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was never left for one hour alone no could have clung to a spanish princess more closely than i did to yet i could see well that her passion was no whit that it grew day by day indeed as the fire in the heart of a and that soon it must break loose and spread its ruin round the omen of it was to be read in her words her gestures and her tragic eyes chapter x i the s chamber one night asked us to dine with him in his own apartments in the highest tower of the palace � had we but known it for us a place indeed for here the last act of tiie mighty drama was destined to be fulfilled so we went glad enough of any change when we had eaten grew very thoughtful then said suddenly � friend i wish to ask a favour of you � tliat you will beg the to let us go our ways instantly the s cunning old face became like a mask of ivory surely you had better ask your of the lady herself lord i do not that any in reason will be refused to you he replied let us stop said and consider the facts it has seemed to me that the is not happy with her husband your eyes are very keen lord and who shall say that they have deceived you it has seemed further went on that she has been so good as to look on me with � some regard ah i perhaps you guessed that in the gate house yonder if you have not forgotten what most men would remember i remember certain that have to do with her and you the only his beard and said proceed in the s chamber there is little to add except that i am i minded to bring scandal on the name of the first lady ij your land nobly said lord nobly said though here they do n trouble much about such things but how if the could be managed without scandal if for instance t chose to take another husband the whole would rejoice for she is the last o� her royal race how can she take another husband when she has ont living true indeed that is a question which i have considered but the answer to it is that men die it is the common lot and the has been drinking very of late you mean tliat men can be murdered said angrily well i will have nothing to do with such crime do you understand me as the words passed his lips i heard a rustle and my head behind us were curtains beyond which slept kept his instruments of worked out his now they had been draw and between them in her royal array stood the still as a statue who was it that spoke of crime she asked in j cold voice was it you my lord rising from his chair he faced her and said � lady i am glad that you have heard my words if they should vex you why should it vex me to learn that there is one honest man in this court who will have naught to do with murder nay x honour you for those words know also that no such foul thoughts have come near to me yet that which is written � is written doubtless but what is written tell him now passed behind the and returned with a roll from which he read the heavens have declared by their signs that before the next new moon the will lie dead at the hands of the stranger lord who came to tliis country from across the mountains � then the heavens have declared a lie said contemptuously that is as you will answered but so it must befall not by my hand or those of my servants but by yours and then why by mine why not by s yet if so then doubtless i shall suffer the punishment of my crime at the hands of his mourning widow he replied exasperated you are pleased to mock me well knowing what a husband this man is to now i felt that the crisis had come and so did for he looked her in the face and said � speak on lady say all you wish perhaps it will be better for us both i obey yon lord of the beginning of this fate i know nothing but i read from the first page that is open to me it has to do with this present life of mine learn that from my childhood you have haunted me oh when first i saw you yonder by the river your face was not strange to me for i knew it � i knew it well in dreams when i was a little maid and slept one day amidst the flowers by the river s brim it came first to � ask my uncle here if this be not so though it is true that your face was younger then afterwards again and again i saw it in my sleep and learned to know that you were mine for the magic of my heart taught me this then passed the long years while i felt that you were drawing near to me slowly very slowly but ever drawing nearer onward and outward through the of the world across tlie hills across the plains across the sands across the on to my side at length came the end for one night not three ago in the s chamber whilst this wise man my uncle and i sat together hei studying the lore that he has taught me and striving to its secrets from the past a vision came to me look you i was lost in a charmed sleep which the spirit from tlie body and gives it strength to	18
your may imagine my i speak on grounds of public policy pursued the prince jewels so valuable should be reserved for the s diamond the collection of a prince or the treasury of a great nation to hand them about among the common sort of men is to set a price on virtue s head and if the of � a prince i understand of great � desired vengeance upon the men of europe he could hardly have gone more about his purpose th n by sending us this apple of discord there is no honesty too robust for such a trial i myself who have many duties and privileges of my own � i myself mr could scarcely handle the crystal and be safe as for you who are a diamond hunter by taste and profession i do not believe there is a crime in the you would not � i do not believe you have a friend in the world whom you would not eagerly betray � i do not know if you have a family but if you have i declare you would sacrifice your children � and all this for what not to be richer nor to have more comforts or more respect but simply to call this diamond yours for a year or two until you die and now and again to open a safe and look at it as one looks at a picture � it is true replied i have hunted most things from men and women down to i have for coral i have followed both and and a diamond is the of the lot it has beauty and worth it alone can properly reward the of the chase at this moment as your may fancy i am upon the trail i have a sure a wide experience i know every stone of price in my brother s collection as a shepherd knows his sheep and i wish i may die if i do not recover them every one sir thomas will have great cause to thank you said the prince i am not so sure returned the with a laugh one of the will thomas or john � peter or paul � we are all nights i did not catch your observation said the prince with some disgust and at the same moment the waiter informed mr that his cab was at the door mr glanced at the clock and saw that he also must be moving and the coincidence struck him sharply and for he desired to see no more of the diamond hunter much study having somewhat shaken the young man s nerves he was in the habit of m the most luxurious manner and for the present journey he had taken a sofa in the sleeping carriage you will be very comfortable said the guard is no one in your and only one old gentleman in the other end it was close upon the hour arid the tickets were being examined when mr beheld this other fellow passenger ushered by several into his place certainly there was not another man in the world whom he would not have preferred � for it was old john the ex the sleeping carriages on the great northern line divided into three � one at each end for and one in the centre fitted with the of a a door running in separated each of the others from the but as there were neither nor locks the whole was practically common ground when mr had studied his position he perceived himself without defence if the chose to pay him a visit in the course of the night he could do no less than receive it he had no means of and lay open to attack as if he had been lying in the fields this situation caused him some agony of mind he recalled with alarm the statements of his fellow across the and the professions of which he had heard him offering to the disgusted prince some persons he remembered to have read are endowed v the diamond with a singular quickness of perception for the neighborhood of precious through walls and even at considerable distances they are said to divine the presence of gold might it not be the same with diamonds he wondered and if so who was more likely to enjoy this sense than the person who in the of the diamond hunter from such a man he recognized that he had everything to fear and longed eagerly for the arrival of the day in the meantime he neglected no precaution concealed his diamond in the most internal pocket of a system of great coats and devoutly recommended himself to the care of providence the train pursued its usual even and rapid course and nearly half the journey had been accomplished before slumber began to triumph over uneasiness in the breast of mr for some time he resisted its influence but it grew upon him more and more and a little before york he was fain to stretch himself upon one of the and suffer his eyes to close and almost at the same instant consciousness deserted the young clergyman his last thought was of his neighbor when he awoke it was still pitch dark except for the of the veiled lamp and the continual roaring and to the of the train he sat upright in a panic for he had been tormented by the most uneasy dreams it was some seconds before he recovered his self command and even after he had resumed a attitude sleep continued to flee him and he lay awake with his brain in a state of violent agitation and his eyes fixed upon the door he pulled his felt hat over his brow still farther to shield him from the light and he adopted the usual such as counting a thousand or thought by which experienced 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and was off on the way i had myself driven to the old said to be full of picturesque houses for a look i reached the in time to have a argument with my driver as to whether he was entitled to two marks or one � one being a fair reward � and then hurried into my train in a half hour we a at forty were at on the and in three quarters of an hour those lovely hills and which make the so picturesque had begun and they continued all the way to and below that to chapter a town after italy and the scenery of the seemed very mild and to me yet it was very beautiful the from to new york is far more imposing a score of american rivers such as the the new in west virginia the james above the and others would make the seem simple by comparison yet it has an individuality so distinct that it is i always marvel over this thing � personality nothing under the sun explains it so often you can say this is finer that is more imposing by comparison this is nothing but when you have said all this the thing with personality rises up and triumphs so it is with the like millions before me and millions yet to come i watched its slopes its castles its islands its pretty little german towns passing in review before the windows of this excellent train and decided that in its way nothing could be finer it had personality a snatch of old wall with trees in blossom a long thin side wheel steamer one fore and another aft william a castle tower with a flock of flying about it and hills laid out in ordered squares of vines gave it all the charm it needed when was reached i out ready to inspect may en at once another disappointment was not at but fifteen or eighteen miles a at forty away on a small branch road the trains of which ran just four times a day but i did not learn this until as usual i had done considerable according to my map appeared to be exactly at the of the and the which was here but when i asked a small boy dancing along a street where the was he informed me if you walk fast you will get there in half an hour when i reached the actual juncture of the and the however i found i was mistaken i was entertained at first by a fine view of the two rivers darkly walled by hills and a very massive and in a way impressive statue of emperor william i armed in the most and military manner and looking sternly down on the fast and waters of the two rivers about the base of this monument to catch was a young picture post card with a box of views of the and other cities for sale he was a very humble looking youth � a bit � who kept following me about until i bought some post cards where is i asked as i began to select a few pictures of things i had and had not seen for future reference he asked doubtfully oh that is a great way from here is up the river near no no i replied this matter was getting to be a sore point with me i have just come from i am looking for isn t it over there somewhere i pointed to the fields over the river he shook his head he said i don t think there is such a place good heavens i exclaimed what are you talking a town about here it is on the map what is that do you live here in he replied i live here very good then where is i have never heard of it he replied my god i i exclaimed to myself perhaps it was destroyed in the war maybe there is n t any you have lived here all your life i said turning to my and you have never heard of no yes it is up the river near don t tell me that again i said and walked off the of my father s was getting on my nerves finally i found a car line which ended at the river and a landing wharf and hailed the conductor and who were together for a moment where is i asked they said looking at me curiously no no m a y e n � not it s a small town around here somewhere i they repeated and then frowned oh god i i sighed i got out my map � see i said oh yes one of them replied brightly putting up a finger that is so there is a place called i it is out that way you must take the train how many miles i asked about fifteen it will take you about an hour and a half i went back to the station and found i must wait another two hours before my train left i had reached the point where i did n t care a whether i ever t� it tt t a at forty got to my father s town or not only a dogged determination not to be beaten kept me at it it was at while waiting for my train that i had my first real taste of the german army around a comer a full regiment suddenly came into view they past me and crossed a bridge over the their brass glittering their trousers were gray and their red and they marched with a slap slap slap of their feet that was positively ominous every man s body was as erect as a every man s gun was carried with almost loving grace over his x der they were all big men stolid and broad	43
