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other things as well they were there in the newspapers the magazines and the books on the when all was said bum mv da had a mighty � one to touch as it touched hers the gate u life z more daylight between them listening to the wistful and impassioned simplicity of his speech was after all a woman with a woman s sex vanity and it was this vanity that was pleased by the fact that such a man turned in his need to her and there was more that passed through her mind � sensations of and loneliness and shadowy armies of vague feelings and and deeper and and the of forgotten generations into being and fluttering anew and always and subtle and potent the spirit and essence of that a thousand and forever for life it was a strong temptation just to ride man in the hills it would be that only and nothing for she was firmly convinced that his way of life could never be her way on the other hand she was vexed by none of the ordinary feminine fears and that she could take care of herself under any and all circumstances she never doubted then why not it was such a little thing after all she led an ordinary life at best she ate and slept and worked and that was about all as if in review her existence passed before her six days of the week spent in the office and in back and forth on the the hours stolen before for of song at the piano for doing her own special for sewing and mending and casting up of meagre the two evenings a week of social diversion she permitted herself the other stolen hours and saturday spent with her brother at the hospital and the seventh day sunday her day of solace on s back out among the blessed hills but it was lonely this solitary riding nobody of her acquaintance rode several girls at the university had been persuaded into trying it but t si s burning daylight or two on hired livery they had lost interest there was who bought her own horse and rode for several months only to get married and go away to live in southern after years of it one did get tired of this eternal riding alone he was such a boy this big giant of a who had half the rich men of san afraid of him such a boy she had never imagined this side of his nature how do folks get married he was saying why one they meet two like each other s looks three get acquainted and number four get married or not according to how they like each other after getting acquainted but how in thunder we re to have a chance to find out whether we like each other enough is beyond my we make that chance ourselves i d come to see you call on you only i know you re just or boarding and that won t do suddenly with a change of mood the situation appeared to absurd she felt a desire to laugh � not angrily not but just it was so herself the he the notorious and powerful gambling and the gate between them across which poured his of people getting acquainted and married also it was an impossible situation on the face of it she could not go on with it this of meetings in the hills would have to there would never be another meeting and if denied this he tried to her in the she would be compelled to lose a very good position and that would be an end of the episode it was not nice to contemplate but the world of men especially in the cities she had not found particularly nice she had not worked for her living for years without losing a great many of her illusions we won t do any or hiding about it daylight was we ll ride around as bold as daylight i you please and if anybody sees us why let them if they talk � well so long as our are straight we needn t worry say the word and bob will have on his back the happiest man alive she shook her head pulled in the mare who was impatient to be off for home and glanced significantly at the shadows it s getting late now anyway daylight hurried on and we ve settled nothing after all just one more anyway � that s not asking much � to settle it in we ve had all day she said but we started to talk it over too late we ll tackle it earlier next time this is a big serious proposition with me i can tell you say next sunday are men ever fair she asked you know thoroughly well that by next sunday you mean many then let it be many he cried while she thought that she had never seen him looking say the word only say the word next sunday at the she gathered the reins into her hand preliminary to starting good night she said yes he whispered with just the faintest touch of yes she said her voice low but distinct at the same moment she put the mare into a and went down the road without a backward glance intent on an analysis of her own feelings with her mind made up to say no � and to the last instant she had been so resolved � her lips nevertheless had said yes or at least it seemed the lips she had not intended to consent then why had she her first surprise and bewilderment at so wholly an act gave way to consternation as she considered its consequences she knew that v s r burning daylight ing daylight was not a man to be with that under 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with a stupid stage expression which meant if possible something less than nothing then you see if i sing the first half of the first act as wearily as the music allows me i shall get a contrast � an who has not drunk the love the love is of course only a symbol of her surrender to her desire would have liked to have gone through the whole of the music of the act with her it was only in this way that he could get an idea of how her reading would work out but in that moment each read in the other s eyes an of which they were ashamed and which they tried to i am tired we won t have any more music this evening his thoughts seemed to pass suddenly from her and then without her being aware how it began she found herself listening intently to him he was talking in that strange chant of his about the melancholy of man and his remote past always in him although she did not quite understand perhaps because she did not quite understand she was carried away far out of all reason and it seemed to her that she could listen for ever nor could she clearly see out of her eyes and she felt all power of resistance within her he might have taken her in his arms and kissed her then though sitting by her he seemed a thousand miles away his her and she asked him of what he was thinking when your father used to speak of you i used to see you sometimes i used to fancy i heard you i did hear you once sing in a dream what was i singing no something quite different i forgot it all as i awoke except the last notes i seemed to have returned from the future � you seemed in the end to lose your voice i cannot tell you � i forget it is very sad how sad such feelings are but i never doubted that i should meet you that our were knit together � for a time at least she wanted to ask him by what signs do we recognise the moment that we are destined to meet the one that is more important to us than all the world but she could find no way of asking this question that would not betray her she could not put it so that would fail to read some application of the question to herself and to himself so it seemed strange indeed that he should as if in answer to her thought say that the instinct of man is to consult the stars she remembered the evenings when she used to go into the patch of black garden and gaze at the stars till her brain she used even to gather the and place them on the wall in homage to the star which she felt to be hers she could not refrain from this act but in her bed at night thinking of the flowers and the star she had believed herself mad or very wicked for nothing in the world would she have had anyone know her folly and she remembered the agony it had been to her to confess it but now she heard that she had been acting according to the sense of the wisdom of generations as he had said according to the immortal of man with her ordinary intelligence she felt that the stars could not possibly be concerned in our miserable existence but deep down in her being who was not herself but who seemed inseparable from her and over whom she had no slightest control seemed to breathe throughout her entire being an of her celestial she could catch no words merely a vague destiny like distant music and her ears filled with a wailing of an with the stars and she longed to put off this shameful garb of flesh and rise to her spiritual destiny of which the stars are our watchful it was like deep music words could not contain it it was a deep and indistinct yearning for the stars � for spiritual existence she was conscious of the of the prison house into which had shut her and looking at she felt the thrill of it was like a ray of light dividing the dark looking at she was startled by the conviction of his in her life and the knowledge that she must him was an acute affliction a desolate despair it seemed cruel and disastrous that she might not love him for it was only through love that she could get to understand him and life without knowledge of him seemed failure i m very fond of you but i mustn t let yon kiss me can t we be friends he sat leaning a little forward his head bent and his eyes on the carpet he represented to her an sorrow � an extraordinary despair she longed to share this sorrow to throw her arms about him and make him glad their love seemed so good and natural she was surprised that she might not � � tt � f m yes he looked round the room saw it was getting late and that it was time for him to go yes it is getting late i suppose you must go but you ll come to see me again we shall be friends promise me that � that whatever happens we shall be friends i think that we shall always be friends i feel that his answer seemed to her insufficient and they stood looking at each other when the door closed after him turned away thinking that if he had stayed another moment she must have thrown herself into his arms chap xx dreams was the first of the five but the music that haunted belonged to the third song she | 15 |
miss from your slight acquaintance poor edward his manners are certainly not the happiest in nature but we are not all born you know with the same powers � the same address poor fellow to see him in a circle of strangers i to be sure it was pitiable enough but upon my soul i believe he has as good a heart as any in the kingdom and i declare and protest to you i never was so shocked in my life as when it au burst forth i could not believe it my mother was the first person who told me of it and i feeling myself called on to act with resolution immediately said to her � my madam i do not know what you may intend to do on the occasion but as for myself i must say that if does marry this young woman never will see him again that was what i said immediately i was most uncommonly shocked indeed poor edward he has done for himself completely � shut himself out for ever from all decent society i but as i directly said to my mother i am not in sense and sensibility the least surprised at it from his style of education it was always to be expected my poor mother was half frantic have you ever seen the lady yes once while she was in this house i hj to drop in for ten minutes and i saw quite enough of her the merest awkward country girl without style or elegance and almost without beauty i remember her perfectly just the kind of girl i should suppose likely to poor edward i offered immediately its soon as my mother related the affair to me to talk to him myself and him from the match but it was too late i to do any thing for i was not in the way at first and knew nothing of it till after the breach had taken place when it was not for me you know to interfere but had i been informed of it a few hours earlier i think it is most probable that something might have been hit on i certainly should have represented it to edward in a very strong light my dear fellow i should have said consider what you are doing you are making a most disgraceful connection and such a one as your family are unanimous in i cannot help thinking in short that means might have been found but now it is all too late he must be starved you know that is certain absolutely starved he had just settled this point with great composure when the entrance of mrs john dash wood put an end to the subject but though she never spoke of it out of her own family could see its influence on her mind in the something like confusion of countenance with which she entered and an attempt at cordiality in her behaviour to herself she even proceeded so far as to be concerned to find that and her sister were so soon to leave town as she had hoped to see more of them an exertion in which her husband who attended her into the room and hung over her accents seemed to distinguish every thing was most affectionate and graceful chapter one other short call in street in which received her brother s congratulations on their travelling bo far towards without any expense and on colonel s being to follow them to in a day or two completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town and a faint invitation from to come to whenever it should happen to be in their way which of all things was the most unlikely to occur with a more warm though less public assurance from john to of the with which he should come to see her at was all that foretold any meeting in the country it amused her to observe that all her friends seemed determined to send her to a place in which of all others she would now least choose to visit or wish to reside for not only was it considered as her future home by her brother and mrs but even when they parted gave her a pressing invitation to visit her there very early in april and tolerably early in the day the two parties from and street set out their to meet by appointment on the road for the convenience of and her child they were to be more than two days on their journey and mr travelling more with colonel was to join them at soon after their arrival few as had been her hours of comfort in london and eager as she had long been to quit it could not when it came to the point bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes and that confidence in which were now extinguished for ever without great pain nor could she leave the in which remained busy in new engagements and new schemes in which she could have no share without shedding many tears s satisfaction at the moment of removal was more positive she had no such object for her lingering thoughts to fix on she left no creature behind from whom it would give her a moment s regret to be divided for ever she was pleased to be free herself from the persecution of s e friendship she was grateful for bringing her sister away unseen by since his marriage and she looked forward with hope to what a few months of tranquillity at might do towards restoring s peace of mind and her own their journey was safely performed the second day brought them into the cherished or the county of for as such 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air my dear i shall go to this and see what she the land of mockery means to do in the matter poor she must be disgusted at the whole affair she had rather a liking for hadn t she inquired mr folding up the times in a neat parcel preparatory to taking it with him in order to read il in peace on his way to the law courts liking well and mrs looking at herself once more in the glass carefully arranged the of lace about her massive throat � it was a little more than liking � though of course her feelings were perfectly proper and all that sort of thing � at least i suppose they were she had a great friendship for him � one of those perfectly spiritual and innocent i believe which are so rare in this wicked world mrs sighed then suddenly becoming practical again she continued yes i shall go there and stop to luncheon and talk this thing over then i ll drive on to the van and bring home to dinner i suppose you don t object object mr made a gesture and raised his eyes in wonder as if he dared object to anything whatsoever that his wife desired she smiled graciously as he approached and respectfully kissed her smooth cool cheek before taking his departure for his daily work as a lawyer in the city and when he was gone she herself to her own small where she busied herself for more than an hour in writing letters and answering invitations she was in her own line a person of importance she made it her business to know everything and everybody � she was fond of with other people s domestic concerns and she had a finger in ev ry family pie she was moreover a regular � fond of taking young ladies under her maternal wing and introducing them to the proper quarters and when as was often the case a distinguished american of many dollars but no influence offered her three or four hundred guineas for his daughter into english society and marrying her well mrs rush the quite gracefully and did her best for the girl she was a good looking woman tall and witli an air of distinction about her though her features were by no means striking and the of her nose was out of all proportion to the majesty of her form � but she had a very charming and a pleasant taking manner and she was universally admired in that particular set wherein she moved girls adored her and wrote her letters full of the most � married ladies on the verge of a scandal came to her to help them out of their old troubled with or daughters poured their troubles into her ears � in short her hands were full of other people s business to such an extent that she had scarcely any leisure to attend to her own mr rush but why describe this gentleman at all he was a mere � known simply as the husband of mrs rush he knew he was a nobody � and unlike many men placed in a similar position he was satisfied with his lot he his wife intensely and never failed to flatter her vanity to the utmost excess so that on the whole they were excellent friends and agreed much better than most married people it was about twelve o clock in the day when mrs rush s neat little and pair stopped at lord s great house in park lane a gorgeous threw open the door with a severe expression on his breakfast flushed countenance � an expression which relaxed into a smile of condescension on seeing who the visitor was i suppose lady is at home inquired mrs with the air of one familiar with the ways of the household yes m replied slowly taking in the style of mrs rush s bonnet and mentally calculating its cost her is in the ril go there said mrs stepping into the hall and beginning to walk across it in her own important and self manner you needn t announce me closed the street door settled his powdered wig and looked after her then he shut up one eye in a sufficiently laborious manner and grinned after this he retired slowly to a small room where he found the world with its leaves taking up his master s ivory paper knife he to remedy this inconvenience � and yawning heavily he seated himself in a velvet arm chair and was soon absorbed � the pages of the journal in question the land of mockery meanwhile mrs in her way across the great hall to the had been interrupted and nearly knocked down by the playful embrace of a handsome boy who sprang out upon her suddenly with a shout of laughter � a boy of about twelve years old with frank bright blue eyes and dark curls cried this young gentleman � here you are again do you want to see papa papa s in there i � pointing to the door from which he had emerged he s my latin exercise five good marks to day and i m going to the this afternoon isn t it jolly dear me exclaimed mrs half yet with an indulgent smile � i wish you would not be so boisterous vou ve nearly knocked my bonnet off no i haven t laughed it s as straight as � wait a bit and waving a lead pencil in the air he drew an imaginary stroke with it the middle feather is up and down just on a line with your nose � it couldn t be better i � � there go along you silly boy said mrs amused in spite of 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of and selling of cattle this business appears to have been carried on by to a extent so that in early life he was not dashing upon his to his e� however new objects were presented to him and having laid claim to the authority with which he was now invested over some faithful he readily commanded their unlimited services in the his in his foes or in the tax of black mail which he began to over the neighbouring countries had long been lo prevail in the and though and generally ive the of many ages had the practice so that it was considered r unjust nor and from its effects in securing the for and protection of those to whom it was paid it was usually to as an measure and consisted of meal or cattle according to agreement the practice loo of ing off tlie cattle of was still common in followers of rob were no less guilty of these habits when necessity or the disposition of other tribes occasioned dispute but these excursions were usually undertaken the whom they regarded as a people of nation different in as in language what was not the least motive of attack they were � more less inclined to war whether the exploits of some of which bad become notorious and the fame he acquired as a cunning and genius had rendered him more to be as a friend than to be considered and held as an enemy with the family of the former of his or whether the chief of that house the second duke of the name from a conviction of the and injustice which his ancestors had exercised over the had experienced any reasonable i n not certainly known but it is that this nobleman not only relaxed from all against that people but became attached in the most friendly manner to the harsh of the during the reign of vi which declared the and of their still hung over the having been renewed by succeeding and though had all along despised authority he was at last prevailed upon with reluctance to adopt other so that he might appear in one in � to in the law he v ft c terms upon which he stood with the ol n xi now his a owed patron as bv e i i of aod that of though in country hi he waa hy no other lie was in it writ dated in robert c ll of hi inheritance i property extended for some miles eastern border of but from i it fell into the of the duke of in his cattle rob h td a partner in whom he placed unbounded confidence but this person having on one occasion been with a considerable sum of money made a sudden which so shattered rob s t that he was under the necessity of selling hi t lands to tlie duke of hut that they should again to providing lie could return to the duke sum he had promised to pay for had a great part but not the whole of the price agreed upon m some years having elapsed r found his � ed ana to get back his offered to restore the duke sum he had advanced hut upon some pretence he not receive it and from s character an ad of the lands was easily obtained which deprived him of any future claim considering this transaction as unjust on tlie of and his of rob watched opportunity to make the only remaining means in hia power and a future occasion gave him the success he desired when collecting his rents was attended as a compliment by several gentlemen of the who dined with among those who were present at this time was i but before he came he placed twenty of his men in a wood bv to wait a fixed signal and went himself to the house with his i cr ing before him this was at the inn of chapel in the had no suspicion of rob s purpose a he laid down his to indicate peace and partook of the during which his some wild the boisterous accompaniment which used to give a zest to every in meantime observed the s motions and saw that he deposited the money in a which lay in tbe room dinner was no sooner over than he ordered his to strike up a new and in a few minutes rob s men surrounded the house � six of them entered with drawn sword � when rob laying hold of his own desired the to deliver him the money which he had collected and which he said was his due was useless the money was given up and granted a � receipt for it but as he conceived that the was to the of the that deprived him of his he to punish him accordingly he had him conveyed and placed id an island near the west end of conspicuous at the supposed residence die fair tht v q the l ie � k tain � � � � th� � t fu � ui with nor nor t might fo a a in a r id this island was for some and when ei at i by rob no more to collect the of which he meant in future lo do thai as lands originally belonged to the who lost by such was an unnatural and of the right of succeeding and from thin conviction he the constant enemy of the the and the who then claimed and inherit those extensive among other which from time to time were to the of the wits that of a garrison in their at upon the spot whence rob his title the bounds to which the of government had been carried not only by it immediate in the military but also by the other surrounded drove them to such that they | 48 |
into her face s conflict will wax wanton and betray their in their grace boys and girls would feel a forward spring and youth to old thou back bring all sexes ages orders occupations would listen to thee with attentive ear and moved with sweet thy pipe would follow with full merry while thou thy voice loud advance their for joy would dance but now alas poor man in desert thou dost wander wide to seek and serve thy disappearing pan whom no man living in the world hath sir pan is dead but i am still alive and live in men who honor to me give honour also those that honour me sacred songs but thou now sing to trees to rocks to hills to that be and quite of thy hid mysteries in the void air thy idle voice is spread thy muse is to the deaf or dead now out alas and well away the tale thou i confess too true fond man so on this living clay his dear and doth its joys pursue that of his precious soul he takes no keep heaven s love and reason s light lie fast asleep this bodies life vain shadow of the soul with full desire they closely do embrace in mud like swine they and roll the mind is proud but of the face or outward person if men but that walking cares for no more this is the measure of man s industry to somebody and gather grace for outward presence though true crown d with that heavenly light and lively of holy and love from his soul he remove slight knowledge and lease virtue serves his turn for this if he hath trod the ring of arts in pack horse form keeping the rode o then t s a learned thing of the if any to write or speak what he not t were a foul to the soul from and still whether our reason s eye be clear enough to true light that fain would glide into d hearts this way s too harsh and therefore the truths may well seem dark when men have eyes so and these be our times but if my minds bear any moment they can ne re last long a three branch d flame will soon sweep clear the stage of this old dirty and all young my words into this frozen air i throw will then grow at that nay now thou rt perfect mad said he with scorn and full of foul derision quit the place the did rattle with his wings like to rent silk but i in the mean space sent him this message by the wind be t so i m mad yet sure i am thou rt blind by this the d shadows of the trees pointed me homeward and with one consent foretold the s descent so straight i rise my limbs from off the green pavement behind me leaving the sloping light � and now let s up brings in the night lives op the great the of the are imperfectly written for this obvious reason the soul of the great can only be expressed in music this language is so much more ready full and rapid than any other that we can never expect the minds of those accustomed to its use to be expressed by act or word with even that degree of which we find in those of other men they are accustomed to a higher a more existence we must read them in their works this true of of the great in every department is especially so of the of sound yet the eye which has followed with rapture the flight of the bird till it is quite vanished in the blue serene with pleasure to the nest which it finds of materials and architecture that if wisely examined correspond entirely with all previously imagined of the s history and habits the biography of the artist is a scanty upon the grand text of his works but we examine it with a deliberate tenderness and could not spare those half pencil marks of daily life in vain the healthy of nature have so boldly in our own day the love of greatness and bid us turn from to read the record of the village clerk these obscure men you say have hearts also busy lives souls study the simple annals of the poor and you find there only and stifled by accident milton or precisely for that precisely because we might be such as these if temperament and position had the soul s must we seek with eagerness this spectacle of the occasional of that degree of development which we call hero poet artist martyr a sense of the depths of love and pity in our obscure and private breasts bids us demand to see their sources burst up somewhere through the of circumstance and peter bell has no sooner felt his first throb of and piety than he to read the lives of the saints of all those forms of life which in their greater achievement shadow forth what the accomplishment of our life in the ages must be the artist s life is the fairest in this that it its web most soft and full because of the material most at command like the hero the the the artist from other men only in this that the voice of the demon within the breast speaks louder or is more early and steadily obeyed than by men in general but colors and marble and paper scores are more easily found to use and more under command than the occasions of life or the wills of other men so that we see in the poet s work if not a higher sentiment or a deeper meaning a more frequent and more perfect fulfilment than in him who his temple from the world day by day or 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as these may sound easy enough yet i doubt whether even ever caught quite that note again and to me s poems on on the the solitary and the like seem more more exceptional as poetical de force than even his although i agree with those who maintain that he has left us the finest collection of which any english poet has to show i may mention the following poems as examples of the different alluded to above � which of course run into each other � simple style we are seven gray poet s pet lamb poor poems on and tables turned fragment stray pleasures poems on my heart leaps up s nest girl phantom of delight solitary transition to grand style abbey castle affliction of margaret there was a boy castle death of fox grand style happy warrior trees on immortality to duty wisdom and spirit patriotic and other evening by william i quote in illustration three of the type which in s early days was a mark for general derision � � and turning from her grave i met beside the church yard a blooming girl whose hair was wet with points of morning dew a basket on her head she bare her brow was smooth and white to see a child so very fair it was a pure delight no fountain from its rocky cave e er tripped with foot so free she seemed as happy as a wave that dances on the sea � something here is something i think beyond imitation in the two april mornings from which these are taken there is of course a pathetic attitude of mind to which the lines lead up that of the father who would not if he could renew the past joy at the risk of the past sorrow others might have chosen that theme might have adorned into simplicity and into a similar recital but in what mind save s would the which close each of the three have arisen the exquisite truth of the look of the child s hair in the dew the innocent intensity of s gaze the springing of that last � fresh and vivid as of old was ocean s many twinkling smile � and the melody which with its few rustic notes the scene and it into poetry s ideal world i have said that s poems were largely concerned with the english lake country with the race and the which it was his mission both to represent and to for a bom within a few miles of s home and a few years before his death the inward picture of that country s past present future cannot rise without a touch of pain yea all that now thee � said once of how much smaller an invasion than has actually occurred i � � yea all that now thee from the day on which it should be touched would melt and melt away the best remaining hope is still in it is the hope that his abiding spirit may exert an ever deeper influence upon those who look upon the land which he loved the visitors to the lake country indeed are not now mainly such as he most feared by i i william in growing proportion they are men and women who have a right to be there the right involved in real power of appreciation in real effort of voyage and journey made to reach the shrine and even now to it might perhaps have seemed that his lakes and hills might yet a new virtue wider than the old here is what we in england have of fairest of most sacred to offer let us offer it to all our kin let our great race whose tribes are mighty nations find here an and a central memory of peace there can be nothing in any passage from simplicity to greatness and we find in s poems that transition often without conscious change of tone this is especially noticeable in the � a kind of on the poet s own education where the sense of and which such a subject is constantly yielding to our sense of the s and dignity and to the interest of the of a character than which i know none of better for the future of mankind the song at the feast of castle again stands between s simple style and his grand style it rises from rustic into and from into the tranquillity of the eternal world how charged with the spirit of the mountains is the s story of the childhood of the shepherd lord � and both the fish that swim through did wait on him the pair were servants of his eye in their immortality and glancing gleaming dark or bright moved to and fro for his delight � how swiftly that passes as on one high note to bis heroic cry � in his halls on the blood of calls the the lance bear me to the heart of france is the longing of the shield � at last the poet himself the strain and how sublime in its simplicity is that return and from the wild tale of war and tumult to the true victory and the peace � alas the impassioned did not know that for a tranquil soul the lay was framed by william x who long compelled in humble walks to go was softened into feeling soothed and tamed � love had he in huts where poor men lie his daily teachers had been woods and the silence that is in the sky the sleep that is among the lonely hills � but there was matter enough near home to call forth all s martial impulses and to raise his style to its last elevation a pure clear tone of heroic grandeur during the prime of the poet s powers england was engaged 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gazed i felt what stately cities might well have been built upon those shores and have flashed prosperity over the calm like bv s spectacles of pearls i dreamed of gorgeous silken sailed and blown by winds drifting over those waters and through those spacious skies i gazed upon the twilight the inscrutable silence like a god fearing upon a new and vast sea bursting upon him through forest and in the of whose impassioned gaze a and poetic world arises and man need no longer die to be happy my companions naturally deserted me for i had grown wearily grave and abstracted and unable to resist the of my spectacles i was constantly lost in the world of which those companions were part yet of which they knew nothing i grew cold and hard almost j people seemed to me ao blind and unreasonable they did the wrong thing they called green yellow and black white young men said of a girl what a lovely simple creature i looked and there was only a glistening of straw dry and hollow or they said what a cold proud beauty i looked and lo a whose heart held the world or they said what a wild giddy girl and i saw a glancing dancing mountain stream pure as the virgin whence it flowed singing through sun and shade over pearls and gold dust bv and i slipping along by weed or rain or heavy foot of cattle touching the flowers with a kiss � a of grace a happy song a line of light in the dim and troubled landscape my grandmother sent me to school but i looked at the master and saw that he was a smooth round or an improper or a vulgar and refused to obey him or he was a piece of string a rag a willow and i had a contemptuous pity but one was a well of cool deep water and looking suddenly in one day i saw the stars that one gave me all my with him i used to walk by the sea and as we strolled and the waves plunged in long before us i looked at him through the spectacles and as his eyes dilated with the boundless view and his chest heaved with an impossible desire i saw and his army tossed and glittering rank upon rank multitude upon multitude out of sight but ever regularly advancing and with confused roar of c music themselves in abject or aa with arms outstretched and hair streaming on the wind he full lines of the i saw pacing the sands of the greek of forgotten times my grandmother died and i was thrown into bv s spectacles the world without resources and with no capital but my spectacles i tried to find employment but everybody was shy of me there was a vague suspicion that i was either a little or a good deal in league with the prince of darkness my companions who would persist in calling a piece of painted muslin a fair and fragrant flower had no difficulty success waited for them around every corner and arrived in every ship i tried to teach for i loved children but if anything excited a suspicion of my pupils and putting on my spectacles i saw that i was a snake or smelling at a bud with a worm in it i sprang up in horror and ran away or if it seemed to me through the glasses that a smiled upon me or a rose was blooming in my then i felt myself imperfect and not fit to be leading and training what was so essentially superior to myself and i kissed the children and left them wondering in despair i went to a great merchant on the island and asked him to employ me my dear young friend said he i understand that you have some singular secret some charm oi spell or or something i don t know what of which people are afraid now you know my dear said the merchant swelling up and apparent bv i ly of his great than of his large fortune i am not of that kind i am not easily frightened you may spare yourself the pain of trying to impose upon me people who propose to come to time before i arrive are accustomed to arise very early in the morning said he thrusting his in the of his waistcoat and spreading the fingers like two upon his bosom i think i have heard something of your secret you have a pair of spectacles i believe that you value very much because your grandmother brought them as a marriage portion to your grandfather now if you think fit to sell me those spectacles i will pay you the largest market price for them what do you say i told him i had not the slightest idea of selling my spectacles my young friend means to eat them i suppose said he with a contemptuous smile i made no reply but was turning to leave the office when the merchant called after me � my young friend poor people should never themselves to get into anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge a pair of spectacles and a hot temper are not the most promising capital for success in life master bv s spectacles i said nothing but put my hand upon the door go out when the merchant said more respect well you foolish boy if you will not sell your spectacles perhaps you will agree to sell the use of them to me that is you shall only put them on when i direct you and for my purposes you little fool cried he impatiently as he saw that i intended to make no reply but i had pulled out my spectacles and put them on for my own purposes | 16 |
is in the and my hands shall not disturb it or the country s done for you will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that was as dead as a door nail knew he was dead of course he did how could it e otherwise and he were partners for i don t know how many years was his sole his sole his sole his sole his sole friend and sole and even was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event but that he was an excellent man of business on a christmas the very day of the funeral and it with an bargain the mention of s funeral brings me back to the point i started from there is no doubt that was dead this must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come of the story i am going to relate if we were not perfectly convinced that i s father died before play began there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night in an wind upon his own than there would be in any other middle aged gentleman turning out dark in a say saint paul s churchyard for instance � literally to astonish his son s weak mind never painted out old s name there it stood years afterwards above the door and the firm was known as and sometimes people new to the business called and sometimes but he answered to both names it was all the same to him oh but he was a tight hand at the grasping clutching sinner hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire secret and self contained and solitary as an the cold within him his old features his pointed nose his cheek his gait his eyes red his thin lips blue and spoke out in his grating voice a frosty was on his head and on his eyebrows and his chin he carried his own low temperature always about with him he his office in the dog days and didn t it one degree at christmas external heat and cold had little influence on no warmth could warm nor wintry weather chill him no wind that blew was than he no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose no rain less open to entreaty foul weather didn t know where to have him the heaviest rain and ghost snow and hail and could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect they often came down handsomely and never did nobody ever stopped him in the street to say with looks my dear how are you when will you come to see me no beggars implored him to bestow a trifle no children asked him what it was o clock no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place of even the s dogs appeared to know him and when they saw him coming on would their owners into and up courts and then would wag their tails as though they said no eye at all is better than an evil eye dark master but what did care it was the very thing he liked to edge his way along the crowded paths of life warning all human sympathy to keep its distance was what the knowing ones call nuts to once upon a of all the good days in the year on christmas old sat busy in his counting house it was cold bleak biting weather withal and he could hear the people in the court outside go up and down beating their hands upon their breasts and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them the city had only just gone three but it was quite dark already it had not been light all day and candles were in the windows of the neighboring offices like ruddy upon the palpable brown air the fog came pouring in at every and and was dense without that although the court was of the the houses opposite were mere to see the dingy cloud come drooping down everything one might have thought that nature lived hard by and was on a large scale the door of s counting house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk who in a dismal little cell beyond a christmas a sort of was letters had a very fire but the clerk s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal but he couldn t it for kept the box in his own room and so surely as the clerk came in with the the master predicted that it would be necessary ll r them to part wherefore the clerk put hi hb white com and tried to warm himself at the candle in which not being a man of a strong imagination he a merry christmas uncle save you cried a ful voice the voice of s nephew who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his said he had so heated himself with the rapid walking in the fog and frost this nephew of s that he was all in a glow his face was ruddy and handsome his eyes sparkled and his breath smoked again christmas a uncle said s nephew you don t mean that i m sure i do said merry christmas what right have you to be merry what reason have you to be merry you re poor enough come then returned the nephew gaily what right have you to be dismal what reason have you to be you re rich enough having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment said again and followed it up with don t be cross uncle said the nephew what else can i be returned the uncle when i live in such a world of | 8 |
the charge which many hall will be too ready to bring against � that of having been the victim of mere animal excitement in the sight of god i have no apology to offer but in that of man it may surely be some of his fault to say that he was on to ruin by causes which he ceased at last to have sufficient moral power to resist his with mr was from its commencement most disastrous sums of money seemed to escape from his possession without his being aware of their amount and every new scheme increased instead of his past losses beside which he never was calculated for business it harassed his mind and destroyed his natural rest he became irritable and apprehensive while the false to which he had recourse served to give him nerve for the and even inspired him with energy for new enterprise so that he became at such times a and willing instrument in the hands of a who needed my father s credit and capital to his own schemes it is difficult to understand how my father s honorable feeling should have been hall far overcome by one who was altogether unworthy of his confidence except that he always attached so much importance to ingenuity and enterprise that they covered from his sight a multitude of sins and as to my own influence i had shown my deep rooted dislike to this individual in a manner too decided and ill judged for my father to attribute it to anything but prejudice his ear was therefore closed against all i might have to say in this manner his affairs went on until they became almost too desperate for hope one thing after another had failed none with him but still he had credit and upon that fresh schemes were undertaken while his debts were increasing on every hand by mere chance i had myself become acquainted with these appalling facts and you may be sure that i reasoned with him � that i pleaded and prayed he would make an honorable stand against the of hope and by giving up the remainder his property that he would leave us our integrity at least for the solace of old ge but unfortunately for my the e hall was ever at hand and my father was growing while his moral was failing faster than his bodily strength i grew desperate at last and threatened to expose our situation to the world rather than we should go on ing every one around and many to their own s� it was then in an evil hour they finally overcame me � my father by his tears while they bound me by a solemn vow never without his sanction to communicate to any human being the real state of his affairs you have often asked me why i did not marry here then you read the cause i can however say with truth that never hare i been tempted but once to adopt thia means of escape from the gathering storm which seemed threatening to once i confess i did for a moment low myself to dream of the happiness of escaping to a foreign land until the blast should have blown over but knowing that my fortune was an object of i could not bear the idea that any man � especially the one who interested me most should awake from his visions ot ball wealth to find he had married a poor and wife the darkest page of my history is yet to come may reason last me to the end i have not lived to my present age and seen and felt what i have done without having had many serious thoughts on the of religion more especially since i have that in my father s case it was the only thing that could save him still i was dark � dark on that myself f yet as everything earthly seemed to be receding from me as one hold after another gave way and friendship all but yours began to fail i more than ever in my life an awful and imperative call to look into real position with regard to and eternity i will not attempt to describe to you the state of mind which folk wed i saw but too clearly what i might have been to my poor father i felt what i was i something however i imagined might yet be done i watched my opportunity � and ob awful day had followed him into his for the purpose of appealing to his better feelings and him to to others and thus if possible b� peace for his own mind to which he had long been a i cannot repeat to you my words but if ever i spoke reasonably � if ever i spoke forcibly in my whole life � f it was on that solemn occasion for some time my father made no reply hia silence filled my mind with the dread of having offended him beyond forgiveness i burst into tears for it is a bitter thing for a daughter to a father whom she loves he was not insensible to my anguish and raising his eyes i saw that a flood of light like sunshine over a landscape was its influence over every feature of his face it was the welcome of a father s love and as he opened his arms to receive me i fell upon his bosom too happy to be sensible of anything but an unexpected thrill of gratitude and joy � my child said he in tones of the tenderness do with me what you will from this hour we will begin a new life you shall be to me my good angel my are in your hands render justice if it be possible to all i closed my eyes and remaining still folded in my father s arms i silently | 41 |
by ic his in fact i was very dry yesterday curious thing i m always dry on rainy days i am one of the kind of men who know that it is the part of wisdom to stay in when it rains or to carry an umbrella when it is not possible to stay at home or having no home like ourselves to remain up in or up in as you may prefer you carried an umbrella then observed the landlady the idiot s shaft at the size of her elegant and airy apartments with an ease bom of experience yes madame returned the idiot quite unconscious of what was coming whose the lady a sarcastic smile playing about her lips that i cannot say mrs replied the idiot serenely but it is the one you usually carry your sir said the school master coming to the s rescue is an unworthy one the umbrella in question is mine it has been in my possession for five years then replied the idiot it is time you returned it don t think by ic men s morals are rather in this matter of mr he added turning from the school master who began to show signs of irritation very said the minister running his finger about his neck to make the collar which had been sent home from the by mistake set more easily � very at the last conference i attended some person forgetting his high office as a minister in the church walked off with my umbrella without so much as a thank you and it was embarrassing too because the rain was coming down in what did you do asked landlady she liked mr s sermons and beyond this he was a more profitable than any of the others remaining home to luncheon every day and having to pay extra there was but one thing left for me to do i took the bishop s umbrella said mr blushing slightly but you returned it of course said the idiot i intended to but i left it on the train on my way back home the next day replied by ic the clergyman visibly embarrassed by the idiot s unexpected cross examination it s the same way with books put in the an unfortunate being whose love of rare first had brought him down from to boarding many a man who wouldn t steal a dollar run with a book i had a friend once who had a rare copy of through africa hy daylight it was a beautiful book only copies printed the of the pages were four inches wide and the was the was colored by hand and the page had one of the most amusing errors on it � was there any reading matter in the book asked the idiot blowing softly on a hot that was nicely balanced on the end of his fork yes a little but it didn t amount to much returned the it isn t as reading matter that men like myself care for books you know we have a higher notion than that it is as a specimen of the book maker s art that we admire a bit of literature like through africa hy day by ic light but as i was saying my friend had this book and he d extra illustrated it he had pictures from all parts of the world in it and the book had grown from a volume of one hundred pages to four volumes of two hundred pages each and it was stolen by a highly honorable friend i suppose the idiot interrupted yes it was stolen � and my friend never knew by whom said the what cried the idiot in mock surprise did you never confess it was fortunate for the idiot that the cakes were brought on at this moment had there not been some diversion of that kind it is certain that the would have him it is very kind of mrs i think said the school master to provide us with such delightful cakes as these free of charge yes said the idiot helping himself to six cakes very kind indeed although i must say they are extremely economical from an point of view � which is to they are rather fuller of than of i wonder why it is he continued possibly to the landlady s re by ic � why it is that and cakes are so in appearance and so widely different in their respective effects on the system put in a genial old gentleman who occasionally seated next to the idiot i fail to see the between a cake and a plaster said the school master if possible to the idiot you don t eh the latter then it is very plain sir that you have never eaten a plaster to this the school master could find no reasonable reply and he took refuge in silence mr tried to look severe the gentleman who occasionally smiled all over the ignored the remark entirely not having as yet forgiven the idiot for his gross regarding his friend s edition de of through africa hy daylight mary the maid who greatly admired the idiot not so much for his as for the aristocratic manner in which he carried himself and the truly striking striped shirts he wore left the room by ic in a of laughter that bo alarmed the cook below stairs that the next ul of cakes were more like tin plates than cakes and as for mrs that worthy woman was speechless with wrath but she was not apparently for reaching down into her pocket she brought forth a small piece of paper on which was written in detail the account due of the idiot i d like to have this settled sir she said with some certainly my dear madame replied the idiot � certainly can you cash a check for a | 27 |
nearer the mountains i threw a few things together and came here with liim we left at and here at staying an hour for food on the way i liked the first half of the drive but the fierce blazing heat of the sun on the earth for the last half was terrible even with my white umbrella which i have not used since i left new it was sickening then the eyes have never anything green to rest upon except in the river where there is green hay grass we followed mostly the course of the a la which rises in the mountains and after supplying with falls into the which is an of the when beyond the scattered houses and great ring fence of the vigorous we were on the boundless now and then passed us we met three with white except where the dogs have the ground you can drive almost anywhere and the passage of a few over the same track makes a road we the river whose course is marked the whole way by a fringe of small cotton woods and and travelled hour after hour with nothing to see except some dog towns with their quaint little but the view in front was glorious the a s life ik letter f f i from the plains are the finest mountain i ever saw but not equal to this for not only do five high giants each nearly the height of lift their dazzling above the lower but the expanse of mountains is so vast and the whole lie in a transparent medium of the richest blue not haze � something peculiar to the r ion the lack of is a great artistic fault and the absence of is melancholy and makes me recall sadly the detail of the islands once only the second time we the river the cotton woods formed a and then the loveliness was heavenly we stopped at a log house and got a rough dinner of beef and potatoes and i was amused at the five men who shared it with us for to me for being without their coats as if coats would not be an on the plains it is the election day for the and men were ing over the to register their the three in tiie talked politics the whole time they spoke openly and of the prices given for and apparently there was not a on either side who was not accused of degrading corruption we saw a of head of cattle travelling from to they had been nine months on the way they were under the charge of twenty mounted the heavily and a light accompanied them full of extra and not unnecessary for the indians are in all directions by the reckless and useless slaughter of the which is their chief on the plains are herds of wild horses deer and and in the mountains bears wolves deer mountain lions and mountain sheep you see a rifle in every as people always hope to fall in with game by the time we reached fort i was sick and dizzy with the heat of the sun and not disposed to be pleased with a most place it was a military post but at present consists of a few frame houses put down recently on the bare and burning plain the have great but of what the mountains look hardly nearer than from one only their vicinity by the loss of higher peaks this house is from than the one at but full of these new are altogether entirely given up to talk of dollars as well as to making them with coarse speech coarse food coarse every thing nothing wherewith to satisfy the higher if they exist nothing on which the eye can rest with pleasure the lower floor of this inn with in addition to thousands of black flies the latter cover the ground and rise from it as you walk l l b letter iv k of flies � a melancholy the foot mountain boarding � a dull life � being agreeable � climate of � and september i was actually so dull and tired that i deliberately slept away the afternoon in order to forget the heat and flies thirty men in working clothes silent and sad looking came in to supper tlie beef was tough and greasy the butter had turned to oil and beef and were black with living drowned and flies the greasy table cloth was black also with flies and i did not wonder that the guests looked melancholy quickly escaped i failed to get a horse but was strongly recommended to come here and board with a who they said had a saw mill and took the person who recommended it so strongly gave me a note of introduction and told me that it was in a grand part of the mountains where many people had been out all the summer for the benefit of their health the idea of a boarding house as i know them in america was in the present state of my wardrobe and l the rocky mountains i decided on bringing my carpet bag as well as my pack lest i should be rejected for my bad clothes early the next morning t left in a drawn by light and driven by a profoundly melancholy young man he had never been to the there was no road we met nobody saw q except in the distance and he became more melancholy and lost his way driving hither and thither for about twenty miles till we came upon an old trail which eventually brought us to a fertile bottom where hay and were being and five or six frame houses looked cheerful i had been recommended to two of these which professed to take in strangers but one was full cf and in the other a child was dead so i took | 20 |
