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i sense and me leave me if i distress you � leave hate me forget me but do not torture me bo oh how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion happy happy you cannot have an idea of what i suffer do you call me happy ah if you and can you believe me to be so while i see you so wretched forgive me forgive me throwing her arms round her sister s neck i know you feel for me i know what a heart you have but yet you are � you must he happy edward loves you � what oh what can do away such happiness as that many many circumstances said solemnly no no no cried wildly he loves you and only you you can have no grief i can have no pleasure while i see you in this state and you will never see me otherwise mine is a misery which nothing can do away you must not talk so have you no comforts no friends is your loss such as leaves no opening for consolation much aa you suffer now think of what you would have suffered if the discovery of his character liad been delayed to a later period � if your engagement had been carried on for months and months aa it might hare been before he chose to put aa end to it sense and sensibility every additional day of unhappy confidence on your side would have made the blow more dreadful engagement cried there has been no engagement ko engagement ko he is not so unworthy as you believe him he has broken no faith with me but he told you that he loved you yes � no � never absolutely it was every day implied but never declared sometimes i thought it had been but it never was yet you wrote to him yes could that be wrong after all that had passed but i cannot talk said no more and turning again to the three letters which now raised a much stronger curiosity than before directly ran over the contents of all the first which was what her sister had sent him on their arrival in town was to this effect � street how surprised you will be on receiving this and i think you will feel something more than surprise when you know that i am in town an opportunity of coming hither though with mrs was a temptation we could not resist i wish you may receive this in time to come here to night but i will not depend on it at any rate i shall expect you to morrow for the present adieu m d l sense and second which had been written on the morning after the dance at the was in these words � i cannot express my disappointment in having missed you the day yesterday my astonishment at not having received answer to a note which i sent you above a week ago i have been expecting to hear from you and still more to see you every hour of the day again as soon as possible and explain the reason of my having expected this in vain you had better come earlier another time because we are generally out by one we were last night at lady s where there was a lance have been told that you were asked to be oe the party but could it be so you must be very much altered indeed since we parted if that could be the ease and you not there i will not suppose possible and i hope very soon to receive your personal assurance of its being otherwise m d the contents of her last note to him were these r wliat am i to im b behavior last night again i demand an explanation of it i was prepared to meet you with the plea which our separation naturally produced � with the which our intimacy at appeared to me to justify i was indeed i i have passed a wretched night in to excuse a which can scarcely be called less than insulting but though i have not yet been able to form any reasonable apology for your behavior perfectly ready to hear your justification of it you have perhaps been or purposely deceived concerning which may have lowered me tr opinion tell me what it is explain the grounds sense and a which you acted i shall ha in able you it would grieve me indeed to he ob i ed o think ill of you but if am to do it if i am to learn are not what we have hitherto believed you ht your regard for us all waa that your me was intended only to let it be told as b possible my feelings are at present in a state of i wish to you but certainty n either side will he ease lo what i now suffer if your sentiments are no longer what they were you will return my notes and the lock of my hair which is in your possession m d that such letters so full of affection and could have been so answered for s sake would have been to e but her condemnation of him did not wind her to the of their having been at all and she was silently over which had such proofs of tenderness not by preceding and most severely condemned y the event when perceiving that she had finished the letters observed to her that they contained nothing hut what any one would have written in the same situation i felt myself she added to he as solemnly to him as if the legal i bound us to each other n believe it said but he did not feel the same l � h dear sense and he did feel the same � | 26 |
pieces you will find it so when you look know this so long jack that he tom and the two went out together a means pulling it in on one side of the picking off the fish the hooks and passing them back to the sea again � something like and linen on a wash line it is a business and rather dangerous for the long line may a boat under in a flash but when they heard and to thee o out of the fog the crew of the we re here took heart the alongside well loaded tom yelling for to act as relief boat the luck s cut square in two pieces said long jack in the fish while stood open mouthed at the skill with which the plunging was saved from destruction one half was jest tom wanted to haul her an ha done ut but i captains courageous said back the doctor that has the second sight an the other half come up full o big hurry man an bring s a tub o bait there s luck afloat to night the fish bit at the newly hooks from which their brethren had just been taken and tom and long jack moved up and down the length of the the boat s nose under the wet line of hooks the sea that they called off the fresh caught against the and s till dusk i take no risks said then � not with him around so near won t sink fer a week heave in the an we dress after supper that was a mighty dressing down attended by three or four blowing it lasted till nine o clock and was thrice heard to chuckle as pitched the split fish into the hold say you re ahead fast said dan when they ground the knives after the men had turned in there s of a sea to night an i t heard you make no remarks on it captains courageous too busy replied a blade s edge come to think of it she is a high the little was all around her anchor among the silver tipped waves with a start of affected surprise at the sight of the strained cable she on it like a while the spray of her descent burst through the holes with the report of a gun shaking her head she would say well i m sorry i can t stay any longer with you i m going north and would off halting suddenly with a dramatic rattle of her as i was just going to observe she would begin as gravely as a drunken man addressing a lamp post the rest of the sentence she acted her words in dumb show of course was lost in a fit of the when she behaved like a a string a clumsy woman in a side saddle a hen with her head cut off or a cow stung by a exactly as the of the sea took her see her her piece she s henry said dan she swung sideways on a and with her boom from port to captains courageous but � � fer � me give me liberty � er give me � death she sat down in the moon path on the water with a flourish of pride impressive enough had not the wheel gear in its box laughed aloud why it s just as if she was alive he said she s as as a an as dry as a said dan as he was across the deck in a of spray em off an em off an don t ye come me she look at her � jest look at her you should see one o them up her anchor on her outer fifteen water what s a dan them new an boats fine s a forward with to em an an a that u d take our hold i ve heard that himself he made the models fer three or four of em s em on account o their an but there s heaps o money in em can find fish but he ain t no ways � he don t go with the march o the times they re full o captains courageous labor an all ever seed the o she s a ef she is a what do they cost dan hills o dollars fifteen thousand p more there s gold leaf an everything you kin think of then to himself half under his breath guess i d call her h s y too chapter v that was the first of many talks with dan who told why he would transfer his s name to the imaginary heard a good deal about the real at saw a lock of her hair � which dan finding fair words of no avail had as she sat in front of him at school that winter � and a photograph was about fourteen years old with an awful contempt for boys and had been on dan s heart through the winter all this was revealed under oath of solemn secrecy on decks in the dead dark or in choking fog the wheel behind them the climbing deck before and without the sea once of course as the boys came to know each other there was a fight which raged from bow to stern till came up and separated them but promised captains courageous not to tell who thought fighting on watch rather worse than sleeping was no match for dan physically but it says a great deal for his new training that he took his defeat and did not try to get even with his conqueror by methods that was after he had been cured of a string of between his elbows and wrists where the wet and cut into the flesh the salt water stung them but when they were ripe dan treated them with s and | 39 |
and thus did he assert in his own person that a king supported by a nation is more powerful than any government built up by mere party agency and even so at his best and two women looked upon him and loved him one from the outskirts of the great crowd where close in her veil she waited near the government buildings and saw him alight from his and enter there amid the wild of the � the other from a high window in the royal palace where she leaned watching the crowd � the sunlight catching the diamonds at her breast and sparkling in her proud cold eyes and over the whole city rang the continuous and cry the king the king and perhaps only one soul prophetic in instinct foresaw any terror in the triumph � only one voice low and tremulous and with tears and prayers murmured ah dear god would he were not a king chapter a vote for love next day it was known through the length and breadth of the city that the king so long judged as a political had proved himself a living acting authority every journal in city and province led off its news under the one chief heading � the king s speech the king had spoken � and with no uncertain voice cool brilliant in in statement � correct in facts convincing in argument his unexpected of and the majority swept the government off their feet by its daring courage and still more daring evidence of the speculations with the public money which had been so freely indulged in by the secretary of state aided and by the was handed by the king in person to the authorities whose business it was to examine such proofs � the measures used to retain the majority were fully exposed and the whole house stood and mentally under the straight accusation and merciless condemnation launched at their own of such by their monarch with perfect dignity and impressive calm the king quietly demanded whether m would be pleased to explain his actions whether he had anything to say in response to the charges brought against him to this last after a dead silence during which every eye was fixed on the minister who in the course of the royal speech had seen every of his own intended defence torn away from him with an white countenance answered nothing and the silence around him continued a silence more expressive than any word of scorn i power but more surprises were in store for the which found itself thus suddenly the king announced the marriage of his son the crown prince to a daughter of the people boldly and with an ardent passion of truth lighting up every feature of his handsome countenance he stated this overwhelming piece of news in a perfectly matter of fact way adding that in consequence of the step taken � a step which he did not himself in any way regret � the crown prince asked to be allowed to resign the throne in favour of his brother unless continued his majesty the nation should be proved ready to accept the wife he has chosen it is needless to add that my son has married without my consent and this is the reason of his present absence from the country if the nation his wife he will return to the nation if not i am bound to say knowing his mind that there is nothing to be done but to declare prince heir to the throne this however i personally desire may be left to the consideration and vote of the people � and when the house rose on that astonishing afternoon they knew they were no longer a house � they knew the government was entirely and that there would be a new and a general election they had to also that their bills for imposing fresh taxes on the people were mere waste paper � and they heard likewise with amazement that the king had decided to resign half his for the space of five years to assist the in the national at the conclusion of the whole scene they saw the king received as it were into the arms of a crowd many of thousands which spread round all the government buildings and poured itself in thick streams through every street and and they had to accept the fact that their majority was reduced to a so amid the greater wave of popular resolve that it was not worth counting leaving the house by a private door of disgraced and as he w is a vote for love dared not trust the very sight of himself to such an multitude and managed by lucky chance to escape unobserved he was assisted in this by general the chief of the police perceived him cautiously along the side wall of an alley where the crowd had not penetrated and helped him into a passing cab that he might be driven rapidly and safely to his home you will no doubt excuse me � said the general with a slight smile � for not having acted more in the matter of the suspected mi am afraid i should never have up sufficient impudence to ask the king to sign a warrant against himself muttered an inarticulate oath by way of reply he fully that the game for him was lost his speech of defence so carefully prepared had been useless for he could not have uttered it in the face of the evidence against him pronounced by the king and by his own public actions yet his audacity had not in the main deserted him he knew that owing to his proved and use of the public money his own property would be to the crown � but he had always kept himself well prepared for and had invested in foreign under various assumed names turning his attention | 33 |
him and a laughing eye he always stood to me for a little brother of mine and looked the very of him when i first saw him and tom came to the mills my little brother was my we were always together like twin i can mind myself now and i running home alone crying to tell my between mass and poor mother that we d run away to the rocks and a great wave came in and licked him oflf before my very eyes and i a bit higher up on the shore i wake up dreaming of him with the horror and a cold sweat all over me after a lifetime that s gone between me and that day i m an old man now call and my mind s always been in a priest s holy business but i ve a warm irish heart in me and there are times when i d like a brother s young child or one of my sister s that i left long ago in or to see my old mother shake her head and have the at me and i sitting there in the long winter evening in my still house and when that young gave a smile at me like the little lad that went under the sea and never was afraid or trying to get away from me because i was the priest i liked him more than i knew i could n t see then why he should n t make a good man and i helped him the best i could i know plenty of harm of him now god forgive him and bring him to repentance the old man and looked away his heart was filled with sorrow s ready tongue was checked but he was between mass and to himself about the black heart of i begin to think that sharp wits are the least of all the means by which a man wins true success said father everybody thought well of dan then sir tried to comfort him he had seen father angry and stem but never cast down like this they came to an open grassy space on a shelf of the great hill at one side was the cellar where a house had stood long ago some roses still grew about it and there was much of the solemn little plant so often seen in country burying grounds growing about the crumbling and off into the grass there was a smooth broad partly overgrown and a hop vine was sending up it determined shoots near by where it could find nothing to upon the old had evidently served as a seat for stray there was a place before it that had been worn by feet like the beginning of a path the house had been gone many years but one might have thought that its ghost was there and the was still trodden by those unseen inhabitants who went and the priest may have between mass and thought this but saw a gun lying by the step and a little bird fluttered away as if it had been finding a few stray there was a magnificent view of the lower country � woods and and pasture lands stretching miles upon miles with a river dividing them like a ribbon and white villages with their tiny and sprinkled houses and heavy dark mills as you turned the other way you looked up the dark hill slope the road appeared to end here by the deserted but some winter wood roads led off in different directions father stopped the breathless mare and got down we walk from here he said and also alighted his face was with perplexity they plunged deep into the woods along one of the half overgrown winter tracks which led up and over a high shoulder of the great hill t is like the way to the cave of the said half aloud as a dry whipped him in the face and father heard him and laughed well it s wonderful how those old tales between mass and do stay in the mind lie said cheerfully i was working away with a book yesterday a fine hard knot of latin it was too and i got sleepy and not a bit could i think of but how did the story of the little go that my old used to tell me before she d give me a little herself that she d have hidden in her blue cloak i d be afraid to eat it too after the tale weu i think it might be twenty years since i thought of it but i could not rid my mind of the trick of that foolish story and it kept itself round and round in my mind it may be the way with old folks i begin to feel old t was a great story of the little agreed solemnly i do be telling it to the there s nothing anybody tells that they d like so well wit their little always in the same place twas the same way wit my brothers and at home we d better mind sir lest ourselves gets on the fox s back an into his big do you know where you do be going looked about him anxiously the priest only laughed a queer laugh it was that might mean one thing or another d between mass and come on he said you make me think of another old tale they used to be telling at home about one mrs o s donkey that could neither go nor stand still at this moment when the had taken a most and even merry tone the two men found themselves on the edge of the thick woods with an open partly overgrown acre of land before them the pines had covered a piece of land cleared and deserted again many years before they had grown | 40 |
her mind to her aid and with but a slight effort sat upright professor von came towards her with an exclamation of but she him back with a very decided gesture please do not trouble she said � i am quite able to move � to stand � see and she rose to her feet trembling a little and herself by resting one hand on the edge of the sofa i do not know who you are but i am sure you have been most kind to me and if you would do me a still greater kindness you will let me go away from here at once impossible madame declared the professor firmly � his majesty the king what of his majesty the king demanded with sudden � am i not mistress of my own actions the professor made an elaborate bow most unquestionably you are madame he replied � but you are also for the moment a guest in the king s palace and having saved his life you will surely not withhold from him the courteous acceptance of his hospitality a woman s reason the king s palace she echoed and a little smile crossed her lips � i � � in the king s palace she moved a few steps and drew herself proudly erect you sir are a servant of the king s i am his majesty s resident physician at your service i he said with another bow � i have had the honour of attending to th wound you so received in his defence � and though it is not a dangerous wound it is an exceedingly unpleasant one i assure you � and will give you a good deal of pain and trouble let me advise you very earnestly to stay where you are and rest � do not think of leaving the palace to night she sighed i must not think of staying in it she replied but i do not wish to seem � or ungrateful for your care and kindness � will you tell the king � here she broke off abruptly and fixed her eyes on his face strange she murmured � i seem to have seen you before � or very like you the professor was troubled with a sudden fit of which made him very red in the face and obliged him to turn away for a moment in order to recover himself still struggling with that obstinate catch in his throat he said you were saying madame that you wished me to tell the king something yes said eagerly � if you will be so good tell him that i thank him for his courtesy � but that i must go away from this palace � that i cannot � may not � stop in it an hour longer he does not know who it is that saved his life � if he did he would not wish me to remain a moment under his roof i he would be as anxious and willing for me to leave as i am to go will you tell him this madame i will tell him replied the professor yet with a slight smile � but � if it will satisfy your scruples or ease your mind at all � i may as well inform you that his majesty does know who you are the itself declared your name to him with shouts of she flushed a vivid red then grew very pale power if that be so then he must also be aware that i am his sworn enemy i she said � and that in accordance with the principles i hold i cannot possibly remain under his roof therefore i trust sir you will have the kindness to provide me with a way of quick exit before my presence here becomes too publicly reported the professor was slightly he considered for a moment then rapidly made up his mind madame i will do so he said � that is if you will permit me first of all to announce your intention of leaving the palace to the king pardon me for suggesting that his majesty can hardly regard as an enemy a lady who has saved his life at the risk of her own i did not save it because he is the king she said and you are at liberty to tell him so please make haste to inform him at once of my desire to leave the palace � and say also that if he considers he owes me any gratitude he will show it by not me the professor bowed and retired left alone sat down for a moment in one of the chairs and pressed her left hand hard over her eyes to try and still their throbbing ache her right arm was bound up and useless � and the pain from the wound in her shoulder caused her acute agony � but she had a will of iron and she had trained her mental forces to control if not entirely to master her physical weaknesses she thought not of her own suffering but of the exciting incident in which mere impulse had led her to take so marked a share it was by pure accident that she had joined the crowd assembled to see the king lay the foundation stone of the proposed new theatre she had been as it were entangled in the press of the people and had got pushed towards the centre of the scene almost against her own and while she had stood � a passive and unwilling spectator of the � her attention had been singularly attracted towards the uneasy and restless movements of the youth who had afterwards attempted the of the monarch she had watched him narrowly though she could not have explained why she did so even to herself he was a complete stranger to her and yet with her quick a woman | 33 |
the springs that rise or to the hills gather there after they had built their and laid their pipes it occurred to them that the place was suitable for once entertained with jovial and public funds the idea led speedily to accomplishment and could soon boast of a pleasure house the was turned into a garden and on the that it from the plain and the sea winds they built a cottage looking to the hills they brought and from old st s which they were then restoring and disposed them on the and over the door and about the garden and the which had supplied them with building material they draped with and with beds of roses so much for the pleasure of the eye for creature comfort they made a cellar in the and fitted it with of the stone in process of time picturesque notes on the trees grew higher and gave shade to the cottage and the sprang up and turned the into a thicket there purple relaxed themselves from the pursuit of ambition cocked hats about the garden and in and out among the drew upon the path and at night from high upon the hills a shepherd saw lighted windows through the foliage and heard the voice of city raised in song the farm is older it was first a of abbey and inhabited by rosy thence after the it passed into the hands of a true blue family during the troubles when a night was held upon the the farm doors stood open till the morning j the was laden with cheese and milk and brandy and the to the pent land hills kept slipping down from the hill between two exercises as couples visit the supper room between two dances of a modern ball in the forty five some from prince s army fell upon in the dawn the great grandfather of the late farmer was then a little child him they awakened by the blankets from his bed and he remembered when he was an old man their looks and uncouth speech the stood full of cream in the and with this they made their in high delight it was said one of them at last they made off laden like with their and farm has lain out of the way of history from that time forward i do not know what may be yet in store for it on dark days when the mist runs low upon the hill the house has a gloomy air as if suitable for private tragedy picturesque notes but in hot july you can fancy nothing more perfect than the garden laid out in and and bright old fashioned flower plots and ending in a miniature all and mo s and and from the sun under of broad foliage the hamlet behind is one of the least considerable of and consists of a few cottages on a green beside a burn some of them a strange thing in scotland are models of internal neatness the beds adorned with the shelves arrayed with plates the floors and tables bright with or and the very kettle polished like silver it is the sign of a contented old age in country places where there is little matter for gossip and no street sights becomes an art and at evening when the cottage interior shines and in the glow of the fire the folds to the j her hands and her finished picture the snow and the wind may do their worst she has made herself a pleasant corner in the world the city might be a thousand miles away and yet it was from close by that mr bough painted the distant view of which has been engraved for this collection and you have only to look at the cut to see how near it is at hand but hills and hill people are not easily and if you walk out here on a summer sunday it is as like as not the shepherd may set his dogs upon you but keep an unmoved countenance they look formidable at the charge but their hearts are in the right place and they will only bark and about you on the grass of their master s forms the north eastern angle of the range thence the off to south and west from the summit you picturesque notes on look over a great expanse of sloping to the sea and behold a large variety of distant hills there are the hills of the hills of the and the more or less in outline more or less blue with distance of the themselves you see a field of wild peaks with a pond gleaming in the midst and to that side the view is as desolate as if you were looking into or to turn to the other is like a piece of travel far out in the shows herself making a great smoke on clear days and spreading her about her for miles the castle rises darkly in the midst and close by arthur s seat makes a bold figure in the landscape all around cultivated fields and woods and smoking villages and white country roads the surface of the land trains crawl slowly abroad upon the railway i to the hills lines little ships are in the the shadow of a cloud as large as a parish travels before the wind the wind itself the wood and standing corn and sends of varying colour across the landscape so you sit like upon and look down from afar upon men s life the city is as silent as a city of the dead from all its � not a voice not a reaches upon the hill the sea surf the cries of the streams and the mill wheels th r birds and the wind keep up an through the plain from farm to farm dogs and contend together in defiance and | 38 |
grown more marked as his dependence on her increased she at once discerned traces of recent disturbance and her first question was for he met it with a discouraged gesture no great change � finds her less well than when he was here before he s upstairs with her yes � she seems to want him mrs seated herself in silence behind the of which she was now recognized as the as she drew off her long gloves and mechanically straightened the row of delicate old cups mr added with an effort i ve spoken to him � told him what you said she looked up quickly about the child s wish he continued about her having to hb wife it seems her last letters have not been answered he paused and mrs with her usual calm precision proceeded to measure the tea into the tea pot she could be as in approval as in and not for the world would she have seemed to claim any share in the turn that events appeared to be taking she even preferred the risk of leaving her old friend to add half i told what you and the nurse thought the fruit op the tree yes that pines for bis wife i put it to in black and tbe words came out on deep strained and mrs faltered well well � be doesn t know where she is himself doesn t they re separated � utterly separated it s as i told you be could hardly her mrs had ceased her letting her bands fall on her knee while she in blank wonder on ber companion s face i wonder what reason she could bare given she murmured at length for going he ber i tell you yes � but bow did she make him he struck his hand violently on the arm of bis upon my soul you seem to forget no she shook her head with a half smile i simply remember more than you do what more he began with a flush of anger but she raised a hand what does all that matter � if now that we need ber we can t get her lie made no answer and she returned to tbe of bis tea but as she rose to put tbe cup in his hand he asked half you think it s going to be bad for the child then c the fruit of the tree mrs smiled with the thin edge of her lips one can hardly set the police after her no we re powerless he groaned in assent as the cup passed between them she dropped her eyes to his with a quick flash of but he sat staring before him and she moved back to the sofa without a word on the way downstairs she met descending from s room since the early days of his first marriage there had always been on s side a sense of obscure toward mrs she was almost the embodied spirit of the world he dreaded and disliked her serenity her her seemed to smile away and all the high the stubborn convictions that he had tried to plant in the shifting sands of his married life and now that s death had given her back the attributes with which his fancy had originally invested her he had come to regard mrs as the evil influences that had come between himself and his wife mrs was probably not unaware of the successive of feeling wliich had led up to this view but her life had been passed among petty and and she had the patience and of the spy in a hostile camp the fruit of the tree she and exchanged a few words about then she exclaimed a glance the of the hall door but i must be off � i m on foot and the me after dark he could do do less at that than offer to guide her across the perils of fifth avenue and still talking of she led him down the thronged till her own comer was reached and then her own door turning there to ask as if by an won t you up there s one thing more i want to say a shade of reluctance crossed his face which as the light fell on it looked bard and tired like a face set against a winter gale but he murmured a word of assent and followed her into the shining steel cage of the in her little drawing among the shaded lamps and of spring flowers she pushed a chair forward settled herself in her usual comer of the sofa and said n ith a that seemed an echo of his own tone i asked you to come up because i want to talk to you about mr looked at her in surprise though his father in law s health had been more or less for the last year all their concern of late had been for you think him less well he she waited to draw off and smooth her gloves with i j the fruit of the tree one of the deliberate gestures that served to shade and her speech i think him extremely unhappy moved uneasily in his seat he did not know where she meant the talk to lead them but he guessed that it would be over painful places and he saw no reason why he should be forced to follow her you mean that he s still anxious about partly yes she paused the child wiu get no doubt but she is very lonely she needs youth heat light mr can t give her those or even a semblance of them and it s an art i ve lost the secret of she added with her shadowy smile s brows darkened i realize all she has lost mrs glanced up at him quickly she is twice she said the blood | 10 |
had said she sings with her fingers he would have said what he doubtless thought and what is true she plays german songs � some of the familiar songs in the or something of s or s or s or one of a thousand other songs and the playing is like exquisite singing it fills the mind with pictures with persons with scenes and with that unspeakable content which only such music can give to the lovers of music what on earth is it all about said the at the concert and why do people come here the would have asked the same question if he had heard the upon the stump if the fairy who over the cradle should give the the choice of gifts what gift more precious could the young stranger ask than the power of giving a pleasure so pure as that which s playing it is one of her praises that if the choice had been given to her she would i instantly have selected the very power which the good fairy bestowed for in giving the pleasure she does only what she delights to do and would have chosen to do one philosopher speaking to the easy chair of another whose serenity was as undisturbed by events as the by clouds said of himself that he subdued more devils before breakfast every day than his serene brother had encountered in his whole life yet the serene brother s lofty repose was not less admirable because it was a quality of temperament and not a triumph of the will and it is not less the merit of that the happiness she is as involuntary as the fragrance of the what is done without effort seems not to have been taught and it is not easy to fancy at exercises and laboring at scales indeed are trained to sing and even young birds to fly yet the training is but showing them how to give themselves free play to express entire facility we say that an act is done as naturally as a bird sings not less naturally does play you listen and the song which you knew seems to sing itself but enveloped with a richness and fulness of flowing accompaniment which is like the of then with others she plays the great music or or or now an old now a quaint and why not a of it is more than a hint or a although it is not an but when those fingers kindred with s sweep the keys together the listener wonders whether the of the full has caught from it the subtle and exquisite significance of the strain which has poured from those enchanted the piano is called an inadequate instrument perhaps it is until you hear play then by some secret sympathy you find yourself murmuring not so sweetly sang as thou mild pastoral m a s breathing less whispering than thy when in tones worthy of thou chant that song sung by to the banished duke which the winter wind more than for a man to be ungrateful the sex o be told that the lily is not the flower of but of could not be more surprising than to be assured that the sex is not that of the but of the lady of to whom he sang such a suggestion is of course but a merry fancy could any critic however inclined to seriously against the sex of s sister s mother yet this is precisely what has been recently done one and and the sins against good manners of which the sex is guilty he presents a philosophical analysis of the forms of feminine it is the ancient sage again exposing the it is out he details the degrees of offence � in young women in women who are no s longer as girls in nearly all women in women with the social duties then the boundless of opening before him and with a certain zest of scrutiny he treats of the behavior of women in the horse cars at the railway station buying tickets at the post office where the rule is imperative first come first served but where this chief of presses for a of the beneficent rule of equality in her favor still more aspects of rise upon the s view of the sex the shameful or shocking treatment by woman of those whom she holds to be her cries to heaven her heartless of railway staggering under their burdens her of cause this observer of fine and an acute sense of the becoming to lament the of the stool the more general outrage however apparently common to the sex from of to is according to our the spite of women towards each other which into an ecstasy of when woman goes a but our the elder does not permit man to himself by contrast with woman he expressly the declaration of the that man is while woman is not in many men he remarks indifference to and in many women a gentle regard for others which deserves even the sum of the whole matter nevertheless is that the average woman is more of common courtesy than the average man and no wonder the younger for the foolish fondness of man teaches her if man instead of giving her his seat in the railway car and removing his hat in the and in her hat at the theatre insisted upon his legal rights in a bargain and required the railroad company to furnish without the of seats for which it has been paid or if he brought the manager � � to task for allowing one of his customers to steal what he has sold to another � namely a view of the play � the world would tremble on the edge of the of good manners this terrible is a comprehensive accusation of selfishness against the sex but it seems to be | 16 |
or or and for tile purpose of preventing mistakes owing to prior he gives new and arbitrary names to each sound and each of them by words wherein tliey enter but aa wc have not space to afford lor a more ample analysis of this ing we must content our by ii to the attentive perusal of the reader on the re i of in tht rev h vegetables are divided into wood fruit leaves flower and of wc doubt without den ing the existence notwithstanding the at the present paper is devoted to le remains thai discover no of to existing vegetables the wi subject is exceedingly curious and the present paper is a very though brief collection of the facts ed the vegetable impressions of which it treat w have no doubt but the vegetables or the coal consisted originally in the transition range of the earlier and smaller vegetables that were meant to be by destruction and into vegetable mould and as proceed from the coal through the coal formation to tlie wood or coal the au � and of the wc find traces of larger and e in vegetation w� � half tile facts and tv � w � � aw vi � iv e i of the mr it u da are with remains described account of a large tf with a plate the of t ni the part waa t inches the f was feet inch and a the pounds but when filled with blood probably much more the woman was a ne ro about of age in the of thomas esq of at the had years firing the woman was placed on her face for s previous to the and the held up so as to empty us much as the vessel of the blood which them in their di et state lu appear � lime greatly to the i his seems the hitherto known to have been successfully and the operation does much credit to ur the an account of an improvement made in the of mr de m d professor of at dr de wiu induced to adopt the present improvement on lie s from the difficulty of the british accurately made in this it is an ingenious and useful but be described here for want of reference to the plate ttie same occurs with respect to the paper which also deserves credit for the of the contrivance proposed in it vi description of an improved for steam engines without packing by pet a esq oh � in the history of the introduction of with the into great britain in s and in s e� notice has been taken of i te share air had in improvement his name is not mentioned by ur henry or dr it now appears m his paper that the of with that at the works of baker co was and still is in england utterly unknown although from the present description of it the in and the great superiority of the process ere ed can be doubted e recollect that many years the was made for small experiments by m in the method here described by mr but the original invention and the application of it in a large way is certainly due exclusively to this gentleman and to mr for it is not true as dr tliat mr or any of his family ever v tv c t m n� wi we the process here l� vi e � i iu tm � � the american m of tire furnace � � that can be made by one or two people to r in an hour it will probably induce who arc interested in the theory or the of to paper with the which proposed to deserve we recollect a of thin from the pen of mr inserted by in hit of s domestic i ie r i by a plate in volume the process of by on the liquor mentioned in the latter pan of per is described also by or in the article the to the an which is in many respects and practical error a aim to the it is of ch land by an artificial horizon ton the object of this ingenious contrivance is explained in the i of the paper since the discovery of reflecting i been to extend limits of its capacity iu this specially necessary in taking on by om of an or reflecting in case the measured is from of il but a that out by the index on the will not an of more than a not one more ra beyond this limits of the has if been extended il is obvious no instrument of this hind can by measure an ol so m then the i ray and r� y must and both pan the eye of is evidently when i attitude the of the observer will almost the ray in its passage to the � the field of view from the of the index then become too much contracted afford an easy no improvement therefore in the of this can ever be expected answer tbe of all by means of � common artificial but with the aid i the following very simple this will he answered oven by the common � the whole apparatus be used with the reflecting of three parts an or with i a a inclined plane t ie si of this apparatus well as the manner of ing them well known and therefore need not hero be the w late to enable the � to it f i � fu american and u e ef a very instrument for up sun ami for many j this also is n useful contrivance by the author of the former t ut the i of this review will not allow lu to copy the description observations made at an early period on the climate of ii the river collected from the of | 48 |
that she should pause she went to the piano and looked at leaves of up the comers at last she turned toward and said with almost her usual air of proud equality which in this interview had not been hitherto perceptible i congratulate you sincerely i think i never saw any one more admirable than miss and i have to thank you for every sort of kindness this morning but i can t decide now if i make the resolve you have spoken of i will use your permission � i will let you know but i fear the obstacles are too great in any case i am deeply obliged to you it was very bold of mo to ask you to take this trouble inward remark was she will never let me know but with the most thorough respect in his manner he said command me at any time there is an address on this card which will always find me with little delay mien he had taken up his hat and was going to make his bow s better self conscious of an ingratitude which the clear seeing must have penetrated made a desperate effort to find its way above the stifling of disappointment and irritation looking at him with a glance of the old she put out her hand and said with a smile if i take the wrong road it will not bo because of your flattery god forbid that you should take any road but one where you will find and give happiness i said fervently then in foreign fashion he touched her fingers lightly with his lips and in another minute she heard the sound of his departing wheels getting more distant on the gravel had never in life felt so miserable sob came no passion of tears to relieve ber her eyes were burning and the only brought into more dreary clearness the absence of interest from her life all memories all objects the pieces of displayed the open the very reflection of herself in the glass � seemed no better than the packed up shows of a departing fair for the first time since her consciousness began she was having a vision of herself on the common level and had lost the innate sense that there were reasons why she should not be � treated like a passenger with a third class ticket in spite of private objections on her own part she did not move about the prospects by disappointment were too she threw herself into the comer of a and pressed her fingers over her burning eyelids every word that had said seemed to have been into memory as most words are which bring with them a new set of impressions and make an epoch for us only a few hours before the dawning smile of self contentment rested on her lips as she vaguely imagined a future suited to her wishes it seemed but the affair of a year or so for her to become the most approved of the time or if encouraged her idea of bein a singer to proceed by more gradual steps to her place in the opera while she won money and applause by occasional performances why not at home at school among acquaintances she had been used to have her conscious superiority admitted and she had moved in a society where every thing from low to high art is of the amateur kind politely supposed to fall short of perfection only because gentlemen and ladies are not obliged to do more than they otherwise they would probably give forth writings and show themselves more commanding artists than any the world is at present obliged to put up the self confident visions that had her were not of a highly exceptional kind and she had at least shown some in consulting the person who knew the most and had flattered her the least in asking s however she had rather been borne up by a belief in his admiration than bent on knowing any thing more that might have lain behind hia book � h s l slight objections to her singing and the she had asked for with an expectation that it would be agreeable had come like a too old � should have begun seven years you will not at best achieve more than � hard incessant work uncertain praise � bread coming slowly perhaps not at all � people no longer not to see your � glaring � all these phrases in her and even more was the hint that she could only be accepted on the stage as a beauty who hoped to get a husband the that she might be visited with had no very definite form for her but the mere association of any thing called with herself roused a alarm and alone with the images which were raised by those biting words came the more precise conception of which her experience enabled her to how could she take her mamma and the four sisters to don if it were not possible for her to earn money at once and as for to be a and asking her mamma to submit with her to the humiliation of being supported by miss an � that was as bad as being a nay worse for suppose the end of all her study to bo as worthless as clearly expected it to be the sense of received and never repaid would the miseries of disappointment doubtless had magnificent ideas about helping artists but how could he know the feelings of ladies in such matters it was all over she had entertained a mistaken hope and there was an end of it an end of it said aloud starting from her as she heard the steps and voices of her mamma and sisters coming in from church she hurried to the piano and began gathering together her pieces of music with assumed | 14 |
aunt the fact that s income was now more than five thousand a year her view of the reason why had married whidi included some thoroughly praise of s kind heart her opinion of the library board just what had said about mrs s and what though of the several in the cities she went home soothed by confession by find ing a new friend iv the of the domestic situation went back home to help on the farm and had a succession of maids with between the lack of servants was becoming one of the most problems of the town the daughters against village and against the unchanged attitude of the toward hired girls they went off to city or to city shops and that they might be free and even human after hours the seventeen were at s desertion by the loyal they reminded her that she had said i don t have any le with maids see how stays on main street between of maids from the north woods from the occasional and n � i and did her own � and endured aunt s in to tell her how to a for dust how to sugar how to stuff a goose was and won shy praise from but as her shoulder began to sting she wondered how many millions of women had lied to themselves during the death years through which they had to enjoy the methods in she doubted the convenience and as a natural the of the and home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life she considered her doubts she refused to how many of the women of the y seventeen their husbands and were by them she did not to but her eyes ached she was not the girl in breeches and a flannel shirt who had cooked over a camp fire in the mountains five years ago her ambition was to get to bed at nine her strongest emotion was resentment over rising at half past six to care for hu the bade of her neck ached as she got out of bed she was cynical about the joys of a single laborious life she understood why workmen and workmen s wives are not grateful to their kind at mid morning i en she was free from the ache in neck and bade she was glad of the reality of the hours were living and but she had no desire to read the little er essays in praise of labor whidi are daily written by the white felt and though she hid it a bit in the house she pondered upon the maid s room it was a small hole above the kitchen oppressive in summer in winter she saw that while she had been considering an unusually good mistress she had been permitting her friends and to live in a she complained to what s the matter with it he as they stood on the perilous stairs up from the kitchen she commented upon tiie sloping roof of boards stained in brown rings by the rain the floor the cot and its tumbled the broken the mirror maybe it ain t any but still it s much better than anything these hired girls are accustomed to at home that they think it s fine seems f oc to spend money i en they appreciate it but that t he with the of a man i o wishes to be surprising and delightful don t know but we might begin to think about building a new house one of these days how d you like that w why i m getting to the point now i fed we can afford one � and a ill show this something like a real house well put one over on sam and harry make folks sit up an take notice � es she said he did not go on daily he returned to the subject of the new house but as to time and mode he was indefinite at first she believed she of a low stone house with windows and beds of brick of a white frame cottage with green shutters and windows to her he answered well ye es might be worth thinking about remember where i put my pipe when she him he don t know seems to me those kind of houses you speak of have been it proved that what he wanted was a house exactly like sam s which was exactly like every third new house in every town in the country a square with a broad porch tidy and walks a house resembling the mind of a i o the party ticket and goes to church once a month and owns a good car he admitted well yes maybe it isn t so dam artistic but matter of fact though i don t want a place just like sam s maybe i would cut off that fool tower he s and i think probably it would lock better painted a nice cream color that yellow on sam s house is too kind of then there s another kind of house that s mighty nice and substantial looking with in a nice brown stain instead of seen some in you re way off your base when you say i only like one kind of house md aunt came in one evening when cared was fly a rose garden cottage youve had a lot of e q with housekeeping and don t you think i that it would be to have a nice square house and pay more main street tion to getting a furnace than to all this and aunt worked her lips as though they were an elastic band why of course i know how it is with young folks like you you want towers and bay windows and and heaven knows what au but the thing to get is and a good | 42 |
let go our end � as i am going to do now so that those can their he went below with a monkey the nut and let the hook drop off when the had hauled their into their boats and made everything a of citizens took them off our hands and led them away to jail ay ay ban a great big fool said but he changed his mind when s the admiring crowded aboard to shake hands with him and a couple of newspaper men took photographs of the mary and her captain vi it must not be thought from what i have told of the greek that they were altogether bad far from it but they were rough men gathered together in isolated and lighting with the elements for a they lived far away from the law and its workings did not understand it and thought it tyranny especially did the fish laws seem and because of this they looked upon the men of the fish as their natural enemies we their lives or their living which is the same thing in many ways we traps and the � � of which had cost them considerable sums and the making of which required weeks of labor we prevented them from catching fish at many times and sea son s which was equivalent to preventing them from making as good a living a they might have made had we not been in existence and when we captured them they were brought into the of law where heavy cash were collected from them as a result they hated us as the dog is the natural enemy of the the snake of man so were we of the fish the natural enemies of the but it is to show that they could act generously as well as hate bitterly that this story of is told lived in next to big he was the largest and most influential man among the he had given us no trouble and i doubt if he would ever have with us had he not in a new salmon boat this boat was the cause of all the trouble he had had it built upon his own model in which the lines of the general salmon boat were somewhat modified to his high he found his new boat veiy fast � in fact faster than any other boat on the bay or rivers forthwith he grew proud and and our with the mary on the sunday salmon having wrought fear in their hearts he sent a challenge up to one of the local conveyed it to us it was to the effect that would sail up from on the following sunday and in the plain sight of set his net and catch salmon and that le grant might come and get him if he could of course and i had heard i o nothing of the new boat our own boat was pretty fast and we were not afraid to have a brush with any other that happened along sunday came the challenge had been abroad and the and folk of turned out to a man crowding wharf till it looked like the grand stand at a match and i had been but the fact of the crowd convinced us that there was something in s dare in the afternoon when the sea breeze had picked up in strength his sail into view he along before the wind he a score of feet from the wharf waved his hand like a knight about to enter the lists received a hearty cheer in return and stood away into the straits for a couple of hundred yards then he lowered sail and drifting the boat by means i i of the wind proceeded to set his net he did not set much of it possibly fifty feet yet and i were at the man s we did not know at the time but we learned afterward that the net he used was old and worthless it catch true but a catch of any size would have torn it to pieces shook his head and said i confess it me what if he has out only fifty feet he could never get it in if we once started for and why does he come here his in our faces right in our home town too s voice took on an tone he continued for some minutes to against the of in the meantime the man in question was in the stem of his boat and watching i� the net boats when a large fish is in a net the by their agitation the fact and they evidently advertised it to for he pulled in about a dozen feet of net and held aloft for a moment before he flung it into the bottom of the boat a big glistening salmon it was greeted by the audience on the wharf with round after round of cheers this was more than could stand come on lad he called to me and we lost no time jumping into our salmon boat and getting up sail the crowd shouted warning to and as we darted out from the wharf we saw his worthless net clear with a long knife his sail was all ready to go up and a moment later it fluttered in the sunshine he ran aft drew in the sheet and filled on the long toward the i by this time we were not more than thirty feet was he knew our boat was fast and he knew further that in fine sailing few men were his equals he was confident that we should surely catch and i shared his confidence but somehow we did not seem to gain it was a pretty sailing breeze we were gliding through the water but was slowly sliding away from us and not only was he going faster but he was eating into the | 21 |
