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of as in any attempt to disturb them natural and � tm m ing what win them this this to call slavery and join them in it right and this must be � done in as od in silence will not be mu it e ourselves with them i new law must be and enforced ess ing all that is wrong whether in politics in presses in or in we mast arrest and return their witli pleasure we must down oar state the whole must be from all taint of opposition to slavery before th will cease to that all their troubles proceed from us i am quite aware they do not state their case in this way most of them would probably say to u let as alone do nothing to us and saw what you please about slavery but we do let them hare disturbed so that after all it la what w� say which them they wiu to of doing until we cease saying i am also aware they hare not as t in demanded tlie overthrow of our yet those declare the wrong tf with more solemn emphasis than do all against it and when all these other shall bars l een silenced the overthrow of these will be demanded and nothing be left to resist the it is nothing to the contrary that they do not demand whole of this just now demanding what th do nd for the reason they do they can voluntarily stop short of this holding as do that slavery is morally right and not cease to demand a full nations of it as a legal right and a social nor can we withhold this on grand save our conviction that slavery is wrong if is right all words acts laws and ag are themselves wrong and should be silenced and away if it is right we cannot justly to its nation its if it is wrong they cannot insist upon its extension � its all they we could readily grant if we t slavery all we ask they could as readily grant if they it wrong their it right and oar thinking it wrong is the precise fact npon which the thinking it right as they do they arc not tu blame for desiring its recognition as bang right but thinking it wrong as we do can we yield to can we cast our with their view and against our own in view of our moral social and can we do this wrong as we think slavery is we can yet to let it alone where it is because that much is to ths necessity arising from its actual presence in the but can we while our will prevent it allow it t� spread into the national and to u here in these free states if our sense of duty this then let as stand h our duty and let us be by none of those wherewith we so piled and � as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong vain as the search for a man who be neither a living man nor a dead such as a of don t care on a question al out which true do such as union appeals union men to yield to the divine and calling not the but the righteous to repentance � such as to washington imploring to what washington said and undo what washington did neither let us be from our duty by false against us nor frightened from it by of destruction to the government nor of ourselves let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us tc he end dare to do our as ve understand it mr on national politics speech at tm hon c tbe following speech on the political of day tbe of i iu ur been to the b the � nd after hia lor the di honor promising to serve the state best of wa ability he a look on tho day i ne a letter by a or ho mr in to tha tn to tha � � of h to protect ard mu the that � � i and k did not to in time that i jl � but i am glad i d am of � t as upon i � a tliat the election took i ii su utterly id te your for but i lot failed ana who u of tbe been tbe � b it would bare been of but � ke or i belong t � of la and ever t am not to receive the i ready to back the mil i bo w to of court af ii with ay tm or not only i bow a to do to ai la � it in aa a � f ik and et the than it may no � ua bare to add that ao great an it de and lo iu r ha a printed a large of tb the slate and the � � � � li a to ive who bat not a with mj t approve the ot tb supreme in el aa i think territory of � � long ai hat iu it ma our institution upon the thai i no upon the we the the ur were that it t to bi the from the of and place b it could no the welfare and the not a copy of the before leading a line and into that that law and that the � with with him in ai property � few tliey held that the d and enjoy it � � � e be denied to ua of f the the that any lion oat only by virtue of tbe of the to courts of the u under n au i the lame � du e ra i liave ever la ready to do be of the
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back of his collar and which at that moment came off and dropped on the floor i guess you have to set a in this if you will he said with well feigned indifference and came out from among the pots and very a farmer and meek the button had rolled almost to mrs s feet and when looked for it she stooped and picked it up and handed it to his wife with a heavy sigh and then rose to take leave i shall be ready any time to watch with the old gentleman if he needs it or even thinks he does remarked as if he had heard nothing of what his cousin had said and she did not know how to answer him though usually she was equal to the occasion she went away in doubt whether she had won a great victory or had been defeated and she took the plate of which humbly offered in the old gentleman s behalf hardly knowing what it was she felt so unlike herself all of a sudden but she came to before she was out of sight of the house and though l he hated worse than ever she ate one of the with uncommon relish and put another in her pocket the spring days lengthened and grew into summer and the excitement which attended the knowledge of the transfer of old mr s property died slowly away he looked so and changed by his illness of the winter that it was by no means difficult for the town s people to believe that his mind had become as much as his body as for a farmer his nearest neighbors they saw him rarely for he was too lame to make the short journey to their houses and in the early business of the farms nobody found much time to go visiting or her most husband he was a sly looking faded out little man of no attractions and a manner which disgusted the persons he sought most eagerly to please it had been thought that he would favor some projects about the new road which he frowned upon directly he was in office and that the parties who were most concerned and there grew steadily a feeling of shame and regret that he should have won so easily his prominent position in town affairs he paid the taxes on the farm with unusual and the took notice that he had crossed out mr s name from the tax bill and inserted his own in its place there was a good deal of sympathy felt for the old man because he had not deserved such a miserable son in law people hoped that he was treated well but it was taken for granted in those few weeks that the poor old farmer was fast breaking up and under the circumstances nobody could wish him to live long since it would only involve the greater of old age and a continued suffering of one sort and another as for his a farmer daughter she was making great bids friendship and was showing herself both generous and in a way that much surprised her acquaintances she spoke with great concern of her father s failing health and some persons began to say she was good hearted and what a pity it was that she should have thrown herself away on such a man as she drove old mr to church one hot sunday when was reported to be kept at home by the expected from a hive of bees and it was certainly very kind the way in which she helped him down out of the high wagon and along the broad aisle to his he looked round the church as pleased as a child and seemed to enjoy the unusual opportunity of being among his friends and neighbors f � older people watched him affectionately � he was younger than several who were there � and many of the younger members of the congregation expected him to betray in some way his shattered wits but he seemed to be in full possession of his faculties as far as any one could decide at that time and when found his place in a hymn book and offered it to him he shook his head at her in great perplexity and proceeded to search for the right page in his own copy of and select hymns which was a farmer of large type and for years had been ready to his hand in the corner of the i m all right if it was n t for my he told a half dozen of the friends who crowded about him i can get about a good deal better than the folks think i can too but keeps right after me he added in a lower voice to who had been more pleased than anybody to see his uncle in his accustomed seat and who indulged a hope that now he was about again he would take things into his own hands but the poor man stumbled on the meeting house steps that very sunday and gave himself a bad strain and passed many a long and lonely day afterward in his dark close bedroom in that summer weather out the birds sang and the grass grew and grew until it waved in the wind and was like the sea the old farmer worried and fretted about the crops and could not imagine how the fields got on without his and care he was always calling or the man who had been engaged to help him and demanding strict account of the potatoes and corn and beans he had worked day in and day out on his land until that summer and he was sure everything must be going to wreck and ruin without him some of his questions he thought and treated him like a child if it had not a
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so soon a changed man he ll never many several girls have been mentioned in connection with his name i am sorry for oh but you needn t be they are matched she s only one more she s one more and more still she has regularly caught him she is a bom player of the game of hearts and she knew how to beat him in his own if there is one woman in the town who has any chance of holding her own and marrying him she is that woman this was true as it turned out by natural had from the first entered heart and soul into military romance as exhibited in the plots and characters of those living of it who came under her notice from her earliest young womanhood however promising had no chance of winning her interest if the meanest warrior were within the horizon it may be that the position of her uncle s house which was her home at the comer of west street nearest the the daily passing of the troops the constant blowing of trumpet calls a from the windows coupled with the fact that she knew nothing of the inner realities of military life and hence it had also helped her mind s original bias for thinking men at arms the only ones worthy of a woman s heart captain was a typical prize one whom all maidens had ached for for wept for had by her judicious management become subdued to her purpose and in addition to the of marrying the man she loved had the joy of feeling herself hated by the mothers of au the girls of the neighbourhood the man in the went to the wedding not as a guest for at this time he was but slightly acquainted with the parties but mainly because the church was a changed man dose to his house partly too for a reason which moved many others to be spectators of the ceremony a that though the couple might be happy in their experiences there was sufficient possibility of their being otherwise to colour the of an with a pleasing pathos of conjecture he could on occasion do a pretty stroke of in those days and he the tune of waiting by on a blank page of his prayer book a few lines which though kept private then may be given here � at a hasty wedding u hours be the twain are for now they solace swift desire by ties that zest if hours be years the twain are do eastern slope never west nor pallid ashes follow fire if hours be years the twain are for now they solace swift desire as if however to all the couple seemed to find in marriage the secret of the of a courtship which on s side at least had opened without serious intent during the winter following they were the most popular pair in and about � nay in south itself no smart dinner in the country houses of the younger and families within driving distance of the was complete without their lively presence mrs was the of the whirling figures at the county ball and when followed that inevitable incident of garrison town life an amateur dramatic entertainment it was just the same the acting was for the benefit of such and such an excellent charity � nobody cared what provided the play were played � and both captain and his wife were in the piece having been in fact by mutual consent the of the performance and so with a changed man laughter and and movement all merrily there was a little in the bill paying of the couple but in justice to them it must be added that sooner or later all were paid ill at the chapel of ease attended by the troops there arose above the edge of the pulpit one sunday an face this was the face of a new he placed upon the desk not the familiar sermon book but merely a bible the person who tells these things was not present at that service but he soon learnt that the young was nothing less than a great surprise to his congregation a mixed one always for though occupied the body of the building its and comers were crammed with whom up to the present even the least would have described as being attracted thither less by the services than by the now there arose a second reason for into an already church the and gentle eloquence of mr like a charm upon those accustomed only to the higher and of preaching and for a time the other churches of the town were of their at this point in the nineteenth century the sermon was the sole reason for amongst a vast body of religious people the was a formal preliminary which like the royal in a court of had to be got through before the real interest began and on home the question was simply who preached and how did he handle his subject even had an in the service proper nobody would have cared much about what was said or sung people who had formerly attended in the morning only began to go in the evening and even to the special addresses in the afternoon a changed man one day when captain entered his wife s drawing room filled with hired furniture she thought he was somebody else for he had not come upstairs humming the most catching air afloat in musical circles or in his usual careless way what s the matter jack she said without looking up from a note she was writing well � not much that i know but there is she as she wrote why � this new in a sheet � i mean the new parson he wants us to stop the on sunday looked up aghast why it is the one thing
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solemn those to make it cheerful � and both were and the a cheery flashing into sight or vanishing as they darted to and fro among the golden of sunshine and others went a little way into the woods and threw themselves on mother earth their heads on a heap of moss the green of an old log and dropping asleep the humble bees ind sung and about their ears causing the to and start without awakening with and myself it grew to be a custom to spend the sabbath afternoon at a certain rock it was known to us under the name of s pulpit from a tradition that the venerable had preached there two centuries gone by to an indian the old pine forest through which the s voice was wont to sound had fallen an time ago but the soil being of the and most broken surface had apparently never been brought under other and and had succeeded to the trees so that it was still as wild a tract of as the great great of one of s indians had any such posterity been in existence could have desired for the site and shelter of his these indeed lose the stately solemnity of the original s the forest if left in due neglect however they run into an of softer among the rustling leaves of which the sun can scatter cheerfulness as it never could among the dark pines the rock itself rose some twenty or thirty feet a shattered granite or heap of with an outline and many out of which shrubs bushes and even trees as if the scanty soil within those were sweeter to their roots than any other earth at the base of the pulpit the inclined towards each other so as to form a shallow cave within which our little party had times found protection from a summer shower on the threshold or just across it grew a of pale in their season and sad and shadowy such as was when we first knew her children of the sun who had never seen their father but dwelt among damp though not akin to them at the summit the rock was by the of a tree which served as a sounding board for the pulpit beneath this shade with my eyes of sense half shut and those of the imagination widely opened i used to see the holy of the indians with the sunlight flickering down upon him through the leaves and his figure as with the half perceptible glow of a i the more describe the rock and this little sabbath solitude because at our often ascended s pulpit and not exactly preached but talked to us his few in a strain that rose and fell as naturally as the wind s breath the leaves of the tree no other s pulpit of man has ever moved me like some of those it seemed most pitiful � a positive calamity to the world � that a treasury of golden thoughts should thus be scattered by the liberal handful down among us three when a thousand hearers might have been the richer for them land worth the richer likewise by the sympathy of multitudes after speaking much or little as might happen he would descend his gray pulpit and generally fling himself at full length on the ground face downward meanwhile we talked around him on such topics as were suggested by tbe discourse since her interview with s continual of temper had been rather difficult for � friends to bear on the first sunday after that when had down from s pulpit she with great earnestness and passion nothing short of anger on the injustice which the world did to women and equally to itself by not allowing them in freedom and honor and with the fullest welcome their natural utterance in public it shall not always be so cried she if i live mother year i will lift up my own voice in behalf of s wider liberty she perhaps saw me smile what matter of ridicule do you find in this miles exclaimed with a flash of anger n her eyes that smile permit me to say makes me of a low tone of feeling and shallow thought t is my belief � yes and my prophecy should i die it happens � that when my sex shall achieve its there will be ten eloquent women where there is the now one eloquent man thus far no woman in the world has ever once spoken out her whole heart and her whole mind the and of the vast bulk of society us as with two gigantic hands at our throats we a few weak words and leave a thousand better ones you let us write a little it is true on a limited range of subjects but the pen is not for woman her power is too natural and immediate it is with the living voice alone that she can compel the world to recognize the light of her intellect and the depth of her heart now � though i could not well say so to � i had not smiled from any unworthy estimate of woman or in denial of the claims which she is beginning to put forth what amused and puzzled me was the fact that women however superior so seldom themselves about the rights or wrongs of their sex unless their own individual affections chance to lie in idleness or to be ill at ease they are not natural but become such by the pressure of exceptional misfortune i could measure s inward trouble by the with which she now took up the general quarrel of woman against man i will give you leave replied i to fling your utmost scorn upon me if you ever hear me utter a sentiment to the liberty which woman has yet dreamed of i would give her all
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brother would have nothing to say the soup would be sent round in a most manner wine drank without any or agreeable trifling and the cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former or a single entertaining story about my friend such a one she must try to find amusement in what was passing at the upper end of the table and in observing mr who was now making his appearance at for the first time since tlie arrival he had been visiting a in a neighbouring county and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an mr was returned with his head full of the subject and very eager to be improving his own place in the same way and though not saying much to the purpose could talk of nothing else the subject had been already handled in the drawing room it was revived in the dining parlour miss s attention and opinion was evidently his chief aim and though her showed rather conscious superiority than any solicitude to oblige him the of court and the ideas attached to it gave her a feeling of complacency which prevented her from being very i wish you could see said he it is the most complete i never saw a place so altered in my life i told smith i did not know where i was the approach now is one of the finest things in the country you see the house in the most surprising manner i declare when i got back to yesterday it looked like a prison � quite a dismal old prison oh for shame cried mrs a prison indeed court is the noblest old place in the world it wants improvement ma am beyond any thing i never saw a place that wanted so much improvement in my life and it is so forlorn that i do not know what can be done with it no wonder that mr should think so at present said mrs grant to mrs with a smile but depend upon it will have every improvement in time which his heart can desire i must try to do something with it said mr rush park worth but i do not know what i hope i shall have some good friend to help me your best friend upon such an occasion said miss calmly would be mr i imagine that is what i was thinking of as he has done so well by smith i think i had better have him at once his terms are five guineas a day well and if they were ten cried mrs i m sure you need not regard it the expense need not be any if i were you i should not think of the expense i would have every thing done in the best style and made as nice as possible such a place as court deserves every thing that taste and money cm do you have space to work upon there and grounds that will well reward you for my own part if i had lay thing within the part of the size of i should be always planting and improving for naturally i am excessively fond of it it would be too ridiculous for me to attempt any thing where i am now with my little half acre it would be quite a but if i had more room i should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting we did a vast deal in that way at the we made it quite a different place from what it was when we first had it you young ones do not remember much about it perhaps but if dear sir thomas were here he could tell you what improvements we made and a great deal more would have been done but for poor mr s sad state of health he could hardly ever get out poor man to enjoy any thing and that me from doing several things that sir thomas and i used to talk of if it had not been for that we should have carried on the garden wall and made the plantation to shut out the churchyard just as dr grant has done we were always doing something as it was it was only the spring before mr s death that we put in the against the stable wall which is now grown such a noble tree and getting to such perfection sir addressing herself then to dr grant the tree well beyond a doubt madam replied dr grant the soil ia good and i never � f v man park oat that the fruit should so little worth the trouble of gathering sir it is a park we bought it as a park and it cost us � that is it was a present from sir thomas but i saw the bill and i know it cost seven shillings and was charged as a park you were imposed on ma am replied dr grant these potatoes have as much the of a park as the fruit from that tree it is an fruit at the best but a good is which none from my garden are the truth is ma am said mrs grant pretending to whisper across the table to mrs that dr grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our is he is scarcely ever indulged with one for it is so valuable a fruit with a little assistance and ours is such a remarkably large fair sort that what with early and preserves my cook to get them all mrs who had begun to was appeased and for a little while other subjects took place of the improvements of dr grant and mrs were seldom good friends their acquaintance had begun in and their habits were totally after a short interruption mr began again smith s place is the admiration of all the and it was a mere nothing
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that the zeal of these good people to maintain their rights and privileges did for a while betray them into errors which it is easier to pardon than defend having served a regular in the school of persecution it them to show that they had become in the art they accordingly employed their leisure hours in or hanging divers and for daring to abuse the liberty of conscience which they now clearly proved to imply history of nothing more than that every man should think as he i pleased in matters of provided he thought right for otherwise it would be giving a latitude to now as they the majority were perfectly convinced that they alone thought right it consequently followed that whoever thought different from them thought wrong and whoever thought wrong and persisted in not being convinced and converted was a of the liberty of conscience and a corrupt and member of the body and deserved to be off and cast into the fire now i ll warrant there are hosts of my readers ready at once to lift up their hands and eyes with that virtuous indignation with which we always contemplate the faults and errors of our neighbours and to exclaim at these well meaning but mistaken people for on others the injuries they had suffered themselves � for indulging the preposterous idea of convincing the mind by the body and establishing the doctrine of charity and forbearance by persecution � but in simple truth what are we doing at this very day and in this very enlightened nation but acting upon this very same principle in our political have we not within but a few years released ourselves from the of a government which cruelly denied us the privilege of governing ourselves and using in full latitude that invaluable member the tongue and are we not at this very moment striving our best to over the opinions tie up the tongues or ruin the fortunes of one another what are our great political societies but mere political � our pot house but little of � our newspapers but mere posts and where the unfortunate individuals are with rotten eggs � and our council of appointment but a grand da fe new york where are sacrificed for their political where then is the difference in principle between our measures and those you are so ready to condemn among the people i am treating there is none the difference is merely � thus we instead of � we instead of � we turn out of office instead of hanging � and where they burnt an in we either tar and feather or burn him in � this political persecution being some how or other the grand of our liberties and an proof that this is a free country but notwithstanding the fervent zeal with which this holy war was against the whole race of we do not find that the population of this new colony was in any ways thereby on the contrary they multiplied to a degree which would be incredible to any man with the marvellous of this growing country this amazing increase may indeed be partly ascribed to a singular custom among them and which was probably borrowed from the ancient republic of where we are told the young ladies either from being great and or else like many modem very fond of with matters that did not to their sex used frequently to engage with the men in and other exercises of the the custom to which i allude was known by the name of � a superstitious observed by the young people of both sexes with which they usually terminated their and which was kept up with religious by the more and vulgar part of the community this ceremony was likewise in those primitive times considered as an indispensable preliminary to matrimony their com where ours usually finish by which means k history of they acquired that intimate acquaintance with each other s good qualities before marriage which has been pronounced by philosophers the sure basis of a happy union thus early did this cunning and ingenious people display a at making a bargain which has ever since distinguished them � and a strict to the good old vulgar about buying a pig in a to this sagacious custom therefore do i chiefly attribute the increase of the or yankee tribe for it is a certain fact well by court records and parish that wherever the practice of prevailed there was an amazing number of sturdy born unto the state without the license of the law or the benefit of clergy and it is truly astonishing that the learned in his on population has entirely overlooked this singular fact neither did the of their birth operate in the least to their on the contrary they grew up a long sided raw hardy race of wood and and corn fed who by their united efforts tend ed towards those notable tracts of country called and cape chap vii how these simple turned out to be notorious � how they built air castles and attempted to the in the mystery of in the last chapter i have given a faithful and account of the origin of that singular race of people the country eastward of the new york but i have yet to mention certain peculiar habits which rendered them exceedingly to our ever honoured dutch ancestors the most prominent of these was a certain rambling with which like the sons of they seem to have been gifted by heaven and which continually them on to shift their residence from place to place so that a yankee farmer is in a constant state of occasionally here and there clearing lands for other people to enjoy building houses for others to and in a manner may be considered the wandering of america his first thought on coming to the years of manhood is to settle
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nowhere with his hands behind his back and studied the creed for three weeks sitting at the feet of those best competent to explain its mysteries then he laughed aloud and went away but the laugh might have been either of devotion or derision when he returned he was without money but his pride was he declared that he knew more about the things in heaven and earth than those who taught him and for this was abandoned altogether his next appearance in public life was at a big in upper india and he was then telling fortunes with the help of three leaden a very dirty old cloth and a little tin box of he told better fortunes when he was allowed half a bottle of but the things which be sending of da invented on the were quite worth the money he was in reduced circumstances among other people s he told the fortune of an englishman who had once been interested in the creed but who later on had married and all his old knowledge in the study of babies and exchange the englishman allowed da to tell a fortune for s sake and gave him five a dinner and some old clothes when he had eaten da professed gratitude and asked if there were anything he could do for his host � in the line is there any one that you love said da the englishman loved his wife but had no desire to drag her name into the conversation he therefore shook his head is there any one that you hate said da the englishman said that there were several men whom he hated deeply very good said da upon whom the and the were beginning to tell only give me their names and i will despatch a sending to them and kill them now a sending is a horrible arrangement first invented they say in it is a thing sent by a and may take any form but most generally about the land in the shape of a little purple cloud till it find the and him it by changing into the form of a horse or a cat or a man without a face it is not strictly a native patent though can if irritated despatch a sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly him very few natives care to for this reason let me despatch a sending said da i am nearly dead now with want and drink and but i should like to kill a man before i die i can send a sending anywhere you choose and in any form except in the shape of a man the w be wished to kill but the sending of da partly to soothe da whose eyes were rolling and partly to see what would be done he asked whether a modified sending could not be arranged for � such a sending as should make a man s life a burden to him and yet do him no harm if this were possible he his to give da ten for the job i am not what i was once said da and i must take the money because i am poor to what shall i send it send a sending to lone said the englishman a man who had been most bitter in him for his from the tea cup creed da laughed and nodded i could have chosen no better man myself said he i will see that he finds the sending about his path and about his bed he lay down on the hearth rug turned up the of his eyes shivered all over and began to this was magic or or the sending or all three when he opened his eyes he vowed that the sending had started upon the and was at that moment flying up to the town where lone lives give me my ten said da wearily � and write a letter to lone telling him and all who believe with him that you and a friend are using a power greater than theirs they will see that you are speaking the truth he departed with the promise of some more if anything came of the sending the englishman sent a letter to lone in what he remembered of the of the creed he wrote � i also in the days of what you held to be my have obtained and with has come power then he grew so deeply mysterious that the of the letter could make neither head nor tail of it and was impressed for he the sending of da fancied that his friend had become a fifth a man is a fifth he can do more than and combined lone read the letter in five different fashions and was beginning a sixth interpretation when his bearer dashed in with the news that there was a cat on the bed now if there was one thing that lone hated more than another it was a cat he the bearer for not turning it out of the house the bearer said that he was afraid all the doors of the bedroom had been shut throughout the morning and no real cat could possibly have entered the room he would prefer not to with the creature lone entered the room and there on the pillow of his bed and a white not a little beast but a like with its eyes barely opened and its lacking strength or direction � a that ought to have been in a basket with its mamma lone caught it by the of its neck handed it over to he to be drowned and the bearer four that evening as he was reading in his room he fancied that he saw something moving about on the hearth rug outside the circle of light from his reading lamp when the thing began to he realized that
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to the poor child and as the poor child took so lovingly to me i think i should feel jealous of calling another child by it i think i feel as if the name had become to me and i had no right to use it so and that s your opinion remarked mr observant of the secretary s face and again addressing him i say again it is a matter of feeling returned the secretary i think miss s feeling very womanly and pretty now give us your opinion said mrs my opinion old lady returned the golden is your opinion then said mrs we agree not to revive john s name but to let it rest in the grave it is as mr says a matter of feeling but lor how many matters are matters of feeling i well and cur i come to the second thing i hare thought of yon must know mj dear and mr that when i first named to my husband my thoughts of a little orphan boy in remembrance of john i farther named to my that it was comforting to think that how the poor boy would be by john s own money and protected from john s own hear hear i cried mr so she did r no not my dear returned mrs y i am going to say something else i meant that i am sure as much as i still mean it but this little death has made me ask myself the question seriously whether i wasn t too bent upon pleasing my self else why did i seek out so much for a pretty child and a child quite to my liking wanting to do good why not do it for its own sake and put my tastes and by perhaps said and perhaps she said it with some little arising out of those old curious relations of hers toward the murdered man perhaps in the name you would not have liked to give it to a less interesting child than the original he interested you very much well my dear returned mrs giving her a squeeze it s kind of you to find that reason out and i hope it may have been so and indeed to a certain extent i believe it was so but i am afraid not to the whole extent however that don t come in question now because we have done with the name laid it up as a remembrance suggested mutual better said my dear laid it op as a well then i haye been thinking if i take any orphan to provide for let it not be a pet and a for me bnt a to be helped for its own sake not pretty then said no returned mrs nor then said no returned mrs not necessarily so that s as it may happen a well disposed boy comes in my way who may be even a little wanting in such for getting on in life but is honest and in and requires a helping hand and deserves it if i am very much in earnest and quite determined to be unselfish let me take care of aim here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion appeared and crossing to b announced the objectionable the four members of council looked at one another and paused shall he be brought here ma am asked yes said mrs whereupon the footman disappeared reappeared presenting and retired much disgusted the consideration of mrs had clothed in a suit of black on which the tailor had received personal directions from to the utmost cunning of his art with a view to the concealment of the and buttons but so much more powerful were the of s form than the strongest resources of science that he now stood before the council a perfect in the way of buttons shining and and gleaming and twinkling oat of a v our friend hundred of eyes of bright metal at the dazzled the artistic taste of some unknown had furnished him with a hat band of which was behind from tlie crown of his to tho brim and terminated in a black bunch from which the imagination and tlie reason some special powers with which his legs were endowed had already np his glossy at the ankles and them at the knees while similar gifts in his arms had raised his coat sleeves from his wrists and them at his elbows thus set forth with th additional of a very little tail to his coat and a yawning gulf nt his stood and how is my good fellow mrs asked said she do pretty nicely and sending her and many thanks for the tea and all and wishing to know tlie family s have you just come y v yes then you have not had your yet p no bat i mean to it for i ain t forgotten handsome orders that i was never to go away cat having had a good un off of meat and beer and no there was four of em for i reckoned em when i had em meat one beer two vegetables and was four � why ke was v here threw his head back opened his month and laughed how are the two poor p asked mm our mutual striking right ont and coming mrs looked on the other three members of council and then said with her finger � yes mom come forward should you like to dine here every day off of all four on em oh i s feelings obliged bim to squeeze his bat and contract one leg at the knee yes and should you like to be always taken care of here if you were industrious and deserving oh � but there s mrs said checking himself in his drawing back and shaking his head with very serious meaning there
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room � adjusted the glasses on the brushed a place that was not dusty rubbed his hands very hard walked stealthily to the door and there was evidently something in the contents of the letter of a nature if not wholly unexpected the great disagreeable mr alexander laid it down and took it up again and walked about the room on particular squares of the carpet and even attempted though to whistle an air it wouldn t do he threw himself into a chair and read the following aloud � blue lion and stomach warmer great wednesday morning sir � immediately on discovering your intentions i left our counting house and followed you i know the purport of your journey � that journey shall never be completed i have no friend here just now on whose secrecy i can rely this shall be no obstacle to my revenge neither shall brown be exposed to the of a scoundrel odious in her eyes and contemptible in everybody else s nor will i submit to the attacks of a base umbrella maker sir from great church a leads through four meadows to a retired spot known to the towns people as s acre mr shuddered i shall be waiting there alone at twenty minutes before six o clock to morrow morning should i be disappointed in seeing you there i will do myself the pleasure of calling with a hunter there is a s in the high street and they won t sell after dark � you understand me you had better not order your breakfast in sketches bt the morning until yoa have met me it may be an unnecessary expense desperate minded villain i knew how it would ejaculated the terrified � i always told father that once start me on this expedition and hunter would pursue me like the wandering jew it s bad enough as it is to marry with the old people s commands and without the consent but what will i think of me if i go down there breathless with i running away from this infernal what shall i do what can i do if i go back to the city i m disgraced forever � lose the girl � and what s more lose the money too even if i did go on to the by the coach hunter would be after me in a post chaise and if i go to this place this s acre another shudder i m as good as dead i ve seen him the man at the pall shooting gallery in the second button hole of the waistcoat five times out of every six and when he didn t hit him there he hit him in the head with this mr alexander again ejaculated what shall i do long and weary were his reflections as burying his face in his hands he sat on the best course to be pursued his mental direction post pointed to london he thought of the governor s anger and the loss of the fortune which the paternal brown had promised the paternal his daughter should contribute to the of his son then the words to brown s were inscribed on the said direction post but hunter s rung in his ears � last of all it bore in red letters the words � to s the great acre and then mr alexander decided on a plan which he presently first and foremost he despatched the under boots to the blue lion and stomach warmer with a gentlemanly note to mr hunter that he for his destruction and would do himself the pleasure of him next morning without fail he then wrote another letter and requested the attendance of the other boots � for they kept a pair a modest knock at the room door was heard come in said mr a man thrust in a red head with one eye in ity and being again desired to come in brought in the body and the legs to which the head belonged and a fur cap which belonged to the head you are the upper boots i think inquired mr yes i am the upper boots replied a voice from inside a case with mother of pearl buttons � that is i m the boots as to the house the other man s my man as goes errands and does odd top boots and half boots i calls us you re from london inquired mr a cab once was the reply why don t you drive it now asked mr over the cab and over a replied the top boots with do you know the mayor s house inquired rather replied the boots significantly as if he had some good reason to remember it do you think you could manage to leave a letter there shouldn t wonder responded boots but this letter said holding a note sketches bt with a direction in one hand and in the other � this letter is a � what interrupted the � he s not to know who it comes from oh i i see responded the lar with a knowing wink but without the slightest to undertake the charge � i see � bit o eh and his one eye wandered round the room as if in quest of a dark lantern and box but i he continued recalling the eye from its search and bringing it to bear on mr i say he s a lawyer our mayor and in the if you ve a spite him you d better not bum his house down � blessed if i don t think it would be the greatest favor you could do him and he chuckled inwardly if mr alexander had been in any other situation his first act would have been to kick the man downstairs by or in other words to ring the bell and desire the landlord to take his boots off
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tried the irish trick � for he was a rare keen � of running up the hills by his horse s head it was all to no use and he had to give it up so then there was only the the whip and � all going strong but the country got worse and worse and the hills were and more thickly covered in and the horses were over their all the time and the place was with rabbit holes but the hounds were still along and the could tt the green flag etc not afford to pick their steps as they down one slope the hounds were always flowing up the opposite one until it looked like that game where the one figure in falling makes the other one rise but never a glimpse did they get of the fox although they knew very well that he must be only a very short way ahead for the scent to lie so strong and then heard a crash and a at his elbow and looking round he saw a pair of white and top boots kicking out of a of the whip s horse had stumbled and the whip was out of the running and the down for an instant and then seeing the man staggering to his feet all right they turned and settled into their once more joe the was a famous old rider known for five round bu he reckoned upon his second horse and the second horses had all been left many miles behind however the one he was riding was good enough for anything with such a upon his back and he was going as well as when he started as to he was going better with every stride his own feelings improved and the mind of the rider has its influence upon the mind of the horse the stout little was gathering its muscular limbs under it and stretching to the gallop as if it were steel and instead of flesh and blood had never come to the end of its powers yet and to day he had such a chance of them as he had never had before there was a pasture country beyond the slopes and for several miles the two were either losing as they with their crop handles or the at the bars of gates or gaining it again as they galloped over the fields those were the days before this accursed wire came into the country and you could generally break a hedge where you could not fly it so they did not trouble the gates more than they could help then they were down in a hard lane where they had to their pace and through a farm where a man came shouting excitedly after them but they had no time to stop and listen to him for the hounds were on some only two fields ahead it was sloping upwards that and the horses were over their in the red soft soil when they reached the top they were blowing badly but a grand valley before them leading up to the open country of the south downs between there lay a belt of pine woods into which the hounds were streaming running now in a long straggling line and shedding one here and one there as they ran you could see the white and tan here and there where the were away but half the pack were still going well though the pace and distance had both been tremendous � two clear hours now without a check there was a drive through the pine wood � one of those green slightly drives where a horse can get the last yard out of itself for the ground is hard enough to give him dean going and yet enough to help him got alongside of the and they galloped together with their irons touching and the hounds within a hundred yards of them we have it all to ourselves said he yes sir we ve shook off the lot of em this time the green etc said old joe if we get this fox it s worth while im an stuffed r e s a curiosity e is it s the run i ever had in my cried d the that ever i ad an that means more said the old but what me is that we ve never ad a look at the beast must leave an scent be ind im when these can follow m like this and yet none of us have seen im when we ve ad a dear df mile view in front of us i expect we ll have a view of him presently said and in his mind he added at least i shall for the s horse was gasping as it ran and the white foam was pouring down it like the side of a washing tub they had followed the hounds one of the side tracks which led out of the main drive and that divided into a smaller track still where the branches across their faces as they went and there was barely room for one horse at a time took the lead and he heard the s horse along heavily behind him while his own mare was going with less spring than when she had started she answered to a touch of his crop or spur however and he felt that there was something still left to draw upon and then he looked up and there was a heavy wooden at the end of the narrow track with a lane of stiff young leading down to it which was far too thick to break through the hounds were running dear upon the grass land on the other side and you were bound either to get over that or lose sight of them for the pace was too hot to let you go the king of the well was
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was a field and the had struck water somewhere and made him a first rate well he had been intending to dig one for a good while i want to know exclaimed the listener brown heard this flow of s eloquence and was amused at the response it seemed that the listener a worthy well to do farmer had an idea of introducing the to his neighborhood and was trying to obtain one on trial at reduced price with a promise of wide influence in its behalf and cordial recommendation believed in the farmers and the affair was presently concluded brown was amazed to hear his companion say that he brown had thinking that he should like to pay a visit to that neighborhood at county fair time and speak to the folks on agricultural topics liked the two his jokes and brown smiled but he turned a little cold and wondered if they were not going a trifle too fast there might not be enough of him for two at this rate i but it was something to find himself a busy prosperous man instead of an idle overgrown boy and among the new of its class none stood better than brown there was little time left for serious business conference but had great ability and so had mr john b brown of city for that matter was thin yet and not very well dressed but he had a confident air how well he knows human nature and what a good fellow he is i thought brown as they parted is more of a man than the i met in that newspaper office reflected i never have lost a cent for him either but hang me if we have n t had some narrow escapes i got him in pretty deep once when he had the worst doubts of me he ever had looked solemn but he never flung at me or did anything but shoulder half the blame and the worry like a man in the neighborhood of the company s office the two brown met several business acquaintances who gave him a friendly good morning he had gathered a whole new circle of associates in his character of senior partner of brown he had indulged in bad with these friends and already figured largely in the agricultural world he would have been deeply gratified if he had heard somebody say as he went by that s brown of the company those fellows are sweeping before spring they ve got hold of as big a thing as the mc it was ten or fifteen minutes walk between the two offices and when j brown esq seated himself at his desk he was still thinking about his other business which he usually insisted upon putting out of his mind he never had looked at it so entirely from the outside he was at heart a most person he was more than he knew by his family pride and traditions and he had become persuaded of his ability to follow the law in a way that he never used to expect he felt it in him to make his influence recognized at the bar and to handle heavy pieces the two of business now that was so well established he could slip out and hold only a silent if he pleased yet an opposing judgment in his own mind at the moment prevented hm from cordially such an idea there were some things and he knew it that could not have planned nor have carried without him and the concern might easily fall to pieces even now there was his own boy however who must inherit as fair a name from him as he had from his father there had never yet been a man of his name had counted upon the value of the family reputation at first he insisted that they were throwing away a great advantage by not adding the of j to the plain brown j brown was a name of historical renown did not begin to understand yet that john b brown was as utterly unknown to the friends of the j as if he and his had never existed he simply knew that was old easier to keep his two occupations apart and only f ro half past eight to ten and from three o clock the two until dinner time he was the steady shaft horse of brown brown sat in the office busy at his work having finished his reflections without coming to any new he was working up a law case that he took great pride in all his inherited cleverness and a new love for such a puzzle delighted him he never had felt a sense of his own power and the was utterly forgotten some one entered the office and gave a chair one pull across the polished wood floor it sounded as if the had left a scratch and brown looked round with not a little annoyance he felt a strange suspicion that one of his company associates had at last hunted him down there was an inner room for purposes of private consultation and brown signified after a proper interval that the stranger might go there it was a place where he had once tried to have his own desk but it was much too gloomy especially in the days when there was nothing to do except when he was at court or at his other business he was very faithful to his post and the stranger need not have been so glad to find him at his office the two i see that you re your father s own son the began in an voice he looked like a cross old fellow and brown had an instant sense of relief because the first words had not been suggestive of the other place of business i knew your father and grandfather before you said mr and i
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never find their way it is not a matter of surprise that mr should never have seen the numerous that were made concerning him and that he should learn of the publication of his history by mere accident he expressed much concern at its premature appearance as thereby he was prevented from making several the author xix important and alterations as well as from by many curious hints which he had collected during his travels along the shores of the sea and his at and finding that there was no longer any immediate necessity for his return to new york he extended his journey up to the residence of his relations at on his way thither he stopped for some days at for which city he is known to have entertained a great partiality he found it however considerably altered and was much concerned at the and improvements which the were making and the consequent decline of the good old dutch manners indeed he was informed that these were making sad in all parts of the state where they had given great trouble and vexation to the regular dutch by the introduction of gates and country school houses it is said also that mr shook his head sorrowfully at noticing the gradual decay of the great palace but was highly indignant at finding that the ancient dutch church which stood in the middle of the street had been pulled down since his last visit the fame of mr s history having reached even to he received much flattering attention from its worthy some of whom however pointed out two or three very great errors he had fallen into particularly that of a lump of sugar over the tea tables which they assured him had been for some years past � several families moreover were somewhat b xx account of that their ancestors had not been mentioned in his work and showed great jealousy of their neighbours who had been thus distinguished while the latter it must be confessed themselves vastly thereupon considering these in the light of letters patent of nobility establishing their claims to � which in this republican country is a matter of no little solicitude and it is also said that he enjoyed high favour and countenance from the governor who once asked him to dinner and was seen two or three times to shake hands with him when they met in the street which certainly was going great considering that they differed in politics indeed certain of the governor s confidential friends to whom he could venture to speak his mind freely on such matters have assured us that he privately entertained a considerable good will for our author � nay he even once went so far as to declare and that openly too and at his own table just after dinner that was a very well meaning sort of an old gentleman and no fool from all which many have been led to suppose that had our author been of different politics and written for the newspapers instead of wasting his talents on histories he might have risen to some post of honour and profit to be a public or even a justice in the ten pound court besides the honours and already mentioned he was much by the of particularly mr john cook who entertained him very at his library and reading room the author xxi where they used to drink water and talk about the he found mr cook a man after his own of great literary and a curious of books at parting the latter in testimony of friendship made him a present of the two oldest works in his collection which were the earliest edition of the and s famous account of the new by the last of which mr greatly in this his second edition having passed some time very agreeably at our author proceeded to where it is but justice to say he was received with open arms and treated with wonderful he was much looked up to by the family being the first historian of the name and was considered almost as great a man as his cousin the man � with whom by the by he became perfectly reconciled and contracted a strong friendship in spite however of the kindness of his relations and their great attention to his comforts the old gentleman soon became restless and discontented his history being published he had no longer any business to occupy his thoughts or any scheme to excite his hopes and this to a busy mind like his was a truly deplorable situation and had he not been a man of morals and regular habits there mould have been great danger of his taking to politics or drinking � both which vices we daily see men driven to by mere and idleness it is true he sometimes employed himself in pre xxii account of a second edition of his history wherein he endeavoured to correct and improve many passages with which he was dissatisfied and to some mistakes that had crept into it for he was particularly anxious that his work should be noted for its which indeed is the very life and soul of history � but t � glow of composition had departed � he had to leave many places untouched which he would fain have altered and even where he did make alterations he seemed always in doubt whether they were for the better or the worse after a residence of some time at he began to feel a strong desire to return to new york which he ever regarded with the warmest affection not merely because it was his native city but because he really considered it the very best city in the whole world on his return he entered into the full enjoyment of the advantages of a literary reputation he was continually to write hand bills and productions of similar import and