a profound sigh even if have done him injustice she is lost to me now you know appearances were against him why you agreed with me about it i don t want to see any one i want to go away from here and forget my sorrows as best i can in some far distant place there was a sadness in the tone that went to the listener s heart the door was slightly and took the liberty of looking into the room lay stretched out in a great chair and leaned over him appearing for all the world like some sinister bird of prey mr felt for the first time in his life that there was something in the aspect of the book he did not think he could ever be close friends with him again and what did mean by saying that had agreed with him when he heard such base opinions the critic was with apparent satisfaction a pile of that lay on the table it had grown vastly since saw it the last time and must be fifteen or twenty chapters in extent now you must not go away until you have finished this wonderful work replied with concern a few more months a little further experience in life and your reputation will be made ah it is wonderful it is magnificent the world will ring with your praises before the year is ended such fidelity to nature such perfection of detail la a black all my career i have never seen anything to approach it moved uneasily in his chair do you ever think at what cost i have done this he asked i know the pain of a burn because i have held my hands in the fire i know the agony of because i have at the end of a rope i can write of the buried beneath a hundred feet of clay because i have had the load fall on my own head to love and find myself beloved then to see happiness snatched without explanation from my grasp to feel that my best friend has been the one to betray me that is what i have passed through and from the drops of misery thus i have those lines you so much admire i have written all i can of these horrors i will not begin again till i have caught somewhere in the great sky a glimpse of sunlight mr could wait no longer he pushed open the door and went to the speaker s side the sunlight is awaiting you he said gazing down upon the figure in the you have only to raise your curtain mr sprang up in astonishment at the sudden arrival and perhaps a little in alarm also for he could not tell how long the visitor had been at the but turned his languid eyes toward his old friend and was silent my boy pursued with the utmost earnestness i can prove to you now that loves you and you alone our i did not move his lips and the words came stiffly you can promise many things he said but can you any of them so cold so unlike himself what will convince you demanded shall i bring a letter from her or would you rather she came in person to tell you i speak the truth the shadow of a smile a smile that was not agreeable hovered around the corners of the pale mouth i shall write no more said the lips when they opened until i have seen her and heard the reason for my i will discover who my enemy is i will the man or the woman that has done me this injury till then i shall write no more no not one line mr was by the new turn in i he knew that had some basis for what he said that he was not the man to come with pretence on his tongue neither of the other persons in the room paid the least attention to him any more than if he had not been present it was like a play at which was the only spectator could you bear it if i brought her to you to day if i brought her here now asked if i jf an d get her and she comes with me will the shock harm you the smile deepened on the face of the younger play out your farce he said casting one look of apprehension at mr a black turned toward the door that entered the before he could reach it a female form came into the room and caught his arm together they faced the figure in the chair this lasted but a moment then broke from her escort and threw herself at her lover s feet come whispered to the critic let us leave them alone chapter xx like a stuck pi was neither better nor worse morally because his color was black there are men with white who would have done exactly as he did there are others as dark as who would have done nothing of the sort he was no ordinary negro his intelligence was above the average when he first entered the employ of mr that gentleman took every pains to encourage the for learning that he found in him accompanied his employer to his office where he was with important which he seemed for a long time to execute with and at home he performed his duties in a way that gave great satisfaction at the end of the first six months mr would have hated to part with a servant that he believed difficult to replace like a stuck t but the great source of trouble arose gradually began to entertain a sentiment for his master s younger daughter that was impossible of treated him in the most considerate manner never dreaming what was going on behind his serious brow	1
each movement of his fat hands was every word be uttered was kind the very of hia voice was comforting he was in a word human and this attracted all that was human in her on leaving mr walked along the streets trailing every word be bad said feeling his breath upon cheek and bis blue eyes looking into more distinctly in recollection than when be had held her in bis arms she walked in recollections clear and a sort of one she bad never known before being a of the people his violence bad not impressed her and she murmured to herself every now and then poor fellow what a fall he had i hope he didn t hurt himself by turns she thought of things totally different � of of the little girls who would regret her absence from the and it was not without surprise that she caught herself wishing suddenly they were her own the wish was only momentary but it was the first time a desire for had ever troubled her it amused her to think of their smiling faces and to make sure of their smiles she entered a shop and bought a small packet of and with the paper in her hand continued her walk home the cheap prints in a newspaper shop delayed her and the workmen who were tearing up the road forced her to consider how a a s wife of traffic would interfere with her business she was now in broad street and when she raised her eyes she saw her own house a new buildings high and narrow it stood in the main street at the corner of a lane the ground floor windows filled with light goods and underneath them black hats trimmed with wings and tails of birds there were also children s dresses and a few trimmed with white lace as she entered the shop mrs who was in the front kitchen cried well is that you where have you been i waited dinner an hour for you and how tired you look in her present state of mind mrs was the last person cared to meet what s the matter my dear aren t you well shall i get you a glass of water oh no mother i m all right can t you see that i m only very hot but where have you been i waited dinner an hour for you it s past two o clock did not know how to account for her absence from home but after a pause she answered thinking of mr as she spoke mrs kept me waiting above an hour trying her dress on and then i was so done up with night watching and sewing that i thought i d go for a walk and after wiping her weary hot face she asked her mother in law if many people had been in the shop that morning well yes half a dozen or more mrs answered and began to the different events of the morning mrs white had bought one of the she said she hadn t seen the pattern before a stranger had taken another and miss had called and wanted to know how much it would cost to her blue dress a s wife oh i know she wants me to the and put new on the for seven and sixpence we can do without her custom what then and then � ah i was forgetting � mrs west came in to tell us that her friend mrs wood the s wife you know up the street was going to be confined and would want some baby linen and she recommended her here did you see nobody else well yes a young man who bought half a dozen pocket handkerchiefs i let him have the half dozen for four shillings and i sold a pink to one of the factory bands over the way why mother you ve done s deal of business and i m glad about the baby linen we ve a lot in stock and it hasn t gone off well i don t know mrs wood but it s very kind of mrs west to recommend us and how has been getting on with the skirt well i must say she has been working very well she was here at half past eight and she did not stop away above three quarters of an hour for dinner i m glad of that for i was never so backward in my life with my work what with being ill and mr tried here to stop herself the conversation had so far been an agreeable one and she did not wish to spoil it by alluding to a subject on which there was no of their agreeing but her mother in law that was thinking of the said yes i wanted to talk to you about that he hasn t sent anyone to take away bis things and he didn t even speak when i took him up his breakfast this morning i don t think mr is leaving us she answered after a pause i thought it was settled last night that he was to be told that he mustn t bring a s wife home after eleven o clock at night i see him i ll to him about it the house is yours if you re satisfied i am and walked into the kitchen and when she had finished her dinner she went upstairs to see whom mrs declared to be much better on passing the the door opened suddenly and the bright faces of the little girls darted out oh is that yon mrs how we ve missed yon all the morning cried and miss has been so that she had to get me to help her with the skirt and i did a great long piece myself without a mistake didn t i miss i	15
be that i might hate and him all my life she had a suspicion that the old man regarded with anything but favour and intended these remarks to be extremely he did not appear however to regard them in that light by any means for when he spoke again it was in a tone of severity look about you he said pointing to the graves and remember that from your hour to the day which sees you brought as low as these and laid in such a bed there will be no appeal against him think and speak and act for once like an creature is any control put upon your inclinations are you forced into this match are you advised or tempted to contract it by any one i will not ask by whom by any one no said merry her shoulders i don t know that i am don t know that you are are you no replied merry nobody ever said anything to me about it if any one had tried to make me have him i wouldn t have had him at all i am told that he was at first supposed to be your sister s admirer said martin oh good gracious my dear mr it would be very hard to make him though he is a monster for other people s vanity said merry and poor dear cherry is the darling it was her mistake then i hope it was cried merry but au along the dear child has been so dreadfully jealous and so cross that upon my word and honour it s impossible to please her and it s of no use trying not forced persuaded or controlled said martin thoughtfully and that s true i see there is one chance yet you may have into this engagement in very it may have been the wanton act of a light head is that so my dear mr merry as to there never was such a feather of a head as mine it s a perfect i declare you never did you know he waited quietly till she had finished and then said martin steadily and slowly and ia a softened voice as if he would still invite her confidence have you any wish � or is there anything within your breast that whispers you may form the if you have time to think � to be released j m this engagement again miss merry and looked down and plucked the grass and shrugged her shoulders no she didn t know that she had she was pretty sure she hadn t quite sure she might say she didn t mind it has it ever occurred to you said martin that your married life may perhaps be miserable of bitterness and most unhappy looked down again and now she tore the grass up by the roots my dear mr what shocking words of i shall quarrel with him i should quarrel with any husband married people always quarrel i believe but as to being miserable and bitter and all those dreadful things you know why i couldn t be absolutely that unless he always had the best of it and i mean to have the best of it i always do now cried merry nodding her head and very much for i make a perfect slave of the creature let it go on said martin rising let it go on i sought to know your mind my dear and you have shown it me i wish you joy joy he repeated looking full upon her and pointing to tile gate where entered at the moment and then without waiting for his nephew he passed out at another gate and went away oh you terrible old man cried the merry to herself what a hideous monster to be wandering about in the broad daylight people oat of their wits don t come here or i go away directly mr was the he sat down upon the grass at her side in spite of this warning and inquired what s my uncle been a talking about about you rejoined merry he says you re not half good enough for me oh yes i dare say we all know that he to you some present worth having i hope did he say that looked like it that he didn t cried merry most vol i and of a old dog he is said well cried miss mercy in amazement what are you doing only giving you a squeeze said the there s no harm in that i suppose but there is a great deal of harm in it if i don t consider it agreeable returned his cousin do go along will you you make me so hot mr withdrew his arm and for a moment looked at her more like a murderer than a lover but he cleared his brow by degrees and broke silence with i say what do you say you vulgar thing � you low savage cried his fair when is it to be i can t to go on about here half my life i needn t tell you and says that father s being so lately dead makes very little odds for we can be married as quiet as we please down here and my being lonely is a good reason to the neighbours for taking a wife home so soon one that he knew as to my uncle i mean he s sure not to put a spoke in the wheel whatever we settle on for he told only this morning that if you liked it he d nothing at all to say so said venturing on another squeeze when shall it be upon my word cried merry upon my soul if you like said what do you say to next week now to next week if you had said next quarter i should have wondered at your impudence but	8
lo i a fig e crouched on a heap in the comer pale as ashes and shivering why it is the landlord said get up thou heart shouted one of the why man the thieves are bound and we are that bound them up i and show us thy wine for no bottles see i here what be the bound the pale landlord good news w � w � that will i honest and he rose with joints and offered to lead the way to tl e wine cellar but interposed you are all in the dark comrades he is in league with the thieves good soldier me in league with the ao cursed robbers is that reasonable the girl said so any way the and thb hearth the girl what ah i gone her i interposed the other the girl it not here hat gone on to the so let the settle whether this be g ty or no for we caught him not in the act and let him draw ns our wine one moment said why he the girl k he be a true man he bless her as we do alas sir i said the landlord i have but my good name to live by and i cursed her to you because you said she had me i thou art a and where is the thief that cannot lie with a smooth ce therefore hold him comrades a prisoner can draw wine an if his hands be not bound the landlord offered no objection but on contrary said he would with pleasure show them where his little stock of wine was but hoped they would pay for what they should drink for his rent was due this two months the smiled grimly at his simplicity as they thought it one of them laid a hand quietly but firmly on his shoulder the other led on with the torch they had reached the threshold when cried halt i � t here be bottles in this comer advance thy light the bearer went towards him he had just taken off his and was the heap the landlord had just been crouched upon nay nay cried the landlord the wine is in the next cellar there is nothing there nothing is mighty hard then said and drew put something with his hand from the heap it proved to he only a bone threw it on the floor it rattled there is there but the bones of the house said the landlord just now twas nothing now that we have something tis nothing but bones here s another look at this one comrade and you come too and look at it and bring you smooth along the with the torch whose name was held the bone to the light and turned it round and round � well well if this was a field of battle i should say twas the bone of a man no more no less but t a battle field nor a tis an inn true mate but yon s face is as good a light to me as a field of battle i read the bone by it bring yon face nearer i say when the is a missing and the house dog can t look at you without his tail creeping between his legs the thief g ood brothers mine my mind it d me the deeper i thrust the more if these bones could their tale they would make true men s flesh that heard it alas young man what hideous fancies are these the bones are bones of and sheep and kid and not as you think of men and women holy saints preserve us hold thy peace i thy words are air thou hast not got by the ear that know not a from their s ribs but soldiers � men that have gone to look for their dear com and found their bones picked as clean by the as these i doubt have been by thee and thy mates men and women thou and when i a word of women s bones make a child suspect thee field of battle comrade i was not this house a field of battle half an hour drag him dose to me let me read his ce now then what is this thou and he thrust a small object suddenly in his � � alas i know not well i would not swear neither but it is to� like the thumb bone of a man s hand mates my flesh churchyard how know i this is not one and he now drew his sword out of the and began to the heap of earth and broken and bones out on the floor the landlord assured him he but wasted his time we poor are said he we give short measure aod the wine we are fain to do these things the laws are so unjust to us but we are not how could we afford to kill our customers may heaven s light strike me dead if there be any bones there but such as have used for meat tis the kitchen them here i swear by god s holy mother by holy paul by holy and my patron ah held out a bone under his eye in dead silence it was a bone no man however ignorant however lying could confound with those of sheep or oxen the sight of it shut the lying lips and the heartless heart the landlord s hair rose visibly on his head like and his knees gave way as if his limbs had been struck from under him but the dragged him fiercely up and kept him erect under the torch string fascinated at the dead skull which white as the living cheek opposed but no glared back again at its murderer whose pale lips now opened and opened but could utter no sound ah i said solemnly	9