day a man died � an one of the best divers that season in the � that is what it was though how could come on board when there had been no known cases i he heathen ashore when we left is beyond me there it was though � a man dead and three others down on their backs there was nothing to be done we could not the sick nor could we care for them we were packed like there was nothing to do but rot and die � that is there was nothing to do after the night that followed the first death on that night the mate the the polish jew and four native divers away in the large whale boat they were never heard of again in the morning the captain promptly the remaining boats and there we were that day there were two deaths the following day three then it jumped to eight it was curious to see how we took it the natives for instance fell into a condition of dumb stolid fear the captain � his name was a frenchman � became very nervous and he actually got the he was a large man weighing at least two hundred pounds the heathen and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering mountain of fat the german the two americans and myself bought up all the scotch and proceeded to stay drunk the theory was beautiful � namely if we kept ourselves soaked in every that came into contact with us would immediately be to a and the theory worked though i must confess that neither captain nor ah were attacked by the disease either the frenchman did not drink at all while all himself to one drink daily it was a pretty time the sun going into northern was straight overhead there was no wind except for frequent which blew fiercely for from five minutes to half an hour and wound up by us with rain after each the awful sun would come out drawing clouds of steam from the soaked decks the steam was not nice it was the of death with millions and millions is the heathen of we always took another drink when we saw it going up from the dead and dying and usually we took two or three more drinks mixing them also we made it a rule to take an additional several each time they the dead over to the that about us we had a week of it and then the gave out it is just as well or i shouldn t be alive now it took a sober man to pull through what followed as you will agree when i mention the little fact that only two men did pull through the other man was the heathen � at least that was what i heard captain call him at the m ment i first became aware of the heathen s existence but to come back it was at the end of the week with the gone and the pearl sober that i happened to glance at the that hung in the cabin its normal register in the was and it was quite customary to see it between and or even the heathen but to see it as i saw it down to was sufficient to sober the most drunken that ever in scotch i called captain s attention to it only to be informed that he had watched it going down for several hours there was little to do but that little he did very well considering the circumstances he took off the light sails right down to storm canvas spread life lines and waited for the wind his mistake lay in what he did after the wind came he to on the port tack which was the right thing to do south of the if � and there was the rub � one were not in the direct path of the we were in the direct path i could see that by the steady increase of the wind and the equally steady fall of the i wanted him to turn and run with the wind on the port quarter until the ceased falling and then to heave to we argued till he was reduced to but is the heathen he would not the worst of it was that i could not get the rest of the to back me up who was i anyway to know more about the sea and its ways than a properly qualified captain was what was in their minds i knew of course the sea rose with the wind and i shall never forget the first three seas the she had fallen off as vessels do at times when to and the first sea made a clean breach the life lines were only for the strong and well and little good were they even for � them when the women and children the and the pigs and trade boxes the sick and the dying were swept along in a solid groaning mass the second sea filled the s decks flush with the rails and as her stem sank down and her bow tossed all the miserable of life and luggage poured aft it was a human torrent they came head first feet first rolling over and over twisting the heathen and up now and again one caught a grip on a or a rope but the weight of the bodies behind tore such loose one man i noticed fetch up head on and square on with the his head cracked like an egg i saw what was coming sprang on top of the cabin and from there into the itself ah and one of the americans tried to follow me but i was one jump ahead of them the american was swept away and over the stern like a piece of ah caught a spoke of the wheel | 21 |
old cock � and now i have spirits to take a glass of brandy which i t this whole morning the irish agent said the father how do you i n ever get you appointed to the if you to drink v drink why blood my old boy is it this to ne i do yon mean to tell me that there are no on the bench drink why man let me drink swear and play the devil among the ladies surely you know that my thorough and loyalty will make up for and redeem all hey then for the glass of brandy in which drink your health and hang me til not abuse you again � unless when you deserve it ha ha ha at all events said keep yourself steady for this day this is the day on which i will my long cherished vengeance against m � against him and his i shall leave them this night without a roof over their heads as i said i would and when you are in possession of his property and and he and his will then what i meant when i told with a heart in castle fair that his farm and mine lay together but what will you do with the sick woman i mean his wife asked putting a glass of brandy to his lips and at his father what will you do with the sick woman i say m s face became so ghastly and presented so startling a contrast between his complexion and black brows that even himself got for a moment alarmed and said � my god father what is the matter literally gasped as if seeking for breath th m putting his hand upon his heart he said i am sick here � i see you are said but what is the matter i say again why are you sick vengeance i am sick with the moment is now near and at last i have it within my clutch and here he extended his hand and made a clutch at some imaginary object in the air upon my honour said i envy yon you are a fine consistent old villain the sick woman by the great heavens and by all that they contain � if they do contain anything � i swear that if every individual of than men and women were at the last gasp and within one single moment of death � ha hold said he checking himself that would never do death why death would end all their sufferings oh not all i hope said again no matter resumed their sufferings in the irish agent life it would end and so i should no longer be either eye witness or ear witness of their md miseries i would see them without house r home � without a friend on earth � without without food � ragged starved � starved out of very virtues � despised upon and trampled on by all to these i thought to have added shame � shame but we failed � we have failed no i give you my word we did not � we did sir said the father and she are now reconciled and this is enough for the people who loved her yes by heavens we have filled sat or almost dropped on a chair as he spoke for he had been pacing through the parlour now and putting his two hands over his face ie sobbed out � groaned even with agony � until the tears in torrents through his fingers i thought to have added shame to all i shall make them suffer he exclaimed but in that i am he here actually clenched his hands and his teeth like a man in the last stage of gladness on removing his hands too his face now terribly distorted out of its by the workings of this tremendous passion presented an appearance which one rather suppose to ia ne m been shaped in hell so savage and were all its outlines who had sat at the same time with his face to the back of tne chair on which his two hands were placed supporting his chin kept his beautiful eyes seated � he was in that attitude fixed upon hb father with a good deal of surprise indeed it would be a difficult thing considering their character and situation to find two countenances more beautifully expressive of their respective dispositions if one could conceive the existence of any such thing as a moral looking glass placed between them it might naturally be supposed that in looking at saw himself and that in his virtuous father s face also saw his the son s face and character however had considerably the advantage over his father s s presented merely what you felt you must hate even to but the son s that which you felt to be besides and yet more detestable still well said all i can say is that upon my honour my worthy father i don t think you shine at the pathetic damn it be a man and don t in that manner just like a furious drunken woman when she can t get at another woman who is her enemy surely if we failed it wasn t our faults t i can console you so the irish agent far as to say we did not fail it s not such an easy thing to suppress scandal especially if it happens to be a lie as it is in the present case ah said the father with bitterness it was all your fault you ill looking at your age your grandfather would not have had to complain of want of success come m � i ll not bear this � it s cursed in you when you know devilish well how successful i have been on the property ay said and what was the cause of that was | 50 |
and not his own i honour him for it kiss him child and come away he spoke to her and treated her as if she had really been but a child he held her while she stooped down and kissed the dead man s face he supported her with his arm into the next room and placing her in a chair with her white face hid in her hands he left her alone with her sorrow the blow had utterly her its suddenness had been so far merciful that it had her sense of loss the of her mind was at first only able to retain its last impression could it be possible that that was a correct one p the wildest nightmare dream she had ever experienced had never suggested to her anything more monstrous than the that had dropped from her dying father s lips yet there were the words engraved as it were with some that burned into her very core i wish you to marry mr presently they began to fade away the slowly growing perception of what had happened afterwards he waa dead his voice his smile were gone the kindly gracious man who called her daughter and whom all the little world she had ever known bowed down to in admiration waa no ta of her own did i� t much aa a sense of loss � a from a thorn rather than the empty place beside her then came the the awful sense of her utter loneliness in the world not a soul to care for her not one human being bound to her by tie of blood or no heart to love her here a little hand stole into her own and a child s voice whispered tenderly in her ear don t cry don t cry darling we are so sorry for you i do love you so don t you know me i m little then the tears came for the first time she threw her arms about the child and him to her bosom and hid her face in his and sobbed with him and he with her as though their hearts would break together chapter a in need there is plenty of kindness in the world � but largely mingled with the fear of responsibility in our hour of sorrow that much despised class of persons who act on instinct come to the front and win our hearts while the wise and the prudent are picking their words the promise of the former may be but their present sympathy is sincere and of value they do not give twice but ten times over who give quickly and even if they have nothing to give their obvious desire to be of service is a material help the touch of little s cheek as it up to s waa worth very much to her though it might not have been in the city when she looked out through her dim eyes at the world again there was sunshine in it � a streak of light among the menacing masses of cloud papa told me to say only i forgot it said that whatever you wished should be done at once that he was � i don t remember what he said exactly � but i know he loves you almost as much as i do the streak of light vanished away from poor s mental horizon and a sharp chill as from a november sky seized her tell your father that i am obliged to him she answered firmly but that i want nothing you should not stop here darling it is not fit for you go and play nothing loth for a child is soon tired of another s sorrow got off her lap i ll give papa your love he said shall i tell him what i told you to say that i am obliged to him � deeply obliged to him � but that i want nothing there was a knock at the � th same door at which the had entered not t i� ct l c c ii a chamber of s u r a friend in need her father s body was hardly cold that mr should be coming to offer assistance to her in person that such an idea should have entered her mind � that any thought at all should have done so save that of her may seem strange but the fact was that the one fact suggested the other her father and her father s dying words were for the moment associated in her mind together oh mrs the pathetic welcome in her voice would have moved a harder heart than that of the wife of the there was genuine gratitude in it but also an expression of relief which of course that lady did not understand my pretty dear he sobbed � my own pretty dear i what can we do for you she did not mean what she could do herself nor what she and her husband could do though that of course was included but what could the whole world do for this desolate and girl to show its tenderness and sympathy p she did not know that she herself was a woman of ten thousand she spoke believing herself to be a common type of humanity and had come to comfort her in the name of it she was one oi those simple ones who in all sincerity would have asked when saw we thee hungry and gave thee meat it was her nature to do such things and not to remember them could only blindly kiss her and thank her with a hand clasp you must not stay here my darling continued the old lady you must come into my room john has moved out of it shook her head and pointed to the next room i cannot leave him she whispered he will be | 25 |
alter the established laws or religion to punish to introduce of a public concern to the execution of some general law by an armed force or for any other purpose which the government in matters of a public and general concern it is therefore true as laid down by mr in s trials p that what in england is called of war in this country must be called direct of war although this seems not to be assented to by judge ith s possibly because he did not examine that point as thoroughly as he did the doctrine of treason generally before that passed the dangers from arbitrary of treason were great and grievous and the complaints against them as vehement as they were just war in england against the king or his government the consists of direct and express of war against the king s natural person it against his government or his authority in his political person in america the crime is defined in the constitution it consists in war against the united states in england it consists in an opposition to the king s authority or here it is against the constitution and government in england when it is intended against the life of the prince it may consist in mere imagination in the mere design or intent of the mind but in this country the offence is against the government the political person only and it is actual war as it is against the government not against a natural person it may be said to be but of treason which produced so much terror and alarm formerly in england and against the of which gentlemen have so cannot take place in this country they are expressly excluded by the constitution upon the whole i contend that the meeting on s island the intention of which is to be was an act of treason that the assemblage with such intention was sufficient for that purpose and if it were not sufficient this court cannot stop the the jury must proceed with the inquiry i have finished what i had to say i beg pardon for the time of the court so long i thank it for its patient and polite attention i am too much exhausted to and to ch a court as this is i am sure it is unnecessary this is an exhibition of some of the most prominent passages of a speech which fills seventy pages of an volume and which occupied several hours in the delivery i have excluded the s speech a large portion of the argument which dealing in minute of law and in the analysis of legal could scarcely be expected to interest the general reader and which would be still less satisfactory to members of the legal profession who have familiar access to the full report of the trial it may be remarked of this speech that having been made at a time when the speaker was yet in the vigour of youthful manhood and somewhat noted for the vivacity of his imagination and the warmth of his feelings he may be supposed to have made this effort at disadvantage under the necessarily imposed upon him by the nature of the subject and the to which he spoke it was aa argument upon mere questions of law sufficiently and in their nature to forbid any very free excursion of the and to defy the attractions of the orator himself to the most severe and mind in the of the nation doubtless felt his inclination constantly by the presence in which he stood he could not lose the consciousness of an ever present imposed upon him by the place and the subject both logical precision and compact legal we cannot but remark in the perusal of the speech how apparent is the inclination of the speaker to escape from this and to his mind in the more congenial fields of display and how obviously he has felt the of the argument like a stone tied to the wings of his fancy to bring him quickly back on every flight to the labour of his task at that period in the life of william his fame was much more connected with his efforts before a jury than in addressed to the bench and we cannot help feeling some regret while upon the peculiar power of the advocate and looking alone to our own satisfaction that this celebrated and important trial had not offered him an occasion to argue the questions of fact with which it as well as the points of law to which we have the description of the abode of which furnished a legitimate opportunity to the indulgence of mr s peculiar vein of eloquence in this trial seems to have inspired one of the witnesses with the same of poetical rapture in giving a sketch of this paradise chat xiv testimony of mr a most gentleman who is yet alive to recall to memory the scenes which so attracted his youthful fancy � mr charles � had visited the island upon the invitation of its proprietor just at the time when the conspiracy was said to be nearest its point of explosion as he had seen nothing on this visit calculated to awaken his alarm for the peace of the country his testimony was introduced into the trial for the which immediately followed the on the charge of treason this testimony was recorded in a written a few from which will gratify the reader by him to compare mr s glowing with the actual impression which the scene made upon mr on saturday evening the sixth day of december this arrived in the course of his journey home at the shore of opposite to the island of mr and having first learned with some surprise that mr was yet on the island crossed over to his house in a violent storm of wind and rain that evening and | 29 |
house with its homely board and benches in the dining room and a few chairs in the best parlor it struck me that here was the fulfilment of every of an imagination in various methods of costly self indulgence and splendid ease pictures � in brief more shapes of luxury than there could be any object in except for an s advertisement � and the whole repeated and doubled hy the reflection of a great mirror which showed me s proud figure likewise and my own it cost me i acknowledge a bitter sense of shame to perceive in myself a positive effort to bear up against the effect which sought to impose on me i reasoned against her in my secret mind and strove so to keep my footing in the with which she had surrounded herself � in the of personal ornament which the of her physical nature and the rich of her beauty caused to seem so suitable � i beheld the true character of the woman passionate luxurious lacking simplicity not refined incapable of pure and perfect taste but the next instant she was too powerful for all my opposing struggles i saw how fit it was that she should make herself as gorgeous as she pleased and should do a thousand things that would have been ridiculous in the poor thin weakly characters of other s women to this day however i hardly know whether i then beheld in her truest attitude or whether that were the truer one in which she had presented herself at in both there was something like illusion which a great around her have you given up forever i inquired why should you think so asked she i cannot tell answered i except that it appears all like a dream that we were ever there together it ia not so to me said i should think h a poor and meagre nature that is capable of but one set of forms and must convert all the past into a dream merely because the present happens to be unlike it why should we be content with our homely life of a few months past to the of all other modes it was good but there are other lives as good er better not you will understand that i condemn those who give themselves up to it more entirely than i for myself should deem it wise to do it irritated me this self complacent qualified a and criticism of a system to which many individuals � perhaps as highly endowed as our gorgeous � had contributed their all of earthly endeavor and their aspirations i determined to make proof if there were any spell that would her out of the part which she seemed to be acting she should be compelled to give me a glimpse of something true some nature some passion no matter whether light or wrong provided it were real your allusion to that class of characters who can live only in one mode of life remarked i reminds me of our poor friend possibly he was in your thoughts when you spoke thus th� poor fellow it is a pity that by the fault of a narrow education he should have so completely himself to that one idea of his especially as the slightest of common sense would teach him its now that i have returned into the world and can look at his project from a distance it requires quite all my real regard for this respectable and well man to prevent me laughing at him � as i find society at large does s eyes darted lightning her cheeks pushed the of her expression was like the effect of a powerful light flaming up suddenly within her my experiment had fully succeeded she had shown me the true flesh and blood of her heart by thus involuntarily my slight pitying half kind half scornful mention of the man who was all in all with her she herself probably felt this for it was hardly a moment before she her breath and seemed as proud and self possessed as ever i rather imagine said she quietly that your appreciation falls short of mr s just claims blind enthusiasm in one idea i grant is generally ridiculous and must be fat to the respectability of an ordinary man it requires a very high and powerful character to make it otherwise but a great man � as perhaps you do not know � his normal condition only through the inspiration of one great idea as a friend of mr and at the same time a calm observer i must tell you that he seems to me such a man but you are very for him ridiculous doubtless he is so � to you there can be no truer test of the noble and heroic in any individual than the degree in which he s room possesses the faculty of heroism from i dared make no retort to s concluding in truth i admired her fidelity it gave me a new sense of s native power to discover that his influence was no less potent with this beautiful woman here in the midst of artificial life than it had been at the foot of the gray rock and among the wild trees of the wood path when she so passionately pressed his hand against her heart the great rude shaggy man and loved him did you bring with you i resumed do you know have sometimes fancied it not quite safe considering the of her temperament that she should be so constantly within the sphere of a man like such tender and delicate natures among your sex have often i believe a very adequate appreciation of the heroic element in men but then again i should suppose them as likely as any other women to make a impression could hardly give his affections to a person capable of taking | 35 |
could not find the address of a single manager i tried to reach one of the but there was no response the clock twelve thirty by then and i weakly concluded that things must be all right or that if they weren t i couldn t help it i then went home and to bed and slept poorly troubled by the thought that something might be wrong and wishing now that i had not been so about it all why couldn t i attend to things at the proper time instead of about in this fashion i sighed and tried to sleep the next morning i arose and went through the two morning papers without losing any time to my horror and distress there in the b public was an announcement on the first page to the effect that owing to various wash ou s in several states none of the three shows had arrived the night before and in my own paper to my great pain was a full account of the performances and the agreeable reception accorded them oh lord i groaned what will say what will the other papers say three shows and a book about myself not one here and in connection with one i had written a large and enthusiastic audience received mr smith as the grand and in connection with another that the gallery of pope s was top heavy the perspiration from my forehead jones and my tendency to draw the lightning of public observation and criticism i began to as to what newspaper criticism would follow this last pas god i thought wait till he sees this and i was ready to weep at once i saw myself not only the laughing stock of the town but discharged as well think of being discharged now after all my fine dreams as to the future without delay i proceeded to the office and removed my few resolved to be prepared for the worst with the feeling that i owed mr an explanation i sat down and composed a letter to him in which i explained from my point of view just how the thing had happened i did not attack mr or seek to shield myself but merely illustrated how i had been expected to handle my critical work in this office i also added how kind i thought he had been how much i valued his personal regard and asked him not to think too ill of me this letter i placed in an envelope addressed to mr joseph b personal and going into his private office before any others had come down laid it on his desk then i retired to my room to await the afternoon papers and think they were not long in appearing and neither of the two leading afternoon papers had failed to notice the blunder with the most delicate laughing they had seized upon this latest error of the great as a remarkable demonstration of what they affected to believe was its editor s lately acquired and powers the was r writing up various slate writing and the like in st louis and elsewhere things which mr was interested in or considered good circulation and this was now looked upon as a fresh demonstration of his development in that line oh lord oh lord i groaned when i read the following m a book about to see three at observed the past and those three widely separated by miles of country and washed out sections of railroad in three different states and is indeed a triumph but also to see them as having arrived or as they would have been had they arrived and displaying their individual delights to three separate of varying proportions assembled for that purpose is truly amazing one of the finest of or x we had better say � yet known to science indeed is great the q d indeed now that we think of it it is an achievement so that even the may well be proud of it � one of the finest flights of which the human mind or the great editor s strength is capable we venture to say that no or medium has ever it we have always known that mr h is a great man the charm of his page is sufficient proof of that but this latest essay of his into the of dramatic criticism supernatural insight and is one of the most perfect things of its kind and can only be attributed to genius in the purest form it is supernatural the chronicle for its part troubled to explain low and the spirit and actors although they might as well have been resting the actors at least not having any contract which their or selves to work had conducted themselves doing their parts without a murmur it was also here hinted that in future it would not be necessary for the to carry a dramatic critic seeing that the mind of its chief was sufficient anyhow it was plain that the race was fast reaching that place where it could perceive in advance that which was about to take place in proof of this it pointed of course to the noble mind which now occupied the chair of the seeing all this without moving from his office i was sweat rolled from my forehead my nerves and to think that this was the second time within a book about myself no more than a month that i had made my great benefactor the laughing stock of the city what must he think of me t i could see him at that moment reading these he would discharge me not knowing what to do i sat and gone were all my fine dreams my great future my standing in the eyes of men and of this paper what was to become of me i saw myself returning to � to do what would peter dick | 43 |
inquire for mr in jail in he s laid up you know said perhaps tt i kind mr she has to do witli that to do wi that i can t allow it let pay his debts ud am out come oat pay his di bu and come out although mr s h was standing np like win he gave it another double handed impulse in the h r and smiled at his proprietor in a ni ist hideous yon will please to mention to my mr that can t allow it can t allow it said thi oh i said you t mention it no sir no you are paid to it tho � u could not resist the temptation of trying it a aad mention it to pay mention it to pay oh said anything more yea sir it appears to me mr i that an iv too h in that direction that ir to dismiss from your attention both your mi people s losses and to mind your business mind mr acknowledged this with aa ordinarily abrupt short and loud of tho oh that even the moved his b of a hurry to look at him mr � af corresponding intensity then added � not at present sir not at present i am going mu finishing his mixture and rising with an amiable air la take n little stroll little stroll perhaps i shall find i come back if not sir duty duty monday on monday mr after another of his hair oo at assumption of the hat a appearance of m with � of he was also than at but ht suffered mr to go out without any and then took u pi at him ov r the little window j ba gk od he then back to his dock put it carefully in order took down his hat looked the dock said good bye and puffed away on his own account he straight for mrs s end of bleeding heart yard and arrived there at the top of the steps than ever at the top of the steps resisting mrs s invitations to come and sit along with father in happy cottage � which to his relief were not so numerous as they would have been on any other night than saturday when the who so gallantly supported the business with everything but money gave their orders freely � at the top of the steps mr remained until he beheld the who always entered the yard at the other end slowly advancing beaming and surrounded by then mr descended and bore down upon him with his utmost pressure of steam on the approaching with his usual was surprised to see mr but supposed him to have been stimulated to an immediate squeeze instead of that operation until monday the population of the yard were astonished at the meeting for the two powers had never been seen there together within the memory of the oldest bleeding heart but they were overcome by unutterable amazement when mr going close up to the most venerable of men and halting in front of the green waistcoat made a of his right thumb and forefinger applied the same to the of the broad hat and with singular and precision shot it off the polished head as if it had been a large marble having taken this little liberty with the person mr astounded and attracted the bleeding hearts by saying in an audible voice now you i mean to have it out with you mr and the were instantly the centre of a press v all eyes and ears windows were thrown open and were � thronged � what do you pretend to be said mr what s your v moral game what do you go in for benevolence an t it you benevolent here mr apparently without the intention of him but merely to relieve his mind and his superfluous power in wholesome exercise aimed a blow at the head which the head to avoid this singular was repeated to the ever increasing admiration of the spectators at the end of every succeeding article of mr s i have discharged myself from your service said that i may tell you what you are you re one of a lot of that are the worst lot of all the lots to be met with speaking as a sufferer by both i don t know that i t as soon have the lot as your lot you re a driver in disguise a by a and and by substitute you re a you re a shabby the repetition of the performance at this point was received with a burst of laughter ask these good people who s the hard man here they ll tell you i believe f � ra z ta tr l l t g i r r it z d� is � � � � r � ii i l r � j i hie j� ix r r j i i j n t � f � ic � v t n i ti ij i i z � � i � t � � � � � p � i i i t z li l k k h i jt t � � � k r i i ill i � i t r r of � � l ii r n z s lis a sign post i � a t j i v � l l r j � � x � � � j ji j i humming tops � t � r r i il � � t you v no of ihe il � � si l l in c m i i i h to i all von ar j a an an agreeable of � v ry li a i v livid d on t � i its more mo r cr s j you are no and | 8 |
a nature product as the friend of men why there is substance enough in this one to fit out whole armies of were it properly so many poor and have a poor in rose pink manner become possessed of heads and lean de fly abroad on the wings o� and this brave old has been hid under a he was a writer too and had talents for it certain of the talents such as few have had the days of it skilled not he being has remained in the others up so readily are the ware you find on all much say as light so called by the such is the s way and yet complain not this rich old have we not him too at last and can keep him all the longer than the the great used to say always that his father had the greater gifts of the two which surely is saying something not that you ban to it in the full sense but that in a very wide sense you can so far as mere head goes is probably right looking at the old as a and of his thought and with w rich of originality he gives it forth you pronounce to be superior or even say supreme in his time for the genius of him almost rises to the poetic do our readers know the german paul and his style of thought singular to say the old has a quality in him resembling afar off that of paul and actually works it out in his french manner far as the french manner can nevertheless intellect is not of the head only the great end of intellect surely is that of it make one see something for which latter result the whole man must in the old there dwells withal a stiff cross humor a latent fury and very which stiff with its pride obstinacy affectation what else is it at l but want of strength the real quantity of our insight � how justly and thoroughly we shall comprehend the nature of a thing especially of a human thing � depends on our patience our what strength we have intellect comes from the whole man as it is the light that the whole man in this true sense the younger with that great flashing of his that broad fearless freedom of nature he had was very clearly the superior man at bottom perhaps the main definition could give of old is that he was of the species stiff as brass in all senses of an endless pride which but does an endless vanity and need of shining stately the thought the morality the whole being of the man a solemn high man with such a fund of indignation in him or of latent indignation of � who long experiment accordingly looks forth on man kind and this world of theirs with some dull word of forgiveness of contemptuous or with clenched lips nostrils slightly dilated in expressive silence here is but then under most interesting new circumstances and withal carried to such a pitch as becomes sublime one might almost say consider indeed whether could be a as your common and are his is not a closet with greek but the wide world and friendship to humanity does not s miscellaneous writings blood of all the in his honorable veins he too would do somewhat to raise higher that high house and yet alas it is plain to him that the house is sinking that much is sinking the and above all others this are fallen on evil times it has not escaped the old how nobility is now decayed nearly based no longer on heroic of conduct and effort but on formality on ments tailor s and coach leather on which latter basis unless his whole insight into heaven s ways with earth have him no institution in this god governed world can pretend to continue alas and the priest has now no tongue but for plate and the tax and the sits at its ease in high ct under and cloth of gold till now at last what with one fiction what with another nature all manner of and refusing to pay realities for them it has come so far that the twenty five millions long scarce of knowledge of virtue happiness cash are now fallen scarce of food to eat and do not with that natural ferocity of theirs which nature has still them feel the disposition to die starved j and all things are nodding towards chaos and no man it to heart one man exists who might perhaps stay or the catastrophe were he called to the the his high ancient blood his heroic love of truth his strength of heart his loyalty and profound insight for you cannot hear him speak without the man of genius this with the appalling things have come to might give claims from time to time at long intervals such a thought does through the brain of the but ah ia these scandalous days how shall the of the fall prostrate before a can the friend of men of au with good hope as his standard the of an woman no not hanging by the of such a one will this rise to the hut summoned by france in her day of need in her day of vision or else not at all france does not summon the else goes its road tried literature too as we said and with no talent nay with first rate talents in some sort but neither did this prosper his in such era of and all darkening ruin was political economy and a certain man whom he called the master � that is dr round this master whom tiie succeeded as master himself he and some other did gather to publish books and tracts literature by word and deed if so were the world s dull | 37 |
agency and asked to see mr happened to be out at the time and the then requested to see miss he was shown into the parlor and soon she came toward him groping her way after the manner of the blind miss he said rising mr i am glad to welcome you here again please be seated her voice was unsteady and his hardly less so as he proceeded you were kind enough to send some money this morning for the use of our committee � a trifle she interrupted which they have directed me to return to you was a woman and the result was a great disappointment to her she found the tears down her cheeks much to her before this young stranger here is your gift and also mr s which you will permit me to leave with you he went on as well as he could you will spare me i trust giving the reasons that have us in our decision these are times when ordinary rules cannot be considered she was quite crushed but managed to that she was sure he and his friends had done what they thought right � that she had meant to do them a kindness and that they would continue to receive her deep speaking of sympathy which they could not reject then he bade her a kind good evening when came home she told him and he was not on the whole greatly surprised listened with wide open eyes when he heard of it but said nothing chapter xiii ik an armed camp awoke in her little chamber in the tion lodging house at and saw the sun peeping in at the east window miss her room mate was still wrapped in slumber and her honest irish face lay with the rosy hue of youth and health upon it on the coarse pillow it was the morning when this particular building must be according to a notice on the door you will render up the said premises before twelve o clock at noon under the usual and after that what after the meagre furniture and the girls trunks containing their clothing and the girls themselves had been placed in the public street � what then pondered a good deal over this but she felt no uneasiness would not be there to direct everything she had the fullest confidence in the ability of the to bring them out all right in the end there was a slight tap at the entrance a of small feet in that direction a whispered who is it and an answer that satisfied her the french in an armed opened the door and found the object of her thoughts on the threshold glanced in and saw that miss was still asleep then she bade throw a shawl over her head and accompany her across the entry to her own rooms was fully dressed and bore no special mark of the great responsibility that had been thrown upon her shoulders other than a deepening of the earnest look ia her dark eyes the french girl seated herself upon the bed and for greater comfort drew the outer over her bare feet she knew that had not called her without having a reason and waited with becoming patience to have it made known by noon more than a hundred families in will be began the authorities have not yet given us permission to occupy the public buildings but i have no doubt they will do so when the emergency is actually upon them i want you to keep within call all day ready to execute my orders with all possible i have selected you out of all the girls here because i have such perfect confidence in your judgment and integrity could not have defined all of the words that used but she knew she was receiving that she was far from deserving and the tears filled her eyes i will do whatever you tell me she said earnestly � i have not always been a good girl but you may trust me to be true to you only it seems as if i could do very little there is a man proceeded quietly who will allow us to store things in his sheds until something better offers his name is and his will come lor the goods as soon as we are ready for him but if i f of we sleep to night in the town buildings or out of we shall need such things as and i will give you a quantity of to mark such articles with their owners names so they will not get lost in the crush if we find that we are short of these comforts when night comes those of us who are young and strong will lend ours to the weaker ones assented and some of the men whom he has selected will see to the but the women must do most of the cooking certain kitchen will therefore have to be reserved and these must also be marked all who are keeping house have agreed to give to the committee whatever is left in their for the general use what money we have we shall make last as long as we can when it is gone the town must aid us it cannot let us starve after further conversation in which more minute par were given went back to her own room to dress miss had already arisen and was engaged in packing her things for removal proceeded to do the same and the two girls discussed the situation as they worked neither of them knew what to think of the prospect but both had complete confidence in their leader the ship on which they were about to had to them but one word on her � by noon the last articles in the houses that 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the s words elsewhere the circumstances of the place and time explain the difference in the subjects treated of in this and the former this gospel appears accordingly to be the attempt of a but zealous of to his of the philosophy upon the original faith of the the divine wisdom or or light proceeding from god of which so much had been said in the school he tells us became a man or flesh in the person of dwelt for a time on earth and ascended up where he was before and where he had been from the beginning into the bosom of the father consequently this gospel shows throughout a double or object first to prove that is the christ which was common to all the and secondly that the christ is the son of god or which descended from heaven to give light to men � p to endeavor to reconcile john with his on the that all four wrote invariably true and correct history is evidently hopeless the are so far important ns to lead us inevitably to infer that in some of them and probably in all four there is a large measure of that which proceeds from imperfect knowledge forgetful ness or neglect in the case of john they are to such an extent as to show that neither he nor his paid much regard to the of his or used them as a guide in forming a new one an indeed could not be expected to frame his so as to agree with the works of previous if he known them but a disregard of them allowing of manifest either that those works were but little known in his church or that they had not yet become standards of authority � p on the origin of christianity in ch vii he the accounts of the and of christ with n ingenuity patience and as it seems to us and comes to the conclusion we have already stated perhaps it is the most valuable chapter in the whole we shall attempt no analysis of it from the valuable chapters on miracles we will quote the following john alone relates the raising of which if his were true was the most splendid and public of all the miracles for according to him it was done before friends and enemies without any of the usual to tell of it many came to see at the supper at and the people bare record of it when entered publicly into but notwithstanding all this neither mark nor appears to have had any knowledge of the affair � p the story of seems again to be forced upon the attention of the first three when they relate the entry of into and the conduct of the multitude for john says that the people then bare record of his having raised but here also they make not the slightest allusion to it it is impossible to conceive any plausible reason for this concealment when the same three appear so willing to relate all the miracles they were acquainted and actually relate some which were said to be done in secret that they had all forgotten this miracle so completely that it did not once occur to them whilst relating the connected circumstances cannot be imagined and if any miracle deserved a preference in the eyes of disposed to do honor to christ or even to give a faithful account of him it was this the acts and nowhere allude to this story although it would have afforded paul a very good instance of the of the body xv the first mention therefore of the most public and decisive of the miracles appears in a writing published at sixty years afterwards � most of the miracles attributed to christ are of the same kind the removal of natural if on opening the book which records his claims as a divine messenger we were to find instead of these stories of such of the causes of blindness fever and and to mankind to from the courses which lead to such evils the book would carry with it an evidence increasing vol iv no ii on the origin of christianity with the lapse of ages since the possession of such knowledge by a person in the age country and circumstances of christ would be as miraculous as any of the works referred to and all readers on finding that the results of the most advanced stages of human knowledge had been anticipated by the peasant of must themselves exclaim whence had this man this knowledge having never learned and we know that thou art a teacher sent by god for no man could have this wisdom unless god were with him � p chapters xii and xiv on the are essays which we shall pass over as similar views have long since been openly and publicly taught by some learned men in this century we will however give the following there are few nations whose early literature does not contain and pretended accomplishments of but and lost their credit even in ancient times the supposed still play a conspicuous part in the religion of the day yet on comparing them closely history accomplishment and failure alternate to such an extent that one important resemblance to their heathen kindred becomes palpable their credit can only be maintained by preserving their testament the of the old � in the two most conspicuous features of prophecy there could not be a more decided failure a triumphant of david was promised and a carpenter s son was was to be exalted and was nor were the christian more fortunate � the son of man was to appear again before that generation passed away and he has not yet appeared the contains many allusions to the affairs of rome and in the sixth book the shade of shows himself well acquainted with roman history up to the time | 37 |
knew no goal no end to his wandering all day the cold spring weather continued the sun would shine out for a few moments with a gray weary light and then retreat behind a cloud once came a slight fall of snow which melted the moment it touched the earth the wind kept blowing by fits and the world seemed to grow tired of having the same thing over again so often at length the air began to grow dusk then the first fears of darkness that had ever felt began to rise up before him but happily before it was quite dark and while yet he could distinguish between objects he came to the gate of a why might he not find here a place where he could sleep warmer than in the road he climbed over the gate the nearest building was an open shed and he could see the shafts of carts projecting from it perhaps in one of these carts or under it he might find a place to sleep but just as he entered the shed he saw at the farther corner of the yard beyond a wooden structure like a small house and through the arched door of it he observed that the floor was covered with clean straw he suspected it to be a dog s and the chain beside it with a collar at the end made him quite sure it was so the dog was absent and the place looked very he crept in got under as much of the straw as he could and fell asleep in a few minutes he was roused by what seemed to him the great voice of a dog in conversation with a boy the boy seemed by the sound of the chain to be the collar on the dog s neck presently he left him and the dog turned to creep in and rest till supper time now had been honored with the acquaintance of many dogs and the friendship of most of them hence with the of the owner of the dwelling it dawned upon him that he must be startled to find a stranger in his house he might indeed regard him as an intruder rather than a guest and worry him before he had time to explain himself he darted forward therefore to get out but he had scarcely reached the door when the dog met him thereupon began a loud as much as to say here i am please do nothing without reflection the dog started back astonished his ears erect and a keen look of question on his what strange animal was this that had got into his very chamber amused at the dog s fright burst into a fit of merry laughter the good natured dog evidently took it as a challenge to play after a series of sharp bursts of barking his eyes flashing straight in at the door he darted into the and began his nose at his visitor fell to patting and kissing and him as if he had been a human � glad of any companion that belonged to the region of light and they were friends at once both were tired and after a few minutes of mingled and they lay down side by side in peace with his head on the dog s back and the dog every now and then turning his head over his shoulder to s face again the boy was by approaching steps at the same moment the dog darted from under him with much rattle he leaped out of the and then stood and expectant in front of it it was not quite dark but the stars were shining and looking out could see the dim form of a woman setting down something before the dog the dog instantly plunged his nose into it and began the sound stirred up all the latent hunger in and he leaped out eager to have a share a large wooden bowl was on the ground and the half of its contents of and milk was already gone for the poor dog had forgotten his guest s wants while attending to his own it was plain that if was to have any he must lose no time in helping himself had he had a long nose and mouth like the dog he would have plunged them into the bowl in the same manner but the of his face would not allow this and there was not room in the bowl for the two to feed in the same fashion so he was driven to the expedient of making a spoon of his hand the dog neither growled nor pushed away the spoon but instantly began to twice as fast as before and presently was the bottom of the dish s hand therefore made but few journeys to his mouth but what it carried was good food � better than any he had had that day when all was gone he crept again into the the dog followed and soon they were both asleep in each other s arms and legs woke at sunrise and went out his host came after him and stood his tail and looking wistfully up in his face understood him and as the sole return he could make for his hospitality his collar instantly the dog rushed off he cleared the gate at a bound and madly across a field vanished from sight and too set out to continue his journey of the sea l the royal george toll for the brave the brave that are no more all sunk beneath the wave fast by their native shore eight hundred of the brave whose courage well was tried had made the vessel heel and laid her on her side a land breeze shook the and she was down went the royal george with all her crew complete toll for the brave brave is gone his last sea | 23 |
her doing no wrong to mrs had taken on her mind her to tho idea of s past had sunk into a subordinate feeling the terror she had felt in tho at tho border of wickedness by doing what she had at first to bo wrong had any about his conduct was thinking of him whatever lie might be as a man over whom was going to have indefinite power and her loving him having never been a question with her any ho had was so much gain poor had no awe of forces in tho state of matrimony but regarded it as altogether a matter of management in which would know how to act in relation to s past encouraged new doubts whether he were likely to have differed much from other men and she little schemes for learning what was expected of men in general but else might be true in the world her hair was dressed for riding and she went down in her to avoid delay before getting on horseback she wanted to have her blood stirred once more with the of and to recover the daring with which she had been used to think of her course in life already a load was lifted off her for in daylight and activity it was less oppressive to have doubts about her choice than to feel tliat she had no choice but to endure and go back and make yourself look like a mamma she said turning suddenly as she was going down stairs put your point lace over your head i must have you look like a you must not take things humbly when raised her left hand gently and looked at the ring she said gravely it was very good of you to think � of every thing and send me that packet you will toll me if there is any thing i forget f he said � keeping the hand softly within his own i will do any thing you wish but i am very unreasonable in my wishes said smiling yes i expect that women always are then i will not be unreasonable said taking away her hand and tossing her head i will not be told that i am what women always arc i did not say that said looking at her with his usual gravity you are what no other woman is and what is that said moving to a distance with a little air of menace made his pause before he answered you are the woman i love oh what nice speeches said laughing the sense of that love which he must once have given to another woman under strange circumstances was getting familiar give mo a nice speech in return say when we are to be married not yet not till we have had a gallop over the downs i am so thirsty for that i can think of else i wish the hunting had begun sunday the th th monday tuesday was counting on her fingers with the book it � nod sh looked at and at swept one palm over tho other while she said it will in ten days t us he married in ten days then said and wo shall not he the what do women always say in answer to that f said they agree to it said the lover rather oft his then i will not t said taking up her and putting them on while she kept her eyes on him with gathering fun in them the scene was pleasant on both sides a lover would have lost the view of her pretty ways and and spoiled all by stupid attempts at caresses utterly destructive of drama preferred tho drama and left at case found her spirits rising continually as she played at perhaps if had seen more of her in this unconscious kind of acting instead of when she was trying to bo theatrical ho might have her chance higher when they had had a glorious gallop however she was in a state of that disposed her to think well of hastening tho marriage which would make her life all of a piece with this splendid kind of enjoyment she would not debate any more about an act to which she liad committed herself and she consented to fix the wedding on that day three weeks notwithstanding the difficulty of tho customary laws of the of course was made aware of the engagement by abundant signs without being formally told but ho expected some communication as a consequence of it and after a few days he became rather impatient under s silence feeling sure that the change would affect his personal prospects and wishing to know exactly how no longer included any opposition � which ho did not love for its own sake he might easily cause a great deal of annoyance but it would be to his own injury and to create was not a motive with him miss he would certainly not have been sorry to a little but after all th ro as no knowing what would come it was nothing new that show a in his this girl ho struck rather newly as something like a man who was � led on by an ominous and that one to his fortune should make a worse business of his life than was necessary seemed really pitiable having protest ed i the marriage had a second sight for its evil consequences had been taking the pains to write letters and give orders himself instead of and appeared to be his usefulness even choosing against the habit of years to breakfast alone in his dressing room but a tiie was not to be avoided in a house empty of guests and hastened to use an opportunity of saying � it was one day after dinner for there were difficulties in s dining at and when is the marriage to take | 14 |
i am to learn that you are not what we hav i believed you that your regard for us all was thai your to was intended only to deceive let i told as soon as my are at in a of i wish to you but certainty o either tide will be ease to now if your j are no longer what they were you will return a notes nod the lock of my hair which is in your m d such so full of affection and confidence could have been o answered for s sake would have been unwilling to believe ber condemnation of him did not blind ber lo the of their having been written at all and she silently over the which had of not d by preceding � t severely d by when f thai had the letters ob i lu com i ram believe it said not feel i t ti but anyone have written in the kill alien i fell if � be to be at engaged to him as if the legal had bound us to � other but unfortunately he did � did feel the same for w an l he felt il i know he whatever may have him now and nothing hut the art employed ma have done it i was once aa dear to him as my own soul could this lock of hair which now h� can so readily give up was begged of me with the earnest had you seen bis look liis manner h td voice at that moment have you forgot the last evening of out being together at the morning that we parted loo i be told tne tliat it might be weeks before we met � his distress � can i ever forget his distress for n moment or two she could say no more but when this emotion had passed away she d in a firmer tone � i have been used but not by by who but himself by whom can he have been i by all the world rather than by his own heart i could rather believe every of my together to me in his opinion than believe hia nature capable of such cruelty this woman of whom he writes � whoever she be � or any one in but your own dear an f mamma and edward may have been so barbarous to � ib ire b creature in the world r suspect of than whose lean know so well i would not and only replied whoever may have been so your enemy let th i i be of their malignant triumph my dear sister by seeing how nobly the of your own innocence and good intentions your spirits it is a reasonable and be h such no pride care not who that i i of me co mar b� open to all the suffer ba proud la i penitent m i ki � resist ur i � cannot i must � i must � and � le welcome to � v t it t of it that oo but mother s and i would do for my own to so � oh who cur require � al id were both silent employed i from the to the window from window to the tire without knowing she from one or oi w through the other and mar anne seated at the foot of bed with her head against one ol its again took up t letter and over every � it is too oh thia be cruel � nothing can you can whatever he might hive heard me ought be not to tin belief i ought be not lo i have told ma of it u t of the of hair it from tha which you so bestowed on me � that is where was your heart when you words oh � he i no in no way and this woman � who knows what tier art may hai n i � how long it may have been and ho t� contrived by her i � who is she � who can she bet � whom did t ever bear him t of an young and among bis a � oh no one no talked o me only of e was greatly f r i who n pause ensued it ended th lis � i must go borne can not we be gone lo morrow i to row m� ly should � here a and now who car u won un e and tu un � much and of kind prevent a removal m tliat well then day or two but � lay here long i cannot � t� y to ihe questions mid of people tbe and i � am i to bear pity tlie pity of ii a lu lady oh what would h say to lier to lie down again and for a moment did ho but no could give ease and in restless of mind and moved from one to another till more and her sister with ber on the bed at all and far some time was ft of bein constrained to or � some drop however she was at length p r to take were of use and from that time till mrs ji returned she on the bed quiet aud chapter xxx came immediately to their room on i u and without to have her of opened the door a � � � � � � d ii i look of real how do you do my dear said she in a voice great compassion to who turned away her face without attempting to answer how is i he miss poor thing she looks very bad no wonder it is but too true ho is to be very � on � n for fellow have no patience with bim mm told me of it half an hour ago and she was | 26 |