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who came meekly to him for and advice he ruled those women by virtue of his superior his great wealth and the high place he occupied in the commercial of and he was not afraid of them in the least sex with them was not yes that was it there was in them something else or more than the of life he was fastidious he acknowledged that to himself and these army women with their bare shoulders and naked arms their straight the house of pride king eyes their vitality and upon his nor did he get on better with the army men who took life lightly drinking and smoking and swearing their way through life and asserting the essential of flesh no less than their women he was always uncomfortable in the company of the army men they seemed uncomfortable too and he felt always that they were laughing at him up their sleeves or pitying him or him then too they seemed by mere to a lack in him to call attention to that in them which he did not possess and which he thanked god he did not possess they were like their women in fact ford was no more a the house of pride woman s man than he was a man s man a glance at him told the reason he had a good constitution never was on intimate terms with sickness nor even mild but he lacked vitality his was a negative no blood with a in it could have nourished and shaped that long and narrow face those thin lips lean cheeks and the small sharp eyes the of hair straight and advertised the soil as did the nose thin delicately and just the suggestion of a his meagre blood had denied him much of life and permitted him to be an in one thing only which thing was over right conduct he pondered and and that he should do right was as necessary to his nature as loving the house of pride and being loved were necessary to clay he was sitting under the trees between the and the beach his eyes wandered over the dancers and he turned his head away and gazed across the mellow sounding surf to the southern cross burning low on the horizon he was irritated by the bare shoulders and arms of the women if he had a daughter he would never permit it never but his was the abstraction the thought process had been accompanied by no inner vision of that daughter he did not see a daughter with arms and shoulders instead he smiled at the remote of marriage he was and having had no personal experience of love he looked upon it not v f the house of pride as but as anybody could marry the and chinese toiling on the sugar and in the rice fields married they invariably married at the first opportunity it was because they were so low in the scale of life there was nothing else for them to do they were like the army men and women but for him there were other and higher things he was different from them � from all of them he was proud of how he happened to be he had come of no petty love match he had come of lofty conception of duty and of devotion to a cause his father had not married for love love was a madness that had never ford when he answered the call to go to the heathen with the message of life he had had no � the house of pride thought and no desire for marriage in this they were alike his father and he but the board of was economical with new england it weighed and measured and decided that married were less expensive per and more so the board commanded ford to marry it furnished him with a wife another zealous soul with no thought of marriage intent only on doing the lord s work among the heathen they saw each other for the first time in boston the board brought them together arranged everything and by the end of the week they were married and started on the long voyage around the horn ford was proud that he had come of such a union he had been bom high and he thought of himself as lo the house of pride a spiritual and he was proud of his father it was a passion with him the erect austere figure of ford had burned itself upon his pride on his desk was a miniature of that soldier of the lord in his bedroom hung the portrait of ford painted at the time when he had served under the as prime minister not that ford had place and worldly wealth but that as prime minister and later as banker he had been of greater service to the missionary cause the german crowd and the english crowd and all the rest of the trading crowd had sneered at ford as a commercial soul but he his son knew different when the natives emerging abruptly from their system with no conception of the nature and the house of pride ii of property in land were letting their broad acres slip through their fingers it was ford who had stepped in between the trading crowd and its prey and taken possession of fat vast small wonder the trading crowd did not like his memory but he had never looked upon his enormous wealth as his own he had considered himself god s steward out of the he had built schools and and churches nor was it his fault that sugar after the had paid forty per cent that the bank he founded had into a railroad and that among other things fifty thousand acres of pasture land which he had bought for a dollar an acre grew eight tons of sugar to the
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limited their capacity � observe � are not of their moral mrs looked a little puzzled to know what this might mean as weu she might for it was as the reader may perchance remember mr s usual form of advertisement when he wanted a pupil and seemed to have no particular reference at present to anything but mr held up his finger as a caution to her not to interrupt him do you know any parent or guardian mrs said mr who desires to avail himself of such an opportunity for a gentleman an orphan would be preferred do you know of any orphan with three or four hundred pound mrs reflected and shook her head when you hear of an orphan with three or four hundred pound said mr let that dear orphan s friends apply by letter post paid to s p post office i don t know who he is exactly don t be alarmed mrs said mr falling heavily against her � let s have a little drop of something to drink bless my life miss cried mrs aloud your dear pa s took very poorly mr himself by a surprising effort as every one turned hastily towards him and standing on his feet regarded the assembly with a look of wisdom gradually it gave place to a smile a feeble helpless melancholy smile bland almost to do not my friends said mr tenderly do not weep for me it is and with these words after making a futile attempt to pull off his shoes he fell into the fire place the youngest gentleman in company had him out in a second yes before a hair upon his head was he had him on the hearth her father she was almost beside herself so was her sister consoled them both they all consoled them everybody had something to say except tiie youngest gentleman in company who with a noble self devotion did the heavy work and held up mr s head without being taken any notice of by anybody at last they gathered round and agreed to him up stairs to bed the youngest gentleman in company was by for tearing mr s coat ha ha but no matter they carried him up stairs and crushed the youngest gentleman at every step his bedroom was at the top of the house and it was a long way but they got him ere in course of time he asked them frequently upon the road for a little drop of something to drink it seemed an i the youngest gentleman in company proposed a draught of water mr called him names for the suggestion and took the rest upon themselves and made him as comfortable as they could on the outside of his bed and when he seemed disposed to sleep they left him but before they had all gained the bottom of the staircase a vision of mr strangely attired was seen to flutter on the top landing he desired to collect their sentiments it seemed upon the nature of human life my friends cried mr looking over the let us improve our minds by mutual inquiry and discussion let us be moral let us contemplate existence where is � here cried that gentleman go to bed again to bed said mr bed tis the voice of the i hear him complain you have me too soon i must slumber again if any young orphan will repeat the remainder of that simple piece from doctor s collection an eligible opportunity now offers nobody volunteered this is very soothing said mr after a pause extremely so cool and refreshing particularly to the legs the legs of the subject my friends axe a beautiful production compare them with wooden legs and observe the difference between the of nature and tlie of art do you know said mr over the with an odd recollection of his f manner among new at home that i much like to see mrs s notion of a wooden leg it perfectly agreeable to herself as it appeared impossible to entertain any of him after this speech mr and mr ent vol i and of np stairs again and once more got into bed but had not descended to the second floor before he was out nor when they had repeated the process had they descended the first flight before he was out again in a word as often as he was shut up in his own room he darted out afresh charged with some new moral sentiment which he continually repeated over the with extraordinary relish and an irrepressible desire for the of his fellow creatures that nothing could subdue under these when they had got him into bed for the time or so mr held him while his companion went down stairs in search of junior with whom he presently returned that youth been of the service of him in and brought up a stool a candle and his supper to the end that he might keep watch outside the bedroom door tolerable comfort when he had completed his arrangements they locked mr in and the key on the outside charging the young page to listen attentively for of an nature with which the patient might be troubled and in case of any such presenting themselves to summon them without delay to which mr modestly replied that he hoped he o clock it was in and didn t date his letters to his friends from s for les chapter x strange matter on which many events in this history mat for their good or evil influence chiefly depend mr come to town on business had he foi that was he always taking his pleasure with s jovial brood of the serious demands whatever ihey might be upon his calm consideration no time and tide will wait for no man the but all men have to wait for time and tide that tide
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the of the same nothing being necessary to establishment of this but simply to prove that it wm totally by man this would at appear ll be a point of some difficulty for it is well known that quarter of the world with certain animals m walked erect oo two feet had something of the � b v c b i c uttered certain i ib e very like in short had a marvel to human bein but the and ned who accompanied the for of the kingdom of heaven by t and on earth soon up this point greatly to the of his the pope and of all christian and plainly proved and ai there were no indian on the other side the was considered as and that the two legged race of i mentioned were mere detestable ra and many of them giants which last description have since the times of and i been considered as received no in either history chivalry or song indeed even bacon declared the americans to be people bed by the laws of nature inasmuch as they had a hm custom of sacrificing men and feeding upon are these all the proofs of their utter many other writers of tells us is so visible that one can hardly form an f from what one has of the brutes g the tranquillity of their souls equally ae to and to though half tbey are as contented as a monarch in his most d array fear makes no impression on them and as little � all is by the ty of m it is not easy says be the degree of their indifference for wealth i its advantages one does not well know s to propose to them when one would persuade any service it is vain to offer money they that they are not hungry and assuring us ambition tbey have none re more desirous of being thought strong than the objects of ambition with us honour fame don riches posts and distinctions are unknown so that this spring of action the so much good and evil in the world � power over them in a word these t of may be ed to of n � p ii ml now all � h iu thi � of greece they would have entitled i to immortal as reduced to and tbe mere which acquired old the and � yet were they clearly to a moat nature totally tbe human who had savages into dumb l ad still or a and among tbe rest lu go and have no nothing of the the mask � and even that mask was al them hat little for it was soon tliat hideous copper � and being of it wm all toe as if they are black and black said the devoutly is tbe therefore so from being able to own bad no right even to personal freedom radiant a deity to such gloomy which plainly convinced followers of and hat these no title to tbe toil that they th dumb t beast of tbe forests and like them or from tbe therefore � equally which i i was clearly evident that this fair when visited by was a how inhabited by nothing but beasts acquired an therein of right being we nt next which is tbe right acquired by cultivation of tbe soil we are told ii � by nature on mankind tbe i b� of its new mid be incapable of doing it was it every it then obliged by the law of nature to cultivate le that has fallen to its share those people like e ancient and modem s who having countries disdain to cultivate the earth and choose � by wanting to themselves and a savage and now it is notorious that tbe savages knew nothing of when first discovered by the but red a moat life � � from place to place upon a spontaneous luxuries of nature without her � to yield them any thing more whereas it has ma moat shown that heaven intended b earth be and sown and and m oat into towns and farms and � t and pleasure grounds and public gardens all which is knew nothing about � therefore they did not � the had bestowed on they were careless therefore they had � right to the therefore they deserved to be it ia the savages might plead that they drew all le benefits the land which their simple wants required they found plenty of game to hunt which together the roots and fruits of the a sufficient variety for their j � id that as heaven merely designed the earth to form the and satisfy the wants of man so long as those were answered the will of heaven was � but only proves how they were the around them � they were so much the more for not having more wants for knowledge is in degree an increase of desires and it is this superiority ith in the number and magnitude of his desires that the man from the beast therefore the in not having more wants were very and it was but just that they should make way for le who had a thousand wants to their one and fo ie turn the earth to more account and by it more truly fulfil the will of heaven and and and and � b i c ts d m of many wise men beside who have considered the matter ly have determined that the property of a country cannot be acquired by hunting wood or water in it � nothing but precise of limit and the intention of cultivation can establish the possession now as the savages probably firom never read the authors above quoted had never complied with any of these necessary forms it plainly followed that had no right to the soil bat that it was completely nt the disposal of
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the last to the older the clock of time seemed to have stopped in the year and they remained for ever with the loves and the of that era upon their souls they had been burned into them by the fiery furnace through which they had passed but we who had grown up upon a strange soil understood that the world had moved and that new issues had arisen we were inclined to forget these of the last generation france to us was no longer the land of the and the basket it was rather the glorious queen of war attacked by all and con the coast of france all but still so hard pressed that her scattered sons could hear her call to arms for ever sounding in their ears it was that call more than my uncle s letter which was taking me over the waters of the channel for long my heart had been with my country in her struggle and yet while my father lived i had never dared to say so for to him who had served under and fought at it would have seemed the treason but after his death there was no reason why i should not return to the land of my birth and my desire was the stronger because � the same who has been thirty years my wife � was of the same way of thinking as myself her parents were a branch of the de and their prejudices were even stronger than those of my little did they think what was passing in the minds of their children many a time when they were mourning a french victory in the parlour we were both joy in the garden there was a little window all choked round with laurel bushes in the comer of the bare brick house and there we used to meet at night the dearer to each other from our difference all who surrounded us i would tell her my she would strengthen them by her enthusiasm and so all was ready when the time came but there was another reason besides the death of my father and the receipt of this letter from my uncle was becoming too hot to hold me uncle i will say this for the english that they were very generous hosts to the french there was not one of us who did not carry away a kindly remembrance of the land and its people but in every country there are folk and even in quiet sleepy we were by them there was one young squire was his name who had earned a reputation in the town as a bully and a r he could not meet one of us without uttering not merely against the present french government which might have been in an english but against france itself and all often we were forced to be deaf in his presence but at last his conduct became so intolerable that i determined to teach him a lesson there were several of us in the coffee room at the green man one evening and he full of wine and malice was upon the french his eyes creeping round to me every moment to see how i was taking it now de he cried putting his rude hand upon my shoulder here is a toast for you to drink this is to the arm of which strikes down the french he stood at me to see if i would drink it well sir said i i will drink your toast if you will drink mine in return come on then said he so we drank now let us have your toast said he fill your glass then said i it is full now well then here s to the cannon ball which carried off that arm i in the coast of france an instant i had a glass of port wine down my face and within an hour a meeting had been arranged i shot him through the shoulder and that night when i came to the little window plucked off some of the laurel leaves and stuck them in my hair there were no legal proceedings about the but it made my position a little difficult in the town and it will explain with other things why i had no hesitation in accepting my unknown uncle s invitation in spite of the singular addition which i found upon the cover if he had indeed sufficient influence with the emperor to remove the which was attached to our name then the only barrier which shut me off from my country would be you must picture me au this time as sitting upon the side of the and turning my prospects and my position over in my head my reverie was interrupted by the heavy hand of the english dropping abruptly upon my arm now then master said he it s time you were stepping into the i do not inherit the politics of the but i have never lost their sense of personal dignity i gently pushed away his hand and i remarked that we were still a long way from the shore well you can do as you please said he roughly i m going no nearer so you can take your choice of getting into the or of swimming for it uncle it was in vain that i pleaded that he had been paid his price i did not add that that price meant that the watch which had belonged to three generations of de was now lying in the shop of a little enough too he cried harshly down sail jim and bring her to now master you can step over the side or you can come back to but i don t take the a cable s length nearer to i this gale coming up fix m the sou west in that case i shall go said i you
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replied the poet you can hear in them the far off echo of a heavenly song but my life dear has not with my thought i have had grand dreams but they have been only dreams because i have lived � and that too by my own choice � among poor and mean realities sometimes even � shall i dare to say it � i lack faith in the grandeur the beauty and the goodness which my own works are said to have made more evident in nature and in human life why then pure of the good and true thou hope to find me in yonder image of the divine the poet spoke sadly and his eyes were dim with tears so likewise were those of at the hour of sunset as had long been his frequent custom was to discourse to an assemblage of the neighboring inhabitants in the open air he and the poet arm in arm still talking together as they went along proceeded to the spot it was a small nook among the hills with a gray precipice behind the stem front of which was relieved by the pleasant foliage of many creeping plants that made a for the naked rock by hanging their from all its ragged angles at a small elevation above the ground set in a rich frame work of there appeared a spacious enough to admit a human figure with freedom for such gestures as accompany earnest thought and genuine emotion into this natural pulpit ascended and threw a look of familiar kindness around upon his audience they stood or sat or re the great stone face upon the grass as seemed good to each with the departing sunshine falling over them and mingling its subdued cheerfulness with the solemnity of a grove of ancient trees beneath and amid the boughs of which the golden rays were constrained to pass in another direction was seen the great stone face with the same cheer combined with the same solemnity in its aspect began to speak giving to the people of what was in his heart and mind his words had power because they accorded with his thoughts and his thoughts had reality and depth because they with the life which he had always lived it was not mere breath that this preacher uttered they were the words of life because a life of good deeds and holy love was melted into them pearls pure and rich had been dissolved into this precious draught the poet as he listened felt that the being and character of were a nobler strain of poetry than he had ever written his eyes glistening with tears he gazed at the venerable man and said within himself that never was there an aspect so worthy of a prophet and a sage as that mild sweet thoughtful countenance with the glory of white hair diffused about it at a distance but distinctly to be seen high up in the golden light of the setting sun appeared the great stone face with mists around it like the white hairs around the brow of its look of grand seemed to embrace the world at tliat moment in sympathy with a thought which he was about to utter the face of assumed a grandeur of expression so with benevolence that w the stone face the poet by an irresistible impulse threw his arms aloft and shouted behold behold is himself the likeness of the great stone face then all the people looked and saw that what the poet said was true the prophecy was fulfilled but having finished what he had to say took the poet s arm and walked slowly homeward still hoping that some wiser and better man than himself would by i and by appear bearing a resemblance to the great stone face � � main street a looking individual makes his bow and addresses the public in my daily walks along the principal street of ray native town it has often occurred to me that if its growth from infancy upward and the of characteristic scenes that have passed along this during the more than two centuries of its existence could be presented to the eye in a shifting it would be an exceedingly effective method of the march of time acting on this idea i have contrived a certain exhibition somewhat in the nature of a show by means of which i propose to call up the and many colored past before the spectator and show him the of his forefathers amid a succession of historic incidents with no greater trouble than the turning of a be pleased therefore my indulgent to walk into the show room and take your seats before yonder mysterious curtain the little wheels and springs of my machinery have been well a multitude of are dressed in character l all varieties of fashion from the cloak and to the latest oak hall coat the lamps are trimmed and shall into sunshine or fade away in moonlight or their brilliancy in a november cloud as the nature of the scene may require and in short the main exhibition is just ready to commence unless some � thing should go wrong � as for instance the of a picture whereby the people and events of one century might be thrust into the middle of another or the breaking of a wire which would bring the course of time to a sudden period � i say the to which such a complicated piece of is liable � i flatter myself ladies and gentlemen that the performance will your generous approbation ting a ting ting goes the bell the curtain rises and we behold � not indeed the main street � but the track of leaf strewn forest land over which its dusty pavement is hereafter to extend you perceive at a glance that this is the ancient and primitive wood � the ever youthful and
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you do such a thing if i mr that be bad thought it might be got over treated with � for a time mr submitted the last feeble with with bitterness that it was urn and that it was enough to make i however she said when she had in some t ix m from her of ill usage provoking as it is and it i suppose it must he to especially as it was to be expected said mr returned his wife if you have nothing to do than to attempt to insult the woman who honored yon with her band when finds herself in i think better go to bed mr was much afflicted by the charge and a tender and earnest apology his apology was accepted but requested him to go round to the other side ot the and sit in the window cur tain to tone himself down now she said stretching out her fan and him with it at arm s length what i was going to say to yon when you began as usual to prose and worry is that i shall guard onr being alone any more and that when circumstances my going out to my own satisfaction i must arrange to have or other always here for i really cannot and will not bare day as this has been mr s sentiments as to the plan were in brief that it had no about it he added and besides you know it s that you ll soon your sister � � dearest yes cried with a of affection little thing not however that do here alone mr was going to say o but lie saw danger and said it o oh dear no she wouldn t do here alone no for not only are the of the precious child of that still character that they require a contrast � life and around to bring them out in their right colors and make one love them of all things but she will require to be roused on more accounts than one that s it said mr pray dan your habit of interrupting without the least thing in the world to say one you must be broken of it speaking of � my poor little pet was attached to poor papa and no doubt will have lamented his loss and grieved very much i have done so myself i have it dreadfully but will no doubt have felt it even more from having been on the spot the whole time and having been with dear papa at the last which i unhappily was not here stopped to weep and to say dear dear beloved papa how truly gentlemanly he was what a contrast to poor uncle from the effects of that trying time she pursued my good little mouse will have to be roused also from tho effects of this long attendance upon edward in illness an attendance which is not yet over which may even go on for some time longer and which in the meanwhile us ar by keeping poor dear papa s affairs from being wound up fortunately however the papers his agents here being all sealed up and locked up as he left them when he came to england the affairs are in that state of order that they can wait until my brother edward his health in sufficiently to come over and administer or execute or whatever it may be that will have to be done he couldn t have a better nurse to bring him round mr made bold to for a wonder i can agree with you returned his wife languidly her eyelids a little in his direction she held forth in general as if to the drawing room furniture and can adopt your words he couldn t have a better nurse to bring him round there are times when my dear child is a little wearing to an active mind but as a she is perfection best of mr growing on his late success observed that edward had had a long bout of it my girl if bout returned mrs is the term for he has is it is not i am unable to give an opinion on the barbarous language you address to edward s that ho contracted fever somewhere � either by day and night to where after all he arrived too late to see poor dear papa before his death � or under some other circumstances � if that is what you mean likewise that hia extremely careless life has hun a very bad subject for it indeed mr considered it a parallel case to that of some of our fellows in the west indies with yellow jack mrs closed her eyes again and to any of of tho west indies or of yellow jack so pursued when op ed require to be from the effects of many ti and lastly she will require lo from a low which i know yery well to bo at tho of mo what it is because i must to tell yon � i am not going to my dear said mr i shall have much improvement to effect iu my child mrs continued and cannot her ni � r mo mn amiable and dear as to the of e affairs my interest in that is not very selfish p very generously to me when i was married and i h ve little tf nothing to expect provided he made no will that force leaving a to mrs al i am contented door dear papa she wept again but general was the of name soon stimulated her to dry her eyes and say it is a highly encouraging circumstance in a i thankful to and gives one the greatest confidence in hi tr not being or his proper spirit to the poor dear papa s at all � he off and sent her out of the house
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and so late it was ten o clock could it be mr they knew he was to dine in it was possible that he might stop in his way home to ask them how they did they could think of no one else mrs clay decidedly thought it mr s knock mrs clay was right with all the state which a butler and could give mr was ushered into the room it was the same the very same man with no difference but of dress anne drew a little back while the others received his compliments and her sister his apologies for calling at so an hour but he could not be so near without wishing to know that she nor her friend had taken cold the day before etc etc which was all as politely done and as politely taken as possible but her part must follow then sir walter talked of his youngest daughter mr must � ive him leave to present him to his youngest daughter � there was no occasion for remembering mary � and anne smiling and blushing very showed to mr the pretty features which he had by no means forgotten and instantly with amusement at his little start of surprise that he had not been at au aware of who she was he looked completely astonished but not more astonished than pleased his eyes brightened and with the most perfect alacrity he welcomed the relationship alluded to the past and entreated to be received as an acquaintance already he was quite as good looking as he had appeared at his countenance improved by speaking and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be so polished so easy so agreeable that she could compare them in excellence to only one p son s manners they were not the same bat they were perhaps equally good he sat down with them and improved their conversation very much could be no doubt of his being a sensible man ten minutes were enough to that his tone his expressions his choice of subject his knowing where to stop � it was all the operation of a sensible mind as soon as he could he began to talk to her of wanting to compare opinions respecting the place but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time to give his own route understand something of hers and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to her she gave him a short account of her party and business at his regret increased as he listened he had spent his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs had heard voices � mirth continually thought they must be a most delightful set of people � longed to be them but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing tho shadow of a right to introduce himself if he had but asked who the party were the name of would have him � well it would to cure him of an i practice of never asking a question at an inn which he had adopted when quite a young man on the principle of its being very to be curious the notions of a young man of one or two and twenty said he as to what is necessary in manners to make him quit the thing are more absurd i believe than those of any other set of beings in the world the folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what have in view but he must not be addressing his reflections to anne alone he knew it he was soon diffused again among the others and it was only at intervals that he could return to his however produced at length an account of the scene she had been engaged in there soon after his leaving the place having alluded to an accident he must hear the whole when he questioned sir walter and elizabeth began to question also but the difference in their m of doing it could not be she could only compare mr to lady in the wish of really what had passed and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it he staid an hour with them the elegant little on the mantel piece had struck eleven with its silver sounds and the was beginning to be h rd at a distance telling the same tale before mr or any of them to feel that he had been there long anne could not have supposed it possible that h evening in place could have passed so well i chapter was one point which anne on returning to hei family would have been more thankful to ascertain even than mr s being in love with elizabeth which was her father s not being in love with mrs clay and she was very far m easy about it when she had been at home a few hours on going down to breakfast the next morning she found there had just been a decent pretence on the lady s side of me do p s i to leave them she could imagine mrs clay to have said that now miss anne was come she could not suppose herself at all wanted for elizabeth wa replying in a sort of whisper that most not be any indeed i assure you i feel it none she is nothing to me compared with you and she was in full time to hear her father say my dear madam must not be as yet you have seen nothing of bath you have been here only to be useful you must not run away from us now you must stay to be acquainted with mrs the beautiful mrs to your fine mind i well know the sight
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their places of habitation and they undertook long and perilous journeys to dispose of the which they had gathered and to see the ways of the white men thus it had happened that the savages of the upper lakes who had so lately been unknown had felt the charm of the presence and had come out of their to have intercourse with the superior race � an intercourse which in the end would be their destruction it was early in september when reached the and there he parted from his savage escort the or welcomed him to their village at the foot of the and with them he would gladly have but duty required him to go forward to a more distant field with only a few companions he embarked on the upper lake a portion of whose shores had been made known through the of and the visit of and per to these waters of which we have already learned did not take place until three years later was delighted with his voyage upon the upper lake of all the fresh water seas he had beheld this seemed to him the and in his enthusiasm he it lake in honor of the de the new lieutenant general of canada from whom the expected great things near the end of the month the missionary reached la at or near the place where and had built their hut in a straggling village close by where indians of several tribes had come together he founded the mission of st and there he built a on the upper lakes bark chapel as a place of worship � the first church if we may call it such within the limits of the old not far from the head of the bay were other villages where lived some eight hundred savages belonging to various tribes the greater number being over all these as well as over the farther inland father � hoped to extend some sort of pastoral care to the mission of st the savages soon began to resort in large numbers and the zealous used many devices to secure their confidence and friendship he told them that the french would surely crush and utterly subdue their old enemies the and he assured them that the time would soon come when they could return to their old homes by the head waters of the and on the shores of the with their young men he much of the country along the lake shore and from them he heard of the mysterious copper mines and of the great water called which flowed through mysterious regions far to the south on one of his excursions he fell in with e built a bark chapel a band of indians � the terror of the west � and from them he learned that their home was oh the farther west while beyond was an unknown land bordered by the great salt sea but with all his zeal and enterprise and patience the missionary of st made but few and the savages especially the remained as savage and degraded as before iii mar about a year before the coming of la to canada there arrived on the st a young priest whose name was he was of a gentle disposition refined well educated and intent only upon doing good no sooner had he set foot upon soil than he began to prepare himself for the duties of a missionary among the savages of the after spending a year and a half at three rivers studying the languages of the principal indian tribes he set out with a party of returning natives to the distant shores of lake superior he arrived at the without and took up his abode with the who rejoiced that he had come to establish a mission among them there he was soon joined by another missionary and the two with the help of their first built a little church on the bank of the river and surrounded it with it was near the spot where the gentle had been laid by his companion father the rude building had scarcely been completed when was commanded to go still farther west and on the upper lakes assume charge of the mission of st at la he obeyed without asking why but when he presented himself to take the place of the he learned the reasons for the change among the indians on the shore of green bay there had lately come from canada a party of reckless young � lawless woods or de � who were the savages in deeds of violence and crime the and other tribes near the river fox degraded though they were were by the doings of these to father in the distant mission of st they sent a messenger praying him to come and tame the wild spirits of the men of his own nation we are daily in fear for our lives we are terrified by their wickedness come and teach them something about that religion of gentleness of which we have heard could the missionary refuse to listen to this appeal to the superior of his order in canada he wrote an account of the whole matter and the result was that he received permission to go among the tribes of green bay to preach to the red savages and to and restrain the white but who should carry on the work which he had begun at la surely no man was better fitted for that duty than young father and this was why had been removed from his appointed field at the proceeded at once to the green bay region and on the fox river not far from its mouth he set up among the and other tribes the mission of st francis st iv st the mission of st had never the indians for whom it had been established were hardened wretches whose hearts could not be touched
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first said my aunt if he had been your own boy you would have put him to it just the same i suppose if he had been my brother s own boy returned miss striking in his character i trust would have been altogether different or if the poor child his mother had been alive he would still have gone into the respectable business would he said my aunt i believe said mr mm with an inclination of his head that would have disputed nothing which myself and my sister jane were agreed was for the best miss confirmed this with an audible murmur said my aunt unfortunate baby mr dick who had been rattling his money all this time was rattling it so loudly now that my aunt felt it necessary to check him with a look before saying the poor child s died with her died with her replied mr and there was no settlement of the little property � the house and garden � the what s its name without any in it � upon her boy it had been left to her by her first husband mr began when my aunt caught him up with the greatest and impatience good lord man there s no occasion to say that left to her i think i see david looking forward to any condition of any sort or kind though it stared him point blank in the face of course it was left to her but when she again � when she took that most disastrous step of marrying you in of david said my aunt to be plain � did no one put in a word for the boy at that time my late wife loved her second husband madam said mr and trusted in him your late wife sir was a most most unhappy most unfortunate baby returned my aunt shaking her head at him that s what she was and now what have you got to say next merely this miss he returned i am here to take david back � to take him back to dispose of him as i think proper and to deal with him as i think right i am not here to make any promise or give any pledge to anybody you may possibly have some idea miss of him in his running away and in his complaints to you your manner which i must say does not seem intended to me to think it possible now i must caution you that if you him once you him for good and all if you step in between him and me now you must step in miss for ever i cannot trifle or be with i am here for the first and last time to take him away is he ready to go if he is not � and you tell me he is not on any pretence it is indifferent to me what � my doors are shut against him henceforth and s i take it for are open to him to this address my aunt had listened with the attention sitting perfectly upright with her hands folded on one knee and looking grimly on the speaker when he had finished she turned her eyes so as to command miss without otherwise disturbing her attitude and said well ma am have you got anything to remark indeed miss said miss all that i could say has been so well said by my brother and all that i know to be the fact has been so plainly stated by him that i have nothing to add except my thanks for your politeness for your very great politeness i am sure said miss with an irony which no more affected my aunt than it the cannon i had slept by at and what does the boy say said my aunt are you ready to go david i answered no and entreated her not to let me go i said that neither mr nor miss had ever liked me or had ever been kind to me that they had made my who always loved me dearly unhappy about me and that i knew it well and that knew it i said that i had been more miserable than i thought anybody could believe who only knew how young i was and i begged and prayed my aunt � i forget in what terms now but i remember that they affected me very much then � to and protect me for my father s sake mr dick said my aunt what shall i do with this child mr dick considered hesitated brightened and rejoined have liim measured for a suit of clothes directly mr dick said my aunt triumphantly give me your hand for your common sense is invaluable having shaken it with great cordiality she pulled me towards her and said to mr you can go when you like i take my chance with the boy if he s all you say he is at least i can do as much for him then as you have done but i don t believe a word of it the personal history and experience miss rejoined mr his shoulders as he rose if you were a gentleman stuff and nonsense said my aunt don t talk to me how exquisitely polite exclaimed miss rising overpowering really do you think i don t know said my aunt turning a deaf ear to the sister and continuing to address the brother and to shake her head at him with infinite expression what kind of life you must have led that poor unhappy baby do you think i don t know what a day it was for the soft little creature when you first came in her way � and making great eyes at her i be bound as if you couldn t say to a goose i never heard anything so elegant said miss do you think
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somehow from his mother and toward his enemies in his right he bore a rock so heavy that he could scarcely lift it with this he feebly threatened them bis rosy by ic the valley of the moon little face was with rage and he was screaming over and over dam dam dam the laughter with which they greeted him only increased his fury he closer and with a mighty exertion threw the rock it fell a scant six feet beyond his hand this much saxon saw and also mrs rushing into the street for her child a rattling of revolver shots from the drew saxon s attention to the men beneath her one of them cursed sharply and examined the of his left arm which hung by his side down the hand she saw the blood beginning to she knew she ought not remain and watch but the memory of her fighting forefathers was with her while she possessed no more than normal human fear � if anything less she forgot her child in the of battle that had broken upon her quiet street and she forgot the and everything else in amazement at what had happened to the round cigar smoking leader in some strange way she knew not how his head had become at the neck between the tops of the of her fence his body hung down outside the knees not quite touching the ground his hat had fallen off and the sun was making an high light on his bald spot the cigar too was gone she saw he was looking at her one hand between the seemed waving at her and almost he seemed to wink at her though she knew it to be the of deadly pain possibly a second or at most two seconds she gazed at this when she was aroused by s voice he was running along the in front of her house and behind him charged several more while he shouted come on you we got em nailed to the cross in his left hand he carried a pick handle in his right a revolver already empty for he the vainly around as he ran with an abrupt stop dropping the pick handle he whirled half about saxon s gate he was sinking down when he straightened him by ic the valley op the moon self to throw the into the face of a who was jumping toward him then he began swaying at the same time at the knees and waist slowly with infinite effort he a gate in his ri t hand and still slowly as if lowering himself sank down while past him leaped the crowd of he had led it was battle without a the and their surrounded backed against saxon s fence fought like rats but could not withstand the rush of a hundred men clubs and pick handles were swinging were and were flung with crushing effect at arm s distance saxon saw young frank a friend of s and a father of several months standing press the of his revolver against a s stomach and fire there were curses and of rage wild cries of terror and pain was right these things were not men they were beasts fighting over bones destroying one another for bones are are bones the phrase was an incessant in saxon s brain much as she might have wished it she was powerless now to withdraw from the window it was as if she were her brain no longer worked she sat staring incapable of anything save seeing the rapid horror before her eyes that flashed along like a moving picture gone mad she saw special police and go down one terribly wounded on his knees and begging for mercy was kicked in the face as he backward another standing over him fired a revolver into his chest quickly and deliberately again and again until the weapon was empty another backed over the by a hand clutching his throat had his face by a revolver butt again and again continually the revolver rose and fell and saxon knew the man who it � johnson she had met him at dances and danced with him in the days before she was married he had always been kind and good natured she remembered the friday night after a city hall band by ic the valley op the moon when he had taken her and two other girls to s on street and after that they had all gone to s and drunk a glass of beer before they went home it was impossible that this could be the same johnson and as she looked she saw the round leader still by the neck between the draw a revolver with his free hand and horribly press the against s side she tried to scream a warning she did scream and looked up and saw her at that moment the revolver went and he prone upon the body of the and the bodies of three men hung on her fence anything could happen now quite without surprise she saw the leaping the fence her few little and into the earth as they fled between house and hers up pine street from the railroad yards was coming a rush of railroad police and s firing as they ran while down pine street horses at a came three packed with police the were in a trap the only way out was between the houses and over the back yard fences the jam in the narrow alley prevented them all from escaping a dozen were in the angle between the front of her house and the steps and as they had done so were they done by no effort was made to arrest they were down and shot down to the last man by the of the peace who were by what had been on their brethren it was all over and saxon moving
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plague lay like a ready to flow forth and spread and through the city what a terrible next door neighbour for superstitious citizens a rat within would send a shudder through the heart here if you like was a addressed by our forefathers to their own neglect v and then we have major for although even his house is now old cannot clear herself of his memory he and his sister lived together in an of sour piety she was a marvellous j he had a rare gift of and was known among devout admirers by the name of thomas he was a tall black man and ordinarily looked down to the ground a grim countenance and a big nose his garb was still picturesque notes on a cloak and somewhat dark and he never went without his staff how it came about that thomas was burned in company with his and his sister in manner hanged and whether these two were simply religious of the more furious order or had real as well as imaginary sins upon their old world shoulders are points happily beyond the reach of our intention at least it is suitable enough that out of this superstitious city some such example should have been put forth the and fine flower of dark and vehement religion and at least the facts struck the public fancy and brought forth a remarkable family of it would appear that the major s staff went upon his errands and even ran before him with a lantern on dark nights gigantic females laughing and gaping with of laughter at hours of night and morning haunted the legends of his abode his house fell under such a load of that no one dared to sleep in it until improvement the structure with the ground and my father has often been told in the nursery how the devil s coach drawn by six coal black horses with fiery eyes would drive at night into the west bow and people might see the dead major through the glasses another legend is that of the two maiden sisters a legend i am afraid it may be in the most meaning of the term or perhaps something worse � a mere yesterday s fiction but it is a story of some vitality an is worthy of a place in the this pair inhabited a single room from the facts it must have been double and it may have been of some dimensions but when all is said it was a single room here our two fell out � on some point of picturesque notes on divinity but fell out so bitterly that there was never a word spoken between them black or white from that day forward you would have thought they would separate but no whether from lack of means or the fear of scandal they continued to keep house together where they were a chalk line drawn upon the floor separated their two it the doorway and the fireplace so that each could go out and in and do her cooking without the territory of the other so for years they in a hateful silence j their meals their their friendly visitors exposed to an scrutiny j and at night in the dark watches each could hear the breathing of her enemy never did four walls look down upon an spectacle than these sisters in here is a canvas for to have turned into a cabinet picture � he had a vein which would have � legends fitted him to treat this horror he could have shown them to us in their and at their hideous twin a pair of great or praying aloud for each other s with emphasis now each with at her own corner of the fire on some evening j now sitting each at her window looking out upon the summer landscape sloping far below them towards the and the field paths where they had wandered hand in hand or as age and infirmity grew upon them and prolonged their and their hands began to tremble and their heads to nod involuntarily growing only the more in enmity with years until one fine day at a word a look a visit or the approach of death their hearts would melt and the chalk boundary be for ever alas to those who know the history of the race � the most perverse and notes on melancholy in man s annals � this will seem only a figure of much that is typical of scotland and her high seated capital above the forth � a figure so grimly that it may pass with strangers for a we are wonderful patient for conscience sake up here in the north i spoke in the first of these papers of the of the established and free churches and how they can hear each other singing across the street there is but a street between them in space but a shadow between them in principle and yet there they sit enchanted and in accents pray for each other s growth in grace it would be well if there were no more than two but the in scotland form a large family of sisters and the chalk lines are thickly drawn and run through the midst of many private homes is a city of churches as though it were a place legends of pilgrimage you will see four within a stone cast at the head of the west bow some are crowded to the doors some are empty like monuments and yet you will ever find new ones in the building hence that surprising of church bells that suddenly breaks out upon the sabbath morning from and the sea skirts to on the borders of the hills i have heard the of oxford playing their in a golden autumn morning and beautiful it was to hear but in all manner of loud bells join or rather in
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told her it would be in vain to go after the they were turning the comer into street when he had overtaken them and were at home by this time then i will go after them said wherever they are i will go after them it does not signify talking if i could not be persuaded into doing what i thought wrong i never will be into it and with these words she broke away and hurried off would have darted after lier but with abbey held him let her go let her go if she will go she is as obstinate as y never finished the for it could hardly have been a proper one away walked in great agitation as fast as the crowd would permit her fearful of being pursued yet determined to as she walked she reflected on what had passed it was painful to her to disappoint and them particularly to her brother but she could not repent her resistance setting her own inclination apart to have failed a second time in her engagement to miss to have a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before and on a false pretence too must have been wrong she had not been them on selfish principles alone she had not consulted merely her own gratification that might have been in some degree by the excursion itself by seeing castle no she had attended to what was due to others and to her own character in their opinion her conviction of being right however was not enough to restore her composure till she had spoken to miss she could not be at ease and her pace when she got clear of the she almost ran over the remaining ground till she gained the top of street so rapid had been her movements that in spite of the advantage in the outset they were but just turning into their lodgings as she came within view of them and the servant still remaining at the open door she used only the ceremony of saying that she must speak with miss that moment and hurrying by him proceeded up stairs then opening the first door before her which happened to be the right she immediately found herself in the with general his son and daughter her only in being � from her i abbey irritation of nerves and of breath � no tion at ally was instantly given i am come in a great hurry � it was all a mistake i never promised to go i told them from the first i could not go i ran away in a great hurry to explain it i did not care what you thought of me i would not stay for the servant the business however though not perfectly by this speech soon ceased to be a puzzle found that john had given the message and miss had no scruples in herself greatly by it but whether her brother had still exceeded her in resentment though she instinctively addressed herself as much to one as to the other in her had no means of knowing whatever might have been felt before her arrival her eager immediately made every look and sentence as friendly as she could desire the affair thus happily settled she was introduced by miss to her father and received by him with such ready such politeness as recalled s information to her mind and made her think with pleasure that he might be sometimes depended on to such anxious attention was the general s civility carried that not aware of her extraordinary swiftness in entering the house he was quite angry with the servant whose neglect had reduced her to open the door of the apartment herself what did william mean by it he should make a point of inquiring into the matter and if had not most warmly asserted his innocence it seemed likely that william would lose the favour of his master for ever if not his place by her rapidity after sitting with them a quarter of an hour she rose to take leave and was then most agreeably sur abbey by general s asking her if she would do his daughter the honour of dining and spending the rest of the day with her miss added her own wishes was greatly obliged but it was quite out of her power mr and mrs would expect her back every moment the general declared he could say no more the claims of mr and mrs were not to be but on some other day he trusted when longer notice could be given they would not r use to spare her to her friend oh no was sure they would not have the least objection and she should have great pleasure in coming the general attended her himself to the street door saying everything gallant as they went down stairs admiring the of her walk which exactly with the spirit of her dancing and making her one of the most graceful bows she had ever beheld when they parted delighted by all that had passed proceeded gaily to street walking as she concluded with great she had never thought of it before she reached home without seeing anything more of the offended party and now that she had been triumphant throughout had carried her point and was secure of her walk she began as the flutter of her spirits subsided to doubt whether she had been perfectly right a sacrifice was always noble and if she had given way to their entreaties she should have been spared the idea friend displeased a brother angry and a scheme of great happiness to both destroyed perhaps through her means to ease her mind and ascertain by the opinion of an person what her own conduct had really been she took occasion to mention before mr the half settled scheme of her brother and the for the following day mr caught
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t you know � there was no possibility of and the little chinese figures on the black were mixed up with it as i say it me tonight in the midst of all those people and � oh yes old barking is very kind he went on with a change of tone only i wish lady would warn him he need not trouble himself to be amusing he came and sat by me towards the end of the evening and told me the most stories in that manner of his verily they were ancient as the hills and a weariness to the spirit but that good looking young fellow swallowed them all down with the attention and laughed aloud in all that he conceived to be the right places a pause came in richard s flow of words he moved again and clasped his hands under his head had seldom seen him thus excited and feverish a sense of alarm grew on her lest her heroic remedy was after all not working a wholly satisfactory cure for there was a violence in hi utterance and in his face a certain of speech and of very to her oh s kind awfully kind he repeated looking away at the blind again and i m awfully grateful to them but � oh i tell you that woman s voice has got me and made me made me mad drunk i almost wish i had heard her i think i won t go to the opera again emotion that finds no outlet in action only one and breaks up one s philosophy and she makes me know all that might be and is not and never never can be good god i what a glorious what an amazing business i could have made of life if � he slipped a little on the pillows had to his hands hastily and press them down on either side him to keep his body fairly upright in the bed his features contracted with a of anger � if i had only had the average chance he added harshly if i had only started with the normal ment and as she listened the old anguish lately to rest in s heart arose and cried aloud but she sought resolutely to its crying strong in faith and hope i know my dearest i know she said and yet since we have been here i have thought perhaps we had a little both your happy gift of pleasing and the readiness of others to be pleased it seems to me all doors open if you stretch out your hand well my dear i would have you go forward i would have you more sir richard ambitious more self confident i see and my own cowardly mistake instead of hiding you away at home and keeping you to i ought to have encouraged you to mix in the world and fill the position to which both your powers and your birth you i was wrong � i lament my folly but there is ample time in which to my mistake richard s face relaxed i wonder � i wonder he said i am sure she replied you are too sanguine he said your love for me blinds you to fact no no she replied again love is the only medium in which vision gains perfect clearness becomes and � instinctively folded her hands as in prayer while the brightness of a pure enthusiasm shone in her sweet eyes that i have learned beyond all possibility of dispute it has been given me through much to arrive at that richard smiled upon her tenderly then turning his head remained silent for a while the sullen roar of the great city invaded the quiet room through the open windows the heavy regular tread of a policeman on his beat a shrill whistle a from a house some few doors distant up the square and then an answering of wheels and clatter of hoofs richard s face had grown fierce again and his breath came quick he turned on his side and once more the proportions of his person became perceptible lady averted her eyes fixing them upon his but even there she found sad lack of comfort for in them she read the distress and desolation of one treated by nature and even the divine light resident within her failed to reconcile her to that reading she shrank back in protest once again against the dealing of almighty god with this only child of hers and yet � such is the of a living faith � even while shrinking while protesting she herself for support for help upon the very being who had permitted in a sense caused her misery mother can i say something to you richard asked rather hoarsely at last anything � in heaven or earth but it is a thing not usually spoken of as i want to speak of it it may seem you won t be disgusted or think me wanting in respect or in modesty surely not lady answered quietly yet a certain i a slip cup and lip trembling took her a as in face of the unknown this strong young creature developed forces presented aspects in his present feverish mood with which she felt hardly equal to cope mother i � i want to marry i too have thought of that she said you don t consider that i am from marriage oh no no cried a little sob in her voice he looked at her steadily with those profoundly desolate eyes it would not be wrong it would not be otherwise than honourable he asked if doubts arose within of the answer to that question she crushed them down passionately no my dearest no she declared it would not be wrong � it could not could not be so � if she loved you and you loved you married but i m