with a strip of silvery light from the unseen sun we have had a of talk sir said mr to me when we y the personal history and experience had all three walked a little while in silence of what we ought and t ought to do but we see our course now i happened to glance at ham then looking out to sea upon the distant light and a frightful thought came into my mind � not that his face was angry for it was not i nothing but an expression of stern determination in it � that if ever he encountered he would kill him my here sir said mr is done i m a going to seek my � he stopped and went on in a firmer voice i m a going to seek her that s my he shook his head when i asked him where he would seek her and inquired if i were going to london to morrow i told him i had not gone to day fearing to lose the chance of being of any service to him but that i was ready to go when he would i ll go along with you sir he rejoined if you re agreeable to morrow we walked again for a while in silence ham he presently resumed he hold to his present work and go and live along with my sister the old boat yonder � will you desert the old boat mr i gently interposed my station r he returned ain t there no longer and if ever a boat since there was darkness on the face of the deep that one s gone down but no sir no i t mean as it should be deserted from that we walked again for a while as before until he explained my wishes is sir as it shall look day and night winter and summer as it has always looked since she first know d it if ever she should come a wandering back i wouldn t have the old place seem to cast her you understand but seem to tempt her to draw to t and to peep in maybe like a ghost out of the wind and rain through the old at the old seat by the fire then maybe r none but there she might take heart to creep in trembling and might come to be laid down in her old bed and rest her weary head where it was once so gay i could not speak to him in reply though i tried every night said mr as lar as the night comes the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass that if ever she should see it it may seem to say come back my child come back if ever there s a knock ham a soft knock dark at your aunt s door t you go nigh it let it be her � not you � that sees my fallen child he walked a little in front of us and kept before us for some minutes during this interval i glanced at ham again and observing the same expression on his face and his eyes still directed to the distant light i touched his arm twice i called him by his name in the tone in which i might have tried to rouse a before he me when i at last inquired on what his thoughts were so bent he replied on what s afore me r and over yon on the life before you do you mean he had pointed out to sea of david ay r i t rightly know bow tis but from over von there seemed to me to come � the end of it like looking at me as if he were waking but with the same determined face what end i asked possessed by my former fear i t know he said thoughtfully i was calling to mind that the beginning of it all did take place here � and then the end come but it s gone r he added answering as i think my look you han t no call to be of me but i m i t fare to feel no matters � which was as much as to say that he was not himself and quite confounded mr stopping for us to join him we did so and said no more the remembrance of this in with my former thought however haunted me at intervals even until the inexorable end came at its appointed time we approached the old boat and entered mrs no longer in her especial corner was busy preparing breakfast she took mr s hat and placed his seat for him and spoke so comfortably and softly that i hardly knew her dan l my good man said she you must eat and drink and keep up your strength for without it you do try that s a dear soul and if i disturb you with my she meant her chattering tell me so dan l and i won t when she had served us all she withdrew to the window where she employed herself in some shirts and other clothes belonging to mr and neatly folding and packing them in an old bag such as sailors carry meanwhile she continued talking in the same quiet manner all times and seasons you know dan l said mrs i shall be here and every think will look to your wishes i m a poor scholar but i shall write to you odd times when you re away and send my letters to r maybe you write to me too dan l odd times and tell me how you fare to feel upon your lone you be a solitary woman i m said mr no no dan l she returned i shan t be that t you mind me i shall have enough to | 8 |
a muster of farm servants with on the side of church and king but the bolder men were rather gratified by the prospect of being groaned at so that they might face about and groan in return mr crow the high of inwardly a brief address to a crowd in case it should be wanted having been warned by the that it was a duty on these occasions to keep a watch against provocation as well as violence the with a brother magistrate who was on the spot had thought it desirable to swear in some special but the presence of loyal men not absolutely required for the was not looked at in the light of a provocation the benefit clubs from various quarters made a show some with the orange colored ribbons and of the true tory candidate some with the of the the orange colored bands played and a louder band came across them with oh whistle and i will come to thee my lad probably as the tune the most of which their would furnish there was not a single club bearing the radical blue the club members wore the and mr wore so much of it that he looked at a sufficient distance like a very large it was generally understood that these brave fellows representing the fine institution of benefit clubs and holding aloft the motto let love continue were a civil force calculated to encourage of sound opinions and keep up their spirits but a considerable number of heavy and stone pit men who used their freedom as british subjects to be present in on this great occasion looked like a possibly force whose politics were until it was clearly seen for whom they cheered and for whom they groaned thus the way up to the was lined and those who walked it to side they belonged had the advantage of hearing from the opposite side what were the most marked defects or in their personal appearance for the of that day held without being aware that they had s authority for it that the bodily of an opponent were a legitimate ground for ridicule but if the wit by being handsome he was groaned at and according to a in which the was tory or radical as the case might be and the a blank to be filled up after the taste of the speaker some of the more timid had chosen to go through this ordeal as early as possible in the morning one of the earliest was mr rose the gentleman farmer from he had left home with some having his more vital parts in of flannel and put on two great coats as a soft kind of but reflecting with some that there were no resources for protecting his head he once more wavered in his intention to vote he once more observed to mrs rose that these were hard times when a man of independent property was expected to vote but finally by the sense that he should be looked ill on in these times if he did not stand by the gentlemen round about he set out in his taking with him a powerful whom he ordered to keep him in sight as he went to the it was hardly more than nine o clock when mr rose having thus come up to the level of his times cheered himself with a little cherry brandy at the drove away in a much more courageous spirit and got down at mr s just outside the town the retired he considered was a man of experience who would estimate properly the judicious course he had taken and could make it known to others mr was the removal of some shrubs in his garden well mr said rose twinkling a self look over the red of his cheeks have you been to give your vote yet no all in good time i shall go presently well i wouldn t lose an hour i wouldn t i said to myself if got to do gentlemen a favor do it at once you see got no landlord i m in that position o life that i can be independent just so my dear sir said the faced his under lip between his thumb and finger and giving one of those wonderful universal by which he seemed to be recalling all his garments from a tendency to themselves come in and see mrs the no no thank ye mrs expects me back but as i was saying a independent man and i consider it s not my part to show favor to one more than another but to make things as even as i can if i d been a tenant to any body well in coarse i must hare for my landlord � that stands to sense but i wish body well arid if one s returned to parliament more than nobody can say it s my doing for when yon can vote for two you can make things even so x gave one to and one to and i wish no ill but i can t help the odd number and he hangs on to they say god bless me sir said mr down a laugh don t you perceive that you might as well have staid at home and not at all unless you would rather send a to parliament than a sober well i la yon should have any thing to say against what i ve done said mr rather crest fallen though sustained by inward warmth i thought you d agree with me as you re a sensible man but the most a independent man can do is to try and please all and if he hasn t the luck � here s wishing i may do it another time added mr rose apparently a toast with a salutation for he put out his hand for a passing shake | 14 |
i shall j shut my eyes and trust to providence your friends will meet you there i suppose i wrote them two weeks ago that i should be there today and then my cousin wrote me to let her know the train and i replied telling her what train i expected to take i would never have come if i had imagined we were going to have this trouble the girl reassured her by telling her that even if her friends did not meet her she would put her in the way of reaching them safely and in a little while they drew into the station s first impression of new york was dazzling to him the rush the hurry stirred him and filled him with a sense of power he felt that here was the theatre of action for him the offices of company were in one of the large buildings down town the whole floor was filled with pens and off places beyond which lay the private offices of the firm mr was engaged and had to wait for an hour or two before he could secure an with him when at length he was admitted to mr s inner office he was received with some cordiality his father was asked after and a number of questions about were put to him then mr came to the point he had a high regard for his father he said and having heard that was living in where they had some interests it had occurred to him that he might possibly be able to give him a position the salary would not be large at first but if he showed himself capable it might lead to something better was thrilled and declared that what he was work and opportunity to show that he was able to work mr was sure of this and informed him briefly that it was work that they had for the clearing up of titles and securing of such lands as we may wish to obtain he added this was satisfactory to and he said so mr s shrewd eyes had a gleam of content in them of course our interest will be your first consideration he said yes sir i should try and make it so for instance proceeded mr there are certain lands lying near our lands not of any special value but still you can readily understand that as we are running a railroad through the mountains and are large sums of money it is better that we should control lands through which our line will pass saw this perfectly do you know the names of an offer any of the owners he inquired i am familiar with some of the lands about there mr pondered was so and eager that there could be no harm in coming to the point why yes there is a man named that has some lands or some sort of interest in lands that ours it might be well for us to control those properties s countenance fell it happens that i know something of those lands yes well you might possibly take those properties along with others t i could certainly convey any proposition you wish to make to mr and should be glad to do so began we should expect you to use your best efforts to secure these and au other lands that we wish interrupted mr speaking with sudden when we employ a man we expect him to give us all his services and not to be half in our employ and half in that of the man we are fighting the change in his manner and tone was so great and so unexpected that was amazed he had never been spoken to before quite in this way he however repressed his feeling i should certainly render you the best service i could he said but you would not expect me to say anything to squire that i did not believe he has talked with me about these lands and he knows their value just as well as you do mr looked at him with a cold light in his eyes which suddenly recalled to i don t think that you and i will suit each other young man he said s face flushed he rose i don t think we should mr good morning and turning he walked out of the room with his head very high as he passed out he saw he was giving some directions to a clerk and his tone was one that made glad he was not under him haven t you any brains at heard him say yes but i did not understand you then you are a fool said the young man just then caught his eye and spoke to him only nodded and went on the clerk walked about the streets for some time before he could soothe his ruffled feelings and regain his composure how life had changed for him in the brief interval since he entered mr s office i then his heart beat high with hope life was all brightness to him was already won now in this short space of time his hopes were all yet his instinct told him that if he had to go through the interview again he would do just as he had done he felt that his chance of seeing would not be so good early in the day as it would be later in the afternoon so he determined to deliver first the letter which his father had given him to dr the old clergyman s church and stood on an ancient street over toward the river from which wealth and fashion had long fled his parish which had once taken in many of the well to do and some of the wealthy now embraced within its a section which held only the poor but like an older and more noted divine dr could | 46 |
a heaving bosom not at all i have originated nothing the double edged question was yours was mine i the bride and her breaks in her angry hand his colour has turned to a livid white and ominous marks have come to light about his nose as if the of the very devil him mutual self liad within the last few moments touched it here and there but he has power and she has none throw it away he coolly as to the yon have made it useless you look ridiculous with it whereupon she calls him in her rage a deliberate villain and casts the broken thing from her as that it strikes him in falling the finger marks are something for the instant but he on at her side she bursts into tears declaring herself the the most deceived the worst used of women then she says that if she had the courage to kill herself she would do it then she calls him vile then she asks him why in the disappointment of his base speculation he does not take her life with his own hand imder the present favourable circumstances then she cries again then she is enraged again and makes some of finally she sits down crying on a block of stone and is in all the known and unknown of her sex at once her changes those marks in his ice have come and gone now here now there like white stops of a pipe on which the has played a tune also his livid lips are parted at last as if he were breathless with running yet he is not now get up mrs and let us speak reasonably she sits upon her stone and takes no heed of him � get up i tell you her head she looks contemptuously in his face and you tell me i tell me she not to know that his eyes are fastened on her as she her head again but her whole figure that she knows it enough of this come i do you hear get up yielding to his hand she rises and they walk again but this time with their turned towards their place of residence mrs we have both been deceiving and we have both been deceived we have both been biting and we have both been bitten in a nut ell there s the state of the case you sought me out tut let us have done with that we know very well how it was why should you and i talk about it when you and i can t disguise it to proceed i am disappointed and cut a poor figure am i no one some one � and i was coming to you if you had waited a moment you too axe disappointed and cut a poor figure an injured figure you are now cool enough to see that you can t be injured without my being equally injured and that therefore the word is not to the purpose when i look back i wonder ho i can have been such a fool as to take you to so great an extent upon trust and when i look back the bride cries interrupting and when you look back you wonder how you can is ve been excuse the word our with so � a fool as to take me to so great an extent upon but the folly is committed on sides i cannot get nd of you you cannot get rid of me what follows shame and misery the bride bitterly replies i don t know a mutual understanding follows and i think it may carry us through here i split my discourse give me your arm into three heads to make it shorter and it s enough to have been done without the mortification of being known to have been done so we agree to keep the ct to ourselves you agree � if it is possible i do possible we have pretended well enough to one another can t we united pretend to the world agreed secondly we owe the a grudge and we owe all other people the grudge of wishing them to be taken in as we ourselves have been taken a d yes agreed � we come smoothly to you have called me an adventurer so i am in plain english so i am so are you my dear so are many people we agree to keep our own secret and to work together in of our own schemes what schemes any scheme that will bring us money by our own schemes i mean our joint interest agreed she answers after a little hesitation i suppose so agreed carried at once you see i now only half a dozen words more we know one another perfectly don t be tempted into me with the past knowledge that you have of me because it is identical with the past knowledge that i have of you and in me you yourself and i don t want to hear you do it with this good understanding established between us it is better never done to wind up all � you have shown temper today don t be betrayed into doing so again because i have a devil of a temper myself so the happy pair with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed sealed and delivered repair homeward i when those infernal finger marks were on the white and breathless countenance of they that he conceived the purpose of his dear wife mrs alfred by at once her of any lingering reality or pretence of self respect the purpose would seem to have been presently executed the mature young lady has mighty little need of powder now for her downcast oe as he her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss i our mutual d chapter xi f d mr was well | 8 |
to school with the cock lane ghost or the woman of who went to school with my grandmother miss la you know of course which was it that didn t mind what the clergyman said the cock lane ghost or the thirsty woman of the cock lane ghost i believe then i have no doubt said mrs that it was with him my great grandfather went to school for i know the master of his school was a and that would in a great measure for the cock lane ghost s in such an improper manner to the clergyman when he grew up ah train up a ghost � child i mean any further reflections on this theme were abruptly cut short by the arrival of tim and mr frank in the hurry of receiving whom mrs speedily lost sight of everything else i am so sorry is not at home said mrs my dear you must be both and yourself miss need be but herself said frank i � if i may venture to say so � oppose all change in her then at all events she shall press you to stay returned mrs mr says ten minutes but i cannot let you go so soon would be very much vexed i am sure my dear in obedience to a great number of and and of extra significance added her entreaties that the visitors would remain but it was that she addressed them exclusively to tim and there was besides a certain embarrassment in her manner which life and adventures of � it was as far from its character as the tinge it to her cheek was from her beauty was obvious at a glance even to mrs not being of a very character how ever save imder circumstances when her speculations could be put into words and uttered aloud that discreet matron attributed the emotion to the circumstance of her daughter s not happening to have her best frock on � though i never saw her look better certainly she reflected at the same time having settled the question in this way and being most complacently satisfied that in this as in all other instances her conjecture could not fail to be the right one mrs dismissed it from her thoughts and inwardly congratulated on being so shrewd and knowing did not come home nor did re appear but neither to say the truth had any great upon the little party who were all in the best humour possible indeed there sprung up quite a between miss la and tim who said a thousand and things and became by degrees quite gallant not to say tender little miss la on her part was in high spirits and tim on having remained a bachelor all his life with so much success that tim was actually induced to declare that if he could get anybody to have him he didn t know but what he might change his condition even yet miss la earnestly a lady she knew who would exactly suit mr and had a very comfortable property of her own but this latter had very little effect upon tim who protested that fortune would be no object with him but that true worth and cheerfulness of disposition were what a man should look for in a wife and that if he had these he could find money enough for the moderate wants of both this was considered so honourable to tim that neither mrs nor miss la could sufficiently it and stimulated by their praises tim launched out into several other also the of his heart and a great devotion to the fair sex which were received with no less approbation this was done and said with a of jest and earnest and leading to a great of laughter made them very merry indeed was commonly the life and soul of the conversation at home but was more silent usual upon this occasion � perhaps because tim and miss la engrossed so much of it � and keeping aloof from the sat at the window watching the shadows as the evening closed in and enjoying the quiet beauty of the night which seemed to have scarcely less for frank who first lingered near and then sat down beside her no doubt there are a great many things to be said appropriate to a summer evening and no doubt they are best said in a low voice as being most suitable to the ce and serenity of the hour long pauses too at times and then an earnest word or so and then another interval of silence which somehow does not seem like silence either and perhaps now and then a hasty turning away of the head or drooping of the eyes towards the � all these minor circumstances with a to have candles introduced and a tendency to con e hours with minutes are doubtless mere influences of the time as many lovely lips can clearly testify neither is there the slightest reason why mrs should have expressed surprise when � candles being at length brought in � s bright eyes were unable to bear the light which obliged her to her face and even to leave the room for some short time because when one has sat in the dark so long candles are dazzling and nothing c� m be more strictly natural than that such results should be produced as all weu informed young people know for that matter old people know it too or did know it once but they forget these things sometimes and more s the pity the good lady s surprise however did not end here it was greatly increased when it was discovered that had not the least appetite for supper a discovery so alarming that there is no knowing in what efforts of mrs s apprehensions might have been if the general attention had not been attracted at the moment | 8 |
that he ll give us a bad spell of weather f besides is a he does not allow u to rest quietly in the mould and again because mr an illustration in his text is that any reason why mr s should one on in their it s what i call a connect a cut trick why is his way of like the floor of an oven because it is under said the that word is on the index i forgot said mr � please don t deprive me of vanity fair this one time sir these are all this morning good day gentlemen then to the add you sir the next was a semi looking old man he had a heap of block letters before him and as we came up he pointed without saying a word to the arrangements he had made with them on the table they were evidently and had the merit of the i best funny stories letters of the words employed without addition or here are a few of them times post stop true world dr owl is true read all o th pay o o my i the mention of several new york papers led to two or three questions thus whether the editor of the was h g really if the complexion of his politics were not accounted for by his being an eager person himself whether were not a reduced copy of john whether a new york is not the same thing as a fellow down east at this time a plausible looking bald headed man joined us evidently waiting to take a part in the conversation good morning mr said the anything fresh this morning any nothing of any he answered we had hasty yesterday what has that got to do with asked the i asked the inmates why it was like the prince oh because it comes attended by its sweet said the men and things no said mr it is because the runs after it is failing said the as we moved on the next looked as if he might have been a sailor formerly ask him what his calling was said the followed the sea he replied to the question put by one of us went as mate in a why did you give it up because i didn t like working for two masters he replied presently we came upon a group of elderly persons gathered about a venerable gentleman with flowing locks who was questions to a row of inmates can any give me a motto for m he said nobody responded for two or three minutes at last one old man whom i at once recognized as a of our university held up his hand a cue go to the head of the class said the venerable the successful did as he was told but in a very rough way pushing against two or three of the class how is this said the i best funny stories you told me to go up he replied the old gentlemen who had been about enjoyed the too much to be angry presently the asked again why was m to go to the dances given to the prince the class had to give up this and he answered it himself because every one of his was a it to the ball who the money to the expenses of the last campaign in italy asked the here again the class failed the war cloud s rolling he answered and what is wine made with three or four voices exclaimed at once y here a servant entered and said the old gentlemen who have excellent dispersed at once one of them politely asking us if we would not stop and have a bit of bread and a little of cheese there is one thing i have forgotten to show you said the � the cell for the confinement of violent and we were very curious to see it particularly with reference to the alleged absence of every object upon which a play of words could possibly be made men and things the led us up some dark stairs to a corridor then along a narrow passage then down a broad flight of steps into another and opened a large door which looked out on the main entrance we have not seen the cell for the confinement of violent and we both exclaimed this is the he exclaimed pointing to the outside prospect my friend the looked me in the face so good that i had to laugh we like to humor the inmates he said it has a bad effect we find on their health and spirits to disappoint them of their little some of the to which we have listened are not new to me though i dare say you may not have heard them often before the same thing happens in general society with this additional disadvantage that there is no punishment provided for violent and as in our institution we made our bow to the and walked to the place where our carriage was waiting for us on our way an exceedingly old man moved slowly towards us with a perfectly blank look on his face but still appearing as if he wished to speak look said the � that is our the ancient man crawled towards us cocked i best funny stories one eye with which he seemed to see a little up at us and said young gentlemen why is a � a � a � like a � a � a � give it up because it s a � a � a � a � he smiled a pleasant smile as if it were all plain enough one hundred and seven last christmas said the he lost his answers about the age of ninety eight of late years he puts his whole in blank � but they please him just as well | 34 |
be mine the hut that from the mountain s side views and swelling floods and brown and dim discovered and hears their simple bell and marks o er all thy fingers draw the gradual dusky veil william while spring shall pour his showers as oft he wont and thy breathing eve while summer loves to sport beneath thy lingering light while sallow autumn fills thy lap with leaves or winter yelling through the air thy shrinking train and rudely thy robes so long sure found beneath the shed shall fancy friendship science rose health thy influence own and hymn thy favourite name the passions when music heavenly maid was young while yet in early greece she sung the passions oft to hear her shell thronged around her magic cell trembling raging fainting beyond the muse s painting by turns they felt the glowing mind disturbed delighted raised refined till once tis said when all were fired filled with fury inspired from the supporting round they snatched her instruments of sound and as they oft had heard apart sweet lessons of her art each for madness ruled the hour would prove his own expressive power first fear his hand its skill to try amid the bewildered laid and back he knew not why even at the sound himself had made vol ill u the ea poets j i next anger rushed his eyes on fire in owned his secret in one rude clash he struck the and swept with hurried hand the strings with measures wan despair low sullen sounds his grief a solemn strange and mingled air twas sad by fits by starts twas wild but thou o hope with eyes so fair what was thy delightful measure still it whispered promised pleasure and bade the lovely scenes at distance hail still would her touch the strain and from the rocks the woods the she called on echo still through all the song and where her sweetest theme she chose a soft voice was heard at every close and hope enchanted smiled and waved her golden hair and longer had she sung � but with a frown revenge impatient rose he threw his blood stained sword in thunder down and with a withering look the war trumpet took and blew a blast so loud and dread were ne er prophetic sounds so full of woe and ever and anon he beat the drum with furious heat and though sometimes each dreary pause between dejected pity at his side her soul voice applied yet still he kept his wild mien while each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head thy numbers jealousy to naught were fixed sad proof of thy state of the song was mixed and now it love now called on hate william with eyes as one inspired pale melancholy sat retired and from her wild seat in notes by distance made more sweet poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul and dashing soft from rocks around joined the sound through and the mingled measure stole or o er some haunted stream with fond delay round an holy calm love of peace and lonely musing in hollow murmurs died away but o how altered was its tone when cheerfulness a of hue her bow across her shoulder flung her with morning dew blew an inspiring air that and thicket the hunter s call to and known the oak crowned sisters and their eyed queen and boys were seen peeping from forth their green brown exercise rejoiced to hear and sport up and seized his spear last came joy s trial he with crown advancing first to the lively pipe his hand but soon he saw the brisk awakening whose sweet voice he loved the best they would have thought who heard the strain they saw in her native maids amidst the sounding shades to some dancing while as his flying fingers kissed the strings love framed with mirth a gay fantastic round loose were her seen her and he amidst his play as if he would the charming air repay shook thousand from his wings � u the english poets o music sphere descended maid friend of pleasure wisdom s aid why goddess why to us denied lay st thou thy ancient aside as in that loved bower you learned an all commanding power thy soul o can well recall what then it heard where is thy native simple heart devote to virtue fancy art arise as in that elder time warm energetic sublime thy wonders in that age fill thy sister s page � tis said and i believe the tale thy reed could more prevail had more of strength rage than all which charms this age e en all at once together found s mingled world of sound � o bid our vain cease revive the just designs of greece return in all thy simple state confirm the tales her sons relate on the death of mr in yonder grave a lies where slowly winds the stealing wave the year s best sweets shall rise to deck its poet s grave in yon deep bed of whispering his airy harp shall now be laid that he whose heart in sorrow may love through life the soothing shade the scene of the following is supposed to lie on the thames near william i � � ii i � � � � � r � m � � then maids and youths shall linger here and while its sounds at distance swell shall sadly seem in pity s ear to hear the pilgrim s remembrance oft shall haunt the shore when thames in summer wreaths is and oft the dashing oar to bid his gentle spirit rest i and oft as ease and health retire to lawn or forest deep the friend shall view yon spire and mid the varied landscape weep but thou who own st that bed ah what will every avail or tears | 45 |
and which had now returned to it and was very urgent with it no less a question than this whether he should allow himself to fall in love with pet he was twice her age he changed the leg he had crossed over the other and tried the calculation again but could not bring out the total at less he was twice her age well he was young in appearance young in health and strength young in heart a man was certainly not old at forty and many men were not in circumstances to marry or did not marry until they attained that time of life on the other hand the question was not what he thought of the point but what she thought of it he believed that mr was disposed to entertain a ripe regard for him and he knew that he had a sincere regard for mr and his good wife he could foresee that to this beautiful only child of whom they were so fond to any husband would be a trial of their love which perhaps they never yet had had the fortitude to contemplate but the more beautiful and winning and charming she the nearer they must always be to the necessity of approaching it and why not in his favor as well as in another s he had got so far it came again into his head that the question was not what they thought of it but what she thought of it arthur was a retiring man with a sense of many and he so exalted the merits of the beautiful in his mind and depressed his own that when he pinned himself to this point his hopes began to fail him he came to the final resolution as he made himself ready for dinner that he would not allow himself to fall in love with pet they were only five at a round table and it was very pleasant indeed they had so many places and people to and they were all so easy and cheerful together daniel either sitting out like an amused spectator at cards or coming in with some shrewd little experiences of his own when it happened to be to the purpose that they might have been together twenty times and not have known so much of one another and miss said mr after they had recalled a number of fellow travellers has anybody seen miss i have said she had brought a little mantle which her young mistress had sent little for and was bending oyer her putting it on when she lifted up her dark eyes and made this unexpected answer her young mistress exclaimed you seen miss � where here miss said how an impatient glance from seemed as saw it to answer with my eyes but her only answer in words was i met her near the church what was she doing there i wonder said mr not going to it i should think � she had written to me first said oh murmured her mistress take your hands away i feel as if some one else was touching me she said it in a quick involuntary way but half and not more or than a favourite child might have done who laughed next moment set her full red lips together and crossed her arms upon her bosom did you wish to know sir she said looking at mr what miss wrote to me about well returned mr since you ask the question and we are all friends here perhaps you may as well mention it if you are so inclined she knew when we were travelling where you lived said and she had seen me not quite � not quite not quite in a good temper suggested mr shaking his head at the dark eyes with a quiet caution take a little time � count five and twenty she pressed her lips together again and took a long deep breath so she wrote to me to say that if i ever felt myself hurt she looked down at her young mistress or found myself worried she looked down at her again i might go to her and be treated i was to think of it and could speak to her by the church so i went there to thank her said her young mistress putting her hand up over her shoulder that the other might take it miss almost frightened me when we parted and i scarcely liked to think of her just now as having been so near me without my knowing it dear stood for a moment immovable hey cried mr count another five and twenty she might have counted a dozen when she bent and put her lips to the caressing hand it patted her cheek as it touched the owner s beautiful curls and went away now there said mr softly as he gave a turn to the on his right hand to the sugar towards himself there s a girl who might be lost and ruined if she wasn t among practical people mother and i know solely from being practical that there are times when that girl s whole nature seems to itself against seeing us so bound up in pet no father and mother were bound up in her poor soul i don t like to think of the way in which that little child with all that passion and protest in her feels when she hears the fifth on a sunday i am always inclined to call out church count five and twenty besides his dumb waiter mr had two other not dumb in the persons of two parlor maids with rosy faces and bright t es who were a highly ornamental part of the table and why not you see said mr on this head as i always say to mother why not have something pretty to look at if you have anything | 8 |
always pick up an extra man on a saturday by the way that reminds me that left me a list of the people who are arriving this afternoon my novel is so absorbing that i forgot to look at it where can it be ah here � let me see the jack ned � all from new york by seven p m train to night by fall river boat john from boston at five p m why i didn t know � excitedly john john here to day at five o clock let me see � let me look at the list are you sure you re not mistaken why she never said a word why the deuce did n t you tell me i didn t know � � i why what difference does it make what difference what difference don t look at me as if you didn t understand english why if s coming � a pause look here didn t you know him very well at one time very well � yes the twilight of the god i thought so � of course � i remember now i heard all about it before i you let me see � didn t you and your mother spend a winter in washington when he was under of state that was before the i remember � it all comes back to me i used to hear it said that he admired you there was a report that you were engaged don t you remember why it was in all the papers by jove what a match that would have been you are disinterested well i can t help thinking � that i paid you a handsome compliment j eh � ah yes � exactly what was i saying oh � about the report of your engagement he was awfully gone on you was n t he it s not for me to your triumph by jove i can t think why mrs ra didn t tell me he was coming a man like that � one doesn t take him for granted like the i wonder i didn t see it in the papers is he grown such a great man great john i u tell you what he is � the power behind the throne the black pope the king maker and all the rest of it don t you read the papers of course i ll never the twilight of the god get on if you won t interest yourself in politics and to think you might have married that man and got you your has them all in the hollow of his hand well you ll see him at five o clock i don t suppose he s ever heard of me worse luck a silence j look here i never ask questions do i but it was so long ago � and almost belongs to history � he will one of these days at any rate just tell me � did he want to marry you since you answer for his immortality � a pause j i was very much in love with then of course he did c another pause j but what in the world � as you say it was so long ago i don t see why i shouldn t tell you there was a married woman who had � what is the correct expression � made sacrifices for him there was only one sacrifice she objected to making � and he did n t consider himself free it sounds rather doesn t it it was odd that she died the year after we were married following her thoughts i ve never seen him since it must be ten years ago i m certainly thirty two and i was just twenty two then it s the twilight of the god ous to talk of it i had put it away so carefully how it smells of and what an old fashioned cut it has j where s the list you wanted to know if there were to be people at dinner tonight � here it is � but never mind � silence � weu it s odd he never married the comparison is to my disadvantage but then i met you don t be so sarcastic i wonder how he feel about seeing you oh i don t mean any sentimental rot of course � but you re an uncommonly agreeable woman i he ll be pleased to see you again you re fifty times more attractive than when i married you i wish your other had appreciated at the same rate unfortunately my charms won t pay the butcher damn the butcher i happened to mention him because he s just written again but i might as well have said the baker or the maker the maker � i wonder what he is by the way he must have more faith in human nature than the others for i haven t heard from him yet i wonder if there is a the twilight of the god s polite letter writer which they all consult their style is so exactly alike i advise you to pass through new york on your way to washington their attentions might be oppressive oppressive what a dog s life it is my poor � don t pity me i did n t many you for a home f o a pause what did you marry me for if you cared for another pause eh don t make me regret my confidence i beg your pardon oh it was only a to conceal the fact that i have no distinct recollection of my reasons the fact is a girl s motives in marrying are like a � apt to get one is so seldom asked for either but mine certainly couldn t have been i never heard a mother praise you to her daughters no i | 10 |
was and is dearer to me than all the world beside what i did do was not much � he has never forgotten it after a few years our positions became reversed and since then he has been my protector and the of all my needs my influence over him has however never ceased if i had exerted it wisely he would this day be the happiest of men but my selfishness and want of sympathy have ruined him you do yourself wrong miss said in grave but tender tones whatever may have been wanting in you it was not want of sympathy and whatever mistake you may have committed it was as you thought for his benefit miss shook her head no dear i had sympathy with his work sympathy even with his ambition but where the true happiness of his heart was concerned i had none his dearest wishes were counter to my own and therefore i opposed them i tried to persuade myself that i was acting for his good i know now that i was doing it for my gratification my motive was not love but jealousy here the thunder began to peal though from a sky and the speaker paused � though to listen to it the two women sat m t an explanation before her thoughtfully but with eyes averted from the other there was no occasion for either to read the other s face for the very thought of her companion s heart was known to her when he first spoke to me of your writings continued miss i felt almost as interested in you as he did himself i had a genuine admiration for your genius i looked forward with pleasure to carrying out his wish that i should be of friendly service to you until i saw you i forget now what sort of a picture i had made of you in my mind but it was something very unlike yourself when i beheld you young and beautiful and called to mind the terms in which my brother had spoken of the of your mind i feared and justly the effect you would produce upon him i called upon you with the kindest intentions and you did nothing to alter them yet when i left your presence it was as a rival and as an enemy i even persuaded myself that you were an from whose charms it me to guard my brother by all means in my power you may have noticed perhaps how coldly i received you how rarely i invited you to our house and how few were the opportunities i gave you of being alone with in the end i should have failed of course but if i had assisted him as i should have done from the beginning all would yet have gone well was about to speak but her companion stopped her i want no confession from your lips my dear nothing that you could say could alter my convictions as to the feelings you entertained for the eyes of jealousy are even than those of love and it is for me to confess and not for you i say that in those early days but for my secret opposition and selfish conduct two hearts would have been made happy and all that i could do to hinder it would have been useless long before this but for the change that took place in my brother s means it may seem incredible to you but at first our common misfortune was welcome to me � because from what i knew of him i knew it would prevent him declaring his love thanks to me while he was prosperous he delayed to do so and now that he is in ins lips are sealed for ever even if you had been twice as poor as once you were he would not ask you to share his ruin but being prosperous and famous and with a fortune before you it is out of the question that he should think of you sa than as something beyond his te ci i ta q � s the heir of the ages it is i that have done it it is i that have wrecked his life t oh i forgive me i i have nothing to forgive miss said gently i do not wonder that you were unwilling that should throw himself away upon a girl like me like you there is none like you i i know it now too late too late he will never take that money from your hands never never i it is in my hands no longer was the quiet reply nor need he know that it has ever been in them hush i heard the front door close no it was the thunder will not be home for hours he comes home late he walks about the streets to tire himself out to get the sleep that anxiety him from whom could we persuade him that this money comes unless from you who is there but yourself who would be bo generous there is no generosity about it there are many persons � mr the for one � who would advance the sum and more upon the security of the if only mr would consent to remain its editor he has been too hasty in this matter and too hopeless and too doubtful of his great gifts and reputation i believe that is true murmured the other let him take it then from mr rose if he is too proud to take it from me there will be no obligation on his side you may assure him it is only i who will be the i had promised myself a great pleasure but that is over her voice broke down i think i will go home she rose but paused with a frightened look on her face and following the direction of | 25 |
me he said almost humbly she his tone and raised her head witli a sh clutch at dignity i think you d better ask this gentleman to ex use you first no by god i won t he cried this gentle i man says he knows all about you and i mean him to i know all about me too don t mean that he or any body else under this roof shall go on thinking foi another twenty four hours that a cent of their money has ever gone into my pockets since i was old enough i to shift for myself and he n t leave this room i till you ve made that clear to him he stepped back as he spoke and put his the door my dear young gentleman i said i shall leave this room exactly when see fit to do so � and that is now i have already told you that mrs owes me no explanation of her conduct but i owe you an explanation of mine � you and every one who has bought a single one of her ture tickets do you suppose a man who s been through what i went through while that woman was talking to you in the porch before dinner is going to hold his tongue and not attempt to justify himself no decent man is going to sit down under that of thing it s enough to ruin his character if you re my mother s friend you owe it to me to hear what i ve got to say he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his forehead good god mother he out suddenly what did you do it for haven t you had everything you wanted ever since i was to pay for it haven t i paid you back every cent you on me when i was in college have i ever gone back on you since i was big enough to work he turned to me with a laugh thought she did it to amuse herself � and because there was such a demand for her lectures a demand that s what s the she always told me when we asked her to come out and spend this winter with u in she wrote back that she couldn t because she had engagements all through the south and her manager would n t let her off that s the reason why i came all the way on here to see her we thought she was the most popular in the united states my wife and i did we were awfully proud of it too i can tell you he dropped into a chair still laughing how can you how can you mother forgetful of my presence was to him with caresses when you didn t need the money any longer spent it all on the � you know i did yes on lace dresses and life size rocking horses with real the kind of thing can t do without oh i loved them so how lean you such about me what about you that i ever told anybody such things he put ber back gently keeping his eyes on her did you never tell anybody in this house that you were to support your son her hands dropped from his shoulders and she round on me in sudden anger the i know what i think of people who call themselves friends and who come between a mother and her son oh mother mother he groaned i went up to him and laid my hand on his shoulder my dear man i said don t you see the of this yes i do he answered abruptly and before i could his movement he rose and walked out of the room there was a long silence measured by the of his footsteps down the wooden floor of the corridor when they ceased i approached mrs who had sunk into her chair i held out my hand and she took it without a trace of resentment on her face i sent his wife a seal skin jacket at christmas she said with the tears running down her cheeks souls souls railway carriage liad been full when the train left but at the first station beyond their only remaining person who ate out of a carpet bag � had left his strewn seat with a bow s eye followed the shiny of his retreating back till it lost itself in the of and cab drivers hanging about the station then she glanced across at and caught the same regret in his look they were both sorry to alone par ten sa shouted the guard the train sudden of doors a waiter ran along the platform with a tray of a porter flung a bundle of and band boxes a third class carriage the guard snapped out a brief which indicated the purely ornamental nature of his first shout and the train swung out of the station the direction of the road had changed and a shaft of sunlight struck across the dusty red velvet seats into s comer did not notice it he had returned to his de paris and she had to rise and lower the shade of the farther window against s the vast of their leisure such incidents stood out sharply having lowered the shade sat down leaving the length of the carriage between herself and at length he missed her and looked up i moved out of the sun she hastily explained he looked at her curiously the sun was beating on her through the shade very well he said pleasantly adding you don t mind as he drew a case from his pocket it was a refreshing touch the of her spirit with the suggestion that after all if he could i � the relief was only momentary her experience of was limited her husband had of the use | 10 |
said putting out her hand and laying it affectionately on the hand of her old servant dear you are not going to be married me ma am returned staring lord bless you no not just yet said my mother tenderly never cried my mother took her hand and said don t leave me stay with me it will not be for long perhaps what should i ever do without you me leave you my precious cried not for all the world and his wife why what s put that in your silly little head � had been used of old to talk to my mother sometimes like a child but my mother made no answer except to thank her and went running on in her own fashion me leave you i think i see myself go away from you i should like to catch her at it no no no said shaking her head and folding her arms not she my dear it isn t that there ain t some cats that would be well enough pleased if she did but they shan t be pleased they shall be i stay with you till i am a cross old woman and when i m too deaf and too lame and too blind and too for want of teeth to be of any use at all even to be found fault with then i shall go to my and ask him to take me in and says i i shall be glad to see you and i make you as welcome as a queen bless your dear heart cried i know you will and she kissed me beforehand in grateful acknowledgment of my hospitality after that she covered her head up with her apron again and had another laugh about mr after that she took the baby out of its little cradle and nursed it after that she cleared the dinner table after that came in with another cap on and her work box and the yard measure and the bit of wax candle all just the same as ever we sat round the fire and talked delightfully i told them what a hard master mr was and they pitied me very much i told them what a fine fellow was and what a patron of mine and said she would walk a score of miles to see him i took the little baby in my arms when it was awake and nursed it lovingly when it was asleep again i crept close to my mother s side according to my old custom broken now a long time and sat with my arms embracing her waist and my little red cheek on her shoulder and once more felt her beautiful hair drooping over me � like an angel s wing as i used to think i recollect � and was very happy indeed while i sat thus looking at the fire and seeing pictures in the red hot coals i almost believed that i had never been away that mr and miss were such pictures and would vanish when the fire got low and that there was nothing real in all that i remembered save my mother and i away at a as long as she could see and then g the personal history and experience sat with it drawn on her left hand like a glove and her needle in her right ready to take another whenever there was a blaze i cannot conceive whose stockings they can have been that was always or where such an supply of stockings in want of can have come from my earliest infancy she seems to have been always employed in that class of and never by any chance in any other i wonder said who was sometimes seized with a fit of wondering on some most unexpected topic what s become of s lor observed my mother rousing herself from a reverie what nonsense you talk well but i really do wonder ma am said what can have put such a person in your head inquired my mother is there nobody else in the world to come there i don t know how it is said unless it s on account of being stupid but my head never can pick and choose its people they come and they go and they don t come and they don t go just as they like i wonder what s become of her how absurd you are returned my mother one would suppose you wanted a second visit from her lord forbid cried well then don t talk about such uncomfortable things there s a good soul said my mother miss is shut up in her cottage by the sea no doubt and will remain there at all events she is not likely ever to trouble us again no mused no that ain t likely at all � i wonder if she was to die whether she d leave anything good gracious me returned my mother what a woman you are when you know that she took offence at the poor dear boy s ever being born at all i suppose she wouldn t be inclined to forgive him now hinted why should she be inclined to forgive him now said my mother rather sharply now that he s got a brother i mean said my mother immediately began to cry and wondered how dared to say such a thing as if this poor little innocent in its cradle had ever done any harm to you or anybody else you jealous thing said she you had much better go and marry mr the why don t you i should make miss happy if i was to said wliat a bad disposition you have returned my mother you are as jealous of miss as it is possible for a ridiculous creature to be you want to keep the keys yourself and give out all the things | 8 |
it yet when we ve got to let s get to then says dan and by god when i come back here again i ll sweep the valley so there isn t a in a blanket left we walked all that day and all that night dan was up and down on the snow his beard and muttering to himself there s no hope o getting clear said fish the priests will have sent to the villages to say that you are only men why didn t you stick on as till things was more settled i m a dead man says fish and the phantom he throws himself down on the snow and begins to pray to his next morning we was in a cruel bad country � all up and no level ground at all and no food either the six men looked at fish hungry way as if they wanted to ask something but they said never a word at noon we came to the top of a flat mountain all covered with snow and when we climbed up into it behold there was an army in position waiting in the middle the have been very quick says fish with a little bit of a laugh they arc waiting for us three or four men began to fire from the enemy s side and a chance shot took daniel in the calf of the leg that brought him to his senses he looks across the snow at the army and sees the that we had brought into the country we re done for says he � they are englishmen these people � and it s my nonsense that has brought you to this back fish and take your men away you ve done what you could and now cut for it says he shake hands with me and go along with maybe they won t kill you til go and meet em alone it s me that did it me the king the man who would be king says i go to hell dan i m with you here fish you clear out and we two will meet those folk a says fish quite quiet i stay with you my men can go the fellows didn t wait for a second word but ran oflf and dan and me and fish walked across to where the drums were and the horns were it was cold � awful cold i ve got that cold in the back of my head now there s a lump of it there the had gone to sleep two lamps were blazing in the office and the perspiration poured down my face and on the as i leaned forward was shivering and i feared that his mind might go i wiped my face took a fresh grip of the hands and said what after that the momentary shift of my eyes had broken the clear current what was you pleased to say they took them without any sound not a little whisper all along the snow not though the king knocked down the first man that set hand on him � not though old fired his last into the brown of em not a single solitary sound did those make they just closed up tight and i tell you their the phantom there was a man called fish a good of us all and they cut his throat sir then and there like a pig and the king up the bloody snow and says we ve had a dashed fine run for our money what s coming next but i tell you sir in confidence as two friends he lost his head sir no he didn t neither the king lost his head so he did all along o one of those cunning rope bridges kindly let me have the paper sir it this way they marched him a mile across that snow to a rope bridge over a with a river at the bottom you may have seen such they him behind like an ox damn your eyes says the king suppose i can t die like a gentleman he turns to � that was crying like a child i ve brought you to this says he brought you out of your happy life to be killed in where you was late commander in chief of the emperor s forces say you forgive me � i do says fully and freely do i forgive you dan � shake hands says he going now out he goes looking neither right nor left and when he was in the middle of those dizzy dancing ropes cut you beggars he shouts and they cut and old dan fell turning round and round and round twenty thousand miles for he took half the man who would be king an hour to i l till he struck the water and i could see his body caught on a rock with the gold crown close beside but do you know what they did to between two pine trees they him sir as s hands will show they used wooden for his hands and his feet and he didn t die he hung there and screamed and they took him down next day and said it was a miracle that he wasn t dead they took him down � poor old that hadn t done them any harm � that hadn t done them any he rocked to and fro and wept bitterly wiping his eyes with the back of his hands and moaning like a child for some ten minutes they was cruel enough to feed him up in the temple because they said he was more of a god than old daniel that was a man then they turned him out on the snow and told him to go home and came home in about a year begging along the roads quite safe for daniel he walked | 39 |