down and kept her form close at s side poor thing said the woman have you no feeling that you keep her out in the cruel streets at such a time as this have you no eyes that you don t see how delicate and slender she is have you no sense you don t look as if you had much that you don t take more pity on this cold and trembling little hand she had stepped across to that side and held the hand between her own two it kiss a poor lost creature dear she said bending her face and tell me where she s taking you little turned towards her why my god she said you re a woman don t mind that said little clasping one of the hands that had suddenly released hers not afraid of you f then you had better be she answered have you no mother no no father yes a very dear one go home to him and be afraid of me let me go good night i must thank you first let me speak to you as if i really was a child you can t do it said the woman you are kind and innocent but you can t look at me out of a child s eyes i never should have touched you but that i thought you were a child and with a strange wild cry she went away no day yet in the sky but there was day in the stones of the streets in the carts and in the workers going to various occupations in the opening of early shops in the traffic at in the stir at the river side there was coming day in the lights with a color in them than they would have had at another time coming day in the increased of the air and the ghastly dying of the night they went back again to the gate intending to wait there now until it should be opened but the air was so raw and cold that little leading about in her sleep kept in motion going round by the church she saw lights there and the door open and went up the steps and looked in who s that cried a stout old man who was putting on a as if he were going to bed in a vault little it s no one particular sir said little stop cried the man let s have a look at you this caused her to turn hack again in the act of going out and to present herself and her charge before him i thought so said he i know you we have often seen each other said little the or the or the or whatever he was when i have been at church here more than that we ve got your birth in our register you know you re one of our indeed said little to be sure as the child of the � by the bye how did you get out so early we were shut out last night and are waiting to get in you don t mean it and there s another hour good yet come into the you ll find a fire in the on account of the painters i m waiting for the painters or i shouldn t be here you may depend upon it one of our mustn t be cold when we have it in our power to warm her up comfortable come along he was a very good old fellow in his familiar way and having stirred the fire he looked round the shelves of for a particular volume here you are you see he said taking it down and turning the leaves here you ll find yourself as large as life daughter of william and born prison parish of saint george and we tell people that you have lived there without so much as a day s or a night s absence ever since is it true quite true till last night lord but his surveying her with an admiring gaze suggested something else to him to wit i am sorry to see though that you are faint and tired stay a bit i ll get some cushions out of the church and you and your friend shall lie down before the fire don t be afraid of not going in to join your father when the gate opens call you he soon brought in the cushions and them on the ground there you are you see again as large as life oh never mind thanking i ve daughters of my own and though they weren t born in the prison they might have been if i had been in my ways of carrying on of your father s breed stop a bit i must put something under the cushion for your head here s a burial volume just the thing we have got mrs in this book but what makes these books interesting to most people not who s in em but who isn t � who s coming you know and when that s the interesting question looking back at the pillow he had he left them to their hour s repose was already and little was soon fast asleep with her head resting on that sealed book of fate by its mysterious blank leaves this was little s party the shame desertion wretchedness and exposure of the great capital the wet the cold the slow hours and the swift clouds of the dismal night this was the party from which little went home in the first grey mist of a rainy morning little chapter xv mrs i has another dream the old house in the city wrapped in its mantle of and leaning heavily on the that had of its decay and worn out with it never knew a healthy or a cheerful interval let what would | 8 |
log line w as one hundred and in length and was wound on a which turned very easily so that the resistance of the to the water would it the log line is divided into certain spaces called knots the length of each of which is the same part of a mile that a half minute is of an hour if there be sixty one hundred and twenty feet in a mile or the part of a degree of a great circle which is not far from accurate and the ship be going ten knots an hour she will run sixty one thousand two hundred feet in an hour if the were thrown overboard at eight o clock and the line were long enough the ship would have run out thousand two hundred feet or ten miles at nine o clock or in one hour in one minute she would run one of sixty one thousand two hundred feet which is ten hundred and twenty feet in half a minute five hundred and ten feet the half minute glass is the measure of time generally used in heaving the log while the sand is dropping through the line runs out five hundred and ten feet the ship going ten knots an hour being the basis of the calculation one knot therefore will be one feet if the line pays out five hundred and ten feet in thirty seconds by the glass the ship is going ten knots an hour if it pays out four hundred outward bound or and eight feet in half a minute or eight hundred and sixteen feet in a minute she will pay out a mile in as many minutes as eight hundred and sixteen feet is contained in sixty one hundred and twenty feet which is seven and a half minutes then the ship goes a mile in seven and a half minutes or eight miles an hour a knot on the log line is therefore invariably feet and the number of knots of the line run out in half a minute also the ship s speed per hour for fifty one feet is the same part of a mile that half a minute is of an hour the calculations are given without merely to show the principle and both the glass and the line are modified in practice on board the young america ten were allowed for stray line this length of line being permitted to run out before the measuring commenced in order to get the clear of the in the wake of the ship the ten were indicated by a white rag drawn through the line and when the officer paying out comes to this mark he orders the to turn the glass and the operation actually begins at every fifty one feet or and six making the there is a mark � a bit of leather or two or more knots the instant the sands have all run through the glass the says up and the officer notes the mark to which the line has run out half and quarter knots are indicated on the line now mind your eye when the officer of the deck says turn you repeat the word young america afloat after him to show that you are alive continued peaks ready said ready replied smith the lieutenant threw the into the water and when the stray line had run off he gave the word to turn the glass turn repeated smith off the log line so that nothing should prevent it from running easily up shouted smith and stopped the line very well added peaks what s the mark ten and a quarter replied the officer that sounds more like it i knew this ship was going more than seven knots you see young gentlemen you can t catch flies and tend the line at the same time now you may try it over again the experiment was repeated with the same suit other officers and were called to the quarter deck and the training in heaving the log continued until a reasonable degree of was attained land ho cried the on tlie top gallant at about eleven o clock in the where away called the officer of the deck dead ahead sir what is that land mr asked paul don t j ou know � i m sure i don t outward bound or then you should study your more look at the compass and tell me how she heads south east sir replied paul after looking into the now what land lies south cast of harbor asked tlie principal cape i think you are right then that must be cape is it really certainly it is laughed mr have you no faith in your map i didn t think we could be anywhere near cape i thought it was farther off added paul who seemed to be amazed to think they had actually crossed bay the land you see is race point which is about forty miles from the entrance to the bay at the head of which is we have been making about ten knots an hour and our calculations seem to be very accurate by one o clock we shall come to anchor in harbor this was fully and the young america was off the town those who had been recovered as soon as the motion of the ship ceased and when everything aloft and on deck had been made snug the crew were to dinner in tlie afternoon part of the students were permitted to go on shore the band played and several boat races took place very much to the delight of the people on shore as well as those on board at six o clock the ship was opened for the reception of visitors who came off in large numbers to inspect young america afloat the vessel after dark there was a brilliant display of and the young america | 36 |
up and them at his ease a good deal of had to be done before he got anything to eat because the lower scales are barren but when he had patiently worked his way up to the fertile ones he found two sweet nuts at the base of each shaped like trimmed and spotted purple like birds eggs and notwithstanding these were dripping with soft and covered with and so strongly put together that a boy would be puzzled to cut them open with a he accomplished his meal with easy dignity and cleanliness making less effort apparently than a man would in eating soft from a plate breakfast done i whistled a tune for him before he went to work curious to see how he would be affected by it he had not seen me all this while but the instant i began to whistle he darted up the tree nearest to him and came out on a small dead limb opposite me and composed himself to listen i sang and whistled more than a dozen airs and as the music changed his eyes sparkled and the mountains of he turned his head from side to side but made no other response other hearing the strange sounds came around on all sides also and birds one of the birds a handsome seemed even more interested than the after listening for awhile on one of the lower dead of a pine he came forward within a few feet of mj face and remained fluttering in the air for half a minute or so himself with wing beats like a humming bird in front of a flower while i could look into his eyes and see his innocent wonder by this time my performance must have lasted nearly half an hour i sang or whistled o o er the water to woods o lee etc all of which seemed to be listened to with bright interest my first sitting patiently through it all with his telling eyes fixed upon me until i ventured to give the old when he screamed his name turned tail and darted with ludicrous haste up the tree out of sight his voice and actions in the case leaving a somewhat profane impression as if he had said i be hanged if you get me to hear anything so solemn and this acted as a signal for the general of the whole hairy tribe though the birds seemed willing to wait further music being naturally more in their line what there can be in that grand old church tune that is so offensive to birds and i can t the imagine a year or two after this high concert i was sitting one fine day on a hill in the coast range where the common ground were abundant they were very shy on account of being hunted so much but after i had been silent and motionless for half an hour or so they began to venture out of their holes and to feed on the seeds of the gi and around me as if i were no more to be feared than a tree stump then it occurred to me that this was a good opportunity to find out whether they also disliked old therefore i began to whistle as nearly as i could remember the same familiar airs that had pleased the of the they at once stopped eating stood erect and listened patiently until i came to old when with ludicrous haste every one of them rushed to their holes and bolted in their feet twinkling in the air for a moment as they vanished no one who makes the acquaintance of our will fail to admire him but he is far too and warlike ever to be taken for a darling how long the life of a may be i don t know the young seem to from knot holes perfect from the first and as enduring as their own trees it is difficult indeed to realize that so a piece of sun fire should ever become dim or die at all he is seldom killed by hunters for he is too small to encourage much of their attention and when pursued in settled regions becomes excessively shy and keeps close in the of the highest trunks many of which are of the same color as himself indian boys however the mountains of lie in wait with patience to shoot them with arrows in the lower and middle a few fall a prey to occasionally he is pursued by and etc but upon the whole he dwells safely in the deep bosom of the woods the most highly favored of all his happy tribe may his tribe increase c m l � l h � � � i s w j i k v � w� a sa i chapter x a wind storm in the forests the mountain winds like the dew and rain sunshine and snow are ed and bestowed with love on the forests to develop their strength and beauty however the scope of other forest influences that of the winds is universal the snow and the upper forests every winter the lightning strikes a single tree here and there while down thousands at a as a gardener out a bed of flowers but the winds go to every tree every leaf and branch and not one is forgotten the pine towering with outstretched arms on the rugged of the icy peaks the and most retiring tenant of the they seek and find them all caressing them tenderly bending them in exercise their growth off a leaf or limb as required or removing an entire tree or grove now whispering and through the branches like a sleepy child now roaring like the ocean the winds blessing the forests the forests the winds with beauty and harmony as the sure result after one has seen pines six feet in bending like | 28 |
cried looking m triumph at my mother have you learned geography stone yes father said i though with less confidence than before well how far is it from port to i could only shake my head if lay three upon your quarter what would be your nearest port again i had to give it up well i don t see that your geography is much better than history said he you d never get your at this rate can you do addition well then let us see if you can up my prize money he shot a mischievous glance at my mother as he spoke and she laid down her knitting on her lap and looked very earnestly at him you never asked me about that mary said he the is not the station for it i have heard you say that it is the atlantic for prize money and the for honour i had a share of both last which comes from changing a of for a now there are two pounds in every hundred due to me when the prize courts have done with them when we were watching off we got a matter of seventy and with wine food and powder lord wiu want his finger the peace of in the pie but that s for the courts to settle put them at four pounds apiece to me and what will the seventy bring two hundred and eighty pounds i answered why it is a fortune cried my mother clapping her hands try you again said he shaking his pipe at me there was the out of with twenty thousand spanish dollars aboard which make four thousand of our pounds her should be worth another thousand what s my share of that a hundred pounds why the couldn t work it out quicker he cried in his delight here s for you again i we passed the straits and worked up to the where we fell in with the la from the with sugar and twelve hundred pounds she s worth to me mary my darling and never again shall you soil your pretty fingers or pinch upon my pay my dear mother had borne her long struggle without a sign all these years but now that she was so suddenly of it she fell sobbing upon his neck it was a long time before my father had a thought to spare upon my examination in stone it s all in your lap mary said he dashing his own hand across his eyes by g when this leg of mine is sound we u for a spell to and if there is a frock than yours upon the may i never tread a again but how is it that you are so quick at figures when you know nothing of history or geography i tried to explain that addition was the same upon sea or land but that history and geography were not well he concluded you need figures to take a reckoning and you need nothing else save what your mother wit will teach you there never was one of our breed who did not take to salt water like a young lord has promised me a for you and hell be as good as his word so it was that my father came home to us and a better or no lad could wish for though my parents had been married so long they had really seen very little of each other and their affection was as warm and as fresh as if they were two newly wedded lovers i have learned since that sailors can be coarse and foul but never did i know it from my father for although he had seen as much rough work as the wildest could wish for he was always the same patient good humoured man with a smile the peace of and a word for all the village he could suit himself to his company too for on the one hand he could take his wine with the or with sir james the squire of the parish while on the other he would sit by the hour amongst my humble friends down m the with champion boy jim and the rest of them telling them such stories of and his men that i have seen the champion knot his great hands together while jim s eyes have like the embers as he listened my father had been placed on half pay like so many others of the old war officers and so for nearly two years he was able to remain with us during all this time i can only once remember that there was the slightest between him and my mother it chanced that i was the cause of it and as great events sprang out of it i must tell you how it came about it was indeed the first of a series of events which affected not only my fortunes but those of very much more important people the spring of was an early one and the middle of april saw the leaves thick upon the chestnut trees one evening we were all seated together over a dish of tea when we heard the of steps outside our door and there was the with a letter in his hand stone i think it is for me said my mother and sure enough it was addressed in the most writing to mrs mary stone of s oak and there was a red seal the size of a half crown upon the outside of it with a flying in the middle whom think you that it is from she asked i had hoped that it was from lord answered my father it is time the boy had his commission but if it be for you then it cannot be from any one of much importance can it not i she cried pretending to be offended you | 4 |
a pathetic story of disappointed love might have had some romantic interest attached to her but no such story had either been known or invented concerning her and the general impression was quite in accordance with the fact that both the sisters were old maids for the reason that they had never received an eligible offer nevertheless to speak the existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world it can be shown to ttie price of bread and the rate of wages to call forth many evil from the selfish and many from the sympathetic and in other ways to play no part in the tragedy of life and if that handsome blooded clergyman the had not had these two hopelessly maiden sisters his lot would have been shaped quite he very likely have taken a comely wife in his youth and now when his hair was getting gray under the powder would have had tall sons and blooming daughters � such possessions in short as men commonly think wiu repay them for all the labor thej take under the sun as it was with all his three no more than seven hundred a year and seeing no way of keeping his splendid mother and his sickly sister not to reckon a second sister who was usually spoken of without any in such lady like ease as became their birth and habits and at the same time of providing for a family of his own � he remained you see at the age of eight and forty a bachelor not making any merit of that but saying if any one alluded to it that he made it an excuse for many which a wife would never have allowed him and perhaps he was the only person in the world who did not think his sisters uninteresting and superfluous for his was one of these sweet blooded natures that never know a narrow or a thought � if you will � with no enthusiasm no self sense of duty but yet as you have seen of a sufficiently subtle moral fibre to have an tenderness for obscure and monotonous suffering it was indulgence that made him his mother s hardness toward her daughters which was the more striking from its contrast with her fondness toward himself he held it no virtue to frown at faults see the between the impression a man makes on you when yon walk by his side in familiar talk or look at him m his home and the figure he makes when seen from a lofty historical level or even in the eyes of a critical neighbor who thinks of him as an embodied system or opinion rather than as a man mr the preacher stationed at had mr m a general statement the church clergy in the district whom he described as men given up to the of the flesh and the pride of hfe hunting and shooting and their own houses asking what shall wc eat and what shall we drink and shall we be clothed � careless of the bread of life to their flocks at best but a and morality and in the souls of men by receiving money for the pastoral office in where they did not so much as look on the faces of the people more than once a year the historian too looking into reports of that period finds honorable members zealous for the church and with any sympathy for the tribe of making statements scarcely melancholy than that of mt and it is impossible for me to say that mr was altogether by the assigned him he really had no veiy lofty � no enthusiasm if i were closely i should be obliged to confess that he felt no about the souls of his and would have thought it a mere loss of time to talk in a and awakening manner to old or even to the blacksmith if he had been ia the habit of speaking he would perhaps have said that the only healthy form religion could take in such minds was that of certain dim but strong emotions themselves as a influence over the family affections and duties he thought the custom of more important than its doctrine and that the religious benefits the peasant drew from the church where his fathers and the sacred piece of turf where they lay buried were but dependent on a clear understanding of the or the sermon clearly the was not what is called in these days an earnest man he was of church history than of � and had much more insight into men s characters than interest in their opinions he was neither laborious nor obviously self denying nor very copious in giving and his you perceive was his mental indeed was rather pagan and found a in a quotation from or that was quite absent from any text in or but if you feed our young on raw flesh how can you wonder at its a relish for in after life and mr s recollections of young enthusiasm and ambition were all associated with poetry and that lay aloof from tho bible on the other hand i must plead for i have an affectionate partiality toward the s memory that he was not � and some have been so that he was not � and there is a that some have not been altogether free fr om that that although he probably have declined to give his body to be burned in any cause and he was far from all his goods to feed the poor he had that charity which has sometimes been lacking to very illustrious virtue � he was tender to other men s and unwilling to he was one of those men and they are not the commonest of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the market place the and the | 14 |
clothes as slowly as they could � men of four races in attendance before i was up in the morning this chinese attendant besides being a common in a brown cotton shirt over a brown cotton pair of trousers is not a good specimen of his class and is a great nuisance to me my doors do not bolt properly and he appears in the morning while i am in my writing and slowly makes the bed and then takes one gown after another from the rail and at me till i point to the one i am going to wear which he holds out in his hands and though i point to the door and say go with much emphasis i never get rid of him and have to glide from my into my gown with a most unwilling dexterity two days ago captain declared that pluck should have its reward and that i should have for going to yesterday he asked me to take charge of his two daughters then x projects of travel said if young ladies go me go and we are to travel under the efficient protection of mr the of police this expedition great interest in the little world this native state is regarded as parts unknown the governor has never visited it and there are not wanting those who shake their heads and wonder that he should trust his girls in a region of rogue and savages the little steam in reality by far the greatest risk of all has been brought into the stream below the ready for an early start to morrow and a has been sent to the to prepare him for such an unusual into his i l b the golden a chapter on i had never heard of this little state until i reached and probably many people are as ignorant as i was the whole from in the south to in the north is a puzzle what with british colonies and province and protected states and p north south and east of which lie a of states with their independent rulers such as n etc in several of these states more or less owing to the and of the and their followers and a similar state of things in the three protected states formerly gave great annoyance to the straits government and was regarded as a to the dominant interests of british trade in the straits in sir a the then governor acting in british interests placed british in and the small state of these were to advise the rulers in matters of and general administration but it may be believed that as time has passed they have become more or less the actual rulers a number of small states are united into a sort of known as the or nine states their relative positions and internal management as well as their boundaries remain unknown as from dread of british they have refused to allow to pass through their territory of the states which they profess to advise merely they are the agents of england to the straits government which in its turn reports to the ofl ce and the amount of pressure which they can bring to bear is overwhelming it is not easy to give the extent and boundaries of the boundary question being scarcely settled and the territory to the eastward being only partially it is mainly an inland state access to its very limited being by the river the protected state of bounds it on the north and joining on to it and to each other on the east are the small independent states of and the river which in its lower part forms the boundary between and forks in its upper part the right branch becoming for some distance the boundary between and it is doubtful whether the area of the state seven hundred square miles the of and several of the adjacent states are supposed to be tolerably directly descended from those of the parent empire in who conquered and have to a great extent the tribes known as etc the of which live mainly in the of the interior are everywhere apart from the and are of a much lower grade in the scale of the story current among the best informed of this region is that a chief with a large crossed to in the twelfth century and went into the interior which he found inhabited only by the or tree people there his followers married women and their descendants spread over the golden and other parts the or sea people the supposed of the and the or forest people themselves to the woods and the hills this mixed race rapidly increasing divided into nine petty states under chiefs who rendered service to the of before its conquest by the and afterwards to the of at whose court they presented themselves once a year this the in the and centuries made various commercial with the dutch but its domestic were in a state of and four of the states late in the century becoming disgusted with the arbitrary proceedings of a ruler who aided by dutch influence had gained the over the whole nine sent to the original source of government for a prince of the blood royal of and after a prolonged conflict this prince became sovereign of the little states of and the chiefs of these states his council of state this came to an end in and and discord prevailed for many years till the of troubled by a hostile neighbour in and a hostile subject or rival at home conceived the bright idea of supporting his somewhat throne by british protection after some curious he succeeded in obtaining both a resident and the english flag to protect his little fortunes but it is obvious that his calling in foreign was not likely to make him popular with his independent neighbours or subjects and the troubles | 20 |
the evening there was another parting henry came mid j� at some time with them and her spirits not previously in the strongest state her heart was softened for a while towards him � he really seemed to feel quite unlike his usual self he scarcely said anything he was evidently oppressed and must grieve for him though hoping she might never see him again till he were the husband of some other woman when it came to the moment of parting he would take her hand he would not be denied it he said nothing however or nothing that she heard and when he had left the room she was better pleased that such a token of friendship had passed on the morrow the were chapter mb gone sir thomas s next object was that he should be missed and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt or fancied an evil she had tasted of in its most flattering form and he did hope that the loss of it the sinking again into nothing would awaken very wholesome regrets in her mind he watched her with this idea but he could hardly tell with what success he hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits or not she was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his he did not understand her he felt that he did not and therefore applied to to tell him how she stood affected on the present occasion and whether she were more or less happy than she had been did not discern any symptom of regret and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any what surprised was that s sister the friend and companion who had been so much to her should not be more visibly regretted he wondered that spoke so of her and liad so little to say of her concern at this separation alas it was this sister this and companion who was now the chief of s comfort if she could have believed mary s future fate as with as she was determined the brother s should be if she could have hoped her return thither to be as distant as she was much inclined to think his she would have been light of heart indeed but the more she recollected and observed the more deeply was she convinced that everything was now in a fairer train for miss s marrying than it had ever been before on his side the inclination was stronger on hers less his objections the scruples of his integrity seemed all done away � nobody could tell how and the doubts and of her ambition were equally got over � and equally without apparent reason it could only be to increasing attachment his good and her bad feelings yielded to love and such love must unite them he was to go to town as soon as some business relative to was completed � perhaps within a fortnight � he talked of going he loved to talk of it and when once with her again could not doubt the rest her acceptance must be as certain as his offer and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her she believed of self in their very last conversation miss in spite of some amiable sensations and much per park kindness had still been miss still shown a mind led astray and bewildered and without any suspicion of being so darkened yet itself light she might love but she did not deserve by any other sentiment believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them and she may be forgiven by older for looking on the chance of miss s future improvement as nearly desperate for thinking that if s influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment and her notions his worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony experience might have hoped more for any young people so and would not have denied to miss s nature that of the general nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own but as such were s she suffered very much from them and could never speak of miss without pain sir thomas meanwhile went on with his own hopes and his own observations still feeling a right by all his knowledge of human nature to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on bis niece s spirits and the past attentions of the lover producing a craving for their return and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet completely and seeing all this by the prospect of another visitor whose approach he could allow to be quite enough to support the spirits lie was watching william had a ten days leave of absence to be given to and was coming the happiest of because the latest made to show his happiness and describe his uniform he came and he would have been delighted to show his uniform there too had not cruel custom its appearance except on duty so the uniform remained at and that before had any chance of seeing it all its own freshness and all the freshness of its s feelings must be worn away it would be sunk into a of disgrace for what can be more or more worthless than the uniform of a lieutenant who has been a lieutenant a year or two and sees others made before him so reasoned till his father made him the of a scheme which placed s chance of seeing the second lieutenant of h m s in all | 26 |
been to maintain the in coals in two or three days more i was informed by the authorities of his having led to the discovery of of beef among the kitchen stuff and sheets in the rag bag a little while afterwards he broke out in an entirely new direction and confessed to a knowledge of intentions as to our premises on the part of the pot boy who was immediately taken up i got to be so ashamed of being such a victim that i would have given liim any money to hold his tongue or would have offered a round bribe for his being permitted to run away it was an circumstance in the case that he had no idea of tliis but conceived that he was making me amends m every new discovery not to say obligations on my head at last i ran away myself whenever i saw an of the police approaching with some new intelligence and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported even then he couldn t be quiet but was always writing us letters and wanted so much to see before he went away that went to visit him and fainted when she found herself inside the iron bars in short i had no peace of my life he was and made as i afterwards heard a shepherd of up the country somewhere i have no idea where all this led me into some serious reflections and presented mistakes i of david in a new aspect as i could not help communicating to one evening in spite of my tenderness for her my love said i it is very painful to me to think that our want of system and management not only ourselves which we have got used to but other people you have been silent for a long time and now you are going to be cross said no my dear indeed let me explain to you what i mean i think i don t want to know said but i want you to know my love put down put his nose to mine and said to drive my seriousness away but not succeeding ordered him into his and sat looking at me with her hands folded and a most resigned httle expression of countenance the fact is my dear i began there is in us we about us i might have gone on in this manner if s face had not me that she was wondering with all her might whether i was going to propose any new kind of or other medical remedy for this state of om s therefore i checked myself and made my meaning it is not merely my pet said i that we lose money and comfort and even temper sometimes by not learning to be more careful but that we the serious responsibility of who comes into our service or has any dealings with us i begin to be afraid that the fault is not entirely on one side but that these people au turn out ill because we don t turn out very well ourselves oh what an accusation exclaimed opening her eyes wide to say that you ever saw me take gold watches oh my dearest i remonstrated don t talk preposterous nonsense who has made the least allusion to gold watches you did returned you know you did you said i hadn t turned out well and compared me to him to whom i asked to the page sobbed oh you cruel fellow to compare affectionate wife to a transported page why didn t you tell me your opinion of me before we were married why didn t you say you thing that you were convinced i was worse than a transported page oh what a dreadful opinion to have of me oh my goodness now my love i returned gently trying to remove the handkerchief she pressed to her eyes this is not only very ridiculous of you but very wrong in the first place it s not true you always said he was a story sobbed and now you say the same of me oh what shall i do what shall i do my darling girl i retorted i really must entreat you to be reasonable and listen to what i did say and do say my dear unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ they will never learn to do their duty to us i am afraid we present opportunities to people to do wrong that never ought to be presented even if we were as as we are in all our arrangements by choice � which we are not � even if we liked it the personal history and experience and found it agreeable to be so � we don t � i am persuaded we should have no right to go on in this way we are positively people we are bound to think of that i can t help thinking of it it is a reflection i am unable to dismiss and it sometimes makes me very uneasy there dear that s all come now don t be foolish would not allow me for a long time to remove the handkerchief she sat sobbing and murmuring behind it that if i was uneasy why had i ever been married why hadn t i said even the day before we went to church that i knew i should be uneasy and i would rather not if i couldn t bear her why didn t i send her away to her at or to in india would be glad to see her and would not call her a transported page never had called her anything of the sort in short was so afflicted and so afflicted me by being in that condition that i felt it was of no use repeating this kind of effort | 8 |
been threatening to bring suit for physical as well as material injury it was this threat to sue for physical injuries which brought about a compromise in s favor for it is against the law to threaten anyone particularly by mail as in this instance and so by threatening in return was able to escape be that as it may these three maids or their when we first came up refused to give the road although they did increase their speed in an effort to keep it one of them a gay creature in a pink hat looked back and half smiled at our discomfiture i took no more interest in her than did any of the others apparently at the time for in a situation of this kind how is one to tell which is the favored one as an able the master of a good machine and the ex leader of the highway procession for a certain distance how was a man like speed to take a like this why as all good and true should by increasing his own speed and trailing them so close and making such a row that they would have to give way this he did and so for a distance of three or four miles we were in a cloud of dirt and a perfect uproar of in consequence we finally were permitted to pass not without certain unkind and even contemptuous looks flung in our direction as who should say u you think yourselves very smart don t you � although in the case of the maiden in the pink hat it did not seem to me that her rage was very great she was too amused and cheerful i sat serene and calm the surrounding landscape only i could not help noting that the young ladies were quite attractive and that the one in the pink hat was interested a holiday in in our car � speed or i decided � since he looked so very smart in his carefully cut clothes i did not think it could be myself as for speed up and a between his teeth he looked far too handsome to condescend to with a mere country � say these � you know i but a little later as we were along having attained a good lead as we thought and taking our ease what should come trailing up behind us but this same car making a great clatter and because of a peculiar wide width of road and our mood passing us before we could say jack robinson again the maid in the pink hat smiled � it seemed to me � but at whom and again speed to the task of them i began to sit up and take notice what a chase i there was a big frail iron bridge over a rocky shallow stream somewhere which carried a sign reading bridge weak walk your horses speed limit four miles an hour i think we crossed it in one bound there was a hollow where the road turned sharply under a picturesque cliff and a house in a green field seemed to possess especial beauty because of a grove of pines at another time i would have liked to linger here a sign read danger ahead sharp curve go slow we went about it as if we were being pursued by the devil himself then came a rough place of stone somewhere where ordinarily speed would have down and announced that he would u like to have a picture of this road do you think we down this time not much we went over it as if it were as smooth as glass i was nearly out of the car still we did not catch up quite the ladies or the or all were agreed apparently to best us but we them close and they kept looking back and laughing at us the pink one was all there you are mr called speed she s decided which one she wants she doesn t seem to see any of the rest of us an speed could be horribly flattering at times no i said without a or a or a long lock over my brow never it s here smiled � as caesar might have smiled which one is it you re talking about he inquired innocently which one � you sharp i i don t come the innocent soul on me you know whom she s looking at the rest of us haven t a chance inwardly i was wondering whether by any chance of fancy she could have taken a interest in me while there is life � you know i alas they beat us and for awhile actually disappeared because of a too rough stretch at one point and then as i had given up all hope of seeing them any more there they were just a little ahead of us in the midst of a most landscape and they were � yes they were � people can even in my mind was full of all the possibilities of a gay cheerful whose wouldn t be on a evening like this with a car full of girls and one bolder and prettier than the others smiling back at you the whole atmosphere was one of romance it was after four now with that rather holiday feeling that comes into the air of a saturday afternoon when every and rich man is deciding to knock off for the day and call it a day as they express it and you are wondering why there is any need to hurry over anything the sky was so blue the sun so warm if you had been there you would have to sit on the grass of one of these lovely slopes and talk things over i am sure you would alas for some distance now we had been signs indicating that a place called | 43 |
a mere name more or less to an paper but the know perfectly well that the people are not for in their sense of the word if they did not fear this they would restore universal by clinging with desperate to the law of may st they confess that their hopes of success involve the continued of three millions of from the of when they therefore of the people s desire for the republican retort is ready and � the law of may st and we can then the people really desire but so long as you maintain that law you confess that you dare not abide the verdict of the whole people you appeal to a jury which you have one whose right to try this we utterly deny restore universal and we can then tell what the people really do wish and demand but until you do this we shall resist every attempt to change the even so much as a hair who can at therefore representatives of the people deliberate in peace says after proving to his own satisfaction that the army will not level their arms against the assembly in support of a so the friends of republican france throughout the world may give thanks and take courage the is the skies of the future are red with the coming day time is on the popular side and every hour s endurance adds strength to the republic it cannot be and should force and be attempted its will not shrink from the encounter nor dread the issue for well they know that the mind and heart of the people are on their side � that the french who earn their bread and are not ashamed to be seen a so far as they have any opinion at all are all for the republic � that france a an class a party and a republican nation the is composed of the personal of louis napoleon and certain military officers mainly relics of the empire the class a good part of the lucky shop and government during the reign of louis the party embraces the of the anti aristocracy most of the influential and a small section of the rural all these combined may number four millions leaving thirty millions for the nation such is france in and being such the of the republic whether by foreign assault or domestic treason is hardly possible an open attack by the and his would certainly it a of louis napoleon s power no longer probable would have the same effect four years more of tranquil though would render a return to more difficult wherefore the party will never assent to it and without their aid the project has no chance to obtain op secretly swear that after four years more he will turn france over to henry v this promise only the list extreme of desperation could from him and then to no since he could not it and the could not trust him and thus alike by its own strength and by its enemies divisions the safety of the republic is assured xvi paris social and moral paris thursday june a great capital like this is not seen in a few days i have not yet seen a quarter of it the general magnitude of the houses usually built around a small court near the street whence the court is entered by a gate or arched passage is readily remarked also the minute of shop keeping many if not most their attention to a single fabric so that their stores and stocks of goods are small also the general or social of the people i lodge in a house once famous as s the most celebrated house in europe it stands on the corner of the with the italian in one direction and in the other my windows overlook the for a considerable distance and there are many of the most fashionable shops s c in the city no one in new york would think of ordering his bottle of wine or his at a fashionable resort in and sitting down at a table placed on the s to discuss his leisurely just out of the ever passing throng yet here it is so common as to seem the rule rather than the exception hundreds sit thus within sight of my windows every evening do likewise during the day t ie frenchman s pleasures are ail social to eat drink or spend the evening a i i to and moral i him he reads his newspaper in the or the public gardens he talks more in one day than an englishman in three the balls c which to the afford occasional are to him a nightly necessity he would be lonely and miserable without them nowhere is amusement more sought than in paris nowhere is it more abundant or accessible for boys just escaped from school or paternal restraint intent on enjoyment and by conscience or this must be a rare city its people as a community have signal good qualities and grave defects they are intelligent courteous obliging generous and humane eager enjoy but willing that all the world should enjoy with them while at the same time they are impulsive and paris is the paradise of the senses a of enjoyment not of happiness nowhere are youth and its more nowhere is old age less happy or less respected paris has of thousands who would eagerly pour out their hearts blood for liberty and human ess but no class or who ever thought of denying themselves wine and kindred in order that the masses should be rendered of liberty and thus better fitted to preserve and enjoy it such notions as total from all that can are absolutely unheard of by the majority of and incomprehensible or ridiculous to those who have heard of them the necessaries of life are very cheap here many support existence quite | 19 |
have you any definite reason for supposing that olive is in love with captain and that people are talking about it � i think so mamma said the girl deceived by this expression of you remember when the came here well violet was up in our room and we were showing her our dresses the conversation somehow turned on captain and when violet said that she had seen him that day as they came along in the carriage shooting with the olive burst out crying and rushed out of the room it was very awkward violet said she was very sorry and all that but yes yes dear but why was olive angry at hearing that captain went out shooting with the by muslin because it appears she had previously forbidden him to go there you know on account of mrs and what happened then well that s the worst of it i don t mean to say it was all olive s fault i think she must have lost her head a little for she sent over that evening to the with a note telling captain that he must come at once and explain it was eleven o clock at night and they had a long talk through the window mrs did not speak for some moments the fire was falling into masses of white ash and she thought vaguely of putting on some more turf then her attention was caught by the withering in the flower glasses then by the pasture lands then by the branches of the chestnut trees swinging against the grey dead sky but tell me she said at last for of course it is important that i should know � do you think that olive is really in love captain she told me as we were going to bed the other night mamma that she never could care for anyone else and � and and what dear i don t like to betray my sister s confidence answered � but i m sure i had better tell you all she told me that he had kissed her many times and no later than yesterday in the indeed you did very well to let me know of this said mrs becoming as earnestly inclined as her daughter i am sorry that olive was so foolish i must speak to her about it by muslin this must not occur again i think that if yon were to tell her to come down here oh no mamma olive would know at that i had been speaking about her affairs you must promise me to make only an use of what i have told you of course � of course my dear no one shall ever know what has passed between us you can depend upon me i will not speak to olive till i get a favourable opportunity and now i have to go and see after the servants are you going upstairs on tense with the importance of the explanation this dismissal fell not a little but she was glad that she had been able to induce her mother to consider the matter seriously a few minutes passed almost unconsciously mrs threw two of turf on the fire and resumed her thinking her first feeling of resentment against her eldest daughter had vanished and she now thought solely of the difficulty she was in and how she could best herself from it so olive was foolish enough to allow captain to kiss her in the mrs murmured to herself the morality of the question interested her profoundly she had never allowed anyone to kiss her before she was married and she was full of pity and for the future of a young girl who could thus compromise herself but in olive s love for captain mrs was concerned only so far as it affected the labour and time that would have to be expended in persuading her to cease to care for by muslin him that this was the right thing to do mrs did not for a moment doubt her daughter was a beautiful girl would probably be the of hie season therefore to allow her at nineteen to marry a thousand a year captain would be mrs thought to prove herself incapable if not criminal in the performance of the most important duty of her life mrs trembled when she thought of the sending of the letter if the story were to get wind in it might wreck her hopes of the therefore to tell to leave the house would be fatal things must be managed gently very gently olive must be talked to how far her heart was engaged in the matter must be found out and she must be made to see the folly the madness of her chance of winning a for the sake of a thousand captain and good heavens the what would they say of her mrs were such a thing to occur mrs turned from the thought in horror and then out of the soul of the old arose full the the whose light and glory is dependent on that of the fixed star around which she at this moment olive her hands filled with into the room oh here you are mamma told me you wanted a few and flowers to up the room i hope you haven t got your feet wet my dear if you have you had better go up at once and change olive was now more than ever like her father by muslin her shoulders had grown wider and the head and scarlet lips had gained a summer and beauty no i am not wet she said looking down at her boots it isn t but if it were would send me out all the same where is she now y up in her room reading i suppose she never out of it i thought when we came home from school the | 15 |
this admirable institution in company with a friend who is one of the we propose giving a short account of what we saw and heard the great success of the asylum for and youth several of the scholars from which have reached considerable distinction one of them being connected with a leading daily paper in this city and others having served in the state and national was the motive which led to the foundation of this excellent charity our late distinguished dow as is well known a large portion of his fortune to this establishment � being moved as his will expressed it by the desire of n some institution for the benefit of mankind being consulted as to the rules of the institution and the selection of a he replied that all board must their of op men and things i i let them select anyhow and he should be pleased n e esq was chosen in compliance with this delicate suggestion the for the support of one hundred aged and decayed gentlemen on inquiry if there was no provision for females my friend called my attention to this remarkable fact namely there is no such thing as a female this remark struck me forcibly and on reflection i found that i never knew nor heard of one though i have once or twice heard a woman make a single detached as i have known a hen to crow on arriving at the south gate of the asylum grounds i was about to ring but my friend held my arm and begged me to rap with my stick which i did an old man with a very face presently opened the gate and put out his head so you prefer cane to a bell do you he said and began and at a great rate my friend winked at me you re here still old joe i see he said to the old man yes yes and it s very odd considering how often i ve bolted nights he then threw open the double gates for us to rid through i a best funny stories now said the old man as he pulled the gates after us you ve had a long journey why how is that old joe said my friend don t you see he answered there s the east hinges on one side of the gate and there s the west hinges on t other side � we had no sooner got into the yard than a feeble little gentleman with a remarkably bright eye came up to us looking very serious as if something had happened the town has entered a complaint against the asylum as a gambling establishment he said to my friend the what do you mean said my friend why they complain that there s a lot o on the premises he answered pointing to a field of that grain and away his shoulders shaking with laughter as he went on entering the main building we saw the rules and for the asylum posted up i made a few which may be interesting i op verbal exercises each shall be permitted to make freely from eight in the morning until ten at night except during service in the chapel and grace before meals at ten o clock the gas will be turned off and no further or other play men and things on words will be allowed to be uttered or to be uttered aloud inmates who have lost their faculties and cannot any longer make shall be permitted to repeat such as may be selected for them by the out of the work of mr joseph miller violent and who interrupt others when engaged in conversation with or attempts at the same shall be deprived of their joseph and if necessary placed in solitary confinement iii op at meals no shall make any or attempt at the same until the blessing has been asked and the company are decently seated certain having been placed on the index of the institution no shall be allowed to utter them on pain of being the perusal of punch and vanity fair and if repeated deprived of his joseph miller among these are the following allusions to salt when asked to pass the cellar remarks on the inmates being etc etc personal allusions in connection with and attempts upon the word etc etc the following are also excepting to i best funny stories such inmates as may have lost their faculties and cannot any longer make of their own � your own hair or a wig it will be long enough etc etc little of its age etc etc also playing upon the following words hospital mayor pitied bread sole etc etc etc see index printed for use of inmates the who went round with us had been a noted in his time and well known in the business world but lost his customers by making too free with their names � as in the famous story he set afloat in of to the names of a noted judge an eminent lawyer the secretary of the board of foreign and the well known landlord at one of the four he added was of gigantic magnitude the showed some of his old tendencies as he went round with us do you know he broke out all at once why they don t take in for establishing insane we both confessed ignorance because there are people to be found there he said with a dignified smile he proceeded to introduce us to different in mates the first was a middle aged man who was seated at a table with a s dictionary and a sheet of paper before him men and things well what luck to day mr said the he turned to his notes and read don t you see ers in the words and if he spell leather and feather f isn t there danger | 34 |