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would told him well it would serve to core him of ta absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn he had adopted when quite a young man on the principle of its being veiy to be curious the notions of a young man of one or two and twenty said he as to what is necessary in manners to make quite the thing are more absurd i believe than those of other set of beings in the world the folly of the means often employ is only to be equalled by the of what they have in view but he must not be addressing bis reflections to anne alone he knew it he was soon diffused again among the others and it was only at intervals that he could return to his inquiries however produced at length an account of the scene she had been engaged in there soon after his leaving the place having alluded to an accident he must hear the whole when he questioned sir walter and began to question also but the difference in their manner of doing it could not be she could only compare mr to lady in the wish of really what had passed and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it he staid an hour with them the elegant little dock on the mantel piece had struck eleven with its silver sounds and the was beginning to be heard at a distance telling the same tale before mr or any of them seemed feel that he had been there long persuasion anne could not have supposed it possible that her first in place could have passed so well chapter xvi was one point which anne on returning to her family would have been more thankful to ascertain even than mr s being in love with elizabeth which was her father s not being in love with mrs clay and she was very far from easy about it when she had been at home a few hours on going down to breakfast the next morning she found there had just been a decent pretence on the lady s side of meaning to leave them she could imagine mrs clay to have said that now miss anne was come she could not suppose herself at all wanted for elizabeth was replying in a sort of whisper that must not be any reason indeed assure you i feel it none she is nothing to me compared with you and she was in full time to hear her father say my dear madam this must not be as yet you have seen nothing of bath you have been here only to be useful yon must not run away from us now you must stay to be acquainted with mrs the beautiful mrs to fine mind i well know the sight of beauty is a real gratification he spoke and looked so much in earnest that anne was not surprised to see mrs clay stealing a glance at elizabeth and herself her perhaps might express some but the praise of the fine mind did not appear to excite a thought in her sister the lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties and promise to stay in the course of the same morning anne and her father to be alone together he began to compliment her on her improved looks he thought her ess thin in her person in her cheeks her skin her complexion greatly improved clearer had she been using anything in particular no nothing merely he supposed no nothing at all ha he was surprised at ua i n that and added you cannot do better than as you are a cannot be better than well or i recommend the constant use of the spring months mrs clay has been using it at my n and you see what it has done for her see how it has carried away her if elizabeth could but have heard such praise might have struck her especially as it did not appear to anne the were at all lessened but must take its chance the evil of the marriage would be much diminished if elizabeth were also to marry ii for herself she might always a home with lady lady s composed mind and polite manners were put to some trial on this point in her intercourse in place the sight of mrs clay in such favour and of anne so overlooked was a perpetual provocation to her there and vexed her as much when she was away as a person in bath who drinks the water gets all the new and his a very large acquaintance has time to be vexed as mr became known to her she grew more charitable or more indifferent towards the others his manners were an immediate recommendation and on conversing with him ihe found the solid so fully supporting the superficial that she was at first as she told ready to exclaim can this be mr and could not seriously picture to herself a more agreeable or man everything united in him good understanding oo opinions knowledge of the world and a warm heart he had strong feelings of family attachment and honour without pride or weakness he lived with the of a man of fortune without display he judged for himself in everything essential without opinion in any point of worldly decorum he was steady observant moderate candid never run away with by or by selfishness which fancied itself strong feeling and yet with a to what was amiable and lovely and a persuasion for all the of domestic life which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess she was sure that he had not been happy in marriage colonel said it and lady saw it but it had been no to sour his mind nor she began pretty soon to suspect to prevent his
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quarrel as to the meaning of christianity or the of the whereby those who were should be distinguished from those who were not entitled to bear the christian name this contrast a great wrong somewhere and for which somebody must be responsible i merely suggest it for general consideration and pass on not fully with the peace movement in the actual condition of europe i was not a and did not attend the first two days i see not how any one who does not hope to live and by injustice oppression and murder can be otherwise than p a s s b to peace but suppose there is a of die human family who won t have peace nor let others have it what then if you say let us have it as soon as we can i respond with all my heart i would war even against or no longer than is absolutely necessary to inspire them with a of peace or put them where they can no longer the peace of others but so long as and shall say � as they now practically do say all over europe yes we too are for peace but it must foe peace with absolute submission to our good pleasure � peace with two thirds of the fruits of human labor devoted to the of our luxurious the maintenance of our pomp the indulgence of our unbounded desires � it must be a peace which leaves the millions in darkness in hopeless degradation the slaves of superstition and the helpless victims of our i answer no on your conditions no peace is possible but everlasting war rather until your unjust pretensions are abandoned or until your power of them is destroyed i have felt a painful apprehension that the of the peace movement confined as it is to the liberal party and acting on a state of things which almost unbounded power to the is calculated to break the spirit of down trodden nation and by thus the inevitable struggle to an indefinite period the advent of that reign of universal justice which alone can in the glorious era of universal peace and had i been a to this universal peace i should perhaps have its harmony and its happiness by asking it to consider and vote upon some such proposition as this that in to all men everywhere the duty of and peace we bear in mind the s mr t pure then and do not deny but affirm the right of a nation invaded by a foreign or oppressed by its own rulers to resist force by force n at i rejoice in being able to say that the general tendency of the speeches was towards universal mental and physical i doubt whether an english audience composed in so large proportion of the respectable classes ever listened to so much downright before the french the were full of it and the great event at least of the last day s was the entrance of a body of fifteen french workmen to the w s exhibition of the working associations of paris who came in a body to pledge their hearts and hands to the cause of universal peace and to assure the that the the of france were eminently pacific in their ideas and purposes and that the preservation of the republic which is the immediate object of their exertions is valued not more in its relation to their personal rights and aspirations than as a step toward the formation of a european of nations and thus as the corner stone of the temple of universal peace the speeches of these workmen just from their benches in shops of paris were every way admirable and were received with the enthusiasm they breathed the true spirit not of peace only but of hearty in every work calculated to promote the moral and social weu being of mankind the wretched cant which natural between france and england or any other two nations was emphatically by them and every variety of forcible expression given to the earnest desire of the laboring classes of france that peace freedom and brotherhood shall prevail not in their own country merely but throughout the world mr had made his great speech on the preceding day wherein the grievous and hideous of standing armies were vividly he did not hesitate to speak straight out on the subject of the influence of armies on the people among whom they were or posted and the broad track of moral desolation which an armed force where leaves behind it if the facts in this connection were but generally known i think there would soon be a loud call from christians and for the entire and of every standing army editor of la spoke more especially of the enormous expense of armies and the they render necessary � mr spoke again yesterday in more immediate of the enormous standing army maintained by not merely throughout its own but in other countries also the which its government is constantly and the gulf of to which it is rapidly hurrying he said there were that another loan would be attempted in london and if it should be he should urge the call of a public meeting to expose the past of in dealing with her and to hold up to public whoever should touch the loan � mr samuel the banker also spoke in of for war purposes and all who to or encourage them � edward mi all editor of also spoke forcibly against war m an eminent french and writer read a witty essay in of war and all other for human life which being given first in french and then in english very hearty there were many more including mr british m p m french chamber of m an italian banker j s dr of and joseph who moved that a similar be held next year at a time
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and every holiday time was sure to have days of grief because he had gone off with bob well there was no hope for it he was gone now and could think of no comfort but to sit down by the or wander by the and fancy it was all different her little world into just what she should like it to be s was a life and this was the form in which she took her meanwhile tom forgetting au about and the sting of reproach which he had left in her heart was hurrying along with bob whom he had met accidentally to the scene of a great rat catching in a neighboring bam bob knew all about this particular affair and spoke of the sport with an enthusiasm which no one who is not either of all manly feeling or ignorant of rat catching can fail to imagine for a person suspected of wickedness bob was really not so very looking there was even something agreeable in his face with its close curled border of red hair but then his were always rolled up at the knee for the convenience of on the slightest notice and his virtue supposing it to exist was virtue in rags which on the authority even of philosophers who think all well dressed merit is likely to remain perhaps because it is seen so seldom i know the chap as owns the said bob in a hoarse voice as he along keeping his blue eyes fixed on the river like an animal who foresaw occasion for darting in he s up the yard at s � he does he s the biggest rot any where � he is i d sooner be a rot nor any thing � would the is nothing to the but you ha dogs is no good why there s that dog now bob continued pointing with an air of disgust toward he s no more the mill ok thb fl s good wi a rot nor i see it i did � at the i your s bam feeling the withering influence of this scorn tucked his tail in and shrank close to tom s leg who felt a little hurt for him but had not the courage to seem with bob in contempt for a dog who made so poor a figure no no he said s no good at sport i ll have regular good dogs for rats and every thing when i ve done school tom said bob eagerly � them white wi pink eyes you might catch your own an you might put a rot in a cage wi a an see em fight � you might that s what i d do i know an it ud be better fun a most nor two fight � if it wasn t them as sell cakes an at the fair as the things flew out o their baskets an some o the cakes was smashed but they tasted just as good added bob by way of note or after a moment s pause but i say bob said tom in a tone of deliberation are nasty biting things they ll bite a fellow without being set on why that s the on em if a chap lays hold o your he won t be long before he hollows out a good un � he won t at this moment a striking incident made the boys pause suddenly m their walk it was the plunging of some small body in the water from the neighboring � if it was not a water rat bob that he was ready to undergo the most unpleasant consequences � i there he is said tom clapping his hands as the little black made its course to the opposite bank seize him lad seize him agitated his ears and wrinkled his brows but declined to plunge trying whether barking would not answer the purpose just as well u i you coward tom and kicked him over feeling as a to possess so poor spirited an animal bob from remark and passed on choosing however to walk in the shallow edge of the overflowing river by way of change he s none so full now the isn t said bob as he kicked the water up before him with an agreeable sense of being insolent to it why last ear the meadows wa one sheet o water they was ay but said tom whose mind was prone to see an opposition between statements that were really quite but there was a big flood once when the round pool was thb mill ok ths made i know there was father say so and the sheep and cows were all drowned and the boats went all over the fields ever such a way z don t care about a flood said bob i don t mind the water no more nor the land i d swim � z would ah but if you got nothing to eat for ever so long said tom his imagination becoming quite active under the of that dread when i m a man i shall make a boat with a wooden house on the top of it like s ark and keep plenty to eat in it � and all ready and then if the flood came you know bob i shouldn t mind and i d take you in if i saw you swimming he added in the tone of a benevolent patron i aren t said bob to whom hunger did not appear so appalling but i d get in an knock the on th head when you wanted to eat em ah and i should have and we d play at heads and tails said tom not contemplating the possibility that this might have fewer charms for his mature age i d divide fair to begin with and then we d see who d win
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different and was a little but her conviction of being really the one her under it and enabled her to receive s parting attentions as she ought he was ly better pleased to hand her into the than t her in ascending the box � and his complacency i confirmed by the arrangement ell this has been a fine day for you upon � rd said mrs as they drove through the nothing but pleasure from beginning to end j e you ought to be very much obliged to your m and me for to let you go a pretty aj s you have had i park maria was enough to say i think you have done pretty yourself ma am your lap seems of good things and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow my dear it is only a beautiful little which that nice old gardener would make me take but if it is in your way i will have it in my lap there you carry that parcel me � take great care of it � do not let it fall it is a cream cheese just like the excellent one we had at dinner nothing would satisfy that good old but my taking one of the i stood out as long as i could till the tears almost came into her eyes and i knew it was just the sort that my sister would be delighted with that mrs is a sure she was quite shocked when i asked her whether wine was allowed at the second table and she has turned away two for wearing white gowns take care of the cheese now i can manage the other parcel and the basket very well what else have you been said maria half pleased that should be so my dear it is nothing but four of those beautiful s eggs whidi mrs would quite force upon me she would not take a denial she said it must be such an amusement to me as she understood i lived quite alone to have a few living creatures of that sort and so to be sure it will i shall get the maid to set them under the first spare hen and if come to good i can have them moved to my own house and borrow a and it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to attend to them and if i have good luck your mother shall have some it was a beautiful evening mild and and the drive was as pleasant as the serenity of nature could make it but when mrs ceased speaking it was ther a silent drive to those within their spirits were in general exhausted and to determine whether the day had most pleasure or pain might occupy the meditations of almost park chapter xi r at with all its s much more agreeable feelings than from the letters from which soon ds reached it was much pleasanter to henry than of their father and to r their father in england again within a certain these letters obliged them to do was a most me exercise was the black fixed for his return � wrote of it with as much decision as od anxiety could his business was so as to justify him in proposing to take his in the september packet and he consequently with the hope of being with his n early in november ji was more to be pitied than for to her the a husband and the return of the friend for her happiness would unite her to the whom she had chosen happiness should it was a gloomy prospect and all that she could to throw a mist over it and hope when the mist away she should see something else it ye early in november there were generally passage or that something very body who their eyes they look or while they reason feels the comfort would probably be the middle of november at he middle of november was three months off thirteen weeks much mi t in thirteen weeks would have been deeply by a n of half that his dan on the subject of m and would hardly have found consolation in a ge of the interest it excited in the breast of an lady miss on walking up with her to spend the evening at park heard i news seeming to have no i park the affair beyond politeness and to have all feelings in a quiet heard it with an at tion not so easily satisfied mrs gave the p of the letters and the subject was i tea as miss was standing at an open win with and looking out on a twilight sc while the miss mr and hi were all busy with candles at the piano fc she suddenly revived it by turning round towards group and sayings how happy mr he is thinking of november looked at mr too but nothing to say your father s return will be a i interesting event it will indeed after such an absence an not only long but including so many dangers it will be the also of other interest events your sisters marriage and your taking orders yes don t be said she laughing but it i ut me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes � performing great exploits in a foreign land sacrifices to the gods on their safe return there is no sacrifice in the case replied with a serious smile and glancing at the piano it is entirely her own doing oh yes i know it is i was merely joking i has done no more than what every young woman wo do and i have no doubt of her being extremely hap my other sacrifice of course you do not understand my taking orders i assure you is quite as
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from being seized with doubt and incredulity whenever in the course of this history they encounter the uncommon circumstance of a governor acting with independence and in opposition to the opinions of the multitude to assist the doubtful in the business of a board of was appointed which presided immediately over the police this potent body consisted of a or with powers between those of the p mayor and five who were equivalent to and five who as or bottle to the in the same manner as do assistant to their at the present day it being their duty to fill the pipes of the hunt the for for dinners and to discharge such other little offices of kindness as were occasionally required it was moreover understood though not that they should consider themselves as for the blunt wits of the and should laugh most heartily at all their jokes but this last was a duty as rarely called in action in those days as it is at present and was shortly in by of the death of a fat little � who actually died of in an effort to force a laugh at one of van s best jokes in return for these humble services they were permitted to say yes at the council board and to have that privilege the run of the public being graciously permitted to eat and drink and smoke at all snug and public for which the ancient were equally famous with their modem the post of therefore like that of assistant was eagerly by all your of a certain description who have a huge relish for good feeding and an humble ambition to be great men in a small way � who thirst after a little brief authority that shall render them the terror of the house and the � that � hall enable them to lord it over poverty vice outcast and hunger driven that shall give to their a hound like pack of catch poles and bum � greater than the they hunt down � my readers will excuse this sudden warmth which i confess is of a grave historian � but i have a mortal to catch poles bum and little great men the ancient of this city with those of the present time no less in form history of magnitude and intellect than in and privilege the like our were generally chosen by and not the weight of the body but likewise the weight of the head it is a practically observed in all honest plain thinking regular cities that an should be fat � and the wisdom of this can be proved to a certainty that the body is in measure an image of tiie mind or rather that the mind is to the body like melted lead to the clay in which it is cast has been insisted on by many philosophers who have made human nature their peculiar study � for as a learned gentleman of our own city there is a constant relation between the moral character of all intelligent creatures and their physical constitution � between their habits and the structure of their bodies thus we see that a lean spare body is accompanied by a restless either the mind wears down the body by its continual motion or else the body not affording the mind sufficient house room keeps it continually in a state of tossing and worrying about from the uneasiness of its situation whereas your round sleek fat is ever attended by a mind like itself tranquil and at ease and we may always observe that your well fed are in general very of their ease and comfort being great enemies to by york noise discord and disturbance � and surely none are more likely to study the public tranquillity than those who are so careful of their who ever hears of fat men heading a riot or together in turbulent � it is your lean hungry men who are continually worrying society and setting the whole community by the ears the divine whose doctrines are not sufficiently attended to by philosophers of the present age allows to every man three one immortal and rational seated in the brain that it may � overlook and the body � a second consisting of the surly and passions which like powers lie around the heart � a third mortal and destitute of reason gross and brutal in its and in the belly that it may not disturb the divine soul by its now according to this excellent theory what can be more clear than that your fat is most likely to have the most regular and well mind his head is like a huge chamber containing a prodigious mass of soft brains whereon the rational soul lies softly and as on a feather bed and the eyes which are the windows of the bed chamber are usually half closed that its may not be disturbed by external objects a mind thus comfortably lodged and protected from disturbance is most vol i p � by history of likely to perform its functions with regularity and ease by dint of good feeding moreover the mortal and malignant soul which is confined in the i belly and which by its raging and roaring puts the irritable soul in the neighbourhood of the heart � in an intolerable passion and thus renders men and when hungry is completely silenced and put to rest � whereupon a host of honest good fellow qualities and kind hearted affections which had lain peeping out of the holes of the heart finding this asleep do pluck up their spirits turn out one and all in their suits and up and down the their possessor to laughter good humour and a thousand friendly offices towards his fellow mortals as a board of formed on this model think but very little they are the less likely to differ and about favourite opinions �
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so the sands in time s hour glass ran slowly but surely away and it was new year s eve had wandered about all day singing her little of in the teeth of a cruel snow laden wind � so cruel that people otherwise disposed had shut close their doors and windows and had not even heard her voice thus the last span of the old year had proved most and dreary she had gained no more than sixpence how could she return with only that humble amount to face mother and her fury her throat ached � she was very tired and as the night darkened from pale to deep and shadows she strolled mechanically from the strand to the and after walking some little distance she sat down in a comer close to s needle � that mocking that has looked upon the decay of itself and that still appears to say pass on ye generations i a mere block of stone shall you all for the first time in all her experience the child in her arms seemed a heavy burden she put aside her shawl and surveyed it tenderly it was fast asleep a small peaceful smile on its thin quiet face thoroughly worn out herself she leaned her head against the damp stone wall behind her and clasping the infant tightly to her the hired baby etc the hired baby breast she also slept � the heavy sleep of utter fatigue and physical exhaustion the solemn night moved on a night of black the of the old year s death bed was by so much as a single star none of the hurrying perceived the weary woman where she slept in that obscure comer and for a long while she rested there undisturbed suddenly a vivid glare of light dazzled her eyes she started to her feet half asleep but still instinctively retaining the infant in her close embrace a dark form to the throat and holding a brilliant bull eye s lantern stood before her come now said this personage this won t do move on smiled faintly and all right she answered striving to speak cheerfully and raising her eyes to the policeman s countenance i didn t mean to fall asleep here i don t know how i came to do it i must go home of course course said the policeman somewhat by her evident humility and touched in spite of himself by the pathos of her eyes then turning his lamp more fully upon her he continued is that a baby you ve got there yes said half proudly half tenderly poor little dear it s been sadly � but i think it s better the hired baby now than it was and encouraged by his friendly tone she opened the folds of her shawl to show him her one treasure the bull s eye came into still closer as the kindly guardian of the peace peered at the tiny bundle he had scarcely looked when he started back with an exclamation god bless my soul he cried it s dead dead shrieked oh no no not don t say so oh don t don t say so oh you can t mean it oh for god s love say you didn t mean it it can t be dead not really dead no no indeed oh baby baby you are not dead my pet my angel not dead oh no and breathless frantic with fear she felt the little thing s hands and feet and face kissed it wildly and called it by a thousand names � in vain � in vain its tiny body was already stiff and rigid it had been a corpse more than two hours the policeman and brushed his thick glove across his eyes he was an of the law but he had a heart he thought of his wife at home and of the soft little creature that clung to her bosom and with rapture whenever he came near look here he said very gently laying one hand on the woman s shoulder as she crouched shivering against the wall staring at the i k the hired baby form in her arms it s no use about it he paused � there was an uncomfortable lump in his throat and he had to cough again to get it down the poor little creature s gone � there s no help for it the next world s a better place than this you know there there don t take on so about it � this as shuddered and sighed a sigh of such complete despair that it went straight to his honest soul and showed him how futile were his efforts at consolation but he had his duty to attend to and he went on in firmer tones now like a good woman you will just move off from here and go home if i leave you here by yourself a bit will you promise me to go straight home i mustn t find you here when i come back on this beat d ye understand nodded that s right he resumed cheerily i ll give you just ten minutes you just go straight home and with a good night uttered in accents meant to be comforting he turned away and paced on his measured tread echoing on the silence at first loudly then fainter and fainter till it altogether died away as his figure disappeared in the distance left to herself rose from her crouching posture rocking the dead child in her arms she smiled go straight home she murmured half aloud home sweet home yes baby yes my darling we will go home together and creeping cautiously along in the shadows sh the hired baby reached a flight of the broad stone steps leading down to the river she descended them one by one the black water against them heavily heavily the
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some for and tears is surely a heartless process � as heartless as it is natural and the human family for all its wonderful record of adventure and achieve new law of development ment has not yet succeeded in avoiding this process that it is incapable of doing this is not to be not only is it capable but the whole of society is in that direction all the social forces are driving man on to a time when the old law will be there is no escaping it save by the of and quite it is inexorable it is inexorable because the common man demands it the twentieth century the common man says is his day the common man s day or rather the dawning of the common man s day nor can it be denied the evidence is with him the previous centuries and more the nineteenth have new law of development marked the rise of the common man from slavery to and from to what he bitterly terms slavery he has risen never was he so strong as he is to day and never so menacing he does the work of the world and he is beginning to know it the world cannot get along without him and this also he is beginning to know all the human knowledge of the past all the scientific discovery experiment and invention of machinery have tended to his advancement his standard of living is higher his common school education would shame princes ten centuries past his civil and religious liberty makes him a free man and his the peer of his and all this has tended to new law of make him conscious conscious of himself conscious of his class he looks about him and questions that ancient law of development it is cruel and wrong he is beginning to declare it is an let it be why should there be one empty belly in all the world when the work of ten men can feed a hundred what if my brother be not so strong as i he has not wherefore should he hunger � he and his little ones � away with the old law there is food and shelter for all therefore let all receive food and shelter as fast as labor has become conscious it has organized the ambition of these class conscious men is that the movement shall become general that all labor new law of development shall become conscious of itself and its interests and the day that witnesses the of labor they triumphantly will be a day when labor the world this growing consciousness has led to the organization of two movements both separate and distinct but both toward a goal � one the labor movement known as trade the other the political movement known as both are grim and silent forces and unknown to the general public save in moments of stress the sleeping labor giant receives little notice from the press and when he uneasily a column of surprise indignation and horror new law of development it is only now and then after long periods of silence that the labor movement puts in its claim for notice all is quiet the kind old world on and the masters their in complacency but the grim and silent forces are at work suddenly like a clap of thunder from a clear sky comes a of industry from ocean to ocean the wheels of a great chain of cease to run a quarter of a million throw down pick and and outrage the sun with their pale faces the street of a metropolis stand idle or the of machinery in vast dies away to silence there is alarm and panic and stalk forth there is new law of development a cry in the night and quick anger and sudden death peaceful cities are by the crack of and the of machine guns and the hearts of the shuddering are shaken by the roar of there is hurrying and the wires are kept hot between the centre of government and the seat of trouble the chiefs of state gravely and advise and of states there is of and of troops and the streets to the tramp of armed men there are separate and joint between the captains of industry and the captains of labor and then finally all is quiet again and the memory of it is like the memory of a bad dream new law of development but these strikes become things to date from and common on the lips of men become such phrases as the great dock strike the great coal strike the great railroad strike never before did labor do these things after the great plague in england labor finding itself in demand and innocently obeying the law asked higher wages but the masters set a restrained from moving about from place to place refused to and by most barbarous legal methods punished those who but labor is accorded greater respect to day such a policy put into in this the first of the twentieth century would sweep the masters from q new law of development their seats in one mighty and ihe masters know it and are respectful a fair instance of the growing of labor is afforded by an recent strike in san the and were completely working at any and all hours for whatever wages they could get a representative of the american of labor went among them and organized them within a few weeks nearly two thousand men were and they had five thousand dollars on sit then they put in their demand for increased wages and ter hours forthwith their organized the demand was denied and the and union walked out all organized stood back new law of development of the owners in s with them and willing to aid them if they dared and at the back of the and union stood the organized labor
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ma � la pi ce n est ce pas oh pas du ah t eat bread an ah t eat nor yet nor tea oh dear no sir you won t find that class of goods at any respectable shop a pastoral a of a wet july argument mr and mrs brown of north roused to by certain recent open air performances have invited their friends to witness a selection from the tempest in the garden of their villa which its title from two remarkably fine plane trees at one end of the lawn scene � tke mr and mrs b b discovered in readiness to receive their guests mrs b b with a desperate cheerfulness do you know dear i really do believe we shall have fine weather after all b b not a pastoral i shouldn t be surprised if it did clear up � about midnight mrs b b well if it doesn t rain any more till all the people are here shall be satisfied she says this with a dim notion of the powers that be by her moderation b b why you won t do it out here if it rains will you mrs b b with a deadly where do you suppose we shall do it then b b feebly why not in the � ar � drawing room mrs b b really you are too trying for anything a pastoral play in the drawing room have you no sense of the ridiculous do you know what a pastoral play is b b grimly i m beginning to find out my dear the p as they make their way down the little staircase to t ie which is over with sail cloth and provided vith seats and chairs they can t possibly mean to have it this evening � we shall be able to get away all the sooner to their hostess oh mrs brown how unfortunate such hopeless weather for it we really ought not to have come at all mrs b oh but indeed � we re not afraid of a few drops of rain � you sha n t be disappointed general fall of jaws we re going to begin as soon as ever a few more people come you sha n t go away without your te i guests t t are in for one at the very least seat themselves with expressions of delight behind the curtain under the plane trees the king of to i say old fellow if we re to lie down and go to sleep here we must have a little thrown down first the ground s also stage manager oh don t bother me my dear fellow where the am to find the k n thought you might have spared us some out of your have to go to sleep too and that couch is simply soaked soaked of course it s soaked it s pastoral we must put up with it that s all my dear child what on earth have you got on your feet regarding her they re mother s she made me promise to wear them if the ground was at all damp to maid who has come round by the path well what is it now a pastoral play maid your aunt s love miss and she must insist on your putting on this what a shame to king i can t act in a can i the k n oh why not we must try and borrow an old sou for though or he ll be out of the picture angrily aside to hang it all we d better do the whole thing under at once to all know is i hope we shall begin soon if i stand about in a damp much longer i shall be ill just feel it j his delicately and him never mind your � see if you can tell me how to make this confounded beard of mine stick on � the rain s washed off all the in before play begins mrs smith oh i shall see splendidly here thanks dear mrs brown how well you have arranged it all it s really not at all cold � well if you would go and fetch my cloak perhaps it might be more miss hill to mr green such a charming idea these garden so different from a hot theatre mr green putting up his coat collar it certainly is the reverse of here plenty of air s mother i do wish they would begin i can t bear to think of my poor girl standing about on that nasty wet grass all this time � so bad for her s aunt � if i had guessed it would turn out such a night as this i would never have allowed my niece to accept the part � and even as it is � the curtain s aside and play begins concerning the family history in the midst of heavy one of s shoes comes off in the mud miss hill how well they did the lightning then didn t they mr k g oh it s all genuine � the are determined to do the thing well thunder too you see t there s nothing mean about brown s mother that dreadful lightning oh mrs brown do please tell them to come away from the trees � it is so dangerous s aunt oh do they might be struck down at any moment � it s tempting providence mrs brown in despair it � it s only j lightning ds � please don t say anything about it to them now � it will only put them out they re getting on so nicely enter on stage � but as wicked dew as e er my mother brushed drop on you both � a south west blow on ye with feeling for this be sure to night thou shalt
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off her gravity i am trying to make it out and what is your success she shook her head i do not get on at all i hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly i can readily believe answered he gravely that reports may vary greatly with respect to me and i could wish miss tliat you were not to sketch my character at the present moment as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either but if i do not take your likeness now i may never have another opportunity i would by no means end any pleasure of yours he coldly replied she said no more and they went down the other dance and parted in silence on each side dissatisfied though not to an equal degree for in s breast there was a tolerable powerful feeling towards her which soon procured her pardon and directed all his anger against another they had not long separated when miss came towards her and with an expression of civil disdain thus her � so miss i hear you are quite delighted with george you r pride and prejudice sister has been talking to me about him and asking me a thousand questions and i find that the young man forgot to tell you among his other communications that he was the son of old the late mr s steward let me recommend you however as a friend not to give confidence to all his for as to mr s using him ill it is perfectly false for on the contrary he has been always remarkably kind to him though george has treated mr in a most infamous manner i do not know the particulars but i know very well that mr is not in the least to blame that he cannot bear to hear george mentioned and that though my brother thought he could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers he was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way his coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing indeed and i wonder how he could presume to do it i pity you miss for this discovery of your favourite s guilt but really considering his descent one could not expect much better his guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same said angrily for i have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of mr s steward and of i can assure you he informed me himself i beg your pardon replied miss turning away with a sneer excuse my interference it was kindly meant insolent girl said elizabeth to herself you are much mistaken if you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack as this i see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of mr she then sought her eldest sister who had undertaken to make inquiries on the same subject of in jane met her with a smile of such sweet pride and prejudice a glow of such happy as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the of the elizabeth instantly read her feelings and at that moment solicitude for resentment against his enemies and everything else gave way before the hope of jane s being in the fairest way for happiness i want to know said she with a countenance no less smiling than her sister s what you have learnt about mr but perhaps you have been too engaged to think of any third person in which case you may be sure of my pardon no replied jane i have not forgotten him but i have nothing to tell you mr does not know the whole of his history and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have principally offended mr but he will for the good conduct the and honour of his and is that mr has deserved much less attention firom mr than he has received and i am sorry to say that by his account as well as his sister s mr is by no means a respectable young man i am afraid he has been very and has deserved to lose mr s regard mr does not know mr himself no he never saw him till the other morning at this account then is what he has received mr i am satisfied but what does he say of the living he does not recollect the circumstances though he has heard them from mr more than once but he believes that it was left to him only pride and prejudice i have not a doubt of mr s sincerity said elizabeth warmly but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only mr s defence of his friend was a very able one i dare say but since he is with several parts of the story and has learnt the rest from that friend himself i shall venture still to think of both as i did before she then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each and on which could be no difference of sentiment elizabeth listened with delight to the happy though modest hopes which jane entertained of s regard and said all in her power to her confidence in it on their being joined by mr himself to miss to whose inquiry after the of her last partner she had scarcely replied before mr came up to them and told her with great exultation that he had just been so fortunate as to make a most important discovery i have found out said he by a singular accident that there is now in the room a near relation of my i happened to the himself mentioning to the young lady who does the honours of this house the names of his cousin miss de and of her
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ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves the was amused at s n ve way of referring to her advice as if it had been a valuable present to a hostile leader who was saved by it from making a blunder of and then he went on to admire how she had deceived that man and yet had not told him ii recollections op op arc that was not the truth this troubled and she said i thought he was deceiving himself i to tell him lies for that would have been wrong but if my truths deceived him perhaps that made them lies and i am to blame i would god i knew if i have done wrong she was assured that she had done right and that in the perils and necessities of war that help one s own cause and hurt the enemy s were always but she was not quite satisfied with that and thought that even when a great cause was in danger one ought to have the privilege of trying honorable ways first said you told us yourself that you were going to uncle s to nurse his wife but you didn t say you were going further yet you did go on to there i see now said i told no lie yet i deceived i had tried all other ways first but i could not get away and i had to get away my mission required it i did wrong i think and am to blame she was silent a moment turning the matter over in her mind then she added with quiet decision but the thing itself was right and i would do it again it seemed an over nice distinction but nobody said anything if we had known her as well as she knew herself and as her later history revealed her to us we should have perceived that she had a r i mark twain meaning there and that her position was not identical with ours as we were supposing but occupied a higher plane she would sacrifice herself � and her best self that is her � to save her cause but only that she would not buy her life at that cost whereas our war permitted the purchase of or any mere advantage small or great by deception her saying seemed a commonplace at that time the essence of its meaning escaping us but one sees now that it contained a principle which lifted it above that and made it great and fine presently the wind died down the stopped falling and the cold was less severe the road was become a and the horses labored through it at a walk � they could do no better as the heavy time wore on exhaustion overcame us and we slept in not even the dangers that threatened us could keep us awake this tenth night seemed longer than any of the others and of course it was the hardest because we had been fatigue from the beginning and had more of it on hand now than at any previous time but we were not again when the dull dawn came at last we saw a river before us and we knew it was the we entered the town of and knew we were in a friendly land with the all behind us that was a glad morning for us we were a worn and and troop and still as always was the of us all in both body and spirits we u recollections op op arc had above thirteen a night by and wretched roads it was a remarkable march and shows what men can do when they have a leader with a determined purpose and a resolution that never flags i chapter v we rested and otherwise refreshed ourselves two or three at but by that time the news was abroad that the young girl of god to deliver was come wherefore such a press of people to our quarters to get sight of her that it seemed best to seek a place so we pushed on and halted at a small village called we were now within six of the king who was at the castle of dictated a letter to him at once and i wrote it in it she said she had come a hundred and fifty to bring him good news and begged the privilege of delivering it in person she added that although she had never seen him she would know him in any disguise and point him out the two knights rode away at once with the letter the troop slept all the afternoon and after supper we felt pretty fresh and fine especially our little group of we had the comfortable tap room of the village inn to ourselves and for the first time in ten long days were from and terrors and hardships and labors the was suddenly become his ancient self again and was recollections of of arc up and down a very monument of self complacency said i think it is wonderful the way he has brought us through who asked why the the seemed not to hear what had he to do with it asked d arc everything it was nothing but s confidence in his discretion that enabled her to keep up her heart she could depend on us and on herself for but discretion is the winning thing in war after all discretion is the and of qualities and he has got more of it than any other man in � more of it perhaps than any other men in you are getting ready to make a fool of yourself said the and you want to some of that long tongue of yours around neck and stick the end of it in your ear then you ll be the less likely to get into trouble i
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in all things is the same doth not of himself injure his own soul the of immortality he who all his actions performed nature at the same time tiiat the or soul is in them y p the ill embodied being bewildered by the darkness of fascination situated in a bo composed of the five elements loudly this is i but who would spiritual individuality to a body in which soul is distinct from the air fire water and earth what man of understanding to spirit or lands houses and the like that it say these are mine man all acts for the purpose of and the consequence of such acts is another body so that their result is nothing but confinement to bodily existence in the same manner as a mansion of clay is with and water so the body which is of earth is by earth and water the of the ancient body consisting of ihe five elements is nourished by composed of those elements but since is the case what is there in this life that man should be proud of travelling the path of the world for many thousands of man only the weariness of bewilderment and is smothered by the dust of imagination when that dust is washed away by the bland water of real knowledge then the weariness of bewilderment sustained by the through many is removed when that weariness is relieved the internal man is at peace and he that supreme felicity which is and undisturbed this soul is pure and composed of happiness and wisdom the properties of pain ignorance and are those of nature not of soul there is no between fire and water but when the latter is placed over the former in a it and ana the properties of fire in like manner when soul is associated with nature it is by and the rest and the qualities of nature although essentially distinct from and p he who upon others in act thought or speech the seed of future birth and the that him after is pain p let him who the goods of fortune be in the practice of virtue � let him who hopes for final learn to look upon all things as equal and the same p the man whose is led astray by the pride of self that he himself is tiie of all those actions which are performed by the principles of his constitution but the man who is acquainted with the nature of the two distinctions of cause and having considered that principles will act according to their natures himself no trouble p et but tiie wise man also fi r that which is to his own nature all things act according to their natures what then will restraint effect in every purpose of the senses are fixed affection and dislike a wise man should not put himself in their power for both of them are his a man s own religion though contrary to is better than the faith of another let it be ever so well followed it is good to die in one s own faith for another s faith fear � by what philosophy of the ancient is man to commit he seems as if contrary to his wishes he was impelled by some secret force know that it is the enemy lust or passion o of the principle and full of sin by which this world is covered as the flame by the smoke as the mirror by or as the by its the understanding of the wise man is obscured by this foe in the shape of desire who like fire and is hard to be appeased soul tiie only reality material existence is possible only so far as it is established by the soul thus the body is a product of the action of the soul but as the soul is a its action is not properly its own but god s being by him to the disposition manifested by the individual in his imaginary action � s essays i blind in the darkness of ignorance the soul is guided in its actions and in its of knowledge and consequent and bliss by the supreme ruler of the universe who causes it to act with its previous the supreme soul makes the individuals act to their virtuous or vicious as the same rain cloud causes various seeds to producing of plants according to their kind the cares and interests of the world are therefore ridiculous to one who has attained true wisdom � p how great is the folly of princes who are endowed with the faculty of reason to cherish the confidence of ambition when they themselves are but foam upon the wave before they have subdued themselves they seek to reduce their ministers their servants their subjects under their authority they then endeavour to overcome their foes thus say they will we conquer the ocean encircled earth and intent upon their project behold not death which is not far but what mighty matter is the of the sea earth to one who can subdue himself from existence is the fruit of self control it is through that kings desire to possess me the earth whom their have been forced to leave whom their fa by h t london of the ancient there have not � � the ed the everywhere over his foes he was blown away like the light down of the tree before the blast of time aware of this a wise will never be influenced bj the principle of individual and regarding them as transient and possessions he will not consider and posterity lands and or whatever else is personal to be his own p the wise neither grieve for the dead nor for the living i never was not nor thou nor ail the princes of the nor shall we ever cease to be as the soul in this mortal
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man who should some day lead her to the altar mr listened with only a languid interest to a number of these until it dawned upon him that there was something peculiar in their astonishing i beg your pardon old fellow he said one day while dining at the club when the made an allusion to the in his usual vein i don t want to seem but what interest do you think i can possibly have in that confounded family why i thought you were on very good terms was the response you and the seem extremely friendly yawned but you re rubbing it in you know you of them every time we get together it s all right occasionally to get on to the subject but it loses its attractions after awhile i ve no objections to once or twice a week but you insist on my having him every meal and it s not only but miss say what are you up to thus mr was driven into making a show of his hand well the fact is my dear i have been wondering why the charms of miss have no apparent effect on a young man in your situation if she hadn t a penny she would be a prize worth winning but with her setting of gold and precious stones she is beyond anything in new york you are going to marry by and by you ve told me so yourself what better can you hope for miss giddy than such a fortune and such a beauty in one mr took out a box of that a friend had sent him from after offering one to mr he lit another and for some moments puffed lazily i half suspected that was your game he said finally is the old gentleman in it too it s not fair to speak of it in that way was the reply delivered in an injured tone i d do anything i could for you but in this case my would be of no account all i can say is mr likes you better than any other young man he knows and in my opinion would not stand in your way if miss smiled upon your advances mr looked as if there was an element of humor in the whole affair and drew a few draughts from a glass that stood on the table at his side i ve got lots of time yet said he wiping his lips a man out on doesn t like to surrender till the court day arrives the took what advantage he could of the reply he remarked that there was of course no need for haste on either side miss was no more likely to think of an immediate marriage than mr it s worth while putting in a foundation though he added laughed again still with the bored look on his handsome face oh now you re talking shop he said well it s not so unlike replied the look at that house i m putting up for the from start to finish it will take three years to build a it ought to require just about that for you to get to the point of wedding miss in three years she will be twenty one allow the first year for an understanding to grow up the second for an announcement of the engagement and the third for the actual preparations of course a year cut from the total would not spoil things any if you should conclude that it was advisable the younger man lit a and again from the you said he get to allowing altogether too much time for i begin to believe has this very thing in his head i can t go there without hearing something dropped that shows it so your first year the one to be devoted to getting up an understanding is disposed of to begin with even allowing that i looked on miss as a possible end to my there would be twelve good months left to me by your own calculation it is said that an hour s sleep before midnight is worth two afterward on the same basis a year of single life ought to be more interesting than five of mr paid the customary tribute to the wit of his companion much you know about sleep before midnight he added and as little very naturally about the married state i know marriage is a nuisance even if i haven t tried it was the answer the contemporary evidence is enough to show that a frenchman once told me it was more agreeable to kiss the wives of other men than to keep a wife for other men to kiss it must be a trial for a born young miss to find himself in possession of a game preserve which he must watch between i know men whose time is equally divided between looking after their own daughters and attempting liberties with other people s no wonder their hair is growing gray under the strain then children are such an curse and one lays himself open to such when he enters the married state more than when he keeps a mistress asked mr oh that s ridiculous was the impatient the gazed at his companion in silence for a little while he wanted to utter his wisest thoughts now this matter was fairly opened there is no need of haste he said finally i am quite intimate at the and i shall know if there is a chance of another s getting a so that i can keep you posted thanks awfully with mock politeness there was the duke of proceeded the the irony and there was the prince of both of them made formal for miss s hand not to mention a score of others of less exalted rank in fact the proposals have about one a month now as
