything to help you on but we have been up in london eight months now and what nearer are you to what you wish for than you were when we first left home not one step you have run up a lot of bills that you can never pay you have spent money working up interest here and making friends there and i am afraid if you give this that it will only be a dead failure you know le had but little opinion of your gifts and said freely that you would never do anything on the stage dear angel i don t say this to hurt it is best to look facts straight in the face each time you played with i have watched you carefully and i always came away with the same feeling that though you are brilliant and fascinating in ordinary life picturesque in looks and and elegant in figure yet the moment you step the money sense on to the stage your brilliancy and your charm all go and you become stiff awkward and lifeless yet you kept all this to yourself said in a quiet tone because at first i thought it was the the strangeness the want of familiarity with it all the other replied as long as our own money lasts father would not wish you to stop your efforts you have a right to go on but when it comes to taking a large sum of money from a little jew then it is time to speak well you have spoken and now nothing more need be said once for all i won t be interfered with in this matter i must have a it is necessary to my career my father cannot or will not give it to me can and gladly will i have already accepted his generous offer and he is now in treaty for the theatre and your explanation to father and mother asked none is necessary except to tell the bare truth said with dignity c i am not ashamed of being helped by he is my friend my true friend i have never been ashamed of my friends and if i succeed i shall be still because i shall have justified his belief in me the money sense � and if you fail asked involuntarily for a remembrance came back to her of how she had asked the great le her candid opinion of her young sister a beautiful creature my dear was le s frank comment but stupid as a mule and dense as an owl one can neither drive nor lead her she will never make an it isn t in her c i shall not fail cried her eyes all in a blaze but if i do you will have to go home to said l and then how will all your debts be paid my debts said bursting into a laugh are so that i don t think you need worry about them your black silk said your last � the little blue gown and the one you had for � hats � shoes c oh do stop why go into it all the girl cried impatiently what is the good of going on look here i have quite made up my mind to one thing i won t go home if all else fails i shall marry chapter vi as an was a dead failure never perhaps in all the history of the modern stage had any young woman beautiful well dressed and elegant after six months training under several of the first teachers of the day proved herself such a complete and entire stick when put to the serious test of a public performance the house was fairly filled � mostly with paper � and the more important were conspicuous by their absence miss le sat in the front rows of the and took a keen and deadly interest in the performance from beginning to end in the royal box was all alone in his glory and in of rare and costly flowers in the opposite box was with mrs who beamed upon the scene as who should say now that a daughter of mine has gone upon the stage a new era has dawned for dramatic art was suffering agonies of anxiety and dread the lavish who � the money sense himself on doing things well had generously their box with a couple of superb to be offered to at a suitable moment but the heavily flowers seemed to strike a wrong note and their beauty upon s sensitive nature they seemed to be making sure too soon and she would have liked to have put them away quite at the back of the box so that they might be quietly out of sight if they were obviously not required but mrs who was troubled by no as to the possibility of a daughter of hers being anything but a success liked the feeling of sitting in a london theatre the observed of all and would not allow them to be touched so there sat sick at heart and full of she tried to take an intelligent interest in the play which was one very frequently for the purpose of showing off the merits � to say nothing of the � of young ladies on their promotion but she was only really conscious of one thing which was that while the rest of the company were making gallant efforts to carry off a success was simply a hideous and ghastly failure every time that she came on felt herself going hot and cold every word that she spoke seemed to the anxious listener like a every move o the money	30
of fancy in the delicious realm of or with pencil and brush shapes and the wings of gaudy or her with dainty and sometimes in musing she rests her chin upon her hand and her soft blue eye upon the flower beds where the humming bird is poised before the but engaged it is a hour i have said once before that a tall sat at the family board and now here she sits in her morning guise silent and alone pondering over the of genius and the dreams of art prudence is an only sister of frank s and holds a station somewhat eminent amongst the household she is rather comely to look upon � very neat in person and is considered high authority in matter of dress but time who mortal shapes with as little mercy as the baker in his morning circuit his stick has his visits even upon this goodly form a shrewd observer may note in sundry evidences of a fastidious choice of colors and of what � to coin a word � i might call a scrupulous that the lapse of human seasons has not passed by this lady he may detect sometimes an vivacity in her and an exaggerated sometimes in her tone of conversation a little too much which a suspicion family of its opposite and there are certain sober lines from the month which are in spite of her light these are quite pleasant signs to an experienced bachelor like myself who can read them with a learned skill they speak of that mellow time when a woman by and her rather by marching out of her fort to challenge attack than by standing a siege within it there is a dash of the picturesque in the character of this lady towards sunset she is apt to stray forth amongst the old oaks and to gather small of wild flowers in the pursuit of which she to get into very pretty attitudes or she falls into at the shifting tints of the clouds on the western sky and produces quite a striking effect by the skilful choice of a position which shows her figure in strong relief against the evening light and then in her maybe found exquisite sketches from her pencil of forms of love and beauty and knights old castles and pensive ladies and � the offspring of an artistic imagination heated with romance and devotion her attire is sometimes simple and plain and her bearing is and but this is never long continued for in spite of her discipline she does not wish to be accounted as one inclined to be serious in her turn of mind i have seen her break out into quite a vivacity this is very likely tr when she is brought into fellowship with a mad cap who is carrying all before her she then her and becomes as a as tha other if prudence has a fault � which proposition i put with an if as a doubtful question � it is in setting the domestic virtues at too high a value one may perhaps be too family i think the establishment of three sunday schools a society a management in a tract association and an outward and visible patronage of the cause of by the actual of her name amongst those who have taken the pledge a little of though i don t wish to set up my judgment too on this point and i think also one may carry the praise of the purity of country life and of the benefits of solitude and to an extent which might appear merciless towards those whose misfortune it is to live in a sphere where these virtues cannot be so fully cultivated if a tendency in this direction be a in the composition of our lady it is a very slight one and is amply by the many pleasant she makes from this phase of her character she with � great ease upon all even with a dangerous facility i may say which sometimes leads her into her occasionally becomes high and into the incomprehensible � but that is only when she is excited her manner at times might be called particularly when in imitation of her brother she the departure of the golden age or upon the prospect of its revival among the glories of the old dominion she had an awful idea of the perfect respectability i might almost say splendor of her and this is one of the few points upon which i know her to be apart from these peculiarities which are but clouds upon a summer sky even its beauty or upon a snow drift she is a specimen of a maiden just standing on that verge from which the prospect beyond presents a landscape gently into and misty confusion of hill and arrayed in golden tinted gray it is no wonder therefore that with family her varied and the advantages of her position the james world should have elevated prudence to the poetical of the of neighboring eyes chapter v ned ned hazard has become my inseparable companion he has a fine flowing stream of good spirits which is sometimes interrupted by a slight under current of sadness it is even a ludicrous that its comic quality from ned s constitutional merriment he is now about thirty three with a tolerably good person a little under six feet and may be seen generally after breakfast whilst old is getting our horses for a morning ride in an olive frock black stock and yellow waistcoat with a cap of light cloth having a of polished leather rather drawn over his dark laughing eye this head gear gives a picturesque effect to his person and suits well with his weather beaten cheek as it a certain reckless expression that with his character the same trait is heightened by the half with which he strikes his boot with his	29
more the ancient palace of the kings of called the house of once a superb edifice is now a magnificent pile of ruins whilst many of the of their earliest kings built on a great scale with their columns and ornaments remain perfect sir john visited at the celebrated � tomb of samuel over which is erected a fine in the middle of the to which tiie go m pilgrimage at he saw the of the two kings of and that of ter of than which nothing could be more rich or magnificent the door to each being with silver and the surround ed with of the same metal to that of the per g ve the title or pure and hold it in veneration near is also the monument of one of the most celebrated of the po is and visited in and the holy land the of joseph and the tomb of tht pillar of and saw splendid arches sup by columns and many stone with beautiful of and foliage by time whilst was a barren spot to dry their on and once the residence of queen of the east and the ancient ur city of the sun exhibited only the i of the specimens of architecture that ever existed in according to dr at the modem the of joseph and still remain as everlasting as the solid rocks in which they were and with the passage of the the bones of joseph which the children of brought up out of egypt buried they in the veneration paid in all ages by jews christians and has preserved the of their situation lapse of time and the of nature have had no effect upon them and they continue as perfect to this day as when first completed though the of the holy is now destroyed the of our over which it was erected still remains devout may yet approach the consecrated shrine and over come with holy and awful feelings pour forth their pious aspirations has attempted to throw a doubt upon the of the spot where the body of our vol i s n tlie the bill j c tbat the e e where from age to age who the t tomb end hail the pope s a veneration for t se celebrated by their � has preserved them fr e from the of time and the rude band of the though the empire against which the heroes long since was rent from old foundations and even the ruins of are now no more the wars of and the sublime poem of have been termed a fiction that they are not founded on these monuments where travellers in all ages have poured forth the tribute of the r homage remain a lasting testimony and heroes who have visited these of ancient glory have confessed the inspiration of the place at the tomb of poured forth his enthusiastic admiration of great sublime virtues and standing on the sacred spot the of his mighty hero received the inspiration of his character and threw it glowing with poetic fire into his immortal line there the young hero of paid his vows to the illustrious shade with oil the pillar and call it may be remarked that s of not the sod or the many of rope s if more to the author and more of the spirit of the as may be ob by comparing the both we a noble tomb v e warriors of the cm host on a tall into the spacious that all who live and who shall yet be bom may thy record from the distant waves r nothing the mighty ghost by pope to � up the sc l is b has arranged ui lilies it i� g upon f df � sublime rapture oh happy in thy life happy in h mend at happy in such a poet as to thy memory m be � � � � art i i r� v and n tribes in its i by a military attached to the yellow stone expedition in � th� force des form military on the of the th regiment of and the st rifle regiment these troops were concentrated in the of st louis early in the month of june the of the u was i by the novelty of having pa t of the for die and visions up th v four l ge m to the th success of the s was not however t npon th result oc experiment in steam preparations were mad v ant of iu a a iso tip the waa a small steam boat tf the accommodation of the scientific men who accompanied u in was intended to have drawn but and d with uncommon our present advanced post i aft the v as beyond � forty � rom tho of the and about four the month of the to point e troops e in from there they must be embodied the appearance of the aft tis the i and gloomy no ate to the of it shores and its bid rushes a channel ed with sand and filled with of trees whole tops above th wi like to m stone forbid die approach of its current of the whose stream in vain to avoid the at certain seasons a union of the waters does not take place until they reach below st louis and so convinced are the inhabitants of this of the superior of the water that on these they go a considerable distance to obtain it for domestic uses is eighteen miles up the it was formerly a military post and is still a for and other military an instance of the of the river upon its banks is evident at this place the main channel flows where in the fort stood and the garden which was two hundred paces in rear of the fort is now on the verge of the river	48
down had her foot as he had found it whatever s years might have made him look by day in the dusk of evening he was fairly as a pleasing man of no marked antiquity his outline but little from what it had been when he was half his years he was well preserved still upright shaven in movement wore a tightly suit which set off a naturally slight figure in brief he might have been of any age as he appeared to her at this moment she talked to him with the co equality of one who assumed a sketch of a temperament him to be not far ahead of her own generation and as the growing darkness obscured him more and more he adopted her assumption of his age with increasing boldness of tone the harmless freedom of the watering place miss which had plainly acquired during her at the school helped greatly in this r e of which he was not to play not a word did he say about being a native of the island still more carefully did he conceal the fact of his having her grandmother and engaged himself to marry that attractive lady he found that she had come out upon the rocks through the same little private door from the lawn of the modem castle which had frequently him to the same spot in years long past accompanied her across the grounds almost to the entrance of the mansion � the place being now far better kept and planted than when he had it as a lonely tenant almost indeed restored to the order and neatness which had it when he was a boy like her she was too inexperienced to be reserved and during this little climb leaning the well beloved upon his arm there was time for a great deal of confidence when he had her farewell and she had entered leaving him in the dark a rush of sadness through s soul swept down all the temporary pleasure he had found in the charming girl s company had sprung from the ground there and then with an to of restoration to youth on the usual terms of his firm the might have consented to sell a part of himself which he felt less immediate need of than of a ruddy lip and cheek and an brow but what could only have been treated as a folly by was almost a sorrow for him why was he bom with such a temperament and this interest could hardly have arisen even with but for a of circumstances only possible here the three the second something like the first the third a of the first at all events were the of the island customs of and of union under which conditions the type of feature was almost uniform from parent to child through generations so that till quite to have seen one native man and woman was to have a sketch of a temperament seen the whole population of that isolated rock so nearly cut off from the his own and the sense of his early did all the rest he turned gloomily away and let himself out of the before walking along the couple of miles of road which would conduct him to the little station on the shore he to the rocks whereon he had found her and searched about for the which had made a prisoner of this terribly edition of the beloved kneeling down beside the spot he inserted his hand and ultimately by much withdrew the little boot he mused over it for a moment put it in his pocket and followed the stony route to the street of wells the well beloved the renewed image burns itself in here was nothing to hinder in calling upon the new s mother as often as he should choose beyond the five miles of intervening railway and additional mile or two of over the heights of the island two days later therefore he repeated his journey and knocked about tea time at the widow s door as he had feared the daughter was not at home he sat down beside the old sweetheart who having her mother in past days had now herself in her child produced the boot from his pocket then tis you who helped out of her said mrs with surprise yes my dear friend and perhaps i shall ask you to help me out of mine before i have done a sketch of a temperament but never mind that now what did she tell you about the adventure mrs was looking thoughtfully upon him well tis rather strange it should have been you sir she replied she seemed to be a good deal interested i thought it might have been a younger man � a much younger man it might have been as far as feelings were concerned � now i ll to the point at once i have known your daughter any number of years when i talk to her i can anticipate every turn of her thought every sentiment every act so long did i study those things in your mother and in you therefore i do not require to learn her she was learnt by me in her previous now don t be shocked i am willing to marry her � i should be to do it if there would be nothing preposterous about it or that would seem like a man making himself too much of a fool and so degrading her in i can make her comparatively rich as you know and i would indulge her every whim there is the idea put it would set right something in my mind that has been wrong for forty years after my death she would have plenty of freedom and plenty of means to enjoy it the well beloved mrs seemed only a little sur certainly not shocked well if i didn	45
chair to greet them j what were their names asked there was general ward replied by ic s chair grandfather a lawyer by profession he had commanded the troops before s arrival another was general charles lee who had been a colonel in the english army and was thought to possess vast military science he came to the council followed by two or three dogs who were always at his heels there was general too who was known all over new england by the name of old put was it he who killed the wolf inquired the same said grandfather and he had done good service in the old french war his occupation was that of a farmer but he left his plough in the at the news of battle then there was general gates who afterward gained great renown at and lost it again at of island was likewise at the council washington soon discovered him to be one of the best officers in the army when the were all assembled washington consulted them about a plan for the english but it was their opinion that so perilous an enterprise ought not to be attempted the army therefore continued to boston preventing the enemy from obtaining supplies of provisions but without taking any immediate measures to get possession of the town in this manner the summer autumn and winter passed away by ic s chair many a night doubtless said grandfather after washington had been all day on horse back galloping from one post of the army to another he used to sit in great chair in earnest thought had you seen him you might have supposed that his whole mind was fixed on the blue china which adorned the old fashioned fireplace but in reality he was meditating how to capture the british army or drive it out of boston once when there was a hard frost he formed a scheme to cross the charles river on the ice but the other could not be persuaded that there was any prospect of success what were the british doing all this time inquired they lay idle in the town replied grandfather general had been recalled to england and was succeeded by sir william the british army and the inhabitants of boston were now in great distress being shut up in the town so long they had consumed almost all their provisions and burnt up all their fuel the soldiers tore down the old north church and used its rotten boards and for to their distress the small broke out they probably lost far more men by cold hunger and sickness than had been slain at and hill what a dismal time for the poor women and children exclaimed by ic grandfather s chair at length continued grandfather in march general washington who had now a good supply of powder began a terrible and from heights one of the cannon balls which he fired into the town struck the tower of the street church where it may still be seen sir william made preparations to cross over in boats and drive the americans from their but was prevented by a violent gale and storm general washington next erected a battery on nook s hill so near the enemy that it was impossible for them to remain in boston any longer cried clapping his hands triumphantly i wish i had been there to see how the englishmen looked and as grandfather thought that boston had never witnessed a more interesting period than this when the royal power was in its death agony he determined to take a peep into the town and imagine the of those who were it for ever d by chapter ix alas for the poor said grandfather until the very last morning after washington s troops had shown themselves on nook s hill these unfortunate persons could not believe that the audacious as they called the americans would ever prevail against king george s army but when they saw the british soldiers preparing to on board of the ships of war then they knew that they had lost their country could the have known how bitter were their regrets they would have forgiven them all their il deeds and sent a blessing after them as they sailed away from their native shore in order to make the children sensible of the pitiable condition of these men grandfather out peter chief justice of under the crown and imagined him walking through the streets of boston on the morning before he left it for ever this of grandfather s fancy may be called � the tory s farewell old chief justice threw on his red cloak and placed his three hat on the top of his white wig in this garb he intended to go forth and take a parting look at objects that had been familiar to him from his youth accordingly he d by grandfather s chair began his walk in the north part of the town and soon came to this edifice the cradle of liberty had been used by the british officers as a play house would that i could see its walls to dust thought the chief justice and in the bitterness of his heart he shook his fist at the famous hall there began the mischief which now to asunder the british empire the of in hall have made of a loyal people and deprived me of my country he then passed through a narrow avenue and found himself in king street almost in the very spot which six years before had been by the blood of the boston the chief justice cautiously and shuddered as if he were afraid that even now the of his countrymen might stain his feet before him rose the town house on the front of which were still displayed the royal arms within that edifice he had justice to the people in the days when his name	35
something had to be done he had wasted many valuable years and having an acquaintance who was starting on a life as a iso the rally it occurred to angel that this might be a lead in the right direction either in the colonies america or at home � farming at any rate after becoming well qualified for the business by a careful � that was a which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a � intellectual liberty so we find angel at six and twenty here at as a student of and as there were no houses near at hand in which he get a comfortable lodging a at the s his room was an immense which ran the whole length of the house it could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and it as his retreat here had plenty of space and could often be heard by the folk pacing up and down when the household had gone to rest a portion was divided off at one end by a curtain behind which was his bed the outer part being furnished as a homely sitting room at first he lived up above entirely reading a good deal and upon an old harp which he had bought at a sale saying when in a bitter humour that he might have to get his by it in the streets some day but he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals downstairs in the general dining kitchen with the and his wife and the maids and men who all together formed a lively assembly for though but few hands slept in the house several joined the family at meals the longer resided here the less objection had he to his company and the more did he like to share quarters with them in common much to his surprise he took indeed a real delight in their companionship the conventional of his imagination � by the pitiable known as � were after a of the d few days residence at dose quarters no was to be seen at first it is true when s intelligence was fresh from a society these friends with whom he now seemed a little strange sitting down as a level member of the s household seemed at the outset an proceeding the ideas the modes the appeared and but with living on there day after day the acute became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle without any change whatever variety had taken the place of his host and his host s household his men and his maids as they became intimately known to began to themselves as in a process the thought of s was brought home to him a on a d on il y a d les du ne pas de difference les the typical and ceased to exist he had been into a of varied � beings of many minds beings infinite in difference some happy many serene a few depressed one here and there bright even to genius some stupid others wanton others austere some some into men who had private views of each other as he had of his friends who could or condemn other amuse or themselves by the contemplation of each other s or vices men every one of whom walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death unexpectedly he began to like the life for its own sake and for what it brought apart from its bearing on his own proposed career considering his position he became wonderfully free from the melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent power for the first time of late years he could read as his the rally inclined him without any eye to for a profession since the few farming which he deemed it desirable to master occupied him but little time he grew away from old associations and saw new in life and humanity he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly � the seasons in their moods morning and evening night and noon winds in their different trees waters and mists shades and silence and the voices of things the early mornings were still sufficiently cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they and by mrs s orders who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table it was angel s custom to sit in the yawning chimney corner during the meal his cup and and plate being placed on a at his elbow the light from the long wide window opposite shone in upon his nook and assisted by a secondary light of cold blue quality which shone down the chimney enabled him to read there easily whenever disposed to do so between and the window was the table at which his companions sat their rising sharp against the panes while to the side was the milk house door through which were visible the leads in rows full to the brim with the morning s milk at the further end the great could be seen revolving and its slip heard � the moving power being through the window in the form of a horse walking in a circle and driven by a boy for several days after s arrival sitting reading from some book or piece of music just come by post hardly noticed that she was present at table she talked so little and the is of the d other maids talked so much that the did not strike him as possessing a new note and he was ever in the habit of the particulars of an outward scene for the general impression one day however when he had been one of his and by	45
before he is three and twenty that long engagements are not only unnecessary but injurious and that washing the head will remove the is assured that it is not necessary to be married in two churches one being quite sufficient that there is no truth in the saying that it is unlucky to marry a person of the same complexion and that a gentle will remove rash who by the way should surely be is thus tenderly with some private views it does seem rather hard that you should be deprived of all opportunity of having a d with your owing to her being obliged to entertain other company although there are others of the family can do so still as her mother upon it and will not let you enjoy the society of her daughter you might resort to a little harmless and whenever your stated evenings for calling are broken in on that way ask the young lady to take a walk with you or go to a place of amusement she can then excuse herself to her friends without a breach of etiquette and you can enjoy your d undisturbed the photographs of lady which are received by the of most of these journals are apparently very numerous and if we may believe their description of them all beautiful it is no wonder they receive many of the following nature a rising young doctor twenty two fair with a nice house and servants being tired of bachelor life wishes to receive the de of a dark fascinating young lady of from seventeen to twenty years of age no money essential but good birth indispensable she must be fond of music and children and very loving and affectionate another doctor twenty nine of a loving and amiable disposition and who has at present an income of f a year is desirous to make an immediate engagement with a lady about his own age who must be possessed of a little so that by their united efforts he may penny fiction soon become a member of a and honourable profession how the united efforts of two young people however enthusiastic can make a man an m d or an m r c s except that love all things is more than one can understand the last advertisement i shall quote affects me nearly for it is from an eminent member of my own profession a popular author in the prime of life of an affectionate disposition and fond of home and the extent and pressing nature of whose work have prevented him from mixing much in society would be glad to correspond with a young lady not above thirty she must be of a pleasing appearance amiable intelligent and domestic if it is with the readers of penny fiction that has established his popularity i would like to know how he did it and who he is to discover this last is however an impossibility these all write nor do their works ever appear before the public in another guise there is sometimes a melancholy pretence to the contrary put forth in the answers to for example is informed that the story about which he will not be published in book form at the time he but the fact is it will never be so published at all it has been written like all its for the unknown millions and for no one else some years ago in a certain great literary organ it was stated of one of these penny journals which has not forgotten to the that its i some private views are equal to the best works of fiction to be got at the the critic who so expressed himself must have done so in a moment of which i trust was not produced by liquor for the best works of fiction to be got at the obviously include those of george black and while the novels i am discussing are inferior to the worst they are as crude and in their pictures of domestic life as they are deficient in dramatic incident they are they are dull indeed the total absence of humour and even of the least attempt at it is most remarkable there is now and then a description of the playing of some practical joke such as tying two s tails together the effect of the relation of which is melancholy in the extreme but there is no approach to fun in the whole penny library and yet it it is calculated four millions of readers � a fact which makes my mouth water like that of when mr wrote of the unknown public it is clear he was still hopeful of them he thought it a question of time only the largest audience he says for literature in this age of must obey the universal law of progress and sooner or later learn to when that period comes the readers who rank by millions will be the readers who give the who return the richest rewards and who will therefore command the services of the best writers of their time this prophecy has curiously enough been fulfilled in a different direction from penny fiction that anticipated by him who uttered it the penny papers � that is the provincial penny do now under the system command the services of our most eminent novel writers but penny fiction proper � that is to say the fiction published in the penny literary journals � is where it was a quarter of a century ago with the opportunity of comparison afforded to its readers one would say this would be impossible but as a matter of fact the opportunity is not offered the readers of penny fiction do not read newspapers political events do not interest them nor even social events unless they are of the class described in the police which i � and the fact is not without significance � does not	25
a history in which the succession of cause and effect is the main topic � a history of the of colony planting in the first half of the century who were the of english life in america what sent them for refuge to a wilderness what visions beckoned them to undertake the of new states what manner of men were their leaders and what is the story of their hopes their experiments and their disappointments these are the questions i have tried to answer the of the little that had the unexpected fortune to into an empire i have not been able to treat otherwise than here are no forefathers or but simply english men and women of the century with the faults and as well as the virtues of their age i have disregarded that which � � preface the of a nation makes it for a writer of american history to explain that in the first was not just like other and that their cruelty and injustice were under the circumstances this walking backward to throw a mantle over the of ancestors may be admirable as an example of piety but it is none the less in the writing of history while the present work is complete in itself it is also part of a larger enterprise as the half title in january i began to make studies for a history of life in the united states for the last sixteen or seventeen years by far the greater part of my time has been given to on the culture history of the united states in the period of english that good old colony time about which we have had more sentiment than information as year after year was consumed in this preparation the magnitude of the task became apparent and i began to feel the fear for my work so expressed by that the darkness of age and death would have covered over both it and me before the performance it seemed better therefore to redeem from the chance of such a portion of my work by this most difficult part of the task in order that when early or late the inevitable night shall fall the results of my labor such as they are may not be wholly covered over by the darkness there is always difference of opinion in regard to the comparative with which the several portions of a historical narrative should be treated and i can not hope to escape criticism on this point i have related some events with what will be considered of detail but the purpose of this work is to give an insight into the life and character of the people and there are details that make the reader feel the very spirit and manner of the time it is better to let the age disclose itself in action it preface ix is only by ingenious and through that we can win this kind of knowledge from the past literary considerations should have some weight in deciding how fully an episode shall be treated unless the historian is content to perform the homely service of a of the crude ore of knowledge i have sought to make this a work of art as well as of historical science to borrow a phrase from some in this volume will be explained when its appear i find it an embarrassing task to make acknowledgment to those who have assisted me the debts that have accumulated since i began are too many to be recorded i must not neglect to express my grateful remembrance of the hospitality shown to my during my various in england at the british museum and at the public record office every facility has been extended to me and a similar attention was shown to my wants at other less public of books such as the society for the of the gospel to dr richard the head of the printed book department of the museum i owe thanks for many personal attentions i am also indebted to mr e m keeper of the in the museum the late mr w of the record office was very obliging i owe most of all to the kindness of the right honorable james m p who found time in the midst of his as a member of parliament and his duties in high office to secure for me access to private stores of historical material lord with generous kindness put himself to much trouble to my examination of the at house i am indebted to lord for permission to visit house and read there s in the original manuscript i must ask others in england who my to accept a general acknowledgment but i can not forget the of a nation their courtesy to a stranger in common with students i received polite attentions during my in paris at the in this country i owe much to the of public and their � too much to allow me to my obligations to individuals at the and at the under its more recent management my debt has been continual for many years are due to the officers of the boston public library the library of the in and the of the new york the the the and the virginia historical societies to college library and to the new york state library am specially indebted from them i have been able to my own collection by the library has granted me similar privileges the new york library on the other hand i have not found hospitable to to my generous friend mr i owe thanks for many dr thomas opened his valuable collection to me and the late mr s l m showed me similar kindness my friend mr s permitted me to use at my own desk valuable works from his collection there are others whose friendly attentions can be more recognized in later volumes of this series and yet others whom i	11
that the folk in the were fit for nothing better you always speak ike that you think no more of me than of those tt the cot you think i am nobody at all show ou different all my troubles came out in hot little of she coloured up as i spoke and looked at me a her queer half mocking half fashion h i think so little of you as that said she and that is the reason why you are going away veil then jack will you stay if i am � if i am kind you we were face to face and close together and in an the thing was done my arms were round her nd i was kissing her and kissing her and the shadow on her mouth hear cheeks her eyes and pressing to my heart and to her that she was all to me that i could not be without her said nothing but it was long before she turned lace aside and when she pushed me back it was very hard why you are quite your rude old impudent sell said she patting her hair with her two hands y have tossed me jack i had no idea that you would so forward but all my fear of her was gone and a love fold than ex er was boiling in my veins i took up again and kissed her as if it were my right you are mv er own now i cried i shall go to but til stay and marry you but she laughed when i spoke of marriage silly boy silly boy said she with her finger up and then when i tried to lay hands on again she gave a little dainty and was the house chapter iv the choosing of jim and then there came those ten weeks which like a dream and are so now to look back upon would weary you were i to tell you what passed us but oh how earnest and and important it was at the time her wa ever varying moods now bright now dark like meadow under drifting clouds her an her sudden each in turn filling me the choosing of jim or sorrow these were my life all the rest was but but ever deep down behind all my other feelings was a vague a fear that i was like the man who set forth to lay hands upon the rainbow and that the real near she might seem was in truth for ever beyond my reach for she was so hard to understand or at she was so for a dull country lad like me for if i would talk to her of my real prospects and how by taking in the whole of we might earn a hundred good pounds over the extra rent and maybe be able to build out the parlour at west inch so as to make it fine for her when we married she would her lips and her eyes as though she scarce had patience to listen to me but if i would let her build up dreams about what i might become how i might find a paper which proved me to be the true heir of the or how without joining the army which she would by no means hear of i showed myself to be a great warrior until my name was in all folks mouths then she would be as as the may i would keep up the play as well as i could but soon some word would show that i was only plain of west inch and out would come her lip again in scorn of me so we moved on she in the air and i on the ground and if the had not come in one way it must in another it was after christmas but the winter had been mild with just frost enough to make it safe walking over the one fresh morning had been out early and she came back to breakfast with a of colour on her cheeks the great shadow has your friend the doctor s ji ic says she i h ard that it was expected ah then it must have been him that i met you met jim i am sure it must be he a splendid looking m � a hero with black hair a short straight no eyes he had shoulders like a statue ai sl to height why i suppose that your head up to his pin up to his ear said i indignantly tl ti if it was jim but tell me had he a brown wood pipe � in the comer of his mouth he was smoking he was dressed in and he has a grand deep strong voice ho ho you spoke to him said l she coloured a little as if she had said more th she meant i was going where the ground was a little s and he warned me of it she said ah it must have been dear old jim said l i should have been a doctor years back if his brains h been as strong as his arm why heart alive here the very man himself i had seen him through the kitchen window a now i rushed out with my half eaten in i hand to greet him he ran forward too with his hand out and his eyes shining ah he cried it s good to see you there are no friends like the old ones suddenly he stuck in his speech and f the choosing of jim his mouth open over my shoulder i turned and re was with such a merry smile in the door how proud i felt of her and of self too as i looked at her this is my cousin miss jim said l do you often take walks before breakfast mr she asked	4
was more than she felt equal to support from their counsel or their conversation she knew she could receive no assistance their tenderness and sorrow must add to her distress while her self command would neither receive encouragement firom their example nor from their praise she was stronger alone and her own good sense so well supported her that her firmness was as her appearance of as invariable as with r so and so fresh it was possible for them to be much as she had suffered from her first conversation with on the subject she soon felt an earnest wish of it and this for more reasons than one she wanted to hear many particulars of their engagement repeated again she wanted more clearly to understand what really felt for edward whether there were any in her declaration of tender regard for him and she particularly wanted to convince by her readiness to enter on the matter again and her calmness in on it tiiat she was no otherwise interested in it il and s� thin as which she veiy her in their discourse must have left at least doubtful that was disposed to be jealous of her appeared probable it was plain that edward had always spoken hi y in her praise not merely from s assertion but from her venturing to trust her on so short a personal acquaintance with a secret so and evidently and even sir john i joking intelligence must have had some weight but indeed while remained so well assured within a being really beloved by edward it required no other consideration of to make it natural that should be jealous and that she was so her very confidence was a proof what other reason for the disclosure of the a r could there be but that might be informed by it of s superior claims on edward and be taught to avoid him in future t she had little difficulty in understanding thus much of her rival s intentions and while she was resolved to act by her as every principle of honour and honesty directed to combat her own affection for edward and to see him as little as possible she could not deny herself the comfort of endeavouring to convince that her heart was and as she could bow have nothing more painful to hear on the subject than had already been told she did not her own ability of going through a repetition of particulars with composure but it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded though was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk where they might most easily separate themselves from the others and though they met at least every evening either at the park or cottage and chiefly at the they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation such a thought would never enter either sir john or lady s head and therefore very leisure was ever ven for general chat and none at all for particular discourse they met the sake of eating drinking and ng together playing at and cards or or any other game that was noisy one or meetings of this kind had taken place without any chance of engaging in private when called at the cottage one morning to h in the name of charity that they would all dine with lady that day as he was obliged to attend die at and she would otherwise be quite alone except hei mother and the two miss who foresaw s fairer opening for the point she had in view in such a party as this was likely to be more at liberty among themselves under the tranquil and well bred direction of lady than when her husband united them together in one immediately accepted the invitation margaret with her mother s permission was equally and though always to join any of their parties was persuaded by her mother who could not bear to have her herself from any chance of amusement to go likewise the young ladies went and lady was happily preserved bom the solitude which had threatened her the of the meeting was exactly such as had expected it produced not one novelty of thought or ex don and nothing could be less interesting than the whole of their discourse both in the dining parlour and draw ing room to the latter the children accompanied them and while they remained there she was too well convinced of the of engaging s attention to attempt it they quitted it only with the removal of the tea the card table was then placed and began to wonder at herself for having ever entertained a hope of finding time for conversation at the park they all rose up in preparation for a game i am glad said lady to you are not going to finish poor uttle maria s basket this evening for i am sure it must hurt your eyes to work by and we will m e the dear httle love some amends her disappointment to and then i hope she will not much it this hint was enough recollected herself instantly and and indeed yon are very much lady i am waiting to know can make j par without me or i should have been at my already i would not disappoint the little angel for all the world and if you want me t the card table now i am resolved to finish the basket after supper you are very good � i hope it won t hurt your eyes � will you ting the bell for some working candles i my poor little girl would be sadly disappointed i know if the basket was not finished t morrow for though i told her it certainly would not i	26