face in her hands i didn t know i was like this a moment after she reached out her hand to saying you re not angry with me i can t help it if i m like this i should like to go and see you it would be so much to me but i must not but why mustn t i i know no reason except that you don t care for me but you know that isn t so come dearest be reasonable you re not going to stop here all your life playing the da the hour by yo of departure has come he said perceiving her very thought be reasonable come and see me to morrow come to lunch and i ll arrange you know that you yes i believe that she said in response to a change which had come into her appreciation but can i trust myself suppose i did go away and repented and left you where should i go i could not come back here father would forgive me i dare say but i could not come back here those are fairy tales he said lifting her gold hair from her ear and kissing it a woman does not leave the man who her you told me they often did how f you are they do sometimes but not because they repent her head was on his shoulder and she stood looking at him a long while without speaking then you do love me dearest tell me so again kissing her gently on the mouth and eyes he answered � you know very well that i do come and see me tomorrow say you will for i must go now go now i do you know what time it is it is past seven she followed him to the gate of the little garden the lamps were lighted far away in the again he asked her to come and see him i cannot to morrow to morrow will be sunday his footsteps echoed through the chill twilight and seeing a thin moon afloat like a feather in the sky she thought of s moon that used to seek the lovers in their garden and that one evening sought one of them in vain vm there was no other place except the picture gallery where they could see each other alone but the dignity of and the of distracted their thoughts and they were ill at ease on a seat in by front of a regretted the it was less than the a sun lit clearing in a wood and a water mill raised no moral question he turned his eyes from the dancers but however he resisted them their frivolous life found its way into the conversation they were the wise ones he said they lived for art and love and what else was there in life a few a few a few pictures a few books and a love story we had always to come back to that in the end he spoke with conviction his only being the alteration of a into a singular but no he did not think he had lied he had spoken what seemed to him the truth at the present moment had he used the singular instead of the a fortnight ago he would have lied but within the last week his feelings for had changed if she had broken with him a week ago he would have found easy consolation in the list but now it was not women but a woman that he desired a mere curiosity and the artistic desire to save a beautiful voice from being wasted had given way to a more personal emotion in which affection was beginning looking at him thinking over what he had just said unable to the hope that those women in the picture were the wise ones she heard life calling her the art call and the love call were now on the now on the of an invisible at the same moment his senses like greedy fish swam hither and thither perplexed and terrified finding no way of escape and he dreaded lest he had lost his balance and fallen into the net he had cast so often he had begun to see that she was afraid of the sin and not at all of him she had never asked him if he would always love her � that she seemed to take for granted � and he had or fancied he had begun to feel that he would never cease to love her he looked into the future far enough to see that it would be she who would tire of him and that another would appear two or three years hence who would appeal to her imagination just as he did to day she would strive to resist it she would argue with herself but the illusion would draw her as in a silken net he was now engaged in the destruction of her moral scruples � in other words making the way easy for his successor by they were in the gallery alone and taking her hand he considered in detail the trouble this would bring in its train he no longer doubted that she would go abroad with him sooner or later he hoped it would be sooner for he had begun to perceive the absurdity of his visits to the question was whether she was worth an exile in a foreign country he would have to devote himself to her and to her interests she would have a there would be no use in their openly living together � that he could not stand but at that moment the exquisite happiness of seeing her every day coming into the room where she was reading or singing and kissing her as he leaned over her chair affectionately as a matter of course his enjoyment from the right to do	15
and difficult developed a habit of falling down and being to rise daylight gave of his own strength to lift him to his feet whereupon the older man would on he stumbled and fell again on the day they have reached the boat utterly when daylight raised him he fell again daylight to walk with him supporting him but such was daylight s own weakness that they fell together dragging to the bank a rude camp was made and daylight started out in search of it was at this time that he likewise developed the falling habit in the evening he found his first but darkness came on without his getting a certain shot with primitive patience he waited till next day and then within the hour the was his the major portion he fed to for himself the parts and the bones but such is the of life that this small creature this trifle of meat that moved by being eaten to the meat of the men the same power to move no longer did the nm up trees leap from branch to branch or cling chattering to giddy instead the same energy that had done these things flowed into the wasted muscles and wills of the men making them move � nay moving them � till they the several intervening miles to the boat which they fell together and lay motionless a long time light as the task would have been for a strong man to lower the small boat to the ground it took daylight hours and many hours more day by day he dragged himself around it lying on his side to the gaping with moss yet when this was done the river still held its ice had risen many feet but not start down stream and one more task waited the of the boat when the river ran water to receive it vainly daylight staggered and and fell and crept through the snow that was wet with or across it when the night s frost still it beyond the weight of a man searching for one more striving to achieve one more of leap and scolding chatter into the lifts and of a man s body that would the boat over the rim of and slide it down into the stream not till the twentieth of may did the it down stream movement began at five in the morning and already were the days so long that daylight sat up and watched the ice nm was too far gone to be interested in the spectacle though vaguely conscious he lay without movement while the ice tore by great cakes of it against the bank trees and out earth by of tons all about them the land shook and from the shock of these tremendous at the end of an hour the nm stopped somewhere below it was blocked by a jam then the river began to rise lifting the ice on its breast till it was higher than the bank from behind ever more water bore down and ever more of tons of ice added their weight to the the and became terrific huge cakes of ice were squeezed out till they into the air like seeds squeezed from between the thumb and forefinger of a child while all along the banks a wall of ice was forced up when the jam broke the noise of grinding and for another hour the nm continued the river fell rapidly but the wall of ice on top the bank and extending down into the falling water remained the tail of the ice nm passed and for the first time in six months daylight saw open water he knew that the ice had not yet passed out from the upper reaches of the that it lay in and in those upper reaches and that it might break loose and come down in a second run any time but the need was too desperate for him to linger was so far gone that he might pass at any moment as for himself he was not sure that enough strength remained in his wasted muscles to the boat it was all a if he waited for the second ice run would surely die and most probably himself if he succeeded in the boat if he kept ahead of the second ice run ii he did not get caught by some of the burning daylight from the upper if luck favored in all these essential particulars as well as in a score of minor ones they would reach sixty mile and be saved if � and again the if � he had strength enough to land the boat at sixty mile and not go by he set to work the wall of ice was five feet above the ground on which the boat rested first for the best place he foimd where a huge cake of ice upward from the river that ran fifteen feet below to the top of the wall this was a score of feet away and at the end of an hour he had managed to get the boat that far he was sick with from his exertions and at times it seemed that blindness smote him for he could not see his eyes vexed with spots and points of light that were as as diamond dust his heart up in his throat and him betrayed no interest did not move nor open his eyes and daylight fought out his battle alone at last falling on his knees from the shock of exertion he got the boat poised on a secure balance on top the wall crawling on hands and knees he placed in the boat his rabbit skin robe the rifle and the he did not bother with the axe it meant an additional crawl of twenty feet and back and if the need for it should arise he well knew he would be past all	21
turn up to part his lips he in the who was so much like captain de to shake the plates of his mail with suppressed laughter the lady with the three pearl and vast expanse of neck to nod with satisfaction and triumphantly signify to her adjoining husband that this was a meet and glorious end the light increased and blown upon by the wind roared round the pictures the and the cradle up to the plaster ceiling and through it into the forest of oak above the best sitting room at the king s arms in was as this evening as a room can be that the furniture on which so largely depends by the fire sat and the former with a shawl round her shoulders to keep off the draught which despite the curtains forced its way in on this night through the windows opening upon the balcony held a letter in her hand the contents of which formed the subject of their conversation happy as she was in her general situation there was for the a tear in her eye my ever dear ran the letter your last letter has just reached me and i have followed your account of your travels and intentions with more interest than i can tell you who know me need no assurance of this at the present moment however i am in the whirl of a change that has resulted from a resolution taken some time ago but concealed from almost everybody till now why well i will own � from cowardice � fear lest i should be reasoned out of my plan i am going to steal from the world from the social world for whose and i never had much liking and whose circles i have not the ability to grace my home and resting place till the great rest comes is with the at whatever may be found in such a community i believe that i shall be happier there than in any other place whatever you may think of my judgment in taking this step i can assure you that i have riot done it without consideration my reasons are good and my determination is but my own very best friend and more than sister don t think that i mean to leave my love and friendship for you behind me no you will always be with me and i believe that if an increase in what i already feel for you be possible it will be by the retirement and meditation i shall enjoy in my secluded home my heart is very full dear � too full to write more god bless you and your husband you must come and see me there i have not so many friends that i can afford to lose you who have been so kind i a write this with the fellow pen to yours that you gave me when we went to together gk od bye ever your own sister had first read this through silently and now in reading it a second time aloud to her voice faltered and she wept outright i had been expecting her to live with us always she said through her tears and to think she should have decided to do this it is a ty certainly said gently she was genuine if anybody ever was and simple as she was true i am the more sorry presently resumed because of a little plan i had been thinking of with regard to her you know that the pictures and of the castle are not included in the things i cannot touch or or whatever it is they are our own to do what we like with my father felt in the estate that however interesting to the de those objects might be they did not concern us � were indeed rather in the way having been come by so strangely through mr though too valuable to be treated lightly now i was going to suggest that we would not sell them � indeed i could not bear to do such a thing with what had belonged to s forefathers � but to hand them over to her as a gift either to keep for herself or to pass on to her brother as she should choose now i fear there is no hope of it and yet i shall never like to see them in the house it can be done still i should think she can ac them for her brother when he settles without absolutely taking them into her own possession it would be a kind of generosity which hardly to more than justice although they were purchased from a to a dear friend � not that i am a exactly well from a representative of the new aristocracy of to a representative of the old aristocracy of what do you call yourself since you are not of your father s creed i suppose i am what poor mr said � by the way we must call and see him � something or other that s in revelation hot but of course that s a sub species � i may be a anything what i really am as far as i know is one of that body to whom is not an accident but a necessity till they see a little more clearly she had crossed over to his side and pulling his head towards her whispered a word in his ear why mr said you were that too you carry your very comfortably i shall be glad when enthusiasm is come again i am going to and correct my one of these days when i have thought a little further she suddenly breathed a sigh and added how our best emotions are in talking of myself i am forgetting and becoming happy again i won t be happy to night for her sake a few minutes after this their attention	45
