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having refused a dozen times the work of a strand whom he was in the habit of of a young han treating he would say send it in my boy send it in i ll see what can be done with it there was a long counter and the way to be published by mr b was to on the counter and play with a black cat there was an behind this counter who for three pounds a week the magazine read the ms looked after the and kept the accounts when he had a spare moment and entertained the visitors i did not trouble messrs and messrs with polite to look at my ms but on the counter played with the cat with the was treated by mr b and in the natural order of things my stories went into the magazine and were paid for strange were the ways of this office shakespeare might have sent in prose and poetry but he would have gone into the waste paper basket had he not previously for those who were in the swim this was a matter of we would cry we want no blooming coming along interfering with our magazine and you smith you devil you had a twenty page story in last month and cut me out o do you mind if i send you in a couple of poems as well as my regular stuff that will make it all square i ll try to manage it here s the governor and looking exactly like the unfortunate mr mr b used to along and he would fall into his leather the one in which he wrote the the last time i saw that chair it was standing in the street alas in the hands of the but though we were in matters concerning copy though all means were taken to protect ourselves against one who had not passed the l of a young preliminary stage of would occasionally slip through our i remember one especially it was a hot summer s day we were all on the counter our legs swinging when an enormous young man entered he must have been six feet three in height he was shown into mr b s room he asked him to read a ms and he fled looking very frightened waste paper basket waste paper basket we shouted when mr b handed us the roll of paper what an odd looking fish he is said o i wonder what his ms is like we remonstrated in tain o took the ms home to read and returned next morning convinced that he had discovered an the young men was asked to call his book was accepted and we to the bar a few weeks afterwards this young man took rooms in the house next to me on the ground floor he was terribly with his success and was clearly determined to take london by storm he had been to oxford and to he drank beer and smoked long pipes he talked of nothing else soon very soon i grew conscious that he thought me a he my belief in and declined to discuss the question he curled his long legs upon the sofa and spoke of the british public as the b p and of the magazine as the there were generally tea things and jam pots on the table in a little while he brought a little creature about five feet three to live with with him and when the little creature and the long creature went out together it was like don and setting forth in quest of in the land of strand the little creature indulged in none of the loud affectation of of a young man s humor that was so in the long creature the little creature was dry hard and and when he did join in the conversation it was like an empty nut between the teeth � dusty and bitter he was supposed to be going in for the law but the part of him to which he drew our attention was his knowledge of the he kept a pocket book in which he held an account of his reading holding the pocket book between finger and thumb he would say last year i read ten plays by twelve by six by fifteen by and and eleven plays � fifty four in all he neither praised nor blamed he neither nor he told you what he had read and left you to draw your own conclusions what the little creature thought of the long creature i never discovered but with every new hour i became sensible that they held me in still estimation this i remember was wildly to me i knew myself infinitely superior to them i knew the long creature s novel was worthless i knew that i bad fifty books in me better than it and savagely and sullenly i desired to upon them to rub their noses in their but oh it was i who was feeble and full of visions of a wider world i raged up and down the cold walls of mental above me there was a barred window and but for my i would have sprung at it with my teeth then passion was so strong in me that i could scarce refrain from jumping off the counter stamping my feet and my friends in the face so were their so thin did their understanding appear to me the seemed inclined for a moment to ss op a young han take the long creature very seriously and in the office which i had marked down for my own i saw him as a genius fortunately for my life and my my interests were about this time attracted into other ways � ways that led into london life and were suitable for me to tread in a where low dresses and evening clothes crushed with loud exclamations | 15 |
come weu then god s good man she would go and see him herself and would tell him just why she had gone away from home and why she had not written to him or to anybody else in the neighbourhood � and then � and then here she started at the sound of a sudden ho � the hounds had rallied � a fox was drawn � the whole field was and with a musical blast of the horn the hunt swept on in a flash of scarlet and white black brown and grey across the gave herself up to the excitement of the hour and galloped along her magnificent mare queen of egypt sport in the wind and enjoying the wild freedom allowed her by a loose rein and the light weight she bore on on i � with the wet chill perfume of fallen leaves rising from the earth on which the eager hoofs of the horses trampled � on always on in the track of stealthy over and hollows in the ground and shallow pools fringed with gaunt and twisted � on still on crossing and re crossing lines of scent where the hounds appeared for the moment at a loss till they dashed off again towards the farther woods putting her mare to a fence and clearing it easily crossed a meadow which she knew to be the way to the spot where she could just see the pack racing silently ahead � and coming out on one of the high roads between st rest and she drew rein for a moment several of the hunters had chosen the same short cut and came out of the meadow with her calling a cheery word or two as they passed her and pressed on in the of the chase quickly her gallop and yielding to the of the air and the pleasure of movement she urged her mare to a pace which would have been deemed reckless by all save the most skilled and daring unaware of the unpleasant fact that she was being closely followed by he rode about twenty paces behind her every now and then gaining on her and anon pulling back his horse in an apparent desire not to her the rest of the hunting party were well ahead and they had the road to themselves with the exception of a fat man on a who was along in front of them looking something like a ton on wheels soon flew past this moving and even if she had had time to look at it she would not have known that it was the reverend as she had never seen that gentleman catching a glimpse of the hounds now racing round the edge of a sloping god s good man hill she galloped faster and faster � while with an odd set expression in his face and eyes and his hat well pulled down on his brows followed her at an almost equally flying speed a field lay between them and the smooth dark slope of land edged with broken where the pack could be plainly seen racing for blood a low straggling hedge such an obstacle was a mere trifle for queen of egypt to clear and put her to it with her usual ease and but now up came on his ill formed but powerful beast � and just as the spirited mare with her lightly poised rider on her back leaped the hedge he set his own animal at precisely the same place in deliberate defiance of all hunting rules and springing at her like a treacherous enemy from behind closed on her and straight over in her saddle � for one half second her blue eyes wide with terror turned themselves full upon her � she raised her hand � � in vain with a crash of breaking the mare went down under the plunging hoofs that came so heavily upon her � there was a quick shriek � a of violet and gold hurled to the ground � and then � then galloped on alone he dared not look back his nerves � his heart beat high � and his evil soul rejoiced in its wickedness as only the soul of a devil can verdict � accidental death i he muttered with a fierce laugh � no doubt it will be thought singular that the daughter should have met the same end as her father and nothing more will be said but suppose she is not killed since every cat has nine lives no matter she will be for life that will suit me just as well he laughed again and passed on in the wake of the hunt which had now swept far ahead round the bend of the hill meanwhile queen of egypt rendered stunned and dizzy by her fall began to recover her senses the air and opening her wild bright eyes she soon perceived her loved mistress lying flung about three yards distant from where she herself had rolled over and over on the thick wet of the field with a supreme effort the gallant beast attempted to rise � and presently with much plunging and kicking in which struggles however she with an almost human intelligence pushed herself farther away from that prone figure on the ground so that she might not injure it she managed to stand upright quivering in every strained god s good man sore limb lifting her head she with a melancholy long drawn and then with a slow stiff moved cautiously closer to s fallen body there she paused and again while the grey skies lowered and rain began to from the spreading leaden weight of cloud and now assistance seemed near for the reverend having had to lead his up a hill and being overcome with a melting of perspiration in the effort in sight like an up on dry land approaching the broken gap in | 33 |
prince named who took this resolution and who made a treaty of ship with and two saxon both of these names in the old saxon language signify horse for the like many other nations in a rough state were fond of giving men the names of animals as horse wolf bear hound the indians of north america � a very inferior people to the though � do the same to this day and drove out the and and being grateful to them for that service made no opposition to their settling themselves in that part of england i is called the isle of or to their inviting over more of their countrymen to join them but had a beautiful daughter named and when at a feast she filled a golden to the brim with wine and gave it to saying in a sweet voice dear ring thy health the king fell in love with her my opinion is that the cunning meant him to do so in order that the england under the early might have greater with him and that the fair came to that feast golden and au on purpose at any rate they were married and long after ward whenever the king was angry with the or jealous of their b would put her beautiful arms round his neck and softly say dear king they are my people be favorable to them as you loved that saxon girl who gave you the golden of wine at the feast and really i don t see how the king could help himself ah we must all die in the course of years died � he was and put in first i am afraid and died and generations of and died and events that happened during a long long time would have been quite forgotten but for the tales and songs of the old who used to go about from feast to feast with their white the deeds c their forefathers among the histories of which they sang and talked there was a famous one con the bravery and virtues of supposed to have been a british prince in those old times but whether such a person really lived or whether there were several persons whose histories came to be together under that one name or whether all about him was invention no one knows i will tell you shortly what is most interesting in the early saxon times as they are described in these and stories of the in and long after the days of fresh bodies of under various chiefs came pouring a child s history of england into britain one body conquering the in the east and settling there called their kingdom another body settled in the west and called their kingdom the or people established themselves in one place the or people established themselves in another and gradually seven or states arose in england which were called the saxon the poor falling back before these crowds of fighting men whom they had innocently invited over as friends retired into wales and the adjacent country into and into those parts of england long remained and in now � where the sea coast is very gloomy steep and rugged � where in the dark winter time ships have been often wrecked close to the land and every soul on board has where the winds and waves howl and split the rocks into arches and � there are very ancient ruins which the people call the ruins of king arthur s castle is the most famous of the seven saxon because the christian religion was preached to the there who over the too much to care for what they said about their religion or any thing else by a from rome king of was soon converted and the moment he said he was a christian his all said they were christians after which ten thousand of his subjects said they were christians too built a little church close to this king s palace on the ground now occupied by the cathedral of se ancient england under the early the king s nephew built on a muddy place near london where there had been a temple to a church to saint peter which is now abbey and in london itself on the foundation of a temple to he built another little church which has risen up since that old time ta be saint paul s after the death of king of who was such a good king that it was said a woman or child might openly carry a purse of gold in his reign without fear allowed his child to be and held a great council to consider whether he and his people should all be christians or not it was decided that they should be the chief priest of the old religion made a great speech on the occasion in this discourse he told the people that he had found out the old gods to be i am quite satisfied of it he said look at me i have been serving them all my life and they have done nothing for me whereas if they had been really powerful they could not have decently done less in return � r all i have done for them make my fortune as they have never made my fortune i am quite convinced they are when this singular priest had finished he hastily himself with sword and lance mounted a war horse rode at a furious gallop in sight of all the people to the temple and flung his lance against it as an insult from that time the christian religion spread itself among the and became their faith the next very famous prince was he lived about a hundred and fifty years afterward and a child s history of england claimed to have a better right to the throne of than another saxon prince who was at the head of | 8 |
bear a very high character among his by v ic american note books neighbors since he kept the light he has lost two wives � the first a young creature whom he used to leave alone upon this desolate rock and the gloom and terror of the situation were probably the cause of her death the second wife the same kind of treatment ran away from him and returned to her friends he to be religious but drinks about a year ago he attempted to row out alone from there was a head wind and head tide and he would have inevitably drifted out to sea if mr had not saved him while we were standing in his garden patch i heard a woman s voice inside the dwelling but know not whose it was a nine miles from shore would be a delightful place for a new married couple to spend their or their whole first year on our way back we landed at another island called s rock or some such name it has but little soil as we approached it a large bird flew away mr took it to be a and while walking over the island an owl started up from among the rocks near us and flew away apparently uncertain of its course it was a brown owl but mr says that there are beautiful white which spend the winter here and feed upon rats these are very abundant and live amidst the rocks � probably having been brought hither by vessels the water to day was not so transparent as sometimes but had a slight haze diffused through it somewhat like that of the atmosphere the passengers brought by the spy yesterday still by v ic american note books remain with us they consist of country a country doctor and such sorts of people rude shrewd aud simple and well behaved enough wondering at and equally at down to table with their coats off helping themselves out of the dish with their own forks taking on the plates off which they have eaten meat people at just this stage of manners are more disagreeable than at any other stage they are aware of some but not so deeply aware as to make them a matter of conscience they may be heard talking of the financial affairs of the expedition reckoning wliat money each has paid one offers to pay another three or four cents which the latter has it s of no consequence sir says his friend with a tone of conscious liberality that s near enough this is a most hot day there is a young lady staying at the hotel afflicted with what her friends call but which is probably she seems unable to walk or sit up but every pleasant day about the middle of the she is dragged out beneath the on a sofa to day she has been there until late in the decline of the afternoon it is a delightful place where the breezes stir if any are in motion the young girls her sisters or cousins and mr s sister sat round her cheerfully and singing and they were so merry that it did not seem as if there could be an sick one in the midst of them the spy came to day with more passengers of no particular character she still remains off the landing with her sails in the wind by vol ii o � american note books the mail arrived to day but nothing for me close by the at the end of the hotel is drawn up a lai e boat of ten or twelve tons which got injured in some gale and probably will remain there for years to decay and be a picturesque and characteristic object the spy has been lying in the broad track of golden light thrown by the sun far down towards the horizon over the rippling water her sails throwing distinct dark shadows over the brightness she has now got under way and set sail on a course for carrying off i believe all the passengers she brought to day september � here is another beautiful morning with the sun in the early sunshine four are in sight motionless on the sea with the whiteness of their sails reflected in it the heat haze sleeps along the shore though not so as quite to hide it and there is the promise of another very warm day as yet however the air is cool and refreshing around the island there is the little of a breeze but where the sail boats are a mile or more off the sea is perfectly calm the sing and i hear the of birds besides at the base of the yesterday we saw the wings and feathers of a decayed little bird and mr said they often flew the em with such force as to kill themselves and that large quantities of them might be picked up how came little birds out of their nests at night why should they meet destruction from the radiance that proves the salvation of other beings p by v american note books mr had once a man living with him who had seen old the ghost he met him between the hotel and the sea and describes him as dressed in a sort of frock and with a very dreadful countenance two or three years ago the crew of a wrecked vessel a wrecked near boon island landed on island of a winter night and found shelter in the hotel it was from the eastward there were six or seven men with the mate and it was midnight when they got ashore the common sailors as soon as they were physically comfortable seemed to be perfectly at ease the captain walked the floor himself for a silver watch which he had lost the mate being the only married man talked about his they all told | 35 |
in temperament representing the vigorous anti negro spirit which prevailed for so many years after the war again they were fairly illuminated where music was concerned assuming that a bit of such as this was sound it might get by but when it is remembered that this was largely and written about a negro a race more or less alien to their sympathy would it not naturally fall upon hard ears and appear somewhat ridiculous a negro the compound of the elements in nature i and this in their favorite paper by chance it went through having come to look upon most of my stuff as the of some strange genius who could do about as he pleased neither nor the editor in chief saw it perhaps or if they did they it no attention music the and the arts being of import here but depend upon it the of the rival papers that were constantly being at by the saw it and knowing the of our editor in to criticism of his own paper at once set to work to make some a book about myself thing out of it and of all the in the middle west by reason of his force and taste and care in his paper was a shining for a thing like this he was as a and extremely conspicuous whatever he did or said good bad or indifferent was invariably the subject of local newspaper comment and when any little or error appeared in the it was always charged to him i and so it was with this over the black it was too good a thing to be lost sight of the editor of the observed the appears to have visited one of our principal concert halls last night it is not often that that ponderous intellect can be called down from the heights of politics to contemplate so simple a thing as a singer of songs a black one at that but when true art even he can be counted upon to answer apparently the black beckoned to him last evening and he was not deaf to her call as the following magnificent bit of fresh from his pen is here to show then followed the praise in full none but the editor of the be d could have looked into the of nature as represented by the person of miss jones and there discovered the wonders of music and poetry such as he openly to have done indeed we have here at last a measure of that great man s insight and feeling a love of art music poetry and the like such as has not previously been indicated by him and we hasten to make representation of our admiration and great debt that others too may not be deprived of this great privilege after this came more of the same gay with here and there a � reference to the great patron of the black arts and the pure joy that must have been his at thus being able to enjoy within the of hall the of the waters from a black throat it was a gentle satire not wholly for since the item had appeared in the and directed at the one man who could least a book about myself stand that sort of thing as he was to his personal dignity i was unaware that any comment had been made on my until about five in the afternoon by which time the afternoon of the past had been out several hours when i entered the office at five comfortable and at peace with myself in my new excited comment was running about the office as to what the old man would think and say and do now he had gone at two it appeared to the southern for luncheon and had not returned wait until he saw it oh me wouldn t he be who was reasonably nervous as to his own share in the matter was the first to approach and impress me with the of it all how savage the old man could be in any such instance just wait oh but hell be hot i bet as he talked the old man passed up the hall a grim and surly figure i saw my dramatic honors going a glimmering here i said to pretending a kind of innocence even at this late hour what s all this about f what s the row anyhow t didn t you see the in the post inquired gloomily it was his own that was troubling him no what about � why that criticism you wrote about the black they ve made all sorts of fun of it the worst of it is that they ve charged it all up to the old man i smiled a sickly i felt as if i had committed some great crime why had i attempted to write anything fine anyhow why couldn t i have been content and rested with a little praise f had i no sense at all t must i always be trying to do something great t perhaps this would be the end of me brought me the and sorrowfully and with falling i read it my toes curling my stomach seeming gradually to retire to my why had i done it im a about at i was th� k mj to the paper near the door which looked into the main city room in which was away i heard and then saw enter and walk up to the stout city editor he had a copy of the roughly in his hand aad on his face was gathered what seemed to me a dark did you see this mr i heard him say looked up then closely and respectfully at the tea he said l don t think a thing like that ought to appear in paper s a little bit too high flown for our audience | 43 |
affairs why here not long ago in a public speech the mayor charged that the was the cause of rome s being delayed at least a hundred years in its progress and there was lots of applause the national parliament which meets here is full of but it is not interested in influence it s all the other way about they seem to be willing to let the pope have his say in spiritual matters but he can t leave the and priests can t mix in political affairs very much i thought what a change from the days of vii and even the of the century the rooms of the devoted to the pope � at least those to which the public is admitted at times of audience seemed to me merely large and gaudy without being impressive one of the greatest follies of architecture it seems to me is the persistent thought that mere size without great beauty of form has any charm whatever the houses of parliament in england are large but they are also as much might be said so a at forty for the royal in paris though not for the and almost not for the is another great of nothing � mere size without a of charm as to detail all i remember of my visit was that arriving at the palace entrance we were permitted by guards to ascend immense flights of steps that we went through one large red room after another where great swung from the and occasional or over elaborate objects of art appeared on tables or there were crowds of people in each room all in evening dress the ladies with black lace over their heads the men in conventional evening clothes over guards stood about and of various degrees of influence moved to and fro we took our station in a room adjoining the pope s private chambers where we waited patiently while various personages of influence and importance were privately presented it was dreary business waiting loud talking was not to be thought of and the whispering on all sides as the company increased was oppressive there was a group of ladies from who were obviously friends of the holy father s family there were two brown and with long gray types who stationed themselves by one wall near the door there were three and a mother superior from somewhere who looked as if they were lost in prayer this was a great occasion to them next to me was a very official person in a uniform of some kind who constantly adjusted his neck band and smoothed his hands some american ladies quite severe and anti if i am not mistaken looked as if they were determined not to believe anything they saw and two italian women of charming manners had in tow an an audience at the small boy of say five or six years of age in lovely black velvet who was determined to be as bad and noisy as he could he beat his feet and asked questions in a loud whisper and decided that he wished to change his place of abode every three seconds all of which was accompanied by many sh sh es from his elders and in his ear severe from the american ladies and general indications of with here and there a smile of amusement every now and then a thrill of expectation would go over the company the pope was coming guards and would pass through the room with speedy movements and it looked as though we would shortly be in the presence of the of christ i was told that it was necessary to rest on one knee at least which i did waiting patiently the while i surveyed the curious company the two brown were solemn their heads bent the sisters were praying the italian ladies were soothing their charge i told my correspondent friend of the suicide of a certain whom he and his wife knew on the day that i left new york � a very but adventurous man and he exclaimed my i don t tell that to my wife she feel it terribly we waited still longer and finally in sheer weariness began foolishly i said that it must be that the pope and merry the pope s secretary were inside playing with the jewels this drew a laugh from my newspaper friend � i will call him w � who began to choke behind his handkerchief mrs w whispered to me that if we did not behave we would be put out and i pictured myself and w being out by the guards which produced more laughter the official beside me who probably did not speak a at forty frowned solemnly this produced a lull and we waited a little while longer in silence finally the sixth or seventh thrill of expectation produced the holy father the guards and several making a sort of aisle of honor before the door all whispering ceased there was a rustle of garments as each one settled into a final attitude he came in a very tired old man in white wool and white skull cap a great of white beads about his neck and red shoes on his feet he was stout close knit with small shrewd eyes a low forehead a high crown a small chin he had soft slightly wrinkled hands the left one by the ring as he came in he uttered something in italian and then starting on the far side opposite the door he had entered came about to each one the hand which some merely kissed and some seized on and cried over as if it were the solution of a great woe or the of a too great happiness the mother superior did this and one of the italian ladies from the brown laid their on it and the official next to me touched it as | 43 |
the paths of propriety had not the gone abroad that the regiment was to be sent on active service to take part in a war which for the sake of we will call the war of the lost tribes the had the almost before the mess room and of all the nine hundred men in not ten had seen a shot fired in anger the colonel had twenty years ago assisted at a frontier expedition one of the had seen service at the cape a confirmed in e company had helped to clear streets in ireland but that was all the regiment had been put by for many years the overwhelming mass of its rank and file had from three to four years service the non officers were under thirty years old and men and alike had forgotten to speak of the stories written in brief upon the colors � the new colors that had been formally blessed by in england ere the regiment came away they wanted to go to the front � they were anxious to but they had no knowledge of what war meant and there was none to tell them they were an educated regiment the of school in their ranks was high and most of the men could do more than read and write they had been in loyal of the idea but they themselves had no notion of that idea they were made up of from an over district the system had put flesh and muscle upon their small bones but it could not put heart into the sons of those who for generations had done work for pay had in drying rooms stooped over s the drums of the fore and aft among white lead and shivered on lime the men had found food and rest in the army and now they were going to fight � people who ran away if you shook a stick at them wherefore cheered when the ran and the shrewd non officers on the chances of and of saving their pay at men said � � the fore and fit have never been under fire within the last generation let us therefore break them in easily by setting them to guard lines of communication and this would have been done but for the fact that british were wanted � badly wanted � at the front and there were doubtful native that could fill the minor duties em with two strong said they may be knocked about a bit but they ll learn their business before they come through nothing like a night alarm and a little cutting up of to make a regiment smart in the field wait till they ve had half a dozen throats cut the colonel wrote with delight that the temper of his men was excellent that the regiment was all that could be wished and as sound as a bell the smiled with a sober joy and the in pairs down the mess room after dinner and nearly shot themselves at revolver practice but there was consternation in the hearts of and what was to be done with the drums would the band go to the front how many of the drums would accompany the regiment they took council together sitting in a tree and smoking it s more than a toss up they ll leave us be ind at the t with the women you like that said cause o y mean s a woman or a d o women o the of field service you know i m as keen on goin as you said wish i was a said sadly the drums of the fore and aft they ll take tom along that i can plaster a wall with an like as not the won t take us � then let s go an make tom so sick e can t no more you old is kick him said on the branch that ain t no good neither we ain t the sort o characters to on our � they re bad if they have the band at the we don t go and no error there if they take the band we may get cast for medical are you medical fit said digging in the ribs with force said with an oath the doctor says s weak through on an empty throw a chest an i ll try yer threw out his chest which smote with all his might turned very pale gasped up his eyes and said � that s all right you ll do said i ve o men dying when you it em fair on the don t bring us no nearer goin though said do you know where we re ordered knows an e won t split on a up to the front to kill � hairy big beggars that turn you inside out if they get old o you they say their women are good looking too any asked the abandoned not a they say unless you dig up the ground an see what the ave id they re a poor lot stood upright on the branch and gazed across the plain said he there s the colonel coming colonel s a good old beggar let s go an talk to im nearly fell out of the tree at the audacity of the suggestion like he feared not god neither regarded he man but there are limits even to the audacity of boy an q speak to colonel was s the drums of the fore and aft but had slid down the trunk and doubled in the direction of the colonel that officer was walking wrapped in thought and visions of a c b � yes even a k c b for had he not at command one of the best of the line � the fore and fit and he was aware of two small boys charging down upon him once before | 39 |
united that prevented undue familiarity and made her difficult of approach the danger of her father and the measures to be taken for his relief had at first overcome this and reserve but as he recovered and her alarm the student of subsided she seemed to shrink from the she had indulged with the youthful stranger and to become every day more shy and silent had read many books but this was the first volume of that he had ever studied he had been with the very title page but the further he read the more he was delighted she seemed formed to love her soft black eye rolled languidly under its long silken lashes and wherever it turned it would linger and repose there was tenderness in every beam to him alone she was reserved and distant now that the common cares of the sick room were at an end he saw little more of her than before his admission to the house sometimes he met her on his way to and from the and at such times there was ever a smile and a blush but after a simple salutation she glided ou and disappeared tis plain thought my presence is indifferent if not irksome to her she has s the student of noticed my i and is determined to it nothing but a feeling of gratitude prevents her treating me with marked and then has she not another lover rich gallant splendid musical how i suppose she would turn her eyes from so brilliant a to a poor obscure student among the of her father s r indeed the idea of the continually haunted his mind he felt convinced that he was a favoured ar yet if so why did he not frequent the tower why did he not make his approaches by noon day there was mystery in this dropping and musical courtship surely could not be encouraging a secret oh no she was too too pure too but then the spanish females were so prone to love and and music and moonlight were so and had such a tender soul in every look oh would the poor scholar exclaim clasping his hands the student of oh that i could but once behold those loving eyes beaming on me with a� it is incredible to those who have not experienced it on what scanty human life and human love may be supported a dry crust thrown now and then to a starving man will give him a new lease of existence and a faint smile or a kind look bestowed at casual intervals will keep a lover loving on when a man in his sober senses would despair when found himself alone in the his mind would be haunted by one of these looks or smiles which he had received in passing he would set it in every possible light and argue on it with all the self pleasing self logic of a lover the country around him was enough to awaken that of so favourable to the growth of passion the window of the tower rose above the trees of the romantic valley of the and looked down upon some of the loveliest scenery of the where groves of and orange were re vol l v the student of by cool springs and of the purest water the and the wound their shining streams along the plain and gleamed from among its the surrounding hills were covered with and the mountains crowned with snow seemed to melt into the blue sky the delicate airs that played about the tower were by the fragrance of and orange blossoms and the ear was charmed with the fond of the which in these happy regions sings the whole day long sometimes too there was the idle song of the along the solitary road or the notes of the from some group of dancing in the shade all these were enough to fill the head of a young lover with poetic fancies and would picture to himself how he could among those happy groves and wander by those gentle rivers and love away his life with he felt at times impatient at his own weak ness and would endeavour to brush away the student of of the mind he would turn his thought with sudden to his studies or occupy himself in some process but often when he had partially succeeded in fixing his attention the sound of or the soft notes of her voice would come stealing upon the stillness of the chamber and as it were floating round the tower there was no great art in her performance but thought he had never heard music to this it was perfect to hear her forth some of her national those little spanish and that transport the idea to the banks of the or the walls of the and make him dream of beauties and and moonlight never was poor student more sadly beset than love is a troublesome companion in a study at the best of times in the of an his intrusion is terribly disastrous instead of attending u the student of to the and and watching the process of some experiment to his charge the student would get in one of these love dreams from which he would often be aroused by some fatal catastrophe the philosopher on returning from his in the would find every thing gone wrong and in despair over the ruins of the whole day s work the old man however took all quietly for his had been a life of experiment and failure we must have patience my son would he say as all the great masters that have gone before us have had errors and accidents and are what we have to contend with did not two hundred times be fore he could obtain even the matter on which to found his experiments the great too did he not labour | 48 |
extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on mr i 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 me how was i to have an attachment at his service as soon as it was asked for his sisters should consider me as well as him the higher his deserts the more improper for me ever to have thought of him and and � we think very differently of the nature of women if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning an affection as this seems to imply my dear dear now i have the truth i know this to be the truth and most worthy of you are such feelings i had attributed them to you before i thought i could understand you you have now given exactly the explanation which i ventured to make for you to your friend and mrs grant and they were both better satisfied though your warm hearted friend was still run away with a little by the enthusiasm of her fondness for henry i told them that you were of all human creatures the one over whom habit had most power and novelty least and that the very circumstance of the novelty of s addresses was against him their being so new and so recent was all in their that you could nothing that you were not used to and a great deal more to the same purpose to give them a knowledge of your character miss made ns by her plans of encouragement for her brother she meant to urge him to in the hope of being loved in time and of having his addresses most kindly received at the end of about ten years happy marriage could with difficulty give the smile that was here asked for her feelings were all in revolt she feared she had been doing wrong saying too much the caution which she had been necessary in guarding against one evil laying herself open to another and to have miss s repeated to her at such a moment and on such a subject was a bitter saw weariness and distress in her face and immediately resolved to forbear all further discussion and not even to mention the name ol again except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her on this principle he soon afterwards observed � they go on monday you are sure therefore of seeing your friend either to morrow or sunday they really go on monday and i was within a trifle of being persuaded to stay at till that very day i had almost promised it what a difference it might have made those five or six days more at might have been felt all my life you were staying there very i was most kindly pressed and had nearly consented had i received any letter from to tell me how you were all going on i park believe i should certainly have stayed but i knew nothing that had happened here for a fortnight and felt that i had been away long enough you spent your time pleasantly there yes that is it was the fault of my own mind if i did not they were all very pleasant i doubt their finding me so i took uneasiness with me and there was no getting rid of it till i was in again the miss � you liked them did not you yes very well pleasant good unaffected girls but i am spoilt for common female society unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women they are two distinct orders of being you and miss have made me too nice still however was oppressed and wearied he saw it in her looks it could not be talked away and attempting it no more he led her directly with the kind authority of a privileged guardian into the house chapter now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that could tell or could leave to be of her sentiments and he was satisfied it had been as he before presumed too hasty a measure on s side and time must be given to make the idea first familiar and then agreeable to her she must be used to the consideration of his being in love with her and then a return of affection might not be very distant he gave this opinion as the result of the conversation to his father and recommended there being nothing more said to her no further attempts to influence or persuade but that everything should be left to s and the natural workings of her own mind sir thomas promised that it should be so s account of s disposition he could believe to be just he supposed she had all those feelings but he must consider it as very unfortunate that she had for less willing than his son to trust to the future he could not help fearing that if such very long of time and habit were necessary for her she might not have persuaded herself into receiving his addresses properly before the young man s inclination for paying them were over there was nothing to be done however but to submit quietly and hope the best park the promised visit from her friend as called miss was a formidable threat to and she lived in continual terror of it as a sister so partial and so angry and so little scrupulous of what she said and in another light so triumphant and secure she was in every way an object of painful alarm her displeasure her penetration and her happiness were all fearful to encounter and the dependence of having others present when they met was s only support in | 26 |
day go to day do not it what is right to be done cannot be done too soon and besides i must give you a hint any want of to her here should be carefully avoided you saw her with the when she was the equal of every body she mixed with but here she is with a poor old grandmother who has barely enough to live on if you do not call early it will be a slight the son looked convinced m i have heard her speak of the acquaintance s ji she is a very elegant young woman he agreed to it but with so quiet a yes as inclined her almost to doubt his real and yet there must be a very distinct sort of elegance for the fashionable world if jane could be thought only ordinarily gifted with it if you were never particularly struck by her manners before said she think you will to day you will see her to advantage see her and hear no am afraid you will not bear her at all for she has an aunt who never holds her tongue you are acquainted with miss jane sir are you said mr always the last to make his way in conversation then give me leave to assure you � that you will find her a very agreeable young lady she is staying here on a visit to her and aunt very worthy people i have known them all my life they wiu be extremely glad to see you i am sure and one of my servants shall go with you to show you the way my dear sir upon no account in the world my father can direct me but your father is not going so far he is only going to the crown quite on the other side of the street and there are a great many houses you might be very much at a loss and it is a very dirty walk unless you keep on the but my coachman can tell you where you had best cross the street mr frank still it looking as serious as he could and his father gave his hearty support by calling out my good friend this is quite unnecessary frank knows a of water when he sees it and as to mrs s he may get there from the crown in a hop step and jump they are permitted to go alone and with a cordial nod from one and a graceful bow from the other the two gentlemen took leave remained very well pleased with this beginning of the acquaintance and could now engage to think of them all at any hour of the day with full confidence in their comfort chapter xxiv the next morning brought mr frank again he came with mrs to whom and to he seemed to take very cordially he had been sitting with her it appeared most at home till her usual hour of exercise and on being desired to choose their walk immediately fixed on he did not doubt there being very pleasant walks in every direction but if left to him he should always choose the same that airy cheerful happy looking would be his con h h attraction with mrs stood for and she trusted to its bearing the same construction with him they walked thither directly had hardly expected them for mr who had called in for half a minute in order to hear that his son was very handsome knew nothing of their plans and it was an agreeable surprise to her therefore to perceive them walking up to the house together arm in arm she was wanting to see him again and especially to see him in company with mrs upon his behaviour to whom her opinion of him was to depend if he were deficient there nothing should make amends for it but on seeing them together she became perfectly satisfied it was not merely in fine words or compliment that he paid his nothing be more proper or pleasing than his whole manner to her � nothing could more agreeably his wish of considering her as a friend and securing her affection and there was time enough for to a reasonable judgment as their visit included all the rest of the morning they were all three walking about together for an hour or r first round the of and afterwards in he was delighted with every thing admired sufficiently for mr s ear and when their going farther was resolved on confessed his wish to be made acquainted with whole village and found matter of and interest much than could have supposed some of the objects of his curiosity spoke very amiable feelings he begged to be shown the house which his father had lived in so long and which had been the home of his father s father and on that an old woman who had nursed him was still living walked in quest of her cottage from one end of the street to the other and though in some of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit they showed a good will towards in general which must be very like a merit to those he was la watched and decided that with such feelings as were now shown it could not be fairly supposed that he had been ever voluntarily himself that he had not been acting a part or making a parade of professions and that mr certainly had not done him their first pause was at the crown inn an house though the principal one of the sort where a couple of pair of post horses were kept more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added | 26 |
time and health and patience and mental power and domestic peace in the pursuit of wealthy when that women of wealth is expended as soon as gained in maintaining an appearance of elegance and luxury before the world i am not prepared to argue about the benefits from the encouragement of artificial wants and the increase of luxuries on the broad scale of national prosperity there are pens more able and more fit for such a purpose my views are confined to the individual evils from an over strained ambition to keep pace with our associates in our general habits and i would write with earnestness on this subject because i believe that in england at the present time these evils are of rapidly increasing extent it seem unimportant to those who have no experience in these to speak of the private and domestic arising out of artificial wants on one side and inability to provide the demanded supply for them on the other what family in moderate circumstances has not some record of scenes alike humiliating to human nature and destructive to human happiness in which the ill judged request or the harsh denial � the appeal or the reply � the remonstrance or the bitter retort have not at seasons cast a shade over the domestic hearth and destroyed the peace of the circle gathered around the social board it may appear still more like trifling to speak of the sensations with which a member of a fallen family regards her wardrobe and looks and looks in vain for a garment respectable to make her appearance in before a rich relation perhaps she has but one � a call has to be made upon a person of distinction and as she pro habits of on her way with watchful anxiety every speck and spray that would be likely to reduce her garment be � low the average of respectability a storm her there are carriages for all who can afford to pay for them but none for her and the agony of losing her last claim to takes possession of her soul the reader may possibly smile at the absurdity of this case a half clad savage from some barbarous island would probably smile could he be made to understand it but nothing can be farther from exciting a smile than the sensations it occasions nothing can be farther from a smile than the look with which a failing regards the forlorn condition of his hat when he dares not brush it lest he should render its more apparent nothing can be farther from a smile than the glance he casts upon his coat when he knows of no possible resource in art or nature that can supply him with a new one and nothing can be farther from a smile than the cold welcome we give to a guest who presents himself unexpectedly and must look in upon the of our half furnished it is easy to class these sources of under the head of and to them unworthy of rational beings but i do believe there is more real misery existing in the world at the present time from causes like these than from all those publicly acknowledged which are more uniformly attributed to the of providence i do not mean that these miseries arise directly from or are by any means confined to our personal appearance or the of england the furniture of our houses but when we contemplate the failure of pecuniary means as it is regarded by the world and attempt to the immense variety of channels through which the suffering it produces is made to flow in consequence of the customs and habits of society i believe they will be found to extend through every variety of human life to the utmost range of human feeling is it not to escape this suffering that the man of too frequently applies himself to means � that the suicide the deadly draught � and that the sometimes his native land and himself to the of � in short what more remains within the range of human which man has not done with the hope of flying from the horrors attendant upon the falling away of his pecuniary means when the reality of this suffering is acknowledged as it must be by all who look upon society as it exists at the present moment the next subject of importance is to consider how the suffering can be and its fatal effects upon the peace and happiness of society prevented the most immediate means that could be made to operate upon woman would unquestionably be by in her mind a deeper and more rational foundation of thought and feeling � to put a stop to that endless variety of ill natured gossip which relates to the want of elegance or fashionable air in certain persons dress and manner of living so that there should be no more questioning what will be thought of my wearing this dress again what will miss p or mrs w say if they see our old curtains general habits of what can the mean by travelling outside what will the people at church or chapel say when they see your shabby veil i positively don t believe the can afford a new carpet or they would surely have one and they have their to our book society it is neither grateful nor profitable to pursue these remarks farther than as they serve for specimens of that most contemptible of small talk which yet exercises a powerful influence over the female mind � so much so that i have known the whole fabric of a woman s philosophy entirely and her peace of mind for the moment destroyed by the simple question whether she had no other dress than the one she was so often seen to wear there is another instance that occurs to me as illustrate ing in a striking | 41 |
g mind i promise nothing the dawn breaks as g into the garden m up at the gate on his way to parade and very old man how goes g dazed i don t quite know stay a the valley of the shadow bit have a drink or something don t run away you re just getting amusing ha i ha m aside what am i let in for has aged ten years in the night g slowly your s too loose m so it is put it straight will you aside i shall be late for parade poor g links and chain and finally stands staring towards the the day doctor knocked out gravity across and shaking g s hands it s � it s � it s � there s a fair chance � a dashed fair chance the y know the sweat y know i saw how it would be the y know clever woman that of yours stopped the just at the right time a dashed good chance no � you don t go in we ll pull her through yet i promise on my reputation � under providence send a man with this note to two heads better than one specially the pull her round hastily to house g his head on neck of m s jack i � � believe i m going to make a � � bloody m openly and feeling in his left i b b � believe i b doing it already old bad what i say i b as pleased as � you i you re one big idiot and i b pulling himself together sit tight here comes the devil junior who is not in the doctor s the valley of the shadow confidence we � we are only men in these things i know that i can say nothing now to help m then don t say it leave him alone it s not bad enough to over here take the to and ride hell for leather it ll do you good i can t go junior do him good smiling give me the and i ll drive let him lie down your horse is my cart � please m without back i beg your pardon � i ll on paper if you like junior m s that ll do thanks turn in and i ll bring back � � hell for leather m it would have served me right if he d cut me across the face he can drive too i shouldn t care to go that pace in a cart what a faith he must have in his maker � of harness come you brute off to parade blowing his nose as the sun rises interval of five weeks mrs g very white and pinched in morning at breakfast table how big and strange the room looks and oh how glad i am to see it again what dust though i i must talk to the servants sugar i ve almost forgotten seriously wasn t i very ill g than i liked tenderly oh you bad little what a start you gave me mrs g i ll never do it again g you d better not and now get those the valley of the shadow poor pale cheeks pink again or i shall be angry don t try to lift the urn you ll upset it wait round to head of table and lifts urn mrs g quickly see butler get a kettle from the cook house drawing down g s face to her own dear remember g what mrs g that last terrible night g then just you forget all about it mrs g her eyes filling never it has brought us very close together my husband there i m going to give a g i gave her fifty mrs g so she told me it was a reward was i worth it several don t here s the � two or one sir the swelling op if thou hast run with the and they have wearied thee then how thou contend with horses and if in the land of peace wherein thou they wearied thee then how wilt thou do in the swelling of scene � the in the plains on a january morning g arguing with bearer in back m rides up m mrs how s the infant phenomenon and the proud proprietor mrs g you ll find them in the front go through the house i m just now m about with cares of f i fly passes into front where is watching junior aged ten months crawling about the m what s the trouble � an honest man s europe morning this way seeing g junior by jove that s on any amount of bone below the knee there g yes he s a healthy little scoundrel don t you think his hair s growing m let s have a look hi come here general luck and we ll report on you mrs g within what absurd name will you give him next why do you call him that the swelling of m isn t he our general of cavalry doesn t he come down in his seventeen two every morning the pink parade don t give us your private opinion on the way the third went past trifle ragged weren t they g a bigger set of than the new i don t wish to see they ve given me more than my fair share � knocking the out of shape it s sickening i m when you re in command you ll do better young un can t you walk yet grip my finger and try to g t hurt his will it g oh no don t let him though or he ll all the off your boots mrs g who s destroying my son s character m and my s i m ashamed of you | 39 |