that i fear that i cannot make you feel how these things came upon me in the course of a few weeks reading and left me my fears as to the le disorder and nt y ver i felt as low and hopeless et times as a beggar of the streets there was of course this ther matter of necessity i al to i had to respond whether i would or no i was daily facing a round of which now more than ever all that i had suspected and that these books proved with a gloomy eye i b an to watch how the � and their i the mechanical � forces through man and outside him and this under my very eyes seemed since there was no care for them failures the same one of those t out in with the care of prisoners in some local or state jail i saw how self interest the hope of pleasure or the fear of pain caused or or a to on prisoners feed them rotten meat torture them into silence and and then politics interfering the hope of pleasure again and the fear of pain on the part of some the whole thing hushed up no least measure of the sickening truth breaking out in the a book about papers life could or do nothing for those whom it again there was a poor section one street in the east h district off by a railroad at one end the latter s high fence to protect itself from and by an property owner at the other end those within were actually left without means of and yet instead of either or both the being so powerful and the citizen prosperous and within hia ri ts i was told to write a article but not to hurt anybody s feelings also before my eyes were always those r of indescribable poverty and indescribable wealth mentioned which were always kept separate by the local papers all the and compliments and commercial and social going to those who had all the and and going to those who had not and when i read i could only sigh all i think of was that since nature would not or could not do anything for man he must if he could do something for himself and of this i saw no prospect he being a product of i� � r t l ff an bo i went on from day to day reading thinking doing fairly acceptable work but always withdrawing more and more into myself as i saw it then the world not understand me nor i it nor men each other very well then a little later i turned and said that since the whole thing was hopeless i might as well forget it and join the narrow indifferent scramble but i not do that either lacking the temperament and the skill all i do was think and since no paper such as i knew was interested in any of the things about which i was thinking i was hopeless indeed finally in late november having two hundred and forty dollars saved i decided to leave this dismal scene and seek the of the great city beyond hoping that there i might succeed at something be and rested by some important of kind chapter t mt departure was bj a i had day with the political of whom i have spoken but whose name i have by now i had come to be on b social terms with all the men on our staff and at midnight it was my custom to drift around to the press where might be found a goodly company of men who worked on the different papers i found this political man here one night he said i can t understand why yon here now i wouldn t say that to any one else in the game for fear he d think i was to get him out of his job but with yoa it s different there s no great chance here and yoa have too much ability to waste your time on this town they won t let you do anything the steel people have this town op t the papers are all you can do is to write what the people at the top want yon to write and that s very with your talent yon could go down to new york and make a place for yourself i ve been there myself but had to come back on account of my family the conditions were too uncertain for me and i have to have a regular income but with you it s different you re young and apparently yon haven t any one dependent on yoa if you do strike it down there make a lot of money and what s yoa m ht make a name for yourself don t yoa think it s foolish for you to stay don t think it s anything to me whether you go or stay i haven t any ax to grind bnt i really wonder why yon stay i explained that i had been drifting that i was on my way to new york bat taking my time about it only a few days before i had been reading of a certain english newspaper man fresh oat of india with his books and stories who was making a great stir his name was and the enthusiasm with which he was being received a book made me not jealous but for a career for myself the to his were so and he vas a mere youth as yet not more than twenty seven or eight he was coming to america or was even then on his way and the wonder of a filled my mind i decided then ind there that i go go and y gave notice of my intention my city editor merely | 43 |
school alfred had contracted it gone to and there died you know in the old days explained there was no certain test for anything unusual or was sufficient to send a fellow to the result was that were sent there who were no more than you or i but they don t make that mistake now the board of health are the funny thing is that when the test was discovered they immediately went down to and applied it and they found a number who were not these were immediately happy to get away they harder at leaving the settlement than when they left to go to it some refused to leave and good by jack really had to be forced out one of them even married a woman in the last stages and then wrote pathetic letters to the board of health protesting against his on the ground that no one was so well able as he to take care of his poor old wife what is this test i demanded the test there is no getting away from it doctor � he s our expert you know � was the first man to apply it here he is a he knows more about than any living man and if a cure is ever discovered he ll be that as for the test it is very simple they have succeeded in the and studying it they know it now when they see it all they do is to h p good by jack a bit of skin from the suspect and subject it to the test a man without any visible symptoms may be full of the then you or i for all we know i suggested may be full of it now shrugged his shoulders and laughed who can say it takes seven years for it to if you have any doubts go and see doctor he ll just out a piece of your skin and let you know in a later on he introduced me to dr who loaded me down with board of health reports and on the subject and took me out to the receiving station where were examined and confirmed good by jack were held for to these occurred about once a month when the last good said the were marched on board the little steamer the and carried down to the settlement one afternoon writing letters at the club jack dropped in on me just the man i want to see was his greeting i ll show you the aspect of the whole situation � the wailing as they depart for the will be taking them on board in a few minutes but let me warn you not to let your feelings be real as their grief is they d wail a whole sight harder a year hence if the board of health tried to take them away from we ve just time for a and i ve a carriage outside it no good by jack won t take us five minutes to get down to the wharf to the wharf we drove some forty sad wretches amid their blankets and luggage of various sorts were on the piece the had just arrived and was making fast to a lighter that lay between her and the wharf a mr the of the settlement was the and to him i was introduced also to dr one of the board of health whom i had already met at the were a lot the faces of the majority were hideous � too horrible for me to describe but here and there i noticed fairly good looking persons with no apparent signs of the fell disease upon them one i noticed a little white good by jack in girl not more than twelve with blue eyes and golden hair one cheek however showed the on my remarking upon the sadness of her alien situation among the brown afflicted ones doctor replied � oh i don t know it s a happy day in her life she comes from her father is a brute and now that she has developed the disease she is going to join her mother at the settlement her mother was sent down three years ago � a very bad case you can t always tell from appearances mr explained that man there that big chap who looks the pink of condition with nothing the matter with him i happen to know has a in his foot and another in his shoulder blade then there are good by jack others � there see that girl s hand the one who is smoking the see her twisted fingers that s the form it attacks the nerves you could cut her fingers off with a dull knife or rub them off on a and she would not experience the slightest sensation yes but that fine looking woman there i persisted surely surely there can t be anything the matter with her she is too glorious and gorgeous altogether a sad case mr answered over his shoulder already turning away to walk down the wharf with she was a beautiful woman and she was pure from my meagre knowledge of the race and its types i could not but conclude that she had u good by jack descended from old chief stock she could not have been more than or four her lines and proportions were magnificent and she was just beginning to show the of the women of her race it was a blow to all of us dr volunteered she gave herself up voluntarily too no one suspected but somehow she had contracted the disease it broke us all up i assure you kept it out of the papers though nobody but us and her family knows what has become of her in fact if you were to ask any man in he d tell you it was his impression that she was somewhere in | 21 |
string and find that it wakes up half a dozen and finally say with a friend of yours in the telegraph who once wrote some notes on the customs of the gold when he was on construction work in their part of the empire he may or may not be pleased at being ordered to write out everything he knows for your benefit this depends on his temperament the bigger man you are the more information and the greater trouble can you raise was not a big man but he had the reputation of being very earnest an earnest man can do much with a government there was an earnest man once who nearly wrecked � but all india knows that story i am not sure what real earnestness is a very imitation can be by to dress de plain tales from the hills by about in a dreamy misty sort of way by taking office work home after ring in office till seven and by receiving crowds of native gentlemen on sundays that is one sort of earnestness cast about for a whereon to hang his earnestness and for a string that would communicate with he found both they were pig became an after pig he informed the government that he had a scheme whereby a very large of the british army in india could be fed at a very large saving on pig then he hinted that might supply him with the varied information necessary to the proper of the scheme so the wrote on the back of the letter instruct mr to furnish mr with any information in his power is very prone to writing things on the backs of letters which later lead to trouble and confusion had not the interest in pig but he knew that would into the trap was delighted at being consulted about pig the indian pig is not exactly an important � in agricultural life but explained to that there was room for improvement and direct with that young man pig you may think that there is not much to be from pig it all depends how you set to work being a and wishing to do things thoroughly began with an essay on the primitive pig the of the pig and the pig filed that information � twenty seven sheets � and wanted to know about the distribution of the pig in the and how it stood the plains in the hot weather from this point remember that i am giving you only the outlines of the affair � the ropes as it were of the web that spun round made a coloured pig population map and collected observations on the comparative of pig a in the sub tracts of the and b in the filed that and asked what sort of people looked after pig this started an on and drew from long tables showing the proportion per thousand of the caste in the filed that bundle and explained that the figures which he wanted referred to the states where he understood that pigs were very fine and large and where he proposed to start a by this time had quite forgotten their instructions to mr they were like the gentlemen in poem who turned well plain tales from the hills wheels to skin other people but was just entering into the spirit of the pig hunt as well knew he would do he had a � ur amount of work of his own to clear away but he sat up of nights pig to five places of for the honour of his service he was not going to appear ignorant of so easy a subject as pig then government sent him on special duty to to inquire into the big seven foot of that district people had been killing each other with those peaceful tools and wished to know whether a modified form of agricultural could not and as a temporary measure be introduced among the agricultural population without or the existing religious sentiments of the between those and s pig was rather heavily now began to take up a the of the pig with a view to the improvement of its as a flesh former the of the pig maintaining its peculiarities replied that the pig would become in the type and quoted horse breeding to prove this the side issue was at great length on pig s side till owned that he had been in he wrong and moved the previous question when had quite written himself out about flesh and and and the of and raised the of expense by this time who had been transferred from had developed a pig theory of his own which he stated in thirty three pages � all carefully filed by who asked for more these things took ten months and s interest in the seemed to die down after he had stated his own views but him with letters on the imperial aspect of the scheme as tending to the sale of pork and thereby calculated to give offence to the population of upper india he guessed that would want some broad free hand work after his details handled the latest development of the case in style and proved that no popular of excitement was to be apprehended said that there was nothing like insight in matters of this kind and him up a by path � the possible profits to to the government fi om the sale of there is an extensive literature of and the shoe brush and colour man s trades recognise more va h plain tales from the hills of than you would think possible after had wondered a little at s rage for information he sent back a fifty one pages on of the pig this led him under s tender handling straight to the the trade in for � and thence to the wrote that seed was the best cure for skin | 39 |
in ail its what had happened and neither endeavoured herself nor required to advise her to think little of guilt and her affections were not acute nor was her mind after a time found it not impossible to direct her thoughts to other subjects and revive some interest in the usual occupation but whenever lady was fixed on the event she could see it only in one light as the loss of a daughter and a disgrace never to be wiped off learnt from her all the particulars which had her aunt was no very bat park the help of some letters to and from sir thomas and what she already knew herself and could reasonably combine she was soon able to understand quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending the story mrs had gone for the holidays to with a family whom she had just grown intimate with � a family of lively agreeable manners and probably of morals and discretion to suit � for to their house mr had constant access at all times his having been in the same neighbourhood already knew mr had been gone at this time to bath to pass a few days with his mother and bring her back to town and maria was with these friends without any restraint without even for had removed from street two or three weeks before on a visit to some relations of sir thomas a removal which her father and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience on mr s account very soon after the rush return to street sir thomas had received a letter from an old and most particular friend in who hearing and witnessing a good deal to alarm him in that quarter wrote to recommend sir thomas s coming to london himself and using his influence with his daughter to put an end to an intimacy which was already exposing her to unpleasant remarks and evidently sir thomas was preparing to act upon this letter without communicating its contents to any creature at when it was followed by another sent express from the same friend to break to him the almost desperate situation in which affairs then stood with the young people mrs had � left her husband s house mr had been in great anger and distress to him mr for his advice mr feared there had been at least very the maid servant of mr senior threatened he was doing all in his power to quiet every thing with the hope of mrs rush worth s return but was so much in street by the of mr s mother that the worst consequences might be apprehended this dreadful communication could not be kept the rest of the family sir thomas set off ex would go with him and the others had heen left in a state of wretchedness inferior only to what followed the receipt of the next letters from london every thing was by that public beyond a hope the servant of mrs the mother had exposure in her power and supported by her mistress was not to be silenced the two ladies even in the short time they had been together had and the bitterness of the elder against her daughter in law might perhaps arise almost as much from the personal with she had herself been treated as from sensibility for her son however that might be she was but had she been less obstinate or of less weight with her son who was always guided by the last speaker by the person who could get hold of and shut him up the case would still have been hopeless for mrs did not appear again and there was every reason to conclude her to be concealed somewhere with mr who had quitted his uncle s house as for a journey on the very day of her herself sir thomas however remained yet a little longer in town in the hope of discovering and her from farther vice though all was lost on the side of character his present state could hardly bear to think of there but one of his children who was not at this time a source of misery to him tom s complaints had been greatly heightened by the shock of his sister s conduct and his recovery so much thrown back by it that even lady had been struck by the difference and all her were regularly sent off to her husband and s the additional blow which had met him on his arrival in london though its force bad been at the moment must she knew be sorely felt she saw that it was his letters expressed how much he it under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance but to have it so formed and such a period chosen for its completion placed s feelings in a most light and severely the folly of her choice he called it a bad thing done in the worst manner and at the worst time and though was yet as more than maria as folly than vice he could not but regard the step h� park had taken as opening the worst of a conclusion hereafter like her sister s such was his opinion of the set into which she had thrown herself felt for him most he could have no comfort but in every other child must be his heart his displeasure herself she trusted reasoning from mrs would now be done away she should be justified mr would have fully her conduct in refusing him but this though most material to herself would be poor consolation to sir thomas her uncle s displeasure was terrible to her but what could her justification or her gratitude and attachment do for him his stay must be on alone she was mistaken however in supposing that gave his father no present pain it was of a | 26 |
find the turkey s nest t i have the half crown put into my money box we ll see about that my lad if you walk along now like a good boy the father and mother exchanged a glance of amusement at their eldest bom s but on s round face there was a cloud mother he said half crying s got ever so much more money in his box nor i ve got in me want half a in s d hush hush hush said mrs did ever any body hear such naughty children nobody shall ever see their money boxes any more if tliey don t make haste and go on to church this dreadful threat had the desired effect and through the two fields the three pair of small legs trotted on without any serious interruption notwithstanding a small pond full of which the lads looked at wistfully the damp hay that must be ed and turned afresh tomorrow was not a cheering sight to mr who ing hay and com est had often some mental struggles as to the benefits of a day of rest but no temptation would have induced him to carry on any field work however early in the morning on a sunday for had not michael had a i ur of oxen while he was on good friday that was demonstration that work on sacred days was a wicked thing with wickedness of any sort martin was quite clear that be would have nothing to do since money got by such means would never prosper it a most makes your fingers to be at the hay now the son shines so be observed as they passed through the big meadow but it s poor to think o saving by going conscience there s that jim as they used to call gentleman used to do tjie same of a sunday as o week days and took no heed to right or wrong as if there was god nor devil an what s he come to why i saw him myself last market day a a basket wi in t ah to be emphatically yon make but a poor trap to catch luck if you go and bait it by wickedness the money as is got so s like to bum holes i your pocket i d wish to leave our lads a sixpence but what was got i the way and as for the weather there s one above makes it and we must put up wi t it s nothing of a plague to what the are notwithstanding the in their walk the excellent habit which mrs s clock had of taking time by the had secured their arrival at the village while it was stiu a quarter to two though almost every one who meant to go to church was already the yard gates those who staid at home were chiefly mothers like s who stood at her own door nursing her baby and feeling as women fee in that position � that nothing else can he expected of them it was not entirely to see s funeral that the were standing about the church yard so long before the service began that was their common practice the women indeed usually entered the church at once and the farmer s wives talked in an under tone to each other over the tall about their and the total failure of doctors tea and other home made as far � about the servants and growing as to wages whereas the quality of their service declined from year to year and there was no girl nowadays to be any farther than you could see her � about the bad price mr the was giving for butter and the reasonable doubts that might be held as to his that mrs was a sensible woman and they were all sorry for her for she had very good kin meantime the men lingered outside and hardly any of them except the singers who had a humming and to go through entered the church until mr was in the de e they saw no reason for that premature entrance � what could they do in church if they were there before the service began � and they did not conceive that any power in the universe could take it ill if they staid out and talked a little about bis ness ci looks like quite a new acquaintance to day for he has got his clean sunday face which always mates his little grand daughter cry at as a stranger but an experienced eye would have fixed on him at once as the village after seeing the humble deference with which the big fellow took off his hat and his hair to the farmers for was accustomed to say that a working man must hold a candle to� � a personage understood to be as black as he was himself on week days by which evil sounding rule of conduct he meant what was after all rather virtuous than otherwise namely that men who had horses to be shod must be treated with respect and the sort of workmen kept aloof from the grave under the white where the burial was going forward but sandy jim and several of the farm made a group round it and stood with their hats off as fellow with the mother and sons others held a position sometimes watching the group at the grave sometimes to the conversation of the farmers who stood in a knot near the church door and were now joined by martin while his family passed into the church on the outside of this knot stood mr the landlord of the arms in his most striking attitude � that is to say with the forefinger of his right hand thrust between the buttons of his waistcoat his left hand in his adam breeches pocket and his head very | 14 |
to do with the dagger did you mean to kill yourself she shook her head slowly and then was silent for a long while at last looking at him with solemn eyes she whispered to kill aim my loved one vou would never have done it god saw your whole heart he knows you would never harm a living thing mb s love watches his children and will not let them do things they would pray with their whole hearts not to do it was the angry thought of a moment and he you she sank into silence again till it was nearly midnight the weary spirit seemed to be making its slow way with difficulty through the of thought and when she began to whisper again it was in reply to but i had had such wicked feelings for a long while i was so angry and i hated miss so and did n t care what came to anybody because i was so miserable myself i was full of bad passions no one else was ever so wicked yes many are just as wicked i often have very wicked feelings and am tempted to do wrong things but then my body is stronger than yours and i can hide my feelings and resist them better they do not master me so you have seen the little birds when they are young and just begin to fly how ail their feathers are ruffled when they are frightened or angry they have no power over themselves and fall into a pit from mere fright you were like one of those little birds your sorrow and suffering had taken such hold of you you hardly knew you did he would not speak long lest he should tire her and ss her with too many thoughts long pauses seemed needful for her she could her feelings in short but when i meant to do it was the next she whispered it was as bad as if i had done it no my answered slowly waiting a little between each sentence we mean to do wicked things that we never could do just as we mean to do good or clever things that we never could do our thoughts are often worse than we are just as they are often better than we are and god sees ns as we are altogether not in separate feeling or actions as our see us we are always doing each other injustice and thinking ix or worse of each other than we deserve because we only hear and see separate words and actions we don t see each other s whole ture but god sees that you could not have committed that crime shook her head slowly and was silent after a while � i don t know she said i seemed to see him coming towards me just as he would really have looked and i meant � i meant to do it but when you saw him � tell me was i saw him on the and thought he was ill i don t know how it was then i forgot everything i knelt down and spoke to him and � and he took no notice of me and his eyes were fixed and i began to think he was dead and you have never felt angry since o no no it is i who have been more wicked than any one it is i who have been wrong ail through no the fault has not all been yours he was wrong he gave yon provocation and wrong makes wrong when people use us ill we can help having ill feeling towards but that second wrong is more i am more sinful than yon i have often had very bad feelings towards captain and if he had provoked me as he did you i perhaps have done something more wicked o it was not so wrong in him he didn t know how he hurt me how was it likely he love me as i loved him and how could he marry a poor little thing like me made no reply to this and there was again silence till said � then i was so they did n t know how wicked i was did n t know his good little monkey he used to call me and if ha of ui o he n he would have thought me my we have all our secret sins and if we l new ourselves we should not judge each harshly ir himself has felt since this came upon him that he has heen too in this way � in th� so en and answering words of comfort � the hours op from the deep black night tp twilight and from twilight tp the first yellow streak of morning parting the purple mr as if in the hours of night that his love and to had acquired fresh strength and ty it is so wi i the human relations that rest on the deep sympathy pf new day and night of joy or sorrow is a new ground a new tion the that is nourished by memories as well as hop s to which perpetual repetition is a e hut a want and to which a separated joy is the beginning of pain the b an to crow the gate swung j there was a tramp of footsteps in the yard and mr heard stirring these sounds seemed to for she looked anxiously at him and said d are you going away no i shall stay here at until you are better and then you will go away too never to the again no i shall live poorly and get my own bread well dearest you shall do what yon like best but i wish yon go to sleep now try to rest and by and by you will perhaps sit up a little god has | 14 |
be impossible and even to them in an ideal picture might not perhaps convey to the mind of the any adequate idea of their importance but as in painting a finished picture the skill of the artist is not only required in the general outline but is equally requisite in the so the perfection of the female character b not sufficiently indicated by saying she is possessed of every virtue unless we point out the individual instances upon which those virtues are brought to bear and the more minute and delicate their aspect if they are but frequently presented to our notice the stronger is our con that virtuous principle is the ground work of the whole with regard to the particular instance already described the case may perhaps be more clearly illustrated by adding picture of an opposite description in order to ascertain m i hat pf points the two cases habits ow for this purpose we will imagine a woman distinguished by no extreme of character receiving her guest under precisely the same circumstances as the one already described in this case the is permitted to see that her hostess has reluctantly laid down her book at the latest possible period of time which politeness would allow or her guest has remained twenty minutes in a vacant and by no means inviting parlour she comes toiling up from the kitchen with a countenance that makes it dreadful to be adding to her daily by placing at her table and she answers the usual inquiries of her friend as to her state of health with a minute detail of the various phenomena of a headache with which she has that morning been attacked the one domestic is then called up � and wo that family whose daily services by its individual members towards each other all from one domestic the one domestic then is ordered in the hearing of the guest to take all the luggage up stairs to bring hot water to turn the carpets � run for the best � and see that tea is ready by the time the friend comes down the party then a accompanied by the panting servant into a room upon which no kind care has been bestowed it may possibly be neat � so neat that the guest it never has been and is not yet intended to be used yes every thing is in its place but a general blank the whole and it is not the least of the disappointments experienced by our guest that she finds no water to refresh her aching temples the mistress of the house is angry at this neglect and rings the bell the servant of from the kitchen to the highest room to learn that she mast go down again and return before half the catalogue of her faults has been told on such errands as this she is employed until the party descend to the parlour where the bell is again rung more and tea is ordered to be brought in the mean time the fire has to the lowest bar the mistress looks for coals but the usual is empty she feels as if there were a conspiracy against her there is � there can be no one to blame but the servant and thus her is by complaints against servants in general and her own in particular with these complaints and often repeated apologies the time is occupied until the appearance of the long expected meal when the guest is pressed to partake of a not by the comments of her hostess or the harassed and forlorn appearance of an over worked domestic the mistress of this house may all the while be glad to see her guest and may really regard her as an intimate and valued friend but never having made it an object to practise the domestic virtue of making others happy she knows not how to convey any better idea of a welcome than by words she therefore sets deliberately to work to describe how h she herself in receiving so dear a friend � wishes some third party were at home � hopes to be able to amuse her � tells of the parties she has engaged for each successive evening � brings out a pile of fears her guest is weary � and lastly at a very early hour rings for the chamber that her would like to retire habits ov it needless to observe that the of do retire upon this hint and it is equally needless to add that the individual here described fails to exhibit the of the english whose peculiar charm is that of happiness without appearing as the agent in its it is from the unseen but active principle of disinterested love ever working at her heart that she enters with a perception as as might be supposed to belong to a angel into the peculiar feelings and tones of character those around her applying the key of sympathy to all they suffer or enjoy to all they fear or hope until she becomes identified as it were with their very being her own existence with theirs and makes her society essential to their highest earthly enjoyment if a heightened degree of earthly enjoyment were all we could expect to obtain by this line of conduct i should still be to think the effect produced would be richly worth our pains but i must again repeat that the great aim of a christian woman will always be so to make others happy that their feelings shall be to the reception of better thoughts than those which relate to mere personal enjoyment � so to make others happy as to win them over to a full perception of the loveliness of those christian virtues which her own life and conduct show forth the of chapter viii habits c n n and the subject of consideration might be continued to almost | 41 |
effort without so many great dreams to stir us departing from not stopping to the falls or those immense or indeed any other thing we encountered some men who knew speed and who were starting a new factory they wanted him to come and work for them so well known was he as a test man and expert driver then we came to a section of on a canal or pond so black and stale that it interested us factory sections have this in common with other purely individual and things � they can be interesting beyond any intention of those who plan them this canal or pond was so or or both that it constantly of gas which gave the neighborhood an the chimneys and roofs of these rose in such an unusual way and composed so well that decided he should like to sketch them so here we sat he on the walking beam of a great lowered to near the ground behind two boats on the shore while i made myself comfortable on a pile of white gravel some of which i threw into the water i spent my time as to what sort of people occupied the small houses which faced this picturesque prospect i imagined a poet as great as being able to live and take an interest in this beauty with thieves and and of a low order for neighbors a few blocks farther on there came into view an enormous grain standing up like a huge temple in a flat plain this was composed egypt at along the shore of a bundle of or stand pipes capable of being separately filled or emptied thus the and of cars and allowing the separate of different lots of grain before it as before the great bridge at we paused by its size and design something colossal and ancient suggested by its lines then we sped out among small yellow or s cottages their yards for the most part their walls smoky lone women were hanging over gates and heavily about with pipes in their mouths and shoes and clothes too loose covering their bodies every now and then a church appeared � one of those noble institutions which represent to these poor heaven gates and streets great iron bridges came into view or some small river or crowded with great ships then came the lake shore lit by a sinking and glorious afternoon sun and a long stretch of that wonderful brick road with enormous steel plants on either hand thousands of and lines of foreign looking going in and out of cottages straggling in conventional order across distant fields out over the water was an occasional white sail or a or many oh i thought take me into your free wild world when i die just outside on a spit of land between this wonderful brick road and the lake we came to the steel company its scores of tall black clouds of smoke and its immense steel pillar supported sheds showing the fires of the below the great war had evidently brought prosperity to this concern as to others thousands of men were evidently working here sunday though it was for the several gates were crowded by foreign types of women carrying baskets and and the road and the one line which ran along here for a distance were crowded with workers mostly of fine physical build i a holiday thought of all the shells and machine guns and cannon they might be making and somehow it brought the great war a little nearer personally i felt at the time that the war was likely to in favor of the because they were better prepared be that as it may my mood was not and not pro moral or pro anything i am too doubtful of life and its tendencies to over theories with nations as with individuals the strongest or most desired win and in the crisis which was then the seemed to me the strongest i merely hoped that america might keep out of it in order that she might attain sufficient strength and judgment to battle for her own in the future for battle she must never doubt it and that from city to city and state to state if she the ultimate with her romantic of faith and love and truth it will be a miracle this matter of manufacture and enormous is always a fascinating thing to me and along this lake shore at speed i could not help at it it seems to point so clearly to a in life a of powers against which the common man is always struggling but which he never quite anywhere the world is always about the brotherhood of man and the freedom and independence of the individual yet when you go through a city like or and see all its energy practically devoted to great and and their interests and when you see the common man of whom there is so much talk as to his interests and superiority living in cottages or long streets of without a of charm or beauty his labor fixed in price and his ideas in part else he would never be content with so and a world you can scarcely believe in the equality or even the brotherhood of man however much you may believe in the sympathy or good intentions of some people these regions around were most suggestive of the great division that has arisen between the common t along the shore i r � � a � man and the man of ability and ideas here in i s america � a division as old and as deep as life itself have no least complaint against the common man toiling p for anybody with ideas and superior brains � who could have � if it were not for the fact that the superior inevitably seeks to arrange a of his blood | 43 |
couple of hours before at breakfast in a faded hall which had once been but was now the prey of watery and a settled melancholy mrs general was accessible to the that found her on a little square of carpet so extremely in reference to the size of her stone and marble floor that she looked a if she might have had it spread for the trying on of a ready made pair of shoes or as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet bought for forty by one of the three princes in the nights and had that moment been transported on it at a wish into a saloon with which it had no mrs general replying to the as she set down her empty coffee cup that she was willing at once to proceed to mr s apartment and spare him the trouble of coming to her which in his gallantry he had proposed the threw open the door and escorted mrs general to � the presence it was quite a walk by mysterious and from mrs general s apartment � by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it and like opposite their walls with a thousand downward and streaks as if every crazy in them had been weeping tears of into the for centuries � to mr s apartment with a english house front of window a prospect of beautiful church rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them and a hushed murmur of the grand canal the below where his and attended his pleasure swinging in a little forest of piles mr in a dressing gown and cap � the that had so long its time among the had burst into a rare butterfly � rose to receive mrs general a chair to mrs general an easier chair sir what are you doing w r hat are you about what do vou mean now leave us mrs general said mr i took the liberty w � little by no means mrs general interposed i was quite at your disposition i had had my coffee i took the liberty said mr again with the magnificent of one who was above to the favor of a little private conversation with you because i feel rather worried respecting my � ha � my younger daughter you will have observed a great difference of temperament madam between my two daughters said mrs general in response crossing her hands she was never without gloves and they never and always fitted there is a great difference may i ask to be favored with your view of it said mr with a deference not with majestic serenity returned mrs general has force of character and none none mrs general ask the stones and bars mrs general ask the who taught her to work and the dancing master who taught her sister to dance mrs general mrs general ask me her father what i owe to her and hear my testimony touching the life of this little creature from her childhood up no such entered mr s head he looked at mrs general seated in her usual erect attitude on her behind the and he said in a thoughtful manner true madam i would not said mrs general be understood to say observe that there is nothing to improve in but there is material there � perhaps indeed a little too much will you be kind enough madam said mr to be � ha � more explicit i do not quite understand my elder daughter s having � hum � too much material what material returned mrs general at present forms too many opinions perfect breeding forms none and is never lest he himself should be found deficient in perfect breeding mr hastened to reply unquestionably madam you are right mrs general returned in her and manner i believe so but you are aware my dear madam said mr that my daughters had the misfortune to lose their lamented mother when they were very young and that in consequence of my not having been until lately the recognised heir to my property they have lived with me as a comparatively poor though always proud gentleman in � ha hum � retirement i do not said mrs general lose sight of the circumstance madam pursued mr of my daughter under her present guidance and with such an example constantly before her mrs general shut her eyes � i have no there is of character in but my younger daughter mrs general rather and my thoughts i must inform you that she has always been my favorite little there is no said mrs general for these ha � no assented mr no madam i am troubled by noticing that is not so to speak one of ourselves she does not care to go about with us she is lost in the society we have here our tastes are evidently not her tastes which said mr up with gravity is to say in other words that there is something wrong in � ha � may we incline to the supposition said mrs general with a little touch of that something is to the novelty of the position excuse me madam observed mr rather quickly the daughter of a gentleman though � ha � himself at one time comparatively far from � comparatively � and herself reared in � hum � retirement need not of necessity find this position so very novel true said mrs general true therefore madam said mr i took the liberty he laid an emphasis on the phrase and repeated it as though he with firmness that he must not be contradicted again i took the liberty of this interview in order that i might mention the topic to you and how you would advise me mr returned mrs general i have conversed with several times since we have been | 8 |
� didn t i mr and i kicked away the dress and i rushed right to where mr was standing and i held to his legs � i did and he took me right up and kissed me i put my arms round his neck and i cried and sobbed fit to break my heart and what do you think s voice conveyed notes of emphatic exclamation mr was crying too he was seed he might have added as you are crying now mother for as the climax of the narrative was reached broke down completely and instinctively held out her hand to the of her little boy could not refrain from pressing his lips to it and the action conveyed a thousand times more than the old custom is wont to convey under ordinary circumstances overcome by the recollections of the scene he had up flung his arms round his mother s neck and then held up his face to to be by kissed let s kiss altogether he said in the of the moment and was fain once more to turn away her head lest should see her in connection with all this portion of the disastrous chances that had experienced it will be noticed that no mention of his father crossed his lips it was only when the moving accident on board the was under discussion that frank s share in the strange history came to be and even then for the reason that s presence recalled his behavior on that dreadful night more strongly to s mind than that of his absent father or whether because his personality was in point of fact so much the stronger of the two it is certain that the child persistently assigned the of the principal hero to his friend notwithstanding the well efforts of the latter to transfer a portion of his to lord les ab ont forty says the french proverb and in a modified sense was unconsciously proving the truth of the proverb it must not be supposed however that neglected to inform herself in so far as was possible of her husband s movements the from had her of his safe arrival and of his enforced through bad weather the three days gale had grown into a five days gale and every morning by the fa te of to lady with an expression of becoming gravity the deplorable reports that had reached him from the authorities and insisted upon the of a channel crossing until the present winds should have as was growing better and had been promoted by the doctor from roast chicken to mutton and indeed to anything he fancied which was a larger order perhaps than the worthy man could have imagined lady accepted the delay in her husband s return with philosophy i am not sure that she would have shown equal resignation if there had been no one at hand to in her delight at s recovery but s interest in the event seemed almost to equal her own and his suggestion that the longer frank remained away the greater would be the joyful surprise that awaited him as regarded the amount of flesh that would have put on during his absence seemed the best of reasons for taking patience it is an ill wind says the old proverb that blows nobody any good the wind that the boats was blowing the roses into s cheeks and joy into s heart when it suddenly lifted and a great calm fell upon land and sea looking from the balcony saw the lake in the opposite park shining in the distance like a silver shield and reflected that at the by j same time next evening she would probably be watching it with her husband by her side was now running about in the full exercise of a s privileges and over his mother and his friend upon the principle that he was to live at his ease to do as he pleased and not to be worried the doctor says with the force of childhood he seemed to grow and and many were the conversations that had with upon the subject of his future training she noticed that a word from the latter went farther than a whole chapter of from herself and fell unconsciously into the habit of referring the little boy to his friend upon every occasion it may be that as she watched the sky this evening she was wondering what would do when the firm and gentle influence that was so to him was removed and altogether so absorbed was she in her thoughts that she did not even heard s step approaching until he was by her side then she turned her face by the sunlight glow and looked at him with questioning eyes s face was very grave there was bad news written in every line he held a in his hand and with a� sudden sense of icy her forehead and cheeks took it from him without a word seeing her so white thought she was about to by the fa te of and forced her gently back into a chair the was brief as are wont to be even when infinite joy and sorrow are compressed into them lord seriously ill it said advise lady to come at once oh why was s first thought had she not gone sooner why had she allowed herself to take it for granted that the winds and the waves were the cause of the long delay might not her heart have told her that some stronger power than those was holding her husband back had she even once taken the trouble to for herself the list of the and on the boats what selfishness what what indifference alas she had been guilty of these were the that pursued her all the time she was making her hurried and eager preparations for departure had in his usual calm | 4 |
of love and life and there should have been such bliss and peace before her but for one madness of her all days and this beside her this man with the fair face and looks and devil s eyes was her and carried his rope with him and soon would fit it close about her neck when they rode through the part of the town where abode the world of fashion those who saw them knew them and that the two should be together a lady of quality but perhaps his love has made him sue for pardon that he has so borne himself some said and she has chosen to be gracious to him since she is gracious in these days to all when they reached her house he dismounted with her wearing an outward air of courtesy but his eye her as she knew i his horse was in a of sweat and he spoke to the servant take my beast home he said he is too hot to stand and i shall not soon be ready he followed her to her private saloon the one to which she had taken on the day of their bliss the one in which in the afternoon she received those who came to pay court to her over a dish of tea in the mornings none entered it but herself or some invited guest twas not the room she would have chosen for him but when he said to her best your took me to some private place she had known there was no other so safe when the door was closed behind them and they stood face to face they were a strange pair to behold she with mad defiance with mad despair in her face he with the mock ing which every woman who had ever trusted him or loved him had lived to see in his face when all was lost few men there lived who were as vile as he his power of lying in a lady of quality that he knew not the meaning of man s shame or honor now she said tell me the worst tis not so bad he answered that a man should claim his own and swear that no other man shall take it from him that i have sworn and that i will hold to your own she said your own you call it � villain my own since i can keep it he before you were my lord of s you were mine � of your own free will nay nay she cried god through some madness i knew not the of � because i was so young and had known naught but evil � and you were so base and wise was your an innocent he answered it seemed not so to me an innocent of all good she cried of all things good on earth of all that i know now having seen manhood and honor his grace of has not been told this he said and i shall make it all plain to him what do you ask devil she broke forth what is t you ask that you shall not be the of he said drawing near to her that you shall be the wife of sir john as you a lady of quality once called yourself for a brief space though no priest had over us who was t us she said gasping for i was an honest thing though i knew no other virtue who was t us i confess he answered bowing that twas i � for the time being i was young and perhaps and you left me she cried and i found that you had come but for a bet � and since i so bore myself that you could not boast and since i was not a rich woman whose fortune would be of use to you you followed another and left me � me as his grace of will when i tell him my story he answered he is not one to brook that such things can be told of the mother of his she would have shrieked aloud but that she clutched her throat in time tell him i she cried tell him and see if he will hear you your word against mine think you i do not know that full well he answered and he brought forth a little folded in silk why have i done naught but threaten till this time if i went to him without proof he would run me through with his sword as i were a mad dog but is there another woman in england from whose head her a lady of quality lover could a lock as long and black as this he unfolded the silk and let other silk itself a great and thick ring of hair which its serpent length and though he held it high was long enough after swaying from his hand to lie upon the floor merciful god she cried and shuddering hid her face twas a bet i own he said i heard too much of the mad beauty and her disdain of men not to be fired by a desire to prove to her and others that she was but a woman after all and so was to be won i took an oath that i would come back some day with a � and this i cut when you knew not that i did it she clutched her throat again to keep from shrieking in her impotent horror devil and � and he knows not what he is she gasped he is a mad thing who knows not that all his thoughts are of hell twas in a strange and monstrous thing to see him so and bold before no shrinking not to speak openly the thing before the mere accusation of which other men s blood would have boiled when | 13 |
a� fringe and ihe would hare answered as urn the good and useful of all the young people as for her own it so to tm to see him again and hear him talk to hare her ear and ho whole filled by his thai she b an to feel how dreadfully she must have him and how impossible it have been for her to bear a lengthened absence mrs was by no means to be compared in to her sister not that the was by many of sir i when the present state of bis house should be known for her judgment had been so blinded that except by the caution with which she bad away mr t pink satin as her brother in law entered she could hardly be said to show any sign of but she was vexed by the manner of his return it had left her to da instead of being sent for out of the room and seeing him first and having to spread the happy through the house sir thomas with a very reasonable dependence perhaps on the nerves of his wife and children had sought no but the butler and had been him almost into the drawing mrs felt herself of an office on which she had always depended whether his arrival or his death were to be the thing and was now trying to be ia a park i j bustle having an r thing to about and to be important where nothing was wanted but and silence would sir thomas have contented to ea the might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions and insulted the with ir tf despatch but sir thomas resolutely declined � n be would take nothing till tea � he would wait for tea still mrs was at urging different and in the most interesting of his passage to england en the alarm of a french was at the height she burst through his with the proposal of soup sure dear thomas a basin of soup would be a much yon tea do have a basin soup sir thomas could not be provoked still the same anxiety for every body s comfort my dear mis was his answer but indeed i would have nothing but then i y suppose you speak for tea directly suppose you hurry a little he seems hand to night she carried this and st thomas s narrative proceeded at length there was a pause his immediate communications were exhausted and it seemed enough to be looking joyfully around him now at one now at another of circle but the pause was not long in the of her spirits lady became and what were the sensations of her children upon bearing her say how do you think the young people have been themselves lately sir thomas they have been we have been all alive with acting indeed and what have you been acting oh tell you all about it the off will be soon told cried tom hastily and with affected but it is not worth while to bore my ti et with it now you will hear enough of it to morrow sir we have just been trying by way of doing something end � � � g my mother just within the last week to get up a few a mere trifle we have had such incessant october that we have been nearly mm v bone fir ft i have on a the his been no an thing c � i tin i m � � � � � � � wood and tbe beyond and we home ax ns and each have tut times as but ve sir i as as could i do not think you find your bv any means than ih von wood ao full of in my life as this year i hope yon will take a day s there soon the present the was and s va feelings subsided but tea was soon in and sir getting up said that he found he could not be any longer in the house without just looking into own dear room n � as he was gone before any thing had been said to prepare him for the change he must find there and a pause of followed his disappearance was the first to speak � something must be done said he it is lime to think of our visitors said maria her hand pressed to henry s heart and caring little for any thing else did you leave hiss t told of their departure and delivered their then poor b all alone cried tom i will go and fetch him he will be no bad assistant when it all comes out to the theatre he went and reached it just in time to witness the first meeting of his ther and his friend thomas had been a good deal surprised to find candles burning in his room and on casting his eye round it to see other of recent habitation and a general air of confusion in the furniture the removal of the from before the room door struck him but he had scarcely more than time to feel astonished at all this before there were sounds from the room to astonish still further some one was talking in fir park a vary loud accent � he did not know the voice � more than almost he stepped to the door rejoicing at that moment in having the means of immediate and opening it found himself on the stage of a theatre and opposed to a young man who appeared likely to knock him down backwards at the very moment of perceiving sir thomas and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his tom entered at the other end of the loom and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping bis countenance his father s | 26 |