these matters gave us ample subject for discussion at about eleven o clock it being a fine frosty evening and fit for brisk walking we went out our destination being the private gambling club to which my companion had volunteered to introduce me as a guest it was situated at the end of a mysterious little back street not far from the respectable of pall and was an looking house enough outside but within it was though furnished apparently the premises were presided over by a woman � a woman with painted eyes and hair who received us first of all within the lamp lighted of an drawing room her looks and manner proclaimed her as a of the most pronounced type � one of those pure ladies with a past who are represented as such to the vices of men said something to her apart � whereupon she glanced at me and smiled � then rang the bell a discreet looking man servant in sober black made his appearance and at a slight sign from his mistress who bowed to me as i passed her proceeded to show us upstairs we trod on a carpet of the felt � in fact i noticed that everything was rendered as noiseless as possible in this establishment the very doors being covered with thick and swinging on silent hinges on the upper landing the servant knocked very cautiously at a side door � a key turned in the lock and we were admitted into a long double room very brilliantly lit with electric lamps which at a first glance seemed crowded with men playing at et and some looked up as entered and nodded � others glanced at me but our entrance was otherwise scarcely noticed drawing me along by the arm sat down to watch the play � i followed his example and presently found myself by the intense excitement which the room like the silent of the air before a thunder the sorrows of satan storm i recognised the faces of many well known public men � men eminent in politics and society whom one would never have imagined capable of supporting a gambling club by their presence and authority but i took care to betray no sign of surprise and quietly observed the games and the with almost as a as that of my companion i was prepared to play and to lose � i was not prepared however for the strange scene which was soon to occur and in which i by force of circumstances was compelled to take a leading part x as soon as the immediate game we were watching was finished the players rose and greeted with a good deal of eagerness and i instinctively guessed from their manner that they looked upon him as an influential member of the club a person likely to lend them money to with and otherwise to oblige them in various ways speaking he introduced me to them all and i was not slow to perceive the effect my name had upon most of them i was asked if i would join in a game of and i readily consented the were high but i had no need to for that one of the players near me was a fair haired young man handsome in face and of aristocratic bearing � he had been introduced to me as i noticed him particularly on account of the reckless way he had of his suddenly and apparently out of mere and when he lost as he mostly did he laughed as though he were drunk or on first beginning to play i was entirely indifferent as to the results of the game caring nothing at all as to whether i had losses or gains did not join us but sat apart quietly observant and watching me so i fancied more than anyone and as io the sorrows of satan chance would have it all the luck came my way and i won steadily the more i won the more excited i became till presently my humour changed and i was seized by a desire to lose i suppose it was the touch of some better impulse in my nature that made me wish this for young s sake for he seemed literally by my constant and continued his and desperate play � his young face grew drawn and sharply thin and his eyes glittered with a hungry the other though sharing in his run of ill luck seemed better able to stand it or perhaps they concealed their feelings more cleverly � anyhow i know i caught myself very earnestly wishing that this luck of mine would desert me and set in the young s direction but my wishes were no use � again and again i gathered up the till at last the players rose among them well fm cleaned out he said with a loud forced laugh you must give me my chance of a to morrow mr tempest i bowed with pleasure he called a waiter at the end of the room to bring him a brandy and and meanwhile i was surrounded by the rest of the men all of them repeating the s suggestion of a and urging upon me the necessity of returning to the club the next night in order to give them an opportunity of winning back what they had lost i readily agreed and while we were in the midst of talk suddenly addressed young will you make up another game with me he inquired i ll start the bank with this � and he placed two crisp notes of five hundred pounds each on the table there was a moment s silence the was drinking his brandy and and glanced over the rim of his tall at the notes with eyes � then he shrugged his shoulders indifferently i can t stake any the sorrows of satan thing he said i	33
yet art awake thou art capable of enjoying sounds and other objects of sense of severe of protecting thy creatures and of living in indifference to all external things the roads leading to perfection which vary according to the different revealed systems all end in thee as the waves of the flow to the ocean for those men whose hearts are fixed on thee who have committed to thee their works thou art a refuge so that they escape further thy glory as manifested to the senses in the earth and other objects is yet this i presume to the stories of sleeping on the ocean in the intervals between the dissolution of one world and the creation of the next incomprehensible what shall be said who be proved only by the authority of scripture and by seeing that the remembrance of thee alone a man � the rewards of other mental when directed towards thee are thereby indicated as the w ers exceed the ocean and as the beams of light exceed the sun so thy acts our praises there is nothing for thee to attain which thou hast not already attained kindness to the world is the only motive for thy birth and for thy actions if this our hymn now comes to a close after thy greatness the reason of this is our exhaustion or our inability to say more not that there is any limit so the dutch to thy attributes these verses have not all been rendered v af iii fi in this passage the greater part of which has been translated by mo in the indian for june of the hard lot of her righteous husband and charges the deity with injustice but is answered by i give here the verses which i have attempted to render as well as some others g od i na the to creatures everything � happiness and suffering the agreeable and the disagreeable darting radiance before him just as the wooden figure of a woman moves its several limbs according as it is adjusted so too do these creatures as a bird bound and confined by a string is not its own master so a man must remain under the control of god he is neither the lord of others nor of himself like a strung upon a thread or a bull tied by a nose rope a man follows the command of the to whom he belongs and on whom he depends not self directing a man to some of time like a tree which has fallen from a river bank and has reached the middle of the current ignorant and powerless � compare the ill there i nothing which i am bound to nor which i h ve yet to obtain and yet i to act as the ignorant who are devoted to action do ao let the man do to promote the of the world to command his own pleasures and sufferings he must go to heaven or hell according as he is impelled by god as the tips of grass are swayed by the of a strong wind so too all beings are subject to the to noble action and again to sinful deeds god all creatures and it is not perceived that he is there acting according to his pleasure this lord them or them plays with living creatures as with a child s toys the does not treat his creatures like a father or a mother but acts angrily as any other being like ourselves seeing noble virtuous and modest men in want and men happy i am as it were agitated with perplexity and perceiving this of thine and the prosperity of i blame the who regards you with an unequal eye good fortune on him who the rules of conduct observed by noble men who is cruel greedy and a of justice what good end does the gain the same sentiments are expressed in the following fragment of no in the edition of iv ed h ex rt d a tt ov x i y tt t to d r v d i jl � t tt it is strange that those who are and descendants of wicked men should fare while those who are good and sprung from noble men should be unfortunate it was not meet that the gods should deal thus with mortals i am indebted to professor for suggesting the reading which gives this sense for which the text of the m has men ought to obtained from the gods some manifest advantage while the unjust should on the contrary have some evident penalty for their evil deeds and thus no one who was wicked would have been prosperous with verses s compare also verses ff � ri n ai why do they say that wretched mortals are wise for we are dependent upon thee and do whatever thou to will � i have heard y the charming and amiable discourse full of sparkling phrases which thou hast spoken but thou sentiments n i do not act from a desire to gain the of my works i give what i ought to give and the rites which i am bound to whether reward to me or not i do to the best of my power what a man should do as if he were living at home the speaker is represented as being at the time in the forests it is on duty alone that my thoughts are fixed and this too naturally the man who seeks to make of a is low and the meanest of those who about the man who seeks to milk i e to extract from it all the advantage that he can does not obtain its reward i say it do not doubt about he who does so is on the way to he bom as a brute n and other are all wise through for thou plainly these saints	28
roads and were then called the generally wished to increase the power of the government the were more in favor of what were called states rights � � i i rise of and the thought that whatever power the constitution did not expressly give to the general government could only be exercised by the states � the great leaders of the party were henry clay of and daniel of these were two of the greatest the country has ever known another orator ol the first rank john c of south was on the side he believed in the power of a state to � a law of the nation but the party generally agreed with that the laws of the united states were the supreme until the courts decided them add clay and are often spoken of together they were the three great of what is sometimes known as the compromise period of american history henry clay was born in virginia in he was a poor boy and gained his education with difficulty he settled in ken history of the united states as a young man and long represented that state in the house of representatives and the john c was born in south in and was at college clay and were both bold of the war with england in who was born in the same year with entered in during the war from this time these three men gradually came to the front as the greatest masters of the art of debate the country had known was a member of s cabinet clay of john s of and s but they were all three greatest in hm h ch of them desired to be p i h b president but all were k l l pointed was � v president for eight years from to clay was active in bringing about the compromise which favored later than this became the chief advocate of the doctrine that the states were sovereign and that the union was a compact of sovereign states clay and web rise of and on the other hand were of the authority of the union clay was the author of the compromise of which favored died in clay and in in martin van of new york was by the and elected president he followed the policy of but in a way he did not any bills passed by van was born at new york in he lived more than twenty years after his retirement from the dying in i mt i � j chapter the railroad and the telegraph soon after certain changes began in ways of travel that have made modern life different from that of the all preceding ages men in old times had along day after day and week after week to make a journey of hundreds of miles on horseback or they were over bad roads in stage or carriages pack horses or heavy carried all the freight that went by land boats rowed or pushed with poles went slowly up and history of the united states � made by ba the rivers carrying passengers and freight with oars and sails and other small vessels plied up and down the coast and all the ships at sea were by sails in ships our people made great improvements the a with � that is that backward � was famous for its speed fi gained advantages in the war of by being better than the english men of war at a later period the american ships were the sailing vessels in the world after the invention of the steam engine in england attempts were made in france scotland and america to build boats that would go by steam but robert an american built the first really successful this boat the was launched in and ran between new york and to the great wonder of all who saw her soon after look the place of boats on the western rivers and they greatly aided in the rapid development of in the new country served for commerce and travel where there were rivers and lakes but how should the traffic on the western rivers and the great lakes be connected railroad and telegraph with the rivers east of the mountains and the sea long used in europe were thought of for this purpose and washington was much interested in a proposed canal from the to the river but the first great canal in this country was that from the river to lake the chief of this work was de governor of new york it was eight years in construction it was begun on the th of july and in its completion was celebrated by a procession of boats from lake to the ocean where governor de poured a of lake water into the sea as a sign of their union this canal by opening a trade with the west made new york the greatest city of the united states but for the more country of the middle states a great national road for was planned and built from western as far as the western part of the extension of soon rendered it of no importance as a national work but the greatest change of all in the life ol americans was made by the railway which was introduced from england the first bars on which little cars loaded with coal were drawn from the mines the first railway in the united states was but two miles long and was used only for stone the cars were drawn by horses the first g merely tracks of i o history of the united states o t electric passenger train in america was run on the and railroad in but the cars were drawn by horses the first year the extension of was very rapid they changed america more than any other country because here the distances are so great we have almost as many miles of railway as all	11