by conquest the views of a nation could not always be the same they extended with its and prosperity was at peace with all the princes of europe it bad nothing to fear hi from engaging in an extensive it would be the greatest for to penetrate into the secrets and horrors of the ocean sea so formidable to the other nations of the world thus occupied it would escape the idleness in a long interval of peace that source of vice tliat silent file which little by little wore away tlie strength and of a nation it was an he added to the name to menace it with imaginary perils when it had proved itself so in the most certain and tremendous great souls were born for great he wondered much that a so religious as the bishop of should oppose this undertaking the ultimate object of which was to the catholic faith and spread it from pole to pole reflecting glory on the nation and yielding empire and lasting fame to its princes he concluded by declaring that although a soldier he dared to with a voice and spirit as if from heaven to whatever prince should achieve this more happy success and renown than had ever been obtained by sovereign the most and fortunate such was the warm and generous speech of the count of villa real in favour of the african it would have been fortunate for had his eloquence been exerted in favour of for it is said to have been received with to have overpowered the of the cold spirited and to have inspired the king and council with renewed for the attempt to the extremity of africa which they afterwards completed with such brilliant success l la l t o life and voyages op chapter vm departure of from and ap to other courts john il of is generally represented as a wise and prince and as one little apt to be ruled by his in this memorable with however he appears to have been wanting in his usual and to have listened to council opposite at all times to true policy and in this instance productive of much mortification and regret certain of his seeing that the monarch was dissatisfied with their decision and still retained a lurking inclination for the suggested a by which au its advantages might be secured without committing the dignity of the crown by entering into formal about what might prove a mere it was proposed that should be kept in suspense while a vessel should be secretly despatched in the direction he had pointed out to ascertain whether there were any foundation for his theory this advice is attributed to bishop of and with the narrow policy which would have persuaded king john to abandon the splendid track of his african discoveries the king in evil hour departed from his usual justice and generosity and had the weakness to permit the was required to furnish f � a plan of his voyage with the or other documents according to which he intended to shape his coarse that they might be examined by the council he readily com ed a was then with the pretext of carrying provisions to the cape de islands but with private instructions to pursue the route in the papers of departing from those islands the stood westward for several days the weather grew stormy and the having no seal to them and seeing nothing but an waste of wild tumbling waves still extending before them lost all courage to proceed they put back to the cape de islands and thence to their own want of resolution by the project of as extravagant and this unworthy attempt to him of his aroused the indignation of king john it is said would have renewed the but he resolutely declined his wife had been for some time dead the domestic tie which had bound him to was broken j he determined therefore to abandon a country where be had been treated with so faith and to seek patronage elsewhere towards the end of he departed secretly from taking with him his son the reason assigned for leaving the kingdom thus privately is that he feared being prevented by the king another reason appears to have arisen from his poverty while engrossed by those speculations which were to produce such benefit to mankind his affairs had run to ruin it would seem that he was even in � b t s i l i c b like a d of i er ol being for a lately l wliich was to some years by ihe king of � l inviting hit him any arrest on account of any process civil or be a him an interval now occurs of about a year which the movements of are involved in a modem spanish historian of great investigation and is of opinion that he departed immediately for where he that he was in when he repeated in person a proposition of his enterprise which be had formerly made to government by letter but that he met a contemptuous ul the republic of in f was not in a situation favourable to such an undertaking she was under a long decline and embarrassed by a foreign war her deposit in the had recently fallen into the � r fc w tm r w j jl r c is an old floating in to that effect a magistrate of that city be adds assured bim that he had formerly seen mention in the public of this of and of its being declined in consequence of the critical state of national affairs the long and wars however which had prevailed between and his native state render this application rather improbable different authors agree that about this time he visited his aged father made some arrangements for his comfort and having performed the duties of a pious son departed once more to	48
frequently brought up blood in considerable these were by and involuntary motions of all the limbs or of the whole by a of the by sudden affections of the the by a distraction and in the eyes by shrieks tears and r they were preceded or i by a state of languor nod reverie by a species of and k the lent starting and a � � a ed that th� changing key and the time in u r n the piano h an i upon no that motion agitated more and renewed the vivacity of nothing could bv than sight of m� one that had not them c have no idea of them and in beholding the whole the profound repose of one class of was not sinking than the violence with which another wa agitated the t part of tin work to which i have alluded by had for its object to show that the theory of instead of being a novelty in won an ancient which had been abandoned by the a before he demon in the moat manner by precise to the writing of van sir tent el ana that all the published by were positively laid down by one or other of these author in the � part prove by a tions and reasoning for and good sense thai all the ascribed by to the operation of a new species of were to be attributed to the ence of the on the that they admitted of the explanation as the of the two and and that to ti the of m which extend to species of or in other words to a universal medicine was an unworthy of an enlightened age work of s received from a committee of royal society of medicine to examine it that praise to which it was im entitled from the and the it displayed and it cannot be doubted that its influence would alone have been sufficient to have l the progress of the doctrine it even if had not been from its very nature destined ultimately to share the fate of every popular delusion fortunately however for science a operations were deemed worthy of the of government and on the of march a committee partly of and partly of members of the royal academy of was appointed by the king to examine thoroughly tha principles of the new system at the head of this committee was the celebrated dr and tlie united witli him in the were le d de and these o immediately entered on the of the which had been to them with all the judgment and which it was natural to expect from men so eminently for the refused to have any communication with committee hut m the most of his pupils consented to to them the whole principles and of r and to them in all tr invest i i the having � of ax it was by r each of them iu in public when d by submitted in be thi and others in a ul the final results of their inquiry to thi tint on of iu a th s drawn dr and which will be read will h s s the history of the human mind to the moral or the the animal pronounced to have existence and nation and were shown to tie the true f the attributed to it the curious and of m � ay the have i the that thi theory the operation i the lie animal proposed in the were the same with those revived in the nt the tn th n no more than old falsehood the theory is now presented a� waa necessary in a more enlightened with a degree of i but it is not on this account the thin waa translated into with l in and it is from this translation which is executed that the preceding detail has been extracted it is very important however to that in i n to this which wa t obviously meant for the public eye tlie deemed it their duty communicate a private report to the king in which with a solicitude for the moral of the sex they disclosed certain accompanying t c of in tjie ee to the of the and character which by individuals mi ht be rendered to purposes of most criminal this has since been made public an exposure so complete accomplished by men whose integrity and were over the whole of europe speedily produced the that were to have expected it in a few months and his animal r ihe overthrow of this the most remarkable popular di on which has prevailed the belief in tlie influence of tile of with how much talent this d� wan exposed by dr and his scientific friends is known to this most able and intelligent physician is indebted for a of displaying in � more striking perhaps than h id hitherto been done � f powerful emotions on the frame u i of d of plants vii � of the of from the french m c f tlie of be ar i u y wc m� in to it of seeds of the vegetable an event which m while it lo a close the yearly round of the h t m x of the individual the means of giving to race completed the organ of the plant in existence one year tend visibly to a state of and in that where this with the year to bein i there in fact the stage of dissolution we see the separate from the parent stem its begin to open the of the seed from the we are to place these appearances to the account of the of the vital principle hut on the contrary lo view them as the i indications of its having ceased in that portion of the where they occur fruit the destiny of the au and is reduced the control	48
the palace through the of the high court official who presented us we got a good place among the most distinguished and during our brief wait i was considerably amused by the study of their faces and attitudes some of the men looked nervous � others conceited one or two radical themselves with an air as if they and they alone were to be honoured for allowing to hold these functions at all a few gentlemen had evidently their e dress in haste and carelessness for the pieces of paper in which their steel or gilt coat buttons had been wrapped by the tailor to prevent were still discovering this fortunately before it was too late they occupied themselves by taking off these papers and casting them on the floor � an process at best and one that made them look singularly ridiculous and each man present turned to stare at his striking personality attracted universal attention when we at last entered the throne room and took our places in line was careful to arrange that my brilliant companion should go up before me as i had a strong desire to see what sort of an effect his appearance would produce on the royal party i had an excellent view of the prince of wales from where i myself waited he made an imposing and figure enough in full uniform with his various orders glittering on his broad breast and the singular resemblance discovered by many people in him to henry viii struck me more forcibly than i should have thought possible his face however expressed a far greater good humour than the pictured of the capricious but ever bluff king the sorrows of satan � though on this occasion there was a certain shade of melancholy even on his brow which gave a firmer character to his naturally features � a shadow as i fancied of weariness tempered with regret � the look of one dissatisfied yet resigned a man of possibilities he seemed to me � of defeated aims and will few of the other members of the royal family surrounding him on the possessed the remarkable attraction he had for any observant student of � most of them were or assumed to be stiff military figures merely who bent their heads as each guest filed past with an regularity neither pleasure interest nor but the heir apparent to the greatest empire in the world expressed in his very attitude and looks an unaffected and courteous welcome to all � surrounded as he was and as such in his position must ever be by who would never run the least risk to their own lives to serve him unless they could get something personally satisfactory out of him his presence impressed itself upon me as suggestive of but none the less resolute power i cannot even now explain the singular of mind that seized me as our turn to be presented arrived � i saw my companion advance and heard the lord announce his name prince and then � why then it seemed as if all the movement in the brilliant room suddenly came to a pause every eye was fixed on the stately form and noble countenance of my friend as he bowed with such and grace as made all other seem awkward by comparison for one moment he stood absolutely still in front of the royal facing the prince as though he sought to impress him with the fact of his presence there � and across the broad stream of sunshine which had been pouring into the room throughout the ceremony there fell the sudden shadow of a passing cloud a fleeting impression of gloom and silence chilled the atmosphere � a singular the sorrows of satan appeared to hold all eyes fixed on and not a man either going or coming moved this intense hush was brief as it was curious and impressive � the prince of wales started slightly and gazed at the superb figure before him with an expression of eager curiosity and almost as if he were ready to break the bonds of etiquette and speak � then himself with an evident effort he gave his usual dignified acknowledgment of s profound reverence whereupon my comrade passed on slightly smiling i followed next � but naturally made no impression beyond the fact of exciting a smothered whisper from among the lesser who caught the name tempest and at once murmured the magic words five millions � words which reached my ears and moved me to the usual weary contempt which was with me growing into a malady we were soon out of the palace and while waiting for our carriage in the covered court yard entrance i touched on the arm you made a veritable sensation did i he laughed you flatter me not at all why did you stop so long in front of the to please my humour he returned indifferently and partly to give his royal the chance of remembering me the next time he sees me but he seemed to recognise you i said have you met him before his eyes flashed often but i have never till now made a public appearance at st james s court costume and company manners make a difference to the looks of most men � and i doubt � yes i very much doubt whether even with his excellent memory for faces the prince really knew me to day for what i am the sorrows of satan xvii it must have been about a week or ten days after the e that i had the strange scene with i am about to relate a scene that left a painful impression on my mind and should have been sufficient to warn me of impending trouble to come had i not been too to accept any that ill to myself arriving at lord s house one evening and ascending the stairs to the	33
i do oh sue said he with a sudden sense of his own danger do not do an thing for moral reasons you have been my social salvation stay with me for humanity s sake you know what a weak fellow i am my two arch enemies you my weakness for women and my impulse to strong liquor don t abandon me to them sue to save your own soul only at again they have been kept entirely at a distance since you became my guardian angel since i have had you i have been able to go into any temptations of the sort without risk isn t my safety worth a little sacrifice of principle i am in terror lest if you leave me it will be with me another case of the pig that was washed turning back to his in the mire sue burst out weeping oh but you must not you won t ill pray for you night and day well never mind don t grieve said generously i did suffer god knows about you at that time and now i suffer again but perhaps not so much as you the woman mostly gets the worst of it in the she does unless she is absolutely worthless and contemptible and this one is not that anyhow sue drew a nervous breath or two she is � i fear now � good night � please i mustn t stay not just once more as it has been so many times oh sue my wife why not no � no � not wife i am in your hands don t tempt me back now i have advanced so far very well i do your bidding i owe that to you darling in penance for how i it at the first time my god how selfish i was perhaps � perhaps i spoiled one of the highest and purest loves that ever existed between man and woman then let the veil of our temple be rent in two from this hour he went to the bed removed one of the pair of pillows and flung it to the floor sue looked at him and bending over the bed rail wept silently you don t see that it is a matter of conscience with me and not of dislike to you she murmured dislike to you but i can t say any more � it breaks my heart � it will be all i have begun � good night the obscure good night he said and turned to go oh but you shall kiss me said she starting up i can t � bear � he clasped her and kissed her weeping face as he had scarcely ever done before and they remained in silence till she said good bye good bye and then him away she got free trying to the sadness by saying we ll be dear friends just the same won t we and we ll see each other sometimes � yes and forget all this and try to be as we were long ago did not permit himself to speak but turned and descended the stairs iv the man whom sue in her mental face was now regarding as her inseparable husband lived still at on the day before the tragedy of the children had seen both her and as they stood in the rain at watching the procession to the theatre but he had said nothing of it at the moment to his companion who being an old friend was staying with him at the village and had indeed suggested the day s trip to what are you thinking of said as they went home the university degree you never obtained no no said of somebody i saw to day in a moment he added i saw her too you said nothing i didn t wish to draw your attention to her but as you did see her you should have said how d ye do my dear that was ah well i might have but what do you think of this i have good reason for supposing that she was innocent when i her � that i was all wrong yes indeed awkward isn t it she has taken care to set you right since anyhow apparently h m that s a cheap sneer i ought to have waited unquestionably at the end of the week when had gone the obscure back to his school near as was his custom went to market again on s intelligence as he walked down the long hill which he had known before knew it though his history had not beaten so intensely upon its incline arrived in the town he bought his usual weekly local paper and when he had sat down in an inn to refresh himself for the five miles walk back he pulled the paper from his pocket and read a while the account of the strange suicide of a stone s children met his eye as he was it impressed him painfully and puzzled him not a little for he could not understand the age of the elder child being what it was stated to be however there was no doubt that the newspaper report was in some way true their cup of sorrow is now full he said and thought and thought of sue and what she had gained by leaving him having made her home at and the school master coming to market there every saturday it was not wonderful that in a few weeks they met again � the precise time being just after her return from where she had stayed much longer than she had at first intended keeping an interested eye on though had seen no more of her was on his way homeward when he encountered and she was approaching the town you like walking out this way mrs he said i ve just begun to again	45
said between laughing and crying i had no idea till we met how my sentiments towards her had changed you have to answer for it i hope i may never have anything heavier to answer for said to me she so clearly seems not only artificial but that i think her an companion for you what designs can she have said in the first place she designs to make you think her very attached to you which i really believe is not the case well i have my doubts about it too said � though once you could not have hurt me more than by saying so what can have made me and so sharp sighted i suppose living with so truthful and honest a person as yourself knowing what the real thing is i have learnt to detect the it may be so said but very young persons are apt to be deceived by any who think it worth their while or worth their said there i have made an english especially if they flatter pursued which she certainly did sometimes said and i am afraid i liked it i had nothing better to like then what do you like better now inquired common sense plain dealing and sincere affection � you dear said kissing her number forty nine said laughing why you cross cold creature would you have one live without kissing at all ah there is the old driving away from the door and there is mr standing on the steps well papa has soon picked up a visitor tell me how old do you think he is m � � no no mr oh perhaps thirty two or thirty three � he cannot be less than thirty three i think that s rather old for what said and for whom you mean said what i cried is he to be the successor to no you stupid of course i was thinking of thank you said laughing but i have no views of the kind you seem to allude to nor i think has he he is certainly not very handsome said and yet he has a pleasant cheerful face � a good countenance as people say � a sensible head good forehead quick eye and pleasant smile is he above or below the average of your countrymen you may take him as a pretty fair average specimen pray is m an average specimen of yours well there you have the advantage of me certainly at our table to day the english will bear the palm you and mr against paul and papa � why not against paul and you said that would be more polite and more dutiful i think certainly said but here is mr waiting to receive us well mr welcome cordially welcome to the surprise is equal to the pleasure and i concluded you would be surprised said he laughing and offering his hand to assist her from the carriage but m was so pressing there was no refusing him and i thought it would be so nice to come down here and get on with my book oh if that is all it is paying us a very poor compliment said well but the town was so dull without you there was no bearing it even for twenty four hours and he � what s the dull town to me robin s not here for robin read or whichever you like certainly said but this is very perverse of you mr did i not press you as much as a lady could to come here the very evening before we started � but m did hem that is true you remind me what a very young lady i am and what has now made papa more gracious why i took his part yesterday in rather an awkward affair going to the public office i heard high words proceeding from your father s surprised to hear his voice i looked in and found a young fellow in a furious rage ready to collar him and of course that would not do i came to the rescue and took the by the of the neck rascal proved to be one of your precious who had taken advantage of your father s absence to open his desk with a false key exclaimed and in dismay the very fellow so of course there was nothing for it but the police station � oh � papa did not have him cried you both seem very much moved ladies the young villain is i believe not worth your pity � no he was not actually though within an inch of it because i who wanted to see how matters of this sort are conducted for my book you know went along with him and made out by the way that it was not a case of but only of evidence this of course made all the difference so i took the responsibility on myself of staying the policeman s hand while i returned to m to find if it were the case and if so to for a of sentence your father had it seemed to me been a little too hasty � he suspected that the impression of his private key had been taken in wax and that during his short absence the lock of his desk had been with and papers within it examined though not removed it had very likely been done it is just n and like you saving the ladies but there was no proof of it whatever therefore i as an englishman and a lover of fair play begged off and he came in for only a i half repented of doing so too the next minute for the young rascal would by no means beg pardon and promise never to do so any � but turned dead sulky as i think can do more to the purpose than any others and	2
you give piece of and a fish hook less see em tom exhibited they were satisfactory and the property changed hands then tom a couple of white for three red tickets and some small trifle or other for a couple of blue ones he other boys as they came and went on buying tickets of various colors ten or fifteen minutes longer he entered the church now with a swarm of clean and noisy boys and girls proceeded to his seat and started a quarrel with the first boy that came handy the teacher a grave elderly man interfered then turned his back a moment and tom pulled a boy s hair in the next bench and was absorbed in his book when the boy turned around stuck a pin in another boy presently in order to hear him say and got a new from his teacher tom s whole class were of a pattern � restless noisy and troublesome when they came to their lessons not one of them knew his verses perfectly but had to be prompted all along however they worried through and each got his reward � in small blue tickets each with a passage of scripture on it each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the ten blue tickets equalled a red one and could be exchanged for it ten red tickets equalled a yellow one for ten yellow tickets the gave a very plainly bound bible worth forty cents in those easy times to the pupil how many of my readers would have the industry and application to two thousand verses even for a bible and yet mary had acquired two in this way � it was the patient work of two years � and a boy of german had won four or five he once three thousand verses without stopping but the strain upon his mental faculties was too great and he was little better than an idiot from that day forth � a grievous misfortune for the school for on great occasions before company the as tom expressed it had always made this boy come out and spread himself only the older pupils managed to keep their tickets and stick to their tedious work long enough to get a bible and so the delivery of one of these was a rare and circumstance the successful pupil was so great and conspicuous for that day that on the spot every scholar s heart was fired with a fresh ambition that often lasted a couple of weeks it is possible that tom s mental stomach had never really for one of those but unquestionably his entire being had for many a day longed for the glory and the that came with it in due course the stood up in front of the pulpit with a closed hymn book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves and commanded attention when a sunday school makes his customary little speech a hymn book in the hand is as necessary as is the inevitable sheet of music in the hand of a singer who stands forward on the platform and sings a at a concert � though why is a mystery for neither the hymn book nor the sheet of music is ever referred to by the sufferer this was a slim creature of thirty five with a sandy and short sandy hair he wore a stiff standing collar whose upper edge almost reached his ears and whose sharp points curved forward abreast the corners of his mouth � a fence that compelled a straight ahead and a turning of the whole body when a side view was required his chin was propped on a spreading which was as broad and as long as a bank note and had fringed ends his boot toes were turned sharply up in the fashion of the day like � an effect patiently and laboriously produced by the young men by sitting with their toes pressed against a wall for hours together mr was very earnest of mien and very sincere and honest at heart and he held sacred things and places in such reverence and so separated them from worldly matters that unconsciously to himself his sunday school voice had acquired a peculiar which was wholly absent on week days he began after this fashion now children i want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two there � that is it that is the way good little boys and girls should do i see one little girl who is looking out of the window � i am afraid she thinks i am out there somewhere � perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the birds i want to tell you how good it makes me feel to see so many bright clean little faces assembled in a place like this learning to do right and be good and so forth and so on it is not necessary to set down the rest of the it was of a pattern which does not vary and so it is familiar to us all i the latter third of the speech was by the of fights and other among certain of the bad boys and by and that extended far and wide washing even to the of isolated and rocks like and mary but now every sound ceased suddenly with the of mr voice and the conclusion of the speech was received with a burst of silent gratitude a good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare � the entrance of visitors lawyer accompanied by a very feeble and aged man a fine middle aged gentleman with iron gray hair and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter s wife the lady was leading a child tom had	34
i should fancy he finds quite sufficient for his sins in the muttering of an ave or a i tell you he suffers r and my father struck his hand emphatically on the table � i have studied his nature and i know he has the scholar s mind � the subtle and self disposition which is s a curse to its owner he has behaved like a coward and a villain and he knows it but you � you also have behaved like a coward and a villain and you do not seem to know it no � you are right i responded calmly i do not have you no heart none and i fixed my eyes quietly upon him how should you expect it i gave what heart i had to my wife and she has killed it it is stone dead i forget that it ever existed do not let us talk any more of the matter mon i am perfectly content to leave paris for a time as you suggest � indeed i think the plan an admirable one it will certainly be best that i should remove my presence from you and from all to whom i have suddenly become but before we part i will ask you to remember first � that i have never through all my life given you a moment s cause for pain or reproach � and secondly that in this of a marriage which was to have been the completion of life s happiness for me i am of anything save a desire to just punishment on the of my honour that the only offence you can charge against me is a want of sympathy with a woman who has not only but almost glories in her p with that i saluted him profoundly and left him to his own reflections i had shown no heat � i had displayed no temper � i had stated my case with the logic � the logic of an but once up again in the solitude of my own room with the door shut fast i laughed aloud and bitterly at the and ridiculous wrong with which everybody insisted on the whole affair all the pity was for and yet people would go on about morality judged strictly de had not a shadow of defence on her side but because she was young beautiful and a woman her fate excited sympathy had she been ugly and she might have been and driven from pillar to post till she died of sheer exhaustion for aught any one would have cared i we are most of us ruled by the flesh and the devil and very few of us have any real conception of justice but do not imagine good friends that i a confirmed of want to be moral not i i should win scanty attention from some of you if i did i i only observe to you en that considering how the between vice and virtue are being fast broken down in all great civilized countries how even in eminently virtuous and respectable � women of known character are allowed to enter and mix with the highest aristocratic circles � and how it will most probably soon be necessary to establish in church going london and under the very nose of good mrs a recognized after the fashion of my dear paris � in the face of all these facts i say surely it is time to leave off about dull household virtues � an age of and has no time for them but whatever you think of my opinions � opinions born of blessed � sit in judgment on yourselves my readers before you venture to judge me i believe me i used like many other young men to have my of greatness and goodness the beautiful the the and sublime had attractions for my spirit but the wise green fairy has cured me of this foolishness formerly i loved to read noble poetry i could lose myself in inward communion with the divine spirit of and other grand and true as he � but now now i grin in company with the educated masses over the wit of the cheap paris press � now like un i enjoy a sneer at virtue � now like many of my class who wish to go with the time i fling a stone or a handful of mud at any one to live a and greater life than his fellows i am one of your generation you poor old world � the generation under which you groan as you roll silently on in your fate appointed the generation of brute selfishness and � the generation of the opposed to infinite i please myself in the i live i am to none other and you dear reader whose languid eyes rest carelessly on this printed page � � do not you follow the same wise rule is not your every thought idea and plan however much it may at first seem for the benefit of others really for your own ultimate interest and of course excellent let us then shake hands upon our declared brotherhood � for though you may be and no doubt are highly respectable while i am all together � though you may be everything that society while i am an drinking outcast from polite life a of the and back streets of paris we are both at one � yes my dear friend i assure you � entirely at one � in the worship of self xx h next day i remembered i had a visit to make the de expected me to call upon him before i meant to go of course i had no wish to disappoint him i was prepared for a stormy scene with him i could already picture the haughty old s wounded pride and indignation at the brought on his name � but	33
young � and the man who was them paused from his labor long enough to sell me a handful near by was the smoke blackened ruin of the farm house the yellow peril fired by the when they retreated from t river bed two men were removing the cleaning the confusion preparatory to they were clad in blue hung down thi backs i was in china i rode to the shore into the village of iii there were no lounging men smoking pipes and chattering the previous day the ru had been there a bloody battle had bee fought and to day the were there � bt what was that to talk about i everybody was men were offering eggs and chickens and fruit c sale upon the street and bread as i live bread i small round or i rode on into tb country here a toiling population was i evidence the houses and walls were strong an substantial stone and brick replaced the mu walls of the dwellings twilight fell an and still the went up and the the following after trains o heavily loaded by an carts drawn by from four to six cows or � cows even with new born tottering along on legs out the yellow peril side the traces everybody worked everything worked i saw a man mending the road i was in china i came to the city of and lodged with a merchant he was a grain merchant com he had hundreds of stored in great of stout peas and beans in and in the back yard his went round and round grinding out meal also in his back yard were buildings containing sunk into the ground and here the were at work making leather i bought a measure of corn from mine host for my horses and he me thirty cents i was in china was with troops it was the thick of war but it did not matter the work of went on just the same the shops were wide open the streets were lined with one could buy anything get anything made i dined at a chinese myself at a public bath in a private tub with a small boy to assist in the i bought milk butter vegetables bread and cake i repeat it cake � good cake i bought knives forks and dishes and there r h � � the yellow peril were and a in realized for me new designs of mine for my ten poles my shoes were sent out to be repaired my hair a servant returns with corn beef in a bottle of port another c and beer blessed beer to wash out from mi throat the dust of an army it was the land ci i was in china the is the perfect type of � of r he chinese is the t pe of for sheer work no in th world can with him work is the of his nostrils it is his solution of existence i is to him what and lighting in far and spiritual have been to other i il to him it in access to th ins of toil in till soil and labor il i with implements and is all h of and of the powers that be work u it ik ai o e all things and he will if iu tor an taking of the he l at the column ami them a t lu walls he did this the yellow peril not from a sense of patriotism but for the foreign devils because they paid him a daily of fifty cents he is not frightened by war he it as he does rain and sunshine the changing of the seasons and other natural phenomena he for it it and it and when the tide of battle sweeps by the thunder of the guns still in the distant he is seen calmly bending to his usual tasks nay war itself bears fruits whereof he may pick before the dead are cold or the burial have arrived he is out on the field the bodies collecting the and in the shell holes for and fragments of iron the chinese is no coward he does not carry away his doors and windows to the mountains but remains to guard them when alien soldiers occupy his town he does not hide away his chickens and his eggs nor any other he possesses he proceeds at once to them for sale nor is he to be into lowering his price what if the be a soldier and an alien made by victory and confident by overwhelming force he has two large saved over from last year the yellow peril which he will sell for five sen or for the same three small what if one soldier taking away with him three large there be twenty other soldiers about he turns over his sack of fruit to another and races down the street after his and t soldier for their flight and he does n return til he has away one large pe from that soldier s grasp nor is the chinese the type of he has been so often he is not so i disposed toward new ideas and new methods as i history would seem to indicate true his customs and methods have been permanent the centuries but this has been due to the fa that his was in the hands of the classes and that these governing scholars four salvation lay in all progress ideas i he ideas behind the troubles ar the over the introduction of railroad af other de il have from the minds of the and been spread i their and and enterprise have been the yellow peril in the chinese for scores of generations only has remained to him industry and in this has he found the supreme expression of his being on the other handy his to new ideas has been	21
with cleared the table piled everything on the dumb waiter gave us our wine glasses and of his own accord wheeled the dumb waiter into the all this was done in a perfect manner and he never raised his eyes from what he was about yet his very elbows when he had his back towards me seemed to with the expression of his fixed opinion that i was extremely young can i do anything more sir i thanked him and said no but would he take no dinner himself none i am obliged to you sir is mr coming from oxford op david i beg your pardon sir is mr coming from oxford i imagine that he might be here to morrow sir i rather thought he might have been here to day sir the mistake is mine no doubt sir if you should see him first � said i if you excuse me sir i don t think i shall see him first in case you do said i pray say that i am sorry he was not here to day as an old of his was here indeed sir and he divided a bow between me and with a glance at the latter he was moving softly to the door when in a forlorn hope of saying something naturally � which i never could to this man � i said oh sir did you remain long at that time not particularly so sir you saw the boat completed yes sir i remained behind on purpose to see the boat completed i know he raised his eyes to mine respectfully mr has not seen it yet i suppose i really can t say sir i think � but i really can t say sir i wish you good night sir he comprehended everybody present in the respectful bow with which he followed these words and disappeared my visitors seemed to breathe more freely when he was gone but my own relief was very great for besides the arising from that extraordinary sense of being at a disadvantage which i always had in this man s presence my conscience had embarrassed me with whispers that i had his master and i could not repress a vague uneasy dread that he might find it out how was it having so little in reality to conceal that i always did feel as if this man were finding me out mr roused me from this reflection which was blended with a certain apprehension of seeing himself by many on the absent as a most respectable fellow and a thoroughly admirable servant mr i may remark had taken his full share of the general bow and had received it with infinite condescension but punch my dear said mr it like time and tide waits for no man ah it is at the present moment in high flavor my love will you give me your opinion mrs pronounced it excellent then i will drink said mr if my friend will permit me to take that social liberty to the days when my friend and myself were younger and fought our way in the world side by side i may say of myself and in words we have sung together before now that we run about the and d the fine the personal history and experience � in a point of view � on several occasions i am not exactly aware said mr with the old roll in his voice and the old indescribable ah of saying something genteel what go may be but i have no doubt that and myself would frequently have taken a pull at them if it had been mr at the then present moment took a pull at his punch so we all did evidently lost in wondering at what distant time mr and i could possibly have been comrades in the battle of the world said mr clearing his throat and warming with the punch and with the fire my dear another glass mrs said it must be very little but we couldn t allow that so it was a as we are quite confidential here mr said mrs her punch mr being a part of our i should much like to have your opinion on mr s prospects for corn said mrs as i have repeatedly said to mr may be gentlemanly but it is not commission to the extent of two and in a fortnight cannot however limited our ideas be considered we were all agreed upon that then said mrs who herself on taking a clear view of things and keeping mr straight by her woman s wisdom when he might otherwise go a little crooked then i ask myself this question if corn is not to be relied upon what is are coals to be relied upon not at all we have turned our attention to that experiment on the suggestion of my family and we find it mr leaning back in his chair with his hands in his pockets eyed us aside and nodded his head as much as to say that the case was very clearly put the articles of corn and coals said mrs still more being equally out of the question mr i naturally look round the world and say what is there in which a person of mr s talent is likely to succeed and i the doing anything on commission because commission is not a certainty what is best suited to a person of mr s peculiar temperament is i am convinced a certainty and i both expressed by a feeling murmur that this great discovery was no doubt true of mr and that it did him much credit i will not conceal from you my dear mr said mrs that i have long felt the business to be particularly adapted to mr look at and look at and it is on that extensive footing that mr i know from	8
whom we used to be told in our youth help his head swelling when he eat i no so much my wretched self dear cousin as all unsuccessful vagabond humanity i have a large share of primitive instincts of fallen man which make dirty worthless boys in the throw a handful of mud at the nice clean well conducted little boys who roll by them sitting up in well appointed carriages i planned a telling scene i let the sigh of burst upon our friend as she was standing talking t under the orange trees you can picture the contrast � laughed softly to himself it was dramatic th� poor colonel really behaved very well but to use a phrase it knocked the wind out of him for a few seconds ver effectually mrs pierce was at the far end of the room sh spoke with a trace of no doubt he felt seeing again under the but � i suppose i am stupid � i confess i don t quit catch the point of the contrast with heaven help us where are your eyes cried m holding up his hands why poor man to put it he is simply over head and ears in love with mrs pierce came slowly down the length of the again she had that appearance of laying back her ears an showing the of her eyes as she passed the young mar she said with something rather forced in the calm of her ah you think so too do you i am glad of that there was a moment s silence i don t think that is quite kind of you cousin he observed has not had plenty of victims already i merely a passing practical joke you go farther it seems and with no fair cause why should you want the poor man to be tortured � l i don t want him to be tortured she answered keeping hei lover and mistress eyes fixed on the floor i have the highest regard for colonel i desire earnestly to secure his happiness remained very still the air of enjoyment had pretty well died out of his face pardon me he said but would you mind sitting the of your dress is getting a little on to my nerves it me i confess for example i don t clearly apprehend the meaning of your last speech as he spoke mr looked very full at his companion strong as mrs pierce might appear this man certainly exercised a remarkable influence over her she knew quite well that the die was cast and that a dangerous and painful scene lay before her � how dangerous and painful it might prove she could not as yet determine but that it would tax her courage and fortitude pretty severely she was already sure in her present state of hardly repressed excitement it would be far easier to her to say what must be said moving to and fro yet when mr looked steadily at her and pointed to the sofa opposite to she wavered only for a moment and then sat down that is better he i am no doubt but i repeat i do not clearly understand what you mean back among the large sofa cushions movement and feeling had brought a glow of colour into her cheeks in her rich elaborate black gown with the soft lace falling back from her dusky hair she was undoubtedly a strikingly handsome and distinguished looking physically she gave way before her companion a nervous tremor shook her but mentally she herself against his influence she half shut her eyes and clasped her hands tightly together as they lay on her lap i intend to encourage colonel she said slowly to be quite frank with you i wish to secure s future and i believe he would make her an admirable husband did not move but he turned very pale indeed ah he said with a queer shuddering it was something like the cry of an animal in pain sat up quickly she raised her hands and tore open the lace at her throat she wanted air she felt as though she would it was dreadful to her to see this man suffer � but it was almost equally dreadful to perceive why he suffered don t take it like that she cried with sudden violence it is hideous you will drive me mad hardly her outburst he smiled a little covered her eyes his poor white face and that pitiful mockery of a smile turned her faint i s wife i understand perfectly well now thank you hfe said gently i flattered myself i was prepared for most things but one s imagination i observe a habit of just missing what is most probable one s philosophy too fails at critical moments it one to bear imaginary evils perfectly well it is not so successful with real evils well i own myself beaten you are the of the two by a very long way i had not thought of this combination s future demands a victim of course � but i am to be tortured this time i see not colonel what could i do she exclaimed i have suspected � feared how things were going with you but i did not dream it gone as far as this and then she added with a sort of gasp it may come to nothing after all i don t think so the young man answered with that same wretched smile everything will turn out as wish � at least if you keep on i must keep on said mrs pierce she threw back her head her face was hard and set then almost immediately she softened again into a tone of pleading with a wild longing to justify herself to prove that her motives were i do it for the best i believe it is right it seems the safest	32
into the open garden stepping with in grace followed by two others after showing themselves for a moment they bounded over the hedge with sharp timid and vanished but curiosity brought them back with still another and all four came into my among the animals op the garden and satisfied that i meant them no ill began to f actually eating breakfast with me like tame gentle sheep around a shepherd � rare company and the most graceful in move ments and attitudes i eagerly watched them while they fed on and wild cherry single leaves here and there from the side of the hedge turning now and then to a few leaves of from the midst of the garden flowers grass they did not eat at all no wonder the contents of the deer s stomach are eaten by the indians while e the upper of the north fork of the san one evening the sky threatening rain i searched for a dry bed and made choice of a big that had been pushed down by a snow but was resting on its knees high enough to let me lie under its broad trunk just below my shelter there was another on the very brink of a precipice and examining it i found a deer bed beneath it completely protected and concealed by drooping branches � a fine refuge and as well as resting place about an hour before dark i heard the clear sharp of d� r u d down on th j rocky bottom discovered an anxious that no doubt had her concealed near by she bounded over the and up the f ar ther slope of the wall often stopping to look our national back and listen � a fine picture of vivid eager i sat perfectly still and as my shirt was colored like the bark i was not easily seen after a httle she came cautiously toward � � � the air and � d h� ments as she descended the side over piles and brush and fallen timber were admirably strong and beautiful she never strained or made apparent efforts although jumping high here and there as she drew nigh she anxiously trying the air in different directions until she caught my scent then bounded off and vanished behind a small grove of soon she came back with the same caution and curiosity � coming and going five or six times while i sat admiring her a evidently excited by her noisy climbed a beneath me and witnessed her performances as attentively as i did t� r� or h for such shows busied himself about his supper in a thicket of the fruit of which was then ripe glancing about on the slender twigs as a toward the end of the indian summer when the young are strong the deer begin to gather in little bands of from six to fifteen or twenty and on the approach of the first they set out on their march down the mountains to their winter quarters lingering usually on warm among the animals of the and spurs eight or ten miles the as if to leave about the end of november a heavy far reaching storm drives them down in haste along the dividing between the rivers led by old experienced whose knowledge of the is wonderful it is when the deer are coming down that the indians set out on their grand fall hunt too lazy to go into the recesses of the mountains away from they wait for the deer to come out and then them this plan also has the advantage of finding them in bands great preparations are made old guns are mended bullets and the hunters wash themselves and fast to some extent to good luck as they say men and women old and young set forth together central are made on the well known of the deer which are soon red with blood each hunter comes in laden old as well as maidens smiling on the all grow fat and merry boys each armed with an head play at buck fighting and plague the industrious women who are busily preparing the meat for by stealing up behind them and throwing fresh hides over them but the indians are passing away here as everywhere and their red on the mountains are fewer every year our national there are and in the park but not in large numbers i have seen well back in the range at the head of the meadows as early as june ist before the snow was gone feeding on but they are far more numerous on the inhabited around where they enjoy hfe on chickens eggs ground etc and all kinds of fruit few wild sheep i fear are left for though safe on the high peaks they are driven down the eastern slope of the mountains when the deer are driven down the western to and spurs where the snow does not fall to a great depth and there they are within reach of the s the two of the park the and the gray keep all the woods lively the former is far more abundant and more widely distributed being found all the way up from the to the dwarf pines on the summit peaks he is the most influential of the animals though small and the brightest of all the i know � a of quick mountain vigor and purely wild and as free from disease as a one cannot think of such an animal ever being weary or sick he claims all the woods and is inclined to drive away even men as how he and what faces he makes if among the animals of the not so small he would be a dreadful fellow the gray is the i think of all the large american he is something like the eastern gray but is brighter and clearer in color and more and	28