least recollection at what i believe was te a e park to her some ridiculous stories of an old irish groom of m uncle s your sister loves to laugh you think her more hearted than i am more easily amused he replied consequently know smiling better company i could not have hoped to entertain you with irish anecdotes during a ten mile drive naturally i believe i am as lively as but i ha f more to think of now you have undoubtedly � and there are situations in which very high spirits would your prospects however are too fair to justify want of spirits you have a very smiling scene before you do you mean literally or literally yes certainly die sun shines and the park very cheerful but that iron gate that ha ba ve me a feeling of restraint hardship i cannot get out as the said as she spoke and it was with expression she walked to the gate he followed her mr rush worth is so long this key and for the world you would not get out without the key and without mr s authority and protection or i think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate here with my assistance i think it might be done if you wished to be more at and could allow yourself to think it not nonsense i certainly can get out that way and i will mr will be here in a moment you know � we shall not be out of sight or if we are miss price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that the grove of oak on th feeling all this to be wrong could not help making an effort to prevent it you will hurt yourself miss she cried you will certainly hurt yourself against those � you will tear your gown � you will be in danger of slipping into the ha ha you had better not go her cousin was safe on the other side white these words were spoken and smiling with all the good humour of park she said thank you my dear hut i and my gown are alive and well and so good hy was again left to her solitude and with no increase of pleasant feelings for she was sorry for almost all that she had seen and heard astonished at miss and angry with mr by taking a and as it appeared to her very unreasonable direction to the ey were soon beyond her eye and for some longer she remained without sight or sound of any companion she seemed to have the little wood all to her i self she could almost have thought that and miss had left it but that it was impossible for to forget her so entirely she was again roused from disagreeable by den footsteps somebody was coming at a quick pace down the principal walk she expected mr but it was who hot and out of breath and with a look of disappointment cried out on seeing her where are the others i thought maria and mr were with you explained a pretty trick upon my word i cannot see them any where looking eagerly into the park but they can not be very far off and i think i am equal to to much as maria even without help but mr will be here in a moment with the key do wait for mr not i indeed i have had enough of the family for one morning child i have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother such a penance as i have been enduring while you were sitting here so composed and so happy it might have been as weu perhaps if you had been in my place but you always contrive to keep out of these this was a most unjust reflection but could al low for it and let it pass was vexed and her per was hasty but she felt that it would not last and therefore taking no notice only asked her if she had not seen mr yes yes we saw him he was away as il park upon life and deaths and could but just spare time to us his errand and where you all were it is a pity that he have so much trouble i nothing that is miss maria s concern i am not obliged to myself for her sins the mother i could not as loi as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with the keeper but the son i can get away from and she immediately scrambled across the fence ai walked away not attending to s last question whether she had seen any thing of miss and � the sort of in which now sat seeing mr prevented her thinking so much their continued absence however as she might have she felt that he had been very ill used and was quite u happy in having to communicate what had passed joined her within five minutes after s exit and she made the best of the story he was evidently and displeased in no common degree at first he said any thing his looks only expressed his extreme and vexation and he walked to the gate and there without seeming to know what to do they desired me to stay � my cousin maria me to say that you would find them at that or i do not believe i shall go any further said he si i see nothing of them by the time i get to they may be gone somewhere else i have h walking enough and he sat down with a most gloomy countenance i am very sorry said she it is very and she longed to be able to say something more to t purpose after an interval of silence i think they | 26 |
the which this half a gale makes with the sea it must have been a terrific time indeed when that great wave rushed and roared across the islands since dinner i have been to the eastern shore to look at the sea it is a wild spectacle but still i suppose an infinite deal of being a storm outside of this island there is a long and low one or two in a line by ic american note books looking more like a of rocks than an island and at the distance of a mile or more there the surf and spray break gallantly � white forms rising up all at once and hovering a moment in the air spots which in calm times are not from the rest of the ocean now are converted into white the swell of the waves against our shore makes a snowy depth tinged with green for many feet back from the shore the longer waves swell and rush upon the rocks and when they return the waters pour back in a against the outer points of nose and star island there is a higher surf than here because the wind being from the these islands receive it first and form a partial barrier in respect to this while i looked there was moisture in the air and occasional of rain the places in the rocks were full of the fallen rain it is quite impossible to give an idea of these rocky shores � how they are tossed together lying in all directions what solid what great fragments thrown out from the rest often the rocks are broken square and so as to form a kind of staircase though for the most part such as would require a giant stride to ascend them sometimes a black trap rock runs through the bed of granite sometimes the sea has eaten this away leaving a long irregular in some places owing to the same cause perhaps there is a great hollow place into the ledge and forming a harbor into which the sea flows and while there is foam and at the entrance it is comparatively oc � american note books parts of the are as much as fifty feet of height down which you look over a bare and smooth descent at the base of which is a sha y margin of sea weed but it is vain to try to express this confusion as much as anything else it seems as if some of the massive materials of the world remained superfluous after the creator had finished and were carelessly thrown down here where the part of them from the sea and in the course of thousands of years have become partially with a little soil the wind has changed to and blows pretty the sun shone before it set and the mist which all day has the land now takes the aspect of a cloud � drawing a thin veil between us and the shore and rising above it in our own atmosphere there is no fog nor mist september � i spent last evening as well as part of the evening before at mr s it is certainly a romantic incident to find such a young man on this lonely island his marriage with the pretty is true romance in our talk we have glanced over many matters and among the rest that of the stage to prepare himself for which was his first motive in coming hither he appears quite to have given up any dreams of that kind now what he will do on returning to the world as his purpose is i cannot imagine but no doubt through all their remaining life both he and she will look back to this rocky ledge with its handful of soil as to a paradise last evening we mr mrs and miss sat by v ic american note books and talked of ghosts and kindred subjects and they told me of the appearance of a little old woman in a striped gown that had come into that house a few months ago she was seen by nobody but an irish nurse who spoke to her but received no answer the little woman drew her chair up towards the fire and out her feet to warm them by and by the nurse who suspected nothing of her ghostly character went to get a of water and when she came back the little woman was not there it being known precisely how many and what people were on the island and that no such little woman was them the fact of her being a ghost is i taught them how to discover the hidden sentiments of letters by a gold ring over them ordinarily since i have been here we have spent the evening under the where mr sits to take the air he seems to avoid the within doors whenever he can so there he sits in the sea breezes when inland people are probably drawing their chairs to the fireside and there i sit with him � not keeping up a continual flow of talk but each speaking as any wisdom happens to come into his mind the wind this morning is from the rather brisk but not very strong there is a scattering of clouds about the sky but the atmosphere is singularly clear and we can see several hills of the interior the cloud like white mountains and along the shore the long white and the dotted dwellings with great distinctness many small vessels spread their wings and go by ic american note books i have been rambling over the southern part of the island and looking at the traces of there there are several � the largest perhaps thirty yards square � surrounded with a rough of very antiquity built originally broad and strong two or three large stones in width and piled up breast high or more | 35 |
delicate face a head leaning a little down a quiet voice and way � timid a most that s em ly we silently observed him as he sat still looking at the fire some thinks he said as her affection was some as her marriage was broke off by death no one knows how tis she might have married well a of times but uncle she says to me that s gone forever cheerful along with me retired when others is by fond of going any distance fur to teach a child or fur to tend a sick person or fur to do some kindness tow a young girl s wedding and she s done a many but has never seen one fondly loving of her uncle patient liked by young and old out by all that has any trouble that s em ly he drew his hand across his face and with a sigh looked up from the fire is with you yet i asked of david he replied got married r in the second year a young man a farm as come by us on his way to market with his � a journey of over five hundred mile and back � made offers fur to take her fur his wife wives is very scarce and then to set up fur their two selves jn the bush she spoke to me fur to tell him her story i did they was married and they live hundred mile away from any voices but their own and the singing birds mrs i suggested it was a pleasant key to touch for mr suddenly burst into a roar of laughter and rubbed his hands up and down his legs as he had been accustomed to do when he enjoyed himself in the long boat would you believe it i he said why even made offers fur to marry her i if a ship s cook that was turning r didn t make offers fur to marry i m � and i can t say no fairer than that i never saw laugh so this sudden ecstasy on the part of mr was so delightful to her that she could not leave off laughing and the more she laughed the more she made me laugh and the greater mr s ecstasy became and the more he rubbed his legs and what did mrs say i asked when i was grave enough if you ll believe me returned mr stead of saying thank you i m much to you i a n t a going fur to change my condition at my time of life up d with a bucket as was the personal history and experience standing by and laid it over that ship s cook s head till he sung out fur help and i went in and of him mr burst into a great roar of laughter and and i both kept him company but i must say this for the good he resumed wiping his face when we were quite exhausted she has been all she said she d be to us and more she s the the the helping woman r as ever draw d breath of life i have never know d her to be lone and for a single minute not even when the colony was all afore us and we was new to it and thinking of the old un is a thing she never done i do assure you since she left england now last not least mr said i he has paid off every obligation he incurred here � even to s bill you remember my dear � and therefore we may take it for granted that he is doing well but what is the latest news of him mr with a smile put his hand in his breast pocket and produced a flat folded paper parcel from which he took out with much care a little newspaper you are to r said he as we have left the bush now being so well to do and have gone right away round to port harbor s what we call a town mr was in the bush near you said i bless you yes said mr i and turned to with a will i never wish to meet a better gen l man for turning to with a will i ve seen that bald head of his a in the sun r till of david i a most it would have melted away and now he s a magistrate a magistrate eh said i mr pointed to a certain paragraph in the newspaper where i read aloud as follows from the port times the public dinner to our distinguished and port district magistrate came off yesterday in the large room of the hotel which was crowded to it is estimated that not fewer than persons must have been with dinner at one time exclusive of the company in the passage and on the stairs the beauty fashion and of port to do honor to one so esteemed so highly and so widely popular doctor of house grammar school port presided and on his right sat the distinguished guest after the removal of the cloth and the singing of non beautifully executed and in which we were at no loss to distinguish the bell like notes of that gifted amateur junior the usual loyal and patriotic were given and received dr in a speech with feeling then proposed our distinguished guest the ornament of our town may he never leave us but to better himself and may his success among us be such as to render his himself impossible i the cheering with which the toast was received description again and again it rose and fell like the waves of ocean at length all was hushed and presented himself the personal history and experience to return thanks far be it from us in the present | 8 |
no but for the sake of an example will you tell me what you did with yourself since leaving the drawing room last night at ten certainly i have no reason to conceal my doings ofi said mr angrily i retired to my bedroom at ten and to bed the last i saw of madame she was standing on the door step bidding farewell to her guests in the morning i was awakened by the news of the murder and went out to walk the horror produced by the sight of that poor woman did you see the body we all saw the body till miss bull i turned them out and locked the door put in miss bull sharply it was as well that nothing should be disturbed in the room till the police arrived that was my argument and a very good one said you have a head on your shoulders miss my father was a general replied the old maid nodding and i inherit his talent for organization the next witness examined was and she refused to open her mouth unless she sat by miss bull the old maid held s hand and her into answering when she proved could not but admire the way in which miss bull managed the creature you left the drawing room with this lady he asked indicating miss bull and speaking in a tone k yes we played patience in miss bull s bedroom i did it twice at what time did you leave about eleven � just before it did the clock strike the hour when you were in your own bedroom the next morning no said trying to collect her wits when i was in the passage what were you doing in the passage it would only take you a few minutes to get to your room would it not yes put in miss bull my bedroom is on the second floor and s is on the fourth right above my head you could easily have got to your room before the clock struck i did try to admitted the girl but my aunt kept me talking sat up did you speak to your aunt at that hour yes she met me walking up to my room and me for being out of bed at that hour i said i had been with miss bull and and madame made polite remarks about me said the old maid grimly oh i can well understand what she said but it would seem mr that was the last person to see madame alive we ll see said who was not going to be taught his business even by so clever a person as miss bull was there anyone else about he asked no my aunt said that every one was in bed but me and that she would not have it the clock struck eleven and she called me names she then took me by the arm and pushed me into my room and locked the door yes she did nodded she locked the door why did she do that asked staring i don t know i wasn t doing anything grumbled but she said she wouldn t have me wandering about the house at all hours of the night and locked me in i couldn t get out this morning till miss bull let me out the yellow usually brings me my cup of tea explained miss bull and as she did not come this morning as usual i was anxious when the alarm came i went to look for in her room the key was in the door but the door was locked i released oh the key was in the door mused it would seem then that the deceased simply turned the key and left it i wonder why she locked the girl in miss bull shrugged her thin shoulders it was spite on her part she said madame never cared to see with me because i love you so said the girl with an look and miss bull patted her hand fondly it was strange thought the that so clever and refined a woman should love so stupid and coarse looking a girl but like does not always draw to like while was thus examining the witnesses train and were seated in the sitting room of the former discussing the crime was gloomy for in the unexpected death of mrs he saw the of his hopes of proving his there s no chance of my marrying now he said with a sigh i ll remain plain george to the end of my days and a bachelor at that it s awful gasped who was white and haggard i never expected that my search for types would lead me into the neighborhood of a tragedy who could have killed her i can t say i wonder if her death has anything to do with your affairs looked up suddenly and with a stern flushed face train he said sharply whatever the next morning you do say nothing about what i told you last night yes but what you told me might lead to the discovery of the i don t care if it does said angrily and rising to his feet to his you are to keep my confidence oh i shan t say anything but do you think i think nothing but i am sure that my affairs have nothing to do with this death i came to see mrs and this morning i should have had the truth out of her but she is dead and so all my projects go to the four winds but i don t want them spoken of you can depend upon me said by the strong will of his friend but who could have i tell you i don t know cried george how you do harp on that subject it is the subject of the retorted train and a most | 12 |
point it seemed that the cow s mouth must be some sort of fringed to the lips with rank vegetation all sight of what lay below him was blocked by the thick foliage of trees that leaned forward bowing their heads together as night over a corpse once upon a time there had been rude steps leading down the almost sheer descent but the naked feet had worn them to and and blown dust had made a thin soil in their looked long and angrily because the laugh came from the bottom of this track and then digging his heel into the mould began to let himself down step by step himself by the of grass before he had realized it he was out of reach of the sun and neck deep in tall grass still there was a sort of pathway under his feet down the almost perpendicular side he the grass and went on the earth beneath his elbows grew moist and the rock where it out showed rotten with moisture and with moss the air grew cold and damp another plunge downward revealed to him what the trees were guard a of west and east ing as he drew breath on a narrow stone ledge they sprung from the round the sides of a square of water so that it had past corruption and lay dull blue under the blackness of the trees the of summer had shrunk it and a bank of dried mud ran round its sides the head of a sunken stone pillar carved with monstrous and gods reared itself from the water like the head of a swimming to land the birds moved in the branches of the trees far overhead little twigs and dropped into the water and the noise of their fall echoed from side to side of the that received no sunlight the chuckle that had so annoyed broke out again as he listened this time it was behind him and sharply he saw that it came from a thin stream of water that from the rudely carved head of a cow and along a stone into the heavy blue pool behind that the moss grown rock rose sheer this then was the cow s mouth the lay at the bottom of a shaft and the one way down to it was that by which had come � a path that led from the sunlight to the chill and mould of a vault well this is kind of the king anyhow he said pacing the ledge cautiously for it was almost the as slippery as the pathway on the rocks now what s the use of this he continued returning the ledge ran only round one side of the and unless he trusted to the mud banks on the other three there was no hope of continuing his further the cow s mouth chuckled again as a fresh jet of water forced its way through the jaws oh dry up he muttered impatiently staring through the half light that veiled all he dropped a piece of rock on the mud under the lip of the ledge then tested it with a cautious foot found that it bore and decided to walk round the as there were more trees to the right of the ledge than to the left he stepped off on the mud from the right holding cautiously to the branches and the of grass in case of any false step when the was first made its rock walls had been perfectly perpendicular but time and weather and the war of the tree roots had broken and the stone in a thousand places giving a scant here and there crept along the right side of the resolved whatever might come to go round it the gloom deepened as he came directly under the largest fig tree throwing a thousand arms across the water and the rock with snake like a story of west and east roots as thick as a man s body here sitting on a he rested and looked at the ledge the sun shooting down the path that he had trampled through the tall grass threw one patch of light on the marble of the ledge and on the blunt of the cow s head but where rested under the fig tree there was darkness and an intolerable scent of the blue water was not inviting to watch he turned his face inward to the rock and the trees and looking up caught the green of a s wing moving among the upper branches never in his life had so desired the blessed sunshine he was cold and damp and conscious that a gentle breeze was blowing in his face from between the tree roots it was the sense of space more than actual sight that told him that there was a passage before him by the roots on which he sat and it was his instinct of curiosity rather than any love of adventure that led him to throw himself at the darkness which parted before and closed behind him he could feel that his feet were treading on cut stone with a thin of dried mud and extending his arms found on each side then he lighted a match and congratulated himself that his ignorance of cows mouths had not led him to bring a lantern with the him the first match in the and went out and before the flame had died he heard a sound in front of him like the shivering backward draw of a wave on a beach the noise was not but pressed on for a few steps looking back to see that the dull glimmer of the outer day was still behind him and lighted another match guarding it with his hands at his next step he shuddered from head to foot his heel had through a skull on the ground the match showed him that he had | 39 |
of in choosing to among in countries where there was no getting to air a bit o linen and where the people smelt o fit to knock vou down however she presently reappeared in a small meagre man sallow and dingy with a wandering look in his dull eyes and an excessive timidity about his deep which gave him the air of a man who had been long a solitary prisoner yet through all this and wretchedness there were some traces of comparative youth and former good looks lady though not very tender hearted still less sentimental was essentially kind and liked to dispense benefits like a goddess who looks down on the halt the and the blind that approach her shrine she was smitten with some compassion at the sight of poor who struck her as the mere battered wreck of a vessel that might have once floated enough on its outward voyage to the sound of pipes and she spoke gently as she pointed out to him the she wished him to copy and he seemed to sun himself in her radiant presence so that when he made his exit with the music books under his arm his bow though not less was less timid it was ten years at least since had seen bright and stately and beautiful as lady for the time was far off in which he had trod the stage in satin and feathers the of one short season he had completely lost his voice in tho following winter and had ever since been little better than a cracked fiddle which is good for nothing but for like many italian he was too ignorant to teach ana if it had not l en for his one talent of he and his young helpless wife might have starved then just after their third child was bom fever came swept away the sickly mother and the two eldest children and attacked himself who rose from his sick bed with brain and muscle and a tiny baby on his hands scarcely four months old he lodged over a fruit shop kept by a stout loud of tongue and in temper but who had had children bom to her and so had taken care of the tiny yellow black eyed and tended himself through hia sickness here he continued to live earning a meagre for himself and his little one by the work of music put into his hands chiefly by he seemed to exist for nothing but the child he tended it he it he to it living with it alone in his one room above the shop only asking his landlady to take care of the during his short in and carrying home work customers that fruit shop might often see the tiny seated on the floor with her legs in a heap of peas which it was her delight to kick about or perhaps deposited like a in a large basket out of harm s way sometimes however left his little one with another kind of he was very regular in his which he paid thrice a week in the cathedral carrying with him here when the high morning was warming the glittering wi out and struggling against the massive gloom within the shadow of a man mb s love a child on his arm might be seen flitting across the more stationary shadows of and and making its way towards a little hanging in a retired spot near the choir amid all the of the mighty cathedral r had fixed on this as the symbol of mercy and protection � just as a child in the presence of a great landscape sees none of the glories of wood and sky but sets its heart on a floating feather or insect that happens to be on a level with its eye here then worshipped and prayed setting on the floor by his side and now and then when the cathedral lay near some place where he had to call and did not like to take her he would leave her there in front of the where she would sit perfectly good amusing herself low noises and of her tiny body and when came back he always found that the blessed mother had taken good care of that was briefly the history of who fulfilled so well the orders lady gave him that she sent him away again with a stock of new work but this time week after week passed and he neither reappeared nor sent home the music to him began to be anxious and was thinking of sending to inquire at the address had given her when one day as she was equipped for driving out the brought in a small piece of paper which he said had been left for her by a man who was carrying fruit the paper contained only three tremulous lines in italian � will the for the love of have pity on a dying man and come to him lady recognized the handwriting as s in spite of its and going down to her carriage ordered the coachman to drive to the coach stopped in a dirty narrow street opposite la s fruit shop and that lar e specimen of womanhood immediately presented herself at the door to the extreme disgust of mrs sharp who remarked privately to mr that la was a the fruit woman however was all smiles and deep to the who not ver well understanding her dialect the conversation by asking to be shown at once to la preceded her up the dark narrow stairs and opened a door through whidi she begged her to enter directly opposite the door lay on a low miserable bed his eyes were glazed and no movement indicated that he was conscious of their entrance on the foot of the bed was seated a tiny child apparently not three years old her head covered by a linen | 14 |
in the water which attracted him to another spot on the brink of the pond here he said in a loud whisper come here i take care keep on the don t step where the cows have been he added pointing to a of dry grass with trodden mud on each side of it for tom s contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places came carefully as she was and bent down to look at what seemed a golden arrow head darting through the water it was a water snake tom told her and at last could see the wave of its body very much wondering that a snake could swim had drawn nearer and nearer � she must see it too though it was bitter to her like every thing else since tom did not care about her seeing it at last she was close by and tom who had been aware of her approach but would not notice it till he was obliged turned round and said now get away there s no room for you on the grass here nobody asked you to come there were passions at war in at that moment to have made a tragedy if were made by passion only but the essential n which was present in the passion was to the action the utmost could do with a fierce thrust of her small brown arm was to push poor little pink and white into the cow trodden mud then tom could not restrain himself and gave two smart on the arm as he ran to pick up who lay cry the mill on the ing helplessly retreated to the roots of a tree a few yards o and looked on usually her r came quickly after one rash deed but now tom and had her so miserable she was glad to spoil their happiness � glad to make body uncomfortable why she be sorry tom was very slow to forgive her however sorry she might have been i shall tell mother you know miss said tom loudly and emphatically as soon as was up and ready to walk away it was not tom s practice to tell but here justice clearly demanded that should be visited with the utmost punishment not that tom had learned to put his views in that abstract form he never mentioned justice and had no idea that his desire to punish might be called b that fine name was too absorbed by the evil that had befallen her � the of her pretty best clothes and the discomfort of being wet and dirty � to much of tiie cause which was entirely mysterious to her she could never have guessed what she had done to make with her but she felt that was very and disagreeable and made no entreaties to tom that he not tell only running along by his side and crying while sat on the roots of the tree and looked after them with her small face sally said tom when they reached the kitchen door and sally looked at them in speechless with a piece of bread and butter in her mouth and a fork in her hand sally tell mother it was pushed into the mud but ha how did you get near such mud as that said sally making a face as she stooped down and examined the tom s imagination had not been rapid and enough to include this question among the foreseen consequences but it was no sooner put than he foresaw whither it tended and that would not be considered the only in the case he walked quietly away from the kitchen door leaving sally to that pleasure of which active minds prefer to ready made knowledge sally as you are aware lost no time in presenting at the parlor door for to have so dirty an object introduced the house at g rum was too great a weight to be sustained by a single mind goodness gracious aunt exclaimed after by an inarticulate scream keep her at the door sally don t g h er off the whatever you do why she s tumbled into some nasty mud said mrs tile mill on liver going up to to examine into the amount of damage to clothes for which she felt herself responsible to her sister k you please um it was miss as pushed her in said sally master tom s been and said so and they must ha been to the pond for it s only there they could ha got into such dirt there it is it s what i ve been telling you said mrs in a tone of prophetic sadness it s your children � there s no knowing what they ll come to mrs was mute feeling herself a truly wretched mother as usual the thought pressed upon her that people would think that she had done something wicked to deserve her maternal troubles while mrs began to give elaborate directions to sally how to guard the premises serious injury in the course of removing the dirt meantime tea was to be brought in by the cook and the two naughty children were to have theirs in an manner in the kitchen mrs went out to speak to these naughty children supposing them to be close at hand but it was not until after some search that she found tom with rather a hardened careless air against the white of the poultry yard and his piece of string on the other side as a means of the turkey cock tom you naughty boy where is your sister said mrs in a distressed voice i don t know said tom his eagerness for justice on had diminished since he had seen clearly that it could hardly be brought about without the injustice of some blame on his own conduct why where did you | 14 |
horror as if the chinese were guilty above all other men for the of the were familiar with perhaps worse than the prison of the n magistrate and with forms of torture which spared not letter iv a fair comparison even women and the judges and palms were intimate with the gold of accused persons it is simply that in is at this day what christianity in europe looked upon with indifference for centuries i l b the golden letter v v january the year seems already getting old and under these blue skies and with all the doors and windows open i should think it if i did not look at the oh how i like blue sunny skies instead of gray and grim ones and blazing colours instead of the dismal and of our i left by the js in on monday with two thousand chinese passengers and two missionary priests the latter wearing chinese costume and so completely got up as that had they not spoken their features would not have been sufficient to me they were noble looking men and bore upon their faces the stamp of to a noble work on the other steamer the instead of a man with and a keeping guard over the grating a large pipe is laid on to each through which in case of need boiling water can be sent under strong pressure just as we landed here about five hundred large fishes were passed through a circular net from a well in the steamer into a well in a fishing boat to which all the in resorted i pass over the and of and an afternoon with the governor in the victoria letter v a chinese hospital prison to an interesting visit paid with mr now sir j pope to the chinese hospital we started from house with the governor in a chair with six scarlet attended by some in scarlet for a state visit to the hospital a purely chinese institution built some years ago by chinese merchants and supported by them at an annual cost of in it nothing european either in the way of or treatment is tried there is a connected with it where advice is daily given to about a hundred and twenty people and though is rare in china they are building a lunatic asylum at the back of the hospital the hospital consists of several buildings of granite with large windows on each side and a lofty central building which contains the hall the accommodation for six resident and the business offices the whole is surrounded by a well kept garden bounded by a very high wall we entered by the grand entrance which has a pavement each flag consisting of a of granite twelve feet long by three broad and were received at the foot of the grand staircase by the and their the six resident doctors and mr ng a rising chinese educated at s inn who interpreted for us in admirable english he is the man who goes between the governor and the chinese community and is believed to have more influence with the governor on all questions which concern than anybody else these gentlemen all wore rich and beautiful dresses of thick silk and figured and they were much and they had all to a remarkable the hall in which the meet is lofty and very handsome the roof being supported on massive the golden v pillars one side is open to the garden it has a superb table in the middle with a chair massive enough for a throne for the and six grand carved on either side our procession consisted of the and the twelve the six stout middle aged doctors mr ng the governor the bishop of victoria and myself but the regarded the unwonted spectacle with extreme the wards hold twenty each and are divided into wooden each containing two beds seven feet high run down the centre the beds are wooden and the white or which are washed once a week the pillows are of wood or each bed has a shelf above it with a upon it in a thickly basket which keeps the contents hot all day the being of course poured off the leaves a ticket with the patient s name upon it and the hours at which he is to take his medicine hangs above each person no are performed but there are a good many other operations such as the removal of etc the doctors were quite willing to answer questions within certain limits but when i asked them about the composition and properties of their they became at once and said that they were secrets they do not use in operations but they all asserted and their were by mr ng that they possess which throw their into a profound sleep during which the most severe operations can be performed they asserted further that such awake an hour or two afterwards quite cheerful and with neither headache nor one of them showed me a bottle containing a dark brown powder which he said produced this result letter v and medicine but he would not the name of one of its saying that it is a secret taught him by his and that there are several it has a and slightly taste the and medicine are totally by european science and are of the most and description there was a woman who had had a removed and the awful wound which was uncovered for my inspection was dressed with and with a piece of paper over ah there was also exhibited to us a foot which had been pierced by a violent had extended up to the knee and the wound and the swollen blackened limb were being treated with and tiger s fat a man with feet nearly dropping off had them rolled up in dark coloured of which and oil were two all the wounds | 20 |
shall be no more and now good by and bless you god bless you sir wherever you go cried the old man with n is never too late to mend energy for you have comforted my poor old heart i feel as i t felt this many a day your words are like the sounding a charge all down the line you must go i suppose but do ye come again and see me and you never come to see me now as you used � miss has her occupations like the rest of us said mr quickly but she will come to see you � won t she o yes sir replied hastily so then returned to the for mr s horse was in the stable at the door they found mr this is father sir father this is mr that is coming to take the duty here for a while after the ordinary drew her father aside and exchanging a few words with him disappeared into the house as mr was mounting his horse mr came forward and invited him to stay at his house whenever he should come to the parish mr hesitated sir said the farmer you will find no lodgings comfortable within a mile of the church and we have a large house not half occupied you can make yourself quite at home i am much obliged to you mr but must not too far upon your courtesy well sir replied the farmer we shall feel proud if you can put up with the like of us i will come i am much obliged to you sir and to your daughter he mounted his horse and bade the farmer good morning came out and stood on the steps and low � rustic fashion � but with a grace of her own he took off his hat to her as he rode out of the gate gave her a sweet bright smile of adieu and went down the lane fourteen miles an hour old was seated outside his own door with a pipe and ft book at the sound of horses feet he looked up and recognized his visitor whom he had seen pass in the morning he rose up erect and him by bringing his thumb with a wave to his forehead mr saluted him in the same manner but without stopping the old soldier sat down again and read and smoked the pipe ended � that solace was not of an immortal kind � but the book remained he read it calmly but earnestly in warm air till day declined chapter vn the next saturday was busy preparing two rooms for mr � a homely but bright bedroom looking eastward and a snug room where ho could be quiet down stairs snowy sheets and curtains and toilet cover showed the good the windows were open and a beautiful of s flowers on the table mr s eye brightened at the comfort neatness and freshness of the whole thing and who watched him felt pleased to see him pleased on sunday he preached in the parish church the sermon was opposite to what the good people here had been subject to instead of the and cold of an sermon he drove home truths home in business like english he used a good many illustrations and these were drawn from matters with which this particular congregation were he was as full of here as he was of them when he preached before the university of oxford any one who had read this sermon in a book of sermons would have divined what sort of congregation it was preached to � a of a sermon mr preached from notes and to the people � not the air like every bom orator he felt his way with his audience whereas the preacher who is not an orator throws out his fine things hit or miss and does not know and feel and d it is too late to mend whether he is or missing open your hand shut your eyes and fling out the ood seed so much per foot � that is enough no this man preached to the faces and hearts that happened to be round him he established between himself and them a pulse every throb of which he felt and followed if he could not get hold of them one way he tried another he would have them he was not there to fail his discourse was human it was man speaking to man on the most vital and topic in the world or out of it it was more it was brother speaking to brother hence some singular phenomena first when he gave the blessing which is a great piece of eloquence commonly reduced to a very small one by monotonous or feeble delivery and uttered it like his discourse with solemnity warmth tenderness and all his soul the people lingered some moments in the church and seemed unwilling to go at all second nobody their for their four during the sermon this was the more remarkable as many of the congregation had formed a steady habit of coming to this place once a week with the single view of an hour s repose from earthly and heavenly cares the next morning mr visited some of the poorest people in the parish accompanied him all eyes and ears she observed that his line was not to begin by his own topic but lie in wait for them let them first choose their favorite theme and so meet them on this ground and bring religion to bear on it o how wise he is i thought and how he knows the heart one sunday evening three weeks after his first official visit he had been by to see some of the poor people and on his return found alone he sat down and gave an account of his visits how many of tea and | 9 |
the noise of the trees were more or less distinct at last i could hear the words or run pronounced at pray for us father butler tain intervals and this induced me to conclude that they were the burden of whatever was then re e i now rose and traversed the garden and y this means i perceived that the sound came from a particular quarter adjoining s house the of which formed part of the garden wail i stood here for a few minutes and placing my open hand in the form of a behind my ear set myself to catch the sounds more distinctly ah however was vain � i looked around and around to no purpose i saw not a quarter from which they could possibly proceed without my immediately perceiving the person who uttered them at length however an increased in the tones of the voice led me to look up and judge of my surprise when i a round rosy fat face and two large gray bullet eyes fixed upon me from a tree which grew within a few feet of the window of the house and what made the whole thing ridiculous was the rocking to and fro of the tree and consequently of � for it was himself � whilst he repeated his prayers in a tone loud and musical i could not help giving an involuntary smile almost to a laugh at such an original and singular appearance but i instantly turned away fearful of giving offence and glad also of an opportunity to conceal what he might probably set down as an improper levity on my part but which in reality was not the next glance i gave at him however i felt that there was at least in my eye and it was by no means lessened by the contrast of the grave face the eyes of which were solemnly fixed upon me out of the branches as before i then retreated to the summer house which was in the other end of the garden where i certainly enjoyed the grotesque appearance and situation of without danger of giving offence there he was about thirty five feet from the ground in a father butler seat made in the branches of the tree which had started out as they grew and formed a natural large enough with the assistance of two or three laid across the forks and covered with green to contain three men i now perceived that i must wait until the prayers should be gone through and accordingly amused myself with and with until the termination of his morning when these were concluded he v ry into the window of the second story which was just on a level with the bower and not more than a foot and a half from it in this manner descending into the parlour i now thought proper to go in and when i entered was a little water out of a bottle on the palm of his left hand in which he dipped the point of his right thumb and formed the sign of the cross upon his breast and forehead repeating certain words that were originally latin but which had stripped of that useful character of language � he paid not much attention to me while this was g ing forward although he certainly glanced his eye occasionally towards me as if he could have spared my presence yet that seemed to him on the whole to be a matter of indifference when he had finished that ceremony he gave the wife a single look with which she seemed to be well acquainted for she instantly disappeared and left him and myself together mr said i after bidding him good morrow i hope you will excuse me visit but as i am generally an early i thought it the best way to drop in as i took my morning ride and the most likely hour to find you within hope my coming has not interfered with the performance of your � in me sir said don t me i m a worm ye ve father butler a on the a wicked sinful villain and for that so is yourself an all god s if one goes to that how an ever i m an act of ty this � an more nor that � bud i m not a man that s apt to boast iv what i do that way � god forbid i � bud at any rate i hope there s many a bright angel in heaven through my worm as i am � bud i won t boast i say only take care sir an don t me if you have any regard for my call me plain � or indeed you would do me a if you called me why do you think my calling you would injure your soul i inquired it might damn it sir it might damn it to all for it might make me proud and pride as the says is the first of the seven deadly sins bud sir i m to be humble and pride is a sin i m not given to well will you let me know how you intend to put your in practice i sir retorted somewhat offended is it only us at this time o day an what did ye think we were for the last eleven years intend that s not bad an is all my an for that time is my eleven full stations to is two guineas a year to father tor masses is fifteen could a man get through all these humility why indeed i replied as you have put the question so directly to me i think it very possible he might oh i see sir said bud father an you a bit i think may i make to ax sir what you to i belong to the s | 50 |
so many of having it in one s power to pay off the debts of one s sex oh i am sure it is not in s nature to such a triumph shook her head i cannot think well of a man sports with any woman s feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a by can judge ot i do not defend him i leave him entirely to your mercy and when be has got you at i do not how much you lecture him but this i will say that his fault the liking to make girls a little in love with him is half so dangerous to a wife s happiness as a tendency to m in love himself which he has never been ta and i do seriously and truly believe that he is attached to you in a way that he never was to any woman before that be loves you with all his heart and will lore you as nearly for ever as possible if any man ever loved a woman ever i think henry will do as much for you could not avoid a faint smile but had nothing to say i imagine henry ever to have been happier continued mary presently than when he had succeeded in getting your brother s commission she had made a sure push at s feelings hen oh yes how very very kind of him i i park i know he must have exerted himself very much for t know the parties he had to move the admiral hate and and there arc so many young men s claims to be attended to in the same way that a friendship and energy not very is easily put by what a happy creature william must be i wish we could see him poor s mind was thrown into the most distressing of all its varieties the recollection of what had been done for william was always the most powerful of decision against mr and she sat thinking deeply of it till mary who had been first watching her complacently and then musing on something else suddenly called attention by saying should like to at talking with you here all day but we must not forget the ladies below and so good by my dear my amiable ray excellent for though we shall part in the breakfast parlour i must take leave of you here and i do take leave longing for a happy re union and trusting that when we meet again it will be under circumstances which may open our hearts to each other without any remnant or shadow of reserve a very very kind embrace and some agitation of manner accompanied these words i shall see your cousin in town soon he talks of being there tolerably soon and sir thomas i dare say in the course of tjie s ring and your eldest cousin and the and i am sure of meeting again and again and all but you i have two to ask � one is your correspondence vou must write to me and the other that you will often call on mrs grant and make her amends for my being gone the first at least of these would rather not have been asked but it was impossible for her to the correspondence it was impossible for her even not to to it more readily than her own judgment there was no resisting so much apparent affection her disposition was peculiarly calculated to value a fond treatment and from having hitherto known so little of it she was the more overcome by miss s besides there w� i park her for having made their the d tht bo painful than her had predicted it was over and she had escaped without reproaches and detection her secret was still her own and hat was the case she thought she could herself to almost every thing in the evening there was another henry came and sat some time with them and her not being previously in the strongest state her was for a while towards him � because he seemed to feel quite unlike his usual he said any thing he was evidently oppressed and must grieve for him though hoping she might never see him again till he were the husband some other when it came to the moment of parting he would take ber hand he would not be denied it he said nothing however or that she heard and when he had left the room she was better pleased that such a token of friendship had passed on the morrow the were gone chapter vl ms gone sir thomas s next object was he should be missed and he entertained great hope his niece would find a blank in the loss of those attentions at the time she had felt or an evil she bad tasted of consequence in its most flattering form and he did hope that the toss of it the sinking again into nothing would awaken very wholesome regrets in her mind he watched her with this idea � but he could hardly tell with what success he hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits or she was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his he did not her he that he did not and therefore applied to to tell him bow she stood affected on the present occasion and die were more or less happy than she had park did not discern any of r and thought his father a little unreasonable in g the first three or four days could produce any what chiefly surprised was that s sister the friend and companion who had been so much to her should not be more visibly regretted he wondered that spoke so seldom of and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at separation alas | 26 |
my mind long ago about it c the i s suddenly returning indignant i say they re letting in all sorts of people � and so on � at that other door can t that sir this ain t the other door � you should speak to them about the i s well i have � and they told me to come here i general amidst which he in disgust a small office boy with a strip of paper tied with red kin i see sir a moment sir alfred ain t in this court � he s engaged in another case the o b is do � it s important � you better in i tell yer send in a message for yer if that ll do the o b says it doesn t signify and young artful thinks he ll in and spend his dinner hour there � but he don t l the m m has been examining his card under a i say i ve just found out that it wasn t please wait that mr wrote on my card � it s admit a general of incredulity first w w to second w w ingenious � but a trifle transparent that eh his friend smiles the m m roused do you mean to suggest that i � he first w w oh not at all � i was speaking to my friend here on the threshold of but you really must allow that if any preference is shown at it should be given � and of right � to members of the bar chorus from the other yes they ve stood here nearly as long as you have you must wait your turn like the rest of us no ere we ve got as much right to go in as you if ta wants you admitted over our heads let him come and let you in himself if � j one goes in first it ought to be � well it ain t much consequence gentlemen for i can t let none of you in at present the m m with suppressed rage wonders if it is worth while to mention that he happens to be a himself and wishes to enter for t ie serious and legitimate purpose of collecting material for an essay he is on the abuse of cross examination to t ie nineteenth century on reflection thinks he had better not as the crowd in court is again clear the way there court rising � counsel coming out ah this is mr the white and all now we shall see they regard the m m with triumph mr passing out and the m m why my dear mutton won t they let you in here come along with me he passes his arm through the m m s walks with him to tlie other door murmurs a request for his admission and the next t ie m m is safe in the haven of his desire the other looking after him well of all the brazen impudence they are swept aside by t ie of emerging counsel spectators c and re to find the doors as closed against them as ever the threaten to write to the law times on the subject and are regarded with admiration by the rest as of popular rights boat race day the reader will kindly imagine that he has crossed bridge and is being carried along by a stream of towards the banks are already occupied � it still wants half an to the time fixed for the start � by a triple row of t te more patient and prudent spectators on t te left of path various more or less shady characters have established their and are doing t best to the first shady character over a coloured board with a revolving and not index three to one any colour you like fairest game in the world tm a tm a pop it on you two � a couple of shop boys � pop it on in was your colour � and it if a cap sure enough m a this time try it again t do blue s your fancy this turn my lord and green it is good for ever i twenty can play at this game as well as one don t be afraid o yer luck � ave another go red did you put your on and it s again � and you lose the pass on � with empty pockets fairest game in the world second s c who has been conducting a confidence from a and egg box well i you re all satisfied and if you ain t � candidly � it don t make no difference to me for i m � these premises is down fur alterations he gets off the shoulders the egg box and in search of fresh a now all you who are fond of a bit o fun and amusement jest you stop and invest a penny in this little article i am now about o boat race day to to your notice to make yer in the and practice of in the small space of five seconds and a and i think you ll agree with me as it ain t possible to become an expert at a smaller expense than the sum of one penny ere i old in my and a simple little machine of a small sheet of in a gilt frame i ve been five and forty one times never been bit by a mad dog in my life and all these articles have been thoroughly before leaving the factory therefore you ll agree with me you needn t be afraid o catching the they tell me it s nearly died out now � and no wonder with a cure for it � but this article is a certain remedy all you ve got to | 44 |
new york blame art so much as your father does and i don t believe he would blame it if he knew we could have so much of it for twelve dollars father secretly it as much as i do said the niece only he likes to talk just then mr entered he was dressed in half mourning for his father indeed he had dressed himself with exceeding care being desirous he frankly admitted to himself of making an impression he bowed graciously and took s extended hand which as she offered it he held a moment have you decided he asked they had explained when they left in the morning that they should want only one room and he inferred that they would require board he received a dreadful shock but made up his mind that the charming niece would prove the a i more charming on closer acquaintance and he deliberately decided to keep both the gentle new under his roof for a time if he could the more he thought of the plan the more interesting the situation became to him he fairly dreaded at last lest they should find their way into a remote in some cheap quarter of the city where it would be quite impossible for him to follow them he gravely announced to the astonished maid that he had determined to let out the rooms to the ladies who he pretended for her benefit were old acquaintances when they were announced he was scarcely able to conceal his pleasure mr had fallen in love we have decided to take one room said if we can agree upon the price and we wish to know the price of board stories of new york we shan t want much to eat put in miss with a nervous admirably concealed a smile his long aided him a good deal in doing this he was still standing and he put his hand to his lips i think we shall agree very easily upon the price he said miss again a little we thought twelve dollars � room and board she said leaving the sentence half finished while looked up at him my dear ladies i should not think of charging more than ten you are strangers in the city and i would not impose upon you for the world it happens that this is the dull season so we thought said miss and board and lodging ought to come a little cheaper precisely the maid will show you your sleeping room � and of course the a i entire house is at your service i hope you will find everything to your comfort i am very anxious to please he laughed a little gave him a grateful but at the same time a rather glance he felt at once that in carrying out his little he had placed himself deliberately upon a questionable footing with the beautiful girl he hoped however to redeem himself by her with his knowledge of the pursuit which he accurately judged had brought the ladies to the city had at one time done a little painting himself he had dreamed dreams as a young man which and the stern business atmosphere of the city had choked off as he looked down upon the girl s sweet gray eyes a vision of this youthful period came back to him twenty two and thirty two have this in common that the latter age is not too stories of new york far away to quite despise the younger enthusiasm at thirty two still believed in himself don t you know iii several days passed during which the ladies settled themselves very readily in their new surroundings they were very preferring to rise at an hour which to was something of he studied their habits with a view to to them as far as possible but found that he could not bring himself to give up his nine o clock and so went to his club leaving orders that the ladies should be at the earliest hour they might choose he found that they had discovered central park and came to make it a habit to stroll with them of a morning upon the and around the lakes central park a i i was a novelty to him except as seen from horseback or a four in hand and it really seemed very beautiful those summer mornings � he was really surprised don t you know he wondered that nice people did not use the park more � as they did park in london as the days went on he filled his house with flowers turned the second floor into an immense for sat about and watched her encouraged her he forgot forgot his he had strangely ceased to be bored he was happy in new york in dick told his friends at that was probably private treatment for softening of the brain which theory in fact they deemed sufficiently complimentary as for his mother and sisters in europe � why pray should he inform them of his little joke stories of new york worked away at her when the light was during the afternoon in the evening after dinner the ladies became inclined it was then that they allowed to smoke in the and talk art with indeed he found it very difficult to talk anything else with the shy new england about art � with a big a � she was there seemed to be in her soul a strange hunger for everything and richly beautiful devoted himself to studying her he became strangely interested in east village where he gathered the hon b price her father was a very distinguished republican lawyer and he drew aunt out concerning her church her minister her fear of the her fondness for cats her secret in art once in a while a i they read him a letter from the hon in which he could see | 10 |