temptation for your husband that your in charles who his cousin s is limited by his vanity which in estates and can so well appreciate a instead of it while there is yet time lam madam yours mb � retire from a that cousin has lost hy no fault of his own silence in the court i the judge i must request that there ence which appears to be useless and might if pro may be no of feeling longed draw some bitter remark from me as it has counsel i will endeavor to ce none from y � j my lord it is a very simple case and i f hall the trial which you court and i ot occupy vou long gentlemen mr jn y eye poor he is proud and � � of fortune like a gentleman � like a man he has not in this match between a la er government for a place he has and a lady each gained an advantage the not nor lamented he has dignified lawyer s letters as might have been ex poverty by prudence and sell were the best adapted to be read to denial and unable to that he is a a jury but the lady in her way he has put by a little money every obtained at a small sacrifice what she year and bought a small estate or t wo wanted and that without raising the slight and had even applied to the lord suspicion of her true motive in the ant to make him a justice of the peace when a most severe and unexpected blow she announced her success to mr fell upon him amongst those large in the midst of it she with ter who respected him in spite op his at the thought of what sir charles circumstances was mr would say to her for writing to mr one of the county members well all men on the st of last may mr re she now with the of her a letter from mr hard e hoped and prayed mr would ing one to be from sir charles admit the letter and so all her � and pains prove superfluous the judge does sir charles secretly but with a lovely face admit the letter and serene front she took her place at the s counsel after a word with beside the judge and got as near yes my lord him as she could s counsel a letter admitted to the court was crowded and many ladies be written by sir charles that present letter shall be read to you y was called in a loud the letter was then read voice there was a hum of excitement then the counsel resumed conceive if yon a silence of expectation and the s can the effect of this blow just as my rose to address the happy and most deserving was rising a little in the world i shall prove that it mat it please your gen excluded him from mr s house of the jury � the in this and other too he is a man of case is the di too much importance to risk he and representative of that old has never entered the door of any honorable family whose monuments man in this county since his powerful to be seen in several churches in this published this cruel he has county and whose estates are the largest i his cloak around him and believe in the county he would have he your verdict to resume that place succeeded as a matter of course to those amongst you which is due to him in every estates but for an arrangement made only way due to him as the heir in direct line to a year before he was bom by which con the wealth and above all lo the honor of e e t a � w � m � p se ts t im aa s e � ere a terrible temptation would be si the facts speak for themselves call james esq mr proved the receipt of the letter from sir charles and that he had sent it to mr and that mr had not entered his house since then nor had he invited him mr was then and being duly trained by from all neat and wore an air of dignified his counsel examined him and his replies bore out the opening statement everybody thought him sure of a verdict he was then cross examined s counsel pressed him about his unfair way of shooting the judge interfered and said that was trifling if there was no substantial defence why not settle the matter there is a defence my lord then it is time you disclosed it very well n y lord mr did you ever write an letter not that i remember o that appears to you a trifle it is not so considered the judge be more particular in your question i will my lord did you ever write an letter to make mischief between charles and lady never said the witness but he turned pale do you mean to say you did not write this letter to miss look at the letter mr before you reply cast one swift glance of agony at then himself like iron he examined the letter attentively turned it over lived an age and said it was not his writing � f do you swear that � certainly counsel i shall ask your to take down that reply if persisted in my will the witness for s counsel don t threaten the witness as well as insult him please the judge he is an educated man and knows the duty he owes to god and the take time mr and recollect did you write that letter no my lord counsel waited for the judge to note the reply then proceeded you have lately with lady i think yes her	9
to i m not none but if we don t have a i ll miss my guess go to it no skin off my ear think i want to be fifth wheel in the coach no but look here the little has a friend with her from and some gay bird and harry and me thought maybe you d like to off for one evening no rats now forget your everlasting dignity you used to be a pretty good sport yourself when you were foot free it may have been the fact that mrs s friend remained to an ill told it may have been s voice wistful in the pallid evening as she sang to it may have been natural and virtue but certainly he was positive i m married for keeps don t pretend to be any saint like to get out and raise and shoot a few drinks but a fellow owes a duty straight now won t you feel like a when you come back to the after your me my moral in life is what they don t know won t hurt em none the way to handle wives like the fellow says is to catch em early treat em rough and tell em nothing well that s your business i suppose but i can t get away with it besides that � way i figure it this is the one game that you always lose at if you do lose you feel foolish and if you win as soon as you find out how little it is that you ve been for why then you lose worse than ever nature us as usual but at that i guess a lot of wives in this would be surprised if they knew everything that goes on behind their backs eh main street they i say boy if the good wives knew what some of the boys get away with when they go down to the cities why they d throw a fit sure you won t come think of getting all cooled off by a good long drive and then the e iy s white hand mixing you a good guess i won t grumbled he was glad that showed signs of going but he was restless he heard on the stairs come have a seat � have the whole earth he shouted she did not answer his she sat on the porch rocked silently then sighed so many out here you haven t had the screen fixed as though he was her he said quietly head aching again oh not much but this maid is so slow to learn i have to show her everything i had to clean most of the silver m and was so bad all afternoon he so poor soul he was hot but he did wear me out you usually want to get out like to walk down to the lake shore the girl can stay home or go to the come on let s go to the or shall we jump in the car and run out to sam s for a swim if you don t mind dear i m afraid i m rather tired why don t you sleep down stairs tonight on the couch be cooler i m going to bring down my come on ke the old man company can t tell � i might get scared of little fellow like me stay all alone by himself it s sweet of you to think of it but i like my own room so much but you go ahead and do it dear why don t you sleep on the instead of putting your on the floor well i believe run in and read for just a second � want to look at the last � and then perhaps i ll go by by unless you want me dear of course if there s anything you really want me for no no matter of fact i really ought to run down and see mrs she s so you in and may drop in at the store if i m not home when you get sleepy don t wait up for me he kissed her os nodded to jim stopped main street indifferently to speak to mrs but his heart was racing his stomach was he walked more slowly he reached s yard he glanced in on the porch sheltered by a wild vine was the figure of a woman in white he heard the swing couch as she sat up abruptly peered then leaned back and pretended to be nice to have some cool beer just drop in for a second he insisted as he opened the gate n mrs was calling upon protected by aunt have you heard about this awful woman that s supposed to have come here to do � mrs � awful moaned mrs they say there s some of the on at her house � mere boys and old gray headed in there evenings and drinking and every kind of on we women can t never realize the thoughts in hearts of men i tell you even though i been acquainted with will almost since he was a mere boy seems like i wouldn t trust even him who knows what women might tempt him especially a doctor with women in to see him at his office and all you know i never hint around but haven t you felt that was furious i don t pretend that will has no faults but one thing i do know he s as simple hearted about what you call on as a babe and if he ever were such a sad dog as to look at another woman i certainly hope he d have spirit enough to do the tempting and not be into it as in your picture why what a wicked thing to say from aunt no i mean it oh	42
quality other finer gentlemen they were specimens of the great conquering creature man whom all women must to please if they have the fortunate power � and each and all of them were plainly trying to please and not she them and so anne gazed at them with admiring awe waiting until there should come a pause in which she might presume to call her sister s attention to her presence but suddenly before she had indeed made up her mind how she might best announce herself there spoke behind her a voice of silver it is only said the voice who about them as they move the of the rose gardens of when you come to reign over us in town madam there will be no perfume in the mode but that of rose leaves and in all drawing rooms we shall breathe but their perfume and there at her side was bowing to her sister in and crimson with buttons on his velvet coat the beautiful being whose fair locks the sun had shone on the morning she had watched him ride away � the man whom the imperial beauty had dismissed and called a looked under her lashes toward him without turning but in so doing beheld anne standing in waiting a lady of quality a fine speech lost she said though twas well enough for the country sir john tis thrown away because tis not i who am scented with rose leaves but anne there whom you must not come hither sister and do not hide as if you were ashamed to be looked at and she drew her forward and there anne stood and all of them stared at her poor plain blushing face and the in and crimson bowed low as if she had been a that being his conqueror s way with gentle or simple maid wife or widow beauty or it was so with him always � he could never re the chance of to himself a woman s heart whether he wanted it or not and he had a charm a strange and wonderful one it could not be denied anne indeed as she made her courtesy to him and wondered if heaven had ever before made so fine a gentleman and so beautiful a being she went but seldom to this room again and when she went she stood always in the background far more in fear that would ad dress her than that she should meet with neglect she was used to neglect and to being regarded as a and aught else her all her pleasure was to hear what was said though twas not always of the finest wit and to watch a lady of quality c play the queen among her admirers and her slaves she would not have dared to speak of sir john frequently indeed she let fall his name but rarely but she learned a curious wit in to hear all things concerning him it was her habit to lead mistress mar to talking about him and relating long histories of his and his grace mistress knew many of them for a staid and prudent matron a lively interest in his ways it seemed truly � if one must believe her long stories that no under seventy had escaped weeping for him and losing rest and that ladies of all ranks had committed follies for his sake mistress anne having led her to this fruitful subject would sit and listen bending over her frame with strange emotions causing her virgin breast to ache with their swelling she would lie awake at night thinking in the dark with her heart beating surely surely there was no other man on earth who was so fitted to and to whom it was so suited that this should g ve her charms surely no woman however beautiful or proud could dismiss his suit when he pressed it and then poor woman her imagination strove to paint the splendor of their mutual love though of such love she knew so little but it must in be bliss a lady of quality and rapture and perchance was her humble thought she might see it from afar and hear of it and when they went to court and had a great mansion in town and many servants who needed a s eye upon their doings to restrain them from and riot might it not chance to be that if she served well now and had the courage to plead with her then she might be permitted to serve her there living quite apart in some quiet comer of the house and then her wild thoughts would go so far that she would dream � at her own boldness � of a child who might be born to them � a infant son and heir whose eyes might be great and blue and winning and his hair in great fair locks and whom she might nurse and tend and be a slave to � and love � and love � and love and who might end by knowing she was his tender servant always to be counted on and might look at her with that laughing glance and even love her too the night laid her commands upon mistress concerning the coming of sir john that matron after receiving them hurried to her other charges and full of talk and poured forth her wonder and admiration at length she is a wondrous lady she said she is indeed i it is not alone her beauty but her spirit a lady of quality and her wit mark you how she sees all things and lets none pass and can lay a plan as prudent as any lady old enough to be twice her mother she knows all the ways of the world of fashion and will guard herself against gossip in such a way that none can her high virtue her spirit is	13
with a very narrow which is now open as far as or to within a hundred miles of the border is very poor and in common with the rest of south africa and indeed of the world has lately been passing through a period of great commercial depression the home government has refused to help it to its if it had done so how many hundreds of thousand pounds would have been saved to the british during the and wars and has equally refused to allow it to borrow sufficient money to get them constructed with the result that a large amount of the interior trade has already been into other channels and now a fresh and veiy real danger not only to but to introduction all imperial interests in south africa has sprang into sudden that is in this country for in africa it has been foreseen for many years above is situated which reaches to the southern shore of one of the finest in the world bay this great in which half a dozen could ride at anchor the only really good haven on the of south africa is fifty five miles in width and twenty in depth that is from east to west it is separated from the of which it is the natural port by about ninety miles of wild and inhabited country the of this splendid port was for many years in dispute between this country and the with whose of it connected by a strip of coast and who have a small fort upon it this dispute was finally referred by lord in to the decision of and on this occasion as on every other in which this country has been weak enough to go to that decision was given against us into the merits of the case it is not necessary to enter further than to say as has already been recently pointed out by a very able and well informed correspondent of the morning post that it is by no means clear by what right the matter was referred to at all the are in possession of the southern shore of the bay including i believe the and island and they are introduction an independent people the also on it and they are independent what warrant had we to refer their rights to the of the of the exercise of any over these countries is so shadowy that it may be said never to have existed certainly it does not exist now this is a point but it ib nothing more we must take things as we find them and we find that the have been formally declared and admitted by us to be the owners of bay now so long as we held the it did not so much matter who had the of the bay since a railway constructed from there could only run to british territory but we gave up the which is now a hostile state and the which has been so long foreseen in south africa and so blindly overlooked at home has come to pass � the railway is in course of rapid what does this mean to us at the best it means that we lose the greater part of the trade of south eastern africa at the worst that we lose it all in other words it means putting aside the question of our imperial needs and in africa a great many millions a year in hard cash out of the national pocket let us suppose that the worst happens and that the get a footing either in the or bay obviously they will stop our trade in favour of their own or let us introduction suppose that the takes advantage of one of our of imperial such as afflicted ns during the of lord and the provision in the which them to put a heavier tax upon our goods than upon those of any other nation in either event our case would be a bad one for our road from the eastern coast to the vast interior is blocked but it is of little use crying over milk or evils which it is our duty to try to and which in all probability still could be averted by a sound and consistent policy to begin with both and can be to the empire it is true that the independence of the first of these countries is by article xii of the of london of here is the exact � the independence of the within the boundary line of as indicated in the first article of this will be fully recognised but england has for years exercised a kind of right over � a right as i have already shown fully acknowledged and frequently appealed to by the themselves and for the rest what is the obvious meaning of this provision it means that the independence of is against its object was to protect the from at the hands of the further the have again and again broken this article of the in their repeated attempts to get a in it has now become necessary to our that the should come under our rule as indeed they are most anxious to do and a way should be found by which this end can be then as to or as it is sometimes called only a month or two ago an from the queen of that country waited on the office praying for british protection it is not known what answer they received let us trust that it was a favourable one the protection that should be accorded to the both in their interests and our own is to the british empire upon such terms as might be satisfactory to them the management of their country might be left to them subject to the advice of a and the of the ordinary laws respecting life and property common to states drink and white men might	18