time i quite gave up for lost and settled in my own mind that there was no hope for him being very anxious to see the dear old fellow nevertheless i despatched my dinner in a manner not at all calculated to raise in the opinion of the chief waiter and hurried out by the back way number two in the court was soon reached and an inscription ou david the door post informing me that mr occupied a set of chambers on the top story i ascended the staircase a crazy old staircase i found it to be feebly lighted on each landing by a club headed little oil dying away in a little of dirty glass in the course of my stumbling up stairs i fancied i heard a pleasant sound of laughter and not the laughter of an attorney or or attorney s clerk or s clerk but of two or three merry girls happening however as i stopped to listen to put ray foot in a hole where the honorable society of gray s had left a plank deficient i fell down with some noise and when i recovered my footing all was silent groping my way more carefully for the rest of the journey my heart beat high when i found the outer door which had mr painted on it open i knocked a considerable within ensued but else i therefore knocked a small sharp looking lad half and half clerk who was very much out of breath but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it presented himself is mr within said i yes sir but he s engaged i want to see him after a moment s survey of me the sharp looking lad decided to let me in and opening the door wider for that purpose admitted me first into a little closet of a hall and next into a little where i came into the presence of my old friend also out of breath seated at a table and bending over papers good god cried looking up it s and rushed into my arms where i held him tight all well my dear all well my dear dear and nothing but good news we cried with pleasure both of us my dear fellow said his hair in his excitement which was a most unnecessary operation my dearest my long lost and most welcome friend how i am to see david you how brown you are how glad i am upon my life and honour i never was so rejoiced my beloved never i was equally at a loss to express my emotions i was quite unable to speak at first my dear fellow said and grown so famous my glorious good gracious me when did you come where have you come from what have you been doing never pausing for an answer to anything he said who had clapped me into an easy chair by the fire all this time stirred the fire with one and pulled at my neck with the other under some wild delusion that it was a without putting down the he now me again and i him and both laughing and both wiping our eyes we both sat down and shook hands across the hearth to think said that you should have been so nearly coming home as you must have been my dear old boy and not at the ceremony what ceremony my dear good gracious me cried opening his eyes in his old way � didn t you get my last letter certainly not if it referred to any ceremony why my dear said sticking his hair upright with both hands and then putting his hands on my knees i am married married i cried joyfully lord bless me yes said � by the reverend � to � down in why my dear boy she s behind the window curtain look here to my amazement the dearest girl in the world came at that same instant laughing and blushing from her place of concealment and a more cheerful amiable honest happy bright looking bride i believe as i could not help saying on the spot the world never saw i kissed her as an old acquaintance should and wished them joy with all my might of heart dear me said what a delightful re union this is you are so extremely brown my dear god bless mv how happy i am david and so am i said i and i am sure i am said the blushing and laughing we are all as happy as possible said even the girls are happy dear me declare i forgot them forgot said i the girls said s sisters they are staying with us they have come to have a peep at london the fact is when � was it you that tumbled up stairs it was said i laughing well then when you tumbled up stairs said i was with the girls in point of fact we were playing at in the corner but as that wouldn t do in westminster hall and as it wouldn t look quite professional if they were seen by a they and they are now � listening i have no doubt said glancing at the door of another room i am sorry said i laughing afresh to have occasioned such a upon my word rejoined greatly delighted if you liad seen them running away and running back again after you had knocked to pick up the they had dropped out of their hair and going on in the manner you wouldn t have said so my love will you fetch the girls tripped away and we heard her received in the adjoining room with a peal of laughter really musical isn t it my dear said it s very agreeable to hear it quite lights up these old rooms to an unfortunate bachelor of a fellow	8
but with real care and vision for their half hidden pains and with long enjoyment of uttle pleasures prepared for them perhaps the of his admiration did not fall precisely on this quality in her � perhaps he his own choice of her chiefly because she did not strike him as a remarkable a man likes his wife to be pretty well was pretty but not to a extent a man likes his wife to be accomplished gentle affectionate and not stupid and had all these was not surprised to find himself in love with her and was conscious of excellent judgment in preferring her to miss the daughter of the county member although was only the daughter of his father s subordinate partner besides he had had to defy and overcome a slight and disappointment in his father and sisters � a circumstance which gives a young man an agreeable consciousness of his own dignity was aware that he had sense and independence enough to choose the wife who was likely to make him happy by any considerations he meant to choose she was a little darling and exactly the sort of woman he had always most admired chapter n he is very clever said she was kneeling on a at s feet after placing that dark lady in the large crimson velvet chair i feel sure you wiu like him i hope you will i shall be very difficult to please said smiling the on thb and up one of s long curls that the sunlight might shine through it a gentleman who thinks he is good enough for must expect to be sharply indeed he s a great deal too good for me and sometimes when he is away i almost think it can t really be that he loves me but i can never doubt it when he is with me � though i couldn t bear any one but you to know that i feel in that way oh then if i of him you can give him up since you are not engaged said with playful gravity i would rather not be engaged when people are engaged they begin to think of being married soon said too thoroughly to notice s joke and i should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is s i am quite frightened lest should say that he has spoken to papa and from something that fell from papa the other day i feel sure he and mr guest are that and s sisters are very civil to me now at first i think they didn t like his paying me attention and that was natural it does seem out of keeping that i should ever live in a great place like the park house a little insignificant thing as i am but people are not expected to be large in proportion to the houses they live in like said laughing pray are mr guest s sisters oh no j and not handsome � that is not very said half at this remark but he is � at least he is generally considered very handsome though you are unable to share that opinion oh i don t know said blushing pink over brow and neck it is a bad plan to raise expectation you will perhaps be disappointed but i have prepared a charming surprise for him i shall have a glorious laugh against him i shall not tell you what it is though rose from her knees and went to a little distance holding her pretty head on one side as if she had been arranging for a portrait and wished to judge of the general effect stand up a moment what is your pleasure now said smiling as she rose from her chair and looked down on her slight cousin whose figure was quite subordinate to her of silk and kept her attitude a moment or two in silence ana then said r ths mill on i can t think wliat it is in yon that makes you look best in shabby clothes though you must have a new dress now but do you know last night i was trying to fancy you in a handsome dress and do what i would that old limp would back as the only right thing for you i wonder if looked all the when her gown was at the elbows now if i were to put shabby on i be quite � i should be a mere rag oh quite said with mock gravity you would be liable to be swept out of the room with the and carpet dust and to find yourself under the grate like t i sit down now yes now you may said laughing then with an air of serious reflection un her hu jet but you must change mi that little looks silly on you but won t that mar the charming effect of my said herself while knelt again and un the contemptible butterfly i wish my mother were of your opinion for she was last night because this is my best frock i ve been saving my money to pay for some lessons i shall never get a better situation without more accomplishments gave a little sigh w don t put on that sad look again said the large below s fine throat you re forgetting that you ve left that dreary behind you and have no little girls clothes to mend yes said it is with me as i used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear i saw at the show i thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of ing backwards and forwards in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free one gets a bad habit of being unhappy but i put you under a discipline of pleasure that will	14
his teeth with the nice j of a in the and about him with watchful eyes and fingers and sometimes one more daring than the rest made a mad grasp at the back of his head and in the crowd they had him in all points of view in front in face and behind those who were not professional or scientific audibly exchanged opinions on his looks new lights shone in upon him in respect of his nose were abroad on the subject of his hair and the captain s voice was heard � so stifled by the that he seemed to speak from underneath a feather bed � exclaiming � gentlemen you that have been to mr wiu you dear even when they began to dear it was no better for then a stream of gentlemen every one with a lady on each arm exactly like the chorus to the national when goes in state to the play came gliding in � every new group than the last and bent on staying to the latest moment if they spoke to him which was not often they invariably asked the same questions in the same tone with no more remorse or delicacy or consideration than if he had been a figure of stone purchased and paid for and set up there for their delight even when in the slow course of time these died os it was as bad as ever if not worse for then the boys grew bold and came in as a of themselves and did everything that the grown up people had done uncouth too appeared men of a ghostly kind who in didn t know how to get out again that one silent gentleman with glazed and eyes and only one button on his waistcoat which was a very large metal one and shone got behind the door and stood there like a clock long after everybody else was gone martin felt from pure and heat and worry as if he could have on the ground and willingly remained there if they would but have had the mercy to leave him alone but as letters and messages threatening his public if he didn t see the poured in like hail martin and as more visitors came while lie took his by himself and as mark with all his vi was to keep them from the door he resolved to go to bed � not that he felt at all of bed being any protection but that he might not leave a forlorn hope he had communicated this design to mark and was on the eve of escaping when the door was thrown open in a great hurry and an elderly gentleman entered bringing with him a lady who certainly could not be considered young � that was matter of fact and probably could not be considered handsome � but that was matter of opinion she was very straight very and not at all in face or figure on her head she wore a great straw bonnet with of the same in which she looked as if she had been by an and in her hand she held a most enormous fan mr i believe said the gentleman that is my name sir said the gentleman i am pressed time thank god thought martin i go back toe my home sir pursued the gentleman by the return train which starts immediate start is not a word you use in your country sir oh yes it is said martin you air mistaken sir returned the with great decision but we will not pursue the subject lest it should awake your � sir mrs martin bowed mrs sir is the lady of major one of our spirits and belongs toe one of our most aristocratic families you air p r acquainted sir with mrs s writings martin couldn t say he was you have much toe learn and toe enjoy sir said the gentleman mrs is going toe stay until the end of the fall sir with her married daughter at the settlement of new three days this side of any attention sir you can show toe mrs upon the l j journey will be very grateful toe the major and our mrs i wish you good night ma am and a pleasant pro on your martin could scarcely believe it but he had gone and mrs was drinking the milk vol i s life and of a most used up i am i do declare she observed the in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of and and ma am said martin well then i do suppose you u hardly my meaning sir said mrs my only think do tell it did not appear that these expressions although they seemed to conclude with an urgent entreaty stood in need of any answer for mrs her bonnet strings observed that she would withdraw to lay that article of dress aside and would return immediately mark i said martin touch me will you am i awake is sir returned his partner � broad awake just the sort of woman sir as would be discovered with her eyes wide open and her mind a working for her country s good at any hour of the day or night they had no opportunity of saying more for mrs stalked in again � very erect in proof of her aristocratic blood and holding in her clasped hands a red cotton perhaps a parting gift from that choice spirit the major she had laid aside her bonnet and now appeared in a highly aristocratic and classical cap meeting beneath her chin a style of head dress so admirably adapted to her countenance that if the late mr had appeared in the of mrs a more complete could not have been produced martin handed her to a chair her first words arrested him before he could get	8
slavery the lime has gone by when it was necessary to that the color of the skin or the place of birth ought not to determine a man s rank in society it must be remembered he is writing at paris slavery is a crime and a blunder the m mankind was taught fully by the and by christianity but has not been understood till now france has taken the lead in developing the doctrine and ought to slavery for she will thereby influence other nations and slavery is at this day the greatest obstacle in the way of civilization it the master and the slave it labor renders it the wealthy and the vices of the poor it is only possible on condition that the slaves are degraded and the masters to show that slavery prevents the increase and notices of be mr clay one of the most enlightened men of the union and one of the most ardent of slavery in louis the tenth made all men free who touched the soil of france but louis the introduced slavery into the french colonies formerly the spanish slaves were better treated than others but now in point of cruelty spanish slavery can only be compared to the american he thinks the and e c es show that the slaves are not happy and mr who says he has studied their condition where the laws and national habits tend to their lot but goes back with the same horror of slavery as when he first quitted � it seems the american churches are not alone in their defence of the institution for the of saint in which most of the clergy are educated for their functions teaches the of slavery and the slave trade the religion of a nation seldom over its interests says it is the philosophers not the who the question of slavery he thinks works well in the west indies the have money in the bank they join societies build churches and fill them they send money to the london society to promote their work they send to africa to preach love and liberty on their soil crime from year to year he says there are three schemes of gradual and general and general and spontaneous he general and immediate in chapter he gives a history of ancient by the and in chapter ly he a reform of the french colonies in chapter v he touches upon the condition of � a tale of by worth third edition boston wm d co mo this is a beautiful poem in verse and relates the adventures of a young french maiden � � a native of the destroy the french settlement of grand pr and carry off tiie inhabitants who are scattered over the continent gets separated from her lover and after seeking him in all uie french from the great lakes to the gulf of becomes a sister of charity in philadelphia she him in a hospital sick and too feeble to speak he dies in her arms and she soon him in the world where there is no separation the poem is full of beauties � now of description or of sh rt and bee r ment and of thought the is slight bat sometimes more and sinking to prose the measure seems wholly congenial to the author s mind the sound an echo to the sense we a few specimens many a word and sweet on the door lingered long in s heart and filled it with gladness then were the embers that glowed on the and on the stairs the tread of the soon with a step the foot of followed up the staircase a space in the lighted less by the lamp than the shining face of the maiden � p friends they sought and homes and many despairing heart broken asked of the earth bat a grave and no longer a or a written their history stands on of stone in the churchyard long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered lowly and meek in spirit and patiently all things was she and young but alas before her extended dreary and vast and the desert of life with its pathway marked by the graves of those who had and fallen before her passions long extinguished and hopes long dead and abandoned as the s way o er the western desert is by camp consumed and bones that in the sunshine something there was in her life unfinished as if a morning of june with all its music and sunshine suddenly paused in the sky and fading slowly descended into the east win whence it late had arisen sometimes she in towns till bv the within her urged by a restless longing the and thirst of the spirit she commence again her endless search and endeavour sometimes in strayed and gazed on the crosses and sat by some nameless grave and fat that perhaps in its bosom he was already at rest and she to slumber beside him p still stands the forest but far away its shadow side by side in their nameless graves ae lovers are sleeping under the humble walls of the uttle catholic in the heart of the lie unknown and unnoticed daily the tides of life go and flowing beside them thousands of throbbing hearts where are at rest and forever thousands of aching brains where theirs no longer are thousands of toiling hands where theirs have ceased m their labors thousands of weary feet where theirs have completed the journey we would remind the that the tree does not grow in that was not known among its inhabitants and that no is found bending with golden in that region in the month of november american readers may well the author for a poem so wholly american in its incidents its geography and its scenery we cannot but think it will add to e well of	37
for which i scorned him and as soon as he had found a cover to out heads he left us alone which was the greater service of the two chapter xxiv full story of a of the place found was in the upper part of a house backed on a canal we had two rooms the second entering from the first each had a chimney built out into the floor in the dutch manner and being alongside each had the same prospect from the window of the top of a tree below us in a little court of a piece of the canal and of houses in the architecture and a church spire upon the further side a full set of bells hung in that spire and made delightful music and when there was any sun at all it shone direct in our two chambers from a tavern hard by we had good meals sent in the first night we were both pretty weary and she extremely so there was little talk between us and i packed her oflf to her bed as soon as she had eaten the first thing in the morning i wrote word to to have her sent on together with a line to at his chiefs and had the same despatched and her breakfast ready ere i her i was a little abashed when she came forth in her one habit and the mud of the way upon her stockings by what inquiries i had made it seemed a good few days must pass before her could come to hand in and it was plainly needful she must have a shift of things full story of a copy of she was unwilling at first that i should go to that expense but i reminded her she was now a rich man s sister and must appear in the part and we had not got to the second merchant s before she was entirely charmed into the spirit of the thing and her eyes shining it pleased me to see her so innocent and thorough in this pleasure what was more extraordinary was the passion into which i fell on it myself being never satisfied that i had bought her enough or fine enough and never weary of beholding her in different indeed i began to understand some little of miss grant s in that interest of clothes for the truth is when you have the ground of a beautiful person to adorn the whole business becomes the dutch i should say were extraordinary cheap and fine but i would be ashamed to set down what i paid for stockings to her altogether i spent so great a sum upon this as i may call it that i was ashamed for a great while to spend more and by way of a set off i left our chambers pretty bare if we had beds if was a little and i had light to see her by we were richly enough lodged for me by the end of this i was glad to leave her at the door with all our purchases and go for a long walk alone in which to read myself a lecture here had i taken under my roof and as good as to my bosom a yoimg extremely beautiful and whose innocence was her peril my talk with the old and the lies to which i was constrained had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others and now after the strong admiration i had just experienced and the with which i had continued my vain purchases i began to think of it myself as very i me if i had a sister indeed whether i would so expose her then judging the case too i varied my question into this whether i would so trust in the hands of any other christian being the answer to which made my face to bum the more cause since i had been and had the girl into an undue situation that i should behave in it with scrupulous she depended on me wholly for her bread and shelter in case i should alarm her she had no retreat besides i was her host and her protector and the more i had fallen in these positions the less excuse for me if i should profit by the same to forward even the most honest suit for with the opportunities that i enjoyed and which no wise parent would have suffered for a moment even the most honest suit would be unfair i saw i must be extremely in my relations and yet not too much so neither for if i had no right to appear at all in the character of a i must yet appear continually and if possible agreeably in that of host it was plain i should require a great deal of tact and conduct perhaps more than my years afforded but i had rushed in where angels might have feared to tread and there was no way out of that position save by right while i was in it i made a set of rules for my guidance prayed for strength to be enabled to observe them and as a more human aid to the same end purchased a study book in law full story of a copy of this being all that i could think of i relaxed from these grave considerations whereupon my mind at once into an of pleasing spirits and it was like one treading on air that i turned homeward as i thought that name of home and recalled the image of that figure awaiting me between four walls my heart beat upon my bosom my troubles began with my return she ran to greet me with an obvious and affecting pleasure she was clad besides entirely in the new clothes that i had bought for her looked in them beyond	38
in his favour with an air of indifference he soon afterwards added how long did you say that he was at nearly three weeks and you saw him frequently yes almost every day his manners are very different from his cousin s and prejudice yes very different but i think mr on acquaintance indeed cried with a look which did not escape her and pray may i but checking himself he added in a tone is it in address that he has he to add aught of civility to his ordinary style for i dare not hope he continued in a lower and more serious tone that he is improved in oh no said elizabeth in i he is very much what he ever was while she spoke looked as if scarcely ing whether to over her words or to distrust their meaning there was a something in her countenance which made him listen with an apprehensive and anxious attention while she added � when i said that he improved on acquaintance i did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement but that from knowing him better his disposition was better understood s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look for a few minutes he was silent till shaking off his embarrassment he turned to her again and said in the of accents � you who so well know my feelings towards mr will readily comprehend how sincerely i must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appear ance of what is right his pride in that direction may he of service if not to himself to many others for it must him from such foul as i have suffered by i only fear that the sort of to which you i imagine have been alluding is merely adopted on his visits to his aunt of whose good opinion and judgment he stands much in awe his fear of her has always i know when they were together and a good deal is to be to his wish of the match with miss de which i am certain he has very much at heart elizabeth could not repress a smile at this but she answered only by a slight of the head she and prejudice � aw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his and she was in no humour to indulge him the rest of the evening passed with the appearance on his side of usual cheerfulness hut with no i attempt to i ti distinguish elizabeth and they parted at last with mutual i p civility and possibly a desire of never meeting j again when the party broke up returned with mrs to from whence they were to set out early the next morning the separation between her and f her family was rather noisy than pathetic was the l f only one who shed tears but she did weep from vexation � and envy mrs was in her good wishes j for the felicity of her daughter and impressive in her in that she would not miss the opportunity of enjoy ing herself as much as possible � advice which there was every reason to believe would be attended to and in the happiness of herself in bidding the more gentle of her sisters were uttered being heard i chapter ix had elizabeth s opinion been all drawn from her own family she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of felicity or domestic comfort her father by youth and beauty and that appearance of which youth and beauty generally give had married a woman whose weak understanding and mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real for her respect esteem and confidence had vanished for ever and all his views of domestic happiness were but mr was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own had brought on in any of those plea which too often console the for their folly or their vice he was fond of the country and of books and from these tastes had arisen his principal e to his wife he was very little otherwise indebted than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement this is not the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife but where other powers of entertainment are wanting the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given elizabeth however had never been blind to the of her father s behaviour as a husband she had always seen it with pain but respecting his abilities and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of obligation and decorum which in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children was so highly but she had never felt so strongly as now the which must attend the children of so a marriage nor ever so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill judged a direction of talents � talents which rightly used might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters even if incapable of the mind of his wife when elizabeth had rejoiced over s departure she found little other cause for satisfaction in the loss of the regiment their parties abroad were less varied than before and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant at the of every thing them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle and though might in time regain her natural degree o� sense since the of her brain were removed her other sister from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering place	26
great a show as if he were king himself but the king hearing of it at and a new this for that was his name had fled to france in a woman s dress and had there been encouraged and supported by the french king with all these causes of against philip in his mind king richard had no sooner been welcomed home by his enthusiastic subjects with great display and splendor and had no sooner been crowned afresh at than he resolved to show the french king that the devil was indeed and made war against him with great fury richard the first there was fresh trouble at home about this time arising out of the of the poor people who complained that they were far more heavily than the rich and who found a spirited champion in william called he became the leader of a secret society fifty thousand men he was seized by surprise he the citizen who first laid hands upon him and retreated bravely fighting to a church which he maintained four days until he was by fire and run through the body as he came out he was not killed though for he was dragged half dead at the tail of a horse to and there hanged death was long a favorite remedy for the people s but as we go on with this history i fancy we shall find them difficult to make an end of for all that the french war delayed occasionally by a was still in progress when a certain lord named of chanced to find in his ground a treasure of ancient as the king s he sent the king half of it but the king claimed the whole the lord refused to yield the whole the king the lord in his castle swore that he would take the castle by storm and hang every man of its on the there was a strange old song in that part of the country to the effect that in an arrow would be made by which king richard would die it may be that de a young man who was one of the of the castle had often sung it or heard it sung of a winter night and remembered it when he saw from his post upon the the chapter xiv england under king john called at two and thirty years of age john became king of england his pretty little nephew had the best claim to the throne but john seized the treasure and made fine promises to the nobility and got himself crowned at westminster within a few weeks after his brother richard s death i doubt whether the crown could possibly have been put upon the head of a coward or a more detestable villain if the country had been searched from end to end to find him out the french king philip refused to acknowledge the right of john to his new dignity and declared in favor of arthur you must not suppose that he had any generosity of feeling for the boy it merely suited his ambitious schemes to oppose the king of england so john and the french king went to war about arthur he was a handsome boy at that time only twelve years old he was not born when his father had his brains trampled out at the and besides the misfortune of never having known a father s guidance and protection he had king john the additional misfortune to have a foolish by name lately married to her third husband she took arthur upon john s accession to the french king who pretended to be very much his friend and made him a knight and promised him his daughter in marriage but who cared so little about him in reality finding it lis interest to make peace with king john for a time he did so without the least consideration for the poor little prince and sacrificed all his interests young arthur for two years afterward lived quietly and in the course of that time his mother died but the french king then finding it his interest to quarrel with king john again again made arthur his and invited the orphan boy to court you know your rights prince said the french king and you would like to be a sang is it not so truly said prince arthur i should greatly like to be a king then said philip you shall have two hundred gentlemen who are knights of mine and with them you shall go to win the provinces belonging to you of which your uncle the king of england has taken possession i myself meanwhile will head a force against him in poor arthur was so flattered and so grateful that he signed a treaty with the french king agreeing to consider him his superior lord and that the french king should keep for himself whatever he could take from king john now king john was so bad in all ways and king philip was so that arthur between the two might as well have been a lamb between a fox � and a wolf but being so young he was ardent and vol i� l � history of flushed with hope and when the people of which was his inheritance sent him five hundred more knights and five thousand foot soldiers he he his fortune was made the people of had heen fond of him from his and had requested that he might he called arthur in of that dimly famous english arthur of whom i told you early in this hook whom they believed to have heen the brave and companion of an old king of their own they had tales among them about a prophet called of the same old time who had foretold that their own king should be restored to them after hundreds of years and they believed that the prophecy would be	8
it is by far the best on the subject that exists for it is the only one others � hundreds of others � have written of course upon skin diseases indeed the question i found myself putting to myself on practice in london as an expert in that branch of the healing art was what have they not written about there are nowadays but two methods of getting one s name known and establishing a medical reputation in london one is by taking a house in with an immense and setting up a and pair in which you sit well forward and are driven rapidly about as if you had not a moment to lose the other is by the publication of some with coloured plates most of these last though often striking indeed once seen you will never forget them are to the eye by no means attractive and it was not my object to myself to the profession vii fc two delicate cases fore of any glowing account of the nature of or genial essay on port wine marks i devoted myself to the comparatively unknown but picturesque subject of it was not it must be owned one of very general application but it had some general interest and if only that could be aroused and concentrated upon his future would be assured i had the honour of being the first man to introduce to the public through the columns of the medical the case of the most highly coloured and executed individual known to science he had been made prisoner in chinese and to be put to death but his punishment had been or extended to five others suffered with him but he was the only of the operation which combined the horrors of sitting for one s portrait with those of the victim was held fast by four strong men while a fifth the artist worked away upon him with a split reed like a steel pen for hours at the end of three months he was considered finished and would doubtless have been hung upon the line if the chinese had had a royal academy in which to exhibit him the used are doubtful it is certain they were not powdered or the colours used by our native artists chiefly marine for the same purpose inasmuch as none of the remained entangled in the of the true skin or became e article in i in the x v two delicate cases one must conclude that the work was performed by the simple agency of the of plants yet the effect produced was perfect so it ought to be poor used to say with a groan of when upon his personal appearance indeed i have no doubt that the operation hurt him very much if he had known that he was going to be a contribution to science or even to have formed the subject of an article in he might perhaps have borne up better but as it was those reflections were denied him he had only the satisfaction of feeling that if he survived he would be the best illustrated man in chinese he looked when in nature s garb as though the whole of his body was tightly enveloped in a robe of the richest from the crown of his head to the tips of his toes he was covered with dark blue figures of plants and animals in the of which were written characters for all i know in blue and red the hands were on both but only with probably a biography of the artist himself with a catalogue of his other works the blue figures stopped short at the but the was continued on the feet in scarlet to the roots of the nails through the very hair of the and beard could be seen designs in blue on the whole body there were no fewer than figures cats fish lions and men and women of objects such as fruits x leaves and bows and arrows there was so l c supply and upon his forehead on each s d t two delicate cases � that is looking down with admiration as well they might upon this interesting and collection such were the attractions of my honest friend who made a good deal of money by the exhibition of them in where i went on purpose to see him it may certainly be said of him if of anybody that we shall never look upon his like again it has been remarked that beauty is only skin deep but in his case it was at all events more lasting than usual if it was not a joy for ever he retained it as long as he lived of course i my notes in the upon this case � after what had been written upon him didn t care what was written him � in my work upon which also contained a full length portrait of him in colours it had an immense success but strange to say did not increase � that is commence � my professional practice i published another book of a more scientific kind with the same result that is to say it had none it was tolerably successful as medical works go � the author not more than fifty pounds or so but as was remarked by the senior surgeon of our hospital who has the misfortune to be a wag it didn t beat the while the general public of course never so much as heard of it one day however grim fortune relaxed into a smile which i took for good nature though as it turned out it was only a carriage and pair drove � up to my door out of s xv xv a t � there is a to e n xv two delicate cases of my visitor as it stands but i scorn to deceive the public and therefore 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will hope that the storm may be without our being any of us quite overcome poor she was in all yesterday but i would not alarm you too much says there is nothing materially to be apprehended her constitution is a good one and her resolution equal to anything she has borne it all with the fortitude of an angel she says she never shall think well of any body again and one cannot k and wonder at it after being so deceived � with such ingratitude where so much kindness had been shown bo much confidence had been placed it was quite out of tho benevolence of her heart that she had asked these young women to her house merely because she thought they deserved some attention were harmless well behaved girls and would be pleasant companions for otherwise we both wished very much to have invited you and to be with us while your kind friend there was attending her daughter and now to be so rewarded i i wish with all ray heart says poor in her way that we had asked your sisters instead of them here he stopped to be thanked which being done he went on what poor mrs suffered when first broke it to her is not to be described while she with the truest affection had been planning a most eligible connection for him was it to be supposed that he could be all the time secretly engaged to another person � such a suspicion could never have entered her head if she suspected any elsewhere it could not be in that quarter there to be sure said she i might have thought myself safe she was quite in an agony we consulted together however as to what should be done and at last she determined to send for edward he came but i am sorry to relate what ensued all that mrs could say to make him put an end to the engagement assisted too as you may well suppose by my arguments and s entreaties was of no avail duty affection everything was disregarded i never thought edward so stubborn so before his mother to him her liberal designs in case of his marrying miss told him she would settle on him the estate which clear of land brings in a good thousand a year offered even when matters grew desperate to make it twelve hundred and in opposition to this if he still persisted in this low connection represented to him the certain that must attend the match his own two thousand pounds she protested should be his all she would never see him again and so far would she be from affording him the smallest assistance that if he were to enter into any profession with a view of better support she would do all io her power to prevent him advancing in it sense and sensibility here in an ecstasy of indignation clapped her hands together and cried gracious god can this be possible well may you wonder replied her brother at the obstinacy which could resist such arguments as these your exclamation is very was going to retort but she remembered her promises and all this however he continued was urged in vain edward said very little but what he did say was in the most determined manner nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement he would stand to it cost him what it might then cried mrs with blunt sincerity no longer able to be silent he has acted like an honest man i i beg your pardon mr but if he had done otherwise i should have thought him a rascal i have some little concern in the business as well as yourself for is my cousin and i believe there is not a better kind of girl in the world nor one who more deserves a good husband john was greatly astonished but his nature was calm not open to provocation and he never wished to any body especially any body of good fortune he therefore replied without any resentment i would by no means speak of any relation of yours madam miss is i dare say a very deserving young woman but in the present case you know the connection must be impossible and to have entered into a secret engagement with a young man under her uncle s care the son of a woman especially of such very large fortune as mrs is perhaps altogether a little extraordinary in short i do not mean to reflect upon the behaviour of any person whom you have a regard for mrs we all wish her extremely happy and mrs s conduct throughout the whole has been such as every conscientious good mother in like circumstances would adopt it has been dignified and liberal edward has drawn his own lot and i fear it will be a bad one sighed out her similar apprehension and s heart wrung for the feelings of edward while his mother s threats for a woman who could not reward him sense and ly well sir said mrs and how did it end i am sorry to say ma in a most unhappy edward is dismissed for ever from his mother s notice he left her house yesterday but where he is gone or whether he is still in town i do not know for we of course can make no poor young man and what is to become of him what indeed ma am it is a melancholy consideration born to the prospect of such i cannot conceive a situation more deplorable the interest of two thousand pounds � how can a man live on it and when to that is added the recollection that he might but for his own folly within three months have been in the receipt of two thousand five hundred a year for miss has thirty thousand pounds i cannot	26
eye i ain t af of i ain t af of you and i ain t af of words you want to kill people that s you want but you want to do it in kid gloves and it can t be done that w y murder ain t genteel it ain t easy it ain t safe and it a man to do it ere s the man david and began the captain with energy and then stopped and remained staring at him with brows � well with it said ave you else to put up is there any other to try the captain held his peace there you are then said with a shrug fell again to his pacing oh you may do go till you re blue in the you won t find else said there was a little silence � the captain like a man launched on a swing flying among extremes of conjecture and refusal but see he said suddenly pausing can you can the thing be done it � it can t be easy if i get within twenty foot of im it be done so you look out said and his tone of certainty was absolute how can you know that broke from the captain in a choked cry you beast i believe you ve done it before oh that s private returned i ain t a talking man a shock of struck and shook the captain a scream rose almost to his lips had he uttered it he might have cast himself at the same moment on the body of might have picked him up and flung him down and wiped the the ebb tide cabin with him in a frenzy of cruelty that seemed half moral but the moment passed and the crisis left the man weaker the were high � the pearls on the one hand starvation and shame on the other ten years of pearls the imagination of translated them into a new existence for himself and his family the seat of this new life must be in london � there were deadly reasons against � and the pictures that came to him were of english manners he saw his boys marching in the procession of a school with gowns on an them and reading as he walked in a great book he was in a villa semi detached the name on the gate posts in a chair on the gravel walk he seemed to sit smoking a cigar a blue ribbon in his victor over himself and circumstances and the of he saw the parlor with red curtains and shells on the mantel piece and with the fine of visions mixed a at the mahogany table ere he turned in with that the gave one of the and nameless movements which even in an ship and even in the most profound calm remind one of the of and he was back again under the cover of the house the fierce daylight it all round and glaring in the and the clerk in a rather airy attitude awaiting his decision he began to walk again he after the david and of these dreams like a horse for water the lust of them burned in his inside and the only obstacle was who had insulted him om the first he gave a full share of the pearls he insisted on it opposed him and he trod the opposition down and praised himself exceedingly he was not going to use himself was he s keeper it was a pity he had asked but after all � he saw the boys again in the school procession with the gowns he had thought to be so long since � and at the same time the shame of the last evening blazed up in his mind have it your own way he said hoarsely oh i knew you would walk up said now for the letter there s paper pens and ink sit down and i the captain took a seat and the pen looked awhile helplessly at the paper then at the swing had gone the other way there was a upon his eyes it s a dreadful business he said with a strong of his shoulders it s rather a start no doubt said a dip of ink that s it william john esq sir he dictated how do you know his name is william john asked saw it on a packing case said got that no said but there s another thing what are we to write the ebb tide oh my cried the exasperated kind of man do you call yourself i m goin to tell you to write � that s my pitch � if you just be so as to write it down william john esq sir he and the captain at last beginning half mechanically to move his pen the proceeded is of and thai i approach you after the events of last night our mr has left the and will have doubtless communicated to you the nature of our needless to these are no longer possible fate as against us and we bow the well as i am of the just suspicions with i am re i do not venture to of an interview for myself but in order to put an end to a w must be equally to all i ave my friend and partner mr z to before you my proposals and by their will i trust be found to merit your attention mr j l is entirely j swear to and will old over is the moment he begins to approach you i am your servant john read the letter with the innocent joy of chuckled to himself and it more than once after it was folded to repeat the pleasure � meanwhile sitting and heavily frowning of a sudden he rose he seemed all abroad david and i � no he	38