musing and what are you now are you in the or where are you have you lately come to settle in this neighbourhood or do you own to neighbourhood are you in independent or is it wasting the motions of a bow on you come ill ill invest a bow in you which mr having replaced his tin box accordingly did as he rose to bait his trap for some devoted in nt the salute was acknowledged with morning sir i morning i morning me sir i said mc to himself he won t answer a bow gone r morning morning morning appears to be rather a old cock too said mr as before morning to sir do you remember me then asked his new acquaintance stopping in his one sided before the stall and speaking in a way though with great good humour i have noticed you go past our house sir several times in the of the last week or so our house repeated the other meaning yes said mr nodding as the other pointed the clumsy forefinger of his right glove at the comer house oh now what pursued the old fellow in an inquisitive manner carrying his knotted stick in his left arm as if it were a baby what do they allow you now it s job work i do for our house returned and with it s not yet brought to an exact allowance it s not yet brought to an exact allowance no it s not yet brought to an exact allowance oh � morning morning morning i appears to be rather a cracked old cock thought his former good opinion as the other ofl but in a moment he was back again with the question how did you get your wooden leg d mutual mr replied to this personal in an accident do you like well i haven t got to keep it warm mr made answer in a sort of desperation occasioned hy the of the question he hasn t repeated the other to his knotted stick as he gave it a he hasn t got � ha � ha � to keep it warm did you ever hear of the name of no said mr who was growing under this examination i never did hear of the name of do you like it why no retorted mr we again approaching desperation i can t say i do why don t you like it i don t know why i don t retorted mr approaching frenzy but i don t at all i ll tell you something that ll make you sorry for that said the stranger smiling my name s i can t help it returned mr in his manner the offensive addition and if i could i wouldn t but there s another chance for you said mr smiling still do you like the name of think it over or it is not sir mr we rejoined as he sat down on his stool with an air of gentle resignation combined with melancholy it is not a name as i could wish any one that i had a respect for to call me by but there may be persons that would not view it with the same objections � i don t know why mr added another question said that gentleman that s my name � or nick � what s your name � i don t said mr himself to take the same precaution as before i don t know why and i don t know why now said mr his stick closer i want to make a sort of offer to you do you remember when you first see me the wooden w looked at him with a meditative eye and also with a softened air as possibility of profit let me think i ain t quite sure and yet i generally take a sight of notice too was it on a monday morning when the butcher boy had been to our e for orders and bought a ballad of me which being with the tune i run it over to him eight w g right i but he bought more than one yes to be sure sir he bought several and wishing to lay out his money to the best he took my opinion to guide his choice and we went over the collection together to be sure we did here was him as it might be and here was myself as it might be and there was you mr as you are with your self same stick under your very same ann and your very same back towards mutual friend us to� be � added mr looking a little round mr to take him in the rear and k this last extraordinary coincidence self same back i what do you think i was doing i should judge sir that you might c glancing your eye down the street no i was a listening was you indeed said mr not in a way because you was to the butcher and you wouldn t sing secrets to a butcher in the street you know � it never happened that i did my remembrance said mr we cautiously but i might do it a man can t say what he mi t wish to do some day or another this not to release any little advantage he might derive om mr s well repeated i was a listening to you and to him and what do you � you haven t got another ol have you i m rather thick in my breath i haven t got another but you re welcome to this said it it s a treat to me to stand exclaimed mr in a tone of great enjoyment as he settled himself down still nursing his stick like a baby it s a pleasant place this i and then to be shut in on | 8 |
till he s driven a of neat cattle say ten miles through a throng country and the black soldiers maybe at his tail it s there that i learned a great part of my penetration and ye need tell me it s better than war which is the next best however though generally rather a of a the wood by business now the have had grand practice no doubt that s a branch of education that was left out with me said i and i can see the marks of it upon ye constantly said but that s the strange thing about you folk of the college learning ye re ignorant and ye see t s me for my greek and hebrew but man i ken that i ken them � there s the differ of it now here s you ye lie on your a in the of this wood and ye tell me that ye ve off these and why because i see them says you ye that s their take the worst of it said i and what are we to do i am thinking of that same said he we might it be greatly to my taste and that i see reasons against it first it s now dark and it s just possible we might give them the clean slip if we keep together we make but the ae line of it if we gang separate we make of them the more to in upon some of these gentry of yours and then second if they keep the track of us it may come to a for it yet and then i ll confess i would be to have you at my and i think you would be none the worse of having me at yours so by my way of it we should creep out of this wood no further gone than just the inside of next minute and hold away east for where i m to find my ship it u be like old days while it lasts and come the time well have to think what you should be doing i m to leave ye here wanting me have with ye then says i do ye gang back where you were stopping a fear said they were good folks to but i think they would be a good deal disappointed if they saw my face again for the way times go i just what ye could call a guest which makes me the for your ny mr david of the and set ye up for leave aside cracks here in the wood with i have scarce said black or white since the day we parted at with which he rose from his place and we began to move quietly eastward through the wood chapter xii on the march again with it was likely between one and two the moon as i have said was down a wind carrying a heavy of cloud had set in suddenly from the west and we began our movement in as black a night as ever a fugitive or a murderer wanted the whiteness of the path guided us into the sleeping town of thence through and beside my old acquaintance the of the two thieves a little beyond we made a useful was a light in an upper window of by this but a good deal at random and with some of the harvest and stumbling and falling down upon the banks we made our way across country and won forth at last upon the that they call the here under a bush of we lay down the of that night and the day called us about five a beautiful morning it was the high wind still blowing strong but the clouds all blown away to europe was already sitting up and smiling to himself it was my first sight of my friend since we were parted and i looked upon him with enjoyment he had still the big great coat on his back but what was new i he had now a pair of boot drawn above the knee doubtless these were intended for disguise but as the day promised to be warm he made a most figure well said he is this no a morning here is a day that looks the way that a day ought to this is a great change of it from the belly of my and while you were there and sleeping i have done a thing that maybe i do over seldom and what was that said i just said my prayers said he and where are my gentry as ye call them i asked says he and the short and the long of it is that we must take our chance of them up with your foot forth fortune once again of it and a walk we are like to have so we went east by the beach of the sea towards where the salt smoking in by the mouth no doubt there was a by ordinary of morning sun on arthur s seat and the green and the of the day appeared to set among i feel like a says he to be leaving scotland on a day like this it sticks in my head i would maybe like it better to stay here and ay but ye said i no but what france is a good place too he explained but it s some way no the same it s i believe but it s no scotland i like it fine on the march again with when tm there man yet i kind of weary for and the if that s all you have to complain of it s no such great affair said i and it sets me ill to be complaining whatever said he and me but new out of yon s and so you were weary of your i asked weary s | 38 |
smile upon his face and his still fixed in his eye capital this he murmured on catching sight of our faces bending over him how sold he have by ic been and then he fainted on examination we discovered that he had been seriously wounded in the leg by a in the course of the pursuit but that the chain had prevented his last s spear from doing anything more than him badly it was a merciful escape as nothing could be done for him at the moment he was placed on one of the used for the wounded and carried along with us on arriving before the nearest gate of loo we found one of our watching it in obedience to orders received from the remaining were in the same way watching the other to the town the officer in command of this regiment coming up saluted as king and informed him that s army had taken refuge in the town whither himself had also escaped but that he thought they were thoroughly and would surrender thereupon after taking counsel with us sent forward to each gate ordering the to open and promising on his royal word life and forgiveness to every soldier who laid down his arms the message was not without its effect presently amid the shouts and cheers of the the bridge was dropped across the and the gates upon the farther side flung open taking due precautions against treachery we marched on into the town all along the stood dejected warriors their heads drooping and their and at their feet who as passed saluted him as king on we marched straight to s when we reached the great space where a day or two previously we had seen the review and the witch hunt we found it deserted no not quite deserted for there on the farther by ic king solomon s mines side in front of his hut sat himself with bat one attendant � it was a melancholy sight to see him seated there his battle axe and shield by his side his chin upon his breast with but one old for companion and notwithstanding his and a pang of compassion shot through tne as i saw him thus fallen from his high estate not a soldier of all his armies not a out of the hundreds who had round him not even a solitary wife remained to share his fate or the bitterness of his fall poor savage he was learning the lesson that fate teaches to most who live long enough that the eyes of mankind are blind to the and that he who is and fallen finds few friends and little mercy nor indeed in this case did he deserve any through the gate we marched straight across the open space to where the ex king sat when within about fifty yards the regiment was halted and ac only by a small guard we advanced towards him us bitterly as we came as we drew near for the first time lifted up his head and fixed his one eye which seemed to flash with suppressed fury almost as brightly as the great bound round his forehead upon his successful rival � hail o king i he said with bitter mockery thou who hast eaten of my bread and now by the aid of the white man s magic hast my and defeated mine army hail what fate hast thou for me o king the fate thou to my father whose throne thou hast sat on these many years i was the stem answer it is well i will show thee how to die that thou remember it against thine own time see the sun by ic king solomon s mines sinks in blood and he pointed with his red battle axe towards the fiery now going down it is well that my san should sink with it and now o king i am ready to die but i the boon of the royal house to die fighting thou not refuse it or even those who fled to day will hold thee it is granted � with whom wilt thou fight myself i cannot fight with thee for the king fights not except in war s sombre eye ran up and down our ranks and i felt as for a moment it rested on myself that the position had developed a new horror what if he chose to begin by fighting me what chance should i have against a desperate savage six feet five high and broad in proportion i might as well commit suicide at once hastily i made up my mind to decline the combat even if i were out of as a consequence it is i think better to be than to be with a battle axe presently he spoke what thou shall we end what we began to day or shall i call thee coward white � even to the liver nay interposed hastily thou shalt not fight with not if he is afraid said unfortunately sir henry understood this remark and the blood up into his cheeks it is a law the that no man of the royal blood can be put to death unless by his own consent which is however never refused he is allowed to choose a succession of to be approved by the king with whom he fights until one of them him t by ic king solomon s mines i will fight him he said he shall see if i am afraid for god s sake i entreated don t risk your life against that of a desperate man anybody who saw you to day will know that you are not a coward i will fight him was the sullen answer no living man shall call me a coward i am ready now and he stepped forward and lifted his axe i wrung my hands over this absurd piece of but | 18 |
to his face and peace to his heart but you said there have been changes with you also why should not the workman carry his tools where are bow and sword and cap � and why so warlike john it is a game which friend hath been a me and i found him an over apt pupil grumbled the he hath stripped me as though i had fallen into the hands of the but by my you must render them back to me lest you bring upon my mission and i will pay you for them at s prices take them back man and never heed the pay said john i did but wish to learn the feel of them since i am like to have to my own for some years to come ma foi he was bom for a free companion cried he hath the very trick of speech and turn of thought i take them back then and indeed it gives me not to feel my tapping against my but see on this side of the church rises the square and tower of earl s castle and even from here i seem to see on yonder banner the red of the bed upon white aid his eyes but whether or no is more than i could how black is the great tower and how bright the gleam of arms upon the wall see below the flag how it like a star aye it is the steel head piece of the remarked the but we must on if we are to be there before the rises at the for it is likely that sir being so renowned a soldier may keep hard discipline within the walls and let no man enter after so saying he quickened his pace and the three comrades were soon close to the straggling and broad spread town which round the noble church and the frowning castle it chanced on that very evening that sir having before sunset as was his custom and having himself seen that and his two with the thirteen the five my lady s three and the great gray had all their needs supplied had taken his dogs for an evening sixty or seventy of them large and small smooth and shaggy � deer hound hound blood hound wolf hound � snapping yelling and with score of tongues and waving tails came down the narrow w which leads from the to tb of two with loud and walked deep amid the swarm guiding and behind came sir himself with lady upon his arm the pair walking slowly and as both their age and their condition while they watched with a smile in their eyes the crowd in front of them they paused however at the bridge and leaning their elbows upon the stone work they stood looking down at their own faces in the stream and at the swift flash of against the gravel sir was a slight man of poor stature with soft voice and gentle ways so short was he that his wife who was no very tall woman had the better of him by the breadth of three fingers his sight having been injured in his early wars by a of lime which had been emptied over him when he led the earl of s up the breach at he had contracted something of a stoop with a peering expression of face his age was six and forty but the constant practice of arms together with a life had preserved his activity and endurance so that from a distance he seemed to have the slight limbs and swift e of a boy his face however was of a dull yellow tint with a look which spoke of rough out door doings and the little pointed beard which he wore in deference to the prevailing fashion was and shot with gray his features were small delicate and regular with clear cut nose and eyes which forward from the his dress was simple and yet a hat of bearing in the band the token of our lady of was drawn low upon the left side to hide that ear which had been partly from his head by a man at arms in a camp before his or and trunk were of a purple color with long which hung from either sleeve to below bis his shoes were pf red leather pointed at the toes but not yet prolonged to the extravagant which the succeeding reign was to bring into fashion a gold embroidered belt of encircled his with his arms five roses on a field worked upon the clasp so stood sir upon the bridge of and talked lightly with his lady and had the two alone been seen and the stranger been asked which were the more likely to belong to the bold warrior whose name was loved by the of europe he had assuredly selected the lady s her face was large and square and red with fierce thick brows and the eyes of one who was accustomed to rule taller and broader than her husband her flowing gown of and fur lined could not conceal the gaunt and outlines of her figure it was the age of martial women the deeds of black of of lady and of the of were still fresh in the public mind with such examples before them the wives of the english captains had become as warlike as their mates and ordered the castles in their absence with the prudence and discipline of easy were the of their castle of and little had they to dread from or french while lady mary had the ordering of it yet even in that age it was thought that though a lady might have a soldier s heart it was scarce as well that she should have a soldier s face there were men who said that of all the stem passages and daring | 4 |
the bounds prescribed and to no enterprise beyond its proper though it was agreed tbe spanish might eastern parts of tbe ocean in their voyages � circumstances the proposed expedition to d the line but tbe treaty remained in force and n all further y thus says this great question toe greatest ever agitated between the two crowns for it was the part c i of a new world was settled by the and of two of the most tbat ever swayed it was arranged to tbe con of both parties each holding himself entitled to tbe vast countries tbat he discovered within his boundary without regard to the rights of the native inhabitants c � life and of book vi chapter i departure of on his second voyage of the islands the departure of on his second voyage of discovery presented a brilliant contrast to his gloomy at on the th september at the dawn of day the bay of was by his there were three large ships of heavy and fourteen with flapping sails and awaiting the signal to get under way the harbour with the note of the sailor sail or weigh peter martyr says they were a large species of merchant vessel principally used in trade of one hun tons and that two of the were much larger than the rest and more capable of bearing decks from the size of their f life and voyages of ing a crowd were on board and taking leave of their friends in the confidence of a voyage and triumphant return there as the spirited bound on romantic enterprise the hardy t ambitious of acquiring in these seas the adventurer who every from change of place and distance the keen eager to profit by the savage tribes f and the pale missionary from the anxious to extend the dominion of the church or devoutly zealous for the pro of the faith all were full of animation and lively hope instead of being regarded by the as ted men bound upon a dark and desperate contemplated with envy as favoured mortals destined to golden regions and happy where nothing but wealth and wonders and delights awaited them moved among the throng conspicuous for his height and for his commanding appearance he was attended by his two sons and the eldest but a who had come to witness his departure proud of the glory of their father wherever he passed every eye followed him with admiration and every tongue praised and blessed him before sunrise the whole fleet was under way the weather was serene and and as tlie watched their parting sails brightening in the morning beams they looked forward to joyful return laden with the treasures of the new world according to the instructions of the sovereigns wide of the of and of its islands standing to the for tlie where they arrived on the first of october touching at the grand cap tb on the at where they took in � of wood and water for he voyage here they purchased and sheep to stock the of and eight from to the infinite number of swine was md which the spanish in the new world a number of domestic fowls were s which were the origin of the species io die new worm hm the same be said of the seeds of and various orchard which were first introduced into the islands of l west from the or fortunate islands of the old on the tb when about to sail gave to the commander of each vessel a sealed letter of instructions in which was his route to the harbour of the residence of the this was only to be opened in case of being separated by accident � � be wished to make a mystery as long as of the to the newly discovered countries lest of other nations and particularly the should follow in his track and interfere with his after making sail from they were for a few days among the on the th of october a fair sprang up fi m the east which car � ind cap s ms t de is were wild small and bitter as discovery li also that the consider the small bitter wild orange of native origin but i de t p � j sup vol i n life and voyages of them out of sight of the of held his coarse to the intending to keep more to the southward than in his first voyage in hopes of falling in with the islands of the of which he had received such vague and wonderful firom the indians being in the region of the trade winds the continued fair and steady with a sea and pleasant weather and by the th they had made hundred and fifty west of without having seen any of those fields of sea weeds which they had encountered within a much less distance on their first voyage when their appearance had been so important and almost inspiring continual hope and them forward in their enterprise now they needed no such ihey were full of confidence and lively anticipation and on seeing a swallow about the ships and being visited occasionally by sudden showers they began to look out cheerily for towards the latter part of october they were alarmed in the night by one of those sudden of heavy rain which are accompanied in the with intense lightning and tremendous of thunder it lasted for four hours and they considered themselves in much peril until they beheld several of those flames playing about the tops of the and gliding along the which are occasionally seen about tempest vessels during a highly state of the atmosphere these singular phenomena in such awful times of gloom and peril have always been objects of superstitious fancies among records their present appearance and makes remarks on them strongly characteristic of letter of dr the age in lie | 48 |
whether we ve tea at four or at five o clock he d on till six if you d let him � he s like off his head however mrs herself could not deny that was a very pretty spoken woman she al says she gets as mine nowhere i know that very well � other folks buy em at shops � thick things you as well ate a the sight of little often stirred in s mind a sense of the which had made a fatal blank in her life she had fleeting thoughts that perhaps among her husband s distant relatives there might be some children whom she could help to bring up some little girl whom she might adopt and she promised herself one day or other to hunt a cousin of his � a married woman of whom he had lost sight for many years but at present her hands and heart were too ml for her to carry out that scheme to her great her project of settling mrs at mount had been delayed by the discovery that f pairs were necessary in order to make the house and it was not till september had set in that she had the satisfaction of seeing her old friend comfortably and the rooms destined for mr scenes of life looking pretty and to her heart s content she had taken several of his chief friends into her confidence and they were warmly wishing success to her plan for him to quit poor mrs s dingy house and that he consent to some change was becoming more and more a matter of anxiety to his hearers for though no more decided symptoms were yet in him than increasing a dry cough and an occasional of breath it was felt that the fulfilment of mr s could not long be deferred and that this obstinate in labour and self disregard must soon be x ut short by a total failure of strength any hopes that the influence of mr s father and sister would prevail on him to change his mode of life � that they would perhaps come to live with him or that his sister at least might come to see him and that the arguments which had failed from other lips might be more from hers � were now quite dissipated his father had lately had an attack of and could not spare his only daughter s on mr s return from a visit to his father miss was very anxious to know whether his sister had not urged him to try change of air from his answers she gathered that miss wished him to give up his and travel or at least go to the south coast s repentance and why will you not do so miss said you might come back to us well and strong and have many years of usefulness before you no he answered quietly i think people attach more importance to such measures than is i don t see any good end that is to be served by going to die at nice instead of dying amongst one s friends and one s work i cannot leave � at least i will not leave it voluntarily but though he remained immovable on this point he had been compelled to give up his afternoon service on the sunday and to accept mr s offer of aid in the evening service as well as to his labours and he had even written to mr to request that he would another to the district on the understanding that the new should receive the salary but that mr should co operate with him as long as he was able the which is an almost constant attendant on consumption had not the effect of deceiving him as to the nature of his malady or of making him look forward to ultimate recovery he believed himself to be and he had not yet felt any desire to escape the early death which he had for some time contemplated as probable even hopes will take their direction from the strong habitual bias of the mind and to mr death had for years seemed nothing else than the laying down of a under of life which he sometimes felt himself fainting a only s about his powers of work he flattered hun self that what he was unable to do one l e be equal to the next and he would not admit that in from any part of his labour he was it permanently he had lately delighted mr by accepting his long proffered loan of the little and he so much benefit constant riding exercise for walking hat he to think he should be to i some of the work he had dropped that was a happy afternoon for when after herself busily for a week with her mother and mrs she saw it looking orderly and comfortable from to cellar it was an old red brick house with two in front and two trees the garden gate a simple homely looking place that quiet people might easily get fond of and now it was and polished and and so as to look really b within when there was nothing more to be done delighted herself with contemplating mr s study first sitting down in the and lying for a moment on the sofa that she might have a sense of the repose he g t from these articles of furniture she ha gone to on purpose to choose now mother she said when she had finished s repentance her survey you have done your work as well as j fairy mother or god mother that ever turned a into a coach ao horses ton stay and have tea with mrs while i go to mrs s j ant to tell mary and the good news that i ve got the to promise that he will | 14 |
gone about dressed herself for a walk one morning and started for s house in the little cross street intelligence of the deep sorrow of her friend on account of the loss of had reached her ears also and her conscience reproached her for winning him away was not altogether satisfied with the sailor she liked his attentions and she the dignity of matrimony but she had never been deeply in love with for one thing she was ambitious and his position was hardly so good as her own while there was always the chance of an io to please his wife attractive woman considerably above her it had long been in her mind that she would not strongly object to give him back again to if her friend felt so very badly about him to this end she had a letter of to which letter she carried in her hand intending to post it if personal observation of convinced her that her friend was suffering entered lane and stepped down into the shop which was below the pavement level s father was never at home at this hour of the day and it seemed as though was not at home either for the visitor could make nobody hear customers came so seldom hither that a five minutes absence of the proprietor counted for little waited in the little shop where had set out � as women can � articles in themselves of slight value so as to obscure the of the stock in trade till she to please his wife saw a figure pausing without the window apparently absorbed in the contemplation of the books of paper and prints hung on a string it was captain peering in to ascertain if was there alone moved by an impulse of reluctance to meet him in a spot which breathed of she slipped through the door that communicated with the parlour at the back had frequently done so before for in her friendship with she had the freedom of the house without ceremony entered the shop through the thin blind which the glass she could see that he was disappointed at not finding there he was about to go out again when her form darkened the doorway hastening back from some errand at sight of she started back as if she would have gone out again no to please his wife don t run away don t said he what can make ye afraid i m not afraid captain only � only i saw you all of a sudden and � it made me jump her voice showed that her heart had jumped even more than the rest of her i just called as i was passing he said for some paper she hastened behind the counter no no why do ye get behind there why not stay by me you seem to hate me i don t hate you how can i then come out so that we can talk like christians obeyed with a fitful laugh till she stood again beside him in the open part of the shop there s a dear he said you mustn t say that captain because the words belong to somebody else to please his wife in ah i know what you mean but upon my life i didn t know till this morning that you cared one bit about me or i should not have done as i have done i have the best of feelings for but i know that from the beginning she hasn t cared for me more than in a friendly way and i see now the one i ought to have asked to be my wife you know when a man comes home from sea after a long voyage he s as blind as a bat � he can t see who s who in women they are all alike to him beautiful creatures and he takes the first that comes easy without thinking if she loves him or if he might not soon love another better than her from the first i inclined to you most but you were so backward and shy that i thought you didn t want me to bother ee and so i went to don t say any more mr e don t said she choking you are going to marry to please his wife next month and it is wrong � o � oh my darling he cried and clasped her little figure in his arms before she was aware behind the curtain turned pale tried to withdraw her eyes but could not it is only you i love as a man ought to love the woman he is going to marry and i know this from what has said that she will willingly let me she wants to marry higher i know and only said yes to me out of kindness a fine tall girl like her isn t the sort for a plain sailors wife you be the best suited for that he kissed her and kissed her again her form quivering in the agitation of his embrace i wonder � are you sure � is going to break with you oh are you sure because to please his wife i know she would not wish to make us miserable she will release me h i i hope she will don t stay any longer captain he lingered however till a customer came for a penny stick of wax and then he withdrew green envy had at the scene she looked about for a way of escape to get out without s knowledge of her visit was indispensable she crept from the parlour into the passage and thence to the front door of the house where she let herself noiselessly into the street the sight of that caress had reversed all her resolutions she could not let go reaching home she burnt the letter and told her mother | 45 |
g over himself and but at all events the thing was done perhaps on more than one occasion and was allowed on all hands not only as a tact but as characteristic of sporting idol it was all over or just like this phrase was also applied to many other heroic a the idea of for instance adapted from the code was said to be practically enforced in the case of and other objectionable persons in the lake at while the administration of to and generally by the squire � these e much lain class ine same to which the and independent belongs for the clenched fist became an open hand after it had done its work � a golden tliat is was always applied after these such as healed all wounds of might at one time have been member for the county if he had pleased but he desired no seat except in tiie saddle or on the driving box he showed such skill in riding and with the ribbons that some persons supposed that his talents must be very considerable in other matters and tn regret their there were that he knew latin better than his own and was or had been so a student of writ that he could give you chapter and verse for thing but it must be allowed thai others were not wanting to whisper that these of were and that all the wonder lay in the fact that the squire knew any thing of such matters at all nay a few even ventured to their opinion that but for his and his money there was nothing more remarkable in than in but this idea was never within twenty miles of the real is that the time was to the display of the squire s particular traits he would have been an eminent personage had be been a and lived in the reign of king john even now if he have removed his establishment to and assumed the character of a russian proprietor he would doubtless hare been a great prince there was a savage magnificence about him and also certain degrading traits which su the unfortunately he was a squire in the the contrast however of his splendid with the quiet time and industrious locality in which he lived while it diminished his influence did on the other hand no doubt his reputation he was looked upon as and used to be as a an eccentric an altogether exceptional personage to license was permitted and the charitable divided the race for his sake into men women and the same philosophic few however who denied him talent that he was ha f mad and indeed fortune had so her on him from his birth that it might well be that they had turned his bead his father had died while was bnt an infant so that the income from his vast estates had accumulated to an enormous sum when ho his majority in the mean time his mi had supplied him with out of all pro to his tender years at ten years old e had a pack of of his own and hunted the county regularly twice a week at the public school where he was with difficulty persuaded to remain for a short period be had an allowance the amount of which would have for the needs of a professional man with a wife and family and yet it is recorded of him that he had the audacity � the boy is to the man and it was so like they said � to complain to his guardian a great lawyer that his means were he also demanded a lump sum down on the ground that being at bred in the the ripe age of he marriage the reply of the is pre aa well as the gentleman s application if can t live npon allowance starve sir and if jou marry net have allowance yon had having authority to do bo � to advise and he to go to your opinion and did you attempt to oppose him in any you would its accomplishment he did not mar at fourteen indeed but he did so in less than three years afterward and had issue bnt at the ago of five and thirty when our stage opens he had neither wife nor child but lived as ft bachelor at which was called the by reason of its and sometimes liberty hall on account of its license otherwise it was never called any thing but never hall or n park � hut simply just like or and yet the park at was as splendid an of and avenue of and as could be desired it was all laid out upon a certain plan � somewhere in the old house was the very on which the chase was ordered like a garden a drives here from one like the of a wheel and here made a st s cross in the very centre � bnt the area was so immense and the stature of the trees so great that nothing of this formality could be observed in the park itself not only were the oaks and of large and often of giant proportions but the very grew so tall that whole of deer were hidden in it and could only be traced by their there were red deer also almost as numerous with curiously as though they had acquired that vegetation by as ihey often did against the high wooden p de � itself made picturesque by age � which them in prison for miles moreover there were wild cattle as at not of the same breed the of whose kept the few public paths that this wild very these animals imported half a century ago wore of no use nor of particular beauty and would have away from the of the locality for their bnt that they were and at 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having first paid au his debts to and sat alone in the empty house all day and when returned wept the easy tears of age till they cried themselves a week later staggering under a huge bundle of clothes and cooking pots led the old man and woman to the railway station where the bustle and confusion made them we are going back to said to whose sleeve was clinging there are more of us there and here my house is empty he helped into the carriage and turning back said to me i should have been priest of the j life s if there had been ten of us surely we must have been forgotten by our the remnant of the broken colony passed out of the station on their journey south while a turning over the books on the was whistling to himself the ten little boys but the tune sounded as solemn as the dead march it was the of the jews in the of if you consider the of the case it was the only thing that he could do but has been hanged by the neck till he is dead and is dead also three years ago when the steamer was at and the weather was very hot indeed the big fat who fed the second right furnace thirty feet down in the hold got leave to go ashore he departed a boy as they call the he returned the full blooded of � his with a bottle in each hand then he sat on the fore grating eating salt fish and and singing the songs of a far country the food belonged to the or head man of the sailors he had just cooked it for himself turned to borrow some salt and when he came back s dirty black fingers were into the rice a is a person of importance far above a though the draws better pay he sets the chorus of ah when the captain s is pulled up to the he the lead too and sometimes when all the ship is lazy he puts on his muslin and a big red and plays with the passengers children on the quarter deck then the passengers g ve him money and he it all up for an at or or by se life s ho you fat black barrel you re eating my food said in the other that be s where the tongue stops and runs from port said eastward till east is west and the of the islands gossip with the strayed son of monkey face dried s liver i am the and the commander of all this ship take away your and thrust the empty rice plate into s hand beat it into a basin over s head drew his knife and in the leg drew his knife but dropped into the darkness of the hold and through the grating at who was the clean fore deck with his blood only the white moon saw these things for the officers were looking after the and the passengers were tossing in their close ah right said � and went forward to tie up his we will settle the account later on he was a bom in india married once in where his wife had a cigar shop on the road once in to a chinese girl and once in to a woman who sold fowls the english sailor cannot owing to and telegraph marry as as he used to do but native sailors can being by the barbarous inventions of the western savage was a good husband when he happened to remember the existence of a wife but he was also a very good and it is not wise to offend a because he does not forget anything moreover in s case blood had been drawn and food spoiled d the of morning rose with a blank mind he was no longer of but a very hot so he went on deck and opened hb jacket to the morning breeze till a knife came like a flying sh and stuck into the of the cook s half an inch from his right he ran down below before his time trying to remember what he could have said to the owner of the weapon at noon when all the ship s were feeding advanced into their midst and being a placid man with a large regard for his own skin he opened saying men of the ship last night i was drunk and this morning i know that i behaved to some one or another of you who was that man that i may meet him face to face and say that i was measured the distance to s naked breast if he sprang at him he might be tripped up and a blind blow at the chest sometimes only means sh on the breast bone ribs are to between unless the subject be so he said nothing nor did the other their faces immediately dropped all expression as is the custom of the oriental when there is g on the carpet or any chance of trouble looked long at the white he was only an african and could not read characters a big sigh � almost a groan � broke from him and he went back to the the took up the conversation where he had interrupted it they talked of the best methods of cooking rice suffered considerably from lack of fresh air during the run to he only came on deck to breathe when all the world was about and even then a heavy block once dropped from a within a foot life s of his head and an apparently lashed grating on which he set his foot began to turn over with the intention of dropping him on the cargo fifteen feet below and one night the knife dropped from the fo c s le and this | 39 |
hate to have it left in that way a day longer i have told out and out what we are going to do and if she won t listen to reason she must take the consequences yes might have been only a lay figure with a capacity for uttering set phrases for all the he ever took with his sister she went on talking to him more to free her mind than because it made the least difference whether he agreed with her or not that young mr coming here at this time was very fortunate she proceeded after what he told me i was sure that the i had heard in boston were true pretended not to believe a word as long as there was any use in pretending and then said she should wait until her husband came home to give him a chance to deny it if he would i never was so out of patience in my life of course he will deny it and she is just enough to believe him oh the stuff and nonsense she talked to me she couldn t believe anything about the father of her children she said perhaps she hadn t done her whole duty herself he was a literary man and couldn t be expected to stay in a dull place like you can believe i knew how to answer her you ve had eight years or more of this sort of marriage i said and i should think that was long enough trial to give any my husband i you him man he has been gone this time most six months and you are getting to be the laughing stock of the whole place when he comes back you ll run down the walk to meet him as you ve always done and throw your arms around his neck it is disgusting and he off with other women while you are for his young ones of course she cried and said she couldn t believe he could do anything wrong and that she loved him very much and all that sort of thing i never could have thought a would act so the paused from sheer exhaustion at her own rapid speech i told her not to be a little but to stand up for her rights like a woman she went on presently to the lay figure i said here is the name where he visits at boston and the very street and number will you go down there or send some one to watch them when he comes from europe you can get a divorce and make him pay a good sum as but she wouldn t consent to anything she would only say that when he came she would ask him about it and she couldn t tell what she would do until she heard his side of the story then i got provoked in earnest you haven t anything of your own i said but this house and i suppose you are on me to support you when your fine husband goes off for good with his sweetheart now let me tell you that you won t ever get a dollar of mine as long as you stick to that man when he stops sending his you can go to the for all of me i will have the will changed before i am a week older and then i walked out of the house leaving her crying like a baby oh i wish she had half of my she wouldn t go on her husband s year after year letting that fool her as be does i yes there seemed to be nothing to call for any other reply on the part of the lay figure a few minutes later the clock struck nine and the signal was immediately recognized by both of them for thirty years and more they had gone to bed at nine o clock and risen at five summer and winter ten minutes after the ninth stroke had died away both of them were sound asleep aunt s prompt call as soon as she had her story to tell did not add to s peace of mind the had not crossed the threshold for a long time before the day when she came with the in her hands and threw it without pity into the quiet house to entertain a dim fear that her husband had improper reasons for his long was one thing to have a name given her with a number and street was quite another she had no one to go to poor child with her troubles and it seemed especially hard just at this time that mr whose presence had been such a consolation should come so seldom and at his visits appear so constrained and unnatural the situation grew so painful at last that resolved at whatever cost to have an understanding with one evening they strolled down the street together and he opened the conversation how much longer do you expect to stay in laughed it is a curious thing that i was just on the point of asking you the same question he said too know oh as for me responded i may stay here forever for all i know being without any business one place is the same to me as another you seem to find this one very agreeable said the other in a sly tone couldn t help understanding this and he flushed hotly but he only said yes very laughed again we might as well be honest with each other he said in a familiar tone you know what brought me here and i know what keeps you here i have found out what i came to learn and you he paused appearing to think that the sentence did not need finishing but his look was sufficiently expressive you came here said slowly biting off the end | 1 |
come the rains and after the rains comes the spring go back before thou art driven who will drive me will drive go back to thy people go to man when drives i will go answered red dog there is no more to say said little brother thou raise me to my feet i also was a leader of the free people very carefully and gently lifted the bodies aside and raised to his feet both arms round him and the lone wolf drew a long breath and began the death song that a leader of the pack should sing when he dies it gathered strength as he went on lifting and lifting and ringing far across the river till it came to the last good hunting and shook himself clear of for an instant and leaping into the air fell backward dead upon his last and most terrible kill sat with the head on his knees careless of anything else while the remnant of the flying were being overtaken and run down by the merciless little by little the cries died away and the wolves returned as their wounds to take stock of the losses fifteen of the pack as well as half a dozen lay dead by the river and of the others not one was and sat through it all till the cold daybreak when s wet red was dropped in his hand and drew back to show the gaunt body of good hunting said as though o the second book were still alive and then over his bitten shoulder to the others howl dogs a wolf has died to night but of all the pack of two hundred fighting whose boast was that all were their and that no living thing could stand before them not one returned to the to carry that word song this is the song that sang as the dropped down one after another to the river bed when the great fight was finished is good friends with everybody but he is a cold blooded kind of creature at heart because he knows that almost everybody in the comes to him in the long run were my companions going forth by night � for look you for now come i to whistle them the ending of the fight of word they gave me overhead of newly slain word i gave them of buck upon the plain here s an end of every trail � they shall not speak again they that called the hunting cry � they that followed fast � for look you for the second book they that bade the wheel and pinned him as he passed � of chill they that behind the scent � they that ran before they that the level horn � they that here s an end of every trail � they shall not follow more these were my companions pity t was tliey died for chill look you for now come i to comfort them that knew them in their pride of tattered flank and sunken eye open mouth and red locked and and lone they lie the dead upon their dead here s an end of every trail � and here my hosts are fed the spring running man goes to man cry the challenge through the he that was our brother goes away hear now and judge o ye people of the � answer who shall turn him � who shall stay man goes to man he is weeping in the he that was our brother sorrows sore i man goes to man i oh we loved him in the to the man trail where we may not follow more the spring running he second year after the great fight with red dog and the death of must have been nearly seventeen years old he looked older for hard exercise the best of good eating and whenever he felt in the least hot or dusty had given him strength and growth far beyond his age he could swing by one hand from a top branch for half an hour at a time when he had occasion to look along the tree roads he could stop a young buck in mid the second book gallop and throw him sideways by the head he could even jerk over the big blue wild that lived in the of the north the people who used to fear him for his wits feared him now for his strength and when he moved quietly on his own affairs the mere whisper of his coming cleared the wood paths and yet the look in his eyes was always gentle even when he fought his eyes never blazed as s did they only grew more and more interested and excited and that was one of the things that himself did not understand he asked about it and the boy laughed and said when i miss the kill i am angry when i must go empty for two days i am very angry do not my eyes talk then the mouth is angry said but the eyes say nothing hunting eating or swimming it is all one � like a stone in wet or dry weather looked at him lazily from under his long and as usual the s head dropped knew his master they were lying out far up the side of a hill overlooking the and the morning mist hung below them in bands of white and green as the sun rose it changed into seas of red gold off and let the the spring running low rays the dried grass on which and were resting it was the end of the cold weather the leaves and the trees looked worn and faded and there was a dry rustle everywhere when the wind blew a little leaf tap tap tapped furiously against a as a single leaf caught in a current will it roused for he the morning air | 39 |
i was too sorrowful to discuss the question which would possibly have been beyond me under any circumstances and mr took me back into the parlor breathing with some difficulty on the way he then called down a little break neck range of steps behind a door bring up that tea and bread and butter which after some time during which i sat looking about me and thinking and listening to the in the room and the tune that was being across the yard appeared on a tray and turned out to be for me i have been acquainted with you said mr after watching me for some minutes during which i had not made much impression on the breakfast for the black things destroyed my appetite i have been acquainted with you a long time my young friend the personal history and experience have you sir all your life said mr i may say before it i knew your father before you he was five foot nine and a half and he lays in five and ty foot of ground eat � rat � rat � across the yard he lays in five and ty foot of ground if he lays in a said mr pleasantly it was either his request or her direction i forget which do you know how my little brother is sir i inquired mr shook his head eat � rat � rat � he is in his mother s arms said he oh poor little fellow is he dead don t mind it more than you can help said mr yes the baby s dead my wounds broke out afresh at this intelligence i left the breakfast and went and rested my head on another table in a corner of the little room which hastily cleared lest i should spot the mourning that was lying there with my tears she was a pretty girl and put my hair away from my eyes with a soft kind touch but she was very cheerful at having nearly finished her work and being in good time and was so different from me presently the tune left off and a good looking young fellow came across the yard into the room he had a hammer in his hand and his mouth was full of little nails which he was obliged to take out before he could speak well said mr how do you get on all right said done sir colored a little and the other two girls smiled at one another what you were at it by candle light last night when i was at the club then were you said mr shutting up one eye yes said as you said we could make a little trip of it and go over together if it was done and me � and you oh i thought you were going to leave me out altogether said mr laughing till he � as you was so good as to say that resumed the young man why i turned to with a will you see will you give me your opinion of it i will said mr rising my dear and he stopped and turned to me would you like to see your no father interposed i thought it might be agreeable my dear said mr but perhaps you re right i can t say how i knew it was my dear dear mother s coffin that they went to look at i had never heard one making i had never seen one that i know of but it came into my mind what the noise was while it was going on and when the young man entered i am sure i knew what he had been doing the work being now finished the two girls whose names i had not heard brushed the and threads from their dresses and went into the shop to put that to rights and wait for customers stayed behind to fold up what they had made and pack it in two baskets this of david she did upon her knees humming a lively little tune the while who i had no doubt was her lover came in and stole a kiss from her while she was busy he didn t appear to mind me at all and said her father was gone for the chaise and he must make haste and get himself ready then he went out again and then she put her and in her pocket and stuck a needle with black thread neatly in the bosom of her gown and put on her outer clothing at a little glass behind the door in which i saw the reflection of her pleased face all this i observed sitting at the table in the corner with my head leaning on my hand and my thoughts running on very different things the chaise soon came round to the front of the shop and the baskets being put in first i was put in next and those three followed i remember it as a kind of half chaise cart half piano van painted of a sombre color and drawn by a black horse with a long tail there was plenty of room for us all i do not think i have ever experienced so strange a feeling in my life i am wiser now perhaps as that of being with them remembering how they had been employed and seeing them enjoy the ride i was not angry with them i was more afraid of them as if i were cast away among creatures with whom i had no community of nature they were very cheerful the old man sat in front to drive and the two young people sat behind him and whenever he spoke to them leaned forward the one on one side of his face and the other on the other and made a great deal of him they would have talked to me | 8 |