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of the disease but solely on its external if then the jews and witli them the referred the two chief of conditions to influence there remains for him who believes himself bound by their opinion without choosing to shut out the lights of modern science the glaring of considering same diseases as in one age natural in supernatural but the most formidable difficulty for in his attempted between the ol the new testament and the intelligence of our day arises from the of the latter on own mind � an influence renders him adverse to the idea of this in the philosophy of the present ours to resolve host of wliich in the new testament arc as distinct into a system of forming the of a single sub miracles of � m indeed sends forth from itself separate powers not however to as individuals but to return aa accidents into the unity of the substance this cast of wc have already in the opinions of concerning angels and it still more decidedly in hid personal are too and as expresses it the comprehension of two subjects in one individual is too inconceivable to find a ready hence it is everywhere with vague that a kingdom of evil and darkness is spoken of and though a personal prince is given to it its understood to be mere and operations by which the evil principle itself but the most of s opinion concerning is this it is too much for him to believe that asked ihe name of the demon in the since he himself doubts the of those of the kingdom of darkness it cannot he have been thus decidedly supposed by christ � he understands the question what u thy f mark v to be addressed not to the demon but to the man t plainly in opposition to the whole for the answer z to be in no degree the result of a misunderstanding but tlie right answer � the one expected by if however the are according to s opinion powers that which guides them and various functions is the law which the kingdom of s in relation to the kingdom of light on this theory the worse a man is morally the closer must be the between him and the kingdom of evil and the conceivable � tlie entrance of the power of darkness into the personality of the man i e � must always occur in the most wicked but this is not so the in the to bo only in the sense that all sick need forgiveness of sins and the greatest for example are spared the of possession the common opinion with its personal this contradiction it is true that this opinion also aa we find for instance in the firmly it to be by sin only that man subjects himself to the of the demon but here there is yet scope for the individual will of the demon who often from motives not to be calculated passes by the worst and holds in chase the less wicked � on the contrary if the arc ed as by to be actions of the power of e in its relation to the power of goodness this relation being regulated by laws eveiy arbitrary and accidental is excluded hence it evidently costs that some pains to the consequence that according to his theory the � f t s after the example of i b s viii lu thus and her aa of mid destruction not because either the or the were but beauty attracted him tou ri � in the life of always bo the most wicked proceeding the parent contest of two powers in he the position that the state of possession not appear in those who entirely give up to evil and thus an internal unity of disposition but only in in whom there exists a struggle against in that case however tlie above state being reduced to a purely moral phenomenon must ear more violent inward struggle must manifest itself under this form and especially those who give up to evil must before arriving at this pass through a period of conflict that is of possession therefore adds a physical condition namely that the i of evil in the man must have weakened his particularly tlie nervous system before he can become susceptible of the state but since such of the nervous may occur without any moral fault not sec that the state it is intended to to power as its source is thus chiefly to natural causes and that the argument its own object hence quickly turns away from this side of the question and on tiie of the with the whereas he ought rather to compare former with the and insane for it is only by this mc ins that any can be thrown on the nature of possession this shifting of the question from the ground of and to that of morality and religion renders the discussion concerning the one of the most useless which s work contains t let u then the ungrateful attempt to the new testament conception of the or to our modern ideas � lot us rather in relation to this subject understand the statements of new testament as simply as they arc given without allowing our to be by the ideas therein presented which belonged to the age and nation of its writers j the method adopted for the cure of the state was among he jews in with what we have ascertained to have been of its the cause of the malady was not to be as in natural diseases an object or condition such as an a morbid excitement or but a self conscious being hence it was treated not mechanically or but i c by the demon was to depart and to give effect to this it was witli the names of beings who were believed to have power over tlie main
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make the sweet swan of like a � if any one should feel himself of whim opinions by our let him attack we shall not from the if his passes be successful we will b first to cry out a hit a hit and we we hall lay ourselves open t weapons of our but let them a care how they run a with us have to deal with stubborn foes who can a world of we will be in our vengeance and will fight � till bones the flesh be hack d � what other subjects we shall include i range of our observations we have not d or rather we shall not trouble ours to detail the public have already formation concerning us than we impart we owe them no � ne do we ask any we again advise them own to read our papers when come out we recommend to all them for their daughters who be into the of the bon ton cured of all those rusty old notions which during the last century parents i of i a g esq be aught how to govern their girls to get husbands and old maids how to do them as we do not measure our wits by the yard n and as they do not flow constantly we shall not our paper � to size or the time of its appearance it be published whenever we have sufficient matter to constitute a number and the � of the number shall depend on the stock in hand this will best suit our habits and leave us that full liberty and independence which is the joy and pride of our is there any one who wishes to know more about us � let him read and grow wise thus much we will say � there are three of us � and i v all good and true many a time and oft have we three amused the town without its knowing to whom it was indebted and a time have we seen the midnight lamp twinkle faintly on our and heard the morning salutation of � past three whim and opinions o clock � before we sought our pillows the result of these midnight studies is now offer to the public and little as we care for the opinion of this exceedingly stupid world we shall take care as far as lies in our careless natures tp fulfil the promises made in this introduction � if we do not we shall have so many examples to justify us that we feel little solicitude on that account containing the of modem criticism by william esq was performed to a very crowded house and much to our satisfaction as however our neighbour town has been very already in his on this play we shall make but few remarks having never seen in this character we are absolutely at a loss to say whether mr performed it well or not we think however there was an error in his costume as the learned of esq is of that in the time of the did not wear bat shoes also was noted for ing his jacket open that he might play fiddle more conveniently � that an hereditary accomplishment in the is � have seen this character performed in i by the celebrated the f that great empire who in the dagger always the by nose like a trumpet � with the opinion of the sage im performed in wooden shoes him an opportunity of producing effect � for on first seeing the � dagger � he always cut a prodigious and kicked his shoes into the pit i heads of the critics whereupon the au e were delighted flourished hands and st their whiskers three and the matter was carefully reported e next number of a paper called the town e were much pleased with mrs in i whim and opinions lady but we think she would have given a greater effect to the night scene if instead of holding the candle in her hand or setting it down on the table which is by neighbour to she had stuck it in her night cap � this would have been extremely picturesque and would have marked more strongly the of her mind mrs however is not by any means large enough for the character � lady having been in our opinion a woman of extraordinary size and of the race of the giants notwithstanding what she says of her � little hand � which being said in her sleep passes for nothing we should be happy to see this character in the hands of the lady who played q een of the giants in tom thumb she is exactly of imperial dimensions and provided she is well shaved of a most interesting as she appears also to be a lady of some nerve dare engage she will read a letter about vanishing in air and such common without being i of esq ic surprised to the annoyance of honest � town � we are happy to observe that mr profits by the instructions of friend town and does not dip the dagger in blood so deep as formerly by the matter of an inch or two this was a violent outrage upon our immortal bard we differ with mr town in his reading of the words � this is a sorry sight � we are of the force of the sentence should be thrown on the word sight � because having been a short time before most with an dagger was in doubt whether the actually in his hands were real or whether they were not mere shadows or as the old english have termed it te this at any rate will establish our skill in new though we differ in this respect from our neighbour town yet we heartily agree with him in mr for that passage so remarkable for �
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is again to contrive to ut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it to get a one end without an other end the soul says eat the body would feast the says the man and woman shall be one flesh ind one soul the body would join the flesh only the soul says have dominion over all things to he ends of virtue the body would have the power ver things to its own ends the soul to live and through jl things it would be the only fact all things hall be added unto it � power pleasure know beauty the particular man aims to be some to set up for to and or a private good and in particulars to ride that te may ride to dress that he may be dressed o eat that he may eat and to govern that he be seen men seek to be great they would lave offices wealth power and fame they think to be great is to possess one side of nature � be sweet without the other side � the bitter this dividing and is steadily up to this day it must be owned no has had the smallest success the part d water behind our hand pleasure is out of pleasant things profit out of profitable lungs power out of strong things as soon as we essay iii seek to separate them from the whole we can no more things and get the good by itself we can get an inside that shall no outside or a light without a shadow drive out nature with a fork she comes running back life itself with inevitable conditions which the unwise seek to which one and another that he does not know that they do not touch him � but the is on his lips the conditions are in his soul if he escapes them m one part they attack him in another more vital part it he has escaped them in form and in the appearance it is because he has resisted his life and fled from himself and the is so much death so signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax that the experiment would not be tried � since to try it is to be mad � but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will of and separation the intellect is at once so that the man ceases to see god whole in each but is able to see the of an object and not see the hurt he sees the s head but not the s tail and thinks he can cut off that which he would hare from that which he would not have how secret art thou who in the highest heavens in si o thou only great god with an compensation providence certain upon such as have desires the human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable of history of law of of conversation it finds a tongue in literature unawares thus the called supreme mind but having ascribed to him many base actions they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god he is made as helpless as a king of england knows one secret which jove must bargain for another he cannot get his own keeps the key of them of all the gods i only know the keys that the solid doors within whose his sleep � confession of the in working of the all and il moral aim the indian ends in the ni and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any which was not moral forgot to ask youth for her lover and though is immortal he is old is not quite the sacred waters did not wash the heel by ig held him in the is not quite for a leaf fell his back whilst he was bathing in the s and that spot which it covered is mortal st b i b sat lu and so it must be there is a crack in god has made it would seem there is always this circumstance stealing in at unawares even into tlie wild in which ttie fancy attempted to make bold holiday and to shake itself free of die old laws � this back stroke kick of the gun that tlie law is fatal that in nature nothing can be given all things are sold this is that ancient doctrine of who keeps watch in the universe and lets no offence the they said are attendants on justice and if the sun in heaven should his path tliey would punish him the poets related that stone walls and iron swords and had an sympathy with the wrongs of their owners that the belt which gave dragged the hero over the field at the wheels of the car of and the sword which gave w s that on whose point fell they recorded that when tlie erected a statue to a victor in the games one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavoured to throw it down by repeated blows until at last hi moved it from its and was crushed to death beneath its fail this voice of fable has in it somewhat divine ft came from thought above the will of the that is the best part of each writer which has compensation ing private in it that which he does not now that which flowed out of his constitution and not from bis too active that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find but in the study of many you would abstract as the spirit of them all it is not but the work of man in that early world that i would know the name and circumstance of however
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ve come over to say he asked a little later as they were sitting in the library he with a big at his feet she with a pet in her lap now to make doubly sure there would be no in this affair edward had sent a note to mrs half an hour before the programme of the day and that excellent lady had given her final directions but the girl with a assumed a look of curiosity which implied that she had not the slightest idea what subject was uppermost in her visitor s mind well said i m going abroad slightly by the of the statement which she had supposed would come later as an explanation miss colored and could not speak the young man misunderstood her silence and thought to himself with something like alarm can it be that she loves me yes he continued my firm wants me to go to the east on a matter of business that will take four or five months and i m to start in five or six weeks from now miss recovered her outward with an effort it will be very pleasant for you she said with a voice which still had a trace of strangeness in it their marriage bond the young man felt again fear that this girl was in love with him very deeply in love and that the thought of parting from him for so long was weighing heavily on her heart with all his soul he hoped it was not so however he went on with the message he had been given hy his father feeling that nothing was to he gained hy the issue yes he answered it will be decidedly pleasant it is the sort of journey i have always wanted to make it pleases father too he regards it as a proof that the firm believe in my capacity he says there is only one thing more that he wants accomplished before he dies grew very serious he wants to see me married miss searched his face so narrowly as he said this that was disconcerted her serenity seemed to have returned for she did not as she replied that she appreciated mr s sentiments he says a good wife and a good business are the best things a man can have pursued though i believe he put the business first he added with a little laugh he wanted to do something to relieve the strain having settled the business part the question of a wife comes next and it isn t a question either in my case for i have never thought of but one woman in that connection he on thinking that he was not doing it very well but feeling that the way to progress was to keep pushing ahead ah said miss i suppose most young men have been in love twenty times before they reach your age he exclaimed their experience must differ widely then from mine i ve never been in love at all tt i understand the symptoms a spot of red came into their marriage bond the girl s cheek and stayed there there is one girl however who was the of my childhood and has been the companion of my youth whom i esteem highly and to whom i should consider it a great honor to be allied will you marry me he looked at her and saw that she was smiling good for a moment she made no verbal reply your answer said calmly it is yes said the girl i will marry you and i thank you for the honor your proposal does me it struck him that this was not the usual way this sort of thing was done he had asked the momentous question and she had accepted him in much the same manner as they might have for a house or a piano but if it satisfied her it did him he had carried out his father s wish that he should engage himself before he sailed for europe i don t know much about these matters he said after taking her hand and giving it a slight pressure immediately dropping it when this was done but i believe the next thing is to inform your mother and my father and then to send a note to the newspapers she nodded will see to the newspapers she said it will be all right and the the time that has nothing to do with this has it he inquired it is a matter for future consideration perhaps you had best talk that over with mamma said the red spot in her cheek a little not now i don t mean but some time before you leave replied that he would certainly do so and aa their marriage bond there seemed nothing further to say in this connection he began to mention an engagement of another sort that he was obliged to keep and to pull out his watch and inspect the figures before he had gone however mrs came down attired for a drive and greeted him i have a bit of news for you he said as soon as he could get a chance i i ve proposed to and she has accepted me the mother s arms were clasped around the daughter s form as if in an instinct of protection she cried in suppressed tones is this true for answer the girl hid her face in the maternal bosom precisely as it had been arranged an hour before that she should do well said the widow wiping away her i hope i know you will both be happy i have seen you together all these years and i confess the thought has come to me that this might be the result you are fitted for each other i do not know any other man to whom i could think of giving my child our families
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t own it but the fellow who does is lumber and it will be all right he s a white man come and rest how tired you must be the big trees don t go much farther south i know the country up there have hunted all over it come and rest and let your little rat of a mule rest how in heavens did you get him across the � roll him or carry him he s poor but he get fat and i give you a horse and go with you up the mountains and while you re looking at the trees i go hunting it will be a short job for the end of the big trees is not far of course i stopped no true invitation is ever declined he had been hungry and tired himself many a time in the rocky mountains as well as in the now he owned a band of cattle and lived alone his cabin was about eight by ten feet the door at one end a fireplace at the other and a bed on one side fastened to the logs leading me in without a word of mean apology the he made me lie down on the then reached under it brought forth a sack of apples and advised me to keep at them until he got supper ready finer hospitality i never found in all this good world so often called selfish next day with hearty easy alacrity the procured horses prepared and packed provisions and got everything ready for an early start the following morning well mounted we pushed rapidly up the south fork of the river and soon after noon were among the giants once more on the divide between the and deer creek a central camp was made and the spent his time in deer hunting while with provisions for two or three days i the woods and in accordance with what i had been told soon reached the southern extremity of the belt on the south fork of deer creek to make sure i searched the woods a considerable distance south of the last deer creek grove passed over into the basin of the and several high points commanding extensive views over the sugar pine woods without seeing a single crown in all the wide expanse to the southward on the way back to camp however i was greatly interested in a grove i on the east side of the river divide opposite the north fork of deer creek the height of the pass where the species crossed over our national about f and i heard of still grove whose waters drain into the upper opposite the middle fork of the it appears therefore that though the belt is two hundred and sixty miles long most of the trees are on a section to the south of kings river only about seventy miles in length but though the area occupied by the species so much to the southward there is but little difference in the size of the trees a of twenty feet and height of two hundred and seventy five is perhaps about the average for anything like mature and situated trees specimens twenty five feet in are not rare and a good many approach a height of three hundred feet occasionally one meets a specimen thirty feet in and rarely one that is larger the majestic stump on kings river is the largest i saw and measured on the entire trip careful search around the boundaries of the forests and groves and in the of the belt failed to discover any trace of the former existence of the species beyond its present limits on the contrary it seems to be slightly extending its boundaries for the met a mile or two from the main bodies are young instead of old mental trees ancient ruins and the and root the big trunks make in were found in all the groves but none outside the of them we may therefore conclude that the area covered by the species has not been diminished the last eight or ten thousand years and probably not at all in post times for admitting that upon those supposed to have been once covered by every tree may have fallen and that fire and the weather had left not a of them many of the made by the fall of the ponderous trunks weighing five hundred to nearly a thousand tons and the made by their roots would remain visible for thousands of years after the last of the trees had vanished some of these records would doubtless be ed in a comparatively short time by the of but no part of them would remain engraved on flat ridge tops wholly free from such action in the northern groves the only ones that at first came under the observation of students there are but few and young trees to take the places of the old ones therefore the species was regarded as doomed to speedy as being only an remnant in the so called struggle for life and into its last in moist where conditions are favorable but the majestic continuous forests of the south end of the belt create a very different impression here our national as we have seen no tree in the forest is more established nevertheless it is vaguely said that the climate is drying out and that this constantly increasing will of itself surely king though sections of wood rings show that there has been no change of climate during the last forty centuries that can grow and is growing on as dry ground as any of its neighbors or rivals we have seen proved over and over again why then it will be asked are the big tree groves always found on well watered spots simply because big trees give rise to streams it is a mistake to suppose that the water is the cause
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have passed away and these old people no doubt have joined their ancestors but i can see them still sitting in that a the en the en style d empire j the waiter lighting the gas in the evening that white haired man that tall thin faced american has dined at this table d for the last thirty years � he is vain foolish and the clean neatly dressed old gentleman who sits by him looking so much like a french gentleman has spent a great part of his life in spain with that piece of news and its subsequent your acquaintance with him begins and ends the eyes the fan the how it began how it was broken off and how it began again opposite sits another french gentleman with beard and hair he spent twenty years of his life in india and he talks of his son who has been out there for the last ten and who has just returned home there is the italian of sixty who dresses like a girl of sixteen and a cigar after dinner � if there are not too many strangers in the room she terms a stranger any one whom she has not seen at least once before the little fat man with the great bald head fringed below the ears with hair is m he is a dramatic author � the author of a hundred and sixty plays he does not intrude himself on your notice but when you speak to � of a young him on literary matters he a pair of tiny like eyes on you and talks of his i was soon deeply interested in m and i invited him to come to the after dinner i paid for his coffee and i offered him a choice cigar he did not smoke i did it was of course inevitable that i should find out that he had not had a play produced for the last twenty years but then the of the hundred and sixty was about his poor bald head i thought of the chances of life he alluded to the war and so this was passed over and we entered on more genial subjects of conversation he had written plays with everybody his list of was longer than any list of lady for an english county ball there was no literary kitchen in which he had not helped to dish up i was at once amazed and delighted had hi written his hundred and sixty plays in the seclusion of his own rooms i should have been less surprised it was the mystery of the of the the discussion the illustrious company that overwhelmed me in a rapture of wonder and respectful admiration then came the anecdotes they were of all sorts here are a few specimens he had written a one act piece with it had been refused at the and then it had been about here there and everywhere finally the had asked for some alterations and e affair i made the alterations one afternoon and wrote to and what do you think � by return of post i had a letter from him saying he could not consent to the production of a one act piece signed by him at the t s because his son was then giving ss op a young han a five act piece at the then came a string of by and they were as old as the world but they were new to me and i was amused and astonished these don were followed by an account of how wrote his sunday and how he and had once nearly come to blows they had agreed to was to contribute the the dialogue one morning came with the of the first act here it is i suppose you can let me have it back finished by to morrow afternoon and the old gentleman would along in this fashion till midnight i would then accompany him to his rooms in the � rooms high up on the fifth floor � where between two pictures supposed to be by m had written plays for the last twenty years and where he would continue to write plays until god called him to a world perhaps of eternal but where by all accounts r de la piece la de m is still unknown how i used to enjoy these conversations i remember how i used to stand on the pavement after having bid the old gentleman good night i had not demanded some further explanation regarding it or la f de m de manager la situation why not write a comedy so the thought came i had never written anything save a few ill letters but no matter to find a plot that was the first thing to do take for hero and for heroine surround them with the old gentlemen who dined at the table d flavor with the italian who smoked ss of a young cigars when there were not too many strangers present after three weeks of industrious stirring the did begin to into something resembling a plot put it upon paper ah there was my difficulty i remembered suddenly that i had read the as poems without ever thinking of how the dialogue looked on paper besides they were in blank verse i hadn t a notion how prose dialogue would look on paper shakespeare i had never opened no instinctive want had urged to read him he had remained therefore at should i buy a copy no the name me � as all popular names me in preference i went to the and listened attentively to a comedy by m fits but strain my imagination as i would i could not see the spoken words in their written form oh for a look at the s copy the corner of which i could see when i leaned forward at last i discovered in s library
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e ion of the � that the people shall have the right at all times to alter or the constitution in such manner as they think proper etc mr s substitute was lost � the being all from the slave and mr s was adopted to the substitute as it passed the house was in the following words i etc that the state of be and is admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever but inasmuch as it is greatly disputed whether the constitution framed at on uie th day of november last and now ng before was fairly made or expressed tlie of tlie people of this admission of her into the union as a state is here declared be upon this condition precedent namely that the said constitutional instrument shall bo first submitted to a vote of the people of and assented to by them or a of tiie at an election to be for the purpose and as soon as such assent shall be given and duly made known by a majority of the appointed to the president of the united states he shall announce the same by and thereafter without any further proceedings on tlie part of the admission of the said state of into tiie union upon an equal footing with tho original in all respects whatever shall be complete and absolute at the said election the shall l e by t and by on his as each may for the constitution or against the constitution the said be r at the said election by a majority of being cast against it� then and in that event the inhabitants of said territory are and to form for them selves a constitution and state government by the name cf uie state of according to the and to that may elect to a con as provided � and be it further that the said state of shall liave on tiie and all other rivers and waters on the said t te of so far as tiie same shall form a common boundary to said stale and any other state or states now or hereafter to be formed or bounded by tlie same said rivers and waters and all the waters of said state shall be common and forever free as well to tiie inhabitants of said state as to all other of the united states without any tax duty or toll � a and be it further that for the purpose of as far as possible that the by this act may be fair and free the and the secretary of the territory of an l the of the two branches of its le x political test book for or pi b� opened at hm j deem proper in t or in m judge of a of aj of k or tht at df i li oi or i it m y � u the � ii ll ut i j � m b u � the i t or h i a mb or mid t � be um i d or � i i ei bt the ii b h it b lo b y � � j l � i � � b � t h � at thai aad u m hall ii of a but lu � i iii hu it � or tt j and jo ai or � � lie li of uie l u ai of uie the il and od pan uie lu ru w ta ix aod and st in th � � � while ii b mi of of l ap at le made but ii the h i ss u � rt � and i r t i la in � d pan h been bold � m and ot � � he of state to the of be of uie land and to be and in of for � old but fin no other that an � of land to be bj of f late hi ha granted to lam far the of at the ot the direction of the all � state not in � ill of land adjoining or m aa mar be id be � is one the of and ao to be bud or of on ud aa the direct that or land x la sow in or or be hereafter be or to or br art el bt to hate i that five per lie net of of all lying be after ha of b state the after all d den to he lor the and aa the le i the b re od the that die people of br as the of united that the et the the br uie or with au find tar uie in ta aad that ne u a a h a ll be li on to and sim h ne nod be � � j g j of too c ae to or i li r by uie of the following the and � i � i bi � are j a e h b � t i i n � m i a� d ha u � heard or i � before take aa � the of n wi tt n w i ii t i i � a i� � � � is � h n i tl i � s tt il ii r � i � jf l i � � ill a i u r x s the � hall bliss � it j jones grow y � � wi c in � r c c a � shorter too � c � l c � � � � t hill � � � � if � r � � n branch � john ward coming � miller � white ll south � i miles t bo � � g � s a smith savage jones � � smith
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she was my darling before she was yours and after too if anybody has a right to call her his own it is i you talk like a man in the dark which is what a t air of blue eyes you are did she ever do anything for you risk her name for instance for you c yes she did said emphatically c not entirely did she ever live for you � prove she could not live without you � laugh and weep for you � yes c never did she ever risk her life for you � no my darling did for me then it was in kindness only when did she risk her life for you to save mine on the cliff yonder the poor child was with me looking at the approach of the and i slipped down we both had a narrow escape i wish we had died there ah but wait pleaded with wet eyes she went on that cliff to see me arrive home she had promised it she told me she would months before and would she have gone there if she had not cared for me at all you have an idea that died for you no doubt said knight with a mournful sarcasm too to support itself � never mind if we find that � that she died yours i ll say no more ever and if we find she died yours i ll say no more very well � so it shall be the dark clouds into which the sun had sunk had begun to drop rain in an increasing volume can we wait somewhere here till this shower is over said as you will but it is not worth while we ll hear the particulars and return don t let people know who we are i am not much now they had reached a point at which the road into two � just outside the west village one fork of the passing into the latter place the other stretching on to east having come some a pair of blue eyes of the distance by the they now found that the was only a little in advance of them i fancy it has turned off to east can you see i cannot you must be mistaken knight and entered the village a bar of fiery light lay across the road proceeding from the door of a in which were heard blowing and a hammer ringing the rain had increased and they mechanically turned for shelter towards the warm and scene at their heels came another man without overcoat or umbrella and with a parcel under his arm a wet evening he said to the two friends and passed by them they stood in the outer but the man went in to the fire the smith ceased his blowing and began talking to the man who had entered i have walked all the way from said the latter was obliged to come to night you know he held the parcel which was a flat one towards the to learn if the rain had penetrated it resting it on the he supported it with one hand wiping his face with the handkerchief he held in the other i suppose you know what i ve got here he observed to the smith no i don t said the smith pausing again on his as the rain s not over i ll show you said the bearer he laid the thin and broad which had acute angles in different directions flat upon the and the smith blew up the fire to give him more light first after the a sheet of brown paper was removed this was laid flat then he unfolded a piece of this also he spread flat on the paper the third covering was a of paper which a pair of blue eyes was spread out in its turn the was revealed and he held it up for the smith s inspection oh � i see said the smith with a interest and drawing close poor young lady � ah terrible melancholy thing � so soon too knight and turned their heads and looked and what s that continued the smith that s the � beautifully finished isn t it ah that cost some money c tis as fine a bit of metal work as ever i see � that tis it came from the same people as the coffin you know but was not ready soon enough to be sent round to the house in london yesterday i ve got to fix it on this very night the carefully packed articles were a coffin plate and knight and came forward the s man on seeing them look for the inscription turned it round towards them and each read almost at one moment by the ruddy light of the coals of � they read it and read it and read it again � and knight � as if animated by one soul then put his hand upon knight s arm and they retired from the yellow glow further further till the chill darkness enclosed them round and the quiet sky asserted its presence overhead as a dim grey sheet of blank monotony c where shall we go said i don t know a long silence ensued married said a pair of blue eyes then in a thin whisper as if he feared to let the assertion loose on the world false whispered knight � and dead denied us both i hate false � i hate it knight made no answer nothing was heard by them now save the slow of time by their beating the soft touch of the rain upon their clothes and the low of the blacksmith s hard by c shall we follow any further said � no let us leave her alone she is beyond our love and let her be beyond our reproach since we
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long time and that on his return you have not had him here once even to a dinner and that now he has gone away i cannot help being very much surprised pardon me if i speak too plainly mr s eyes were turned affectionately upon the speaker i will pardon you almost anything he said gently but if this is your fault i will not pardon you replied the girl with the freedom she was accustomed to use toward him do you know what are abroad it is said that have taken his place here that i am crowding him out of his position such gossip is not pleasant to me i assure you the was evidently much disturbed by this remarkable statement while mrs uneasily on her side of the table afraid to say anything but wishing heartily that her daughter would select some other topic for conversation i do not see how we can keep silly people from talking replied mr after a pause he had been wondering who were the guilty parties and thinking he would make the village too warm for them if he could discover their identity the public has nothing to do with my private affairs at seventy and i heartily wish it would attend to its own business he said this in his ordinary tone but felt that he was very much in earnest i have only one thing to say she remarked if it is true that i am creating a coldness on your part toward any of your relations i wish to go away at once this was startling enough to make mrs drop a plate that she was filling with fruit while some tea that mr was about to convey to his mouth upon the table cloth you will compel me said mr as soon as he could command his voice to say things in reference to my nephew that i had rather keep to myself if i have not invited him here it is on account of matters i have learned which are not to his credit mrs growing more and more apprehensive touched the foot of her daughter under the table but the message though thoroughly understood had no effect had never been much under her mother s control and of late years she had acted quite of her she answered the last speaker as boldly as if there were not fifty years difference in their ages of course i do not know what you refer to she said but i should think it a poor way to improve him if he needs it to send him forth again into the world with no one to advise or direct his course had you brought him here he might have found influences that would have him and nephew mr could not refrain from looking at with an expression that she could not mistake she knew instantly that he was aware of the visit that had paid to her room with this knowledge came the certainty that he had sent his nephew away on account of it she had learned more than she expected and not caring to the conversation in the presence of her mother she made no further reference to the matter it being now morally certain that her lover had been forced into the action he had taken she determined to write to him and assure him of her sympathy and continued devotion the first thing was to ascertain his address faithful to the utmost discovered an opinion in the village that was in new york knew that a letter addressed to the general delivery in that city would be very unlikely to reach its destination when she was nearly in despair learned another fact which seemed of more account she discovered that s friend was now employed at the new york office of the company believed he would be almost certain to know her lover s whereabouts filled with new hope wrote a letter without delay telling him to direct his answer to an assumed name in care of s sister mrs who lived in the village of believing that she had entered upon what would prove a solution of the great was in the highest spirits she had known for weeks when she love at seventy met mr at table that day she could hardly conceal her gaiety the maker of instruments was not however to be so easily as the young girl imagined the who was practically his own had agreed to let him see all of the mail that left the village there were only two bags each day one closing at two o clock in the afternoon and the other at nine in the evening aside from the letters of the company the correspondence that went through the office was trivial and it required but a few moments for mr to examine it he knew that would do her best to learn s address and he had no intention that she should succeed in communicating with him here s a letter that may interest you said on the evening of the day when had suddenly appeared so radiant took it eagerly in his hand yes it was in s handwriting it was not addressed to his nephew however but to esq care company no third st new york the name was wholly to him and he turned in an inquiring manner to the do you t this gentleman he asked mr why yes was the answer he is a young fellow whom your nephew and kept at the hotel here for some time he was hired finally at the works and at last was sent to the head office that looks sufficiently suspicious said mr and nephew with a bright gleam in his eye to justify me in getting at the contents of this envelope at once he took up a paper which lay on the desk but the turned livid
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dress a very large portion of his sermons to in their state if my conviction be tiiat mr does not the of those who are in an state with that and perseverance and energy which i would deem desirable it is due the rev to him to say that he is not in this respect peculiar among his brethren in the mr is a pleasing preacher there is something very soothing perhaps i should rather say both in his matter and manner he loves to dwell on the privileges of and on the happiness even in this life of walking in the ways of spiritual wisdom and the winning tendency of his matter is greatly aided by his manner using no paper � having none indeed before him unless a few detached notes may be dignified with the name � he on the cushion of the pulpit his hands and fixing his eye on that part of the congregation in the area of the church immediately before him he as it were them in accents of tenderness to listen to the truths which he is his voice is clear and soft it is never raised to a high pitch but he always speaks in sufficiently loud tones to be distinctly audible in all parts of the chapel his countenance wears an expression of mingled cheerfulness and which o l the rev n it is exceedingly pleasing to witness and which is in admirable keeping with the mild and encouraging character of his preaching his dark eye also the of the reverend gentleman s disposition he usually speaks with some quickness but is easily followed and is always understood in the more impressive parts of his discourse his delivery is so deliberate that you would sometimes fancy he was hesitating for a word such is not the fact he only pauses in order to impart an emphasis to what he is saying his manner is exceedingly quiet he scarcely ever puts himself into any other attitude than that i have alluded to or if he do raise himself to a perpendicular position it is only to resume again in a few moments his posture of with his breast on the cushion of the pulpit his arms are rarely pressed into his service when they are so it is but one at a time and it is only raised a few inches from the pulpit when it is kept in almost stationary po � ture for some few moments there is an earnestness or aspect of deep sincerity about mr i th� b� y which answers in a measure as a substitute for physical energy or animation no one who hears him speak for two or three minutes could have the smallest doubt of his personal piety i am not aware that mr has yet appeared before the public in the capacity of author except indeed the publication of dome of his sermons at considerable of time could him to the name of author as however he is yet but a young man not i should think exceeding his year there is every probability that he may yet make himself known beyond the limits of the metropolis through the medium of some published the quality of his matter and the character of his style which is but not will be inferred s the following extract which forms the of a sermon he delivered on the strait gate and narrow way at st s church cannon one sunday morning in may last � it is no subject for pride that we believe ourselves to be of the small number and look around with self that we are not the rev as other men but the man of god has a large and a heart having tasted that the lord is gracious there is nothing which he desires so earnestly or for which he so as that god would extend the knowledge of his truth � that he would make known to others as he has made known to him the riches of christ and so r from rejoicing that he himself possesses a treasure not communicated to his neighbours he will strive continually by every means to make them acquainted with this treasure to bring them also to seek it to obtain it to preserve it and he will hold it for the greatest blessing that god upon him that he is permitted in any sort to help forward the extending of christ s kingdom � the advancing of that border line which light from darkness the dominion of from the empire of satan and his heart will be consoled by the promises scattered up and down in his bible for although the flock of is a small one and though there are few that pass through the strait gate and walk in the rev the narrow way yet there are promises for the latter day glory unto which in seasons of his heart will turn for encouragement and consolation � promises made unto that he shall have the heathen for his possession � promises made unto the church that god s word shall not return unto him void but shall accomplish that which he and shall prosper in the thing he hath sent it � promises to the missionary that the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose and the when his heart is the and when his hopes are the lowest because of when he returns to his home having marked how the streets are filled with men who god and the even of his holy day though he might be utterly in despair and his hopes be all beaten down unto the dust looks again into that blessed volume out of which come the treasures of all consolation and encouragement and he remembers how christ visited his th� rev servant and unfolded to him mighty promises of the latter
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crimes are known now answer or make an end for i have more business to attend to than the love of a of a youth first what you have told me of the of van your and others of his household namely red martin and your half brother at the of your enemy the is true is it not yes answered but i do not see what that has to do with the matter silence thundered the master then he paused a while and seemed to hear certain strange proceeding from the walls the sage remained lost in thought till the ceased again he spoke you have told me of the part played by the said and the said martin as to their sailing away with the treasure of the dead and of the the in the shot tower by them in the course of its hiding in the is true is it not of course it is answered but � silence again thundered the sage or by my lord i throw up the case and there was another pause you believe he went on again that the said and the said van together with the said martin are making preparations to that innocent and unhappy maid the for evil purposes of their own i never told you so said but i think it is a fact at least there is a lot of packing going on you never told me do you not understand that there is no need for you to tell me anything then in the name of your lord why do you ask exclaimed the exasperated that you will know presently he answered musing once more heard the strange as of young and hungry rats i think that i will not take up your time any more he said growing thoroughly alarmed for really the proceedings were a little odd and he rose to go the master made no answer only which was curious conduct for a sage he began to whistle a tune by your leave said for the s back was against the door i have business and so have i replied the sage and went on whistling then suddenly the side of one of the walls seemed to fall out and through the opening emerged a man wrapped in a priest s robe and after him black and another particularly evil looking fellow got it all down asked the master in an easy every day of voice the bowed and producing several of laid on the table together with an ink and a pen very well and now my young friend be so good as to sign there at the foot of the writing sign what gasped explain to him said the master he is quite right a man should know what he puts his name to then the spoke in a low business like voice this is the information of called van as taken down from his own lips wherein among things he to certain crimes of murder of the king s subjects an attempted escape from the king s committed by his van his half brother van and their servant a known as red martin shall i read the papers it will take some time if the witness so desires said the master what is that document for whispered in a hoarse voice to persuade your treacherous rival van that it will be desirable in the interests of his health that he should retire from for a while sneered his late while the butcher and black audibly only the stood silent like a black watching fate i ll not sign shouted i have been there is treachery and he bent forward to spring for the door made a sign and in another instant the butcher s fat hands were about s throat and his thick were digging at the victim s still kicked and struggled whereon at a second sign the looking man drew a great knife and coming up to him pricked him gently on the nose then spoke to him very and quietly the in the shot tower young friend he said where is that faith in me which you promised and why when i wish you to sign this quite harmless writing do you so violently refuse because i won t betray my and brother gasped i know why you want my signature and he looked at the man in a priest s robe you won t betray them sneered why you young fool you have already betrayed them fifty times over and what is more which you don t seem to remember you have betrayed yourself now look here if you choose to sign that paper or if you don t choose makes little difference to me for dear pupil i would almost as soon have your evidence by word of mouth i maybe a fool said turning sullen yes i see now that i have been a fool to trust in you and your sham arts but i am not fool enough to give evidence against my own people in any of your courts what i have said i said never thinking that it would do them harm not caring whether it would do them harm or no corrected as you had your own object to gain � the young lady whom by the way you were quite ready to doctor with a love medicine because love blinded me said put his hand upon his shoulder and shook him slightly as he answered and has it not struck yon you vain that other things may blind you also � hot irons for instance what do you mean gasped i mean that the rack is a wonderful oh it makes the most silent talk and the most solemn sing now take your choice will you sign or will you go to the torture chamber what right have you to question me asked striving to build up his
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have referred mention another anecdote which came within her own knowledge and which may � � tu the resolute aiid dogged perseverance of the dwarf he to mr for a branch of a tree which grew in the neighbourhood to serve some purpose of his own mr always very ready to oblige � but told that on the present occasion he could not his as it would injure the tree made no but went away grumbling tu himself next morning some of mr s i happened to be going from home so early u two o when to their surprise and terror they through the gray twilight n strange figure struggling and in the air w the said tree upon going up to the place they found it was who had some means to fasten a rope to the branch he warned was swinging with all bis weight it to break it down i hey left him and before he was again disturbed he succeeded in bringing it to the ground and carried it home will him he had a sort of strange pleasure in wandering out in the dark md i� said to have sometimes spent whole among the ruins of old buildings and other places where were believed to haunt and he used to much of his courage and in these adventures with all this he is known to have been extremely and to protect himself from he had planted a great deal of the tree or mountain � ah around his dwelling upward forty of trees were cut down in his garden after his death it does not appear that he bade any pretensions to or that there was any strung suspicion of that nature respecting among his although a knowledge of his disposition impressed both young and old with a certain degree of fearful and awe of him spent much of his time in solitude and when his garden did not his care would lie whole summer days by the side of a well the t lie read a good deal when he could get books and what is was very fond of i some of s pastoral which he could repeat i by heart the sort of reading however in which he took k delight was the adventures of and and other po about heroes the c he a copy of milton s paradise lost some of which read much me had also got hold of k � and had hi i head xv of the his t� � � � � � to great when he i mv t i � i original of black the mill or he com cr ni an his vn c� was here much hich the hound of he or the fore hammer he visit lie county but very went he won i ii to some peculiar on but those who were intimate with him � thai he would now and then a future state great and and on when hit feeling were would into appear to have had some ambition of honours perhaps i e pi him with a thirst of or had pi sentiment of his under die of a mighty � mon extraordinary and personage than one who not only up of departed but by them of the ra t of their and wi and poetical qualities has restored to the world in guise � thousand times more pleasing and � true to nature than the reality but poor l the second ur not it ia certain long expressed a desire to be buried on a particular spot which pointed nut and not in the church yard among the i as he expressed il one of the motives by for this singular wish was his aversion to have the clap down upon him by such a fellow as the man this person he always detested and would scarcely in his company probably from a secret feeling of disgust suggested by a the grave to himself in personal he appears ut have portion of in the of his burial ground it is described in a little tract before us n� a beautiful mount called the which from a plain ne in the of the parish of a number of venerable old trees and by an and lofty covered tops with he an having their broken and by deep aad rocky this hide hill rising abruptly in middle of a delightful plain with its deep green crowned a circle and its while m sheep the links of water winding at its l� through fertile and fields of grain the aged trees here d there along die bottom of the hills abode of the goat die the and the f the l of die mountains towering over all � present t of not unworthy of the of d even although it h never possessed the a � been the residence of the illustrious oi su well th� dwarf of r water the eccentric same r� d that a oi tree mi lit be above his grave on a promise to this given him but he his oil his and was co his fathers a decent m the a t w � tm the of and i in hid and � ii lu n � r� feel in ii ur li ti i� n a r death of the and the l � nd of and the consequent murder of the his own head the future of retired to the of hoping he hid him in the woods with which that country is covered and imagining that it would not l e difficult to the to revolt at tlie tyrant had always averse to the yoke at thai was not one good town in the whole province and hardly any thing villages situated on t ie borders of the forests or on the banks o and rivers some of these villages depended on the noble men of the hut most
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looking upward and thought it was the stars that made it seem so noble there has been no change at home said after a few moments no fresh reference said i to � i wouldn t distress you but i cannot help asking � to what we spoke of when we parted last no none she answered i have thou t so much about it you must think less about it remember 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 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 bat 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 by of 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 voice i seemed again to see and hear mj little in her company i stood awhile looking through the porch at tiie 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 came into my mind that he had been working at the dictionary without my help with the of seeing if this were so and in any ease of bidding him 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 his hands mr sorely troubled and distressed was 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 was the matter i would have withdrawn but the doctor made a gesture to detain me and i remained vol iii the history and experience at any rate observed with a of his person we may keep the door we needn t make it known to all the town saying he went on his toes to tke door whidi 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 encouragement he put his hand upon my shoulder as it had been his custom to do when i was quite a little but did not lift his gray 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 g 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 him and try to shake the breath out of his dare say i didn t make myself very dear he went on nor you neither naturally we was both by of david of u 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 back for nothing else and that he s always