tax be imposed that the whole upon the property of the united states nor shall shall never exceed thirty nine an tho lands or other property of non bo ment shall ho made as nearly equal as higher than the lands or other property of ble among the several or districts for every bill which shall have passed the election of the council and representatives the council and house of representatives of the to each section of the territory represents said territory shall before it become a law be in in the of its qualified aa nearly presented to the governor of the territory if he as may be and the members of the council and approve he shall sign it but if not he shall the house of representatives shall reside in and turn it with his objections to the house in which be inhabitants of the district or county or it originated who shall enter the objections at ties for which they may be elected large on their journal and proceed to previous to the first election the governor shall it if after two thirds of cause a or of the inhabitants that shall agree to pass the bill it shall be and qualified of the several and sent together with the objections to the other districts of the territory to be taken by such house by which it shall likewise bo and in such mode as the governor shall and if approved by two thirds of that house it and and the persons so ap shall become a law but in all such cases the pointed shall receive a reasonable compensation of both houses shall be determined by and the first election shall be held at and to be entered on the journal of each such times and places and be conducted in house if any bill shall not t such manner both as to the persons who shall turned by the governor within three days such election and the returns there days after it shall have been of as the governor shall and direct and to him the same shall be a law in to which each of the or districts shall not be s law � hall be entitled under this act the persons sec that all district earn each officers not otherwise provided ft be appointed or elected such election returns there days after it shall have been presented � governor shall and direct and to him the same shall be a law in like manner as it the same time declare the number of if he bad signed it unless he assembly by ad il and house of represents prevent its return in which case it county for shall oil shall be declared by the governor to be duly such manner as shall be provided by the to the council bud the persons having and assembly of the territory the highest number of legal for tbe house and of representatives shall be declared by the by and with the advice and consent of the to be duly elected members of council all officers not � aid house provided that in case two or otherwise provided for and in the first instance more persons for shall have tbe governor alone may all said officers number of and in case a who shall hold their offices until the end of the shell otherwise occur in either branch of the first of the assembly and shall assembly the governor shall order a lay off the necessary district for members of the now election and the persons elected to the council and house of representatives and all assembly shall meet at such place and other officers on such day as the governor shall but sec that no member of the as hereafter the time place and manner ia holding shall hold or be appointed to any office and conducting all by people which shall have been created or ihe salary or tho the on in the or been increased several or districts to the council find while ho was a member during the for r appointment under tho united states the term of forty days except the first shall bo a member of the which may continue sixty days assembly or shall hold any office under sec that every free white male the government cf said territory above the ago of twenty one years who shall be sec the power of actual resident of said territory and shall ry shall be in a supreme court district possess the courts courts and in of the the struggle w peace the supreme court shall consist of a chief justice and two associate any two of whom shall constitute a and who shall hold a term at the seat of government of said territory and they shall hold their offices during the period of four years and until their shall be appointed and qualified the said territory shall be divided into three districts and a district court shall be held in each of said districts by one of the of the supreme court at such times and places as may be prescribed law and the judges shall after their reside in the district which shall be assigned them the of the several courts provided for both and original and that of the courts and of of the peace shall be as limited by law provided that of the peace shall not have of any matter in when the title or boundaries ef land may be in dispute or where the debt or sum claimed shall exceed one hundred dollars and the said supreme and district courts shall possess as well as common law each district court or the judge thereof shall its clerk who shall also be the register in and shall keep his office at the place where me court may be held of error bills of exception ana appeals shall be allowed in all cases from the final | 19 |
t see for one thing that my step mother hates me hke poison and that miss mary shares her views it is probable indeed he continued that they have been communicated to you by word of mouth already indeed indeed they have not she answered earnestly how could it have been so it would have been as of your people to speak against you to me as it would have been painful to me to listen it would have been ungrateful in me too she added after a moment s hesitation you are grateful for very small things miss dart consideration and kindness to one in my position are not small things she spoke with genuine feeling but perhaps she would not have expressed herself so warmly but for the of the occasion i am happy indeed he said if i have been the means of making you feel more at home in this most uncomfortable house there are circumstances into which there is no need to enter which as i have hinted make an engagement between and my sister very desirable they do not affect me of course but my father when you told me tonight what were your orders from mrs they were sealed ones she put in promptly it was a of duty to reveal them on the other hand i thought i was safe with you � that is do not the phrase he interrupted earnestly you are always safe with me for the moment it struck me that it would be a of my duty not to inform my of mrs s plan to his wishes but i find � t so dutiful as i thought i was there are other con for one thing i would not be the cause of on into trouble for twenty a you are very kind murmured miss dart there can be no hard and fast laid down for one s conduct in these matters he continued both you and i must be governed by circumstances the attentions of this young gentleman for example it is obvious must not be encouraged pardon me they must not be major interrupted the firmly whatever influence i may possess let me say once for all will be used to them you have plenty of pluck i must say exclaimed the major but this is a very one sided arrangement my scruples it seems are to be ignored while yours are to be respected how very like a woman i have the weaknesses of my sex no doubt she answered i acknowledge that you have reason in what you say unhappily it is not in my power � as it lies in yours � to be generous in this particular case my conduct in short like the second pig in the show is highly commended but not to be rewarded i have unfortunately no reward to nay but you have indeed interrupted the major eagerly may i tell you what it is he was gazing into her eyes but she did not dare withdraw them it was somehow borne in upon her that it was necessary to meet his gaze with one as firm and though her heart beat fast and her limbs trembled under her she did bo to show the least alarm at what he was about to say she felt would be with danger though she scarce knew of what you have just told me he said with earnest gentleness but with a rapid change of expression in his face which did not escape her and which somehow suggested that he had at first intended to say something else that you cannot be generous to me i do not ask for generosity but if i have really laid you under any obligation as you seem to think i ask you in return for justice will you do me justice indeed i will if you will tell me how the opportunity has not as you have just reminded me yet occurred but it will occur you will hear me ill spoken of my conduct to others my conduct even to yourself will be distorted � � a yery contrary of what it has been i x x fc si the heir of the ages en all black and you will be required to recognise the portrait now heaven that i no than other men but i ask you to believe that i have my white points � that i am at worst like farmer jones s horse we admired so to day � i will think of you as and admire you as much as i can said miss dart smiling it was not at all a laughing matter as she well knew but there are occasions even of great moment when it is well to smile above all things he continued without noticing the lightness of her the cause of which indeed he probably well understood i would ask you when you are so good as to waste a thought on me to use your own judgment and not that of other people and when inclined to blame make allowance for me as the judge did for the poor dogs we saw upon the downs to day do this and we shall be i will certainly do that said miss dart earnestly good night good night he pushed open the door which had not been closed during their interview and held up his finger for silence it was a gesture she did not like for it suggested something yet she could hardly take notice of it he remained in the hall watching her as she went upstairs and as she turned the last comer waved his hand and smiled at the same moment she heard a door close in the neighbourhood of mrs s room she felt the colour burn in her cheek as she hurried to her own apartment innocent of harm she was not indifferent to the of | 25 |
the shell of me that goes out to take up the new j the magic wheel appointment he then went on to give me various details which he thought would amuse me of the passengers on board the and also many little remarks about the various officials on board of her it s all dead sea fruit and hollow without you he went on but god be praised i started life with a blessed sense of humour i don t know that it is as keen as yours dearest but like all other brilliant people when you go down you go down to the very lowest depths i suppose it is always so � the higher the heights the deeper the shadows in the lowest depths i could never rise to your height of or of appreciation and although i am as down in the mouth without you as a man can very well be i could never sink to the same abyss of depression which from time to time takes hold of you do try my precious child to cultivate your sense of the ludicrous to cultivate your gift of humour do try to prevent yourself slipping down into those depths of depression which i feel convinced are threatening you now whatever happens to me remember that with my last breath i shall speak of you with my last conscious thought i shall loss of the think of you don t trouble about the present only try to keep yourself well and strong and your eyes fixed upon that blessed time not so far ahead after all when we shall be together once more i felt i knew that his words were with sound common sense i suppose one cannot help one s nature had always told me that he never knew a woman who could be made so happy by ha penny as myself where some women he said to me one day would want diamonds you are made contented and happy to the highest degree by something that has cost well that was a blessing in a way but i was like everybody else of my nature � i did sink down from time to time into the lowest depths of mental woe i do not mean that there was any danger of my losing my brain oh dear no but life did look blank to me when it did not look bright and how could it look bright when he whom i loved had gone over the other side of the world or very nearly so however after i had that letter from my husband i did make a great effort to be as bright j the magic wheel and cheerful as i had been before time my mother noticed the change in me you are feeling better she said to me one day oh yes mother i am feeling much better ah i knew you would get over it � that first terrible feeling of depression don t yourself dear child that s the great thing do a little work in reason but don t let yourself get red hot over your new story if you do i am afraid you will your strength more than you should do by the bye i am going into to day i must go because i have to try on a dress for my sins and there are other things to do i promised to go and have tea with lady you ll go with me darling won t you oh yes mother i should like to go so when we had which we did rather early we went off to in the carriage together i did not go to the s with my mother but while she was occupied with her i me to a certain shop there to complete the purchases which loss of the necessary for the little arrival whose coming was not now so far distant when you have finished at the shop said my mother as i put her down at the s door come back to me here the carriage will wait with you miss green is never less than three quarters of an hour so it will give you time enough thus it happened that i was driving through the streets of alone when my eye was caught by a great outside a s shop and on the i read � great disaster at sea of the chapter vi once to have touch i called to the coachman to stop i want a paper william i said he backed the horses so that the was close against the stone i beckoned to a boy who had a bundle of papers under his arm to leave me one i gave him the money and signed to william that he might drive on i literally tore open the paper � terrible disaster at sea total loss of the i just saw those great black letters dancing up and down and then everything faded away and i believe i fainted the motion of the carriage and the air quickly brought me to myself again i was still holding the open paper but for the life of me i could not see the words when we turned the corner of the street in which the lived i saw my mother come out of the house evidently looking to see if we were coming once to have touch my dear child what is the matter she exclaimed as the carriage drew up i was speechless she with that quick instinct which all mothers have knew that some terrible trouble had befallen me she got into the carriage hastily and took the paper out of my hands my god she exclaimed under her breath oh my poor child � my poor child perhaps it isn t true what did i tell you i knew mother i� get me home home william straight she called drive fast never | 30 |
me which still would vanish better to sit by my window and enjoy what remains of the mood and the memory the mood has nearly passed the desire of action is approaching � � � i would give much for another memory but memory may not be beckoned and my mind is dark now dark as that garden the swaying fan like bough by my window is nearly one mass of green the last has fallen asleep i hear nothing � � � i hear a horse trotting in the strand chapter the of i had come a thousand miles � rather more nearly fifteen hundred � in the hope of picking up the thread of a love story that had got entangled some years before and had been broken off abruptly a strange our love story had been for had given a great deal of herself while denying me much so much that at last in despair i fl d from a one sided love affair too one sided to be borne any longer at least by me and it was difficult to fly from her pretty face delightful and as the faces one finds on the of the early german masters one may look for her face and find it on an oak in the gallery painted in pale tints the cheeks faintly touched with in the background of these pictures there are all sorts of curious things very often a gold bower with roses up everywhere who was that master who painted cunning in rose the master of was it not i have forgotten no matter s hair was darker than the hair of those a rich gold hair a mane of hair growing as as the meadows in june and the golden note was op my dead life everywhere in the eyebrows in the pupils of the eyes in the along her little nose so firmly and beautifully about the nostrils never was there a more lovely or affectionate mouth weak and beautiful as a flower and the long hands were curved like lilies there is her portrait dear reader prettily and and faithfully painted by me the portrait of a girl i left one afternoon in london more than seventeen years ago and whom i had lost sight of i feared for ever thought of her yes i thought of her occasionally time went by and i wondered if she were married what her husband was like and why i never wrote it were surely unkind not to write � � reader you know those little regrets perhaps life would be all on the flat without regret regret is like a from which we survey our dead life a on which we pause and and very often looking into the twilight we ask ourselves whether it would be well to send a letter or some token now we had agreed upon one which should be used in case of an � a few bars of s melody the nut bush should be sent and the one who received it should at once hurry to the side of the other and all difference should be healed but this token was never sent by me perhaps i did not know how to the musical phrase pride perhaps kept her from sending it in any case five years are a long while and she seem to have died out of my life altogether but one day the sight of a woman who had known her brought her before my eyes and i asked if the lovers op were married the woman could not tell me she had not seen her for many years they too were and i went home saying to myself must be married what sort of a husband has she chosen is she happy has she a baby oh shameful thought do you remember dear reader how when he had come to the last page of declares that he dare not tell you the end of this adventure one word he says will suffice for the of the ideal was expecting then in a passage that is pleasanter to think about than to read � for when he spoke about art was something of a and i am not sure that the passage is altogether � he tells how the ideas of all the great artists painters and � the ideas they have wrought on and in stone � escaped from their and their frames � all these maidens gathered s bed and wept it would be as disgraceful for to be expecting as it was for and i like to think of all the the the the of ancient legend all her gathering about her bed her condition regarding her as lost to them � were such a thing to happen i should certainly kneel there in spirit with them and feeling just as did about that it was a that should be expecting or even married i wrote however to tell her why i had suddenly resolved to break silence i sent her a little note only a few words that i was sorry of my dead life not to have heard of her for so long a time bat though we had been she had not been forgotten a little commonplace note relieved perhaps by a touch of of regret and this note was sent by a messenger duly instructed to ask for an answer the news the messenger brought back was somewhat the lady was away but the letter would be forwarded to her she is not married i thought were she married her name would be sent to me � perhaps not other thoughts came into my mind and i did not think of her again for the next two days not till a long was put into my hand it had come from her it had come more than a thousand miles regardless of expense i said this must | 15 |
an independent stand but only to one whom he might into himself he has certainly shown great tenderness for had turned aside but i caught the reflection of her face in the mirror and saw that it was very pale � as pale in her rich attire as if a were round her is here said she her voice a little lower than usual have not you learnt as much from your chamber window would you like to see her she made a step or two into the back drawing room and called dear xx they vanish immediately answered the summons and made her appearance through the door of the i had conceived the idea which i now recognized as a very foolish one that would have taken to me from an interview with this girl between whom and herself there was so utter an of their dearest interests that on one part or the other a great grief if not likewise a great wrong seemed a matter of necessity but as was only a leaf floating on the dark current of events without them by her own choice or plan � as she probably guessed not whither the stream was bearing her nor perhaps even felt its inevitable movement � there could be no peril of her communicating to me any intelligence with regard to s purposes on perceiving me she came with great of manner and when i held out my hand her own moved slightly towards it as if attracted by a feeble degree of i am glad to see you my dear said i still holding her hand but everything that i meet with now a days makes me wonder whether i am awake you especially have always seemed like a figure in a dream and now more than ever o there is substance in these fingers of she they vanish answered giving my hand the faintest possible pressure and then taking away her own why do you call me a dream is much more like one than i she is so very very beautiful and i suppose added as if thinking aloud everybody sees it as i do but for my part it was s beauty not s of which i was thinking at that moment she was a person who could be quite so far as beauty went by anything in her attire her charm was not positive and material enough to bear up against a mistaken choice of color for instance or fashion it was safest in her case to attempt no art of dress for it demanded the most perfect taste or else the happiest accident in the world to give her precisely the which she needed she was now dressed in pure white set with some kind of a fabric which � as i bring up her figure in my memory with a int gleam on her shadowy hair and her dark eyes bent on mine through all the vanished years � seems to be floating about her like a mist i wondered what meant by so much loveliness out of this poor girl it was what few women could afford to do for as i looked from one to the other the and splendor of s presence took nothing from s softer spell if it might not rather be thought to add to it what do you think of her asked i could not understand the look of melancholy kindness with which regarded her she advanced a step and near her kissed her cheek then with a slight gesture of she moved to the other side of the room i followed the romance she is a wonderful creature said ever since she came among us i have been dimly sensible of just this charm which you have brought out but it was never absolutely visible till now she is as lovely as a flower well say so if you like answered you are a poet � at least as poets go now a days � and must be allowed to make an opera glass of your imagination when you look at women i wonder in such a freedom of falling in love as we have lately enjoyed it never occurred to you to fall in love with in society indeed a genuine american never dreams of stepping across the air line which one class from another but what was rank to the of there were other reasons i replied why i should have myself an ass had i fallen in love with by the by has ever seen her in this dress why do you bring up his name at every turn asked in an under tone and with a look which wandered from my face to s you know not what you do it is dangerous sir believe me to thus with earnest human passions out of your own mere idleness and for your sport i will endure it no longer take care that it does not happen again i warn you you partly wrong me if not wholly i responded it is an uncertain sense of some duty to perform that brings my thoughts and therefore my words continually to that one point this stale excuse of duty said in a th� t vanish per so full of scorn that it penetrated me like the hiss of a serpent i have often heard it before from those who sought to interfere with me and i know precisely what it self conceit an insolent curiosity a temper a cold blooded criticism founded on a shallow interpretation of half a monstrous in regard to any conscience or any wisdom except one s own a most to thrust providence aside and substitute one s self in its awful place � out of these and other motives as miserable as these comes your idea of duty but beware sir with all your fancied you step into these affairs for any mischief that | 35 |
opera men moving in society are usually fascinated little passed her white hands over one another of sisters now and the rings upon her fingers against with a hard sound as your sister will tell you when i found what the theatre i was much surprised and much distressed but when i found l sister hy my son s advances i must add in an tu ted manner had him to the point of proposing feelings were of the anguish � acute she traced the outline of her left and put it right in a distracted condition which only a mother � moving in can he of i determined to go myself to the represent my state of mind to the i made m self your sister i found her to my surprise in many respects from my expectations and certainly in none more so than in me with � what shall i say � a sort of family assertion on her part mrs smiled i told you ma am said with a color although you found me in that situation i was so far the i that i considered my family as good as your son s and that i a who knowing the circumstances would be of the m opinion and would not consider such a connection any honor miss said mrs after looking at her her glass precisely what i was on the point of telling your sister of your request much obliged to you for so accurately and me i immediately la for i am creature of impulse took a arm and begged your sister to lot me clasp it on hers in token of delight i had in our being able to approach the subject so far common footing was perfectly true lady having a cheap and article on her way to the interview with a gen eye to and i told you mrs said that we mi e unfortunate but not common l think the very words miss mrs and i told you mrs said that if you to me of the superiority of your son s in it was possible that you rather deceived yourself in your u positions al my origin and that my father s standing even in in he now moved what that was was l est ti to was c and was acknowledged by ever one quite accurate rejoined a most thank you ma am perhaps you will be so kind as to tell sister the i est is ver little to tell said ing breadth of which l essential to her ha ing room to be in but it is to your sister s credit i out to your sister the plain state of the the im os the s in which we moved the society in which moved � though i have no doubt the immense at which she would place the family she had so l ob opinion of upon should find to look down contempt and from which we obliged to with in short i made un appeal to pride in your let know if you mm a toes of her bonnet that i had already the honor ot your bon that i to have nothing whatever to any to him well miss mrs perhaps i mi t have mentioned that before if i did not of it perhaps it was my mind to the apprehensions i at the time that lie might and you might have something to say to him i aim mentioned to your sister � i again address the non � that my sou would have nothing in the event of such a and would be an absolute be or i mention that merely h a which is part of the narrative and not as supposing it tu liave influenced your sister except in the prudent and legitimate way in which constituted as our artificial is vo must all be by such considerations after some high words � nd high spirit on the part of your sister wo come to the complete that there was no danger and your sister was so obliging us to allow me to present her with a or ti o of my � at my h little looked sorry and glanced at with a troubled bet also said mrs as to promise to give mc the present of a closing interview and of parting with her on the best of on which occasion added mrs r her nest and in s hand miss will permit mc to � � y farewell with best wishes in my own dull manner sisters rose at the same time and they all stood near the cage of the as be tore at a t of and it out � to mock them with a dance of body without his feet and suddenly turned himself down and i all over the outside of his golden cage with the aid of his and bis tongue miss with best wishes said mrs if only to a or something of that sort i for have the pleasure of knowing a number of charming and persons from whom lam at present excluded a more primitive we of society would be to me there used to be a poem w i learnt lessons something about lo the poor indian � if a in could j go and be indians i would my name down directly but as loving in society we can t be indians � morning they came down stairs powder before them and behind � and the younger sister and were into well said when they had gone a little way without have you to say my v oh i don t know what to say i he answered distressed you � wo t like this man like him he is almost an idiot n i am so don t be hurt � but since you ask me what i to say i am | 8 |
eyes that he wished he had been indeed a man and could have kissed her openly art the queen asked the old man by her not she answered his grace but a plain who makes baskets and tells fortunes � for all her good looks thou rt flattering her old fellow all the men flatter her tis well there are some to flatter me said her grace showing her white teeth thou dost not but tis always so when a poor woman a man and by the side of him instead of keeping him at her feet and then they led their old host on to talk and told him stories of what did and of their living in tents and sleeping in the open and of his grace of the ill luck which sometimes them when the lord of the they on was a hard mail and evil tempered tis a duke who rules over is t not the old fellow asked ay was her grace s answer nodding her head he is well enough but his lady lord i but they tell that she was a before her marriage a few years gone i have seen her said his grace she is not ill to look at and has done us no harm yet ay but she may says her grace nodding wisely again who knows what such i woman may turn out i have seen him i she stopped her elbows on the little round wooden table chin on her hands and gave her stare again ril pay thee a compliment she said he is a big fellow and not unlike thee � though he be duke and thou naught but a vagabond their host had to them eagerly and now he put in a question was not she the beauty that was married to an old earl who left her widow he said was not she ay answered her grace quietly cried the old fellow that minds me of a story and twas a thing happened in this very house and room look there he pointed with something like excitement to i his grace of the window twas but seldom he had chance to tell his story and twas a thing he dearly loved to do life being but a dull thing at the cow at and few travellers passing that way a pair so friendly and gay and ready to to his chatter as these two he had not seen for years look there i he said at that big hole in the wall they turned together and looked at it in some wonder that her of should have any connection with it twas indeed a big hole and looked as if the plaster of the wall under the sill had been roughly broken and ay said the host tis a queer thing and came here in a strange way being made by a gentleman s sword and he either wild with liquor or with rage never shall i forget hearing his horse s hoofs come tearing over the road as if some man was riding for his life i was and started out of my sleep at the sound of it who s chased by the devil at this time o night through village says i and scarce were the words out of my mouth before the horse up to the house and stops i could hear him panting and heaving as his rider gets off and strides up to bang on the door what dost thou want says i putting my head out of the window come down and let me in answers he i have no time to spare you have a thing in your house i would his grace of find twas a gentleman s voice and i saw twas a gentleman s dress he wore for twas fine cloth and his sword had a and his hat rich come down says he and the door again so down i went who was he asked her grace slowly for he had stopped for breath she sat quite still as before her round chin held in her hands her eyes fixed on him but there was no longer any laughter in their blackness did he tell his name not then was the answer nor did he know i heard when he spoke it breaking forth in anger but that is to come later � with the air of one who would have his tale heard to the most dramatic advantage into this room he strides and to the window straight and looks below the sill four years ago says he there was a hole here in the wall was t so or was t not and he looks at me sharp and fierce as if he would take me by the throat if i said there had been none ay there was a hole there long enough i answers him but twas mended with new plaster at last your can see the patch for twas but roughly done then he goes close to it and ay says he there has been a hole mended old did not lie and on that he turns to me get out of the room he says i have a search to make here your wall will want another patch when i am done he says a his grace of but be made good go thy ways and he draws out his and there was sweat on his brow and he breathed fast as if he was wild with his to find what he sought and leave him asked her grace as quiet as before for how long the old man grinned not for long said he nor did i go far i stood outside where i could see through the crack o the door the nodded with an unmoved face he was like a man in a frenzy the host went on he dug at the | 13 |
fellowship them up the slopes of it us standing together e to eye and shoulder to shoulder as fellow citizens of the best city in the world to consider where we are both as regards ourselves and the common it is true that even with our or practically population there are by the last almost a score of larger cities in the united states but gentlemen if by the nest we do not stand at least then i ll be the first to request any to remove my shirt and to eat the same with the compliments of g f it may be true that new york and philadelphia will continue to keep ahead of us in size but aside from these three cities which are so overgrown that o decent white man i i nobody who loves hb wife and and god s good out o doors and likes to shake the band of his neighbor in greeting would want to live in the nd let me you right here and now i wouldn t trade a high class development lor the whole length and breadth of or state street i � aside from these three it s evident to any one with a head for facts that is the finest le of american life and prosperity to be foimd anywhere i don say we re perfect we ve got a lot to t tor type to entire i a bt well christian go future for is little old planet once while i just i size up solid citizen whale of a satisfaction our ideal citizen � i picture him first and foremost is than a bird dog not wasting a lot of good time in day dreaming or going to or kicking about things that are none of his business but putting the into some store or profession or art at night he lights up a good cigar and into the little old has and maybe the and shoots out home he the lawn or in some practice putting and then he s ready for dinner after dinner he tells the a story or takes the family to the or plays a few fists of bridge or reads the evening paper and a chapter or two of some good lively western l if he i a taste for li the next door dr q in aa tb i and vi t ut their friends and the topics of the day he goes happily to bed his conscience clear having contributed bis to the pro of the city and to his own bank account in politics and religion this sane citizen is the man on earth and in the arts he invariably has a natural taste whidi makes him pick out the best every time in no country in the world will you find so many of the old masters and of w known paintings on parlor walls as in these united states no country has anything like our number of with not only dance records and comic but also the best such as rendered by the world s highest paid singers in ot her countries art and ra ture are left to a l � s bt o ft and but in the pi ii wn � pi js from any other and for one only that the m n h i th p skill to season his n u with and � who shows both purpose and in handling his y t s i has a chance to drag down his fifty thousand a year to mingle with the biggest on terms of perfect e quality � j and to show as big a house and as swell a car as any captain of industry but mind you it s the appreciation of the v j who i have been which has made this i and you got to hand as much credit to him as to the v i authors themselves finally but most important our citizen i even if he is a bachelor is a lover of the little ones a sup porter of the which is the foundation of our civilization first last and all the time and the thing that most us from the decayed nations of europe i have never yet europe � and as a matter of fact i don t know that i care to such an awful lot as long as there s our own mighty cities and mountains to be seen � but the way i figure it out there must be a good many of our of folks abroad indeed one of the most enthusiastic i ever met the of one hundred pa cent in a that o and all ye o ns but same time one thing that us from our good brothers the over is that they re willing to take a lot off the and and while the modem american business man knows how to talk right up for himself knows how to make it good aud plenty clear that he to run the works he doesn t have to call in some hired man when it s necessary for him to answer the crooked critics of the sane and life he s not dumb like the old fashioned merchant he s got a and a punch with all modesty i want to stand up here as a representative business man and gently whisper here s our kind of folks i here s the of the american citizen here s the new generation of americans fellows with hair on their and smiles in their eyes and in their offices we re not doing any but we like ourselves first rate and if you don t like us look out � better get under cover before the town i so in my clumsy way i have tried to the real he the fellow with and bang and it s because has so large a pr | 42 |
her that i held her in a sort of veneration the work she did that day there were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the out house � as oars sails pots bags of and the like and though there was abundance of assistance rendered there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have labored hard for mr and been well paid in being asked to do it yet she persisted all day long in toiling under that she was quite unequal to and to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands as to her misfortune she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any she preserved an cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy which was not the least astonishing part of the change that had come over her was out of the question i the personal and experience did not even her to or a tear to escape from her eyes the whole day through until light when she and i and mr being alone together and he having fallen asleep in perfect exhaustion she broke into a half fit of sobbing and crying and taking me to the door said ever bless you r be a friend to him poor dear then she immediately ran out of the house to wash her in order that she might sit quietly beside him and be found at work there when he should awake in short i left her when i went away at night the and staff of mr s affliction and i could not enough upon the lesson that i read in mrs and the new experience she unfolded to me it was between nine and ten o clock when strolling in a melancholy manner through the town i stopped at mr s door mr had taken it so much to heart his daughter told me that he had been very low and poorly all day and had gone to bed without his pipe a bad hearted girl said mrs there was no good in her don t say so i returned you don t think so yes i do cried mrs angrily � no no said i mrs tossed her head to be very stern and cross but she could not command her softer self and began to cry i was young to be sure but i thought much the of her for this sympathy and it became her as a virtuous wife and mother very well indeed what will she ever do sobbed where will she go what will become of her oh how could she be so cruel to herself and him i of i remembered the time when was a young and pretty girl and i wag glad that she remembered it too so my little said mrs has only just now been got to sleep even in her sleep she is sobbing for em ly all day long little has cried for her and asked me over and over again whether � was wicked what can i say to her when � m ly tied a ribbon off her own neck round little s the last night she was here and laid her head down on the pillow beside her till she was fast asleep the ribbon s round my little s neck now it ought not to be perhaps but what can i do em ly is very bad but they were fond of one another and the child h nothing mrs was so unhappy that her husband came out to take care of her leaving them together i went home to s more melancholy myself if ble than i had been yet that good creature � i mean � all by her late anxieties and sleepless nights was at her brother s where she meant to stay till morning an old woman who had been employed about the house for some weeks past while had been unable to attend to it was the house s only other beside myself as i had no occasion for her services i sent her to bed by no means against her will and sat down before the kitchen fire a little while to think about all this i was it with the death bed of the late mr and was driving out with the tide towards the distance at which ham had looked so singularly in the morning when i was recalled from my wanderings by a the personal history and experience knock at the door there was a upon the but it was not that which made the sound the tap was from a hand and low down upon the door as if it were given by a child it made me start as much as if it had been the knock of a footman to a person of distinction i opened the door and at first looked down to my amazement on nothing but a great umbrella that appeared to be walking about of itself but presently i discovered underneath it miss i might not have been prepared to give the little creature a very kind reception if on her removing the umbrella her utmost efforts were unable to shut up she had shown me the sion of face which had made so great an impression on me at our first and last meeting but her face as she turned it up to mine was so earnest and when i relieved her of the umbrella which would have been an inconvenient one for the irish giant she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner that i inclined towards her miss said i after glancing up and down the empty street without distinctly knowing what i expected to see besides how do you come here what is the matter she to me with her short right arm to shut the umbrella for her and passing | 8 |
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early return was a presumption which hardly anything would have seemed to justify she thanked miss but gave a decided negative her uncle she understood meant to fetch her and as her cousin s illness had continued so many weeks without her being thought at all necessary she must suppose her return would be unwelcome at present and that she should be felt an her representation of her cousin s state at this time was exactly according to her own belief of it and such as she supposed would convey to the sanguine mind of her correspondent the hope of everything she was wishing for would be forgiven for being a clergyman it seemed under certain conditions of wealth and this she suspected was all the conquest of prejudice which he was so ready to congratulate himself upon she had only learnt to think nothing of consequence but money chapter as could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real disappointment she was rather in expectation from her knowledge of miss s temper of being urged again and though no second letter arrived for the space of a week she had still the same feeling when it did come on receiving it she could instantly decide on its containing little writing and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and business its object was and two moments were enough to start the probability of its being merely to give her notice that they should be in that very day and to throw her into all the agitation of doubting what she ought to do in such a case if two moments however can surround with difficulties a third can them and before she had opened the possibility of mr and miss s having applied to her uncle and obtained his permission was giving her ease this was the letter a most scandalous ill natured has just reached me and i write dear to warn you against giving the least credit to it should it spread into the country depend upon it there is some mistake and that a day or two will clear it up � at any rate that henry is and in spite of a moment s thinks of but you say not a word of it � hear nothing nothing whisper nothing till i write again i am sure it will be all hushed up and nothing proved but s folly if they are gone i would lay my life they are only gone to park and with them but why would not you let us come for you i wish you may not repent it yours etc stood aghast as no scandalous had reached her it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter she could only perceive that it must relate to street and mr and only conjecture that something very had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the world and to excite her jealousy in miss s apprehension if she heard it miss need not be alarmed for her she was only sorry for the parties concerned and for if the report should spread so far but she hoped it might not if the were gone themselves to as was to be inferred from what miss said it was not likely that anything unpleasant should have preceded them or at least should make any impression as to mr she hoped it might give him a knowledge of his own disposition convince him that he was not capable of being steadily attached to any one woman in the world and shame him from any longer in addressing herself it was very strange i she had begun to think he really loved her and to fancy his affection for her something more than common and his park ter still said that lie cared for nobody else yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin there must have been some strong since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one very uncomfortable she was and must continue till she heard from miss again it was impossible to banish the letter from her thoughts and she could not relieve herself by speaking of it to any human being miss need not have urged secrecy with so much warmth she might have trusted to her sense of what was due to her cousin the next day came and brought no second letter was disappointed she could still think of little else all the morning but when her father came back in the afternoon with the daily newspaper as usual she was so far from expecting any through such a channel that the subject was for a moment out of her head she was deep in other musing the remembrance of her first evening in that room of her father and his newspaper came across her no candle was now wanted the sun was yet an hour and a half above the horizon she felt that she had indeed been three months there and the sun s rays falling strongly into the parlor instead of cheering made her still more melancholy for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country here its power was only a glare � a stifling sickly glare serving but to bring forward and dirt that might otherwise have slept there was neither nor in sunshine in a town she sat in a blaze of oppressive heat in a cloud of moving dust and her eyes could only wander from the walls marked by her father s head to the table cut and by her brothers where stood the tea board never thoroughly cleaned the cups and wiped in streaks the milk a mixture of floating in thin blue and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even s hands had first produced it | 26 |
as it had been in her last illness was reflected in the glass peering over my shoulder i sprang up and confronted her t � she was gone and now the sorrows of satan i am shivering with cold and i feel a chill on my forehead � mechanically i have soaked a handkerchief with perfume from one of the silver bottles on the dressing table and have passed it across my temples to help me recover from this sick sensation to recover � how foolish of me seeing i am about to die i do not believe in ghosts � yet i could have sworn my mother was actually present just now � of course it was an delusion of my own feverish brain the strong scent on my handkerchief reminds me of i can see the shop where i bought this particular perfume and the well dressed doll of a man who served me with his little moustache and his french manner of conveying a speechless personal compliment while making out a bill laughing at this recollection i see my face in the glass � my eyes flash into vivid lustre and the near my lips come and go giving my expression an sweetness yet in a few hours this loveliness will be destroyed � and in a few days the worms will where the smile is now an idea has come upon me that perhaps i ought to say a prayer it would be � but conventional to die one ought to a few words to the church and yet to kneel down with clasped hands and tell an selfish paid community called a church that i am going to kill myself for the sake of love and love s despair and that therefore i humbly its forgiveness for the act seems absurd � as absurd as to tell the same thing to a non deity i suppose the do not think what a strange their advanced theories put the human mind in at the hour of death they forget that on the brink of the grave thoughts come that will not be and that cannot be appeased by a learned however i will not pray � it would seem to myself cowardly that i who have never said my prayers since i was a child should run over them now in a foolish o the sorrows of satan attempt to satisfy the powers invisible � i could out of sheer association appeal to mr s besides i do not believe in the powers invisible at all � i feel that once outside this life the rest as hamlet said is silence i have been staring and in a sort of at the little poison in my hand it is quite empty now i have swallowed every drop of the liquid it contained � i took it quickly as one takes medicine without allowing myself another moment of time for thought or hesitation it tasted and burning on my tongue � but at present i am not conscious of any strange or painful result i shall watch my face in the mirror and trace the of death � this will be at any rate a new sensation not without interest my mother is here � here with me in this room she is moving about making wild gestures with her hands and trying to speak she looks as she did when she was dying � only more alive more i have followed her up and down but am unable to touch her � she my grasp i have called her mother mother but no sound issues from her white lips her face is so appalling that i was seized with a of terror a moment ago and fell on my knees before her imploring her to leave me � and then she paused in her gliding to and fro and � smiled what a hideous smile it was i think i lost consciousness for i found myself lying on the ground a sharp and terrible pain running through me made me spring to my feet and i bit my lips till they lest i should scream aloud with the agony i suffered and so alarm the house when the passed i saw my mother standing quite near to me watching me with a strange expression of wonder and remorse i past her and back to this chair where i now sit i am calmer now and i am able to realize that the sorrows of satan she is only the phantom of my own brain � that fancy she is here while she is dead torture indescribable has made of me a moaning helpless creature for the past few minutes truly that was deadly � the pain is horrible horrible it has left me quivering in every limb and in every nerve looking at my face in the glass i see that it has already altered it is drawn and livid � all the fresh rose tint of my lips has gone � my eyes there are dull blue marks at the comers of my mouth and in the hollows of my temples and i observe a curious quick in the veins of my throat be my torment what it will now there is no remedy � and i am resolved to sit here and study my own features to the end the whose name is death must surely be near ready to gather my long hair in his skeleton hand like a of ripe corn my poor beautiful hair � how i have loved its glistening and brushed it and it round my fingers and how soon it will lie like a weed in the a devouring fire is in my brain and body � i am burning with heat and with thirst � i have drunk deep draughts of cold water but this has not relieved me the sun in upon me like an open | 33 |
learning his s sentiments and wishes in your habits and tastes to his � which ever must exercise so essential an influence over your future happiness i cannot understand it nay that was as much his s province as mine exclaimed tossing her beautiful head though tears in her eyes others eagerly proffered that homage which lord so withheld raised her clear eyes miss ham s brow perhaps you will find ere long that all their flattery has not the value of one simple word of spoken by your replied she seriously are you also suddenly become a of the earl exclaimed in a tone of i tell you i never can love one who so much for himself i might just as well attempt to with vitality one of the glowing flowers on this paper before me as to raise myself to his standard then why marry him it would be far more honorable and better to decline the engagement at oh could i think myself at liberty so to do but i will tell you the history of it cried earnestly and you shall judge at the time old lord died which happened when i had attained my tenth year his title descended to papa as you know but his estates and amongst them this beautiful old place to the late earl of papa and he as i think i have before told you were intimate friends and fellow the earl was immensely and most generously proposed to papa to his right to the estates provided the miserable little of the title was to his only n � who had then just or nearly attained his majority upon this solemn contract and agreement papa has alone for the last ten years held the right over these estates and upon its accomplishment depends his future if any objection arises on the part of lord the estates wholly and entirely to papa in accordance with a deed executed by the late earl and � though i acknowledge his to be noble and generous enough to set me free should i demand it � yet did the of the contract proceed from me i know papa would insist on yielding up every acre of the property and he would be only just � for even then we should be deeply indebted to the earl my poor is there then no escape cried gazing with painful emotion on the flushing cheek of her friend surely lord who loves you so tenderly no nothing could be done dearest unless it were the spontaneous act of lord to set me free think i could i by any deed of mine deliberately exile papa from a home he loves so much and dear mamma likewise who is so proud of this beautiful place could i drive them both forth in their declining years to support a on the paltry of a poor dear do not excite yourself thus i exclaimed throwing her arm around her friend s neck and kissing away the tears on her cheek every one speaks so well of lord that in time you must learn to love him and perhaps even when you see him again you will be amazed at your present prejudice i know you have no serious attachment for i cannot bring myself so to your foolish with colonel me as i feel i ought to be appreciated i contrast the warmth of his devotion short as is the time since we first met with his s cold indifference but surely you would not colonel even were you free to do so i a man who has but his handsome person and a most surpassing facility in uttering light and empty to boast of he loves me � which is more than my husband does exclaimed vehemently however though i cannot insist on my release from this engagement i will be no and lord shall know full well he is dragging a reluctant bride to the altar i at this instant a sharp rap at the door made start to her feet raised her head from the sofa cushion and hastily dried her tears in a few seconds the door opened a pretty looking stood on the threshold between her fingers an artificial branch of splendid scarlet come in i exclaimed miss pardon said advancing into the apartment but mil di command me to come and see flowers be suited to the head of mil di order me to prepare your white silk for this evening and you are to wear this wreath also heavens i what a beautiful i exclaimed the pretty lightly the glowing flowers amid s jet curls ah i will be enchanted this evening with the beauty of his fair bride that will do take the flowers away i will wear anything mamma and you arrange only i cannot be disturbed just now said languidly ah what joy is for you to day where is mamma interrupted impatiently lady is sitting in de writing and i was to give her s kind to you miss and say she hope to see you dis evening at dinner and away was bounding when she suddenly stopped short and returned have you any command for me what shall i say to miss dearest you must positively come this evening whispered as e saw her friend hesitate you may go i will give mamma miss s answer i wonder his would seeing s hair dress in or in murmured to herself surveying s small head well i shall tell her and with a low courtesy the vanished � i will hear denial come you shall this evening but on this first evening of lord s arrival will it not appear rather if i accept your mamma s kind invitation miss laughed nay make one only among many similar we have a dinner party to night though of course our guests were all invited before we heard of lord | 41 |
but merely to recover breath not seeming to expect any answer anne listened as if her life depended on the issue of his speech he proceeded with a forced alacrity � the admiral madam was this confidently informed that you were � upon my soul i am quite at a loss ashamed breathing and speaking quickly � the awkwardness of giving information of this kind to one of the parties � you can be at no loss to understand me it was very confidently said that mr � that everything was settled in the family for a union be a of jane mr and yourself it was added that you were to live at � that was to be given up this the admiral knew could not be correct but it occurred to him that it might be the wish of the parties and my commission from him madam is to say that if the family wish is such his lease of shall be and he and my sister will provide themselves with another home without imagining themselves to be doing anything which under similar circumstances would not be done for them this is all madam a very few words in reply from you will be sufficient that i should be the person on this subject is extraordinary and believe me it is no less painful a very few words however will put an end to the awkwardness and distress we may both be feeling anne spoke a word or two but they were unintelligible and before she could command herself he added if you will only tell me that the admiral may address a line to sir walter it will be enough pronounce only the words he may and i shall immediately follow him with your message no sir said anne there is no message you are � the admiral is i do justice to the kindness of his intentions but he is quite mistaken there is no truth in any such report he was a moment silent she turned her eyes towards him for the first time since his re entering the room his color was varying and he was look a of jane ing at her with all the power and which she believed no other eyes than his possessed ko truth in any such report he repeated ko truth in any part of it none he had been standing by a chair enjoying the relief of leaning on it or of playing with it he now sat down drew it a little nearer to her and looked with an expression which had something more than penetration in it � something softer her countenance did not it was a silent but a very powerful dialogue on his on hers acceptance still a little nearer and a hand taken and pressed and anne my own dear anne i bursting forth in all the fulness of exquisite feeling � and all suspense and were over they were they were restored to all that had been lost they were carried back to the past with only an increase of attachment and confidence and only such a flutter of present delight as made them little fit for the interruption of mrs when she joined them not long afterwards she probably in the observations of the next ten minutes saw something to suspect and though it was hardly possible for a woman of her description to wish the maker had imprisoned her longer she might be very likely wishing for some excuse to run about the house some storm to break the windows above or a summons to the admiral s below fortune favored them all however in another way in a gentle steady rain just happily set in as the admiral returned s a of jane and anne rose to go she was earnestly invited to stay dinner a note was despatched to place and she stayed � stayed till ten at night and during that time the husband and wife either by the wife s contrivance or by simply going on in their usual way were frequently out of the room together � gone upstairs to hear a noise or downstairs to settle their accounts or upon the landing to trim the lamp and these precious moments were turned to so good an account that all the most anxious feelings of the past were gone through before they parted at night anne had the felicity of being assured that in the first place so far from being altered for the worse she had gained in personal loveliness and that as to character hers was now fixed on hia mind as perfection itself maintaining the just medium of fortitude and gentleness � that he had never ceased to love and prefer her though it had been only at that he had learnt to do her justice and only at that he had begun to understand his own feelings that at he had received lessons of more than one kind � the passing admiration of mr had at least roused him and the scene on the and at captain s had fixed her superiority li his preceding attempts to attach himself to the attempts of anger and he protested that he had continually felt the impossibility of really caring for though till that day till the leisure for reflection which followed it he had not understood the perfect excellence of the mind with which s could so ill bear a of jane comparison or the perfect the hold it possessed over his own there he had learnt to distinguish between the of principle and the obstinacy of self will between the of and the resolution of a collected mind there he had seen everything to in his estimation the woman he had lost and there had begun to the pride the folly the madness of resentment which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way from that | 26 |