still several hours to dispose of before the de ms the fruit of the tree of the midnight train and if she did not return hours and dates no longer existed for her it would be easier � infinitely easier � not to go back to take up her life with would under any circumstances be painful enough to take it up under the of her pledge to mr seemed more than human courage could face as she approached the square she had almost reached the conclusion that such a temporary renewal was beyond her strength � beyond what any standard of duty the question of an alternative hardly troubled her she would simply go on living and find an escape in work and material hardship it would not be hard for so a person to slip back into the obscure mass of humanity she paused a moment on the edge of the square vaguely seeking a direction for her feet that might permit the working of her thoughts to go on and as she stood there her eyes fell on the bench near the corner of twenty sixth street where she had sat with on the day of his flight from l he too had dreamed of escaping from problems into the clear air of hard work and simple duties and she remembered with which she had turned him back the cases of course were not identical since he had been flying in anger and wounded pride from a situation for which he was in no wise to blame j t i the fruit of the tree yet if even at such a moment she had insisted on charity and forbearance how could she now show less than she had of him if you go away for a time surely it ought to be in such a way that your going does not seem to cast any reflection on that was how she had put it to him and how with the mere change of a name she must now for reasons as put it to herself it was just as much a part of the course she had planned to return to her husband now and take up their daily life together as it would later on be her duty to drop out of that life when her doing so could no longer involve him in the penalty to be paid she stood a little while looking at the bench on which they had sat and gi thanks in her heart for the past strength which was now helping to build up her failing courage such a business are our best yet so faithfully does each weak upward impulse reach back a hand to the next s explanation of her to mr was not wholly to her husband she did not conceal from him that the scene had been painful but she gave him to understand as briefly as possible that mr after his first movement of distress had seemed able to make for the pressure under which she had acted and tliat he the fruit of the tree had at any rate ven no sign of intending la let her confession make any change in the relation between the if she did not � as afterward recalled � put all this into words she contrived to convey it in her in her allusions above all in her recovered composure she had the of one who has gone through a severe of strength but come out of it in complete control of the situation there was something slightly unnatural in this prompt solution of so complicated a difficulty and it had the effect of making ask himself what to produce such a result must have been the of her communication to mr if the latter bad any disposition to be cruel or even unjust s would have rushed instantly to his wife s defence but the fact that there was apparently to be no call on them left his reason free to compare and with the final result thai the more he pondered on his father in law s attitude the less intelligible it became a few days after s return he was called to new york on business and before leaving he told her that he should of course take the opportunity of a talk with mr she received the statement with the gentle composure from which she had not departed since her return from town and he added as if to provoke her to the fruit of the tree a clearer expression of feeling i shall not be satisfied of till i see for myself just how he feels � just how at bottom this has affected him � since my own future relation to him will as i have already told you depend entirely on his treatment of you she met this without any sign of disturbance his treatment of me was very kind she said but would it not on your part she continued hesitatingly be kinder not to touch on the subject so soon again the line deepened between his brows touch on it i sha n t rest till i ve gone to the bottom of it till then you must understand he up with decision i fed myself only on here at yes � i understand she assented and as he bent over to kiss her for a impenetrable barrier seemed to lie between their lips it was s turn to await with a passionate anxiety her husband s home coming and when on the third day he reappeared her dearly acquired self control gave way to a tremulous eagerness this was after all the turning point in their lives thing depended on how mr had played up to his cue had kept to his side of their bond s face showed signs of when feeling once broke out in him it had full play the fruit of the tree and | 10 |
about the of and the inherent of man and the portion of his nature that christ derived from his mother with of the right of a man to be a magistrate and a church member at the same time were in the heated brain of the scrupulous but robinson saw that these would involve the church if it remained in in robinson the force of had already spent itself and his practical wisdom had set bounds to the course of his chap iii s plantation z removal to i the book ii s plantation window s relation log c to leave the dutch metropolis for a smaller place was to reduce the to still deeper poverty but nevertheless the fled from discord as they had fled from persecution and removed to the university city of called by its admirers the of the after their departure english in went on tearing itself to pieces in a sincere endeavor to find ultimate truth but robinson s people in spite of their poverty were united and were honored by those among whom they others hearing of their good report came to them from england and the church of was fairly prosperous danger of iv but when ten years of exile had passed the outlook was not a pleasant one the life in was so hard that many chose to return to their own land preferring english to liberty at so dear a rate the tender hearts of many a loving father and mother were wounded to see children growing under the weight of hard and incessant toil the vigor of nature being consumed in the very bud as it were some of the young people were by the of the city others joined the dutch army or made long voyages at sea acquiring habits very foreign to the of their parents the result of a contest between the rigid of the little church and the the pilgrim in holland was not to be doubted human nature can not remain always at concert pitch with the dutch had already begun and all that was peculiar in the english community was about to be swallowed up and lost forever in the great current of dutch life which flowed about it was in its very nature even it was not possible for a church led by such men as robinson and and and and to remain content where national prejudices and a difference in language barred the way to the exertion of influence on the life about them with destruction by threatening their church these leaders conceived the project of forming a new state where they might with the liberty of a good conscience enjoy the pure scripture worship of god without the mixture of human inventions and and their children after them might walk in the holy ways of the lord v what suggested in the thought of to america we do not know just twenty years earlier in some imprisoned had the council that they might be allowed to settle in the province of canada an term at that time francis johnson with three others went out in that same year to look at the land the voyage was an unlucky one and chap iii planned compare in young and american s ii x i the book ii notes condition of virginia notes the settlement of johnson as of the church in was the result the which followed the accession of to the had started as early as a agitation among the in favor of to virginia but when only a few had got away the secured a preventing their escape from the means of grace provided for them in courts of high commission the year in which the agitation for began among the was the year after s return with highly colored reports of the condition of the virginia colony it is noticeable that among the books owned by elder at his death was a copy of s good from virginia published in was minister at in virginia and was the son of a divine of eminence who was master of st john s college cambridge it is possible that he was known to who had been at cambridge or to robinson who had resigned a fellowship there to become a himself was enough to the his good is plea for the support of the colony for religious reasons this plantation which the hath so often he says is revived and daily to more and hopeful at the very time when the first thought of there was beginning a new and interest in virginia this was based partly on religious en the pilgrim such as s book was meant to foster and partly on the hope of new and strange particularly silk even this silk illusion may have had its weight in a secondary way with the people for afterward governor at was a silk in and there were two books on in s library at his death to european eyes all america was one even to day the two are hardly distinguished by most people in europe the glowing account of given by helped to feed the new desire for an american home and it was only after serious debate that north america was chosen as more remote from the dreaded and safer from tropical diseases one can hardly imagine what american would have become under the skies of not only did the hesitate regarding their destination but there was a choice of to be made england had not been a mother to these outcast children and there was question of settling as english subjects in america or becoming dutch there vi the preferred to be english notwithstanding all but they wished to with england for us liberty in this matter they had recourse to sir the one man who would probably be both able and willing to chap iii of books s on elder application to i the book ii hunter | 11 |
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peculiarly suit it to readers in this country from these causes it is also especially fitted for all district school and other public in some of which it h been tried with great satisfaction it to a extent than perhaps my work the for presenting in a small compass and price the materials of � library and a book for use and reference to those removed from the large some years having elapsed since the original thirteen of were published to it up to the present day with the history of that period at the request the have just issued a volume the bringing the work up to the year bt henry ll d t and of in the of of a on political i one volume of over s to d � ca xv � and s the numerous who have been � r� the completion of this volume can now perfect their sets and all who want a register of the events of the last fifteen years for the whole world can obtain this separately price two in cloth or two dollars and fifty cents in leather to match the in which the have been sets in the large 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his father s and at the to which his muse was at his hands he had never had any one to with his poetical aspirations except his friend a fellow clerk of his own age who was also devoted to the and s praise had its first he did not think it worth much and secondly it could not be obtained without and it went against william henry s conscience to praise s poems well thought the young man as he looked out of his window which commanded a distant view of church there a man who was as little appreciated at my age as i am and yet he made some noise in the world he too some say was a s clerk he too was called will � which is at least an interesting coincidence he too fell a real in love at my age here his reflections ended with a sigh for the parallel extended no shakespeare had not only but � with a little too much ease indeed � had won whereas margaret was far out of his reach he had a shrewd suspicion that mr intended ner to marry and had brought him down with him to to throw the young people together as he would doubtless express it people indeed why frank was old enough � well scarcely to be her father unless he had been unusually but certainly to know better age � the man was thirty if he was a day � and youth cannot live together it was a most monstrous proposition on the other hand what could he poor william henry do if he could persuade to run away with him to morrow they must run for he had hardly money enough after that trip to pay the first out of and far less a post chaise as he thought of his merits and of the many obstacles to his union � the talk op the town he grew bitter against the whole scheme of creation if poetic impulse could have projected him fifty years forward he would doubtless have exclaimed with the bard of bon � be the clerk and the parson be the whole concern but not having that vent for his feelings he only loosened his a bit and looked moody poor fellow he had but two wishes in the world � to marry margaret and to get into print and both these desires just because he had no money were denied him at that very time margaret at her window was thinking of him she was not � she was certain she was not the idea was quite ridiculous � in love with him but thanks to his father s conduct she felt that pity for him which is akin to love and he was certainly very handsome and very fond of her he had been foolish to come down to when it was clear her uncle didn t want him but it was very nice of him too and since he was there and upon his holiday � his one holiday in the year poor fellow � it was a real cruel to him frank didn t him that she would say for frank he was a kind honest fellow though rather old fashioned and just a trifle heavy in hand she wished william henry would talk like him when addressing his father though when addressing her she confessed to herself that she preferred william henry s way it was really distressing to see her and his son together they mixed no better than oil and she was well pleased to remember that mr the poet was coming that morning to breakfast with them since his presence would prevent anything moreover he would probably take her uncle and frank away with him to investigate which would leave william henry and herself to themselves john was but a carpenter in a small way of business but he was much respected in the town and had made himself a name beyond it on account of the interest he took in all matters the gentry in the neighbourhood spoke of him as a civil and creature but he was the talk of the town with by men of letters and learning in london his position would have been better than it was had he not been so foolish as to publish a volume of poems � to be paid by this had subjected him to something much worse than criticism � to patronage every one who had advanced a few shillings for the appearance of that unfortunate volume became in a sense his master and some of them interest for their in advice remonstrance and it was a foolish thing of john to set up his trade � not but the other � in on in there are i have heard say at this present moment fifty poets all complaining that the world which will give them a monument after their death in the meantime them to starve but is a place which is scarcely poetic to begin with whereas to be a local poet in was like setting up a shed for small coal in the good man had become quite aware of this by this time he was very dissatisfied with his published productions it is a common case what a real we have in our desk seems as superior to what lies on our table as that which moves in our brain is to what lies in our desk he would have given as much to suppress his little volume as william henry would have given to get his sown over an admiring land and yet there was no question of comparison between them as respected merit john was within certain narrow limits a true poet what he saw he noted what he noted he felt so far he followed his great master he even a modest light of his own which was not 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not serve as any illustration of the power of the assembly of a province neither could it have been declared void by the queen because it that in the to which the writer for the simple reason that no such exists the the without the of the to make not or contrary to the law of england but no such is imposed upon the waking of laws like this of passed with tlie consent of the nor was the act of the queen at all relied upon aa being a because the act was by the the same year it was i il the true reason of the act of the queen seems to be that given by the of trade in their report to her namely � j that the making of such laws was an abuse of the powers granted by the and inferred a of the same in a colony where not only the most wealthy and respectable inhabitants but at least two of the whole wore improper means were to to elect and in an a in with all this management the had a majority of one only this act � with another equally was passed such being the facts the queen was advised and promised to a no to obtain a judgment that the was and in the meantime declared the act void but if she had pronounced it good no power existed capable of declaring it void by invariable usage all imported into tlie four southern colonies were deemed to be slaves for life and as such were bought and sold by similar long continued usage the rule of the negro slave code that the child follows the of the mother was adopted we propose to show that these customs have been established and in all these colonies by clearly laws want of room will compel us to pass over all but the more prominent of them of slavery in virginia aa late as the number of was so that to one there were fifty an act for the dutch and all other strangers for to this place was passed in this act that if the said dutch or other shall import any they the said dutch or others shall for the really by the sale of the said negro pay only the of two shillings per the like being paid by our nation in lt ij this act was passed negro women s children to serve according to the condition of the mother whereas some doubts hare whether children got by any upon a negro woman should he slave or be it therefore and declared by this present grand assembly that all children borne in this shall be bond or free only according to the condition of the mother in g an act ia passed providing how belonging to of shall be disposed of the government of negro slaves is provided for by acts passed in and l in a duty is laid on the of negro slaves and in negro and indian slaves are declared to be real estate s by the act i c � it is that no or indian shall h get free whatsoever except for some services to be and by the governor and council for the time being and a license thereupon first had and obtained c stealing negro slaves is made in � an act concerning servants and slaves was passed in tliat all persons who have been or shall be imported into colony hy sea or and were not christians in their native country except and in with lu majesty and such who can prove their being free in england or other christian country before they were for hither shall be accounted and be slaves and as such be here bought and sold notwithstanding a to christianity after their that every negro or other person taken up brought before n of the peace and who cannot or will not declare the name of his or her o shall be d to the goal of the county where taken c of slavery makes it for any person to steal any negro or indian slave in an act for the better of servants and slaves was passed g � and of this act are precisely the same as sections and of the act of the section declares that all shall be bond or free according to the condition of their mothers and the particular directions of act were persons by sea or land they wore not christians in africa neither were they or in with the king none of them could prove being free in england or any other christian country before being ship for consequently were by this act tn be slaves in virginia the first of including north and south was granted in in the adopted the well known constitution of john which was not until article reads thus � every of shall have power and authority over his negro of what opinion or religion in the provincial of north passed an act concerning servants and slaves � this act that if any person or persons whatsoever shall directly or indirectly at any time after the of this act tempt or persuade any o or or r slave or to leave his her or their master or mistress s service c that if any negro or other who shall he taken up as a and brought before any justice of the peace and speak english or through obstinacy will not declare the name of his or her owner such justice shall in such case c that no negro or shall he get free upon any pretence except for services to be and allowed of by the county court and license thereupon first had and c negro slavery is also by c s and c ou five years after the of s constitution in the le of south passed an 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it would not be worth while to redeem it at the old price and so i tore np the ticket richard you are a veiy wicked boy i know i m a bad lot aunt i was born so father says we are all born so till something happens � i don t quite know what it is i only know it hasn t happened to me this was another point in dick s favor the terrible manner as his aunt thought it of his bringing up the notions that had been into him from his childhood were an excuse for almost anything that was amiss in the lad there was nevertheless a certain in her tone very rarely found there as she replied if i were you richard i would not speak of religion of any kind when to have cheated a then once more this boy burst into laughter which it must be confessed was of a genuine sort not defiant nor cynical but a wholesome fit of merriment produced by the very source of fun � the sense of my dear aunt if you only knew old pledge � the old jew out of he charged me for that very as i have since found out for another fellow bought one exactly like it nearly twice its value because he knew i had the money in my pocket since he had just advanced it on the watch once � just once � out of a dozen transactions i have had with him i have got this little rise out of him and you talk of mr pledge you might just as well attempt to cheat the � why dear me anybody concluded master richard in some confusion because a person such as you describe has behaved ill to you richard is no reason why you should take an advantage of him advantage i wish i could think that had happened i ha e no doubt that even now he has made a good bargain though not so good as he imagined i am sure he has by the way in a watch maker � tv a ma i� a ta h � � � l which he grinned at me the next time � that is i mean the next time i met him and when of be had found it out so young gentlemen frequent shops as other boys at other schools go to the cook s no aunt but some of them have a taste for or like to buy it for their sisters dick had just avoided the and a quick turn of the tongue landed him on this firm domestic ground i dare say there are very few fellows who know he is a but somehow i found it out and when one wants a little money � and i m always wanting it aunt � s shop is a great convenience i wish to hear nothing more richard of such disgraceful doings said sister i will send to to morrow and get back the watch if it can t be made to go you shall have another like it oh aunt she held up her hand for silence i don t want your thanks richard if you are really grateful show it by about one thing i have made up my mind � you will return home to london is not a proper place for a boy who has no one to look after him and who has no good principles to keep him straight there shall be no gambling nor coming home at daylight while you are your grandmother s care let me stay till wednesday aunt pleaded dick with downcast eyes why he felt though he did not meet her gaze that aunt was looking him through and through well i had promised to meet a friend who is going to the crystal palace on tuesday with a relative your friend must be content with his relative well but suppose i don t choose to go said the lad you ve been very good to me i don t deny but i am not a child aunt no for you lack the innocence of childhood if you refuse to go i will tell your grandmother what time you came home this morning well that is mean for you gave me to understand you wouldn t that s what the governor would call the color rushed into sister s face as though he had struck it with his hand no i didn t mean that aunt exclaimed he eagerly of you could tell her about the watch and that hole would be quite deep enough for me let there be between us that s what we say at when we make up a quarrel i ll go home to if you wish it only how are you going to explain it to the � i will get your grandmother to do that and if possible without getting you into trouble but of course i must tell her something don t say anything about old and the said dick of course not there would however have been no harm in giving a present to your s child if you had bought it with your own pocket money though the gift you chose was is this mr pledge es yes at least i suppose so he l la i � a� s v w less black than we re painted your watch is you can tell her with truth that it is at the watch maker s by jove aunt what a you are to get a fellow oat of a scrape i wish i could get you out of the faults that lead to the so the interview had ended aunt proved as good as her word and contrived to explain her nephew s sudden departure to lady he called it his grandmother without getting him into trouble with her she even | 25 |
care of his wife and the second blessing was the arrival of the till he came and examined the child their apprehensions were the worse for being vague they suspected great injury but knew not where but now the collar bone was soon replaced and though mr felt and felt and rubbed and looked grave and spoke low words to ihe � and the aunt still they were all to hope the best and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind and then it was just before they parted that the two young were able so far to from their nephew s state as to give the information of captain s visit staying five minutes behind their father and mother to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him how much how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance who had been at all a favourite before how glad they had been to hear papa invite him to stay dinner how sorry when he said it was quite out of his power and how glad again when he had promised to reply to papa and mamma s farther pressing invitations to come and dine with them on the morrow � actually on the morrow and he had promised it in so pleasant a manner as if he felt all the of their attention just as he ought in short he had looked and said everything with such exquisite grace that they could assure them all their heads were both turned by him and off they ran quite as full of glee as of love and apparently more full of captain than of little persuasion the same story and the same were repeated when the two girls came with their father through the gloom of the evening to make inquiries and mr no longer under the first uneasiness about his heir could add his confirmation and praise and hope there would be now no occasion for putting captain off and only be sorry to think that the cottage party probably would not like to leave the little boy to give mm the meeting oh no as to leaving the little boy l father and mother were in much too strong and recent alarm to bear the thought and anne in the joy of the escape could not help adding her warm to theirs charles indeed afterwards showed more of inclination the child was going on so well and he wished so much to be introduced to captain that perhaps he might join them in the evening he would not dine from home but he might walk in for half an hour but in this he was eagerly opposed by his wife with oh no indeed charles i cannot bear to have you go away only think if anything should happen the child had a good night and was going on well the next day it must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the but mr robinson found nothing to increase alarm and charles began con to feel no necessity for longer confinement the child was to be kept in bed and mused as quietly as possible but what was there for a father to do this was quite a female case and it would be highly absurd in him who could be of no use at home to shut himself up his father very much wished him to meet captain and there being no sufficient reason against it he ought to go and it ended in his making a bold public declaration when he came in from shooting of his meaning to dress directly and dine at the other house nothing can be going on better than the child said he so i told my father just now that i would come and he thought me quite right your sister being with you my persuasion love i have no scruple at all you would not like to leave him yourself but you see i can be of no use anne will send for me if anything is the matter husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain mary knew from charles s manner of speaking that he was quite determined on going and that it would be of no use to him she said nothing therefore till he was out of the room but as soon as there was only anne to hear so you and i are to be left to shift by ourselves with this poor sick child and not a creature coming near us all the evening i knew how it would be this is always my luck if there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it and charles is as bad as any of them very i must say it is very of him to be running away from his poor little boy talks of his being going on so well how does he know that he is going on well or that there may not be a sudden change half an hour hence i did not think charles would have been so so here he is to go away and enjoy himself and because i am the poor mother i am not to be allowed to stir and yet i am sure i am more unfit than anybody else to be about the child my being the mother is the very reason why my feelings should not be tried i am not at all equal to it you saw how hysterical i was yesterday but that was only the effect of the suddenness of your alarm � of the shock you will not be hysterical again i dare say we shall have nothing to distress us i perfectly understand mr robinson s directions and have no fears and indeed mary i cannot wonder at | 26 |
mass raised a tremendous shout this was not only done in token of their presence but as a signal to those on whom the task that it was time to take possession of the of both houses and of the various avenues of approach and of the gallery stairs to the last named place and still with their pupil between them rushed straightway having given his flag into the hands of one of their own party who kept them at the outer door their followers pressing on behind they were borne as on a great wave to the very doors of the gallery whence it was impossible to retreat even if they had been so inclined by reason of the throng which choked up the passages it is a familiar expression in describing a great crowd that a person might have walked upon the people s heads in this case it was actually done for a boy who had by some means got among the and was in imminent danger of climbed to the shoulders of a man beside him and walked upon the people s hats and heads into the open street in his passage the whole length of two and a long gallery nor was the swarm without less dense for a basket which had been tossed into the crowd was jerked from head to head and shoulder to shoulder and went spinning and whirling on above them it was lost to view without ever once falling in among them or coming near the ground through this vast throng sprinkled doubtless here and there with honest but composed for the most part of the very and refuse of london whose was by bad criminal laws bad prison and the worst conceivable police such of the members of both houses of parliament as had not taken the precaution to be already at their posts were compelled to fight and force their way their carriages were stopped and broken the wheels off the glasses shivered to the beaten in drivers and masters pulled from their seats and rolled in the mud lords and reverend with of person or party were and pinched and passed from hand to hand through various stages of ill usage and sent to their at last with their clothes hanging in about them their torn off speechless and breathless and their persons covered with the powder which had been and beaten out of their hair one lord was so long in the hands of the that the as a body resolved to sally forth and rescue him and were in the act of doing so when he happily appeared among them covered with dirt and and hardly to be recognised by those who knew him best the noise and uproar were on the increase every moment the air was filled with and the mob raged and roared hke a mad monster as it was and each new outrage served to swell its fury within doors matters were even yet more threatening lord george � preceded by a man who carried the immense petition on a porter s knot through the to the door of the house of where it was received by two of the house who it up to the table ready for � had taken his seat at an early hour before the speaker went to prayers his followers pouring in at the same time the and all the avenues were immediately filled as we have seen thus the members were not only attached in their passage through the streets but were set upon within the very walls of parliament while the tumult both within and without was so great that those who attempted to speak could scarcely hear own voices far less consult upon the course it would be wise to take in such extremity or each other to dignified and firm resistance so sure � u any member just arrived with dress disordered and hair came struggling through the crowd in the it and screamed in triumph and when the door of the house partially and cautiously opened by those within for his admission gave them a momentary of the they grew more wild and savage lie beasts at the sight of prey and made a rush against the which strained its locks and in their and shook ihe very beams the strangers gallery which was immediately above the door of the house had been ordered to be closed on the first rumour of disturbance and was empty that now and then lord george took his seat there for the convenience of coming to the head of the stairs which led to it and repeating to the people what had passed within it was on these stairs that and were posted there were two flights short steep and narrow running parallel to each other and leading to two little doors communicating with a low passage which opened on the gallery between them was a kind of weu or for the admission of and air into the which might be some eighteen or twenty feet below upon one of these little � not that at the head of which lord george appeared from time to time but the other � stood with his elbow on the and his cheek resting on his hand with his usual aspect whenever he varied this attitude in the slightest degree � so much as by the motion of his arm � the uproar was certain to increase not merely there but in the below from which place no doubt some man who acted as to the rest was constantly looking up and watching him order cried in a voice which made itself heard even above the roar and tumult as lord george appeared at the top of the staircase news news from my lord the noise continued notwithstanding his appearance looked round there was silence immediately � even among the people in the passages without and on | 8 |
lips with an eager tongue no white was not for sale at any price but beauty smith knew the ways of indians he visited gray s camp often and hidden under his coat was always a black bottle or so one of the of is the breeding of thirst gray got the thirst his and burnt stomach began to for more and more of the while his brain thrust all by the unwonted permitted him to go any length to obtain it the money he had received for his and and began to go it went faster and faster and the shorter his money sack grew the shorter grew his temper in the end his money and goods and temper were all gone nothing remained to him but his thirst a prodigious possession in itself that grew more pro with every sober breath he drew then it was that beauty smith had talk with him again about the sale of but this time the price offered was in not dollars and gray s ears were more eager to hear you um dog you take um all right was his last word the bottles were delivered but after two days white � you um dog were beauty smith s w t b to gray white into camp one evening and dropped down with a sigh of content the dreaded white god was not there for his tions of desire to lay hands on him had been growing more and during that time white had been compelled to avoid the camp he did not know what evil was threatened by those hands he knew only that they did threaten evil of some sort and that it was best for him to keep out of their reach but scarcely had he lain down when gray staggered over to him and tied a leather around his neck he sat down beside holding the end of the in his hand in the other hand he held a bottle which from time to time was above his head to the accompaniment of noises an hour of this passed when the of feet in contact with the ground the one who approached white heard it first and he was with recognition while gray still nodded white tried to draw the softly out of his master s hand but the relaxed fingers closed tightly and gray roused beauty smith strode into camp and stood over white he softly up at the thing of the mad � fear keenly the of the hands one hand extended outward and began to descend npon his head his soft grew tense and harsh the hand continued slowly to descend while he crouched beneath it it his growing shorter and shorter as with breath it approached its suddenly he snapped striking with his like a snake the hand was jerked back and the teeth together with a sharp click beauty smith was frightened and angry gray white alongside the head so that he down dose to the earth in respectful obedience white s suspicious eyes followed every movement he saw beauty smith go away and return with a stout club then the end of the was given over to him by gray beauty smith started to walk away the grew white resisted it gray him right and left to make mm get up and follow he obeyed but with a rush himself upon the stranger who was dragging him away beauty smith did not jump away he had been waiting for this he swung the club stopping the rush and white down upon the ground gray laughed and nodded approval beauty smith the again and white crawled and to his feet ia white he did not rush a second time one from the club was sufficient to him that the white god knew how to handle it and be was too w to fight the inevitable so he followed at beauty smith s heels his tail between his legs yet softly under his breath but beauty smith kept a wary eye on him and the club was held always ready to strike at the fort beauty smith left him securely tied and went in to bed white waited an hour then he applied his teeth to the and in the space of ten seconds was free he had wasted no time with his teeth there had been no useless tlie was cut across almost as clean as though done by a knife white looked up at the fort at the same time and growling then he turned and trotted back to gi ay s camp he owed no to this strange and terrible god he had given himself to gray and to he considered he still belonged but what had occurred before was repeated � with a difference gray again made him fast with a and in the morning turned him over to beauty smith and here was where the difference came in beauty smith gave him a beating tied securely white could only rage and endure the punishment club and whip were both the mad god upon and he experienced the worst beating he had ever received in life even the big beating given him in his hood by gray was i mild compared witli this beauty smith enjoyed the task he delighted in it he over his victim and his eyes as he swung the whip or club and listened to white s cries of pain and to his helpless and for beauty smith was cruel in the way that are cruel and himself before the blows or angry speech of a man he himself in turn upon creatures weaker than he all life lilies power and beauty smith was no exception denied the expression of power amongst his own kind he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there the life that was in him but beauty smith had not created himself i and no 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steward and mr jacob my passenger afterwards remembered � and waited for him in the dark by that very church which is now behind me as i had always the port of london i only knew the church through his pointing out its spire from on board perhaps i might recall if it were any good to try the way by which i went to it alone from the liver but how we two went om it to s shop i don t know � any more than i know what turns we took and we made after we left it the way was purposely confused no doubt but let me go on thinking the � ts out and avoid them with my speculations he took me by a straight way or a crooked way what is that to the purpose now steady john when we stopped at s and he asked scoundrel a question or two to refer only to the lodging houses in which there was accommodation for us had i the least suspicion of him none certainly none until afterwards when i held the clue i he must have got from in a paper the or whatever it was that afterwards me but i am far from sure all i felt safe in charging on him to night was old companionship in between them their intimacy and the i now know to bear made that not at all adventurous but i am not clear about the thinking out the circumstances on which i found my suspicion they are only two one i remember his changing a small folded paper from one pocket to another after we came out which he had not touched before two i now know to have been previously taken up for bein concerned in the robbery of an unlucky seaman to whom some such poison had been given it is my conviction that we cannot gone a mile from that th before we to the wall the dark doorway the flight of stairs and the room the night was dark and it rained as i think the back i hear the rain on the stone pavement of the passage which was not under the room overlooked the river or a dock or a creek and the tide was out being possessed of the time down to that i know by the that it must have been about low water but while the coffee waa getting ready i drew back the curtain a dark brown curtain and looking out knew by the kind of reflection below of the few neighbouring lights that they were reflected in mud he had earned under his ann a canvas bag containing a suit of his clothes i had no change of outer clothes me as i was to buy tou are wet mr � i can hear him saying � and i am quite under this good coat put on these clothes of mine you may find on trying them that they will answer your purpose to as well as ihe you mean to buy or better while you change hurry the hot coffee when he came back i had his on and there was a black man with him wearing a linen jacket like a steward who put the smoking coffee on the table in a tray and never looked at me i am so � literal and exact literal and exact i am certain now i pass to sick and impressions they are so strong that i rely upon them but there are spaces between them that i know nothing about and they are not pervaded by any idea of time had drank some coffee when to my sense t f sight he began to swell immensely and something urged me to rush at him we had a struggle near the door he got from me through my not knowing where to strike in the round of the room and the ing of flames of between us i dropped down lying helpless on the ground i was turned over by a foot i was dragged by the neck into a comer i heard men speak together i was turned over by other feet i saw a figure like myself lying dressed in my clothes on a bed what might have been for anything i knew a silence of days weeks months years was broken by a violent of men all over the room the figure like myself was assailed and my was in its hand i was trodden upon and over i heard a noise of blows and thought it was a cutting down a tree i could not have said that my name was john � i could not have thought it � i didn t know it � but when i heard the blows i thought of the wood and his axe and had some dead idea that i was lying in a forest this ib still correct still correct the exception that i cannot possibly express it to myself without using the word l but it was not l there was no such thing as i my knowledge it was only after a downward slide through something like a and then a great noise and a sparkling and as of fires that the came upon me this is john drowning i john for your life john call on heaven and save yourself i cried it out aloud in a great and then a heavy horrid unintelligible something vanished and it was i who was struggling there alone in the water i was very � nd with a d the over tlie blade water i saw the lights past me on the two of the river as if they eager to be gone and leave me dying in the dark the tide was down bat i knew nothing of up or down when guiding safely with heaven s before the � set of the | 8 |
onward march at first their path had literally been strewn with flowers roses were shed upon them from the windows and of every town through which they passed and women and girls to the roadside with for their blessing them and encouraging them when they reached the ground from which the had retired before them signs began to show themselves of the of war the country was everywhere beautiful but running to waste no were at work farms were abandoned deserted no in the lanes nor cows in the meadows from the empty houses the furniture and even the doors and windows had been carried away rows of trees had been cut down and their trunks and branches converted into churches were turned into looked into a fine cathedral and saw the floor with straw and depending from the pillars and fires lighted outside in one church were two hundred horses such was the excellent temper of the country however that no was nor was there as yet any difficulty in getting supplies private persons placed their horses and money at the disposal of government the waiting rooms at the railway stations were turned into for bread and piled with to the to the march was a mere the last had crossed the frontier river the french and were swiftly following them in compact masses along narrow roads with their stores dragged behind in innumerable old brick that the might well have defended had been taken no advantage of and on either hand had been turned to no account as cover for in front were woods of oak and chestnut the beautiful foliage of which might well have concealed an but they no lurking foes a deep and wooded valley crossed this at its bottom flowed the and round a hundred the river was by a good stone bridge under the green cliffs beyond were seen the bell towers of the villages of and the french and crossed the river in two columns and their bright arms were soon glancing through the green foliage on the other side then began the horrors of the fight but still enthusiasm carried the raw hands well through it and those who were went boldly onward leaving the blood stained behind for others to muse over and shudder at and thus again and again once or twice threw himself before to between him and danger till the elder gentleman him with some saying � young gentleman you are do you think no one is ready to for italy but yourself was checked and ashamed but continued to watch over the s safety as he hoped and believed in fact his motive was penetrated but both reached comparatively and were s feelings as he passed through the ornamental iron work gates of the city and beheld the wondrous of the world famous soaring high overhead oh the enthusiasm with which the were greeted the first large body of troops which entered the city was headed by m duke of the people frantic with joy were ready to cast themselves beneath his horse s feet a little girl of five years old dressed in white forced her way through the crowd and with a child s fearless eagerness held up to the great general a almost as large as herself the brave man raised her up and placed her standing before him on his saddle the little creature threw her arms round his head and kissed him repeatedly amid ringing cheers and thus still holding and her he rode on amid showers of o flowers and applause while some eyes were wet with tears nothing could be or more free from studied effect than the entry of the two sovereigns hot and dusty they rode along side by side and the emperor s usually impenetrable countenance was not without emotion after short repose the proceeded on their glorious march it was again a to the banks of the for the were in full retreat towards their famous it was a pleasant course to the victorious troops through that park like country the long straight roads were shaded by rows of tall elms and and on each side a little of water a dense growth of with a profusion of wild flowers the nut and wild vine grew in wild here and there the opened into charming little grassy while amid the were heard the songs of and picturesque villages greeted their eyes at every turn and large farm houses peeped from the woods a little off the road the ran from their work to look at the troops and offer them of their best and the bursts of lively music the of wine glasses the groups of tired warriors and refreshing themselves and the admiring crowds shouting gave the whole scene the appearance of a fair and thus onward across the and onward across the even to otherwise the had retreated even across the when with that fatal weakness of purpose which seemed to all their military movements they the in four enormous divisions and came upon the main body of the french their left wing seems to have commenced the attack and an early success attended their right wing against the but the emperor napoleon directed his chief efforts against their centre which he at length broke and from that moment the battle was lost and won the the leaving behind them fifty thousand men in killed wounded and prisoners and louis napoleon who had been constantly in the fire and thereby animated his troops slept that night in the room occupied in the morning by the emperor of retiring to rest he wrote this letter � the emperor to the friday evenings great battle � great victory the whole army formed the line of battle which extended five in length we have taken all their positions and captured many cannon flags and prisoners the battle lasted from four o clock in the morning till | 2 |
said that was a rather large place i do not think that i realized anything i replied i have never seen any such place in my life who are all these people those are some of the servants she answered some of the servants they came out with and in and greeted the home coming of the not with loud of welcome but with rippling murmurs of sympathy the princess was very pale and was visibly moved she spoke to one or two of the white headed stately personages and passed at once holding my hand under the great entrance there i found myself in an enormous hall a widow i i lighted a great echoing chamber with a stone roof whose white walls were hung with great and of the chase there were more servants and there more murmurs of welcome and subdued sympathy the princess walked almost to the great hearth and there she stopped before an elderly man who by his appearance and dress was apparently the head of the household to him she spoke in german i did not know very much of the language but i had enough knowledge of it to be able to follow her she said i wrote to you telling you of mrs the english lady who was so very kind to our dear princess whom you and i and all of us loved so dearly mrs has had a great loss since my saint was taken away her husband a gallant english soldier has fallen in an engagement with some hill tribes far away on the frontier of india she is quite alone in the world and i have persuaded her to come to me and be my dear adopted daughter will you make known to my people that mrs will remain here that she will live with me and as far s possible will take the place of princess i shall expect the same attention and courtesy to her as was freely and willingly given to my daughter i can never repay her for her past kindness but i shall regard any attention and any kindness that my people show in the future to mrs as an act of kindness and attention given personally to me to my surprise the major for such i imagined was his position dropped upon one knee and raised the hand of the princess to his lips then he stood up moved a step towards me knelt to me also and paid me the same act of homage i had never felt so strange in my whole life my english instinct was to say oh get up please don t do that again but when i saw that one by one all the principal servants came forward and the strange story of my life repeated the graceful act i perceived that it was but the usual custom of the house and realized that if i meant to live and with these people i must try to introduce no but must take my cue entirely from the manners and customs of the stately � and dignified of the little ceremony of home coming over the princess took me herself to the of apartments which she had ordered to be prepared for my reception i have put you in a of rooms quite near to mine she said to me not her rooms � those i could not give up even to you but they are quite near both to hers and to mine see this is your � your own private room into which nobody will come without your express invitation excepting yourself dear princess i broke out ah my dear i shall hope to come here very often but at the same time you must remember that i have my in my child s favorite apartment this shall be your and the more you ask me to come to it the more assured i shall be that i have been able to bring some measure of happiness and comfort into your young life this she said opening a door is your dressing room and this your bed chamber and that room beyond it is a chamber for your as she spoke she led the way into the little room she will be very warm here see she has only to turn that stove on or off to make the room as warm or as cool as she likes do you think she went on as if she were anxious to say as little about my surroundings as possible that your will prefer to remain with you for the present i think so i answered she is like her mistress a lonely soul she has no near relations and of her distant she knows little and cares to know less i think that all the affection of her life was upon my little if she wanted to go back to india i a widow would send her back at once but until she expresses a desire or until you plainly ask me to end her away i would like to keep her she is the last link with my past she understands my ways she understands me i have nobody in all the world except poor who can talk to me of the happy days that will never come back again i have nobody else in all the world excepting you princess from whom i can hope to receive any joy and comfort in the time to come you are very wide apart you two � the poor ignorant superstitious native woman and the high bom powerful rich noble lady and yet said the princess putting her arms round me and holding me very close to her and yet in spite of the difference between us we have one g eat bond in common � we are three desolate woman the strange story of my life chapter in a gilded cage after this there seemed | 30 |
uncle u promised to become a orator he entertained a of the men s of the road church with irish and chinese dialect stories but in nothing was he more dearly revealed as the in his lecture on facts on real estate as delivered before the class in methods at the y m ca the advocate times reported the lecture so fully that said to you re getting to be one of the in town seems s if i couldn t d n by if a p reading down all this oo t to bring a lot of business into your office go od quit said feebly but at this tribute from himself a man of no mean fame he delight and wondered how before his i he could have the joys of being a solid d n by chapter xv ha to ms not did not bring the ad the deserved they were not to the nor invited to the dances at the union fretted be didn t care a fat for all i but the would kind of like to be among he nervously awaited us class dinner and an evening of furious intimacy with such ai charles the the banker the tool and the fashionable he was their friend as he had been in college and when he encountered th still called him george but he didn seem to encounter them often and they never invited him ta dinner with and a butler at their houses oo ridge an the we the class dinner he thou t of than vo reason we become real like an true american and spiritual the dinner of the men of the class of was organized the dinner committee like a once a we sent out no old are yon ng to be with ui at the friendship feed the of the good old u have d n by � cr known tbe of ob tamed ont � are we boys to be by a bunch of come on work up real genuine enthusiasm and all together for tbe dinner i elegant eats short talks and memories shared together of the est of life tbe waa in a private room at the union club was a old knocked together and the hall resembled a yet the who was free of the magnificence of the club entered with he nodded to the an ancient proud negro with brass buttons and a blue coat and the ball trying to look like a member men had come to the they made islands and in tbe hall they packed the and the of tbe private dining room hey tried to be intimate and enthusiastic tb to one another exactly as they had in college � as raw whose present and wrinkles were but jovial put on the evening you haven t a they tbe men whom they could not recall they addressed well well great to see you again old man what are you � � doing the same thing one was always starting a cheer or a college song and it was always into silence despite their resolution to be they divided into two sets the men with dress clothes and the men without extremely in dress clothes went from one to the other thou he was almost frankly out for social conquest he sought paul first he alone neat and silent paul i m no good at this and who s here now and be a d n by bunch of boys on say you seem kind of om matter oh the usual run in with come let s in and forget our troubles he kept paul beside him but worked toward the x t charles stood his admirers like a furnace had been the hero of the class of not only captain and hammer but and in what the state considered he had an had captured the construction once owned by the best known of he built state ers railway he was a heavy shouldered big man but not there was a quiet humor in his eyes a smooth quickness id his which and warned re and in his presents the most intelligent or the most sensitive artist felt thin blooded and a little shabby he was particularly when he was or labor very easy and and gorgeous he was he was a peer in the r idly american aristocracy inferior only to the ty old families in an old family is one which came to town before his power was the greater because he was not by senses by either tbe vice or the virtue of the older tradition was being merry now with the great the and the land owners and lawyers and had and went to squeezed among them he liked s smile as much as the social advancement to be had from his favor if in paul s company he ponderous and with b he t and he heard say to the banker yes well put up sir s love for titles became a rich relish you know lie s one of the d n by men in old george is getting than i ami the shouted take your seats shall we make a move said casual to t fault how the old planning to t anywhere george come on let s some seats come on i read about your in the bully after that would have followed him fire he was busy during the dinner now y cheering paul now approaching with hear you re going to build some in now noting how the failures of the class by themselves in a group looked up to him in his association with the nobility now warming himself in the society talk of and they e of a dance for which had decorated her house with thousands of they with an excellent imitation of pf a dinner in washington at which had met a a princess and an english major | 42 |