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at home again said standing in front of him and holding his coat collar with both her hands mr was here with me when mrs came in he seemed vexed do you think he disliked her seeing him at our house surely your position is more than equal to his � whatever may be his relation to the no no it must be else if he were really vexed is a sort of he nothing of and music apart he is not always very agreeable do you like him yes i think he is a good fellow rather miscellaneous and d but do you know i think he mrs poor devil said smiling and his wife s ears felt herself to know a great deal of the world in what when she was in her unmarried had been inconceivable to her except as a dim tragedy in � that women even after marriage might make and men at that time young ladies in the even when educated at mrs s read uttle french literature later than and public prints had not cast their present magnificent illumination over the of life still vanity with a woman s whole mind and day to work in can abundantly on slight hints especially on such a hint as the possibility of indefinite how delightful to make from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown prince by your side � himself in fact a subject � while the look up for ever hopeless losing their rest probably and if their appetite too so much the but s romance turned at present chiefly on her crown and it was enough to enjoy his assured when he said poor devil she asked with playful curiosity why so book y � the dead hand why what can a man do he takes to one of you he only his work and runs up bills j am sure you do not neglect your work you are always at the hospital or seeing poor or thinking about some doctor s quarrel and at home you always want to pore over your and confess you like those things better than me haven t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a doctor said ate letting his hands ml on to his wife s shoulders and looking at ner with affectionate gravity i shall make you learn my favourite bit from an old poet � why onr v de make a stir to he and be what good is like to this to do the and to write the reading and tiie world s delight f i want is to do worthy the writing � and to write out myself what i have done a man must work to do that my pet of course i wish you to make discoveries no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than you cannot say that i have ever tried to hinder you from working but we cannot live like you are not discontented with me no dear no i am too entirely contented but what did mrs want to say to you merely to ask about her husband s health but i think she is going to be splendid to our new hospital i think she give us two hundred a year chapter i would not creep along the coast but steer oat in by guidance of the stars when walking round the laurel planted plots of the new with had learned from him that there were no signs of change in mr s bodily condition the mental sim of to know the truth about his illness she was silent for a moments wondering whether she had said or done anything to rouse this new not willing to let slip an opportunity of a favourite purpose ventured to say � i don t know whether your or mr s attention has been drawn to the needs of our new hospital circumstances have made it seem rather in me to urge the subject but that is not my fault it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men i think you are generally interested in such things for i tliat when i first had the pleasure of seeing you at before marriage you were asking me some questions about the way m which the health of the poor was affected their miserable yes indeed said brightening i shall be quite grateful to you if you will tell me how i can help to make things a uttle better everything of that sort has slipped away from me i have been married i mean she said after a moment s hesitation that the people in our village are tolerably comfortable and my mind has been too much taken up for me to inquire further but here � in such a place as � there must be a great deal to be done there is everything to be done said with abrupt energy j and this hospital is a capital piece of work due entirely to mr j s exertions and in a great degree to his money one man can t do everything in a scheme of sort of course he looked to help and now there s a mean petty set up against the thing in the town by certain persons who want to make it a what can be their reasons said with surprise chiefly mr s to begin with half the town would trouble for the sake of him in � s stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to e done unless it is done by their own set i had no connection with before i came here i look at him quite and i see that he has some notions � that he has set on foot � which ix an turn public purpose
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it she sobbed i ll be all right in a minute our little girl think of it and i never saw her she was still lying on her bed when one evening mary fit to break out in bitter that she had escaped and was destined to escape what saxon had gone through aw what are you about demanded by ic the valley op the moon get married some time again as sore as beans is beans not to the best man living she proclaimed and there ain t no call for it there s too many people in the world now else why are there two or three men for every job and besides children is too terrible saxon with a look of patient wisdom in her face that became as she spoke made answer i ought to know what it means i ve been through it and i m still in the thick of it and i want to say to you right now out of all the pain and the ache and the sorrow that it is the most beautiful wonderful thing in the world as saxon s strength came back to her and when doctor had assured that she was sound as a dollar she herself took up the matter of the tragedy that had taken place before her door the had been called out immediately informed her and was then at the foot of pine street on the waste ground next to the railroad yards as for the fifteen of them were in jail a house to house search had been made in the neighborhood by the police and in this way nearly the whole fifteen all wounded had been captured it would go hard with them gloomily the newspapers were demanding blood for blood and all the ministers in had preached fierce sermons against the the railroad had filled every place and it was well known that the striking not only would never get their old back but were in every railroad in the united states already they were beginning to scatter a number had gone to and four were talking of going to to work in the shops of the railroad that ran over the to with anxiety keenly concealed she tried to feel out s opinion on what had happened by ic the valley op the moon that shows what s violent methods come to she said he shook his head slowly and gravely they hang johnson anyway he answered indirectly you know him you told me yon used to dance with him he was caught red handed on the body of a he beat to death old belly s got three bullet holes in him but he ain t goin to die and he s got s number they ll hang m on belly s evidence it was all in the papers belly shot him too a by the neck on our saxon shuddered belly must be the man with the bald spot and the tobacco stained whiskers yes she said i saw it all it seemed he must have hung there for hours it was all over from first to last in five minutes it seemed ages and ages i guess that s the way it seemed to belly stuck on the smiled grimly but he s a hard one to kill he s been shot an cut up a dozen different but they say now hell be crippled for life � have to go around on or in a wheel chair that ll stop him from any more dirty work for the railroad he was one of their top gun � always up to his ears in the thick of any that was goin on he never was of anything on two feet i ll say that much for m where does he live saxon inquired up on near tenth � fine neighborhood an fine two house he must pay thirty dollars a month rent i guess the railroad paid him pretty well then he must be married i never seen his wife but he s got one son jack a passenger engineer i used to know him he was a though he never went into the ring an he s got another son that s teacher in the high school his name s paul we re about the same age he was great at i knew him when we was he pitched by ic the valley of the moon me out three times hand once when the played the school saxon sat back in the chair resting and thinking the problem was growing more complicated than ever this elderly round and bald headed too had a wife and family and there was frank married barely a year and with a baby boy perhaps the he shot in the stomach had a wife and all seemed to be acquainted members of a very large family and yet because of their particular families they battered and killed each other she had seen johnson kill a and now they were going to hang johnson who had married out of the and she and had worked together years before in the paper box factory vainly saxon waited for to say something that would show he did not countenance the killing of the it was wrong she ventured finally they killed he an a lot of others an frank did you know he was dead had hi whole lower jaw shot away � died in the before they could get him to the receiving hospital there was never so much at one time in before but it was their fault she they began it it was murder did not reply but she heard him hoarsely she knew he said god damn them but when she asked he made no answer his eyes were deep with troubled clouds while the mouth had hardened and all his face was bleak to her it was a
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out of me i find myself going with them to the � which i consider to be a of stupid jokes and noise � at two o clock in the afternoon when i ought to be in the city and i have come home in an so laden with toys upon a christmas eve as to be publicly objected to by my fellow passengers when one after forty as i did one is more induced to make a fool of one s self in this way and the younger the child is i think the more power the little darling has over one my beloved aged four and called may for and pulled my wig off the other day in the presence of persons of distinction of both sexes and yet i had not the heart to her i would certainly have put a boy to death to slow music for that i wore such a thing of london life it was i am af who let me in for the party papa dear i want a was her observation one morning when she came in as usual to my opera tions and i thinking that she meant something to eat said very well then you shall have it this concession mad e under the greatest was held by the rest of the family including even the wife of my bosom as a promise and there was no peace for the present writer until it was fulfilled i did not myself entertain any great apprehensions of the result i thought that little girls would be invited to play for a few hours with our own and that they would have cake and wine and go away again i certainly did not anticipate any personal inconvenience from their coming i intended to arrive at home from the city an hour earlier than ordinary in order to see the young folks enjoying themselves and then to dine as comfortably as usual with my assisted by the consciousness of having performed a domestic duty with a good grace when there il i lights and shadows fore my wife observed at breakfast upon the morning of the day my love we must dine at twelve o clock to day if you please the suggestion took my breath away at twelve o clock at night or at noon i inquired i well my dear at noon i know you hate dining out of all things so i have managed that we shall get a dinner � but it will be rather a scramble and they will be taking the furniture out of both the drawing rooms and the school room must be given up for the early tea so that we must dine i am afraid down stairs in the servants hall and why not in the dining room asked i aghast at these arrangements why you dear silly old man of course the dining room table will be all set out for supper long before twelve o clock and as for your � you don t mean to say madam that my study will not be sacred i ejaculated i laying down the of london life il newspaper to part with which at such a time no light thing would induce me dear papa s down observed the intelligent who as usual had taken up her post in expectation of at my knee i rose in alarm and sought my to behold with my own eyes the extent of the damage the sacred apartment had already been turned into a dressing room my desk and papers were thrust into a comer and their place upon the table occupied by a looking glass and and the genius of discomfort had rendered in twenty minutes the apartment in the house as cheerless as a s back room good heavens cried i who is it who demands these sacrifices cannot half a dozen of the girls of my friends jones and robinson be entertained without all this fuss when we lived in the country my house was never turned in this manner because in our country house there was lots of room my love returned my wife a l lights and shadows party in london requires a good deal of preparation and it is necessary to our space but my dear madam i you don t mean to say that six extra girls however preposterous may be their require there are more than six observed my wife you know you promised a party how many then are coming in gasped i with anxiety tell me the worst � that is the most that are likely to come well it is impossible to say some mothers are so stupid about answering invitations but we are sure of three and thirty at least three and thirty little girls coming to night madam what re not all girls do you mean to tell me that you have asked any horrid boys well my dear love you wouldn t have been so absurd as to give a party composed entirely of one sex the girls would not enjoy it without the boys op london i am sorry to hear it replied i at what time do they all go away now i do hope you are not going to desert us exclaimed my laying her fingers affectionately upon my arm we depend upon you for providing amusement you know the master of the house always does that he either dresses up dresses up ejaculated i indignantly what do you mean by that madam why he ix be a or a tiger or something of that sort and if he doesn t mind running about on all but if he does mind madam interrupted i with � if he at his time of life to expose to any description of ridicule what does he do then well then of course he goes out into the town and a or a punch and
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thus it is often that from the general of human faculties we ought not a j to require or expect human knowledge to to any thing more than probability to demand for science absolute and necessary truth seems to many persons a kind of � at least the extreme of presumption for if we regard truth as an the largest conceivable will still be a quantity distinct from the infinite not in degree but in kind but in the first place it ought to be distinctly understood and confessed that probability of itself can have no scientific we do it is true often attribute high scientific importance to what are only but this is on the supposition that they are not to remain but to become truths their importance c � in the prospect of knowledge and if this be absolutely cut off as in the theory their value is at an end in the second place we that this whole theory of probability is founded on an namely that is nothing higher than sensation i � that there is nothing in knowledge which our senses could not perceive provided they were perfect of their i and thus nothing but a mechanical of particulars that the material world is such an of particulars we admit but at the same time it is allowed that we have no with objects except through the senses and that sensations are states of the � tiu not states of the body therefore is based at all events not on any thing material but on something mental as appeared at the be of our examination we have no direct of objects but all our knowledge a mental process namely however is to is to attach to the particular an attribute that is a general character a particular attribute an attribute which does not attach the particular to a class is a contradiction m terms mr mill himself says in every act of what is called observation there is at least one � from the sensations to the presence of the object from the marks or to the entire phenomenon that is we infer the general character by the particular sensations and again we cannot describe a fact without more than the fact the m is only of one individual thing but to describe it is the system march to a between it and every other thing which is either or by any of the terms used or rather we should say what we perceive is an thing bnt the thing as an object or phenomenon is this is what is meant by the distinction between phenomena and in themselves there is not the rear son says mr mill i for believing that what we call the sensible qualities of the object are a type of any thing inherent in itself or bear any to its own nature a cause does not as such resemble its effects an east wind is not like the steam of boiling water why then should matter resemble our sensations why should the inmost nature of fire or water resemble the impressions made by these objects upon our senses and if not on the principle of resemblance on what other principle can the manner m which objects affect us through our senses afford us any insight into the inherent nature of those objects it may therefore safely be laid down as a truth obvious in itself and admitted by all whom it is at present necessary to take into consideration that of the world we know and can know absolutely nothing except the sensations which we experience from it that is to say our thoughts and even the representations we make to ourselves of outward things are not material things but of a nature altogether distinct from matter and sensation considered as mere to outward impulses is an abstraction and not a fact of experience in this statement of mr mill s however as in s distinction between phenomena and the notion seems to remain that the reason we perceive only phenomena lies in a of our powers that phenomena are still things but as it were the shadows or ghosts of the things and that if our faculties were more perfect we should perceive the things themselves lying behind of the same sort is the notion alluded to that are copies of the things or from without i ii these and the like views all flow out from the assumption that reality is equivalent to matter now that matter is the test of all things under tiie sun we are ready to allow whatever does not manifest itself we are at liberty to conclude does not exist de et de non est but that material existence is not reality we think sufficiently appears from the principles of the hy according to it the only character common the � to the material world its essence � is every natural event to destroy itself and bring something else in its place the bud makes way for the flower and the flower for the fruit the growth of the tree is a hastening to decay every and every mechanical force aims at being or spent the spring to the seeks the there is throughout nature a perpetual reference of each thing to something else each by itself is and partly in another a existence is thus an insufficient existence the idea of the thing is not realized in the thing itself but partly in another thing and this again in another and so on to reality therefore or the existence of the idea itself in the phenomenon but as namely a of the form of existence and of the form is of the reality manifested in it this is shown for instance in the of on animal organization alluded to by mr mill i their effect he says is the of the animal substance by combination with the poison into a compound held
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her hand the of my bosom � an of a little girl addressed to an imaginary child the wind turn the lightning catch a child s phrases for and lightning rod where s the man mountain of these cried a little boy as he looked at a small of the getting into the wooden horse when the sun shines brightly on the new snow we discover of hills miles away towards the south which we have never seen before to have the north pole for a fishing pole and the line for a fishing line if we consider the lives of the lower animals we shall see in them a close to those of mortals � by v ic american note books toil struggle danger mingled with glimpses of peace and ease enmity affection a continual hope of themselves although their objects lie at less distance before them than ours can do thus no argument for the imperfect character of our existence and its promises and its apparent injustice can be drawn in reference to our immortality without in a degree being to our brute brethren february m � a walk across the lake with a heavy rain some days ago has melted a good deal of the snow on the intervening descent between our house and the lake but many depths and yet remain and there is a frozen crust sufficient to bear a man s weight and very slippery the slopes there are tiny which exist only for the winter bare brown spaces of grass here and there but still so as only to the scene a little in the woods rocks emerging and where there is a slope immediately towards the lake the snow is pretty much gone and we see frozen and outer shells of and chestnut heaped or scattered among the roots of the trees the mark the place where the boys after sat down to clear the of their outer shell the various species of look exceedingly brown just now � less beautiful than those trees which shed their leaves an oak tree with almost all its brown foliage still rustling on it we down the bank and step upon the frozen lake it was snow covered for a considerable time but the rain it with a surface of water or imperfectly by v ic american note books melted snow which is now hard frozen again and the having been frequently below i suppose the ice may be four or five feet thick frequently there are great cracks across it caused i suppose by the air beneath and giving an idea of greater firmness than if there were no cracks round holes which have been in the marble pavement by and are now frozen over again looking darker than the rest of the surface spaces where the snow was more imperfectly dissolved than elsewhere little spots where a thin surface of ice over the real mass beneath one s foot the track of a line of footsteps most of them vaguely formed but some quite perfectly where a person passed across the lake while its surface was in a state of but which are now as hard as and remind one of the traces discovered by in rocks that hardened thousands of ages ago it seems as if the person passed when the lake was in an state between ice and water in one spot some pine boughs which somebody had cut and heaped there for an unknown purpose in the centre of the lake we see the surrounding hills in a new attitude this being a basin in the midst of them where they are covered with wood the aspect is gray or black then there are bare slopes of unbroken snow the outlines and being much more hardly and firmly defined than in summer we went southward across the lake directly towards monument mountain which as i said like a its and are very evident and it does not present a smooth and placid front as when the grass is by v ic note books green and the trees in leaf at one end too we are sensible of black and shaggy with the forest that is likely always to grow there and in one streak a headlong sweep downward of snow we just set our feet on the farther shore and then immediately returned facing the wind which blew very sharply against us after landing we came homeward up the little brook so far as it lay in our course it was considerably swollen and rushed on its course between overhanging banks of snow and ice from which depended the httle with which we had it in the summer and autumn could do no more than form a large ripple so much greater was the volume of water in some places the crust of frozen snow made a bridge quite over the brook that you only knew it was there by its sound beneath the of winter are splendid and when the ground is covered with snow no brilliancy of tint by ds can come within an infinite distance of the effect our southern view at that time with the clouds and hues is quite indescribable and and the various distances of the hills which lie between us and the remote dome of are brought out with an accuracy in summer the of the air at this season has the effect of a in bringing objects apparently near while it leaves the scene all its breadth the sunset sky amidst its splendor has a softness and delicacy that impart themselves to a white marble world by v american note books february m � a walk yesterday afternoon with tbe children a bright and rather cold day from the north and westward there has been a good deal of rain lately and it has in great measure cleared hills and of snow only it may be seen lying in spots and on
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in the middle of it the house that covered the steam gear was split as with there was a bill for small in the engine room almost as long as the screw shaft the forward cargo fell into bucket when they raised the iron cross bars and the steam had been badly on its bed altogether as the said it was a pretty general average but she s he said to mr for all her dead weight she rode like a ye mind that last blow off the banks i am proud of her buck it s good said the chief engineer looking along the decks now a man would say we were a wreck but we know by experience naturally everything in the fairly with pride and the and the forward who are pushing creatures begged the steam to warn the port of new york of their arrival tell those big boats all about us they said they seem to take us quite as a matter of course it was a glorious clear dead calm morning and in single file with less than half a mile between each their bands playing and their shouting and waving handkerchiefs were the majestic the paris the the the and the all going out to sea as the the ship that pound herself shifted her to give the great boats way the steam who knows far too much to mind making an exhibition of himself now and then shouted i i princes and of the high seas i ye by these presents we are the fifteen days nine hours from liverpool having crossed the atlantic with four thousand ton of cargo for the first time in our career i we have not f we are here we are not but we have had a time wholly in the annals of ship building i our decks were swept i we pitched we rolled i we thought we were going to die i hi hi but we did n t we wish to give notice that we have come to new york all the way across the atlantic through the worst weather in the world and we are the we ha r r the beautiful line of boats swept by as steadily as the procession of the seasons the heard the majestic ea and the paris how i and the said with a little of steam and the said i and the and the said dutch and that was absolutely all i did my best said the steam gravely but i don t think they were much impressed with us somehow do you it s simply disgusting said the bow plates they might have seen what we ve been through there is n t a ship on the sea that has suffered as we is there now well i would n t go so far as that said the steam because i ve worked on some of those boats and sent the ship that pound herself them through weather quite as bad as the fortnight that we ve had in six days and some of them are a little over ten thousand tons i believe now i we seen the majestic for instance from her bows to her and i ve helped the i think she was to back off an she met with one dark night and i had to run out of the parts a engine room one day because there was thirty foot of water in it of course i don t the steam shut off suddenly as a loaded with a political club and a brass band that had been to see a new york off to � pe crossed their bows going to there was a long silence that reached without a break from the cut water to the blades of the then a new big voice said slowly and thickly as though the owner had just up it s my conviction that i have made a fool of myself the steam knew what had happened at once for when a ship finds herself all the talking of the separate pieces ceases and into one voice which is the soul of the ship who are you he said with a laugh i am the of course i ve never been anything else except and a fool i the which was doing its very best to be run down got away just in time its band playing and a popular but air in the days of old are you on in the days of old are you on in the days of old that story had are you are yon are you on f the ship that pound herself well i m glad you ve foimd yourself said the steam to tell the truth i was a little tired of talking to all those and here s after that we u go to our wharf and clean up a little next month we do it all over again the tomb of his ancestors the tomb of his ancestors some people will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all india it would be divided equally between the the the and the that is only one way of saying that certain families serve india generation after generation as follow in line across the open sea let us take a small and obscure case there has been at least one representative of the in or near central india since the days of lieutenant of the european regiment who assisted at the capture of in alfred s younger brother commanded a regiment of from to when he saw some mixed fighting and in john of the same family � we will call him john the came to light as a level headed in time of trouble at a place called he died young but left his mark on the new country and the honourable the board of of
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said mr she had better marry an american and he made a the last more decided motion to free himself from s but his resistance only strengthened the young man s the more unpleasant the latter s task became the more unwilling he grew to see his efforts end in failure during the three days which had been consumed in his quest it had become clear to him that the bridegroom s parents having been surprised to a reluctant consent were but too ready to withdraw it on the plea of mr s mrs on the last edge of had confided to that the were being nasty and he could picture the whole powerful on both sides of the channel arrayed in a resolve to poor from their ranks the very of the contest stirred his blood and made him vow that in this case at least the sins of the parents should not be visited on the children in his talk with the young secretary he had obtained certain glimpses of baron s past that fortified this resolve the baron at one time a familiar figure in a much observed london set had been mixed up in an ugly money business ending in suicide which had excluded him from the society most accessible to his race his alliance with mrs was doubtless a desperate attempt at a forlorn hope on both sides but likely to be an enduring tie because it represented to both partners their last chance of escape from social that her the last s marriage was a mere stake in their game did not in the least affect s view of its if on their part it was a sordid speculation to her it had the freshness of the first if it made of her a mere in their hands it would put her so hoped beyond farther risk of such base uses and to achieve this had become a necessity to him the sense that if he lost sight of mr the latter might not easily be found again to hold his ground in spite of the resistance he encountered and he tried to put the full force of his plea into the tone with which he cried ah you don t know your daughter vi ti that afternoon met him on the � threshold of her sitting room with a well of pent up anxiety in the room itself baron sat with crossed legs and head thrown back in an attitude which he did not see fit to alter at the young man s approach hesitated but it was not the of the baron s greeting which he resented you ve found him mrs exclaimed yes she followed his glance and answered it with a slight shrug i can t take you into my room because there s a the last dress maker there and she won t go because she s waiting to be paid she exclaimed you re not wanted please go and look out of the window the baron rose and lighting a retired to the mrs flung herself down and signed to to take a seat at her side well � you ve found him you ve talked with him yes i ve talked with him � for an hour she made an impatient movement that s too long does he refuse he doesn t consent then you mean � he wants time to think it over time there is no time � did you tell him so i told him so but you must remember that he has plenty he has taken twenty four hours mrs groaned oh that s too much when he thinks things over he always refuses well he would have refused at once if i had not agreed to the delay she rose nervously from her seat and pressed her hands to her forehead it s too hard after all i ve done the is ordered � think how disgraceful you must have managed him badly i ll go and see him myself the baron at this turned abruptly from his study of the place the last my dear creature for heaven s sake don t spoil everything he exclaimed mrs coloured furiously what s the meaning of that brilliant speech i was merely putting myself in the place of a man on whom you have ceased to smile he picked up his hat and stick nodded to and walked toward the door with an air of creaking but on the threshold mrs him don t go � i must speak to you she said following him into the chamber and remembered the dress maker who was not to be from her bedroom in a moment mrs returned with a small flat packet which he vainly sought to in an inaccessible pocket he makes everything too odious she exclaimed but whether she referred to her husband or the baron it was left to to decide she sat silent nervously twisting her case between her fingers while her visitor the details of his conversation with mr he did not indeed tell her the arguments he had used to shake her husband s resolve since in his eloquent sketch of s situation there had entered hints to her mother but he gave the impression that his had the last in the end been moved and for that reason had consented to his refusal ah it s not that � it s to our misery mrs exclaimed and after a moment she added he s been waiting for such an opportunity for years it seemed needless for to his visit and he took leave with the promise to report at once the result of his final talk with mr but as he was passing through the chamber a side door opened and stood before him her face was flushed and shaken out of its usual repose and he saw at once that she had been waiting for him
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low over his glittering eyes as i glanced at him i could not but think how on that very day he had complained bitterly of the of life here at least was a problem which would tax his sagacity to the utmost mr looked from one to the other of us with an obvious pride at the effect which his story had produced and then continued between the of his overgrown pipe my brother and i said he were as you the sign of four may imagine much excited as to the treasure which my father had spoken of for weeks and for months we dug and in every part of the garden without discovering its whereabouts it was to think that the hiding place was on his very lips at the moment that he died we could judge the splendour of the missing riches by the which he had taken out over this my brother and i had some little discussion the pearls were evidently of great value and he was averse to part with them for between friends my brother was himself a little inclined to my father s fault he thought too that if we parted with the it might give rise to gossip and finally bring us into trouble it was all that i could do to persuade him to let me find out miss s address and send her a detached pearl at fixed intervals so that at she might never feel destitute the story of the bald headed man it was a kindly thought said our companion earnestly it was extremely good of you the little man waved his hand we were your he said that was the view which i took of it though brother could not altogether see it in that light we had plenty of money ourselves i desired no more besides it would have been such bad taste to have treated a young lady in so a fashion le au crime the french have a very neat way of putting these things our difference of opinion on this subject went so far that i thought it best to set up rooms for myself so i left lodge taking the old and with me yesterday however i learn that an event of extreme importance has occurred the treasure has been discovered i instantly the sign of four communicated with miss and it only remains for us to drive out to and demand our share i explained my views last night to brother so we shall be expected if not welcome visitors mr ceased and sat on his luxurious we all remained silent with our thoughts upon the new development which the mysterious business had taken was the first to spring to his feet you have done well sir from first to last said he it is possible that we may be able to make you some small return by throwing some light upon that which is still dark to you but as miss remarked just now it is late and we had best put the matter through without delay our new acquaintance very deliberately up the of his and produced from behind a curtain a very long the story of the bald headed man with collar and this he tightly up in spite of the extreme of the night and finished his attire by putting on a cap with hanging which covered the ears so that no part of him was visible save his and face my health is somewhat fragile he remarked as he led the way down the passage i am compelled to be a our cab was awaiting us outside and our programme was evidently for the driver started off at once at a rapid pace talked incessantly in a voice which rose high above the rattle of the wheels is a clever fellow said he how do you think he found out where the treasure was he had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors so he worked out all the space of the r f the sign of four house and made everywhere so that not one inch should be for among other things he found that the height of the building was seventy four feet but on adding together the heights of all the separate rooms and making every allowance for the space between which he ascertained by he could not bring the total to more than seventy feet there were four feet for these could only be at the top of the building he knocked a hole therefore in the and plaster ceiling of the highest room and there sure enough he came upon another little garret above it which had been sealed up and was known to no one in the centre stood the treasure chest resting upon two he lowered it through the hole and there it lies he the value of the jewels at not less than half a million sterling i the story of the bald headed man at the mention of this gigantic sum we all stared at one another open eyed miss could we secure her rights would change from a to the richest in england surely it was the place of a loyal friend to rejoice at such news yet i am ashamed to say that selfishness took me by the soul and that my heart turned as heavy as lead within me i stammered out some few halting words of and then sat downcast with my head drooped deaf to the of our new acquaintance he was clearly a confirmed and i was conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket i trust that he may not remember any of the answers which i gave him that night o the sign of four declares that he overheard me
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done by president when mr was rejected but march st mr thus writes to mr � should the government by finally refusing to receive you the act of folly and bad faith of which they have afforded such strong indications nothing will then remain for this government but to take the of the wrongs of its citizens into its own hands in the event of such a refusal you ought so to conduct yourself as to throw the of the of the upon the government the desire of the president is that you should conduct yourself with such wisdom and firmness at the crisis that the voice of the american people shall be unanimous in favor of the wrongs of our much injured and long suffering hi the meantime the president in anticipation of the final refusal the government to receive you has ordered the army of to advance and take position on ike left of the and has directed that a strong fleet shall be assembled the war m the of he will thus be prepared to act with � and the moment that shall give him authority p on the first of march mr writes to y successor of y and says the president is unwilling to take a course which would inevitably result in war without making another effort to so great a calamity he wishes by every honorable means of to to the civilized world if its peace shall be disturbed the responsibility must fall on he is sincerely desirous to preserve that peace but the state of hostility which now exists on the part of by her declining to receive mr is one which is with the dignity and interests of the united states and it is for the government to decide whether it shall give place to friendly or lead to an open � p to this y replied on the th that the government cannot receive him mr as extraordinary and minister to reside near it it is true that the warlike display with which the american union presents herself � by sea with her on both by land with her forces advancing by the northern where the president had ordered them two months before without waiting till gave him authority at the same time that by her minister are made for and accommodation � would be a powerful reason for not to them so long as all threatening shall not be withdrawn even to the slightest appearance of hostility but even this is by the government of the republic in order that it may in all frankness and loyalty enter into the discussion solely upon reason and facts the vehement desire of the government of the united states to extend its already immense territory at the expense of that of has been manifest for many years and it is beyond all doubt that in regard to at least this has been their firm and constant determination for it has been so declared and by an representative of the union whose assertion strange and injurious as was its frankness has nevertheless not been by the united states � even mr van writing to mr said april is either more true or more known than that from hit tht of the the war the time as having for carrying into effect the of the united states in union and by agreement with their natural and in that territory the means for the purpose the project was introduced into the american it was at first thanks to the consideration the and the wisdom with which the of the united states then proceeded nevertheless the project was in the following and was then approved and in the form and terms known to the whole world a fact such as this or to speak with greater so notable an act of created an imperious necessity that should it with proper firmness and dignity the supreme government had beforehand declared that it would look upon such an act as a and as a consequence of this was hj its very nature at an end and war was the recourse of the government but it proceeded to recover its outraged rights were to it from e so called i of which had for their object to enter into an accommodation the basis of her independence and the government agreed to hear them and consented to name the who with this view were sent to it from moments so precious were not thrown away by the agents of the united states in themselves of of they so prepared matters and directed that die already to the american union should low almost immediately thus this of a territory which had constituted an part of that of during the long period of the spanish dominion and after her for so long a time without any interruption whatever and which measure had been recognised and by the treaty of limits between the republic and the united states of was effected by the means of violence and fraud civilized nations have beheld with amazement at this en and refined epoch a powerful and well state itself of the internal of a neighbouring nation putting its vigilance to sleep by of friend ship setting in action all manner of springs and and violence and a moment to her of a precious part of her territory regardless of the � the mr in the union of a good on this part of the letter the war rights of the and the most possession here then is the true position of the republic outraged it is now attempted to her to a humiliating degradation � it is manifest at it was the firm intention of the to admit a from the united states clothed with powers ad � that is to special powers to treat upon the question of and upon this alone as pre to the renewal of friendly relations between the two countries if the
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of the advantages of education than his brothers for he never attended school above three ths and though his mother him to read whole stock of literature till he was years of consisted in the knowledge of his her � ey s meditations the gentle shepherd an occasional number of the magazine and a large store of but these he knew thoroughly and and it may be questioned if any man alive i more thoroughly acquainted witli the sacred � than himself the searching eye of a soon marked his talent for and she used to to him my mm gang ben the house and make mc a sang while she proposed a subject for his muse how he succeeded in these we have not yet the � � j m � w� ing a mind may be t s of poetry that nature had in b� � k � ii rot xi i i i i i and of l poverty nor nor neglect nor even the til critic could ever or he was soon deprived of tottering of of th� kindest of mothers ami the most original of ni for hi were then struggling with worldly difficulties in h in f and were obliged to him to when he was little above seven of md hit t and youth were in the solitude of with no other moral guardian than principles which they hid into his mind and his own and no guide th nature he grew up to manhood in a of but in him it produced no degradation and could press the noble of a generous mind conscious of its value leaning with confidence on its resources and feeling equal to great tlie of his did not injure the strong independence of a that seemed to in to the that pressed upon it and he enjoyed a which he could not have had in any si while hb flocks were wandering on the of the mountains or in the bosom of a he had the d of looking on nature freed from the mists of prejudice or the of books where she is seldom in forms and natives hues it was not with him as is too often tb ease the study of poetry that led him to the study of nature it was i nature green and fresh and that in him with j a passionate admiration of her untouched grandeur and au of singing her glories and he would have been a l if no i one had ever existed before him all the various shows of the visible universe all the doings of the elements were familiar to his imagination reflected on them its own into existence a creation of its own of such beauty and mu as never appeared but in the eye of lo a situation all his dreams w and we have often heard him e mountain with such and beauty and shadowy grandeur as to convince us that as m paint cr he would had no rival all his organs indeed arc acute and all his of such uncommon and leave such complete pictures we were he to apply to i art his paintings in truth and originality of conception at least would be equal to his these circumstances have render f him above all men the of the mountains he never approaches but his takes wing and like the wheels and with a and of in native the object of this essay is to the assisted nature in the formation of mr s were chiefly the tales and of his country i and the and solitude of its scenery and the impression of or other of w on a i� of poetry he the ba � iv c tt to vi � i� � i i� i a g and as ct to rule as the men whose tt wn led to the j fancy of it man nature bud richly gifted hi t mind and and were alike favourable to the development of peculiar nor if had been searched for the purpose would il have possible to find a woman better qualified than h to discover the early sparks of his genius and to into an after the death of the old man above mentioned she became the great re m i or of the border able to almost every line that to be found in the of the border mid many others which were by her death to the world she possessed a soul of great and a voice ever in with its movements and in her which resembled the of immediate inspiration rather than the repetition of the ideas of others she tile tone the piece in its of rapidity and grandeur rude lays of our forefathers contain hardy adventures and of men who spent their lives the and dangers of a warfare i � their and in making and an attack � their love of glory and contempt of death � the song of the triumph and the of the � and to each of these she gave an appropriate emphasis and action rising into the of possession or melting into an tenderness such were the effects r r that when her son saw these poems printed of which her had delighted him so much he not believe they were the same his mind was early with these cm them his taste was formed and the mountain bard ur professed imitation of them in his of the progress of the genius of t ie poet rather than the life of the man it would be not to mention the family of mr t of here he wan received rather m a son at the house of his father than a servant yet this respectable man is mentioned not so much on account of the kindness received under his roof as the means he there enjoyed of his mind and improving his poetical tide nt
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established in the new world it had into one compact mass the whole of north america from the canal to the ocean and england at the sacrifice of her great colonies had succeeded only in retaining india but this was no more than temporary the struggle with and the rest of asia for india was merely delayed england was destined shortly to lose india while behind that event loomed the struggle between a asia and the world and while all the world was torn with conflict we of the united states were not placid and peaceful the of the great had prevented our revolt but violence was everywhere in addition to the labor troubles and the discontent of the farmers and of the remnant of the middle class a revival had blazed up an of the seventh day sprang into sudden the end of the world confusion thrice confounded cried how can we hope for with all these cross purposes and and truly the religious revival assumed formidable proportions the people what of their wretchedness and of their disappointment in all things earthly last days were ripe and eager for a heaven where entered no more than passed through needle eyes eyed over the land and despite the of the civil authorities and the persecution for the flames of religious frenzy were by camp meetings it was the last days they claimed the beginning of the end of the world the four winds had been god had stirred the nations to strife it was a time of visions and miracles while and were the people ceased work by hundreds of thousands and fled to the mountains there to await the imminent coming of god and the rising of the hundred and forty and four thousand to heaven but in the meantime god did not come and they starved to death in great numbers in their desperation they the farms for food and the consequent tumult and in the country districts but increased the woes of the poor farmers also the farms and were the property of the iron heel armies of troops were put into the field and the were back at the point to their tasks in the cities there they broke out in ever and their leaders were executed for or confined in those who were executed went to their deaths with all the gladness of it was a time of madness the the iron spread in the and deserts and from to the small groups of indians that survived were dancing ghost dances and waiting the coming of a of their own and through it all with a serenity and that was continued to rise the form of that monster of the ages the with iron hand and iron heel it mastered the millions out of confusion brought order out of the very chaos wrought its own foundation and structure just wait till we get in the said � said it to us in our street quarters look at the states captured with you to back us we ll make them sing another song when we take the millions of the discontented and the are ours the said the have come over to us the farmers the middle class and the the system will fall to pieces in another month we send fifty men to two years hence every will be ours from the president down to the local do to all of which would shake his head and say how many have you got do you know where you can get plenty of lead when it comes to powder are better than mechanical you take my word chapter xvi the end when it came time for and me to go to washington father did not accompany us he had e of life he looked upon our as a great and he had embarked upon an apparently endless of investigation he with the and was an intimate in scores of homes also he worked at odd and the work was play as well as learned investigation for he in it and was always returning home with copious notes and over with new adventures he was the perfect there was no need for his working at au because managed to earn enough from his to take care of the three of us but father insisted on pursuing his favorite phantom and a phantom it was judging from the he worked at i shall never forget the evening he brought home his street s of shoe and nor the time i went into the uttle comer to make some purchase and had him wait on me after that i was the heel not surprised when he tended bar for a week in the saloon across the street he worked as a night potatoes on the street in a was utility man in a factory and water for a street railway construction gang and even joined the union just before it fell to pieces i think the bishop s example so far as wearing apparel was concerned must have fascinated father for he wore the cheap cotton shirt of the and the with the narrow about the yet one habit remained to him from the old life he always pressed for dinner or supper rather i could be happy anywhere with and father s happiness in our changed circumstances rounded out my own happiness when i was a boy father said i was very curious i wanted to know why things were and how they came to pass that was why i became a the life in me to day is just as curious as it was in my boyhood and it s the being curious that makes life worth sometimes he ventured north of market street into the and theatre district where he sold papers ran errands and opened there one day closing a cab he encountered mr in high glee father described the incident to us that evening
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on each side miss found a sister without or � a sister s husband who looked the gentleman and a house and well fitted up and mrs grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very appearance mary was remarkably pretty henry though not handsome had air and countenance the manners of both were lively and pleasant and mrs park grant immediately gave them credit for everything else she was delighted with each but mary was her dearest object and having never been able to glory in beauty of her own she thoroughly enjoyed the power of being of her sister s she had not waited her arrival to out for a suitable match for her she had fixed on tom the eldest son of a was not too good for a girl of twenty thousand pounds with all the elegance and accomplishments which mrs grant foresaw in her and being a warm hearted woman mary had not been three hours in the house before she told her what she had planned miss was glad to find a family of such consequence so very near them and not at all displeased at her sister s early care or the choice it had fallen on matrimony was her object provided she could marry well and having seen mr in town she knew that objection could no more be made to his person than to his situation in life while she treated it as a joke therefore she did not forget to think of it seriously the scheme was soon repeated to henry and now added mrs grant i have thought of something to make it complete i should dearly love to settle you both in this country and therefore henry you shall marry the youngest miss a nice handsome good humoured accomplished girl who will make you very happy henry bowed and thanked her my dear sister said mary if you can persuade him into anything of the sort it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever and i shall only regret that you have not half daughters to dispose of if you can persuade henry to marry you must have the address of a all that english abilities can do has been park already i have three veiy friends who hare been all dying for him in their turn and the pains which they women as well as mv dear and myself have taken to reason or him into marrying is inconceivable i he is the most horrible that can be imagined if your miss do not like to have their hearts broke let them avoid henry my dear brother i will not believe this of you no i am sure you are too good you will be kinder than mary yon will allow for the doubts of youth and i am of a cautious temper and unwilling to risk my hap in a hurry nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself i consider the blessing of a wife as most described in those discreet lines of the poet heaven s best gift there mrs grant you see how he dwells on one word and only look at his smile i assure you he is very detestable the admiral s lessons have quite spoiled him i pay very little regard said mrs grant to what any young person says on the subject of if they profess a for it i only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person dr grant congratulated miss on feeling no to the state herself oh yes i am not at all ashamed of it would have everybody marry if they can do it properly i do not like to have people throw themselves away but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage i d park t he young people were pleased with each other from the on each there was much to attract and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant miss s beauty did her no with the miss they were too handsome themselves to dislike any woman for being so too and were almost as much charmed as their with her lively dark eye clear brown complexion and general had she been tall formed and ir it might have been more of a trial but as it was there could be no comparison and she was most a sweet pretty girl while they were the finest young women in the country her brother was not handsome no when they first saw him he was absolutely plain black and plain but still he was the gentleman with a pleasing address the second meeting proved him not so very plain he was plain to be sure but then he had so much countenance and his teeth were so good and he was so well made that one soon forgot he was plain and after a third interview after dining in company with him at the he was no longer allowed to be called so by anybody he was in fact the most agreeable young man the sisters had ever known and they were equally delighted with him miss s engagement made him in the property of of which was fully aware and before he had been at a week she was quite ready to be fallen in love with maria s notions on the subject were more and indistinct she did not want to see or understand there could be no harm in her liking an agreeable man � everybody knew her situation � mr park must take case of himself mr did not mean to be in any danger i the miss were worth pleasing and were ready to be pleased and he with no object but of making them like him he did