the scene of his daily business and � new life the historical of tlie may be had among his possibly was one these men bad truly left the om lo i as l a t ta s u ms of jn i low on y in not in one br legend it i not a great in for t call for this not in j day ia opposed to ii ly it is entirely tone of u to tl lie joy of the and the of and to create an foi the reproaches on latter on account of with by a great iv ii to the at of their ly his c � m with tliis narrative particular attention according to common opinion concerning the author of the t go i c l his own we consider it granted tliat are no indications of this in but it i not clear are no indication which r it or that the not i in tin t nor when events in h lie a i� h ire in like � he author of acts of the proves nothing for and other not less � write of themselves a the third and the ice of the in the has a very sound the use of expression which the made an t ax did the above mentioned is not without a in the writings of who in his introduce himself as a certain at u v the cr did not fall into this style in bis nor fi freedom � which in the but either from a wish not to for the as an old tradition s or from of taste neither of which motives will be to we are to consider that expression as a that the author of the was not may te to decide but it is certain that history of the s is throughout la clearly in that gospel than in the in tin we are at a loss lo understand why it is abruptly said that je ins sat at in the house if tiie were himself the since it would then sc m most natural for him lo let his joy on account of his ap e� r in the by telling as ho ly made a great feast ill house to say that he this from is to a of age with the belonging lo he most se ll consciousness of modem to this feast at the s of wliich many of the ob � um i t au r t i i i tin at be s � l thb of partook ih the s nut nt hj and ate with and being within he of tbe it by the well known text on the ih of the physician for tlie sick and ttie hon of man for r mail ix ii that be by hu with too g eat for the d s of i fully with of his and ia hi if anything be m he answer too lt here nut into the mouth i f is from il character well adapted for literal further it is not improbable tliat reproach in question u en especially called forth by the me and went that the of have of tin s dinner as th� � c us to infer tiiat of v it not easily conceivable for ha was ot the house � � i� and m tlie s also partook of it how the utter reproaches to meal was forward by becoming the f of a man t a � he net which in x it will lie that � � outside until the ended it is fur to maintain even on the of i ike taken that the c only t a least was cause of the censure and not that were t immediate might easily in a in one scarcely knows how in its of the into could represent the general idea the i at the friendly of with the otherwise than once in a s house in witli many the saw this went to and their which also heard and by r after the i jl makes the of john a v with the why his did not fast as they did v f in v it is ir l who own lasts and those of john s as with the eating and drinking of the of mark s account is not clear v lo every must in ine statement of compared with that li of a second editor who could not explain to himself t ow tlie i came to appeal to the of john whereas the question would in the mouth of the latter � cm p d� � � i i p lu the ufe of it la to no that the mi it avail of an c to the of john when o ing je sob received of that it certainly iii that who were ate with � of john forth aa it liad n for to censure drinking of and bis probable is tliat associated the two and o gave them the additional of and place hut lie in third two a yet cot t nation and in not tlie reply of je could only he d l to i s or to friendly s to i ik would e given and a more severe another which is peculiar lo xix � treats ot or on his last lo the fe cm a y at v u that ho liis short stature ff a a of the crowd climbed a tree where d him and held him worthy to entertain for night again the favour shown to a of the more rigid s and when i s made and aj ain on the that his office bad to the whole scene is dramatic and this might be f d by some an ai for but there are certain internal obstacles to its reception n c arc	14
to the ocean for in this tremendous uproar of the waters we are told that many huge fragments of rock and land were rent from the mountains and swept down by this river for sixty it is a matter long since established by certain of our philosophers that is to say having been advanced and never contradicted it has grown to be pretty nigh equal to a settled fact that the was originally a lake up by the mountains of the in process of time however becoming very mighty and and the mountains and weak in the back by reason of their extreme old age it suddenly rose upon them and after a violent struggle effected its escape this is said to have come to pass in very remote time probably before that rivers had lost the art of running up hill the foregoing is a theory in which i do not pretend to be skilled notwithstanding that i do fully give it my belief an omen or seventy miles where some of them ran on the just opposite and formed the identical islands in question while others drifted out to sea and were never heard of more a sufficient proof of the fact is that the rock which forms the of these islands is exactly similar to that of the and moreover one of our philosophers who has diligently compared the agreement of their respective has even gone so far as to assure me in confidence that island was originally nothing more nor less than a on s nose leaving these wonderful little they next by governor s island since terrible from its frowning fortress and grinning they would by no means however land upon this island since they doubted much it might be the abode of and spirits which in those days did greatly abound throughout this savage and pagan country just at this time a of jolly came rolling and tumbling by turning up their sleek sides to the sun and up the element in sparkling showers no sooner did the sage mark this than he was greatly rejoiced this exclaimed he if i mistake not well � the is a fat well fish � among fishes � his looks se plenty and prosperity � i greatly admire this a in the a party of natives round fat fish and doubt not but this is a happy omen of the success of our undertaking so saying he directed his to steer in the track of these fishes turning therefore directly to the left they swept up the strait called the east river and here the rapid tide which courses through this strait seizing on the gallant tub in which van had embarked hurried it forward with a in a dutch boat by that the good who had all his life long been accustomed only to the drowsy of was more than ever convinced that they were in the hands of some supernatural power and that the jolly were them to some fair haven that was to fulfil all their wishes and expectations thus borne away by the current they doubled that boisterous point of land since called s hook and leaving to the right the rich winding of the they drifted into a magnificent expanse of water surrounded by pleasant shores whose was exceedingly refreshing to the eye while the were looking around them on what they conceived to be a serene and sunny lake they beheld at a distance a crew of painted savages busily employed in fishing who seemed more like the of this � properly i e a point of land of romantic region � their slender balanced like a feather on the surface of the bay at sight of these the hearts of the heroes of were not a little troubled but as good fortune would have it at the bow of the s boat was stationed a very man named which being interpreted me is chicken a name given him in token of his courage no sooner did he behold these than he trembled with excessive and although a good half mile distant he seized a that lay at hand and turning away his head fired it most in the face of the blessed sun the weapon and gave the an kick that laid him prostrate with uplifted heels in the bottom of the boat but such was the effect of this tremendous fire that the wild men of the woods struck with consternation seized hastily upon their and shot away into one of the deep of the long island shore this signal victory gave new spirits to the hardy and in honour of the achievement they gave the name of the to the surrounding bay and it has continued to be called s bay from that time to the present the heart of the good van � who having no land of his own was a great admirer of other people s � expanded at the prospect of rich unsettled country around him and falling into a delicious reverie he straightway began to riot in the origin of a family possession of vast meadows of salt marsh and interminable patches of from this vision he was all at once awakened by the sudden turning of the tide which would soon have hurried him from this land of promise had not the discreet given signal to steer for shore where they accordingly landed hard by the rocky heights of � that happy retreat where our jolly eat for the good of the city and the that are sacrificed on here seated on the green by the side of a small stream that ran sparkling among the grass they refreshed themselves after the toils of the seas by on the ample stores which they had provided for this perilous voyage thus having well fortified their powers they fell into an earnest consultation what was further to be done this was the first council	48
miles an hour the peaceful flowing of the stream here the rushes there the lilies nothing uncertain or he thought of his poor child little for a long time there he thought of her going home he thought of her in the night he thought of her when the day came round again and the poor child little thought of him � too faithfully ah too faithfully � in the shadow of the wall little machinery in motion mr himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the with daniel which had to him that he soon brought it into business train and called on at nine o clock one morning to make his report is highly gratified by your good opinion he opened the business by saying and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the works for yourself and entirely understand them he has handed me the keys of all his books and papers � here they are in this pocket � and the only charge he has given me is let mr have the means of putting himself on a perfect equality with me as to knowing whatever i know if it should come to nothing after all he will respect my confidence unless i was sure of that to begin with i should have nothing to do with him and there you sec said mr you have daniel all over a very honorable character oh yes to be sure not a doubt of it odd but very honorable yery odd though now would you said mr with a hearty enjoyment of his friend s that i had a whole morning in what s his yard bleeding heart a whole morning in bleeding heart yard before i could induce him to pursue the subject at all how was that how was that my friend i no sooner mentioned your name in connection with it than he declared off declared off on my account i no sooner mentioned name than he said that will never do what did he mean by that i asked him no matter that would never do why would it never do you ll hardly believe it said mr laughing within himself but it came out that it would never do because you and he walking down to together had glided into a in the course of which he had referred to his intention of taking a partner supposing at the time that you were as firmly and finally settled as saint paul s cathedral whereas says he mr might now believe if i entertained his proposition that i had a sinister and motive in what was open free speech which i can t bear says he which i really am too proud to bear i should as soon suspect of course you would interrupted mr and so i told him but it took a morning to scale that wall and i doubt if any little other man than myself he likes me of old could have got his it well this business like obstacle surmounted he then that before with you i should look over the form my own opinion i looked over the books and formed my own opinion is it on the whole for or against says he for says i then says he you may now my good friend give mr the means of forming his opinion to enable him to do which without bias and with perfect freedom i shall go out of town for a week and he s gone said mr that s the rich conclusion of the thing leaving me said with a high sense i must say of his and his mr struck in i should think so it was not exactly the word on s lips but he to interrupt his good humoured friend and now added mr you can begin to look into matters as soon as you think proper i have undertaken to explain where you may want explanation but to be strictly impartial and to do nothing more they began their in bleeding heart yard that same little peculiarities were easily to be detected by experienced eyes in mr s way of managing his affairs but they almost always involved some ingenious of a difficulty and some plain road to the desired end that his papers were in and that he stood in need of assistance to develop the capacity of his business was clear enough but all the results of his during many years were distinctly set forth and were with ease nothing had been done for the purposes of the investigation everything was in its genuine working dress and in a certain honest rugged order the calculations and in his own hand of which there were many were written and with no very neat precision but were always plain and directed straight to the purpose it occurred to arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business � such as the records of the office made perhaps � might be far less serviceable as being meant to be far less intelligible three or four days of steady application rendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with mr was at hand the whole time always ready to any dim place with the bright little safety lamp belonging to the scales and between them they agreed upon the sum it would be fair to offer for the purchase of a half share in the business and then mr a paper in which daniel had noted the amount at which he valued it which was even something less thus when daniel came back he found the affair as good as concluded and i may now mr said he with a cordial shake of the hand that if i had looked high and low for a partner i believe i could not have found one more to my mind	8
us and our hands succeeded in about an hour in out a patch of ground about ten feet long by twelve wide to the depth of two feet then we cut a quantity of low with our hunting knives and creeping into the hole pulled it over us all by ic with the exception of on whom being a the sun had no particular effect this gave us some slight shelter from the burning rays of the sun but the heat in that amateur grave can be better imagined than described the black hole of must have been a fool to it indeed to this moment i do not know how we lived through the day there we lay panting and every now and again our lips from our scanty supply of water had we followed our inclinations we should have finished off all we had in the first two hours but we had to exercise the most rigid care for if our water failed us we knew that we must quickly perish miserably but everything has an end if only you live long enough to see it and somehow that miserable day wore on towards evening three o clock in the afternoon we determined that we could stand it no longer it would be better to die walking than to be slowly killed by heat and thirst in that dreadful hole so taking each of us a little drink from our fast supply of water now heated to about the same temperature as a man s blood we staggered on we had now covered some fifty miles of desert if my reader will refer to the rough copy and translation of old da s map he will see that the desert is marked as being forty across and the pan bad water is set down as being about in the middle of it now forty is one hundred and twenty miles consequently we ought at the most to be within twelve or fifteen miles of the water if any should really exist through the afternoon we crept slowly and painfully along scarcely doing more than a mile and a half an hour h by ic at we again rested waiting for the moon and after drinking a little managed to get some sleep before we lay down pointed out to as a slight and indistinct on the flat surface of the desert about eight miles away at the distance it looked like an and as i was dropping off to sleep i fell to wondering what it be with the moon we started on again feeling dreadfully exhausted and suffering from thirst and heat nobody who has not felt it can know what we went through we no longer walked we staggered now and again falling from exhaustion and being obliged to call a halt every hour or so we had scarcely energy left in us to speak up to now good had and for he was a merry fellow but now he had not a joke left in him at last about two o clock utterly worn out in body and mind we came to the foot of this queer hill or sand which did at first sight resemble a gigantic ant heap about a hundred feet high and covering at the base nearly a two acres of ground here we halted and driven by our desperate thirst sucked down our last drops of water we had but half a pint a head and we could each have drank a then we lay down just as i was dropping off to sleep x heard remark to himself in k we cannot find water we shall all be dead before the moon rises to morrow i shuddered hot as it was the near prospect of such an awful death is not pleasant but even the thought of it could not keep me from sleeping by chapter vl water in two hours time about four o clock i woke up as soon as the first heavy demand of bodily fatigue had been satisfied the thirst from which i was suffering asserted itself i could sleep no more i had been dreaming that i was bathing in a running stream with green banks and trees upon them and i awoke to find myself in that arid wilderness and to remember that as had said if we did not find water that day we must certainly perish miserably no human creature could live long without water in that heat i sat up and rubbed my face with my dry and hands my lips and eyelids were stuck together and it was only after some rubbing and with an effort that i was able to open them it was not far off the dawn but there was none of the bright feel of dawn in the air which was thick with a hot i cannot describe the others were still sleeping presently it began to grow light enough to read so i drew out a little pocket copy of the legends i had brought with me and read the of when i got to where a nice little boy held a golden and with water as pure as any that flows between and i literally my cracked lips or rather tried to them mere thought of that pure water by king solomon s mines me mad if the cardinal had been there with his bell book and candle i would have whipped in and drank his water up yes even if he had already filled it with the of soap worthy of washing the hands of the pope and i knew that the whole concentrated curse of the catholic church should fall upon me for so doing i almost think i must have been a little light headed with thirst and weariness and want of food for i fell to thinking how astonished the cardinal and his nice little boy and the would	18
what he said they made it fit to their own wishes when he was proved absolutely wrong as in the case of the lady with the golden chain truth was treated as a form of insult and was evidently extremely inconvenient but it did the master no harm his followers were determined to believe in him no matter how strong the evidence might be against him suddenly the master after walking up and down the room once or twice made what i might call a bee line for me a terrible commotion you came here to night he said to seek comfort � i feel it i wondered that he had not felt it before he passed close to me give me something belonging to you my gloves are new i replied will this chain do i felt that it was a to offer him the little chain which i wore around my neck but i was anxious to know the truth and as he said the chain would do i it and gave it into his hands there was a little charm hanging to it a charm set with diamonds a foolish little thing which had bought for me in the early days of our put it round my neck then and i had worn it ever since i shivered involuntarily as his fingers touched mine this was a love token he said staring at me with his pot blue eyes i did not answer i was determined he should get no help out of me as he had easily done out of all the silly women who had so him yes it was a love token he said holding it against his forehead i feel it � it is borne in upon me the lover who gave it should re the magic wheel turn he has wandered away to other loves but his heart is really yours all the time i see a marriage for you � a happy marriage take heart as i said to somebody just now it is hard to wait but in your case it is worth waiting for your lover was a german i smiled determined to give him no help the chorus broke forth again � marvellous wonderful how can he know these things he was a man of my height and build very gentle certainly scientific he wears glasses he is standing by you now but he is alive i asked certainly he is alive you can t tell me where he is i suppose not here it would take too long i could tell you privately i could give you every detail i could follow every movement of his life from the very beginning to the very end but it would take time you can write to me about that if you like you see this lady the of the token and the charm again the chorus broke forth � wonderful marvellous perfect stranger never been here before a terrible commotion excuse me mr i said in cold cutting accents but i have not said one word which that i recognize the person of whom you speak you say that i am going to be married that the man who gave me that chain and charm loved and rode away it is clearly marked clearly indicated he replied it may be but that chain was given me by my husband soon after i was married there have been no others my husband is dead again the assumed the haughty look with which he had treated the poor lady with the chain opposite to me i cannot answer for the phenomena they must be interpreted by those to whom they are shown he said but you said that the chain was given to me by a german a fair man a who had loved and ridden away and would come back again i said to this lady here you described an old gentleman who might have been her father or her uncle or her grandfather or her father in law and if he came for her you the magic wheel i can t have my work interrupted he exclaimed i have certain work to do and a duty to others who attend the circle not at all i replied firmly you have made a positive statement to me and you are absolutely wrong you are neither more nor less than a fraud mr louis i am sorry to speak so plainly but i am more sorry for all these women who have let you them into believing that you have wonderful gifts pay back this lady her money he cried in a furious voice no i will not take my money but i will you for a fraud for a make believe one who to a power which he in no wise possesses you were absolutely wrong with this lady here with the chain turn her out cried a voice � turn her out you shall not turn me out if you touch me i will call the police upon you i have paid for my presence here i have a right to remain until this sitting is ended this lady will support me we are two we have never seen a terrible commotion each other before some of you i went on addressing the excited women who had started from their chairs and were crowding round us � some of you have openly said here to night that your husbands think you to be here at all will you go home and tell your husbands what you have heard will you go home and say that two of those who have come for information have been cheated you will stand by me madam i looked across at the woman whose golden chain glittered in the uncertain light indeed i will she said i think you are a brave woman for my own part i � i am frightened to death	30
seriousness plays the part of the and in medicine bitter to the taste but in the result there are a few stories in this little collection which might have such an effect and i have so far shared in your feeling that i have reserved them from publication in the reader can see that they are medical stories and can if he or she be so minded avoid them yours very truly a p s � you ask about the lamp it is the usual sign of the general in england contents behind the times his operation a of the generation a false start the curse of eye a s wife ill the of lady a question of a medical document lot ko the los the doctors of the surgeon talks bound the bed lamp behind the times my first interview with dr james winter was under dramatic circumstances it occurred at two in the morning in the bedroom of an old country house i kicked him twice on the white waistcoat and knocked off his gold spectacles while he with the aid of a female stifled my angry cries in a flannel and thrust me into a warm bath i am told that one of my parents who happened to be present remarked in a whisper that there was nothing the matter with my lungs i cannot recall how dr winter looked at the time for i had other things to think of but his description of my own appearance is far from flattering a head a body like a goose very legs and feet with the turned � those are the main which he can remember from this time the of my life were the which dr winter round the red lamp made upon me he me he cut me for an he me for it was a world of peace and he the one dark cloud that threatened but at last there came a time of real illness � a time when i lay for months together inside my basket bed and then it was that i learned that that hard face could that those country made creaking boots could steal very gently to a bedside and that that rough voice could thin into a whisper when it spoke to a sick child and now the child is himself a medical man and yet dr winter is the same as ever i can see no change since first i can remember him save that perhaps the hair is a trifle and the huge shoulders a little more bowed he is a very tall man though he loses a couple of inches from his stoop that big back of his has curved itself over sick beds until it has set in that shape his face is of a brown and tells of long winter drives over bleak country roads with the wind and the rain in his teeth it looks smooth at a little distance but as you approach him you see that it is shot with innumerable fine wrinkles like a last year s apple they are hardly to be seen when he is in repose but when he laughs his face breaks like a glass and you then that though he looks old he must be older than he looks behind the times how old that is i could never discover i have often tried to find out and have struck his stream as high up as george iv and even the but without ever getting quite to the source his mind must have been open to impressions very early but it must also have closed early for the politics of the day have little interest for him while he is fiercely excited about questions which are entirely he shakes his head when he speaks of the first reform bill and expresses grave doubts as to its wisdom and i have heard him when he was warmed by a glass of wine say bitter things about robert and his of the com laws the death of that brought the history of england to a definite close and dr winter to everything which had happened since then as to an insignificant but it was only when i had myself become a medical man that i was able to appreciate how entirely he is a of a past generation he had learned his medicine under that and forgotten system by which a youth was to a surgeon in the days when the study of was often approached through a grave his views upon his own profession are even more than in politics fifty years have brought him little and deprived him of less was well within the teach round the bed lamp ing of his youth though i think he has a secret preference for bleeding he would practise freely but for public opinion he regards as a dangerous and he always with his tongue when it is mentioned he has even been known to say vain things about and to refer to the as a new french toy he carries one in his hat out of deference to the expectations of his but he is very hard of hearing so that it makes little difference whether he uses it or not he reads as a duty his weekly medical er so that he has a general idea as to the advance of modem science he always in looking upon it as a huge and rather ludicrous experiment the theory of disease set him for a long time and his favourite joke in the sick room was to say shut the door or the will be getting in as to the theory it struck him as being the crowning joke of the century the children in the nursery and the ancestors in the stable he would cry and laugh the tears out of his eyes he is so very much behind the day that occasionally as things move	4
about thirty but there were some premature lines round her mouth and eyes which told of early anxiety himself was much changed his thin of hair was nearly white and his walk was no longer firm and upright but his glance was calm and even cheerful and his neat linen told of a woman s care did not take all her love from the earth when she died she had left some of it in s heart all the other children were now grown up and had gone their several ways you will be glad to hear had shown remarkable talents ns an engineer his cheeks are till ruddy in spite of mixed and his eyes are still large and blue but in other respects his person would e resent no marks of for is friend mrs if she were to see him especially now that her eyes must be grown very dim with the wear of more than twenty additional years he is nearly six feet high and has a broad chest he wears spectacles and his large white hands through a mass of shaggy brown hair but i am sure you no doubt that mr richard is a thoroughly good fellow as well as a man of talent and you will be glad any day to shake hands with him for his own sake as well as his mother s alone remains by her father s side and makes the evening of his life mr s love story chapter i when old mr died thirty years ago there was general sorrow in and if black cloth had not b n hang round the pulpit and reading desk by order of his nephew and principal the would certainly have the necessary sum out of their own pockets rather than allow such a tribute of respect to be wanting all the farmers wives brought out their black and mrs at the wharf by appearing the first sunday after mr death in her salmon colored ribbons and green shawl excited the remark to be sure mrs was a and town so that she could hardly be expected to have very clear notions of what was proper but as mrs observed in an to mrs when they were coming out of church her husband who d been born i the parish might ha told her better an to put on black on all occasions or too great an alacrity in putting ii argued in mrs s opinion a dangerous levity of character and an unnatural to the e fitness of some folks can t a bear to put off their she remarked but that the way i my family why mrs m the time i was married till mr died nine year ago come i was out o black two year together ah said mrs who was conscious of inferiority in this respect there is n t many families as had so many deaths as mrs mrs who was an elderly widow well left reflected with that mrs s observation was no more than just and that mrs very likely belonged to a family which had had to speak of even dirty dame who was a very rare church had been to mrs to beg a bit of old and with this sign of grief pinned on little bonnet was seen dropping her courtesy opposite the this of respect towards mr s memory on the part of dame had no il bearing whatever it was due to an event which had occurred years back and which i am to s� y had left that old lady as to the means of grace as ever dame kept and was understood to have such remarkable influence over those wilful animals in them to bite under the most circumstances that though her own were usually rejected from a suspicion that had lost their appetite she her self was constantly called in to apply the more lively individuals furnished from mr pilgrim s when as was very often the case one of that clever man s paying was attacked with thus in addition to property supposed to yield her no less than half a crown a week was in the receipt of professional the gross amount mb s love story of which was va y estimated by her neighbors as an j � � moreover drove a trade in with who purchased that luxury at the rate of two hundred per cent nevertheless with all these of income the old woman constantly pleaded poverty and ed for scraps at mn hack it s who though she always said mrs was as as two folks and no better than a and a heathen had yet a towards her as an old there s that case hardened old a th tea leaves mrs say an i m fool h to give em her though sally wants em all the while to sweep the floors with was dame whom mr riding leisurely in top boots and spurs from doing duty at one warm afternoon ob sitting in the dry ditch near her cottage and by her side a large pig who with that ease and confidence belonging to friendship was lying with his in her lap and making no effort to play the agreeable beyond an occasional i why mrs said the i did n t know yon had such a fine pig you ll have rare at christmas eh forbid my son him me two ear ago an he s been company to ms sin i could n t find i my heart to part wi m if i the taste o bacon fat again why he eat his head off and ours too how can you go on keeping a pig and making nothing by him o he a bit wi and i mind doing wi ont to gi him a bit o s meat an drink too an he me about and when to m just	14
secretary of war to have the s name for submission to the proper representative when a occurs the application must exhibit the full name date of birth and permanent abode of with the number of the district in his residence is situated date of appointment � must be made one year in advance of date of admission except in cases by death or otherwise a occurs which cannot be provided for by such appointment in advance these are in time for the next annual examination � the representative or in a second to be the alternate the alternate will receive at west point the result of the examination of the regular i known but must report at the time in his letter of the like the should be as nearly one year in advance of the date of admission as possible admission of � the candidate upon receiving his appointment is ordered to report at west point to the of the military academy in time to appear before the board for at its meeting early in june unless there be t reasons for another time candidate soon after at west point is subjected to a rigid physical by a of army if he successfully he is then ex by the board these are made as soon as i after the candidate reports to the the candidate who passes successfully both is admitted at once to the academy to his his admission and before his i warrant of appointment ho must sign the following for in the presence of the or of some by him principal officers of the army i of the state or territory of aged years months do engage with the consent of my ii or guardian that from the date of my admission as a of the u s military academy i will serve in the army of the u s for eight years unless by competent authority in the presence of � the candidate must then take the following oath or � do solemnly swear that i will support the of the u s and bear true te the national government that i will maintain and defend the of the u s to any and all or i may owe to any state or country whatsoever and that i will at all times the legal orders of my superior officers and the rules and articles eighteen hundred governing the armies of the u s sworn and at this of � and before me � the a� e for the admission of to the academy is between and years must be unmarried at least feet in height free from any or disorder and generally from any disease or infirmity which may render them unfit for military service they must be well in reading in writing including in and have a knowledge of the elements of english grammar of descriptive geography particularly of our own country and of the history of the u s military order of the loyal h ik n i tin the ui ee c im s iu d aud at the s ar rs en b ed in ii ui prior la uie of original aj tl c who twenty one ra old a in life the by nd t e nt t tt ea ci to of the first tin july si l h h est n iv york and r bt t r state hi order of are m ton hi fr j i o o q h wa ih r st paul or ht ni hi lt worth he ii a c he i l r x r ton tin i ry tt aa uie u ip y en until october j a n ff w fl f h with t n w s ck a p h tlie national arc i j t ii gi i b haye t lit rear john j i om m r i r� y n peter d r if d d iii m po h c kin w ti co � a naval in i and in d ri v to the e importance of a tr tl fur un on c p � a accordingly appropriated rf tn tor to be du under direction of the the fund in but h u ed under i of the of r for arms arid on m u s m new york f � l and s had mu in men new m r f � l the first � f thi of the state of v i j i h in h � f and has x i h� are ii int j w ant r s i i ins mr george edward k ill � iii i � � t i li h � � i tenant j g surgeon lieutenant john assistant surgeon a m thomas s w b robert p li m ray and washington e c weeks daniel t c french w c brown w and w j the is divided into four and will be each on board men of war assigned by the government for the purpose in winter the take place in some available the men are instructed in all the duties of a sailor though the is intended to furnish a force which in time of war can work the of a the of th new york naval reserve association are at no west th st new york the president is l and the secretary j the for o t co � k � � or ir i ow � ih oi m oo ko c� c o i� ow � i m t� t ci ci oi t � o la � � � o� c� � io � n c ri h tl n t t t i o� i i c ii w � � � v co ca co i ht � q oi o � � � c co m ci r	19
and breathing smoke and thunder i would god i might see you at it and go tell your mother that would help her sleep poor thing here � teach me the arts of the soldier that i may explain them to her and she did it she gave him a and put him through the manual of arms and made him do the steps too his marching was awkward and and so was his with the but he didn t know it and was wonderfully pleased with himself and excited and charmed with the ringing crisp words of command i am obliged to say that if looking proud and happy when one is marching were sufficient he would have been the perfect soldier and he wanted a lesson in sword play and got it but of course that was beyond him he was too old it was beautiful to see handle the of arc but the old was a bad failure he was afraid of the and and and scrambled like a woman who has lost her mind on account of the arrival of a bat he was of no good as an exhibition but if la hire had only come in that would have been another matter � those two often j i saw them many times true was easily his master but it made a good show for all that for la hire was a grand what a swift creature was i you would see her standing erect with her ankle bones together and her foil arched over her head the in one hand and the button in the other � the old general opposite bent forward left hand on his back his foil advanced slightly and his watching eye straight into hers � and all of a sudden she would give a spring forward and back gain and there she was with the foil arched over her head as before la hire had been hit but all the spectator saw of it was a something like a flash of light in the air but nothing distinct nothing definite we kept the moving for that would p the and the landlord and old nd d arc got to feeling quite comfortable but being what you could call they got t the presents which they had been buying to carry � humble things and cheap but they would fine there and welcome and they gave to p from fire and one from her mother of arc � the one a little leaden image of the holy n the other half a yard of blue silk ribbon and she was as pleased as a child and touched too as one could see plainly enough yes she kissed those poor things over and over again as if they had been something costly and wonderful and she pinned the virgin on her and sent for her and tied the ribbon on that first one way then another then a new way then another new way and with each effort the on her hand and holding it off this way and that and her head to one side and then the other examining the effect as a bird does when it has got a new and she said she could almost wish she was going to the wars again for then she would fight with the better courage as having always with her something which her mother s touch had blessed old said he hoped she would go to the wars again but home first for that all the people there were cruel anxious to see her � and so he went on they are proud of you dear yes than any village ever was of anybody before and indeed it is right and rational for it is the first time a village has ever had anybody like you to be proud of and call its own and it is strange and beautiful how they try to give your name to every creature that has a sex that is convenient it is but half a year since you began to be spoken of and left us and so it is surprising to see how many babies there rf arc are already in that r on that are named for you first it was just then it was then and now the next ones will have a lot of towns and the added of course yes and the animals the same they know how you love animals and so they try to do you honor and show their love for you by all those creatures after you that if a body should step out and call of arc � come there would be a of cats and all such things each supposing it was the one wanted and all willing to take the benefit of the doubt anyway for the sake of the food that might be on delivery the you left behind � the last you fetched home � bears your name now and belongs to p re and is the pet and pride of the village and people have come miles to look at it and pet it and stare at it and wonder over it because it was of arc s cat everybody will tell you that and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it not knowing it was your cat the village rose against him as one man and hanged him and but for p re � there was an interruption it was a messenger from the king bearing a note for which i read to her saying he had reflected and had consulted his other and was obliged to ask her to remain at the head of the army and withdraw her resignation also would she come immediately and attend a council of war straightway at a little of arc distance military commands and the of drums broke on the still night and we knew that	34
blame she found fault with every absent tbey were all thoughtless or when do you write to colonel ma am i was an which sprung from the impatience of her mind to have something going on i wrote to him my love last week and rather expect to see than to hear from him again i earnestly pressed hia coming to and should not be surprised to see him walk in to day or to morrow or any day this was gaining something � something to look forward to colonel have her to he at i their it wa a himself now she hear more and she trembled i id ol il but it was not i his � if his were it she i she again be t the dot be ii � it moved down � s mr s to us will be calm � i bo of the others were likewise aware of the she saw her mother and colour � saw them look at herself and whisper a few � to each other she would have given the world to be able to and to make them it she no no slight would in b to him but she no and was obliged to leave � ll to their not a aloud they all waited in � for the of ir visitor his t� were heard along the gravel in a moment he was iu the and in another he was before them his as he tlie room too even for lis while with agitation and he looked as if fearful of his reception and conscious tliat be no kind one however as she trusted tn the wishes of that daughter by whom she then meant in the wm of ber heart to m guided in thing met him with a look of forced com gave him her hand and wished him joy he coloured and stammered out an unintelligible reply t bad moved with her mother s and when moment of action was over she wished that she had shaken bands with bim too but it was then too late and with a meaning to be open she sat down again and talked of the weather had ri treated ai much as possible out of sight to ber distress and el understanding part but not the whole of the case thought it incumbent on her to be dignified and therefore took a sent far from bim it h i when bad l to r in the i of the by mrs who felt obliged ic hope that he left very in a hurried manner he replied n the to exert though tlie al v lit replied with an air of from i ind ma da another pause of l er own � at my is in town i l taking np some � to for mrs she not look up mother both their eyes on liim lie i and some hesitation � perhaps you mean brother you mean � robert mrs robert waa repeated by and her mother in an accent of the utmost and though could not speak even eyes were fixed on him with the same impatient wonder he rose from his seat and walked a the window apparently from not knowing what to do took up a pair of that lay there and while both them and by cutting the latter to m he spoke said in a hurried � l you do not know you may not have heard that my brother is lately married to � to the miss his words were echoed with unspeakable astonishment by all but who sat with her head leaning over her work j n a state of agitation as made her hardly they w b married last week and now yes at sit it no longer she almost rf room and as soon as the was close l joy which at first thought would never who had till then looked any where rather than at her sa her hurry away and saw or even heard tion for immediately afterwards no no no of mn h penetrate and at last without saying word the room and walked out the others in the greatest astonishment and a change in bis situation so wonderful and a i � � perplexity they no means of own i i chapter however ns the of hit release might to the whole family tt i edward fr e and to what purpose that freedom be was easily pre by all � tor after the of one men without his mother s as he had already done for more than four years nothing less be of in the failure of that than the immediate of fi her his errand at tn in was a simple one it w� k only to ask to marry him and considering that he waa not altogether in a i it might ba strange that he should feel so uncomfortable in the present ease as he really did so much in need of encouragement and fresh air how soon he had walked himself into th� proper resolution however how an opportunity of it in what manner he bi d himself and how he waa need not be this only d b� mid � that when they all sat down to table at four o about three after he had secured bis lady engaged her mother s consent and was not only in uie profession of the lover but in the reality of reason and truth one of the happiest of men his situation indeed more than commonly joyful he had more than the ordinary triumph of accepted love lo swell his heart and raise hia he released without any h to himself from an which had long formed his misery from a woman be long to love and � d at once lo that security with another he must thought ist with despair as soon as he	26
his life except as bound up with s he could see no obstacles poor boy his own love seemed a of book i � the spoiled child hers since it was one with the delight in her image so that he could no more dream of her giving him pain than an egyptian could dream of snow she sang and played to him whenever he liked was always glad of his companionship in riding though his borrowed were often comic was ready to join in any fan of his and showed a right appreciation of no mark of sympathy seemed absent that because was the most perfect creature in the world she was to make a grand match had not occurred to him he had no conceit � at least not more than goes to make up the necessary and of a substantial personality it was only that in the young bliss of loving he took s perfection as part of that good which had seemed one with life to him being the of a happy well embodied nature one incident which happened in the course of their dramatic attempts impressed as a sign of her unusual sensibility it showed an aspect of her nature which could not have been by any one who like him had only seen her habitual in active exercises and her high spirits in society after a good deal of it was resolved daniel that a select party be invited to to witness the performances which went with so much satisfaction to the actors had caused a pleasant surprise nothing could be than the way in which she played her little parts one would even have suspected her of hiding much sly observation under her simplicity and mr answered very well by not trying to be comic the main source of doubt and had been s desire to appear in her greek dress no word for a occur to her either waking or dreaming that suited her purpose of getting a pose in this favourite costume to choose a motive bom was of no use since and the others not french verse and speeches would turn the scene into besides mr the acting of scenes from plays he usually protested against the notion that an amusement which was fitting for every one else was for a clergyman but he not in this matter the line of decorum as drawn in that part of which did not his sanction of the young people s acting in his sister in law s house � a very different from private in the full sense of the word book l� the spoiled child everybody of course was concerned to satisfy this wish of s and proposed that they should wind up with a in which the effect of her majesty would not be by any one s speech this pleased her thoroughly and the only question was the choice of the something pleasant children i you said mrs i can t have any greek wickedness it is no worse than christian wickedness mamma said whose mention of had called forth that remark and less scandalous said besides one thinks of it as all gone by and done with what do you say to being led away i would be and you would be looking round at me � after the print we have at the that would be a good attitude for me said in a tone of acceptance but afterwards she said with decision no it will not do there must be three men in proper costume else it will be ridiculous i have it said after a little reflection as the statue in the winter s tale daniel i will be and miss merry one on each side our dress won t signify he went on it will be more and romantic if looks like napoleon and like a modem and was chosen all agreeing that age was of no consequence but urged that instead of the mere there should be just enough acting of the scene to introduce the striking up of the music as a signal for her to step down and advance when instead of embracing her was to kneel and kiss the hem of her garment and so the curtain was to fall the with folding doors lent itself admirably to the purposes of a stage and the whole of the establishment with the addition of the village carpenter was absorbed in the preparations for an entertainment which considering that it was an imitation of acting was likely to be successful since we know from ancient fable that an imitation may have more chance of success than the original was not without a special exultation in the prospect of this occasion for she knew that was again at and she had taken care to include him among the invited book l � the spoiled child came he was in one of his placid silent moods and sat in serene contemplation replying to all appeals in sounding more or less articulate � as taking up his cross meekly in a world overgrown with or as careful how he moved his lion lest he should crush a and mouse everything indeed went oflf smoothly and according to expectation � all that was and accidental being of a probable sort � until the incident occurred which showed in an phase of emotion how it came about was at first a mystery the of was doubly striking from its with what had gone before it was answering perfectly and a murmur of applause had been gradually suppressed while gave his permission that should exercise her utmost art and make the statue move her arm resting on a pillar was elevated by about six inches which she counted on as a means of showing her pretty foot and when at the given signal she should advance and descend music awake her strike said mrs who by special entreaty	14