the name of his ship this gave the united states a claim to what was called the country � being another name for the river the province of which was purchased from france in included the territory drained by the captains and were sent by president in to ascend the and cross the rocky mountains to the these brave after the greatest dangers and hardships spent a winter on the and returned to st louis in after an absence of two years and four months from the of civilized people our claim to the country rests on the by captain gray and that by and when the war began we were engaged in a dispute with england regarding our right to this territory this dispute was settled in s by a treaty which gave the united states all south of latitude after the admission of in no new states were taken into the union for fifteen years was admitted as a slave state in and was balanced the close of the war by which came in as a free state in the follow admission ot ing year two states in the extreme south were admit ted in � which we had acquired from spain x as we have seen and which had been a part of � l x and and then an independent republic but in was admitted and in the extreme northern state of in admitted the first state on the pacific coast which was then like a new world to americans chapter the question of slavery in politics the of opened a new chapter in the american history it involved us in a dispute which motion a chain produced the war that brought a large end the c tion to our territory it became necessary to settle the � question of slavery in the territory and this opened the slavery agitation anew both of the old parties were after a while split asunder by the debate and the question of slavery or no slavery in the became the leading issue in our politics in sixteen years from the of this chain of causes had plunged the country into the most tremendous civil war in the history of the world in just twenty years the war had ended in the entire of in the united states thus the of brought about results which changed the history of the continent history of the united states anti slavery agitation opposed the election and death ot president to the after the of the compromise in it had been an accepted in our politics that the slavery discussion should not be william garrison and a few others who insisted on the of slavery were frowned upon as they were severely persecuted even by northern people who feared that their agitation of the subject might destroy the union but when the arrangement made by the compromise was once disturbed by and other territory the political struggle between the free and slave states began anew in during the war a bill was introduced in looking to a peace with to be made by a purchase of territory mr of moved to add a that slavery should never exist in the territory thus acquired this was known as the the was finally rejected but it opened the question of freedom or slavery in the new region before the war was ended and the agitation thus introduced once more into politics did not cease while slavery existed the first effect of the excitement was to render certain the defeat of the party in the election of a large number of and a smaller number of from the old parties and formed the free soil party which desired to shut slavery out of the the general the general the hero of vista for president the free ex president martin van was elected the question of slavery in general was the twelfth president of the united states and of these first twelve seven were born in virginia which got the name o the mother of from that act was born in virginia in but he was carried to in his infancy he got a commission in the army when he was twenty four years old he gained his first distinction by his gallant of fort in the war against s indians in a war against the indians of t� in he defeated the savages in a severe battle at his fame rests chiefly on his achievements in the war after serving for a year and four months president died and was succeeded by of new york the vice president but while the country was excited over the ow id election an event took place in the newly territory of that gave fresh violence to the slavery debate of gold were discovered in the river in the mines proved to be the richest in the world in a great rush of people to the new territory set in ships loaded with passengers sailed around cape horn to seek their fortunes in a land of gold long trains of in ox carts their way across the almost unknown region between the river and the o of the united states pacific slope a region at that time occupied by bands of warlike indians in the people of set up a state government without authority from and asked to be immediately admitted to the union as part of the new state was south of the compromise line and as its constitution forbade slavery the slave states were opposed to this addition to the number of free states meantime the growing sentiment at the north made it harder to slaves who escaped in large number to the free states the southern states complained of this as a of the constitution which provided that all such should be sent back at the same time many people in the northern states complained that the public traffic in slaves in the city of washington was highly | 11 |
the bough of a tall oak his head had fallen forward on his breast j but at every stronger of wind his body span round and round and his legs and arms tossed like some ridiculous dick to his feet and staggering and leaning on the tree trunks as he went drew near to this object the bough was perhaps twenty feet above the ground and the poor fellow had been drawn up so high by his that his boots swung clear above dick s reach and as his hood had been drawn over his face it was impossible to recognise the man dick looked about him right and left and at last he perceived that the other end of the cord had been made fast to the trunk of a little which grew thick with blossom under the lofty of the oak with how dick changed sides his dagger which alone remained to him of all his arms young severed the rope and instantly with a dead the corpse fell in a heap upon the ground dick raised the hood it was sir messenger he had not gone far upon his errand a paper which had apparently escaped the notice of the men of the black arrow stuck from the bosom of his and dick pulling it forth found it was sir letter to lord come thought he if the world changes yet again i may have here the to shame sir daniel � nay and perchance to bring him to the block and he put the paper in his own bosom said a prayer over the dead man and set forth again through the woods his fatigue and weakness increased his ears sang his steps faltered his mind at intervals failed him so low had he been brought by loss of blood doubtless he made many from his true path but at last he came out upon the high road not very far from hamlet a rough voice bid him stand stand repeated dick by the mass but i am nearer falling and he suited the action to the word and fell all his length upon the road two men came forth out of the thicket each in the black arrow green forest each with long bow and quiver and short sword why lawless said the younger of the two it is young ay this will be as good as bread to john au returned the other though faith he hath been to the wars here is a tear in his that must a cost him many a good of blood and here added ms a hole in his shoulder that must have pricked him well who hath done this think ye if it be one of ours he may all to prayer will give him a short and a long rope up with the said lawless clap him on my back and then when dick had been hoisted to his shoulders and he had taken the lad s arms about his neck and got a firm hold of him the ex grey added � keep ye the post brother i will on with him by myself so returned to his on the and lawless down the hill whistling as he went with dick still in a dead faint comfortably settled on his shoulders the sun rose as he came out of the skirts of the wood and saw hamlet straggling up the opposite hill all seemed quiet but a strong post of some half a score of lay close by the bridge on either how dick changed sides side of the road and as soon as they perceived lawless with his burden began to themselves and set arrow to string like who goes cried the man in command will lawless by the � ye know me as well as your own hand returned the contemptuously give the word lawless returned the other now heaven thee thou great fool replied lawless did i not tell it thee myself but ye are all mad for this playing at soldiers when i am in the give me ways and my word for this tide is a fig for all mock i lawless ye but show an ill example give us the word fool said the commander of the post and if i had forgotten it asked the other an ye had forgotten it � as i know y ave not � by the mass i would clap an arrow your big body returned the first nay an y are so ill a said lawless ye shall have your word for m e and is the word and here to the illustration is on my shoulders and o do i carry him pass lawless said the and where is john asked the grey he a by the mass and rents as to the manner bom i cried another of the company so it proved when lawless got as far up the village as the little inn he found surrounded by sir daniel s tenants and by the right of the black his good company of coolly taking rents and giving written in return for them by the faces of the tenants it was plain how little this proceeding pleased them for they argued very rightly that they would simply have to pay them twice as soon as he knew what had brought lawless dismissed the remainder of the tenants and with every mark of interest and apprehension conducted dick into an inner chamber of the inn there the lad s hurts were looked to and he was recalled by simple to consciousness dear lad said pressing his hand y are in a friend s hands that loved your father and loves you for his sake rest ye a little quietly for ye are somewhat out of case then shall ye tell me your story and the two of us we shall find a remedy for all a little later in the | 38 |
you bis hand in marriage that time to be so long and certainly with great constancy looked forward is now come mr has made bis proposal of marriage to me and ed me to make it known to you and to express his hope that you will take it into your fa consideration silence between them the deadly dock very the distant smoke very black and heavy father said do you think i love mr mr was extremely by this question weu my child be returned i � really � cannot take upon myself to say father pursued in exactly the same voice as before do you ask me to love mr my dear no no i ask nothing father she still pursued does mr ask me to love him hard times really my dear said mr it is to answer your question � difficult to answer it yes or no father certainly my dear because here was something to and it set him up again because the reply depends so materially on the sense in which we use the expression now mr does not do you the injustice and does not do himself the injustice of pretending to fanciful fantastic or i am using terms sentimental mr would have seen you grow up under his eyes to very little purpose if he could so far forget what is due to your good sense not to say to his aa to address you from any such therefore perhaps the expression itself � i merely suggest this to you my dear � may be a little what would you advise me to use in its stead father why my dear said mr completely recovered by this time i would advise you since you ask me to consider this question as you have been accustomed to consider every other question simply as one of fact the ignorant and the giddy may such subjects with fancies and other that have no existence properly viewed � really no existence � but it is no compliment to you to say that you know better now what are the facts of this case you are we will say in numbers twenty years of age mr is we will say in round numbers fifty there is some in your respective years but in your means and positions there is none on the contrary there is a great then the question arises is this one sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage in considering this question it is not unimportant to take into account the of marriage so far as have yet been obtained in england and wales i find on reference to the figures that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very ages and tliat the elder of these parties is in rather more t three of these instances the bridegroom it is remarkable as showing the wide of this law that among the natives of the british possessions in india also in a considerable part of china and among the of the b� t means of yet furnished us by yield similar results the u hard i haye mentioned therefore almost ceases to be and all but what do you recommend father asked her reserved composure not in the least affected by these gratifying results that i should substitute for the term i used just now for the expression returned her father it appears to me that nothing can be yourself rigidly to fact the question of fact you state to yourself is does mr ask me to marry him yes he does the sole remaining question then is shall i marry him i think nothing can be than that shall i marry him repeated with great deliberation precisely and it is satisfactory to me as your father my dear to know that you do not come to the consideration of that question with the previous habits of mind and habits of life tiiat belong to many young women no father she returned i do not i now leave you to judge for yourself said mr i have stated ike case as such cases are usually stated among practical minds i have stated it as the case of your mother and myself was stated in its time the rest my dear is for you to decide from the beginning she had sat looking at him as e now leaned back in his chair and bent his deep set eyes upon her in his turn perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast and give him the pent up confidences of her heart but to see it he must have at a bound the artificial he had for many years been between himself and all those subtle of humanity which will the utmost cunning of the last trumpet ever to be shall blow even to wreck the were too many and too high for such a leap with his matter of fact ace he hardened her again and the moment shot away into the depths of the past to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there e moving her eyes from him she sat so long looking silently towards the town that he said at length are you consulting the chimneys of the works hard times seems to be nothing there but languid and smoke yet when the night comes fire bursts out father she answered turning quickly of course i know that i do not see the tion of the remark to do him justice he did not at all she passed it away with a slight motion of her hand and her attention upon him again said father i have often thought that life is very short � this was so distinctly one of his subjects that he interposed it is short no doubt my dear still the average duration of human | 8 |
i b him never to talk in manner again and i should have said still more if been certain oc his thing but i did not to be i not bear to more nm be intended i it lor she say no more her was am i to understand said a moment s silence that yon mean to mr � yes sir yes sir refuse mr upon what for what i � i cannot like him sir well to many him this is veiy strange said sir thomas in a voice of calm displeasure there is something in this which my comprehension does not reach here is a young man wishing to pay his addresses to you with eveiy thing to recommend him not merely situation in life fortune and character but with more than common with address and conversation pleasing to every body and he is not an acquaintance of to day you have now known him some time his sister moreover is intimate friend and he has been doing that for your brother which i should suppose would have been almost sufficient to you had there been no other it is veiy uncertain my interest might have got william on he has done it yes said in a faint voice and looking down with fresh shame and she did feel almost ashamed of herself after such a picture as her uncle had for not liking mr you must have been aware continued sir thomas park � have been tune aware of a in mi s to you this cannot hare taken yon by you must have observed bis attentions and though you always received them veiy p ro ly i have no accusation to make on that head i to be unpleasant to yon i am half d to think that you do not quite know your oh sir indeed i do his attentions were always � i did not like sir looked at her with deeper surprise this is beyond tn said be this explanation young as you are and having seen scarcely any one it is hardly he paused and eyed her he saw her lips formed into a mt though tiie sound was inarticulate but her ce was like scarlet that however in so modest a might be veiy with innocence and choosing at least to appear satisfied he quickly added no no i know b quite out of the question � quite impossible well there is nothing to be said and for a few minutes he did say nothing he was deep in thought his niece was deep in thought likewise trying to and prepare against farther questioning she would rather die than own the truth and she hoped by a little reflection to herself beyond betraying it the interest which mr s to justify said sir thomas beginning again and very his wishing to marry at all so early is to me i am an advocate for early i there arc means in proportion and would i young man a sufficient income settle as after four and twenty as he this is so much my that i am to think how likely my eldest son cousin mr ts to many early but at as r as i can judge matrimony makes no part of his plans or thoughts i he were more likely to fix here was a ance at � i consider from his disposition and habits as much more likely to marry an his brother indeed i have lately thought park has seen the woman he could love which am my eldest son has not am i right do you agree with me my dear i yes sir it was gently but it was calmly said and sir thomas was easy on the score of the cousins but the removal of his alarm did his niece no service was confirmed his displeasure increased and getting up and walking about the room with a own which could picture to herself though she dared not lift up her eyes he shortly afterwards and in a voice of authority � have ou any reason child to ill of mr s temper no sir she longed to add but of his principles i have but her heart sunk under the appalling prospect of discussion and probably non conviction her ill opinion of him was founded chiefly on observations which for her cousins sake she could mention to their maria and and especially maria were so closely in mr s that she could not give his character such as she believed it without betraying them she had hoped that to a man like her uncle so so honourable so good the simple acknowledgment of settled dislike on her side would have been to her infinite grief she found it was not sir thomas came towards tlie table where she sat in trembling wretchedness and with a good deal of cold said it is of no use i perceive to talk to you we had better put an end to this most conference mr must not be kept longer waiting i will therefore only add as thinking it my duty to mark my opinion of your conduct that you have disappointed every expectation i had formed and proved yourself of a character the very reverse of what i had supposed for i had as i think my behaviour must have shown formed a very favourable opinion of you from the period of my return to england i had thought you peculiarly free from of temper self conceit and every tendency to that independence of spirit which so much in modem days even in � park young women and which in young women is offensive and disgusting beyond all common but you have now me that you can be wilful and perverse that you can and will decide for yourself without any consideration or for those who have surely some t to guide even asking their advice you | 26 |
day and one afternoon that it really could have been managed peter s mule was out the way at last one day asked her before all the family whether it was she had thought of visiting margaret ay my mat then i do forbid you h do you then there is no more to be said i suppose said she colouring not a word replied eh sternly when site was alone with her daughter she waa very severe not upon hot upon me rather go thither like a cat at a robin but this was me all over i am like a silly hen that can lay no egg without and all the house to rob her on t next time you and i are after aught the least amiss let s do t in heaven s name then and there and not take time to think about it far less talk so then if they take us to task we can say we knew we thought no ill now who d ever and forth for two pins i d go thither in all their defiance so wild and picturesque staggered nay mother with patience father will round � and so will but when and i was bent on you seeing the girl then we could have put our heads together about her say what they will there is no judging body or but by the eye and were i to have fifty more sons i d ne er one of them s till such time as i had clapped mj eyes upon her and seen say you i should have thought of that before his fancy but there is a school and the lesson ne er done we put down one fault and up t other and so go here and there till we blunder into our graves and there s an end of us mother said timidly well what is a coming now no good news though by the look of you what on earth can make poor so scared an she hath to make faltered faintly now there is a noble word for ye said proudly our taught thee that ril go then out with thy well then to say i seen her � the and the hearth and spoken with her to boot and never told me f after this are dirt mother you were so hot against her i waited till i could tell you without you worse ay said half sadly bitterly like mother like daughter cowardice it is our the others i or how would the house fare but did you ever have harsh word or look from your poor mother that you nay i will not have ye cry girl ten to ye had your reason po rise up brave heart and tell me all better late than ne er and first and foremost when ever and how ever you to wi your poor and i not know i never was there in my life and dear to say that i ne er wished to see her that i will not but i ne er went nor sought to see her there now said said i not twas all unlike my girl to seek her to me come now for i m all then thus twas it came to my ears no matter how and good mother on my knees ne er ask me how that was a in the tower by father s as twas pretended uttered a sigh that was almost a moan than i thought she muttered � and i went out at night to bid him be of good cheer and there at the tower foot was a brave quite strange to me i vow on the same errand there now � at first we did properly frighten one another through the place bad name and our poor heads being so full o devils and we a bit in but next moment i you � re margaret and you are she on t did one ever � twas he will have talking backwards and forwards of thee to and her to thee in return for this bestowed on one of the prettiest presents in nature � the kiss t e she on her cheek a single kiss which said � quite correct good clever mother for so right and quick how sweet for us twain to be of one mind again alter never having been otherwise then speak thy mind child is not here alas what am i saying would to heaven i he were well then she is comely and wrongs her picture but little eh dear hark to young folk i am for good acts not good looks loves she my boy as he did ought to be loved is farther from the than we are said thoughtfully yet she was there afore me nodded intelligence nay more she had got him out ere i came ay down from the tower her head the highest tower for miles i it is not tis though she and an old man brought found means and wit to send him up a rope there twas dangling from his prison and our went up it when first i saw it hang i said this is but when the frank s arms came round me and her bosom did beat on mine and her cheeks wet then said i tis not tis love for she is not like me but and able and dear heart even i poor frail creature do feel sometimes as i could move the world for them i love i love you mother and she loves god bless her for it god bless her but but what lamb her love is it for very certain honest tis most strange but that very thing which hath warmed your heart hath somewhat cooled mine towards her poor soul she is no wife you know mother when all is done | 9 |
in meeting him affected me i brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back and i made a clumsy laugh of it and we sat down together side by side why how do you come to be here said clapping me on the shoulder i came here by the coach to day i have been adopted by an aunt down in that part of the country and have just finished my education there how do you come to be here well i am what they call an oxford man he returned that is to say i get bored to death down there � and i am on my way now to my mother s you re a devilish amiable looking fellow just what you used to be now i look at you not altered in the least i knew you immediately i said but you are more easily remembered he laughed as he ran his hand through the curls of his hair and said gaily yes i am on an expedition of duty my mother lives a little way out of town and the roads being in a condition and our house the personal and experience tedious enough i remained here to night instead of going on i have not been in town half a dozen hours and those i have been and grumbling away at the play i have been at the play too said t at garden what a delightful and magnificent entertainment laughed heartily � my dear young he said clapping me on the shoulder again you are a very the of the field at sunrise is not than you are i have been at garden too and there never was a more miserable business � you sir this was addressed to the waiter who had been very attentive to our recognition at a distance and now came forward where have you put my friend mr said beg your pardon sir where does he sleep what s his number you know what i mean said well sir said the waiter with an air mr is at present in forty four sir and what the devil do you mean retorted by putting mr into a little over a stable why you see we wasn t aware sir returned the waiter still as mr was particular we can give mr seventy two sir if it would be preferred next you sir of course it would be ed said and do it at once the waiter immediately withdrew to make the exchange very much amused at my having been put into forty four laughed again and clapped me on the shoulder again and invited me to breakfast with him next morning at ten o clock � an invitation i was only too proud and happy to accept it being now pretty late we took our candles and went up stairs where we parted with friendly at his door and where i found my new room a great improvement on my old one it not being at all and having an immense four post in it which was quite a little landed estate here among pillows enough for six i soon fell asleep in a condition and dreamed of ancient and friendship until the early morning out of the underneath made me dream of thunder and the gods of david chapter xx s home when the tapped at my door at eight o clock and informed me that my water was outside i felt severely the having no occasion for it and blushed in my bed the suspicion that she laughed too when she said it upon my mind all the time i was dressing and gave me i was conscious a and guilty air when i passed her on the staircase as i was going down to breakfast i was so aware indeed of being younger than i could have wished that for some time i could not make up my mind to pass her at all under the circumstances of the case but hearing her there with a stood peeping out of window at king charles on horseback surrounded by a of and looking anything but in a rain and a dark brown fog until i was by the waiter that the gentleman was waiting for me it was not in the coffee room that i found expecting me but in a snug private apartment red and turkey where the fire burnt bright and a fine hot breakfast was set forth on a table covered with a clean cloth and a cheerful miniature of the room the fire the breakfast and all was shining in the little round mirror over the i was rather at first being so and elegant and superior to me in au respects age included but his easy patronage soon put that to rights and made me quite at home i could not enough admire the change he had wrought in the golden cross or compare the dull forlorn state i had held yesterday with this morning s comfort and tliis morning s entertainment as to the waiter s familiarity it was as if it had never been he attended on us as i may say in and ashes l ow said when we were alone i should like to hear what you are doing and where you are going and all about you i feel as if you were my property glowing with pleasure to find that he had still this interest in me i told him how my aunt had proposed the little expedition i had before me and whither it tended as you are in no hurry then said come home with me to and stay a day or two you wiu be pleased with my mother � she is a little vain and about me but that you can forgive her � and she will be pleased with you i should like to be | 8 |
news the curiosity of those who knew her best turned slowly into fear and at last bond again gave utterance to the belief that had either gone out in the early morning and put an end to her life or that she had gone to the some of the people at table were moved to loud laughter � it was at supper time on a sunday � but others listened with great interest the flight of lane she never d put on her good clothes to herself said the widow she might have thought t was good as em with her though old folks has wandered off an got lost in the woods afore now mrs dow and resented this impertinent remark but to take no notice of the speaker she would n t have wore her best clothes to the would she mildly inquired her head toward the ceiling t would be a shame to spoil your best things in such a place an i don t know of her any money there s the end o that you re bad as old mis bland that used to live neighbor to our folks said one of the old men she was dreadful precise an she so to wear a good dress that was left to her that it hung in a press forty year an the at last i often seen mis bland a goin in to when i was a young girl said bond she was a good woman an she left property wish she d left it to me then said the poor soul opposite glancing at her pathetic row of children but it was not good the flight of lane manners at the farm to one s and mrs dow and only frowned where do you suppose can be said mrs dow for the twentieth time she did n t have no money i know she ain t gone far if it s so that she s yet alive she s b en real pinched all the spring perhaps that lady that come one day give her some the keeper s wife suggested mildly then would have told me said mrs dow with injured dignity vi on the morning of her disappearance rose even before the and the english and dressed herself quietly though with trembling hands and stole out of the kitchen door like a thief the old dog licked her hand and looked at her anxiously the shell cat rubbed against her best gown and trotted away up the yard then she turned anxiously and came after the old woman following faithfully until she had to be driven back was used to long country excursions the flight of lane she dearly loved the early morning and finding that there was no dew to trouble her she began to follow pasture paths and short cuts across the fields surprising here and there a flock of sleepy sheep or a startled calf that out from the bushes the birds were their breakfast from bush and turf and hardly any of the wild inhabitants of that rural world were enough alarmed by her presence to do more than flutter away if they chanced to be in her path she stepped along and eager as a girl dressed in her neat old straw bonnet and black gown and carrying a few in her best one that her only brother had brought home from the east indies fifty years before there was an old crow perched as on a small dead pine tree where he could warn friends who were pulling up the com in a field close by but he only gave a contemptuous as the adventurer appeared and she shook her bundle at him in revenge and laughed to see him so clumsy as he tried to keep his footing on the twigs yes i be she assured him i m a goin to to the the flight of lane same s other folks i d jest as soon tell ye s not old crow and laughed aloud in pleased content with herself and her daring as she walked along she had only two miles to go to the station at south and she felt for the money now and then and found it safe enough she took great pride in the success of her escape and especially in the long concealment of her wealth not a night had passed since mrs s visit that she had not slept with the roll of money under her pillow by night and safe inside her dress by day she knew that everybody would offer advice and even commands about the spending or saving of it and she no interference the last mile of the foot path to south was along the railway track and began to feel in haste though it was still nearly two hours to train time she looked anxiously forward and back along the rails every few minutes for fear of being run over and at last she caught sight of an engine that was apparently coming toward her and took flight into the woods before she could gather courage to follow the path again the freight train proved to be at a waiting at a and some the flight of lane of the men were about eating their early breakfast comfortably in this time of leisure as the old woman came up to them she stopped too for a moment of rest and conversation where be ye goin she asked pleasantly and they told her it was to the town where she had to change cars and take the great through train a point of geography which she had learned from evening talks between the men at the farm what ye carry me there for we don t run no passenger cars said one of the young fellows laughing what makes you in such a hurry i m for an it s a t ways | 40 |
the same time its strength and it breaks with a lustre the great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence the reader easily goes within the contemporary poetry and it with all the life and promise of the day as the pilgrim goes within the temple and hears the faintest strains of the but it will have to speak to posterity these deserts through the ruins of its walls by the grandeur and beauty of its proportions vol iv no lines thou hast learned the woes of all the world from thine own and lone tears and now thy broad sails are and all men hail thee with loud cheers the flowing sunlight is thy home the of the sea are thine to all the nations shalt through every heart thy love shall shine the thought that finds its goal far far beyond the horizon s verge oh shoot it forth on arrows bold the thoughts of men on on to urge toil not to free the slave from chains think not to give the rest unless rich beauty fills the plains the free man still all men can dig and rude stone but must the above and high through thee alone shall rise our homes of love the modern drama a t in five acts � what student of poetry � for admire o posterity the strange fact these days of book craft produce not only inspired singers and enchanted listeners but students of poetry � what student in this strange sort i say has not felt his eye to this title as if it were written in letters of fire has not heard it whispered in his secret breast � in this form alone thou express thy thought in the of life this success alone should satisfy thy ambition were all these caught firom a genuine fire such as in led the master by their efforts to perfect this till it afforded the greatest advantages in the smallest space we should be glad to warm and cheer us at a very small blaze but it is not so the drama at least the english drama of our day shows a reflected light not a spreading fire it is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to pro but because the admiration of genius has talent ambitious that the harvest is still so abundant this is not an observation to which there are no ex some we shall proceed to but those who have with any care watched this ambition in their own minds or its results in the works of others cannot but feel that the drama is not a growth native to this age and that the numerous produce little worthy the toil they cost t is indeed hard to believe that the drama once invented should cease to be a habitual and healthy expression of the mind it so fully the wants both of sense and soul supplying both deep and light excite ments simple comprehensive and various adapted either the s daughter a tragedy in five by j london c red lion court fleet street a in five acts w smith esq william and sons london ana a tragedy by sterling london street the modem drama to great national and religious subjects or to the private woes of any human breast the space and time occupied the vehicle of expression fit it equally for the entertainment of an evening or the closet theme of meditative years chain us for the hour lead us through the age who would not this mirror which like that of the old not only but the whole range of forms this key which the of speculation at the hour when the lights are and the shadows most suggestive this whose single sparkling draught is locked from common air by walls of glittering ice an artful wild where nature finds no bound to her while art steadily draws to a whole its linked chain were it in man s power by choosing the best to attain the best in any particular kind we would not blame the young poet if he always chose the drama but by the same law of which that wishes shall be granted to the no form of art will succeed with him with whom it is the object of deliberate choice it must grow from his nature in a certain position as it first did from the general mind in a certain position and be no garment taken from the shining store to be worn at a banquet but a real body gradually woven and from the earth and sky which the poet in his youthful years he may learn from the old greek or but he must speak in his mother tongue it was a melancholy praise bestowed on the german that it was an echo of the greek mind o give us something rather than greece more so new so universal so individual an after muse an period must come to every kind of greatness it is the criticism of the upon the inheritance by his ancestors it writes and it makes and covers old chairs with patch work yet happy those who have no affection towards such and entertain their friends with a pipe cut from their own grove rather than display an ivory handed down from the old time whose sweetness we want the skill to draw forth the drama cannot die out it is too naturally born of certain periods of national development it is a stream that will sink in one place only to rise to light in another as it has appeared in greece rome we cannot count england spain france italy germany so has it yet to appear in new holland new and among ourselves when we too shall be made new by a sunrise of our own when our population shall have settled into a national life and we have | 37 |
her own but to hi too them to mrs e mr s w ghostly when they were all knowing why ery her was the to say witli you j i don t know with her and d the it ain t me it him k what good woman mean xl mr white and slowly with n look of h ll � t d with of w h i ft til this good creature � � � m ib in that direction she don t know what she means s an idiot a wanderer in her she shall have a dose she shall ha re a dose get along with you my woman he added in her ear get along with you while you know you re and you re shaken to mistress of the danger in which her identity the as her seized it put her apron over her head and in a twinkling the visitor into a smile and sat down again you ll her mr � aid out the tea himself she s failing and breaking up that s what she s about i o you take sugar sir thank you no tea for me � pardon my it but that s a remarkable watch the was drawn up near the sofa with a small interval between it and mrs s own particular table mr in his gallantry had risen to hand that lady her tea her dish of was there and it was in placing the cup conveniently within her reach that the watch lying before her as it always did attracted his attention mrs looked suddenly up at him may i be thank you a fine old h he said taking it in his hand heavy for use but massive and i have a partiality for everything genuine such as i am i genuine myself a gentleman s watch with two cases in the old fashion may i remove it from the outer case you aye an old silk watch worked with beads i have often seen these among old dutch people and quaint things they are old fashioned too said mrs very but this is not as old as the watch i think i think not extraordinary how they used to these c hers remarked mr glancing up with his own smile again now is this d n f it might be almost anything those are the letters mr who had been pausing all this time with a cup of tea in his hand and his open ready to swallow the contents began to do so always entirely his mouth before he emptied it at a and always again before he it d k e was some tender k fascinating fair i make no doubt observed as he snapped on the case again i her memory on the assumption unfortunately for my peace of mind i but too readily it may be a vice it may be a virtue but adoration of female beauty and merit three of in madam mr had by this time himself out another cup of tea which he was in as before with his eyes to the invalid you be heart � here sir she returned to mr those letters are not intended i believe for the if any name of a motto perhaps said mr casually of a sentence they have always stood i believe for bo n ot forget and naturally said mr the watch stepping backward to his former chair you do not forget mi finishing his tea not only took a longer mj he had taken yet but made his succeeding pause under new that is to say with his head thrown back and his cap b tp held at his lips while his eyes were stiu directed at the invalid ii had that force of face and that concentrated air of collecting her ness or obstinacy which represented in her case what would ve been gesture and action in another as she replied with her strength of speech no sir i do not forget to lead a life as monotonous as mm j has been during many years is not the way to forget to lead a of self is not the way to forget to be sensible of g as we au have every one of us au the children of adam s j to and peace to make does not justify the desire to � t therefore i have long dismissed it and i er forget nor wish t� forget mr who had been shaking the at bottom of his tea cup round and round here it down putting the cup in the tea tray as done with turned hia eyes u mr as if to ask him what he thought of that all expressed madam said mr with his s bow and his white hand on his breast by the word which i am proud to have had sufficient apprehension and but without appreciation i could not be employ pardon me sir she returned if i doubt the o� � gentleman of pleasure and change and politeness accustomed to and to be � oh madam by heaven � if i doubt the of such a character quite what belongs to mine in my circumstances not doctrine upon you she looked at the rigid pile of hard books before her for you go your own way and the are on your own head i will say this much that i shape my by strictly by proved and tried under whom i cannot can not be � and that if i were of the l conveyed in those three letters i should not be half as as i am j it was curious how she seized the occasion to argue with p invisible opponent perhaps with her own better sense always � s upon herself and her own deception if i forgot my in my life of health and freedom � might complain of | 8 |
who can after a ah i � � them said the now in of the south in the old days the went on everything was thrown into the streets and we picked and chose those were dainty seasons but to day they keep their streets as clean as the outside of an egg and my people fly away to be clean is one thing to dust sweep and seven times a day the very gods themselves there was a down country had it from a brother who told me that in of the south all the were as fat as in the rains said the his mouth watering at the bare thought of it ah but the white faces are there � the english and they bring dogs from somewhere down the river in boats � big fat dogs � to keep those same lean said the the they are then as hard hearted as these people i might have known neither earth sky nor water shows charity to a i saw the tents of a white face last season after the rains and i also took a new yellow bridle to eat the white faces do not dress their leather in the proper way it made me very sick that was better than my case said the when i was in my third season a young and a bold bird i went down to the river where the big boats in the boats of the english are thrice as big as this village he has been as far as and says all the people there walk on their heads muttered the the opened his left eye and looked keenly at the it is true the big bird insisted a liar only lies when he hopes to be believed no one who had not seen those boats could believe this truth that is more reasonable said the and then from the of this boat they were taking out great pieces of white stuff which in a little while turned to water much split off and fell about on the shore and the rest they swiftly put into a house with thick walls but a the second book who laughed took a piece no larger than a small dog and threw it to me i � all my people � swallow without reflection and that piece i swallowed as is our custom immediately i was afflicted with an excessive cold which beginning in my crop ran down to the extreme end of my toes and deprived me even of speech while the laughed at me never have i felt such cold i danced in my grief and amazement till i could recover my breath and then i danced and cried out against the of this world and the me till they fell down the chief wonder of the matter setting aside that coldness was that there was nothing at all in my crop when i had finished my the had done his very best to describe his feelings after a seven pound lump of lake ice ofl an american in the days before made her ice by machinery but as he did not know what ice was and as the and the knew rather less the tale missed fire anything said the shutting his left eye again � anything is possible that comes out of a boat thrice the size of my village is not a small one the there was a whistle overhead on the bridge and the mail slid across all the carriages gleaming with light and the shadows faithfully following along the river it away into the dark again but the and the were so well used to it that they never turned their heads is that anything less wonderful than a boat thrice the size of said the bird looking up i saw that built child stone by stone i saw the bridge rise and when the men fell off they were wondrous sure footed for the most part � but when they fell i was ready after the first pier was made they never thought to look down the stream for the body to burn there again i saved much trouble there was nothing strange in the building of the bridge said the but that which goes across pulling the carts that is strange the repeated it is past any doubt a new breed of some day it will not be able to keep its up yonder and will fall as the men did the old will then be ready the looked at the and the looked at the if there was one the second book thing they were more certain of than another it was that the engine was everything in the wide world except a the had watched it time and again from the hedges by the side of the line and the had seen engines since the first ran in india but the had only looked up at the thing from below where the brass dome seemed rather like a s m � yes a new kind of the repeated to make himself quite sure in his own mind and certainly it is a said the and again it might be � began the certainly � most certainly said the without waiting for the other to finish what said the angrily for he could feel that the others knew more than he did what might it be never finished my words you said it was a it is anything the protector of the poor pleases i am his servant � not the servant of the thing that crosses the river whatever it is it is white face work said the and for my own part i would not lie out upon a place so near to it as this bar you do not know the english as i do said the the there was a white face here when the bridge was built | 39 |
is to see the sins we sin the ik the word idle or � aye even the or struggle multiplied ten and mo ourselves spring up upon the universal bi of the to be the of a million whilst tile everlasting finger writes its endless count an a cold voice of justice cries in our conscience haunted so oh soul behold the thy wanton hand did scatter and long in vain for the wa of forget fulness what it is to have every earthly wisdom ye to bum for the deeper and forbidden draught to gather up all wealth and power and let them slip again like children weary of a painted toy to sweep the harp o fame and by its music to stamp i small beneath our feet to snatch at pleasure s ant find its wine is sand and at length to cast us down and pray the pitiless gods with whose stolen garment we have wrapped ourselves to take it back again and suffer us to naked to the grave such is the life thou say wilt thou have it now if it may be shared with thee he answered these arc born of loneliness but then our perfect turn them into joy aye she said while it was permitted to endure he it in the spring when the melt we ill journey together to and there thou shalt be in the of life that forbidden essence of which once thou fear to drink afterwards i wed thee that place is closed for ever not to my feet thine she answered fear not ly love were this mountain heaped i would blast � � a path through it with mine eyes and lay its secret bare oh would that thou as i am for then before tomorrow s sun we d watch the rolling pillar thunder by and thou taste its glory the third ordeal but it may not be hunger or cold can starve thee and waters drown swords can thee or sickness sap away thy strength had it not been for the false who my words as it was that she should do by this day we were across the mountains or had travelled northward through tlie frozen desert and the rivers now we must await the melting of the for winter is at band and in it as thou no man can live upon their heights eight months till april before we can start and how long to cross the mountains and all the vast distances beyond and the seas and the of why at the best two years must go by before we can even find the place and he fell to her to let them be wed at once and journey afterwards but she said nay and nay and nay it should not till at length as though fearing his pleading or that of h� own heart she rose and dismissed us ah my she said to me as we three parted i promised thee and myself some few hours of rest and of the happiness of quiet and thou how my desire has been fulfilled those old were wont to share their with one skeleton but here i counted four to night that you both could see and are named fear suspense and love denied doubtless also when these are buried others will come haunt us and snatch the poor morsel from our lips so hath it ever been with me whose feet dogs yet i hope on and now many a barrier lies hind us and hast been tried in the triple fires and yet proved true sweet be thy my love and sweeter still thy dreams for know my soul shall share them i vow to thee that to morrow we ll happy aye to morrow without fail why will she not marry me at once asked l when we were alone in our chamber because is afraid i ee during the weeks that followed these often and often i wondered to myself whether a more truly wretched being had ever lived than the or die spirit whom we knew as she and whether in fact also or in our imagination only she had arisen from the ashes of her hideous age into the bloom of perpetual hfe and beauty inconceivable these things at least were certain had achieved the secret of an existence so enduring that for all human purposes it might be called within certain � such as her utter inability to foresee the future � undoubtedly also she was with powers that can only be described as supernatural her rule over the strange community amongst whom she lived was absolute indeed its members regarded her as a goddess and as such she was worshipped after marvellous adventures the man who was her very life i i might almost say her soul whose being was so mysteriously with hers whom she loved also with the human passion of which woman can be capable had sought her out in this hidden corner of the world more thrice he had proved his fidelity to her first by his of the royal and beautiful if secondly by clinging to i when she seemed to be repulsive to every natural sense after that homage scene in the � i though with her unutterable before his eyes this did not appear to be so wonderful � by j and the r in the face of her terrible true or false that she had won her gifts and him through some dim with the powers of evil in the unknown fruits and of which he must be involved as the price of h possession yet was miserable even in her moods it was clear to me that those at the feast of which she had spoken were her continual companions indeed when we were alone she would acknowledge it in dark hints and veiled or allusions crushed i her rival the might | 18 |
him m said one or two of them he ll make as good an under replied as there will be in europe him gentlemen you will get no such man m and that is just said sir william aside to all that recommendation is good for and thus closed as much as we feel necessary to describe of that extraordinary scene � a grand jury room in the year or chapter a rent day relative position of landlord and tenant op � s notion of respect s wig � and solomon in a pit op admiration � the widow one single week in the progress of time after the exhibition last described had wonderfully advanced the catastrophe of our simple and narrative very much to the mortification of m was the evidence being not only m his favour but actually of such a character as to prove clearly that his trial was merely one of those stretches of vengeance which the times on coming out however he found the affairs of the firm in a state of and ruin the s in the papers with compassion and a hope that the affairs of this very respectable � which was hitherto supposed to be a vol y m one � would still be wound up in a way they trusted somewhat more satisfactory than was given out by their enemies nor was this the worst so far as himself was concerned the impression of mary m s had been now so thoroughly stamped into his heart that he neither could nor would listen to any attempt upon the part of their mutual friends at her this last stroke of anguish was owing also to s ingenuity on reflecting day after day and hour by hour upon the occurrence and comparing it with her conduct and confusion on previous occasions felt as we before said strongly to believe her guilty he determined however not to rest here but to the matter to the bottom he accordingly heard from his cousin and from several others while in prison such details of the particulars and such an list of the persons were present many of whom owing to the of were friendly and favourable to the family � that he privately sent for them and on comparing the one with the other he found the harmony among them so strong that he gave up all thoughts of her save such as involuntarily to his mind with indignation and anguish in addition to his other the irish agent it happened that the second day after his release from imprisonment was what the agents call day that is the day upon which they get into their chair of state as it were and in all the insolence of office receive their rents and give a general audience to the indeed even more than the father looked forward to these days with an exultation of soul and a consciousness of authority that repaid him for all the and of the nose which he was forced to suffer during the whole year besides in truth nothing could equal much less the spirit by which this lion hearted gentleman was then animated his frown the of bis head the ferocity of his look and the pomp of manner with which he addressed them and damned liis honour were all in their way the father was more cautious and within bounds simply because he had more sense and knew the world better but at the same time it was easy to see by his manner that in spite of all his efforts at and justice he possessed the poison as well as the wisdom of the serpent but not one of the of the dove at another table a little to the right of m sat m ready to take m appropriate part in the proceedings of the day and prepared whilst engaged in the task of seeing that every thing was done according to law to throw in a word in season touching the interests of the gospel at length eleven o clock arrived and found our old friend who had not yet entered upon the duties of his office together with one or two other all ready for business the two principal characters were surrounded by books and every other document necessary and usual upon such occasions the day was wet and cold and by no means in the spirit of the season but we know not why it happens that there seems in general to be a of disastrous weather peculiar to such days leading one to e that the agent possessed such a of the weather as enabled him to the severity of the very elements upon his own cruelty in a country so poor as ireland the scene presented by a rent day is one too impressive and melancholy ever to be forgotten by any heart touched with benevolence there is little if any of that erect freedom of and natural exhibition of good will which conscious independence and a sense of protection on the irish the part of the tenant whilst on that of the agent or landlord there is a contemptuous hardness of a vile indifference and utter disregard of the feelings of those by whom he is surrounded that might enable the observer to say at a glance here is no sympathy between that man and these people but that is not all give yourself time to observe them more closely listen to that agent pouring his insolent upon the head of this poor man whose only crime is his poverty and whose spirit appears to be broken down with the struggles and sufferings of life yet who hears his honesty his efforts and his character blackened without any other a calm spirit that looks to his own heart for the consciousness of these look at this we repeat and you will surely feel yourself forced to say � not that there | 50 |
i hope you may be but i don t know i can t say what you may ha done the like of you don t know us don t care for us don t belong to us i am not sure why you may ha i rf wc may ha am ir wn v what c � u l � i l l i then j jl ir ami z x u n you seemed � u wc i now do s � r i n r iu u � be � e i r i� a xii hail ant t afflicted u and w i � il l i w wa that tbe wa � � v to him � wi ix i mn t if st vi w� i ia � y l jt ty there � o i bt l v bad cause be i but i j tr j a a l tut wn uneasily h i� ra z i w v ul tbe r y oc be i d ous not knowing y and y u � d be by she fc l and j w � the ol j line beard � x iv he you j ow what you hare engaged v d j lad your mind tbat not � de i returned d ing eyes that � me r i won t l e � young lady � put in of � aud v iu h at h h lad been put m ml � i went to the bank to say i and to give a and pr j hard times should be here in two days i couldn t meet wi mr then and your brother sent me away and i tried to find you but you was not to be found and i went back to work soon as i come out of the mill to night i hastened to hear what was said of � for i know wi pride he will come back to shame it � and then i went again to seek mr and i found him and i told him every word i knew and he believed no word i said and brought me here u so far that s true enough assented mr with his hands in his pockets and his hat on but i have known you people before to day you ll observe and i know you never die for want of talking now i recommend you not so much to mind talking just now as doing you have undertaken to do something all i remark upon that at present is do it i have written to by the post that went out this afternoon as i have written to him once before sin he went away said and he will be here at in two days then i ll tell you something you are not aware perhaps retorted mr that you yourself have been looked after now and then not being considered quite free from suspicion in this business on account of most people being judged according to the company they keep the post office hasn t been forgotten either what i ll tell you is that no letter to has ever got into it therefore what has become of yours i leave you to guess perhaps you re mistaken and never wrote any he hadn t been gone from here young lady said turning to as much as a week when he sent me the only letter i have had from him seek weak an another name oh br george cried shaking bead with a be change lit rather too fur � an chap if s considered a in of justice i believe when an to many tt what wish the tear in eye again vital lady in name of w� left the poor lad to do the matter against on one hand the men him on the lie only to work hard in and do vital be felt right can a man hare no of own no of own most he � wrung all through wi thk or must be go wrong all through thai or be limited like a hare u indeed indeed i pity him from mr returned and i hope that be will dear tf yon need hare no fear of that young lady he � sore tf all i suppose said fir your refusing to veil where he k u he not through any of mine back the of being brought back he shall of own to clear and pot all that bare injured good character and he not here for to i have told him what ha been done aj y said throwing off all at a throws off the and be will be here at in two dare u added if he can be laid bold of any sooner be shall hare an hard times lier opportunity of clearing himself as to you i have nothing against you what you came and told me turns out to be true and i have given you the means of proving it to be true and there s an end of it i wish you good night all i must be off to look a little further into this tom came out of his corner when mr moved moved with him kept close to him and went away with him the only parting salutation of which he delivered himself was a sulky good night father with a brief speech and a at his sister he left the house since his sheet anchor had come home mr had been of speech he still sat silent when mildly said a you will not distrust me one day when you know me better it goes against me answered in a manner to any one but when i am so � when we all are � i cannot keep such things quite out of my mind i ask your | 8 |