or pity or suspense in her affection that i summoned the stronger determination to show her a perfectly cheerful face and what is more trot � said my aunt yes of david i think is going to be married god bless her said i god bless her said my aunt and her husband too i echoed it parted from my aunt went lightly down stairs mounted and rode away there was greater reason than before to do what i had resolved to do how well i recollect the wintry ride the frozen of ice brushed from the blades of grass by the wind and borne across my face the hard clatter of the horse s hoofs beating a tune upon the ground the stiff soil the snow drift lightly in the chalk pit as the breeze ruffled it the smoking team with the of old hay stopping to breathe on the hill top and shaking their bells the slopes and sweeps of down land lying against the dark sky as if they were drawn on a huge slate i found alone the little girls had gone to their own homes now and she was alone by the fire reading she put down her book on seeing me come in and having welcomed me as usual took her and sat in one of the old fashioned windows i sat beside her on the window seat and we talked of what i was doing and when it would be done and of the progress i had made since my last visit was very cheerful and predicted that i should soon become too famous to be talked to on such subjects so i make the most of the present time you see said and talk to you while i may as i looked at her beautiful face observant of her work she raised her mild clear eyes and saw that i was looking at her you are thoughtful to day shall i tell you what about i came to tell you she put aside her work as she was used to do when we were seriously discussing anything and gave me her whole attention my dear do you doubt my being true to you no she answered with a look of astonishment do you doubt my being what i always have been to you no she answered as before do you remember that i tried to tell you when i came home what a debt of gratitude i owed you dearest and how fervently i felt towards you i remember it she said gently very well you have a secret said i let me share it she cast down her eyes and trembled i could hardly fail to know even if i had not heard � but from other lips than yours which seems strange � that there is some one upon whom you have bestowed the treasure of your love do not shut me out of what concerns your happiness so nearly if you can trust me as you say you can and as i know you may let me be your friend your brother in this matter of all others with an appealing almost a glance she rose from the window and hurrying across the room as if without knowing where put her hands before her face and burst into such tears as smote me to the heart and yet they awakened something in me bringing promise to my heart re the personal history and experience without my knowing why these tears allied themselves with the quietly sad smile which was so fixed in my remembrance and shook me more with hope than fear or sorrow sister dearest what have i done let me go away i am not well i am not myself i will speak to you by and by � another time i will write to you don t speak to me now don t don t i sought to recollect what she had said when i had spoken to her on that former night of her affection no return it seemed a very world that i must search through in a moment i cannot bear to see you so and think that i have been the cause my dearest girl dearer to me than anything in life if you are unhappy let me share your if you are in need of help or counsel let me try to give it to you if you have indeed a burden on your heart let me try to it for whom do i live now if it is not for you oh spare me i am not myself another time was all i could distinguish was it a selfish error that was leading me away or having once a clue to hope was there something opening to me that i had not dared to think of i must say more i cannot let you leave me so for heaven s sake let us not mistake each other after all these years and all that has come and gone with them i must speak plainly if you have any lingering thought that i could envy the happiness you will confer that i could not resign you to a dearer protector of your own choosing that i could not from my removed place be a contented witness of your joy dismiss it for i don t deserve it i have not suffered quite in vain you have not taught me quite in vain there is no of self in what i feel for you she was quiet now in a little time she turned her pale face towards me and said in a low voice broken here and there but very clear i owe it to your pure friendship for me � which indeed i do not doubt � to tell you you are mistaken i can do no more if i have sometimes in the course of years wanted help and | 8 |
wound on the dead man s left arm did ever man see such a thing before there was no longer any doubt about the matter which i confess for my own part perfectly appalled me there he sat the dead man whose directions written some ten generations ago had led us to this spot there in my own hand was the rude pen with which he had written them and there round his neck was the his dying lips had kissed gazing at him my imagination could the whole scene the traveller dying of cold and starvation and yet striving to convey the great secret he by ic king solomon s mines had discovered to the world the awful loneliness of his death of which the evidence sat before us it even seemed to me that i could trace in his strongly marked features a likeness to those of my poor friend his who had died twenty years ago in my arms but perhaps that was fancy at any rate there he sat a sad of the fate that so often those who would penetrate into the unknown and there probably he will still sit crowned with the dread majesty of death for centuries yet to the eyes of like ourselves if any such should ever come again to his loneliness the thing overpowered us already nearly done to death as we were with cold and hunger let us go said sir henry in a low voice i we will give him a companion and lifting up the dead body of the he placed it near that of the old don then he stooped down and with a jerk broke the rotten string of the round his neck for his fingers were too cold to attempt to it i believe that he still has it i took the pen and it is before me as i write � sometimes i sign my name with it then leaving those two the proud white man of a past age and the poor to keep their eternal in the midst of the eternal we crept out of the cave into the welcome sunshine and resumed our path wondering in our hearts how many hours it would be before we were even as they are when we had gone about half a mile we came to the edge of the for the of the mountain did not rise out of its exact centre though from the desert side it seemed to do so what lay below us we could not see for the landscape was in of by king solomon s mines morning mist presently however the higher of mist cleared a little and revealed some five hundred yards beneath us at the end of a long slope of snow a patch of green grass through which a stream was running nor was this all by the stream in the morning sun stood and lay a group of from ten to fifteen large � at that distance we could not see what they were the sight filled us with an joy there was food in plenty if only we could get it but the question was how to get it the beasts were fully six hundred yards off a very long shot and one not to be depended on when one s life hung on the results rapidly we discussed the of trying to stalk the game but finally reluctantly dismissed it to begin with the wind was not favorable and further we should be certain to be perceived however careful we were against the blinding background of snow which we should be obliged to well we must have a try from where we are said sir henry which shall it be the repeating or the expresses here again was a question the � of which we had two carrying poor s as well as his own � were sighted up to a thousand yards whereas the expresses were only sighted to three hundred and fifty beyond which distance shooting with them was more or less guess work on the other hand if they did hit the express bullets being were much more likely to bring the game down it was a point but i made up my mind that we must risk it and use the expresses let each of us take the buck opposite to him im by ic king solomon s well at the point of the shoulder and high up said i and do you give the word so that we may all fire together then came a pause each man his level best as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life itself depends upon the shot fire said in and at almost the same instant the three rang out loudly three clouds of smoke hung for a moment before us and a hundred echoes went flying away over the silent snow presently the smoke cleared and revealed � oh joy � a great buck on its back and kicking furiously in its death agony we gave a yell of triumph we were saved we should not starve weak as we were we rushed down the intervening slope of snow and in ten minutes from the time of firing the animal s heart and liver were lying smoking before us but now a new difficulty arose we had no fuel and therefore could make no fire to cook them at we gazed at each other in dismay starving men must not be fanciful said good we must eat raw meat there was no other way out of the and our hunger made the proposition less distasteful than it would otherwise have been so we took the heart and liver and buried them for a few minutes in a patch of snow to cool them off then we washed them in the ice cold water of the stream and lastly ate them it sounds horrible enough but | 18 |
very grim way then didn t yon notice it � don t to frighten me sir said well i don t if any li man can manage this horse i can � i won t say any living man can do it � but il such has the power i am he why do you have such a horse ah wi ll may you ask it il was my fate t has killed one chap and just r i bought her nearly killed me and my word for it i near killed but she s queer still very queer and life is hardly safe behind her sometimes they were just beginning tn descend and it was tliat the horse whether of her own will or of his the being the more likely knew so well the reckless perform expected of her that she hardly required a hint behind oi the down down they tlie humming like a top the dog cart rocking right and left its acquiring a set in relation to the line of progress the figure of the horse and falling in before sometimes a wheel was off tlie ground it seemed for many yards sometimes a stone was sent spinning over the and sparks from the horse s hoofs daylight the fore part of the straight road enlarged with their advance the two banks dividing like a stick and one rushed past at each shoulder the wind blew through s white muslin to her very skin and her washed hair flew out behind she was determined to show no open fear but she clutched d s arm b don t touch my arm we shall bo thrown out if you ns i hold on round my waist she grasped his waist and so they reached the bottom safe thank od in spite of your folly t said she her on fire m � that s temper said d truth yon need not let go your hold of so thank the moment yon feel yourself out of danger she not considered what had been doing whether he were man or woman stick or stone in her involuntary i on him recovering her reserve she sat without dying and thus they reached the summit of another ity i now then again said d ko no said show more sense do please bnt when people find themselves on the highest the county they must get down again he retorted he rein and away they went a second time d his face to her as they rocked and said in y now then put your arms round my waist i as yon did before my beauty a of the � never said holding on as could touching him � let me one little kiss on those lips tes or even on that warmed cheek and i ll on my fa i wiu surprised beyond measure slid further back t oil her seat at which he urged the horse anew and i her the more will nothing else dot she cried at length in lion her large eyes staring at him like those of a wild animal this dressing her up so prettily by her mother had been to lamentable purpose nothing dear he replied don t know � very well i don t mind � she panted he drew rein and as they he was on the point of the desired salute when as if hardly vi i aware of her own modesty she aside his arms being occupied with reins there was ii ft him no power to prevent her u te m now damn it � i ll break both oar necks swore l passionate companion so yon go fm your word like that you young witch can yon very well said poor i ll not move you l determined but i � thought you would be kind to and protect me as my bo hanged now but i don t want to kiss me sir she i a big tear beginning to roll down her and i comers of her mouth trembling in her attempts not v and i wouldn t ha come if i had known he was inexorable and she sat still and d gave her the kiss of mastery no sooner had he d than she hushed with shame took out her and wiped the spot on her cheek that had been t his lips his was at the sight for the act on her part had been unconsciously done ton are mighty for a farm girl said the young man made no reply to this remark of which indeed she did not quite comprehend the drift the she bad administered by her rub upon her cheek had in fact undone the kiss as far as a thing physically possible with a dim sense that he was vexed she looked steadily ahead as they ti on till she saw to her consternation that there was yet another descent to be undergone you shall be made sorry for that he resumed his injured tone remaining as he flourished the whip anew � unless that is yon agree willingly to let me do it again and no handkerchief she sighed very well sir she said � o � let me get my hat i at the moment of speaking her hat had blown off into the road their present speed on the l by means slow d i n pulled up and said he would g t it for her hut was down ou the other side she turned back and picked up the article you look with it off upon my soul if possible he said her over the back of the vehicle now mn ii up again what s the the was in place and tied but had not stepped no sir she said revealing the red and i� f her month in defiant triumph not again if i know it what � yon won | 45 |
what he wanted and what he wants now is the time for adam of to strike in with an interminable of the objects of the society to not unwilling but still cautious ears he himself in mystic wise with extreme turning aside objections like a and leading his apt and courageous pupil by signs and wonders as well as by logic deeper and deeper into the secrets of and science a little glimpse of this our readers may share with us though we life writings of fear die will seem to most of them but a hollow nut nevertheless it is an � of its sort and we can profess to have translated with entire fidelity adam thy riddle by a second will be solved he leads to he behold this half beast half angel both combined in one it is an emblem to thee of th ancient mother nature herself a riddle and only by a deeper to be mastered eternal clearness in th eternal this is the riddle of existence � read it � propose that other to her and she serves thee door on right hand opens and in the behind it as before the old man of sitting at a table and reading in a large volume three strokes of a are heard old man of reading a loud bid monotonous voice and when the lord saw � robert interrupting mm ha again a story as of adam not bo that tale of theirs was but some poor of th image of our � silence here and see thou interrupt not by too bold this mystery old man reading and when the lord saw his pride being he cast him forth and shut him in a prison called life and gave him for a garment earth and water and bound him in four chains and pour d for him the bitter cup of fire vol i s tke lord hast my will i thee to the � and thou shalt be his slave and have no longer remembrance of thy or my name and thou hast d against me by thy thought of being one and somewhat i leave with thee that thought to be thy whip and this thy weakness for a bit and bridle tiu once a from the waters rise who shall again thee in my bosom that so thou may st be t and all and when the lord had spoken he drew back as in a mighty rushing and the element rose up round and d itself aloft to n and he lay beneath it but his bom sister saw his pain was of and she d her to the ii and with face pity my brother and let me c him then did the lord in pity asunder a little in his t t so he might his sister s face and when she silent peep d into his prison she left with him a mirror for his solace and when he therein his earthly garment pressed him less and like the gleam of morning some faint remembrance of his dawn d but yet the chains could not break the bitter cup of fire not take from him therefore she pray d to to her father to save his younger bom and went up to the of the lord and said take pity on my son � then said the lord have i not sent that he may behold his � wherefore in the old was the name of the mo n that of the sun ufe and writings of what profits it the chains she break the bitter cup of fire not take from him so will i said the the salt be given him that so the bitter cup of fire be softened but yet the chains must lie on him till once a rise from out the waters � and when the salt was laid on s tongue the fire s piercing ceased but th element d the salt to ice and lay there d and had not power to move but saw him and thus the mother thou art father strength and word and light shall he my last bom lie for ever in pain the down pressed of his rude brother then had the compassion and he s it him the herald of the from the waters the cup of and in the cup the drops of sadness and the drops of longing and then the ice was the fire grew cool and again had room to breathe but yet the garment d him the chains still d and the remembrance of the name the lord s which he had lost was wanting then the mother s heart was d with pity she beckoned the son to her and said thou who art more than i and yet my put on this robe of earth and show to fallen bound in the and open him that s narrow cover then said the word it shall be so and sent his messenger disease she broke the roof of s prison so that once again the of light he saw the element was dazzled blind but r knew his father and when the word in earth came to the prison the element address d him as his like but look d up to him and said thou art sent hither to redeem from sin s miscellaneous writings yet art thou not the from the � the word the from the waters i surely am not yet when thou hast drunk the cup of i will redeem thee then drank the cup of of longing and of sadness and his garment did drop sweet drops wherewith the messenger of the word all his till its folds and vanished and it grow light and when the prison life she d straightway it thin and like to crystal but yet the chains she could not break � then did the | 37 |
some of his followers at this day and we recognise in ourselves aa image of god that is of the supreme not indeed equal nay far and widely different not and to express the whole more briefly not of the same substance with god yet that than which of all things made by him none in nature is nearer to god which image is yet to be by re formation that it may be nearest in likeness also for we both are to know that we are to love to be this and to know it in these then moreover no falsehood resembling truth us � xi c as translated in s ed of london vol vo p note the late dr seems aware of the of language and its inability to express the idea of a indeed there is oo word in any language which can convey a precise idea of this follow the attempts to one person out of these two natures some said there was one will others two wills in the person of christ this was the quarrel of the and the others said the union was effected by the loss of the attributes of the human or divine being some supposing the one passed into and so became the other or that both in a but it became to affirm that each retained all its peculiar attributes and so the two were united now this doctrine may seem very wise because it is very but the same words may be applied to other things we have very little skill in showing up but can apply all this language to very different matters and it shall sound quite as well as before thus we may take a circle instead of the father and a for the son and say the two natures were found in one the circle became a and yet lost none of its while the became a circle yet lost none of its the union of the two was perfect the character of each being preserved they point for point area for area centre for centre for yet was one still a circle the other a but both made up the the one was not inscribed nor the other we would by no means deny the great fact which we think lies at the bottom of this notion of the a fact however which it seems to conceal as often as to express in our times that the deity and therefore himself more or less perfectly in human beings and especially in the climax of human beings through whom proceed the divine influences which also proceed from the father hence the doctrine of the holy ghost this truth we think is expressed in all in the of the notions of the the angels and that make up the of the which daniel seems to imitate and the author of the to have in his eye distinction for it is not similar to any other distinction in the minds of men so that it is very whether we use the name person or any other name or a instead of a name in upon this subject � sermon iv p b s april but to return these points fixed the catholic dwelt chiefly on the divine in christ and continued to do so till the while the human side was represented by and whom here we have not space to name we now pass over some centuries in which there was little life and much death in the church � times when the rays of religious light as they came through the darkness fell chiefly it seems on men whom the light rendered suspicious to the church � and come down to times after the after the great battles had been fought through and the council of held its and the incident to all great of thought had passed over and the oriental and one sided view of christ s nature had been the human side of of it comes out once more into its due by the long one sided contemplation of the divine in christ his person came to stand as somewhat absolutely as the other side of and beyond human nature something perfectly inaccessible to the thought while it is the greatest thing in christianity to recognise oar brother in him with the there had tendency which laid small stress on the old notions of christ in which the divine nature had and crushed the and human nature in him this new tendency is a feature of the it shows itself in the doctrine of justification by faith and quite as powerfully in the altered form of but here too we must tread with rapid feet and rest on only two of the numerous systems of this period one from the themselves the other from a the human nature is capable of divinity said the early what christ has first done all may do afterwards well said martin strange as it may seem to modern who learn history from the library of useful knowledge lo christ takes our birth that is the of human nature from us unto himself and sinks it in his birth and gives us his that we thereby may become pure and new as if it were our own so that every christian may enjoy this birth of christ not less than if he also like were born bodily of the s virgin mary or doubts this the same is no christian again this is the meaning of to us a child is born to us a son is given to us to us to us is he born and to us given therefore look to it that thou not only out of the a fondness for the history itself but that thou this birth thine own and with him free from thy birth and pa over to his � then thou indeed shalt sit in the | 37 |
her an angel he told her he was unworthy of her but that he try and deserve her then he hesitated and trembling he said � n e for a make myself i shall like you better � ol better then i will own to you � o do not tell me you have before me i i not hear it i cried this inconsistent le other weak needed no see plainly i never loved but i et me hear that only cried by n of the past my d ld she i am say jou never it yon do not even jet know nest shall i make yon lore � as none of sex loved � witli t mid brain and bi and life and with these words she poured the soul of love into his eyes he forgot everything in the world but her ho in present happiness and vowed himself hers foi over and for her him bat retain her esteem and woman ever went further in love than she would she a she had learned that passion vulgar in is when based upon esteem this tender scene was interrupted by the call boy who brought mrs a note from the manager informing her there would bo no this left bar at liberty and she proceeded to take a somewhat abrupt leave of mr he was to her to let him be her companion until she was to be his guest when entered the room mrs was not lo be persuaded she hei self on the score of a duty which she said she had to perform and as she passed keep your own counsel she went out slightly disappointed sir charles who had returned to see whether as he fully expected she had told � and who at moment perhaps would not have been sorry had mrs s lover called him to serious account � finding it was not her intention to make mischief and not choosing to publish he smiled and do justice to besides to his surprise mr tamed instantly upon him and looking him in tha face said sir charles tho settled with which you pursue that lady ib and offensive to me who love let onr acquaintance if you please o o le be sacred from ton ne sir charles bowed stiffly e that it was only due o i withdraw a protection so tie ap � ho two friends were m he e y of separating ho run in but ho he darted up to sir charles and said she in a coach going to buildings in a hurry j cried say that a n buildings me in a y faithful there s a guinea for thee fly i the slave flew and taking a short cut caught and to the slow vehicle in the strand it is of said su charles half to himself half to mr he repented in it is a house of he then recovering his and treating it all as a matter of coarse that at buildings was a fashionable shop with from two streets that the best indian and were sold there and that ladies heir carriages waiting an immense time in the principal street whilst they were supposed to be in the shop or the show room ho then went on to say that be had only this morning heard that the intimacy between mrs and a colonel id though publicly broken off for was still carried on she had doubtless i v by not dog her like a cried i will i said you i by what right the right of i will whether it is yon who are imposed on or whether you are right and all ihe world ia deceived in this he ran out but for au his when he got into the street there was the jealous lover at his elbow they with all speed into the strand got a sir on the os gave a guinea and took the reins � and by a of they attained and at length to ma delight saw coach before him with a black slave behind it the coach stopped and the to the door the in question was a few hundred yards distant the sir charles not only slipped but turned his coach and let the horses crawl back towards london he also the side � � � � of mr draw the the vehicle and saw a lady paying the coachman there was no her ii this lady then followed at a distance by her slave walked on towards buildings and it was his miserable fate to see her look uneasily round and at glide in at a side door close to the s the carriage stopped sir charles came himself lo tlie door now he before to go any further in this you must me to be cool and reasonable i absurdity and there must be no swords drawn for this little i to no on s d white as a sheet you have so fer by m j knowledge said the other le with you poor my � my sorrow that such an angel should be a monster of deceit he say no more they walked to the shop how she this way and that said sly little no i on second he it is tie other street we must and if we don t see her there we will enter the shop and b dint ol this e we shall soon the knot of the riddle leaned on his tor i am said he lean on me my dear friend said sir charles your will leave you in the next street in the next street they discovered � nothing in the shop they found no notice but turned red this put sir upon the scent stay said he is not that an irish tune groaned he covered his ace with his hands and it is her tune | 9 |
liave just described but nothing to of my mother � bom half a century after the log cabin stage of � could never be reconciled te this nor to either of the two rather better ones that the family it ed into a poor sort of framed house in fact she had plunged into tlie primitive forest too late in life and never became reconciled to the s inevitable the chimney of the best log house she insisted smoke and its roof in a driving rain do what you might i think the shadow of the great woods oppressed her from the hour she first entered them and though removed but two generations from she was never reconciled to what the less roughly bred must always deem and hardships i never caught the old smile on her face the familiar gladness in her the hearty in her manner from the day she entered woods until tliat of her death nearly thirty years later in august though not yet sixty eight she had for years been worn out by hard work and broken down in mind and body those who knew her only in her later years when toil and trouble had gained the victory over her never truly knew her at all i a year by lake my father had for many years � from hood � fixed on as and the region to wliich his were at length i directed b essentially a good one situated on high rolling land just across the line from county n y in county pa two from the i line of county the region is healthy and the soil f strong though better adapted to grass than to grain ha ne er wished to move again still it was a mistake at his time of life to plunge so deep into the primitive forest the t � elm ash c � yielded very slowly to his axe he and my n a full winter month in off an acre and up and burning made another serious job ing tie toil cold with green roots and by an of which must be allowed years wherein t rot out a who can pay for or forty to eighty acres at once of timber when in full leaf and afford to let it lie untouched for a full year better still two years and then put fire into it favored by a dry and a good breeze then and put it into grain may clear at a third of the cost to and have his land � n far condition than the poor who must bum ip liis timber green because he needs the land to till and afford to lay out of the of his labor for years a poor man a farm out of tlie great woods at more han twice the proper cost and the soil by the pro � i presume my folks gave two thousand days work to ashes from their burned log heaps and em into black the base of pot and pearl ashes they must have wherewith to pay store bills though i� product did not give fifty cents return for each fair day s and the removal of the ashes the soil by than they brought but the crops grown among green in a small from a vast forest are precarious and scanty at best being upon by in n and by eh manner of four footed beasts and the recollections of a busy life s must somehow live while he slowly the wilderness into fruitful fields and after spending some weeks at home i sought work at my trade in various directions finding a little first at n y and after an interval more at now county where i received per month for six weeks but my employer could afford to hire a no longer and i thence walked home across county january and remained a full month � a bitter cold one � with my father and brother but not very nor satisfactorily fully convinced that the life of a was one to which i was poorly adapted i made one more effort to resume my chosen calling having already exhausted the possibilities in the line of county i now visited pa where i found work in the office of the and was retained at s per month well into the summer tliis was the first newspaper whereon i was employed that made any money for its owner and thus had a value it liad been started twenty years or so before when and county were both peopled almost wholly by poor young men and it had grown with the until it had a substantial profitable patronage its proprietor mr joseph m now in the prime of life liad begun on the as a boy and grown up with it into general consideration and esteem his and at his house as was fit and i spent here five months and agreeably a raw youth of twenty years and knowing no one in the when i thus entered it i made acquaintances there who are still valued friends and before i left i was offered a in the concern which though i bad reasons for declining was none the less flattering as a mark of appreciation and confidence mr since represented his district in the of has received other proofs of the trust a year by lake regard of fellow and though he has retired from the still lives in the enjoyment of and general esteem dwells in my memory aa a place which started with too expectations and v as thus exposed to a sudden check from which it has never recovered from time to time its early dreams of greatness have been by a state canal by by coal mines and at length by the oil of the region not far south of it but they have never been fully it was rather a for | 19 |
going to fell s point by water spent the with m corn on the great barn floor about noon the rain ceased the clouds broke away the sun came out and at dinner began to talk of his journey in the afternoon oh it would be impossible to get along said m the brook will not be down under twenty four hours at least the brook said yes the great brook the road goes over it three or four times in the course of a dozen miles and you can not possibly cross until the water is down ain t there any bridges v asked no replied m we had two at the worst but they were carried away last spring no you must stay here until to morrow unless indeed i you to fell s point where is fell s point asked four or five miles from here by water and there you would find a good road now as you and i have done a pretty good day s work this morning suppose we try that plan i can set you there in an hour and a half in my nothing could be more agreeable to than such a plan the air was mild and calm and the water smooth and the shores of the lake exhibited uncommon brilliancy and beauty the whole face of nature being brightened and refreshed by the rain it required very little time to mature their plan and complete their arrangements an hour after dinner they were all ready to the boat was a small from a log but well formed and finished and of quite sufficient burden for the passengers she was to carry little was to be of the party and he stood delighted on r m the party set off from the shore they are called back the shore while his father released the boat from its and made all ready for the the road passed very near to the landing place where the boat had been drawn up and after the party had taken their seats and had been a few rods from the the boat party shore their attention was aroused by loud shouts proceeding apparently from the landing place that they had left they turned around and saw a man there waving his hat and calling out to them in a loud voice m brought his boat round again head to the shore aid soon regained the beach are ye pulling to fell s point neighbor said the stranger he was apparently a man of considerable age and his dress indicated poverty yes replied m to his question and how much will you charge to take me there is it worth a quarter of a dollar again m takes another passenger appearance and manners of the stranger yes it is worth that i suppose but you must trust me till i get there why so said m i haven t got the money now but i shall get it there i ve been on the road now some days and am tired of besides i can t get on any farther the bridges are all gone the had the money in his pocket but he thought that if he could get landed at the point before paying he should be able to his there and save his fare but m was too experienced a manager not to be on his guard against such an as this there was something in the s whole appearance which had at the first excited his suspicion a certain something about his dress marked a character and there was an air of ease and self possession which evinced familiarity with the world combined however with an expression of vulgarity which indicated a low and degraded rank in it then there was a certain of countenance not cunning exactly but something to it which marked an active intellect and as active intellect with virtuous principle will almost always when it is seen in circumstances of degradation it is evidence of vice or crime m had no idea that his passenger intended to pay any fare when he should arrive at the point but this made no difference in his to take him he was an old man and helping him on would evidently be a deed of charity m accordingly gave him a friendly reception as if suspecting no and the whole party were soon on their way again the old man talked for a while with a sort of the common forced of the wicked � which however always sinks away into sadness when it the real m the old man la hungry m him some food good will and kindness of an honest friend the heartless and hollow laugh itself as long as it meets only something equally heartless and hollow in a companion but before honest kindness it throws off its guise and brings to view the loneliness and despondency which reign within the old man sat down in the bottom of the boat leaning back against one of the sat beyond him m was in the stern the little upon a seat very near him looking over into the water the stranger drew out a small bottle from his pocket and drank from it and then offered it to m m thanked him but said he had no occasion for any drink the as if beginning to perceive that he had got into company in which his habits required an apology said in excuse for drawing upon his pistol as he called his bottle that he had had no dinner that day upon this m immediately produced a in which he had put up an ample supply of provisions for their expedition and insisted upon his helping himself freely he did this with so much apparent cordiality that it produced an evident change in the man s whole he became more serious the air of assumed and hollow hearted | 22 |
they and strained and panted without either getting the mastery until both came to the ground and rolled upon the green just then the may day ill came by she saw her lover in fierce as she thought and in danger in a moment pride and were forgotten she rushed into the ring seized upon the rival champion by the hair and was on the point of on him her vengeance when a country the sweetheart of the prostrate upon her like a hawk and would have stripped her of her fine in a twinkling had she not also been seized in her turn a tumult ensued the chivalry of the two villages became blows began to be dealt and sticks to be flourished was carried off from the field in in vain did the of the village interfere the endeavoured to pour the soothing oil of his upon this sea of passion but was tumbled into the dust the who is a great lover of peace went into the midst of the throng as of the day to put an end to the commotion may day but was rent in twain and came out with his garment hanging in two from his shoulders upon which the prodigal son dashed in with fury to revenge the insult which his patron had sustained the tumult i caught glimpses of the cap of old like the of a about in the midst of the while mistress separated from her protector was and striking at right and left with a faded being tossed and about by the crowd in such wise as never happened to maiden before at length i beheld old ready money jack making his way into the very of the throng tearing it as it were apart and peace vi et it was surprising to see the sudden quiet that ensued the storm settled down at once into tranquillity the parties having no real grounds of hostility were readily and in fact were a little at a loss to know why and how they had got by the ears was speedily together again by his friend the tailor may pay and resumed his usual good humour mrs drew on one side to her feathers and old having repaired his took her under his arm and they swept back again to the hall ten times more bitter against mankind than ever the family alone seemed slow in recovering from the agitation of the scene young jack was evidently very much moved by the heroism of the unlucky his mother who had been summoned to the field of action by news of the was in a sad panic and had need of all her management to keep him from following his mistress and coming to a perfect reconciliation what heightened the alarm and perplexity of the good managing dame was that the matter had aroused the slow apprehension of old ready money himself who was very much struck by the interference of so pretty and delicate a girl and was sadly puzzled to understand the meaning of the violent agitation in his family vol ii i may day when all this came to the ears of the squire he was that his should have been disgraced by such a he ordered to appear before him but the girl was so frightened and distressed that she came sobbing and trembling and at the first question he asked fell again into lady who had understood that there was an affair of the heart at the bottom of this distress immediately took the girl into great favour and protection and made her peace with the squire this was the only thing that disturbed the harmony of the day if we except the discomfiture of master and the general by the radical upon the whole therefore the squire had very fair reason to be satisfied that he had rode his throughout the day without any other the reader learned in these matters will perceive that all this was but a faint shadow of the once gay and fanciful rites of may the have lost the proper feeling for these may day rites and have grown almost as strange to them as the of la were to the customs of chivalry in the days of the don indeed i considered it a proof of the discretion with which the squire rides his that he had not pushed the thing any further nor attempted to revive many of the day which in the present matter of fact times would appear affected and absurd i must say though i do it under the rose the general in which this festival had nearly terminated has made me doubt whether these rural customs of the good old times were always so very loving and innocent as we are apt to fancy them and whether the in those times were really so as they have been fondly represented i begin to fear � � days were never airy dreams sat for the picture and the poet s hand substance to an empty shade imposed a gay delirium for a truth grant it i still must envy them an age that favour d such a dream i the manuscript yesterday was a day of quiet and repose after the bustle of may day during the morning i joined the ladies in a small the windows of which came down to the floor and opened upon a terrace of the which was set out with delicate shrubs and flowers the soft sunshine that fell into the room through the branches of trees that the windows the sweet smell of the flowers and the singing of the birds seemed to produce a pleasing yet effect on the whole party for some time elapsed without any one speaking lady and miss were sitting by an elegant work table near one of the windows occupied with some pretty lady like work the captain was on a stool | 48 |
the stranger s figure remained present to her hours afterwards when she sat at the window her needle and his words seemed newly and son l again and again he had touched the spring that opened her whole life and if she lost him for a short space it was only among the many shapes of the one great recollection of which that life was made musing and working by turns now herself to be steady at her needle for a long time together and now letting her work fall on her lap and her thoughts led found the hours glide by her and the day steal on the morning which had been bright and clear gradually became a sharp wind set in the rain fell heavily and the dark mist drooping over the distant town hid it from the view she often looked with compassion at such a time upon the who came wandering into by the great highway hard by and who foot sore and weary and gazing fearfully at the huge town before them as if that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea or as a grain of sea sand on the shore went shrinking on before the angry weather and looking as if the very elements rejected them day after day such travellers crept past but always as thought in one always towards the town up in one phase or other of its towards which they seemed impelled by a desperate fascination they never returned food for the the the the river fever madness vice and death they passed on to the monster roaring in the distance and were lost the chill wind was howling and the rain was falling and the day was darkening when raising her eyes from the work on which she had long since been engaged with constancy saw one of these travellers approaching a woman a solitary woman of some thirty years of age tall well formed handsome miserably dressed the soil of many country roads in varied dust chalk clay gravel � on her grey cloak by the streaming wet no bonnet on her head nothing to defend her rich black hair from the rain but a torn handkerchief with the fluttering ends of which and with her hair the wind blinded her so that she often stopped to push them back and look upon the way she was going and son she was in the act of doing so when her ab her hands parting on her sun burnt forehead swept across face and threw aside the that ached upon it there was a reckless and regardless beauty in it a and indifference to more than weather a carelessness of what was cast her bare head from heaven or earth that coupled with her misery and loneliness the heart of her fellow she thought of all that was and within her no less than without of modest graces of the mind hardened and like these attractions of the person of the many of the creator to the winds like the wild hair of all the beautiful ruin upon which the storm was beating and the night was coming thinking of this she did not turn away with a delicate indignation � too many of her own compassionate and tender sex too often but pitied her her fallen sister came on looking far before her trying with her eager eyes to pierce the mist in which the city was and glancing now and then from side to side with the bewildered and uncertain aspect of a stranger though her tread was bold and courageous she was fatigued and after a moment of sat down upon a heap of stones seeking no shelter from the rain but letting it rain on her as it would she was now opposite the house raising her head resting it for a moment on both hands her eyes met those of in a moment was at the door and the other rising from her seat at her came slowly and with no look towards her why do you rest in the rain said gently because i have no other resting place was the reply but there are many places of shelter near here this referring to the little porch is better than where you were you are very welcome to rest here the wanderer looked at her in doubt and surprise but with hit any of and sitting down and q and son off one of her worn shoes to heat out the fragments of stone and dust that were inside showed that her foot was cut an uttering an expression of pity the traveller looked up with a contemptuous and incredulous smile why what s a torn foot to such as me she said and what s a torn foot in such as me to such as you come in and wash it answered mildly and let me give you something to hind it up tlie woman caught her arm and drawing it her own eyes hid them against it and wept not like a woman hut like a stem man surprised into that weakness with a violent heaving of her breast and struggle for recovery that showed how unusual the emotion was with heir she submitted to be led into the house and evidently more in gratitude than in any care for herself washed and bound the injured place then put before her the fragments of her own dinner and when she had eaten of them though her before her road which she showed her anxiety to do to dry her clothes before the fire again more in gratitude than with any evidence of concern in her own behalf she sat down in front of it and the handkerchief about her head and letting her thick wet hair fall down below her waist sat drying it with the palms of her hands and looking at | 8 |
gave a of further difficulties to be apprehended fix m partly on and all full of doubt and trivial obstacles might in the present critical stage of his voyage spread panic and through bis ships and entirely defeat the purpose of the expedition the wind was blowing strongly at the time so that be could not render assistance without his own vessel fortunately martin and being an and able seaman he in the with so as to bring the t p vol i life and voyages of into management this however was but a temporary and inadequate expedient the gave way again on the following day and the other ships were obliged to sail until the could be secured this state of the as well as her being in a condition determined the admiral to touch at the islands and seek a vessel to replace her he considered himself not far those islands though a different opinion was entertained by the of the the event proved his superiority in taking observations and keeping for they came in sight of the on the morning of the th they were detained upwards of three weeks among these islands seeking in vain to find another vessel they were obliged therefore to make a new for the and repair her as well as they were able for the voyage the sails of the were also altered into square sails that she might work more steadily and securely and be able to keep company with the other vessels while sailing among these islands they passed in sight of t whose peak was sending out volumes of flame and smoke the crew were terrified at sight of this being ready to take alarm at any extraordinary phenomenon and to it into a disastrous took great pains to their apprehensions explaining the natural causes of those fires and his explanations by mount and other well known while taking in wood water and provisions in the island of a vessel arrived from which reported that three had been seen hovering off that island with the intention it was said of the admiral suspected some hostile on the part of the king of in revenge for his having em mv i � in the service of spain he therefore lost no time in putting to sea anxious to get far from those islands and out of the track of trembling lest something might occur to defeat his expedition commenced under such circumstances and voyages of chapter of the voyage � first notice of the of the needle early in the morning of the sixth of september set sail from the island of and dow might be said first to strike into the region of discovery taking leave of these frontier islands of the old world and westward for the unknown parts of the atlantic for three days however a profound calm kept the vessels with sails within a short distance of the land this was a delay to who was impatient to find himself launched far upon the ocean out of sight of either land or sail which in the pure of these may be at an immense distance on the following sunday the th of september at daybreak he beheld the last of the islands about nine distant this was the island from whence the had been seen he was therefore in the very neighbourhood of danger fortunately a breeze sprang up with the sun their sails were once more filled and in the course of the day the heights of gradually faded from the horizon on losing sight of this last trace of land the hearts of the failed them they seemed literally to have taken leave of the world behind them was every thing dear to the heart of man country family friends life itself before them every thing was chaos mystery and peril in the per fi of the they of ever more se ng their homes of the rugged shed tears and some broke into load the admiral tried in every way to their distress and to inspire with his own glorious he described to them the magnificent countries to which he was about to conduct them the islands of the indian seas with gold and stones he regions of and with their cities of wealth and splendour he promised them land and riches and every thing that could arouse their or their nor were these promises made for purposes of mere deception certainly believed that he should realize them all he now issued orders to the of the other vessels that in the event of separation by any accident they should continue directly westward but that after sailing seven hundred they lay by from midnight until daylight as at about that distance he confidently expected to find land in the meantime as he thought it possible he might not discover land within the distance thus assigned and as he foresaw hat the vague terrors already awakened among the would increase with the space which between them and their homes he commenced a which he continued throughout the voyage he kept two one correct in which the true way of the ship was noted and which was retained in secret for his own government in the other which was open to general inspection a number of was daily from the sailing of the ship so that the were kept in ignorance of the real distance they had advanced it has been stated that kept tv a it was merely in the reckoning or log book that he life and voyages op on the th of september when about one hundred and ty west of they fell in with a part of a mast which from its size appeared to have belonged to a vessel of about a hundred and twenty tons and which had evidently been a long time in the water the alive to every thing that could excite their hopes or fears | 48 |
and in a city in which the german audience and now for our pleasure will take a turn at the stone and the lovely of the boxes in the shining garments of worth with soft disdain of will essay with of the finest texture to out the ocean the dinner in he easy chair went up lately to the hills to enjoy the annual dinner at it is a summer feast which tradition to some old academy in those parts supposed to have been founded by a of the village in the days before when there was no path to except that which is still sometimes pursued it is a winding way through woods and by singing streams and solitary farms and as you drive slowly on you feel yourself penetrating farther and farther into a rural seclusion to which the modern world has hardly found its way and where you might expect to surprise a peaceful community of ancient new england as in the recesses and heights of the you might come upon a party of s crew in this loneliness of the hills the young who was in delicate health and unmarried relieved the sombre severity of life by teaching a few boys and girls by that fond he brightened with fresh air and natural music and sunshine the dry routine of his days for the cheerless solemnity of the life of the country clergy in those times it is hard to imagine the to east london tell us that the peculiar characteristic of that vast region with human beings is want of entertainment the people there do not laugh they have no diversion there is nothing pleasant to see or to hear it is a huge stone mill in which human life is ground up in an endless and barren monotony of hard work it is odd to trace any resemblance to it in a life so different but the old fashioned divine in his small country parish revolving in an actual world of petty details and in another world of grim speculation and in the contemplation of death must have seldom smiled the young was bound by no vow of but he knew that his life must be brief and he gladly surrounded himself with children in the guise of pupils and when he died he left a bible to his church a small sum for the education of heathen youth in america some manuscript sermons to his parents and the rest of his little property to found an academy for youth this at least is the tradition but when came once to the dinner he put the story aside as a pleasant fiction and that the annual feast was simply to two friends of the town and enjoy them forever this had a sound that contrasted not with the seriousness of the hills and suggested an origin not unlike that of the in the worship of the still another theory which is like to grow with time associates it with the memory of two strangers of aspect who appeared suddenly in the village like the gray haired at and the towns people not with a sword but with a departed they are all pleasant tales but the earliest tion is likely to be the it was the good who the modest seed which has now sprung up a hundred fold this year the text of the afternoon for the dinner begins at one o clock was the report of the that the town is declining in population the guests were a company of the people of the hills they came from a circuit of a score of miles the dinner is served cold and the guests feast in summer when the days are long on dainty chicken snow white bread and by two o clock the blue is spread over the the benches are turned so that the whole company faces the and then speech begins it was the verdict of the hills upon the report of the that if the number of individuals is the number of families is not the ancient are disappearing and the tale of children in a family is but the general welfare of the family itself is increasing while the marvellous of communication bring all resources into the hills and the remote little village of the old is practically becoming a if a higher general welfare what matter if the population somewhat quality is better than quantity if as a of says the people of the hills are merely descending into the valleys who can complain if they bring with them the simple and hardy virtues which grow upon the hills like the great agricultural let the say what it will need not frighten until they show a of character as well as a decline of population if however character is if the conditions of that life of the country are changing a general change may be anticipated but in those signs do not yet appear whether there are more or fewer persons than there were fifty years ago the comfort the resources the opportunities are constantly greater undoubtedly they bring their dangers and but the same steady force of character that dealt with the old difficulties can deal with the new perhaps the trouble lies less in the of the hills than in the of the shore the of the glittering scales that american youth and maidens may be rather by the sea than on the hills it may be also rather the annual half million of utter that come from other lands strange to us in ever that a national life rather than the hundreds who come down morally as well as from the nearer heaven so in the larger academy which the young unconsciously founded the various voices of suggestion experience and reflection spoke it was a rural feast an holiday such as the poet might have in simple and melodious measure or artists carved upon | 16 |
of his life it was said among other things that he preserved his wonderful strength by drinking human blood a tale which in a certain sense i have never seen reason to question making all his life was a blot upon civilization at length it a brutal temper by passions after a long period of license and came to a climax in a final of ferocity and fury in which he was guilty of an act whose surpassed belief and he was brought to judgment in modern times the very of the crime would probably have proved his security and as he had destroyed his own property while he was a crime of appalling and horror he might have found a defence in that standing refuge of extraordinary � insanity in virginia this defence indeed was put in and was pressed with much ability by his counsel one of whom was my father who had just then been admitted to the bar but fortunately for the cause of justice neither courts nor were then so sentimental as they have become of late years and the last of no paid under the law the full penalty of his hideous crime it was one of the curious incidents of the trial that his all lamented his death and declared that he was a good master when he was not drunk he was hanged just at the rear of his own house within sight of the spot where his awful crime was committed at his execution which according to the custom of the country was public a horrible coincidence occurred which furnished the text of many a sermon on justice among the the body was near the pond close by the thicket where the were buried but the declared that it preferred one of the stone chambers under the mansion where it made its home and that it might be seen at any time of the day or night about the place they used to dwell with peculiar zest on the most details of this wretch s dreadful crime the whole in the final act of fury when the gigantic monster dragged the and corpse of his victim up the staircase and stood it up before the open window in his hall no in the full view of the terrified slaves after these the continued of the murderer and his victim was as natural to us as it was to the themselves and as night after night we would hurry up to the great house through the darkness we were ever on the watch lest he should appear to our vision from the shades of the filled yard thus it was that of all ghostly places no had the distinction of being invested to us with horror and thus to us no less than because the had given way and the had turned again to swamp and it was that no was abandoned and was now by any foot but that of its ghostly tenants the time of my story was the spring previous continuous rains had kept the river full and had the low grounds and this had been followed by an dense growth in the summer then public feeling was greatly excited at the time of which i write over the discovery in the neighborhood of several of the railway or � as they were universally considered in that country � of the devil they had been run off or had disappeared suddenly but had left behind them some little excitement on the part of the slaves and a great deal on the part of their masters and more than the usual number of ne in virginia had run away all however had been caught or had returned home after a sufficient interval of freedom except one who had escaped permanently and who was supposed to have accompanied his on their flight this man was a well known character he belonged to one of our neighbors and had been bought and brought there from an estate on the lower he was the most brutal negro i ever knew he was of a type rarely found among our who judging from their and general characteristics came principally from the coast of africa they are of moderate stature with dull but amiable faces this man however was of immense size and he possessed the features and expression of a in character also he differed essentially from all the other slaves in our country he was alike without their and their and was as fearless as he was brutal he was the only negro i ever knew who was without either superstition or reverence indeed he differed so widely from the rest of the slaves in that section that there existed some feeling against him almost akin to a race feeling at the same time that he exercised considerable influence over them they were dreadfully afraid of him and were always in terror that he would trick them to which awful power he laid well known claim his curses in his strange dialect used to them no beyond measure and they would do anything to him he had been a continual source of trouble and an object of suspicion in the neighborhood from the time of his first appearance and more than one that the declared had wandered into the of no and had cut his an in de ma sh had been suspected of finding its way to this man s cabin his master had often been urged to get rid of him but he was kept i think probably because he was valuable on the plantation he was a fine butcher a good work hand and a first class moreover ours was a population in which every man minded his own business and let his neighbor s alone at the time of the visits of those secret agents to which i have referred this negro was discovered to be the leader in | 46 |