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to me slightly humorous � as one man of the world to another that was an eye it was likewise a profitable lesson i promptly laid it to heart and it is exclusively from the point of view of the man of the world that i propose to regard myself and my circumstances and my personal peculiarities in future so to begin with if you please from this time forth we put aside all question marriage in my case we don t make any more attempts to buy innocent and well bred young girls inviting them to my obvious in consideration of my little title and my money richard ceased to look at lady he looked away through the open window into the serene sky of the summer night a certain hunger in his expression not altogether pleasant to witness fortunately he continued with something between a laugh and a sneer there is a mighty army of women � always has been � who don t come under the head of innocent young girls though some of them have plenty of breeding of a kind they attach no superstitious importance to the marriage ceremony my position and money may obtain me in their direction lady ceased to require the cold support of the marble it is unnecessary for us to discuss that subject at least richard she said the young man turned his head again looking full at her and again the distance that divided her from him became to her cruelly apparent while his strength b ot in her a shrinking of fear i am sorry he replied but i can t agree with you there it is inevitable that we should differ in the future and that you should frequently i can t expect you to yourself from prejudice as i am already i am not sure i even wish that still whatever the future may bring forth of this my dear mother i am determined to make a clean breast a slip cup and lip so that you shall never have cause to charge me with lack of frankness or of attempt to deceive you yet at the moment the poor mother s heart cried out to be deceived if thereby it might be a little of suffering then a nobler spirit prevailing within her rallied her fortitude better he should be bound to her even by cynical of projected vice than not bound at all listening now she gained the right � a bitter enough right � to command a measure of his confidence in those still darker days which as she apprehended only too certainly lay ahead so she answered calmly � go on as you say we may differ in the future i may but i can be silent you are right it is better for us both that i should hear and once more the young man was compelled to yield her a admiration his tone softened somewhat i don t like to see you stand mother he said our conversation may be prolonged one never quite knows what may crop up you will be and to morrow when i am gone there will be things to do lady drew forward the chair from the end of the writing table her back was towards the lamp her face in shadow of this she was glad in a degree it lessened the strain the sweet night air coming in at the open fluttered the lace on her as with the touch of a light cool hand of this she was glad too it was refreshing and she grew exhausted and physically weak richard observed her not without solicitude i am afraid you are not well mother he said but shook her head smiling upon him with misty eyes and lips somewhat tremulous i am always well she replied only to night it has been given me to scale heights and sound opposing depths and i am a little overcome by perplexity and by surprise but what does that signify i shall have plenty of time � too much probably � in which to rest and range my ideas when � you are gone my dearest you must not be here alone oh no people will visit me no doubt animated by kindly wishes to lessen my solitude she answered still smiling remembrance of st s letter came to her mind could it be that the girl had some of what was in store for her and that this had inspired the slight over warmth of her of affection � would always be ready to should i ask her she said a sir richard all solicitude passed from richard s expression all softening from his tone by all means ask her that would cap the climax and round the irony of the situation to admiration indeed why inquired painfully impressed by the renewed bitterness of his manner if you re fond of her that is sufficient she and i have never been very s but that s a detail i shall be gone therefore pray have her or anybody else you happen to fancy so long as you do have you mustn t be here alone remains faithful through all chances and changes but i imagine even has sufficient social sense to perceive that may be a little out of place at this juncture at least i sincerely hope he ll perceive it for otherwise he will have to be made to do so � and that will be a nuisance what are you lady exclaimed by what strange and thoughts are you possessed to night i am learning to look at things as the average man of the world looks at them that s all he said we have been too refined you and i to be self critical with the consequence that we have allowed ourselves a considerable degree of latitude in many directions permanent residence here ranks among the fine fanciful of
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the whole of the time in which ho had of a seat in the had convinced gentlemen of hia disposition not in any other subjects republican n state constitution and over which i had no control other expressly given in the fourth section of � fc i the united states to bis than those on which lie int of the concern as the proposed bv the gentlemen from now york and waa presented for consideration in constitutional principles to a amount with the future fate of the territory destruction to the of that people directly on their rights of property their rights oil he consider it aa a of his duty aa retreating from his post nay did � � � after the m a that boon taken subject by the speaker of the house and other gentlemen he had not the vanity to suppose that any additional views which be could offer or any new dress in which he could clothe those already advanced would tho happy tendency of any l to r his vote hut if he stood help him yet while the laws of urn tho rules of the house to him the privilege of speech be would redeem hia conscience v � � of having witnessed the liberties of o hie feeble abilities jf their rights he desired at this early of his remarks in the name of citizens of territory rights on other subjects had been too long neglected disregarded to enter bis protest against tho introduction under tho in form of of any li in this bill the obvious � � � � � be to sow the seeds eventually mr s entertained i constitution and an people who had that under the power to tho i l � ll of the constitution itself from tho practice in the and from those p the express of the would he be � were not so anxious t the o p power of government or who were not desirous of tho rights and independence of a ci ii view of i or tha authority to � it new states into tho union was granted in the third of tho fourth article of the constitution which now states my he admitted by tho into tho union the only power to the by this section appeared to him to bo hat of passing a for the of rights privilege and enjoyed by tho other tho most valuable of waa that of state in this union n republican f of this ac the of the united over the of the several states waa fulfilled and ell conditions beyond this waa so much power assumed in illustration of this position he would read an extract from one of tho essays written by the president with tho constitution of tho united states and from a very celebrated work in a founded on republican principles and composed of republican members intending government ought clearly to to defend the system � � a in toe rat a it o n e the n n n may of each other and the great right to that the forms of government which the compact was entered into should be maintained but this authority extends no further than to a of a republican form of government which a pre existing government of the form which is to be as long therefore as the existing republican forms continued by the are by tho hi whenever the states may choose to substitute other republican they have a i to do ao and to claim the ho latter the only imposed on i is that shall not exchange republican anti republican a ih it is presumed hardly bo considered r s thought that those two when supported by high authority had they e only ones in the c � the powers of tho general o states and particularly at their into the union could not he would refer that b i mind settled the question a article in the amen hue i io people � as that no ot o be given but such as in the ii was tho power proposed to be exercised of conditions on anew state given either i so many words or by any or in i r nor in any portion of the constitution us the right to the respective � their own internal police of admitting citizens as or of introducing description of property should consider aa or necessary to then prosperity � en zealous lest by or by out over and people than given they reserve in so many mis to the and the people all powers nut to the government the ninth article of the to ihe constitution mill further illustrated the position he had taken it read that the en the first struggle m believed it to be a just � l that the of ny f il i weakened their � in vm v n t and that beyond i i had none o t ih y ere � � � � necessary to carry � were given th article of the the ci l t i ii i lie was satisfactory tn his judgment hat intended the us i u li s l n part of one m h in all things equal � � � � � � l of which wan every it lis own state have the rights � � era that other of tin states had own state otherwise dis content and murmuring mill j lo the general government who had i i i n l him of his equality for example if the citizens of or virginia enjoyed the right in ir lo decide the question i i or not the � ii i l i hem the same lt fi united m � to slavery in their a l then the citizens of virginia would have more rights i their iv mr s said he w on this � fin i
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the being who made the promise other promises likewise arc made hb are to possess tho territory of ten distinct tribes or nations � all the land from tho to it when the miraculous child is born god commands the to the born son but the offering is prevented the sou grows up to manhood a wife must be found for him but she must not be a woman of ordinary descent coming from the nations of his own neighbourhood she must come from the classic and distant land whence himself had must be of the same as her husband so the daughter of a and conspicuous man is foimd and becomes the wife of u special care of tho son not loss than of the bears two sons � and jacob one of these jacob is tlie of hebrew race lie is the younger of the two but for a trifle the � ts of the first m hfe the ss from his elder brother and gains in i a blessing firom his father which for ever upon mm and his posterity all the that had promised to upon the children of jacob is thus represented as bom of most illustrious having a and august and is heir of the promises formerly made by god when he also grows up to manhood a wife must bo sought for him but not among the women of tho neighbourhood to keen the race pure and he must return to the native land of his and take a partner from the celebrated family which had already given to the world an a and a watches over jacob with the same of affection he had formerly bestowed on and lie visits jacob by night gives counsel by day � him in the art of over reaching his wives father and that father against interfering to jacob are bom twelve sons and two daughters the family are the special objects of s care in this way a b made out which no ancient herald would find fault with the arc the noblest of ihe noble descended from the prime nobility of the earth it is true the character of jacob is base and treacherous when measured by the christian standard of times but in the estimation of the author of the narrative the characteristic vices of the were doubtless virtues and seem to be related as if in themselves praise had it otherwise to he probably would have represented as to punish jacob or to prevent the from descending to his posterity now as if this illustrious descent were not enough to the hebrew nation withal a corresponding and parallel effort is made to cast a cloud over the origin of the other races most immediately in contact with them many of them it is said are descended from ham tho second son of a person held in high veneration by many of the oriental races but it is said that ham committed an offence which demanded the on the part of hia father curses tho youngest son of ham the were the special objects of hatred to the in the early part of their history the latter conquered and gradually absorbed the territory of the former the inhabitants or thorn to bondage so the author of after relating the m march y march the crime of ham twice in a single paragraph the fact that is the son of hum the for his father s and the is repeated three times in a single paragraph thus according to the of one third of the human race are disgraced by the act of their ham his descendants are the numerous nations of descent in the south and west of asia and the north of africa � the j and the but though the disgrace must bo shared equally by the children of ham yet the curse falls specially upon hia posterity � taking the names from the common version of the old testament � are the the the the the and the many others these are the with whom tie arc so often at war and who were unworthy to furnish wives for and jacob in language manners and institutions some of uie tribes were more closely allied to the than tlie aa it appears this fact must be for in the hebrew history and accordingly they are derived from hut they also are in their origin they arc not allowed to be descended from the honorable and bom wife of the but from a secondary wife or and also a slave in s family whom once drove out of doors on account of her in addition to this reproach is herself an egyptian woman and therefore disgraced by her descent from the infamous family of ham however after her from s household she returns bears a son called i and remains there until after the birth of till has nearly attained the age of as it appears then at the of the slave mother is turned out of doors and her son with her himself of the must not be a joint heir with nor inherit the land or tlie promises still as he also is s son he must have a blessing and become a nation but when posterity arc pains are taken to add that he was the son of a female slave and she an egyptian a therefore of the race of ham other kindred nations are also said to have been descended from but having for their mother only an obscure the woman whom author of the seeks to still more calling her by a bad name � while he the origin of a hostile neighbour the or had likewise a strong national resemblance to tlie in many respects they therefore must be referred to the same they are descended from the t brother of jacob but had shown himself unworthy of his privilege of and had sold the
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the stream awoke and whispered but they moved lazily with that it was merely the stream grown at discovery that it had slept but there came a time when the buck s ears lifted and with swift eagerness for sound his head was turned down the his all gold quivering nostrils scented the air his eyes could not pierce the green screen through which the stream away but to his ears came the voice of a man it was a steady monotonous voice once the buck heard the harsh clash of metal upon rock at the sound he with a sudden start that jerked him through the air from water to meadow and his feet sank into the young velvet while he pricked his ears and again scented the air then he stole across the tiny meadow pausing once and again to listen and faded away out of the like a soft footed and without sound the clash of steel shod against the rocks began to be heard and the man s voice grew louder it was raised in a sort of chant and became distinct with so that the words could be heard tu n around an tu n yo face them sweet hills of grace d rs of sin yo am look about an look fling yo sin pack on d yo will meet d lord in d all gold a sound of accompanied the song and the spirit of the place fled away on the heels of the red buck the green screen was burst asunder and a man peered out at the meadow and the pool and the sloping side hill he was a deliberate sort of man he took in the scene with one embracing glance then ran his eyes over the details to the general impression then and not until then did he open his mouth in vivid and solemn approval smoke of life an of will you just look at that wood an water an grass an a side hill a pocket hunter s delight an a s paradise cool green for tired eyes pink for pale people ain t in it a secret pasture for and a resting place for tired by damn he was a sandy man in whose face and humor seemed the characteristics it was a face quick changing to inward mood and thought thinking was in him a visible process ideas chased across his face like wind across the surface of a lake his hair and of growth was as all gold and as his complexion it would seem that all the color of his frame had gone into his eyes for they were blue also they were laughing and merry eyes within them much of the and wonder of the child and yet in an way they contained much of calm self reliance and strength of purpose founded upon self experience and experience of the world from out the screen of vines and he flung ahead of him a s pick and and gold pan then he crawled out himself into the open he was clad in faded and black cotton shirt with on his feet and on his head a hat whose and advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp smoke he stood erect seeing wide eyed the secrecy of the scene and the warm sweet breath of the through nostrils that dilated and quivered with delight his eyes to laughing of blue his face itself in joy and his mouth curled in a smile as he cried aloud jumping and happy but all gold that smells good to me talk about your o roses an they ain t in it he had the habit of his expressions might tell every thought and mood but the tongue ran hard after repeating like a second the man lay down on the lip of the pool and drank long and deep of its water tastes good to me he murmured lifting his head and gazing across the pool at the side hill while he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand the side hill attracted his attention still lying on his stomach he studied the hill formation long and carefully it was a practised eye that travelled up the slope to the crumbling wall and back and down again to the edge of the pool he scrambled to his feet and favored the side hill with a second survey looks good to me he concluded picking up his pick and and gold pan he crossed the stream below the pool stepping from stone to stone where the side hill touched the water he dug up a of dirt and put it into the gold pan he down hold all gold ing the pan in his two hands and partly it in the stream then he imparted to the pan a circular motion that sent the water in and out through the dirt and gravel the larger and the lighter worked to the surface and these by a skilful dipping movement of the pan he out and over the edge occasionally to he rested the pan and with his fingers out the large pebbles and pieces of rock the contents of the pan diminished rapidly until only fine dirt and the smallest bits of gravel remained at this stage he began to work very deliberately and carefully it was fine washing and he washed fine and finer with a keen scrutiny and delicate and fastidious touch at last the pan seemed empty of everything but water but with a quick that sent the water flying over the shallow rim into the stream he disclosed a of black sand on the bottom of the pan so thin was this that it was like a streak of paint he examined it closely in the midst of it was a tiny golden speck he a little water in over the depressed edge of the pan
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the game s heart beat so violently that she could not sit still her dread was lest he should hear it and he did discover it at last � some flowers upon the table being set throbbing by its i think we had better give over said knight looking at her gently it is too much for you i know let us write down the position and finish another time no please not she implored i should not rest if i did not know the result at once it is your move ten minutes passed she started up suddenly i know what you are doing she cried an angry color upon her cheeks and her eyes indignant you were thinking of letting me win to please me i don t mind that i was knight responded and appearing all the more so by contrast with her own turmoil but you must not i won t have it very well no that will not do i insist l om ox x � sa such absurd thing it is insulting me a fair of blue eyes very well madam i won t do tiny such absurd thing you shall not win that is to be proved she returned proudly and the play went on nothing is now heard but the of a quaint old time piece on the summit of a ten minutes pass j he her knight she takes his knight and looks a very more minutes away she takes his and has the advantage showing her sense of it rather five minutes more he takes her bishop she brings things even by taking his knight three minutes she looks bold and takes his queen he looks placid and takes hers eight or ten minutes pass he takes a she a little but not the ghost of a can she take in ten minutes pass he takes another and says check she herself by his bishop and looks triumphant he immediately takes her bishop she looks surprised five minutes longer she makes a dash and takes his only remaining bishop he replies by taking her only remaining knight two minutes he gives check her mind is now in a � painful state of and she shades her face with her hand yet a few minutes more he takes her and again she literally now lest an artful surprise she has in store for him shall be anticipated by the surprise he evidently has in store for her five minutes in two moves if you can says knight o i have that is cruel says knight and the victory is won arose and turned away without letting him see her face once in the hall she ran up stairs and into her room and herself down i x d ing bit a pair of blue eyes where is said her father at luncheon knight listened anxiously for the answer he had been hoping to see her again before this time she isn t well sir was the reply mrs arose and left the room going up stairs to s apartment at the door was unity who occupied in the new establishment a position between s maid and middle she is sound asleep ma am unity whispered mrs opened the door was lying full dressed on the bed her face hot and red her arms thrown abroad at intervals of a minute she tossed from side to side and moaned words used in the game of mrs had a turn for and felt her pulse it was like a harp string at the rate of two hundred a minute softly moving the sleeping girl to a little less cramped position she went down stairs again she is asleep now said mrs she does not seem very well cousin knight what were you thinking of her tender brain won t bear like your great head you should have strictly forbidden her to play again in truth the s experience of the nature of young women was far less extensive than his abstract knowledge of them led himself and others to believe he could pack them into sentences like a workman but was nowhere i am indeed sorry said knight feeling even more than he expressed but surely the young lady knows best what is good for her bless you that s just what she doesn t know she never thinks of such things does she her father and i have to command her and keep her in order as you would a child she will say things worthy of a french and act like a robin in a but i think we will send for dr � there can be no harm a man was straightway despatched ox vi and the gentleman known as t x c x ac x the coarse of the afternoon he see k af a air of blue eyes system to be in a decided state of disorder forwarded some soothing draught and gave orders that on no account whatever was she to play again the next morning knight waited with a curiously feeling for her entry to breakfast the female servants came in to prayers at irregular intervals and as each entered he could not to save his life avoid turning his head with the hope that she might be mr began reading without waiting for her then somebody glided in noiselessly knight softly glanced up it was only the little kitchen maid knight thought reading prayers a bore he went out alone and for almost the first time failed to recognize that holding converse with nature s charms was not solitude on the house again he perceived his young friend crossing a slope by a path which ran into the one he was following in the angle of the field here they met was at once and abashed coming into his presence had upon her the effect of entering a cathedral knight had his note book in
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husband she was quite happy but her happiness was tinged with a certain tender gravity not common with in yonder churchyard lay the father who with all his faults had loved her dearly the old friend who would have showed himself friendly in a ways if she would have permitted him to do so and the little child snatched so from his loving arms all lay together there at rest what experiences too had she herself undergone in those few she had tried dependence and might have tried independence for her with her pencil were now quite sufficient to have maintained her but that her good friends at farm had forbidden the experiment and now again she was no longer her own but her husband s they would both have to work hard but labour was sweet to both of them and to live a necessity which had no terrors for them i am afraid walter said she presently that we shall find living at the a little expensive i hope that you will not your stay there upon my account could we not move in a day or two to your old lodgings at cottage my darling said walter there is this delightful peculiarity about you which alone would render vou the most charming woman in the world if you had not a thousand other attractions you always say exactly the right thing in the right place my desire of course is to please you and as it struck me that you might possibly prefer lodgings to the hotel i have actually them what at cottage a from a thorn well no because is in occupation of it that is another surprise i had for you he wrote yesterday to say that feeling he had behaved in a most selfish and way that is how he talks of having obeyed an urgent necessity in not having been present at your he means to be at to welcome you i wrote to him in your name to say delighted you would be to see his friendly face again and so i am walter i knew you would be well cottage being full it doesn t seem to strike you that there are no other in but it so that since your time � a few months after you went to rather a pretty little cottage was built at s creek the very place where our dear friend mr lost his if you remember and i have taken that for a month or two the carriage indeed turned southward as he spoke so as to leave on the right and presently drove up in front of the house in question it was new of course but being built of stone with trained over it and placed in a lovely garden it was neither crude nor staring through the open windows the sitting room looked very pretty and furnished what a naughty extravagant boy you are walter she whispered so that the maid who stood to welcome them at the door should not hear her the rent of such a palace as this will ruin us in a month he laughed in his li ht way and said not quite stepped into the little drawing room while walter was settling for the carriage and the servants were taking the luggage upstairs and looked about her the windows opened on the which she so well remembered and within everything was and pretty and above all reminded her of a husband s care her picture sent on direct from already hung upon the wall and on the table were her favourite books among them was s from english history she noticed however it was not her own copy and in the fly leaf read these words in walter s handwriting illustrated by his beloved wife he found her sitting over it as mrs afterwards described her relations to the little volume like a hen with one that is another surprise which you have discovered for yourself said walter smiling how could you could you deceive me so cried suppose i hadn t liked the poems well then i should never have told vou about them but f t jou guess the f ar used to run them down protest they were not oo iq � ii ci i v � � no i never guessed o j � m m t creek cottage ob you here ensued what ancient a love passage and did mr know about it all along when he was at for instance no i could not trust him with such a s he learnt it however soon afterwards then you were my first patron mr nay i had only the happiness of convincing messrs and son of your genius oh you here ensued again what ancient writers c this is all too delightful to last i of course to the situation generally as i said before we shall ba ruined by the mere rent of such a paradise as this but we don t pay any rent the fact is my dear though it is true i am as poor as job i have married an what do you mean walter come there is one surprise i am glad to see that you have not found out for yourself but hadn t you better take off your bonnet very good you are consumed with curiosity i see to know the whole story when your poor father lay on his death bed he extracted a promise from me it was very wise and right of him from his point of view and indeed as things have turned out from all points he had no other object in his mind but the comfort and happiness of his child and she must never think other wise you understand that she was trembling very much and it was easy for her to nod her head but she could not trust herself to speak what
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father is isn t he it appeared to frank that mr had managed to help himself very liberally indeed to all the good things in life but with his false nature he had no difficulty in re his ideas and a view of mr more in harmony with s he was as usual enthusiastic about his friends and was with love and he saw nothing of their faults � they were the best and truest people he had ever known and he could spring days not love them too much indeed he was angry and regretted the that nature has set on the human heart and he would if he could have lost himself in one immense and eternal love of the when he bade good bye at london bridge and wished him well with his shop these sentiments ceased to be active forces in him and they lay latent in his life of and bar rooms until the summer returned and he received an invitation from the house to come down for a garden party at mrs s when he opened the letter he in thoughts of them � of and her fascinating of sally s blunt speech and sturdy good looks of and all the quiet talks they would have together he counted the and striving to recall the landscape guessed the number of miles that separated him from them he walked up the drive with a beating heart looking for the girls between the laurel bushes he found them and their habits which them to him unchanged and to slip back into the old ways without the slightest difficulty or jar was like waking from a dream and entering again on a pleasant reality there wm the excellent dinner and the usual complaints about the the cigars in the room conversation about pictures and gin and water and then a long with in his bed room life moved at the house without any spring creaking without or jar and it was this beautiful regularity that made frank feel so and so unexpectedly happy he loved the desolation of ireland this was the stronger sense but there was another sense a half stifled sense that spring days found an echo in these southern downs with life in other words a faint of the original english mind in him he enjoyed and he grew akin to this saxon prosperity he learned to recognise it as manifested in the various prospects of the and the and he loved this of contradictory aspects � the of the village churches the of the the rich and their elm trees the between masses of chalk the seen against the sky of the downs it is true that he felt that this country was alien to him but he was not conscious that his love of was a morbid affection opposed to the normal and bonds of inherited aspirations and prejudices and the forms and colours that had filled his eyes in childhood consciousness in frank was always slow and always so governed and coloured by the sentiment of the moment that his comprehension of things was always or in his mind the phenomenon of life was ever in and though very often one thought would define itself no group of thoughts or part of a group ever became clear so there was no abiding principle nothing that he might know and steer by he was of course aware that the were not equal to him in rank but he did not know or rather he would not know that they were vulgar nor did he think that mount might marry again if he were to marry or sally all that was really alive and distinct in him was love of them and this love in a sensation of class which he would not acknowledge even to himself had any existence the glass houses and spring days and had a meaning and fascination for him that he could not account for or describe and he found these feelings which were mainly class feelings of an unusual kind not only in the aspect of the country but in the accent and speech of his friends in the expression of their eyes and very hands the english servants pleased him and he strove to detect qualities in the carriage and horses and he compared them to their advantage with mount s he loved to wrap the rug about the young ladies knees and they seemed to him quite perfect and delightful as they lay back in their carriage driving beneath a sky full of blue and through the changing views of the downs all distinct with light and shade sally and made much of him covered him up and addressed to him pleasant speeches his eyes and ears were open and eager for new impressions and his heart panted with readiness to admire and praise all he saw he was ready to think that he had never seen anything so lovely as the and the numerous glass houses and he wondered why he had ever thought so little of and he listened with interest to that gentleman s explanation of the superiority of his possessions over everybody else s possessions he even allowed himself to be persuaded that there was no shooting in the kingdom � for its size � equal to that in the little wood sally who did not attempt to conceal her dislike of her brother in law whispered that s the way to bring them down and frank was obliged to laugh then she and disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them for several hours the guards played on the lawn and frank was introduced to ladies of all ages and sizes and as these bored him he began to see that spring days the place was vulgar and the people and he wondered what mount would say if he were to come suddenly across him grace was the subject of
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that fact that us from the people who see it d piece f if are right � if marriage is sacred in itself and the individual must always be sacrificed to the family � then there can be no real marriage between us since our r our being together is souls a protest against the sacrifice of the individual to the family she interrupted herself with a laugh you say now that i m giving you a lecture on of course one acts as one can � as one must perhaps � pulled by all sorts of invisible threads but at least one needn t pretend for social advantages to to a creed that the of human motives � that people by arbitrary signs and puts it in everybody s reach to be on mrs s visiting list it may be necessary that the world should be ruled by � but if we believed in them t hy did we break through them and if we don t believe in them is it honest to take advantage of the protection they hesitated one may believe in them or not but as long as they do rule the world it is only by taking advantage of their protection that one can find a do need a he looked at her hopelessly nothing is more to man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions she thought she had a point and followed it up passionately you do understand don t you you see how the very thought of the thing me we are together to day because we choose to be � don t let us look any farther than that she caught souls his hands promise me you never speak of it again promise me you never think of it even she implored with a tearful of through what followed � his his arguments his final submission to her wishes � she had a sense of his but half all that for her had made the moment so tumultuous they had reached that memorable point in every heart history when for the first time the man seems and the woman it was the abundance of his intentions that consoled her on reflection for what they lacked in quality after all it would have been worse worse to have detected any to understand her ii when the train at night fall brought them to their journey s end at the edge of one of the lakes was glad that they were not as usual to pass from one solitude to another their wanderings during the year had indeed been like the flight of through and southern italy they had persisted in their of their kind at first had deepened the flavor of their happiness as night the scent of certain flowers but in the new phase on which souls they were entering s chief wish was that thej should be less exposed to the action of each other s thoughts she shrank nevertheless as the brightly bulk of the fashionable american hotel on the water s brink began to toward their advancing boat its vivid suggestion of social order visitors lists church services and the bland of the the mere fact that in a moment or two she must take her place on the hotel register as mrs seemed to the springs of her resistance they had meant to stay for a night only on their way to a lofty village among the of but after the first plunge into when they entered the dining room felt the relief of being lost in a crowd of ceasing for a moment to be the centre of s scrutiny and in his face she caught the reflection of her feeling after dinner when she went upstairs he strolled into the and an hour or two later sitting in the darkness of her window she heard his voice below and saw him walking up and down the terrace with a companion cigar at his side when he came up he told her he had been talking to the hotel � a very good sort of fellow queer little these hotels most of these people live here all summer and then souls to italy or the the english are the only people who can lead that kind of life with dignity � those soft old ladies in somehow carry the british empire their caps sum it s a curious study � there might be some good things to work up here he stood before her with the vivid stare of the on the trail of a subject with a relief that was half painful she noticed that for the first time since they had been together he was hardly aware of her presence do you think you could write here here i don t know his stare dropped after being out of things so long one s first impressions are bound to be vivid you know i see a dozen threads already that one might follow � he broke off with a touch of embarrassment then follow them we stay she said with sudden decision stay here he glanced at her in surprise and then walking to the window looked out upon the dusky slumber of the garden why not she said at length in a tone of veiled irritation the place is full of old cats in caps who gossip with the shall you like � i mean it would be different if � souls she up do you suppose i care it s none of their ness of course not but you won t get them to think so � � they may think what they please he looked at her doubtfully it s for you to decide we stay she repeated before they met had made himself known m a successful writer of short stories and of a novel which had achieved the distinction of being � discussed the
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half so well and mary at the end of a long was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by scotch and irish airs at the request of her younger sisters who with some of the and two or three pride and prejudice joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room mr stood near them in silent indignation at such a mode of passing the evening to the of all conversation and was too much engrossed by his thoughts to perceive that sir william was his neighbour till sir william thus began what a charming amusement for young people this is mr there is nothing like dancing after all i consider it as one of the first of polished societies certainly sir and it has the advantage also of being in amongst the less polished societies of the world every savage can dance sir william only smiled your friend delightfully he continued after a pause on seeing join the group � and i doubt not that you are an in the science yourself mr you saw me dance at i believe sir yes indeed and received no pleasure from the sight do you often dance at st james s never sir do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place it is a compliment which i never pay to any place if i can avoid it you have a house in town i conclude mr bowed i had once some thoughts of fixing in town myself � for i am fond of superior society but i did not feel quite certain that the air of london would agree with lady lie paused in hopes of an answer but his companion was not to make any and elizabeth at that instant moving towards them he was struck with the pride and prejudice notion of doing a very gallant thing and called out to her � my dear miss why arc not you dancing � mr you must allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner you cannot refuse to dance i am sure when so much beauty is before you and taking her hand he would have given it to mr who though extremely was not unwilling to receive it when she instantly drew back and said with some to sir indeed sir i have not the least intention of dancing i entreat you not to suppose that i moved this way in order to beg for a partner mr with grave propriety requested to be allowed the honour of her hand but in vain elizabeth was determined nor did sir william at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion you so much in the dance miss that it is cruel to deny me the happiness of seeing you and though this gentleman the amusement in general he can have no objection i am sure to oblige us for one half hour mr is all politeness said elizabeth smiling he is indeed but considering the my dear miss we cannot wonder at his � for who would object to such a partner elizabeth looked and turned away her resistance had not injured her with the gentleman and he was thinking of her with some complacency when thus by miss � i can guess the subject of your reverie i should imagine not you are considering how it would be to pass many evenings in this manner � in such society � and indeed i am quite of your opinion i was never i c pride and prejudice more annoyed the and yet the noise � the and yet the self importance of all these people what would i give to hear your on them your conjecture is totally wrong i assure you my mind was more agreeably engaged i have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow miss immediately fixed her eyes on his face and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections mr replied with great � miss elizabeth miss elizabeth repeated miss i am all astonishment how long has she been such a favourite � and pray when am i to wish you joy that is the question which i expected you to ask a lady s imagination is very rapid it from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment i knew you would be wishing me joy nay if you are so serious about it i shall consider the matter as absolutely you will have a charming mother in law indeed and of course she will be always at with you he listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner and as his composure convinced her that all was safe her wit flowed long chapter f x mr s property almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year which unfortunately for his daughters was in of male on a distant relation pride and prejudice and their mother s fortune though ample for her situation in life could but ill supply the deficiency of his her father had been an attorney in and had left her four thousand pounds she had a sister married to a mr who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business and a brother settled in london in a respectable line of trade the village of was only one mile from a most convenient distance for the young ladies who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week to pay their duty to their aunt and to a s shop just over the way the two youngest of the and were particularly frequent in these attentions their minds were more vacant than their sisters and when nothing better offered a walk to was necessary to amuse their morning hours and
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themselves losing caste by reason of their habit third the class � which the chinese estimate to consist of forty per cent of the whole in the cities and twenty per cent in the country � which has drifted beyond hope and is continually from those above it in this are found thieves beggars actors the infamous the lost and the men who have sold lands houses wives and children and live for only much as the most degraded of our live for spirits besides these there are many who are not obliged to have recourse to selling and to get along but who such things as the education of their children and flowers for their wives heads and who from having eaten meat twice daily eat it only once or substitute for it a purely vegetable diet which must contain much honey and sugar to relieve the heat and of the mouth which the pipe produces then there are large numbers of who have barely enough to feed themselves upon who must eat in order to work and who have not one cash left for these borrow right and left and part with all they can pledge for anything every year from fresh and paying back a of the old debts till they can borrow no longer and drop into the class among these are seen the ragged wretches who to former acquaintances and beg from them the ashes of their pipes even drinking these with hot water to satisfy the craving the rich smoke what is known as the import from india which they compare to a coal fire and the native to a wood one but the manufacture of the latter is improving rapidly and as it is used to mix with the indian a generation is growing up in the upper class which knows only the mixed and apparently only the old rich use pure indian the consumption of which has fallen off though in the value of the indian import was � s the mysteries of the preparation and the varieties of the product the non both chinese and indian are now largely prepared with the ashes of the already once smoked much of it flowing only imperfectly burned into the of the pipe in the strongest prepared four of ashes of the first degree are added to every ten of crude ashes of the second and even the third burning are also used many of the poorer classes have to content themselves with a smoke of ashes only and the lowest of all of the have to satisfy themselves with eating or drinking the ashes of the third burning there is a class which can afford to buy the pure but which finds that it does not satisfy the craving but this is in a far larger one of old and rich of one s weight per day who smoke not even the very best prepared indian for their craving needs far stronger but ashes of the first degree such men give the prepared extract weight for weight value for value for the ashes and contract with shops to be supplied with all their ashes of the first burning for the rich an of prepared extract is mixed with six of ashes of the first degree this habit has in chinese a specific bad name pure appears to be seldom sold as it fails to satisfy the craving of the practised it is not only that ashes are mixed with the fresh but that they are and after being made up with to the proper are and their ashes are then eaten by the poorest class the active principle of not being consumed in the smoke owing to its lack of the eating of the ashes water tobacco which contain seven per cent and upwards of it has a very serious effect the fact that is smoked three times makes it impossible to estimate either the quantity consumed or the amount spent on the indulgence but these are of course greatly in excess of that indicated by any possible returns among the of smoking used by rich is what is called water tobacco supposed to be all washed in the water of the yellow river it is in thin cakes of a brick red colour and is said to be mixed with and that its excessive use with or without is dangerous to health this tobacco is invariably smoked in water pipes by the upper classes in in the chapter on the hospital i have mentioned the given to suicide by the of death by and will not refer to it again in this chapter i have only touched upon such mysteries and results of smoking as i have seen in my limited experience or have heard of directly from chinese through my or facts stated in a careful paper the use of by dr of except for the quotation of a remark of dr main of on i have not obtained any of my material from f from all that i have seen and heard among the chinese themselves i have come to believe that even moderate smoking enormous risks and that excessive smoking brings in its train commercial and moral ruin and physical and this on a scale so large as to threaten the national well being and the physical future of the race the most common reasons which the chinese give for the habit are pain love of pleasure and the want of occupation they say that a moderate use of the pipe advances the transaction of business the instinct the striking of and men � report of a to north by mr g j l of h b m s chinese service t this is not from any distrust of the accuracy of their � u ts for no foreigners know the lives and ways of the chinese so well as they do but simply because many people think that
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face of this however ci it a book myself that i had courage to do that which i earnestly believed i do as we stood over the looking at the i first with the strings of her apron and then later finding no opposition allowed my hand to rest gently at her waist still no sign of opposition or even consciousness i from head to toe then i closed my arm gently about her waist and when it became tight she looked up and smiled you d better watch out she said some me may come do you like me a little t i pleaded almost choking i think so i think you re very nice anyhow but you mustn t die said some one may come in and as i drew her to me she pretended to resist her cheek against my mouth as she pulled away she was just in time for c � � came into the back parlor and said oh there you are i i wondered where you were i waa just looking over your said yes i added i was showing it to her oh yea laughed my sister you and al � i know what you two were trying to do you i she exclaimed giving me a push and al the silly she has a beau already she laughed and went off but i satisfied with myself into the adjoining room beau or no beau belonged to me youthful vanity was swelling my chest i was more of a personage for having had it once more proved to me that i waa not to girls chapter in i asked when i should see her again she suggested the following tuesday or thursday asking me not to say anything to c i had not been calling on her more than a week or two before she confessed that there was another a telegraph oi to whom she was engaged and who was still calling on her regularly when she came to our house to spend christmas she said it was with no intention of seeking a serious though in order not to the sense of opportunity we boys might feel she had taken off her engagement ring also she confessed to me she never wore it at the store for the reason that it would create talk and make it seem that she might leave soon when she was by no means sure that she would in short she had become engaged thus early without being certain that she was in love never were happier hours than those i spent with her though at the time i was in that state of and change which most youths who are to discover what they want to do in life on christmas day my job was gone and the task of finding another was before me but this did not seem so grim now i felt more confident true the manager of the herald had told me to call after the first of the year and i did so but only to find that his suggestion of something important to come later had been merely a to secure eager and industrious service for his when i told him i wanted to become a he said but you see i have nothing whatsoever to do with that you must see the managing editor on the fourth floor to say this to me was about the same as to say tou must see nevertheless i made my way to that floor but at that hour of the morning i found no one at all another day going at so complete was my ignorance of news a book about myself hours i found only a few individuals at scattered in a room city boom one of these after i had asked him how one secured a place as a looked at me and said you want to see the city editor he isn t here now the best times to see him are at noon and six that s the only time he gives out i thought � so that s what work is called and i must come at either twelve or six so i away to return at six for i felt that i must get work in this great and fascinating field when i came at six and was directed to a man who bent over a desk and was evidently very much concerned about something he exclaimed no nothing open sorry and turned away so i went out and more than ever who was i to attempt to venture into such a as this � i a mere by trade t i doubt if any one ever the mouth of a cave with more feeling of uncertainty it was all so new so wonderful so mysterious i looked at the polished doors and marble floors of this new and handsome newspaper building with such a feeling as might have possessed an slave examining the walls and the doors of the temple of solomon how wonderful it must be to work in such a place as this i how shrewd and wise must be the men whom i saw working here able and successful and comfortable i how great and interesting the work they did today they were here writing at one of these fine tomorrow they would be away on some important mission somewhere taking a train riding in a car entering some great home or office and some important citizen and when they returned they were congratulated upon having discovered some interesting fact or story on which having reported to their city editor or managing editor or having written it out they were permitted to retire in comfort with more compliments then they resorted to an excellent hotel or to refresh themselves among interested and interesting friends before retiring a book about myself to rest some as this filled my brain despite the
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made her as able as she was willing to be generous but she was so wholly unused to confer except on the very poor so in removing evils or among her equals and so fearful of appearing to herself as a great lady at home that it took some time to determine that it would not be in her to make such a present park it was made however at last a silver knife was bought for and accepted with great delight its giving it every advantage over the other that could be desired was established in the full possession of her own handsomely declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself she should never want that again and no reproach seemed conveyed to the equally satisfied mother which had almost feared to be impossible the deed thoroughly answered a source of domestic was entirely done away and it was the means of opening s heart to her and giving her something more to love and be interested in showed that she had delicacy pleased as she was to be mistress of property which she had been struggling for at least two years she yet feared that her sister s judgment had been against her and that a reproof was designed her for having so struggled as to make the purchase necessary for the tranquillity of the house her temper was open she acknowledged her fears blamed herself for having so warmly and from that hour understanding the worth of her disposition and perceiving how fully she was inclined to seek her good opinion and refer to her judgment began to feel again the blessing of affection and to entertain the hope of being useful to a mind so much in need of help and so much deserving it she gave advice � advice too sound to be resisted by a good understanding and given so mildly and as not to an imperfect park per � and she had the happiness of observing its good effects not more was not expected by one who while seeing all the obligation and of submission and forbearance saw also with sympathetic of feeling all that must be grating to a girl like her greatest wonder on the subject soon became � not that should have been provoked into and impatience against her better knowledge � but that so much better knowledge so many good notions should have been hers at all and that brought up in the midst of and error she should have formed such proper opinions of what ought to be � she who had had no cousin to direct her thoughts or fix her principles the intimacy thus begun between them was a material advantage to each by sitting together upstairs they avoided a great deal of the disturbance of the house had peace and learnt to think it no misfortune to be quietly employed they sat without a fire but that was a familiar even to and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the east room it was the only point of resemblance in space light furniture and prospect there was nothing alike in the two apartments and she often heaved a sigh at the remembrance of all her books and boxes and various comforts there by degrees the girls came to spend the chief of the morning upstairs at first only in working and talking but after a few days the remembrance of the said books grew so potent and park that found it impossible not to try for books again there were none in her father s house but wealth is luxurious and daring and some of hers found its way to a library she became a amazed at being anything in amazed at her own doings in every way to be a a of books and to be having any one s improvement in view in her choice but so it was had read nothing and longed to give her a share in her own first pleasures and inspire a taste for the biography and poetry which she delighted in herself in this occupation she hoped moreover to bury some of the recollections of which were too apt to seize her mind if her fingers only were busy and especially at this time hoped it might be useful in her thoughts from pursuing to london whither on the authority of her aunt s last letter she knew he was gone she had no doubt of what would the promised was hanging over her head the s knock within the neighborhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour it was something gained chapter xvii a week was gone since might b� supposed in town and had heard nothing of him there were three different conclusions to be drawn from his silence between which her mind was in � each of them at times being held the most probable � either his going had been again delayed or he had yet procured no opportunity of seeing miss alone or he was too happy for letter writing one morning about this time having now been nearly four weeks from � a point which she never failed to think over and calculate every day � as she and were preparing to remove as usual upstairs they were by the knock of a visitor whom they felt they could not avoid from s in going to the door � a duty which always interested her any other it was a gentleman s voice it was a voice that was just turning pale about when mr walked into the room good sense like hers will always act when really called upon and she found that she had been able to name him to her mother and recall her remembrance of the name as that of william s friend though she could not previously have
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uncle s daughter � that is what has changed her i wish she had never known ay so do i agreed but she s got the f notions all about that old stone knight in the garden � an what wi the things he s left carved all over the wall of the room where she read them queer old books she s fair with ideas ti at don t belong to the ways o the world at innocent all i can t think what ll become o the child won t there be any means of out where she s gone i m afraid not answered robin sadly we must trust to her remembrance of us and her thoughts of the old home where she was loved and cared for his voice shook it will be a without her we shall miss her every minute every hour of the day i cannot fancy what the garden will look like without her little white figure flitting over the grass and her sweet fair face smiling among the roses hang it all if it were not for the last wishes of my uncle i d throw the whole up and go abroad don t do that robin � and laid her rough work worn hand on his arm � don t do it it s turning your back on duty to give up the work to you by a dead man you know it is an the may come back any day i shouldn t wonder if she got frightened at being alone and ran home again to morrow think of it mist robin suppose she came an you weren t here why you d never forgive yourself i can t think she s gone far or that she ll stay away long her heart s in farm all the while � i d swear to that why only yesterday when a lady came to see if she couldn t buy something out q the house you should just a seen her toss her pretty little head when e told me how she d said it wasn t to be sold lady what lady and robin looked as he felt bewildered by s vague statement did come here to see the house not exactly � i don t know what it was all about replied but quite a grand lady called an gave me her card i saw the name on it� � and she asked to see miss on business i ask if it was anything i her fancy and his fact could and she said no so i called the child in from the garden and she and the lady had quite a long talk together in the best parlour then when the lady went away innocent told me that she had wished to buy something from farm � but that it was not to be sold robin listened attentively curious he ed � very curious what was the lady s name lady repeated slowly he took out a note book and pencil and wrote it down you don t think she came to engage innocent for some service he asked or that innocent herself had perhaps written to an agency asking for a place and that this lady had come to see her in consequence such an idea had never occurred to s mind but now it was suggested to h it seemed more than likely it might be so she ed slowly but i can t bear to think the child was a part an me things that weren t true just to get away from us no i robin i i don t believe that lady had an to do with her going i keep the name by me he said and i shall find out where the lady lives who she is and all about her for if i don t hear from innocent if she doesn t write to us i ll search the whole world and never rest tiu i find her i looked at him tears springing again to her eyes aye you ve lost the love o your hearty my lad i i know that well enough die said an it s mi ty hard on you i but you must be a man an turn to work as though had happened there s the farm tes there s the farm he repeated innocent but what do i care for the without her you will stay with me stay with you surely i will robin where should an old woman like me go to at this time o day i and took his hand and clasped it don t you fear my place is in farm till the lord makes an end of me and if the child comes back at any hour of the day or night she ll find old ready to welcome � ready an glad an thankful to see her pretty face here unable to control her sobs she turned away and made a hasty retreat into the kitchen he did not follow her but acting on e sudden impulse of his mind he entered the house and went up to innocent s deserted room he opened t e door hesitatingly � the little study in its severe simplicity and neatness looked desolate � like an empty shrine from which the worshipped figure had been taken he trod softly across the floor buying his footsteps as though some one slept whom he fear to wake and his eyes wandered from one familiar object to another till they rested on the shelves where the old bound books which innocent had loved and studied so much were ranged in orderly rows taking one or two of them out he glanced at their � he knew that most of them were rare and curious though his oxford training had not impressed him as great a love of things literary as