first met chapter ii that accident of s turned out an one for her it was a very difficult case long tedious and full of anxiety then when mr was beginning to get about again he told her what every woman likes to hear that he could not live without her that although as he put it he was no catch he would never know another moment s peace unless she would promise to be his wife and of course she so promised at first he had apparently been contented enough to look forward to that some day which all lovers firmly believe in then as he grew stronger and began to see the effect that his nurse had upon the friends who came to the farm house where he had been carried after the accident to see him he also began to realize that when she was no longer nursing him she ao might at any moment be sent out to attend a similar case or at least a similar patient and he began to be impatient of her profession to fret and and rail against fate against everything but her and at last when he could stand it no longer he insisted on her breaking the chains which bound her look here my darling he said to her one day i know it s very grand and noble this nursing and all that and of course i admire you awfully for it both for your pluck and your skill and for your endurance and i shall always love you better that i happened to meet you in that way but � but at the same time the day has gone by for all that sort of thing why my dearest you might be sent out to some other fellow who had been smashed up of course i might she replied well i don t like it i don t like it at all by jove the chap might even fall in love with you it s not impossible she said smiling why you might be sent to some fellow of my own regiment by jove the doctor might the price of a wife even insist on having you and the fellow would be safe to fall in love with you nonsense none of my have fallen in love with me before it would be not at all no more than it was to have to come to you yes but you were not engaged when you came to me it does make a difference i must live said she quietly yes i know and that s the hard part of it look here my dear dear little quaint girl with your old world name and your garb i am going to make a proposal to you you may not like it it may even make you rather angry with me but i want you at least to think it well over don t say no in a hurry i ll make a clean breast of the whole past you know i ve been a bit of an ass in my time � most fellows in the service are sooner or later � i got dipped and when i expected my father to pay up my debts because after all i have never had much of an allowance though i m the eldest son and all that he was furious i believe that men who have made their money in business and by their own are mostly very of every life that happens to be a bit different from their own at all events i know that he is he began life with nothing � ha penny and a pair of i believe � and though he is as rich as he is as near and as saving as � as � the grave so when he found that i was dipped he told me that he would pay my debts but that he should expect me to my folly by marrying a woman with money now i don t happen to like women with money i can t help it i believe it is constitutional with me but it is none the less a remarkable fact that i have never yet seen the woman with money that i should like to sell myself to now all this happened my dearest before i had ever seen you or heard of you before i had ever been really in love in my life so i promised that i would look for money though without having the very smallest intention of doing it of course it is always easy to off an evil day and if my old father likes to spend his time hunting up for me why it i an amusement for him and it is quite easy for me to find some the price of a wife tion to them therefore up to now i have never troubled myself about his little weakness for the acquisition of money but have gone on exactly as i have done before one result of this was that i soon found myself more heavily in debt than ever i am not a bit ashamed of my debts � not a bit i have never had a proper allowance such as a man in an expensive cavalry regiment ought to have and requires to have especially when he is known to be the son of an rich father i have done nothing outrageous ive not painted the town red nor wasted money over women nor even thought about racing but i m in debt and out of debt i cannot get without my father s so you see dearest i am more or less tied to th old man i am more or less in bondage i mean i cannot very well go to him and say that i have got engaged to a girl who has to work for her living he	30
own sake as warmly as wildly as he loved her but there was more method in her madness she looked beyond the morrow and was desirous in her poor way to make some for the future she understood quite clearly what an enormous obstacle to her union with richard existed in the person of her step father george and she perceived that though there was little social inconvenience in the fact of his wife being richard s foster mother there would be very great objection to her becoming his mother in law and again she was not ignorant of her own y slight for the position of e iv ax t� � tower less black than we re painted neither of these first two matters could be bat it was possible she thought to make herself less unworthy of her lover � that i in a social point of view for she had no mock humility with respect to other things she knew herself to be very beautiful she herself with cleverness good sense and virtue and she loved the lad with all her honest heart at the risk of exciting more scorn than pity for our heroine we must confess that she by no means perceived her own to its full extent but imagined such was her ignorance that the devotion of her bright young being to a single object � namely dick � was not without its material value yet as we have said she did feel herself unworthy she knew that in ten thousand things she must presently find herself for the part she designed to occupy and in one or two of these at least she thought she might improve herself beforehand in the first place she knew that accomplishments went for a good deal and being aware that nature had given her a fine voice she was desirous to cultivate it indeed she had long a certain ambition in this direction it was the only means as she imagined she possessed for the highest value she attached to her beauty at that time was that it pleased richard of acquiring distinction and this it that had caused her as we shall hear to fall a prey to a very simple piece of on the part of sister richard s letter brought a reply by return of post dick � i am very glad to hear from you at last though i see you are angry with me for in london poor not reckon as an accomplishment or perhaps was ignorant that she did not possess it of i would rather be at oh if i had you by my side as the song says how happy i should feel but i am sure things are better as are your ant miss � sister she calls herself which is for i don think she would like me to be her sister nor even her niece � has been very kind to me she heard it seems from ant each of these great gave a sting to dick as he met with them for though he was no better at himself than any other ordinary boy there are degrees in these matters about my singing and told me what a pity it would be if i did not do what i could to improve my voice she to give me lessons and mother and ant both seemed to wish it but i said no thank you because i felt too proud to take the money from your ant then she said i might pay her back again if i pleased when my voice began to bring me in money so that i need be under no here dick was dreadfully shocked he had never felt any so painful and then the master of st s came who called my voice an organ and said it only wanted to do all sorts of things and dear dick i am so happy about my voice on your account they say i shall do great things with it so that perhaps you will not need to be very much ashamed of your poor after all my is something astonishing i am told and it would be foolish to neglect such opportunities as i at present i am going home for a few hours next week to get my things for of i had never meant to stay in london and oh how sad will look without you only be sure dear dick it is all for the best everybody is very kind to me here and of and ant also i must say though she is so much too good for yours truly that she makes me feel quite wicked and mr though he has a the church is more crowded than ever all because of my singing only i wish it was some instead of a church for there would be more chance of seeing you there dear richard i love you so and you must forgive me for away from you i sometimes feel that it is better for us every way to be apart just now and all the more likely that we shall some day meet never to part what the deuce does she mean by that r thought dick how can it be better and now dear dick hoping this finds you as well as it leaves i am for ever and ever yours fondly p s � as you say you are going to hill on thursday it is just possible we may catch a of one another the trains i see will just fit in so that i can stop an hour or two at the and i will be under the hill where the stands � you know where � at three o clock on the chance of seeing you dear dick chapter xiv the fi s seat the of s letter seemed to richard worth all the rest of it and	25
there was something wrong but what it was he could not determine he watched the casting of rich brown earth into the open grave and presently spoke to him though he knew there was nothing in the way of information to be got out of a man who had won for himself the of silent on account of his extreme poor seems to have had very few friends � he said jacob and general useful man about the church looked up for a second then down again and went on with his in all the village knew him and knew how long and patiently he had suffered � continued � i have thought that all the village ud be ere � interrupted � but it ain t he his hands and worked with fresh energy the people seemed so sorry about it and so sympathetic h re despite himself thought of s description of the s funeral � they must be able to forget very quickly or some other event must have happened of greater interest turned his head and weather beaten slowly round and surveyed the with a pair of very vague grey eyes that s it � he holy orders he threw more of now invisible h t moment by the like an figure with the wind blowing about him in snow white as of the mantle of a saint va martyr bat there s � he b an told m an i knows � ud i an i � but i t ii maids an an i bam t he continued his and it would be useless to ask him any questions presently bade him a cheery good day and left him all the rest of that a he happened to be busy there was a great deal of to dear and accounts to make up so that he did not go out but remained for the most part of the time in his study not a sin came near the and the hours slowly and somewhat heavily away with the of evening he put by his books and papers as usual and gave himself over to the quiet joys of which for him were very few and simple chief among them was the e of seeing his small son and put to bed � a function in which master displayed himself to the best advantage kicking out his little limbs in every direction and positively in every splash of the in the water no angel ever smiled more than he did when as a and only wings he sat on hb nurse s knee waiting for his clean night gown to be put on � he was all radiant with and good nature and it was difficult to that such a beautiful innocent little being was destined to become that too often sad and weary thing a man it was a point on which often dwelt with a certain wistful and tender solicitude sufficient for the day is the evil thereof he � the part of it all is that the evil is sure to come that night he sat in the drawing room reading or rather pretending to read while his wife sang to him � another of the tragedy of a quiet life his purely domestic pleasures had a very small voice � there was not a thrill of emotion in it but it was pretty and bird like and sounded particularly sweet in a more than usually senseless song about meet me in de com when de wind am there was no real sentiment in the thing but somehow as he heard the clear light child like the nonsense which passed for a love he was touched to a feeling of something like tears he laid the open book he held gently on the table and looked lovingly at his wife s dainty figure seated at the piano the gleamed on the gold of her hair twisted in its many shining love locks and flashed on the white of her arms s a in de clouds an de stars am oh meet me in de com when de wind am she sang in tender little notes of level tune � perfectly monotonous and yet in their way and sufficient to charm any man who was not too a critic a knock at the drawing room door broke the spell � the music ceased and a maid servant entered dr brand would like to see you sir � she said dr brand the echoed the name in some surprise and glanced at his watch � why it s nearly ten o clock yes sir but he said it was urgent somebody dying again sighed her husband made no answer to this but quietly left the room brand was awaiting him in the study i m sorry to disturb you so late in the evening mr he said � but i thought i d better come and tell you myself mrs is she worse she s dead dead stood amazed there was a shock in the of the announcement dead i thought she was getting well so she was � and dr harry took two or three turns holy orders tip and down the room m rather a way � there was nothing at all in the nature of her physical injuries that should have killed her it was worry � the woman fretted herself to death when did she die just now � half an hour ago mr � and the doctor spoke with sudden and emphatic earnestness � we mustn t think of charging with having caused the death of his wife one would be strongly inclined to do so � but knowing all the he broke oft and again paced up and m it s a wretched business he said � i wish to god you had known the whole thing from the beginning � then your wife would not have been	33