that is universal and wherever man exists in savage or in civilized life he renders an instinctive homage to such an of justice and love of freedom as has manifested in persecution in prison in bonds and under � of death i believe that if at this moment his youth country and high position could be restored to him with his experience of sixteen years of chains and most dreary imprisonment he would again sacrifice all and all over again in the same cause � such is the material of bis noble character here we are m the of bis family ood friends one of them a man of letters b called immediately after breakfast and attended us first to the where persons the gentry of who are its meet every evening and unless there is a ball or they are otherwise particularly well to an adjoining theatre truly their life is not our life we next went to st anne s hospital once a and now to the really christian purpose of the sick and insane the insane are under the care of a man of science and what b more to the purpose a genuine we have been told to day many of him from which we infer that his organ of benevolence like our honoured friend s has a particular development for the of mad people the minister to the mind in our land takes his to church the italian professor them to the theatre � the universal in italy k says the con and of old and young rich and poor the different modes of proceeding are characteristic both prove that excitement property administered is and not to the insane patient we were shown the cell of the hospital in which was imprisoned our old had a loyal he the enlightened and for mi w � � cf in the in � � d l g g i for the house of and would have ua believe that dismal as the place appeared to us it was quite a pleasant residence in s time with one upon a street and another upon a garden there was as much common sense as in shutting himself up in this to write us lament of he was sure to find the actual of suffering innocence and ge a heated furnace for his imagination the old man told us some particulars of lord s and showed us his name written by himself in deep cut under lord s name he said was of his samuel we all smiled at once to mr as we had recently seen him with bis own poetic reputation surrounded by the respect that waits on age heightened into homage by bis personal character and k and tried to the old man s ignorance � but in vain s is the only english name that has risen or ever will rise above his horizon and the must remain a dim reflected light b escorted us to hb house where we were kindly received by the and admitted to the of her son who has just received a prize at for miniature painting they showed us some pictures of his execution upon which i said you are a fortunate mother to have a son of such genius ah she replied but he is so good � so good this does indeed make the f � v mother in this country of art my dear c b the painter s is a sort of museum young r a occupied several apartments pretty casts and the walls were covered with sketches studies of and paintings b the father gave us various works of his own a work on and from he is an enlightened man and a rate of priests and kings as all are who have the hard fortune to take our in train he accompanied us to the green square where there has been recently placed a colossal statue of on a beautifully white marble pillar with this comprehensive inscription a la in farm is there not the made a furious opposition to the of the statue being no lovers of or of any homage to eminence they wished to put the statue of his on the and wrote to rome for a decree to that effect but before the answer came the wits of had them by dint of working night and day the statue had been placed on its lofty and buried under it is a history of the and as b � i s of the which when time shall b if men write in i is to get or fat divided u we ue thirteen ia no fat if mo i are to be the they write merely to or their public scott ie of the few who had the w that � wa a distinct motive for have knocked down the column will serve to posterity as to the history and true character of the in the mean time the poet stands as he did in life high above his fellows a natural we visited a house which built and where be lived and died the room in which he wrote has a fine bust of bim on one and on the other the following inscription in e da la rt da co e perch se next to the of greatness is the sentiment that it and this you find everywhere in italy the door of s prison and that to s room have been well b conducted us to the an old ment from the priests after as he said a a and converted to the good purpose of burying the dead instead of the living the long perspective of the is beautiful many of the are converted into family and decorated with monuments and one lai e apartment is appropriated to the illustrious men of wrote in this room and built inhabited bj bim waa bought and restored bj witb	6
sure only only what asked the stranger with a face of anguish that seemed to torture every feature out of its proper woman said mrs whilst the hair began to stand with terror upon her head sure it s no in life that i m in a perplexity a is under the one roof me t that i want to know anything at all about it � the dear forbid i should but i never hard of a person bein tormented it as you are i always used to hear the people say that it its friends well said the woman looking wildly over her shoulder i ll not tell it s on myself i ll leave the blame why will you never pity me am i to be night and day tormented oh you re wicked and cruel for no reason said mrs an bless yourself call on god ah shouted the other are you going to get me and as she uttered the words a vol ij no die working which must have occasioned great pain even to torture became audible in her throat her bosom heaved up and down and her head was bent repeatedly on her breast as if by force don t mention that name said she in my presence except you mean to drive me to utter distraction i mean she continued after considerable effort to recover her former tone and manner � hear me with attention � i mean woman � you mary � that if you mention that holy name you might as well keep plunging sharp knives into my heart peace to me for one minute spare me something i m in your power will you ate anything said mrs poor you look like hunger and distress there s enough in the house blessed be them that sent it an you had an take some nourishment any way and she raised her eyes in a silent prayer of relief and ease for the unhappy woman whose association had in her opinion sealed her doom will i � will i � oh she replied may you never know misery for offering it oh bring me something � some refreshment � some food � for i m dying with hunger mrs who with all her superstition was remarkable for charity and benevolence immediately placed food and drink before her which the stranger absolutely devoured � taking care occasionally to under the which appeared behind her neck a portion of what she eat this however she did not by but openly merely taking means to prevent the concealed thing from being by any possible accident discovered when the craving of hunger was satisfied she appeared to suffer less from the persecution of her than before whether it was as mrs thought that the food with which she plied it � in some degree its or lessened that of the stranger it was difficult to say at all ill she became more composed her eyes resumed somewhat of a natural expression each sharp ferocious glare which shot from them with such intense and rapid flashes partially disappeared her knit brows dilated and part of a forehead which had once been and handsome lost the which it by deep wrinkles altogether the change was evident and very much relieved mrs who could not avoid observing it it s not that i care much about it if you d think it not right o me but it s odd enough for you to keep the lower part of your face muffled up in that black cloth an then your forehead too is covered down on your face a bit if they re part of the � and she shuddered at the thought � between you an anything that s not good � hem � i think you d do well to throw off o you an turn to that can protect you from everything that s bad now a would keep all the in hell from one an if you d on looking at the stranger she hesitated for the wild expression of tier eyes began to return don t begin my punishment again replied the woman make no don t make mention in my of anything that s good � it s � easy now � easy no said she i came to tell you that only for my breaking a vow i made to this thing upon me i d be happy instead of miserable with it i say it s a good thing to have if the person will use this bottle she added producing one as i will direct them � i wouldn t wish for my part replied mrs to have anything to do it � neither act nor part and she crossed herself devoutly on contemplating such an alliance as that at which her companion hinted mary replied the other can put good fortune and happiness in the way of you and yours it is for you the good is intended if you don t get both no other can and her eyes kindled as she spoke like those of the in the moment of inspiration mrs looked at her with awe fear and a strong mixture of curiosity she had often heard that the had through means of the person to whom it was bound conferred wealth upon several although it could never render this important to those who exercised direct authority over it she therefore experienced something like a conflict between her fears and a love of that wealth the possession of which was so plainly intimated to her the money said she would be one thing but to have the planted over a body s � the saints preserve us � no not for of hard would i have it in my company one but in regard to the money � hem � why if it could be managed act or part that thing people would do anything	50
it that i confide in simple love and truth at last have no apprehensions for me she added after a moment the step you dread my taking i shall never take although i think i had never really feared it in any season of cool v v the personal history and experience reflection it was an unspeakable relief to me to have this assurance from her own truthful lips i told her so earnestly and when this visit is over said i � for we may not be alone another time � how long is it likely to be my dear before you come to london again probably a long time she replied i think it will be best � for papa s sake � to remain at home we are not likely to meet often for some time to come but i shall be a good correspondent of s and we shall frequently hear of one another that way we were now within the little court yard of the doctor s cottage it was growing late there was a light in the window of mrs strong s chamber and pointing to it bade me good night do not be troubled she said giving me her hand by our misfortunes and anxieties i can be happier in nothing than in your happiness if you can ever give me help rely upon it i will ask you for it god bless you always in her beaming smile and in these last tones of her cheerful voice i seemed again to see and hear my little in her company i stood awhile looking through the porch at the stars with a heart full of love and gratitude and then walked slowly forth i had engaged a bed at a decent close by and was going out at the gate when happening to turn my head i saw a light in the doctor s study a half fancy into my mind that he had been working at the dictionary without my help with the view of seeing if this were so and in any case of bidding him good night if he were yet sitting among his books i turned back and going softly across the hall and gently opening the door looked in the first person whom i saw to my surprise by the sober light of the shaded lamp was he was standing close beside it with one of his skeleton hands over his mouth and the other resting on the doctor s table the doctor sat in his study chair covering his face with mr sorely troubled and distressed was leaning forward touching the doctor s arm for an instant i supposed that the doctor was ill i hastily advanced a step under that impression when i met s eye and saw what wa the matter i would have withdrawn but the doctor made a gesture to detain me and i remained at any rate observed with a of his person we may keep the door shut we needn t make it known to all the town saying which he went on his toes to the door which i had left open and carefully closed it he then came back and took up his former position there was an show of compassionate zeal in his voice and manner more intolerable � at least to me � than any he could have assumed i have felt it incumbent upon me master said to point out to doctor strong what you and me have already talked about you didn t exactly understand me though i gave him a look but no other answer and going to my good old master said a few words that i meant to be words of comfort and op david he put his hand upon my shoulder as it had been his custom to do when i was quite a little fellow but did not lift his grey head as you didn t understand me master resumed in the same manner i may take the liberty of mentioning being among friends that i have called doctor strong s attention to the on of mrs strong it s much against the grain with me i assure you to be concerned in anything so unpleasant but really as it is we re all mixing ourselves up with what t to be that was what my meaning was sir when you didn t understand me i wonder now when i recall his that i did not collar him and try to shake the breath out of his body i dare say i didn t make myself very clear he went on nor you neither naturally we was both of us inclined to give such a subject a wide berth ever at last i have made up my mind to speak plain and i have mentioned to doctor strong that � did you speak sir this was to the doctor who had moaned the sound might have touched any heart i thought but it had no effect upon s � mentioned to doctor strong he proceeded that any one may see that mr and the lovely and agreeable lady as is doctor strong s wife are too sweet on one another really the time is come we being at present all mixing ourselves up with what t to be when doctor strong must be told that this was full as plain to everybody as the sun before mr went to india that mr made excuses to come back for nothing else and that he s always here for nothing else when you come in sir i was just putting it to my towards whom he turned to say to doctor strong upon his word and honor whether he d ever been of this opinion long ago or not come mr sir i would you be so good as tell us tes or no sir come partner for god s sake my	8
or not but it was the most unhappy night she had ever known twenty times at least she had prayed for herself and for her parents � that she might be saved from harm and that they might be comforted dove gave her a and some black coffee for her of which she partook to please him he had taken so much pains to suit her in the dock came into the cabin sat down at the table and read what he had written the night before he was still busy with the details of the little plan when he had read the sheet before him he glanced at the door of s state room which was still closed then he called her name and she came out do you want me asked she i hope you the young op cape ann are ready to tell me what you are going to with me i am ready your father is a very rich man i suppose replied dock suppose he is added he is worth two or three hundred thousand dollars most likely i m sure i don t know well i know he is continued dock for a man as much money he is the meanest man i know of my exclaimed surprised and indignant he gave me a hundred dollar bill for saving his life that was mean i am sure he will give you more if you are not satisfied my father gives away ever so much money every year he doesn t give it then said dock with a sneer he ought to have given me at least ten thousand dollars after i pulled him out of the water what good would his money have done him if i hadn t saved his life the flag or � my father did not think he was in any danger himself he told me so that day in the train that s neither here nor there he didn t pony up like a man and i m going to him now i suppose he won t think twenty thousand dollars is a big price to pay for you for me i i don t know what you mean answered the bewildered read this letter then said dock throwing the sheet to her did read it it was a letter to her father filled with bad and horrible gi it informed mr that his daughter was on board of the off the coast of and could only be returned to her parents when he had paid the writer twenty thousand dollars for himself and two thousand for his men dock went on to say that he did not intend to fall into any trap set to catch him if he was arrested his men would sink the vessel with in the cabin in the deepest water they could find the then detailed the method by which the money the young op cape ann could be paid over to him without the life of his daughter mr was directed to the amount demanded in an envelope addressed to captain me and put it in the post office if the reached the writer on should be sent to the principal hotel in on sat the letter concluded with this ominous threat if you attempt to play foul or to have me arrested you will never see your daughter again in this world but would you sink me in the vessel mr dock asked certainly i would if your father don t care enough about you to give what i ask you ain t of much consequence that s all my father will give you the money i know he will said trembling with terror at the awful threat of the evil man i should say that he would but to help the thing along i want you to write a few lines at the end of the letter you can advise him to the flag or take up with my offer send the money and not mention the matter to any i will mr dock you don t think treated you bad since you came aboard � do you � no mr dock � it wouldn t do any harm to say as much it might make your father feel better about it wrote half a page at the end of dock s letter appealing to her father to accept the offer she added that dock except carrying her off had treated her very well the letter was sealed and directed to mr at about the middle of the afternoon the having been favored with a fresh and steady breeze put into the harbor of in dock went ashore and put his letter in the post office on his return the vessel filled away again and after running across bay came to anchor in a lonely at deer isle the anchor had hardly into the rocks at the bottom of the little bay before dock s at the young of cape ann was attracted by a sail headed towards him it seems to me seen that boat before said the evil man as the sail approached i reckon you have as sure as you live it s the flag replied flag ob chapter xx thb op the flag perhaps sober staid steady and especially prudent non persons would have believed that field was crazy when he sailed out in the night and the darkness into the solemn of the great ocean cutting loose from the land as though the salt water was his native element it must be acknowledged that it was a bold and even reckless venture but it was not a hopeless one it was not one in which a skilful and daring fellow might not reasonably expect if not a perfect success at least enough to justify the hazard under such desperate circumstances as those under which the young commenced his voyage did a great deal of thinking	36
you have no regard then for the honour and credit of my nephew girl do you not that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of every body lady i have nothing further to say you know my sentiments you are then resolved to have him i have said no such thing i am only reserved to act in that manner which will in my own opinion constitute my happiness without reference to you or to any person so wholly with me it is well you refuse then to oblige me you re to obey the claims of duty honour and gratitude you are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends and mi e him the contempt of the world neither duty nor honour nor gratitude replied elizabeth has any possible on me in the present instance no principle of either would be by my marriage with mr and with regard to the resentment df his or the indignation of he world if the former were excited by his marrying me it would not give me one moment s concern � and the w d in general would have too much sense to join in the and this is your real opinion this is your final resolve very well i shall now know how to act do not imagine miss that your ambition will ever be gratified i came to try you i hoped to find you but depend upon it i will carry my in this manner lady talked on till they were at the door of e carriage when turning hastily round she added � i take no leave of you miss i send do pride and prejudice to your mother you deserve do such attention i am most seriously displeased elizabeth made no answer and without attempting to persuade her to return into the house walked quietly into it herself she heard the carriage drive away as she proceeded up stairs her mother impatiently met her at ihe door of the dressing room to ask why lady ca would not come in again and rest herself she did not choose it said her daughter she would go she is a very fine looking woman and her calling here was civil for she only came i suppose to tell us the were well she is on her road somewhere i dare say and so passing through thought she might as well call on you i suppose she had nothing particular to say to you elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible chapter xxiv the of spirits which this extraordinary threw elizabeth into could not be easily overcome nor could she for many hours learn to think of it less than in lady it appeared had actually taken the trouble of this journey from for the sole purpose of breaking off her supposed engagement with mr it was a rational scheme to be sure but from what the report of their engagement could was at a loss to imagine till she recollected that hu being the intimate friend of and her being the sister of jane was enough at a time when the expectation of one wedding made every body eager for another to sup the idea she had not herself forgotten to feel that the marriage of her sister must bring them more frequently and together her at lodge therefore for through their communication with the the report she concluded had reached lady had only set that down as almost certain and immediate which he had looked forward to as possible at some future time in revolving lady s expressions however she could not help feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence of her in this interference from what he had said of her resolution to prevent their marriage it occurred to elizabeth that she must an application to her nephew and how he might take a lar representation of the evils attached to a connection with her she dared not pronounce she knew not the exact degree of his affection for his aunt or his dependence on her but it was natural to suppose that he thought much higher of her than she could do and it was certain that in the miseries of a marriage with one whose immediate connections were so unequal to his own his aunt would address him on his side with his notions of dignity he would probably feel that the arguments which to elizabeth had appeared weak and ridiculous contained much good sense and solid reasoning if he had been wavering before as to what he should do which had often seemed likely the advice and entreaty of near a relation might settle every doubt and determine him at once to be as happy as dignity could make him in that case he would return no more lady might see him in her way through town and his engagement to of coming again to must give way if therefore an excuse for not keeping his promise should come to his friend within a few days she added shall know how to understand it i shall then give over every expectation every wish of his constancy if he is satisfied with only me when he might have obtained my affections and hand i shall soon cease to regret him at all the surprise of the rest of the family on hearing who sl pride and p their had been was very great but they satisfied it with the same kind of supposition which had appeased mrs s curiosity and elizabeth was spared from much on the subject the next morning as she was going down stairs she was met by her father who came out of his library with a letter in his hand said he i was going to look for you come into my room she followed him thither	26
of the wider world chapter ii meantime while the pleasures of peaceful and contented reigned in his household the himself was hurrying through the mist and rain to the village � not to the ancient stone built part of it but strange to say to the model portion where the cottages were so pretty and so devised with and little separate gardens to each that one would have thought it impossible for any man dwelling in such comfortable quarters to so far forget himself as to come home drunk at any time of day much less in the morning before twelve o clock however such had been the case with the individual called � a huge creature with enormous square shoulders and thick bull head who now leaning his powerful arms folded across the bars of his cottage gate looked up with a drowsy as he saw the approaching two or three other men were hanging about and a little knot of women with over their heads were in the road heedless of the pouring rain together their faces expressing a vague and pitiful terror walked straight up to and addressed him at once without the matter here he asked in a quiet � may i come in the man eyed him over with a stupid � � you t � he replied thickly � a s s is castle go way looked at him steadily now you know you don t mean that � he said holy orders don t you dan she � i know you didn t mean it � it was just the drink that drove you to it � only the drink for youve the best an finest husband ever woman ad when ye re sober that ll do dan � vm obliged to ye i � be getting up presently her eyes closed again and at that moment perceived the local surgeon one henry brand entering the little room � a quiet shrewd eyed man of known as dr harry who walking straight up to the bedside bent over the unfortunate mrs and examined her injuries with kindly solicitude she s rather badly hurt he said then turning to with a friendly nod � it be some days before she gets about again and she ll want some little nursing wouldn t some one � i ll attend to her said the woman who had already proffered her assistance � i ve ot nothing much to do at home my son bein away � i ll see she gets all she wants and i ll pay you for your trouble mrs said quickly � but himself himself is in a far worse state than his wife said the doctor � he s poisoned that s what s the matter with him he has got as much inside him as would kill a horse � it would kill aim if he had not accustomed his system to it i passed him just now in the porch � he s in a dead stupor he s drunk � said he s � said brand emphatically � not quite the same thing yet passing for the same come and look at him they went out of the cottage into the little garden and stood together surveying the heavy form of the miserable man who was half sitting half lying in the porch huddled together like a sack of useless lumber what s to be done with him asked in a kind of despair � he cannot go back to his work to day the tragedy of a quiet life of course he can t � and nothing s to be done with him hell sleep it off � and then � hell go to one of s places again and drink more of the vile stuff sold there � and then � well then i � he ll come home here and probably finish off his wife but it can t� it mustn t be � said i ll come myself and see that nothing happens i ll call at both public houses and ask them not to sell him any more drink dr harry smiled kick against the mr he said � i mean get yourself into trouble if you do take my don t interfere but good exclaimed � would you have me as of this parish stand off and allow a woman to be murdered by her husband when he is not really responsible for the crime brand was silent he seemed to be thinking that s a very true phrase of yours mr � he said presently � and i m glad to hear it from a clergyman s mouth not really responsible for the crime that s it is not responsible who is tell me that in this case is responsible � rejoined hotly � his is a curse to the parish if it were only good beer � said brand thoughtfully there d be no harm at all in it a pint of pure beer hurts no man but a pint of mixed poison is a matter altogether and � as you say � is responsible if dan wakes up in two or three hours and gets more drink and his wife altogether will be the real murderer � not that s the right way to put it � said it s a strong way � but it s the right way however i ll take care no more mischief is done for the present at any rate i ll look after when he wakes you ll look after him and the doctor s eyes � what will you do with him holy orders u rather thin delicate face looked a shade more and serious don t quite know � be said simply � but i am placed here in this parish as guardian of the moral and spiritual welfare of all the people under my charge � and i must	33
ten minutes at he loved to take people by surprise with sudden visits at extraordinary seasons and in the present instance he had the additional motive of being able to tell the miss whom he depended on finding sitting quietly employed after tea that he was going home to an eight o clock dinner as it happened he did not give more surprise than he received when instead of being shown into the usual little sitting room the door of the the best parlor a foot larger each way than the other was thrown open and he beheld a circle of smart people whom he could not immediately recognize arranged with all the honors of visiting round the fire and miss seated at the best table with the best tea things before her he stood a few seconds in silent amazement ejaculated margaret in a tender he recollected himself and came forward delighted to find such a circle of friends and blessing his good fortune for the for indulgence he shook hands with bowed and smiled to the ladies and did everything very prettily but as to any of address or emotion towards margaret who closely observed him perceived nothing that did not justify elizabeth s opinion though margaret s modest smiles imported that she meant to take the visit to herself he was persuaded without much difficulty to throw off his great coat and drink tea with them for whether he dined at eight or nine as he observed was a matter of very little consequence and without seeming to seek he did not turn away from the chair close by margaret which she was in providing him she had thus secured him from her sisters but it was not immediately in her power to preserve him from her brother s claims for as he came from london and had left it only four hours ago the last current report as to public news and the general opinion of the day must be understood before robert could let his attention be yielded to the less rational and im the demands of the women at last however he was at liberty to hear margaret s soft address as she spoke her fears of his having had a most terrible cold dark dreadful journey indeed you should not have set out so late i could not be earlier he replied i was detained at the by a friend all hours are alike to me how long have you been in the country miss margaret we only came this morning my kind brother and sister brought me home this very morning t is singular � is it not you were gone a great while were not you a fortnight i suppose you may call a fortnight a great while mr said mrs sharply but we think a month very little i assure you we bring her home at the end of a month much against our will a month have you really been gone a month t is amazing how time flies you may imagine said margaret in a sort of whisper what are my sensations in finding myself once more at you know what a sad visitor i make and i was so excessively impatient to see i dreaded the meeting and at the same time longed for it do you not comprehend the sort of feeling not at all cried he aloud i could never dread a meeting with miss or any of her sisters it was lucky that he added that finish the were you speaking to me said who had caught her own name absolutely he answered but i was thinking of you as many at a greater distance are probably doing at this moment fine open weather miss � charming season for hunting is delightful is not she whispered margaret i have found her more than answer my warmest hopes did you ever see anything more perfectly beautiful i think even you must be a convert to a brown complexion he hesitated was fair herself and he did not particularly want to compliment her but miss and miss were likewise fair and his devotion to them carried the day your sister s complexion said he at last is as fine as a dark complexion can be but i still profess my preference of a white skin you have seen miss she is my model for a truly feminine complexion and she is very fair is she fairer than me tom made no reply upon my honor ladies said he giving a glance over his own person i am highly indebted to your condescension for admitting me in such into your drawing room i really did not consider how unfit i was to be here or i hope i should have kept my distance lady would tell me that i was growing as careless as her son if she saw me in this condition the ladies were not wanting in civil returns and the robert stealing a view of his own head in an opposite glass said with equal civility � you cannot be more in than myself we got here so late that i had not time even to put a little fresh powder into my hair could not help entering into what she supposed her sister in law s feelings at the moment when the tea things were removed tom began to talk of his carriage but the old card table being set out and the fish and with a tolerably clean pack brought forward from the by miss the general voice was so urgent with him to join their party that he agreed to allow self another quarter of an hour even was pleased that he would stay for she was beginning to feel that a family party might be the worst of all parties and the others were delighted what s your game cried he as they stood round the table speculation i believe	26
him with there i� she came back again from her grave the hill on thb come come he said putting his double eye glass over his nose and himself to a general view while he rested you ve got a famous show here upon my word i don t see that your things aren t as good as that london artist s � what s his name � that gave so much money for philip shook his head and smiled he had seated himself on his painting stool and had taken a lead pencil in his hand with which he was making strong marks to the sense of he watched his father get up and walk slowly round good dwelling on the pictures much longer than his amount of genuine taste for landscape would have prompted till he stopped before a stand on which two pictures were placed � one much larger than the other � the smaller one in a leather case bless me i what have you here said startled by a sudden transition from landscape to portrait i thought you d left off figures who are these they are the same person said philip with calm at different ages and what person said sharply his eyes with a growing look of suspicion on the larger picture miss the small one is something like what she was when i was at school with her brother at king s the larger one is not quite so good a likeness of what she was when i came from abroad turned round fiercely with a flushed face letting his eye glass fall and looking at his son with a savage expression for a moment as if he was ready to strike that daring from the stool but he threw himself into the and thrust his hands into his pockets still looking angrily at his son however philip did not return the look but sat quietly watching the point of his pencil and do you mean to say then that you have had any acquaintance with her since you came from abroad said at last with that vain effort which rage always makes to throw as much punishment as it desires to inflict into words and tones since blows are forbidden yes i saw a great deal of her for a whole year before her father s death we met often in that thicket � the red � near i love her dearly i shall never love any other woman i have thought of her ever since she was a little girl go on sir i � and you have with her all thia while tub mill on the no i never told her i loved her till just before we parted and she promised her brother not to see me again or to correspond with me i am not sure that she loves me or would consent to marry me but if she would consent � if she did love me well enough � i should marry her and this is the return you make me for all the i ve heaped on you said getting white and beginning to tremble under an enraged sense of before philip s calm defiance and of purpose no said philip looking up at him for the first time i don t regard it as a return you have been an indulgent to me but i have always felt that it was because you had an affectionate wish to give me as much happiness as my unfortunate lot would admit of � not that it was a debt you expected me to pay by sacrificing all my chances of happiness to satisfy feelings of yours which i can never share i think most sons would share their father s feelings in this case said bitterly the girl s was an ignorant mad brute who was within an inch of me the whole town knows it and the brother is just as insolent only in a cooler way he forbade her seeing you you say he ll break every bone in your body for your greater happiness if you don t take care but you seem to have made up your mind you have counted the consequences i suppose of course you are independent of me you can marry this girl to morrow if you like you are a man of twenty � you can go your way and i can go mine we need have no more to do with each other rose and walked towards the door but something held him back and instead of leaving the room he walked up and down it philip was slow in reply and when he spoke his tone had a more and clearness than ever no i can t marry miss even if she would have me � if i have only my own resources to maintain her with i have been brought up to no profession i can t offer her poverty as well as ah there is a reason for your clinging to me doubtless said still bitterly though philip s last words had given him a pang they had stirred a feeling which had been a habit for a quarter of a century he threw himself into the chair again i expected all this said i know these scenes are happening i t � ji like the mill on the other men of my age i might answer your angry words by still � we might part � i should marry the woman i love and have a chance of being as happy as the rest but if it will be a satisfaction to you to the very object of everything you ve done for me you have an advantage over most fathers you can completely deprive me of the only thing that would make my life worth having philip paused but his was silent you know best what satisfaction you would have beyond	14
talked all the way down to s to her he wanted to reply oh go to the devil but he never quite to that reasonable comment he was the existence of the whole bunch he had heard speak of darling and � she s so clever � her but they had never been real to him he had pictured as living in a rose tinted waiting for him free of all the of a ts when they returned he had to endure the patronage of the young they were as friendly as miss was they called him old and shouted come on now sport shake a leg boys in coats boys as young as ted and as as chorus men but powerful to dance and to mind the and smoke and he tried to be one of them he cried good work i but his voice apparently enjoyed the companionship of the dancing she to their bland and casually kissed them at the end of each dance hated her for the moment he saw her as middle aged he studied the wrinkles in the softness of her throat the slack beneath her chin the muscles of her youth were loose and drooping between dances she sat in the largest chair waving her her admirers to come and talk to her she thinks she s a blooming queen i growled she to miss isn t my little sweet rats it s a plain old maid and dog oh god i wish i was home i wonder if i can t make a now his vision grew however as he applied himself to s raw but vigorous he blended with the bunch he began to rejoice that and the most nearly intelligent of the youths seemed to like him and it was important to win over the surly older man who proved to be a clerk named the conversation of the bunch was full of to le whom did not know apparently they thou t very comfortably of themselves they were the bunch wise and beautiful and amusing they were and accustomed to all the luxuries of dance halls and and in a c superiority to people who were slow or they oh did i tell you what that of a said when i came in late yesterday oh it was per ly oh but wasn t t d say he was what did say to him think of the nerve of bob staff trying to get us to come to his house say the nerve of him can you beat it for nerve some nerve i call it did you notice how was dancing wasn t she the limit was to be heard agreeing with the miss that persons who let a night go by without dancing to music were and poor fish and he roared you bet when mrs don t you love to sit on the floor it s so he began to think extremely well of the bunch when he mentioned his friends sir lord william washington and he was proud of their interest he got so thoroughly into the spirit that he didn t much mind seeing drooping against the shoulder of the youngest and of the young men and he himself desired to hold s hand and dropped it only because looked angry when he went home at two he was fully a member of the bunch and all the tho he was bound by the exceedingly the exceedingly of their life of pleasure and freedom he had to go to their parties he was involved in the agitation when everybody to everybody else that she hadn t meant what she d said when she d said that and anyway why was going around saying she d said it never was a family on learning one another s movements than were the bunch all of them knew or indignantly desired to know all the had been every minute of the week found himself explaining to c just what he had been doing that he should not have joined them ten o clock and for having gone to dinner with a bi acquaintance every member of the bunch was expected to to every other member at least once a week why haven t yon called me up was asked not only by and but presently by new ancient friends and and if for a moment he had seen as withering s he lost that impression at s dance mrs had a large house and a small husband to her party came all of the bunch perhaps thirty five of them when they were completely under the name of old was now a of the bunch since each month it changed half its and he who recall the days of a fortnight ago before mrs the food had gone to and had got sore at was a venerable leader and able to condescend to new and and at s did not have to work at being hostess she was dignified and sure a clear fine figure in the black frock he had always loved and in the spaces of that ugly house was able to sit quietly with her he repented of his first at her feet and happily drove her home next day he bought a violent yellow tie to make himself young for her he knew a little sadly that he could not make himself beautiful he beheld himself as heavy of but he danced he dressed he to be as young as she was as young as she seemed to be iv as all whether to a religion love or find as by magic that though hitherto these have not seemed to exist now the whole world is filled with their fury so once he was converted to discovered agreeable for it everywhere he had a new view of his sporting neighbor sam the were respectable people industrious people prosperous people whose ideal of happiness	42
a little room where a light burned here she turned and kissed two of them first and then thank god that i see you safe she said whenever you go to the meeting place i tremble until i hear your footsteps at the door what s the use of that mother said your yourself won t make things better or worse ah dear how can i help it she replied softly we cannot all bo young and cheerful you know true wife true broke in though i wish we could we should be lighter hearted so and he looked at her and sighed van could no longer boast the beauty which was hers when first we met her hut she was still a sweet and graceful woman her figure remaining almost a slim as it had been in the grey eyes also retained their depth and fire only the face was worn though more by care and the burden of memories than with years the ic t of the loving wife and mother was hard indeed when philip the king ruled in spain and was his prophet in the is it done she asked yes wife our brethren are now saints in paradise therefore rejoice it is very wrong she answered with a sob but i cannot oh she added with a sudden blaze of indignation if he is just and good why does god suffer his servants to be killed thus perhaps our will be able to answer that question replied that poor broke in just married and so young and pretty i wonder what will become of her and looked at each other and martin who was hovering about near the door back into the passage as though he had attempted to injure the to morrow we will look to it wife and now let us eat for we are faint with hunger ten minutes later they were seated at their meal the reader may remember the room it was that wherein mental vo ex count and captain made the speech which charmed all hearers on the night when he had lost the race at the ice the same hung above them some portion of the same plate even by was on the table but how different were the company and the feast aunt the was long dead and with her many of the companions of that occasion some naturally some by the hand of the while others had fled the land van de still lived however and martin the red and though regarded with suspicion by the authorities was a man of weight and honour in the town but to night he was not present there the food too if ample was plain not on account of the poverty of the household for had in his worldly affairs being hard working and skilful and the head of the brass to wliich in those early days he was but because in such times people thought little of the of eating when life itself is so doubtful its pleasures and amusements become of small importance tlie ample waiting service of the maid who long ago had vanished none knew where and her fellow was now carried on by the man martin and one old woman since as every might be a spy even the richest employed few of them in short all the lighter and more cheerful parts of life were in where is asked i do not know answered i thought that perhaps no replied her husband hastily he did not accompany us he rarely does brother likes to look underneath the spoon before he it said with his mouth full the remark was but his parents seemed to understand what meant at least it was followed by an and silence just then came in and as we have not seen him since some four and twenty years ago he made his entry into the world on the secret island in the mere here it may be as well to describe his appearance he was a handsome young man but of quite a different stamp to his half brother being tall slight and very graceful in figure advantages which he had inherited from his mother in countenance however he differed from her so much that none have sm him to be her son indeed s face was pure spanish there was nothing of a about his dark beauty spanish were the eyes of velvet black set rather close together spanish also the finely features and the thin spreading nostrils spanish the cold yet somewhat mouth more apt to sneer than smile the black hair the clear olive skin and that indifferent mien which became its well enough but in a man of his years of northern blood would have seemed unnatural or affected he took his seat without speaking nor did the others speak to him till his said you were not at the works to day although we should have been glad of your help in the no father � he called him father � answered the young man in a measured and rather melodious voice you see we don t quite know who is going to pay for that piece or at any rate i don t quite know as nobody seems to take me into confidence and if it should chance to be the losing side well it might be enough to hang me flushed up but made no answer only remarked that s right look after your own skin just now i find it more interesting went on and ul of his brother to study those whom the cannon may shoot than to make the cannon which is to shoot them hope you won t be one of them interrupted again where have you been this evening son said hastily fearing a quarrel i have been mixing with the people mother at the scene on the market place yonder and martin the red not	18