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and the consciousness of the almost radiant purity of this affection for a flown spirit forbade him to check it the flesh was absent altogether it was love and refined to its highest he had felt nothing hke it before the next afternoon he went down to the club not his large club where the men hardly spoke to each other but the homely one where they told stories of an afternoon and were not ashamed to confess among themselves to personal weaknesses and follies knowing well that such secrets would go no further but he could not tell this so and was the story that to convey it in words would have been as hard as to cage a perfume they observed his altered manner and said he was in love admitted that he was a sketch of a temperament and there it ended when he reached home he looked out of his bed room window and began to consider in what direction from where he stood that darling little figure lay it was straight across there under the young pale moon the symbol signified well the divinity of the silver bow was not more pure than she the lost had been under that moon was the island of ancient and on the island a house framed from to chimney top like the isle itself of stone inside the window the moonlight her winding sheet lay reached only by the faint noises inherent in the isle the of the in the the of the tides in the bay and the muffled grumbling of the currents in the never race he began to divine the truth the departed one though she had come short of inspiring a passion had yet possessed a absent from her rivals without which it seemed that a fixed and full rounded constancy to a woman could not flourish in him like his own her family had been for centuries � from roman british times hence in her nature as in his was some the well beloved mysterious sucked from the isle otherwise a instinct necessary to the absolute of a pair thus though he might never love a woman of the island race for lack in her of the desired refinement he could not love long a � a woman other than of the island race for her lack of this of character such was s view of things another fancy of his an artist s superstition merely may be mentioned the like some other local families suggested a roman more or less on the stock of the their features recalled those of the italian to any one as familiar as he was with them and there were evidences that the roman had been and long abiding in and near this corner of britain tradition urged that a temple to once stood at the top of the roman road leading up into the isle and possibly one to the love goddess of the this what so natural as that the true star of his soul would be found nowhere but in one of the old island breed after dinner his old friend came in to smoke and when they had talked a little ii a sketch of a temperament while alluded casually to some place at which they would meet on the morrow i sha n t be there said but you promised yes but i shall be at the island � looking at a dead woman s grave as he spoke his eyes turned and remained fixed on a table near followed the direction of his glance to a photograph on a stand is that she he asked yes rather a affair then acknowledged it she s the only sweetheart i ever alfred he said because she s the only one i ought to have cared for that s just the fool i have always been but if she s dead and buried you can go to her grave at any time as well as now to keep up the sentiment i don t know that she s buried but to morrow � the academy night i of all days why go then i don t care about the academy � you are our only inspired you are our or rather our the well beloved you are almost the only man of this generation who has been able to mould and forms living enough to draw the idle public away from the popular paintings into the usually deserted lecture room and people who have seen your last pieces of stuff say there has been nothing like them since sixteen hundred and since the of the great race lived and died � whenever that was well then for the sake of others you ought not to rush off to that sea rock just when you are wanted in town all for a woman you last saw a hundred years ago no � it was only nineteen and three quarters replied his friend with abstracted he went the next morning since the days of his youth a railway had been constructed along the bank so that except when the rails were washed away by the tides which was often the was quickly accessible at two o clock in the afternoon he was rattled along by this new means of under the familiar monotonous line of coloured stones and he soon emerged from the station standing as a strange among the black the ruins of the a sketch of a temperament away village and the white of just come to view after burial through years in entering upon the beach the train had passed close to the ruins of henry the eighth s or castle whither was to have accompanied him on the night of his departure had she appeared the primitive would probably have taken place and as no had ever been known to break that compact she would have become his wife ascending the steep
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but seeing no signs of his compliance he then ordered the neighbouring chiefs to fall on him and at length withdrew his � none too soon that very night a p of s men came down to kill him and the tent in which he and his companion had slept standing at its supposed occupants through the canvas was defeated by the forces ordered out by the resident with a loss of about men it is however worthy of note and shows how was the conspiracy that out of all the thousands promised mr was only able to call out two thousand men the appointment however that has occasioned the most criticism is that of john who got the share of in preference to his brother chiefs the of an englishman into a chief is such a very odd proceeding that it is difficult to know what to think of it john is an ambitious man and most probably has designs on the throne he is also a man who understands the value of money of which he makes a great deal out of his at the same time it is clear that so for as it goes his rule is better than that of the other chiefs he has a uniform tax fixed and has even done something in the way of starting schools and making roads from all that i have been able to gather his popularity and influence with the are though he has lived amongst them so many years and taken so many of their women to wife his appointment was a experiment and in the long run is likely to prove a mischievous one since any attempted of the settlement will be violently resisted by him on the ground of interests also if white men are set over at all they should be in the position of government officers not successful perhaps the only wise thing done in connection with the settlement was the appointment of mr c m as british it is not easy to find a man fitted for that difficult and dangerous position for the proper filling of which many are required possessed of an intimate knowledge of the their language and their mode of thought and life and being besides a very able and energetic officer mr would have saved the settlement from breaking down if anybody could have saved it as it is by the exercise of ceaseless energy and at great personal risk he has preserved it from total of the dangers and anxieties to which he is exposed the account i have given of the incident is a sufficient he is in fact nothing but a shadow for he has no force at his command to obedience to his or to prevent civil war and in oddly enough force is a remedy should one chief threaten the peace of the country he can only deal with him by calling on another chief for aid a and the settlement that is neither dignified nor right what is t of all is that the are beginning to discover what a shadow he is and with this weakened position he has to pit his single brains against all the thousand and one plots which are being woven throughout the whole country with plots the late prime minister and one of the and perhaps the most influential man in is for the return of bishop again is as usual working his own wires and creating to forward his ends whatever they may be at the moment john on the other hand is to succeed and so on ad such is the state of affairs with which our unfortunate resident has to contend invested with large imaginary powers he has in reality nothing but his personal influence and his own wits to help him he has no white man to assist him but living alone in a broken down tent and some mud huts built by his son s hands for the government have never kept their promise to put him up a house in the midst of thousands of restless and savages amidst plots against the peace and against his authority he has to do the best he can to carry out an settlement and to maintain the character of english justice and the honour of the english name were mr to throw up his post or to be the authorities would find it to keep the whole settlement fi om like a card castle nobody who understood character and aspirations could ever have executed such a settlement as sir s unless he did it in obedience to some motive or instructions that it was not advisable to publish it is true that sir s experience ot the was extremely small and that be put aside the advice of those who did know them with that contempt with which he is wont to treat and their opinions sir does not like people possibly because they are so as to openly say that in their opinion he did more mischief in africa in a few months than it would take an ordinary official a lifetime to accomplish however this may be stop his ears as much as he might sir cannot have been entirely blind to the import of what he was doing and the only tion of his action is that he entered on it more witli the idea of flattering and gratifying english public opinion than of doing his best for the or the white on their borders a great had been raised at home where in common with most south african affairs the matter was not thoroughly understood against the supposed intended of for the benefit of greedy it was argued that were anxious for the in order that they might get the land to with and doubtless this was in individual instances true i fully agree with those who think that it would be unwise to throw open to
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island of and every where else richard however cared little or nothing for this complaint and in consideration of a present of twenty thousand pieces of gold promised his pretty little nephew arthur then a child of two years old in marriage to s daughter we shall hear again of pretty little arthur by and by this affair arranged without any body s brains being knocked out which must have rather disappointed him king richard took his sister away and also a fair lady named with whom he had fallen in love in france and whom his mother queen so long in prison remember but released by richard on his coming to a s history op england the throne had brought out there to be his wife and sailed with them for he soon had the pleasure of fighting the king of the island of for allowing his subjects to some of the english troops who were on the shore and easily conquering this poor monarch he seized his only daughter to be a companion to the lady and put the king himself into silver he then sailed away again with his mother sister wife and the captive princess and soon arrived before the town of acre which the french king with his fleet was from the sea but the french king was in no triumphant condition for his army had been by the swords of the and wasted by the plague and the brave of the at the head of a numerous army was at that time gallantly defending the place from the hills that rise above it wherever the united army of went they agreed in few points except in drinking and in a most manner in the people among whom they whether they were friends or foes and in carrying disturbance and ruin into quiet places the french king was jealous of the english king and the english king was jealous of the french king and the and violent soldiers of the two nations were jealous of one another consequently the two kings could not at first agree even upon a joint assault on acre but when they did make up their quarrel for that purpose the promised to yield the town to give up to the christians the wood of the richard the first holy cross to set at liberty all their christian and to pay two hundred thousand pieces of gold all this was to be done within forty days but not being done king richard ordered some three thousand prisoners to be brought out in the front of his camp and there in full view of their own countrymen to be the french king had no part in this crime for he was by that time homeward with the greater part of bis men being offended by the conduct of the english king being anxious to look after his own and being ill besides from the air of that hot and sandy country king richard carried on the war without him and remained in the east meeting with a variety of adventures nearly a year and a half every night when his army was on the march and came to a halt the cried out three times to remind all the soldiers of the cause in which they were engaged save the holy and then all the soldiers knelt and said amen marching or the army had continually to strive with the hot air of the glaring desert or with the soldiers animated and directed by the brave or with both together sickness and death battle and wounds were always among them but through every difficulty king richard fought like a giant and worked like a common long and long after he was quiet in his grave his terrible battle ax with twenty english pounds of english steel in its mighty head was a legend among the and when all the and christian hosts had been for many a year if a horse started at a child s history of any object by the his rider would exclaim what dost thou fear fool dost thou think king richard is behind it no one admired this king s renown for bravery more than himself who was a generous and gallant enemy when richard lay ill of a fever sent him fresh fruits from and snow from the mountain tops messages and compliments were frequently exchanged between them � and then king richard would mount his horse and kill as many as he could and would mount his and kill as many christians as he could in this way king richard fought to his heart s content at and at and finding himself with nothing exciting to do at except to for his own some there which the had destroyed he kicked his ally the duke of for being too proud to work at them the army at last came within sight of the holy city of but being then a mere nest of jealousy and and fighting soon retired and agreed with the upon a for three years three months three days and three hours then the english christians protected by the noble from revenge visited our s tomb and then king richard embarked with a small force at acre to return home but he was in the sea and was fain to pass through germany under an assumed name now there were many people in germany who had served in the holy land under that proud duke of who had been kicked and some the first of then easily a man go remarkable as king richard carried their intelligence to the kicked duke who straightway took him prisoner at a little inn near the duke s master the emperor of germany and the king of france were equally delighted to have so troublesome a monarch in safe keeping which are founded on a in doing wrong are never true and the king of france
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painful for his having acted from the lower instead of the higher motives the feeling of desert of praise is self of desert of blame self he does not hold himself for what he has not the power to hinder or help but he does take the responsibility of whatever lies within the of his utmost possibility in his essay on a future state arguing from reason and expresses views to the future personal existence of the human soul but the i april essay is unfinished and from several passages in his works we are led to hope and believe that this fragment does not give his entire views on this subject in one of his letters he writes the destiny of man can scarcely be so degraded that he was born only to die and in a journal are recorded the following thoughts suggested by a dangerous exposure of himself and mrs at sea death was rather a thing of discomfort and disappointment than terror to me we should never be separated but in death we might not know and feel our union as now i hope � but my hopes are not with fear for what will befall this spirit when we appear to die mrs in speaking of the fragment on a future state says i cannot pretend to supply the deficiency nor say what s views were � they were vague certainly yet as certainly regarded the country beyond the grave as by no means foreign to our interests and hopes considering his individual mind as a divided from a mighty whole to which it was united by restless sympathies and an eager desire for knowledge he assuredly believed that hereafter as now he would form a portion of that whole � and a portion less imperfect less than the inseparable from humanity impose on all who live beneath the moon it appears therefore that with respect to the question of immortality s mind was in a state of doubt though often cheered by earnest hopes at the time when death unexpectedly settled the question which had puzzled his brief span of life left also some speculations on more and of less value even than those on morals his nature contained not the stuff which are made of imagination indeed he had enough of and no power is more necessary than this in philosophical studies it is the of the philosophical it opens the way for observation and experiment which left to themselves know not in what direction to proceed and find their way if at all but slowly and by accident truly indeed must observation and experiment closely follow though they cannot well the steps of the faculty for it is they who are to test its and decide upon their or in this way have been made the greatest but the trouble with would have been that his imagination not being supported by a sound judgment and its modes of action not being in harmony with the spirit and constitution of things he would have stood a fair chance of wrong he would have displayed extraordinary in the production of with no gift of patience to subject them to the scrutiny of experiment besides he would have been entirely wanting in the close and subtle logic that makes the he would have shared with the great majority of his countrymen their want of strict logical method the surprising with which they take for granted the premises of their arguments the exceedingly tender examination through which popular are made t pass in order to be admitted into the fortress of first truths to the of the broad land which lies between the the and the have been it would seem the pens of and but is better known as a of social and moral reform than of he was offered a seat in parliament and at one time had some thoughts of becoming a but fortunately did not he possessed hardly judgment enough for the well ordering of his own life much less for the judicious management of public affairs he would indeed have been superior to most by the circumstance of having principles of some sort by which to direct his movements but unfortunately they would very likely have been false principles in the he would have displayed more zeal for the interests of men than knowledge of them more hatred of the short sighted and corrupt selfishness in the midst of which he would have found himself than of skill to bring it into to his purposes more eloquence in schemes for the speedy reform of the wide world than insight into the real pressing wants of society and the practicable means of relief he would have succeeded no better than young men have since in the superiority in the guidance of national of youthful presumption and over the prudence and wisdom of age and he would have distinguished himself like other world april in the art of the substantial of his benevolence for the sake of out the more to distant and necessities as well as by his in overlooking home duties in his anxiety to extend the of his responsibility into the of other men s concerns living at a time when the career of napoleon was destroying many of the social and political forms in which society had existed since the middle ages and freely the spirit of modern times then first universally diffused placed himself in the van of the movement and struck most passionately his to the of liberty in spain greece and italy was a radical of the school which seems not yet to have become quite extinct he could not see that and any other than the purposes of tyranny and he wished to have all men kings and priests for themselves having experienced by his first marriage the evils of ill matches and being possessed the spirit of milton s doctrines on divorce together with
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bent for which is my own property and i may be hanged but if we do not them it is i myself who will have to pay the fine the pursuit instantly commenced with a speed and vigour equal to the ingenuity of this singular act of on the himself being long firom practice in this and being further stimulated by the loss which he dreaded made as beautiful a run of d nd of it as of his it was all in vain however he merely got to i e the head and worn heaved across the ditch his own property and to reflect after it tiiat he was certain to haye the double of b made standing joke of for life and of paying for the jest out oi own in the meantime he was bound of course to the still and report the aod as he himself tbe in question the fine was to the shilling upon the very i that if he had been active and man would have et up a still so convenient to his and this of keeping in reserve w or second set of apparatus for the purpose of acting the and the waa afterwards often practised with success but tbe of it waa undoubtedly m although the honour of the discovery was attributed to b the matter however did not end here in a � afterwards some wag in other ge � ge correct information sent to touching the locality of the and the secret of ei on this n the latter brought a larger party than usual him but it waa only to ei he in a position if still more than i the first indeed the o� in the but nothing else every and connected with the process had been removed with the exception o to which wa attached by a bit of the following friendly note � � mr fa this bottle and drink own t it was the day to look m and thb a while you were speaking to the little boy that made a of you being then under your nose let it be drunk in the same place and don t forget while doing so to health of g s the went abroad like and was known indeed for a long time it was the standing topic of the parish and so sharply was it felt by that he could never keep his mr when did you see little george � a question to which ho wa mt known to g v a dis reply irish the fate of frank m hate met and the various classes that x general society and we feel ourselves bound to say that in no instance have we ever met any individual no matter what his class or rank in life who was really indifferent to the subject of dreams and they are topics that interest the imagination in all and the head of age is inclined with as much interest to a ghost story as the young and eager ear of youth wrought up by all the and apprehensive powers of early it is true the belief in ghosts is fast disappearing and that in is already almost gone but with what new wonders they will be replaced it is difficult to say the physical and natural we suppose will give us enough of the marvellous without having recourse to the spiritual and supernatural steam and gas if science advance for another half century at the same rate as she has done in the last will give sufficient exercise to all our faculties for wondering we know a man who travelled eighty miles to see whether or not it was a fact that light could be conveyed for miles in a pipe under ground and this man to our own knowledge po the organ of mar to a surprising degree it is singular too that his fear of ghosts was in proportion to this to wonder as was his disposition when snug in a chimney comer to talk incessantly of such topics as were calculated to excite it in our opinion ghosts and will be seen wherever are talked of and a belief in their fate or frank m and nourished so long as the powers of the imagination are kept warm and active by exercise they will create for themselves such images as they are in the habit of or dwelling upon and these when the individual happens to be in the appropriate position will even by the mere force of association the particular that is in the mind as an illustration of this i shall mention two cases of apparition which occurred in toy native parish one of which was that of a ghost and the other of the to those who have read my traits and stories of the irish the first which shall may possess some interest as being that upon which i founded the tale of the ll mass the circumstances are simply these there lived a man named m at the hip of one of the hills which divide the county of from that of this m had two sons one of whom was in the habit of tracing of a sunday whenever there happened to be a fall of snow his father it seems had frequently remonstrated with him upon what he considered to be a of the lord s day as well as for his general neglect of mass the young man however though otherwise harmless and was in this matter quite insensible to paternal reproof and continued to trace whenever the of labour would allow him it so happened that upon a christmas morning i think in the year there was a deep fall of snow and young m instead of going to mass got down his cock stick � which is a staff much thicker and heavier at one end than at the other � and prepared
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and be some blooming kind of a or or some damn lord and ted s just as he wants to go to and he doesn t want to go to only one of the three that knows her own mind is can t understand how i ever came to have a pair of children like and ted i may not be any a james j shake but i do know my own mind and i do keep right on along in the office and � do you know the latest far as i can figure out ted s new bee is he d like to be a actor and � and here i ve told him a hundred times it hell go to and law and make good i ll set him up in business and � just exactly as bad doesn t know what she wants well well come you ready yet rang the bell three minutes ago before be followed his wife stood at the i most window of their room this settlement heights was on a rise and though the of tl d was three miles away � had between three and thousand inhabitants now � be could see the top ot d n by ij oe second tower an five stories its shining walls rose a april sky to a le like a streak of fire int ity was in the tower and it bore its strength lightly as a tall soldier as stared the was soothed from bis face his lifted in reverence ah he was that s one si tl but he was in by the of the his love of it renewed he the tower as a ire of the of business a faith passionate es common men and as he down to he the ballad oh by by by as thou it were a hymn melancholy and noble d n by chapter n of s and the with his wife ca the she was too e to fed and much too not to show their bedroom into it gave on the it served both of them as dressing room and on the nights gave iq the duty of manly and retreated to the bed t to curl his toes in the warmth and at the gale the room a modest and pleasant color scheme after one of the best standard of the did the tor most of the houses in the walls were gray the white the rug a serene blue and very much like mahogany was the furniture � the with its great clear mirror mrs s dressing table with toilet articles of almost solid silver the plain twin beds between a small table holding a standard bedside lamp a for water and a standard bed side book with colored particular book it was cannot be ascertained since no one had ever c it the were sim but not hard triumphant modem which had cost a great deal of money the was of exactly the proper scientific surface for the contents of the room the windows were urge sod opened with the beat catches and and holland shades not to crack it was a among right out of houses foe medium tn only it had to do with the d n by is nor any one if people bid lived j ud loved here md at t lain in � a sunday morning there were no signs of it it the air of being a very good room in a very good one expected the to come in and make it ready for people who stay but � ie ni t go without never think of it again every second in ts bad a bedroom pre this tbe was five it was all as competent and g as this bedroom it had the best of taste tbe best of a simple and and the latest ut the place of candles and along the bedroom were three for electric lamps concealed by little brass doors in the balls were the and in the living room foe the piano for the fan the trim dining room its admirable oak its glass cupboard its waiter walls its modest scene of a salmon e q i a pile of had which supplied the electric and tbe y in fact there was but one thing wrong with the w it was not a borne of a morning came and in to breakfast but things were mysteriously to day as he trod the upper hall he looked into s bedroom and � what s the use of giving the family a bi house when they don t appreciate it and tend to business and get down to he upon them a brown of twenty two just out of given to solid d n by i duty and and god and the of tbe gray sports suit was now wearing ted � � a boy of seventeen � � still a baby at ten with radiant red hair and a thin skin hinted of too and too mai ice cream did not show his vague irritation as he md in he really disliked being a family tyrant and his was as as it frequent he shouted at it was the only pet name in his c� dear and with he recognised his wife and he flung it at every he a of coffee io the hope of his stomach and his soul his stomach ceased to fed as thou it did not to him but began to be conscientious and and there returned to the doubts regarding life and and business which had at him his dream life and the slim i had fled had for six been at tbe leather t with a prospect of becoming secretary to mr and thus as defined it getting some good out of your college education till you re ready to marry and settle down but now said father i was
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moreover the rare power of winning the regard and affection as well as the respect of those about him in such a marked degree that those who have served him once would go far to serve him again sir t however has enemies like other people and is commonly reported among them to be a of and to have his mind in all the darker of policy the of the is by them the attributed to a successful and vigorous use of those arts that distinguished the of two centuries ago falsehood and are supposed to have been the great used to e� the change together with threats of at the hands of a savage and nation that the was a triumph of mind over matter is quite true but whether or no that triumph was obtained i will leave those who read this short chronicle of the events connected with it to judge i saw it darkly remarked in a newspaper the other day that the history of the had evidently yet to be written and i fear that the remark represents the feeling of most people about that event as it did that it was carried out by means certainly mysteriously and doubtful i am afraid that those who think thus will be disappointed in what i have to say about the matter since i know that the means employed to bring the � � under her majesty s authority were throughout as fair and honest as the itself was in my opinion right and necessary to return to sir t he undoubtedly had faults as a ruler one of the most prominent of which was that his natural of character would never allow him to act � with severity even when severity was necessary the very condemned to death ran a good chance of when he had to sign their death he has also that worst of faults so called in one fitted by the to become great � want of ambition a failing that in such a man marks him the possessor of an even and a philosophic mind it was no seeking of his own that raised him out of obscurity and when his work was done to comparative obscurity he elected to return though whether a man of his ability and experience in african affairs should at the present crisis be allowed to remain there is another question on the th december sir t wrote to president informing him of his approaching visit to the to secure if possible the of existing troubles and the of such measures as might be best calculated to prevent their in the future on his road to sir received a welcome from the as well as the english inhabitants of the country one of these addresses to him says be assured high honourable sir that we l now assembled together entertain the most friendly feeling towards your government and that we shall agree with anything you may do in with our government for the progress of our state the against our native enemies and for the general welfare of all the inhabitants of the whole of south africa welcome in and welcome in the at the reception of the special was positively enthusiastic the whole town came out to meet him and the horses having been taken out of the carriage he was dragged in triumph through the streets in his reply to the address presented to him sir forth the i the objects of his mission in these words events in this country have shown to all thinking men the absolute necessity for closer union and more of purpose among the christian of the southern portion of this continent the best interests of the native races no less than the peace and prosperity of the white demand it and i rely upon you and upon your government to with me in endeavouring to achieve the great and glorious end of on a general south african banner the appropriate motto � unity makes strength a few days after hia arrival a commission was appointed consisting of messrs and on behalf of the special and messrs and on behalf of the government to discuss the state of the country this commission came to nothing and was on both sides nothing more than a bit of by play the arrival of the mission was necessarily regarded with mixed feelings by the inhabitants of the by one party it was eagerly greeted the english section of the population who devoutly hoped that it had come to the country with the exception of the element the officials also were glad of its and secretly hoped that the country would be taken over when there would be more chance of their getting their pay the better educated also were for the most part satisfied that there was no hope for the country unless england helped it in some way though they did not like having to accept the help but the more and narrow minded among them were undoubtedly the opposed to english interference and under their leader paul who was at the time running for the president s chair did their best to be rid of it they found ready in the with which mr had surrounded himself headed by the famous dr who was like most of the rulers of this singular state an ex clergyman but now an attorney general not learned in the law these men were for the most part entirely unfit for the positions they held and feared that in the event of the country changing hands they might be from them and also they did all englishmen the favour to regard them with that peculiarly and general hatred which is a part of the secret creed of many foreigners more especially of such as are under our protection as may easily be imagined what between all these different parties and the presence of the special there
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trick once got away some of my best men i will tell you the whole story another time there comes old sir drew and his look he sees us he kisses his hand to you he takes you for my wife ah the peace has come too soon for that poor old sir how do you like bath miss it suits us very well we are always meeting with some old friend or other the streets full of them every morning sure to have plenty of chat and then we get away from them all and shut ourselves into our lodgings and draw in our chairs and and persuasion are as as if we were at ay or as we used to be even at north and deal we do not like our lodgings here the worse i can tell you for putting us in mind of those we first had at north the wind blows through one of the just in the same way when they were got a httle farther anne ventured to press again for what he had to communicate she had hoped when clear of street to have her curiosity d but she was still obliged to wait for the admiral had made up his mind not to begin till they had gained the greater space and quiet of and as she was not really mrs she must let him have his own way as soon as were fairly ascending he began � well now you shall hear something that will surprise you but first of all you must tell me the name of the young lady i am going to talk about that young lady you know that we have all been so concerned for the miss that all this has been happening to her christian name i always forget it anne had been ashamed to appear to comprehend so soon as she really did but now she could safely suggest the name of ay ay miss that is the name i wish young ladies had not such a number of fine christian names i should never be out if they were all or something of that sort well this miss we all thought you know was to marry he was her week after week the only wonder was what they could be waiting for till the business at came then indeed it was clear enough that they must wait till her brain was set to right but even then there was something odd in their way of going on instead of staying at he went off to and then he went off to see edward when we came back from he was gone down to edward s and there he has been ever since we have seen nothing of him since november even could not understand it but now the matter has taken the strangest turn of all for this young lady this same miss persuasion instead of being to marry is to marry james you know james a little i am a little acquainted with captain well she is to marry him nay most likely they are married already for i do not know what they should wait for i thought captain a very pleasing young man said anne and i understand that he bears an excellent character oh yes yes there is not a word to be said against james he is only a commander it is true made last summer and these are bad times for getting on but he has not another fault that i know of an excellent fellow i assure you a very active zealous officer too which is more than you would think for perhaps for that soft sort of manner does not do him justice indeed you are mistaken there sir i should never want of spirit from captain s manners i thought them very pleasing and i will answer for it they would generally please well well ladies are the best judges but james is rather too piano for me and though very likely it is all our partiality and i cannot help thinking s manners better than his there is something about more to our taste anne was caught she had only meant to oppose the too common idea of spirit and gentleness being with each other not at all to represent captain s manners as the very best that could possibly be and after a little hesitation she was beginning to say i was not entering into any comparison of the two friends but the admiral interrupted her with � and the thing is certainly true it is not a mere bit of gossip we have it from himself his sister had a letter from him yesterday in which he tells us of it and he had just had it in a letter from written upon the spot from i fancy they are all at this was an opportunity which anne could not resist she persuasion said therefore i hope admiral i hope there is nothing in the style of captain s letter to make you and mrs particularly uneasy it did certainly seem last autumn as if there were an attachment between him and but i hope it may be understood to have worn out on each side equally and without violence i hope his letter does not breathe the spirit of an ill used man not at all not at all there is not an oath nor a murmur from beginning to end anne looked down to hide her smile no no is not a man to and complain he has too much spirit for that if the girl likes another man better it is very fit she should have him certainly but what i mean is that i hope there is nothing in captain s manner of writing to make you suppose he thinks himself ill used by his friend which might appear you know without its being absolutely said
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the building known as the d aisle beneath which the huge lay over the of the was a beautifully window of many lights its date being the century it was called the d window and in the upper part could be discerned like those on s old seal and spoon drew the curtains round the bed so as to an excellent tent of it and put the smaller children inside if it comes to the worst we can sleep there too for one night she said but let us try further on and get something for the to eat o what s the use of your at gentlemen if it leaves us like this accompanied by lu and the boy she again ascended the little lane which secluded the church from the as soon as they got into the street they beheld a man on horseback gazing up and down ah � i m looking for you i he said up to them this is indeed a family gathering on the historic spot it was d where is he asked personally had no liking for she signified the direction of the church and went on d saying that he would see them again in case they should be still in their search for shelter of which he had just heard the convert when they had gone d rode to the inn and shortly after came out on foot in the left with the children inside the remained talking with them awhile till seeing that no more could be done to make them comfortable just then she walked about the churchyard now beginning to be by the shades of nightfall the door of the church was and die entered it for the first time in her life within the window which the stood were the of the family covering in their dates several centuries they were altar shaped and plain their being and broken their torn from the the holes remaining like holes in a sand of all the that she had ever received that her people were extinct there was none so forcible as this she drew near to a dark stone on which was inscribed b lt tm did not read church latin like a cardinal but she knew that this was the door of her and that the tall knights of whom her father had in his cups lay inside she turned to passing near an altar tomb the oldest of them all on which was a figure in the dusk she had not noticed it before and would hardly have noticed it now but for an odd fancy that the moved as soon as she drew close to it she discovered all in a moment that the figure was a living person and the shock to her sense of not having been alone was so violent that she was quite overcome and sank down nigh to fainting not however till she had recognized d in the form he off the and supported her i saw you come in he said smiling and got up op the d there not to interrupt your meditations a family gathering is it not these old fellows us here listen he stamped with his heel heavily on the floor whereupon there arose a hollow echo from below that shook them a bit i ll warrant he continued and you thought i was the mere stone of one of them but no the old order the little finger of the sham d can do more for you than the whole of the real underneath now command me what shall i do go away she i win � i ll look for your mother said he but in passing her he whispered mind this you ll be yet when he was gone she bent down upon the entrance to the and said � why am i on the wrong side of this door in the meantime and had onward with the of the in the direction of their land of � the egypt of some other family who had left it only that morning but the girls did not for a long time think of where they were going their talk was of angel and and s persistent lover whose connection with her previous history they had partly heard and partly guessed ere this t as though she had never known hun afore said his having won her once makes all the difference in the world be a thousand if he were to her away again mr can never be anything to us and why should we grudge him to her and not try to mend this quarrel if he could on y know what straits she s put to and what s hovering round he might come to take care of his own could we let him know they thought of this all the way to their the convert tion but the bustle of re establishment in their new place took up all their attention then but when they were settled a month later they heard of s approaching return though they had learnt nothing more of upon that agitated anew by their to him yet disposed to her the penny ink bottle they shared and a few lines were between the two girls d sir � look to your wife if you do love her as much as she do love you for e is sore put to by an enemy in the shape of a friend sir there is one near her who ought to be away a woman should not be try d beyond her strength and continual will wear away a stone � ay more � a diamond from two well this they addressed to angel at the only place they had ever heard him to be connected with after which they continued in a mood of exaltation at their own generosity which made them sing in hysterical and
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have had besides her folly in forming the connection was so great that though mr johnson was her guardian and i do not in general share his feelings i never can forgive her adieu yours ever mrs to lady de this letter my dear mother will be brought you by his long visit is about to be concluded at last but i fear the separation takes place too late to do us any good she is going to london to see her particular friend mrs johnson it was at first her intention that should accompany her for the benefit of masters but we her there was wretched in the idea of going and i could not bear to have her at the mercy of her mother not all the masters in london could for the ruin of her comfort i should have feared too for her health and for everything but her principles � there i believe she is not to be injured by her mother or her mother s friends but with those friends she must have mixed a very bad set i doubt not have been left in total solitude and i can hardly tell which would have been worse for her if she is with her mother moreover she must alas in all probability be with and that would be the greatest evil of all here we shall in time be in peace and our regular our books and conversations with exercise the children and every domestic pleasure in my power to procure her will i trust gradually overcome this youthful attachment i should not have a doubt of it were she for lady any other woman in the world than her own mother how long lady will be in town or whether she returns here again i know not i could not be cordial in my invitation but if she chooses to come no want of cordiality on my part will keep her away i could not help asking if he intended being in london this winter as soon as i found her s steps would be bent thither and though he professed himself quite there was something in his look and voice as he spoke which contradicted his words i have done with i look upon the event as so far decided � that i resign myself to it in despair if he leaves you soon for london everything will be concluded your affectionate etc c mrs johnson to lady edward my � i write in the greatest distress the most unfortunate event has just taken place mr johnson has hit on the most effectual manner of us all he had heard i imagine by some means or other that you were soon to be in london and immediately contrived to have such an attack of the as must at least delay his journey to bath if not wholly prevent it i am persuaded the is brought y lady on or kept o� e at pleasure it was the same when i wanted to join the to the lakes and three years ago when i had a fancy for bath nothing could induce him to have a symptom i am pleased to find that my letter had so much effect on you and that de is certainly your own let me hear from you as soon as you arrive and in particular tell me what you mean to do with it is impossible to say when i shall be able to come to you my confinement must be great it is such an abominable trick to be ill here instead of at bath that i can scarcely command myself at all at bath his old would have nursed him but here it all falls upon me and he bears pain with such par that i have not the common excuse for losing my temper yours ever lady to mrs johnson upper street my � there needed not this last fit of the to make me mr johnson but now the extent of my aversion is not to be estimated to have you confined as nurse in his apartment my dear of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age just old enough to be formal and to have the too old to be agreeable too lady young to die i arrived last night about five had scarcely swallowed my dinner when made his appearance i will not what real pleasure his sight afforded me nor how strongly i felt the contrast between his person and manners and those of to the infinite disadvantage of the latter for an hour or two i was even staggered in my resolution of marrying him and though this was too idle and an idea to remain long on my mind i do not feel very eager for the conclusion of my marriage nor look forward with much impatience to the time when according to our agreement is to be in town i shall probably put off his arrival under some pretence or other he must not come till is gone i am still doubtful at times as to marrying if the old man would die i might not hesitate but a state of dependence on the caprice of sir will not suit the freedom of my spirit and if i resolve to wait for that event i shall have excuse enough at present in having been scarcely ten months a widow i have not given any hint of my intention or allowed him to consider my acquaintance with as more than the commonest and he is tolerably appeased adieu till we meet i am enchanted with my lodgings yours ever s v lady xxx lady to mr de upper street i have received your letter and though i do not attempt to conceal that i am gratified by your impatience for the hour of meeting i yet feel myself under the necessity of that
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rule england or france yet the american institutions are to human nature and by that fact are rendered more easy complicated as they are in politics when the institutions are established men often think there is no room for and that alone are needed and choose accordingly but there are ideas well known not yet organized into institutions that of free trade of peace of universal freedom universal education universal comfort in a word the idea of human brotherhood these wait to be constructed into a state without injustice without war without slavery ignorance or want it is hardly true that is dry of truths unseen as yet there are truths enough waiting to be discovered all the space us and god is full of ideas waiting for some to disclose new worlds men are always saying there is no new thing under the sun but when the comes they see their mistake now it is quite where we are to place the distinguished person of whom i speak mr was not a not an he added no truth to mankind not known before and even well known he made no known truth a fact he was an of political institutions taking the whole land into consideration comparing him with his measuring him by his apparent works at first sight he does not seem very highly eminent in tliis class of political nay some would set him down not as an so much as a political critic here there is danger of doing him by a h iii john june ct so obvious that t is seldom seen mr was a with northern habits methods and opinions by the north i mean the free states now the chief of the north is to get empire over nature all to that young men of talents become merchants merchant merchant the object directly aimed at is wealth not wealth by plunder but by productive work now to get dominion over nature there must be education universal education otherwise there is not enough intelligent industry which alone that dominion wide spread intelligence property will be widely distributed and of course and civil power will get distributed all is without religion i deny not that these peculiarities of the north come also from other sources but they all are necessary to the chief object thereof � dominion over the material world the north nature by thought and holds her powers in as results of this see the increase in wealth which is od by northern rail roads ships mills and shops in the schools churches which arise see the skill developed in this struggle with nature the great which come of that the movements of commerce the efforts � and successful too � for the promotion of education of religion all is and becomes more so continually each institutions more liberal than those of the parent state and as their business become merchants and the like they are by exception by accident from the necessity of the case few northern men are by profession they commonly think it better to be a or a than a place by money not power northern are bred as farmers merchants political is an accident not an end in the south the aim is to get dominion over men so the whole working population must be in � in slavery while the north makes brute nature half intelligent the south makes human nature half brutal the man becoming a thing talent to politics not trade young men of ability go to the army navy to the public offices to posts � in a word to politics they learn to manage men to do this they not only learn what men think but why they think it the young man of the north seeks a fortune of tlie south a reputation and political power the of the south makes politics the study and work of his whole life all else is accidental and subordinate he begins low but ends high he with men has bland and agreeable manners is frank honorable manly and knows how to persuade see the different results of causes so unlike the north the commercial rs of the land the ships mills farms and shops the spiritual affairs literature science morals education religion � writes and but the south the political and has free trade or war or peace just as she will of the eight who were elected in fifty years only three were northern men each of them has retired from office at the end of a single term in possession of a fortune but with little political influence each of the five southern has been twice elected only one of them was rich there is no accident in all this the state of island has men that can administer the or the that can into a cotton factory yes that can get dominion over the ocean and the land but the state of south has men that can manage the can rule the north and south and make the nation do their bidding so the south in politics but grows poor and the north fails in politics but in commerce and the arts there the chief men turn to politics here to trade it is so in time of peace but in the day of trouble of storms of revolution like the old one men of tall heads will come up from the ships and the shops the farms and the of the north bom and the aristocracy of gk d and sit down in the nation s to control the state the north made tiie revolution furnished the men the money the ideas and the occasion for putting them into form at the making of the constitution the south out talked the north put in such as it saw fitting making the best bargain it could the ideas of the revolution and getting the north not only to consent to slavery
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figured black silk with glass buttons jones a steady looking not very memorable person with a colored yet they were all so well fed and clean they all shouted with such that seemed to be cousins and the strange thing is that the longer one knew the women the less alike they seemed while the longer one knew the men the more alike their bold patterns appeared the drinking of the was as a as the mixing the company waited uneasily agreeing in a strained manner that the weather had been rather warm and slightly cold but still said nothing about drinks they became but when the late couple the had arrived hinted well folk do you think you stand breaking the law a little they looked at the recognized lord of language pulled at his eye glass cord as at a bell rope he cleared his throat and said that which was the custom ni tell you george i m a law abiding man but they do say is a regular and of course he s bigger n i am and i just can t figure out what i d do if he tried to force me into anything criminal was roaring well take a chance � when held up his hand and went on so if and you insist i ll park my car on the wrong side of the street because i take it for granted that s the crime you re at i there was a great deal of laughter mrs jones asserted mr is simply too killing you d think he was so innocent how did you guess it well you all just wait a moment i go out and get the � keys to your cars through a of merriment he brought the shining promise the mighty tray of glasses with the cloudy yellow in the glass in the the men oh have a look and this gets me t where i live and let me at it but a man and not unused to woes was stricken by the thought that the might be merely fruit with a little spirits he looked as a moist and held out a glass but as he tasted it he oh man let me dream on it ain t true but don t me slumber two hours before had completed a newspaper beginning sat alone and and and scratched my head and sighed and and groaned there are who d like the old time gin back that den that makes a sage a the vile and old saloon never miss their poison whilst i the spring can use that leaves my head at merry mom as clear as any babe new born drank with the others his moment s was gone he perceived that these were the best fellows in the world he wanted to give them a thousand think you could stand another he cried the wives refused with but the men q in a wide elaborate manner well sooner than have you get sore at me � you got a little coming said to each of them and each squeeze it squeeze when beyond hope the was empty they stood and talked about the men leaned back on their heels put their hands in their trousers pockets and proclaimed their views with the of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever now tell you said way i figure it is this and i can speak by the book because i ve talked to a lot of doctors and fellows that ought to know and the way i see it is that it s a good thing to get rid of the saloon but they ought to let a fellow have beer and light observed what isn t generally realized is that it s a dangerous to the rights of per liberty now take this for instance the king of � i think it was � yes it was � in march he issued a against public of live stock the had stood for without the slightest complaint but when this came out they or it may have been but it just goes to show the dangers of the rights of per liberty that s it � no one got a right to personal liberty said jones just the same you don t want to forget is a mighty good thing for the working classes keeps em from wasting their money and lowering their said yes that s so but the trouble is the manner of insisted didn t understand the right system now if i d been running the i d have arranged it so that the himself was and then we could have taken care of the workman � kept him from drinking � and yet not ve interfered with the rights � with the personal liberty � of fellows like ourselves they their heads looked at one another and stated that s so that would be the the thing that me is that a lot of these will take to sighed they more violently and groaned that s so there is a danger of that oh say i got hold of a swell new receipt for home made beer the other day you take � interrupted wait let me tell you mine i beer i thing to do is to jones insisted i ve got the receipt that does the business begged oh say tell you the story � but went on resolutely you take and save the shells from peas and pour six of water on a of shells and boil the mixture till � mrs turned toward them with yearning hastened to finish even his best beer and she said gaily dinner is served there was a good deal of friendly argument among the men bs to which should go in last and while they were crossing the hall from the living