may suffice to say that when the physician arrived he pronounced her out of danger and that the stupor of impending dissolution was soon changed to the calm and peaceful sleep of safety she will be all right in a few hours said the doctor to the anxious husband when he was ready to leave it is best for her and for you that you leave the room the nurse that i have placed in charge will see to all her needs when she it will not do for her to get excited relieved more than words can express walked with the two out of the bedroom and into the parlor a new door taken from some other room had been hung already in place of the broken one and through the efforts of the management the neighborhood of the apartment had assumed its quiet one of the hall boys told them that the other gentlemen had gone into mr s chamber and they went in that direction wild thoughts began to come to gray s heated brain and he wanted to be face to face again with the would be of his peace look here said pausing in the you re not going to act nasty with that fellow in this house are you because that won t do at all i can there s been nothing wrong be love gone astray them here they ve not been one second without my eyes on them the woman has acted as true to you as steel he told her he could prove a liar and save you the estate and in exchange for the papers she has offered you her life it was a clear attempt at suicide he was as scared as you please when she jumped into that bedroom and locked herself in we ll decide what to do with him when we get there but don t you try to take the law on yourself for i shall have to stop you if you do gray did not want a debate he did not like to make promises he wanted to see as soon as possible leaving his conduct to be considered later he contented the with a nod and they went on together but on arriving at their destination a surprise awaited them mr was sitting at a window alone looking out upon the street where s asked and in one breath gone said mr gone where i don t know i didn t ask him i understood he had some private affairs to attend to the three men gazed at each other with open mouths do you mean to say you released him asked gray fiercely that s just what i did why asked come there s no use in this mystery i left the man in your hands and if you ve let him go i want the reason u yes echoed and i want it too stand back i the lawyer rose and came easily toward the mr gray wants the reason and he shall have it said he you must be satisfied gentlemen he to the others that i did what i thought on the whole the wisest thing for all concerned you know me well enough not to think he scared or me i am acting for mr gray and i think i shall convince him that i made no mistake will you kindly let us have the room for a short time the manner of the speaker was convincing and after a brief consultation the retired into the inner chamber and closed the door after them let us sit down said when he and were alone you ve had excitement enough for one day now why did i take the responsibility to let that off on leg because i knew that he could not be convicted of any known to the laws of this state and that it would bring nothing but additional distress on you and your family to take him before a jury mr gray clenched his fists i don t want any jury to deal with him he answered i can attend to that matter myself very likely was the cool but it was not a part of my business to hold a man here with on while you came in and him if you want to see him again which on reflection i am sure you won t you must take the chance of finding him i only looked at the question of law he might be for with to you out of two hundred thousand dollars but the evidence would be s word alone and we don t want to rest a case on such a love gone foundation as that he persuaded your wife to meet him here hoping to get her to consent to an and if he had succeeded he would have been open to but as he didn t what shall we charge him with she brought the with her and was as surprised as any one when she locked the door in his face and swallowed it i m not standing up for the man i felt disgraced by having to stay in the same room with him for twenty minutes but as to him and taking him to court it would be the thing imaginable won t fancy my interference but i can t help that he s a good as good as there is but he don t know law quite as well as i do the logic of this reasoning was too strong to be resisted and gray had to admit that had taken the wisest course still he fully intended to get his own hands on the some day and give him his just deserts his sense of justice urged that punishment was due such a gross attempt against the rights of a husband such a plot to bring ruin to a helpless and loving wife | 1 |
much to see you but i cannot wait any longer came to beg you not to execute the threats you have repeated to me do not i you mrs let any one know i ran away from home it would ruin me a him and break my heart i will do anything for you if you will be so kind to me in the name of our common womanhood do not i you make a scandal of me � yours e knight turned his head wearily towards the house the ground rose rapidly on the in which he stood raising it almost to a level with the first floor the s dressing room a c in this direction and it was lighted b x wo w p of blue eyes a position that from knight s standing place his sight passed through both windows and the room ei was there she was pausing between the two windows looking at her figure in the glass she regarded herself long and attentively in front turned flung back her head and observed the reflection over her shoulder nobody can as to her object or fancy she may have done the deed in the very abstraction of deep sadness she may have been moaning from the bottom of her heart how unhappy am i but the impression produced on knight was not a good one he dropped his eyes the dead woman s letter had a virtue in the accident of its juncture far beyond any it exhibited circumstance lent to evil words a ring of pitiless justice echoing from the grave knight could not endure their possession he tore the letter into ments he heard a brushing among the bushes behind and turning his head he saw following him the fair girl looked in his face with a wistful smile of hope too hopeful to the firmly established dread beneath it his severe words of the previous night still sat heavy upon her i saw you ft om my window harry she said the dew will make your feet wet he observed as one deaf i don t mind it there is danger in getting wet feet yes harry what is the matter o nothing shall i resume the serious conversation i had with you last night no perhaps not perhaps i had better not o i cannot tell i how wretched all is ah i wish you were your own dear self again and had kissed me when i came up why didn t you ask me for one why don t you now too free in manner by half he heard murmur the voice within him it was that hateful v t a pair of blue eyes on o those words last night was a black night for me kiss � i hate that word don t talk of kissing for god s sake i should think you might with advantage have shown tact enough to keep back that word kiss considering whose you have accepted she became very pale and a rigid and desolate look took possession of her face that face was so delicate and tender in appearance now that one could fancy the pressure of a finger upon it would cause a livid spot knight walked on and with him silent and he opened a gate and they entered a path across a field perhaps i intrude upon you she said as he closed the gate shall i go away no listen to me knight s voice was low and unequal i have been honest with you will you be so with me if any � strange � connection has existed between yourself and a of mine tell it now it is better that i know it now even though the knowledge should part us than that i should discover it in time to come and suspicions have been awakened in me i think i will not say how because i despise the means a discovery of any mystery of your past would our lives knight waited with a slow manner of calmness his eyes were sad and imperative they went farther along the path will you forgive me if i tell all she exclaimed i can t promise so much depends upon what you have to tell could not endure the silence which followed are you not going to love me she burst out harry harry love me and speak as usual do i you harry are you going to act fairly by me said knight with rising anger or are you not what have i done to you that i should be put off like this be caught l ke v in a everything intended to ie why is it that s what ow a fair of blue eyes in their agitation they had left the path and were wandering among the wet and without knowing or it what have done she faltered with the utmost distress in her eyes what how can you ask what when you know so well you know that i have been kept in ignorance of something to you which had i known of it might have altered all my conduct and yet you say what she drooped visibly and made no answer not that i believe in malicious letter writers and not i i don t know whether i do or don t upon my soul i can t tell i know this a religion was building itself upon you in my heart i looked into your eyes and thought i saw there truth and innocence as pure and perfect as ever embodied by god in the flesh of a woman perfect truth is too much to expect but ordinary truth i will have or nothing at all just say then is the matter you keep back of the importance or is it not i don t understand all your meaning if i have hidden anything from you it has | 45 |
a neighboring told him the hour was ten and surely by those curtains there hiding the flame that filled their cheeks were the two shop girls their pinched faces slow starvation and and were there all of them and the young man tossed uneasily on his pillow struggling with the remnant of nightmare that remained to cloud his brain when he was able to think and see clearly he sat up and rang for a of ice water he was consumed by thirst and his forehead ached blindly when he had bathed his head and throat he turned by a sudden impulse to his table and took out the of the story he had begun slowly he read over the pages to the last one then seizing his pen he devoted himself to the next chapter without dressing without it was four o clock when he ceased work he realized all at once that he was feeling ill the fact dawned upon him that he needed food and his garments he took his way to a and ordered something to eat as he swallowed the he fell to wondering how much temptation he would be able to bear with hunger as a background he passed a good part of the evening in walking the streets selecting instinctively sections where lie was least likely to meet any one he knew when he returned to his room he read over the he had written that day and into his troubled brain there came a sense of pleasure was right to tell of such matters in a novel one should know them himself could never have written of vice before he saw s now it was as plain to him as print almost as easy to use in fiction as virtue what was to follow he pondered over the plot he had out and it grew clearer a question of color had given him no further encouragement at least in words since that day she had said it was to ask her father but he felt certain that she regarded him with favor and that if mr put no obstacles in the way she would not refuse to wed him when the right time came he thought it would be wise to obtain one more brief interview with her before proceeding to and determined to do his best to draw her aside when he made his next visit to her house this settled he went to bed again and slept soundly when the day to go to arrived s courage began to a little so much depended upon the attitude of his dear one s mind which for all he knew had changed since he talked with her that he fairly trembled with apprehension he avoided mr with whom he usually took the train and went out early at a station a mile or two away from the right one he walked through the woods trying to think how to act in case matters did not turn out as he hoped under the branches he strolled along until he came within sight of the roofs of and then he threw himself at the foot of a tree close to mr s grounds and gave himself up to reverie when he laid down here it was only five o clock and he was not expected at the house for a full hour it pleased him to be so near the one he loved and to lie where he could dream of her sweet face and see the outlines of the house that sheltered her while she had no knowledge of his presence just over there was the where he had first had the ss a ck a supreme bliss of touching her lips with his own if he could get her to come there with him again tonight when the others were occupied with their talk of earthly things and if she would only tell him frankly that he might go to her father and that her prayers would go with him a soft languor came over his body at the of these reflections but it was dissipated by the sound of voices which presently came to him from the other side of the hedge i can t exactly understand miss said one of the voices which he had no difficulty in as that of why you wish me to go away there was an assurance in the tone that did not like he had noticed it before in the intercourse of this negro with his there was something which intimated that he was on the most complete level with them i want you to go said in her quiet way because education is the only thing that will make you what you ought to be there are a hundred chances open to you in the professions if you can take a college course unless you do you can hope for nothing better than such employment as you have now it made the listener s blood boil to think that these people should be consulting in that way like friends ought to have a better sense of her position i will not refuse your offer at least not yet replied after a slight pause it may bt at you say if i as a doctor or a lawyer a of but i know that i live in a country where my color is despised and all that could possibly come to me here as a professional man is work among my own race i should be a black lawyer with black or a black physician with black to really succeed i should go across the ocean to some land where the shade of my skin would not be counted a crime s face could not be seen by the listener but he was sure it was a kindly one and this made him the situation was it should not be considered so anywhere said | 1 |
hideous audience showed signs of deep feeling and many shed tears at his in coming to visit those who to use their own touching expression were ah m the grave the which follows is from the pen of a gentleman who accompanied the king and visited the hospital on the same occasion in company with two members of the board of health as our party stepped on shore we found the assembled to the number of two or three hundred � there are all told in the settlement � for they had heard in advance of our coming and our ears were greeted with the sound of lively music this proceeded from the band consisting of a drum a and two rather played upon by four young lads whose were horribly marked and with the a visit to the airs with which these poor creatures welcomed the arrival of the party sounded strangely and out of place and harshly upon our feelings and then as we proceeded up the beach and the crowd gathered about us eager and anxious for a recognition or a kind word of greeting � oh the repulsive and sickening and distorted of the human face divine upon which we looked and as they evidently read the ill concealed aversion in our countenances withdrew the half proffered hand and back with hanging heads they felt i ain that they were the of society and must not us with their touch a few cheerful words of inquiry from the physician dr addressed to individuals as to their particular cases broke the embarrassment of this first meeting and soon the crowd were and laughing just like any other crowd of thoughtless and with but few exceptions these unfortunate showed no signs of the settled melancholy that would naturally be looked for from people so hopelessly situated very happy were they when spoken to and quite ready to answer any questions we saw numbers whom we had known in years past and who having disappeared we had thought dead one we had known as a representative and a very intelligent one too in the of on greeting him as an old time acquaintance he observed yes we meet again � in this living grave he is a man of no little consideration among the people being by the board of health with the care of the store which is kept here for the sale of such goods as the people require all do not appear to be who are we saw numbers who might pass along our streets any day without being suspected of the taint they had it however in one way or another sometimes on the only eating away the flesh and the bones of the hands or feet and sometimes only appearing in black and spots on the skin noticed only on a somewhat close examination this last sort is said to be the worst as being most surely fatal and easiest we saw women who had the disease in this stage walking about whom it was difficult to believe were if our were shocked at the sight of the crowd of we had met at the beach walking about in physical strength and activity how shall we describe our sensations in looking upon these creatures in the hospital in whom it was indeed hard to recognise anything human the rooms were kept and well but the atmosphere within was pervaded with the sickening of the grave at each end or lying prone on their respective or were the yet breathing of in the last stages of various forms of the disease who glanced at us for a moment out of their like eyes � those who were not already beyond seeing � and then withdrew within their dreadful selves was there ever a more pitiful sight in one room we saw a sight that will ever remain fixed on the of memory a little haired child apparently three or four s scenes in the hospital old a half caste that looked up at us with an expression of longing to be and loved but alas in its eyes and transparent cheeks were the unmistakable signs of the curse � the sin of the parents visited upon the child in another room was one � a mass of flesh with but little semblance of humanity remaining � who was dying and whose breath came hurried and a few hours at most and his troubles would be over and his happy release arrive there had been fourteen deaths in the settlement during the previous fortnight on the day of our visit there were fifty eight inmates of the hospital though the lifting of the veil of mystery which hangs over the death valley of some of the most features of the curse it is a to know the worst and that the poor in their living grave are not outside the pale of humanity and a judicious all that can be done for them is to encourage their remaining for industry and to smooth as far as is possible the of death the government is doing its best to stamp out the disease and to provide for the comfort of those who are isolated and with the limited means at its disposal has acted with an and humanity worthy of the foremost of countries letter june md often since i finished my last letter has reply to occurred to me is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing for in answer to people who have said i hope nothing will induce you to attempt the ascent of i always said oh dear no i should never dream of it or nothing would persuade me to think of it this morning early mr green came in on his way to to which i was to accompany him and on my casually remarking that i envied him his further journey he at once asked me to | 20 |
me killed he ll rouse at the sight a man tou got clever all of a sudden said w did you come to know is funny little ways that soon by ic many said with emphasis i had conquered the beggar my son ho said between doubt and derision g on his s child an wan or two other line babies came up not bein afraid anything an some got an i washed the top his poor sore head i had done him to a turn an some the pieces carts out his hide an we scraped him an handled him all over an we put a big leaves the same that ye stick on a pony s on his head an it looked like a cap an we put a pile young sugar cane him an he began to pick at ut now i down on his fore foot we ll have a an let be i sent a child for a an the s wife she me out four fingers an the liquor came i see by the twinkle in ould s eye that he was no more a stranger to ut than me � worse luck than so he his like a christian an thin i put his on chained him fore an aft to the an gave him my an back to and after i said in the pause ye can guess said there was confusion an the colonel gave me ten an the gave me five an my ny captain gave by ic lord the elephant me five an the men carried me round the did you go to said i heard a word more about the s if that s what you mane but ril the was off sudden to the holy christians hotel that night small blame to � they had twenty in i to lie down an sleep ut off for i was as done an double done as him there in the lines tis no small thing to go ride me an the venerable father sin became mighty i go down to the lines i was in an spend an af him he wan stick sugar cane an me another as thick as thieves he d take all i had out my pockets an put ut back again an now an thin i d bring him beer for his an i d give him advice about bein well behaved an off the books that he the way the army an that s bein as soon as you ve made a good friend so you never saw him again i demanded do you believe the first half the affair said ill wait till comes i said except when he was carefully by the other two and the immediate money benefit explained by ic inventions the did not tell lies and i knew had a imagination there s another part still said was in that then til believe it all i answered not from any special belief in s word but from desire to learn the rest he stole a from me once when our acquaintance was new and with the little beast stifling under his overcoat denied not only the but that he ever was interested in dogs that was at the the business said years the men that had seen me do the was dead or gone home i came not to speak ut at the last � i do not care to knock the face man that calls me a liar at the very the i sick like a fool i had a boot but i was all for up the and like foolishness so i finished up a hole in my heel that you ha a tent into faith how often have i preached that to since for a to to look their feet i our who knew our business as well as his own he to me in the middle the pass ut was sheer damned carelessness he how often have you that a man is no stronger than his feet � his feet � his feet i he now to hospital you go he for three weeks an expense to your an a by ic my the to your next time he perhaps put some the you pour down your throat an some the you put into your hair into your he faith he was a just man so soon as we come to the head the i to hospital on wan disappointment twas a field hospital all flies an native an in a way close by the head the the hospital was mad us sick for there an we was mad at bein kept an through the day an night an night an day the an horse an guns an an tents an followers the was like a coffee mill the came through scores an scores an they d turn up the hill to hospital their sick an i lay in bed my heel an the men bein out i wan night the time i was fever a man came through the tents an is there any room to die here he there s none the columns an at that he dropped dead a cot an thin the man in ut began to complain against all alone in th dust dead men thin i must ha turned mad the fever an for a week i was the saints to stop the noise the columns through the gun wheels ut was that wore my head thin ye know how his fever by ic we nodded there was no need to explain gun wheels an feet an people but mostly gun wheels twas neither night nor day to me for a week in the they d up the tent flies and we sick look at the pass an what was next horse or guns they d be sure to wan or two sick us an we d get | 39 |
empty good nature now at her verdict and her witty line alexander had turned literally as pale as i the drop of oil she poured l the deadly wounds she had given by j a dramatic tale � waa no comfort to him ho tried to lo her but his lip trembled so violently ho could � at last he i for yon have taught your own value and in � mine forgive time i have made yon waste upon a d � and then in of a l he could do the tears forced through the poor boy fl eyes and one look of and half upon her he put his hand to his brow and went from the room and o poor she made him ten older than when ten before he entered that room all and poetry and hope and love slowly and he dragged his heavy steps and heavy heart his father and ed his small apartment his son sitting his eyes fixed on the m a few abrupt words he told him he knew about his folly and had come up to cure it is cured said alexander she has cured me herself then she is an honest woman cried so now since that they went to westminster they entered k court of law and were go fortunate as to hear an trial counsel the was just opening a case the advocate dwelt upon sacred feelings outraged by the on the gap that had been in a house and in a human heart the pitiable doubt that had been cast over those sacred parental which were all that now remained to the husband he painted the chamber the gone and all that sort of thing his speech was rich in topic and point and as for emphasis it was all emphasis he concluded in such injuries as these can never be by money it is ridiculous to talk of money where a man has been laid desolate and therefore i hope gentlemen of the jury you will give my thousand at the very at point the orator mode alexander as if to say that is how you must do it some as they returned attorney asked poet how he had been charmed by mr a mr s points well father was the languid reply this shows me that people who would speak the heart should speak from the heart i heard something like a dog barking that is all i remember a d l one of the first in the land bnt there yoa come to your dinner i won t be in a passion with you if i can help � be b ter after din s satisfaction at his son s sudden cure was soon alexander was not better after dinner r re this might have been having eaten none he could not eat and never a visible and then silence again the next and following days matters were worse of all could do to move he sank into a cold melancholy about five o clock by art a dramatic play time he used less and for a while ii nd into stone and now began to � himself the done to his during that short interview between them he began greatly to the cave or rather to fear that the first poison by a in the way of which had left his son worse case than hitherto be had thought it wi to avoid the and silently the boy s folly by taking him and shaking him an him thinking of it but now one evening as ee at alexander s pallid after a vain attempt or two to interest the poet in other matters he suddenly burst out what is the matter alexander what has she done to you now alexander me my boy said more gently alexander she has me she has my heart of all its wealth rather have gone on believing all that is great and good though inaccessible to me but to my divinity a mean heartless to find t at i have poured all treasures away forever upon an object o father i do not so much that she is worthless but that i thought her � hy to me she was the jewel of the i know her now for a vile and i have wasted my affections on this creature and now i have none left for any worthy object scarcely my father see my conduct to you in week heaven forgive me � and yon forgive me sir i i am no son to yon i am lost am lost i knees or i � � kick into the fi � he that is right � that s a dear boy now tell me what has tho poor done i can t think she is such a very bad she has robbed herself and me of the with which i liad ed her and shown herself to me in her true colors why mustn t tell me she her lace without t is with cold not that hut off the stage vulgar bad woman t think at of father i have no words to tell her vulgarity her her stupidity � as for her it is all paint and i saw her this day se night in her own house she is vulgar and dirty and almost ugly you young rascal you know she is as an an ij � isn t she sir � ah j you have only seen her on the stage � i see her on the stage i what do you tell me i go to p h i never was in a pi h my then how do y w h beautiful where h n n her if not on the stage mr ted he did not choose h to w he had visited the p es d her in his alexander saw his ca d it | 9 |
until they stand upon its brink � when trouble comes oppressed and scared for struggling it unprepared beneath the blows of fate and rise no more to high estate d n� a and er for future chance or promptly meets er success while he goes wrong in act who is not prompt and strong to l no man gains good who is not bold and ready danger to but if he dares and bears its and lives � he then shall good behold � e iii a man should ne er himself despise who weakly thus himself the flowing tide of fortune stems and ne er to high estate can rise from writers can m ms p mount s peak to scale is not too high nor lowest depth to reach too deep nor sea too broad to for men of fiery v the truly brave however tried in all events the test abide the gloom of woods the wild beasts haunt their manly spirits cannot amid distress and woe they ne er lose heart no fear they know when swords are swung or thick as hail the arrows they never vi events have onward sped too fast the time to change thy course is past a dam rear st the streams to stay which have already flowed away thy house is burned the flames to for water now thou st a well compare b m ii thou in vain to a dam when the water is gone iii a wise man should strive after his own whilst his body is in health whilst decay is far off whilst his strength is unbroken and there is no decline of life when the house is in flames what is the use of making an effort to dig a st il f i n xii vl the men who let the time for action pass away though long they seek can seldom get another opportunity xl while yet the hours for action last a man should strive his ends to gain that so he may not mourn in vain the chance away for ever past at action v if i now take this step what next should i forbear what must i then expect thus e er he acts a man should well reflect and weighing both the sides his course should choose t for xl i nor wealth nor yet a band of friends can bring such sure relief to mortals overwhelmed with grief as strong and steadfast self command from writers not � ot iii d te � xii with the body s are healed but wisdom mental anguish such wholesome power in knowledge dwells to grief then never weakly yield to ul xii f no day arrives but as it flies of fear a hundred sources brings of grief a thousand bitter springs to vex the fool � but not the wise of a man j v the men too high who never aim for things once lost who never mourn by troubles ne er are � such men the pr se of wisdom claim not to be f a bounded vault the seems with fire the seems to shine and yet no bounds the sky confine tis not with fire the i so other sense too else might cheat should first be tried and those which every test abide should only then be deemed as true ble je iii what gain can discontent contentment makes men truly he who has travelled wisdom s way with gladness th approaching day when he in bliss supreme shall rest ke � li h ix � content xi though proudly their fortune s tide though their men are ne er content but wise men soon are satisfied i most men the things they have despise and others which they have not prize in winter wish for summer s glow in summer long for winter s snow � lo in to xii b some men by circumstance of birth are happier others more but any man completely i nowhere yet have seen on earth this verse in original immediately the next no from writers xii xii � when men grow rich for something else they pine they would be kings were attained they would gods become were they d long to rule o er all the race divine but thou wealth and royal power acquire and soaring higher yet become a god yea rule all by thy sovereign nod ev n then thou more desire mom h i and s ia ff xii ff xii ff xii renewed enjoyment never but rather more desire the more by oil or wood a fire is fed the more it fiercely flames fools find it hard to this � this plague which lasts out all man s days which grows not old as he � who it he alone is compare the of ff where says for i o mother will declare concealing nothing i would go to the place where the stars and the rise and beneath the earth � if i were able to do these things � in order to possess power the greatest of the � compare v see below in the story of and t the paradise the abode of i then desire earth all the gems her hold with women cattle stores of gold � all fails one greedy man to ot ot iii as fire the wood from which it springs so to mortals ruin brings the rich in constant dread of rulers live of water fire thieves crying give ev n wealth itself to some men proves a who on it no lasting bliss can gain as flesh by of earth sea air � beasts fishes birds � is seized as dainty fare so too the rich are on everywhere increasing wealth to and folly leads and meanness pride and fear and sorrow in getting keeping losing wealth what pain do men endure they others kill for gain | 28 |
and until a whole region is that was gifted with depth of spiritual insight and power to describe the most profound emotions of the soul and the links binding it to the material universe beyond all other english poets we had almost said beyond himself we cannot doubt his and line sound those awful depths of consciousness the secret places where joy and terror and love are bom which to some men are unknown but alas he did not live to give complete utterance his was by the woes of humanity his short life bv a persecution of which we have no parallel in the history of modem literature yet what might not that genius in the maturity of its power have accomplished that amid the chaos of a life like his could shape such forms of awful grandeur as rise before us in that could sway the passions as in the that could glide into the realm of the spiritual world as in and or in the pure sunshine of beauty as in � the sensitive plant and the it has been said of he was a broken mirror whose fragments reflected the forms of all things he was a poet for poets his writings are to the bard what the s feast of is to the artist � more precious that their creator left them all their to work their way into ae souls of men the genius of was oriental he was a man out of his by half the of the globe his and curse of are as truly wonderful and excellent in their way as his and are the reverse he reasoned upon politics and religion he looked upon society like a he did all manner of things and wrote poems that should be hung up as � yet twice he found his element and left specimens of and poetry in our language each of these great writers no less than and scott has been more or less successfully the peculiarities of master and have thus divided the poetic band into groups among these tiie latest is that composed of and his followers so early taken from the earth he the poetry of lived l enough to express his thought in a few inferior to no others of the age in originality of design and execution we say was an poet of course we do not employ the term in the usual foolish mode as indicating an entire from all others men g true genius are not monsters though possessing a temperament and a position which makes it impossible that they should ever than themselves influences from lofty minds steal in to direct them and underneath all their peculiarities flows the tide of a common humanity as the same ocean around the flower islands of the and lashes the icy banks that frown over the seas of course there are men whose productions are widely separated who stand back to back yet the majority of writers are distinguished by characteristics not easily described a slight peculiarity of temperament or the of a single � a uttle difference of mental culture a year s additional spiritual experience � either of these things colors the medium which that strange assemblage of and we call nature and life are viewed and the an author these peculiarities are probably his own temperament depth of being and capacity of on and moral experience � these came from i� m who willed that each of his creatures shall from every other but the same materials surround all and and suggestions must come from others in only by contact on every side with minds can one acquire its proper development by the attraction and of every individual in the great mass of humanity is each driven to its own place we must then look for much that is common to us all in the most original mind and not deny its claim to even if we can discover all the sources of its and all the of communication between itself and other spirits therefore we shall not hesitate to bestow upon the title of a great al poet his as we have before observed is the love of the beautiful he is the of beauty the of modem poets heaven and earth air and sea and the forms of human and beings are constantly filling his soul with the materials of his poetic creation he he he is oppressed and amid the around him he cannot drive away the poetry as the of images that his and he is with ihe and of beauty is all sufficient for him the reader who looks for any purpose beyond this in his works will be pointed he has no power in the of character life and he never attempts it hie beautiful of him a field for the exercise of his power and through it he with ever new delight the intelligible of poets the of old the power the beau and the that had her in or or forest by slow stream or spring or and depths � an these live in his pictured es he is from common life in the high re of romance love and beauty the da of tiie gods ar with a new lustre in the inspiration of this modem by modem life and oppressed by tiie neglect and of an age that knew not his rare powers he never e makes his verse the medium of his opinions or personal he seeks not to the hell of modem but to escape from it beauty to him is sufficient consolation for all woes � it is religion and power a thing of is a joy � t the eternal law that first in beauty shall be first in might the loves of and the sorrows of old dreams of the of and the ma of � these were to him more than all things else he walked among | 37 |
against either why should i harm the lad because you wanted the property i did not want the property all i wished was to marry mrs here and return to i hate your english life had i the boy i would have been by my faith bound to have told father would he have kept silent would he a priest have such injustice the and the coin muttered something about priests being capable of all things but was too polite to say so out loud you doubtless told father under the seal of confession i said therefore by the rules of his church he was forced to hold his tongue besides i added significantly i have no doubt that father prefers a catholic to a at you wrong me said the in a tone which made me feel mean mr made no such confession had he done so i should have found means to have the injustice done to the lad though he be you carry it bravely gentlemen said in his most cutting tones and had i not proof to the contrary i might believe you john he added turning sharply i say you your nephew and that helped you i say you lie retorted would you welcome him back to rob you of your willingly i take god to witness that the dearest wish of my heart is to see francis my nephew in his position all present had risen to their feet la was pale with terror with emotion the face of father was set like a mask only laughed you will never see him here said he holy mary no in response to a nod from lord i opened the door francis strode into the room and confronted the baffled cursed in spanish his sister shrieked here is the lad himself said now he advanced and took the young man by the hand so as to assure himself that his nephew was flesh and blood welcome back to your own francis he said at length i am glad you have come the and the coin muttered snapping the lid of ie box i can hardly believe your speech said francis coldly seeing it by your orders i was carried off who told you so the tried to get out of the way but a too sharp for him and had grip on his throat in no spanish you lying spanish scoundrel i he swore own up the truth or i ll choke the life out of you did i order p to my nephew not gasped no e hurled him on the floor and faced us you he said i am innocent then who is guilty asked perplexed by ble train of circumstances i am said la gliding m v � � j a the the rage on her face mother of god i now this cab is li i bare lost all yes i wrote to my brother and ai him to take away this fool was x to lave but k hundred pounds while ha had i well i k that if he were gone john would make me his li all the would he ours she added ton towards always i hated you but love so that i could you from john is ii i ordered it all obeyed me but now cursed ones i you gain and i lose e rushed out of the room followed by father c evidently she bad told all this to the priest at and he did not wish to he questioned about it jt was over as he well knew do you believe me now said tes said and e simultaneously believe you then there is nothing more to be said this has been the of my life he knew too much ai my experiences for me to kick liim out of h hut had i guessed his share in this black business out should have gone by all the saints yes as to she is a woman and not for her i good bye and he strode towards the door you going asked francis h his way back to the woods lad in spite of all i shall a and he friends with yonder � it is my bye nephew he said shaking tlie hand of do not think too badly of me come i brother let us depart he caught by the arm and mm the door closed and wo saw them no more and went back to their own wild and no o i s w laws went � � ex s � � � t � � � � � � � t l hb and coin he did not care about staying once more francis entered into his and now that lord looks after him there is no fear of him being a second time as i was leaving the old gentleman made a remark i am sorry for john said he there is more good in him than i thought but had it not been for that coin i might have deemed him a villain all my life of the reward he gave for finding francis i nothing it concerns me more than any one else m � i p r � � i i � t l � � j i � � � p � � � � � i i l v � � i � � b � � � � � i i � vi � � i � � � � the rainbow f � f � � � � � the rainbow country have fewer opportunities than their brethren of handling exceptional cases the of life numerous strange which are of occurrence in provincial human nature is no doubt the same in country as in town but the lack of a concentrated population by demanding less ingenuity on the part of the criminal the level of crime moreover wits are not so keen | 12 |
said one of the officials the man said the certainly not said the other and the first his statement but how can it be otherwise asked the or why was he so terrified at sight o the singing instrument of the law here he related the strange behaviour of the third stranger on entering the house can t understand it said the officer coolly all i know is that it is not the condemned man he s quite a different character from this one a fellow with dark hair and eyes rather good looking and with a musical bass voice that if the three strangers you heard it once you d never mistake as long as you lived why souls � twas the man in the what said the magistrate coming forward after inquiring particulars from the shepherd in the background haven t you got the man after all well sir said the he s the man we were in search of that s true and yet he s not the man we were in search of for the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted sir if you understand my way for twas the man in the chimney comer a pretty kettle of fish altogether said the magistrate you had better start for the other man at once the prisoner now spoke for the first time the mention of the man in the chimney comer seemed to have moved him as nothing else could do sir he said stepping forward to the magistrate take no more trouble about me the time is come when i may as well speak i have done nothing my crime is that the condemned man is my brother early this afternoon i left home at to tramp it all the way to to bid him farewell i was and called here to rest and ask the way when i opened the door i saw before me the very man my brother that i thought to see in the condemned cell at he was in this chimney comer and close to him so that the three strangers he could not have got out if he had tried was the who d come to take his life singing a song about it and not knowing that it was his victim who was close by joining in to save appearances my brother looked a glance of agony at me and i knew he meant don t reveal what you see my life depends on it i was so terror struck that i could hardly stand and not knowing what i did i turned and hurried away the s manner and tone had the stamp of truth and his story made a great impression on all around and do you know where your brother is at the present time asked the magistrate i do not i have never seen him since i closed this door i can testify to that for we ve been between ye ever since said the where does he think to fly to � what is his occupation he s a watch and clock maker sir a said a was a � a wicked rogue said the the wheels o and watches he meant no doubt said shepherd i thought his hands were for s trade well it appears to me that nothing can be gained by retaining this poor man in said the magistrate your business lies with the other unquestionably and so the little man was released off hand but he looked nothing the less sad on that account it the three strangers being beyond the power of magistrate or to out the written troubles in his brain for they concerned another whom he regarded with more solicitude than himself when this was done and the man had gone his way the night was found to be so far advanced that it was deemed useless to renew the search before the next morning next day accordingly the quest for the clever sheep became general and keen to all appearance at least but the intended punishment was cruelly to the and the sympathy of a great many country folk in that district was strongly on the side of the fugitive moreover his marvellous coolness and daring under the circumstances of the shepherd s party won their admiration so that it may be questioned if all those who made themselves so busy in exploring woods and fields and lanes were quite so thorough when it came to the private examination of their own and stories were afloat of a mysterious figure being occasionally seen in some old overgrown or other remote from roads but when a search was in any of these suspected quarters nobody was found thus the days and weeks passed without tidings in brief the bass man of the chimney corner was never some said that he went across the sea others that he did not but buried himself in the depths of a city at any rate the gentleman in grey never did his the three strangers morning s work at nor met an at all for business purposes the comrade with whom he had passed an hour of in the lonely house on the the grass has long been green on the graves of shepherd and his wife the guests who made up the party have mainly followed their to the tomb the baby in whose honour they all had met is a matron in the and yellow leaf but the arrival of the three strangers at the shepherd s that night and the details connected is a story as well known as ever in the country about higher thomas hardy the black i have set myself the task of relating in the course of this story without or a single detail the most painful and humiliating episode in my life i do this not because it will give me the least pleasure but | 4 |
could hide a god from a god and there is a greek verse which runs the gods are to each other not unknown friends also follow the laws of divine necessity they to each other and cannot otherwise � when each the other shall avoid shall each by each be most enjoyed their relation is not made but allowed the gods must seat themselves without in our and as they can themselves by divine society is spoiled if pains are taken if the associates are brought a mile to meet and if it be not society it is a mischievous low degrading though made up of the best all the greatness of each is kept back and every in painful activity as if the should meet to exchange snuff boxes life goes headlong we chase some flying scheme or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us but if suddenly we encounter a friend we pause our heat and hurry look foolish enough now pause now possession is required aud the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart the moment is all in all noble relations a divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart our waits for the fulfilment of these two in one the ages are opening this moral force all force is the shadow or symbol of that poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence men write their names on the world as they are filled with this history been mean our nations have been we have never seen a man that divine form we do not yet know but only the dream and prophecy of such we do not know the majestic manners which belong to him which and the we shall one day see that the most private is the most public energy that quality for quantity and grandeur essay iii of character acts in the dark and them who never saw it what greatness has yet appeared is and to us in this direction the history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped are documents of character the ages have in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune and who was hanged at the of his nation who by the pure quality of his nature shed an splendor around the facts of his death which has every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind this great defeat is hitherto our highest fact but the mind requires a victory to the senses a force b character which will convert judge jury soldier and king which will rule animal and virtues and with the courses of sap of rivers of winds of stars and of moral agents if we cannot attain at a bound to these at least let us do them homage in society high advantages are set down to the possessor as it requires the more in our private i do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character and to entertain it with thankful hospitality when at last that which we have always longed for is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land then to be coarse then to be character and treat such a the and suspicion of the streets a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven this is confusion this the right insanity when the soul no longer knows its own nor where its its religion are due is there any religion but this to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower it for me if none sees it i see it i am aware if i alone of the greatness of the fact whilst it i will keep sabbath or holy time and my gloom and my folly and jokes nature is indulged by the presence of this guest there are many eyes that can detect � honor the prudent and household virtues there are many that can discern genius on his track though the mob is incapable but when that love which is all suffering all all which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any comes into our streets and houses � only the pure and can know its face and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it manners � how near to good is what is fair which we no sooner see but with the lines and outward air our senses taken be again yourselves compose and now put all the on of figure that proportion or color can disclose that if those silent arts were lost design and picture they might boast from you a ground instructed by the sense of dignity and reverence in their true motions found ben essay it m anne rs half the world it is said knows not how the other half live our exploring expedition saw the getting their dinner off human bones and they are said to eat their own wives and children the of the modem inhabitants of west of old is philosophical to a fault to set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three pots a stone to grind meal and a mat which is the bed the house namely a tomb is ready without rent or taxes no rain can pass through the roof and there is no door for there is no want of one as there is nothing to lose if the house do not please them they walk out and enter another as there are several hundreds at their command it is somewhat singular adds to whom we owe this account o talk of happiness among people who live in among the and | 37 |
us so away we go the three of us bud an me that to take our away from us i guess we turn into the alley back of s nobody in sight bud stops short and the an me stop i don t think he wants to drive bud says an the says quick you life i do you re dead sure you want that job i says yes he s dead sure s goin to keep him away from that job why that job s what he come to town for an we can t lead him to it too quick well my friend says i it s my sad duty to inform you that you ve made a mistake how s that he says go on i says you re on your foot and honest to god saxon that looks down at his feet to see i don t understand says he we re goin to show you says i an bang fourth of july kingdom come blue lights sky an hell fire � just like that it don t take long when you re scientific an trained to work of course it s hard on the but say saxon if you d seen that before an after you d by ic the valley op the moon thought he was a change artist laugh t you d a halted to give vent to his own mirth saxon forced herself to join with him but down in her heart was horror was right the stupid workers and over the clever masters rode in and did not and they hired other stupid ones to do the and for them it was men like and frank like johnson and frank like belly and the like and all the rest of the who were beaten up shot or hanged ah the clever ones were very clever nothing happened to them they only rode in their you big the as he to his feet at the end was continuing you think you still want that i ask he shakes his head then i read m the riot act they s only one thing for you to do old an that s beat it d ye get met beat it back to the farm for you an if you come around town again we ll be real mad at you we was only this time but next time we catch you your own mother won t know you when we get done with you an � say � you seen m beat it i bet he s goin yet an when he gets back to or sleepy hollow or wherever he hangs out an tells how the boys does things in it s dollars to they won t be a in his district that d come to town to drive if they offered ten dollars an hour it was awful saxon said then laughed well appreciation but that was went on a bunch of the boys caught another one this morning they didn t do a thing to him my goodness gracious no in less n two minutes he was the worst wreck they ever hauled to the hospital the papers gave the score nose broken three bad wounds front teeth out a broken an two broken ribs he by ic the valley of the moon got all that was to him but that s d ye want to know what the did in the big strike before the earthquake they took every they caught an broke both his arms with a that was so he couldn t drive you see say the was filled with em an the won that strike too but is it necessary to be so terrible i know they re and that they re taking the bread out of the children s mouths to put in their own children s mouths and that it isn t fair and all that but just the same is it necessary to be so terrible sure thing answered confidently we just throw the fear of god into them � when we can do it without bein caught and if you re caught then the union the lawyers to defend us though that ain t much good now for the judges are pretty an the papers keep away at them to give stiff er an sentences just the same before this strike s over there be a whole lot of a they d never gone very cautiously in the next half hour saxon tried to feel out her husband s attitude to find if he doubted the of the violence he and his brother committed but s sanction was rock and profound it never entered his head that he was not absolutely right it was the game caught in its tangled he could see no other way to play it than the way all men played it he did not stand for and murder however but then the did not stand for such quite was his explanation that and murder did not pay that such actions always brought down the condemnation of the public and broke the strikes but the healthy beating up of a he � the throwing of the fear of god into a as he expressed it � was the o ly right and proper thing to do our folks never had to do such things saxon said by ic the valley op the moon finally they never had strikes nor in those times you bet they didn t agreed them was the good old days i d liked to a lived then he drew a long breath and sighed but them times will never come again would you have liked living in the country saxon asked sure thing there s lots of men living in the country now she just the same i notice them a to town to get our was his reply ed by chapter xii a gleam | 21 |