sugar in the mr solemnly yes but i say you know � that s all very well but it s not making him race is it now i am getting some running out of my goose miss c rather in and out running isn t it cries of distress from the rear but what is the matter now that poor dear again the in agony here i say somebody i do help me miss do speak to your monkey please it s jumped on my back and it s pulling my hair � ow most of the abandon animals and rush to the rescue dick coming up later why on earth did you all jack up like that you ve missed a splendid finish i my mutton was ahead like fun when s hoisted his sail and drew alongside and it was neck and neck only as he had more neck than the mutton and stuck it out he won by a look here let s have it all over again but the monkey being up a tree and the colonel having got rid of his rabbit among the and the having retired within his shell and firmly declined to come out again sport is abandoned for the afternoon to the scarcely disguised relief of the c who is prevented from remaining to tea by pressure of parish work before the mechanical models a sketch at the royal naval exhibition scene � the grounds a string of discovered passing slowly in front of a row of glazed cases containing small mechanical figures which are set in motion in the usual manner before a scene representing a dying child a gallant that s the kid in bed yer see like to see it die eh a penny does it ith a well if it ain t too the penny is dropped in and the mechanical is instantly agitated by the deepest maternal anxiety that s the mother kneeling by the bed i suppose � she do pray natural there s the child waking up � see it s moving its ed the little doll raises itself in bed and then falls back lifeless ah it s gone � look at the poor mother her face the g s well it s all over come along and see something more cheerful wait a bit � it isn t over yet there s a angel got to come and carry her away � there the door s opening that ll be the angel come for it i expect disappointed no it s only the doctor a and obviously little medical puts his head in at the and on being back by the mother with more delicacy than might have been expected from mere machinery well he might ha seen for himself if the child was dead the back of t ie bed a well known picture of an angel flying upwards with a child i did think they d have a real angel and not ii before the mechanical models only a picture of one and any one can see it s a different child � there s the child in bed just the same i call that a take in the g s i what more you expect for a penny a person on the outskirts eagerly to friend what happened what is it i couldn t make it out over all the people s shoulders his friend dying child � not half bad either you go and put in a penny and you ll see it well enough the p on the o indignantly what put in a penny for such rubbish not me he hangs about till some one else the necessary coin a soft hearted female no i couldn t stand there and look on i never can bear them pathetic subjects i felt just the same with that picture of the sick child at the academy you know and you don t have to put a penny in for t either before another bedroom scene representing the s delirium first woman that s im in bed with the bottle in his and he likes to take his liquor comfortable he do second woman he s very neat and tidy ain t he i wonder what his delirium is like ere rosy come and put your penny in as the gentleman give yer rosy aged six sacrifices her penny under protest now you look � you can t think what pretty things you ll see the little wooden sits up applies bottle to his and sinks back a demon painted a pleasing blue rises slowly by his bedside tlie takes a languid interest in him demon sinks a gentleman with a complexion did that � well i he s a very clever man but � he don t know much about he don t before the mechanical models a friend you could ha told him a thing or two eh jim the gentleman contemptuously well if i never ad them than that a small skeleton in a looks in at the door the f f ere s the king o terrors for rosy signs of uneasiness a pink demon comes out of a cupboard ere s another of quite a little party he s a gentleman in a white tie as machinery stops well a thing like this does more real good than many a tract the g yer right there nor � it s bin a lesson to me i know that ere will you come and ave a sour along of me and my friend ere before a model representing an execution a daughter but why won t you put a penny into this one father the father firmly because i don t approve of capital punishment my dear a cultivated person an put a penny in bell � gates open � shown with gallows bolt � black flag � dear dear � most degrading shocking taste	44
i will not ask you if you have anything to say but will you pay that is the question grief shook his head in the meantime went on consider yourself a prisoner at large there is no in which to confine you and finally it has come to the knowledge of the court that at an early hour of this morning the did and deliberately send in his employ out on the to catch fish for breakfast this is distinctly an of the rights of the of home must be protected this conduct of the is severely by the court and on any repetition of the the and all and sundry shall be immediately put to hard labour on the improvement of the road the court is dismissed as they left the compound peter a son of the sun grief to look where on the the s shirt stretched and already the royal fat iv the thing is clear said peter at a conference in s house has about gathered in all the coin in the meantime he keeps the king going on the gin he s captured on our vessels as soon as he can it he ll take the cash and skin out on your craft or mine he is a low fellow declared pausing in the of his spectacles he is a scoundrel and a he should be struck by a dead pig by a particularly dead pig the very thing said grief he shall be struck by a dead pig i should not be surprised if you were the man to strike him with the dead pig be sure and select a particularly dead one is down at the boat house a case of my scotch i m going up to the palace to work kitchen politics the feathers of the sun with the queen in the meantime you get a few things on your shelves from the store room i ll lend you some and you peter see the german store start in all of you selling for paper remember i ll back the losses if i m not mistaken in three days we ll have a national council or a revolution you start messengers around the island to the and farmers everywhere even to the mountain goat hunters tell them to at the palace three days from now but the soldiers objected i ll take care of them they haven t been paid for two months besides is the queen s brother don t have too much on your shelves at a time as soon as the soldiers show up with paper stop selling then will they bum the stores said let them king will pay for it if they do will he pay for my shirt demanded that is purely a personal and private a son of the sun ter between you and grief answered it s beginning to split up the back the lamented i noticed that much this morning when he hadn t had it on ten minutes it cost me thirty shillings and i only wore it once where shall i get a dead pig asked kill one of course said grief kill a small one a small one is worth ten shillings then enter it in your under expenses grief paused a moment if you want it particularly dead it would be well to kill it at once ti you have spoken well said queen this has brought a madness with him and is drowned in gin if he does not grant the big council i shall give him a beating he is easy to beat when he is in drink the feathers of the sun s she doubled up her fist and such were her proportions and the determination in her face that grief knew the council would be called so akin was the tongue to the that he spoke it like a native and you he said have pointed out that the soldiers have demanded coin and refused the paper has them tell them to take the paper and see that they be paid to morrow why trouble objected the king remains happily drunk there is much money in the treasury and i am content in my house are two cases of gin and much goods from s store excellent pig o my brother has not spoken have you no ears when the gin and the goods in your house are gone and no more come with gin and goods and feathers of the sun has run away to with all the cash money of what then will you do cash money is silver and gold but paper is only paper i tell you the people are grumbling there is no fish in a son op the sun the palace and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil for they come not the mountain have sent no wild goat in a week though feathers of the sun the to buy at the old price the people sell not for they will have none of the paper money only to day have i sent messengers to twenty houses there are no eggs has feathers of the sun put a upon the i do not know all i know is that there are no eggs well it is that those who drink much eat little else would there be a palace famine tell your soldiers to receive their pay let it be in his paper money and remember grief warned though there be selling in the stores when the soldiers come with their paper it will be refused and in three days will be the council and feathers of the sun will be as dead as a dead pig vi the day of the council found the population of the island crowded into the capital by and on foot and donkey back the feathers of the sun the five thousand inhabitants of had in the three intervening	21
know because it is not expedient for us to know power a man or a woman with great consequences and the result of exposure is most carefully guarded against by all in the case of butler it would be quite impossible to give an exact definition talent of a raw crude order was certainly present � a native force which had been somewhat polished as granite may be by the feelings opinions and of current society but which still showed through in an and yet attractive way at this time she was only eighteen years of age goodly to look at � decidedly so from the point of view of a man of frank s temperament � but beneath his social opportunities as mrs had been already the it has been indicated that he was has also been shown that he was mi butler supplied something which he had not known or no other wc x or girl whom he had known had ever possessed so much innate force as this one possessed none so much vitality and vivacity her red gold hair � it was not so much red as decidedly golden with a suggestion of red in it � was rich and plentiful it itself in heavy folds about her forehead and at the base of her neck she had a beautiful nose not sensitive but straight cut with small and eyes that were big and while were still they were such a nice shade of blue � gray blue her clothes for some strange reason seemed to suggest undue they hinted at the ear rings and breast plates of the and yet of course these were not there she confessed to him years afterward that she would love to have stained her nails and painted the of the palms of her hands with red yet she was as vigorous as healthy and as normal seeming as any girl could be she was intensely interested in life men what they would think of her and how she compared with other women the fact that she could ride in a carriage in a fine home in avenue visit such homes as those of the and others was of great weight and yet even at this age she realized that life was more than these things many did not have them and lived but these facts of wealth and advantage her and when she sat at the piano and played or rode in her carriage or walked or stood before her mirror she was conscious of her figure her charms what they meant to men how women envied her sometimes she looked at poor hollow or homely faced girls and felt sorry for them at other times she into inexplicable opposition to some handsome girl or woman who dared to brazen her or physically there were such girls the of the better families who in chestnut street in the expensive shops or on the drive on horseback or in carriages tossed their heads and indicated as well as motions can that they were better bred and knew it she instantly with a terrible hate her blood boiled and chilled i would have you know her mind declared vehemently to herself thinking of her charms and she would sit bolt upright on her horse or in her father s looking as as the best she knew well enough that it was against her and her sister and her brothers that her father was once a but to that she never referred even mentally to herself she hated the thought and she wanted ever so much to get up in the world and yet men of better social station than herself did not attract her at all she wanted a man now and then there was one something like but not entirely who appealed to her but most of them were or � nothing at all and so they wearied or disappointed her her father did not know the truly ite but mr he seemed so refined so exquisite so and so reserved often looked at mrs and thought how fortunate she was the development of mr frank s financial � his significance as co � finally brought him into relationship with one man who proved of the utmost significance to him morally and in other ways and because he did this he must be dealt with here at length this was george w the new city elect who to begin with was a in the hands of other men but who also in spite of this fact became a personage of considerable significance for the simple fact that he was weak had been a real estate dealer and man in a small way he was made city he was one of those men of whom there are so many thousands in every large community who have no breadth of vision the no real no craft no great skill in anything he was not a bad real estate dealer he could follow up small trades with talk a blacksmith a a or a moderate professional man into taking out a life policy � if the latter was so inclined � or into buying a lot but he had no idea of any of the superior affairs of the world you would never hear a new idea from he never had one in his life now and then some one would drop a real thought which seemed quite wonderful to him or he would hear of something which he could make use of in his business he was not a bad fellow he had a dusty commonplace look to him which was more a matter of his mind than his body his eye was of vague gray blue his hair a dusty light brown and thin his mouth � there was nothing impressive there he was quite tall nearly six feet with broad shoulders but his figure was anything but � not at	43
his strength but he had such a spiritual that i could well bear it says he and in a manner felt it not although it was grievous as the spectators said he told the you have struck me as with roses and i pray god it may not be laid to your charge two men came up after the brutal punishment was over and shook hands with him saying blessed be god they were forty shillings and imprisoned yet the to increase blow the fire if yon wish it to bum the town of maiden was for to settle a minister without consulting the neighboring churches though there was no law to that effect the general court forbade the settlement of michael in the at the second church in boston he had been a tavern keeper at and though gifted was how humbly he submitted my humble request is that you would not have such hard thoughts of me that i would consent to be ordained to office without your nor that our poor church of the attempt such a thing your at his death this gifted man left to the value of fourteen pounds and a library of three a with other valued at two pounds in men not members of the church were compelled to support the clergyman and through her influence always before her sister in liberality passed a law to the same however in his settlement at new providence could rejoice that we have not been consumed with the over fire of the so called ministers writes to the new first you compel such to come into your as you know will not join you in your worship and when they show their dislike thereof or witness against it then you stir up your to punish them for such as you conceive their public cotton and replied better be than persons we fled from men s inventions and only compelled others to attend to god s institutions � that is to all the of the creed and we content ourselves with unity in the foundation of religion and church order never was the violent attempt to secure unity in the foundation of religion less successful new england was a perfect of how is it writes sir harry in that there are such divisions among you � such disorder injustice are there no wise men among you � no public self denying q a law was passed the of a without the consent of the of the town � who were all � and the county court or the consent of the general court it would be setting up an altar against the lord s altar were banished or hanged but all this was in making men alike of all sorts there were excited no doubt by the laws against freedom the hateful at length got a church established