her then too she had so much to say and plenty of time to say it for she was spending the day with her mother and after she had hoped he was well and inquired after his father and his grandmother and his sister and his brothers she began to talk about england and the wonderful things she had seen and the goodness of her young ladies felt more in love with her every moment and soon was carrying on two separate chains of thought � partly attending to wh t she was saying and at the same time telling himself now or never must be the moment if she is to go away engaged never thinking silly fellow what a poor look out for her it would be seeing that he had nothing to marry upon thus instead of thoroughly enjoying the present he was planning an impossible future by and bye the old lady beginning to fish persuaded to step out with him to the sea wall on the pretence of looking out for her uncle s boat in the when there he would have been stupid indeed if he had been unable to avail himself of the opening he told her � with much pathos poor lad � how he had missed her how dull his life became from the time she moved into the town when he could not so much as see her opening and spreading out the to dry in the sun or bringing water from the spring he told her how he had been tp find she was gone � gone without one kind word for him for him who she knew had loved her all his life he had cried all night it had cut him to the heart for he had been so mad so as to suppose she cared for him she said she did care for him � more than he knew � more perhaps than any one except her mother and the young ladies cried h no and would have passionately seized her hand but said stop hear me with more resolution than embarrassment and went on to tell him how her mind had expanded and altered since she went to england how she had adopted a purer faith and was determined never to marry any one but a was the wickedness of her quite appalled him for he was a simple son of the church though he had no great opinion of the priests after several exclamations and attempted he began to and reason with her but here he soon found himself for he was no match for her he had not studied the subject � she had and she not only was the best but had the best arguments on her side then he grew passionate and jealous and exclaimed � it s all that fellow in the white cotton stock with his shining rosy face i ll put a knife into him hush hush you would not do anything so shocking said ah owing to george the idea is too absurd except to laugh at oh very well madam laugh and welcome said boiling hot with rage laugh with him and at me � o � and clapping his hand to his forehead he was rushing away when she laid her gentle hand on his arm how will you mistake me so v said she sweetly i don t care a straw for george in the way you mean though he is a fellow servant there is only one difference between you and me and that is � one that i cannot overcome said he in the greatest trouble where s the good of my offering to become a for your sake only to ruin us both earth is earth but heaven is heaven and i can t give up that even for you no dear said she very i want for us both to be there and if you should ever come round to my way of thinking you will not find that your affection has been despised or lo i never shall i never can you are breaking my heart but i cannot tell you what is in it my love is poor in words no matter victor wants soldiers and i ll be one of them you ve made my life to me but it may be of some service to my country god in heaven bless you and bring you to a better mind he snatched a hasty kiss and flung away stop stop she cried earnestly but he was gone chapter ii by the i hen we are acting under the of conscience we are greatly in the conflict with natural feeling and the offer of s love at the price of his principles was acting like a young man there was indeed no reason why he should therefore go and but his family were already pinched to maintain themselves and the fewer mouths the better cheer his mother was dead his father took things coolly he himself was hasty and could not immediately settle down to what now seemed his dull daily round there was no one he should grieve much to leave but his sister and he was sure she would not let him if she knew of it beforehand so he resolved to take the fatal step first and write to her afterwards reaching home a little before he feigned fatigue and went early to bed but woke before dawn tied up a few things in a handkerchief and softly left the house he felt very guilty and even cowardly till he was a mile or two on his way but he then resolutely on resolved to forget embrace his new profession with and make proud of her soldier brother it was yet early morning and he was pursuing his course along the solitary road when he saw a man a little in advance of him sitting | 2 |
were never at their ease always upon the brink of a catastrophe encouraged one day only to be rudely the next in public and in private and yet in spite of the man of action it all the singular remains that they loved him and served him as no monarch has been loved and served perhaps i had best stay here said i when we had come to the chamber which was still crowded with people no no i am responsible for you you must come with me oh i trust he is not offended with me how could he have got in without my seeing him my frightened companion scratched at the door which was opened instantly by the who guarded it within the room into which we passed was of considerable size but was with extreme simplicity it was of a silver grey colour with a sky blue ceiling in the centre of which was the imperial eagle in gold holding a in spite of the warm weather a large fire was burning at one side and the air was heavy with heat and the of in the middle of the room was a large oval table covered with green cloth and with a number of letters and papers a raised writing desk was at one side of the table and behind it in a green chair with curved arms there sat the emperor a number of officials were standing round the walls but he took no notice of them in his hand he had a small with which he the wooden at the end of his chair he glanced up as we entered and shook his head coldly at de uncle i have had to wait for you de said he i cannot remember that i ever waited for my late secretary de that is enough i no excuses take this report which i have written in your absence and make a copy of it poor de took the paper with a shaking hand and carried it to the little side table which was reserved for his use napoleon rose and paced slowly up and down the room with his hands behind his back and his big round head stooping a little forwards it was certainly as weu that he had a secretary for i observed that in writing this single document he had the whole place with ink and it was obvious that he had twice used his white knee breeches as a as for me i stood quietly beside at the door and he took not the slightest notice of my presence well he cried presently is it ready de we have something more to do the secretary half turned in his chair and his face was more agitated than ever if it please you he stammered weu well what is the matter now if it please you i find some little difficulty in reading what you have written tut tut sir you see what the report is about yes it is about for the cavalry horses the man of action napoleon smiled and the action made his face look quite you remind me of de when i wrote him an account of the battle of he thought that my letter was a rough plan of the engagement it is incredible how much difficulty you appear to have in reading what i write this document has nothing to do with cavalry horses but it contains the instructions to admiral as to the of his fleet so as to obtain command of the channel give it to me and i will read it to you he snatched the paper up in the quick impulsive way which was characteristic of him but after a long fierce stare he it up and hurled it under the table i will dictate it to you said he and pacing up and down the long room he poured forth a torrent of words which poor de his face shining with his exertions strove hard to put upon paper as he grew excited by his own ideas napoleon s voice became his step faster and he seized his right in the fingers of the same hand and twisted his right arm in the singular gesture which was peculiar to him but his thoughts and plans were so admirably clear that even i who knew nothing of the matter could readily follow them while above all i was impressed by the marvellous grasp of fact which enabled him to speak with confidence not only of the line of battle ships but of the uncle and at and with the exact strength of each in men and in guns while the names and force of the english vessels were equally at his fingers ends such familiarity would have been remarkable in a naval officer but when i thought that this question of the ships was only one out of fifty with which this man had to deal i began to the immense grasp of that mind he did not appear to be paying the least attention to me but it seems that he was really watching me closely for he turned upon me when he had finished his you appear to be surprised de that i should be able to my naval business without having my minister of marine at my elbow but it is one of my rules to know and to do things for myself perhaps if these good had had the same habit they would not now be living amidst the of england one must have your majesty s memory in order to do it i observed it is the result of system said he it is as if i had drawers in my brain so that when i opened one could close the others it is seldom that i to find what i want there i have a poor memory for names or dates but an excellent one for facts | 4 |
way how the few facts that are allowed to remain get and twisted ont of ugly forms into pretty shape by finger great passage ns do the and dramatic writers but since there was often gi eat point in any spoken on important occasions by this lady i will just her defence of herself the reader may be sore she did not play her card let h give her me benefit one day she and were at it the green room full of actors male and female but there were no strangers and the ladies were saying things which the men of this generation only think at last mrs finding herself roughly and as she thought handled turned npon the assembly and said what man did ever i ruin in all my life t speak who can and there was a dead silence what woman is there here at as much as three pounds per week even that has n t ruined two at the very report says there was a dead silence i in until mrs olive up and said she had only one and that was his own fault mrs declined to attach weight to this example olive is the hook without the thus much was speedily shown to mr that whatever were mrs s intentions towards him interest had at nothing to do with them indeed it was made that even she ia surrender her liberty to him it only he as a princess foi ng golden for herself with own royal hand another ht passed to mutual of the lovers to it was a dream of rapture to le near this great creature whom thousands admired at such a distance to watch over her to take her to the theatre in a warm shawl a stand at the wing and receive her as she came radiant from her dressing room to watch her from her rear as she stood like some power shout to descend on by ia to see her like stoop � upon tlie said stage hear the of applause that followed aa the report does the flash to the from their first note to last to her hand when she came off feel how her were strung like a s a race and her whole frame in a high even glow with the great of and to have the same great creature leaning her head on his listening with e charming whilst he to her of love and calm delights alternate with still greater for lie was to writer for her sake was to write a woman the hero and love was to inspire him and passion supply the want of make me mr i all this was heavenly and then with all her dash and fire and she was a thorough margaret i i want to ask yon a did really cry because that miss had paris it does not seem very likely no but tell me did you mr old fool yea but did you did i what v cry i the s dresses were beautiful no but did you cr t and mine were dirty i don t care gilt rags but dirty dress me toll you did you cry or not ab i be wants to find out whether i am a fool and despise me no i think i lore you for hitherto i have seen no you are free that or you would gratify my curiosity be pleased to state in plain english what you of i want to know in one word did you cry or not promise to me no more then and i u tell you i promise you won t despise me despise you of coarse not well then � i don t remember i on another occasion they were seated in the dusk by the side of the canal in the park when a ai began to about on an s mrs contemplated with curiosity and delight you pretty creature i ee she i think so no said innocently that ah ah ah screamed mrs and pinched his arm this frightened the rat who disappeared she burst oat there s a fool the did not me and the name did upon it it s true what they say � that off the stage i am the fool there is i never be so absurd a ii in ah ah ah here it is again scream and pinch as before do mo from this horrid place where monsters come from the great and she away looking at the place the rat had in e tenor all this was silly but it pleases ns mon and contrast is so this same fool was of talent � and cunning too for that matter she played late night and mr saw the same who dared not stay where she was liable to a distant rat spring upon the by s stage as a gay flash out her and act s king the life and seem ready to eat up everybody king and then after her brilliant sally upon the sir han came and beside mr tune her bright skin contrasted her powdered became dazzling she used little but that little made her two of black lightning from her high to her polished forehead all was her i have been a glory and the curve from her waist to her knee was s line itself she stood new lighted on a heaven kissing hill she placed her foot upon the ground as she might put a hand upon her lover s we it with our eleven stone such was sir harry who stood by mr glittering with diamond gorgeous with rich satin breeches coat el and as she long eye down on him he seated her her gradually softened and quivered down to womanhood the first i was here said my admiration of you broke out to mr and what do you think he said that you | 9 |
is so late at night aunt i presume will in some way know about it and ask me why i sat up so long i am tired but the excitement of the afternoon is not all gone that any one in the world should believe it possible for mother to be unhappy in life to be punished is amazing surely a man whose makes such an idea conceivable is profoundly to be pitied may is perfectly delightful about she hardly lets a day go by without me not to spoil baby and yet she is herself an abject slave to the slightest caprice of the small person we have to night been having a sort of battle royal over baby s going to sleep by herself in the dark i made up my mind the time had come when some semblance of discipline must be begun and i supposed of course that would approve and assist to my surprise she failed me at the veiy first ditch i am going to put into the i an may and take away the light she must learn to go to sleep in the dark she be frightened objected she s too little to know anything about being afraid i retorted although i had secretly a good deal of too little she s too little not to be afraid i saw at a glance that i had before me a struggle with them as well as with baby children are not afraid of the dark until they are told to be i declared as as possible they are told not to be objected that puts the idea into their heads was my answer regarded me with evident but supposing the baby cries she demanded then she must be left to stop i answered with outward firmness and inward but suppose she cries herself sick insisted she won t she just cry a little till she finds nobody comes and then she go to sleep the two girls regarded me with looks that spoke in the largest of it is so seldom they are entirely united that it was to have them thus make common cause against me but i had to keep up for the sake of dignity if for nothing else was fed and arranged for the night she was kissed and and tucked into her then i got and both protesting they did n t mind sitting up with the darling all night out of the room darkened the windows and shut baby in alone for the first time in her whole life a life still so little the of a saint i closed the nursery door with an air of great calmness and determination but outside i lingered like a complete coward the girls were darkly from the end of the hall and we needed only to look like three for two or three minutes there was a soothing and silence so that i turned to smile with an air of superior wisdom on the maids then without warning baby uplifted her voice and there was something most about the cry as if had been holding her breath until she were black in the face and only let it escape one second short of actual i jumped as if a mouse had sprung into my face and the two girls down upon me in a whirl of triumphant indignation there miss cried there miss cried well i said i expected her to cry some she wants to be walked with poor little thing said i was rejoiced to have a chance to turn the tables and i sprang upon her admission at once i said severely have you been walking to sleep i told you never to do it self convicted could only murmur that she had just taken her up and down two or three times to make her sleepy she hadn t really walked her to sleep what if she had demanded boldly her place entirely forgotten in the excitement of the moment if babies like to be walked to sleep it stands to reason that s nature may i began to feel as if all authority were fast slipping away from me and that i should at this rate soon become a very secondary person in my own house i tried to recover myself by the most severe air of which i was capable you must not talk outside the nursery door i told them if hears voices of course she keep on crying go downstairs both of you i see to baby they had not yet arrived at open and so with manifest they departed grumbling to each other as they went baby seemed to have some intelligence that her were being for she set up a series of shrieks which made every fibre of my body quiver as soon as the girls were out of sight i down on my knees outside of the door and put my hands over my ears i was afraid of myself and only the need i felt of holding out for s own sake gave me strength to keep from rushing into the nursery in abject surrender the absurdity of it makes me laugh now but with the shrieks of baby piercing me i felt as if i were involved in a tragedy of the deepest i think i was never so near in my ufe but i had even then some faint and far away sense of how ridiculous i was and that saved me like a young and every cry went through me like a knife i was on my knees on the floor pouring out tears like a watering pot trying to shut out the sound there is something in a baby s cry that is too much even for a sense of humor and no woman could have heard it without being overcome the of a saint i had so stopped my ears that although | 3 |
had loved according to his rough manner from a child began to fade faded more and sun and more from day to day shrank with instinctive pain from the thought of exchanging a word with if he had had good news to carry to her the honest captain would have the newly decorated house and splendid furniture � though these connected with the lady he had seen at church were awful to him � and made his way into her presence with a dark horizon gathering around their common hopes however that darkened every hour the captain almost felt as if he were a new misfortune and affliction to her and was scarcely less afraid of a visit from than from mrs herself it was a chill dark evening and captain had ordered a fire to be kindled in the little back parlor now more than ever like the cabin of a ship the rain fell fast the wind blew hard and out on the by that stormy bedroom of his old friend to take an observation of the weather the captain s heart died within him when he saw how wild and desolate it was not that he associated the weather of that time with poor walter s destiny or doubted that if providence had doomed him to be lost and it was over long ago but that beneath an outward influence quite distinct from the subject matter of his thoughts the captain s spirits sank and his hopes turned pale as those of wiser men had done before him and will often do again captain addressing his face to the sharp wind and rain looked up at the heavy that was flying fast over the wilderness of house tops and looked for something cheery there in vain the prospect near at hand was no better in sundry tea and other rough boxes at his feet the of rob the were like so many dismal breezes getting up a crazy of a with a at his eye once visible from the street but long out and complained upon his as the shrill blast spun him round and round and with him cruelly upon the captain s coarse blue the cold rain drops started like steel beads and he could hardly maintain himself against the stiff nor that came pressing against him to him over the and throw him on the below if there were any hope alive that evening and son s the captain thought as he held his hat on it certainly kept house wasn t out of doors so the captain shaking his head in a manner went in to look for t captain descended slowly to the little back parlor and seated in his accustomed chair looked for it in the fire but it was not there though the fire was bright he took out his tobacco box and pipe and himself to smoke looked for it in the red glow from the bowl and in the wreaths of that curled upward from his lips but there was not so much as an of the of hope s anchor in either he tried a glass of but melancholy truth was at the bottom of that well and he couldn t finish it he made a turn or two in the shop and looked for hope among the instruments but they worked out for the missing ship in spite of any opposition he could offer that ended at the bottom of the lone sea the wind still rushing and the rain still against the closed shutters the captain brought to before the wooden upon the counter and thought as he dried the little officer s uniform with his sleeve how many years the had seen during which few changes � hardly any � had among his ship s company how the changes had come all together one day as it might be and of what a sweeping kind they were here was the little society of the back parlor broken up and scattered far and wide here was no audience for lovely even if there had been anybody to sing it which there was not for the captain was as morally certain that nobody but he could execute that ballad as he was that he had not the spirit under existing circumstances to attempt it there was no bright face of r in the house � here the captain transferred his sleeve for a moment from the s uniform to his own cheek � the familiar wig and buttons of were a vision of the past richard was knocked on the head and every plan and project in with the lay without mast or on the waste of waters as the captain with a dejected face stood revolving these thoughts and the partly in the tenderness of old acquaintance and partly in the absence of his mind a and son at the shop door communicated a frightful start to the frame of rob the seated on the counter whose large eyes bad been intently on the captain s face and who had been within himself for the five time whether the captain could have done a murder that he had such an evil conscience and was always running away what s that said captain softly somebody s captain answered rob the the captain with an abashed and guilty air immediately on tip toe to the little parlor and locked himself in rob opening the door would have with the visitor on he threshold if the visitor had come in female guise but the figure being of the male sex and rob s orders only applying to women rob held the door open and allowed it to enter which it did very quickly glad to get out of the driving rain a job for and co at any rate said the visitor looking over his shoulder at his own legs which were very wet and covered with oh | 8 |
a fellow just what i was about to ask you replied and i was also going to remark that we hadn t seen friend up at the residence no yet i can t help thinking he has something them all the same returned he swore at me by some old infernal place oi dare say he s an too but never i what do you think of her v turned lazily round in the boat so that companion well old fellow if you ask me frankly i think most beautiful woman i ever saw or for that matter of and i am an impartial critic � perfectly impartial and resting on his oar he dipped the blade out of the water watching the bright drops fall with r as they from the polished wood and in the late sunshine like coloured jewels then he curiously at philip who sat silent but whose face was and earnest � even noble with that shade of profound upon it he looked like one who had suddenly in which there was not only pride but tenderness shook himself together as he himself would have and touched his friend s arm half you ve met the king s daughter of after all and his light accents had a touch of sadness in them an of the midnight sun ii on some persons of importance in the ic till now forgotten lied in his cheery sing song c have amused ourselves our dear r that is astonishing we have not e have made mr our l we have him he is gods or for no god � just as we pull wh that amiable religion is and together jove of humour in his the or wine as take a good do e of it � a he sat and fell it would have you of his the pleasant lanes of tiger to send them about him with the � i tell you he was glad and he said it was devilish then another and then i down and he had a up in all his strength drank the whole of it en him afterwards � his head till his a mad cow of the boat and laughed i picture as did the others said z with delighted mischief httle dark eyes the dear religious us he spoke thickly but we could under c was very impressive he is quite of my opinion ai religion is nonsense fable � man is the � woman his creature and subject again � man woman make up divinity necessity law he was quite clear on that point why did he preach what he did not believe we asked he almost wept he replied that the children of this world liked fairy stories and he was paid to tell them it was his bread and butter � would we wish him to have no bread and butter we assured him so cruel a thought had no place in our hearts then he is � yes the good fat man is he would have become a priest but on close examination of the he saw there was no possibility of seeing much less kissing a lady penitent through the grating so he gave up that idea i in his form of faith he can kiss he says � he does kiss � always a holy kiss of course he is so � so delightfully frank � it is quite charming they laughed again sir philip looked somewhat disgusted what an old brute he must be he said somebody ought to kick him � a holy kick of course and therefore more intense and forcible other you i i laughed and well all follow suit hell be like that indian in who rolled himself into a ball no one could resist kicking as long as the ball bounded before them � we shall not be able to resist if s fat person is once left at our mercy that was a grand bit he told us resumed you should have heard him talk about his love affair the soft of a man that he is to be making up to any woman at that moment they ran alongside of the and threw up their oars stop a bit said tell us the rest on board the ladder was lowered they mounted it and their boat was hauled up to its place go on i said throwing himself lazily into a deck and lighting a cigar while the others leaned against the rails and followed his example go on sandy � this is fun s must be amusing i suppose he s after that ugly wooden block of a woman we saw at his house who is so zealous for the true gospel not a bit of it replied sandy with immense gravity the old has better taste he says there s a young running the land of the midnight sun after him fit to break her heart about him � poor thing she must have very little choice of men he hasn t quite made up his mind though he admits she s as fine a as any man need require he s sorely afraid she has set herself to catch him as he says she s an eye like a for a really strong good looking fellow like himself and chuckled audibly maybe he ll take pity on her maybe he won t the will be sorely by him from all he told us in his cups he gave us her name � the in the world for sure � i can t just now remember it i can said it struck me as quaint and pretty � started so violently and flushed so deeply that was afraid of some rash outbreak of wrath on his part but he restrained himself by a strong effort he merely took his cigar from his mouth and puffed a light cloud of smoke into the | 33 |
attorney had already observed looking out of a window at the of was talking to the meeting appeared to be one of new recognition for christian was saying � you ve not got gray as i have mr you re not a day older for the sixteen years but no wonder you didn t know me i m like a dried bone not so it is true i was confused a � i could put your face nowhere but after that came behind it and i said mr and so you reside at the and i am at court ah it s a thousand you re not on our side else we might have dined together at the said christian � h could you manage it he added languidly knowing there was no chance of a yes no � much couldn t leave the boy any pinch not poor while was answering christian had stared about him as his manner was when he was being spoken to and had had his eyes arrested by who was leaning forward to look at mr s extraordinary little of a son but happening to meet christian s stare she felt annoyed drew back and turned away her head who are those ladies said christian in a low tone to as if he had been startled into a sudden wish for this information they are s daughters said who knew nothing either of the lawyer s family or of the radical christian looked a moment or two and was silent h well � he said kissing the tips of his fingers as the coachman having had s order began to urge on the horses does he see some likeness in the girl thought as he turned away i wish i hadn t invited her to come in the carriage as it happens chapter xx good air of an excellent quaint pattern and o r the market dinner at the was in high in and its neighborhood the of this three and six penny ordinary liked to allude to it as men allude to any thing which that they move in good society and habitually converse with those who are in the secret of the highest affairs the guests were not only such rural as had driven to market but some of the most substantial who had always assured their wives that business required this weekly sacrifice of domestic pleasure the poorer farmers who put up at the ram or the seven stars where there was no fish felt their disadvantage bearing it modestly or bitterly as the case might be and although the was a tory house devoted to it was too much to expect that such tenants of the as had always been used to dine there should consent to eat a worse dinner and sit with worse company because they suddenly found themselves under a radical landlord opposed to the political party known as sir s hence the recent political divisions had not reduced the handsome length of the table at the and the many of dignity � from mr the to the rich butcher from who always modestly took the lowest seat though without the reward of being asked to come up higher � had not been by any � � to day there was an extra table spread for expected and it was at this that christian took his place with some of the younger farmers who had almost a sense of in talking to a man of his questionable station and unknown experience the provision was especially liberal and on the whole the presence of a destined to vote for was a ground for joking which added to the good humor of the chief a respectable old acquaintance turned radical rather against his will was rallied with even greater than if his wife had had twice over the best were far too to turn against such old friends and to make no distinction between them and the radical set with whom they never dined and probably never saw except in their imagination but the talk was necessarily in until the more serious business of dinner was ended and the wine spirits and o raised mere satisfaction into among the frequent though not regular guests whom every one was glad to see was mr the retired london a old gentleman past seventy whose square tight forehead with its ri d hedge of gray hair whose eyebrows sharp dark eyes arid re nose gave a handsome dis to his face in the midst of rural he had married a miss early in life when he was a poor young and the match had been thought as bad as ruin by her family but fifteen years ago he had had the satisfaction of bringing his wife to settle among her own friends and of being received with pride as a brother jn law retired from business possessed of unknown and of a most agreeable talent for and conversation generally no question had ever been raised as to mr s on the strength of his nose or of his name being hebrew names ran in the best saxon families the bible accounted for them and no one among the and of that district was suspected of having an oriental origin unless he carried a s certainly whatever might have discovered the worthy was so free any marks of religious persuasion he went to church with so ordinary an and so often grumbled at the sermon that there was no ground for him otherwise than with good he was generally regarded as a good looking old gentleman and a certain thin eagerness in his aspect was attributed to the life of the metropolis where narrow space had the same sort of on men as on thickly planted trees mr always ordered his pint of port which after he had it a little was wont to his recollections of the royal family and the various | 14 |
one word while he is writing ah colonel that was an unlucky idea of yours of mine general twas you proposed to cast lots good god so it was i thought of course it was to be managed so that should not be the one between ourselves what honourable excuse can we make � none general colonel the whole division will be disgraced and forgive me if i say a large portion of the shame will fall on you � help me to that shame then cried e h s � ah that i will but how take pencil and write � i colonel to save the honour the of the division the general hesitated he had never seen an order � he hesitated for a moment but at last he out his pencil and wrote the required order after his on fashion � t e in milk and water � on account of the singular ability and wa which colonel has conducted the against the st a power is him at the moment of assault to carry into effect � � l as without interfering with the commander chief s order may sustain his own credit � md that of other of the second division of division put the paper into his bosom now general you may leave all to me i swear to shall not die � shall not lead this assault your hand colonel you are an our to the armies how will you do it leave it to me general it shall be done i feel it will my noble fellow but alas i fear not without some valuable life or other most likely own tell me general i refuse you refuse me sir yes this order gives me a power i hand back the order at your command but it i will not come you have unjust to me and listened to me too little all through siege but at last you have honoured me this order is the greatest honour that was ever done me since i wore a my poor colonel i let me wear it and carry it to my grave white lies t say no more i one word � is there anything on earth i can do for you my brave soldier ye general be so kind as to retire to your quarters there are reasons why you ought not to be near this post in half an hour i go is there nothing else well general ask the good priest to pray for all those who shall die doing their duty to their country this afternoon they parted looked back more than once at the firm figure that stood there with folded arms on the edge of the grave but he never took his eye off the next minute sad letter was finished and he walked out of the tent and confronted the man he had to single combat i have mentioned elsewhere that colonel had eyes strangely of battle and love of the dove and the hawk and these softened by a noble act he meditated now rested on with a ion of warmth and goodness this strange gaze struck bo far at least as this he saw no hostile eye he was glad of tliat for his own heart was by the solemn prospect before him we too have a little account to settle before i order out the men said he calmly and i can t give you long credit i am pressed for time now even while he was uttering these few words quick as lightning resolved to let have his own way what on earth did it matter to him i and he felt a sudden and natural longing to take this man s hand not because had once been his benefactor but because he was going to be s benefactor � and things are changed when duty sounds the recall a soldier s heart leaves private quarrels see i i come to you without anger and ill will just now my voice was loud my manner i dare say offensive and menacing white even and that always a brave fellow like resist but now you see i am harmless as a woman are alone to the winds i know that j t� the only man fit to command a division in this army i that when you say the assault of that is death it is to the point then now that my is m i longer now that i am going to die i din my old comrade have you the heart to refuse me j i to die unhappy i will do whatever you like you will marry that poor girl then yes yes did not i always say he was a good fellow the nail give me your honour i give you my honour to marry her if i live you take a load off me heaven reward you in one hour those poor women whose support i had promised o be will lose their protector but i give them another in you we shall not leave that family in tears in shame aad your child without a name my child and he looked amazed what new deception was this poor little fellow i surprised him in his cradle his mother and were rocking him and singing over him oh i it was a scene i can tell you my poor wife had been ill for some time and was so weakened by it that i frightened her into a fit stealing a march on her that way she fainted away perhaps it is as well she did for i� i did not know what to think it looked ugly but while she lay at our feet insensible i forced the truth from she owned the boy was hers while told him this strange story turned hot and cold first came a thrill of glowing joy he had the clue | 9 |
not to one or of tbe forms just as you or i greet an old acquaintance having gone mysterious and ceremony down on tbe table immediately under tbe and began so far as i could make out to offer up prayers to it tbe spectacle of wicked old creature pouring out evil ones no doubt to tbe enemy of mankind was so tbat it caused us to our inspection now said i in a low voice � one did not dare to speak above a in tbat place � lead us to tbe tbe old creature promptly scrambled down off tbe table my lords are not afraid said up into my face lead on by ic solomon s mines good my lords and she round to the back of the great death here is the chamber let my lords light the lamp and enter and she placed the full of oil upon the floor and leaned herself against the side of the cave i took out a match of which we still had a few in a box and lit the rush and then looked for the doorway but there was nothing before us but the solid rock grinned the way is there my lords do not jest with us i said sternly i jest not my lords see i and she pointed at the rock as she did so on holding up the lamp we perceived that a mass of stone was slowly rising from the floor and vanishing into the rock above where doubtless there was a prepared to receive it the mass was of the width of a good sized door about ten feet high and not less than five feet thick it must have weighed at least twenty or thirty tons and was clearly moved upon some simple balance principle probably the same as that upon which the opening and shutting of an ordinary modem window is arranged how the principle was set in motion of course none of us saw was careful to avoid that but i have little doubt that there was some very simple which was moved ever so little by pressure on a secret spot thereby throwing additional weight on to the hidden and causing the whole huge mass to be lifted from the ground very slowly and gently the great stone raised itself till at last it had vanished altogether and a dark hole presented itself to us in the place which it had filled our excitement was so intense as we saw the way to solomon s treasure chamber at last thrown i for by ic king solomon s mines one began to tremble and shake would it prove a after all i wondered or was old da right and were there vast of wealth stored in that dark place which would make us the richest men in the whole world we should know in a minute or two enter white men from the stars said advancing into the doorway but first hear your servant the old the bright stones that ye will see were dug out of the pit over which the silent ones are set and stored here i know not by whom but once has this place been entered since the time that those who stored the stones departed in haste leaving them behind the report of the treasure went down among the people who lived in the country from age to age but none knew where the chamber was nor the secret of the door but it happened that a white man reached this country from over the mountains perchance he too came from the stars and was well received of the king of the day he it is who sits yonder and she pointed to the fifth king at the table of the dead and it came to pass that he and a woman of the country who was with him came to this place and that by chance the woman learned the secret of the door � a thousand years might ye search but ye should never find it then the white man entered with the woman and found the stones and filled with the skin of a small goat which the woman had with her to hold food and as he was going from the chamber he took up one more stone a large one and held it in his hand here she paused well i asked breathless with interest as we all were what happened to da the old started at the mention of the name by ic solomon s how thou the dead man s name she asked sharply and then without waiting for an answer went on � none knew what happened but it came about that the white man was frightened for he flung down the with the stones and fled out with only the one stone in his hand and that the king took and it is the stone that thou take from s brows have none entered here since i asked peering again down the dark passage none my lords only the secret of the door hath been kept and every king hath opened it though he hath not entered there is a saying that those who enter there will die within a moon even as the white man died in the cave upon the mountain where ye found him ha mine are true words our eyes met as she said it and i turned sick and cold how did the old know all these things enter my lords if i speak truth the goat skin with the stones will lie upon the floor and if there is truth as to whether it is death to enter here that will ye learn afterwards ha ha ha and she through the doorway bearing the light with her but i confess that once more i hesitated about following oh confound it all said good here goes i am not | 18 |
in addition to its wares and their attendants and these make no impression on the vast capacity of london while they go away as soon as they have satisfied their curiosity and ceased to attend the fair giving place to others who require no more room than they did i suspect theirs are not the only calculations which will be disappointed by the ultimate issues of the world s exhibition ths my first day in paris was sunday so after breakfast i repaired to the famous modern church of the one of the finest in europe this was the day of and by the church the spacious edifice was filled in every part though at least a thousand went out at the close of the earlier service before the attendance was fullest i was never before in a place of worship so gorgeous as this over the main altar there is a magnificent picture on the largest scale to represent the progress of civilization from christ s day to s napoleon being the central figure in the while the and the virgin mary occupy a similar position in the rear in every part the church is very richly and i pre ornamented i did not comprehend the service and cannot describe it the and the swinging of and ringing of bells the frequent appearance and disappearance of a band of dressed priests or bearing what looked like were inexplicable dumb show to me and most of them unlike any at thing i remember to have seen in american catholic churches the music was generally fine especially that of a chorus of young boys and the general bearing of the people in attendance that of reverence and interest peace be with all whatever their with all who send up holy thoughts on high but i could not bring myself to like the continual circulation of several officials throughout almost the entire service collecting rents for seats they were let very cheap and begging money for the poor of the church as a stout gross herald who preceded the loudly proclaimed i think this collection should have been taken before or after the mass there was no sermon up to one o clock when i left with nearly all the audience though there may have been one afterward i xv the future of france paris wednesday june will the french republic withstand the of its enemies is a question of importance with regard to the political future not of france only but of europe and more of the world even and stifled as the republic now is � a and blind in the toils of the � it is still a potent fact and its very name is a word of fear to the grand conspiracy of and who are intent i n pushing europe back at the point of the into the and thick darkness of the ages it is the french republic which with nightmare visions the of the russian and him to summon of his kings at and at � it is the overthrow of the french republic whether by open assault or by sinister which the attention of those and kindred throughout europe out the light and then put out the light is the general and the fact that the actual republic is reasonably moderate peaceful so far from their hostility only it can never feel safe in his exaltation so long as the jew is seen sitting at the king s gate and if france is to be a republic the and of europe would far sooner see her bloody bs at turbulent and intent on conquest than tranquil and a republic absolutely ruled by and would be far less appalling in the eyes of the privileged luxurious and idle classes of europe than one peacefully pursuing its career under the guidance of de or while in england i could not but smile at the by the press and readily as well as diffused by the fortunate classes with regard to the deplorable condition of france and the absolute necessity existing for some radical change in her government yes you get along very well with a republic in the united states where you had cheap lands a vast and fertile wilderness common schools and a general reverence for religion and order to begin with but just look at france � such was and is a very general line of argument if the french had been equally into and their hopeless state could hardly have been referred to more all this time france was as tranquil as england herself and decidedly more prosperous though annoyed and by the incessant of in her and other exalted stations to her to sway a may often seem less wealthy and prosperous than his dashing lavish neighbor france may not display so much plate on the of her and as england does but every day adds to her ability to display it while great britain and the united states have undertaken to with each other in free trade france holds fast to the principle of protection with scarcely a division in her on the subject and she is consequently in silence the wealth created by other nations the gold which mainly comes to new york in payment for goods but on that gold england has a running fast to maturity for the goods were in ram future of part bought of her and we owe her for millions worth beside but france has a similar on it for the grain supplied to england to feed the of the goods and it has hardly reached the bank of england before it is on its way to paris a great share of the golden of the of the and san now find their resting place here but what asks a say if they do is n t all commerce an exchange of must we not buy in order to sell isn t gold a | 19 |
a small man the skirts of which reached a little below his waist the buttons were between his shoulders and the sleeves half way to his wrists ao that his hands looked like a couple of huge � and the coat not being large to meet in front was linked together by made of a pair of red another had an old cocked hat stuck on the back of his decorated with a bunch of g of fort � a third had a pair of rusty hanging about his heels � while a fourth who was short and duck legged was equipped in a huge pair of tlie general s cast off breeches which he held up with one hand while he grasped his with the other the rest were in similar style excepting three i who had no shirts and but a pair ana a half of breeches between them wherefore they were sent to the black hole to keep them out of view there is nothing in which the talents of a prudent commander are more completely than in thus setting matters off to the greatest advantage and it is for tliis that our frontier posts at the present day that of for example display their best suit of re i on the back of the who stands in sight of s his men being thus gallantly arrayed � those who lacked and and every man being ordered to in his shirt tail and pull up his general von first took a sturdy draught of foaming ale which the more of was his invariable practice on all great � � as as he rose to make him strong and mighty he drank by the tale six pots of ale and a of meeting of the two heroes occasions � which done he put himself at their head ordered the pine which served as a draw bridge to be laid down and issued forth from his castle like a mighty giant just refreshed with wine but when the two heroes met then began a scene of warlike parade and courtesy that beggars all description � who as i before hinted was a shrewd cunning and had grown gray much before his time in consequence of his saw at one glance the ruling passion of the great von and humoured him in all his their were accordingly drawn up in front of each other they carried arms and they presented arms they gave the standing salute and the passing salute � they rolled their drums and flourished their and they waved their colours � they faced to the left and they faced to the right and they faced to the right about � they wheeled forward and they wheeled backward and they wheeled into � they marched and they by grand divisions by single divisions and by � by by sections and by � in quick time in slow time and in no time at ill for having gone through all the of two great including the eighteen o having x survey op the could recollect or imagine of military including sundry strange and irregular tlie like of which were never seen before or since excepting among certain of our newly raised the two great and their respective troops came at length to a dead halt completely exhausted by the toils of war � never did two train band captains or two heroes in tlie renowned of tom thumb or any other and fighting tragedy their duck legged heavy with more glory and self admiration these military compliments being finished general von escorted his illustrious with great ceremony into the fort attended him throughout the showed him the horn works crown works half and various other or rather the places where they ought to be erected and where they might be erected if he pleased plainly that it was a place of great and though at present but a little yet hat it evidently was a formidable fortress in this survey over he next had the whole garrison put under arms exercised and and concluded by ordering the three birds to be hauled out of the black hole brought up to the and soundly an afternoon s campaign for the amusement of his and to convince him that he was a great the cunning while he pretended to be struck dumb outright with the of the great von took silent note of the of his garrison of which he gave a hint to his followers who tipped each other the wink and laughed most � in their sleeves the inspection review and being concluded the party to the table for among his other great qualities the general was remarkably to huge or rather and in one afternoon s would leave more dead men on the field than he ever did in the whole course of his military career many of these do still remain on record and the whole province was once thrown in by the return of one of his wherein it was stated that though like captain he had only twenty men to back him yet in the short space of six months he had conquered and utterly sixty oxen ninety one hundred sheep ten thousand one thousand of potatoes one hundred and fifty of small beer two thousand seven hundred and thirty five pipes seventy eight pounds of sugar and forty bars of iron � ar von s banquet small game poultry and garden stuff � an achievement since the days of and his all devouring army and which showed that it was only necessary to let potent von and his garrison loose in an enemy s country and in a little while they would breed a famine and starve all the inhabitants no sooner therefore had the general received the first intimation of the visit of governor than he ordered a great dinner to be prepared and privately sent out a of bis most experienced to | 48 |
take on a shade of green while about their roots busy family groups are at work upon the soft grassy nest which soon contains their pretty o eggs all goes well unless some wandering breaks rudely in upon the happy pair and leaves a scene of ruin behind early in july the parents have a brood of full grown young which they straightway introduce to the vicinity of the houses where we soon find them in fall possession of the of the fort and ready to join in friendly companionship with the white crowns and young long spurs the crew associate in the most congenial way during this season of plenty and a crew they make all clad in dingy and dull each apparently without an object in life but to himself on the abundance of food which the plants begin to shower down ere long however the cold storms of autumn announce the approach of winter and send many of the more sensitive off to a climate september passes the and cold are more severe and as this month ends and october begins the last of the pass on to a this species on the shores of sound as far north as bushes are found i have no record of its occurrence on the adjacent shore although it is undoubtedly found on the it can scarcely be expected to occur upon any of the islands in sea from their bleak and character ji the black snow this is perhaps the most uncommon found upon the american shore of sea and can be noted merely as a from the interior of pretty regular occurrence in spring of in the ocean it is rarely seen more than two or three times daring the season at saint at the month it is rather more common it at this latter in small numbers and is also found in the vicinity of sound and bay as specimens brought me from those by natives indicate it is unknown from the shore to the islands of sea the among the peculiar birds found on the this is one of the most remarkable it forms the giant among its kin and would scarcely be connected with its eastern relative by one not familiar with the links in the chain which unite them it extends its range from the of the east to island it has been described under various names by the older who secured it during the occupation of the territory but as in many other instances the most of our knowledge of its life history and distribution is mainly the result of work done since the country changed owners during a brief residence at in the islands in may became somewhat familiar with the habits of this bird at that season and during the stay of the at the same place in the fall of i was pleased to renew the at another season they were common in both seasons and frequented in autumn as in spring tlie vicinity of the shore with a preference for points where great masses of rock lie at the water s edge or the rugged slope of the cliff reaches out into the bay it is the habit of this bird to hop from rock to rock and scramble about along their inclined faces searching for their food close to the water s edge where it on the small marine animals by the falling water oi living there between the tide lines the male frequently to the top of some convenient point and his short rather hard but pleasant song this song consists of several loud hard notes the first two the and most musical the others rather harsh as might be expected the size of the bird the song is stronger and louder than that of its relative the familiar song during the entire time of our stay at in september and october the showed their appreciation every pleasant day by passing a considerable portion of their time upon the roof of the at the wharf or other conspicuous position elsewhere uttering their song at short intervals this stood beside the wharf to which we were and the passing to and fro of the men handling cargo or attending to other duty made a scene of bustling activity in spite of this the bird was sure to be found whenever the weather favored at other times he could be found with one or two companions searching the sandy beach close by for food the common in summer along the coast of sound and extends its range north to the shores of sound its loud clear song rises from every patch of of any size along this stretch of coast and the birds upon their first arrival about the last of may come boldly about the dwellings uttering their loud clear song from the roofs of the and other convenient stand points at the mouth it is very common and i found its song one of the most musical and striking among the very scanty choir which the advent of summer at that remote place it is unknown from any of the islands in s sea as well as from the shore its range extends within the interior of the circle although the lack of bushes along the coast limits its occurrence except on the shores of the two sounds named s this species is admitted here solely by reason of the of s a as this bird one thing is certain and that is that since s type no specimen of this bird has been secured at although numerous have visited that op steamer in the ocean and paid special attention to its neither has the bird been found on any of the eastern islands of the chain which renders its occurrence here still more improbable occurs here however in three distinct one of which answers fairly to the very insufficient description given by the nearest where has | 28 |