precisely my object in this communication is accomplished i do not feel in my former friend mr or my former friend mr thomas of the inner temple if that gentleman is still and to condescend to meet me and renew so far as may be our past relations of the time i confine myself to throwing out the observation that at the hour and place i have indicated may be found such ruined as yet remain of a fallen tower david p s it may be advisable to to the above the statement that mrs is not in confidential possession of my intentions i read the letter over several times making due allowance for mr s lofty style of composition and for the extraordinary relish with which he sat down and wrote long letters on all possible and impossible occasions i still believed that something important lay hidden at the bottom of this communication i put it down to think about it and took it up again to read it once more and was still pursuing it when found me in the height of my perplexity my dear fellow said i i never was better pleased to see you you come to give me the benefit of your sober judgment at a most time i have received a very singular letter from mr no cried you don t say so and i have received one from mrs with that who was flushed with walking and whose hair under the combined effects of exercise and excitement stood on end as if he saw a cheerful ghost produced his letter and made an exchange with me watched him into the heart of mr s letter and returned the elevation of eyebrows with which he said the or directing the devouring and flame bless me � and then entered on the perusal of mrs s it ran thus � my best regards to mr thomas and if he should still remember one who formerly had the happiness of being well acquainted with him may i beg a few moments of his leisure time i assure mr t t that i would not intrude upon his kindness were i in any other position than on the of distraction though to myself to mention the of mr formerly so from his wife and family is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to mr david and his best indulgence mr t can no adequate idea of the change in mr s conduct of his of his violence it has gradually until it appearance of of intellect scarcely a day passes assure mr on which some does not take place mr t will not require me to my feelings when i inform him that i have become accustomed to hear mr assert that he has sold himself to the d mystery and have long been his principal characteristic have long replaced unlimited confidence the slightest provocation even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner causes him to express a wish for a separation last night on being for to buy � a local � he presented an knife at the i entreat mr to bear me in entering into these details without them mr t would indeed find it difficult to form the faintest conception of my heart situation may i now venture to confide to mr t the purport of my letter will he now allow me to throw myself on his friendly consideration oh yes for i know his heart the quick eye of affection is not easily blinded when of the female sex mr is going to london though he concealed his hand this morning before breakfast in writing the direction card which he attached to the little brown of happier days the eagle glance of matrimonial anxiety detected d o n distinctly traced the west end destination of the coach is the golden cross dare i fervently mr t to see my husband and to reason with him dare i ask mr t to endeavour to step in between mr and his family oh no for that would be too much i if mr should yet remember one unknown to fame will mr t take charge of my regards and similar entreaties in any case he will have the benevolence io consider this communication strictly private and on no account whatever to he alluded to however in the presence of mr if mr t should ever reply to it which cannot but david feel to he most improbable a letter addressed to m e post office will be with less painful consequences than any addressed immediately to one who herself in extreme distress mr thomas s respectful friend and what do you think of that letter said casting his eyes upon me when i had read it twice what do you think of the other said i for he was still reading it with brows think that the two together replied mean more than mr and mrs usually mean in their correspondence � but i don t know what they are both written in faith i have no doubt and without poor thing he was now alluding to mrs s letter and we were standing side by side comparing the two it will be a to write to her at all events and tell her that we will not fail to see mr i to this the more readily because i now reproached myself with having treated her former letter rather lightly it had set me thinking a good deal at the time as i have mentioned in its place but my in my own affairs my experience of the family and my hearing nothing more had gradually ended in my the subject i had often of the but chiefly to wonder what pecuniary they were establishing in and to recall how shy mr was of me when he became clerk to however i now wrote a	8
i hope i haven t been keeping your reverence waiting for i had to stop to listen to mrs m and she telling me that that was is gone to america after shutting the door on her husband last night because he was drunk what s this you re telling me m hale if your reverence will listen to me i m listening to you t i always listening to you go on with your story at last all the facts seemed clear and he said i made up this marriage so that she t go away with pat well we ve been saved that said ned s marriage was bad enough but this is worse tis no marriage at all ah your reverence you mustn t be taking it to heart for if the marriage didn t turn out all right it was the drink ah the drink � the drink said the priest and he declared that the and the were the ruin of ireland that s true for yon at the same time we t forget they have pot up many a fine church a cloud came into the priest s face for his brother was a and had promised a large now what are you going to give me to make the walls safe i don t want you all to be killed while i am away there s no fear of that your reverence a church never fell down on anyone even so if it falls down when nobody s in it where are the people to hear mass ah won t they be going down to hear mass at father s if you don t wish to give anything say so your reverence ain t i we don t want to hear about that window and began to fear she would have to give him a few pounds to quiet him but fortunately pat came up the road and turning from the priest said i hear you were dancing with � she that went away to america this morning have you heard that i have your reverence she passed me on the road this morning and you weren t thinking you might stop her stop her said pat t she be asking me to sin with her if i did and now your mother writes to me pat to ask if i will get s daughter for you i see your reverence has private business with pat ill be going said now m hale don t jou be going but pretended not to hear him will i be running after her said pat and bringing her back no let her go if she doesn t want to help to make the walls safe i m not going to go on my knees to her you ll have to walk to father s to hear mass have yon heard mother say what she s going to give towards the new church pat i think she said your reverence she was going to send you ten pounds that s very good of her and this proof that a public and religious spirit was not yet dead in his parish softened the priest s temper and thinking to please him and perhaps escape a scolding pat began to calculate how much had saved she must be worth i m thinking close on one hundred pounds to day as the priest did not answer he said i wouldn t be surprised if she was worth another fifty hardly as much as that said the priest hadn t her aunt the house we re living in before mother came to and it full of all the summer it s true her aunt kept her working for nothing but when she died she left her one hundred pounds and she s been making money ever since her poultry you re thinking of said the priest they re the best in the county and the thought of s accident crossed his mind � how one day when carrying an heavy tray she had slipped on the stairs and for two years afterwards was on her back saying she d never do a hand s turn but be looking out of the window ever afterwards yet it was while looking out of the window that the thought of poultry had been put into her mind seeing the fowls in the yard she had said to herself now if it be the will of t ood for me to get about again see what i can do with chickens and if i do well with them i ll do something for him afterwards it was herself that had dropped these words to the priest and he remembered her as she them � the pathetic eyes of the is perhaps too strong a word but her shoulders were higher than shoulders usually are she was jerked forward from the waist and by her side hung the long thin arms of the it was god s will she said that i should mend � � before my accident there wasn t a girl in the village that could keep ahead of me when we went a light came into her we used to run all over the hills was all she said but she stood at lost in of the country underneath the hills the plain lost in blue and on either side the blue sea foam over the rocks of i was the only one of the girls that could keep up with the boys but after her accident she was no good for anything except fowls the priest threw his eye over pat and wondered if he d ever be able to make a steady fellow of him now that was out of the country she was better in america and by her flight made in a measure for her conduct towards peter we ll go to mrs m i shall want to	15
by county folk i left the old three at the islands of the that route is barred to you ll never lift again our purple painted or the keeps of spain they re just beyond the er so far you in a ram you damn you with a brace of swing round your aching search light � show no haven s peace ay blow your shrieking to the deaf seas boom out the dripping oil bags to skin the deep s � but you aren t a knot the nearer to the islands of the and when you re crippled with broken bridge and rail on a of dead convictions to hold you head to gale calm as the flying from to dressed you ll see the old three for the islands of the you ll see her canvas in silver spread you ll hear the long drawn thunder her leaping figure head while far so far above you her tall shine by wind or weather like the candles round a shrine down � down and she to a speck with noise of pleasant music and dancing on her deck all s well � all s well aboard her � she s dropped you far behind with a scent of old world roses through the fog that ties you blind her crew are or j her port is all to make you re by truth and science and you steam for steaming s sake well up your engines � you know your business best � she s taking tired people to the islands of the an american the american spirit speaks if the led call it a strike or the papers call it a war they know not much what i am like nor what he is my through many roads by me possessed he forth in guise he is the and the jest and he the text himself applies the is in his heart and hand the is in his brain and nerve where planned he guards the s dry reserve his easy hearth he from to till out by friends he at on the stoop i american calm eyed he at sword and crown or panic blinded and he bids the world bow down or a of praise or sombre drunk at mine and he his dreary brethren kings his hands are black with blood his heart leaps as a babe s at little things but through the shift of mood and mood mine ancient humour him whole � the devil in his blood that bids him mock his hurrying soul that bids him the law he makes that bids him make the law he till dazed by many doubts he wakes the guns that � have no doubts that him foolish hot and fond that through his deepest ire that the of his but the goal of his desire n american shrill the mirth that leaves him careless mid his dead the scandal of the elder earth how shall he clear himself how reach our bar or weighed defence prefer � a brother with alien speech and lacking all which knowledge him a space but while reproof around him rings he turns a keen face home to the instant need of things he th embarrassed gods nor fears to shake the iron hand of fate or match with destiny for he rules vast � and in the teeth of all the schools i � i shall save him at the last the mary i ve paid for your fancies i ve humoured your whim � dick it s your � dying you ve got to listen to him good for a fortnight am i the doctor told you he lied i shall go under by morning and put that nurse outside never seen death yet well now is your time to learn and you ll wish you held my record before it comes to your turn not counting the line and the the yards and the village too i ve made myself and a million but i m damned if i made you master at two and twenty and married at twenty three � � ten thousand men on the pay roll and forty at sea fifty years between em and every year of it fight and now i m sir dying a for i with his royal � what was it the papers a had not least of our merchant princes that s me your didn t begin with took my job and i stuck and i took the chances they wouldn t an now they re calling it luck lord what boats i ve handled � rotten and and old ran em or � opened the cock precisely as i was told that ud bind you crazy and that ud turn you gray and a big fat lump of to cover the risk on the way the others they t do it they said they valued their life they ve served me since as went and i took my wife i � over the world i drove em married at and your mother saving the money and making a man of me i was content to be master but she said there was better behind she took the chances i wouldn t and i followed your mother blind she me to borrow the money an she helped me clear the loan when we bought half shares in a cheap un and hoisted a flag of our own and on credit and living the lord knew how we started the red ox � we ve thirty now and those were the days of and the were and we knew we were making our fortune but she died in by the little as you come to the union bank � and we dropped her in fourteen i pricked it off where she sank owners we were full owners and the boat was for her and she died	39
the bridegroom worshipped as a god but him saying it was by the power of god working through me that she was raised from the dead give thanks to him who alone merits our thanks but who had been following the in great grief hanging on the bridegroom s arm could not contain herself at the sight of raised from the dead and it the brook her reason out of her control compelled her to call upon the people to cast out the who worked with the help of the with whom he was in league which proved to everybody that her friendly words to at the feast were make believe and that she had been all the while how she might ruin her at the sight of beautiful and living naught mattered to but revenge and she crossed the street as if with the intention of striking her with a dagger but as she approached the flame of fury died out of her face and like one overwhelmed with a great love she cast herself at his feet and could not be removed why do you turn the woman from me he asked whatever her sins may have been they are forgiven for she loves me but she loved the other man ave seconds before dan submitted and joseph replying to him said she only knew that passion of the flesh which we share with the beasts of the fields the fowls of the air and the fish in the sea but now she loves as we love him � with the spirit and next day she brought all her wealth to him the golden comb she was wont to wear in her hair she would place in his and the and linen in which she was wont to clothe herself she laid at his service but he told her to sell all these things and give the money to the poor give to the poor that is what i hear always cried dan but if we gave all to the poor we would be as poor as the very poorest and where then would the money come from with which we now help the poor give to the poor that thou become worthy of a place in the world to come this world is but a shadow � an illusion joseph answered thou hast that answer for everything joseph and another day when i m stronger i ll argue that out with thee i have tired thee father but if i ve told you many stories it was because i o the brook because dan retorted thou would st have cast his over me but i ve no use for them thou art enough and while joseph how he might convince his father that the girl was really dead dan asked for news of and joseph answered that she was with them every day that their company had been increased by several devoted women thou hast talked enough father and more than enough if were to return he would accuse me of planning to talk you to death chapter xv like every other old jew dan liked the marvellous and listened to his son s stories not knowing whether he believed or nor seeking to inquire content to enjoy the stories as they went by he listened suffering such a little disappointment when his son s voice ceased as he might at the death of a melodious wind among the branches the same little sadness moreover while joseph talked he had his attention and it irritated him to see joseph s thoughts wander from him in search of and and he begged his son to tell him another miracle for he was sure that joseph had not told him the last one joseph pleaded that there was no use relating miracles to one who only believed in ancient miracles a statement that dan saying that one could like a story for its own sake like a joseph interposed gaily bringing all the same a cloud into his father s face which he would have liked to with the relation of another miracle but he continued to plead that he had told all his stories there was however a certain faint in his pleading and dan became more certain than ever that his son was holding back a miracle and becoming suddenly curious he declared that joseph had no right to hold back a story from him for to do that provoked argument and argument fatigued him joseph thought the device to a story from him which he did not wish to tell a shabby one but fearing to vex his father in his present state of health he began to think it would be better to tell him the miracle he had heard the brook of that morning at but still he tried instead to divert his father s attention from reminding him of the numerous matters that would have to be settled up between them especially dan s responsibility in the new adventure the transport of grain from to dan s curiosity was not to be diverted and seeing him give way to his rage like a child joseph decided that he must tell him and he began with a ment of his story the truth of which he did not for at they were all telling how some two or three weeks ago heard god speaking within him and those he wished to accompany him led them through the woods up the slow ascending hills in silence no word being exchanged between him and them of the was aware that the master was in communion with his father in heaven and that his communion was shared by them as long as a word was not spoken a word would break it and so they with their eyes set upon the stars or upon the ground never daring to look for who remained amongst them for an	15
an urgent moral necessity that is the hardest of all things to satisfy since it knows not its own object ah you mistake me said he at length with a gesture of nervous impatience either of the places you mention indeed might answer my purpose or more probably none of them i want my place my own place i my true place in the world my proper sphere my thing to do which nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus and which i have vainly sought all my lifetime whether it be a footman s duty or a king s is of consequence so it be naturally mine can you help me here i will enter your application answered the at the same time writing a few lines in his volume but to undertake such a business i tell you frankly is quite apart from the ground covered by my official duties ask for something specific and it may doubtless be for you on your compliance with the conditions but were i to go further i should have the whole population of the city upon my shoulders since far the greater proportion of them are more or less in your the intelligence office the sank into a fit of despondency passed out of the door without again lifting his eyes and if he died of the disappointment he was probably buried m the wrong tomb inasmuch as the of such people never deserts them and whether alive or dead they are invariably out of place almost immediately another foot was heard on the threshold a youth entered hastily and threw a glance around the office to ascertain whether the man of intelligence was alone he then approached close to the desk blushed like a maiden and seemed at a how to his business you come upon an affair of the heart said the official personage looking into him through his mysterious spectacles state it in as few words as may be you are right replied the youth have a heart to dispose of you seek an exchange said the foolish youth why not be contented with own because exclaimed the young man losing his embarrassment in a passionate glow because my heart me with an intolerable fire it me all day long with for i know not what and feverish and the pangs of a vague sorrow and it me in the night time with a when there is nothing to be feared i cannot endure it any longer it were wiser to throw away such a heart even if it brings me nothing in return very well said the man of office making an entry in his volume your affair will be easily acted this species of makes no from an old of my business and there is always a large of the article to select from here if i mistake not comes ao pretty fair as he spoke the door was gently and slowly thrust affording a glimpse of the slender fi ire of a young girl who as she timidly entered seemed to bring the light and cheerfulness of the outer atmosphere into the somewhat gloomy apartment we know not her errand there nor can we reveal whether the young man gave up his heart into her if so the arrangement was neither better nor worse than in ninety nine cases out of a hundred where the parallel of a similar age affections and the easy of characters not deeply conscious of themselves supply the place of any not always however was the agency of the passions and affections an office of so little trouble it happened rarely indeed in proportion to the cases came under an ordinary rule but still it did happen that a heart was occasionally brought hither of exquisite material so delicately and ao curiously wrought that no other heart could be found to match it it might almost be considered a tune in a worldly point of view to be the possessor of such a diamond of the purest water since in any probability it could only b exchanged for ail o or v bit of glass or at least a jewel of native richness but ill set or with fated or a vein ran through its central lustre to choose another i is which have thb k i the and sympathies ever be doomed to pour themselves into vessels and thus lavish their rich � ob ihe strange that the � deeper nature whether in man or woman while ever other delicate instinct should so often lack that most one of preserving itself from with what is of a kind sometimes it is true the fountain is kept pure by a wisdom within itself and into the light of heaven without � slain from the through which it had upward and sometimes even here on e� the with the pure and the inexhaustible is with the infinite but these miracles h he should claim the credit of them axe far beyond the scope of such a superficial agent in human affairs as the figure in the mysterious spectacles again the door was opened admitting the of the city with a fi into the office now entered a man of and downcast look it was such an aspect as if he had lost the veiy soul out of bis body and had traversed all the world over searching in the dust of the rs and along the shady and beneath the the forest and the sands of the sea shore in h� � pe to recover it again he had glance along the of the as he he also in the angle of the and upon the floor of the room da ly up to the man of intelligence he gazed the inscrutable spectacles which the latter wore as if the treasure might l� e hidden within his vol an old i have lost � he began and then	35
you dearly i wish to marry you is not that declaration rather soon after the death of your wife my wife is gone poor soul let her rest yet you loved her i never loved her he said rising to his feet i love you from the first moment i saw you i loved you my wife is dead is in prison on a charge of her with these obstacles removed there is no reason why we should not marry she step by step � v k � � the green stone god and the if i marry you she said slowly will you help to this charge i cannot the evidence is too strong against him you know that he is innocent mr i do not i i believe that he murdered my wife you believe that he murdered your wife she coming a step nearer and holding out the green stone idol � do you believe that he dropped this in the study when his hand struck the fatal blow i don t know he said coolly glancing at the idol i never saw it before think again mr � think again who was it that went to the at eight o clock with dr and met there the captain of a new steamer with whom he was acquainted it was i said and what of that this she said in a loud voice this captain gave you the green stone idol at the and you placed it in your breast pocket shortly afterwards you followed to the man whose death you had you repaired to your house killed your unhappy wife who received you in all innocence took the balance of the money the desk and then dropped by accident this idol which you of the crime during this speech she advanced step by step towards the wretched man who pale and retreated before her fury he came right to my hiding place and almost fell into my arms i had heard enough to convince me of his guilt and the next moment i was struggling with him it is a lie a lie he said hoarsely trying to escape it is true said i him down from my soul i believe you to be guilty during the fight his pocket book fell on the floor and the papers therein were scattered miss ford picked up one spotted with blood the e god the the proof she holding it before proof the truth the ve is the e written by yon wliich wife to liim one pounds saw tliat all was against him gave further like tho he was fate in too strong for me lie said when i on his wrists i admit the crime it love of yon that i did it i hated my wife who was � on me and i who loved you one sm thought to rid myself of both his for money put the into my hand i went to found that my wife had given the money us then i killed her with the foil the smashed the desk and the chair to favour idea of the robbery and then i left the house a higher station than i caught a train and speedily back at the never my absence thinking i was in a different corner o house i had thus an ready had it not that letter which i was fool enough to keep and that idol that dropped out of my pocket i hi hanged and married you as it ns out the i has me and now sir he added turning to i you had better take me to i did so there and then after the legal i gone through was released and ultimately js miss ford was hanged as he well to be tor cowardly a crime my reward s the stone god which i keep as a of a very some weeks later miss ford told me the in had laid the trap when you revealed your suspicions about the idol i said i was convinced that had something to with tho crime you mentioned dr as been with him at the he is one of the it is true said t down � � � the greek stone god and me at the hospital in which i am employed i asked him about the idol and showed it to him he remembered it being given to by the captain of the the curious look of the thing had impressed itself on his memory on hearing this i went to the and i saw the captain he recognized the idol and remembered giving it to from what you told me i guessed the way in which the plot had been carried out so i spoke to as you heard most of it was and only when i saw that letter was i absolutely sure of his guilt it was due to the green stone god so i think but to chance also but for the accident of the idol dropping out of s pocket would have been hanged for a crime of which he was innocent therefore do i say that in nine cases out of ten chance does more to a case than all the dexterity of the man in charge � � i l i � � � ii the and the coin f i f � � � � � � � � j r � ii � � � i � i the and the coin reputation as a is known in i said lord therefore i wish you to conduct the case it could not be in better hands i feel flattered by your preference my lord said i so i shall take charge of it with pleasure but you must give me a free hand a free hand and as much money as you require i see too much of the pope s influence in england	12
a year would enable him to take poor children out of this city into the country to and drink fresh milk and eat wholesome food for two weeks every summer from now until the end of time which would build up a human structure that might be of more benefit to the world than any pile of bricks marble and wrought iron or any other could conceive of said the idiot the structure would stand up too you call that architecture do you said mr yes said the idiot of the order but that of course you term � and maybe it is i like to be that kind of an idiot i do not claim to be able to build a cathedral however i don t suppose i could even build a boarding house like this but what i should like to do in architecture would be to put up a for that s a thing that has never been done and i think i might be able to do it if i did i d patent the plan and make a fortune then i should like to know by ic enough about the science of planning a building to find out whether my model hotel is practicable or not you have a model hotel in your mind eh said the it must be a very small hotel if it s in his mind said the doctor that s to saying that it isn t anywhere said mr well it s a great hotel just the same said the idiot although i presume it would be expensive to build it would have rooms in the first place each room would be constructed like an with at hand for moving it up and down the great thing about this would be that persons could have a room on any floor they wanted it so long as they got the room in the beginning a second advantage would lie in the fact that if you were sleeping in a room next door to another in which there was a crying baby you could pull the rope and go up two or three flights until you were free from the noise then in case of fire the room in which the fire started could be lowered into a sliding large enough to the whole thing in which i should have constructed in the cellar if the whole building by ic were to catch fire there be no loss of life because all the rooms could be lowered to the ground floor and the occupants could step right out upon solid ground then again if you were down on the ground floor and desired to get an extended view of the surrounding country it would be easy to raise your room to the desired elevation why there s no end to the advantages to be gained from such an arrangement it s a fine idea said mr and one worthy of your intellect it couldn t possibly cost more than a million of dollars to erect such a hotel could it no said the idiot and that is cheap alongside some of the hotels they are putting up nowadays it could be built on less than four hundred acres of ground too i presume said the with a wink at the doctor certainly said the idiot meekly and if anybody fell sick in one of the rooms said the doctor and needed a change of air you could have a tower over each i suppose so that the room could be elevated high enough to secure the different quality in the undoubtedly said the idiot although by ic that add materially to the expense a scarlet fever patient however in a hotel like that very easily be isolated from the rest of the house by the maintenance of what might be called the hospital floor superb said the doctor i wonder yon haven t spoken to some friend about it i have said the idiot you must remember that young fellow with a black i had here to dinner last saturday night yes i remember him said the doctor is he an he is � and a good one he can take a brown stone dwelling and turn it into a mansion with a pot of yellow paint he s a wonder i submitted the idea to him and what was his verdict i don t like to say said the idiot blushing a little � ha ha laughed mr � i shouldn t think you would like to say i guess we know what he said i doubt it said the idiot but if you guess right i ll tell you he said you had better go and live in a by ic asylum said mr with a not he retained the idiot at his on the contrary he advised me to stop living in one he said contact with the rest of you was affecting my brain this time mr did not laugh but his coffee cup for a piece of toast bit a small section out of its rim and in the midst of mrs s which followed the school master s careless error the idiot and the old gentleman departed with smiles on their faces which were almost visible at the back of their respective necks by ic said the idiot as be began bis breakfast this isn t friday morning is it i thought it was tuesday so it is tuesday put in the school master then this fish is a little extra treat is it observed the idiot turning with a smile to the landlady � fish that isn t fish sir returned the good lady that is liver oh is it said the idiot excuse me my dear mrs i thought from its resistance that it was sole have you a be added turning to the maid my piece is tender enough i can t see	27
cried the suddenly to be a keeper in a lunatic asylum with that eye of yours i i never saw anything like it there s nothing in the eye only in the expression well expression or whatever it is i d give something to have one like it but i m not up to that game try there s no secret in it oh tis no use trying know you see i ve a temper ah where the secret is said well try to your temper now you see how useful it will be to you god s blessing be on you in the endeavour good night i stay i won t you have a bit of bread and cheese no thank you good night my little friends the and he passed his hand carelessly over the little silk of the they uttered a low wail of regret at his departure and the girl held towards him her fragment of bread smiling he off a little piece of it and as he returned it put his finger between her teeth she did not bite him but laughed like a little child he looked at the and they both laughed farewell i he again cried cheerily and waving his hand passed on if it be objected that neglected here and there to press an advantage and avail himself of an opening for doing more than he did i can only say that he had much ground to get over that the fields were white unto harvest and he the solitary and that his lord and master whom he followed as closely as he could in all things when urged by the people of various places to continue longer with them refused saying i must preach the kingdom of god to other cities also for therefore am i sent it was now nearly dark and still by the was toiling on towards the for haven where he would be suddenly he heard the sound of a heavy horse advancing along the road from behind him presently the horse rider passed him and though the obscurity was now such that he could dimly make out their forms his own outline it appeared was better discerned by the who having ridden a little in advance drew his rein for a minute to shout out to him the day is coming when all you shall be a second st so look to it � i and with a yell of he galloped on judged this unknown ill might be the peasant who had caused his from the coffee house and he no good to himself from such a preceding him to the next village nor were his when he reached it no one would take him in many in fact had retired for the night and were already asleep others who were shutting up roughly denied him a lodging even though he should pay for it in the advance lonely and weary he crept ou his way and presently found himself beyond the village under a sand bank a portion of which having been dug away left a little cave or den in which he resolved to find shelter for the night have holes thought he and birds of the air have nests i will for once take refuge with the sand martin he himself up with his bag behind him and took out his remaining piece of bread the stars were coming out brighter and brighter every minute and he gazed at them with delight for he had learnt something of them from mr thought he you shine as brightly on me and shed as sweet influences as you did thousands of years ago on job and his friends quite so brightly perhaps for i have heard that in that distant region of the east the air is so clear that your rays distinct and divers colours � as white yellow violet and deep red you glorious are supposed by the learned to by the be sixty times as brilliant as our sun well may he who created you be called wonderful i lord our governor i how excellent is thy name in all the world i that hast set thy glory above the heavens while lay thus and absorbed in the of the host he became aware of a slight noise a little way off and the stealthy sound of wheels presently all became quiet but again he learnt that he had neighbours at no great distance from him who seemed coming to a halt they spoke in grumbling under tones and at length a rough voice said loudly enough for to hear every syllable where are s and s chains and how should i know rejoined sharply you took them yourself in the morning and most left them on the grass yes i know i laid them on the grass returned the grumbling in order that you might pack them up along with the rest of the traps and i fancy you ll have to back for them old woman if youve left them behind back yourself then if anybody s to replied she and a quarrel ensued the details of which escaped s ears till he heard the man end it by saying now then young tumble into your will and ye probably accompanying the word with a kick to judge from the shrill cry that ensued guessed pretty well who his neighbours were and resolved to keep himself close for he felt no pleasure in their they were evidently a couple of and he the idea of their poor little being kept from like a couple of dogs by chain and the party apparently soon settled to rest for all became quiet as death and after gazing up at the stars a while longer and saying his prayers under his breath fell into deep sleep he was awakened at dead of night by a nightmare sensation of a heavy weight	2
secret of its constitution has a spell to sway the minds of mankind there was added the grace of an exquisitely feminine address the union of these two attributes rendered an object of conspicuous interest in such a time as that of b shoe robinson the her youth her ready genius her knowledge and her habits of reflection much in advance of her years the impression her character was adapted to produce and brought upon her even in her secluded position a considerable share of public observation it was not wonderful that a mind so organized and accomplished should have acquired an unlimited dominion over the frank open hearted and brave temper of her brother now just stepping beyond the of mere boyhood her influence over henry was and unbounded her affections were his her faith was his her enthusiasm stole into and spread over his whole temper with these means of influence she had applied herself to into henry s mind her own sentiment in regard to the war and this purpose had led her to interest herself in subjects and pursuits which in general are very foreign from her sex her desire to his feelings in aid of butler and her conviction that a time was at hand when henry might be useful gave rise to an eager solicitude to see him well prepared for the of the day by that necessary mode of education which during the period of the revolution was common amongst the young gentlemen of the country he was a most willing and ready pupil and she delighted to encourage him in his inclination for military studies however fanciful some of his in regard to them might be she therefore saw with great satisfaction the though boyish devotion with which he set himself to gain a knowledge of matters relating to the duties of a soldier however little this may fall within the scope of female perception in ordinary times it will not appear so much removed from the or even the habits of the sex when we reflect that in the of this great national struggle when every resource of the country was drained for service the events of the day were contemplated with no less interest by the women than by the men the with which the american women in the cares and sacrifices of the war has the frequent notice and warmest praises of its but reflected in this instance the hues of the society around the dove which consisted of many families scattered along the country side composed of i i horse shoe l sons of elevated character easy circumstances and of the politics with whom she held an and familiar intercourse another consideration may serve to explain the somewhat masculine character of s pursuits her most intimate companion at all times and frequently for weeks together her only one was her brother these two had grown up together in all the confidence of childhood and this confidence continued still their pursuits sports exercises thoughts and habits were alike with less of the usual between the sexes than is to be found between individuals in larger associations they each other in temper and disposition and henry might in this regard be said to be without to bis manly qualities a girlish boy and on the other hand with as little to be a boyish girl this freedom of produced in its development some grotesque results which my reader has doubtless heretofore observed with a smile and it will likewise serve to explain some of the peculiar forms of intercourse which may hereafter be noticed between the brother and sister the news of the battle of had not yet reached the neighborhood of the dove but the time drew nigh when all the country stood on anxious to receive tidings of that interesting event a week had elapsed without bringing letters from butler and was growing uneasy at this interval of silence there was a struggle in her mind an unpleasant that she was almost ashamed to acknowledge and yet which she could not subdue the country was full of reports of the hostile operations and a thousand were entertained which varied according to the more sanguine or of the persons who made them was taught by butler to expect defeat yet still she hoped for victory but the personal fate of her lover stole upon her conjectures and she could not keep down the which affection generally and always renders painful in this state of doubt it was that her manners occasionally rose to a higher tone of than was natural to her and by turns they sank to a moody silence showing that the of the mind was dis h r x h b and that the scales did not hang true it was the of mental resolution with a coward heart � a heart by its affections such was the state of things when in the latter fortnight of august the morning ushered in a day of beauty the air was elastic the cool breeze played upon the and stole the perfume of a thousand flowers the bu ds sang with unwonted vivacity from the neighboring trees and the sun lighted up the mountains with a golden splendor the fast drifting clouds flinging their shadows upon the forest that clothed the hills around and the eagle and the sailing in the highest heavens or around the cliffs with a glad flight as if rejoicing in the luxuries of the cool summer morning breakfast was scarcely over before henry was seen upon the terrace arrayed in his hunting dress his was suspended by a green cord across his shoulders it was a neat and glittering instrument whose was with the of silken and was displayed as as if worn by the hero of a like st in the ballad he had footed thrice the when he put the to his mouth and blew a both loud and long how	29
child is that yours no have you any children of your own no well that s a god s blessing merely scratched his chin and you insist you will marry her went � by i didn t say that replied his son i said i might might might exclaimed his father his anger again what a tragedy you with your prospects your outlook how do you suppose i can seriously contemplate any share of my fortune to a man who has so little regard for what the world considers as right and proper why this car j business your family your personal reputation ap to be as nothing at all to you i can t understand what has happened to your pride it seems like some j wild impossible fancy it s pretty hard to explain father and i can t do it very well i simply know that i m in this a and that i m bound to see it through it may come out all right i may not marry her � i may i m not prepared now to say what i ll do you ll have to wait i ll do the best i can old merely shook his head you ve made a bad mess of this he said finally surely you have but i s you are determined to go your way nothing that i have said appears to move you not now father i m sorry well i warn you then that you show some consideration for the dignity of your family and the honor of your position it will make a difference in my will i can t go on this thing and not be a party to it morally and every other way i won t do it you can leave her or you can marry her you certainly ought to do one or the other if you leave her everything will be all right you can make any provision for her you like i have no objection to that i ll gladly pay whatever you agree to you will share with the rest of the children just as i had planned if you marry her it will make a difference now do as you don t blame me i love you i m your father l z i i m doing what i think is my duty now you think that over and let me know sighed he saw how hopeless this argument was he felt that his father probably meant what he said but how could he leave and justify himself to himself would his father really cut him off surely not the old gentleman loved him even now � he could see it felt troubled and distressed this attempt f at irritated him the he being made to do such a to throw he stared at the floor old saw that he had let fly a telling bullet well said finally there s no use of our discussing it any further now � that s certain isn t it i can t say what i ll do i ll have to take time and think i can t decide this the two looked at each other was sorry for the world s attitude and for his father s keen feeling about the affair senior was sorry for his son but he was determined to see the thing through he wasn t sure whether he had converted or not but he was hopeful maybe he would come around yet good by father said holding out his hand i think i ll try and make that two ten train there isn t anything else you wanted to see me about no the old man sat there after had gone thinking deeply what a twisted career what an end to great what a in evil and error he shook his head robert was wiser he was the one to control a business he was and if were only like that he thought and thought it was a long time before he stirred and still in the bottom of his heart his son to appeal to him l chapter xl returned to he realized that he had his father seriously how seriously he could not say in all his personal relations with old he had never seen him so worked up but even now did not feel that the breach was he hardly realized that it was necessary for him to act if he hoped to retain his father s affection and confidence as for the world at large what did it matter how much people talked or what they said he was big enough to stand alone but was he people turn so quickly from weakness or the shadow of it to get away from failure � even the mere suspicion of it � that seems to be a feeling with the average man and woman we all avoid non success as though we fear that it may prove was soon to feel the force of this prejudice one day happened to run across the head of a firm that stood in the dry goods world where the company stood in the carriage world had been one of s best friends he knew him as intimately as he knew henry of and george of he visited at his handsome home on the north shore drive and they met constantly in a business and social way but since had moved out to park the old intimacy had now they came face to face on avenue near the building why i m glad to see you again said d l he extended a hand d seemed just a little cool i hear you ve gone and married since i saw you no nothing like that replied easily with the air of one who prefers to be understood in the way of the world sense why so secret about it if you have	43
that is wanted n hard times he suggested it very doubtfully as if he were half to admit it even now she made him no answer lying him on her bed still half dressed much as he had seen her lying on the floor of his room last night and his hand rested on her hair again i have been absent om here my dear a good deal of late and though your sister s training has been pursued according to� the system he appeared to come to that word with great reluctance always necessarily been modified by daily associations begun in her case at an early age i ask you � and humbly my daughter � for the better do you think father she without stirring if any harmony has been awakened in her young breast that was mute in mine until it n turned to discord let her thank heaven for it and go upon her happier way taking it as her greatest blessing that she has my way my child my child he said in a forlorn manner i am an man to see you thus what it to me that you do not reproach me if i so bitterly reproach myself he bent his head and spoke low to her i have a that some change may have been slowly working about me in this house by mere love and gratitude that what the head had and could not do the heart may have been doing silently can it be so she made him no reply i am not too proud to believe it how could i be and you before me can it be so is it so my dear he looked upon her once more lying cast away there and without another word went out of the room he had not been long gone when she heard a tread near the door and knew that some one stood beside her she did not raise her head a dull anger that she should be seen in her distress and that the involuntary look she had so resented should come to this within her hke an fire all closely imprisoned forces and destroy the air that would be to the earth the water that would it the heat that would it tear it when up so in her bosom even now the strongest she possessed long turned upon themselves became a heap of that rose � a friend hard it was well that touch came upon her neck and that she understood herself to be supposed to have fallen asleep the sympathetic hand did not claim her resentment let it lie there let it lie so it lay there warming into life a crowd of thoughts and she lay still as she softened with the quiet and the consciousness of being so watched some tears made their way into her eyes the face touched hers and she knew that there were tears upon it too and she the cause of them as feigned to rouse herself and sat up retired so that she stood placidly near the bedside i hope i have not disturbed you i have come to ask if you will let me stay with you why should you stay with me my sister will miss you you are every thing to her am i returned shaking her head i would be something to you if i might what said almost sternly whatever you want most if i could be that at all events i would like to try to be as near it as i can and however far off that may be i will never tire of trying will you let me my father sent you to ask me c no indeed he told me that i might come in now but he sent me away from the room this or at least � she hesitated and stopped at least what said with h r searching eyes upon her i thought it best myself that i should be sent away for i felt very uncertain whether you would like to find me here have i always hated you so much i hope not for i have always loved you and have always wished that you should know it but you changed to me a little shortly before you left home not that i wondered at it you knew so much and i knew so little and it was so natural in many ways going as you were among other that i had nothing to complain of and was not at all hurt her color rose as she said it modestly and hurriedly understood the loving and her heart smote her may i try said to raise her hand to the neck that was drooping toward her sm hard times taking the hand that would have her in another moment held it in one � i hers and ed first do you know what i i am so proud and so i hardened so confused and troubled so and unjust to every one and to myself that every thing is stormy dark and wicked to i me does not that you no i am so unhappy and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste that if i had been of sense to this and instead of being as learned as you think me had to begin to acquire the simplest truths i could not want a guide to honor all the good of which i am quite devoid more than i do does not that you no i in the innocence of her brave and the up of her old spirit the once deserted girl shone like a light upon the darkness of the other raised the hand that it might clasp her and its fellow there she fell upon h knees and clinging to thk s child looked up at her almost with forgive me pity me help	8