without being questioned i that � oh that was court a place there had been a fine sight of about back the heir of the name had somehow way the estate and it fell to the very distant connections who only called themselves because they had got the estate but the claim had been disputed over and over again and the coachman if he had been asked would have said though he might have to fall down dead the next minute that property didn t always get into the right hands however the lawyers had found their luck in it and people who inherited estates that were about often lived in them as poorly as a in a hollow cheese and by what he could make out that had been the way with these present or as they called them p selves as for was as poor half a fellow as you d wish to see but she was master had come of a high family and had a spirit � yon might see it in her eye and the way she sat her horse forty years ago when she came into this country they said she was a but her family was poor and so she took up with a faced fellow like this and the eldest son had been just such another as his father only a wild sort of half natural who got into bad company they said his mother hated him and wished him dead for she d got another son quite of a different cut who had gone to foreign parts when he was a and she wanted her favorite to be heir but heir or no heir lawyer the radical husband her eldest bom and the loneliness of her life but to have at her side a rich clever possibly a tender son yes but there were the fifteen years of separation and all that had happened in long time to throw her the back ground in her son s and affection and did not men sometimes become more filial in their feeling when experience had them and they had themselves become fathers still if mrs had expected only her son she would have trembled less she expected a little also and there were reasons why she had not been when her son had written to her only when he was on the eve of returning that he already had an heir bom to him but the facts must be accepted as they stood and after all the chief thing was to have her son back again such pride such affection such hopes as she cherished in this fifty sixth year of her life must find their gratification in him � or nowhere once more she glanced at the portrait the young brown eyes seemed to dwell on her pleasantly bat turning from it with a sort of impatience and saying aloud of coarse he will be altered i she rose almost with difficulty and walked more slowly than before across the hall to the entrance door already the sound of wheels was loud upon the gravel the momentary surprise of seeing that it was only a post chaise without a servant or much luggage that was passing under the stone and then round against the flight of stone steps was at once in the sense that there was a dark face under a red cap looking at her from the window she saw nothing else she was not even that the small go up of her own servants had or that old the butler had forward to open the chaise door she heard herself called mother and felt a light kiss on each cheek but stronger than all that sensation was the consciousness which no previous thought could prepare her for that this son who had come back to her was a stranger three minutes before she had fancied that in spite of all changes wrought by fifteen years of separation she should clasp her son again as she had done at their parting but in the moment when their eyes met the sense of strangeness came upon her like a terror it was not hard to understand that she was agitated and the son led her across the hall to the sitting room closing the door behind them then he turned toward her and said smiling you would not have known me eh mother it was perhaps the if she had seen him in a crowd she might have looked at him without recognition � not however without startled wonder for though the likeness to herself was no longer striking the years had it with another likeness which would have arrested her before she answered him his eyes with a keen restlessness as unlike as possible to the lingering gaze of the portrait had quickly over the room on her again as she said every thing is changed i am an old woman you see but and more upright than some of the young ones said inwardly however feeling that age had made his mother s face veiy anxious and eager the old women at are like ve not got clumsy and how is it i have the trick of getting fat here lifted his arm and spread out his plump hand i remember my father was as thin as a how is my father where is he mrs just pointed to the doorway and let her son pass through it alone she was not given to tears but now under the pressure of emotion that could find no other vent they burst forth she took care that they should be silent tears and before came out of the library again they were dried mrs some had not the feminine tendency to seek influence through pathos she had been used to rule in virtue of acknowledged superiority the consciousness that she had to make her son s acquaintance and that her knowledge | 14 |
which they despise then there are the of wealth how many of them inherit the genius and hard which built up their fortunes how many acknowledge the stem and heavy responsibility of their opportunities how many refuse to dream their lives away in a luxury how many are smitten with the lofty ambition of au enduring name by works of a permanent value how many do not into dainty and their manhood with instead of a hearty human sympathy how many are not satisfied with having the horses and the carriages and an unlimited wardrobe and a weak affectation and imitation of foreign life the papers and who are these of our secondly these old families the spirit of our time and of our country knows no such thing but the of society hears constantly of a good family it means simply the mass of children and descendants of some man who deserved well of his country and whom his country honors but sad is the of a great name the son of will inevitably be measured by the niece of pope must show some superiority to other women so to speak or her equality is inferiority the feeling of men attributes some charm to blood and we look to see the daughter of as fair as her mother and the son of shakespeare musical as his if they are not so if they are merely names and common persons � if there is no nor shakespeare nor washington nor bacon in their words or actions or lives then we must pity them and pass gently on not them but that it is one of the laws of greatness that it all things in its vicinity which would otherwise show large enough nay in our regard for the great man we may even admit to a compassionate honor as upon our charity those who bear and his name but if these should pre upon that fame and claim any of our best society and women because their dead grandfather was a hero � they must be shown the door directly we should dread to be bom a or a or a we should not like to be the second duke of nor charles it is a terrible thing one would say to a mind of honorable feeling to be pointed out as somebody s son or uncle or as if the excellence were all derived it must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody you would be nobody � that in fact you are only a name and that if you should consent to change it for the sake of a fortune as is sometimes done you would cease to be anything but a rich man my father was president or governor of the state some man may say but by king of gods and men what i the instinctive do you not see our friend that you are only pointing your own if your father was governor of the state what right have you to use that fact only to your self conceit take care good care for whether you say it by your lips or by your life that withering response you � then what are if your was great you are under bonds to greatness if you are small make haste to learn it and thanking heaven the papers that your name has been made illustrious retire into a corner and keep it at least our is a class made by sundry french dancing masters and mr brown they are a corps de for the use of private they are by society for the use of young and who have dared two or three years of the tight they are cultivated for their heels not their heads their life begins at ten o clock in the and lasts until four in the morning they go home and sleep until nine then they sleepy to counting houses and offices and on until dinner time or unable to do that they are at work all day and their cheeks grow pale and their lips thin and their eyes and hollow and they drag themselves home at evening to catch a nap until the ball begins or to dine and smoke at their club and be very manly with and coarse stories and then to rush into hot and glittering rooms and seize very girls closely around the waist and dash with them around an area of stretched linen saying in the panting pauses how very hot it is how very pretty miss looks what a good are you going to mrs s is this the assembled of manhood and � our best womanhood called best society and to see which is so envied a privilege if such are the elements can we be long in arriving at the present state and necessary future condition of parties vanity fair is peculiarly a picture of modem society it aims at english follies but its mark is universal as the madness is it is called a satire but after much reading we cannot discover the satire a state of society not at all superior to that of vanity fair is not unknown to our experience and unless truth telling be satire unless the most real be satire unless tears of sorrow and the bitter regret of a manly mind over the miserable spectacle of wasted powers energies and lost opportunities be we do not find satire in that sad story the reader it with a grief beyond tears it leaves a vague in the mind as if we should suspect the air to be poisoned it suggests the terrible thought of the of moral power and the of noble character as a necessary consequence of contact with society every man looks suddenly and sharply around him and himself and his neighbors to ascertain if they are all parties to this corruption sentimental youths and | 16 |
putting her about in her ways you shall have a shelter in her house if you ll go to her dutiful and she ll you against folks as say harm of you when they ve no call and i told her i thought you couldn t bear to see nobody but me you was so beat down with trouble but she said t throw ill words at her there s them out o th be ready enough to do that but give her good advice an she must be ble it s wonder l o jane for i m sure she used to throw every thing i did wrong at if it was the wine as turned out bad or the too hot or it was oh mother said poor shrinking from the thought of all the contact her bruised mind would have to bear tell her i m very grateful i ll go to see her as soon as i can but i can t see any one just yet except dr i ve been to him he will advise me and help me to get some occupation i can t live with any one or be dependent on them tell aunt i must get my own bread but did you hear nothing of philip � philip have you never seen any one that has mentioned him no my dear but i ve been to s and i saw your uncle and he says they got her to listen to the letter and she to k notice o miss guest and asked questions and the doctor thinks she s on the turn to be better what a world this is � what trouble oh dear the law was the first beginning an it s gone from bad to worse all of a sudden just when the luck seemed on the turn this was the first that mrs had let slip to but old habit had been revived by the interview with sister my poor poor mother burst out cut to the heart with pity and and throwing her arms round her mother s neck i was naughty and troublesome to you and now you might have been happy if it hadn t been for me eh my dear said mrs leaning toward the warm young cheek i must put up wi my children � i shall never have no more and if they bring me bad luck i must be fond on it there s nothing else much to be fond on for my went long ago and you d got to be very good once i can t think how it s turned out the wrong way so still two or three more days passed and heard nothing of philip anxiety about him was becoming her trouble and she summoned courage at last to inquire about him of dr on his next visit to her he did not even know if philip was at home the elder was made moody by an of annoyance the disappointment in this young to whom apparently he was a � tim mill on the good deal attached had been followed close by the catastrophe to his son s hopes he had his feelings to them and mentioned this concession in st s and he was almost fierce in his when any one asked him a question about his son but philip could hardly have been ill or it would have been known through the in of the medical man it was probable that he was gone out of the town for a little while under this and her imagination began to live more and more persistently in what philip was enduring what did he about her at last bob brought her a letter without a post mark directed in a hand which she knew familiarly in the letters of her own name � a hand in which her name had been written long ago in a pocket which she possessed her mother was in the room and in violent agitation hurried up stairs that she might read the letter in solitude she read it with a throbbing brow � i believe in you � i know you never meant to deceive me � i know you tried to keep faith to me and to all i believed this before i had any other evidence of it than your own nature the night after i last parted from you i suffered i had seen what convinced me that you were no free that there was another whose presence had a power oyer you which mine never possessed but through all the suggestions � almost of rage and jealousy my mind made its way to belief in your i was sure that you meant to to me as you had said that you had rejected him that you struggled to him for s sake and for mine but i could see no issue that was not fatal for and that dread shut out the very thought of resignation i foresaw that he would not you and i then as i believe now that the strong attraction which drew you together mi y s ft js of your characters and belonged to that partial s tion of our nature which makes half the tragedy lot i have felt the of in your nature that i have continually felt the want of in his but perhaps i am wrong perhaps i feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has with love he would tremble to see it confided to other hands he would never that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him i dared not trust myself to see you that morning i was filled with selfish passion i was shattered by a night of con the mill on thb delirium i told you long ago that i had never been | 14 |
praise i wish you could have seen her countenance when said that you be henry s wife and i observed that she always spoke of you as f w i i i was never used to do and it had a � and i say � did she speak � was she there al � yes with her sister tho surprise � seems to have been unbounded � refuse such a man as i than they can understand i said what i ct but in good truth as stated the case � yo prove yourself to be in your senses as soon as you can a different conduct nothing else will them but this is you i have done do not away from me should have thought said after pause of recollection and exertion that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man s not being approved not being loved by 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 man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself but even supposing it is so allowing mr to have al the claims which his think he has how was i to be prepared to meet him with any feeling to his he took me wholly by surprise i bad not an idea that his behaviour to me before had any meaning and surely i was not to be teaching myself to like him only because he was taking what seemed very idle notice of me in my situation it would have been the of vanity to be forming expectations on mr i am sure his sisters him as they do must have thought it so supposing be had meant nothing how then was i to be � to be in love with him the moment he said he was with how was i to have an attachment at his service as soon as it was asked for his sisters should consider me as well as him the higher his deserts the more improper for me o park thou t of him and and � we think very of the nature of women if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning an as this seems to imply hy dear dear now i have the i know this to be the truth and most worthy of you are such feelings i had attributed them to you before i thought i could understand you you have now given exactly the explanation which i ventured to make for you to your and mrs grant and they were both better satisfied though your warm hearted was still run away with a by the enthusiasm of her fondness for i told that you were of all human creatures the one oyer habit had most power and novel least and that the veiy circumstance of the novelty of s addresses was against him their being so new and so was all in their that you could at you were not used to and a great deal more to the same purpose to give th� n a knowledge of your character miss made ua laugh by her plans of for her brother she meant to him to in the hope of being loved in time and of having his addresses most kindly received at the end of about ten h marriage could with difficulty give the smile that was here for her feelings were all in revolt she feared she had been doing wrong saying too much the which she had been necessary in guarding one evil laying herself open to another and to have miss s repeated to her at such a and on such a subject was a bitter saw weariness and distress in her ce and immediately resolved to forbear all farther discussion and not even to mention the name of again except as it might be connected with what be agreeable to her on this principle he soon afterwards observed � they go on monday you are sure therefore of seeing your mend either to morrow or sunday they really go on monday and i was within a e of being persuaded to stay at till that very day i i had pro it a ie � k nd fire � six more bt woe t x wm and had had i ai letter from to tell me how job all going on i i id ban but i knew that had here for a and ut i had been am ki yoa your time yea tint i h waa die of if i did not ti all i doubt their ai of it till i waa la again the � yon liked them did not yes veiy well pleasant good humoured unaffected girls but i am spoilt for common female society good unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women they are two distinct orders of being you and miss hare made me too nice still however was oppressed and wearied he saw it in her looks it could not be talked away and attempting it no more he led her directly with the kind authority of a privileged guardian into the house chapter v now believed himself acquainted with all that could tell or could leave to be of her and he was satisfied it had been as he before presumed too hasty a measure on s side and time must be given to make the idea first and then agreeable to her she must be used to the of hia being in love with her and then a return of might not be very distant he gave opinion as the result of the to � and being nothing more said park to her no to influence or persuade but | 26 |
bringing them back after flight is difficult that night lord went back to his hotel pondering over what had said and wondering what she could possibly mean he could hardly think it conceivable that she could feel towards him for the fact that she had been in that dreadful during those two long years he had not very much time at his disposal because his leave of absence from the english in was not very long nor had he very much time to think of what he could do for some half hour after he had turned into his sitting room and was smoking a and thinking of his brother came in with a rush and those a whirl and told him with many a hum and and a sort of half shame faced pride that he and had that night made up their minds to run in double harness together now old chap you ll do the last offices for me won t you he said what do you mean � best man of course answered well i didn t exactly mean best man he said but you see old chap it s a awkward thing going and talking to a girl s mother about one s prospects and all that and i thought you d be the proper person as head of the family to just how things stand eh i don t mind doing it said lord good and with a wild wish that he could go and do likewise for himself and another of mrs s daughters i d better go up to morrow afternoon then eh oh hadn t you better make it the morning asked captain rather awkwardly no i don t think i d better make it the mom tb m ing i d better make it about three o clock in the afternoon and then you can come along at and you can hear all that there is to hear i can tell you what the old lady he went on she ll talk about her darling child and she ll say that although she s got four of them she hasn t got one too many and that she doesn t like parting with any of them but that as she can hardly expect such girls not to leave the parent nest sooner or later � they always talk about the parent nest you know � that she d as soon let her come to you as to anybody else she knows that s about the tone of it dick old chap said frank in tones of concern there s something wrong with you what is it nothing nothing � a little envious of you that s all but it s not surely what on earth are you talking about well you said this afternoon that it wasn t the other one did i well i suppose i was right never mind me i m a little bit i m down in the i m a little bit color one can t always be dancing about like a will o the pretending one s as merry as a when one isn t leave me alone old chap it s the kindest thing you can do for me don t worry about her if she s all right take my word for it the old lady s all right too i ll go up there first thing after lunch to morrow and put it all right for you you come up to tea and then i ll give you my blessing so the brothers parted for the night and lord sat down again before the fire and lighting a fresh fell to thinking of again i may as well confess that he was more in love with than ever although the effect upon her mind of the last two years had been decidedly bad the effect upon her body had been quite the opposite of that she had been very pale that evening but it was from excessive emotion rather than from lack of health t girls and when lord went up to the on the following day just after lunch he happened to meet her in the hall as he was being shown into the drawing room she was as blooming as a rose dressed in a pretty light frock made by a good tailor and as smart as pink and white striped collar and and a white silk tie could make her to his intense surprise she put out a perfectly frank and friendly hand and said in a bright and friendly tone oh is that you lord how do you do nice bright day isn t it very said he in a tone intended to convey deep reproach come to see my mother she asked or who to see mother on business he said quietly indeed the man was hurt by the utter indifference of her manner oh you d better take lord into the morning room my mother is there said promptly yes miss answered so lord was hurried off into the room before he had time even to cast a look of reproach into s eyes and how was he to know that turned and fled up the stairs down which she had just come that she shut herself up in her room and went through one of those awful storms of silent agony the agony that knows not the relief of tears how was he to know that while he was talking business on his brother s account with mrs he saw her go past the window with a couple of big dogs at her heels and a gray cat in their wake she looked so young so straight and tall with her bright fair hair her glorious complexion and her great gray bright eyes and unfortunately for lord s peace of mind she looked heartless also he quite made up his mind during the time | 30 |
water to which our ancient groom objected � saying all the wanted was to have her leg dressed every night and morning with a wash that he could make of and and half a dozen other which he affirmed would produce a cure in almost no time a conspicuous and till now somewhat member of the council was a broad shouldered old negro known by the name of uncle who had manifested several decided symptoms of a design to make a speech and now in despite of s cross looks gave his advice in the following terms � one of the things for a that i knows on is this � said he stepping into the ring and laying the fingers of his right hand upon the palm of his left � bless your soul frank i have tried it often and often on people but in upon horses oil of � he continued striking his palm at the of each � oil of a little soap and the best of all put into a bottle and boiled half away � it s how it will cure a my old was sick all last winter with a on her knee and she tried doctor and the doctor and all the folks � but no use tell she some my she said herself � if you believe me � was none on em no touch to my it s frank oh oh � ejaculated in a short surely growl after hearing this wise morsel of experience to the end and looking as an stable wisdom as a vexed bull dog you tell me think i never seed a with a foot all the way up to my time of life off man i knows what i am about turned to me with a look of resignation and said laughing � you see how it is this old will allow no man to have an opinion but himself than disturb the peace i must submit to his authority well je y my old fellow as we can t convince mr i suppose we had better not him angry you know what an obstinate cross old bully he is i am afraid he will take us both in hand if we contradict him so i m for letting him alone his picture said in a low tone of voice accompanied by a laugh in which all the other joined as we broke up the consultation and walked away chapter the having despatched these important matters at the stable we left our horses in charge of the servants and walked towards the which were not more than a few hundred paces distant these with their formed an exceedingly picturesque landscape they were scattered without order over the slope of a gentle hill and many of them were under old and majestic trees the of their construction rather the of the scene some few were built after the fashion of the better sort of cottages but age had stamped its heavy traces upon their exterior the green moss had gathered upon the roofs and the course had broken here and there into but the more lowly of these and the most numerous were nothing more than plain log pretty much on the model by which boys build traps being composed of the trunks of trees still clothed with their bark and knit together at the comers with so little regard to neatness that the being of unequal beyond each other sometimes to the length of a foot perhaps none of these latter sort were more than twelve feet square and not above seven in height a door swung upon wooden hinges and a small win ow of two narrow panes of were the in general the only in the front the intervals between the logs were filled with clay and the roof which was constructed of smaller laid along it and projecting two or three feet beyond the side or walls heightened in a very marked degree the effect the chimneys communicated even a droll expression to these they enough built of of wood having a broad foundation of stone and growing as they rose each receding gradually from the house to which it was attached until it reached the height of the roof these materials were saved from the access of the fire by a thick of mud and the whole structure from its form might be said to bear some resemblance to the of a tea kettle indeed this domestic would furnish no type of the complete cabin from this description which may serve to illustrate a whole species of very common in virginia it will be seen that on the score of accommodation the inmates of dwellings were furnished according to a veiy primitive notion of still however there were little garden patches attached to each where sweet potatoes water and flourished in add to this that there were abundance of poultry about the premises and it may be perceived that whatever might be the of shelter there was no want of what in all tries would be considered a reasonable supply of luxuries nothing more attracted my observation than the of little that on the sunny sides of these and to gaze at us as we surveyed their haunts they were nearly all in that costume of the golden age which i have heretofore described and showed their slim and long heels in all varieties of their grotesque natures their love of sunshine the and ap the quarter parent content to be silently looking abroad might well afford a comparison to a set of in the genial warmth of summer on the logs of a mill pond and there too were the mothers of this brood � a number of stout negro women who thronged the doors of the huts full of idle curiosity to see us and when to these are added a few reverend wrinkled old men with faces | 29 |
belonged to the crown and were gi hy the the elders the h co of s and captains the national i du n� n bend troops or into this province nor did the ever enter it in a legal manner till they had given in the to retain their privileges on these people ri placed a firm confidence himself as a he set on his way to da accompanied by a who was to be his guide he crossed over the whole country of passed between and and after of a long and dan safe among the mountains he had no the province than he was abandoned by h a guide him of all the he had provide he wandered up and down amongst these deserts destitute of friends and money not daring to own that he was even a at inhabitants then more civilized than savages proposed to him to for his to conceal himself from discovery and t nature he accordingly hired himself o labour in the mines it and for a long course of time did he toil in these � a im f ii m l � n in � i ui il j w� with not � r t r t i i v � i� li o ri v anecdote � and breathe � � hit common th� air one deemed to bring me the summons of death near f on a little hill st a very habitation so simple lecture that you would have il u hind cottage instead of a place that in of old had bi en ti of nobility it consists of a long bam structure foi of r covered in n strange fashion with odd oi in the carved wood but the was � d by the of it heroic mistress who saved by her of mind the life of the future of her the fi re the alluded loi and most of them wi to mc under the very roof � having by an evil accident been discovered tu t mines and after being narrowly by a nobleman bent his course toward house then inhabited by a person the of or whom he had known in he hoped from the ni he had formerly laid on the officer that he should at i find a safe retreat received him with every mark fi nay treated him with hut and i noble mind are proud the truly great when robbed their he seemed more afflicted by the tunes of than that prince for and with such vehemence against the that instead � proposal to take up arms he to try the a of the and declared that himself and hit v� would be the to m t an example and turn out under the of his beloved general was rejoiced to find that he had at last found � who was not draw his sword in the defence of his try and endeavoured by the and prospect of a for the personal i he t� n confirm him in so generous a resolution wit repeated of be named the gentlemen and among the whom he hoped to engage the relied on his and promising to name himself to any while he was absent some afterward saw leave the house to put his design in execution it wm indeed a design and a one under the cloak of a zealous for the traitor his ruin the hope of making his court to the at the expectation of a large reward m� de this son of to sacrifice his honour to his � lor the sake of a the most sacred of b his guest in u ce of hat base resolution he went to one of s officers commanding in the province informed him that was his prisoner having this treachery he had to face his victim and to surprise the who he said l him u lu be under of a friend to manhood � i dare lo that he could betray such a he proposed t while they y ti to it of it will ca y said he not even my wife that it is ly the officer st the head of a party of soldier marched directly to the place men in the house while the leader abruptly entering found o� s wife according to the fashion of those employed in preparations at distance from her sat a young in a r off the know from the of a tree the went up to her and told her he came in king s name to demand the rebel who he knew was concealed under her roof tlie d never changed colour she immediately the man whom her introduced as a s son to be the hero the door blocked up hy soldiers in an instant she lied without once glancing at who sat with if you mean the gentleman my has had here these few days he has walked out into the wood on the other side of the hill some of these soldiers may readily him as he has no arms with him the officer did not suspect the easy simplicity of her manner and pan of the men to go in quest of him at that suddenly turning her eyes on she flew up to him and the stick out of hia hand exclaimed in an angry voice wretch what sit before your don t you see the king s in the room c et nut of my sight or some of them shall give you a as she spoke she struck him a blow on the back with all her strength and opening a side door there get into the cried she its the place for such company and giving him knock she flung the after him and shut the door sure added she in a great heal never woman was with such a of a slave the officer begged she would not | 48 |
as she looked over her shoulder she saw the king pursuing with his blade held high in air to strike her down she looked to right and left but no place of safety could she discover and now the gray sea was before her and the waves were at her feet i have thee now vile serpent cried the madman leaping forward then she to save herself sprang into the pitiless deep the waves closed over her and the wild eyed king looking down saw only a swimming out toward the open sea he stood a moment as if in a trance then he wiped the sword blade upon his hand and stuck it in his belt he turned and looked calmly back at the distracted crowd that had followed him fearfully to see what he would do o people he cried the curse of madness is upon me it will rest upon me and the of my house until some hero rises to make amends for the evil deeds of this day thus it is that the mighty ones deal punishment to the of wrong the golden then the wild look came again into his face and with terrible and savage gestures he drove the people back into the city with leaps and strides he returned alone to his white walled palace he closed the great gate behind him he entered the silent hall and moaning as one in terror and distress sat down upon his ivory throne and men say that he still sits there harmless to those who come to minister to him but always moaning and refusing to be comforted you will wonder what became of and and the golden ram and so did the people of the city for many and many a day the ram as you have heard flew straight out over the eastern sea then it winged its way northward many a league looking down upon pleasant islands and shores which no man of greece had ever visited and right bravely did and his little sister cling to their places on his back do not look downward said the lad but look always upward at the sky and the hopeful stars that i will do brother said the little princess and then they talked pleasantly together wondering whither the ram would carry them thus for hours they sped onward than the summer clouds when driven by the strong the curse of am as south wind but toward evening began to grow tired her arms ached with holding on to the golden and her hands were her eyes too were heavy and she felt very drowsy i wonder how soon we shall come to land she said have courage and be patient said her brother but she was not patient for how could she be so at length she leaned over a little and looked down far far below she saw the raging waters of the sea how they tumbled and tossed in wild uproar she grew dizzy as she looked yet she could not lift her eyes from the fearful scene the ram suddenly to the right and lost her balance with her hands and arms she could not regain her place she felt that she was falling o brother help she screamed he reached quickly back to save her but alas he was too late his hand grasped her as she fell it broke and like a star dropping from the dome of the sky she shot swiftly down into the sea the waves closed over her and her eyes beheld no more the light of day but the kind creatures of the sea bore up the body of the child that no rude thing the golden should touch it they carried her gently to the southern shore of that narrow sea which men call in her honor the there they laid her on the dry white beach wrapped like a king s child in her robes and there some country people found her that same day as they were wandering by the sea how sad that one so beautiful should perish thus they said they built a of sweet scented woods upon the shore and poured oil and costly wine upon it then they laid the body of fair and consumed it with fire while all wept because of her fate in the meanwhile the golden ram with still clinging between his wings flew onward past and the stream and over the great sea that lies at the rising of the sun all night he pursued his way with steady wings and in the early morning alighted near a fair rich city with strong walls and many a well built tower dizzy and with the cold joyfully set his feet once more upon the solid earth slowly through avenues of trees he walked to the city gate while like a dog the ram followed in his steps who are you and what city is this he asked of the at the gate the curse of more it would have been for us to ask who you are and whence you come was the answer for surely you must be a rare stranger not to know that this city is called and that our country is known as by the sea and now if you would enter tell us of yourself and of that strange beast that seems to love you so then told them his whole story just as i have told it to you and when the king of the city came out to sit in the gate and deal justice to those who asked for it he saw the manly lad still waiting outside and the ram standing by him and his hand ah what do i see asked the king what rare animal has this boy brought to my poor eyes it is surely a ram but so bright it is that i would almost believe it | 23 |
by t hour together when i m walking i lone places and if i n done a bit o mischief i tell him got no secrets but what knows em he knows about my big thumb he does your big what s that bob said that s what it is miss said bob quickly exhibiting a singularly broad specimen of that difference between the man and the monkey it tells i measuring out the flannel you see i carry flannel cause it s light for my pack an it s dear you see so a big thumb tells i clap my thumb at the end o the yard and cut o the hither side of it and the old women aren t up to t but bob said looking serious that s i don t like to hear you say that don t you miss said bob then i m sorry i said it but i m so used to talking to an he doesn t mind a bit o when it s them women as an an ud like to get their flannel for nothing an ud ask how i got my dinner out on t i cheat any body as doesn t want to cheat me miss � i m a honest chap i am only i must a bit o sport an now i don t go wi the i n got no to come over but them ing women i wish you good evening miss good by thank you very much for bringing me the books and come to see tom yes miss said bob moving on a few steps then turning half round he said i ll leave off that trick wi my big thumb if you don t think well on me for it miss � but it ud be a pity it would i couldn t find another trick so good � an what ud be the use o a big thumb it might as well ha been thus exalted into bob s directing laughed s the mill on thb in spite of herself at which her s blue eyes too and under these he touched his cap and walked hie days of chivalry are not gone notwithstanding s grand over them they live still in that off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that be shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe bob with the pack on his back had os respectful an adoration for this dark eyed maiden as if he had been a knight in calling aloud on her name as he pricked on to the fight that gleam of merriment soon died away from s face and perhaps only made the returning gloom deeper hy contrast she was too even to like answering questions about bob s present of books and she carried them away to her bedroom laying them down there and herself on her one stool without caring to look at them just yet she leaned her cheek against the window and thought that the light hearted bob had a lot much happier than hers s sense of loneliness and utter of joy had deepened with the brightness of advancing spring all the favorite about home which seemed to have done their part with her parents in and her were now mixed up with the home sadness and gathered no smile from the sunshine every affection every the poor child had had was like an aching nerve to her was no music for her any more � no piano no voices no delicious instruments with their passionate cries of imprisoned spirits sending a strange through her frame and of all her school life there was nothing left her now but her little collection of school books which she turned over with a sickening sense that she knew them all and they were all barren of comfort even at school she had often wished for books with more in them every thing she learned there seemed like the ends of long threads that snapped immediately and now without the charm of t was mere so were the hard dry questions on christian doctrine there was no flavor in them � no strength sometimes thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies if she could have had all scott s novels and all s poems then perhaps she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life and yet they were hardly what she wanted she could make dream worlds of her own but no dream world would satisfy her now she wanted some explanation of this hard real life the unhappy father the mill ok the seated at the dull st table the childish bewildered mother the little sordid tasks that filled the hours or the more oppressive of weary leisure the need of some tender love the cruel sense that tom didn t mind what she thought or felt and that they were no longer together the of all pleasant things that had come to her more than to others � she wanted some key that would enable her to understand and in understanding endure the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart if she had been taught real learning and wisdom such as great men knew she thought she should have held the secrets of life if she had only books that she might learn for herself what wise men knew saints and had never interested so much as and poets she knew little of saints and and had gathered as a general result of her teaching that they were a temporary sion against the spread of and had all died at in one of these meditations it occurred to her that she had forgotten tom s school books which had been sent home in his trunk but she found the | 14 |
mrs and a very merry party they had been mrs knowing of her son s obligations to the honest had after some yielded her consent to mr and mrs being invited out to tea in the way of which arrangement there were at first sundry difficulties and obstacles arising out of her not having had an opportunity of calling upon mrs first for although mrs very often observed with much complacency as most people do that she had not an of pride or formality about her she was a great for dignity and ceremonies and as life and adventures of it was manifest that until a call had been made she could not be politely speaking and according to the laws of society even of the fact of mrs s existence she felt her situation to be one of peculiar delicacy and difficulty the call must with me my dear said mrs that s indispensable the fact is my dear that it s necessary there should be a sort of condescension on my part and that i should show this young person that i am willing to take notice of her there s a very respectable looking young man added mrs after a short consideration who is conductor to one of the that go by here and who wears a glazed hat � your sister and i have noticed him very often � he has a upon his nose you know exactly like a gentleman s servant have all gentlemen s servants upon their noses mother asked my dear how very absurd you are returned his mother of course i mean that his glazed hat looks like a gentleman s servant and not the upon his nose � though even that is not so ridiculous as it may seem to you for we had a foot boy once who had not only a but a also and a very large too and he demanded to have his wages raised in consequence because he found it came very expensive let me see what was i � oh yes i know the best way that i can think of would be to send a card and my compliments i ve no doubt he d take em for a pot of porter by this young man to the with two necks � if the waiter took him for a gentleman s servant so much the better then all mrs would have to do would be to send her card back by the car he could easily come with a double knock and there s an end of it my dear mother said i don t suppose such people as these ever had a card of their own or ever will have oh that indeed my dear returned mrs s another thing if you put it upon that ground why of course i have no more to say than that i have no doubt they are very good sort of persons and that i have no kind of objection to their coming here to tea if they like and shall make a point of being very civil to them if they do the point being thus effectually set at rest and mrs duly placed in the and mildly position which became her rank and matrimonial years mr and mrs were invited and came and as they were very to mrs and seemed to have a becoming appreciation of her greatness and were very much pleased with everything the good lady had more than once given to understand in a whisper that she thought they were the very best meaning people she had ever seen and perfectly well behaved and thus it came to pass that john declared in the parlor after supper to wit at twenty minutes before eleven o clock p m that he had never been so happy in all his days nor was mrs much behind her husband in this respect for that young matron � whose rustic beauty contrasted very prettily with the more delicate loveliness of and without suffering by the contrast either for each served as it were to set off and the other � could not sufficiently admire the life and adventures of gentle and winning manners of the or the engaging of the elder one then had the art of turning the conversation to subjects upon which the country girl at first in strange company could feel herself at home and if mrs was not quite so at times in the selection of topics of discourse or if she did as mrs expressed it rather high in her notions still nothing could be kinder and that she took considerable interest in the young couple was manifest from the very long lectures on with which she was bo obliging as to entertain mrs s private ear which were illustrated by various to the domestic economy of the cottage in which those falling exclusively upon the good lady had about as much share either in theory or practice as any one of the statues of the twelve which the exterior of st paul s cathedral mr said addressing his young wife is the best the kindest and creature i ever saw if i were oppressed with i don t know how many cares it would make me happy only to look at him he does seem indeed upon my word a most excellent creature said mrs most excellent and i am sure that at all times it will give me pleasure � really pleasure now � to have you mrs to see me in this plain and homely manner we make no display said mrs with an air which seemed to that they could make a vast deal if they were so disposed � no fuss no preparation i wouldn t allow it i said my dear you will only make mrs feel and how very and that would be i am very obliged to you i am | 8 |
yet s guilt must be established by evidence which would satisfy the people where was that evidence to be found there was only one person in the world who could furnish it � of arc herself she must condemn herself and in public � at least she must seem to do it but how was this to be managed weeks had by of arc been spent already in trying to get her to surrender � time wholly wasted what was to persuade her now torture had been threatened the fire had been threatened what was left deadly fatigue and the sight of the fire the presence of the fire that was left now that was a shrewd thought she was but a girl after all and under illness and exhaustion subject to a girl s weaknesses yes it was thought she had said herself that under the bitter pains of the rack they would be able to a false confession from her it was a hint worth remembering and it was remembered she had furnished another hint at the same time that as soon as the pains were gone she would the confession that hint was also remembered she had herself taught them what to do you see first they must wear out her strength then frighten her with the fire second while the fright was on her she must be made to sign a paper but she would demand a reading of the paper they could not venture to refuse this with the public there to hear suppose that during the reading her courage should return she would refuse to sign then very well even that difficulty could be got over they could read a short paper of no importance then slip a long and deadly one into its place and trick her into that by of arc yet there was still one other difficulty if they made her seem to that would free her from the death penalty they could keep her in a prison of the church but they could not kill her that would not answer for only her death would content the english alive she was a terror in a prison or out of it she had escaped from two already but even that difficulty could be managed would make promises to her in return she would promise to leave off the male dress he would his promises and that would so her that she would not be able to keep hers her lapse would condemn her to the stake and the stake would be ready these were the several moves there was nothing to do but to make them each in its order and the game was won one might almost name the day that the betrayed girl the most innocent creature in france and the noblest would go to her pitiful death and the time was favorable � cruelly favorable s spirit had as yet suffered no decay it was as sublime and as ever but her body s forces had been steadily wasting away in those last ten days and a strong mind needs a healthy body for its support the world knows now that s plan was as i have it to you but the world did not know it at that time there are sufficient by of tions that and all the other english chiefs except the highest one � the cardinal of � were not let into the secret also that only and on the french side knew the scheme sometimes i have doubted if even and knew the whole of it at first however if any did it was these two it is usual to let the condemned pass their last night of life in peace but this grace was denied to poor if one may credit the of the time was into her presence and in the character of priest friend and secret of france and of england he spent some hours in her to do the only right and righteous thing � submit to the church as a good christian should and that then she would straightway get out of the of the dreaded english and be transferred to the church s prison where she would be used and have women about her for he knew where to touch her he knew how odious to her was the presence of her rough and profane english guards he knew that her voices had vaguely promised something which she interpreted to be escape rescue release of some sort and the chance to burst upon france once more and complete the great work which she had been of heaven to do also there was that other thing if her failing body could be further weakened by loss of rest and sleep now her tired mind would be dazed and drowsy on th� by of arc morrow and in ill condition to stand out against threats and the sight of the stake and also be to traps and which it would be swift to detect when in its normal estate i do not need to tell you that there was no rest for me that night nor for we went to the main gate of the city before nightfall with a hope in our minds based upon that vague prophecy of s voices which seemed to promise a rescue by force at the last moment the immense news had flown swiftly far and wide that at last of arc was condemned and would be and burned alive on the morrow and so crowds of people were flowing in at the gate and other crowds were being refused admission by the these being people who brought doubtful passes or none at all we these crowds eagerly but there was nothing about them to indicate that they were our old in disguise and certainly there were no familiar faces among them and so when the gate was closed at last we turned | 34 |
highly respectable and thoroughly experienced nurse of middle ge to take the entire charge of a child about a year old good wages to a suitable person � to captain scarlet in due time this advertisement produced the right sort of person and a staid and respectable baby low of about fifty was soon in a room to mr gray s quarters in charge of miss non as the child had already come to he called f everybody it was a charming child � strong and healthy to have no trouble with temper or teeth ever cried and might be seen morning and noon being wheeled by its nurse in a the square or along the outside the broad arrow boundaries and as the weeks rolled by and wore into months to about and could say plain as a staff in april the scarlet were moved from to where had i undergo a new experience for every one there � ok him for a on account of the child would explain take her about with e yes she likes it always wants to go when sees the a bother not a bit of it � e little woman in creation and as good as aid what am i going to do with her when she rows up well says he is going to marry if he don t somebody else will � no fear taking it all round miss had a good time of it and seemed thoroughly to the pleasant places in which her lines fallen it was wonderful too what an immense she was with the fellows at first she � baby had been but very soon that dropped and by the time she could which � he did in very good time no one thought of mentioning her or of speaking to her except as miss scarcely any of the officers for a moment of returning after a few days leave without taking along as the americans say a box of sweets or a bundle of toys for miss indeed the young lady came to have such a collection that after a while mrs nurse s patient soul arose and with captain permission all the discarded ones were distributed among the less fortunate children of the regiment but miss s favourite was himself � after people said it was wonderful the depth of the affection between the big soldier of thirty five and the little dot of a child scarcely two she adored and where was she would be if by hook or by she could convey her small person into his presence once she him turn in at the gates the right band of the colonel when the regiment was returning from a field day and escaping from her nurse s hand set off as hard as she could run in the direction of the band which immediately preceded the commanding officer mrs gave chase but alas mrs nurse was very stout and had the ill luck moreover to come a over a drain tile lying conveniently in her way b baby w while the child unconscious of danger ran straight for neither nor who was on the colonel s left perceived her until she was close upon them waving her small hands and in her shrill and joyous child s voice it seemed to as he looked past the colonel that the child was almost under the of s he called out but was already on the ground and caught miss out of harm s way but when he turned round he saw that his friend s face was as white as chalk as for the colonel when he saw mrs nurse gathering herself up with looks at the he simply roared and miss in as if it was the finest joke in the world that was a she remarked from her proud position on s shoulder just like a comment which gave that person the name of mrs as long as she remained with the regiment a few weeks after this the annual inspection came off and miss the lengthened absence of her again managed to escape from her nurse and boldly as fast as her small feet would carry her right into the mess room where was sitting just baby m union site the general at the late lunch miss not seeing him at first wandered coolly behind the row of scarlet clad backs until she him at the other side of the table then having no awe whatever of she herself in between his chair and the colonel s with a triumphant and joyous laugh the general gave a great start and the colonel laughed � in dismay jumped up and came quickly round the table to take her away well you little rogue said the colonel reaching a for her what do you want i wanted sir said miss and nurse failed asleep so i looked french leave almost the only peculiarity in her speech was the habit of making all regular and who are you my little maid the general asked in extreme amusement oh i m miss with dignity the old general fairly chuckled with delight and as he had put his arm round the child who was standing behind could not very well take her oh miss � hey and who do you belong to why to in surprise at his ignorance to and who is is and i love him miss replied as if that settled everything no no let her see my replied i general who was as proud of his as of miss are you a sir too miss i ng at the handsome old man with more respect what does she mean he cried ba bt laughed well sir she hears ua to the colonel so � that is all dear me what a remarkably intelligent and attractive child exclaimed the general how old is she about two sir now it happened that the | 30 |