doctrines and instructions a of youth of these charges the there is every for believing honestly found him guilty and condemned the man who probably of all then bom had deserved best of mankind to be put to death as a criminal the cry for justice s from the of o speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty i e by m see page i hear footsteps over my head all night they come and they go again they come and they go all night they come one eternity in four paces and they go one eternity in four paces and between the coming and the going there is silence and the night and the infinite for infinite are the nine feet of a prison cell and endless is the march of him who walks between the yellow brick wall and the red iron gate thinking things that cannot be chained and cannot be locked but that wander far away in the world each in a wild pilgrimage after a destined goal � � � � � � � throughout the restless night i hear the footsteps over my head who walks i know not it is the phantom of the jail the sleepless brain a man the man the one � two � three � four four paces and the wall one � two � three � four four paces and the iron gate he has measured his space he has measured it accurately as the measures the rope and the grave the � so many feet many inches so many of an inch for each of tbe four paces one � two � three � four each step sounds heavy and hollow over my head and the echo of each step sounds within my head as i count them in suspense and in that once perhaps in the endless walk there may be five steps instead of four between the yellow brick wall and the red iron gate but he has measured the space so accurately so so that nothing breaks the grave of the slow fantastic march � � � a all the sounds of the living beings and things and all the noises of the night i have heard in my wistful i have heard the of him who a thing that is dead and the sighs of him who tries to a thing that will not die i have heard the stifled sobs of the one who with his head under the coarse blanket and the of the one who with his forehead on the hard cold stone of the floor i have heard him who laughs the shrill sinister laugh of folly at the horror on the yellow wall and at the red eyes of the nightmare glaring through the iron bars i have heard in the sudden icy silence him who a dry ringing cough and wished madly that his throat would not rattle so and that he would not spit on the floor for no sound was more than that of his upon the floor i have heard him who oaths which i listen to in reverence and awe for they are than the virgin s prayer s the cry for justice and i have heard most terrible of all the silence of two hundred brains all possessed by one single desperate thought all this i have heard in the watchful night and the murmur of the wind beyond the walls and the of a distant bell and the of the rain and the remotest echoes of the sorrowful city and the terrible wild mad of the one heart which is nearest to my heart all this have i heard in the still night but nothing is louder harder more awful than the footsteps i hear over my head all night � � � � a all through the night he walks and he thinks is it more frightful because he walks and his footsteps sound hollow over my head or because he thinks and speaks not his thoughts but does he think why should he think do i think i only hear the footsteps and count them four steps and the wall four steps and the gate but beyond beyond where goes he beyond the gate and the wall he does not go beyond his thought breaks there on the iron gate perhaps ic breaks like a wave of rage perhaps like a sudden flow of hope but it always returns to beat the wall like a of helplessness and despair he walks to and fro within the narrow of this ever and furious thought only one thought � constant fixed immovable without power and without voice a thought of madness frenzy agony and despair a hell thought for it is a natural thought all natural are things impossible while there are in the world � bread work happiness peace love but he thinks not of this as he walks he thinks of the most the most the most impossible thing in the world he thinks of a small brass key that turns just half and throws open the red iron gate that is all the thinks as he walks throughout the night and that is what two hundred minds drowned in the darkness and the silence of the night think and that b also what i think wonderful is the supreme wisdom of the jail that makes all think the same thought is the providence of the law that all even in mind and sentiment fallen is the last barrier of privilege the aristocracy of the intellect the of reason has all the two minds to the common surface of the same thought i who have never killed think like the murderer i who have never stolen reason like the thief i think reason wish hope doubt wait like the hired the the the the the the the the i i | 21 |
the citizens of each stale shall exercise all the privilege and of citizens in the several it follows that they can and do in every case procure the issue of to take into in every part of the united states escaping from another part when lodged in jail a demand is made of the ex officer to deliver them up in order that they may be tried where alone they ou bt to be tried � at home where commit i the where i tv ii e v � s � � v to be and i oe � w o um cf america i i i of this is ly to the of england as it until th� act under which mr justice john on was to england to be tried tor a crime al d to have been committed in ireland it is in fact nothing more than the of a to u state an it is limited in england to a county there is no instance of a in of this law for as we shall now proceed to prove the e of gen has nothing to do with the subject the sole cause why mr was not apprehended in the state of new york and afterwards in other states where he remained was that no person felt sufficient interest in the to take upon the trouble of the for thai mr can say on the subject the public and hope always will make a distinction between and midnight we tliat no criminal has ever escaped justice in the united states in of this pretended in our legal system a writer blind to these distinctions or capable of them to his purpose is certainly not particularly qualified to write a on our laws or to improvements tne author is more to be relied on when he what several american writers have truly asserted before him that il c travellers who have in the other extreme by giving false and opinions of the state of this country and the character it were generally governed by prejudice or disappointment in their ridiculous and notions of perfection which no country ever did or ever will realize he speaks truly of and j whose were heretofore detected and exposed in a variety of while at the same time he the reader to consult m one of the most of the tribe mr it seems may also be consulted with advantage with the exception of some against england as the author terms it with his usual politeness of phrase mr then his remarks by stating that his great object in this work is not what he before as we have just quoted but to give a faithful portrait a living the habits and condition of our intelligent spirited people that be ere long and night l this period to have been better known and more appreciated by the and of europe this is a in and we will proceed to show how he has contrived to make the work answer a purpose directly at with hi professed intention first chapter treating of the aspect population ic of the united opens with a reference to the writers who have furnished the most and particular accounts of the economy ami proposed u and even here at the outset he is guilty va n w� � in not he reader lu to � � a c v o ef america at i knowledge the actual o the country have that of e works were written ago and that the rapid march of this nation hu left them other than that of of pa l rather than accurate representation t of the present caution however have birth to an awkward why mr d h in hit and great work of right years had nut h proper to it was perhaps good policy to be silent on this mr then proceeds to notice tlie great physical of wealth and io our home and the which nature has given to it as to and tlie mind by boldness and denying at the same lime that much in to be lai tjie ind di p n of natural scenery an ting the moral and political character of the people i and other m and mr do much of lo circumstance ns scenery soil he but the physical of greece and rome are the now si in the days of and plain of and how now are the of and f rum a such it tbe power of t not only render man great and but to render country for its allotted hour lord of the over other at while the individual into and makes their country the of witness greece once the pride and terror of world now a to the and � witness once mistress of the earth now a of a superstition to tbe but faint gleam of prior to the reign of the imperial charles the fifth s was i nation in power of her kings was all order were to on equal in diet maintained an entire on the in church site and in every walk of science and s and controlled every other european is the and of superstition the victim of t ignorant helpless � a prey lo the m nt and religious bondage yet tjie plains and on as wide a the range of the chain of the the mountains of the lift their ai proudly tu the skies now io the darkest hour of spanish ami as in her brightest day of civil religious � ly heroism and illumination the character of therefore is formed by physical but by causes and ns government religion laws and which will bet after he shown at length from this passage it would appear tliat mr the word freedom as conveying the ideas of an citizen with i� it may therefore lie per to nut the r� � j � j � r t i | 48 |
the fires himself as he passed out again hovering slowly do n the long room she rose leaving on the hearth rug and followed him to the door i s the fruit of the tree has mrs not come in she asked not knowing why she wished to ask it out of the child s hearing no miss i looked in myself to see � she might have come by the side door she may have gone to her sitting room she s not upstairs th both paused then said what was she riding impulse miss the butler looked at his large responsible watch it s not late � he said more to himself than to her no has she been riding impulse lately no miss not since that day the mare nearly had her off i understood mr did not wish it went back to and the fairy tale � as she took up the thread of the princess s adventures she asked herself why she had ever had any hope of helping the seeds of disaster were in the poor creature s soul even when she appeared to be moved lifted out of herself her escaping impulses were always dragged back to the centre of hard distrust and resistance that sometimes forms the core of soft natures as she had answered her s previous appeal by her flight to the woman he disliked so she answered this one by riding the horse he feared s last illusions the is s the fruit of distance between two such natures was bad done well to remain away and with a rush her sympathies swept back to his side � � the came to one of the came to put another log on the fire then the of removing the tea table was performed � the that had so often on s nerves as she watched it a vague sense of the of the routine � a queer awed feeling that whatever happened a machine so perfectly adjusted would work on like a natural law she rose to look out of the window staring vainly into between the parted curtains as die turned back passing the writing table she noticed that s had made her to post her letters � an unusual o a glance at the void her that she was not too late for the mail � reminding her at the same time that it was r y three hours since had started on her ride � � she the foolishness of her foam e en in winter often rode for more than three and now that the da s were growing longer suddenly reassured ni out into the hall to carry lier of letters to the red pillar box bv the door as did so a cold blast struck the fruit of the tree her could it be that for once the routine of the house had been relaxed that one of the servants had left the outer door she walked over to the � yes both doors were wide the night rushed in on a vicious wind as she pushed the door shut she heard the dogs and on the threshold she crossed the and heard voices and the of feet in the darkness � then saw a lantern gleam suddenly shot out of the night � the lantern struck on his face stepping back pressed the electric button in the wall and the wide door step was abruptly illuminated with its huddled pushing breathing group black figures out of darkness strange faces distorted in the glare she cried and sprang forward but suddenly was before her his hand on her arm and as the dreadful group struggled by into the hall he her to him with a whisper the within there was a moment then like terror struck to their tasks every faculty was again at its post ing and taking observations the of the tree orders making her brain ring with the hum of a controlled activity she had known the sensation before � the ing ot terror and pity into this miraculous of thought and action but never had it snatched her from such depths oh thank heaven for her knowledge now � for the trained mind that could take com of her senses and bend them firmly to its service her well after a moment s fit of fear she pitied and the moment aware of its cause and respecting him for the way in which he rose above it into the dear air of through the first hours they worked shoulder to shoulder conscious of each other only as of kindred will powers stretched to the utmost of and activity and hardly speech or look to further swift co operation it was thus that she had known him in the hospital in the heal of his youthful zeal the doctor she liked best to work with because no other so tempered with judgment the great surgeon arriving from at midnight confirmed his there was injury to the other were summoned in haste and in the winter dawn tlie was � a and of the cord � � the fruit of the tree got a alone when the turned to the sick room other nurses were there now quickly and silently their she must call a halt clear her brain again decide rapidly what was to be done next oh if only the crawling hours could bring it was strange that there was no yet � no not strange after all since it was barely six in the morning and her message had not been despatched till seven the night before it was not unlikely that in that little southern settlement the office closed at six she stood in s sitting room her forehead pressed to the window pane her eyes straining out into the thin february darkness through which the morning star swam white as soon as she had yielded her place | 10 |
all the cost which that great good of loving you demands questioned my stores of patience half resolved to live resigned without a bliss whose threat touched you as well as me � and finally with of will returned to say you shall be free as now only accept the refuge shelter guard my love will give your freedom � then your words are hard well i accuse myself my love would be of your will again � my will o your will your silent would torture me and on that rack i should deny the good i yet believed in then i am the man whom you would love whom i refuse to love no i will live alone and pour my pain with passion into music where it turns to what is best within my better self i will not take for husband one who the thing my soul as good � the thing i hold worth striving suffering for to be a thing with easily or else the idol of a mind you are you strain my thought beyond its mark our lies not so deep as love � as union through a mysterious fitness that formal agreement it lies deep enough to the union if many a man degraded from the utmost right because the of his wife s small fears are little biting at his heel � how shall a woman keep her beneath a frost within her husband s eyes where coldness it is your sorrow that you love nay it is her sorrow that she may not love you woman it seems has power to love or not according to her will she has the will � i have � who am one woman � not to take that divide her will the man who me must wed my art � honour and cherish it not the is yet to come whose theory will weigh as with you against his love whose theory will plead beside his love himself a singer then who knows no life out of the opera books where tenor parts are found to suit him you are bitter forgive me seek the woman you deserve all grace all goodness who has not yet found a meaning in her life nor any end beyond yours the type and happily for the world yes happily let it excuse me that my kind is rare is its own security i would with all my soul i knew the man so rare that he could make your life as woman sweet to you as artist safe i can live but not live without the bliss of singing to the world and feeling all my world respond to me may it be lasting then we two must part i thank you from my heart for all farewell scene iii � a year later the same is standing looking towards the window with an air of uneasiness doctor doctor where is my patient fled escaped gone to is it dangerous doctor no no her throat is cured i only came to hear her try her voice had she yet sung no she had meant to wait for you she said the doctor has a right to my first song her gratitude was full of little plans but all were swept away like gathered flowers by sudden storm she saw this opera bill � loi it was a to sting her she turned pale snatched up her hat and said in haste i go to � to � none shall sing to night but me then rushed down stairs w doctor looking at his watch and this not long ago barely an hour doctor i will come again returning from at one doctor i feel a strange are you quite easy doctor she can take no harm twas time for her to sing her throat is well i it was a fierce attack and dangerous i had to use strong but � well at one dear we shall meet again scene iv � two hours later starts up looking towards the door enters followed by she throws herself on a chair which stands with its hack towards the door speechless not seeming to see anything casts a questioning terrified look at he his shoulders and lifts up his hands behind who sits like a helpless image while takes off her hat and mantle dear kneeling and taking her hands only speak to me your poor your hands are cold � clasp mine and warm them i will kiss them warm r looks at her an then draws away her hands and turning aside her face against the back of the chair rising and standing near doctor enters doctor news stirring news to day wonders come thick starting up at the first sound of his voice and speaking vehemently yes thick thick thick and you have murdered it murdered my voice � poisoned the soul in me and kept me living you never told me that your cruel were � a dead � a mud to crust and me yet hold me living in a deep deep tomb crying unheard for ever your are devils triumphs you can rob and keep a hell on the other side your cure where you can see your victim quivering between the teeth of torture � see a soul made keen by loss � all anguish with a good once known and gone turns and sinks back on her chair o misery misery you might have killed me might have let me sleep after my happy day and wake � not here in some new world � not here where all is faded flat � a feast broke off � all � words dull dull � a drum that in the air beating to melody which no man hears doctor after a moments silence a sudden check has shaken you poor child all things seem livid tottering to your sense from | 14 |
till her head was stronger he had talked of going down to for a week and wanted to persuade captain to go with him but as charles maintained to the last captain seemed much more disposed to ride over to there can be no doubt that lady and anne were both occasionally thinking of captain from this time lady could not hear the door bell without feeling that it might be his herald nor could anne return from any stroll of solitary in persuasion diligence in her father s grounds or any of charity in the village without wondering whether she might see him or hear of him captain came not however he was either less disposed for it than charles had imagined or he was too shy and after giving him a week s indulgence lady determined him to be unworthy of the interest which he had been beginning to excite the came back to receive their happy boys and girls from school bringing with them mrs s little children to improve the noise of and lessen that of remained with but all the rest of the family were again in their usual quarters lady and anne paid their compliments to them once when anne could not but feel that was already quite alive again though neither nor nor charles nor captain were there the room presented as strong a contrast as could be wished to the last state she had seen it in immediately surrounding mrs were the little whom she was guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the cottage expressly arrived to amuse them on one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls cutting up silk and gold paper and on the other were and bending under the weight of and cold where boys were holding high the whole completed by a roaring christmas fire which seemed determined to be heard in spite of all the noise of the others charles and mary also came in of course during their visit and mr made a point of paying his respects to lady and sat down close to her for ten minutes talking with a very raised voice but from the of the children on his persuasion knees generally in vain it was a fine anne judging from her own temperament would have deemed such a domestic a bad of the nerves which s illness must have so greatly shaken but mrs who got anne near her on purpose to thank her most cordially again and again for all her attentions to them concluded a short of what she had suffered herself by observing with a happy glance round the room that after all she had gone through nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home was now recovering her mother could even think of her being able to join their party at home before her brothers and sisters went to school again the had promised to come with her and stay at whenever she returned captain was gone for the present to see his brother in i hope i shall remember in future said lady as soon as they were in the carriage not to call at in the christmas holidays everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters and sounds are quite or most distressing by their sort rather than their quantity when lady not long afterwards was entering bath on a wet afternoon and driving through the long course of streets from the old bridge to place amidst the dash of other carriages the heavy of carts and the of men and and the ceaseless of she made no complaint no these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures her spirits rose under their influence and like mrs she was though not saying that after being long in the persuasion country nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness anne did not share these feelings she persisted in a very determined though very silent for bath caught the first dim view of the extensive buildings smoking in rain without any wish of seeing them better felt their progress through the streets to be however disagreeable yet too rapid for who would be glad to see her when she arrived and looked back with fond regret to the of and the seclusion of elizabeth s last letter had communicated a piece of news of some interest mr was in bath he had called in place had called a second time a third had been attentive if elizabeth and her father did not deceive themselves had been taking as much pains to seek the acquaintance and proclaim the value of the connection as he had formerly taken pains to show neglect this was very wonderful if it were true and lady was in a state of very agreeable curiosity and perplexity about mr already the sentiment she had so lately expressed to mary of his being a man whom she had no wish to see she had a great wish to see him if he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch he must be forgiven for having himself from the paternal tree anne was not animated to an equal pitch by the circumstance but she felt that she would rather see mr again than not which v as more than she could say for many other persons in bath she was put down in place and lady then drove to her own lodgings in rivers street persuasion c sir walter had taken a very good house in place a lofty dignified situation such as becomes a man of consequence and both he and elizabeth were settled there much to their satisfaction anne entered it with a sinking heart an imprisonment of many months and anxiously saying to herself oh when shall i leave you again a degree of unexpected cordiality however in the | 26 |
was this mixture in my character on the wh j by do means recognised the wi t worth t i t i am to call myself to t i on i suggest i have yoa say i am i know lave in life and tl t alone that is being very and of � in don t you you know tl eyes on the fire which i thought kind of him hen my dear i cannot tell you t i feel aud how exposed of chances avoiding forbidden ground st now i may still say that on the constancy no person all my expectations and at the best how indefinite and to know so vaguely what they are in is i relieved my mind of what had always i more or less though no doubt most e replied in his gay hope it seems to me that in the despondency of � passion we are looking into our gift horse s h a glass likewise it seems to our attention on that overlook one of the beat points of d didn t you tell that guardian en told you in the beginning that you were red with only and even if he ld you so � though that is a very if � could you believe that of all men in london re is the man to hold his present unless be were sure of m i r not deny that was a a x it people often do so in cases like a ther concession to and justice i wanted to deny it t should it was a point said and i should think yon would be puzzled to a stronger as to the rest must hide his time you ll bo and before yon where you are and then you l get ft ther at all events you ll be getting it for it come at last what a hopeful disposition you have admiring his cheery ways i ought to have said for i have much else i must acknowledge by the by that f good sense of what i have just said is not my o but my father s the only remark i ever heard make on your was the final one the thing settled and done or mr would not be in and now before i say anything more about my fat or my father s son and repay confidence with i want to make myself seriously disagreeable you for a moment � positively repulsive you won t succeed said i oh yes i said he one two three a bow i am in for it my good fellow j he spoke in this light tone be was very much earnest i have been thinking since wo have bo talking with our feet on this that cannot be a condition of inheritance if she never referred to by your guardian am i right in wliat you have to i me aa � fc ta r to her directly ox s even d fur instance that patron might j ve views as to your marriage ultimately now i am quite free from the of grapes upon my soul and not being � i to her can yoa not from her i told yon i should be i turned my head aside for with a rush and a like the old marsh winds coming up from the wa a feeling like which had subdued me on the when i left the when the mists wore rising and when i laid my hand npon the finger post smote upon my heart again there silence between us for a little while yea but my dear went on aa we had been talking instead of silent it s having � � ii go strongly rooted in the breast of a boy whom and circumstances made so romantic renders it � ry serious think of her bringing up and think of think of what she is herself now i and you me this may lead � things i know it said i with my bead still away but i can t help it n t yon can t try no ble well said i getting up with a lively aa if he had been asleep and stirring the fire m endeavour to make myself so treat round the room and t i w bi tie in their places ii e l� g that were about looked into hall peeped into letter box shut tbe door came to ms by the fire where be sat do his left log in both arms i was going to a word or two my father and my father s i am is scarcely necessary for my father s son to remark my father s establishment is not particularly in its housekeeping there is always plenty said i to something encouraging oh yes and so the says i believe the strongest approval and so does the marine s shop in the back street gravely for the is grave enough you know how it is as well i do i suppose there was a time once when my had not given matters up but if there ever time is gone may i ask you if you have ever opportunity of remarking down in your part of country that the children of not exactly suitable t are moat particularly anxious to be i this was such a singular question that i a mm in return is it so i don t know said that s what i v to know because it is decidedly the case with my poor sister who was nest me and i before she was fourteen was a striking example l jane is the same in her desire to he you might suppose to have passed short existence in the perpetual contemplation of bliss little in a la arrangements for � � s j� great � � � n st and indeed i think | 8 |
eighteen inches of the ends of the branches is packed with stiff needles which like an electric fox or s tail the needles have a glossy polish and the sunshine through them makes them bum with silvery while their number and elastic temper tell delightfully in the winds this tree is here still more original and picturesque than in the far surpassing not only its companion in this respect but also the most noted of the oaks some stand firmly erect with radiant down to the ground forming slender towers of shining others with two or three branches pushed out at right angles to the trunk and clad with take the form of beautiful ornamental crosses again in the same woods you the find trees that are made up of several united near the ground spreading at the sides in a plane parallel to the of the mountain with the elegant hung in charming order between them making a harp held against the main wind lines where they are most effective in playing the gi and storm and besides these there are many forms alone or in gi with innumerable drooping beneath the arches or radiant above them and many lowly giants of no particular form that have the storms of a thousand years but whether old or young sheltered or exposed to the wildest this tree is ever found and and offers a richer and more varied series of forms to the artist than any other i know of nut pine the nut pine covers or rather the eastern flank of the to which it is mostly in bush like patches from the margin of the sage plains to an elevation of from to feet a more fruitful and could not be conceived all the species we have been make more or less distant from the typical spire form but none goes so far as this without any apparent of climate or soil it remains near the ground throwing out crooked branches like an orchard the mountains of apple tree and seldom a single shoot higher than fifteen or twenty feet above the ground the average thickness of the trunk is perhaps about ten or twelve inches the leaves are mostly like round instead of being separated like those of other pines into and and the are green while growing and are usually found over all the tree forming quite a marked feature as seen against the gray foliage they are quite small only about two inches in length and give no promise of nuts but when we come to open them we find that about half the entire bulk of the is made up of sweet seeds the of which are nearly as large as those of nuts this is undoubtedly the most important on the and the and river indians with more and better nuts than all the other species taken together it is the indians own tree and many a white man have they killed for cutting it down in its development nature seems to have aimed at the formation of as great a fruit bearing surface as possible being so low and accessible the are readily beaten off with poles and the nuts procured by them until the scales open in seasons a single indian will gather thirty or forty of them � a fine employment of all the along the eastern base of the and on all the many mountain groups and short of the great basin this little pine is the commonest tree and the most the forests nearly every mountain is planted with it to a height of from to feet above the sea some are covered from base to summit by this one species with only a growth of on the lower slopes to break the of its curious woods which though dark looking at a distance are almost and have none of the damp leafy and hollows so characteristic of other pine woods of thousands of acres occur in continuous indeed viewed the entire basin seems to be pretty divided into level plains dotted with sage bushes and mountain chains covered with nut pines no slope is too rough none too dry for these of the red man the value of this species to is not easily it and timber for the mines and with the supplies the with fuel and rough in fruitful seasons the nut crop is perhaps greater than the wheat crop which so much influence throughout the food of the world when the crop is ripe the indians make ready the long beating poles bags baskets and are collected the women out at service among the washing or at the family huts the men leave their work old and young all are mounted on and start in great glee to the nut lands forming curiously picturesque flaming and skirts stream loosely over the two usually of each with baby in baskets on their backs or balanced on the the mountains of saddle bow while nut baskets and water project from each side and the long beating poles make angles in every direction arriving at some well known central point where grass and water are found the with baskets the men with poles ascend the to the laden trees followed by the children then the beating begins right the s fly in every direction rolling down the slopes lodging here and there against rocks and sage bushes chased and gathered by the women and children with fine natural gladness speedily mark the joyful scene of their labors as the fires are kindled and at night assembled in gay circles as they begin the first nut feast of the season the nuts are about half an inch long and a quarter of an inch in pointed at the top round at the base light brown in general color and like many other pine seeds handsomely dotted with purple like birds eggs the shells are thin and may be | 28 |
correct i don t know why it is not returned the school master uneasily he was not at all desirous of with the idiot and is it correct to suppose that it to the day � is the day supposed to look like rain � or do we simply use it to express a condition which us it to the latter of course then the full text of mr s by ic remark is i suppose that the rainy condition of the atmosphere which ns looks like rain oh i suppose so sighed the school master wearily an unnecessary sort of statement that continued the idiot it s something like asserting that a man looks like himself or as in the case of a child s � see the cat yes i see the cat what is the cat the cat is a cat cat at this even mrs smiled i don t agree with mr put in the after a pause here the school master shook his head at the as if to indicate that he was not in good form so i observe remarked the idiot you have upset him completely see how mr he added addressing the genial gentleman who occasionally i don t mean that way sneered the bound to set mr by ic i mean that the word it as employed in that sentence stands for day the day looks like rain did you ever see a day the idiot certainly i have returned the what does it look like was the calmly put question the s impatience was here almost too great for safety and the manner in which his face colored aroused considerable interest in the breast of the doctor who was a good deal of a in was it a whole day you saw or only a half day persisted the idiot you may think you are very funny retorted the i think you now don t get angry returned the idiot there are two or three things i do not know and i am anxious to learn i d like to know how a day looks to one to whom it is a visible object if it is visible is it and if so how does it feel i never felt a day myself by ic the visible is always asserted the school master how about a red hot stove or manifest indignation or a view from a or as in the case of the young man in the novel who suddenly and looking anxiously about him saw no one returned the idiot tut ejaculated the if i had brains like yours i d blow them out yes i think you would observed the idiot folding up his you re just the man to do a thing like that i believe you d blow out the gas in your bedroom if there wasn t a sign over it you not to and filling his match box from the landlady s mantel supply the idiot hurried from the room and soon after left the house by ic xii if my father met with � the idiot began did you really have a father interrupted the school master i thought you were one of these self made how terrible it must be for a man to think that he is responsible for you yes rejoined the idiot my father finds it rather hard to stand up under his responsibility for me but he is a brave old gentleman and he to bear the burden very well with the aid of my mother � f or i have a mother too mr a womanly mother she is too with all the natural follies such as fondness for and belief in her boy why it would soften your heart to see how she looks on me she thinks i am the most brilliant man she ever excepting father of course who has by ic always been a hero of heroes in her eyes because he never rails at misfortune never spoke an unkind word to her in his life and just lives gently along waiting for the end of all things do you think it is right in you to deceive your mother in this way � making her think you a young napoleon of intellect when you know you are an idiot observed the with a twinkle in his eye why certainly i do returned the idiot calmly it s my place to make the old folks happy if i can and if thinking me nineteen different kinds of a genius is going to fill my mother s heart with happiness i m going to let her think it what s the use of destroying other people s even if we do know them to be hollow do you think you do a act for instance when you kick over the heathen s stone gods and leave him without any at all you may not have noticed it but i have � that it is easier to pull down an idol than it is to rear an ideal i have had shattered myself and i haven t found that the they used to occupy have been since they are there yet and by ic ty � as monuments to what once seemed good to me � and i m no happier nor no better for being so it is with my mother i let her go on and think me perfect it does her good and it does me good because it makes me try to live up to that idea of hers as to what i am if she had the same opinion of me that we all have she d be the most miserable woman in the world we don t all think so badly of you said the doctor rather softened by the idiot s remarks no put in the you are all right you breathe and you have nice blue | 27 |
tea here she was with the almost all monday she went to learn to make feather of miss and they kept her to dinner which was rather lucky as we were called upon to meet mrs and miss the same evening at the and though was of course invited too i think it always safest to keep her away from the family lest she should be doing too little or too much mrs and robert with my aunt and her daughter came from for a day and a night � all very agreeable and veiy much delighted with the new house and with in general we sat upstairs and had thunder and lightning letters of jane as i never knew such a spring for thunder storms as it has been thank god we have had no bad ones here i thought myself in luck to have my uncomfortable feelings shared by the mistress of the house as that procured blinds and candles it had been hot the whole mrs is a good looking woman but not much like mrs inasmuch as she is yery brown and has scarcely any teeth she seems to have some of mrs s civility miss h is an elegant pleasing pretty looking girl about nineteen i suppose or nineteen and a half or nineteen and a quarter with flowers in her head and music at her finger ends she plays very well indeed i have seldom heard anybody with more pleasure they were at four or five years ago my cousin long was there last year my name is how does like it what a change in the weather we have a fire again now sleeps at the great house to night and to morrow with us and the plan is that we should all walk with her to drink tea at for her mother is now recovered but the state of the weather is not very promising at present miss has been returned to her cottage since the beginning of last week and has now just got another girl she comes from for many of jane days miss b nobody with her but her niece elizabeth who was delighted to be her visitor and her maid they both dined here on saturday while was at and last night an accidental meeting and a sudden impulse produced miss and maria at our if you have not heard it is very fit you should that mr has had the living of given him by the bishop and is going to reside there and now it is said that mr beautiful wants to have the of and if he does leave james wishes to go there fare you well yours affectionately jane the chimneys at the great house are done mr has opened a gravel pit very conveniently for my mother just at the mouth of the approach to his house but it looks a little as if he meant to catch all his company tolerable gravel miss park june by this time my dearest you know s plans i was rather disappointed i confess to find that she could not leave town till letters of jane after je thy as i had hoped to see yon here the week the delay however is not great and everything seems generally arranging itself for your return very i found henry perfectly to bring you to london if agreeable to yourself he has not fixed his day for going into but he must be back again before ye th you may therefore think with something like certainty of the close of your visit and will have i suppose about a week for street he travels in his and should the weather be tolerable i think you must have a delightful journey i have given up all idea of miss travelling with you and for though you are both all compliance with my scheme yet as you knock off a week from the end of her visit and rather more from the beginning the thing is out of the question i have written to her to say that after the middle of july we shall be happy to receive her and i have added a welcome if she could make her way hither directly but i do not expect that she will i have also sent our invitation to we are very sorry for the disappointment you have all had in lady b s illness but a division of the proposed party is with you by this time and i hope may have brought you a better account of the rest of jane give my and thanks to has written me things of your looks and me yery much by poor mis c a continued perplexity i had a few lines from henry on tuesday to prepare us for himself and his friend and by the time that i had made the provision of a neck of mutton on the occasion they drove into the court but lest you should not immediately recollect in how many hours a neck of mutton may be certainly procured i add that they came a little after twelve � both tall and well and in their different degrees agreeable it was a visit of only twenty four hours but very pleasant while it lasted mr took a sketch of the great house before dinner and after dinner we all three walked to park meaning to go into it but it was too dirty and we were obliged to keep on the outside mr admired the trees very much but grieved that they should not be turned into money my mother s cold is better and i believe she only wants dry weather to be very well it was a great distress to her that should be absent during her uncle s visit a distress which i could not share she does not return from till this evening and i doubt not has had plenty | 26 |
themselves the romance of the trade has fled and the of the present day is no more like unto him of thirty years ago than is a fleet street to a spanish or paul to this gradual decay and of the practice of leading noble youths into and compelling them to chimneys was a severe blow if we may so speak to the romance of chimney sweeping and to the romance of spring at the same time but even this was not all for some few years ago the dancing on began to decline sweeps were observed to in or hy green with no my lord to act as master of the ceremonies and no my lady to over the even in companies where there was a green it was an absolute nothing � a mere � and the rarely extended beyond the and a set of better known to the many as a mouth organ these were signs of the times of a coming change and what was the result which they forth why the master sweeps influenced by a restless spirit of actually interposed their authority in opposition to the dancing a dinner � an at white � where clean � appeared in of black ones with rose pink and knee and tops drawers and shoes gentlemen who were in the habit of riding shy horses and people who have no in their souls this alteration to the skies and the conduct of the master sweeps was described as beyond the reach of praise but how stands the real fact t let any man deny if he can that when the cloth had been removed fresh pots and pipes laid upon the table and the customary loyal and patriotic proposed the celebrated mr of and eve whose au not the most malignant of our can call in question expressed himself in a manner following that now he d the s hi he he might be jolly veil blessed if he t a goin to his he say these here � that how some as know d about the had tried to sit people the r and take the shine out o their bis and the bread out o the traps o their by a o this here remark as could be as veil by as by boys and that the use o boys for that there he ad been a � he begged the s for such a more nor thirty year � he might say he d been bom in a � and he know d uncommon veil as nor o no use and as to to the boys every body in the line know d as veil as he did that they the better nor as from this day we date the total fall of tlie last lingering remnant of may day dancing among the of the profession and from this period we commence a new era in that portion of our spring associations which relates to the st of may we are aware that the part of the po w sketches by here with the assertion that dancing on may day still continues � that are seen to roll along the streets � that youths in the garb of them giving vent to the of their fancies and that lords and ladies follow in their wake granted we are ready to acknowledge that in outward show these have greatly improved we do not deny the introduction of on the drum we will even go so far as to an occasional on the but here our end we positively deny that the sweeps have art or part in these proceedings we distinctly charge the with throwing what they ought to clear away into the eyes of the public we accuse and gentlemen who devote their energies to the line with obtaining money once a year under false pi we cling with peculiar fondness to the custom of days gone by and have shut out conviction as long as we could but it has forced itself upon us and we now proclaim to a public that the may day dancers are not sweeps the size of them alone is sufficient to the idea it is a notorious fact that the taste for register has materially increased the demand for small boys whereas the men who under a character dance about the streets on the first of may nowadays would be a tight fit in a kitchen to say of the parlour this is strong evidence but we have positive proof � the evidence of our own senses and here is our testimony upon the morning of the second of the merry month of may in the of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six we went out for a stroll with a kind of forlorn hope of seeing something or other which might induce us to believe that it was really spring and not christmas after wandering as far as house without meeting any calculated to our im op that there was a mistake in the we turned back down with the intention of passing through the extensive colony lying between it and battle bridge which is inhabited by of of of and of through which colony we should have passed without or tion if a crowd gathered round a had not attracted our attention and induced us to pause when we say a shed we do not mean the sort of build ing which according to the old song love when he was a young man but a wooden house with windows stuffed with rags and paper and t small yard at the side with one cart two baskets a few and little heaps of and of china and scattered about it before this inviting spot we paused and the longer we looked the more we wondered what exciting it could be that induced the foremost members of the crowd to their noses against | 8 |
ought to pay the expenses and not be under an obligation to any one of so solemn a kind as that he then sent his love and to his mother at whose name eyes were again filled with tears and begged the old man to comfort and support her with the utmost care and tenderness as she was he requested him to her against visiting him till after the trial lest an interview might increase her illness and render less capable of bearing up under an sentence should such be the issue of the having then bade farewell to and embraced the old man the latter departed with more calmness and fortitude than ho had up to that period displayed thi muse om chapter x when time approaches the miserable with in his his is than that of the eagle but alas when carrying them toward happiness his pace is slower than that the the only three persons on earth whose happiness was in that of found themselves on the eve of the by a of heart that was strong in proportion to the love they bare him the dead calm which had fallen on was absolutely more painful to his wife than would have boon the that resulted from his lust of his last interview with he never to the h s� of his money unless abruptly in his dreams ere was stamped upon his whole manner a glory and mysterious composure which of itself sank her of the fate which over ih son the change visible on both and the breaking down of their strength were indeed pitiable as for it would be difficult to describe her struggle between confidence in his innocence and apprehension of the law which she knew had often punished the instead of the criminal tis true she attempted to assume in the eyes of others a fortitude which her fears and even affected to smile at the possibility of her lover s honour and character suffering any the ordeal to which they were about to be submitted her smile however on such occasions was a melancholy one and the secret tears she shed might prove as they did to her brother who was alone to her grief th� extent of those terrors notwithstanding her dis the of of them wrung her soul so bitterly day after day her spirits became more and more depressed till as the crisis of s fate arrived the roses had altogether flown from her cheeks indeed now that the trial was at hand public sympathy turned rapidly and strongly in his favour his father had lost that wealth the acquisition of which earned him so heavy a portion of and aa he had been sufficiently punished ta his person they did not think it just to transfer any portion of the resentment borne against hun to a son who had never in his system of oppression they felt for now on his own account and remembered only his amiable and excellent character in addition to this the history of the mutual attachment between him and having become the topic of general the rash act for which he stood committed was good resolved a foolish of love for which it would be a thousand to take away his life in such mood was the public and the parties most interested in the � vent of � tory when the morning of that awful day which was q restore con nor to the hearts that loved him so well or to doom him a convicted to a and at length the came on aad our unhappy prisoner at the hour of eleven o clock was placed at the bar of his country to stand the of a common report had already carried abroad the story of s love and his many interesting accounts of which had got into the papers of the day when he stood forward therefore all eyes were eagerly upon him the judge glanced at him with calm scrutiny and the members of the bar especially the turning round surveyed him through their glasses with a gaze in which might be read something than that hard indifference which familiarity with human crime and affliction ultimately produces even in dispositions the most humane and amiable no sooner had the curiosity of the q far the ok multitude been gratified a murmur of pity blended slightly with surprise and ran lowly through the the judge again surveyed him with a countenance in which were depicted admiration and regret the counsel also to each other in a low tone occasionally turning round and marking his and appearance with increasing interest seldom probably never had a more striking s a more noble figure stood at the bar of that court his locks were rich and brown his forehead and his manly features remarkable for their his teeth were white and his dark eye full of a youthful lustre which no dread of calamity repress neither was his figure which was of the inferior in a single point to so fine a countenance as he stood at his full height of six feet it was impossible not to feel deeply in his favour especially after having j the mournful but dignified composure of his manner equally remote from indifference or he indeed to view in its proper light the danger of the position in which he stood but he viewed it with the calm energy of a brave man who is always prepared for the worst indeed there might be observed upon his broad open brow a of bearing such as is not by a consciousness of innocence and the natural elevation of mind which re suits from a sense of danger to which we may add that inward scorn which is ever felt for by those who are degraded to the necessity of defending themselves against the of the and when called upon to plead to the he uttered the words | 50 |
from whence he has fallen and by that far off eminence to the extent of his loss and the depth of his degradation the young and those who have little knowledge of the world are not able to do this yet such is the force of habit that we generally find the young more willing than the old or even the middle aged to come forward and join the ranks of those who entirely avoid these drinks it is not to them however that we can look for those strong convictions of the reality of the evil which naturally impress the minds of persons who have been in a manner compelled to trace out the private history of the victim of they can know nothing of the youth of early promise which once dawned upon yon poor outcast from society � how fondly cherished by a mother he grew up the pride of all the household � how the light of superior intellect adorned his mind while beauty beamed upon his brow and wit and humor woke the ready laugh which ever welcomed him among his friends it is for those only who have been intimately associated with this child of hope really to feel the heart sickening spectacle of his gradual fall � his beauty faded his intellect his wit become profane or lo v or in childish not one of all his admiring and friends who would now acknowledge him not one did we say no not one total among his companions of the midnight or the jovial board but though all have forsaken or him in the lone chamber of his mother tears are falling still while prayers are breathing forth the very soul of that fond woman whose i ve is strong as death and strange to say she who suffered most and been most by his degradation is the last the very last to cast him off she who admired him most in his young beauty who laid her hand so proudly on the golden curls which his noble brow she looks upon him with a mother s fondness still and would fold him to her oh how fondly � yet she however is no philosopher knows little of the wants of human nature or the discipline required to bring it back from disease and wretchedness to a healthy and honorable state and thus when the prodigal comes back as he does occasionally to share the scanty refused to him elsewhere she places before him the tempting draught in her blind and foolish ignorance it necessary when taken in moderation for the restoration of his wasted strength thus it is easy to perceive that such a mother can exercise no over her son and if not the mother with all her tenderness and affection who then is to be looked to for assistance in the hour of need it is in fact this blind and determination to advocate the use of a moderate quantity which produces nearly all the excess now existing in the world it has been justly said that no one was ever yet into the ranks of by its actual victims after they had obviously become such far more calculated to warn and to is the wretched and disgusting spectacle the to the world and if the choice were now submitted to the young whether he would lose a right hand or a right eye or himself to such a fate most assuredly he would prefer the former so opposed is the last stage of to every thing we esteem as desirable of imitation it is besides so generally considered by the world as being easy to retreat after having once gone too far that the young never how this situation can possibly be his until it has actually become so we are all too much in the habit of looking upon the sins of as belonging only to its extreme stage of degradation but did men sin no more under its influence than they do in this helpless and abject state the evil itself would be lessened by an amazing amount it is not excess to which the himself when he a deed of horror that would his arm for the fatal blow no it is what is considered moderation which to the practice not only of open and daring crime but of all those acts of deception employed to betray the innocent and the to their own destruction it is the moderate draught which fires the passions of the and the malignant in short which gives the moving impulse to that vast machinery of guilt which misery and ruin amongst our fellow creatures which their homes them out from christian fellowship and our whole country in the scale of moral worth it is this moderate portion which invariably makes bad men need we inquire whether it ever yet was known to make good men better a voice from the great and glorious then as the results of the movement have been in those who appeared to be lost to their friends and to society its most operation and that to which we look for the greatest good is its power to arrest the downward progress of the moderate before they shall have lost caste among their fellow men in order to do this it is necessary that there should be some powerful and immediate check against so much as the dangerous draught this check has been tried by a mere promise to a friend for a stated period and has proved sufficient for the time though the opposite cases in which it has failed may be reckoned as a thousand to one for until the principle was made known it never seemed to occur to such friends that their part and a very important one in the work of was to join with the tempted in totally and here let us observe that it is one of the peculiar and | 41 |
of making voyages which will bring them more money of becoming the of ships of finding fortunes � in short of being ib a better position for on their fellows of having ih night in good and somebody else to do the dirty work you and arc just like them there is no except that wc have eaten more and better i eating them now and you too but in the past you eaten more than i have you have slept in soft and worn fine clothes and eaten good meals who those beds and those clothes and those meals so you you never made anything in your own sweat too on an income which your father earned you like a bird down upon the � ad them of the fish they have caught you are � m wish a crowd of men who have made what they call who are masters of all the other men ind eat the food the other men and like � � � h tv s vou wc ir the w cl tl v tl y made the clothes but they shiver in rags and ask you the lawyer or business agent who handles your money fur a but that is beside the matter i cried the sea wolf not at all he was speaking rapidly now and were flashing it is and it is life what use or sense is an immortality of is the end what is it all about you have made food yet the food you have eaten or wasted might t saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the i but did not eat it what immortal end did you or did they consider yours and me what t your boasted immortality amount to when your life i foul of mine you would like to go back to the l which is a favorable place for your kind of r it is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship w my and keep you i will i make or break you you may die to day this week next month i could kill you now with a blow of my for you are a miserable but if we are what is the reason for this to be as you ai have been all our lives not seem to be just the tl for to be doing again what s it all why have i kept you here � because you are stronger i managed to out � but why stronger he went on at once with his because i am a bigger bit of the ment than you don t you see don t you see � but the of it i protested i ag ee with you he answered then why n at all since moving is li without moving and b i part of the there would be no bu and there it is � we want to live and move though have no reason to because it happens that it is the na of life to live and move to want to live and move were not for this life would be dead it is because of life that is in you that you dream of your immortality the sea wolf i t u in you is alive and to go on being an eternity of i he abruptly turned on his heel and started forward he i al the of the and called mc to bim t by the way bow much was it that got away � he a ke i one hundred and eighty five dollars sir i answered he nodded ills head a moment later as i started down the stairs to lay the for dinner i beard bim loudly cursing some men chapter vi by the following morning the storm had blown itself quite out and the ghost was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind occasional light airs were felt however and wolf the constantly his eyes ever searching the sea to the from which direction the great trade wind must blow the men were all on deck and busy preparing their various boats for the season s hunting there are seven boats aboard the captain s and the six which the hunters will use three a hunter a boat and a boat compose a boat s crew on board the the boat and are the crew the hunters too are supposed to be in command of the watches subject always to the orders of wolf all this and more i have learned the ghost is considered the in both the san and victoria in fact she was once a private and was built for speed her lines and � though i know nothing about such things � speak for themselves johnson was telling me about her in a short chat i had with him during yesterday s second dog watch he spoke with the k ve for a fine craft such as some men feel for horses he is greatly disgusted with the outlook and i am gi en to understand that wolf bears a very reputation among the captains it was the the f that johnson into for the voyage i h� u already beginning to i as be told me ghost is an eighty ton of i a fine n od cl her beam or width is i feet and her h a little over ninety feet a lead of but unknown weight makes her very i while she carries an immense spread of canvas i from deck to the of the is something over a hundred feet while the with its is eight or ten feet shorter i am giving these so that the size of this little floating world which holds twenty two men may be appreciated it is a very a a speck and i marvel that men should dare to venture the sea | 21 |