have sworn and it must lone i thought i had brothers said she but i i am now � yet perhaps not so i had once a young generous innocent i very affectionate it was known that him � that we all loved him best will he his loving sister now that the world has le so or will he allow her to kiss him and to that the darkness of guilt may never his young and generous spirit added i am mary your sister whom you ed � and surely you are my own dearest brother whilst she uttered the words the tears which from her eyes fell upon his face he looked her pale features so full of love and tenderness � muscles of his face worked strongly but at with a loud cry he threw himself over her in his arms and laying her head upon his wept aloud the evil spell was now broken john nor could resist the tenderness which their beloved sister shed into hearts their tears flowed fast � their caresses re added to those of and as they embraced her they their awful m oath and promised never again to think of violence revenge or thus did the force and purity of domestic c tion charm back into their hearts the very i wliich its own excess had before driven out of it � and thus it is that many a triumph over is won by the tenderness and strength of that affection when neither reason nor religion nor any other principle that we are acquainted with can succeed in leading captive the fearful purposes of and revenge now said father we have a duty to perform and that is to return thanks to almighty god for the dark and deadly crime and the sorrow which by his grace and mercy he has averted from this family and i think we may take this blessing � for such surely it is � as an earnest hope that the same divine hand which has put aside this impending calamity from us may and will in his own good time remove the other which the enmity and wickedness of evil hearts and evil have brought upon us but especially let us kneel and return thanks for the great and happy change which through the humility and affection of one of us has been wrought upon the rest he then knelt down and on this occasion the thb irish of these young men became soft and are bent in remorse sorrow repentance the priest prayed fervently and humbly and as s tears fell � a st in the trusting sincerity of his and the meek earnestness of his spirit it is most unnecessary to say that those of his little � ck accompanied him the brothers wept bitterly p the rocky heart of each had been touched and the triumph which affection had such had been the situation of this family on the ij alluded to by mr who could not of have had any means of becoming acquainted ith them but as we felt that the incidents were ne � to give fulness to his narrative we did not � to introduce them here where a knowledge them was so necessary we now allow mr himself to resume his narrative this venerable continues mr w a thin pale man but evidently in of and moderation in his i habits of living a healthy one ho cannot be � than seventy but the singular of complexion and the steady lustre of his grey e lead you to suppose that he is scarcely that is tall and without stoop and from the m character of his high and forehead added to the of his other features and his whole face he presented i must say a very striking combination of dignity and his dress is plain and nothing can be more fine and impressive than the contrast between his simple black apparel and the long flowing snow white hair which falls over it his holy zeal as a christian minister by feelings or an in the angry of political life possessed all the simple beauty of pure and primitive piety father received his education on the continent in several parts of which he has held one being the of an college he consequently speaks most if not all of the continental languages but so utterly be from display and so simple are his manners you would not on a first interview no nor on a second ever suppose the man to be what he a most accomplished scholar and divine in one thing however you never could be mistaken � that his manners with all their simplicity are those of a gentleman possessing as they do all the ease and when h chooses the elegance of a man who has moved high and polished society he has only been a fe the irish agent in ireland after a glass of wine and some conversation touching public events and e state of this unfortunate and unsettled country on all of which he spoke with singular good and moderation we went to see the now that i had recovered from my fatigue his building is two or three hundred yards from le house and as we were on our way there it so that he and i found ourselves together ad at some distance from m and his sons you were introduced sir said he to me as it i bowed i am not inquisitive he added with a smile because in this case i do not find it necessary but am candid i began to feel slightly uneasy so i only bowed but could say nothing i have met you on the continent it is quite possible i replied i have been here he laid his finger on my shoulder and added till with a gentle and significant smile i am in � of your secret and	50
so far as might be to two years of and to resume in and at those tions which had been so unhappily broken off at washington in the example thus offered by germany is rare in history in the career of prince so far as i am instructed it should stand unique on a review of these two years of and failure in a little isle of the pacific he seems to have owned his policy was in the wrong he and left that house of cards the government to fall by its own and without remark or left the question openly and fairly to the conference and in the meanwhile to the local by and he sent to that invaluable public servant dr i should be a man if i did not here bear testimony to the loyalty since shown by in their position was painful they had talked big in the old days now they had to sing small even returned to the islands under the prejudice of an unfortunate record to the minds of the his name represented the beginning of their sorrows and in his first term of office he had unquestionably driven hard the greater his merit in the surprising success of the second so long as he stayed the current of affairs moved smoothly he left behind him on his departure all men at peace and whether by fortune or for the want of that wise hand of guidance he was scarce gone before the clouds began to gather once more on our horizon before the first germany and the eight years of trouble in states hauled down their flags it was so done again before the second and germany by a still more emphatic step of returned the exile to his native shores for two years the unfortunate man had trembled and suffered in the in germany in the rainy when he left september was king served by five iron war ships his right to rule like a of the church was placed outside dispute the were still as they were called at that last tearful interview in the house by the river the invincible strangers the thought of resistance far less the hope of success had not yet dawned on the mind he returned november to a changed world the party was reduced to sue for peace was withdrawn was dying of a broken heart the german flag no longer waved over the capital and over all the islands one figure stood supreme during s absence this man had succeeded him in all his honours and titles in more than all his power and popularity he was the idol of the whole nation but the of the and and of these he was already the secret a in his position there was but one weak point � that he had ever been excluded by the indeed once with the thought of him but the project had no and it stands alone in every other juncture of history the german attitude has been the same choose whom you will to be king when he has failed choose whom you please to succeed him when the second fails also replace the first upon the one condition that be excluded il t � an official is said to have thus up the necessary in a king and it was perhaps feared that could do no more and might not always do so much but this original was heightened by late events to something upon was the arms of were still soiled with the blood of german sailors and though the chief was not present in the field nor could have heard of eight years of trouble in the till it was over he had from it credit with his countrymen and dislike from the i may not say that trouble was hoped i must say � if it were not feared the practice of must teach a very hopeful view of human nature and by the sudden of the last found themselves face to face in conditions of the one returned from the dead of exile to find himself replaced and the other at the end of a long anxious and successful struggle beheld his only possible from tlie grave the qualities of both in this difficult moment shone out nobly i feel i seem always less than partial to the his virtues are perhaps not those which chiefly please me and are certainly not royal but he found on his return an opportunity to display the admirable sweetness of his nature the two entered into a competition of generosity for which i can recall no parallel in history each the throne for himself each pressing it upon his rival and they embraced at last a compromise and the terms of which seem to have been always obscure and are now disputed at least resumed his style of king of retained much of the conduct of affairs and continued to receive much of the attendance and respect and the two with so many causes of dwelt and met together in the same town like it was so that i first saw them so in a house set about with � for there was still a haunting fear of germany � that i heard them relate their various experience in the past heard tell with touching of the sorrows of his exile and with simplicity of his resources and anxieties in the war the relation was perhaps too beautiful to last it was perhaps impossible but the king should grow at last uneasily conscious of the de at his side or the king maker be at last offended by some shadow of distrust or assumption in his creature i repeat the words king maker and creature it is so that himself of their relation surely not without justice for had he not and prevailed eight years of trouble in and been helped by the folly of	38
argument was taken up by other and ned began to see he had the youth of the country on his side he was speaking at the end of the week at another great meeting and received even better support at this meeting than he had done at the first and he returned home wondering what his wife was thinking of his sue but what matter ireland was waking from the great sleep of and at the next parish it seemed as if the impossible were going to happen and that the was going to be free the had and he applied himself to setting the inferior clergy against their and at meetings he told the that they were no better than the parish priests in comfortable and drank champagne but the lived hj the and ate and drank little and did all the work one day at it was decided that had legitimate and that the people had that were likewise legitimate and at this great council it was decided that the heavy marriage and the demanded by the priests should be reduced and it seemed as if the clergy were going to be defeated but an on ned s part gave them the victory in a moment of excitement he was unwise enough to quote john s words that the irish would be free long ago only for their damned souls a priest wrote to the newspapers pointing out that after these words there could be no further doubt that it was the doctrine of the french revolution that mr was to force upon a christian people a bishop wrote saying that the words quoted were fit words for anti christ after that it was difficult for a priest to appear on the same platform and the whose had been deserted and the fight became an impossible one very soon ned s meetings were interrupted disagreeable scenes began to happen and his letters were not admitted to the newspapers a great solitude formed about him well he said one evening i suppose you have read the account in the paper of my escape that is what they called it the wheel said is going round ton may be at the bottom now but the wheel is going round only there is no use opposing the people in their traditions in their instinct � � � and whether the race is destined to disappear or to continue it s certain that the last will die a catholic and the red indian will die with the at his we won t talk about religion we ll talk about things we are agreed upon i have heard u yourself that you would not go back to america again � that you never enjoyed life till you came here that was because i met you i have heard you praise ireland as being the most beautiful and sympathetic country in the world it is true that i love these people and i wish i could become one of them you would become one of them and yet you would tear them to pieces because they are not what you want them to be chap viii he used to go for long walks on the hills and one day lying in the amid the rough grass his eyes following the course of the ships in the bay he remembered his book a western every race he said has its own special genius the have or have had music the french and have or have had painting and the english have or have had poetry the irish had and alas they still have their special genius � there is as little free love in ireland as there is free thought men have ceased to care for women and women have ceased to care for men nothing in ireland but the the priest the and the ox he laughed a little and turning on his side and the warm grass with his hand he remembered how the passion of love the direct inspiration of all the world s art has been degraded in ireland how it has been reduced to the mere act of children there are no in ireland he said and are the outward sign of inward grace that which to life is the only evil that which life is the only good nor is there any intellectual passion there is not even religious only religious said that the last would die a catholic and she s right he will die clinging to the of a priest but why should i lament what has he ever done the and the cross of and s chapel have never been but ireland stopped there and suddenly it seemed as if god had intended the to do something but had changed hia mind that change happened in the tenth century and since then the has produced an incredible number of priests and some of the finest and a few clever lawyers but nothing more serious a kindly sympathetic fellow that likes that i love dearly and that i came to save but he would not listen knows his destiny and the knows his � and it is to disappear his eyes followed the course of the ships in the bay and he said was it accident or my own fantastic temperament that brought me back from and for what purpose was i brought back to climb half way up the and to be pulled down by the leg all irish have been pulled back � perhaps all are pulled back and yet i m unwilling to believe that accident brought me back to ireland and involved me in the destiny of ireland for no purpose he did not need to take the book from his he knew the passage well and repeated it word for word while he watched the ships in the bay we were friends and we have become strangers one to the other ah	15
and did not yet promise to take rank as a sea power the sudden demand upon this close island speech in the century for means to represent the endless objects actions and experiences of the new world and of a commerce was one of the most efficient forces for developing modem english mother english folk lore and a language carried into a new brings with it notions not in harmony with the surroundings the ideas that are in our ordinary speech seem to us a part of the original constitution of the universe and the notions associated with common words serve to local and national prejudice in the wilderness of america english speech was a an indian chief however and was forthwith translated into a king the naked little child turning herself into a wheel in imitation of the boys with whom she played at bore in english the title of princess we hear of an indian king in new who was hired to carry a s baggage and after many it is a relief to find in new england one chief who was only a duke the early into speech of the indian titles � and � and the application at last of the english word chief helped to a swarm of notions more specific terms were the result of fuller knowledge the compound bark house in which an emperor like dwelt as co tenant with numerous families of his wife s ceased to be a palace and became a it was thus that english by degrees adjusted itself to a new chap iii loo the of civilization chap iii the for in iii a perfect description of va of s c w s travels perfect of va and s va p iii mass iii iv the in america like adam in the world was called upon to give names to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field this was done in some cases most naturally by descriptive such as canvas back duck flying black bear but the was sure to think he recognized in the primitive woods the plants and birds and beasts known or half known to him in the old world american creatures thus got second hand names from real or supposed the became a the does duty in some accounts as an or a monkey the as the largest american cat became a in virginia a and a in various places while it remained a in south for more than a hundred years the ear of the caught the melody of bird songs that reminded him of the delicious of the which he was to hear various birds were thus with the name of the european in virginia this substitute was the according to though in earlier lists both and appear in new england there were also so called painted with colors � black white blew yellow green and scarlet according to s description mother english folk lore and literature loi the region had its the brown song is identified with the ot europe by french to this day with one accord english north and south endowed a with the name and all the sentiment that belonged to the smaller and more domestic robin of england the mistake did not go for in some northern regions there is an attempt to it by calling the bird the old england robin a name that the mark again but that from its form must have been set in the earliest time v in popular thought at the period of american settlement every place beyond the countries of europe was a region of outer darkness by devils who were as the typical was the the ancient foe of an idol was therefore called a that is to say a from a notion that the prophet was a false god it may have been from this general of all the world that lay without that some plants and animals from the new world easily got the name of turkey or attached to them the fowl we call by that name was in french a or indian cock whence the modern french and the confusion between the east and chap iii new p the i the of civilization chap iii s historical sketches x notes note i indian corn and beans lane to s i etc l iv chap xvi note west indies led no doubt to the curious german name hen though even in german indian and appear in england the turkey was sometimes called the or the of in the sixteenth century so that the on which judges and others were sometimes at the time may have been of if the english name of turkey did not come from a general disposition to trace all things to the home of the eastern it perhaps was borrowed from the with which the turkey was supposed to be allied in the easy natural history of the time vi indian corn an american plant in origin cultivated throughout almost the whole western was early called com by the the name seems to have been from italian into other continental languages and in english speech it was also sometimes wheat lane s commander in north calls it wheat from the time of there have been those who have sought with futile ingenuity to an oriental origin for their argument mainly on the blunder in the italian name this mistake may have sprung from a confusion of with which on account of its origin bore the name of com mother english folk lore and literature as another sort of coarse grain was also called corn but usually com other nations were wont in the sixteenth century to take fashions of all sorts from italy and the name there given to became common even the which was one of the most valued of the american indians to european food was called the for no other reason perhaps than that	11
woman pursue mary anne take time she has a place of at an s in the city ma am oh i said miss pondering on it but added in a tone at an s in the city ye es and � mary anne was when miss stared i mean miss should think you did mary anne i am glad to hear you do and � says mary anne went on that he is not pleased with his sister and that his sister won t be guided by his and in being guided by somebody else s mid that mr coming across the garden i exclaimed miss with a flushed glance at the looking glass you have answered very well mary anne you are forming an excellent habit of arranging your thought clearly that will do the discreet mary anne resumed her seat and her silence and and and was when the s shadow came in before him announcing that he might be instantly expected friend good miss he said the shadow and taking its place good evening mr mary anne a chair thank you said himself in his constrained manner this is but a flying visit i have looked in on my way to ask a kindness of you as a did you say on your way mr asked miss on my way to � where i am going church street smith square by mill bank repeated miss in her own thoughts has gone to get a book or two he wants and will probably be back before me as we leave my house empty i took the liberty of telling him i would leave the key here would you kindly allow me to do so certainly mr going for an evening walk sir partly for a walk and partly for � on business business in church street smith square by mill bank repeated miss to herself having said which pursued laying his on the table i must be already going there is nothing i can do for you miss thank you mr in which in the direction of westminster mill bank miss repeated in her own thoughts once again no thank you mr i ll not trouble you you couldn t trouble me said the all i returned miss though not aloud bat yon can me t and for all her quiet manner and her smile she was ml of trouble as he went his way she was right touching destination he held as straight a coarse for the house of the dress maker as the wisdom of his t � in the of the intervening streets would let him and walked with a bent head at one fixed idea it had been an idea since he first set eyes upon her it seemed to him aa if all that he could suppress in himself he had suppressed as if all that he could restrain in himself he had restrained aiid the time had in a rush in a moment � when the power of self command had departed from him love at first sight is a ex quite sufficiently discussed enough that in tain natures like this man s that leaps into a blaze and makes such head as fire does in a rage of wind when other passions but for its mastery could be held in chains as a multitude of weak natures are always lying by ready to go mad upon the next wrong idea that may be � in these times generally some form of to somebody for something that never was done or if ever done that was done by somebody else � so these less ordinary natures may lie by for years ready on the touch of an instant to burst into flame the went his way brooding and brooding and a sense of being in a struggle might have been pierced out of his worried truly in his breast there lingered a shame to find himself defeated by this passion for s sister though ia ous moments he was himself the object of bringing the passion to a he appeared before the dress maker sitting alone at her work thought that sharp young personage it s you is it know your tricks and your manners my friend s sister said is not come home yet you are quite a returned miss i will if you please for i want to speak to her do you p returned miss down i hope it s mutual glanced at the shrewd face again bending over the work and said trying to doubt and hesitation i hope you don t imply that my visit be to s sister f there i don t call her that i can t bear you to call her that returned miss snapping her fingers in a of impatient for i don t like indeed no miss wrinkled her nose to dislike thinks only of himself the way with all of you the way with all of us then you don t like so so replied miss with a shrug and a laugh don t know much about you but i was not aware it was the way with all of us said returning to the accusation a little � won t you say some of us t our mutual meaning returned the little creature one of yon but yon i i now look this lady in the e this is mrs truth the honorable full dressed glanced at the she held up for his observation � which had been lying on its face on her bench while with a needle and thread she fastened the dress on at the back � and looked from it to her i stand the honorable mrs t on my bench in this comer against the wall where her blue eyes can shine upon yon pursued miss doing so and making two at him in the air with her needle as if she pricked him	8
she calls him but i couldn t have him just fancy giving up dear edward i assure you i believe he would kill himself if i did he has often told me i am the only thing worth living for looked at her beautiful sister her good sense telling her that if olive was not intended for him it was wrong to allow her to continue her but for the moment the consideration of her own misfortunes absorbed her was there nothing in life for a girl but marriage and was marriage no more than a gratification did a man seek nothing but a beautiful body that he could kiss and enjoy did a man s desires never turn to with one who could with his hopes comfort him in his fears and united by that most profound and penetrating of all � that of the soul � be in life s work could no man love as she did she was ready to allow that marriage owned a material as well as a spiritual aspect and that neither could be overlooked some therefore though their souls were as beautiful as the day were from purely physical causes from entering into the marriage state was such a one now what are you thinking about p i do not know nothing in particular one doesn t know always of what one is thinking tell me what they are saying downstairs but i have told you that captain pre by muslin my hair like this and i asked you if you thought he was right but you hardly looked yes i did olive i think the fashion suits you you won t tell anybody that i told you he kissed me oh i had forgotten about lord he f has been fired at lord returned from and he brought the evening paper with him it is full of bad news what news v asked with a view to escaping from questions and olive told her a s house had been broken into by an armed gang they dragged him out of his bed and shot him in the legs before his own door and an attempt has been made to blow up a landlord s house with and in queen s county shots have been fired through a dining room window � now what else i am telling you a lot i don t often remember what is in the paper no end of were burnt last week and some cattle have had their tails cut off and a great many people have been beaten lord says he doesn t know how it will all end unless the government bring in a act what do you think dropped some formal remarks and olive hoped that the state of the country would not affect the castle s season she didn t know which of the st girls would be married first she asked to guess said she couldn t guess and fell to thinking that nobody would ever want to marry her it was as if some instinct had told her and she could not drive the word out of her ears it seemed to her that she w by muslin as that odious lord would say she did not remember that she had ever been so unhappy before and it seemed to her that she would always be unhappy d but to her surprise she awoke in a more cheerful mood and when she came down to breakfast mr raised his head from the newspaper and asked her if she had heard that lord had been fired at yes father olive told me so and the conversation turned on her headache and then on the state of ireland mrs asked if this last outrage would prove sufficient to force the government to pass a new bill i wish they would put me at the head of an army mr said whose thoughts had gone back to his the of the t papa would look fine leading the against the tenants dressed in caesar s big red cloak cried mrs turning back as she glided out of the room already deep in consideration of what would like to eat for luncheon and the gown she would wear that afternoon mr threw the newspaper aside and returned to his and in the girls room olive and the bland soft smiling maid began their morning gossip whatever subject was started it generally wound round to captain had wearied of his name but this morning she pricked up her ears she was surprised to hear her sister say she had forbidden him ever to visit the by muslin at that moment the dull sound of distant firing broke the stillness of the snow i took good care to make captain promise not to go to this shooting party the last time i saw him and what harm was there in his going to this shooting party said what harm i suppose miss you have heard what kind of woman mrs is ask you shouldn t talk in this way olive we know well enough that mrs was not a lady before she married but nothing can be said against her since � oh can t there indeed you never heard the story about her and her steward ask oh don t miss you shouldn t really said the maid what will miss think � never mind what she thinks you tell her about the steward and all the officers from and then mrs s were talked of until the bell rang for lunch and mrs had just passed into the dining room and noticed that his eyes often wandered in the direction of the walking up and down the terrace he returned more frequently than was necessary to the attempt made on lord life and it was a long time before mrs could persuade him to drop a french at last in answer to her allusions	15
on the next day that same note with a perfect one for five hundred pounds is shown to us with an intimation of the fact we look at every letter � we trace every line � follow every flourish we hold both up to the light � we our with the waves of the water mark we confess that we cannot pronounce but we have an opinion derived from a slight in the fine stroke of the figure that no is the so indeed it was yet the bank had picked it out from lie hundred genuine notes as � upon it as rapidly as if it had been printed with green ink upon card board bank note this then gentlemen and sporting note is the kind of odds which is against you a minute of the note assured us of your exceeding skill and ingenuity but it also convinced us of the superiority of the ordeal which you have to blind and to pass in this instance you had followed the s plan and had put with great cunning the additional marks to the in to make it into a to hide the out of the top or of the figure � to make the angle from which to draw the fine line of the � you had inserted with a pen the figures ib as if that sum had been received from a person bearing a name that you had written above you had with extraordinary neatness cut out the from and filled up the hole with an abstracted from some note of lesser value you had fitted it with remarkable precision � only you had not got the quite upright enough to pass the shrewd glance of the bank we have seen a one pound note made up of pieces of a hundred other bank notes and on a piece of paper like a note that had been accidentally torn so as to present an entire and whole to alter with a pen a into a is an easy task � to cut out the from the date in one note and it into another needs only a in paper cutting but to change the special by which each note is distinguished is a feat only second in impossibility to every court card of every suit six times running in a rubber of yet we have seen a note so cleverly altered by this expedient that it was actually paid by the bank if the reader will take a bank note out of his purse and examine its number he will at at once appreciate the combination of chances required to find on other note any other figure that shall any one of the bank note so as to avoid detection the number of � very bank note is printed twice on one line � first on the words i promise secondly on the words or bearer sometimes the figures cover the whole of those words � sometimes they only partly obscure them no now lies before us suppose we � to substitute the of another note for the first of the one now under our eye we see that the covers a little bit of the p and in three places the r in promise now to give this alteration the smallest chance we must look through hundreds of other notes till we find an which not only covers a part of the p and the r in three places but in precisely the same places as the on our note does else the strokes of those letters would not meet when the was let in and instant detection would but even then the job would only be half done the second stands upon the or in or bearer and we should have to investigate several hundred more notes to find an that that little word exactly in the same manner and then let it in with such that not the part of a hair s breath of the transferred paper should fail to range with the rest of the letters and figures on the altered note to say nothing of hiding the in the paper this is the triumph of dexterity it is a species of patch work far beyond the most sublime achievements of old patch himself time has proved that the steady perseverance of the bank � despite the most � in gradually improving their original note and thus preserving those most essential qualities simplicity and � has been a better to than any one of the hundreds of plans pictures and colors which have been forced upon the bank note notice whole note is nearly extinct the lives of eminent need only wait for a single for only one man is left who can claim superiority oyer and he was for the bank of england bom a little too late to trip up his heels or those of the late mr charles price he can do everything with a note that the and and can do and a great deal more as a bank note is to a proverb he can split it into three perfect continuous flat and even he has more than one design sent into the bank as an in to you may if you like lend him a hundred pound note he will undertake to discharge every trace of ink from it and return it to you perfectly and a per feet blank we are not quite sure that if you were to bum a bank note and hand him the black that he would not it and join it and it back again into a very piece of but we are sure of the truth of the following story which we have from our friend the referred to and who is no other than the chief of the and department of the bank of england � some years in the days of the thirty notes � a	8
and the would take out specimens from all the different portions of it then they would pile up the again and put the on over them as you would put an on a candle and finally after turning it over once more they would put it on the head and bind it all up again tight and secure with poles which they nailed in and around it the would then roll the in holland of the east queer signs off in order to put it on a cart and take it away the whole operation was performed with a degree of regularity and that was quite surprising the whole work of opening the examining it thoroughly weighing it selecting specimens and putting it up again was accomplished in less time than it has taken me here to describe it there were a great many other operations of this sort that arrested the attention of mr george and as they walked along the streets much of the which they saw thus landing from the ships or going on board of them was of great value and the ships in which it came were of immense size such as are engaged in the east india trade mr george said that they were the kind that he had often read about in history under the name of dutch east was very much amused at the signs over the doors of the shops in those streets where there were shops and in the efforts that he made to interpret them there was one which read s mr george said must mean for ships he was helped however somewhat in making this translation by observing what was exhibited in the windows of the shop and at the door there was another in which did not require any help to en walks about and mr dutch able him to it it was und thee another at first perplexed him it was this und s but by seeing that the place was a sort of blacksmith s shop that it must mean house and ship that is that it was a place for blacksmith s work for houses and ships over one of the doors was und s mr george said that br da was a place not � a r from and that the last part of the sign must mean house for selling beer then concluded that the first word must mean something connected with there was another en at first could not make any thing of this but on looking at the window he saw a painting of a horse s head with a handsome bridle upon it and a saddle on one side so he concluded it must mean a trunk and saddle he was the more convinced of the of this from the fact that the word for trunk or box in french is amused himself a long time in in this way the signs that he saw in the streets and he succeeded so well in it that ho told mr george that he believed he could learn the dutch language very easily if he were going to stay for any considerable time in holland ik holland wooden shoes bridges toll another thing tiiat much was to see the wooden shoes that were worn by the common people in the streets these shoes appeared to to be yer j large and clumsy the little wore and the noise that they made about the pay ments with them was yery id a great many places where the each other there were bridges leading the these bridges were of a yery construction they were all draw bridges and as boats and were continually passing along the it became necessary to raise them in order to let the go the machinery for ing these bridges and letting th em down again was yery curious and and mr e were both glad when in coming to the bridge they found it was up as it them an to watch the of passing the through boat and that went through had a toll to pay and the manner of collecting this toll was not the least singular part of the whole while the bridge was up and when the boat had passed nearly through the or as the case might be � for one half the boats and seemed to be by walks about for money the narrow draw the women � would get the money ready and then the who stood on the of the bridge would swing out to the boat one of the wooden shoes above described which was suspended by a long line from the end of a pole like a fishing pole the would swing out this shoe over the boat that was passing as a boy would swing his hook and out the water if he were going to catch fish the in the boat would take hold of it when it came within his reach and put the money into the toe of it the would then draw it in and taking out the money would carry it to his toll house which was a small building not bi er than a box that stood on the close by in one case came to a l� ridge which instead of being made to be raised entirely had only a narrow part in tiie centre just wide enough for the and of the ship to go through that could be moved when this part was lifted up to let a vessel pass it made only a very narrow opening such as a boy might jump across very easily in some places where the passing and of ships was very great there was a instead of a bridge in these cases there was a flat boat to pass to and from one side a in holland a sheet of water scenes in to the other with a pretty little landing of	22
a load noise the blood mounted to his very his lips parted widely and having almost shouted out � it s i knew she d be here he suddenly made a spring to clear the back of the ly no impulse to escape dictated the action he wanted to e � � from the floor of the and clasp her in his arms � and that was all and doubtless in his vigorous and thrice strength he must have succeeded in his wild attempt but that the sleeve of one arm and the hand of another became on the sharp which surmounted the formidable barrier before him thus cruelly however he was easily secured and instantly let down through a trap in the bottom of the dock to his condemned cell continuing till his voice was lost in the depths beneath us to call out ma i hastened with many others into the body of the court and there learned from her father and mother and other friends the be d by h a peasant s love lier and tlie lad they were to have been married at this did not my interest in my attorney joined me and we t of all possible efforts to obtain a of sentence after a parents had forced her out of the on the to their home ail her entreaties to be led into the jail and � married we thought of hearing what the wounded policeman might say but he was fourteen miles distant where the had occurred and even though his evidence might be favorable we knew we must be prepared to forward it to as the judge would leave our town that day we set to work however mounted two good horses and within three hours learned from the lips of the man that the who had fired at him was an elderly and ill favored fellow it was our next business to convey our new evidence into the town we did so in a carriage borrowed from the person whose house had been attacked he was confronted with all the prisoners we him to say nothing that might give a false hope to the object of onr interest � but after leaving d by a peasant girl s love the tell he persisted in him from either killed bis comrade or and pointed out the among those who had not been pat on their thi was a good beginning an was soon which the policeman signed a few ni s the attorney helped in bis expenses for the road ly some friends my e if among tlie started for as fast t four horses gallop out of the allowed to the condemned to prepare foi had already elapsed oar good attorney must now do the best he within thirty seven hours � it was fearful not to leave an to to calculate t me when it would he into eternity but we had good i it horses did not fail on the road and returning and if the and after him the lord could be rapidly approached it was a thing to be done tf however � i scarce slept a wink h the night early i called on the clergyman it wai to visit the poor lad in his condemned d by a s love cell he and i had been school and he was a young man of most character he tow me his poor penitent was not to die nor did be dread the fate before notwithstanding bis utter anguish of heart at bo sudden and terrible a parting from young i the hopes we had and asked the clergyman s as to the propriety of the lads agony by a slight of them my reverend friend would not hear of such a thing his con science did not permit him it was his he said his sacred duty to allow nothing to the mind and heart of his penitent from resignation to his lot and should he give him a hope of life and then see that hope dashed he would have helped to kill a human sou not to save one i gave up the point and endeavored to seek occupations and amusements to turn my thoughts from one subject which absorbed and them but in vain and when night came i had less sleep than on the t early on the second morning i took a wa k into the country along the vaguely hoping to meet even so early our zealous d by s to us with a li te streaming from the window of that idea liad got mj lead hke a picture and would every moment i met him not i lingered on the road i car i our twelve � the had bnt an hour to live i looked towards the il wh he had been removed for � the black dig wag waving over its drop door once more along the road i ran as fist as i towards the jail at the iron of its outer yard i wa scarce conscious of the multitude who sat on a height t all hushed and silent or of the of at the gate til one of them me way i the to convey my name to the governor of the prison and was admitted first into the yard then hy the door ai d along a of pillars connected with iron work at either hand into the inner courts of the jail the guard room was under the execution room and both formed a building in themselves separated from the main pile the of which i have spoken leading from one to the other � what had sent me where i d by now found myself was an to the whom i knew and who was necessarily m the jail to the condemned to the door of the execution room for some short of the fatal moment he came	50
with music and sometimes with conversation i am sure miss must have found the evening pleasant you left nothing undone i was glad you made her play so much for having no instrument at her grandmother s it must have been a real indulgence i am happy you approved said smiling but i hope i am not often deficient in what is due to guests at no my dear said her father instantly that i am sure you are not there is nobody half so attentive and civil as you are if any thing you are too attentive the last night if it had been handed round once i think it would have been enough no said mr nearly at the same time you are not often deficient not often deficient either in manner or comprehension i think you understand me therefore an arch look expressed � i understand you well enough but she said only miss is reserved i always told you she was � a little but you will soon overcome all that part of her reserve which ought to be overcome all that has its foundation in what arises from discretion must be honoured you think her i do not see it my dear said he moving from his chair into one close by her you are not going to tell me i hope that you had not a pleasant evening oh no i was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions and amused to think how little information i obtained i am disappointed was his only answer i o l hope body bad a pleasant said in bis quiet way i bad once i tbe fire too but i moved back my a little a very uttle and it did not disturb me was very and good as always is too quick however is very agreeable and mrs too in a different way i like old friends and miss jane is a very pretty sort of young lady a very pretty and a very well young lady indeed must found uie evening agreeable mn because she bad true sir and because bad miss saw bis anxiety and to it at least for tbe present said and witb a sincerity no one could question � is a sort of elegant creature tbat one cannot keep one s eyes from am always ber to admire and i do pity ber from my mr looked as if he were more gratified than be cared to express and before he could make any reply mr whose thoughts were on the s said � it is a great pity that their circumstances should be so con a great pity indeed and i have often wished � but it is so little one can venture to do � small trifling of any thing uncommon now we have killed a and thinks of sending them a or a leg it is very small and pork is not like any other pork � but still it is pork � and my dear unless one could be sure of their making it into nicely as ours are without the smallest and not roast it for no stomach can bear roast pork � i think we had better send the do not you think so my dear my dear papa i sent tiie whole hind quarter i knew you would wish it there be the leg to be you know which is so very nice and the to be dressed directly in any manner they like t l that s right my dear very right i had not thought of it before but that was the best way they must not the leg and then if it is not over and if it is very thoroughly boiled just as ours and eaten very of with a boiled and a little or i do not consider it said mr presently i have a piece of news for you you like news � and i heard an article in my way hither that i think will interest you news i oh yes i always hke news what is it � why do you smile so � where did you hear it � at he had time only to say � no not at i have not been near � when the door was thrown open and miss and miss walked into the room full of thanks and full of news miss knew not which to give mr soon saw that he had lost his moment and that not another syllable of communication could rest with him oh my dear sir how are you this morning my dear miss � i come quite overpowered such a beautiful hind quarter of pork you are too i have you heard the news mr is going to be married had not had time even to think of mr and she was so completely surprised that she could not avoid a little start and a little blush at the sound there is my news � i thought it would interest you said mr with a smile which implied a conviction of some part of what had passed between them but where could you hear it cried miss where could you possibly hear it mr for it is not five since i received mrs s note � no it cannot be more than five � or at least ten � for i had got my bonnet and on just ready to come out � i was only gone down to speak to again about the pork � jane was standing in the were not you jane for my mother was so afraid that we had not any pan large enough so i said i would go down and see and jane said shall i go down instead for i think you have a little cold and has been washing the kitchen � h my dear said i � well and just then came	26
the church yard before his grave was green and yet what bond of union could possibly exist between the haughty lord and the humble he surrounded by luxury and wealth yet suspended but for a few brief moments above the gloomy grave and she a simple country maiden apparently pursuing her homely path with patient steps yes there was a bond them the bond of sympathy felt and acknowledged by both sympathy of taste and thought and feeling sympathy of high purpose and noble sentiment sympathy which no difference of rank or station can subdue sympathy in the inward of the spirit which struggled in vain to support its own existence clinging in its weakness to the of earth and again and again the offer of that hand which alone is mighty to save it was in the cheerful month of june that the noble invalid and the young artist sat together at an open window during the quiet morning hours before the hall was disturbed by and while the dew was yet upon the grass for now they found both time and inclination to converse and lord cast his melancholy eyes upon the clear landscape the blue hills the shining river the green slopes and the deep shadows of the trees but neither the fair landscape nor the scent of summer flowers the hum o bees nor the song of merry birds brought gladness to his soul for he was losing his firm step upon the earth and looking almost his last upon the smiling flowers and listening to the birds that would soon be their happy flight above his grave you will be here said he as if continuing the mournful train of his you will be here when summer comes again and i he paused and looked earnestly at words were upon her lips which might have been in such an hour but she dared not utter them how did her spirit to answer and you will be in heaven all that woman can say with eyes that shine through tears was written in her countenance but she made no audible reply and her companion went on quoting the words of i am egypt dying a fatal malady is upon my heart yet i brave it out to the world and none but my faithful knows that i endure any other than bodily suffering even he knows not the cause but to you i will confess that when i think of forth the boundless ocean of eternity i fed like a fearful child about to enter upon a region of impenetrable darkness in my ride the other day i saw a poor woman sitting at the door of her cottage reading her bible and oh how i envied the hall and the cottage that humble creature upon what to her were the words of eternal truth the same book said is open to all and it is the perfection of that volume that its sacred truths are equally its moral equally serviceable and its religious equally available to the high and the low the rich and the poor the happy and the miserable lord shook his head my mother forced me when a child to learn long lessons from the bible as a punishment when i did wrong and i have never been able o read it since if you would but try my lord said will you read it to replied his and then he smiled as dying men have no right to smile i would do anything said in her own manner to make you less melancholy less and i would were it possible for me to be in raising your thoughts to a in those hopes which alone are able to support the soul in its hour of mortal trial how is this said lord and while he spoke and looked earnestly at tears burning tears were in his eyes and he stretched forth his thin and wasted hand and grasped her arm with something of energy my course through this world has been short and eccentric winning the wonder of the many and the love of the few had i not beneath the shallow surface of profession my vanity might have in yet have i never known from my cradle until this hour one friend who cared about my soul � has been very unfortunate amongst the first of earthly blessings which heaven bestowed upon me was a faithful friend a friend whose counsel and kindness have been as a light upon my path and will vou be this friend to me impossible my lord why impossible because you are a man noble and wealthy and accomplished and i am a woman young and poor and and for these qualities i love you better and surely for those you cannot respect me the less my lord tliat very weakness which your tenderness and that dignity which me into respect are with the fair and nature of friendship then call it love if you will it matters little what name is given to an intimacy like ours to be dissolved in a few brief moments but oh do not leave me to myself come often sit with me till you are weary and above all things tell me how to make death less horrible ah you are going again going to gather roses and sit within your sunny bower and listen to the birds that overhead and feel the breath of summer fan your blooming cheek and think not of the weary hours that i am spending indeed why should i am nothing to you i can be nothing and have no right to trouble you with my fruitless held out one hand while with the other she concealed her face and wishing the miserable invalid a good morning went her way to muse upon the various branches bearings of the word a word so important in the of the that it appears to	41