was something in this reply ht which it was uttered that made the heart him but he his his hospitable entreaties the strange shook his head silently but positively at y and waving his farewell to the company stalked slowly out of the the maiden the bride hung her head and a tear stole to her eye the baron followed die stranger to the great court of the castle where the stood the earth and with when they had the whose deep was dimly lighted by a he strange paused and addressed die baron in a of voice which the roof rendered still now that we are alone said he i will impart to you the reason of my going t hare a solemn an indispensable engagement why the baron you send some one in your place i it admits of no i must attend it must away to cathedral � aye said the baron up spirit not until to morrow � to morrow you shall bride there � no not replied the stronger with solemnity my engagement is with � d � � t� ft the worms expect me i am a dead mm jl have been slain by robbers � my body lies at at midnight i am to be buried � the grave is waiting for i must my appointment he sprang on his black dashed over the and the of his horse s were lost in the whistling of the night blast the baron returned to the hall in the utmost consternation and related what had passed two ladies fainted outright others at the idea of having with a it was the of some that this might be the wild famous in german legend some talked of mountain of wood and of other beings with which the good people of germany have been so harassed since time one of the poor relations ventured to suggest that it might be some of the young and that the very of the caprice seemed to accord with so melancholy a personage this however drew on him the indignation of the whole company and especially of the baron who looked upon him as little better than an so that he was fain to his as speedily as possible and come into die faith of the true but whatever may have been the doubts enter hb re tamed they were completely put to an end by the arrival next day of regular the intelligence of the young count s murder and his in cathedral � the dismay at the castle may well be imagined the baron shut himself up in his chamber the guests who had come to rejoice with him could not think of him in his distress they wandered about the courts or collected in in the hall shaking their heads and their shoulders at the troubles of so good a man and sat longer than ever at table and ate and drank more stoutly than ever by way of keeping up their spirits but the situation of the bride was the most pitiable to have lost husband before she had even embraced � and a husband if the very could be so gracious and noble what must have been the living she filled the house with � � on the might of the second day of her hood she had retired to her chamber accompanied by one of her who insisted on sleeping with hen the aunt who was one of the best of ghost stories in all germany had just been r one of her longest and had fallen asleep in the very midst of it the chamber was remote and overlooked a small garden the niece gazing at the of the rising the s they trembled on the leaves of sin tree before the the castle clock had just midnight when a soft strain of music stole up from the garden she rose hastily from her bed f and stepped lightly to the window a tall figure stood among the shadows of the trees as it raised its head a beam of moonlight fell upon the countenance heaven and earth she beheld the bridegroom a loud shriek at that mo ment burst upon her ear and her aunt who been awakened by the music and had followed her silently to the window fell into her arms when � he looked again the had disappeared of the two females the aunt now required the most soothing for she was perfectly beside herself with terror as to the young lady there something even in the of her lover that seemed there was still the semblance of manly beauty and though the shadow of a man is but little calculated to satisfy the affections of h love sick girl yet where the substance is not to be had even that is the aunt de she would never sleep in that chamber again the niece for once was and declared as strongly that she would sleep in no other in the castle the consequence was that she had to sleep in it alone but she drew a promise from her aunt not to relate the story of the lest vol i t the bridegroom should he denied the only melancholy pleasure left her on earth � that of the chamber over which the guardian shade of her lover kept its nightly how long the good old lady would have observed this promise is uncertain for she dearly loved to talk of the marvellous and there is a in being the first to tell a frightful story it is however still quoted in the neighbourhood as a memorable instance of female secrecy that she kept it to herself for a whole week when she was suddenly from all further restraint by in brought to the breakfast table one ing that the young lady was not to be found her room was empty 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to talk about trusting him when things are going well but now is the real test if he s up there behind that blue heaven he is said a voice behind them and they found that the clergyman had joined the party his tied hands clutched on to his saddle and his fat body swayed from side to side with every stride of the his wounded leg was with blood and with flies and the burning desert sun beat down upon his bare head for he had lost both hat and umbrella in the a rising fever a desert drama his large white cheeks with a touch of colour and brought a light into his brown ox eyes he had always seemed a somewhat gross and vulgar person to his now this bitter healing draught of sorrow had transformed him he was exalted he had become so calmly strong that he made the others feel stronger as they looked upon him he spoke of life and of death of the present and their hopes of the future and the black cloud of their misery began to show a golden or two brown shrugged his shoulders for he could not change in an hour the convictions of his life but the others even the frenchman were touched and strengthened they all took off their hats when he prayed then the colonel made a out of his red silk and insisted that mr should wear it with his homely dress and gorgeous head gear he looked like a man who has dressed up to amuse the children and now the dull ceaseless a desert drama torment of thirst was added to the aching weariness which came from the motion of the the sun glared down upon them and then up again from the yellow sand and the great plain and glowed until they felt as if they were riding over a sheet of metal their lips were and dried and their tongues like of leather they curiously in their speech for it was only the sounds which would come without an effort miss s chin had dropped upon her chest and her great hat concealed her face will faint if she does not get water said oh mr is there nothing we could do the riding near were all with the exception of one negro � an uncouth fellow with a face with his expression seemed good natured when compared with that of his comrades and ventured to touch his elbow and to point to his water skin and then to the exhausted lady the negro shook his head but at the same a desert drama time he glanced significantly towards the as if to say that if it were not for them he might act differently then he laid his black forefinger upon the breast of his said he what s that asked colonel repeated the negro sinking his voice as if he wished only the prisoners to hear him the colonel shook his head my won t bear much strain i don t know what he is saying said he the negro repeated believe the fellow is friendly to us but i can t quite make him out said to do you think that he means that his name is and that he killed the negro showed his great white teeth at hearing his own words coming back to him said he � � by jove i got it cried n a desert drama he s trying to speak english is as near as he can get to egyptian he has served in the egyptian under he was taken prisoner when was destroyed and had to turn to save his skin how s that the colonel said a few words of and received a reply but two of the closed up and the negro quickened his pace and left them you are quite right said the colonel the fellow is friendly to us and would rather fight for the than for the i don t know that he can do us any good but i ve been in worse holes than this and come out right side up after all we are not out of reach of pursuit and won t be for another forty eight hours calculated the matter out in his slow deliberate fashion it was about twelve that we were on the rock said he they would become alarmed aboard the steamer if we did not appear at two a desert drama yes the colonel interrupted that was to be our lunch hour i remember saying that when i came back i would have oh lord it s best not to think about it the was a sleepy old continued but i have absolute confidence in the and decision of my wife she would insist upon an immediate alarm being given suppose they started back at two thirty they should be at by three since the journey is down stream how long did they say that it took to turn out the corps give them an hour and another hour to get them across the river they would be at the rock and pick up the tracks by six o clock after that it is a clear race we are only four hours ahead and some of these beasts are very spent we may be saved yet some of us may i don t expect to see the alive to morrow nor miss either they are not made for this sort of thing either of them then again we must n a desert drama not forget that these people have a trick of their prisoners when they think that there is a chance of a rescue see here in case you get back and i don t there s a matter of a that i want you to set right for me they rode on with their shoulders inclined to each other deep in the details of | 4 |
the major bat unfortunately he deserved to lose it at this the blood mounted to the man s temples and his senior added i mean to say he was thirty five yon i presume are twenty or five that is much the same thing will yon be advised by me f if you will advise speak to no one of this while the � he may think you have lost the bet that is hard when i won it i do it all that sir let the in human know that this capable of a blush did this action with violent reluctance and this was his first these events he was at a ball he was in that state of discontent which belongs to us amiable english he was looking in vain for a lady equal in personal attractions to the idea he formed of george as a man when suddenly there glided past him a most delightful vision i a whose beauty and took him by the eyes � another look it can t be � yes it is miss not that he knew her name but what an the duck had become a � radiant dazzling she looked twice as and almost twice as large as before he lost sight of her he found her ain she was so lovely she made him ill � and he alone must not dance with her to her if he had been content to begin her the usual way it might have ended in kissing but having begun with kissing it must end in nothing as she danced sparks of fell from on all around but him � she did not see him it was clear she never would see him � one gentleman was she on his he was ugly but she smiled on him was surprised at his his ill taste his his at last found injured who was man and what right bad he to go on so he had never kissed her i said could not prove it but he felt that somehow the rights of properly were invaded he went home and dreamed of miss and hated all the ugly he spent a fort rival le he by the box her in night ti to find thi was � he never could ter her again at last he heard of her in a lawyer s clerk paid him o visit and a little action against him miss fur railway train the young gentleman was shocked endeavored to soften the lawyer s clerk that machine did not comprehend the meaning of the term the lady j name however was at least revealed by this incident from her to her address it her and many a day without bat one line a issued forth quite i if she did it walked briskly on the did the same do met and her many times on the parade and searched for pity in eyes but neither nor recognition nor any other sentiment for all this she walked and walked till all other were tired and gone � then her summoned resolution and off his hat with a voice for the time permission o address she stopped aud neither ed nor his he stammered out how ashamed he was how be deserved o be punished bow he was punished how little she knew how unhappy he was and concluded by b her not to let all the world know the disgrace of a man who was already enough by the loss of her acquaintance she asked an explanation he told her of the action that had been in her name she gen shrugged her shoulders and said how stupid they are by this he to know whether or not a life of distant devotion would after a la severe � rail bj if years l the memory of hia she did not know i she must now bid him adieu na she had some preparations to make for a ball in the where they parted and determined to be at the ball where everybody was to ba he was there and after some time he obtained to miss and he danced with her her manner was gracious with the tact of her sex she seemed to have commenced the that evening that night for the first time was ia love i mill spare the reader all a lover s arts by which ho in dining where she dined in dancing where she danced in her by accident when she rode his devotion her even to where our vas rewarded by learning there is a world where they neither nor smoke the two capital he made with her uncle who liked liim and ho saw at last with that her eye loved to dwell upon when she thought he did not observe her it was three months after the box that captain called one day npon captain r k whom he met twice in his life and slightly by listening to a ont expedition he called and in the usual way asked to pay his addresses bi his daughter the worthy captain straightway began doing when suddenly he was summoned from the apartment by a � � � message on h re urn lid a total h g f it it was all nd h light run d as iso my reader h d d tlie truth this con m nd to the foe was i te nd happy to h d aa he was taking d j by the box l i ij owed lier observed a sweet which him that deepened confusion � she tried she cried instead and then she smiled again and when he kissed her li nt the door it was and instead of captain tliis and miss a le after this for my tale is merciful and and these two were yery happy � ihey were once more upon the railroad going to enjoy their all | 9 |
crew to twelve men were armed with and pistols and under the immediate command of took possession of the in brief space the captain himself by ic t rob of the bowl bt e ed on board with the turn of the night the rain began to the wind westward and aj se to indicate a of weather before morning the word being the boat was off from the strand and the regular sturdy and rapid stroke of the oar was heard long after she was lost to view as she laid her course towards cape look out soon after this francis and knocked at the door of rob s cabin we are ready to put you on board of the master said the first just thrusting his bead and clad shoulders into the hut i am with you honest gentlemen returned the le as he came forth and followed them to the boat up with your anchor cried out rob when he found himself on the deck of the make what sail thou think st best and stand out into the bay in less than half an hour the sail � waited on his new captain for orders we have a fair berth up and down master whither do we steer to the replied rob ay ay � our course is northward and the was soon under easy sail with the wind as it blew from the west with here and there a star twinkling through the breaking clouds as she made her way towards the of the by ic chapter xxx both and nurse ai e t and closed is ever flower and faintly peep hi from m j s bower bewildered with ken shrink on way up ye then my merry men it is oar opening day had not communicated to his men the exact nature of the expedition in which they had embarked they were only aware that their leader had conceived a deep and mortal hatred to certain in the port that he had fled from it as an and that their services were required in some daring enterprise which was designed to inflict upon his enemies they cared to know no more bred to and knowing no law but the law of their own and in their violence the greater portion of them strangers to the port � for had more than half of his band amongst the islands of the gulf on his last voyage � these desperate men were ready to do the of their chief in any act of outrage to which he might command them in an they had doubled cape look out and were making speed up the the refreshing breeze gradually swept away the clouds and whistled as it came directly by ic rob of the bowl ahead upon the course of the the moon was just sinking below the horizon and the stars shone forth through a crisp and frosty atmosphere the waving forest murmured with a rushing sound from the land the of the wide of the river under the impulse of the suddenly changed wind came in conflict with a sharp that sometimes gave forth a note resembling the scream of the human voice no friendly light was seen glimmering from the shore nor from wandering craft upon the river the were alone upon the water the stroke to give a more fatal speed to their purpose of crime and the hour was with and with wild and drunken laughter and the meditation of horrid outrage himself was moody and silent his thoughts dwelt upon the past scenes of the night and upon his present long purpose which during the last twenty four hours scarce left him leisure to think of other matters even the accidental capture of his enemy at the chapel and the escape of that enemy from the fate allotted to him lost their power to move him whilst he upon the cherished design of this night in another hour the boat had the at the mouth of st mary s river as the entered the river the first of the islands lay upon his left and he anxiously surveyed the to the course of his retreat to his which by his order was to be in waiting for him abreast the outer shore the blessed sun he muttered to himself � shall light me with his first rays to morrow on my track with my vengeance satisfied to the last scruple ay by st he added as he shook his clenched hand and his teeth with the energy of his resolve � to the last of the debt p by ic rob op the bowl another interval of silent labor at the oar and the dim light in the windows of the chapel attached to the house of st s yet far off upon the narrow strip of land which entirely across the direct line of the boat s course as she the shore showed the that some one of the officials of the house was at the service of early on the of the feast of ah souls and their familiarity with the watches of the night them that the hour approached four of the morning and now the creek of st s is opened upon their view and on the further bank the house of the rose with its trees is distinctly traced against the clear sky a solitary glimmering through an upper window a lady s bower where the protection of the friendly ray perchance in innocent slumber � her fancy sporting in dreams of him who day and night lives in her thoughts this reflection flashed across the brain of as he directed the head of the boat into the creek pull with a long sweep and a quick he said in a low but stem voice these watch dogs of the fort may catch a glimpse of us then having advanced far enough to the bluff 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good day pink good day christian went straight from the s to s the tory s with whom he had contrived a political was a new man in who had so reduced the trade of dow the old hereditary that dow had to and and opinions in general so far as they were contented to express themselves in a small stock of types had brought his wife with him and insisted that religion and joking were the of politics on which principle he and christian undertook the joking and left the religion to the the joke at present in question was a practical one christian turning into the shop merely said i ve found him out � give me the and a flat bundle wrapped in a black glazed cotton bag under his arm walked out into the dusk again suppose now he said to himself as he strode along � suppose there should be some secret to be got out of this old or some notion that s as good as a secret to those who know how to use it that would be virtue rewarded but i m afraid the old is not likely to be good for much there s truth in wine and there may be some in gin and muddy beer but it s truth worth my knowing is another question i ve got plenty of truth in my time out of men who were half seas over but never any that was worth a sixpence to me the cross keys was a very old fashioned public its bar was a big rambling kitchen with an brick floor the small windows threw an interesting obscurity over the far off with and tin and with large dishes that seemed to speak of better times the two settles were half pushed under the chimney and the grate with its brick massive iron and various suggested a generous plenty possibly in all moods and except the present one way of getting an idea of our thb radical low countrymen s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures the cross keys had a landlord and a yellow sickly landlady with a bound round her head like a it had ale an of bad tobacco and remarkably strong cheese it was not what when come back might be expected to approve as the scene of enjoyment for the beings whose special it is to lift their sublime faces toward heaven still there was ample space on the hearth � accommodation for narrative or � room for a man to stretch his legs his brain was not pressed upon by a white wall within a yard of and the light did not stare in bare turning the fire to ashes compared with some beer houses of this more advanced period the cross keys of that day presented a high standard of pleasure but though this venerable public had not failed to share in the recent political excitement of drinking the pleasures it offered were not at this early hour sought by a numerous company there were only three or four pipes being smoked by the but it was enough for christian when he found that one of these was being smoked by the bill whose large flat basket with leaned near him against the settle so splendid an apparition as christian was not a little startling at the cross keys and was gazed at in expectant silence but he was a stranger in s end and was taken for the highest style of when he declared that he was thirsty ordered worth of gin and a large of water and putting a few drops of the spirit into his own glass invited who sat next him to help himself was not slower than a shaking hand obliged him to be in accepting this invitation he was a tall broad shouldered old fellow who had once been good looking but his cheeks and chest were both hollow now and his limbs were you ve got some bills there master eh said pointing to the basket is there an coming on no said with a which was the remnant of a jovial bass and with an accent which differed from the as an early habit is wont to itself i ve naught to do wi i m a it s me am getting into ment says he the landlord observed taking out his pipe with a low laugh it s sir maybe you don t belong to this part it s the candidate do most for the working men and s proved it too in the way o being open handed and wishing em to enjoy themselves if i d twenty i d give one for and i don t care who hears me the landlord peeped out from cluster of features with a confidence that the high figure of twenty had somehow raised the value of his vote now said waving his hand to the landlord you let one speak to another will you this wants to know about my bills does he or doesn t he what then i spoke according said the landlord mildly holding his own you re all very well returned but y aren t me i know what the bills are it s public business i m none o your common bill master i ve left off sticking up ten guineas reward for a sheep or low stuff like that these are s bills and i m the family and so i give him a lift a i am and a i ll be buried and if old nick tries to lay hold on me for i ll say you be hanged for a lawyer old nick every hare and on the s land is mine and what rises the family rises old and we re going to get into ment � that s the long and the short on t master and i m | 14 |
gotten the hope to possess it seemed to have drifted out of joseph s mind and to seem even a little foolish when he looked into his box for many of his egg shells had been broken on the journey see he said but on second thoughts he refused to show his possessions but thou once as eager to learn hebrew his grandmother said and the chance words spoken as she left the room awakened his suspended interests as soon as she returned she was beset by questions and the same evening his father had to promise that the best in should be engaged to teach him a discussion began between dan and as to the most notable and and it was followed by joseph so eagerly that they could not help io the brook laughing the questions he put to them regarding the different accomplishments of the were very minute and the phrase � but this one is a greek scholar stirred his curiosity why should he be denied me because he knows greek he asked and his father could only answer that no one can learn two languages a the same time but if he knows two languages joseph insisted i cannot tell thee more his father answered than that the i ve chosen is a great hebrew scholar he was no doubt a great scholar but he was not the man that joseph wished for thin and tall and of gentle appearance and he did not stir up a flame for work in joseph who as soon as the novelty of learning hebrew had worn off began to hide himself in the garden his father caught him one day sitting in a convenient bough looking down upon his fairly asleep on a bench and after this adventure he began to make a mocking stock of his all kinds of and his became so constant that his father was forced to choose another this time a younger man was chosen but he succeeded with joseph not very much better than the first after the second there came a third and when joseph began to complain of his ignorance his father said well joseph you said you wanted to learn hebrew and you have shown no application and three of the most learned in have been called in to teach you joseph felt the reproof bitterly but he did not know how to answer his father and he was grateful to his grandmother for her answer joseph isn t an idle boy dan but his nature is such that he cannot learn from a man he doesn t like why don t ye give him as an has he been speaking to thee about dan asked maybe she said and dan s face clouded chapter ii we are to understand son dan said on hearing that the fourth whom he had engaged to teach his son hebrew had failed to give satisfaction that you cannot learn from anybody but now will you tell us what there is in more than in or and he waited for his son to speak but as joseph did not answer he asked is it because he looks more like a prophet than any of the others and joseph who still dreaded any allusion to turned into his corner but came forward directly and taking the child by the shoulders led him back to his father asking dan with a trace of anger in her voice why he should think it strange that the child should prefer to learn from rather than from a withered who never could keep his eyes open but always sat in his chair like one in a dream it wasn t because he went to sleep often i could have kept him awake by kicking him under the table joseph stopped suddenly and looked from one to the other why then his father asked and on being pressed to say why he didn t want to learn hebrew he said he had come to hate hebrew an admission which rendered his parents speechless for a moment come to hate hebrew they repeated one after the other till frightened by their solemnity joseph out you wouldn t like hebrew if the scholar s jumped on to you the moment you began and pulling up his sleeves joseph exhibited his arms how could i learn hebrew with three ii the brook biting me and all at one time one here another there and a third down yonder he always has three or four v about him no father don t don t ask me to learn hebrew any more but joseph all hebrew scholars s haven t about them an face confronted v them and joseph looked as if he were uncertain whether he should laugh or cry but seeing that his parents liked his story he began to laugh we ve tried several v but you re hard to please joseph now what fault � did you find with � and while dan searched his memory for the name joseph that the little fellow whose j back like s chest wouldn t let him read the interesting parts of the but kept him always at i the and the and he was always telling me about who was a good man but good men aren t x as interesting as joseph out and wilt thou tell us what he told thee about these pious men tf dan asked a smile playing about his long thin mouth that the law didn t matter as long as we were virtuous j joseph muttered and he was always explaining the stories that i understood quite well when told them so it was that confirmed you in your for hebrew dan said and the child stood looking at his father not quite sure if it would be in his interest to accept or the suggestion he would 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by our presence � which information she extended to every arrival scarcely were we seated however when she changed her tune while the company manifested intense excitement her cries became eager and piercing from a distance came answering cries in men s voices which blended into a wild chant that sounded savage of blood and war then through of tropical foliage appeared a procession of savages naked save for gaudy they advanced slowly uttering deep cries of triumph and exaltation from young carried on their shoulders were mysterious objects of considerable weight hidden from view by of green leaves nothing but pigs innocently fat and to a turn were inside those but the men were carrying them into camp in imitation of old times when they carried in long pig now long pig is not pig long pig is the for human flesh and these descendants of man a king s i o the of the son at their head brought in the pigs to table as of old their had brought in their slain enemies every now and then the procession halted in order that the should have every advantage in uttering particularly ferocious shouts of victory of contempt for their enemies and of desire so two generations ago witnessed the bodies of slain warriors wrapped in palm leaves carried to banquet at the ti at another time at the ti he observed a curiously carved vessel of wood and on looking into it his eyes fell upon the disordered members of a human skeleton the bones still fresh with moisture and with of flesh clinging to them here and there has often been regarded as a fairy story by men who dislike perhaps the notion that their own savage have somewhere in the past been to similar captain cook was rather upon the subject until one day in a harbor of new he deliberately tested the matter a native happened to have brought on board for sale a nice sun dried head at cook s orders of the flesh were cut away and handed to the native who devoured them to say the least captain cook was a rather at any rate by that act he supplied one ascertained fact of which science had been badly in need little did he dream of the existence of a certain group of islands thousands of miles away where in subsequent days there would arise a curious suit at law when an old chief of would be charged with of character because he persisted in asserting that his body was the living of captain i i cook s great toe it is said that the failed to prove that the old chief was not the tomb of the s great toe and that the suit was dismissed i suppose i shall not have the chance in these days to see any long pig eaten but at least i am already the possessor of a duly in shape curiously carved over a century old from which has been drunk the blood of two one of those captains was a mean man he sold a as good as new what of the fresh white paint to a chief but no sooner had the captain sailed away than the whale boat dropped to pieces it was his fortune some time afterward to be wrecked of all places on that particular island the chief was ignorant of and but he had a primitive sense of and an equally primitive conception of the economy of nature and he balanced the account by eating the man who had cheated him we started in the cool dawn for ferocious little that and screamed and bit and fought one another quite of the fragile on their backs and of the slippery loose rocks and yawning the way led up an ancient road through a of trees on every side were the of a one time dense population wherever the eye could penetrate the thick growth glimpses were caught of stone walls and of stone foundations six to eight feet in height built throughout and many yards in width and depth they formed great stone upon which at one time there had been houses but the houses and the people were lack the n tones also they of p s to go � i ones left over icy wc saw surface pitiful little straw huts the proportions being similar to a perched on the broad foundation of the of for the are and to judge from conditions at the one thing that their destruction is the of fresh blood a pure is a they seem to be all half and strange of of different races nineteen able are all the at can muster for the of on and in their veins runs the blood of english american german french spanish chinese and more races than there are persons but it is of races at best life and and itself away in this warm � a truly paradise � where are never extremes of temperature and where the air is like kept ever pure by the laden trade ma and flourish as as the vegetation everywhere from the few grass huts arises the cough or exhausted groan of wasted lungs other horrible diseases prosper as well but the most deadly of all are those that attack the lungs there is a form of consumption called galloping which is especially dreaded in two months time it the strongest man to a skeleton under a grave cloth in valley after valley the last has passed and the fertile soil has to in s day the valley of by him was peopled by a strong and warlike tribe a generation later it contained but two hundred persons today it is an howling tropical wilderness we climbed higher and higher in the valley our i the ok the picking their steps on the trail which led in and out through the abandoned s and the | 21 |
to rough it as i said just now and we did a bed last week upon the floor here but there s a little room in the roof � a very nice room when you re up there � which herself to surprise me and that s our room at present it s a capital little sort of place there s quite a view from it and you are happily married at last my dear said i how rejoiced i am thank you my dear said as we shook hands once more y es i am as happy as it s possible to be there s your old friend you see said nodding triumphantly at the flower pot and stand and there s the table with the marble top au the other furniture is plain and serviceable you perceive and as to plate lord bless you we haven t so much as a tea spoon ail to be earned said i cheerfully exactly so replied all to be earned of course we have something in the shape of tea because we stir our tea but they re metal of david the silver will be the brighter when it comes said i the very thing we say cried you see my dear falling again into the low confidential tone after i had delivered my argument in which did me great service with the profession i went down into and had some serious conversation in private the i dwelt upon the fact that � who i do assure you is the dearest girl i am certain she is said i she is indeed rejoined but i am afraid i am wandering from the subject did i mention the reverend you said that you dwelt upon the fact true upon the fact that and i had been engaged for a long period and that with the permission of her parents was more than content to take me � in short said with his old frank smile on our present metal footing very well i then proposed to the � who is a most excellent clergyman and ought to be a bishop or at least ought to have enough to live upon without himself � that if i could turn the corner say of two hundred and fifty pounds in one year and could see my way pretty clearly to that or something better next year and could plainly furnish a little place like this besides then and in that case and i should be united i took the liberty of representing that we had been patient for a good many years and that the circumstance of s being useful at home ought not to operate with her affectionate parents against her establishment in life � don t you see certainly it ought not said i i am glad you think so rejoined because without any on the reverend i do think parents and brothers and so forth are sometimes rather selfish in such cases well i also pointed out that my most earnest desire was to be useful to the family and that if i got on in the world and anything should happen to him � i refer to the reverend � i understand said i � or to mrs � it w ould be the utmost gratification of my wishes to be a parent to the girls he replied in a most admirable manner exceedingly flattering to my feelings and undertook to obtain the consent of mrs to this arrangement they had a dreadful time of it with her it mounted from her legs into her chest and then into her head what mounted i asked her grief replied with a serious look her feelings generally as i mentioned on a former occasion she is a very superior woman but has lost the use of her limbs whatever occurs to her usually settles in her legs but on this occasion it mounted to the chest and then to the head and in short pervaded the w hole system in a most alarming manner however they brought her through it by and affectionate attention and we were married yesterday six weeks you have no idea what a monster i felt when i saw the whole family crying and fainting away in every direction mrs the personal history and experience couldn t see me before we left � couldn t forgive me then for her of her child � but she is a good creature and has done so since i had a delightful letter from her only this morning and in short my dear friend said i you feel as as you deserve to feel oh that s your partiality laughed but indeed i am in a most state i work hard and read law i get up at live every morning and don t mind it at all i hide the girls in the day time and make merry with them in the evening and i assure you i am quite sorry that they are going home on tuesday which is the day before the first day of term but here said breaking off in his confidence and speaking aloud are the girls mr miss � miss � miss � margaret and they were a perfect nest of roses they looked so wholesome and fresh they were all pretty and miss was very handsome but there was a loving cheerful fireside quality in s bright looks which was better than that and which assured me that my friend had chosen well all sat round the fire while the sharp boy who i now divined had lost his breath in putting the papers out cleared them away again and produced the tea things after that he retired for the night shutting the outer door upon us with a bang mrs with perfect pleasure and composure beaming from her household eyes having made the tea then quietly made the toast as she sat | 8 |
teeth had he stood where he had arisen opened his mouth and broke out the long heart broken wail but even this he was not allowed to complete in the middle of it white rushing in sank his teeth into lip lip s hind leg there was no fight left in lip lip and he ran away his victim hot on his heels and worrying him all the way back to his own here the came to his aid and white transformed into a raging demon was finally driven off only by a of stones came the day when gray deciding that the of her running away was past released white was delighted with his mother s freedom he accompanied her joyfully about the camp and so long as he remained close by her side lip lip kept a respectful distance white even up to him and walked stiff legged but ignored the challenge he was no fool himself white and whatever vengeance he desired to he could wait until he caught white alone later on that day and white strayed into the edge of the woods next to the camp he had led his mother there step by step and now when she stopped he tried to her farther the stream the and the quiet woods were calling to him and he wanted her to come he ran on a few steps stopped and looked back she had not moved he and in and out of the he ran back to her licked her face and ran on again and still she did not move he stopped and regarded her all of an and eagerness physically expressed that slowly faded out of him as she turned her head and gazed back at the camp there was something calling to him out there in the open his mother heard it too but she heard also that other and louder call the call of the fire and of man � the call which it has been given alone of all animals to the wolf to answer to the wolf and the wild dog who are brothers turned and slowly trotted back toward camp stronger than the physical restraint of the stick was the clutch of the camp upon her unseen and the gods still with their power and would not let her go white sat down in the shadow of a and softly there the bondage was a strong smell of pine and subtle woods filled the air reminding him of his old life of freedom before the days of his bondage but he was still only a part grown and stronger than the call either of man or of the wild was the call of his mother all the hours of his short life he had depended upon her the time was yet to come for independence so he arose and trotted back to camp pausing once and twice to sit down and and to listen to the call that still sounded in the depths of the forest in the wild the time of a mother with her young is short but under the dominion of man it is sometimes even shorter thus it was with white gray was in the debt of three three was going away on a trip up the to the great slave lake a strip of scarlet cloth a twenty and went to pay the debt white saw his mother taken aboard three and tried to follow her a blow from three knocked him backward to the land the off he sprang into the water and swam after it deaf to the sharp cries of gray to return even a man animal a god white ignored such was the terror he was in of losing his mother but gods are accustomed to being obeyed and gray launched a in pursuit white when he overtook white he reached down and by the of the neck lifted him clear of the water he did not deposit him at once in the bottom of the holding him suspended with one hand with the other hand he proceeded to give him a beating and it was a beating his hand was heavy every blow was shrewd to hurt and he delivered a multitude of blows impelled by the blows that rained upon him now from this side now from that white swung back and forth like an and varying were the emotions that through him first he had known surprise then came a momentary fear when he several times to the of the hand but this was quickly followed by anger his free nature asserted itself and he showed his teeth and in the face of the god this but served to make the god the blows came faster heavier more shrewd to hurt gray continued to beat white continued to but this could not last forever one or the other must give over and that one was white fear through him again for the first time he was really being man handled the occasional blows of sticks and stones he had previously experienced were as caresses compared with this he broke down and began to cry and the bondage for a time each blow brought a from him but fear passed into terror until finally his were in unbroken succession with the of the punishment at last gray withheld his hand white hanging continued to cry this seemed to satisfy his master who flung him down roughly in the bottom of the in the meantime the had drifted down the stream gray picked up the white was in his way he him savagely with his foot in that moment white s free nature flashed forth again and he sunk his teeth into the foot the beating that had gone before was as nothing compared with the beating he now received gray s wrath was terrible likewise was white s fright not only the hand but the hard wooden | 21 |
mental vision who shall know the history of two years bound the to they had carved it from the forest and had held it against the indian from there they had gone to the highest office of the state love marriage all the of life � were bound up with it he talked it over with s face fell why father you will be nothing but an general smiled remembered long afterwards with shame for his speech how wistful that smile was yes i shall be something more than that i shall be at least a faithful one i wish j could be as successful a one he wrote saying that as he had failed for himself he did not see how he could succeed for another but upon receiving a very flattering he accepted the offer thus the general remained as an employ on the estate which had been renowned for generations as the home of the and as agent for the new owner he the place with far greater energy and success than he had ever shown on his own account it was a bitter cup for to have his father act as aa but if it contained any bitterness for general he never gave the least evidence of it nor betrayed his feeling by the slightest sign when mr visited his new estate he admitted that mr knew better than he how to deal with general when he was met at the station by a tall gray haired gentleman who looked like something between a general and a he was inclined to be shy but when the gentleman grasped his hand and with a voice of unmistakable sincerity said he had driven out himself to meet him to welcome him among them he felt at home general becomes an it is like yourself to whom we must look for the preservation of our civilization said general and introduced him personally to every man he met as the gentleman who has bought my old not a carpet but a gentleman interested in the development of our country sir mr in fact was treated with a distinction to which he had been a stranger during his former visits south he liked it he felt quite like a southern gentleman and with one or two whom he met held himself a little once or twice the new owner of came down with parties of to look at the country they were interested in developing it and had been getting sundry acts passed by the with this in view general s nose always took a slight elevation when the was mentioned general entertained the visitors precisely as he had done when he was the master and mr and his guests treated him in the main as if he were still the master general sat at the foot of the table opposite mr and directed the servants who still called him master and obeyed him as such mr conceived a great regard for not with a certain contempt for his inability to avail himself of the new conditions fine old fellow he said to his friends no more business sense than a child if he had he would go in with us and make money for himself instead of telling us how to make it he did not know that general would not have gone in with him in the plan he had carried through that to save his life but he honored the old fellow all the more he had stood up for the against mrs who hated all on s account the old general who was as of this as a child was always sending mrs his regards perhaps she might like to come down and see the place he suggested it is not what it used to be but we can make her comfortable his glance as it swept about him was full of mr said he feared that mrs s health would not permit her to come south this is the very region for her said the general there is a fine health resort in the mountains a short distance from us i have been there and it is in charge of an old friend of mine dr one of the best doctors in the state he was my surgeon i can recommend him bring her down and let us see what we can do for her mr thanked him with a smile time had been when mrs had been content with small health but that time was past he did not tell general that mrs remembering the fight between her son and had consented to his buying the place from a not very noble motive and vowed that she would never set her foot on it so long as a remained there he only assured the general that he would convey his invitation mr s real interest however lay in the mountains to the westward and general gave him some valuable hints as to the lying in the ridge and the mountains beyond the i will give you letters to the leading men in that region he said the two most men up there are dr and squire they have like and lot about divided up the country mr s eyes he thanked him and said that he might call on him once there came near being a clash between mr and general when mr mentioned that he had invited a number of members of the gentlemen interested in the development of the resources of the state � to meet him the becomes an face changed there was a little of the nose and a slight quivering of the nostrils a moment later he spoke i will have everything in readiness for for your guests but i must ask you to excuse me from meeting them mr turned to him in blank amazement why general the expression on the old gentleman s face answered him he knew | 46 |
whose only child she was and whom she adored with all the passion of her heart she knew the terrible danger in which he stood and guessed that she had been sent away that she should not share his perils now she had but one desire and one prayer � that he might escape in safety and that she might return to him again once only a message came from him sent through a woman whom she had never seen the wife of a who delivered it by word of mouth this was the message � give my love and blessing to my daughter and tell her that so far i am to van say i have heard the news well done thou good and faithful servant l t him remember what i told him and be sure that he will not strive in vain and that he shall not lack for his reward here or hereafter that was all tidings reached them also that the destruction of so many men by the blowing up of the swallow and by her sinking of the government boat as she escaped had caused much excitement and fury among the but as those who had been blown up were free and as the boat was sunk while the swallow was flying from them nothing had been done in the matter indeed nothing could be done for it was not known who the swallow and as had foreseen her crew were supposed to have been destroyed with her in the then after a while came other news that filled s heart with a wild hope for it was reported that had disappeared and was believed to have escaped from the nothing more was heard of him however which is scarcely strange for the doomed man had gone down the path of rich into the silent the master of the the net had closed at last and through the net fell the sword but if thought seldom of except in of dislike thought of and little besides so earnestly did he lash his romantic temperament and so deeply did her beauty and charm appeal to him that very soon he was truly in love with her nor did the fact that as he believed she was the greatest in the cool s devotion what could suit him better in his condition than to marry this rich and lovely lady so made up his mind that he would marry her for in his vanity it never occurred to him that she might object indeed the only thought that gave him trouble was the difficulty of her wealth into possession and martin had buried it somewhere in the but they said for this he had by repeated inquiries although the information was given enough that the map of the hiding place had been destroyed in the explosion on the swallow did not believe this story for a moment he was convinced that they were keeping the truth from him and as tlie master of that treasure he resented this bitterly still it had to be overcome and so soon as he was engaged to he intended to speak very clearly upon this point meanwhile the first thing was to find a suitable opportunity to make his declaration in due form which done he would be prepared to deal with and martin towards evening it was s custom to walk abroad as at that hour left the naturally he accompanied her in these walks martin following at a little distance in case he should be wanted soon those excursions became delightful to both of them to especially it was pleasant to escape from the hot house into the cool evening air and still more pleasant to exchange the and highly coloured compliments of for the cheerful of s conversation admired his cousin as much as did his half but his attitude towards her was very different he never said sweet things he never gazed up into her eyes and sighed although once or twice perhaps by accident he did squeeze her hand his towards her was that of a friend and relative and the subject of their talk for the most part was the possibility of her father s from the dangers which surrounded him and other matters of the sort the time came at last when was allowed to leave his room and as it chanced it fell to s lot to attend him on this first journey downstairs in a dutch home of the period and of the class of the van s all the women folk of whatever degree were expected to take a share in the household at present s share was to do nurse to who showed so much temper at every attempt which was made to replace her by any other woman that in face of the doctor s instructions did not dare to cross his whim it was with no small delight therefore that hailed the prospect of release for the young man with his bearing and sighs wearied her almost beyond endurance was not equally pleased indeed he had feigned symptoms which caused him to remain in bed an extra week merely in order that he might keep her near him but now the inevitable hour had come and felt that it was incumbent upon him to lift the veil and let see some of the secret of his soul he had prepared for the event indeed the of his confinement had been much relieved by the composition of lofty and addresses in which he the noble laid his precious self and fortune at tlie feet of this but rich and attractive maid the master yet now when the was with him and when gave him her hand to lead him from the room behold all these beautiful had vanished and his knees shook with no fancied weakness somehow did not look as a girl ought to look who was | 18 |
to the grave by which it men s courses will certain ends to which if in they must lead said but if the courses be departed from the ends will change say it is thus with what you show me the spirit was immovable as ever crept towards it trembling as he went and following the finger read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name am that man who lay upon the bed he cried upon his knees the finger pointed from the grave to him and back again no spirit oh no no the finger still was there � a christmas he cried tight clutching at its robe hear me i i am not the man i was i will not be the man i must have been but for this intercourse why show me this if i am past all � hope for the first time the hand appeared to shake good spirit he pursued as down upon the ground he fell before it your nature for me and me assure me i yet may change these shadows you have shown me by x an altered life the kind hand trembled l will honor in my heart and try to keep it all the year i will live in the past the present and the future the spirits of all three shall strive within me i will not shut out the lessons that they teach oh tell me i may away the � writing on this stone v in his agony he caught the hand it sought to free itself but he was strong in his entreaty and detained it the spirit stronger yet him holding up his hands in one last prayer to have his fate reversed he saw an alteration in the phantom s hood and dress it shrunk and down into a the end op it five the end of it tes and the was his own the bed was his own the room was his own best and happiest of all the time before him was his own to make amends in i will live in the past the present and the future repeated as he scrambled out of bed the spirits of all three shall strive within me oh jacob heaven and the christmas time be praised for this i say it on my knees old jacob on my knees he was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions that his broken voice scarcely answer to his call he had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the spirit and his face was wet with tears they are not torn down cried folding one of hia bed in his arms they are not torn down rings and all they are here i am here the shadows of the things that would have been may be they will be i know they will his hands were busy with his garments all this time turning them inside out putting them on down tearing them them making them parties to every kind of extravagance i don t know what to do cried laughing and crying in the same breath and making a perfect on of himself with his i am as light as a feather i am as happy as an angel i am as merry as of i am as giddy as a christmas a drunken man a merry christmas to everybody a happy new year to all the world here i he had into the sitting room and was now standing there perfectly there s the that the was in cried starting off again and going round the fire place there s the door by which the ghost of jacob entered there s the comer where the ghost of christmas present sat i there s the window where i saw the wandering spirits it s all right it s all true it all happened ha ha ha really for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh a most illustrious laugh the father of a long long line of brilliant laughs i don t know what day of the month it is i don t know how long i ve been among the spirits i don t know anything i m quite a baby never mind i don t care i d rather be a baby here he was checked in his by the churches ringing out the he had ever heard clash hammer bell bell hammer oh glorious glorious running to the window he opened it and put out his head no fog no mist clear bright jovial stirring cold cold cold for the blood to dance to golden sunlight heavenly sky sweet fresh air merry bells oh glorious glorious what s to day cried calling down to a boy in sunday clothes who perhaps had in to look about him eh returned the boy with all his might of wonder � what s to day my fine fellow said to day replied the boy why christmas day it s christmas day said to himself i haven t it the spirits have done it all in one night they can the end op it they like of course they can of course they wn my fine fellow returned the boy t o you know the s in the next street but one at comer inquired i should hope i did replied the lad an intelligent boy said a remarkable boy do you know whether they ve sold the prize turkey that was longing up there not the little prize turkey the big one v what the one as big as me returned the boy what a delightful boy said it s a pleasure to talk to him yes my buck it s hanging there now replied the boy � is it said go and buy it walk er exclaimed the boy no no said i am in earnest go | 8 |
a no � hang it there i must stop i was about to say bishop but not being an englishman you cannot tliat dish dick never mind � you can feed upon a fat living � or if one wont do � why we must see and get you a pair of them bill but this my dear is not all you will be when i tell you that there is no m system of education necessary for entering into orders no system i repeat � properly so � either or some few divinity lectures are to be attended which in general are neither well attended � nor worth attending � and that i is all one thing is certain that the getting of attendance for these lectures is a mere form as is the examination for orders the consequence is that a young candidate for a living goes into the church with very little of that lore which might spoil his appetite for its enjoyment so does every thing here work together for the good of the at the expense of the people i think i have shown you that there is little in the church of ireland that is likely to or the spirit of when coming in contact with itself that it had little to gain from the church in a spiritual way and that the church is not the ends of her establishment here in any sense is evident from the report in the little work from which i have taken these in that passage it would appear that the very existence of a church is forgotten altogether for is termed an institution whose chief object � whatever political shape it may assume � is to preserve the the irish agent religion i will now before i close this direct your attention to one or two passages that prove most distinctly the fact that there stand clear in the oath of an principles founded on and conclusions which never should have existence in a country so situated as this is the for instance in the paper headed their general declaration say we the defence of our persons and properties and to maintain the peace of the country and for these purposes we will be at all times ready to the civil and military powers in the just and lawful discharge of their duty this now is all very plausible but perhaps by looking a little more closely into the circumstances of the case we may be able to perceive that in this passage and one or two others of a similar character the most objectionable part of the system disguised � if one can say disguised because to me my dear the matter seems obvious enough who then are these men that come forward with arms in their hands to aid to the civil and military powers in the discharge of their duty a self constituted body without authority who have certainly proved themselves to be men and vol ii u m rendered most important to the state at a time when such were no doubt both necessary and acceptable the crisis however in which this aid was given and received being but of brief duration soon passed away leaving the party opposed to government � the � broken punished banished hanged in fact completely subdued beaten down in other words the rebellion of having been thoroughly suppressed this self elected body of men the sweets of authority retain under different circumstances these obligations which we admit the previous situation of the country had rendered necessary they retain them in times of peace and bring into operation against men who were no longer either in a disposition or capacity to resist those strong prejudices and that fierce spirit which originated in tumult and civil war why nobody of the conduct of as a body in it is of their since that the country and such as were opposed to them have a right to complain in another passage the declaration is still stronger and more significant we further declare say they that we are exclusively a association yet as we do any spirit we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other the irish agent that we will not injure nor any person on account of his religious opinions provided the same be not hostile to the state that is to say they will injure or such persons only whose religious opinions are hostile to the state but now let me ask any one man of common sense if he could for a moment hesitate to declare on oath what religion they have alluded to as being hostile to the state there is in truth but one answer to be given � the roman what else then is this excessive loyalty to the state but a of justification for their own committed in the name and on the behalf of religion itself did they not also constitute themselves the judges who were first to determine the nature of these opinions and afterwards the authorities who should punish them here is one triumphant party with arms in their hands who have only if they wish to mark out a victim and declare his religion and principles as hostile to the state and lo i they are at liberty by their own to him in the th secret article there occurs the following � we are not to carry away money goods or any thing from any person whatever except arms and and these only from an enemy m this certainly shows the nature of the cruel and tyranny which they subsequently to carried to such excess in different parts of the country and here as in the other instance what was there to guide them in the crime which constituted an enemy why their own fierce prejudices alone here then we find a body and self constituted together and trained in the use of arms but unknown to the | 50 |