mr a impatiently i am not that you are expected to do anything of the sort i am aware my dear mr pursued mrs that i am now about to cast my lot among strangers and i am also aware that the various members of my family to whom mr has written in the most gentlemanly terms announcing that fact have not taken the least notice of mr s indeed i may be said mrs but it appears to me that mr is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes i may from the silence of my family that they object to the resolution i have taken but i should not allow myself to be from the path of duty mr even by my papa and were they still living i expressed my opinion that this was going in the t direction it may be a sacrifice said mrs to one s self in a cathedral town but surely mr if it is a sacrifice in me it is much more a sacrifice in a man of mr s abilities � oh you are going to a cathedral town said i mr who had been helping us all out of the wash hand stand replied to in fact my dear i have entered into arrangements by virtue of which i stand pledged and contracted to our friend to assist and serve him in the capacity of � and to be � his confidential clerk of i stared at mr who greatly my surprise i lam bound to state to you he said with an official air that the business habits and the prudent suggestions of mrs have in a great measure to this result the to which mrs referred upon a former occasion being thrown down in the form of an advertisement was taken up by my friend and led to a mutual recognition of my friend said mr who is a man of remarkable i desire to speak with all possible respect my friend has not fixed the positive at too high a figure but he has made a great deal in the way of from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties on the value of my services and on the value of those services i pin my faith such address and intelligence as i chance to possess said mr himself with the old genteel air will be devoted to my friend s service i have already some acquaintance with the law � as a on civil process � and i shall immediately apply myself to the of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our english i believe it is unnecessary to add that i allude to mr justice these observations and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening were interrupted by mrs s discovering that master was sitting on his boots or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose or accidentally kicking under the table or shuffling his feet over one another or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature or lying sideways with the personal history and experience his hair among the ne glasses or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form with the general interests of society and by master receiving those discoveries in a spirit i sat all the while amazed by mr s disclosure and wondering what it meant until mrs resumed the thread of the and claimed mj attention what i particularly request mr to be careful of is said mrs that he does not my dear mr in applying himself to this subordinate branch of the law place it out of his power to rise ultimately to the top of the tree i am convinced that mr giving his mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources and his flow of language distinguish himself now for example mr said mrs assuming a pro found air a judge or even say a does an individual place himself beyond the pale of those by entering on such an office as mr has accepted my dear observed mr � but glancing at too we have time enough before us for the consideration of those questions she returned no tour mistake in life is that you do not look forward enough you are bound in justice to your family if not to yourself to take in at a comprehensive glance the point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you mr and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction � still glancing at dies as if he desired to have his opinion why the plain state of the case mrs of david b said mildly breaking the truth to her i mean the real fact you know � just ao said mrs my dear mr dies i wish to be as and literal as possible on a subject of so much importance � is said that this branch of the law even if mr were a regular � exactly so returned mrs you are and will not be able to get your eyes back � has nothing pursued to do with that only a is eligible for such and mr could not be a without being entered at an inn of court as a student for five years do i follow you said mrs with her most air of business do i understand my dear mr that at the of that period mr would be eligible as a judge or he would be eligible returned with a strong emphasis on that word thank you said mrs that is quite sufficient if such is the case and mr no privilege by entering on these duties my anxiety is set at rest i speak said mrs as a female necessarily but i have always been of opinion that mr possesses what i have heard my papa call when | 8 |
this well my dear i am sorry to seem to be hard upon him but i know mr very well whenever he makes himself a as he did to day he does it with a purpose he made himself very agreeable to me at one time � no not in the way you fancy i am not fool enough to suppose that � but in order to what he called an offensive and alliance between us it is no matter against whom or with what object but i was obliged to tell him that so far as i was concerned such an alliance could be only offensive but he can have no reason for me pleaded that is none that you can see answered aunt just so do you know aunt i think mr was chiefly anxious to a bad impression p aunt nodded no doubt he is his when he first saw you he thought that being young and and in a dependent position he could carry matters with you with a high hand now that he you have talent and are a girl of character he is another way to work moreover he knows that his has taken a fancy to you and that you may be dangerous dangerous i how so p well explained miss with hesitation he is of his influence over his master and it being shared by anybody by myself for instance do you know why he warned you against portrait painting and especially in the case of that was to i ie en o vi v s a party of four good heavens but i should never dream of such a thing of course not but mr hey ton dreams a good deal and looks very far ahead if a man could his own worldly advantage by taking thought beforehand mr would be a prince and a do you really think then that his talk had an object in view � it seemed to arise so naturally and so far as i can pretend to judge was so intelligent and sagacious when he spoke of diligence for example and said the busy bee has no time for sorrow he certainly said a v thing at all events i felt it was good advice no doubt and it appeared to be the wiser because it had an application to your particular case but i have my doubts as to its his own you mean to imply then said laughing that mr is a he is a deal worse than that said aunt he s a bad one all round chapter a of to the of aunt with respect to mr hey ton s character was almost as significant as her revelations it was a subject she evidently avoided as being a very distasteful one and yet when pressed she spoke her mind upon it she had left him at first to make his own way with her niece and so l ng as he had failed in it would have been well content to keep silence but no sooner had he gained her ear and appeared to be gaining her good opinion than aunt had stepped in with her note of warning did not dispute her relative s wisdom in this and far less her good intentions but upon the whole social life at the castle with her only two companions at drawn did not promise to be very cheerful and she almost regretted having volunteered to come out of her retirement before there was need for it she looked forward to this daily dinner party of three with their services of silver gilt with anything but pleasure and would have preferred a dinner of on wooden with a little friendly feeling her apprehensions on this score as happens to us in so many cases is meant no doubt to be set on the per side of our many disappointments proved to be for on the very next day when she was about to prepare for dinner miss burst in upon her in a state of breathless excitement with the news that they would not be three that day at dinner since his himself would join the party is a from a thorn such a thing my dear has not occurred she panted since i have been at the castle i am glad to hear he is coming said now i am so glad to hear you re glad continued the old lady i was so afraid that it might make you nervous there is really however nothing to be afraid of you have only to be like yourself as he says and you re sure to please who says inquired laying down her pencil which was now almost always in her fingers when she was not deep in perspective and staring at her aunt in surprise oh well perhaps i shouldn t have mentioned it but his was talking about you and your singing and so on and the of it it certainly is not artificial said smiling for i have had too little teaching he must be very easily pleased by some people perhaps my dear but not generally even mr though he certainly does his very best does not always succeed in that i should like to see him at it said smiling at what my dear trying to please his mr on his best behaviour must oe an interesting spectacle he does not interest me said aunt no that is because you are used to him dear papa used to say that everybody was interesting for five minutes i am not clever and therefore i don t find out people so quickly it will take you a very long time to find out mr my dear said aunt gravely then the pleasure will last me all the longer returned smiling what a strange girl you are said the old lady musing but i am delighted to see you so cheerful | 25 |
into on if i could have stayed but i cannot live longer without your letters and they alas are at mr low kindly expresses regret at my going and says he has got quite used to my being here and added you never speak at the wrong time when men are visiting me they never know when to be quiet but bother one in the middle of business this is most amusing for it would be usually said women never know when to be quiet mr one day said that when men were with him he could get nothing done for their clatter i wished to start at a m to morrow to get the coolness before sunrise but there are so many about just now in the through which the road passes that it is not considered prudent for me to leave before six when they will have retired to their i l b letter xxii a pleasant xxii british february i am once again on this hill watching the purple cloud shadows sail over the level expanse of tree tops and having accomplished in about four hours the journey which took nearly twelve in going up the sun was not up when i left the at this morning i rode a capital pony on mr low s english saddle a orderly on horseback me and the royal elephant carried my luggage it was absurd to see this huge beast lie down merely to receive my little and canvas roll with a small of teeth and claws and an elephant s the whole not weighing mr low was already at his work writing and nursing at the same time the wild sitting on a beam looking on i left wishing i were coming instead of going and had a delightful ride of eighteen miles the little horse walked very fast and easily how peaceful is now to allow of a lady riding so far through the with only an attendant major m writes the ordinary native is a simple courteous being who with an intense love of liberty a great affection for his simple home and its and i quite believe him stories of running treachery revenge poisoned and the golden letter have been made very much of and any crime or slight disturbance in the native states throws the into a panic it must have been under the influence of one of these that such a large sea and land force was sent to three years ago crime in the districts in these states is so rare that were it not for the chinese a few would be all the force that would be needed the village system the old system with its and village officials though formerly abused seems under the new to work well and by it the have been long accustomed to a species of self government and to the maintenance of law and order i notice that all the european who speak their language and act towards them like them very much and this says much in their favour i met with no adventures on the journey i had a delightful of several miles before the sun was above the tree tops the morning mists rose flushed rolled away and just as i reached the beautiful pass of the were their morning hymn and the forests rang with the joyous and songs of birds all thy works praise thee lord there were gorgeous among them i noticed one with the upper part of its body and the upper side of its wings of jet black velvet and the lower half of its body and the under side of its wings of blue velvet spotted another of the same make but with gold instead of blue and a third with the upper part of the body and wings of black velvet with spots the lower part of the body and the under side of the wings white with spots all these measured fully five inches across their expanded wings in one opening only i counted thirty seven varieties of these brilliant creatures not in hundreds but in thou letter the pass of sands mixed up with blue and crimson flies and flies all joyous in the sunshine the loud stream of crystal water was very full and through the deep and among the great gray granite it flung its broad of foam rejoicing in its strength and every green thing lovingly towards it or stooped to touch it and all exquisite things which love damp all tender and all shade loving and flourish round it in beauty while high above in the sunshine amidst birds and the graceful palm struggles with the for precarious on rocky and of rose crimson blossoms and dark green of and all the leafy wealth bom of moisture and sunshine cling about it tenderly and lower down the great forest trees arch over it and the through them and dance in many a quiet pool turning the far down sands to gold brightening majestic tree and shining on the fragile which to the branches of the graceful on a beautiful which the uncouth trunk of an on glossy and trailing on and and on gigantic which climbing to the tops of the trees descend in vast many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and passing from tree to tree and the forest with a living while and and and the rocks in green along with scarcely from little flash out in foam among the dark foliage and mingle their musical with the deep bass of the torrent and there are twilight depths of leafy shade into which the sunshine never damp and cool in which the music of the water is all the golden too sweet and the loveliness too creating that sadness hardly akin to pain which is latent in all intense enjoyment the twelve hundred feet in nearly perpendicular height showed all its brilliancy of colour and | 20 |
man � and that is woman laughed outright upon my word i think it would be difficult to find the woman suited to this case he said but you who have a deeper than that of any jew may possibly have one already in view there is now in rome pursued speaking with the same even deliberation of accent a faithful daughter of the church whose wealth we can to a certain extent command and whose charm is � the started eyed him coldly you are not stricken surely by the fascination with which this princess of rules her court he i echoed shifting his position so that s gaze could not fall so directly upon him i you jest i think not said i think i know something about women � their their passions their different of power possesses a potent charm which few men can resist and i should not wonder if you yourself had been occasionally conscious of it she is one of those concerning whom other women say they can see nothing in her ah and smiled darkly what a compliment that is from the majority of women to one this woman is unique where is her beauty you cannot say � yet beauty is her very she cannot boast perfection of features � she is frequently hidden away altogether in a room and scarcely noticed and so she reminds me of a certain flower known to the eastern nations which is difficult to find because so fragile and small that it can scarcely be seen but when it is found and the scent of it it drives men mad looked at him with a wondering smile you speak so he said that one would almost fancy fancy nothing retorted quickly fancy and i are as far apart as the poles except in the putting of words in which easy art s the master christian great an as who can write verses on love or patriotism to order without a touch of either emotion what a by the way that fellow is � and broke off to consider this new point � he of the honour of italy and would not let his finger ache for her cause and he to love the while all rome knows that is his mistress wisely held his peace the is the little magic flower you must use resumed his words with an movement of his hand use her to bring them together � he will lose his head as surely as all men do when they come under the influence of that soft deep eyed creature with the full white breast of a dove and the smile of an angel � and remember it would be an excellent thing for the church if he could be persuaded to marry her � there would be no more preaching then for the thoughts of love would the theories of religion you think it i know it replied rising and preparing to take his departure but � play the game cautiously i make no false move for � understand me well this man must be silenced or we shall lose england and with these last words he turned abruptly on his heel and left the apartment xxii cardinal sat alone in the largest ana room of the large and lonely of rooms allotted to him in the � alone at a massive writing table near the window his head resting on one hand and his whole figure expressive of the most profound in front of him an ancient silver gleamed in the of the small wood fire which had been kindled in the wide chimney � and a copy of the lay open as if but lately consulted the faded splendour of certain gold embroidered on the walls added to the solemn and melancholy aspect of the apartment and the figure of the venerable seen in such darkening gloom and solitude was the crowning completion of an expressive and pathetic picture of patient desolation so might a of the have looked while the flames were getting ready to burn him for the love of the gentle and something of the temper of such a possible was in the physically frail old man who just now was all the energies of his mind on the consideration of a difficult question which is often asked by many hearts in secret but is seldom to the public ear � christ or the church which must i follow to be an honest man never had the good cardinal been in such a strange living away from the great of thought and action he had followed a gentle and placid course of existence almost save by the outside murmurs of a growing public discontent which had reached him through the medium of current literature and had given him cause to think uneasily of possible disaster for the religious world in the near future � but he had never gone so far as to imagine that the head of the church would while being perfectly conscious of existing threatening evils deliberately turn his back to appeals for help � shut his ears to the cry oi o j the master christian sheep of the house of and even endeavour with an of indignation which was as pitiable as useless to shake a rod of twelfth century menace over the advancement of the twentieth for the onward movement of humanity is gk d s work said the cardinal and what are we � what is even the church � when it does not move side by side in perfect and pure harmony with the order of divine law and he was bitterly troubled in spirit he had spent the whole morning at the and the manner of reception there had been so curiously divided between flattery and reproach that he had not known what to make of it the pope had been and � precisely in such a humour | 33 |
the secretary of state is a good of the policy of the administration in he says few could befall this country the united states more to be than the establishment of a british influence of which there was not the least danger and the of domestic slavery in p general once president of had written to his friends in that without ike party in will acquire the and may slavery � � � s world � london vol t s letter to our agent at ko th ist m for the of the people of art not on the th of october mr took the and proposed to the he told them on the th of that without thej cannot maintain that institution slavery ten years probably not half that time f if is not he says again the people of the southern states will not run the hazard of their slave property to the control of a population who are anxious to slavery mr was not so as mr his agent at he says take this position on the side of the constitution and the laws and the civil political and religious liberties of the people of secured thereby nothing about and all the world will be with you say nothing which can offend even our brethren of the north let the united states at once the cause of civil political and religious liberty in this a treaty was made but our brethren of the north were offended and on the th of june the rejected it by a vote of to � the immediate of was now the favorite measure of the slave power they had little fear that in the next term they could the of but felt doubtful of the success of mr feared new england had he lived at boston and known ihe influences then new england he would have seen there was no reason for present fear a election was at hand the was to meet at in may mr van was the most prominent candidate of the party most of the to the had been instructed by the which appointed them to support him but he was a northern man while president he had not favored he had lately written a public letter april and plainly declared himself hostile to as then proposed a s t no st p i letter of d and th ii t np see s special message of april s d and his annual message of th u see his letter to mr no document no t see his letter to mr in register new series p i vo mr the senior field of van s party and opposed his old friend mr cross of would not vote under any circumstances for a man opposed to the of van was not the proper person for the party to rally around in the coming struggle nine out of ten of our friends think so the committee wrote on their card as for van has destroyed him the last best and wisest counsel of was � the of the assembled van got more than a majority but could not get two thirds of the were numerous there were some that proposed johnson some even thought it best to take again � gallant old even was talked of when the political tide clean out of the harbor strange things appear on the bottom only seen on such occasions men thought it very surprising that such a man should be spoken of � certainly it had no precedent and he no political experience now the would not be at all surprising or irregular the s letter looks silly enough now but who knows if only elected that he would not have been as great a man as mr nay as or he was for immediate and would throw ourselves on the justice of our cause before god and the nations he might have been as great a man as mr had the tide of served in his favor after all the labor of the there came forth mr james k men wondered who the devil t� k said many and when told they thought it was a not fit to be made none of them proved it by facts and arguments quite so faithfully as the distinguished author of that phrase did on a recent occasion at they left that for mr to do not by logic but by experiment and he did � we shall see what he did in due time mr van was sincerely desirous for their success the success of the the were pretty firmly in support of mr clay harry of the west and that same old as he has publicly called himself he was not publicly much opposed to nor much in letter of june d s mr favor of it and in respect to that was a pretty good index of his party some were seriously and opposed to the of as a slave territory so were a few who constituted the moral element of the party both of these have since reported their presence in the politics of the land indications of something yet future it was a rash movement of the party this changing their leader and their line on the very brink of battle under the guns of their opponent already put in battery and ready to fire but they were confident in their strength and were so well that they only needed the word of command to perform any political or revolution it is a little curious to look back on the d of march twenty one members of solemnly declared that would be identical with dissolution would be an attempt to an institution and a power of a nature so unjust as � not only to result in a of the union but fully to justify i five of the twenty one were from a good memory is not so | 37 |
a precarious which i could not see and so thick was the darkness that i sat down in the water between the two and had to remain there during the crossing which took a long time being against the stream when we landed a met us very much excited he spoke and i guessed from a few words that i knew that there was a hue and cry at the you know how au pleasure is at once spoilt when after you have been enjoying yourself very much you find that people at home have been restless and about you and as it is one of my travelling principles to avoid being a bother to people i was very sorry we found a general state of major who was leaning over the received us with some very and told us that mr low was out and very anxious i was covered with mire and wet from head to foot and disappeared but when we sat down to the long delayed dinner i saw from mr low s silence and gloomy manner that he had been really much annoyed however he recovered himself and we had a very lively evening of conversation and discussion though i had a good the golden letter xxi deal of pain from the of the in the swamp parties had been sent in various directions was away with one and the police were all ready to do nobody knows what as there were no dogs major said that his fears did not travel farther than the river which he thinks is dangerous to cross at night in a dug out but mr low had before him the possibility of our having been assailed by bad characters or of our having encountered a tiger in the and of my having been carried oflf from my inability to climb a tree is surely dying he went to the roof where the half tamed was supporting him hour after hour as gently as a mother would support a sick child this wild has been very gentle and good to ever since he became ill i went out for a short time with mr low and on returning he called but the little thing was too weak to come and began to cry feebly on which the wild took him by one of his hands put an arm round him gently led him to a place from which he could drop upon mr low s chair and then darted away but while daylight lasted was looking anxiously at and at a m had so far conquered his timidity that he sat on the window sill behind mr low that he might watch his sick friend the little thing which is much to its master now the whole time unlike other animals which hide themselves when they are ill puts out its feeble little arms to him with a look of unspeakable affection on its poor pinched face and murmurs in a feeble voice mr low a few drops of milk down its throat every half hour and if he puts it down for a moment it screams like a baby and stretches out its thin hands it is very interesting and pleasant to see the relations which exist between mr low and the at this letter xxi patience and kindness moment three are lying about in the and their numerous followers are clustered on and about the stairs he never raises his voice to a native and they look as if they like him and from their laughter and they must be perfectly at ease with him he is altogether devoted to the interests of and fully carries out his instructions which were to look upon as a native state ultimately to be governed by native whom he is to endeavour to and advise without interfering with the religion or custom of the country he obviously attempts to train and these men in the principles and practice of good government so that they shall be able to rule firmly and justly is likely to become the most important state of the and i earnestly hope that mr low s wise and patient efforts will bring forth good fruit at all events in mr low is only a little over fifty now and when he first came the told him that they were glad that the queen had sent them an old gentleman he is excessively cautious and like most people who have had with is possibly somewhat suspicious but his caution is combined with singular kindness of heart and an generosity his own concerns as for instance he refuses to send his servants to prison when they rob him saying � poor fellows they know no better he is just as patiently to the mr told me that he had made a very clean and careful copy of a despatch to lord when dipped his fingers in the ink and drew them over a whole page and he only took him in his arms and said poor creature you ve given me a great deal of trouble but you know no better this is my last evening here and i am so sorry it see a the golden letter xxi is truly the there is rest then the are delightful companions and there are all sorts of beasts and birds and creeping things from downwards the scenery and vegetation of the neighbourhood are beautiful the quiet life which passes before one in a series of pictures is very interesting and the sight of wise and righteous rule carried on before one s eyes with a total absence of and red and which never leaves out of sight the training of the to rule themselves is always pleasing i like better than any place that i have been at in asia and am to leave it mr low would have 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earlier � i thought here she opened her eyes and met those of sir francis who was eagerly bending over her she uttered an exclamation of alarm and strove to rise he held her still more closely � dear dearest let me comfort you � let me tell you how much i love you and before she could divine his intent he pressed his lips passionately on her pale cheek with a cry she tore herself violently from his arms and sprang to her feet trembling in every at � what is this she exclaimed wrath fully are you mad the land of mockery and still weak and confused from her recent attack of she pushed back her hair from her brows and regarded him with a sort of puzzled horror he flushed deeply and set his lips hard i dare say i am he answered with a bitter laugh in fact i know i am you see ive betrayed my miserable secret will you forgive me lady � he drew nearer to her and his eyes darkened with restrained passion beauty � woman as you are � will you not pardon my crime if crime it be � the crime of loving you for i do love you � heaven only knows how utterly and desperately she stood mute white almost rigid with that strange look of horror frozen as it were upon her features by her silence he approached and caught her hand � she it from his grasp and him from her with a gesture of such royal contempt that he before her all suddenly the of her speech were loosened � the rising tide of burning indignation that in its very force had held her dumb and motionless now broke forth o god she cried a magnificent glory of disdain flashing in her jewel like eyes what is this that calls itself a man � this thief of honour � this pretended friend what have i done sir that you should put such deep disgrace as your upon me � what have i seemed that you thus dare to outrage me by the of your touch i � the wife of the noblest gentleman in the land ah and she drew a long breath � and it is you who speak against my � she smiled scornfully � then with more calmness continued � you will leave my house sir at once � and never presume to enter it again and she stepped towards the bell he looked at her with an evil stop a moment he said coolly just one moment before you ring pray consider the servant cannot possibly enter as the door is locked you dared to lock the door she exclaimed a sudden fear her heart as she remembered similar on the part of the reverend mr � then another thought crossed her mind and she began to retreat towards a large painted of among and in the sea sir francis sprang to her side and caught her arm in an iron grip � his face was with baffled spite and yes i dared r he muttered with triumphant malice and i dared do more than that i you lay unconscious in my arms � you beautiful and i kissed you � ay fifty times you can never undo those kisses you can never forget that my lips as well as your husband s have rested on yours � i have had that much joy that shall never be taken away from me and if i choose even now � and he her more closely � yes even now i will kiss you in spite of you � who is to prevent me i will force you to love me driven to bay she struck him with all her force in the face across the eyes traitor � liar i � coward she gasped � let me go � with the pain of the blow he unconsciously loosened his grasp � she rushed to the and to his utter discomfiture and amazement he saw it open and close behind her she disappeared suddenly and noiselessly as if by magic with a fierce exclamation he threw his whole weight against that secret sliding door � it resisted all his efforts he searched for the spring by which it must have opened � the whole was perfectly smooth and apparently solid and the painted on her s back seemed as though she smiled at his rage and disappointment while he was examining it he heard the sudden sharp and continuous ringing of an electric bell somewhere in the house and with a guilty flush on his face he sprang to the drawing room door and unlocked it he was just in time for scarcely had he turned the key when made his appearance that venerable looked round the room in evident surprise did her ring he inquired his eyes everywhere in search of his mistress sir francis collected his wits and forced himself to seem composed no he said coolly rang he adopted this falsehood as a means of exit call a will you and he sauntered easily into the hall and got on his hat and great coat was rather bewildered � but obedient to the the land of mockery command blew the cab whistle which was promptly answered sir francis tossed him half a crown and entered the vehicle which away with him in the direction of road stopping at a particular house in a side street leading from thence he bade the wait � and ascending the steps busied himself for some moments in something rapidly in pencil on a leaf of his note book by the light of the in the doorway he then gave a loud knock and inquired of the servant who answered it is mr in yes sir � the reply came rather hesitatingly � but he s having a party to night and 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intended last july and have therefore only said that if we could see henry we might hear many particulars as i had understood that some confidential conversation had passed between him and mr t l at we have been as quiet as usual since frank and mary left us mr called on that very morning on his way home again from and we have had no visitor since we called on the miss one day and heard a good account of mr s the success of which of course his expectations in her letter hopes for my interest which i conclude means edward s and i take letters of jane this opportunity therefore of that he will bring in mr mr lane told us yesterday that mr h had behaved very handsomely and waited on mr to say that if he mr t would stand he mr h would not oppose him but mr t declined it acknowledging himself still under the payment of late costs the mrs we learn from come to this week and bring mary jane with them on her way to mrs s she returns at christmas with her brother our brother we may perhaps see in the course of a few days and we mean to take the opportunity of his help to go one night to the play ought to see the inside of the theatre once while she lives in and i think she will hardly wish to take a second view the furniture of is to be sold to morrow and we shall take it in our usual walk if the weather be favorable how could you have a wet day on thursday with us it w as a prince of days the most delightful we have had for weeks soft bright with a brisk wind from the everybody was out and talking of spring and and i did not know how to turn back on friday evening we had some very blowing weather � from six to nine i think we never heard it worse even here and letters of one night we had so much rain that it forced its way again into the store closet and the evil was comparatively slight and the mischief nothing i had some employment the next day in drying etc i have now moved still more out of the way sends her best love and thanks you for admitting her to the knowledge of the and about she has an interest in all such matters i am also to say that she wants to see you mary jane missed her papa and mamma a good deal at first but now does very well without them i am glad to hear of little john s being better and hope your accounts of mrs knight will also improve adieu remember me affectionately to everybody and believe me ever yours j a miss edward s esq park castle square friday december many thanks my dear to you and mr for your joint and agreeable composition which took me by surprise this morning he has certainly great merit as a writer he does ample justice to his subject and without being is clear and correct and though i do not letters of jane mean to compare his powers with yours or to give him the same portion of my gratitude he certainly has a very pleasing way of winding up a whole and truth into the world but all this as my dear mrs says is flight and fancy and nonsense for my master has his great to mind and i have my little children it is you however in this instance that have the little children and i that have the great for we are beer again but my meaning really is that i am extremely foolish in writing all this unnecessary stuff when i have so many matters to write about that my paper will hardly hold it all little matters they are to be sure but highly important in the first place miss curling is actually at which i was always in hopes would not happen i wish her no worse however than a long and happy abode there here she would probably be dull and i am sure she would be troublesome the are in my possession and everything i could wish them to be they came with s which likewise gives great satisfaction soon after i had closed my last letter to you we were visited by mrs and her sister mrs the wife of a lately made admiral mrs f a i believe was their first object but frank letters of they put up with us ver kindly and mrs d finding in miss a friend of mrs had another motive for the acquaintance she seems a really agreeable woman � that is her manners are gentle and she knows a great many of our connections in west mrs lives in the and was out when we returned her visit which are her two virtues a larger circle of acquaintance and an increase of amusement is quite in character with our approaching removal yes i mean to go to as many balls as possible that i may have a good bargain everybody is very much concerned at our going away and everybody is acquainted with and speaks of it as a remarkably pretty village and everybody knows the house we describe but nobody on the right i am very much obliged to mrs knight for such a proof of the interest she takes in me and she may depend upon it that i will marry mr whatever may be his reluctance or my own i owe her much more than such a trifling sacrifice f our ball was rather more amusing than i ex liked it very much and i did not till the last quarter of an hour it was past nine before we were sent for and not twelve when | 26 |
anybody else nobody ever did think well of the i fancy observed mr john coolly but you need not imagine mr to have felt what you would feel in giving up henry or john mr is rather an easy man than a man of strong feelings he takes things as he finds them and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other depending i suspect much more upon what is called society for his comforts � that is upon the power of eating and drinking and playing with his neighbors five times a week � than upon family affection or anything that home affords could not like what bordered on a reflection on mr and had half a mind to take it up but she struggled and let it pass she would keep the peace if possible and there was something honorable and valuable in the strong domestic habits the all of home to himself whence resulted her brother s disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse and those to whom it was important it had a high claim to forbearance xii mr was to dine with them rather against the inclination of mr who did not like that any one should share with him in s first day s sense of right however had decided it and besides the consideration of what was due to each brother she had particular pleasure from the circumstance of the late between mr and herself in him the proper invitation she hoped they might now become friends again she thought it was time to make up making up indeed would not do she certainly had not been in the wrong and he would never own that he had concession must be out of the question but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her � the youngest a nice little girl about eight months old who was now making her first visit to and very happy to be danced about in her aunt s arms it did assist for though he began with grave looks and short questions he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way and to take the child out of her arms with all the of perfect felt they were friends again and the conviction vol i � giving her at first great satisfaction and then a little she could not help saying as he was admiring the baby � what a comfort it is that we think alike about our and as to men and women our opinions are sometimes very different but with regard to these children i observe we never if you were as much guided by nature in your estimate of men and women and as little under the power of fancy and whim in your dealings with them as you are where these children are concerned we might always think alike to be sure � our must always arise from my being in the wrong yes said he smiling and reason good i was sixteen years old when you were bom a material difference then she replied and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives but does not the lapse of one and twenty years bring our a good deal nearer yes a good deal nearer but still not near enough to give me a chance of being right if we think differently i have still the advantage of you by sixteen years experience and by not being a pretty young woman and a spoilt child my dear let us be friends and say no more about it tell your aunt little that she ought to set you a better example than to be old and that if she were not wrong before she is now that s true she cried very true little grow up a better woman than your aunt be infinitely and not half so conceited now mr a word or two more and i have done as far as good intentions went we were both right and i must say that no effects on my side of the argument have yet proved wrong i only want to know that mr martin is not very bitterly disappointed a man cannot be more so was his short full answer indeed i am very sorry come shake hands with me this had just taken place and with great cordiality when john made his appearance and how d ye do george and john how are you succeeded in the true english style burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference the real attachment which would have led either of them if requisite to do everything for the good of the other the evening was quiet and as mr declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear and the little party made two natural divisions � on one side he and his daughter on the other the two mr their subjects totally distinct or very rarely mixing and only occasionally joining in one or the other the brothers talked of their own concerns and pursuits but principally of those of the elder whose temper was by much the most and who was always the greater as a magistrate he had generally some point of aw to consult john about or at least some curious anecdote to give and as a farmer as keeping in hand the home farm at he had to tell what every field was to bear next year and to give all such local information as could not fail of being interesting to a brother whose home it had equally been the longest part of his life and whose were strong the plan of a drain the change of a fence | 26 |
of familiar faces among the crowd chapter xix how was at the of st � s the s room although of no great size was fitted np with all the state and which the fame and power of its owner demanded a high at the farther end was in by a broad of scarlet velvet with silver de lis and supported at either corner by silver rods this was approached by four steps with the same material while all round were scattered rich cushions oriental and costly of fur the which the of could furnish draped the walls whereon the battles of were set forth with the warriors in plate of proof with crest and lance and as the artists of the day were wont to them a few rich settles and carved and decorated with glazed leather of the sort termed or completed the furniture of the apartment save that at one side of the there stood a lofty perch upon which a cast of three solemn sat and as silent and motionless as the royal who stood beside them in the centre of the were two very high chairs wit which arched forward over the heads of the occupants the whole covered with light blue silk thickly powdered with golden stars on that to the right sat a very tall and well formed man with red hair a livid face and a cold blue eye which had in it something peculiarly sinister and menacing he back in a careless position and yawned repeatedly as if heartily weary of the proceedings stooping from time to time to a shaggy spanish which lay stretched at his feet on the other throne there was perched bolt upright with as though he felt himself to be upon his good behavior a little round faced person who smiled and to every one whose eye he chanced to meet between and a little in front of them on a humble or stool sat a slim dark young man whose quiet attire and modest manner would scarce proclaim him to be the most noted prince in europe a of dark blue cloth with and of gold seemed but a sombre and plain attire amidst the wealth of silk and and gilt of with which he was surrounded he sat with his two hands clasped round his knee his head slightly bent and an expression of impatience and of trouble upon his clear well features behind the there stood two men in purple gowns with clean shaven faces and half a dozen other high and office of below on either side of the steps were forty or fifty knights and ranged in a triple row to the right and the left with a clear passage in the centre there sits the prince whispered sir john as they entered he on the right is whom we are about to put upon the spanish the other is don james whom we purpose with the aid of god to help to his throne in now follow me and take it not to heart if he be a little short in his speech for indeed his mind is full of many very concerns the prince however had already observed their entrance and springing to his feet he had advanced with a winning smile and the light of welcome in his eyes we do not need your good offices as herald here sir john said he in a low but clear voice these knights are very well known to me welcome to sir and sir nay keep your knee for my sweet father at i would have your hands my friends we are like to give you some work to do ere you see the downs of once more you aught of spain sir my save that i have heard men say that i there is a dish named an which is prepared there though i hi ve never heen dear in my mind as to whether it was but a as is to be found in the or whether there is some as or which is peculiar to spain tour sir shall soon be resolved answered the prince laughing heartily as did many of the who surrounded them his majesty here will doubtless order that you have this dish hotly when we are all safely in i will have a hotly dish for some folk i know of answered don with a cold smile but my friend sir can fight right with out either bite or sup remarked the prince did i not see him at when for two days we had not more than a crust of bread and a cup of foul water yet carrying himself most with my own eyes i saw him in the sweep the head from a knight of with one blow of his sword the rogue got between me and the nearest french muttered sir amid a fresh from those who were near enough to catch his words how many have you in your train asked the assuming a graver mien i have forty men at arms said sir and i have one hundred and a score of but there are three hundred men who wait for me on this side of the water upon the borders of and who are they sir they are a free company and they are called the white company to the astonishment of the knight his words provoked a burst of merriment from the round in which the two kings and the prince were fain to join sir mildly from one to the other until at last perceiving a stout black bearded knight at his elbow whose laugh rang somewhat louder than the others he touched him lightly upon the sleeve my fair sir he whispered there id some small vow of which i may relieve you might we not have some honorable debate upon the matter gentle courtesy may perhaps grant me an exchange of nay | 4 |
hundred violent the black arrow draughts a fire of wreck wood blazed and thick smoke ay now said lawless here is a s joy � a good fire and a good e cup ashore with foul weather without and an sea gale a in the roof here s to the good hope may she ride easy ay said tis good weather to be ashore in that is man tom how say ye to that gossip ye speak well though i can never think upon your name but ye speak very well may the good hope ride easy amen friend resumed lawless addressing his commander ye have certain matters on hand unless i well be about them for here i be with the choice of all good company two tough old and till that ye return i will go warrant these brave fellows will bide here and drink me cup for cup we are not like shore men we old tough it is well meant returned the ye can go boy for i will keep your good friend and my good gossip company till � ay and by st mary till the sun get up again for look ye when a man hath been long enough at sea the salt me into the clay upon his bones and let him drink a draw well he will never be thus encouraged upon all hands dick rose saluted his company and going forth again into the afternoon got him as speedily as he might to the goat and the good hope thence he sent word to my lord that so soon as ever the evening closed they would have a stout boat to keep the sea in and then leading along with him a couple of who had some experience of the sea he returned to the harbour and the little sandy creek the of the good hope lay among many others from which it was easily distinguished by its extreme and indeed when dick and his two men had taken their places and begun to put forth out of the creek into the open harbour the little dipped into the swell and staggered under every gust of wind like a thing upon the point of sinking the good hope as we have said was far out where the swell was heaviest no other vessel lay nearer than several length those that were the nearest were themselves entirely deserted and as the approached a thick of snow and a sudden darkening of the weather further concealed the movements of the from all possible in a they had leaped upon the heaving deck and the was dancing at the stern the good hope was captured she was a good stout boat in the bows and but open in the stem she carried one mast and was between a and a it would seem that r had made an excellent venture for the hold was full of pieces of french wine and in the little cabin besides the virgin mary in the bulk the black head which proved the captain s piety there were many and which showed him to be rich and careful a dog who was the sole of the vessel furiously and bit the heels of the but he was soon kicked into the cabin and the door shut n his just resentment a lamp was lit and fixed in the to mark the vessel clearly from the shore one of the wine pieces in the hold was and a cup of excellent emptied to the adventure of the evening and then while one of the began to get ready his bow and arrows and prepare to hold the ship against all comers the other hauled in the and got overboard where he held on waiting for dick well jack keep me a good watch said the young commander preparing to follow his subordinate ye will do right well why returned jack i shall do excellent well indeed so long as we lie here but once we put the nose of this poor ship outside the harbour see there she nay the poor heard the words and the heart her in her oak tree ribs but look master dick how black the weather the darkness ahead was indeed astonishing great heaved up out of the blackness one after another and one after another the good hope climbed and plunged upon the further side a thin of snow and thin of foam came flying the good hope and powdered the deck and the wind among the in it said dick but what cheer tis but a and presently it will blow over but in spite of his words he was affected by the bleak disorder of the sky and the wailing and of the wind and as he got over the side of the good hope and made once more for the landing creek with the best speed of oars he crossed himself devoutly and recommended to heaven the lives of all who should adventure on the sea at the landing creek there had already gathered about a dozen of the to these the was left and they were without delay a little further up the beach dick found lord hurrying in quest of him his face concealed with a dark hood and his bright covered by a long mantle of a poor appearance young he said are ye for sea then truly my lord replied richard they lie about the house with it may not be reached from the land side without and sir daniel once advertised of our adventure we can no more carry it to a good end than saving your presence we could ride upon the wind now in going round by sea we do run some peril by the elements but what much all we have a chance to make good our purpose and bear os the maid the black arrow well returned lord lead on i will | 38 |
would it have been for william the had he in the course of his universal ac � stumbled upon this precaution of the good on the contrary he conceived that the true policy of a was to laws and thus secure the property the persons and the morals of the people by surrounding them in a manner with men traps and spring guns and even the sweet walks of private life with hedges so that a man could scarcely turn without the risk of some of these thus was he continually petty laws for every petty offence that occurred until in time they became too numerous to be remembered and remained like those of certain modern dead letters � revived occasionally for the purpose of individual oppression or to ignorant petty courts consequently began to appear where the law was administered with nearly as much wisdom and as in those august the s and courts of the present day the was generally favoured as being a customer and bringing business to the shop the of the rich were a goodly gallows erected winked at � for fear of the of their friends � but it could never be laid the charge of the that hey suffered vice to under the rags of poverty about this time may we date the first introduction of capital a goodly being erected on the water about where white m stairs re at present a little to th of the hard by also was erected her f a very strange uncouth and tion but on which the ingenious william valued himself not a little being a punishment entirely of his own invention it was for of not a whit inferior of so renowned in bible history j ut the marvel of the contrivance was that the instead of being suspended by the neck to venerable custom was hoisted by he and was kept for an hour together and between heaven and earth � to the infinite entertainment and doubtless great of the multitude of respectable citizens ho usually attend upon of the kind it is incredible how the little governor chuckled t beholding and sturdy beggars swinging by the and cutting in the air he had a thousand and to utter upon these he called them his lions � his aid fowl � his high � his his his scare and finally his gallows s blessings attendant on birds which ingenious though originally confined to who had taken the air in this strange manner has since grown to be a cant name given to all for legal elevation this punishment moreover if we may credit the of certain grave gave the first hint for a kind of or by which our forefathers up their breeches and which has of late years � been revived and continues to be worn at the present day such were the admirable improvements of william in criminal law � nor was his civil code less a matter of and much does it grieve me that the limits of my work will not suffer me to on both with the they deserve let it suffice then to say that in a little while the blessings of innumerable laws became apparent it was soon found necessary to have a certain class of men to and confound them divers accordingly made their appearance under whose protecting care the community was soon set together by the ears i would not here be thought to any thing to the profession of the law or to its dignified members well am i aware that we have in this ancient city innumerable worthy gentlemen who have embraced that honourable order not for the sordid love of filthy nor the selfish of renown but through no other motives but a fervent zeal for the correct laws and lawyers administration of justice and a generous and disinterested devotion to the interests of their fellow citizens sooner would i throw this pen into the flames and cork up my ink bottle for ever than even for a nail s breadth upon the dignity of this truly benevolent class of citizens on the contrary i allude solely to that crew of who in these latter days of evil have become so numerous � who the skirts of the profession as did the dish knights the honourable order of chivalry � who under its commit their on society � who by md and like swarm most there is most corruption nothing so soon the as the facility of gratification the courts f law would never be so constantly crowded with and disgraceful suits were it not or the herds of lawyers that hem these with the passions of the and more ignorant classes who as if poverty were not a sufficient misery in itself are ready to it by the bitterness of they are in law what are in � exciting the malady for the purpose of by the cure and the cure for he purpose of the where the constitution the other he purse j and it may likewise be observed that i patient who has once been under the hands of i is ever after in and q the community in a himself with and an ignorant man who has once with the law under the of one of these is for ever after himself with his neighbours and himself with successful law suits my readers will excuse this into which i have been betrayed but i could not avoid giving a cool account of an too in this excellent city and with the effects of which i am acquainted to my cost having been nearly ruined by a law suit which was decided against me � and my ruin having been completed by another which was decided in my favour it has been remarked by the observant writer of the manuscript that under the administration of the disposition of the inhabitants of new experienced an essential change so that | 48 |