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the victim of another who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being and by such cheap as the color of his beard or the slope of his reads the of his fortunes and character the ignorance temperament does not disgust like this impudent the say they are not but they are � spirit is matter reduced to an extreme o so thin � but the definition of spiritual should be that which is its own evidence what notions do they attach to love what to religion one would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing and give them the occasion to profane them i saw a gracious gentleman who his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with i had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities in the fact that i never know in addressing myself to a new individual what may befall me i carry the keys of my castle in my hand ready to throw them at the feet of my lord whenever and in what disguise he shall appear i know he is in the neighborhood hidden among shall i my future by taking a high seat and kindly my conversation to the shape of heads when i come to that the doctors shall buy me for a cent but sir medical history the report to the the facts � i distrust the facts and the temperament is the or power in the constitution very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution but offered as a oar to original when virtue is in presence es at ii experience all subordinate powers sleep on its own level oi in view of nature temperament is final i see not if one be once caught in this trap of so called any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity given such an such a history must follow on this platform one lives in a of and would soon come to suicide but it is impossible that the power should itself into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed through which the creator passes the intellect of absolute truth or the heart lover of absolute good for our and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare we it into its own hell and cannot again contract ourselves to so base a state the secret of the is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects gladly we would anchor but the is this onward trick of nature is too strong for us si when at night i look at the moon and stars i seem stationary and they to hurry our love of the real draws us to but health of body consists in circulation and of mind in variety or facility of association we need change of objects to one thought is quickly odious we house with the insane and must humor them then conversation dies out once i took such delight in that thought i should not need any other book before that in then in then in time in bacon afterwards in even in but now i turn the pages of either of them languidly whilst i still cherish their genius so with pictures each will bear an emphasis of attention once which it cannot retain though we fain would continue to be pleased in that manner how strongly i have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well you must take your leave of it you shall never see it again i have had good lessons from pictures which i have since seen without emotion or remark a must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence their opinion gives me tidings of their mood and some vague guess at the new fact but is to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing the child asks mamma why don t i like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday alas child it is even so with the oldest of knowledge but will it answer thy question to say because thou born to a whole and this story is a particular the reason of the pain this discovery causes us and we make it late at ii experience in respect to works of art and intellect is the of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons to friendship and love that and absence of which we find in the arts we find with more pain in the artist there is no power of in men our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed they stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power but they never take the single step that would bring them there a man is like a bit of which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle then it shows deep and beautiful colors there is no universal in men but each has his special talent and the mastery of successful men consists in keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be to be practised we do what we must and call it by the best names we can and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which i cannot recall any form of man who is not superfluous sometimes but is not this pitiful life is not worth the taking to do tricks in of course it needs the whole society to give the we seek the colored wheel must very fast to appear white something is learned too by conversing with so much folly and defect in fine whoever loses we are always of the gaining party divinity is
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paris paris paris among these there is one called founded on the e de p la p le le de la li ue le et la de com � � � � paris the eighth item the following for further particulars of which see s catalogue la du m la th le l de la de comedy � la th cl les et d arc etc etc not nearly so numerous com die du et les la etc add to these several collected works which however probably include many of the above the works du de ci j et la p de etc the number and names of these plays seem to prove that france had a drama embracing a wide range of subjects and that she had even then the courage to passages of her own history yet gives the english credit for being the first to do this and printed many of them in provincial towns whereas the english plays of the day were all printed in london they compel you in to own that france had in this century a greater and more diffused drama than england this is the second stage of observation you now go a little deeper and you can hear of no great tragic s in france before nor do the titles of books of imply that such actors existed now the early english theatre and you find many actors of the th century celebrated by their with intelligent and descriptive criticism of these actors many retired with fortunes their wills of large and various property were drawn in grand form proved duly and are to be seen in doctors to this day monuments of the grandeur of the dramatic operations in their time and of the piety and charity as wall as worldly respectability the artists of the scene can attain to when their self respect is not by the prejudices and their property by the brutal of their see richard s will in the to vol iii p s will p large property in of the eighth houses shares in the globe and theatres and plate and furniture and presents to his fellow actors and several relations not forgetting the poor of his parish s will p dealing with still larger property in all its principal forms and not forgetting the poor s will p s will p s will by which the poor of the of st and st s benefit to this day is p will sly s p as for edward a famous actor of the century he built a grand theatre while he lived at a cost fully equal to six thousand pounds of our present money see s annals of the stage vol iii p and dying a noble institution to his country college several actors and of are spoken of by eye witnesses in terms of high but that carries conviction vague me like the smoke of burning weeds and his successor in comedy the richard the third and in everything are in prose and verse yet it was matter of doubt whether the latter could equal and his in certain parts they had created those who following the of and pope fancy that was the root of the british stage instead of the fruit may be surprised to learn that not only had most of these actors secured a reputation some years before but that famous actors had lived and retired or died before a line had an established reputation in yet was on the stage and famous ten years before him richard who had the ear of the town four years before was the son of james a respectable actor whom we find at the head of a company in here then is a great acting drama in england existing about but greatly advanced in and as i shall show in full career in the next discovery we make by the help of solomon and other in legal evidence is a remarkable one the true clue to many things on which conjecture has been wasted that at this period the and the theatre were not in england but the eighth rivals and in fact deadly enemies that it was always the interest of a proprietor of a play to keep it oat of print there were two kinds of authors as there were of actors the paid authors and the sharing authors of whom was one and on a smaller scale another it was not the sharing author s interest to print his play and the paid author lost the right to print his the sharing s parental feeling and made him print eventually but only when the theatre had worn the play quite out because then his interest no longer his p f and a p but the sharing actors whose vanity sided with their interest held the bought plays tight and kept them out of print with the keenest jealousy they kept them under lock and key they hid them they destroyed them when all their precautions were as happened now and then by double m s or short hand they appealed to some great officer of state to restrain the or they bought the off or grinned and closed their stage door to the author they did this to robert lent unto robert the th march to give unto the to the of patient the sum of robert was the stage manager � s p for the of bought plays restrained by the lord see a ms in lord s office places vol iii p nor was this i think mere jealousy of the press five out of six could not read but enabled other theatres to play their pieces a it was who first announced that between and a host of pieces had been produced and in london and most of them perished � vol iii p a existed in those days and long before so did right bat
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a rock in her own principles has a gentleness of character bo well adapted to recommend them he has chosen his partner indeed with rare felicity he will make you happy i know he will make you happy but you will make him everything i would not engage in such a charge cried in a shrinking accent in such an office of high as usual believing yourself unequal to anything j everything too much for you j well though i may not be able to yon into different feelings you will be persuaded into them i trust i confess myself sincerely anxious that you may i have no common interest in s well doing next to your happiness his has the first claim on me you are aware of my having no common interest in was too well aware of it to have anything to say and they walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence aad abstraction first began again � i i was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday particularly pleased because i had not de i i a upon her seeing everything in bo just a light knew she was very fond of yoa but jet i was afraid of ber not worth to her brother quite as it deserved and of her ihe had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune was afraid of the bias of those worldly which she been too much used to hear but it was different she spoke of you just as she ought she desires the as warmly as your uncle or myself we had a long talk about it should not have mentioned the subject though very know her sentiments but i had not been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with all that of heart and sweet peculiarity of manner that spirit and which are so much a part of herself mrs grant laughed at her for her rapidity was mrs grant in the room then yes when i reached the house i found the two together by themselves and when once we had begun � we had not done with you till and dr grant came in it is above a week since i saw miss tes she it yet owns it may have been best you will see her however before she goes she is very angry with you you must be prepared for that she calls herself very angry but you can imagine her anger it the regret and disappointment of a sister who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish for at the first moment she is hint as you would be for william but she loves and you with all her heart i knew she be very angry with me my dearest cried pressing her closer to him do not let the idea of her anger you it is anger to be talked of rather than felt her heart is made for love and kindness for resentment i wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise i wish you could have seen her countenance when she said that you be henry s wife and i observed that she always spoke of j c i you as which was never used to do and it had a bound of most cordiality and mrs did she say � did she speak was she there all the time she was agreeing exactly with her sister the surprise of your refusal seems to have heen unbounded i hat you could refuse such a man as henry seems more than they can understand i said what i could for you but in good truth as they stated the case � you prove yourself to be in your senses as soon as you can by a conduct nothing else wiu satisfy them but this is you have done do not turn away from me should have thought j said after a pause of recollection and exertion that eveiy woman must have felt the possibility of a man s not being approved not being loved by some one of her sex at least let him be ever so generally agreeable let him have all the in the world i think it ought not to be set down as certain that a must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like but even supposing it is so allowing mr to have all the claims which his sisters think he has how was i to be prepared to meet him with any feeling to his own he took me wholly by surprise had not an idea that his behaviour to me before had any meaning and surely i was not to be teaching m self to like him only because he was taking what seemed very idle notice of me in my situation it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming e on mr am sure his sisters him as they do must have thought it so supposing he had meant nothing how then was i to be � to be in love with him the moment he said he was with how was to have an attachment at ma service t as soon as it was asked his sisters should consider me as well as him tlie higher his deserts the more improper for me ever to have thought of liim and and � we think very differently of the nature of women j if s park they can imagine woman so very soon capable of an affection aa this seems to imply my dear dear now i the truth know to he the truth and most worthy of you are such feelings i had them to you before i thought i could understand you yon have now given exactly the explanation i ventured to make for you to your and mrs grant and they were both better
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lady in question is not a old party � i m ant to the party as formerly objected mr said in a case of so much delicacy i must trouble you to say what you mean there are strings that must not be played upon no sir i not sounded unless in the most respect and manner of such melodious strings is miss pleasant formed then it m the lady as formerly objected said � sir returned with dignity i accept the altered phrase it is the lady as formerly objected when is it to come off asked � mr said with another flush i cannot permit it to be put in the form of a fight i must but firmly call upon you sir to that question when is the lady reluctantly demanded his iu temper in remembrance of the and its stock in trade a going to give her and where has already given her art sir returned i accept the altered phrase and with pleasure the lady is a going to give her and where she has already given her art next monday mutual then the lady objection has been met said mr said as i did dame to you i think o a former if not on former � on former interrupted we � what pursued what the nature of the lady a was i may impart without any of the tender confidences since up between the lady and myself how it h� b been met through the kind interference of two good friends of mine one previously acquainted with the lady and one not the pint was out sir by those two friends when they did me die great service of waiting on the lady to try if a union the lady and me could not be brought to bear � the i say was thrown out by them sir whether if after marriage i myself to the of men children and the lower animals it might not relieve the lady s mind of her respecting being � as a in a bony light it was a happy thought sir and it took root it would seem mr observed with a touch of distrust ih t you are flush of friends pretty well six that answered in a tone of mystery so so sir well however said after him with another touch of distrust i wish you joy one man his in way and another in another you are going to try matrimony i mean to travelling � indeed mr change of air and � my natural rest i hope may bring me round after the i have undergone from the with his head tied up which i just now mentioned the tough job ended and the laid low the hour is come for to stump up would ten to morrow morning suit you partner for finally bringing s nose to the ten to morrow morning would quite suit mr for that purpose you had him well under inspection i hope said mr had had him inspection pretty well every day suppose you was just to st to night then and give him orders from me � i say firom me because he knows i won t be played with � to be ready with his papers his accounts and his cash at that time in the morning said we and as a matter of form which will be agreeable to your own feelings before we go out for walk with you part of the way though my leg gives under me with weariness let s have a look at the stock in trade mr produced it and it was perfectly correct mr undertook to produce it again in the morning and to keep tr with mr on s as the dock struck ten at a certain point of the road between and s house mr w expressly insisted that there should be no to the s name the partners separated for the night it was a very bad night to which a very bad morning the streets were so muddy and miserable in the our mutual that rode to the scene of action arguing that bo v as it were going to bank to draw out a well afford that trifling expense was and undertook to knock at thi d conduct the door knocked at door opened at home tho servant replied that was at home he ll do said we though it ain t what i call him tlie servant if they had any appointment now i tell you what young fellow said i won t this won t do for me i don t want want were shown into a waiting room where the all wore his hat and whistled and with his forefinger lock that stood upon the ho made it few they were shown upstairs into what used to be b which the door of entrance had folding doors in it one of a of rooms when required here as seated at a table and here mr having the servant to withdraw drew np a and seated o � y in his hat dose beside him here also mr w g ins the remarkable experience of having his hat lis and thrown out of a window which was opened and br the purpose be what insolent you take in that gentle said the owner of the hand which had done this oar you after it involuntarily clapped his hand to his bare head and at the secretary for it was he addressed him with a severe o and who had come in quietly by the doors oh said as soon as he recovered his suspended of speech good i gave directions for you to be and you t gone ain t you oh i we ll look into this very good i no nor i ain t gone said another voice somebody else lu come in quietly by the doors
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three old male folks may be admitted if very good humoured a few pleasant children and one � only one dear old lady to her let the whole department be by the entire assembly beforehand and give her the utmost powers of a for so nothing we want be left at home it is not fun to find one s self without to his cold lamb nobody who is properly constituted without fresh butter and when you are fond of it is not cheerful to find the bottle of dressing which was to young master brown has broken in his filthy pocket these things all occur unless we have our one dear old lady who else would have seen to that of glass being packed with such judgment who else would have brought the plate � i confess i dislike steel forks � in her own private bag who else could have so piled upon without a crack or a for the rich red to well through who else has the art of preserving cream in a can observe her little bottle of mark each individual as it forth from its separate look at the salt box � look at the bless her dear old heart she has forgotten nothing however humble the meal let it be complete and it can t be complete without its one dear old lady the girl with the prettiest hands will be generally found � in accordance with the eternal fitness of things � ing the cup the young man � the one young man who should have the sole charge of the bottle department and who must not be her lover � assisting her and is the best mixture for ladies if you have no cup and beer remember in stone bottles is almost always flat let there be plenty of railway to sit and upon for in most of nature s h and by the sea coast especially the seats and are hard and at times damp i had the mark of a stone � which i was not bom with but which i thought i should carry to my grave � most firmly impressed upon me until quite lately the consequence of an open air entertainment in the beginning of last autumn if there is the slightest chance of people being dull take the last new poem i have heard better criticism again and again jove than that of the weekly of take a � a if there is an echo � take a sketch book or two for they often suggest and never conversation and if the company be very and rather take the racing game or a pack of cards don t be too polite for drawing room manners are out of place at a but do your very best either in carving the chicken or in saying good things according to your gifts and by the bye if there is anything forgotten after all don t send the most amusing person youve got back for it because he is the youngest or the poorest for that as the say is a great waste of power but let the stout rich party go instead who is as much out of his element among you as an de camp at church if you are by the sea side be very careful not to break the bottles for when they are empty and well they swim in the water and afford excellent objects for to both sexes if there be any servants drivers or don t forget that they appreciate having the things left for them and tolerably neat and if they take your places don t put everything of value out of sight as though you were afraid of their stealing them let the gentlemen withdraw themselves after dinner from the weaker vessels who can t stand smoke and enjoy their cigars the one dear old lady aided by her obedient and neat handed will during that period be putting the back again and the plate into her private bag and that wiu be the time also you will be remarked upon if you have the most comfortable place during the meal or have spoiled a dress through or have been eating rapidly in order to secure two helps of it is now when the glory of landscape or of ocean stretches before you and your every sense is satisfied that you must feel if ever benevolence towards the whole human race friendship for those present and love for one at least of them it is the period for affectionate thought and conversation the time to glance from theme to theme discuss the books to love or hate to touch the changes of the state or thread some deep dream how well the poet from whom these words are borrowed has understood this matter he and his beloved friend who the shadows of the elms and the towering more so fair after the dust and din and steam of town who bearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower brought an eye for all he saw and mixed in all the simple out door who fed both heart and ear of the charmed circle as they lay and listened to his reading on the lawn who loved himself to listen while the maiden flung her ballad to the brightening moon the while the stream ran on the wine lying in moss or cooled within its wave and last returning from afar before the crimson star had fallen into her s grave and brushing deep in flowers they heard behind the veil the milk that in the and of the hours they went home � that is to say to tea wherein they showed their wisdom my own first recollections of a course of are derived from those in my boyhood held at spring upon the river thames near i was then an boy 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about half past four had enabled me to do another hour s work but a little after six sentences refused to form themselves a little began in the brain and the question not only where shall i dine but where shall i pass the hour before dinner presented itself the first thing to do was to dress and while dressing i remembered that i had not wandered in st james s park for some time and that that park since boyhood had fascinated me st james s park and the green park have never been divided in my admiration of their beauty the trees that grow along the are more beautiful in st james s park or seem so for the are well designed the art of sunday evening in london landscape is more akin to the art of a than to that of a painter it is a sort of architecture with colour added the formal landscape of reminds one of a tragedy by but the romantic of the green hills along the are as as there was a time when a boy used to walk from to to see not the but the women going home from the rooms and the but after a slight hesitation he often crossed from the frequented to the silent side to stand in admiration of the white rays of moonlight stealing between the trunks of the trees allowing him to perceive the shapes of the hollows through the darkness the trees grow so about these and upon the that it is easy to fill the with figures from s pictures ladies in and powdered hair elegant gentlemen wearing shoes tail coats and the swords which made them gentlemen did not make his gentlemen plead � that was his fault but s ladies put their to their lips so asking the pleading lover if he believes all he says knowing well that his vows are only part of the gracious but why did not the great of st james s park build little greek temples � those and temples which give such grace to english perhaps the great artist who laid out the green park was a and a and the stream of ladies that come up from to he thought � well of my dead life his thoughts were his own and now the earth is over him as would say five and twenty years ago the white rays between the tree trunks and the lengthened out disappearing in lights and shades and ascending the hill the boy used to look over the empty plain wondering at the lights of the horse guards shining far away like a village perhaps to night about midnight i may myself in again for we change very little what interested us in our youth interests us almost to the end st james s park is perhaps more beautiful in the sunset � there is the lake and led by remembrance of some i had seen on it i turned out of victoria street last sunday taking the eastern gate my thoughts occupied with beautiful nature seeing in imagination the shapes of the trees themselves against the sky and the little life of the � the ducks going hither and thither every duck intent upon its own business and its own desire i was extremely fortunate for the effect of light in the green park was more beautiful last sunday than anything i had ever seen the branches of the tall plane trees hung over the the foliage hardly stirring in the pale sunshine and my heart went out to the and cynical garden artificial as wild nature me and i thought how interesting it was to consider one s self to one s sympathies our are not quite so interesting to consider but they are interesting too in a way for they belong to one s self � sunday evening in london and self is man s main business all outside of self is uncertain all comes from self all returns to self the reason i desired st james s park last sunday was surely because it was part of me � not that part known to my friends our friends only those of themselves which they discover in us never did i meet one who discovered for himself or herself that i loved trees better than flowers or was deeply interested in the fact when attention was called to it � i watch the trees and never weary of their swaying � solemnly silent and strangely green they are in the long rainy days excited when a breeze is blowing in fine weather they gossip like frivolous girls in their tremulous decline they are more beautiful than ever far more beautiful than flowers now i am telling myself the very soul is speaking and with what extraordinary loveliness did the long branches hang out of the tall stately plane trees like in the hush of sound and decline of light the of the foliage spoke like a memory i seemed to have known the park for centuries yon i recognised as one that had painted but in what picture it is difficult to say so easily do his pictures flow one into the other always the same melancholy the melancholy of festival that pain in the heart that yearning for the beyond which all suffer whose business in life is to wear painted or embroidered dresses and to listen or to plead with this for sole that they who listen to day will plead to morrow divined the sorrow of those who sit under of my dead life some part great or in love s comedy listening to the murmur of the fountain watching a and lady advancing and bowing bowing and retiring dancing a on a richly coloured carpet the white animal the century of the of the plays a the pipe of pan has been exchanged for a as the twilight gathered under
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in his cellar and now they are coming hither wild as so many flee lieutenant governor for your life for your life father dear father make haste shrieked his children but would not to them he was an old lawyer and he could not realize that the people would do any thing so utterly lawless as to assault him in his peaceful home he was one of king george s chief officers and it would be an insult and outrage upon the king himself if the lieutenant governor should suffer any wrong have no fears on my account said he i am perfectly safe the king s name shall be my protection yet he bade his family retire into one of the neighboring houses his daughter would have remained but he forced her away the and uproar of the mob were now heard close at hand the sound was by ic s terrible and struck with the same sort of dread as if an enraged wild beast had broken loose and were roaring for its prey he crept softly to the window there he beheld an immense of people filling all the street and rolling onward to his house it was like a flood that had swelled beyond its bounds would sweep every thing before it trembled he felt at that moment that the wrath of the people was a thousand fold more terrible than the wrath of a king that was a moment when a and an like might have learned how powerless are kings and great men when the low and humble range themselves against them king george could do nothing for his servant now had king george there he could have done nothing for himself if had understood this lesson and remembered it he need not in after years have been an exile from his native country nor finally have laid his bones in a distant land there was now a rush against the doors of the house the people sent up a hoarse cry at this instant the lieutenant governor s daughter whom he had supposed to be in a place of safety ran into the room and threw her arms around him she had returned by a private entrance father are you mad cried she will the by ic s king s name protect you now come with me or they will have your life true muttered to himself what care these for the name of king i must flee or they will me down on the door of my own dwelling hurrying away he and his daughter made their escape by the private passage at the moment when the broke into the house the foremost of them rushed up the staircase and entered the room which had just quitted there they beheld our good old chair facing them with quiet dignity while the lion s head seemed to move its jaws in the unsteady light of their perhaps the stately aspect of our venerable friend which had stood firm through a century and a half of trouble arrested them for an instant but they were thrust forward by those behind and the chair lay then began the work of destruction the carved and polished mahogany tables were shattered with heavy clubs and to with the marble and were broken the volumes of s library so precious to a man were torn out of their covers and the leaves sent flying out of the windows containing secrets of our country s history which are now lost for ever were scattered to the winds by s chair the old portraits whose fixed looked down on the wild scene were rent from the walls the mob in their and destruction as if these pictures of s forefathers had committed the same as their a tall looking glass which had hitherto presented a of the enraged and drunken multitude was now smashed into a thousand we gladly dismiss the scene from the mirror of oar fancy before morning dawned the walls of the house were all that remained the interior was b dismal scene of ruin a shower in at the windows and when and his family returned they stood shivering in the room where the last evening had seen them so peaceful and happy grandfather said indignantly if the people acted in this manner they were not of even so much liberty as the king of england was willing to allow them it was a most act like many other popular movements at that time replied grandfather but we must not decide against the justice of the people s cause merely because an excited mob was guilty of outrageous violence besides all these things were done in the first fury of resentment afterwards the by ic s h ib sl people grew more calm and were more by the counsel of those wise and good men who conducted them safely and through the revolution little with tears in her blue eyes said that she hoped the neighbors had not let tenant governor and his family be in the street but had taken them into their houses and been kind to them the perilous situation of our beloved chair inquired what had become of it nothing was heard of our chair for some time afterwards answered grandfather om day in september the same of whom i before told you was summoned to appear at high noon under liberty tree was the strangest that had ever heard of for it wa issued in the name of th whole people who thus took upon the authority of a sovereign power mr dared not accordingly at the appointed hour he went much against his will to liberty tree here interposed a remark that poor mr found but little liberty under liberty tree grandfather assented it was a stormy day continued he the gale blew violently and scattered the yellow leaves of liberty tree all along the street mr s wig was
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no of roofs as in most english villages however small but is merely an ancient of farm houses spacious and standing wide apart each within its own and offering a most comfortable aspect of and all manner of rural plenty it seemed to be a community of old among whom everything had been going on since an epoch beyond the memory of man and they kept a certain privacy among themselves and dwelt on a cross road at the entrance of which was � old a barred gate open bnt still me with a sense of scarcely intrusion after all in some shady nook of those gentle slopes there may have been a and more settlement which i never reached emerging from the by road and entering upon one that crossed it at right angles and led to i the church of dr like the others which i have described it had a low stone tower square and at its summit for all these little churches seem to have been built on the same model and nearly at the same and have even a greater family likeness than the as i approached the bell of the tower a remarkably deep toned bell considering how small it was flung its voice abroad and told me that it was noon the church stands among its graves a little removed from the quite apart from any collection of houses and with no signs of a it is a good deal by trees and not wholly destitute of ivy the body of the edifice unfortunately and it is an outrage which the english are fond of has been newly covered with a plaster or wash so as quite to destroy the aspect of antiquity except upon the tower which wears the dark gray hue of many centuries the window is painted with a representation of christ upon the cross and all the other windows are full of painted or stained glass bnt none of it ancient nor if it be fair to judge from without of what ought to be seen within possessing any of the tender that should be the inheritance of this branch of art revived from times i stepped over the graves and peeped in at two or three of the windows and saw the snug interior of the church glimmering through the many coloured panes like a show of common place objects under the fantastic influence of a dream for the floor was covered with modem very like what we may see in a new england meeting house though i think a little more favourable than those would be to the quiet of the and their families those who slept under dr s preaching now their nap i suppose in the churchyard and can scarcely have drawn much spiritual benefit from any truths that he contrived to tell them in their lifetime it struck me as a rare example even where examples are numerous of a man utterly that this enormous scholar great in the classic tongues and inevitably his own simplest into a learned language should have been set up in this pulpit and ordained to preach salvation to a rustic audience to whom it is difficult to imagine how he could ever have spoken one available word almost always in visiting such scenes as i have been attempting to describe i had a singular sense of having been there before the ivy grown english churches even that of the first that i beheld were quite as familiar to me when fresh from home as the old wooden meeting house in which used on wintry to be the frozen of my childhood this was a bewildering yet very delightful emotion fluttering about me like a faint summer wind and filling my imagination with a thousand half which looked as vivid as sunshine at a side glance but faded quite away whenever i attempted to grasp and define them of course the explanation of the mystery was that history poetry and fiction books of travel and the talk of had given me pretty accurate of the common objects of english scenery and these being long ago by a youthful fancy had taken their places among the images of things actually seen yet the illusion was often so powerful that i almost doubted whether such airy might not be a sort of innate the print of a recollection in some mind with and fainter impress through several to my own i felt indeed like the in person returning to the haunts after more than two hundred years and finding the church the hall the farm house the cottage hardly changed during his long absence � the same shady by paths and hedge lanes the same veiled sky and green lustre of the and fields � old home while his own for these things a little obscured by were at every step an american is not very apt to love the english people as a whole on whatever length of acquaintance i fancy that they would value our regard and even it in their way if we could give it to them in spite of all but they are beset by a curious and inevitable which them as it were to keep up what they seem to consider a wholesome bitterness of feeling between themselves and all other especially that of america they will never confess it nevertheless it is as essential a to them as their bitter ale therefore � and possibly too from a similar in his own character � an american seldom feels quite as if he were at home among the english people if he do so he has ceased to be an american but it requires no long residence to make him love their island and appreciate it as thoroughly as they themselves do for my part i used to wish that we could it their thirty millions of inhabitants to some convenient wilderness in the great
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the bed room and so out here the knocking was repeated and a female voice exclaimed through the key hole let mo in frank i know you are there for i hear your mb tou are mistaken there miss mary observed the door and admitting the visitor mr is out and when he will return is very uncertain the new arrival was a young woman of considerable beauty small but exquisitely shaped and whose keen blue eyes and lavish wealth of rich brown hair seemed to recall to robert some familiar face if that were so the recognition did not appear to be mutual who is he inquired the young woman pointing without a trace of shyness at then carrying tier finger on towards mr and he they are two of my master s friends whom i had no particular orders to introduce to you miss mary answered they are here by appointment then and waiting for him well i shall wait for him too with that she the seal skin cloak she wore and sitting down with her back turned towards put up her pretty feet upon the you may stop or go away miss mary just as you please � thank you interrupted she with sharp contempt i shall take advantage of your gracious permission and stop well that can only end in disappointment miss mr frank is away miles away and as you have been already informed by his own hand is not coming back again to day nor any day so there is this true gentlemen cried the girl rising suddenly from her chair and looking from one t m i have no s master whether this man is telling me truth or not help me as mr did not even look towards her but appeared more busily engaged with his map than ever robert thought himself called upon to reply no man with a heart in his bosom looking on that pathetic pleading face could have refused to do so and far less kind hearted robert who moreover at once him of one in the far off forest who might one day be praying for some longed for news of him � in vain indeed miss said he tenderly i believe the man is telling you the truth at least i came myself today to see mr � mr � and have failed in doing so they told me he would not be here and is it true � you are young and kind and have an honest face you would not tell me a lie i feel � that frank � that mr is going far away � abroad p indeed miss it is at these words the little seemed to shrink within herself and dropping into her seat again covered her eyes with her hands to hide the tears that she could no longer restrain here touched mr on the shoulder and that gentleman rose at once and passing softly but quickly across the floor opened the bed room door and closed it behind him the next moment the outer door of the bed chamber was heard to open and a rapid step to descend the stairs that s him � that is frank s footstep exclaimed the girl starting to her feet and rushing to the door jt is not it is only mr observed coldly she ran out however � herself ot mb the fact by leaning over the and presently came back again looking very tearful and excited what have you done with him where is he asked she of if you will not tell me where he is at least tell me he is oh he s well enough so far as that goes answered dick carelessly he was not well when i saw him last not looking like himself at all he had some trouble on his mind � was going down upon some unpleasant business he said into the and that made him take to what is so bad for him more than ever returned contemptuously if you mean no was ever hurt by yet if you mean weakness of another sort � a foolish passion for your pretty face that s over you liar cried the girl her moist eyes darting fire her cheeks you wicked cruel liar laughed contemptuously you pretend to love him you she went on with bitterness it is you who are his worst you lead him on to drink you flatter and encourage him whenever he is bent n what is wrong and dangerous you � you will be his ruin be quiet shouted keep a civil tongue in your head � you won t then just you walk out of this room and take my word for it that it is the last time you ever see the inside of it i will not stir cried she robert knew her now her face � generally resolute and scornful as at but sometimes soft and pleading � j on half the pictures on the wall then i will put you out c s master advanced towards her holding out his huge hand the expression of his face was so grim and fierce that she before it frank frank exclaimed she with a passionate cry why why are you not here to strike him dead the huge hand was almost on her wrist and she like some graceful animal fascinated by beast ox standing motionless save for the trembling of her limbs before him when robert suddenly bounded between them and whirling her light form towards one of the of the apartment snatched out his sword from its rusty and it in s face i am not mr frank miss cried he but i ll strike him dead if he lays a finger on you and let me tell him that if his master is the man i take him for he will have an account to settle with him for threatening
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groves of palms and other trees through these they rode till they came to the surrounding brick wall of the temple where the told them that the guide said they must because was speaking and the people would beat them if they disturbed him so they obeyed and the two of them accompanied by the and dick who had now arrived were led through a door in the temple wall into a side chapel which about down its length opened out of the great hall that was still filled with columns whereof most were standing at the mouth of this chapel in the deep shadow behind a fallen column whence they could see without being seen they were told to stand still and did so as yet quite unnoticed the sight before them was indeed remarkable all that great hall was crowded with hundreds of men women and children rather light in colour and of a high bred stamp of feature clad of them in clean and flowing robes the men wearing or head dresses of various colours whereof the ends hung upon their shoulders and the women whose faces were exposed like on a platform raised upon some broken columns at the end of the hall were two figures those of a man and a woman between whom sat a grey little dog who looked in their direction and until the man it with a kind of sudden pain recognised at the first glance that this woman was beautiful although in a fashion that was new to her the waving hair uncovered by any veil but retained in place by the only emblem of her ancient which still used a band of dull gold whence above her brow rose the or snake fell somewhat stiffly upon her shoulders its thick mass trimmed level at the ends in it as in a frame was set the earnest mysterious face wherein glowed her large and lovely eyes placed there on high her rounded form wrapped in purest white did not look small or perhaps the dignity of her mien her folded hands and upright pose in her chair of state seemed to add to its stature she was smiling as she always smiled the coral coloured lips were slightly parted and in the ray of sunlight that fell upon her from the open roof could distinguish the rows of perfect teeth between them while her head was turned a little that she might watch her companion of tbe spirit with those wonderful and loving eyes so f was the savage woman of whom she had been told this ethereal and beautiful being with the wild sweet face like to the face of an angel a desire to choke followed the woman s glance to the man at her side for they sat together like the solemn stately figures of husband and wife upon the egyptian which years ago had brought from egypt oh it was without a doubt but changed could that noble looking in the flowing robes of white which hid his feet and the stately head dress also of white that fell upon his broad shoulders be the same creature who clad in his cheap and hideous garments she had dismissed from her drawing room in london as repulsive beyond bearing then his beard was fiery red and straggling now it was iron grey trimmed square and massive like his shoulders and his head then the eye that remained to him was red arid now it was large and luminous the face also had grown spiritual hke that of his companion a light seemed to shine upon it which smoothed away its if not handsome he looked what he was � a leader of men refined good noble a man to love and to all this understood in a flash and by the light of that illumination understood also for the first time the completeness of her own wicked folly there set above the common crowd adored and with his was the husband whom she had cast away like dirt � for dick s sake he dick was speaking in her ear and she turned her head and glanced at him his heavy eyes were staring at the loveliness of his fat cheeks lay in folds above the not too well shaven chin he wiped his bald head with a handkerchief that was no longer clean and smelt of and by dick was saying that little woman is something like isn t she no wonder our pious friend stopped in the you are nice looking but you have all your work cut out to get him away from that you had better go home and apply for a divorce on the ground of desertion just to save your face be silent she whispered almost in a hiss and with a fierce flash of her eyes must she listen to dick s at such a moment oh now she was sure of it it was he whom she hated not was speaking in and in a rich slow voice that reached the remotest recesses of that hall his words by quiet and dignified motions of his hands he was speaking and every soul of that great company in utter silence and with heads bent in respect hung upon his wisdom the with the point of her white umbrella and whispered tell me she said what do his say listened and from time to time interpreted the sense of s remarks in a low rapid voice which none of the audience who were unaware of their presence overheard the noble lord he informed them talks of gratitude to god which some of them have forgot he shows them how they should all be very grateful he tells them his own story that is interesting said lady go on i did always want to hear that story bowed and continued he says to his dear children that he tells them this story
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at this time but never suspected that there was serious in his then the doctor discovered that he was suffering from a form of the of which took away his senses for a time and left him very weak he was thought to be however when just six weeks after he bad last parted with he was seized with a sudden attack of heart and never regained consciousness remained ignorant of his illness and did not even see the heavy of the announcement of his death until bass came home that evening look here he said excitedly s dead he held up the newspaper on the first column of which was printed in heavy block type z i c death op sudden passing of s distinguished son to heart failure at the in washington recent attack of from which he was thought to be recovering proves notable phases of a remarkable career looked at it in blank amazement dead she exclaimed there it is in the paper returned bass his tone being that of one who is a very interesting piece of news he died at ten o clock this morning l chapter ix took the paper with but ill concealed trembling and went into the adjoining room there she stood by the front window and looked at it again a sickening sensation of dread holding her as though in a trance he is dead was all that her mind could for the time and as she stood there the voice of bass the fact to in the adjoining room sounded in her ears yes he is dead she heard him say and once again she tried to get some conception of what it meant to her but her mind seemed a blank a moment later mrs joined her she had heard bass s announcement and had seen leave the room but her trouble with over the had caused her to be careful of any display of emotion no conception of the real state of affairs ever having crossed her mind she was only interested in seeing how would take this sudden of her hopes isn t it too bad she said with real sorrow to think that he should have to die just when he was going to do so much for you � for us all she expecting some word of agreement but remained dumb i wouldn t feel badly continued mrs it can t be helped he meant to do a good deal but you mustn t think of that now it s over and it can t be helped you know she paused again and still remained motionless d l and mute mis seeing how useless her words were that wished to be alone and she went away still stood there and now as the real s of the news began to itself into thought she began to realize the wretchedness of her position its helplessness she went into her bedroom and sat down upon the side of the bed from which position she saw a very pale face staring at her from out of the small mirror she looked at it could that really be her own countenance i ll have to go away she thought and began with the courage of despair to wonder what refuge would be open to her in the mean time the evening meal was announced and to maintain appearances she went out and joined the family the of her part was very difficult to sustain observed her subdued condition without the depth of emotion which it covered bass was too much interested in his own affairs to pay particular attention to anybody during the day that followed pondered over the difficulties of her position and wondered what she should do money she had it was true but no friends no experience no place to go she bad always lived with her family she began to feel unaccountable of spirit nameless and fears seemed to surround and haunt her once when she arose in the morning she felt an desire to cry and frequently thereafter this feeling would seize upon her at the most times mrs began to note her moods and one afternoon she resolved to question her daughter now you must tell me what s the matter with you she said quietly you must tell mother everything to whom confession had seemed impossible i z i c under the sympathetic of her mother broke down at last and made the fatal confession mrs stood there too dumb with misery to give vent to a word oh she said at last a great wave of self accusation sweeping over her it is all my fault i might have known but we ll do what we can she broke down and sobbed aloud after a time she went back to the washing she had to do and stood over her tub and crying the tears ran down her cheeks and dropped into the once in a while she stopped and tried to dry her eyes with her apron but they soon filled again now that the first shock had passed there came the vivid consciousness of ever present danger what would do if he learned the truth he had often said that if ever one of his daughters should act like some of those he knew he would turn her out of doors she should not stay under my roof i he had exclaimed i m so afraid of your father mrs often said to in this period i don t know what he ll say perhaps i d better go away suggested her daughter no she said he needn t know just yet wait awhile but in her heart of hearts she knew that the evil day could not be long postponed one day when her own suspense had reached such a pitch that it could no longer be endured mrs sent away with the children hoping to be
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the d a very person indeed and of considerable talent he must take your daughter s portrait he took mine and was it like inquired mr regarding the original with the most unmistakable interest and admiration i think it is said mrs modestly casting down her eyes the professor thinks there is something wanting in the expression � a lack of dignity and command he would miss that if it wasn t there observed mr gravely mr has failed to catch the characteristics he should as i tell him confine himself entirely to portrait painting as it is he does also a jack of all trades as i ventured to remind him is master of none but his advice will doubtless be useful to you miss � if i caught your name correctly my dear she added turning to the young lady my father calls me said the girl significantly and with the least tinge of a flush just so it is a very pretty name probably a family one is it not so no it is not madam returned mr with a that was almost ferocity none of my family have ever been so called before even by their own relatives his manner was at once frost and fire and the sting of his last sentence would have been felt by most people like the lash of a mrs however was even more mistress of herself than of other people she would take no when not inclined to do so even though you put it in her hand and doubled her fingers over it now that s curious she observed quietly however you may have plenty of among you yet even the french began somewhere the names in families always interest me now there s the � bride and bridegroom we think but you will judge for yourself � nothing will ever persuade me that they have any right to that name one has heard or before and also of s wife observed mr he had by this time recovered his but the effects of the storm were still apparent it is not the my dear sir it is the with the that i object to he looks to me much more like a peter permit me to madam that i om vi c a ome persons would even say o i i a from a no doubt but not to aristocracy � a the point she s as close as wax and very cunning but i shall find out all about them some day including the they try to pass themselves off as an old married couple but mrs she heard her ask her husband at breakfast whether he took and sugar that s you know true indeed the gentleman s tastes were very gentlemen s tastes don t change about those sort of things observed mrs with a drop in her voice and a significant in her left eye we know better than that mr bowed in acknowledgment of the confidence thus in him and also because he could not trust himself to speak the rapidity with which the lady made her advances his very i saw a very nice looking old couple in the garden this morning observed � perceiving the necessity of her father s embarrassment though ignorant of its cause � of the name as i understood of oh you mustn t know returned mrs hastily indeed if you had not mentioned them i should have ignored their existence as the professor would say they don t move in the same plane with us at all dear me murmured mr that s very clever of them have they an of their own then i don t know about that said mrs doubtfully and rather that she had handled a scientific weapon even in the way of they have a farm in he is always speaking about the cows that looks as if he wanted to buy them observed mr perhaps that is i don t think so they have come to recover themselves from a domestic loss a cow no no a child of course they have a legal right to stay here but it is very of them they have not been accustomed to society and have not the art to conceal it mrs told me that she had often butter with her own hands that again was very clever of her observed mr well of course she used a machine but the idea of a lady butter i have done it said simply we had a at our school at and we thought it the greatest treat to be to oh at i answered mrs shaking her that s quite another thing and so i dare say was the butter remarked mr continued his visitor a � the map of the country may do a to amuse herself such as this drawing for instance but she would never think of getting any money for it one hopes a very just observation madam observed mr i certainly never thought of getting any money for that drawing said good and i am afraid no one would ever think of giving it f course not said mrs that would be too ridiculous it is only a man like mr who does not see that he says the sole difference between the amateur and the professional is that the work of one is inferior to that of the other he told me once that a country gentleman was only a whereupon i ventured to remark that such opinions were and that he was an and is mr inquired mr an old indian heavens and apparently in his war paint nay i mean a retired indian he is said to have heaps and heaps of indeed then i suppose he married a very likely in my opinion he would stick at nothing he has got rid of her however somehow j he is a with but one
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