scanty and shivering with cold my grandfather stepped softly and hesitatingly to the bed side and the forlorn sufferer in his usual accents of kindness the little man in black seemed recalled by the tones of compassion from the into which he had fallen for though his heart was almost frozen there was yet one that answered to the call of the good old man who bent over him � the tones of sympathy so novel to his ear called back his wandering senses and acted like a to his solitary feelings of esq g he raised his eyes but they were vacant and haggard � he put forth his hand hut it was cold he to speak but the sound died away in his throat � he pointed to his mouth with an expression of dreadful meaning and sad to relate i my grandfather understood that the harmless stranger deserted by society was with hunger � with the quick impulse of humanity he the servant to the hall for refreshment a little warm nourishment him for a short time but not long it was evident his pilgrimage was drawing to a close and he was about entering that peaceful asylum where � the wicked cease from troubling � his tale of misery was short and quickly told � had stolen upon him heightened by the of the season he had taken to his bed without strength to rise and ask for assistance � and if i had y said he in a tone of bitter despondency u to whom should i have applied i have no friend that i know of in the world � the villagers avoid me as something and dangerous and here in the midst of christians should i have perish l o whim and opinions ed without a fellow being to soothe the last moments of existence and close my eyes had not the of my faithful dog excited your attention he seemed deeply sensible of the kindness of my grandfather and at one time as he looked up into his old benefactor s face a solitary tear was observed to steal the of his cheek � poor outcast � it was the last tear he shed but i warrant it was not the first by millions my grandfather watched by him all night towards morning he gradually declined and as the rising sun gleamed through the window be begged to be raised in his bed that he might look at it for the last time he contemplated it for a moment with a kind of religious enthusiasm and his lips moved as if engaged in prayer the strange conjectures concerning him rushed on my grandfather s mind � he is an � thought he is the sun � he listened a moment and blushed at his own suspicion he was only engaged in the pious of a christian his simple being finished the httle man in of esq i black withdrew his eyes from the east and taking my grandfather s hand in one of his and making a motion with the other towards the sun � � i love to contemplate it � said he u tis an emblem of the universal benevolence of a true christian � and it is the most glorious work of him w ho is itself � my grandfather blushed still deeper at his he had pitied the stranger at first but now he him � he turned once more to regard him but his countenance had undergone a change the holy enthusiasm that had lighted up each feature had given place to an expression of mysterious import � a gleam of grandeur seemed to steal across his and he appeared full of some mighty secret which he hesitated to impart he raised the tattered that had sunk almost over his eyes and waving his withered hand with a slow and feeble expression of dignity � � in me � said he with a solemnity � � in me you behold the last of the renowned � my grandfather gazed at him with reverence for though he had never heard of the illustrious personage vol ii whim and opinions thus announced yet there was a certain black letter dignity in the name that peculiarly struck his fancy and commanded his respect c you have been kind to me continued the little man in black after a momentary pause � and richly will i your kindness by making you heir to my treasures in yonder large deal box are the volumes of my illustrious of which i alone am the fortunate possessor inherit them � over them and be wise � he grew faint with the exertion he had made and sunk back almost on his pillow his hand which inspired with the importance of his subject he had raised to my grandfather s arm slipped from its hold and fell over the side of the bed and his faithful dog licked it as if anxious to soothe the last moments of his master and testify his gratitude to the hand that had so often cherished him the caresses of the � animal were not lost upon his dying master he raised his languid eyes � turned them on the dog then on my grandfather and having of esq given this silent recommendation � closed them for ever the remains of the little man in black notwithstanding the objections of many pious people were decently in the churchyard of the village and his spirit harmless as the body it once animated has never been known to a living being my grandfather complied as far as possible with his last request he conveyed the volumes of to his library � he pondered over them frequently but whether he grew wiser the tradition doth not mention this much is certain that his kindness to the poor of was amply rewarded by the approbation of his own heart and the devoted attachment | 48 |
constitution sitting without any legal authority upon the ous opinions of a class that are hateful and to them � and in fact within themselves the united offices of both judge and with the character of their loyalty i have no quarrel i perceive it is but the doctrine of loyalty is so and absurd that the sooner such an unnecessary is struck off the mind the better t o ow evening however i am to be introduced to an orange lodge after the actual business of it shall have been and closed this is a privilege not to many but it is one of which i shall very gladly avail myself in order that i may infer from their conduct some faint conception of what it generally is chapter xix an lodge at full wo k � solomon in all his � he drinking to be a ous � blue and the � s eloquence a toast the to the same friday � the order of business for each night of meeting is i find as follows � lodge to open with prayer members standing general rules read members proposed reports from committee names of members called over members for members made lodge to close with prayer members standing it was about eight o clock when accompanied by a young fellow named we reached the lodge which in of one of its own rules was held in what was formerly called the tavern but which has since been changed to the castle arms � being a field per pale on which is a purse and what seems to be an m of lead into a in the other is a large mouth grinning opposite to which is a stuffed pocket from which hangs the motto ne under the foot of the gentleman is the neck of a famine struck woman surrounded by naked and starving children and it is by the convenient of her neck that he is enabled to reach the purse or and indeed such is his eagerness to catch it and the that he does not seem to care much whether he her or not on the leaden is the motto alluding to the head which fills it i should mention before proceeding further that mr m being master of the lodge in question was the individual from whom i had received permission to be present under the circumstances already the ceremony of making a member is involved in that ridiculous mystery which is calculated to meet the vulgar prejudices of low and ignorant men sometimes they are made one by one and occasionally or i believe more frequently in of three or more in order to save time and the effect the then before entering the lodge is taken into another room where he is thb irish agent and desired to himself of his shoes and stockings his right arm is then taken out of his coat and shirt sleeves in order to leave his right shoulder bare he then enters the lodge where he is received in silence with the exception of the master who puts certain to him which must be answered after this he receives on the naked shoulder three smart of the open hand as a proof of his to bear every kind of persecution for the sake of truth � of his to the principles of and of his actual determination to bear violence and if necessary death itself rather than abandon it or betray his brethren about nine o clock the business of the lodge had been despatched and in a few minutes i received an intimation to enter from the master who was no other than the and heroic himself the father having been prevented from coming it appeared by sudden as i entered they were all seated to the number of thirty five or forty about a long table from which rose and warm the powerful of strong punch on paying my respects i was received and presented to them by who on this occasion was in great feather being out in all m the of master the rest also were dressed m their orange robes which certainly gave them a good deal of imposing effect gentlemen said � bob til trouble you to touch the bell and be d d to you � gentlemen this is a particular friend of mine and my father s � that is we intend to take a good deal of interest in him if it s not his own fault and to push him on in a way that may serve him � but then he s in the dark yet however i hope he won t be long so this gentlemen is mr from england who has come over to see the country your health mr from all sides you re welcome among us and so is every friend of brother captain s gentlemen said i i feel much obliged for the cordiality of your reception � but allow me to say that mr m has made a mistake in my name which is not never mind sir they replied among a of glasses which almost prevented me fi m being heard never mind mr evil we don t care a curse what your name is provided you re a good your name may be instead of evil or devil for that matter � all we want to know whether you re and of the right thb irish agent that gentlemen i replied i trust time will tee i shall be very proud � i speak it not i hope in a worldly sense said a little thin man dressed in black � no not in a worldly sense � i shall be proud sir of your acquaintance to me it is quite sufficient that you are here as the friend of my excellent friend mr m a man i trust not without a deep and searching spirit of | 50 |
aunt had told me which interested the doctor so much that he requested on the occasion of his next visit to be presented to him this ceremony i performed and the doctor begging mr dick he should not find me at the coach office to come on there and rest himself until our morning s work was over it soon passed into a custom for mr dick to come on as a matter of course and if we were a little late as often happened on a wednesday to walk about the waiting for me here he made the acquaintance of the doctor s beautiful young wife paler than formerly all this time more rarely seen by me or any one i think and not so gay but not less beautiful and so became more and more familiar by degrees until at last he would come id to the school and wait he always sat in a particular corner on a particular stool which was called dick after him here he would sit with his grey head bent forward attentively listening to whatever might be going on with a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire this veneration dick extended to the doctor whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age it was long before mr dick ever spoke to him otherwise than bare headed and even when he and the doctor had struck up quite a friendship and would walk together by the hour on that side of the which was known among us as the doctor s walk ir dick would pull his hat at intervals to show his respect for wisdom and knowledge how it ever came about that the doctor began to read out scraps of the famous dictionary in these walks i never knew perhaps he felt it all the same at first as reading to himself however it passed into a custom too and mr dick listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure in his heart of hearts believed the dictionary to be the most delightful book in the world as i think of them going up and down before those school room windows � the doctor reading with his complacent smile an occasional n the personal history and experience flourish of tlie manuscript or grave motion of his head and mr dick listening by interest with his poor wits calmly wandering god knows where upon the wings of hard words � i think of it as one of the things in a quiet way that i have ever seen i feel as if they might go walking to and fro for ever and the world might somehow be the better for it � as if a thousand things it makes a noise about were not one half so good for it or me was one of mr dick s friends very soon and in often coming to the house he made acquaintance with the friendship between himself and me increased continually and it was maintained on this odd footing that while mr dick came to look after me as my guardian he always consulted me in any little matter of doubt that arose and invariably guided himself by my advice not only having a high respect for my native sagacity but considering that i inherited a good deal from my aunt one thursday morning when i was about to walk with mr dick from the hotel to the coach office before going back to school for w e had an s school before in the street who reminded me of the made to take tea with himself and his mother adding with t expect you to keep it master we re so very i really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether i liked or detested him and i was very doubtful about it still as i stood looking liim in the face in the street but i felt it quite an to be supposed proud and said i only wanted to be asked oh if that s all master said and it really isn t our that prevents you will you come this evening but if it is our i hope you won t mind to it master for we are well aware of our condition i said i would mention it to mr and if he approved as i had no doubt he would i would come with pleasure so at six o clock that evening which was one of the early office evenings i announced myself as ready to mother will be proud indeed he said as we walked away together or she would be proud if it wasn t sinful master yet you didn t mind supposing was proud this morning i returned � oh deal no master returned oh believe me no such a thought never came into my head i shouldn t have deemed it at all proud if you had thought us too for you because we are so very have you been studying much law lately to change the subject oh master field he said with an air of self denial my reading is hardly to be called study i have passed an hour or two in the evening sometimes with mr hard i suppose said i he is hard to ne sometimes returned but i don t know what he might be to a gifted person after beating a little tune on his chin as we walked on with the two fore fingers of his skeleton right hand he added there are expressions you see master � latin words and terms � in mr that are trying to a reader of my would you like to be taught latin i said briskly i will teach it you with e as i learn it i of oh thank you master he answered shaking his head i am sure it s | 8 |
all the world beside by the cause in which she we dare not call that a wicked which f brought its possessor into that state of strong and fiery resolution and elevation which enabled her to raise her lover from his sense of guilt into a solemn devotion to his better nature she guided him rightly by her clear vision of what was in accordance with the of her true heart aided by this she learned what all his had never taught him � the power of love to sustain and guide and teach the soul this bore her through her trial and this at that glowing hour when both rose above the weight which bowed thorn down tore the scarlet letter from her breast and made her young and pure again the gone heaved a long deep sigh in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit o exquisite relief she had not known the weight till she felt the freedom by another impulse she took off the formal cap that confined her hair and down it fell upon her shoulders dark and rich with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance and the charm of softness to her features there her mouth and beamed out of her eyes a and tender smile that seemed from the very heart of womanhood a crimson flush was glowing on her cheek that had long been so pale her sex her youth and the whole richness of her beauty came back from what men call the past and clustered themselves with her maiden hope and a happiness before unknown within the magic circle of this hour and as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the of these two mortal hearts it vanished with their sorrow all at once as with a sudden smile of heaven forth burst the sunshine pouring a very flood into the obscure forest each green l� the ones to and b the gray trunks of the solemn trees the objects that had made a shadow hitherto embodied the brightness now the course of the little k might be traced by its gleam afar into the wood s heart of mystery which had become a mystery of joy the ecstasy of s the calm solemn of the sterling wealth of beauty in s and the appealing and teaching heart of woman in all these come crowd before us as we with to this holy exaltation the wisdom and power which came to this woman from the scarlet letter which society on her breast may come to every one who will honestly this token to his own as who of us may not it is only an open confession of our weakness which brings ua strength the flattering self assurance that we pursue virtue with conscientious diligence never us to reach what we are striving for we may perchance escape the dangers which beset our path but never through ignorance shall we overcome the obstacles there is no more fatal error than moral ignorance and and superstition and may around the mind until intellectual springs up more pitiful than the most abject ignorance and the instincts of the heart will almost always be found to protest against them moral may the and the effect is temporary aad social influences may produce the and as the circle the magic may � but that cowardice which to the denial of error to one s own soul which refuses to receive the impression that all experience brings with honesty and intelligence and behind good intentions feels safe from attacks of sin is the most hopeless of all mortal defects there is a false delicacy which the contemplation of evil and which severe experience may destroy there is a sweeping belief that vice stands at one pole and virtue at the other which the deep trials of life may there is a want of sympathy for the and an ignorant closing of the heart against those whose entrance would and and warm our souls which the knowledge of our own temptations may remove but no experience no knowledge no power short of miracle will bring the needed relief to that spirit which will not confess its guilt either to itself or to its the heroic power which comes through is like the and earth life to a and compared and growth of virtues it and the deepest and most startling wisdom by which to test our fellow men but is it not most sad and most that love the great parent of all power and virtue and wisdom and the guardian of the tree of knowledge of good and evil the of all that is rich and generous luxuriant in f nature should rise up in society to be by the strange features of the scarlet letter iy � lake superior u h and compared with tho e of other and a narrative of the j and by other gentlemen by louis c c boston and present concern is with that portion of he work furnished by m in fifty three pages and a valuable addition to our knowledge of the north american a large proportion of this is taken up by of the plants observed accompanied also by many interesting foot notes we consider all such local of either the or the of any particular section of any country as far more useful than a hasty reader would be apt to regard them it is true that they are often so far as names are concerned merely a repetition of scientific names still there are other considerations connected with them which claim attention such as with precision not so much perhaps in every instance the limits of vegetation as the or the in which such vegetation is found to every aspect of nature points to some other connecting phenomenon and nothing therefore in which science itself can be looked upon as we | 37 |
toiled gathering corn and pulling weeds and thus he became the owner of a volume which he esteemed as one of his greatest treasures he read the story of washington many times over he carried the book with him to the field and read it during his moments of leisure from that time the one great hero whom he admired most was george washington why could not he model his life after that of washington why could not he also be a of great things for his country he resolved that he would at least be manly and true and would do his best at all times expression name the subject of this lesson who was he talk with your teacher about him try to make a picture in your mind of reading by the fireside now describe your picture read the which show s lack of many of the common blessings which you enjoy what books did he have read the story of the borrowed book tell your opinion of the boy word study pronounce these words carefully ms pilgrim s progress s seventy five cents volume treasures resolved occasions opportunities the declaration of independence i j i t ao was sitting in the hall of the state house the streets were full of people everybody seemed anxious everybody wanted to know what was being done men were talking about the war that was going on with england they were crowding around the state house and listening to what was being said inside who is speaking now asked one john was the answer in a little while the question was asked again who is speaking now dr good let them follow his advice for he knows what is best and then everybody was very still for all wanted to hear what the great dr was saying after a while there was a stir among the listeners and those who were farthest away again asked who is speaking now thomas of virginia was the answer it was he and dr who wrote it wrote what why the declaration of independence of course � the thing they are talking about now a little later some one said they are reading it and discussing each passage they will be ready to sign it soon but will they dare to sign it dare these men will dare to do anything for the good of their country the truth is that for many days the wise and brave men who were then sitting in the hall had been talking about the acts of the king of england for up to that time our country had belonged to england and was ruled by the english king one after another of these men told how the king and his had sought to the american people he has cut off our trade with all parts of the world said one he has made us pay taxes to himself and he doesn t allow us to say a word about making the country s laws said another he has sent his soldiers among us to burn our towns and kill our people said a third he has hired the indians to make war upon us said a fourth he is a tyrant and unfit to be the ruler of a free people agreed they all then richard henry lee of virginia offered a resolution declaring that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states the resolution was adopted and and were appointed to write down all these statements in the form of a declaration of independence and it was to hear the reading of this declaration that the people on this hot july morning had gathered around the state house at length the bell in the high tower above the hall began to ring it is done cried the people they have agreed to the declaration of independence yes most of the members have for it said those nearest the door the king of england shall no longer rule over us we are a free people the ship s colors sailor young sailor with tan on your cheek what flag is your to fly at her peak jack in blue jacket i pray you declare what colors your busy brown fingers prepare what flag but the my sailor boy said the star banner with white and red the flower of all the pride of the sky � no flag but old glory my beauty shall fly sailor my sailor you ve chosen aright thus prize it forever that banner of light each has a meaning you yet cannot guess each star is more sacred than words can express ie wherever it the bride of the breeze a message of freedom it o er the seas a hope for the world � and the heart that beats true must leap at the sight of the red white and blue a pledge to our flag and country flag of freedom true to thee all our thoughts words deeds shall be � steadfast loyalty we the boys and girls of the united states are citizens of this great republic we believe our flag stands for self sacrifice for the good of all the people we wish therefore to be true citizens and will show our love for our country by our works our country does not ask that we merely die for her she asks that we live for her she asks us so to live and so to act that her government shall be pure her officers honest and every place in this broad land a place fit to grow the best men and women to be the rulers of her people expression this pledge and try to understand the full meaning of every sentence read it aloud and notice the words which should be spoken with greatest force learn the meaning of loyalty republic self sacrifice citizens washington and the george washington s | 23 |
this by faith we know god will not deceive us and thus we can trust to clear and definite notions as being true god is the substance and the laws of matter are secondary being by him of secondary all those are distinct which can be clearly conceived as distinct mind and matter are therefore distinct mind purely active matter purely passive � mere being here therefore as in bacon the of matter is and no means or possibility pointed out for any comprehension natural science is therefore necessarily and as matter is purely passive a force belonging to matter is inconceivable there is no such thing therefore as in the philosophy but only all force manifested in matter as motion must be given by impulse from without and as matter does not change or vary in substance but only in motion natural science is destroyed the interest begins just where the possibility of knowledge ends carried out to its results this separation of mind and matter it is impossible that spirit should influence body the reason of their connection or rather coincidence lies in an incomprehensible harmony established by who must create perception of the outward world for this could not become visible of itself particularly on the of in our knowledge general notions cannot be obtained through the limited faculties of the human mind but only through god they are not however immediately impressed on our minds � for this would be a � but through the medium of the outward world with the dependence of on the infinite substance is not since they remain of natures they are dependent only as respects existence not in essence makes this dependence essential mind and matter thought and extension are indeed distinct bat only as different attributes of the one substance thus the the manifold variety of things is only superficial the only reality is substance and thus the only of the two attributes consists in their identity that is in substance so that their difference is an unreal one the reality of thought is not thought and the reality of extension non extension est the reality of particular existence is thought therefore as that which is to discover must consist in the of the facts of experience shows in from general principles and he to the view that the is real he is thus the exact opposite of the application of his philosophy to natural science belongs to his particularly in his caution in asserting general principles in treating of the attraction of as a force acting from the towards the centre he is to insist that it is to be considered as a mere and not as an actual physical force otherwise indeed it would contradict the which he lays down as the first law of bodies he remarks that it cannot be physical because the of bodies are only points but this is inconsistent with his law of reaction it is necessary to make of this another innate force but if these forces were only and the only points then the different masses of bodies would make no difference in their force and if were only attraction towards the centre then it would act only between bodies related as centre and and not for instance between two the demonstration plays therefore altogether a secondary part here these are only supported and in reality supposing forces the only makes dear what was found before indeed inclined to assume actual physical forces as existing in matter and this was done by his who called his system in opposition to that of this tendency of may be seen for example in the questions to his which is most distinctly presented in s de la nature is a necessary consequence from s principles no truth being admitted except that perceived by the senses nothing but matter can be real all spiritual things therefore are imaginary moral freedom is a delusion to overcome the and selfish impulses at the command of da is enthusiasm nothing really exists except matter and motion and these are necessarily connected matter moves by its own energy motion being implied in its nature it is not necessary therefore to have recourse to any foreign principle as god for instance to explain the laws of nature but it is not shown by that the so called forces ci nature do really belong to matter of itself the idea of matter is not shown to imply the existence of these forces it is merely passive still in this system as in the others and most receive these forces from without it may be true that organized matter requires or shows inherent forces � but why should it be organized there is still something and and whether we call it god or matters little no ni short and june objects to the mechanical and notions of matter in his day if matter be considered as mere and having qualities then mass could make no difference and the largest body could be impelled hj the smallest extension being entirely indifferent to motion f of attraction c in this case are merely miracles material being he says thus simple or having each an inward force which he calls the power of representation � not that each is and thus properly a soul � but that they differ in degree namely in the clearness or confusion of their representation � the highest degree belonging to the personal or or souls properly so called therefore is here to be understood not as notion or but in the general sense of the representation of in unity as principles and purely active the cannot act upon each other but each is a world by the organ i of the universe is therefore a harmony by the is thus an ideal principle yet being created with a certain amount of being it is thus far material namely in relation to the absolute substance or god as there | 37 |
my mind nor my head neither why write at all why indeed t that is the first word of sense either you or i have spoken seize why he not first then i could say nay to this and ay to that headache also is it a lady s part to say the first no the last it is well spoken ha ha i shalt haye a gold piece for thy wit me my purse v and she paid him for the article on the nail i la ge money yet chilled zeal getting a gold piece so cheap felt bound to pull her out of her difficulty if the wit of man might it said be these things are only hard because attempt too much are artificial and labour phrases do but figure to yourself the you i him not well then the you not � seated at this table and diet to me just what you would say to him well if he sat there i should say go away who was flourishing his pen by way of preparation laid it down with a groan and when he was gone said your would say come back likely enough now silence all and let me think he me to write and i promised so mine honour is engaged what lie shall i tell the to tell the fool and she turned her head away from them and fell into deep with her noble chin resting on her white hand half clenched she was so lovely and and looked so inspired thoughts celestial as she sat thus herself with that forgot all except art and proceeded eagerly to transfer that exquisite to paper he had very nearly finished when the fair statue turned round and looked at him nay said he a little for heaven s sake change not your posture twas perfect see you are nearly finished all eyes were instantly on the work and all tongues active how like and done in a nay her s chin is not quite � oh a touch will make that right what a pity tis not coloured i m all for colours hang black and white i and her such a lovely skin take away her skin and half her beauty is lost peace can you colour ay i am a poor hand at there shines my friend but in this small way i can tint you to the life if you have time waste on such vanity call you this vanity at i for time it han on me like lead send for our colours now quick � this moment � for e of all the saints nay i must prepare them i at the same time to morrow so be it and you see that be be admitted at all hours i leave my head leave my head i forgive me i thought to prepare it at home to receive the colours but i will leave it and now let us the letter what letter to the and i waste my lime on such as writing letters � and to that empty creature to whom i am as indifferent as the moon nay dot indifferent for i have just discovered my real sen i hate him and despise him girls i here forbid you once for all to mention that s name to me else i ll whip you till the blood comes you know how i can lay on when i m roused we do we do then provoke me not to it and her eye and she turned to all honey il do and bowed himself out of tliis velvet tiger s den he came next day and coloured her and next he was set to make a portrait of her on a e scale and then a full length figure and he was obliged to set apart two hours in the afternoon for drawing and painting this princess whose beauty and vanity were prodigious and for a portrait of her numerous here the found a new and fruitful source of income margaret seemed nearer and nearer it was holy thursday no work this day and sat in a window and saw the religious their number and thrilled the devotion that now seemed to the whole people lately bent on earthly joys presently the pope came pacing at the head of his in a red hat white cloak a of red velvet and riding a lovely white with red velvet fringed and with gold a hundred armed cap a pie rode behind him with their erected the butt end resting on the man s the went uncovered all but one de who rode close to the pope and conversed with him as with an equal at every fifteen steps the pope stopped a single moment and gave the people his blessing then on again and the now down and some by streets reached the of one of the seven churches it was hung with black and soon the pope and who had entered the church by another door issued forth and stood with on the steps separated by from the people then a read a latin bull several persons by name especially such princes as were keeping the church out of any of her possessions at this awful ceremony trembled and so did the people but two of the e effect by laughing the his was ended the black cloth was and revealed a gay and the the people and ended by throwing the and the his torch among them so did two instantly there was a scramble for the were fought for and torn in pieces by the so that small fragments were gained at the price of black eyes bloody noses and burnt fingers in which his and withdrew in peace and now there was a cry and the crowd rushed to a square where was a large open stage several priests were upon it | 9 |
io closely and completely as to make parting impossible but what a fantastic notion viewed by the light of calm reason there was nothing in the occurrence to give rise to any such sentiment here was a poor little evidently without parents home or friends � and the cardinal had given him a night s lodging and tomorrow yes to morrow he would give him food and warm clothing and money � and perhaps a recommendation to the in order that he might get a chance of free education and employment in while proper were being made about him that was the and commonplace view to take of the matter the personality of the little fellow was intensely winning � but after all that had nothing to do with the facts of the case he was a and stray as he himself had said his name so far as he seemed to know it was � an ordinary name enough in france � and his age might be about twelve � not more something could be done for him � something should be done for him before the cardinal parted with him but thi s idea of parting was just what seemed so difficult to contemplate puzzled beyond measure at the strange state of mind in which he found himself went over and over again all the events of the day in order � his arrival in � his visit to the cathedral and grand music he had heard or fancied he heard there � his experience with the little children and their mother � his conversation with the in which he had felt much more excitement than he was willing to admit � his dream wherein he had been so painfully impressed with a sense of the desertion and end of the world and finally his discovery of the little lonely and apparently forsaken boy thrown as it were against the closed cathedral like a frail human wreck cast up from the gulf of the devouring sea each incident trivial in itself yet seemed of particular importance though he could not explain or why it should be so he sat and watched the moon sink like a silver falling downward in the dark � the vanished one by one � and a faint brown gold line of suggestive light in the cast began the slow creation of a yet invisible present yielding to a vague impulse of ea the master christian tenderness he rose softly and went to the threshold of the room where his slept holding his breath he listened � but there was no sound very cautiously and noiselessly he opened the door and looked in � a delicate half light came through the window and seemed to itself on the bed where the tired wanderer lay his fine youthful was distinctly � the soft bright hair clustered like a round his broad brows � and the two small hands were crossed upon his breast while in his sleep he smiled always touched by the beauty innocence and helplessness of childhood something in the aspect of this little lad moved the venerable s heart to an unwonted emotion � and looking upon him he prayed for guidance as to what he should best do to rescue so gentle and young a creature from the of the world he has trusted me said the cardinal � i have found him and i cannot � dare not � him for the master says shall receive one such little child in my name v the next morning broke fair and calm and as soon as the household were cardinal sought madame in her kitchen and related to her the story of his night s adventure she listened but could not refrain from occasional exclamations of surprise mingled with suggestions of warning it is like your good heart she said to give your own bed to a stray child out of the street � one too of whom you know nothing � but alas i how often such goodness is repaid by ingratitude the more charity you show the less you receive � yes indeed it is often so � and it seems as if the evil one were in it for look you i myself have never done a kindness yet without getting a cruelty in exchange for it that is a sad experience my daughter returned the cardinal smiling � nevertheless it is our duty to go on doing no matter what the results to ourselves may be it is understood � is it not that we are to be in this world if we had nothing to suffer what would be the use of such virtues as patience and ah for you it is different said madame shaking her head and sighing � you are like the blessed saints � safe in a of holy church with our lady for ever looking after you but for poor people such as we are � we see the rough side of life � and we know that there is very little goodness about in the world � and as for patience and endurance � why no one in these days has the patience to endure even the least contradiction two men � aye even brothers � will fight for a word like quarrelling over a bone � and two women will scream themselves hoarse if one should have a lover more than the other � asking your pardon for such wicked talk still wicked as it may be it is true � and not all the powers of heaven seem to care about making thin ik o the master christian better and for this boy � believe me � you has better leave him to his own way � for there will be no chance of getting such a poor little into the school unless his father and mother are known or unless will adopt him which is not likely | 33 |
with his double gun in about an hour and a half he found where he had left him at the foot of � it is never too late to mend a tree tall and smooth as an s main mast who was np in happy repose like a dog in warm weather rose and with a slight said now i go up and look he made two sharp cuts on the tree with his and putting his great toe in the nick rose on it made another nick higher up and holding the smooth stem put his other great toe ia it and so on till in an short time he had reached the top and left a staircase of his own behind him he had hardly reached the top when he slid down to the bottom again and announced that he had discovered what they were in search of george the pony to the tree ana followed who struck farther into the wood after a most disagreeable scramble at the other side of the wood stooped and put his finger to his lips they both went cautiously out or the wood and mounting a bank that lay under its shelter they came plump upon a little party of four male and three female the women were seated round a fire burning beef and the outside then putting it down to the fire again the men who always serve themselves first were lying but at sight of and they were on their feet in a moment and their poised in their hands walked down the bank and poured a of abuse into them two of his native sentences he uttered a quiet aside to george suppose black fellow lift spear you shoot him dead and then abused them like again and pointed to the make thunder two mouths in george s hand after a severe on both sides the voices began to calm down like water going off the boil and presently soft low passed in pleasant then tne eldest male savage made a courteous signal to that he should sit down and on this administered three among the and sent them flying then down he sat and had a at their beef � george s beef i mean the rage of hunger appeased he rose and with the male savages took the open country on the way he let george know that these black fellows were of his tribe that they had driven off the cattle and that he had insisted on � which was about to be made and sure enough before they had gone a mile they saw some beasts in a narrow valley gave a shout of joy but counting them he found fifteen short when inquired after the others the shrugged their shoulders they knew nothing more than this that wanting a dinner they had driven off forty but finding they could only eat one that day they had killed one and left the others of whom some were in the place they had left them the rest were somewhere they did n t know where � far less care they had dined that was enough for them when this characteristic answer reached george he clenched his teeth and for a moment felt an impulse to make a little thunder on their but he groaned instead and said they were never taught any better then and he set to work to drive the cattle together with infinite difficulty they got them all home by about eleven o clock at night the next day up with the sun to find the rest two o clock and only one had they fallen in with and the sun so that lazy gave in and crept in under the beast for shade and george was fain to sit on his shady side with moody brow and sorrowful heart presently got up i find one said he where where cried george looking all round pointed to a rising ground at least six miles off george groaned are you making � � it is too to a of me i can see bat a barren hill a few great here and there yoa are never taking those bushes for smiled with utter white fellow stupid fellow he see nothing well and what does black see snapped george � black fellow see a crow coming from the sun and when he came over there he turned and went down and not get up again a good while then black fellow mj i presently come flying one more crow from that other side where the sun is not black fellow watch him and when he come over there he turn round and go down too and not get up a good while then black fellow say i know � o come along cried they hurried on but when they came to the rising ground and bushes put his finger to his lips suppose we catch the black fellows that have got wings you make thunder for them he read the answer in george s eye then he took george round the back of the hill and they mounted the crest from the reverse side they came over it and there at their very feet lay one of s best with tongue breathing his last gasp a crow of the country was perched on his ribs digging bis thick into a hole he had made in his ribs and another was picking out one of his eyes the birds rose heavily and swelling with george s eyes flashed his gun went up to his shoulder and saw the brown barrel rise slowly for a moment as it followed the nearest bird off with broad hack to the bang the whole charge shivered the who instantly dropped with shot like a while a cloud of dusky feathers rose from him to the air the other hearing the ly thunder and s t bid i ve | 9 |
the study window in a patch of sunlight suddenly rose shook himself and io god s good man trotted out on to the lawn the air with ears and tail erect watched him perhaps he a future enemy in miss s dog i and this idea made him smile he is quite intelligent enough he is certainly more intelligent than i am this afternoon for i cannot write even a commonplace ordinary note to a commonplace ordinary woman here a sly brain devil whispered that miss might possibly be neither commonplace nor ordinary � but he put the suggestion aside with a get thee behind me satan the fact is i had better not write to her at all send with a verbal message he is sure to give a quaint and pleasant turn to it � he knew her father and i didn t � it will be much better to send having made this resolve his brow cleared and he was more satisfied tearing up the last half sheet of wasted he had spoilt in futile attempts to address the lady of the he laughed at his failures even if it were etiquette to use the old form of correspondence which some people think ought to be revived it wouldn t do in this case he said imagine it john to � greeting how how ridiculous it would look i he shut all his writing materials in his desk and following out to the lawn seated himself with a volume of in his hand he was soon absorbed yet every now and again his thoughts strayed to the five sisters and with persistent fidelity of detail his mind s eye showed him the grassy so soft to the tread where the doomed trees stood proudly and gracefully clad just at this season all in a glorious of young green � where as the poet whose tender word he was reading might have said of the surroundings for moisture of sweet showers all the grass is thick with flowers yes i shall send up to the with a civil message he mused � and he can � and certainly will � add anything else to it he likes of course the lady may be offended � some women take offence at anything � but i don t much care if she is my conscience will not reproach for having warned her of the impending destruction of one of the most picturesque portions of her property but personally i shall not write to her nor will i go to see her i shall have to god s good man log pay a formal call of course in a week or two � but i need not go inside the for that to leave my card as minister of the parish will be quite sufficient he turned again to the volume in his hand his eyes fell casually on a verse in the poem of the world is filled with folly and and love must cling where it can i say � for beauty is easy enough to win but one isn t loved every day he sighed involuntarily then to banish an regret he began to his author if the world and the of service had not stepped in between lord and his muse he would have been a fine poet he said half aloud � a pity he was not bom and in poverty � he would have been wholly great instead of as now merely greatly gifted he missed his true so many of us do likewise i often wonder whether i have missed mine but this idea no consideration he knew he had not mistaken his calling he was the very man for it many of his cloth might have taken a lesson from him in the whole art of unselfish to the needs of others but with all his high spiritual aim he was essentially human and pleasantly conscious of his own and he did not hold himself as above the weaker brethren but as one with them and of them and through the steady maintenance of this mental attitude he found himself able to in ordinary emotions ordinary interests and ordinary lives with more than the usual sympathy displayed by the ministers of small and in the concerns of the people committed to their charge it is not too much to say that though he was in himself distinctly reserved and apart from the average majority of men the quiet exercise of his influence over the village of st rest had resulted in so and the of love and confidence in all the hearts about him to his own that anything of serious harm to himself would have been considered in the light of real and ruin to the whole community when a clergyman can succeed in establishing such complete trust and sympathy between him r self and his there can be no question of his fitness for the high to which he has been ordained when on the contrary one finds a village or town where the no god s good man inhabitants split up into small and and are more or less in a state of against the minister who should be their ruling head the blame is j more with the minister than with those who dispute his teaching inasmuch as he must hare fallen far below the ex xx standard in some way or other to have thus incurred general if all fails mused presently his ts again to the five sisters question � ii does his errand awkwardly � if the lady will not see him � if any one of the thousand do happen that are quite likely to happen and so spoil all chance of with miss to spare the trees � why then i will go myself to morrow morning to the scene of intended before six o clock i will be there 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of in my veins and i want to stand up for the lot of the as a good lot in which a man may be better trained to all the best functions of his nature than if he belonged to the set who have visiting cards and are proud to be thought richer than their neighbors would nothing ever make it seem right to you to change your mind said she had rapidly woven some possibilities out of the new in her own lot though she would not for the world have had know of her weaving suppose by some means or other a fortune might come to you � by marriage or in any other unexpected way � would you see no change in your course � no said i will never be rich i don t count that as any peculiar virtue some men do well to accept riches but that is not my inward i have no fellow feeling with the rich as a class the habits of their lives are to me thousands of men have wedded poverty because they expect to go to heaven for it i don t expect to go to heaven for it but i wed it because it n o to do what i most want to do on whatever the hopes for the world may be � whether great or small � i am a man of this generation i will try to make life less bitter for a few within my reach it is held reasonable enough to toil for the fortunes of a family though it may turn to in the third generation i choose a family with more chances in it looked before her till sh said that seems a hard lot yet it is a great one she rose to walk back then you don t think i m a fool said loudly starting to his feet and then stoop r ing to gather up his cap and stick of course you suspected me of that stupidity well � women unless they are saint or elizabeth generally think this sort of thing madness unless when they read of it in the bible a woman can hardly ever choose in that way she is dependent on what happens to her she must take things because only things are within her reach why can you imagine yourself choosing hardship as the better lot said looking at her with a sudden question in his eyes yes i can she said flushing over neck and brow their words were charged with a meaning dependent entirely on the secret consciousness of each nothing had been said which was necessarily personal they walked a few yards along the road by which they had come without further speech till said gently take my arm she took it and they walked home so entirely without conversation was struggling as a firm man struggles with a temptation seeing beyond it and its lying promise was struggling as a woman struggles with the yearning for some expression of love and with vexation under that to a yearning which is not likely to be satisfied each was conscious of a silence which each was unable to break till they entered lane and were within a few yards of the minister s door i is getting dusk then said will mr be anxious about you no i think not would tell him that i went out with you and that you carried a large stick said with her light laugh went in with to take tea but the conversation was entirely between him and mr about the tricks of the foolish personality of the and the of s return as to which declared himself to have become indifferent this made the minister uneasy he had great belief in the old political had preached that universal and no were agreeable to the will of god and liked to believe that a visible instrument was in the candidate who bad pro the radical emphatically against in a perverse mood that universal would be equally agreeable to the devil that he would change his politics a little have a larger traffic and see himself more fully represented in parliament nay my friend said the minister you are again sporting with for you will not deny that you glory in the name of radical or root and branch man as they said in the great times when was in its giant youth a yes but i want to go to some roots a good deal lower down than the truly there is a work within which can not be with but it is our preliminary work to free men from the stifled life of political and bring them into what milton calls the liberal air wherein alone can be wrought the final triumphs of the spirit with all my heart but while is though you him by a million he ll worship that carries a bottle i forget though � you don t read mr i am bound to confess that i have so far looked into a volume of s as to conceive your meaning but the therein were so little to be reconciled with a steady contemplation of that divine economy which is hidden from sense and revealed to faith that i the reading as likely to my sat by in unusual silence the conviction that willed her on from his life was making it plain that something more than friendship between them was not so out of the as she had always inwardly asserted in her pain that his choice lay aloof from her she was compelled frankly to admit to herself the longing that it had been otherwise and that he had entreated her to share his life he was like no one else to her he had seemed to bring at once a law and the love that gave strength to obey the law yet 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i have missed you very much since your return to america my dear for you are the one man upon this earth to whom i have ever been able to open my whole mind i don t know why it is for now that i come to think of it i have never enjoyed very much of your confidence in return but that may be my fault perhaps you don t find me sympathetic even though i have every wish to be i can only say that i find you intensely so and perhaps i presume too much upon the fact but no every instinct in my nature tells me that i don t bore you by my confidences can you remember at the university you never were in the set and so it is possible that you don t anyway i ll take � the letters it for granted that you don t and explain it all from the beginning tm sure that you would know his photograph however for the reason that he was the and looking man of our year physically he was a fine � one of the � and most determined forwards that i have ever known though he played so savage a game that he was never given his cap he was well grown five foot nine perhaps with square shoulders an chest and a quick way of walking he had a round strong head with short black hair his face was wonderfully ugly but it was the of character which is as attractive as beauty his jaw and eyebrows were and rough his nose and red shot his eyes small and near set light blue in colour and capable of assuming a very genial and also an exceedingly expression a slight moustache covered his upper lip and his teeth were yellow strong and add to this that he seldom wore collar or that his throat was the colour and texture of the bark of a scotch fir and that he had a voice and the letters daily a laugh like a bull s then you have some idea if you can piece all these in your mind of the outward james but the inner man after all was what was most worth noting i don t pretend to know what genius is s definition always seemed to me to be a very crisp and clear statement of what it is not far from its being an infinite capacity for taking pains its leading characteristic as far as i have ever been able to observe it has been that it allows the possessor of it to attain results by a sort of instinct which other men could only reach by hard work in this sense was the greatest genius that i have ever known he never seemed to work and yet he took the prize over the heads of all the ten hour a day men that might not count for much for he was quite capable of all day and then reading desperately all night but start a subject of your own for him and then see his originality and strength talk about and he would catch up a pencil and on the back of an old envelope from his pocket he would sketch out some novel contrivance for piercing a ship s and the letters getting at her side which might no doubt involve some impossibility but which would at least be quite plausible and new then as he drew his eyebrows would contract his small eyes would gleam with excitement his lips would be pressed together and he would end by on the paper with his open hand and shouting in his exultation you would think that his one mission in life was to invent but next instant if you were to express surprise as to how it was that the egyptian workmen elevated the stones to the top of the out would come the pencil and envelope and he would a scheme for doing that with equal energy and conviction this ingenuity was joined to an extremely sanguine nature as he paced up and down in his quick stepping fashion after one of these flights of invention he would take out for it receive you as his partner in the enterprise have it adopted in every country see all conceivable of it count up his probable sketch out the novel methods in which he would invest his gains and finally retire with the most gigantic fortune that has ever been and you the letters would be swept along by his words and would be carried every foot of the way with him so that it would come as quite a shock to you when you suddenly fell back to earth again and found yourself the city street a poor student with s under your arm and hardly the price of your luncheon in your pocket i read over what i have written but i can see that i give you no real insight into the cleverness of his views upon medicine were most but i that if things fulfil their promise i may have a good deal to say about them in the with his brilliant and unusual gifts his fine record his strange way of dressing his hat on the back of his head and his throat bare his thundering voice and his ugly powerful face he had quite the most marked individuality of any man that i have ever known now you will think me rather about this man but as it looks as if his life might become with mine it is a subject of immediate interest to me and i am writing all this for the purpose of my own half faded impressions as well as in the hope of amusing the letters and interesting you so i must just give you one or two other points which may make his character more clear to you | 4 |
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