say it s funny i ve coming here ever since the shop opened and � with arch surprise � i don t believe i know your name don t you my that s i don t know yours now you quit met what s the nice little name oh it ain t so dam nice i guess it s kind of but n folks my pa a s p a was a nobleman in and there was a in here one day he was kind of a count or something � kind of a no account i guess you who s telling this and he said he knew my s p a s folks in and they had a big right od a lake doubtfully maybe you don t believe it sure no really sure i do why not don t think i m you honey but every time i ve noticed you i ve b d to myself that kid has blue blood in her did you honest honest i did well well come on � now we re � s the darling little name it ain t so much a much of a name i always say to ma i say ma why didn t you name me or with class to it n on � j v a i think it s a name t bet i know your now not necessarily of course � it sc well known aren t you mr that for the kitchen ko i am not i m mr the real estate oh accuse oh of course you mean here in with the of one whose have been hurt oh sure i ve read your they re swell um well � you might have read about my speeches course i i don t get much time to read but � i guess you think i m an awfully y little i think you re a little darling well � s one nice thing about this job it gives a girl a chance to meet some awfully nice gentlemen and improve her mind with conversation and you get so you can read a s character at the first glance look here please don t think i m fresh � he was hotly reflecting that it would be humiliating to be rejected by this child and dangerous to be accepted if he took her to dinner if he w� e seen by friends � but he went on don t think i m fresh if i suggest it would be nice for us tc go out and have a little dinner together some evening i t know as i ought to but � my gentleman friend s always wanting to take me out but maybe i could to ni t was no reason he assured he shouldn t have a quiet dinner with a poor girl would benefit by an educated and mature like bat lest some oat see them and not understand be would take to s inn on the outskirts of the d they have a pleasant drive this hot evening and he might hold her hand � no he wouldn t even do that was her bare shoulders showed it too dearly but he d be hanged if he d make love to bet merely because she e it then his car down had ha to the and he hid to have the car this he tested the stared at the his did not seem to stir the sulky car and in disgrace it was hauled os to a with a renewed thrill be thought of a there was something at once and interesting wicked about a but t en be met her on a two from the she said a why i thought you owned a car i do of coarse i but it s out of l oh e remarked as one who had heard that tale v all the way out to s inn be tried to talk as an old friend but he could not pierce the wall of her words witb interminable indignation she her to head the thing s she would do to him if be persisted in saying that she was better at than at at s inn they were unable to get anything to drink the head waiter refused to who george f was they sat steaming h a vast mixed and made conversation about when he tried to r hand she said with bright friendliness that fresh waiter is but they came out into a treacherous summer night the air lazy and a little moon above � v le drive some place ve can got a ind he some other night but i promised ma i d be home to night rats it s too nice to go home i d just love to but ma would give me fits he was trembling she was everything that was young and he put his aim about her she against his shoulder and he was triumphant then she ran down the of the inn singing come on well have a nice drive and get cool it was a night of lovers all along the hi way into under the low and gentle moon were and dim figures were clasped in he held out hungry hands to and when she patted them he was grateful there was no sense of struggle and transition he kissed hei and singly she responded to bis kiss they two behind the stolid back of the her hat fell off and she broke from his embrace to reach for it oh let it he implored my hat not a he waited till she had pinned it on then his arm sank about her she drew away from it and said with maternal soothing now don t be a silly mustn t make just sit back and see what a swell night it is if you re a good boy maybe | 42 |
s whole personality perhaps saw it for she said mournfully now i have done all i could i felt that the only to my cruelty to you in my drawing room would be to come as a to yours it is most handsome and noble of you my very dear friend said he with an emotion of courtesy rather than of enthusiasm then were spoken and she drove away but saw only the retreating and knew that he was helpless in her a young man of forty hands the church of the island had risen near the foundations of the pagan temple and a christian from the former might be him through the very false gods to whom he had devoted himself both in his craft like of and in his heart perhaps divine punishment for his had come she fails to vanish still had not turned far back towards the castle when he was overtaken by and the man who carried his painting lumber they paced together to the door the man deposited the articles and went away and the two walked up and down before entering i met an extremely interesting woman in the road out there said the painter ah she is a a indeed r i was struck with her it shows how beauty will out through the guise yes it will though not always and this case doesn t prove it for the lady s attire was in the latest and most approved taste oh you mean the lady who was driving of course what were you thinking of fc a young man of forty wet day on the little but walked out as far as the garden house of his hired castle where he sat down and smoked this being on the boundary wall of his property his ear could now and then catch the tones of s voice from her cottage in the lane which skirted his fence and he noticed that there were no in it he knew why that was she wished to go out and could not he had observed before that when she was planning an a particular note would come into her voice during the preceding hours � a s of sound no doubt the effect upon her voice of her thoughts of her lover or lovers yet the latter it could not be she was pure and single hearted half an eye could see that whence then the two men possibly the was a relation there seemed reason in this when going out into the lane he encountered one of the red he had been thinking of soldiers were seldom seen in this outer part of the isle their beat from the when on pleasure was in the opposite direction and this man must have had a special reason for coming hither surveyed him he was the well beloved a round faced good fellow to look at having two little pieces of on his upper lip like a pair of and small black eyes over which the cap flat it was a hateful idea that her tender cheek should be kissed by the lips of this heavy young man who had never been by a single battle even with savages the soldier went before her house looked at the door and moved on down the crooked way to the cliffs where there was a path back to the but he did not adopt it returning by the way he had come this showed his wish to pass the house again she gave no sign however and the soldier disappeared could not be satisfied that was in the house and he crossed over to the front of her little and tapped at the door which stood nobody came hearing a slight movement within he crossed the threshold was there alone sitting on a low stool in a dark corner as though she wished to be unobserved by any casual by she looked up at him without emotion or apparent surprise but he could then see that she was a young man of forty crying the view for the first time of distress in an young girl towards whom he felt drawn by ties of extraordinary delicacy and tenderness moved beyond measure he entered without ceremony my dear girl he said something is the matter she looked assent and he went on now tell me all about it perhaps i can help you come tell me i can t she murmured is upstairs and she ll hear mrs was the old woman who had come to live with the girl for company since her mother s death then come into my garden opposite there we shall be quite private she rose put on her hat and accompanied him to the door here she risked him if the lane were empty and on his assuring her that it was she crossed over and entered with him through the garden wall the place was a shady and secluded one though through the boughs the sea could be seen quite near at hand its being distinctly audible a water drop from a tree the well beloved fell here and there but the rain was not enough to hurt them now let me hear it he said soothingly you may tell me with the greatest freedom i was a friend of your mother s you know that is i knew her and til be a friend of yours the statement was if he wished her not to suspect him of being her mother s false one but that lover s name appeared to be unknown to the present i can t tell you sir she replied unwillingly except that it has to do with my own the rest is the secret of somebody else i am sorry for that said he i am getting to care for one i ought not to think of and it means ruin i ought to get away | 45 |
her light shawl round the invalid s shoulders and slipped away into the bed room as round the red lamp the great man was ushered in at the door of the dressing room my dear charles said he cordially stepping into the room with all the boyish for which he was famous i trust that you find yourself a little better almost ready for harness eh we miss you sadly both in the house and in the council quite a storm over this business the times took a nasty line this morning so i saw said the invalid smiling up at his chief well well we must let them see that the country is not entirely ruled from house square yet we must keep our own course without faltering certainly charles most undoubtedly assented the prime minister with his hands in his pockets it was so kind of you to call i am all impatience to know what was done in the council pure nothing more by the prisoners are all right thank goodness for that we all other business until we should have you with us next week the question of a dissolution begins to press the reports from the provinces are excellent the foreign minister moved and groaned a question of we must really up our foreign business a little said he i must get note answered it is clever but the are obvious i wish too we could clear up the frontier this illness is most i there is so much to be done but my brain is clouded sometimes i think it is the and sometimes i put it down to the what will our medical say laughed the prime minister you are so charles with a bishop one may feel at one s ease they are not beyond the reach of argument but a doctor with his and is a thing apart your reading does not upon him he is serenely above you and then of course he takes you at a disadvantage with health and strength one might cope with him have you read what are your views upon the invalid knew his illustrious too well to follow him down any of those by paths of knowledge in which he delighted to wander to his intensely shrewd and practical mind there was something in the waste of energy involved in a discussion upon the early church or the twenty seven principles of it was his custom to slip past such with a quick step and an averted face i round the red lamp i have hardly glanced at his writings said he by the way i suppose that there was no special news ah i had almost forgotten yes it was one of the things which i had called to tell you sir jones has resigned at there is a there it had better be filled at once the longer delay the more ah patronage patronage sighed the prime minister every makes one doubtful friend and a dozen very positive enemies who so bitter as the disappointed but you are right charles better fill it at once especially as there is some little trouble in i understand that the duke of would like the place for his fourth son lord arthur we are under some obligation to the duke the foreign minister sat up eagerly my dear friend he said it is the very appointment which i should have suggested lord arthur would be very much better in at present than in square his chief with a little arch of his eyebrows well let us say london he has manner and tact he was at in s time a question of then he talks a but his french is good speaking of charles have yon dipped into no i have not but the appointment would be an excellent one in every way would you have the great goodness to arrange the matter in my absence certainly charles certainly is there anything else that i can do no i hope to be in the house by monday i trust so we miss you at every turn the times will try to make mischief over that business a leader writer is a terribly thing charles there is no method by which he may be however preposterous his good bye he shook the invalid s hand gave a wave of his broad hat and darted out of the room with the same and energy with which he had entered it the footman had already opened the great folding door to the illustrious visitor to his carriage when a lady stepped from the draw ing room and touched him on the sleeve from behind the half closed of stamped velvet a little pale face peeped out half curious the red lamp may i have one word surely lady i hope it is not i would not for the world the limits my dear lady interrupted the prime minister with a youthful bow and wave pray do not answer me if i go too far but i know that lord arthur has applied for would it be a liberty if i asked you what chance he has the post is filled up oh in the and background there was a disappointed face and lord arthur has it the prime minister chuckled over his little piece of we have just decided it he continued lord arthur must go in a week i am delighted to perceive lady that the appointment has your approval is a place of extraordinary interest of and colonel will occur to your memory has written well upon northern africa i dine at so i am sure that you will excuse my leaving you i trust that lord charles will be better he can hardly fail to be so with such a nurse he bowed waved and was off down the steps a question op to his as he drove away lady could see that he was | 4 |
of creek for a camp ground when i came upon a strange dark looking man who had been cord wood he seemed surprised at seeing me so i sat down with him on the live oak log he had been cutting and made the mountains op haste to give a reason for my appearance in his solitude explaining that i was anxious to find out something about the mountains and meant to make my way up creek next morning then he kindly invited me to camp with him and led me to his little cabin situated at the foot of the mountains where a small spring out of a bank overgrown with wild rose bushes after supper when the daylight was gone he explained that he was out of candles so we sat in the dark while he gave me a sketch of his life in a mixture of spanish and english he was born in his father irish his mother spanish he had been a hunter etc rambling always and wearing his life away in mere waste but now he was going to settle down his past life he said was of no account but the future was promising he was going to make money and marry a spanish woman people mine here for water as for gold he had been running a into a spur of the mountain back of his cabin my prospect is good he said and if i chance to strike a good strong flow i soon be worth or for that flat out there referring to a small irregular patch of two or three acres in size that had been deposited by creek during some flood season � that flat is large enough for a nice and the bank behind the cabin will do for a and after watering my own trees and vines i will have some water left to sell to my neighbors below me down the valley and then he continued i can keep bees and make money a oh the de h the mountains of that way too for the mountains above here are just full of honey in the summer time and one of my neighbors down here says that he will let me have a whole lot of on shares to start with you see i ve a good thing i m all right now all this in the sunken choked flood bed of a mountain stream leaving the bees out of the count most would as soon think of settling on the summit of mount next morning wishing my hopeful good luck i set out on my shaggy excursion about half an hour s walk above the cabin i came to the fall famous throughout the valley as the finest yet discovered in the san mountains it is a charming little thing with a low sweet voice singing like a bird as it from a in a short ledge some or forty feet into a round mirror pool the face of the cliff back of it and on both sides is smoothly covered and with against which the white water shines out in relief like a silver instrument in a velvet case hither come the san lads and to gather and away their hot holidays in the cool water glad to escape from their commonplace palm gardens and orange groves the delicate grows on rocks within reach of the spray while broad and cast soft mellow shade over a rich profusion of bee flowers growing among in front of the pool � the fall the flowers the bees the rocks and leafy shade forming a charming little the bee poem of the last of a series extending down the slopes of mount san through the rugged foam beaten of the main from the base of the fall i followed the ridge that forms the western rim of the basin to the summit of one of the principal peaks which is about feet above sea level then turning eastward i crossed the middle of the basin forcing a way over its many subordinate and across its eastern rim having to contend almost everywhere with the and most impenetrable growth of honey bushes i had ever encountered since first my began most of the is leafy nearly to the ground here the main stems are naked for three or four feet and with dead twigs forming a stiff through which even the bears make their way with difficulty i was compelled to creep for miles on all and in following the bear often f of hair on the bushes where they had forced themselves through for feet or so above the fall the ascent was made possible only by tough cushions of club moss that clung to the rock above this the ridge away to a thin knife blade for a few hundred yards and thence to the summit of the range it carries a mane of here and there small occur on rocky places commanding fine views across the cultivated valley to the ocean these i found by the tracks were favorite and resting places for the wild animals � bears wolves etc � which abound here the mountains of and would have to be taken into account in the establishment of bee in the deepest i found wood rat villages � groups of huts four to six feet high built of sticks and leaves in rough piles like rat i noticed a good many bees too most of them wild the tame honey bees seemed languid and wing weary as if they had come all the way up from the valley after reaching the summit i had time to make only a hasty survey of the basin now glowing in the sunset gold before hastening down into one of the in search of water emerging from a particularly tedious breadth of i found myself free and erect in a beautiful park like grove of 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the large family but what had occurred to night whence came those galloping hoofs and what was the explanation of s condition the quickly yielded to the usual but even when she revived it was ft he emergency men before the girl could speak her voice was broken by hysterical sobs she trembled in every limb it was evident that her nerves had received a severe shock while the others were occupied with dick had stepped out on the gravel sweep where he was endeavouring by close examination to discover some clue to the puzzle suddenly he ran back into the house something s on fire he cried i believe it s the yard they all pressed to the open door � all except mrs who still busied herself with her daughter and whose sole interest was in the girl he loved above a fringe of which the farm yard a red glow lit up the sky it was evident the buildings were on fire and even while they looked a man half dressed panting dashed up the steps it was tom one of the emergency men these men slept in the yard in the quarters by the coachman in a few breathless words the big raw told the story of the last half hour he and his comrade had been awakened by suspicious sounds in the yard descending they had found the cattle shed in flames had forced his way in and had and driven out the terrified the poor animals wild with terror had burst from the yard and galloped the emergency men off in the direction of the house this accounted for the hoofs that had swept across the lawn but scarcely for s terrified condition a country bred girl like miss would not lose her wits over the spectacle of a dozen fat oxen broken loose from their had the barn been purposely burned and had the girl fallen in with the retreating it seemed likely no one there doubted the origin of the fire and mr expressed the general feeling as he shook his head and muttered i that they would n t let us get them cattle out o the country without some trouble but where is demanded jack suddenly is n t he here asked the when we seen the fire he started up to the big house to give the alarm while i turned to to save the no he never came to the house answered jack and there was an added gravity in his manner as he turned to his brother get a lantern dick this thing must be looked into at once while the boy went in search of a light mr attempted to obtain from his daughter a connected statement of what had happened and how much she had seen but she was in no condition to answer questions the poor girl could only sob and moan and cover her face t the emergency men hands while shook her slight figure oh don t ask me papa don t speak to me about it it was dreadful � dreadful i saw it all this was all they could gain from her don t the poor young lady interposed old peter sure the heart s put in her the fright lave her be till there seemed nothing else to be done so was left in charge of her mother and sister while the men headed by dick who carried a lantern set out to examine the grounds there was no trace of between the house and the farm yard the lawn was much cut up by the cattle for the frost had turned to rain early in the evening and a rapid was in progress the ground was quite soft on the surface and it was carefully for traces of footsteps but nothing could be distinguished among the prints of the in the yard all was quiet the fire had died down the roof of the cattle shed had fallen in and smothered the last embers the bam was a ruin but no other damage had been done and there were no signs of the missing man they turned back this time making a wider circle almost under the kitchen window grew a dense thicket of laurel and other shrubs dick stooped and let the light of the lantern penetrate beneath the overhanging branches the emergency there within three steps of the house lay pale and blood stained with a sickening in his temple � a murdered man old peter was the first to break the silence the lord be good to him they ve done for him this time an no mistake the lifeless body was lifted gently and borne toward the house hastened in advance to make sure that none of the ladies were to be shocked by the sight the hall was deserted doubtless s condition demanded all their attention the girl saw him murdered muttered mr i thought it must have been something out of the common to upset her so d ye think did she sir asked old peter eagerly i have n t a doubt of it replied the old gentleman shortly thank goodness her evidence will hang the villain whoever he may be ah the poor thing the poor thing murmured the servant and then the sad procession entered the house the body was laid on a table it would have been useless to send for a surgeon there was not one to be found within several miles and it was but too evident that life was extinct the top of the man s head was beaten to a he had been to death if it costs me every shilling i have in the world and my life to the boot of it said mr the emergency men i see the that did the deed swing for their night s work assented 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knows all secret are dark deep wells of as civilization advanced the personal oppression and of property by the lord relaxed but the frightful of the two theatres in a doubled population remained with all the evils that attend gigantic rents demanded by the from the gigantic prices required by the from the public while a market thus contracted left room but for few authors and so choked talent then the public groaning came a truly characteristic of an english official of the last generation dealing with the fine arts a in other theatres were allowed to open provided they would undertake to sell the public bad for good money and not wholesome meat we who have assumed powers we don t to our sovereign because this is a free country and he is not like us a god in wisdom we decide thus we allow you to play low or to sing rational provided the are going all the time but you must not sell good sense still less the of mind in second rate theatres your are low it is a moral and therefore a legal duty to keep them low and not bring them and the fine arts together to high things and raise low minds keep things and men in their places whatever is is right especially if at last by the mercy of heaven an artist strayed into the british house of he soon obtained a select committee to examine dramatic literature the blue book lies before me forty one authors actors and are here ned on oath and every interest fairly represented and severely cross examined oa the evidence thus collected the committee reported to the house that there was a real decline in the literature of the stage and the taste of the public for theatrical performances and that the main causes were he eighth the administration of the laws a the slender encouragement afforded to literary talent to devote its labours to the stage and the want of better as to the number and distribution of theatres in respect to the exclusive privileges claimed bj the two theatres it appears st that such privileges have neither preserved the dignity of the drama nor been of much advantage to the of those theatres in regard to dramatic literature an author at present is subjected to hardship and injustice and the of protection afforded to his labours when compared even with that granted to authors in any other branch of letters seems alone sufficient to divert the ambition of eminent and successful writers firom that department of intellectual exertion the sworn evidence fully bears out the report st it was sworn that for some years the good old system of an author according to his merit by the of the third sixth ninth nights had been dis continued here and pieces purchased instead generally for a very low price thus merit was with that the author was deliberately and habitually out of his pieces sometimes in london in the country nearly always mr that he produced in london at a minor theatre lane theatre one of the of the legitimate sent and stole this piece an one played it in the teeth of the author and laughed at the idea of any author s dramatic work being property like a carpenter s at one end of the stick at the other what did you receive for it i was cheated of it altogether i never got but for it the next answer explains that in consequence of the and its success the manager had engaged him to write a see the evidence of and and all the authors especially and the eighth for the theatre at a week but that was not buying the piece on the contrary was worth a great deal more than a week to the theatre was it published not till two applied to me each to protect himself against the other neither of them having any right to publish it at all n b drowning thieves catch at a straw the author s rights mr played the piece in defiance of you yes and made money by it a great deal of money he brought out madame in it he paid her i ll be bound it is only the benefactor creator and maker of all these who is from generation to generation and from age to this is the same that stole a play of s and played it in defiance of the author s and s rights in an was applied for v sent the question to law the five judges decided refuse the they did not give their reasons which is most unusual in a case a whole class of the community but the fact is they dared not give their reasons the fraud was a thing to be done but not to be justified on any principle of law that would bear a general application therefore the court became a secret silent to work the silent eats the most authors a they would have respected because that is a low kind of personal property but lord s child was by law during its period of existence the highest kind of personal property how could they with it f and the man that created the property how could any human feeling for him enter their breasts neither bob nor his in those five and on the judgment seat were empty of human kindness in general but here the same cause the judges hearts that had the actor s heart the writer was their intellectual superior these five with law and morality soon found pupils to carry their principles into practice they say give a rogue an inch and he will take an ell the eighth that is not true in give an author half an inch and he never has failed to take the whole piece in any age or land those five author and lord | 9 |
to the rules of reason is this moral right is this a mean of preventing treason or rather is it not in truth a direct invitation to it sir it is obvious that neither reason nor moral right require actual presence at the act to constitute the crime of treason put this case to any common man whether the absence of a should him from punishment for the crime which he has excited his agents to commit and he will instantly tell you that he deserves infinitely more severe punishment than his instruments there is a moral sense much more in questions of this sort than the of chap xiv s speech or philosophers and no man of a sound mind and heart can doubt for a moment between the comparative guilt of the prime of the whole mischief and of the poor men on s island who called themselves s men in the case of murder who is the most guilty the ignorant or the abominable the decision of the supreme court sir is so far from being on the ground of reason and moral right that it is supported by their most obvious and palpable give to the constitution the construction for on the other side and you might as well the crime from your criminal code nay you had better do it for by this construction you hold out the of to the most dangerous men in the community men of ambition and talents while you loose the vengeance of the law on the comparatively innocent k treason ought to be repressed i ask you who is the most dangerous and the most likely to commit it � the mere instrument who applies the force or the daring elevated genius who the whole plot but acts behind the permit me now to bring mr to england sir the decision of the supreme court is equally supported by the law of england x but to gratify them let us put aside what will they say to lord hale did any angry and savage passions his bosom or the horizon of his understanding on criminal law no sir no spot ever soiled the holy of his office mild patient benevolent � peace in his breast with a mind beaming the of noon day and with a s soul he sat on the bench like a descended god yet that judge has laid down the doctrine for which i contend in terms as distinct and emphatic as those of lord in � but if many e to or or it and one of them doth the fact upon that or conspiracy it is treason in all and they may be all for generally within this for in such case in treason all are it is that judge has very discussed this subject and the doctrine that all are i admit the truth of all the which the counsel for the have pronounced upon that gentleman he has all the illumination of mind and all the virtues of the heart which those gentlemen with the view of the weight of his authority have been pleased to to him what they have said of him from policy i can say of him from my heart for i know it to be true yet give me leave sir very briefly to examine his argument upon this subject qui object is to prove that the position that in high treason all are s speech is not law in england the mode which he to prove his point is this he all the authorities which have supported this doctrine and tracing it up with patient and laborious perseverance with the ere he finds the first spring in the reign of henry vi that case is reported in the year book hen and is very nearly as stated by mr from it is the case of a man who broke prison and let out says it was treason the year books merely say that he was drawn and hanged a sentence in those days when the notions and punishment of treason notwithstanding the of edward remained still unsettled is no very proof that his crime was treason x x f f the gentleman next tried the case of sir s as they are represented as a s head by judge not as an illustration of the law but by way of exciting oar horror against a corrupt judge we do not rely upon the of that case what can be the motives which the gentleman had in view in reading this case with a countenance and of such peculiar pathos was it to excite our sympathies under the hope that our apprehensions and feelings when once set afloat might for the want of some other living object be graciously transferred to his it was with the same view i presume that the gentleman gave tm the pathetic and affecting story of lady as it is touched by the elegant and delicate pencil of it was with the same views also that he from the same author the deep and bloody horrors of a and a sensible that there waa nothing in the virtues of his or in this cause to interest us he borrowed the sufferings and the virtues of a and a lady to our affections and set our hearts a bleeding hoping that our pity thus excited might be transferred and attached to his i hope that we feel as much horror at the infernal of judge and the and tyranny of judge as they or any other gentlemen can feel but these cases do not apply to merciful and judges we cannot think it very complimentary or respectful to this court to such cases they seem to be held up in from an apprehension that their authority would be admitted here but w apprehend no such consequence but he says that since the revolution of the british have leaned the other way and | 29 |
for me away oflf in the country you appear to be anxious to the city i said he only smiled i am going to send you to the country he said with calm decision by john marvel assistant when you come back i have made all the arrangements i am going to find i will find her if the world holds her yes to be sure he smiled he was so strong that i yielded i learned that a good offer was waiting for me to go into the law office of one of the large when i should be well enough to work in a capacity which would have termed that of a minor but it was coupled with the condition that i should get well first my speech at the meeting when i and my part in the had become known and friends had interested themselves in my behalf so john marvel reported and as he appeared to be managing things i assumed that he had done this too i never fully knew until after his death how truly was one of the i often think of him with his high aim to better the whole human race inspired by a passion for his own people to extend his to all mankind cast out by those he labored for denying that he was a christian and yet dying a christian death in the act of for those who him i owe him a great debt for teaching me many things but chiefly for the knowledge that the future of the race rests on the whole people and its process depends on each one however he may love his own working to the death for all he opened my eyes by the conflict to the fact that every man who to the common good of mankind is one of the chosen people and that the law is to do good to mankind i discovered that john marvel knew he was in love with though how he knew it i never learned he never told her he said but died with it locked in his heart � as was best he added after a pause and then he looked out of the window and as he did not say anything from which i could judge whether he knew why never told his love i did not tell what i knew it may have been the slowly fading light which made his face so sad i remember that a long silence fell between us and it came over me with a new force how much more both these men had loved than i and how much nobler both had always been � the living and the dead and i began with myself to say something which i felt i ought to say but had not courage enough presently john said very slowly almost as if he were speaking to himself i believe if you keep on she will marry you and i believe you will help each other � i know she will help you his arm was resting on the table i over and laid my hand on his arm i once thought it certain i should win her i am far from sure that i shall now i am not worthy of her � but i shall try to be you alone john of all the men i know are i cannot give her up � but it is only honest to tell you that i have less hope than i had by john marvel assistant he turned to me with a sad little smile on his face and shook his head i would not give her up if i were you you are not good enough for her but no one is and you will grow better for the first time i almost thought him handsome you are old man no i am not � i have my work to do � it is useless to talk to you keep on he picked up a paper and began to read and i observed for die first time that he had taken off his glasses i made some remark on it yes my sight is getting better � i can see the stars now he said smiling john you have long seen the stars i said so as soon as i could travel john marvel sent me off � sent me to a where he had lived in his first � a place far from the a country of woods and rolling fields and running streams the real country where blossoms and birds sing and waters murmur they are the best people in the world he said and they were they accepted me on his word mr marvel had sent me and that was enough his word was a in all that region they did not know who the queen of england was and were scarcely sure as to the president of the united states but they knew john marvel and because i had come from him they treated me like a prince and this was the man i had had the folly to look down by the conflict in that quiet place i seemed to have content in that land of peace the strife of the city the noise and turmoil and horror of the strike seemed but as the of waves breaking on some far off shore i began to new life with the first breath of the air the day after i arrived i borrowed the that belonged to my host and down the little river that skirted his place with the idea of fishing in a pool he had told me of the afternoon was so soft and that i forgot my sport and simply drifted with the current under the overhanging branches of and when turning a bend in the stream i came on a boat floating in a placid pool in it were | 46 |
it you fail to see so often mr returned the idiot that i would advise your eyes to make an in favor of your pupils i j � i must confess put in mr that i too am somewhat � er � somewhat up a tree as to science s connection with the future the idiot you have my meaning but hardly the i should have chosen replied the minister my style is rather said the idiot i appreciate the flattery implied by noticing it but science has everything to do with it it is science that is going to make the future great it is science that has distance and the has just begun twenty years ago it was hardly possible for a man standing on one side of the street to make himself heard on the other the properties of the atmosphere not being w hat they should be today you can stand in the pulpit of your church and by means of certain scientific apparatus make yourself heard in boston new or san has this no bearing on the future the time will come mr when your will be able to sit in their comfortable and ring up the heathen in foreign and convert them over the without run the new york public library and f ns a l o the slightest danger of falling into the soup which expression i use in its literal rather than in its sense but � interrupted mr now wait please said the idiot if science can degrees of distance who shall say that before many days science may not degrees of time if san thousands of miles distant can be brought within range of the ear why cannot be brought before the mind s eye and if can be brought before the mind s eye what is to prevent the invention of a which shall enable us to cast a w hich shall reach all around eternity and half way back if not further you do not understand me said mr when i speak of the future i do not mean the future i know exactly what you mean said the idiot i ve dealt in and i am familiar with all kinds it is you sir that do not understand me my claim is perfectly plausible and in its results is bound to make the better do you suppose that any man who by the aid of my sees that on a certain date in the future he w ill be hanged for murder is going to fail to provide himself with an in regard to that particular murder and must we not admit that having provided himself with that he will of necessity avoid and so avoid the gallows that s reasonable so in regard to all the thousand and one other that go to make this life a sinful one science by a purely logical advance along the lines already out for itself and in part already traversed will enable men to avoid the and reap only the of life we shall all sec what terrible consequences await on a single and we shall not make the can you still claim that science and the future have nothing to do with each other you are talking of matters purely said mr i have reference to our spiritual future and the two observed the idiot are so closely allied that we cannot separate them the proverb about looking after the and letting the pounds take care of themselves applies here i believe that if i take care of my future � which by does not exist � my spiritual future will take care of itself and if science places the hereafter before us � and you admit that even t r vo k library and foundations r l i now it is before us � all we have to do is to take advantage of our opportunities and mend our lives accordingly but if science shows you what is to come said the school master it must show your fate with perfect accuracy or it ceases to be science in which event your entertaining notions as to reform and so on are entirely not at all said the idiot we are approaching the time when science which is much more liberal than any other branch of knowledge will sacrifice even truth itself for the good of mankind you ought to start a company suggested the doctor either that or make himself the of an insane asylum observed the school master i never knew a man with such views as those we have heard this morning there is a great deal mr that you have never known returned the idiot stick by me and you ll die with a mind richly stored the school master left the table with such manifest impatience that mr was sorry he had started the conversation the genial gentleman who occasionally and the idiot withdrew to the latter s room where the former observed what are you driving at anyhow where did you get those crazy ideas i ate a last night and dreamed em returned the idiot i thought as much said his companion wliat fine dreams are anyhow ix breakfast was very nearly over and it was of such good quality that very few remarks bad been made finally the ball was set rolling by the lawyer how many of do you smoke a day he asked as the idiot took one from his pocket and placed it at the side of his coffee cup never more than forty six said the idiot why do you think of starting a stand not at all said mr brief i was only wondering what chance you had to live to maturity that all your maturity period will be in about eight hundred and sixty years from now the way i calculate and it seemed to me that judging from the of you smoke you | 27 |
he emerged into the streets in the evening with the absolute certain that the next settling day would leave him either hopelessly or y prosperous it all depended upon s what could he possibly have found out at and then suddenly he saw a newspaper boy fasten a upon a lamp post and a uttle crowd had gathered round it m an instant one of them waved his hat in the air another shouted to a across the street hurried up and b a shadow before caught a glimpse of the between two heads � france was on germany by jove i cried old right after all l the king of the it was after hunting dinner and there were as many scarlet coats as black ones round the table the conversation over the had turned therefore in the direction of horses and with reminiscences of runs where had led the pack om end to end of a county and hem overtaken at last by two or three hounds and a on foot while every rider in the field had been as the port the runs longer and more until we had the inquiring their way and failing to understand the dialect of the people who answered them the too became more eccentric and we had up which were dragged bv the out of horses and which had through an open door and gone to ground in a s bonnet box the master had told one or two tall reminiscences and when he cleared his throat for another we were all curious for he was a bit of an artist in his way and produced his effects in a his ce wore the earnest practical severely accurate expression which some of his finest efforts it was before i was master said he sir charles had the hounds at that time and then afterward they passed to old and then to me it may possibly have been just after la took them over but my strong impression is that it was in s time that would be early in the � about seventy two i should say the king of the the man i mean has moved to another part of the country but i dare say that some of you can remember was the name � walter or as the people used to call him he was the son of old joe of high and when his father died he came into a very good thing for his only brother was drowned when the so he inherited the whole estate it was but a few hundred acres but it was good land and those were the days of farming besides it was and a farmer without a was a man before the great in wheat came foreign wheat and wire � those are the two curses of this for the one spoils the s work and the other spoils his play this young was a very fine fellow a keen rider and thorough but his head was s little turned at having come when so young into a comfortable fortune and he went the pace for a year or two the lad had no vice in bim but there was a hard drinking set jn the neighbourhood at that time and got drawn in among them and being an ie fellow who liked to do what his friends w� � doing be very soon took to drinking a great deal more than was good for him as a rule a man who takes his exercise may drink as much as he likes in the evening and do himself no very great harm if he will leave it alone during the day had too many friends for that however and it really looked as if the poor chap was going to the bad when a very thing happened which pulled him up with such a sudden jerk that he l the king of the never put his hand upon the neck of a bottle he a which i have noticed in a good many other men that though he was always playing with his own health he was none the less very anxious about it and was extremely if ever he had any trivial symptom being a tough open air fellow who was always as hard as a nail it was seldom that there was anything amiss him but at last the drink began to tell and he woke one morning with his hands shaking and all his nerves like he had been dining at some very wet house the night before and the wine had perhaps been more plentiful than choice at any rate there he was with a tongue like a bath and a head that like an eight day clock he was very at his own condition and he sent for dr of the father of the man who there now had been a great friend of old s and he was very sorry to see his son going to the devil so he improved the occasion by taking his case very seriously and him upon the danger of his ways he shook his head and talked about the possibility of de ot even of if he continued to lead such a life was horribly do you think i am going to get anything of the sort he well really i don t know said the doctor gravely i cannot undertake to say that you are out of danger your is very much out of order at time during the day you might have those grave symptoms of which i warn you the king of the you think i shall be safe by evening if you drink nothing during the day and have no symptoms before evening i think you may consider yourself safe the doctor d a little would he thought do his patient good so he made the most of the matter symptoms may i expect | 4 |
you i watched i who can see in tjie dark and in a little while i saw the guard come down the steps and sit by the edge of the water he was sleepy for he yawned and lit a roll of paper to smoke it presently it went out and he had no more matches he looked up to the house here but was too lazy to fetch them then i guessed that he was alone for else he would have called to his companion for e now he grew and i said to myself how can you kill this man silently you must not shoot because of the noise and if you throw a knife or a spear you may miss or wound him that hero only and my snake spoke in my heart and answered seize his feet and drag him down swiftly and stamp him into the mud you who are half a and can swim as no other man can swim do it at once before the light comes and men can see the move well and so i did it i trod him deep into the mire i trampled him as an ox corn upon a floor never will he come up again after that i rose and ran into the guard house fearing lest there might be another whom i must silence also for when i was a slave two always kept watch but the place was empty so i let the bridge down ah i remembered how it worked and that is the tale a great tale but it is not finished yet now let us to the slaves come take the light and lead the way here we are safe is it not so here we are safe for none can reach us except by storm and yonder is the big gun which turns upon itself let us twist the gun round first so that if need be we can fire into the camp i don t know much of cannon said doubtfully but i know something white man said speaking for the first time my master had a small one up at the settlement and often i have helped to fire it for practice and as a signal to boats on the river and so have many of the men who were carried away if we can find them yonder good said a path ran along the top of the to the platform on which the gun was mounted it was a six pound the and ran it down the she is loaded he said now let us swing her round they did so easily enough bringing the down upon the nest camp then they entered the little hut which stood alongside piled up in it in case of emergency were half a dozen rounds of shot and powder lots of if we should want to use it said it never occurred to those gentlemen that a gun can shoot two ways and now lead us to the slaves quick this way but first we must find the tools they are in the guard hut i suppose the people of the af st so they crept back to the hut holding their heads as tow as possible for the light was increasing although the moon was not yet up and they feared lest they should be seen against the sky line here they found boxes and other instruments such as are used to undo the irons upon slaves also they found the keys of the that locked the iron to which the were taking a lantern with them but leaving another burning as before in the hut lest its absence should excite suspicion they passed through two strong gates and down the steps on the further side of the a few paces beyond stood the first slave shed a rough supported on posts but without sides they entered the shed leading the way with the lantern in the middle of it was a path and on either side of this ran the long bars to which the were fastened in a double row perhaps there might have been two hundred and fifty of them in this shed here the sights and scenes were such as need not be described of the miserable some lay on the wet ground men and women together trying to forget their sorrows in sleep but the most part of them were awake and the sound of ran up and down their lines like the moaning of trees in the wind when they saw the light the slaves ceased moaning and crouched upon the ground like dogs that await the whip for they thought that this was a visit from their some of them indeed stretched out their bands imploring pity but these were the exceptions the most of them had abandoned hope and were sunk in dull despair it was pitiful to see the glance of their terror filled eyes and the answering quiver of their frames whenever an arm was lifted or a sudden movement made went down the line rapidly examining the faces of the slaves do you see any of s people asked anxiously h ot here white man let us go to the next shed unless i you want to loose these no good in that mother said they would only betray us so they went to the next � in all there were tour � and here at tie man who was sleeping his i that hero bowed on his chained hands stopped suddenly like a dog when he game peter peter she said the man awoke � he was a fine fellow about thirty years of age � and glared round wildly who called me by my old name he said hoarsely nay i dream peter is dead peter said the woman again awake child of it is i who am come to save you the man cried aloud | 18 |
t f equal extent with that which mr j al observation nor is there any part of europe of equal where the rocks lie so or where the f can be so well illustrated as on this of america mr has and described an extent of country actual from boston to and has marked far f than we could expect from any single observer the lines that the primitive and secondary the t boundary of the rock salt when it is that mr has travelled over all europe as a and twenty years of his life to this study the great of this will be readily perceived it i by two very interesting coloured maps the ai leading features of the country described is a present worthy of it man of to make to hi country it in hoped that persons in authority will use their en l to procure a of every state by dis l so that we may form some rational conjecture of the mine j riches which we � eat within the of the earth and acquire some efficient means of getting at them the next paper a� c by esq is not of a nature to admit of any j interesting to our readers no of to l if of thi in the n by william tliis lion has been determined by by means of on and mean result of gives the distance of the from ob near london equal to t jo v time no the figure of the earth and the ra hi by principle upon which the author proceeds will be understood from the extract now it hat hi of several eminent m i particularly by d u on e of the earth by la place in his ni fix of gravity in from ua lor to the note ia as the square of i lie l force arising from of the on i � to very in that the of the earth vary in and to any function of hie distance from the and the parts of the are so as to obey the compound gravity or the joint action attraction and the force aod as the length of the in a second or in any given time is directly as t gravity the length of the follows the same ti with tlie gravity in parting from the lo he pole aud pre table may be considered lu a able o ia let be the length of the y an unknown fixed co efficient j any and the length of the in then agreeably to the law gravity just state we have the e r n j y sin x a which x and y are found we stall have the value of r or thi measure of gravity in every latitude it is certain that whale numbers we substitute cur r and y we cannot such v for r as are exactly with those given in the table according observation though the are not and may justly be ascribed to the inevitable errors ment in perhaps with a small in the of the earth from the conditions that have been as the basis of the physical and l a place since therefore it is to reconcile completely the theory with the all that can bo is to such for x and y as will cause the y sin a to with the numbers in the tliis is by a rule published by the writer of this article the no y in and which applied present us to discover such lor x y as will render the sum of the of the between several numbers of the aiid corresponding of r y sin a the least possible no s on leaden bv william jones this ia � proposal to substitute of lead oi paper on the grounds of more security in handling and firing made of lead than those of paper and also will k and the better pi � ore strong marks practical good sense in p� i the seems worthy the of who direct our tv � f the j no tables of the of mountain in tht cf and from and of by a ci tain of the corps of no of the used or the or he of and were to but wc presume from captain s situation aad ch that none of these were neglected should be checked by the on the temperature of water whether the ther observations here alluded to were of this nature we know not any supplied in the which ih in the ie no on the and of the of north america in a from h to mr from the number and extent of and of ii people from the � up used a population in former times for the north american continent far greater than what wc now it the is curious and and will well an perusal to u reader who feels interested in the of continent it will be fo in thi number of the magazine no an made on a� h a for and from that hy j � cloud mr cloud the ore of in and it in the by the exposed to a white heat a gray which was by the om b ow first invented by mr hare and greatly and improved by mr cloud many years before dr s pretended discovery the thus obtained was rolled out and proved to have a gravity of the in the remaining solution were by mixed with four of silver and in which took up the silver and the the silver was by and the by of and then with of the the and gold were then se by and the remained in the black powder which when and by the was of for further details we refer to the itself which is very creditable to this able no an to ascertain the re me by ji | 48 |
the absent voice � the window without its light the familiar name � the relics � the harp untouched � the task � the blank at the table up � the garden walks � the flowers � the favourite books closed up as with a seal � in short the total away of that sweet without which the once harmonious strains of social intercourse are musical no more the effect produced upon the mind by the contemplation of death is of a character peculiarly refined and gentle we necessarily forgive the dead even though they may have been our enemies and if our we remember their virtues alone they have lost the power to offend again and therefore their faults are forgotten it is true there are associations with the bodily part of death which scarcely come under the of refined but from these our nature even the common nurse her last sad office in silence and delicacy in everlasting the mortal remains of the deceased it is the task of the poet to record their noble actions � their benevolence � their patient suffering � their � their self denial and while he this sacred duty his bosom with enthusiasm to imitate the virtues he the loss of fortune is another cause of grief not less severely felt for being of common occurrence those who have never tasted the real bitterness of poverty tell us in the language of philosophy that the loss of fortune is a very insufficient cause for the grief of a wise man that our nature is not degraded when our bodies are clad in i homely garments and that the friends j the poetry op grief whose esteem is worthy of our regard will follow us as willingly to the clay cottage as to the courts of kings this might be all very true did reason alone govern the but we have another law � the law of feeling more potent in its influence upon the of mankind and in this law the poet is much better instructed than the philosopher the poet knows that to attempt to remove the pressure of the of life by reasoning however upon their transient or trifling nature is not in effect to speak the language of common sense because it does not itself to the feelings of those to whom it is addressed so as to render it available or even intelligible as well might we tell the victim of raging fever that it is absurd to thirst again because he has but lately his lips as endeavour to persuade him who suffers from the loss of worldly wealth to be comforted because it is vain to grieve the poet s sphere being one of feeling he has within himself so quick and clear an apprehension of all the sources of human pain or pleasure that he sees and at once why the change of fortune the of accustomed privileges and and the gradual sinking to a lower rank in social life should occasion the deepest sorrow and regret were reason the sole of our passions and we never grieve because we arc taught by the experience of every day that good may arise out of what we have blindly called evil and because we are assured upon the highest evidence that our even when darkest and most perplexed are the government of a gracious and providence but the experience of every day teaches us also these important truths have not their proper weight in human calculations who for instance can meet with the attacks of suspicious whose claims he knows he is unable to supply who can bear the mute appeals of those who have been dependent upon his and protection when he has no longer the power to either � the looks of former friends for friendship in the world is not what it is to be in books but will sometimes from the i rule of scripture by showing respect unto the persons of men � the reproaches covert and open which always fall upon those whose success has not been equal to their as if the of this life were so regulated that to succeed in obtaining money were the highest proof of the gradual owing to the taking away of on every side when most needed into a lower grade of society where intellectual refinement is uttle valued and to be maintained � the signs of envious triumph exhibited by those who in our better days would have been our enemies if they had dared who can endure all these and an endless variety of other causes of suffering incident to fallen fortune and yet so his soul by sage reasoning that it shall feel no anguish no the poet knows what is in nature and in man and therefore he finds a fruitful theme of interest in the fountain of his own feelings which through the medium of poetic language is so conducted as to mix and and with those of others a well known cause of grief and one familiar to every poetic mind is loneliness in one sense it may be said that the poet is never alone but let us ask how it is that he to make him of with the and the of the to hold perhaps there never was a poet who had not first sought to find in his own species that real sympathy for which he becomes afterwards satisfied to substitute the ideal it is impossible but that the elevated and finely constituted mind should find itself alone and if morbid and too sensitive as such minds generally are it must be always so in the common of human kind the poet who can be satisfied with nothing less than entire communion and sympathy of soul is alone in the crowded � ity where amidst the rush of thousands of busy feet not one is found to pause because he is near � | 41 |