band going in front of it himself with both of them having in their hands and at their of which no attempt was made to deprive them for none knew their use then they started surrounded by the bare priests who and waved as they walked and preceded and followed by the grim of tall soldiers on whose the torch light flashed as they came the gates of the palace yard were opened they passed them and across the space beyond until they reached the doors of the temple which were thrown wide before them here and descended from the and all the were extinguished leaving them in darkness felt his hand seized and was led along he knew not where for the misty gloom was intense he could scarcely see the face even of the priest who conducted him but from the sounds he gathered that all their party were being guided in a similar fashion once or twice also he heard the voice of a settlement man speaking in accents of fear or complaint but such were followed quickly by the sound of a heavy blow dealt no doubt by the priest or soldier in charge of that individual evidently it was expected that all should be silent presently became aware that they had left the open space across which they were walking for the air grew close and their footsteps rang hollow on the rocky floor � i believe that we are in a whispered silence dog a priest in his ear silence this place is holy they did not understand the meaning of the words at the moment but the tone in which they were spoken made their purport sufficiently clear took the hint and t the people of the at the same time clutched his rifle more tightly he began to be afraid for their safety whither were they led � to a well they would soon know and at the worst it was not probable that these would harm they followed the or passage for about a and fifty paces at first it downwards then the floor became level till at length they began to ascend a stair there were sixty one stone steps in this for counted them each about ten inches high and when all were climbed they advanced eleven paces along a that echoed strangely to their steps and was so low that they must bend their heads to pass it emerging from this through a narrow opening they stood upon a platform also of stone and once more the chill air their brows so dense was the gloom that could tell nothing of the place where they might be but from far beneath them rose a hissing sound as of water and combined with it another sound of faint aa though thousands of people whispered each to each also from time to time he heard a rustling like that of a forest when a gentle wind its leaves or the rustling of the robes of innumerable women this sense of the presence of hidden waters and of an unseen multitude was strange and in the extreme it was as though without perceiving them their human faculties suddenly had become aware of the spirits of the dead following � there but speaking without words touching without hands was tempted to cry aloud so great was the strain upon his nerves which usually were strong enough nor was he alone in this desire presently a sound arose from below him as of some person in and he heard a priest command in a fierce voice the sobbing and laughter went on till it in a shrill scream after the scream came the of a blow a heavy fall a groan and once again the invisible multitude whispered and has been killed muttered in s ear who is it i wonder shuddered but made no answer for a great hand was placed upon his mouth in warning at length the quiet was broken and a voice i the temple of spoke the voice of the priest in the silence all that he uttered could be heard plainly but his words came from far away and the sound of them was still and small this was what he said as told it to them after the ceremony hear me ye children of the snake ye ancient people of the mist to me the priest of the snake many a generation gone in the beginning of time so runs the legend the mother goddess whom we worship from of old descended from heaven and came hither to us and with her came the snake her child while she in the land the crime of crimes was wrought the darkness the daylight and she passed hence we know not how or where and from that hour the land has been a land of mist and its people have wandered in the mist for he whose name is darkness has ruled over them answering their prayers with death but this doom was on the snake that because of his wickedness he must put off the flesh of men and descend into the holy place of waters where as we and our fathers have known his symbol dwells taking tribute of the lives of men yet ere that crime was wrought the mother gave a word of promise to her people now i am about to die at the hands of him i bore for so it is fated she said but not for ever do i leave you and not for ever shall the snake be punished by putting off the flesh of men many generations shall go by and we will return again and rule over you and the veil of mist shall be lifted from your land and ye shall be great in the earth till then choose you kings and let them govern you moreover forget not my worship and see to it that | 18 |
is there yes and so may any mortal who is capable of full sympathy and therefore worthy to come into my depths but he must by ic i american note books find his own way i can neither guide nor him it is this involuntary reserve i suppose that has given the to my writings and when people think that i am pouring myself out in a tale or an essay i am merely telling what is common to human nature not what is peculiar to myself i with them not they with me i have recently been both about and preached about here in my native city the preacher was rev mr fox of port but how he contrived to put me into a sermon i know not i trust he took for his text behold an indeed in whom there is no march ti � that poor home how desolate it is now last night being awake my thoughts travelled back to the lonely old and it seemed as if i were wandering up stairs and down stairs all by myself my fancy was almost afraid to be there alone i could see every object in a dim gray light � our chamber the study all in confusion the with the fragments of that breakfast on the table and the precious silver forks and the old bronze image keeping its solitary stand upon the then the wretched came and jumped upon the window sill and clung there with her fore for which i could not grant her being there myself only in the spirit and then came the ghost of the old doctor through the gallery and down the staircase and peeping into the parlor and though i was wide awake and con vol ii by v z z american note books of being so many miles from tbe spot still it was quite awful to think of tbe ghost having sole possession of our home for i could not quite separate myself from it after all somehow the doctor and i seemed to be there a i believe i did not have any about the ghostly kitchen maid but i trust mary left the flat irons within her reach so that she may do all her while we are away and never disturb us more at midnight i suppose she comes thither to iron her and perhaps likewise to smooth the doctor s band probably during her lifetime she allowed him to go to some or other grand with linen and ever since and throughout all earthly at least as long as the house shall stand she is doomed to exercise a nightly toil with a spiritual flat iron poor sinner � and doubtless satan the irons for her what nonsense is all this but really it does make me shiver to think of that poor home of ours march th � as for this mr i wish he would not be so troublesome his scheme is well enough and might possibly become popular but it has no peculiar advantages with reference to myself nor do the subjects of his proposed books particularly suit my fancy as to write upon somebody else will answer his purpose just as well and i would rather write books of my own imagining than be hired to develop the ideas of an especially as the pecuniary prospect is not better nor so good as it might be elsewhere i intend to to my former plan of writing one or by v ic american note books two story books to be published under s in new york � which is the only place where books can be published with a chance of profit as a matter of courtesy i may call on mr � if i have time but i do not intend to be connected with this affair sunday april ta � after finishing my record in the journal i sat a long time in grandmother s chair thinking of many things my spirits were at a lower ebb than they ever descend to when i am not alone nevertheless neither was i absolutely sad many times i wound and mr s little but certainly its peculiar sweetness had and i am pretty sure that i should throw it out of the window were i doomed to hear it long and often it has not an infinite soul when it was almost as dark as the moonlight would let it be i lighted the lamp and went on with s tale slowly and painfully often wishing for help in my difficulties at last i determined to learn a little about and before proceeding further and so took up the phrase book with which i was busy when at about a quarter to nine came a knock at my study door and behold there was with a letter how she came by it i did not ask being content to suppose it was brought by a heavenly messenger i had not expected a letter and what a comfort it was to me in my loneliness and i called to take her note enclosed which she received with a face of delight as broad and bright as the kitchen fire then i read and re read and re r read by ic american note books and and re read my until i had it all by heart and then continued to re read it for the sake of the then i took up the phrase book again but could not study and so bathed and retired it being now not far from ten o clock i lay awake a good deal in the night but saw no ghost i arose about seven and found that the upper part of my nose and the region round about was and at the angle of the left eye there is a great spot of almost black purple and a broad streak of the same hue beneath | 35 |
with stating my doubts upon some of the author the ancient were acquainted with an hereditary nobility so has formally declared na but we are ignorant how they acquired it and what were their only the chiefs were selected from among the ex the author could have twenty other passages from containing the word but he will nowhere find proof of the existence of an hereditary nobility he must content himself with the value of the words and these were the that the have found m their language to indicate institutions and customs for whidi they had no appropriate terms because they bad nothing like them in their policy by turns three kinds of persons by the word st men who had about them a troop of voluntary companions devoted to their fortunes and attached to them merely by affection and by an oath not by any obligation of birth d the chiefs elected to administer justice in the districts the chiefs elected again to command a party of the colony or the entire colony in an expedition none of these could their to their children by hereditary right of what then did the nobility consist in this early state of society so little removed from a of nature a simple personal a great fame acquired by superior courage distinctions exist not in a state of nature but they do in the constitution of men at first and strength were the grounds of a man s merit or rather the man himself in the dark ages without these qualities he was as it were degraded from manly condition while those who possessed them in a great degree attracted the esteem and admiration of their equals and governed some by of love and others by that of fear the were the among the the words which the god a male a man the best man and the noble and virtue have sprung from the same root shows us among the f and among the nations of the north the same origin of nobility afterwards the greatness of the father procured esteem for his children it is thus according to a young man whose father had acquired much glory could obtain after him the rank of prince that is to say could place himself among the principal men of the colony this is an from fact and not from right birth could only be an advantage not a � t t see german from la title the of a kind of and not a power when it is said that an hereditary nobility exists in a country we figure to ourselves privileged families ruling over those of the and the slaves but how could this kind of nobility establish themselves in a nation where all the lands were in common all the all the citizens so jealous of their independence that they themselves on not attending at the meeting of the general to pass laws to protect liberty such people know nothing of nobility as we understand it they have illustrious and powerful families they have noble personages but no hereditary nobility things continued in this state among the primitive race until privileges becoming attached to the titles of property in certain families custom introduced hereditary advantages granted to the faithful followers of the king mr appears to me to make an criticism upon a passage of and to give an unlikely explanation to the subject of the title of and of noble he subjects to have been the common name of all the of the great and that the were those whom he calls the but if he had more attentively considered the authorities which he in support of his opinion he would have seen how opposite they were in all barbarous the men or were free men whom the king had elevated to rank for their fidelity and the the free men the citizens and the people i perceive that is already too long and that i have not yet given the necessary development to this discussion nor alleged proofs which it would be easy to this reflection me besides that it is impossible to give a complete account of this important work within the space to which i am confined i shall again make some observations on other which appear to me not from error relative to the of the from military service to the election of counts from the nobility to the of the name r� the transition of royal justice to the assistant judges of the i am surprised that the author has not made mention of a particular right of the royal power in the administration of justice at this epoch i speak of the by which the king could remove any man be he who he might from his ordinary judges and or all sentences and tiie laws themselves at his will � bell f � etc � see � sen fr torn etc etc m has declared with a very sincerity that the extent of his has not permitted him to the whole and that he has found himself constrained sometimes to rely on those which have been maintained by others he has derived considerable assistance from the writings of the but he has also met with contrary opinions he a judicious mind which knows how to keep itself on its guard against systems but whatever may be the wisdom and of an historian it is to refer to sources and to consult both the text and the original we perceive that m has read the of barbarous laws and other documents of the of the middle ages but at a time when customs had so much importance the code is to be looked for in the habits of the people and it is then above all that as m has justly observed laws must be by history perhaps he has not sufficiently by the resources which could be furnished him in of and | 48 |
west and south they cut off for a time all communication between canada and the country and filled the land with terror almost equal to that caused by the to meet this new danger the governor of canada made a fresh treaty with the friendly tribes of the lakes and all united to destroy the common enemy eight hundred french and indians were soon marching to the fox river country under command of captain de the when they heard of their coming collected all their warriors at a place since called the des little hill of the dead not far from the present town of where they shut themselves up in a camp surrounded by three rows of strong in this camp five hundred fighting men and nearly three thousand women and children awaited the approach of their foes it was not until late in the following summer that arrived with his of soldiers de and indian when he saw how strongly the the little hill of the dead had themselves he feared to make a direct attack upon them and began to open around the camp by this means he was able on the fourth day to approach within yards of the outer the bravely defended themselves the women fighting as furiously as the men but just as was getting ready to the they sent word that if the french would make a treaty of peace with them they would surrender a council was held and the whole matter was soon settled the agreed to their country to the french to pay in the expenses of the war to give up all their prisoners and to deliver to the allied and one slave for every captive that had perished while in their hands these slaves were to be obtained by making war upon the and other distant nations soon afterward returned to canada taking with him six young chiefs as for the faithful performance of the treaty the gave no more trouble for some time but they neglected to send either the or the slaves which they had promised the french still them and for a long time it was thought for any one to go from the lakes to the country without the protection of a strong guard communication between canada and the was carried on with much difficulty and the trade in was to the great loss of all who were connected with it o the of the west iii the of the for several years the restless contrived to keep a peace with the french and with their indian neighbors at length however an incident occurred that involved them in another war and brought upon them even greater misfortunes than before it chanced that one of their chiefs while out on a expedition was captured by the and burned at the stake this aroused the fury of the they gathered their warriors together made an attack upon the and drove them to seek refuge on the rock where fort st louis built by la and had once stood there was no help for the and the might have kept them hemmed in until they starved but the latter feared the vengeance of the french and after a few days away allowing their enemies to escape when the news of this incident reached france everybody blamed the and said that there could be no safety in the country until these were utterly extinguished and it was announced that the king would handsomely reward any officer who would destroy them but the french of the knew that this would not be an easy thing to do to try to them and fail would be disastrous they said it was not until two years had passed that any direct movement was made against them finally in the early summer a great of carrying five hundred french soldiers and a thousand indians under the the of the de set out for the green bay region they up the fox river but found all the country deserted they could do nothing but burn the villages and destroy the at one place they found three and an old man with fear among the deserted the women were taken as slaves by the and the old man was to death having passed lake they came to the last of the on the banks of a small to the but they found no one there and so after burning their houses and destroying their fields of corn they turned about and back to whence and his soldiers soon returned to at different times after this other were sent out against the every man s hand seemed against them and both french and indians were bent upon their destruction even the joined their former enemies in a war party that was organized to make an end of the poor thus hunted and betrayed these unfortunate people sought refuge in vain among the hills and woods of their native country in they could muster only sixty or seventy warriors besides two hundred or three hundred women and children they were no longer strong enough to call themselves a nation and so leaving their old homes they joined themselves with their friends and neighbors the whose hunting grounds lay along the banks of the below the mouth of the after word two hundred years had passed since had sailed up the st and from the summit of royal had gazed toward the west trying in vain to the secrets that lay hidden just beyond the horizon one hundred years had elapsed since the lakes in his indian had made the first white man s visit to the shores of and it was more than fifty years since la had given the vast province of to france and yet how little had the french done toward developing the resources of their possessions a few feeble here and there in the ancient forest a few trading posts for traffic | 23 |
with the fresh troops and the result was the total defeat both of their and cavalry not a third of their fine army escaping but providence most adverse to s glory at the time it seemed to have reached its the story of italy height cut short all those designs he so fondly had cherished which nothing but death could have prevented his attempting exposed to a cold cutting wind while heated with the exertions of the day that he might praise and thank his victorious troops in person was chilled and afterwards attacked by a terrible fever which no medical skill could remedy feeling that his end was approaching he seems to have had a glimpse afforded him of his past career and its results in proportions than during his life of ceaseless activity and his adopted son to his bedside he uttered a few words of counsel and farewell observing with some earnestness that had he known how short was to be his career he never would have commenced these which had only procured him a great many enemies but would have remained content with the of how many of us fail to make a just estimate of life till at its close i chapter of of thb contest between of and peter of for the crown of the two was renewed between their sons at length it to charles the second of who left the crown to his sou though of still the possession of robert was an amiable more esteemed for hia literary and his patronage of science aud wit than for his military or political skill like s his books were dearer to him than his kingdom he invited the moat eminent scholars to and was proud to call his friend this good prince had the to his only son who left two infant daughters the eldest of whom became to the tbe of throne b gifted and a lady of but among them the ornament of a meek find quiet spirit nor of a pure and mind early to prince of hun who indeed was brought to while yet the care of his nurse the young princess a ha � red of the awkward boy as he the brutal man king robert too regretted selected so a husband for his daughter and shortly before his death made a will settling the of oa and from any share in the ty sixteen years old when she became queen and husband was only two years older freed from control at � too tender an age she plunged into from to vice om to crime till she trembled not to hear her maid hint the of deaths her listening to the proposal of guilt was naturally followed by guilt itself the story of italy a hunting party waa devised at and were both to be present after the day s the royal company found refreshment and rest in a beyond the city walls in this abode sacred to purposes of religion the unfortunate was at dead of night his piercing cries reached the ears of his old nurse who had accompanied him from and who it would seem still hovered about him with dutiful and devoted she entered his bedroom in the greatest terror and there found only the queen sitting by the bedside with her face hidden in her hands her broken answers confirmed the worst suspicions of who seized a lamp and hurrying with it to the looked forth and beheld the dead body of the unfortunate prince in the garden below s at the discovery roused the sleeping inmates of the and the dreadful catastrophe immediately became known though the had escaped penetrated with shame and remorse returned to where she the of italy had hitherto been the popular darling but the of her crime had preceded her and she was received with stem looks and ominous silence the princes of the blood royal fortified their palaces and their as if they considered their o u lives and her brother in law the duke of the people to take up arms against her pope the sixth considering himself called ob to interfere desired the chief justice of to inquire into the murder without respect of persons the queen s was arrested and being put to the torture confessed the names of the on this the chief justice followed by multitudes of the citizens carrying among them a flag on which the murder of was painted appeared before the queen s palace to demand that the should be given up in vain would have them from their just fate those miserable and guilty persons including the maid were put to painful and disgraceful deaths louis king of however did not the italy that brother s death was while the principal remained he towards with purpose of on herself at his approach she fled to pro from whence she proceeded to where the then resided ae an humble for protection there is a curious print the old of the copies of representing presenting herself to and for his hit tion i have it before me as i write here is th pope a good humoured full faced elderly man a goodly double chin triple crowned with bi hand and in a richly decorated mantle clasped at the throat with descending from his throne sit each side of which a and holding out hie hand to who and pretty with a en her head in wide mantle lined w h before him and eagerly takes his hand priests behind her look ei m j the of italy while two and a warrior in complete the group the audience hall a decorated window but artist has not distracted attention by a article of was tried be re a public fear her husband s and pleaded own cause with great eloquence she was by her judges but not in the minds of most of her countrymen a� ter many | 2 |
the ship s company ai e assembled the captain sunny shores or for example be called upon to read his general description of the city of then the first lieutenant may read his account of st s cathedral the first master of the palace and so on so that we shall have as many varieties as there are readers but the new created quite a sensation among the students though the general feeling was not one of dissatisfaction the plan gave each student a chance to distinguish himself and most of them were ambitious enough to take this view of the matter when the students went on deck peaks the of the ship reported that a shore boat had visited the this information caused the principal to take his place with captain in the when she returned he supposed the boat had brought off o and he was anxious to hear his report for he certainly wished that should escape the fate to which she was doomed although he objected to this expression but he w as mistaken in regard to the person it was not o standing on the quarter deck as the students came up the steps was a rather tall slender and looking gentleman with curly hair and a very heavy he was dressed in blue clothes with a thick and club cap he was not more than twenty four but his manner and look were mature and refined mr smiled and advanced towards him they shook hands very cordially and after conversing with him for half an hour the principal directed captain to call all hands including forward officers and � i have the pleasure of introducing to the ship s company mr the second vice principal of the academy who will hereafter be especially in charge of the and as such he will be obeyed and respected said mr he is a of the academy and has served in every capacity from a seaman and petty to captain of the ship and of the he has commanded the and is therefore entirely familiar with all the details of a vessel of this class as you are aware he has recently been the chief officer of the grace i am sure that you will find him a scholar and a gentleman arid that you will respect and esteem him just in proportion to the fidelity with which you discharge your and duties as the principal stepped back mr ham took the stand with a smile and a very graceful bow he was heartily applauded by a hands young gentlemen the fact that i understand so well the duties and assigned to me renders me all the more in assuming them said mr having been both a seaman and an officer in the ship and in the i i can appreciate the joys and the sorrows of each position i shall endeavor to discharge my duties to those above and below me in rank and i know that in being faithful to your interests i shall best promote the wishes and secure the regard of the principal who has done me the honor to me to this position mr bowed and retired amid tlie hearty applause of the ship s company he was introduced shores ok first to mr and dr and then to all the officers of the vessel i think i am entitled to give you the welcome to this ship said professor because you come to relieve me of a duty which i am not competent to perform i don t know the boom tjie fore to and i am too old to learn now these young gentlemen bother me sorely with sea which i have not brains enough to comprehend i shall cheerfully submit to your authority though i am old enough to be your father i am very happy to relieve you of the disagreeable part of your duty replied mr and i am confident my authority will not in the degree wound or disturb you the impression made by the new vice principal was decidedly favorable mr dined with him in the cabin and explained to him the plan of the journey on shore the movements of one division of which mr was to in the afternoon all hands went on shore mr visited all the hotels in search of o but he could neither find him nor ascertain anything about him at the h de he met who had but just arrived having been delayed by missing the train at he spoke english and was very glad to meet the principal one of the vessels of my has engaged in a very romantic adventure said mr laughing and i am not sure yet whether we have done right or wrong in assisting the escape of the young lady you have done quite right sir protested young america in italy and i warmly the guardian of is a villain and will marry her to his scoundrel of a nephew in order to steal the greater portion of her fortune i can prove all that i say and if i had suspected that would put his plan in operation so i should have interfered before this time why the poor child is but sixteen and i thought there could be no danger yet but why did the young lady s father commit her to the of such a villain asked mr doubtless because he was deceived in his character knew that his infamous plan could not be accomplished in italy so he intended to take the poor child to egypt i suppose the plot was hastened by the appearance on the stage of the count di who is as noble in his character as in his title he is in by this time i gave him a long letter to s uncle with whom i am well acquainted and i am confident that he will hasten to at once is on board | 36 |
of the chain which hangs round your neck what the chain cried the other in horror the ancient chain of the of this is but a sorry jest sir what the plague did you ask me for then said but if it is sir with whom you would speak that is he upon the black horse the mayor of gazed with amazement on the mild face and slender frame of the famous warrior your pardon my very gracious lord he cried you see in me the mayor and chief magistrate of the ancient and powerful town of i bid you very heartily welcome and the more so as you are come at a moment when we are sore put to it for defence ha cried sir up his ears yes my lord for the town being very and the walls as old as the town it follows that they are very ancient too but there is a certain and who with a called commonly known as beard hath been a mighty upon these indeed my lord they are very cruel and black hearted men and and if they should come to the ancient and powerful town of then then good bye to the ancient and powerful town of ford whose lightness of tongue could at times rise above his awe of sir the knight however was too much intent upon the matter in hand to give heed to the of his squire have you then cause he asked to think that these men are about to venture an attempt upon you they have come in two great answered the mayor with two bank of oars on either side and great store of engines of war and of men at arms at and at they have murdered and yesterday morning they were at and we saw the smoke from the burning to day they lie at their ease near and we fear much lest they come upon us and do us a mischief we cannot said sir riding toward the town with the mayor upon his left side the prince us at and we may not be behind the general muster yet i will promise you that on our way we shall find time to pass and to prevail upon these to leave you in peace we are much to you cried the mayor but i cannot see my lord how without a war ship you may venture against these men with your however you might well hold the town and do them great if they attempt to land there is a very proper out yonder said sir it would be a very strange thing if any ship were not a war ship when it had such men as these upon her decks m we shall do as i say and that no later than this very day my lord said a rough haired dark man who walked by the knight s other with his head to catch all that he was saying by your leave i have no doubt that you are skilled in fighting and the of but by my soul you will find it another thing upon the sea i am the master of this yellow and my name is gk i have sailed since i was as high as this staff and i have fought against these and against the as well as the scotch the the spanish and the i tell you sir that my ship is over light and for such work and it will but end in our having our throats cut or being sold as slaves to the heathen i also have experienced one or two gentle and honorable upon the sea sir and i am right to have so fair a task before us i think good master that you and i may win great in this matter and i can see very readily that you are a brave and stout man i like it not said the other in ood s name i like it not and yet is not the man to stand back when his fellows are for pressing forward by my soul be it sink or swim i shall turn her into bay and if good master of like not my handling of his ship then he may find another master they were dose by the old north gate of the little town and half turning in his saddle looked back at the crowd who followed the and men had broken their ranks and were with the and citizens whose laughing faces and hearty gestures the weight of care from which this welcome arrival had relieved them here and there among the moving throng of dark and of white were scattered of scarlet or blue tb or of the women with a fishing on either arm was constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left while big john in the rear with a little maiden upon his great shoulder her soft white arm curled round his shining so the throng moved on until at the yery gate it was brought to a stand by a fat man who came darting forth from the town with rage in feature of his face how now sir mayor he roared in a voice like a bull how now sir mayor how of the and the by our lady my sweet sir cried the mayor i have had so much to think of with these wicked so close upon us that it had quite gone out of my head words words i shouted the other furiously am i to be put off with words i say to you again how of the my fair sir you flutter me cried the mayor i am a peaceful and i am not wont to be so shouted at upon so small a matter small shrieked the other small i and ask me to your table to partake of the dainty of | 4 |
you know she was a son of the sun that way the time we lost the i was only an but i can remember that well enough brand new steel ship first voyage broke the old man s heart he d been forty years in the company just faded way and died the next year despite the wind and the early hour the heat was the wind whispered coolness but did not deliver coolness it might have blown off the save for the extreme with which it was laden there was no fog nor mist nor hint of fog or mist yet the of distance produced the impression there were no defined clouds yet so thickly were the heavens covered by a that the sun failed to shine through ready about captain ordered with slow the brown sailors moved languidly but quickly to head sheets and boom hard a lee the ran the over with no the pearls of hint of and the darted prettily into the wind and about jove she s a witch was s appreciation i didn t know you south sea sailed she was a originally grief explained and the boats are all when it comes to build and sailing but you re heading right in � why don t you make it came the englishman s criticism try it captain grief suggested show him what a entrance is on a strong ebb close and by the captain ordered close and by the repeated half a spoke the laid into the narrow passage which was the entrance df a large long and narrow oval of an the was shaped as if three in the course of building had and and failed to rear the walls palms grew in spots on the circle of sand and there a son of the sun were many where the sand was too low to the sea for and through which could be seen the protected where the water lay flat like the ruffled surface of a mirror many square miles of water were in the irregular all of which out on the ebb through the one narrow channel so narrow was the channel so large the of water that the passage was more like the of a river than the mere entrance to an the water boiled and whirled and and drove outward in a white foam of waves each heave and blow on her bows of the waves of the swung the off the straight lead and her as with of steel toward the side of the passage part way in she was when her to the coral edge her to go about on the opposite tack to the current she swept with the current s speed now s the time for that new and expensive engine of yours grief good that the engine was a sore point with captain was patent he had begged and the pearls of for it until in the end grief had given his consent it will pay for itself yet the captain retorted you wait and see it beats and you know the won t stand for in the grief pointed to a small beating up of them on the same course i ll a five piece the little beats us in sure captain agreed she s overpowered we re like a alongside of her and we ve only got forty she s got ten horse and she s a little dish she could across the of hell but just the same she can t buck this current it s running ten knots right now and at the rate of ten knots and rolled the went out to sea with the tide she ll in half an hour � then we ll make captain said with an irritation explained by his next words he has no right to call it it s down on the a son of the sun and the french too as discovered it and named it from the natives what s the name matter the demanded taking advantage of speech to pause with arms into the sleeves of the there it is right under our nose and old is there with the pearls who see them pearl looking from one to another it s well known was the s reply he turned to the what about old s pearls the pleased and self conscious took and gave a spoke my brother for three four month and he make much talk about pearl very good place for pearl and the pearl have never got him to part with a pearl the captain broke in and they say he had a for when he sailed for the carried on the tale that s fifteen years ago and he s been adding to it ever since � stored the pearls of the shell as well everybody s seen that � hundreds of tons of it they say the s clean now maybe that s why he s announced the if he really this will be the biggest year s of pearls in the grief said i say now look here burst forth by the heat as much as the rest of them what s it all about who s the old anyway what are all these pearls why so about it belongs to old the answered he s got a fortune in pearls saved up for years and years and he sent the word out weeks ago that he d them oflf to the to morrow see those sticking up inside the eight so i see said what are they doing in a like this the went on there isn t a load of a year in the place they ve come for the that s why we re here that s why the little s a son of the sun along there though what she can buy is beyond me � he s an english jew half caste � owns and | 21 |
his teeth the crisp winter air on his face and blowing his yellow curls from under his his cheeks were flushed and his eyes shining for the blood of a hundred fighting saxon ancestors was beginning to stir in his veins what was that he asked as a hissing sharp drawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear the smiled and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy cross bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards at the same instant the man stumbled forward upon his and lay lifeless upon the deck a blood stained feather out from his back as stooped to raise him the air seemed to be alive with the sharp of the and he could hear them on the deck like apples at a raise two more by the said sir quietly and another man to the cried the keep them in play with ten of your men the knight continued and let ten of sir s do as much for the i have no mind as yet to how them how much they have to fear from us ten picked shots under stood in line across tbe broad deck and it was a lesson to the young who had seen nothing of war to note how orderly and how cool were these old soldiers how quick the command and how prompt the carrying out ten moving like one their comrades crouched beneath the with many a rough jest and many a scrap of criticism or advice higher higher i � put thy body into it will i � forget not the wind i so ran the muttered chorus while high above it rose the sharp of the strings the hiss of the shafts and the short draw your arrow kick your arrow shoot wholly together i from the and now both were at work from the but so covered and protected that save at the moment of discharge no glimpse could be caught of them a huge brown rock from the sang over their heads and plunged sullenly into the slope of a wave another from the into the waist broke the back of a horse and its way through the side of the vessel two others flying together tore a great gap in the st upon the sail and brushed three of sir s men at arms from the the master looked at the knight with a troubled face they keep their distance from us said he our is over good and they will not close what defence can we make against the stones i think i may trick them the knight answered cheerfully and passed his order to the instantly five of them threw up their hands and fell prostrate upon the deck one had already been slain by a bolt so that there were but four upon their feet that should give them heart said sir the which crept along on either side with a slow measured swing of their great oars the water and foaming under their sharp stems they still hold aloof cried then down with two shouted their leader that will do ma foi but thej come to oar like to the to arms men i the behind me and the round the stand fast with the in the waist and be for a cast now blow out the trumpets and may ood s be with the honest men as he spoke a roar of voices and a roll of drums came from either and the water was lashed into spray by the hurried beat of a hundred down they one on the right one on the left the sides and black with men and with weapons in heavy clusters they hung upon the all ready for a spring � faces white faces brown faces yellow and faces black fair fierce from the and fiery from the states of all hues and countries and marked solely by the common stamp of a wild beast ferocity up on either side with oars trailing to save them from snapping they poured in a living torrent with horrid yell and shrill upon the but yet was the cry and still the scream when there rose up from the shadow of those silent the long lines of the english and the arrows in a deadly among the unprepared masses upon the decks from the higher sides of the the could shoot straight down at a range which was so short as to enable a cloth yard shaft to pierce through mail coats or to a shield though it were an inch thick of wood one moment saw the s crowded with rushing figures waving arms faces the next it was a blood with bodies piled three deep upon each other the living behind the dead to shelter themselves from that sudden storm blast of death on either side the whom sir had chosen for the purpose had cast their over the side of the so that the three vessels locked in an iron grip heavily forward upon the swell m and now set in a fell and fierce fight one of a thousand of which no has spoken and no poet sung through all the centuries and over all those southern waters nameless men have fought in nameless places their sole monument a protected coast and an foi e and aft the had cleared the decks but from either side the s had poured down into the waist where the and were pushed back and so mingled with their foes that it was impossible for their comrades above to draw string to help them it was a wild chaos where and sword rose and fell while englishman and italian staggered and on a deck which was with bodies and slippery with blood the of blows the cries of the stricken the short deep shout of the and the fierce of the rose together in a tumult while the breath of the | 4 |
up what a splendid pair of eyes she has i and i never saw anything so soft and heavenly as the expression of her face felt irritated lord had not alluded even in the most remote manner to his visit colonel watched her varying expression intently lady s is a style of beauty i do not admire replied she quickly colonel laughed nay lady as you seem to me to be the very of good wives you are bound to extend to all things the sam e degree of admiration as your lord his approval of lady i understand is too evident therefore you ought really to take her under your patronage i am disposed to act with the g kindness towards lady � who a suitable sense of the deep obligations she is under to lord replied with dignity � you know what malicious people say lady � that she was disposed to return those obligations with greater warmth than the occasion said the colonel slowly lady rose hastily from her seat and took up a book of from the table let our conversation end colonel i have filled my promise and you as a man of honor are now bound to act up to yours said she herself but was saved the trouble of a reply by the presence of mrs st priest who keenly watched the of her guest amidst all her exertion to keep up the spirit of her concert she evidently thought for the present he had gone far enough in his the for in her sweetest tones she requested to honor the company by a display of her talents as a and lady immediately assented glad of any mode of escape from colonel s persecution and she was in the act of crossing the room to the piano when the door opened and mr tu was announced he looked amazed he perceived s beautiful face amid such a assemblage lady is it possible i see you here and alone i suppose you expect the earl when his duties at are over exclaimed he after he had exchanged � with his hostess � no i do not indeed replied calmly drawing off gloves � but i am also surprised to meet you here for i understood mr likewise dined at yes so i did but having heard your husband s splendid speech i soon got weary of the nonsense talked afterwards and strolled in here but what are you going to do lady sing replied herself at the piano and soon her notes soft clear and drew all round the instrument it was an art in which she especially and at the present moment her voice had more than its usual pathos and expression for her heart was full and she yielded willingly to its colonel l with both arms at the end of the piano turning over some loose pages of music but placed as to command a full view of her face loud and unanimous applause followed lady s performance and she was � l implored to sing again colonel taking up a piece of music then approached and in his most tones asked permission to accompany her it was a song they had often sung in concert and the of their fine voices never failed to admiration lady hesitated but the urgent of those around almost compelled her � acquiescence they sang fast and thick thoughts of by gone days came crowding on s fancy and when she arose from the piano it was with flushing cheek and a glitter in her eye colonel then led her to a chair at a little distance from the piano she sat down and again he stationed himself behind her while mrs st priest favored her guests with a brilliant on the harp few words were exchanged between them but still unlike his former manner there was a deep earnest tenderness and deference in his tones which again painfully awoke reminiscences past not that faltered one instant in the new born sentiment of passionate love which pervaded her heart for her husband but amid the and irritation of disappointed hope there was something soothing and grateful to her wounded self esteem in the homage even of colonel � lady will you favor us with this superb i am almost ashamed to ask you but one so rarely meets two people who sing like you and edward said mrs st priest rising after e had finished her and approaching with a piece of music in her hand it was the splendid in ii non t do not sing that lady said the clear significant voice of mr in low tones why not it is a great favorite and one i have often sung responded coldly possibly but take my advice lady and do not sing any more this evening but it appeared as if it were s unlucky destiny on this night to slight all prudent counsel she sat down before the piano struck the opening of the and soon her whole was absorbed in its melody meanwhile mrs st priest turned to mr who sat watching the of the company at large with his usual dry air we were so charmed mr to find your cousin s reported accident people do invent such horrid stories i i thought i never saw lady look better than she did this morning said she what accident mrs st priest i never heard of any accident replied mr fixing his eyes on the widow s face � really we were terrified yesterday by hearing that lady had fallen and severely injured her head i cannot imagine what tales the world will next i rejoined t priest her white polished shoulders mused mr what a splendid display of plants you have here mrs st priest i continued he after a silence of a few minutes do you think so they must seem very shabby after your show at i never | 41 |
rob all the ben in the neighbourhood and lay the pig under contribution a service to which they had been long and which they discharged with incredible zeal and that the garrison table groaned under the weight of their spoils i wish with all my heart my readers could see tlie von as he presided at the head of the banquet it was a sight worth beholding � he sat in his greatest glory surrounded by his like that famous alexander whose thirsty virtues he did most imitate � telling stories of his hair breadth adventures and heroic exploits at which though all his knew them to be vm t jet did they m w i j v � op fort s and utter many of astonishment nor could the general pronounce any thing that bore the remotest semblance to a joke but the stout would strike his fist upon the table till every glass rattled again throwing himself back in the chair and uttered gigantic of swearing most horribly it was the best joke he ever heard in his life � thus all was and and hideous within fort and so did von the bottle than in less than four short hours he made himself and his whole garrison who all the df dead drunk and singing songs and drinking patriotic none of which but was as long as a or a plea in no sooner did things come to this pass than the and his who had kept themselves sober rose on their tied them neck and heels and took formal possession of the fort and all its in the name of queen of at the same time an oath of to all the dutch soldier could be made sober enough to swallow it then put the in order appointed his and friend a si i wind dried water drinking to the k of the garrison command and departed bearing with him this truly amiable garrison and their commander who when brought to himself by a sound bore no little resemblance to a fish or sea monster caught upon dry land the of the garrison was done to prevent the of intelligence to new for as much as the cunning in his he dreaded the vengeance of the sturdy peter whose name spread as much terror in the neighbourhood as did that of the among his enemies ttie feminine of fame chapter ii showing how profound secrets are often brought to light with the proceedings of peter the when he heard of the misfortunes of general von whoever first described common fame or rumour as belonging to the sex was a very owl for she has in truth certain feminine qualities to an astonishing degree particularly that benevolent anxiety to take care of the affairs of others which keeps her continually hunting after secrets and about them whatever is done openly and in the face of the world she takes but transient notice of but whenever a transaction is done in a corner and attempted to be in mystery then her goddess ship is at her wit s end to find it out and takes a most mischievous and lady like pleasure in it to the world it is this truly feminine that her continually to be into of princes listening at the key holes of chambers and peering through history of when our worthy are sitting with closed doors between a dozen excellent modes of the nation it is this which makes her so to all wary and � such a stumbling block to private and secret which she often by means and instruments which never would hare been thought of by any but a female head thus it was in the case of the affair of fort no doubt the cunning imagined that by securing the garrison he should for a long time prevent the history of its fate from reaching the cars of the gallant his was blown to the world when he least expected it and by one of the last beings he would ever have suspected of as to the wide mouthed deity this was one or a kind of on to the garrison who seemed to belong to nobody and in a manner to be self he was one of those vagabond who about the world as if ihey had no right or business in it and who the skirts of society and garrison and country village has one or more of this kind whose life is a kind of whose � xi ence is without motive who comes from the lord knows where who lives the his person knows how and seems to be made for no earthly purpose but to keep up the ancient order of idleness � this was supposed to have some indian in his veins which was manifested by a in indian complexion and cast of but more especially by his he was a tall fellow swift of ind long he was generally a half indian dress with belt and his hair hung in straight gallows about his ears and added not ar little to his ing it is an old remark that ns of indian mixture are half civilized half e and half devil a third half being express for their particular convenience it � similar reasons and probably with equal that the back wood men of are i half man half horse and half by on the and held great respect and e above character may have presented to the garrison as to whom they familiarly gallows certain it is he acknowledged one � was an utter enemy to work holding no manner of estimation � but � the fort depending upon chance for a getting drunk whenever c familiarly termed liquor and stealing whatever he could his hands on every day or two he was sure to get a sound for some of his which however as it broke no bones he made very | 48 |
of perspiration � fever caprice doubt and a man s fortunes are the fruit of his character a man s friends are his we go to and tor examples of fate but we are examples the tendency of every man to all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it and i have noticed a man likes better to be on his position as the proof of the last or total excellence than on his merits a man will see his character in the events that to meet but wliich from and accompany him events with the character as once he found himself among toys so now he plays a part in colossal systems and his growth is declared in his ambition his companions and his performance he looks like a piece of luck but is a of the and ground to fit into the gap he fills hence in each town there is some man who is hi his brain and an explanation of the production churches ways of living and society of town if you jo not chance to meet him all that you fate see will leave you a little puzzled if jou see him it will become plain we know in who built new who built and many another noisy each of these men if they were transparent would seem to you not so much men as walking cities and wherever you put them they would build one history is the action and reaction of these two � nature and thought two boys pushing each other on the of the pavement everything is or pushed and matter and mind are in perpetual and balance so whilst the man is weak tlie earth takes up to him he plants his brain and affections by and by he will take up the earth and have his gardens and in the beautiful order and of his thought every solid in the universe is ready to become on the approach of the mind and the power to it is the measure of the mind if the wall remain it the want of thought to a force it will stream into new forms expressive of the character of the mind what is the city in which we sit here but an of materials which have obeyed the will of some man the granite was reluctant but his hands were stronger and it came iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone but could not hide from his fires wood lime fruits were dispersed over the earth and sea in vain here they are within reach of every man s � what he wants of them the whole world is the of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build the races of men rise conduct of life out of the ground with a thought which rules them and divided into parties ready armed and angry to fight for abstraction the quality of the thought differences the egyptian and the roman the and the american the men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other certain ideas are in the air we are all for we are made of them all but some more than others and these first express them this explains the curious of inventions and discoveries tlie truth is iii the air and the most brain will announce it first but all will announce it a few minutes later so women as most susceptible are the best index of the coming hour so the great man that is tlie man most witli the spirit of the time is the man � of a fibre irritable and delicate like to he feels the attractions his mind is than others because he to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised the is shown in defects in his essay on architecture taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful beauty had not been intended i find the like unity in human rather and tliat a in the blood will appear in the argument a in the shoulder will appear in the speech and if his mind could be seen the would be seen if a man has a in his voice it will run into his sentences into his poem into the structure of his fable into his speculation into his fate and as every man is hunted by bis own demon vexed by his own disease this all his activity so each man like each plant has his a strong nature has more enemies than the and that fret my leaves such an one has knife worms a ate him first then a then a then smooth plausible gentlemen bitter and selfish as this really existing can be divined if the threads are there thought can follow and show them especially when a soul is quick and as c or if the soul of proper kind be so perfect as men find that it what is to come and that he all and some of every of their by or figures but that our hath not might it to understand aright for it is warned too darkly some people are made up of rhyme coincidence omen and they meet the person they seek what their companion to say to them they say to him and a hundred signs them of what is about to befall wonderful in the web wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond hfe admits we wonder how the fly finds its mate and yet year after year we find two men two women legal or tie spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each | 37 |
if ever i saw evil in a woman s eyes you need say no more frank he interrupted hotly it is shabby to speak ill of a woman behind her back i will say it to her face if you like harry believe me she is no good and she will certainly get you into trouble i can take care of myself i am no fool you are a man at all events i retorted and all the tale of the skull men are fools where a woman is concerned do you intend to present lady with a half caste daughter in law that is neither here nor there said he and turned on his heel to intimate that my interference was for later on he left the hotel to call on his os having been thus rewarded for my i walked to the de la to visit he was a of tastes with whom i had shortly after my arrival at his � named after the star of � was a peaceful old dwelling with courts and a wonderful chapel and an extensive library when was not praying in the chapel he was reading in the library and here i found him with the latin of a author our friendship was based on a common love for but as harry s tastes did not lie in that direction he sought neither nor and although i had observed casually that i had a companion i had not thought it necessary to inform the holy of the existence of it was only after my fruitless appeal to harry that i mentioned the name of the half caste to the as a popular in he was likely to know something of the lady and a little knowledge of her peculiarities might enable me to rescue harry from her toils this then was the main reason for my visit and after a few words of courtesy i introduced the subject the pious horror with which received the name of served only to confirm my fears what is this you tell me don said he severely have you been led astray by this daughter of evil no reverend sir i speak in the interest of my friend who is now in her toils god help him said the crossing himself she the of the ll will him to death as she has others demon that the holy office were in existence to bum thee to ashes i who is t a demon have you not heard of the what is the skull it is an instrument of evil possessed by this creature said with much energy � the skull of i heathen king adorned with jewels and inhabited by ef spirits with it she works her twelve i she slain holy mary forbid that your friend should t the you don t mean to say that she has murdered tm men i demanded uneasily the attitude of the � frightened me who knows how they die she them i beauty and gives them the skull a then they perish how do they perish nay i cannot tell you there was an brother of our order who was charmed by this m fell away from his vows in due time as is h she gave him the skull he bore it to his c and he was found next morning seated before it � dead and the skull we sprinkled it with holy water and the e spirit who dwelt therein to depart but she came t accursed one and bore it away ay my son i bars and stone walls could not keep her out of the of the star she appeared like a demon in our midst i disappeared with the skull we i midnight may his soul find peace i at the conclusion of this story tjie r himself j to his prayers and his and seeing that my presence i was distasteful i left him to his an of evil possessed i � � � i � � � � f i t � i i if � i � � u the tale of the skull this was the first i had heard of the skull but was to hear of it again within an hour this time it was bom a there was no connection between and vagabond yet both spoke of the same thing fate is fond d incidents my acquaintance with don de � for so he himself � began by my saving his life the was crossing the road f when a beyond the control of its rider dashed round the corner had i not instinctively rushed forward and dragged don out of harm s way assuredly he would have been trampled to death this he recognized for having devoutly crossed himself he shook his fist at the flying and advanced towards me with a air i lay myself at your illustrious feet said he in the stately spanish tongue you are my all i have is yours the gift was no one for his whole wardrobe could have been purchased for half a crown his skin was as with dirt as were his clothes beyond a pair of breeches a ragged shirt and a cloak he wore nothing worth mentioning save a tattered which he held in his hand during our interview with his evil eyes his shining teeth and his long hair he appeared to be anything but a desirable acquaintance but in conscious of his defects he rolled a and before me a finer specimen of the bird i never beheld and as i was in no way desirous of continuing the acquaintance i muttered some acknowledgment of his words and turned to go this however he would not permit do my eyes deceive me said he stepping back a pace or do i indeed behold the renowned and noble don who honours our city with his magnificent presence i admitted the identity | 12 |