you asked little in a low tone as soon as the boat was out of hail of the ship for he had decided to be polite instead of violent what money asked the rather to encourage the little villain to talk than to obtain information that bag of gold replied little his oar and taking a seat on the cushions near the � i haven t it we can t go without that added little earnestly we must have money certainly j e must responded the willing to give the rogue all the rope he needed between you and me i know where it is added little of course he did and actually trembled with delight when he saw the scheme working so well as he believed little had said enough already to condemn him and the was satisfied that the gold was in the where is it asked with an eagerness which he had no occasion to assume ril tell you but i can t stop to explain the whole thing now my honor i you had the palace and cottage or bag or i shouldn t have said so come np here and take my oar added little calling to one of his associates under the middle board the knight thus addressed crawled out from under the and took his place at the stroke oar what does that mean asked astonished at this addition to his crew five more of our fellows wanted to go with us and themselves in the bottom of the boat answered little you may come out fellows it is all right now the found he had gone into the business deeper than he intended but he was not appalled only surprised at the increase of his crew now where is the money he inquired nervously when the had disposed of themselves in various parts of the do you know in the yes well he has it in his charge replied little as though he was giving his interested companion the most important and valuable information in the world which in the estimation of the it actually was but is on shore with the rest of his crew he is but the gold is not where is it then on board of the and before we go up the river we must pay her a visit we shall have a bully time do you know where she lays certainly i do v replied who was not young america in france and i i exactly satisfied with the intelligence he received isn t the gold in the no sir said little decidedly i supposed it was you were mistaken i know exactly where it is concealed on board of the where asked no you don t exclaimed the little villain who ever ready to play a trick was always on the for one i shall not give you any chance to back out you agreed to go with us i am with you then steer for the and we will get the money the was in doubt and while he was thinking of the matter little whistled as as though he had no interest in his decision you must say quick said he after a pause if you don t want to go with us i am willing to give it up but i am afraid we shall never see the gold again if we don t get it to night how came by it asked i ll explain that after we get the money it would not make a delay of more than ten or fifteen minutes to visit the and decided to let the rogue have his own way he was on the right track to obtain the bag which possibly was on board of the and the other boats would wait at the for him the put the about and little felt that he had won the victory we are all in the same boat can t you tell me now how happens to have this bag of gold palace and cottage or asked you see it is a matter of more consequence to me than to any other fellow for i have been accused of concealing it what difference does it make to you now if you are going in with us demanded little i am curious to know how i got mixed up in the scrape when i didn t know anything at all about the matter explained but you asked me a� soon as we got off from the ship if i had the gold that was only to open the subject i knew you hadn t it then but how came it aboard the ship yesterday handed it to who hid it under your berth do you know anything about the bag demanded suddenly i do replied the addressed do you added to the stroke what bag asked no he knows nothing about it interposed little no one but does i think this matter is a good deal mixed said the ril tell you about it since you are so suspicious i m not suspicious i m only curious to know how the thing was charged upon me i didn t know myself till we went ashore to day continued the ever ready little liar the on the told me he gave the bag to the man in � boat i suppose he meant i didn t know then that any other boat than ours had been young america in france and i near him but it appears that the s first had tried to haul him in and the money was handed to her took care of it for him but after th in the ship yesterday he gave it back little did not care whether hip companion believed this story or not if he would only keep still ten minutes more unfortunately the did keep still he wa intent upon finding th bag of gold and	36
did not answer one word this was the hardest blow of all i m much obliged to you for being so friendly she said after a few minutes looking before her now in a d sort of way and lifting the new coat from the floor where it had fallen yes he s dead to me � worse than dead a good deal and her lip quivered i can t seem to bring my thoughts to bear i ve got so used to � no don t you say to the folks yet i d do as much for you and mrs knew that the smitten fellow creature before her spoke the truth and f two or three days came and went and with marsh every hour the quiet simple hearted woman felt more grieved and unsteady in mind and body such a of news rarely falls into a human life she could not sleep she wandered to and fro in the little house and cried until she could cry no longer then a great rage and excited her she would go to and call lane to account she would accuse him face to face and the woman whom he was deceiving as perhaps he had deceived her should know the and cowardice of this miserable man so dressed in her respectable sunday clothes in the gray bonnet and shawl that never had known any journeys except to meeting or to a country funeral or quiet lane trusted herself for the first time to the bewildering railway to the temptations and dangers of the wide world outside the bounds of two or three days later still the quaint thin figure familiar in flitted down the street of a provincial town in the most primitive region of china this woman could hardly have felt a greater sense of foreign life and strangeness at another time marsh her native good sense and shrewd observation would hav delighted in the experiences of first week of travel but she was too sternly angry and too deeply plunged in a survey of her own calamity to take much notice of what was going on about her later she condemned the unworthy folly of the whole errand but in these days the impulse to seek the and him was the s wife a kindly creature had urged this guest to wit and rest and eat some supper but refused and without asking her way left the brightly lighted little public room where curious eyes already offended her and went out into the damp twilight the voices of the street boys sounded and she felt more and more lonely she longed for to appear for protection s sake she forgot why she sought him and was eager to shelter herself behind the of his manhood she herself presently with terrible bitterness for a wonder whether he would say why girl and be glad to see her poor woman it was a work laden serious that had been hers at any rate the marsh power of giving her whole self in unselfish enthusiastic patient devotion had not belonged to her youth only it had sprung fresh and in her heart as every new year came and went one might have seen her stealing through the shadows the edge of a lumber yard stepping among the refuse of the harbor side asking a question timidly now and then of some by yes they knew lane � his house was only a little way off and one curious and compassionate by some inner sense the exciting nature of the errand turned back and offered to go with the stranger you know the man he asked he is his own enemy but doing better now that he is married he minds his work i know that well but he s taken a good wife s heart beat faster with honest pride for a moment until the shadow of the ugly truth and reality made it sink back to and the fire of her rage wa again kindled she would speak to face to face before she slept and a horrible contempt and scorn were for him as with a glance either way marsh along the road she entered the narrow yard and went noiselessly toward the window of a low poor looking house from whence a bright light was shining out into the night yes there was and it seemed as if she must faint and fall at the sight of him how young he looked still the thought smote her like a blow they never were mates for each other and she her own life was she was an old woman he never had been so and respectable before the other woman ought to know the savage truth about him for all that i but at that moment the other woman stooped beside the supper table and lifted a baby from its cradle and put the dear live little thing into its father s arms the baby as wide awake and laughed at who laughed back again and it reached up to catch at a handful of the curly hair which had been poor s delight the other woman stood there looking at them f of pride and love she was young and and neat she looked a brisk efficient little creature perhaps would make something of himself now he always marsh had it in him the tears were running down s cheeks the rain too had begun to f all she stood there watching the little household sit down to supper and noticed with eager envy how well cooked the food was and how the master of the house ate what was put before him all thoughts of ending the new wife s sin and folly vanished away she could not enter in and break another heart hers was broken already and it would not matter and lane a widow indeed crept away again as silently as she had	40
to telegraph home telling them to wire back what hotel she had written from possibly she did not like to do this anyway she wandered about the streets hour after hour not daring to ask her way not indeed knowing what way to ask she had not much money with her and at last she fell asleep upon a bench in the road there a policeman found her and to him she confided her story he took her to the station and the next morning she was restored to her husband who had been wandering about half the night in search of her imagining that she had committed suicide or run away with somebody else or something of the kind i am quite sure that my wife has not run away with anybody else said with a confident laugh i think it most probable that she has met with an accident and is lying in some london hospital you were on good terms when you parted from her my dear sir said i have never been on anything but good terms with my wife that is good hearing said the private brightly he had his own theory on the subject and his theory was certainly not that the price of a wife mrs had met with an accident if your wife had met with an accident and had recovered her senses she would have communicated with you yes that is so i have to my to find out whether there were any letters or message at home for me bidding him send on letters or wire to me at once you have had no reply i could not have a reply my place is several miles from a telegraph office i must give them time to get the to the house and back again and you would be addressed at my club if you have any letter or wire you will let me know at once certainly well my dear sir i don t think that i can help you further at this moment i will take steps to have all the police stations and searched what was your wife wearing oh � and then stopped short and looked at his � oh well the fact is she was wearing a gray dress and cloak and a bonnet with a gray veil he went on rather gray dress � gray cloak � bonnet with a gray veil repeated mr then looked at with a bland expression that sounds like a nurse s dress my wife was in nurse s dress look here i ll tell you all about it my father was a very rich man and several years ago he made up his mind that i must marry a woman with money i met my wife � at least my wife nursed me through a bad hunting accident and as i knew that it was perfectly hopeless to appeal to my father i married her quietly er � i was staying with my father a few weeks ago and he was taken ill i couldn t get a nurse an � you know the there has been � and i to my wife to come as his nurse oh i see and she did yes she came and was the successful not at first � no then my father seemed to take to her she was a perfect angel of patience of course murmured mr the price of a wife and he was very difficult to do for and at last he got so that he would hardly have anybody else about him but still we felt that it would never do to make him of our actual relations in fact he almost quarrelled with me because i would not propose to a certain lady and i went back to my regiment leaving my wife in charge of the case and my father eventually died did he die suddenly well yes at least it was almost sudden but he was so very ill that it was little more than a question of time according to his doctor he had made a point of my wife s taking a drive every afternoon and the under keeper s mother a very respectable person sat with him while she was gone she always stayed with him while my wife got her proper sleep � or i should more truly say some sleep � and that afternoon when she came in she found that he had sent the woman down to have tea in the hall and when she came to look closer she found that my father was dead i see and you have come in for the property i have come in for the bulk of the property i am the elder son then your wife left park before you yes i wished to join her at home and to bring her back as my wife i didn t see the necessity of servants and everybody knowing that she had been my wife all along naturally not very naturally not said the was your wife much upset oh so � upset returned she reproached herself most bitterly that we had in a measure deceived the old man and declared that she should never be happy again and a good deal more to the same effect of course not as between her and me naturally not returned mr well mr i will do the best i can if your wife is in london i will that we shall find her possibly you will have a letter or a during the course of the day such as will set all your doubts and fears at rest i hope so i am sure with all my heart i the price of a wife hope so and be sure that you let me know if you do have any news and if i want you where shall i find you at the army and navy	30
where i was to have my american order for money and then after a short walk in a narrow street we were at the office of where i caught my first glimpse of an english business house it was very different from an american house of the same kind for it was in an old and dark building of not more than four stories � and set down in a narrow angle off the strand and lighted by small lead windows which in america would strongly of days in fact we have scarcely any such buildings left s private offices were on the second floor up a small dingy staircase and the room itself was so small that it surprised me by its i could not call it dingy it was quaint rather in its atmosphere with a small open fire glowing in one corner a great desk entirely o a at forty out of keeping with the place in another a table a a number of photographs of framed and the rest books i think he for or explained the difference between this and the average american business house but i do not think explanations are in order london is london i should be sorry if it were exactly like new york as it may yet become the and appealed to me as a fit atmosphere for a healthy business i should say here that this preliminary trip to london from level so far as was concerned was intended to accomplish three things first to give me a preliminary glimpse of london second to see that i was measured and examined for certain articles of clothing in which i was according to lacking and third to see that i attended the concert of a certain singer whose singing he thought i might enjoy it was most important that i should go because he had to go and since all that i did or could do was merely for my mill i was delighted to accompany him in many respects i wish to repeat here is one of the most delightful persons in the world he is a sort of modern beau with literary artistic and he loves order and refinement of course � things in their proper ways and places � as he loves life i suspect him at times of being somewhat of a in home and office matters but i am by no means sure that i am not doing him a grave injustice a more even well and soul who to get his way in some fashion or other if it takes him years to do it i never met he surely has the patience of fate and i think the true charity of a great heart now before i could be properly presented in london and elsewhere i needed a long a glimpse of london i list of things so this morning i had much to attend to since the matter of english and american money had been troubling me from the moment i reached that stage on my voyage where i began to pay for things out of my own pocket to the ship s servants i began complaining of my difficulties now i could n t figure out the tips to my own satisfaction and this irritated me i remember urging to make the whole matter clear to me which he did later he gave me a statement as to the relative value of the various pieces and what tips i should pay and how and when at hotels and country houses and this i followed here it is in leaving the hotel to give the following tips maid gold i porter who looks after i outside man i if you reckon at a hotel to give d a day to the maid and the with a of i you will be doing handsomely on a visit on the supposition that they have only maids give the two maids whom you are likely to come across each when you come away on monday i am speaking of longer periods should be figured at d a day if on the other hand it is a large establishment � butler and footman � you would have to give the butler and the footman for a week end for longer periods more i cannot imagine anything more interesting than being introduced as i was by to the social character of london he was so intelligent and so very nice about it all now first he said we will get your glasses mended and then you want a bag and then some ties and and so on i have an appointment a at forty with you at your tailor s at eleven o clock where you are to be measured for your and at eleven thirty at your s where you are to be measured for your fur coat and so on and so forth well come along we ll be off i have to smile when i think of it for i of all people am the least given to this matter of proper dressing and self and within reasonable limits represents the other extreme to him as i have said these things are exceedingly important the delicate manner in which he indicated and urged me into getting the things which would be all right without openly on them was most pleasing in england you know he would hint it is n t quite good form to wear a heavy striped tie with a frock coat � never a straight black and we never tie them in that fashion � always a simple knot my had to be striped for morning wear and my winged else i was in very bad form indeed i fell into the habit of asking what now london streets and shops as i first saw them interested me greatly i saw at once more than one would ordinarily see in new	43
not i indeed i have had enough of the family for one morning why child i have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother such a penance as i have been enduring while you were sitting here so composed and so happy it might have been as well perhaps if you had been in my place but you always contrive to keep out of these this was a most unjust reflection but could allow for it and let it pass was vexed and her temper was hasty but she felt that it would not last and therefore taking no notice only asked her if she had not seen mr yes yes we saw him he was away as if upon life and death and could but just spare time to tell us his errand and where you all were it is a pity that he should so trouble for nothing m that is miss concern i am not obliged to punish myself for her sins the mother i not avoid as as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with the housekeeper but the son i can get away from and she immediately scrambled across the fence and walked away not attending to s last question of whether she had seen any thing of miss and the sort of dread in which now sat of seeing mr prevented her thinking so much of their continued absence however as she might have done she felt that he had been very ill used and was quite unhappy in having to communicate what had passed ha joined her within five minutes after s exit and though she made the best of the story he was and displeased in no common degree at first he scarcely said any thing his looks only expressed his extreme surprise and vexation and he walked to the gate and stood there without seeming to know what to do they desired me to stay � my cousin maria charged me to that you find them at that or i do not believe i shall go any further said he sullenly see nothing of them by the time i get to the ihey may be gone else i have bad walking enough and he sat down with a most gloomy countenance by i am very sorry said she it is very unlucky and � he longed to be able to say something more to the purpose after an interval of silence i thing they might as well have staid for me said he miss thought you would follow her i should not have had to follow her if she had staid this not be denied and was silenced another pause he went on pray miss are you such a great admirer of this mr as some people are f my part i can see nothing in him i do not think him at all handsome handsome can call such an under sized man handsome he is not foot nine i should not wonder if he not vi than five foot eight i think he is au ill park looking fellow in my opinion these are no tion at all we did very well without them a small sigh escaped here and she did not know how to contradict him if i had made any about the key there might have been some excuse but i went the very moment she said she wanted it nothing could be more obliging than your manner i am and i dare say you walked as fast as you could but still it is some distance you know from this spot to the house quite into the house and when people are waiting they are bad judges of time and every half minute seems like five he got up and walked to the gate again and wished he had had the key about him at the time thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of which encouraged her to another attempt and she said therefore it is a pity you should not join them they expected to have a better view of the house from that part of the park and will be thinking how it may be improved and nothing of that sort you know can be settled without you she found herself more successful in sending away than in retaining a companion mr was worked on well said he if you really think i had better go it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing and letting himself out he walked off without further ceremony s thoughts were now all engrossed by the two who had left her so long ago and getting quite impatient she resolved to go in search of them she followed their steps along the bottom walk and had just turned up into another when the voice and the laugh of miss once more caught her ear the sound approached and a few more brought them before her they were just returned into the wilderness from the park to which a side gate not fastened had tempted them very soon after their leaving her and they had been across a portion of the park into the very avenue � which had been hoping the whole morning to reach at last and had been sitting down under one of the trees this was their history it was evident that they had been spending their time pleasantly and were not aware of the length of their absence s best consolation was in being assured that had wished for her very much and that he should certainly have come back for her ha d she not been tired already but this was not quite sufficient to do away the pain of having been left a whole hour when he bad talked of only a few minutes nor to banish the sort of curiosity she felt to know what they had been conversing about all that time and the	26
the river s brink and stood in the midst of this night picture lonely and still looking at the water there were some boats and in the mud and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen i then signed to mr to remain where he was and emerged from their shade to speak to her i did not approach her without trembling for this gloomy end to her determined walk and the way in which she stood almost within the shadow of the iron bridge looking at the lights reflected in the strong tide inspired a dread within me i think she was talking to herself i am sure although absorbed david in gazing at the water that her shawl was off her shoulders and that she was her hands in it in an unsettled and bewildered way more like the action of a sleep than a waking person i know and never can forget that there was that in her wild manner which gave me no assurance but that she would sink before my eyes until i had her arm within my grasp at the same moment i said she uttered a terrified scream and struggled me with such strength that i doubt if i could have held her alone but a stronger hand than mine was laid upon her and when she raised her frightened eyes and saw whose it wa j she made but one more effort and dropped down between us we carried her away from tile water to where there were some dry stones and there laid her down crying and moaning in a little while she sat among the stones holding her wretched head with both her hands oh the river she cried passionately oh the river hush hush said i calm yourself but she still repeated the same words continually exclaiming oh the river over and over again i know it s like me she exclaimed i know that i belong to it i know that it s the natural company of such as i am it comes from country places w here there was once no harm in it � and it through the dismal streets and miserable � and it goes away like my life to a great sea that is always troubled � and i feel that i must go with it i have never known what despair was except in the tone of those words i can t keep away from it i can t forget it it haunts me day and night it s the only thing in all the world that i am fit for or that s fit for me oh the dreadful river the passed through my mind that in the face of my companion as he looked upon her without speech or motion i might have read his niece s history if i had known nothing of it i never saw in any painting or reality horror and compassion so blended he shook as if he would have fallen and his hand � i touched it with my own for liis appearance alarmed die � was deadly cold david she is in a state of frenzy i whispered to him she will speak in a httle time i don t know what he would have said in answer he made some motion with his mouth and seemed to think he had spoken but he had only pointed to her with his outstretched hand a new burst of crying came upon her now in which she once more hid her face among the stones and lay before us a prostrate e of humiliation and ruin knowing that this state must pass before we could speak to her with any hope i ventured to restrain him when he would have raised her and we stood by in silence until she became more tranquil said i then leaning down and helping her to rise � she seemed to want to rise as if with the intention of going away but she was weak and leaned against a boat do you know who this is who is with me she said faintly yes do you know that we have followed you a long way to night she shook her head she looked neither at him nor at me but stood in a attitude holding her bonnet and shawl in one hand without appearing conscious of them and pressing the other clenched against her forehead are you composed enough said i to speak on the subject which so interested you � i hope heaven may remember it � that snowy night her sobs broke out afresh and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door i want to say nothing for myself she said after a few moments i am bad i am lost i have no hope at all but tell him sir she had shrunk away from him if you don t feel too hard to me to do it that i never was in any way the cause of his misfortune it has never been attributed to you i returned earnestly to her earnestness it was you if i don t deceive myself she said in a broken voice that came into the kitchen the night she took such pity on me was so gentle to me didn t shrink away from me like all the rest and gave me such kind help was it you sir it was said i of the i of david i have been in the long ago she said glancing at it with a terrible expression if any wrong to her had been upon my mind i never could have kept out of it a single winter s night if i had not been free of any share in that the cause of her flight is too well understood i said you ai e innocent	8
how much more then is it proper to test those of our comrades in arms i should draw out if it may be done murmured in s ear the man is a noted and far above your strength came however of that sturdy saxon blood which is very slowly heated but once up not easily to be cooled the hint of danger which threw out was the one thing needed to his resolution i came here at the of my master he said and i looked on every man here as an englishman and a friend this gentleman hath shown me a rough welcome and if i have answered him in the same spirit he has but himself to thank i will pick the glove up but i shall abide by what i have done unless he first my pardon for what he hath said and done shrugged his shoulders you have done what you could to save him he said we had best settle at once so say i cried the council will not break up until the banquet a gray haired squire tou bi ve clear two hours and the the yard is empty at this hour nay it must not be within the grounds of the court or it may go bard with all if it come to the ears of the prince but there is a quiet spot near the river said one youth we have but to pass the abbey grounds along the wall past the church of st and so down the des ap then cried shortly and the whole assembly out into the open air save only those whom the special orders of their masters held to their posts these crowded to the small and their necks after the throng as far as they could catch a of them close to the bank of the there lay a little tract of green with the high wall of a prior s garden upon one side and an orchard with a thick of apple trees upon the other the river ran deep and swift up to the steep bank but there were few boats upon it and the ships were far out in the centre of the stream here the two drew their swords and threw off their for neither had any the with its stately etiquette had not yet come into but rough and sudden were as common as they must ever be when hot headed youth goes abroad with a weapon to its waist in such as well as in the formal sports of the had won a name for strength and dexterity which had caused to utter his well meant warning on the other band bad used his weapons in con exercise and practice for every day for many months and being by nature quick of eye and prompt of hand he might now as no mean a strangely opposed pair they appeared as they approached each other dark and stout and stiff with hairy chest and arms a model of and grace with bis hair and bis skin as fair as a woman s an unequal fight it seemed to most but there were a few and they the most experienced who saw something in the youth s steady gray eye and wary step which left the issue open hold hold cried ere blow had been struck this gentleman hath a two handed sword a good foot longer than that of our friend take mine said ford nay friends he answered i understand the weight and balance of mine own to work sir for our lord may need us s great sword was indeed a mighty in his favor he stood with his feet close together his knees bent outward ready for a dash inward or a spring out the weapon he held straight up in front of him with blade erect so that he might either bring it down with a swinging blow or by a turn of the heavy blade he might guard his own head and body a further protection lay in the broad and powerful guard which crossed the and which was furnished with a deep and narrow in which an expert might catch his s blade and by a quick turn of his wrist might snap it across on the other hand must trust for his defence to his quick eye and active foot � for his sword though keen as a could make it was of a light and graceful build with a narrow sloping and a steel well knew his advantage and lost little time in putting it to use as his opponent walked toward him he suddenly bounded forward and sent in a whistling cut i which would have severed the other in twain had he not sprung lightly back from it so close was it that the point a in the edge of his linen quick as a sprang in with a thrust bat who was as active as he was strong had already recovered himself and turned it aside with a movement of his heavy blade again he in a blow which made the spectators hold their breath and again very quickly and swiftly slid from under it and sent two lightning which the other could scarce so close were they to each other that had no time to spring back from the next out which beat down his sword and his forehead sending the blood streaming into his eyes and down his cheeks he sprang out beyond sword sweep and the pair stood breathing heavily while the crowd of young their applause bravely struck on both sides cried you have both won honor from this meeting and it would be sin and shame to let it go further you have done enough said you have carried yourself well cried several of the older for my part i have no wish to this young man said wiping his brow does this	4
difficulty greater than in the ordinary case of testimony in what does it differ the hardship of a to charge himself � what is that hardship wrong for if in the right there is no in what will aid or tend to aid the party uttering such testimony hardship the idea of on either side for if there is hardship in uttering the truth and it is uttered no follows and tiie other party being in the right his interests will best be promoted by the truth no questions are to be asked lest me party in the wrong should feel lest disturb the repose of fraud or bring dismay and terror to the hardship incident to the utterance of the truths the law of and to being in consequence thereof to perform what justice requires is the hardship too grievous to be borne the hardship of uttering the truth must not be permitted reluctance to answer hardship of answering what truly answered will lead to the performance of which otherwise would have been if sufficient reasons for from answering are much better reasons for from the performance of just as much better are they as is the performance more than the mere answering of inquiries if hardship should from answering the of performance should be a good bar to the claim for performance and to do right a reason for from the obligations of duty hardship ana never as reasons for if is hardship there is no if there is it is self serving there is not me hardship of a party s charging himself what is remarkable is that all this sympathy for hardship this dread of to the benefit and for the protection of the party in the right seeking has no to commit no hardship to endure in uttering his testimony the law fearing lest its in seeking to avoid his obligation might wound his conscience by a falsehood or his feelings by the truth him from w inquiry and thus renders the success of the wrong inevitable proof can be obtained from other sources the danger of from receiving tiie hardship of compelling the of those interested the general experience of mankind of the dangers arising from such testimony and the little reliance to be placed having been considered sufficient reasons for its it would seem impossible to conceive of any cases in which these reasons should be found for if the position be well founded that there is a probability of mischief from certain classes of testimony there can be no propriety in receiving testimony which ordinarily is found adverse to the truth but in fact however while the wisdom of the rule is assumed without foundation in practice it is found so utterly of right tiiat it is in instances without number indeed so many are these � so contradictory to the general rule and thereof � that were it not for the aid to be derived from the text books one would be at a loss to know which was the rule and which the exception the law of mr as he is with the principle of is none the less so with that of in his view as in that of every lover of the common law whatever is is ri ht exceptions utterly of a general rule founded in the highest are established it matters not to him he right onward and not a of his admiration of this development of conflicting and wisdom fraud trust and accident are the principal objects of that the has been guilty of fraud tiiat he has some trust in that he has taken some undue advantage of an accident are the ordinary of a bill and if the bill be sustained are true the peculiar boast of is its when the common law fails and this is to the virtues of its searching no one but a lawyer would conceive that resort to a court for its aid to compel the performance of what should have been done without its would be considered the best evidence of integrity on the part of the individual refusing or that it could be into an emphatic admission tiiat in that instance the party is worthy of credit and that his known integrity is a st against the danger of less would he suppose that under such circumstances integrity surpassing that of common witnesses would be of all the credit of witnesses is usually left to the intelligence and judgment of those who are to hear in the law measures and the of tiie in advance without reference to the truth or falsehood of his testimony in utter ignorance of all that can or from its weight it as uniformly exceeding the of one disinterested witness however great his integrity and that it shall always be regarded as true unless overcome by two witnesses or one witness and circumstances the party who would not be heard before a jury whose it would be thought dangerous for them to hear is to possess not merely average but all in by virtue of their portion in all tune past present and to come are to possess claims to while the is considered so unusually the the party wronged or that he is wronged is not even the in is no more than his brother the law of evidence at common law the in alone confidence whatever the danger in hearing parties that danger is increased when one is heard and under such peculiar circumstances the general rule in all cases of exceptions whether or common law seems to be this � increase the motive to and the danger of tiie for and remove the means of detection and an interested witness or party may be heard the of a party � and � uttered without the ordinary for misunderstood or are received while the party whose statements they are alleged to be is denied the opportunity of what is	37
but the of the exclamation him and the words called up thrilling memories of his own days when he had ridden his grandfather s horses in the famous hunting valley not a hundred miles from met his smile with a glow of understanding you like riding too i m sure i used to but i haven t been in the saddle for years factory don t keep hunters he said laughing her murmur of embarrassment showed that took this as an allusion to his reduced condition and in his haste to correct this impression he added if i regretted an thing in my other life it would certainly lie a gallop on a day like tliis but i chose my trade deliberately and i ve never been sorry for my choice � � the fruit of the tree he had hardly spoken when he felt the of this but her prompt response showed him a moment later that it was after all the way to his end you find the work interesting i m sure it must be you ll think me very ignorant � my husband and i came here so seldom i feel as if i ought to know so much more about it she explained at last the note for which he waited had been struck won t you try to � now you re here there s so much worth knowing he broke out mrs coloured but rather with surprise than displeasure i m very stupid � i ve no head for but i will to she said it s not business that i mean it s the personal � just the thing the business point of view leaves out i don t suppose your could be better run but there are over seven hundred women working in them and there s so much to be done just for them and their children he caught a faint hint of in her tone i have always understood that mr did everything flushed but he was beyond caring for the personal do you leave it to your little girl s nurses to do eveiy thing for her he asked her surprise seemed about to verge on annoyance the fruit op the tree he saw the of the woman who is put to the trouble of defending her dignity really i don t see � she began with distant politeness then her face changed and melted and again her blood spoke for her before her lips i am glad you told me that mr of course i want to do whatever i can i should like you to point out s resolve had been taken while she spoke he would point out would stretch his op to its limit all thoughts ot personal prudence were flung to the winds � her blush and tone had the waiting he would declare war on at once and take the chance of dismissal at least before he went he would have brought this exquisite creature face to face with the wrongs from which her luxuries were drawn and set in motion the impulses of indignation and pity he did not stop to weigh the permanent advantage of this course his only feeling was that the chance would never again be given him � that if he let her go away back to her usual life with eyes and heart untouched there would be no hope of her ever returning it was far better that he should leave for good and that she should come back as come l she must more and more often if once she could be made to feel the crying need ot her presence � the fruit of the tree but where was he to begin how give her even a glimpse of the packed and intricate situation mrs he said there s no time to say much now but before we get to the mills i want to ask you a favour if as you go through them you see anything that seems to need explaining will you let me come and tell you about it tonight i say tonight he added meeting her look of because later � tomorrow even � i might not have the chance there are some things � a good many � in the management of the mills that mr doesn t see as i do i don t mean business questions wages and and so on � those are out of my province i speak merely in the line of my own work � my care of the hands and what i believe they need and don t get under the present system naturally if mr were well i shouldn t have had this chance of putting the case to you but since it s come my way i must seize it and take the consequences even as he spoke by a swift reaction of thought those consequences rose before him in all seriousness it was not only or chiefly that he feared to lose his place though he knew his mother had not spoken lightly in the case of the whom to gratify a personal spite had for months kept out of a job in his trade and there were special reasons why should heed her warning in the fruit op the tree a manual trade instead of one of the gentlemanly professions which the men of her family had always followed he had not only disappointed her hopes and to a great extent thrown away the benefits of the education she had pinched herself to give him but had disturbed all the habits oi her life by removing her from her normal surroundings to the exile ot a factory settlement however much he blamed himself for this sacrifice it had been made so cheerfully that the consciousness oi it never clouded his life with his mother but her self made him the more alive to his own obligations and	10
there he is my dear whispered mrs to mr how like lord murmured miss or whispered miss or the portraits of captain cook suggested tom tom � don t be an ass said his father who checked him on all occasions probably with a view to prevent his becoming sharp � which was very unnecessary the elegant with admirable effect until the family had crossed the room he then started up with the most natural appearance of surprise and delight mrs with the utmost vol ii sketches bt cordiality saluted tbe young ladies in the most bowed to and shook hands with mr with a degree of respect almost to and returned the greetings of the two young men in a half gratified half manner which fully convinced them that he must be an important and at the same time personage miss said after the ordinary and bowing very low may i be permitted to presume to h that you will allow me to have the pleasure � i don t think i am engaged said miss i with a dreadful affectation indifference � but really � so many � looked handsomely miserable i shall be most happy the interesting at last s countenance brightened up like an old hat in a shower of rain a very genteel young man certainly said the gratified mr as the and his partner joined the which was just forming he has a remarkably good address said mr yes he is a prime fellow interposed tom who always managed to put his foot in it � he talks just like an tom i said his father solemnly i think i you before not to be a fool tom looked as happy as a cock on a morning how delightful i said the interesting to his partner as they the room at the conclusion of the set � how delightful how refreshing it is to � from the the and the troubles of life even if it be bat for a few short fleeting moments and to spend those moments and though they be in the delightful the blessed society of one individual � whose would be death whose coldness would be madness whose falsehood would be ruin whose constancy would be bliss the possession of whose affection would be the brightest and best reward that heaven could bestow on man what feeling what sentiment thought miss as she leaned more heavily on her companion s arm but enough enough i resumed the elegant with a theatrical air what have i said what have i � i � to do with sentiments like these i miss � here he stopped short � may i hope to be permitted to offer the humble tribute of � really mr returned the blushing in the sweetest confusion i must refer you to papa i never can without his consent venture to � surely he cannot object � ob yes indeed indeed you know him not interrupted miss well there was nothing to fear but wishing to make the interview resemble a scene in some romantic novel he cannot object to my offering you a glass of returned the with surprise la that all thought the disappointed what a fuss about nothing it will give me the greatest pleasure sir to see you to dinner at oak lodge on sunday next at sketches bt o clock if u have no better said mr at the conclusion of the evening as he and his sons were standing in conversation with mr bowed his and accepted the flattering invitation i must confess continued the father offering his snuff box to his new acquaintance that i don t these half so much as the comfort � i had almost said the luxury � of oak lodge they have no great charms for an elderly man and all sir what is man said the i say what is man ah very true said mr very true � we know that we live and breathe continued that we have wants and wishes desires and � certainly said mr looking profound i say we know that we exist repeated raising his voice but there we stop there is an end to our knowledge there is the summit of our there is the termination of our ends what more do we know nothing replied mr � than whom no one was more capable of answering for himself in that particular tom was about to hazard something but fortunately for his reputation he caught his father s angry eye and off like a convicted of petty upon my word said mr the elder as they were returning home in the fly that mr is a wonderful young man such surprising edge such information i and such a splendid mode of expressing himself i think he must be somebody in disguise said miss how i he talks very loud and nicely timidly observed tom but i don t exactly understand what he means i almost begin to despair of your understanding anything tom said his father who of course had been much enlightened by mr tion it strikes me tom said miss that you made yourself very ridiculous this evening no doubt of it cried everybody � and the unfortunate tom reduced himself into the least possible space that night mr and mrs had a long conversation respecting their daughter s prospects and future arrangements miss went to bed considering whether in the event of her marrying a title she could encourage the visits of her present associates and dreamed all night of disguised large and various were on the sunday morning as to the mode of conveyance which the anxiously expected would adopt did he keep a � was it possible he could come on horseback � or would he the stage these and various other conjectures of equal importance engrossed the attention of mrs and her daughters during the whole morning after church � upon my	8

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