to some discoveries and to the s � power over the w family � as i the assume � unless the filial affection of his daughter could be secretly influenced from allowing any investigation of the affairs to be ever made the said � � deemed it expedient to have a bond ready by him as from mr w for the before mentioned sum of twelve six fourteen two and nine with interest stated therein to have been advanced by � � to mr w to save mr w from though really the sum was never advanced by him and has long been replaced the to this instrument to be executed by mr w and by are by � i have in my possession in his i of david hand and pocket book several similar of mr w s signature here and there by fire but to any one i never any such document and i have the document itself in my possession with a start took out of his pocket a bunch of keys and opened a certain drawer then suddenly himself of what he was about and turned again towards us without looking in it and i have the document mr read again looking about as if it were the text of a sermon in my possession � that is to say i had early this morning when this was written but have since it to mr it is quite true assented cried the mother be and make terms i know my son will be gentlemen if you give him time to think mr i m sure you know that he was always very sir it was singular to see how the mother still held to the old trick when the son had abandoned it as useless mother he said with an impatient bite at the handkerchief in which his hand was wrapped you had better take and fire a loaded gun at me but i love you cried mrs and i have no doubt she did or that he loved her however strange it may appear though to be sure they were a congenial couple and i can t bear to hear you provoking the gentlemen and of yourself more i told the gentleman at first when he told me up stairs it was come to light that i would answer for your being and making amends oh see how i am gentlemen and don t mind him why there s mother he angrily retorted pointing his lean finger at me against whom all his was as the prime in the discovery and i did not him there s would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you ve out i can t help it cried his mother i can t see you running into danger through carrying your head so high better be as you always was he remained for a little biting the handkerchief and then said to me with a what more have you got to bring forward if anything go on with it what do you look at me for mr promptly resumed his letter only too glad to to a performance with which he was so highly satisfied third and last i am now in a condition to show by � s � false books and � s � real beginning with the partially destroyed pocket book which i was unable to comprehend at the time of its accidental discovery by mrs on our taking possession of our present abode in the or devoted to the reception of the ashes on our domestic hearth that the weaknesses the faults the very virtues the parental affections and the sense of honor of the unhappy mr w have been for years acted on by and to the base purposes of � that mr w has been for years and in every conceivable manner to the pecuniary of the false and grasping � that the object of � � was next to gain to subdue mr and miss w of his views in reference the personal history and experience to the latter i say nothing entirely to himself that his last act completed but a few months since was to induce mr w to execute a of his share in the and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house in consideration of a certain to be well and truly paid by � � on the four common quarter days in each and every year that these beginning with alarming and accounts of the estate of which mr w is the at a period when mr w had launched into and ill judged speculations and may not have had the money for which he was morally and responsible in hand going on with pretended of money at enormous interest really coming from � � and by � � obtained or withheld from mr w himself on pretence of such speculations or otherwise by a miscellaneous catalogue of � gradually until the unhappy mr w could see no world beyond as he believed alike in circumstances in all other hope and in honor his sole reliance was upon the monster in the garb of man � mr made a good deal of this as a new turn of expression � who by making himself necessary to liim had achieved his destruction all this i undertake to show probably much more i whispered a few words to who was half joyfully half sorrowfully at my side and there was a movement among us as if mr had finished he said with exceeding gravity pardon me and proceeded with a mixture of the lowest spirits and the most intense enjoyment to the of his letter i have now concluded it merely remains for me to these and then with my ill family to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an that is soon done it may be | 8 |
to say it and then went in his bowed way out of the palace hall just as he might have gone out of the room all this time had been sobbing and crying and still continued to do so edward beyond opening his mouth in amazement had not opened his lips and had done nothing but stare mr also had been utterly and quite unable to assert himself in any way was now the first to speak i never never never was so used she sobbed there wm anything so harsh and so violent aad dear kind quiet little too what would she feel if she know that she had been innocently the means of exposing mo to treatment but i ll never t ll her good darling i ll tell her this helped mr to break his silence my dear said he i � ha � approve of your resolution it will be � ha hum � much better not to speak of this to it i i u � hum � it might distress her ha no doubt it would her greatly it is considerate and right to avoid doing so wo � ha � keep this to ourselves but the cruelty of uncle cried miss o i on the wanton cruelty of uncle mj dear said mr his tone though he m unusually pale i must request you not to my so you remember that your uncle is � ha � not what he formerly was must remember that your uncle s state requires � hum � at for oa from us forbearance i am sure cried it is only to that there must he something wrong in him or he could so attacked me of all the people in the world returned fr in a deeply tone you know with his innumerable good points what a � hum � wreck your uncle is and i entreat you by the fondness that have for him and by the fidelity that you know i have always shown him to � ha � to draw your own conclusions and to spare my feelings this the scene edward saying nothing but looking to the last perplexed and awakened affectionate uneasiness in her sister s mind that � lay by passing the part of it in violent fits of embracing her and in giving her and wishing herself dead chapter vi to be in tho halting state of mr henry go won to have left one of two powers in disgust to want the necessary for finding with another and to be about on both is to be in a for tho mind time is not l to improve the worst class of sum worked in the day world is by the who are always in tho rule of as to tho merits and of others and never in addition as to their own the habit too of seeking some sort of in the discontented boast of being disappointed is a habit with a idle carelessness and of soon comes of it to deserving things down by setting things up is one of its delights and there is no playing fast and i loose with the in any game without growing the worse for it i in his expressed opinions of all performances in the art of painting that completely destitute of merit was the most liberal fellow m earth he would declare such a man to more power in his finger provided he had none than such another had provided be had much in his whole mind and body if the objection were taken that the thing commended was he would reply on behalf of his art my good fellow what do we all turn out but torn out nothing else and i make you a present of the confession to make a of being poor was another of the incidents of his state though this may have had the design in it of showing ho ought to be rich just as he would publicly and the lest it should be forgotten that he belonged to the family two subjects were very often on his lips and he them ao well that he might have praised himself by e month together and not have made himself out half so important a man as he did by his light of his claims on anybody s consideration out of this some airy talk of his it always soon came to bo wherever he and his wife went that he had married against the wishes of his exalted relations and had had much to prevail on them to countenance her he never made the representation on the contrary seemed to laugh tho idea to scorn but it did happen that with all his pains to himself he was always in tho superior position from the days of their felt sensible of being usually regarded as the wife of a man who had made a descent in marrying her but whose love for her had that to they had been accompanied by of paris and at of paris was very much in the society of when they had first met this gallant ai little it at had been whether to kick him or encourage him and had remained for about four and twenty boon troubled to settle the point to his satisfaction that he had thought of tossing up a five piece on the terms tails kick heads encourage and abiding by the voice of the it chanced however that his wife expressed a dislike to the engaging and that the balance of feeling in the hotel was against hm upon that resolved to encourage him why this if it were not in a generous fit � it was not why should very much the superior of bin of paris and very well able to pull tliat to pieces and find out the stuff he was made of up with such a man in | 8 |
eye which was as stem as the s he seems to be in a somewhat better manner than before he said that if he had more water you should have it but that he is himself short in supply he said that to morrow we shall come to the of and everybody shall have � and the too did he say how long we stopped here very little rest he said and thai forward oh mr hold your tongue i snapped the an once more to count times and distances if it au worked out as he expected if his wife had insisted upon the indolent giving an alarm at then the be already upon their track the corps or the egyptian horse would travel by moonlight better and than in the he knew that it was the custom at to keep at least a of them all ready to start at any instant he had dined at the mess and the officers had told him how quickly they could take the field they had shown him the water and the food beside each beast and he had admired the completeness of the arrangements with little thought as to what it might mean to him in the future it would be at least an horn before they would all get started again from their present halting place that would be a clear hour gained perhaps by next morning and suddenly his thoughts were terribly the tragedy of the interrupted the like a madman appeared upon the crest of the nearest slope with an hanging on to each of his wrists his ce was purple with rage and excitement and he and bent and in his furious efforts to get free you cursed i he shrieked and then seeing the others in front of him he cried they ve killed brown what had happened was this in his conflict with his own ill had strolled over this nearest crest and had foimd a group of in the hollow beyond with a little knot of angry loud men beside them brown was the of the group pale heavy eyed with his moustache manner they had searched his pockets before but now they were determined to tear off all his clothes in the hope of finding something which he had a hideous ne ro with silver in his ears and in the young s face there seemed to the colonel to be heroic and almost in that white calm and those abstracted eyes his coat was already open and the negro s black flew up to his neck and tore his down to the waist and at the sound of that r r and at the touch of those coarse fingers this man about town this finished product of the nineteenth century dropped his traditions and became a savage facing a savage his face flushed his lips l back lie his teeth an fu e and his eyes � those indolent eyes which had always so placidly � were and frantic he threw himself upon the d ro and struck the of the him again and again feebly but in his broad black ce he hit like a girl round arm with an open palm the man away for an instant appalled by this sudden blaze of passion then with an impatient cry he slid a knife from his loose sleeve and struck upward under the whirling arm brown sat down at the blow and began to to cough as a man who has choked at dinner after then the red cheeks turned to a there were liquid sounds in his throat and clapping his hand to his mouth he rolled over on to his side the negro with a brutal of contempt slid his knife up his sleeve once more while the colonel frantic with impotent anger was seized by the and dragged with fury back to his forlorn party his hands were lashed with a and he lay at last in bitter silence beside the so was gone and brown was gone and their eyes were turned from one pale face to another to know which they should lose next of that of li ht hearted who had stood out so clearly the blue morning when viewed from the deck of the two gone out of ten and a third out of his mind the pleasure trip was drawing to its climax the frenchman was sitting alone with his chin resting upon his hands and his elbows upon his knees staring miserably out over the desert when saw him start suddenly and up his head like a dog who hears a strange step then with clenched he bent his the tragedy of the ce forward and stared toward the black eastern hills through which they had passed followed his and yes � yes � there was something moving there i he saw the twinkle of metal and the sudden gleam and flutter of some white a upon the flank his twice round as a danger signal and discharged his rifle in the air the echo of the crack had hardly died away before they were all in their and another instant and the were on their feet and moving slowly toward the point of alarm several armed men surrounded the prisoners slipping into their as a hint to them to remain still by heaven they are men on i cried his troubles au forgotten as he strained his es to catch sight of these new comers i do believe that it is our own people in the confusion he had tu ed his hands fix m the which bound them they ve been than i gave than credit for said his eyes shining from under his thick brows they are here a long two before we could have reasonably expected them fa va i les ai les the excited as the a column of began to wind out from among the | 4 |
character them waa now aa dial thousand were for laying die of a college of which it was that he should become the president no sooner was the plan and the list filled up than those ardent and men commenced the of the buildings of that which was afterwards ed by die and in compliment to those distinguished of england john and college having now completed his tour thus y undertaken daring die in whidi the were the he returned to the and connected himself as his venerable president and by ties even in and than those which die professor and pupil by marrying his eldest daughter a lady of great gentleness of disposition and amiable soon after this event he returned to virginia to take upon him the two fold charge of principal of die and of the church in both these he self with the greatest talents and address and fulfilled to those who had confidence in him their most sanguine his reputation both aa a pious and learned divine and an eloquent and every day increased and the attachment of his flock a students of the college to his person was and during the whole of his residence among them the and vehemence of his mode of preaching however added to his in die were too trying for a constitution which al naturally sound was not robust and in the course of three or four years health was great and his z of bit smith s succeeding die exercises of die became with thia appearance did not ai first his zeal or restrain his exertions but at he was found to discharge od in considerable quantities from his breast and it became necessary that for a time hb should from repeating this painful and dangerous experiment upon his lungs in order to his strength and recover his health it was thought advisable by his friends that he should retire for a season to a watering place among tha western mountains of virginia known by the name of the sweet springs which was just beginning to be held in great for the qualities of its waters on his way to springs an incident occurred to him which would not be worthy of an here except as it strongly to view the tenderness of that connection which between a good and his flock and may serve as an encouragement to the clergy to the cultivation of that of intercourse with the members of their communion which may lead to the formation of so ble to both parties during his journey to the springs he was one evening passing by a yard where an elderly lady the wife of colonel christian so famous in our indian wars was standing among her servants and as soon as she saw him she stepped forward asking pardon for her intrusion and begged to know if he was in any way related to that most worthy of all men as she said mr samuel his maternal uncle i consider him she continued as my spiritual father many many years ago no man was more dear to me and on seeing you as you were passing so strong a resemblance of his countenance struck me that i could not resist the impulse which induced me to make this abrupt inquiry however improbable or almost impossible it may seem to see any one of mr s relations in these remote ends of the earth mr smith informed her that she was not deceived in the had life of dr smith traced for that he was a near relation of mr and then stated the connection that between them forgive me my dear sir she continued with great earnestness if my affection for that good man me to urge you to pass this night as the day is far spent with my family i cannot help hoping to meet with his spirit in his perfect image and let me have reason to my god and for this unexpected interview which strikes my mind as a special act of his gracious providence designed for the consolation of one of the most unworthy of his servants tribute of regard and attachment whatever may be the difficulties and of the such a testimony of respect and affection from one pious woman an affection too springing out of so pure and sacred a fountain amply the for a life of toil when placed in competition with a sacred veneration of this kind for the memory of a good clergyman all the glory of the conqueror and the loud applause of the thoughtless multitude are but as tile dust of the balance it his memory his ashes and without producing the effects supposed to result from his to him its happiest rewards by his enjoyment in a future state of existence after a few weeks at the springs above mentioned mr smith found the of blood from his lungs to cease and the slow fever which attended it disappear on his return to hb family with recovered health new prospects opened to him in life and the way had been paved for his entrance upon a theatre in which the sphere of his usefulness would be extended and extraordinary powers he possessed be more displayed through the influence of dr who learned more to estimate the talents of mr smith in proportion to the intimacy of his connection with him a in the higher offices of the � of college he was invited of dr smith to return to the seat of his former studies and appointed professor of moral philosophy as it was known that this was his favourite branch of science and one which he had cultivated with the greatest diligence and success in the year therefore and th of age he received this appointment which was so well suited to his wishes and which introduced him into field of exertion in which he was eminently qualified to leaving his | 48 |
her dying s repentance band and there were dark lines her eyes for this was the third night since she had taken off her clothes but the eager straining gaze of her dark eyes and the acute sensibility that lay in every line about her mouth made a strange contrast with the blank and of the face she was watching there was profound stillness in the house she heard no sound but her husband s breathing and the of the watch on the the candle placed high up shed a soft light down on the one object she cared to see there was a smell of brandy in the room it was given to her husband from time to time but this smell which at first had produced in her a faint shuddering sensation was now become indifferent to her she did not even perceive it she was too unconscious of herself to feel either temptations or she only felt that the husband of her youth was dying far far out of her reach as if she were standing helpless on the shore while he was sinking in the black storm waves she only for one moment in which she might satisfy the deep pity of her soul by one look of love one word of tenderness her sensations and thoughts were so persistent that she could not measure the hours and it was a surprise to her when the nurse put out the candle and let in of life lu s of life i the faint morning light mrs anxious about was already up and now brought in some fresh coffee for her and mr pilgrim having had hurried on his clothes and was come in to see how was this change from light to morning this of the same round of things that had happened yesterday was a it rather than a relief to she was more conscious of her chill weariness the new light thrown on her husband s face seemed to reveal the still work that death had been doing through the night she felt her last lingering hope that he would ever know her again her but now mr pilgrim having felt the pulse was putting some brandy in a tea spoon between s lips the brandy went down and his breathing became noticed the change and her heart beat faster as she leaned forward to watch him suddenly a slight movement like the passing away of a shadow was visible in his face and he opened his eyes full on it was almost like meeting him again on the morning after the night of the grave robert do you know me he kept his eyes fixed on her and there was a faintly perceptible motion of the lips as if he wanted to speak s but the moment of speech was for ever gone � the moment for asking pardon of her if he wanted to ask it could he read the full forgiveness that was written in her eyes she never knew for as she was bending to kiss him ihe thick veil of death fell between them and her lips touched a corpse s of life xxv the faces looked very hard and unmoved that surrounded s grave while old mr read the burial service in his low broken voice the pall were such men as mr mr and mr � men whom had called his friends while he was in life and worldly never look so worldly as at a funeral they have the same effect of grating as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night the one face that had sorrow in it was covered by a thick veil and the sorrow was suppressed and silent no one knew how deep it was for the thought in most of her neighbours minds was that mrs could hardly have had better fortune than to lose a bad husband who had left her the compensation of a good income they found it difficult to conceive that her husband s death could be felt by her otherwise than as a the person who was most thoroughly convinced that s grief was deep and real was mr pilgrim who in general was not at all weakly given to a belief in disinterested feeling that woman has a tender heart he was frequently s repentance heard to observe in his morning rounds about this time i used to think there was a great deal of in her but you may depend upon it there s no pretence about her if he d been the kindest husband in the world she couldn t have felt more there s a great deal of good in mrs � a great deal of good always said so was mrs s reply when he made the observation to her she always so very full of pretty attentions to me when i was ill but they tell me now she s turned if that s it we shan t agree again it s very inconsistent in her i think turning round in that way after being the foremost to laugh at the cant and especially m a woman of her habits she should cure herself of them before she to be over religious well i think she means to cure herself do you know said mr pilgrim whose towards was just now quite above that temperate point at which he could indulge his feminine with a judicious i feel sure she has not taken any all through her husband s illness and she has been constantly in the way of them i can see she sometimes suffers a good deal of depression for want of them � it shows all the more resolution in her those are rare but i ve known them happen sometimes with people of strong will mrs took an opportunity of mr scenes of life pilgrim s conversation to mrs who as | 14 |
b bright mom � and oh what tongue can tell the mingled that mount and swell and float upon the scented gale sweet echoes through the � harmonious voices � mellow toned and shrill liquid and murmuring and almost still so small the and so pure the stream from whence it flows like music in a dream yet not the note of forest bird e er by the brink of waters heard nor that the mom but hath some note of gladness still a hymn of gratitude for life and light to the clear heavens fresh opening on the sight tis sweet mom and let our poets say er they list of that day book i that rises o er classic shore my native land for me i ask no more my native land clad in her robe of flowers her meadows and her her gay her bright seen like fringe of gold beneath a mantle green her streams that wander through the shady grove with gentle as the voice of love her patient herds that slumber on the her that the honey laden bee her blooming around with may that falls like snow when from the scented spray the song bird on his joyous wing to away to the blue skies and sing her pastures with the yellow and in of life wildly o er the grassy or the goal of triumph her hills the village spire and many a heath clad mountain rising higher u the sons of the soil around whose base the river winds or through the its path of beauty finds such are thy pictures and i love to dwell on scenes so long remembered and so well � scenes that i gazed on fondly from my birth that made thee then the loveliest spot of earth and such thou art beloved land to me and ever wilt be � come what may to thee on bright mom mid such a scene as where all we realize of earthly bliss is gathered round us by a hand divine till remains for which the heart can pine laden perfume woke the early breeze gorgeous in sunshine stood the ancient tree the stately elm and ash that grew around a dwelling almost hid from view � a long and low dwelling where the door looked as if all might enter � rich and poor book i o there was no sloping lawn before that spot but gravel walk and just one little plot of new grass so green and smooth it seemed the traveller s wear eye to soothe no massive gate of entrance marked the road nor graceful sweep its doubtful welcome showed but hid beneath a screen a garden opened on the green while on one side a blooming border lay enriched with fragrant and the fairy leaf of classic was there the purple and the fair and ancient and box and and wall flower sweet within that garden grew while over head rich perfume there hung a of or shaken by the gently waving trees a shower of blossoms fluttered in the breeze the blushing promise of expectant spring sweet pledge of all the year might fi the sons of the soil these the ground a carpet far more fair than man s ingenious labour could prepare with toil of weary hand and curious care high above all in outline broad and bold stood the tall ash the elm and old stretching that lowly roof their arms faithful through every change through winds and storms breaking the tempest from the rain from heat that the plain the air with freshness and delight parting the into gems of true to the promise of their early prime again with every sweet spring time such friends were they those venerable trees boast ye who may of friends more true than these was there not one within that peaceful home who might have boasted had the question come book i to her fond heart for she was proud to be the creature of one soul s and such a soul � so manly and so clear so firm of purpose upright and sincere of schools yet filled with noble aims and that high virtue which all praise with fire to a tell and but one weakness � that he loved too well yet she he loved was worthy of his care so gentle and so true so fond and fair so self devoted looking to the end for the good and thus his friend ne er seeking sunshine from his weary brow nor urging service when his step was slow not his vexed ear with grief nor asking when she ought to have given relief as some will tax the patience with a train of twice told wrongs and ed pain very kindness its duty is to wish the in a world of bliss the sons of the soil if such things could be mary knew them not she felt no wrongs was cheerful m her lot to her the sweet return of morning light brought a new life still with new delight for she had one to love and serve and cheer who paid her back in kindness as sincere and both felt bound their earthly course to make as smooth as might be for the other s sake and now with that sweet mom of spring they rose to offer up to heaven their early vows with joyful spirits to kneel down and pray and bless the light that brought another day laden with all things needful � all things good only asked for deeper gratitude love that was less of earth hopes more on high and greater to live or die for they were growing to that lovely scene as if their root of life had been book i within the earth s deep bosom planted there to live and bloom for ever fresh and fair they looked around them with a joy so pure | 41 |
could see the pond below them between the steep banks of the through which the brook flowed one of the banks was an almost perpendicular cliff of rock the other was not quite so abrupt and it was covered with trees they could see that down upon the shore of the pond there was a smooth sandy beach extending along the shore on each side of the mouth of the brook proposed that they should stop here pump making well said her mother i think it will be a very good plan yes ma am said robert there is plenty of good grass about here too for hero had not noticed the grass but now she observed that on each side of the road and near the banks of the brook above the bridge there was plenty of grass so they all got out robert began to the horse after driving him a little way out of the road stood on the end of the bridge looking at him her mother began to descend the rocks below the bridge in order to get down to the bed of the brook intending to follow it along to the pond wanted to go with her mother and she also wanted to see robert take care of the horse mother wait for me said i ll go along slowly said her mother but mother said i can t get along unless you help me yes said her mother i think you can at any rate if i find any place where i think you can t get along i will wait for you robert went on his horse he put the several parts of the harness in the wagon as he took them off and at last nothing remained but the bridle robert said are you going to fasten him to a tree no said robert he couldn t eat the grass if i should what are you going to do then said i am going to let him go where he likes among the mountains o robert said then he ll run away no said robert robert then the throat lash and took hold of the bridle at the top of the horse s head and drew it over his ears and off before and then the bits dropped easily out of his mouth and the horse understanding that he was drew his head away he walked off a few steps and then lay down to roll while stood laughing heartily at the awkward figure he made with all his four as she called them in the air i believe he ll run away said no said robert he won t run away and besides i don t believe you can catch him and put his bridle on again yes said robert i ve got some salt in my pocket on purpose had heard of catching birds by salt on their tails and she stood bewildered and perplexed trying to imagine how this method was to be applied to hero when she heard her mother calling her so she turned away from robert and began to descend the bank towards her mother calling out � yes mother i m coming robert carried the bridle to the wagon and put it in and then he pushed the wagon out of the road so that if a team were to come by it would not ru n against it after doing that he followed and her mother down the bank of the stream chapter xiii the return they found a very pleasant place indeed for their luncheon under some rocks at the angle between the of the brook and the shore of the pond they could see the whole surface of the pond and the woods and mountains beyond there was only one house in sight and that was mr s the unfinished end was turned towards them took out a the tin and went to the brook to dip up some water to see if it was cool her mother told her before she went that she had no doubt it was cool found it as her mother had said it was very cool indeed she dipped up full from a little deep place among some stones covered with green moss it looked very cool and it proved to be so on it brought a of it to her mother mother said how did you know it was cool because said her mother become warm when they flow for a long distance across an open country exposed to the rays of the sun but this brook comes directly down from the mountains flowing through the woods all the way so that i think the water could not have had time to get warm among the mountains where does it come from at first said it comes from a spring said her mother i suppose some springs break out of the ground fix m under a rock what makes the spring asked why the water in the mountains above replied her mother presses down in among the rocks and wherever there is a in the rock near the surface of the ground the water comes out but what makes there be water in the mountains above asked it comes fix m rains then i should think that when it had done it would pretty soon stop coming out m the spring no said her mother it takes a gi eat while to drain off the earth and the moss and the roots and the stones hold the water like a great it slowly down and gets into the and and so runs out m a steady stream wherever a or any opening of the rock comes out to the surface still if it has not rained for a very long while the springs begin to grow low and some of them stop running � they staid at this place more than an hour after | 22 |
the dining room there to wait till the light refreshment he had asked for was served to him � i m prepared for anything i he has begun to write v declared � nurse gave him a pencil and paper just to keep him quiet and he wrote all over it in the sweetest running hand don t laugh dick it s really wonderful i of course there are no real words on the paper � it s only � but still it shows that he wants to write doesn t it i m afraid it does said with an air of mock gravity � and a very bad sign it shows that holy orders we must keep the boy down � him in the bud for if he were to be clever � what then you know you don t want him to be a clever man � you ve often said so and looked a little cross i didn t mean that way � she said � of course i want him to know how to read and write why demanded richard why should he possess such doubtful accomplishments for if he reads he will perhaps think � and if he thinks he may possibly want to utter his thoughts to a wider audience than his mother and father � and so he may perhaps become that dreadful dangerous and thing � an author � and what should we do then what should we do with such a son suppose he were to turn out a second shakespeare i m sure it would break our hearts he laughed and his light luncheon being brought in at this juncture he made haste to dispose of it his wife watched him looking rather like a child will you be with that man long she asked i don t know it will depend on � not on me he answered � and i think � yes i think you must go and see his poor wife to morrow morning � sit with her a little and cheer her up � it will do the poor thing a world of good to see your bright pretty face bending over her she was silent in her heart she hated visiting poor people especially when they were ill it was so painful she said � and sometimes things were not very clean but she made no objection to her husband s suggestion he finished his hasty meal and looked at her go won t you dear he said oh yes she replied with a little go he took no notice of the touch of hesitation in her manner young is dying fast � he went on � so mr brand tells me i suppose � he paused and then went on i suppose � you as a woman � cannot do anything with miller the tragedy of a quiet life she flushed suddenly oh dick how can i miller is a real bad girl it isn t only bob � she s a brute to others as weu i know he said sorrowfully � but is dying � and he her he would like to see her again just once � and she will not go near him well if she won t i cannot make her � said � so don t ask me to try dick very well he laid his hands on her shoulders and for a moment bent an earnest rather wistful gaze upon her then he kissed her gently you must do as you think best you won t be long away will you she pleaded as she followed him out of the dining room into the hall no � certainly not longer than i can help � he answered and in another couple of minutes he was gone horrible villagers and uttering this exclamation to herself gave a little stamp of her foot to enforce it � they are just simply awful oh they are drink drink drink and gossip gossip gossip all day long they come to church on sundays and stare at each other and pretend to say their prayers and then they go home and run each other down as and as they can and they actually call themselves christians i she gave a toss of her pretty head and ran upstairs to her precious baby never considering for a moment that perhaps she herself was not altogether christian in the sentiments she had just expressed concerning the inhabitants of nurse � she as she tripped lightly into the pretty airy room where master was just now considering the possibilities of a square wooden block with the first letter of the painted � mr has had to go down into the village again to see after that terrible and he s only had a cup of soup and a it s too bad there is such a lot of holy orders in the place it s simply a and yet nearly all the come to church and pretend to be good nurse smiled oh well ma am she said � if s not only in that they do that paid no heed to this remark she flung herself down on the floor beside her small son who stared at her with gravely sweet blue eyes and a little wondering smile baby darling she said � oh baby darling you ve no idea what horrid people there are in the world baby darling certainly had not he wore an expression of heavenly peace and contentment � and only manifested a slight surprise when his mother to attract his attention held up a toy dog which had a bell in its inside and shook it at him now he had left that interesting animal purposely in a comer � and he could not quite understand why it had been brought out to him suddenly when he was busy with the letter a in the strong he had | 33 |
is doing for example cannot de and of like and take a midnight walk of contemplation with footsteps of madame and madame d since all footsteps are much the same without offence to any one a queen s can believe that a queen v self for s sake is looking at her through the a cardinal can kiss with devotion a celestial queen s or queen s s � and no one but a black the wiser all these shall follow each his course for their inward is known and fit wires hook themselves on this to two only is a clear belief vouchsafed to founded on stupidity to the great sitting at the heart t the whole mystery founded on insight great how like by union of the possible with the necessarily existing she brings out the � eighty thousand pounds i don with his triple sealed and justly that he cut down the in one day but here see see d s miscellaneous without salary or king s favor or any help her own black labors a greater than he how she advances stealthily with eye and ever ready brain with nerve of iron on shoes of felt o worthy to have for for pope s � to have been pope in those old days and as of sat in the centre of that spider web that reaching from to and from heaven to hell the thoughts and souls of men � of which spider web stray in favorable mornings even yet become visible the d she is a of three and twenty tall and beautiful from unjust and an evil world she has had somewhat to suffer in this month of june says the herself in her i occupied a small apartment in the du st i was not far from the garden of the royal i had made it my usual for indeed the real god s truth is i was a unfortunate female with moderate custom and one must go where his market lies i frequently passed i was then presented to two ladies one of whom was remarkable for the richness of her shape she had blue eyes and chestnut hair d s second pour in the de v du this is she whom and s intended the world to take for gay d � the other is of middle size dark eyes chestnut hair white complexion the sound of her voice is agreeable she speaks perfectly well and with no less facility than vivacity this one is meant for s real name was the a of waa given her by along with the title of m note du the diamond three or four hours of the there with some women of my acquaintance and a little child of four years old whom i was fond of whom his parents willingly trusted with me i even went thither alone except for him when other company failed afternoon in the month of july following i was at the royal my whole company at the moment was the child i speak of a tall young man walking alone passes several times before me he was a man i had never seen he looks at me he looks at me i observe even that always as he comes near he his pace as if to survey me more at leisure a chair stood vacant two or three feet from mine he seats himself there till this instant the sight of the young man his walks his approaches his repeated had made no impression on me but now when he was sitting so close by i could not avoid noticing him his eyes ceased not to wander over all my person his air becomes earnest grave an curiosity appears to him he seems to measure my figure to seize by all parts of my � he finds me but whispers not a syllable of it tolerably like both in person and for even the says i was a it is time to name this young he was the de himself de who doubts it he praises my feeble charms expresses a wish to pay his addresses to me i being a lone know not what to say think it best in the meanwhile to retire vain precaution i see him all on a sudden appear in my apartment on his ninth visit for he was always civility itself he talks of introducing a great court lady by whose means i may even do her majesty some little secret service � the s miscellaneous writings reward of which will be unspeakable in the dusk of the evening mysteriously rustle enter the dame de and so � the too scientific reader has now for his punishment got on the wrong side of that loveliest finds nothing but pots and of the gay d may once more sit or stand in the royal with such custom as will come in due time she shall again but with breath of terror be blown upon and blown out of france to chapter xi the is sold autumn with its gray moaning winds and of red strewn leaves to enjoy the charms of nature and all business of moment stands still de while everything is so and even though with sure hope has locked up his for the season can drive with her count and his down to native bar sur and there in virtue of a queen s the envious a of re and make them looking on it a chariot with the arms of duly painted in bend sinister a house gallantly furnished bodies gallantly attired � secure them the reception from all manner of men the very due de s father in law our with that characteristic of his high station and the old school worth indeed makes the man or woman but leather of and of first makes it go the diamond the great has thus let down her drop | 37 |
so rudely shaken gasped for breath with rage was not prepared for and the blow was gentlemen i wish to consult you be pleased to retire for a minute sir a discussion took place in the s absence was for him on the spot but the others who were cooler would not hear of it we have made a false move said they and he saw our mistake and made the most of it never mind we shall catch him on other ground during this discussion mr had not been idle he went into robinson s empty cell and coolly placed there another pen and in the place of those had removed then glancing at his watch he ran hastily out of the jail opposite the gate he found four men waiting they were there by appointment said he to one i think a gentleman will come down by the next train go to the station and hire s fly with the gray horse let no one have it who is not coming on to the jail you two stay by tin it is never too late to mend and loom till further orders yon keep in the way too my servant will bring you your dinner at two o clock he then ran back to the they were waiting for him mr began with a cutting coldness we did not wish to go to the length of laying a complaint against you before the bishop out if you really prefer this to a friendly remonstrance � � i prefer the right thing to the wrong thing was the prompt and calm the complaint shall be made mr and his eyes he pictured to himself this g personage writing to the of to tell him that he objected to mr s preaching not that he had ever heard it but that in attacking a great human vice it had hit a the next i think we can deal with mr that you constantly interfere between him and the prisoners and his authority � i support him in all his legal acts but i do oppose his ones your whole aim is to the discipline of the jail � on the contrary i assure you i am the only officer of the jail who the discipline as by law established am i to understand that vou give mr the lie � you shall phrase my contradiction according to your own taste sir and which do you think is to be believed � mr by you gentlemen mr by the rest of the nation here mr put in his word i don t think we ought to pay less respect to one s bare assertion than to another s it is a case for proof well but replied how can the jail go on with these two at drawn � it cannot said mr ah you can see that � a house divided against itself suggested mr well then said mr let us try and give a more friendly tone to this discussion � why not � our weapons would bear yes you have a high reputation mr both for learning and christian feeling in fact the general consideration in which you are held has made us more in this case than we should hav been with another man in your office � there you are all wrong you can t mean that make us some return for this feeling you know and feel the value of peace and unity � i do then be the man to restore them to this place � i will try the governor and you cannot pull together � one must go � clearly well then no shall rest on you � you will be allowed to offer us your voluntary resignation � excuse me i propose to arrive at peace and unity by another route but i see no other � if i turn mr out it will come to the same thing will it not mr � mr but you can t turn him out sir sneered � i think i can he has our confidence and our respect and shall have our protection � still i will turn him out with god s help this is a defiance mr � you cannot really think me capable of three of the peace i said mr in a solemn tone his eyes twinkling defiance no said mr innocently well but his opposition to mr is opposition to us and is so bitter that it leaves us no alternative we must propose to the bench to remove you from your office mr bowed and meantime put in mr we shall probably you this very day by our authority mr bowed we will not detain you any longer it is too late to mend ir said rather � i will but stay to say one word to this gentleman who has conducted himself with courtesy towards me sir for your own sake do not enter on this contest with me it is an unequal one a boy has just been murdered in this prison i am about to drag his murderer into the light why hang upon his skirts and compel me to expose you to public horror as his there is yet time to the fell of � hell he looked at his there is half an hour do not waste it in acts which our will undo see here are the prison rules a child could understand them a child could see that what you call the discipline is a pure invention of the present and the discipline as by law established and consequently that and others have been murdered by this lawless man these are the prison rules are they not and here are the s proceedings in the month of � compare the two and separate your honorable name from the contact of this whose crimes will him in the nation s eyes | 9 |
neck are influenced and the result is of course in of a bone disease may receive marked benefit by x ray exposure but conditions affecting the are probably little affected if at all by such treatment though reports of isolated cases claim benefit from it in results are not so uniformly good therefore the treatment should in such cases be used with caution � using this term in the and most sense we may say that where the process is superficial the effect of x ray exposure is very marked and cure follows in most of such cases where the process is deep seated we fear that would dismiss most of the so called by x rays though as will be pointed out shortly we believe that x ray treatment is of service in malignant cases beyond the possibility of operation usually after a comparatively brief treatment ten to twelve x ray of five minutes each for the a smooth is influenced in a similar fashion though results are not quite so uniformly successful et s disease if by of the and may be cured by exposure to x rays but we should hesitate to undertake a treatment unless operation were refused or impossible for deep seated x rays cannot be pronounced a cure and in our opinion operation should never be refused nor delayed for such treatment where however operation may be refused by the patient or where for some reason radical operation is impossible x ray treatment should certainly be applied the distressing symptoms of such cases are relieved by occasional so marked indeed is the apparent benefit that one is often tempted to believe that a cure is being effected the pain the in size may heal up and loss of weight may even be temporarily averted the patient s life is probably prolonged and is certainly made more comfortable while the hope which the relief raises in his mind is good in itself though it should not be encouraged after a time of such apparent benefit the end usually comes suddenly but surely this is better than the long drawn out agony so often observed x ray treatment seems to arrest such a process partially but it looks as if something else were required to complete the cure and for that it seems we must search elsewhere possibly on the other hand the apparent local benefit by way of or of the is accompanied by of which eventually result in death for such treatment of deeply seated a hard should be used and the skin protected by some material such as a piece of leather some workers use so called of heavy material and give long but through some of the materials employed we question if any considerable amount of can reach the patient and a thin of felt or leather is sufficient is an effect of x rays on which we may rely and upon this effect depends its value in certain diseases practical x ray work of the or other hairy parts for removal of superfluous hairs � so called � the treatment is not recommended since in most cases hair grows again on the area unless indeed has been produced when an ugly will probably result repeated will ultimately induce permanent but the risks of or indicate this method of treatment or ring worm � mainly in connection with this obstinate disease have the conditions of been studied thus it is fitting that under this special heading we should describe the process although it is equally for any other condition demanding a effect is here desired with one exposure and to measure the correct duration of that under prevailing conditions of and current a s is simultaneously exposed to the rays the principle of this is described on p and will be dealt with later in this description of the operation only the area affected should be exposed to the action of the rays and the rest of the head must be protected by suitable means the details of which will depend upon the form and extent of the area affected thus the head may be covered by a of sheet lead or other material to the rays in which holes are cut opposite to each part to be exposed a better arrangement is that illustrated in fig and described on p a of appropriate size being fixed in the shield there gives the correct distance for exposure as well the area exposed must be large enough to include a fair margin of apparently healthy but possibly surface where the whole head is affected exposure is best made in three at one sitting this may be done by cutting from a sheet of lead a with a central angle of � mould the remainder over of the head and change its position between each exposure so as to expose in turn three the total preliminary preparation being completed as found suitable for the case set the � by a fixed � with its at a distance of inches or from the head to check the exposure a s must be exposed to the free action of the rays at a point between the of the and the area exposed � that is inches or j from either various have been devised to support the under proper conditions at this distance but the best arrangement is the shield already described at one side of the brass ring forming the front opening of the shield will be found a brass which is being held in position by a small spring in a hole in this is placed a and the being inserted bears the so that it is exposed to the full action of the rays during exposure the about f inch in are usually supplied in a with some instructions for use on the front page are two small of paper coloured of the tint of the original and of the tint assumed by | 28 |
humble life ere the wing of ruin swept away them and their � � when he had ascended the hill his took a wider range the more distant and picturesque part of the country lay before him ay said he in a lord bless us how is this world i an what poor are men there s the dark mountains the hills the rivers an the green all the same an else but s changed the very song of that in thorn bushes an below me is like the voice of an ould friend to my ears indeed hardly that for even the voice of man changes but that song is the same as heard it for the best part o my life that in star too is the same bright up there that it ever was god help us hardly anything changes but man an he seems to think that he can never change if one is to judge by his folly an wickedness a smaller hill around the base of which went the same imperfect road that crossed the of prevented him from seeing the grave yard to which he was about to extend his walk to this road he directed his steps on reaching it he looked still with a strong memory of former times to the in which his children himself and his ancestors had all during their day played in the happy of childhood and youth but the dark and ragged house upon his feelings he turned from it with pain and his eyes rested upon the still green valley with evident relief he thought of his buried flower � his haired as he used to call her � and almost fancied that he saw her once more wandering through its tangled gathering or strolling along the green meadow with a of about her neck imagination indeed cannot the image of the dead whom we love but even if it could there was no standard of ideal beauty in her father s mind beyond that of her own she had been beautiful but her beauty was pensive a fair yet melancholy child for the charm that ever her was one of row and tenderness had she been and mirth ful as children usually are he would not have so far into his future life the love of her which he cherished another reason why he still loved her strongly was a consciousness that her death had been occasioned by distress and misery for as he when looking upon the scenes of her brief but melancholy existence � to see you the but � � it wasn t for play you did it it was to keep away the of hunger from your heart of all our every one said that i ou the � never much but the heart in you ever full of goodness an affection god help me fm glad � an now that i m near it � loth to see her grave he had now reached the verge of the grave yard its fine old stood there as usual but not altogether without the symptoms of change some persons had for the purposes of building thrown down one of its most picturesque walls still its ruins clothed with ivy its moss covered its arches and grey with age were the same in appearance as he had ever seen them on entering this silent palace of death he reverently uncovered his head blessed himself and with feelings deeply agitated sought the grave of his beloved child he approached it but a sudden transition from sorrow to indignation took place in his mind even before he reached the spot in which she lay sacred mother he exclaimed who has dared to bury in our ground who has � what villain has to come in upon the upon the of who could � had i no friend to eh sacred mother what s this father of heaven forgive me forgive me sweet for this bad i got into who � who � could raise a over the o my heart one of us it who could do it but let me see if i can make it out oh who could do this blessed thing for the poor an the sorrowful he began and with read as follows � here lies the body of m the beloved daughter of and nine years she was descended the in pace this stone was raised over her by widow and her son james out of grateful respect for and who never suffered the widow and orphan or a distressed neighbour to assistance from them hi vain until it pleased god to them with thanks to you my said dropping on his knees over the grave thanks an praise be to your holy name that in the middle of my poverty � of all my poverty � i was not forgotten nor my child let to lie honour in the grave of her family make me worthy blessed heaven of what is written down upon me here an if the departed spirit of her that honoured the dust of my buried daughter is unhappy oh let her be relieved an let this act be to her bless her son too gracious father an all to her on this earth an if it be your holy will let them never know distress or poverty or wickedness he then offered up a for the repose of his child s soul and another for the kind hearted and grateful widow after which he stood to examine the grave with greater accuracy there was in fact no grave visible the little mound under which lay what was once such a touching image of innocence beauty and feeling had sunk down to the level of the earth about it he regretted this inasmuch as it took away he thought part of her individuality still he knew it was the spot wherein she had | 50 |
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