to think of now you have undoubtedly � and are situations in whidi very high spirits would your prospects however are too fair to justify want of spirits yoa have a very smiling scene before you do you mean literally or literally i conclude yes certainly uie sun shines and the park looks very cheerful but that iron gate that ha ha give me a feeling of restraint and hardship i cannot get out as the said as she spoke and it was with expression she walked to the gate he followed her mr is so long this key and for the world you would not get out without the key and without mr s authority and protection or i think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate here with my assistance i think it might be done if you really wished to be more at and could allow yourself to think it not nonsense i certainly can get out that way and i will mr will be here in a moment you know � we shall not be out of sight or if we are miss price will be so good as to tell him that he will find is near that the grove of oak on the feeling all this to be wrong could not help making an effort to prevent it you will hurt yourself miss she cried you will certainly hurt yourself against those � you will tear your gown � you will be in danger of slipping into the ha ha you had better not her cousin was safe on the other side while these words were spoken and smiling with all the good humour of success she said thank you my dear but i and my gown are alive and well and so good bye was again left to her solitude and with no increase of pleasant feelings for she was sorry for almost all that she had seen and heard astonished at miss and angry with mr by taking a and as it to her direction to the they were soon beyond her eye and for some longer she remained without sight or sound of any companion she seemed to have the little wood all to she could almost have thought that and miss had left it but that it was impossible for to her so entirely she was a roused � disagreeable by den somebody was coming at a quick pace down die walk she expected mr but it was who hot and out of breath and with a look of died out on seeing her i ire the others i thought maria and mr were explained a pretty trick upon my word i cannot see them anywhere looking into the but they be very off and i think i am equal to as as maria even without help bat mr will be here in a moment with the key do wait for mr not i indeed i have had enough of the for one why child i have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother such a penance as i have been enduring while you were sitting here so composed and so i it might have been as well p� if you had been ia my place but you always contrive to keep out of these this was a most unjust but could allow for it and let it pass was vexed and her temper was hasty but she felt that it would not last and therefore taking no notice only asked her if she h not seen mr yes yes we saw him he was away as if upon life and death and bat just spare time to tell us his errand and where you all were it is a pity that he should have so trouble for that u miss maria s concern i am not obliged to punish myself for hit sins the mother i could not as long t � w about the e bi ist i i to s last of i of aod ed t mr cf m now nt of mt c e � i ba so much of however as she mi t have done she fell be a been ill used and was quite in to what had passed he her within fire after s exit and ihe mu e the best of the be was evidently and displeased in no degree at be scarce said an his expressed his extreme p ri se and vexation and he walked to the gate aod stood tha seeming to what to do they desired me to stay � my me to say that you would find them at that or ther i do not i shall go any said he i see nothing of them b die time i get to the may be gone somewhere else i have had walking and he sat down with a most gloomy countenance by i am said she it is very and she longed to be able to say something more to the after an interval of silence i think they might as well have staid for me said he miss thought you would follow her i should not have had to follow her if she had staid this could not be denied and was silenced after another pause he went on � miss price are yoa such a great admirer of this mr as some are t for my part i can see nothing in him i do not think him at all handsome handsome i nobody can call such an under sized man handsome he is not five foot nine i should not wonder if he was not more than five foot eight i think he is an ill looking fellow in my opinion these are no addition at all we did very well without them park a e� c ed here and did not know how to contradict | 26 |
s walked over several times and ridden back but she could not walk that distance objected the duke who had considered mr s conduct as regarded the young people very unwise i ll ride over with you and see it may put a better face on things do you think they have run away said mr smiling i see you don t know my wife or frank either they are young said the duke gravely and no more was said till the horses were and they were on their way when mr showed such brilliant spirits as even to the duke with his gaiety and they were both laughing heartily when about half way to they met frank tearing along at full gallop he looked pale and weary but his face brightened at the sight of mr and as he checked his horse he exclaimed i feared my note to you had so was riding over to fetch you is safe and well cried mr made uneasy by frank s looks she is safe at the red hall said frank but she herself this morning and now she is ill how could you let her undertake such a journey exclaimed mr sharply x story of a sin she was half way to before i overtook her or even knew she was abroad said frank and she had walked five miles cried mr no said frank she was riding a donkey i think it belonged to you he added turning to the duke with a smile and look that convinced the older man he was speaking truth and had very unwillingly taken part in the morning s and is she very ill said mr but scarcely waiting for a reply dashed his spurs into his horse s sides and with a word to the duke set off at a hard gallop for r p my dear mrs wrote mrs late that night i am now able to tell you the end of this shocking affair which has turned out better than could have been expected it seems the had got no farther than some people say they had gone to fetch her two children of whom both he and she are fond others that they actually meant to hide at the tower for fear mr would kill them both � you know what an awful man he is but fortunately the duke who had ridden over with mr managed to and got her away from lord so now she is up at the hall very ill as well she may be but as her husband has taken her back i suppose we must put up with her i send this in the confidence knowing that you never repeat anything story of a sin and it was this version of poor s thoughtless that came to be accepted as gospel truth through the length and breadth of the county chapter ix on wings immortal fly while virtuous actions are but born to die mr found stretched on a sofa looking so pale and wan that he could only consider the consequences to herself of her mad without troubling himself at all as to what people might think of the itself he thought she received him a little coldly but being conscious of some offence towards her of late he did not let this trouble him and had more than half won her back when next morning he said he must leave her for a few hours that he might make her apologies and his own excuses to the meanwhile he said frank and the children would keep her company in the drawing room whither he himself had carried her she being now much rested if only a of her usual self and to this eagerly assented for the wrong she had done lay heavily on her soul and she passionately desired to send some word that would show herself in less mean colours you shall go on one condition she said as he i story of a sin stooped his head to her � and half unconsciously she noticed how grey he had lately grown � that when you come back you will grant me any single request i may ask is that agreed f he promised her lightly much as once she had promised him something and till now kept her word then rode away and she could not even pretend to a feeling of a jealousy at his departure she was so sure of her empire over his heart but frank did not come that afternoon though mr had written to bid him and indeed produced a sensation in the s circle when he said having made his wife s apologies and his own � lord would have ridden over with me but he is keeping my wife company till i go back you ll see him no doubt by evening mrs gasped as she looked at this man of the world who acted so precisely like a fool though when the had accidentally drawn him to the an idea worthy of the brain that originated it occurred to her she said to herself and we are to be conveniently blind and a third edition of the scandal was and posted that very afternoon to her when mr returned to his wife she reminded him of his promise what is it he said his hold on her as somehow to his mind story of a sm i want to go to her she said with her arms close round his neck i ve forgiven frank but i want her to forgive me he started up as though an had stung him and the devils temporarily cast out in his breast returned so not only was he to be s slave but must be dependent on her likewise for a moment his courage at the miserable situation the next he turned to his wife and said it is not fit that | 17 |
we go too fast said i this may be a lie too he may have no right orders all may be contrived by and your father knowing nothing she burst out weeping between the pair of us and my heart smote me hard for i thought this girl was in a dreadful situation here said i keep him but the one hour and i ll chance it and say god bless you she put out her hand to me i will be one good word she sobbed the full hour then said i keeping her hand in mine three of it my the full hour she said and cried aloud on her to forgive her i thought it no fit place for me and fled chapter xi the wood by i lost no time but down through the valley and by and as hard as i could it was s to lie every night between twelve and two in a bit of wood by east of and by south the south mill this i found easy enough where it grew on a steep with the flowing swift and deep along the foot of it and here i began to walk slower and to reflect more reasonably on my employment i saw i had made but a fool s bargain with it was not to be supposed that was sent alone upon his errand but perhaps he was the only man belonging to james more in which case i should have done all i could to hang s father and nothing the least material to help to tell the truth i fancied neither one of these ideas suppose by holding back the girl should have helped to hang her father i thought she would never forgive herself this side of time and suppose there were others pursuing me that moment what kind of a gift was i come bringing to and how would i like that i was up with the west end of that wood when these two considerations struck me like a my feet stopped of themselves and my heart along the wood by with them what wild game is this that i have been playing thought i and turned instantly upon my heels to go elsewhere this brought my face to the path came past the village with a but all plainly visible and or there was nobody stirring here was my advantage here was just such a as had me to profit by and i ran by the side of the mill fetched about beyond the east comer of the wood through the midst of it and returned to the west whence i could again command the path and yet be myself unseen again it was all empty and my heart began to rise for more than an hour i sat close in the border of the trees and no hare or eagle could have kept a more particular watch when that hour began the sun was already set but the sky still all golden and the daylight clear before the hour was done it had fallen to be half the images and distances of things were mingled and observation began to be difficult all that time not a foot of man had come east from and the few that had gone west were honest and their wives upon the road to bed if i were by the most cunning in europe i judged it was beyond the course of nature they could have any jealousy of where i was and going a uttle further home into the wood i lay down to wait for the strain of my attention had been great for i had watched not the path only but every bush and field within my vision that was now at an end the moon which was m her first quarter a little in the wood all round there was a stillness of the country and as i lay there on my back the next three or four hours i had a fine occasion to review my conduct two things became plain to me first that i had had no right to go that day to dean and having gone there had now no right to be lying where i was this where was to come was just the one wood in all broad scotland that was by every proper feeling closed against me i admitted that and yet stayed on wondering at myself i thought of the measure with which i had to that same night how i had of the two lives i carried and had thus forced her to her father s and how i was here exposing them again it seemed in a good conscience is eight parts of courage no sooner had i lost conceit of my behaviour than i seemed to stand amidst a throng of terrors of a sudden i sat up how if i went now to caught him as i stiu easily might before he slept and made a full submission who could blame me not the writer i had but to say that i was followed of getting clear and so gave in not here too i had my answer ready that i could not bear she should expose her father so in a moment i could lay all these troubles by which were after all and truly none of mine swim clear of the murder get forth out of of all the and all the and in the land and live to my own mind and be able to enjoy and to improve my the wood by fortunes and devote some hours of my youth to which would be surely a more suitable occupation than to hide and run and be followed like a hunted thief and begin over again the dreadful miseries of my escape with at first i thought no shame of this i was only amazed i had not thought upon | 38 |
glow left when the drag taken off but there remained a broken bold and a little village e t the bottom of the hill a broad sweep and rise beyond it a tower a a et for the chase and a with a fortress on it used u i prison round upon all darkening objects us tlie drew on be looked with the of one who was coming near the had one poor street with its poor poor poor tavern poor stable yard for of post horse poor fountain all usual poor it had its poor people too all its people poor and many of were sitting at their spare and the like for supper many were at the fountain washing leaves and and any small of the earth that be eaten expressive signs of what made poor were not the tax for the state the tax for the the tax for the lord tax local and tax general were w be paid here and to be paid there according to inscription in the little village until the wonder that there any village left few children were to be seen and no dogs as w the men and women their choice on earth was stated the prospect � life on the lowest terms that could sustain it down in the little village under the mill or and death in the dominant on the by a in advance and by the l s of his which snake like al their heads in the evening as if lie came attended the the drew up in his ling carriage at the house gate it was a tale of two cities the fountain and the suspended their operations to look at him he looked at them and saw in them without knowing it the slow sure down of face and figure that was to make the meagre ness of an english superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years the cast his eyes over the faces that drooped before him as the like of himself had drooped before of the court � only the difference was that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to � when a of the joined the group bring me hither that fellow said the to the the fellow was brought cap in hand and the other fellows closed round to look and listen in the manner of the people at the paris fountain i passed you on the road it is true i had the honor of being passed on the road coming up the hill and at the top of the hill both it is true what did you look at so i looked at the man he stooped a little and with his tattered blue cap pointed under the carriage all his fellows stooped to look under the carriage what man pig and look there pardon he swung by the chain of the shoe � the drag who demanded the traveller the man g a tale of two cities may the devil away how do yoa call the man know all tbe men of this ui of tbe country who was he tour he was not of part of the country of all the days of my life i saw him swinging by the chain to he with your gracious permission that waa the of it his head hanging over � he turned himself sideways to the carriage and back with his face thrown up to the sky and his head hanging down then recovered himself with his cap und made a bow what waa he like he was than the miller all covered with dust white as a tall as a the picture produced an immense sensation ia its little crowd but all eyes without comparing notes other eyes at the mai to observe whether he had any on his truly you did well said the sensible that such were not to him to see a thief accompanying my carriage and not open great mouth of yours put him aside was the and some united he had come out with to this examination and the examined by the of his arm in an i aside said lay hands oa this stranger if he seeks to lodge a tale of two cities your village to night and be sure that his business is honest i am flattered to devote myself to your orders did he run away fellow � where is that accursed the accursed was already under the carriage with some half dozen particular friends pointing out the chain with his blue cap some half dozen other particular friends promptly him out and presented him breathless to the did the man run away when we stopped for the drag he himself over the head first as a person into the river � see to it go on the half dozen who were peering at the chain were still among the wheels like sheep the wheels turned so suddenly that they were lucky to save their skins and bones they had very little else to save or they might not have been so fortunate the burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond was soon checked by the of the hill gradually it subsided to a foot pace swinging and upward among the many sweet of a summer night the with a thousand about them in of the quietly mended the points to the lashes of their the walked by the horses the was audible trotting on ahead into the dim distance at the point of the hill there was a little burial ground with a cross and a new large figure of our on it it was a poor figure in wood done by some inexperienced rustic but he had studied a tale of two the figure from the life � hia own life ma be � for il was dreadfully | 8 |
him to listen not to lose a breath with his arms resting on his knees and stooping forward in his chair as if what he said were written on the ground in some half character which it was bis occupation to and connect he went on the i have fallen very low and you may guess how much i have suffered in having this sent back when i bear to bring it in my hand to you but you loved her once even in my memory dearly others stepped in between you fears and and doubts and you from her but you did love her even in my memory i suppose i did he said himself for a moment i did that s neither here nor there o richard if you ever did if you have any memory for what is gone and lost take it to her once more once more teu her how i begged and prayed tell her how i laid my head upon your shoulder where her own head might have lain and was so humble to you richard tell her that you looked into my face and saw the beauty which she used to praise all gone all gone and in its lace a poor wan cheek that she would weep to see tell her everything and take it back and she will not refuse again she will have the heart so he sat musing and repeating the last words until he woke again and rose you won t take it margaret she shook her head and an entreaty to him to leave her good night margaret good night he turned to look upon ner struck by her sorrow and perhaps by the pity for himself which trembled in her voice it was a quick and rapid action and for the moment some flash of his old bearing kindled in his form in the next he went as he had come nor did this glimmer of a � re seem to light him to a quicker sense of his in any mood in any grief in any torture of the or body s work must be done she sat down to her task and plied it night midnight still she worked she had a meagre fire the night being very cold and rose at intervals to mend it the half past twelve while she was thus engaged and when ceased she heard a gentle knocking at the door before she could so much as wonder who was there at that hour it opened o youth and beauty happy as ye should be look at this o youth and and blessing all within your reach and working out the ends of your beneficent creator look at this thb she saw the entering figure screamed its name cried it was swift and fell upon its knees before her clinging to her dress up dear up my own dearest never more never more here here close to you holding to you feeling your dear breath upon my face sweet darling child of my heart � no mother s love can be more tender � lay your head upon my breast � never more never more when i first looked into your face you knelt before me on my knees before you let me die let it be here you have come back my treasure we will live together work together hope together die together ah kiss my lips fold your arms about me press me to your bosom look kindly on me but don t raise me let it be here let me see the last of your dear face upon my knees o youth and beauty happy as ye should be look at this o youth and beauty out the ends of your beneficent creator look at this forgive me so dear so dear forgive me i know you do i see you do but say so she said so with her on s cheek and with her arms round � she knew it now � a broken heart his blessing on you dearest love kiss me once more he her to sit beside his feet and dry them with her hair o what mercy and compassion as she died the spirit of the child returning innocent and radiant touched the old man with its hand and beckoned him away thb fourth quarter new remembrance of the ghostly figures in the bells some faint impression of the ringing of the some giddy consciousness of having seen the swarm of and until the recollection of them lost itself in the confusion of their numbers some hurried knowledge how conveyed to him he knew not that more years had passed and with the spirit of the child attending him stood looking on at mortal company fat company rosy company comfortable company they were but two but they were red enough for ten they sat before a bright fire with a small low table between them and unless the fragrance of hot tea and lingered longer in that room than in most others the table had seen service very lately but all the cups and being clean and in their proper places in the comer cupboard and the brass fork hanging in its usual nook and spreading its four idle fingers out as ir it wanted to be measured for a glove there remained no other visible tokens of the meal just finished than such as and washed their whiskers in the person of the cat and in the gracious not to say the greasy faces of her this couple married evidently had made a fair division of the fire between them and sat looking at the glowing sparks that dropped into the grate now nodding off into a now waking up again when some hot fi larger than the rest came rattling down as if the fire were coming with it it was in no danger of sudden however | 8 |
mysterious was from the servant s description nick named had been sufficiently clever to the bank the house in was searched but mr had deserted it and not a of a single of was to be seen all that could be obtained was some little knowledge of old patch s proceedings it appeared that he carried on bis paper entirely by himself his only waa francis s history of the bank of england bank note his mistress he was his own he even made his own ink he liis own paper with a private press he worked his own notes and the of the completely but these discoveries had no ef feet for it became evident that mr patch had set up a press elsewhere although his secret continued as impenetrable his notes became as plentiful as ever five years of unbounded prosperity ought to have him � but it did not success seemed to pall him his genius was of that order which demands new and a constant of new flights the following paragraph from a newspaper of relates to the same individual � on the th of december ten pounds was paid into the bank for which the clerk as usual gave a ticket to receive a bank note of equal value this ticket ought to have been carried immediately to the instead of which the l took it home and curiously added an to the original sum and returning presented it so altered to the for which he received a note of one hundred pounds in the evening the clerks found a deficiency in the accounts and on examining the tickets of the day not only that but two others were discovered to have been obtained in the same manner in one the figure was altered to and in another to by which the artist received upon the whole nearly one thousand pounds to that old patch as will be seen in the added smaller which one would think were far beneath his notice except to convince himself and his mistress of the unbounded facility of his genius for fraud at that period the public were with a tax on plate and many experiments were made to it among others one was invented by a mr charles price a stock and office keeper which for a time puzzled the mr charles price lived in great style gave splendid dinners and did everything on the scale yet mr charles price had no plate the authorities could not find so much as a silver tooth pick on his magnificent premises in truth what he was too cunning to possess he for one of his he hired the plate of a in and left the value in bank notes as security for its safe return one of these notes having proved a was traced to mr charles price and mr charles price was not to be found at that particular juncture although this excited no surprise � for he was often an from his office for short periods � yet in due course and as a formal matter of business an officer was sent to find him and to ask his explanation regarding the false notes after tracing a man whom he had a strong notion was mr charles price through countless lodgings and innumerable the officer to use his own expression mr charles price but as mr observed his prisoner and his prisoner s lady were even then too many for him for although he lost not a moment in trying to secure the implements after he had discovered that mr charles price and mr and old patch were all concentrated in the person of his prisoner he found the lady had destroyed every trace of evidence not a of the factory was left not the point of a graver nor a single spot of ink nor a of silver paper nor a scrap of anybody s handwriting was to be met with despite however this of evidence to him mr charles price had not the courage to face a jury and he saved the and the much trouble aiid expense by hanging himself in bank note the success of mr charles price has never been surpassed and even after the darkest era in the history of bank � which dates from the of cash in february and which will be treated of in the succeeding chapter � old patch was still remembered as the caesar of chapter ii in the history of crime as in all other histories there is one great epoch by which minor dates are arranged and defined in a list of remarkable events one remarkable event more remarkable than the last is the standard around which all smaller circumstances are whatever happens in annals is set down as having occurred so many years after the flight of the prophet in the records of london commerce a great fraud or a great failure is mentioned as having come to light so many months after the flight of sporting men date from remarkable struggles for the prize and refer to as s year the of old dated from dick s last appearance on the fatal stage at in like manner the standard epoch in the annals of bank note is the year when on the th of february one pound notes were put into circulation instead of golden guineas or to use the city cash were suspended at that time the bank of england note was no better in appearance � had not improved as a work of art � since the days of and old patch it was just as easily and the chances of the successful circulation of were increased a thousand fold bank note up to no notes had been issued even for sums so small as five pounds consequently all the bank paper then in use passed through the hands and under the eyes of the and educated who could more readily | 8 |
and desolate old age not one of ail those to whose happiness or amusement i have contributed would now seek me in this lowly habitation to soothe my hours of weariness or pain i had friends � i had fortune � i had all that renders life desirable and have been assailed by few of its most trying yet has disappointment been my daily portion and sorrow the companion of my path tears more than time have worn these on my cheek � i am not so old as i am wretched a long pause ensued during which the appeared to be struggling with some mental agony restless but silent she sat with both her hands pressed violently upon her forehead and her head bent forward as if beneath the weight of severe affliction it seemed as though the of memory were thrown open and the that poured in brought nothing along with it but and the salt weeds of it was strange to behold one who had so nearly finished her course � one who had approached the of eternity � thus agitated by the recollection of former years it was not however with fruitless that e endeavoured to regain her former composure she cleared her voice and smoothed her forehead and rising from the posture of humiliation in a calm and collected manner resumed the thread of her discourse i said that i had spent a long life in the service of my fellow creatures well might i quote the memorable words of the dying cardinal and say that had i served my half as sincerely as i have served my friends he would not have left me thus i said that i had served my fellow creatures but what was my motive if kind and willing and charity and good will � if patient and submission may me to the name of christian i indeed have been a of christ but let me ask again what was my motive with kind services i sought to purchase friends amongst whom i live the centre of a charmed circle � friends whose partial love might screen my faults and even from my own observation with gifts i those whom my humour sometimes with charity i bought the pains of pleasing the poor that my step might be welcome in the cottage of the and my countenance hailed as the of joy to every creature in the universe my heart naturally with benevolence i was patient too by nature and never hesitated to suffer in the cause of another when certain that suffering would be known and appreciated fo submit without resistance a part of my creed � and verily i had my reward for all that i did and endured and truly there was enough of both was without any reference to a higher object than that of making myself beloved and i am the more willing to lay my own errors before the world because the character at which i aimed is one that too frequently passes under the of amiable and as such is held up to admiration while concealing beneath a cloak of loveliness a selfish and ig noble mind � should either of my fair friends be running upon the where i have suffered it may be worth her while to listen for a few hours to the detail of circumstances tending to the of those which have made me what i am � feelings which have been a constant source of disappointment and humiliation for years � feelings which still pursue me to the brink of the grave and occupy that place in my heart where higher thoughts should reign supreme raise not your expectations to the heights of romantic interest mine has been the common lot of mortals � my character by any extraordinary traits the narrative to which i call your attention is that of a mis spent but in great measure an life displaying none of the extremes of vice or virtue good fortune or calamity perhaps were i inclined to look with partial eye upon the past i might be able to no trifling number of actions in themselves and which had they originated in a love of god and to his service might have been held as in my favour but which having nothing for their object save the transient applause of friends have passed away from n remembrance with the worthless by which they were excited alas i my young friends it is only that heaven bom benevolence which regards all creatures as the children of one universal father that can prompt us to true christian charity and love it is only by first desiring to serve that we can ever effectually serve mankind but i detain you and the hour is late come to me to evening if you are at leisure and have no more agreeable employment and you shall listen to the story of an old woman chapter ii faithful to the appointed hour on the following day the two young ladies seated themselves at the fireside of their venerable friend who commenced her simple narrative without introduction i was bom to that station in life which entitled me to all the and advantages that a reasonable mind could desire my mother died early and my father being fully engaged with the business of a bank in which he was an active partner an older sister and were sent during the usual term of education to a fashionable school and afterwards left to the of own tastes and the of our own conduct for my sister this was all as her regular and even temperament secured her against any temptation to from the customs most approved in society at first i thought that her of character arose solely from of feeling but i learned in time to respect the substantial reasons she was able to give for everything she did and after experience taught me | 41 |
die the fear of death was one of the strongest in the of the nature man to live he must have a natural diet the open air and the blessed sunshine now an winter has no for those the nature man who wish to return to nature so darling started out in search of a climate he mounted a and headed south for the university claimed him for a year here he studied and worked his way attending lectures in as scant garb as the authorities would allow and applying as much as possible the principles of living that he had learned in his favorite method of study was to go off in the hills back of the university and there to strip off his clothes and lie on the grass in sunshine and health at the same time that he soaked in knowledge but central has her and the quest for a nature man s climate drew him on he tried los and southern being arrested a few times and brought before the insanity because his mode of life was not after the mode of life of his fellow men he tried where unable to prove him insane the authorities him it was not exactly a he could have remained by serving a year in prison they gave him his choice now prison is death to the nature man who only in the open air and in god s sunshine the authorities of are not to be blamed darling was an citizen any man is who with one and that any man should to the extent darling did in his philosophy of the simple life is ample of the authorities verdict of his so darling went thence in search of a climate which would not only be desirable but wherein he would not be and he found it in the of garden spots and so it was according to the the of the the nature mar the nature man narrative as given that he wrote the pages of his book he wears only a cloth and a fish net shirt his stripped weight is one hundred and pounds his health is perfect his that at one time was considered ruined is excellent the lungs that were practically destroyed by three attacks of have only recovered but are stronger than ever before i shall never forget the first time while talking to me that he a the had settled in the middle of his back between his shoulders without interrupting the flow of conversation without dropping even a syllable his clenched fist shot up in the air curved backward and smote his back between the shoulders killing the and making his frame like a bass drum it reminded me of nothing so much as of horses kicking the in their the in the african pounds his chest until the noise of it can be heard half a mile away he will announce suddenly and beat a hair raising devil s on his own chest one day he noticed a set of gloves hanging on the wall and promptly his eyes brightened do you box i asked i used to give lessons in when i was at was the reply and there and then we stripped and put on the gloves bang a long arm flashed out landing the end on my nose he caught me in a duck on the side of the head nearly knocking me over i carried the lump raised by that blow for a week i under a straight left and i the of the landed a straight right on his stomach it was a fearful blow the whole weight of my body was behind it and his body had been met as it forward i looked for him to up and go down instead of which his face beamed approval and he said that was beautiful the next instant i was covering up and striving to protect myself from a of hooks and then i watched my chance and drove in for the i hit the mark the nature man dropped his arms gasped and sat down suddenly ril be all right he said just wait a moment and inside thirty seconds he was on his feet � ay and returning the compliment for he me in the and i gasped dropped my hands and sat down just a trifle more suddenly than he had all of which i submit as evidence that the man i with was a totally different man from the poor ninety pound of eight years before who given up by and lay gasping his life away in a closed room in the book that darling has written is a good book and the binding is good too has for years her need for desirable she has spent much time and thought and money in desirable citizens and she has as yet nothing much to show for it yet the nature man she refused to give him a chance so it is to s proud spirit that i take this opportunity to show her what she has lost in the nature man when he arrived in he proceeded to seek out a piece of land on which to grow the food he ate but land was difficult to find the nature man � that is land the nature man was not rolling in wealth he spent weeks in wandering over the steep hills until high up the mountain where clustered several tiny he found eighty acres of brush which were apparently as the property of any one the government officials told him that if he would clear the land and till it for thirty years he would be given a title for it immediately he set to work and never was there such work nobody that high up the land was covered with and by wild pigs and countless rats the view of and the sea was magnificent but the outlook | 21 |
less than they have hitherto done to a poetic form so peculiarly suitable for giving expression to the more varied intellectual life of these latter times as was that which secured to our literature among his detached pieces the were the of honest ben himself � the as he them of his studies it is unnecessary to point out though the poet had to do so in the admirable lines addressed to his mere english critic that his conception of the forms and functions of an the wider one entertained by the and that therefore his purpose in the large majority of these poems is not to work rapidly up to a point at the dose if this be borne in mind the of these ns and of those pieces in the which belong to the same class will not be denied the admiration which it deserves some are witty in the sense of the term � nearly all in the broader their sarcasm where they contain such itself against various types of men and women � among them much to s credit rather against those whom he might have been expected to flatter than those whom he might have been expected to but the fastidious were as genuine an to ben as the zeal of the land and this though he to some extent depended for his bread as well as for his sack upon the good will of the court and and it may be said in passing that though like all his brother he was devoted to the crown he was free spoken even to the most august of his and constantly to the commonplace but wholesome that it is the he has been but with the of the national the english poets love not the fear of his subjects upon which a monarch ought to rely but s are both less effective and less elaborate than those of a directly opposite tendency few of our or poets have equalled him in of � whether his theme was the praise of like the elder or the younger or of men of letters varying in kind and degree from whom he as monarch of letters to the poet s fellow nor was he less happy when the object of his poetic homage was a gentle woman like the of celebrated in the lines below and his among which room could only be found here for two of the most pathetic remain not only for a force which we are accustomed to find in but also for a tender grace which he is not so usually supposed to have possessed in the collection called the forest small as it is has done the greatest justice to the variety of poetic of which in addition to the dramatic he was capable he here excuses himself for not writing of love partly on the favourite poets plea of growing age and in truth his muse was comparatively a stranger to yet the little of to put together by in and inserted in the and some charming original and translated pieces to be found elsewhere show him not only to have written graceful love poetry himself but to have furnished examples of it to his younger was in his way almost as much indebted to as milton was in his as a or of classical was in his element his re of favourite gems from and others were doubtless true labours of love for the as his delighted to be justified in calling him had the early of a scholar and through life he remained deeply grateful to the famous his master at westminster that among the latin poets should have specially attracted him is easily to be accounted for in some of his original he has all the brightness and all the of his roman model � in the fine included in the forest he rises to a moral dignity beyond the reach either of or of his later for not even a slight summary like the present should from mention among s characteristics the firm and steady tone of his morality in his earlier manhood he twice changed his faith � without the faintest suspicion of interested motives ben to his � and in his later days he seems to have remained a close student of now to those wiser guides whom fashion had not drawn to study sides but to a conscientious desire for truth he added a humility of soul towards things divine which stands in strange and touching contrast to the high and quick temper of his bearing in most other matters critics have been known to cry out against having to hear too much about the of ben but his is inseparable from him and as the lines to heaven show he was not ashamed even of his piety a w ward � the english poets echo s lament of from acted act i sc i slow slow fresh keep time with my salt tears yet slower yet o faintly gentle springs list to the heavy part the music bears woe out her division when she sings and flowers fall grief in showers our beauties are not ours o i could still like melting snow upon some hill drop drop drop drop since nature s pride is now a withered song from v or acted act i sc come my let us prove while we can the sports of love time will not be ours for ever he at length our good will spend not then his gifts in vain that set may rise again but if once we lose this light tis with us perpetual night why should we our joys fame and rumour are but toys cannot we the eyes of a few poor household or his easier ears thus removed by our i compare v the allusion not taken from in the concluding lines is to a famous law ben tis no sin | 45 |
another instance of the ruling passion strong in death for only three days before he expired being told that an old acquaintance was lately married having recovered from a long illness by eating eggs and that the wits said that he had been on to matrimony he im a of jane the joke saying then may the yoke sit easy on him i do not know from what common the master of and his great niece jane with some others of the family may have derived the keen sense of humor which they certainly possessed mr and george resided first at hut removed in to which was their residence for about thirty years they commenced their married life with the charge of a little child a son of the celebrated who had been committed to the care of mr before his marriage probably through the influence of his sister mrs whose husband at that time held some office under in india mr in his life of says that his son george the offspring of his first marriage was sent to england in for his education but that he had never been able to ascertain to whom this precious charge was nor what became of him i am able to state from family tradition that he died young of what was then called sore throat and that mrs had become so much attached to him that she always declared that his death had been as great a grief to her as if he had been a child of her own about this time the grandfather of mary dr was of the adjoining parish of so that the parents of two popular female writers must have been intimately acquainted with each other as my subject carries me back about a hundred a of years it will afford for observing many changes gradually effected in the manners and habits of society which i may think it worth while to mention they may be little things but time gives a certain importance even to trifles as it a peculiar flavor to wine the most ordinary articles of domestic life are looked on with some interest if they are brought to light after being long buried and we feel a natural curiosity to know what was done and said by our forefathers even though it may be nothing wiser or better than what we are daily doing or saying ourselves some of this generation may be little aware how many now considered to be necessaries and matters of course were unknown to their and the lane between d� and has long been as smooth as the best road but when the family removed from the one residence to the other in it was a mere cart track so cut up by deep as to be for a light carriage mrs who was not then in strong health performed the short journey on a feather bed placed upon some soft articles of furniture in the wagon which held their household goods in those days it was not unusual to set men to work with and to fill up and holes in roads seldom used by carriages on such special occasions as a funeral or a wedding ignorance and of language also were still lingering even upon higher of society than might have been expected to retain such mists about this time a neighboring squire a a of man of many acres referred the following difficulty to mr s decision you know all about these sort of things do tell us is paris in france or france in paris for my wife has been with me about it the same gentleman some conversation which he had heard between the and his wife represented the latter as beginning her reply to her husband with a round oath and when his daughter called him to task reminding him that mrs never swore he replied now why do you pull me up for nothing that s neither here nor there you know very well that s only my way of telling the story attention has lately been called by a celebrated writer to the inferiority of the clergy to the of england two centuries ago the charge no doubt is true if the rural clergy are to be compared with that higher section of country gentlemen who went into parliament and in london society and took the lead in their several but it might be found less true if they were to be compared as in all they ought to be with that lower section with whom they usually associated the smaller landed who seldom went farther from home than their county town from the squire with his thousand acres to the who cultivated his hereditary property of one or two hundred then formed a numerous class � each the of his own parish and there was probably a greater difference in manners and refinement between this class and that immediately above them than could now be found between any two persons who rank a of as for in tlie progress of though all orders may make some progress yet it is most perceptible in the lower it is a process of up the rear rank dressing up as it were close to the front rank when hamlet as something which he had for three years taken note of that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the it was probably intended by as a satire on his own times but it expressed a principle which is working at all times in which society makes any progress i believe that a century ago the improvement in most country began with the clergy and that in those days a who chanced to be a gentleman and a scholar found himself superior to his chief in information and manners and became a sort of centre of refinement and politeness mr was a remarkably good looking man both in | 26 |
piercing all feeding and air of heaven that man shall never i tumble down again soon into my old and lead the life of as before and have lost my faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where i would be but leaving these victims of vanity let us with new hope observe how nature by impulses has the poet s fidelity to his office of announcement and namely by the beauty of things which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed nature offers all her creatures to him as a picture language being used as a type a second wonderful value appears in the object far better than its old value as the carpenter s stretched cord if you hold your ear close enough is musical in the breeze things more excellent than every image says are expressed through images things admit of being used as because nature is a symbol in the whole and in every part every line we can draw in the sand has expression and there is no body without its spirit or genius all form is the poet an effect of character all condition of the of the life all harmony of health and for this reason a perception of beauty should be sympathetic or proper only to the good the beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary the soul makes the body as the wise teaches � so every spirit as it is pure and hath in it the more of heavenly light so it the fairer body doth procure to habit in and it more fairly with cheerful grace and amiable sight for of the soul the body form doth take for soul is form and doth the body make here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place and should go very and reverently we stand before the secret of the world there where being passes into appearance and unity into variety the universe is the of the soul wherever the life is that bursts into appearance around it our science is and therefore superficial the earth and the heavenly bodies and we treat as if they were self k at i but these are the of that being we have the mighty heaven said in its clear images of the splendor of intellectual being moved in with the periods of intellectual natures therefore science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man keeping step with religion and or the state of science is an index of our self knowledge since everything in nature answers to a moral if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active no wonder then if these waters be so deep that we over them with a religious regard the beauty of the proves the importance of the sense to the poet and to all others or if you every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these of nature for all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the i find that the fascination in the symbol who loves nature who does not is it only poets and men of leisure and cultivation who live with her no but also the poet hunters farmers and though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words the writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter in riding in horses and dogs it is not superficial qualities when you talk with him he holds these at as a rate as you his worship is sympathetic he has no but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present no imitation or playing of these things would content him he loves the earnest of the of rain of stone and wood and iron a beauty not is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of it is nature the symbol nature the supernatural body by life which he with coarse but sincere rites the and mystery of this attachment drives men of every class to the use of the schools of poets and philosophers are not more with their than the with theirs in our political parties the power of and see the great ball essay i which they roll from to hill in the political goes in a loom and in a shoe and in a ship witness the barrel the the stick the and all the of party see the power of national some stars lilies a a lion an eagle or other figure which came into credit god knows how on an old rag of blowing in the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth shall make the blood under the or the most conventional exterior the people fancy they hate poetry and they are all poets and beyond this of the language we are of the of this superior use of things whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with pictures and of the deity in this that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs of low and high honest and base disappear when nature is used as a symbol thought makes every thing fit for use the of an man the poet � would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation what would be base or even to the becomes illustrious spoken in a new of thought the piety of the hebrew their the is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive small and mean things serve as well as great the the type by which a law is expressed the more it is and the more lasting in the memories of | 37 |
such a child as this if mr is at home i ll knock stretches for t ie across the child who his intentions sets up a howl my good child i assure you for heaven s sake don t i � i wonder whether i ought to kiss it � some fellows would i female voice from side you leave that pore child alone will yer � or i ll come out and to you d y ear one side of the mr c j to that s mrs t i think perhaps i d better not wait with an inspiration i ll leave a card drops one ef his visiting cards in the to its exceeding and t wonder whether i ought t i m afraid i haven t produced a very favourable impression so far i ll try no across the street he approaches a upon two stout and women are seated � r � i beg your one side of the but could you inform me if er � consulting card � in is at woman with sarcasm now do yer think he s to do but set indoors in a arm cheer all day mr c j i � i thought � i hoped � that it being saturday i might be � er � fortunate enough � have i the pleasure of addressing mrs both women are with mirth second woman on recovering � calling down the passage ere mrs yer wanted ere s a gentleman come to see yer mrs appearing from tlie and standing at end of the passage well what does he want mr c j raising his and sending his voice down the passage to i ventured to call mrs in the hope of finding your husband at home and his � er � political sympathies � in view of the election mrs oh it s about the is it are you for a mr c j for a � oh to be sure yes i came to ask mr to support sir the candidate perhaps if i called again i might mrs a matter tone i don t expect my ome till late and then he ll be drunk mr c j just so but i trust mrs your husband feels the importance of maintaining the union mrs he did belong i know but i think his branch broke up or mr c j puzzled ah but i mean in � er � politics � i hope he is opposed to home rule to ireland mrs g he don t tell me nothing about his politics but i ve card him say he was mr c j as mrs g slowly edges towards the door might i suggest mrs that you should use the � er � influence which every woman possesses to� er � induce your husband � here lie suddenly becomes aware that mrs has a very pronounced black eye but perhaps i ought not to ask you one side of the g well my opinion is � if you want some one to over my to your side you d better come and do it yourself because ain t goin to so there to the again first dish w if you can t do better than come ere mischief between a man and his wife you d better stop at ome that you ad mr c j to himself upon my word i believe she s right but i never noticed the poor woman s eye before i wish i could find one of the men in and have a talk with him � much more satisfactory at no is mr at home mr b out of a room on the ground floor qui c me mr c j i wanted to see you mr to ask if we may count upon your support for the candidate at the election i need hardly point out to you the � er � vital importance of mr b against the passage wall opposite mr c j old on nor you question fore we go any ear from you is � ow m i goin little bit o good outer for you me what good men ever done er man � d yer why never � not in all their born you take that from me mr c j but er � it was a government that gave you free education mr b no it t nor there yer wrong d yer see it wash er give us free education and free education er me wouldn say thank yer frail free education in er wide world i mr c j that he must strike a stronger well at all events you will admit that during the last six years you have been � er � peaceful and prosperous mr b i ve been and ever i was born no look ere n r i m to you bout d yer see you er m goin tell you here he his remarks by mr c j s ribs with a clay pipe y one side f the � man s more and more every day he sh qui capable after his own interests what he is one man one vote hours o labour ome rule for london an the control of the liquor traffic what did say educated and � always rt i an t an educated very well then there you ave it mr c j but � er � don t you see my friend that according to mr the more intelligent and educated you � are the more you re likely to be wrong mr b nothing er � kind don you make any ain t wrong i � my political and the i go are � down r � mr c j in that case mr i need not occupy your time any longer so i ll say mr b him don you go way nor fore | 44 |
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