in the it is instructive to see the in new england and the in canada at the same time to establish a both for the same purpose each by the means � the of individual freedom in religion does but the to a free state i si ae united j� au said butler and with a little truth the laws of which continued in force till the revolution provided that a priest coming here should be accounted an and of the public peace and safety he was to suffer perpetual imprisonment and death if he attempted to escape but spite of the law against priests the worst part of came here the spirit of and persecution along with this of the churches the old elements of aristocracy were brought to america and continued to live for awhile in the new soil a distinction was carefully kept up between gentlemen and those of an inferior condition only the gentlemen were allowed the title mr their number was not very large the rest rejoiced in the in some persons of quality wished to come to new england and it was proposed to establish a standing council for life in the there were to be two classes of men namely hereditary gentlemen to sit as a permanent and a body of who were to send to constitute a lower house the and elders favored the scheme finding it to the light of nature and scripture the � great cotton an able man with the soul of a priest liked the scheme well was not a fit government either for church or state and aristocracy are approved and directed in scripture but only as a is set up in both if the people are says he who shall be governed indignant mr savage on this measure says the ministers were perpetually with the of the and we have frequent occasion to regret that their to the of were received as authority rather than illustration but how could it be otherwise with such a naturally leads to an aristocracy on earth as well as in heaven the world � and the is for the elect and who shall lay any thing to their charge however the people put an end to all talk about hereditary gentlemen who disappear from the history of new england forever had this proposition become a law the state of things would have been a little different today for a long time the law however recognized a distinction between the gentleman and the simple man no man says a law of shall be beaten above forty nor shall any true gentleman or any man equal to a i of the united gentleman be punished with unless his crime be very shameful and his career of life vicious and but in paul thought a very poor place for gentlemen meaning says mr those who wish to grow rich on the labor of others for some time there was no trial by jury m no warrant was found for it in the word of god we find the element active in	37
out he surely would have been drowned your beams are sir sun said yield or suffer yourself to perish u spare me i yield murmured the red haired knight then leave your arms and shield with me and hasten to arthur s court give yourself up as a prisoner and wait till i return glad was the knight to escape so easily and hung his red shield upon his horse s neck beneath the blue of morning star lead on fair he cried and i will follow so they rode onward over the meadows and through shadowy groves until they came to the third bend in the river there the stream was by a narrow bridge and at the farther end of the bridge the third robber knight stood waiting hail evening star cried arm thee for both thy brothers have gone down before this youth and so wilt thou then the knight blew upon a horn and forth from a wretched hut beside the road an old and dame came in her hands she carried a suit of well and and stories of the king in this the evening star arrayed himself slowly as one whose limbs have failed him he took his shield and his time worn spear while dismounted from his defend each cried to the other and the two met at the middle of the bridge then was there fighting such as any knight of the round table would have in back and forth back and forth they drove each other striking with their swords and now the victory seemed to be with and now with evening star and now they stood and panted and glared at each other like fierce beasts of the woods the stood at the end of the bridge watching and when seemed to be gaining she cheered him with words of courage well done sir champion thou art worthy to sit at the table round and when he seemed almost beaten she cried in pleading tones oh fail me not sir champion but strike strike strike struck with all his might but with the blow his sword broke short off below the i have thee now cried evening star but with a sudden swift movement rushed upon him and seized him in his strong arms and pitched him headlong into the roaring rushing l o stories of the king stream below then panting and all a tremble he mounted his horse and said to lead on fair and i will follow sir said u no more will i call you a kitchen boy a or a for now i know that you are a knight and one well worthy too pardon my for when i was most you were always courteous and meek and slow to anger as king arthur s knights are taught to be i thank you fair said and i blame you not your helped me even more than fair words could have done so now side by side they rode onward through the leafy woods but while yet the towers of s castle were still far away they suddenly heard a voice calling from behind they turned and saw a knight on horseback riding fiercely towards them halt there robber cried the stranger you have slain my friend and i will him drew up his and waited for the stranger s with his shield he the strangers spear and then threw himself from his saddle into the tall grass beside the road and as he lay there he laughed loudly and shouted o sir would you me on myself the maiden then for it was he turned and rode back and as he saw lying in the grass with his removed he also laughed o sir he said what happy fortune is this i followed you from the court for king arthur had whispered that you might have need of me i saw you sir and it served him right but i lost you as you were passing through the wood then after long searching i came to the road which we are now following i saw the prints of horses feet and i hurried to overtake them presently i saw a knight and a lady riding before me i knew the lady and as the knight carried a sky blue shield with a golden star in the i thought i knew him also i guessed he was the robber knight of the first ford and since he was of your horse i felt sure that he had killed my friend you know the rest sir and i thank you for taking so good care of me sir laughed well i shall ride home and tell the king that you need no help and are amply able to take care of yourself and for my hasty zeal to you i ask your pardon sir sir sir the why sir to him of the king � ii stories of the king yes sir answered for this young knight who has you is sir the son of king lot of the then was it that blushed and stammered and knew not what to say so great was her confusion but sir now no lo laughed and lightly passed the matter by and the three rode happily onward the maiden in the middle of the path and a knight on either side welcome welcome sir said the lady and welcome thrice welcome sir and echoed her sister s words welcome thrice welcome sir now i know not how long sir in the white castle which was thereafter called the castle perilous but when at length he rode back to the lady rode back with him as his wife and there was great joy at the table round story the the making of a knight n the midst of the forest of the seven far from the court of king arthur there was a little hut and in the hut there	23
to and either despise or put off for want of time all higher culture behold a prosperous a comfortable home but filled with most uncomfortable spirits the dinner is most and and provided but not the cheerfulness the love the peace of mind the activity of thought the readiness of observation and reply which alone can lend a relish alas there is no dinner without good spirits no feast without some flow of soul no pleasure in each others society without love no wonder that the meal is hurried off despatched in sullen silence if not in a storm of petty complaints and the evenings too are dull at home or home is often deserted for the poor of empty fashionable amusement business is with the prospect of prosperous leisure and the occupation of leisure is the consumption thereof in any and most senseless way for what is time but so much life and those who know not how to live must kill time the habitual anxiety of this man s mind carries gloom into his home he lets the goodly garden run to weeds and all those flowers of paradise the natural affections as in a frost the rainbow colored beams of thought the quick play of intellect and fancy are wanting there such is too apt to be the home of the man of the world were it not that there is sometimes a faithful angel there whose heavenly patience whose devoted love whose pure forgetfulness of self in the thought of her children s welfare whose piety and trust in god with all the clearness of mind and energy of will with which such sentiments inspire the whose whole influence sweetly every part and every arrangement a spell and a charm in the domestic which compel him in spite of himself to shake off the dust of world of every day no u from his shoes when he enters � there would be little comfort there there would be little hope for those who are learning their earliest and most permanent habits and impressions there the passion for gain i repeat it is the poison of domestic happiness and that too when it often starts with the desire of getting the means of making a happy home with the feeling of obligation imposed by conscience and by love to support and one s family and place them in a favored and respectable relation with the world all that trade and enterprise can manufacture or produce all that wealth can buy can never make good the want of inward moral and intellectual resources iii from the best home which worldly enterprise can make turn now to another less favored with fortune s abundance but supplied with rich resources of a higher and more satisfactory kind see what education can do see the treasures of the mind brought out see how the poor in this world s goods are sometimes rich in one another the house and furniture are plain but marked by taste and happy invention and arrangement revealing many a token of the pleasant walk the deep enjoyment of nature while calm enthusiasm lifts the soul out of the and holes of daily care and puts it in possession of itself of its own freedom and immortal life the space is small but by the magic of great thoughts of noble sentiments read and conversed about and mused upon in the midst of busy duties expanded to a boundless fairy land there may not be great store of luxuries but there are books wells of pleasure inexhaustible there may not be and with which the great endeavor to forget themselves but there are habits of mental activity which never lets society grow dull or the most familiar friends grow weary of one another they draw upon the treasures of the mind and find what worlds of wonders lie within them they may not own the splendid the proud architecture the costly works of art which another s wealth can purchase but they may have a cultivated taste a sensibility to the charms of earth and sky which they have only to step to the door or the window to see or they are in the possession of some beautiful art vol i no iv lay no u april like music or drawing which gives them the key to all the glorious invisible but no less real halls and galleries of beauty and they can be delighted and inspired at home as if the of were leaping around them or the of the sparkling beneath them they are without the advantages of and of business which lies in the same direction with learning but they are determined that scholars and professional characters shall not the treasures of the mind the materials of the thoughts are open to them nature and the soul and god are never beyond their reach but are always inviting them to meditation and communion if they are duly willing and have the energy to put down the disturbing voices of appetite and passion and to slip the reins of habit the bible is with them and to them it is not a book occupying so many of space on a shelf and so many minutes of the day in the formal reading but it is another world into which they enter transported on the wings of thoughts and heavenly passions quickened by its words it is a in their midst which sheds a sweet holy light around it and making all the place and all their forms the daily meal will be but to an exquisite zest by happy affections happy thoughts and endless variety of intellectual entertainment not that there need be any or effort to talk wise it only needs active minds which know how to feel free from care free from suspicions and low fears abundance of good feeling alive and tastes refined � and let them take care of themselves	37
sealed message arid if you use your ril use my teeth and my hands and my feet to fight you better death than more of thi dog life with you her breast rose and fell and looked at her a amazed as was her husband never had the behaved in this fashion although on several occasions she had tried to assert herself but having turned she left no room for doubt as to what she meant looking at the transformed woman who had been into revolt thought of s remark which was now illustrated there is nothing more horrible than the rebellion of a sheep wait only wait it was who spoke but he spoke without conviction since he felt rather than saw that his rule was at an end it is ever thus with they those who are willing to serve them for many years and the the servant the greater burden does the master mrs had labored like a horse doing more than was required of her still the negro had not been pleased and therefore had beaten and kicked his beast of burden never dreaming of any revolt but the measure was filled to the brim the last straw had the s back rather than broken it and mrs had risen to assert the right of a human being and threatened but he knew that never again would his wife submit to his with your domestic affairs i have no need to said raising his hand to stop mrs s speech and her husband s growling i think you are right to leave that brute and if you need money i shall supply you with all you wish thank you sir said mrs dropping a and glared at her husband the drink was dying out the sealed message her but she still fought as she was supported by presence you hear that ill go to law growled you make my wife fight you shall have more law than you bargain for said coldly i can promise you that go on mrs tell your story she placed her big arms and spoke steadily when went after you on that night sir i knew he was up to some since he almost stripped himself and used all the oil in the stand to rub over himself i spoke to the major � that is i went in to speak to him here and ask what was up to but the major was gone gone echoed then he went immediately after i left not exactly sir it was quite an hour after followed you that i came in here then came back wounded and i bound up his arm he asked if his old master was in and when he heard that the major had gone out he followed followed where i followed to the s house said hoarsely you may as well know what i know i noting to do de murder i went de hills for de major and i found him coming back at what time was that after midnight cried mrs it was two o clock before the major and returned and was murdered � according to the medical evidence � about midnight murmured so you went to the s house no i no go i meet de major coming back he say he had gone to see if you had the sealed message been de house after you went from here den i him i tried to kill you for i hear that you wished to make trouble for de major de major angry me and we come home den in the morning we hear ob de murder didn t the major tell you that he had found no him say noting i ask noting s all if major was in the s house at midnight he either himself or he knows who her said deliberately and rose is this all you have to tell me all growled the man sullenly but de major did not kill asked for my big knife cause she was feared did you know what she feared no de major he know but he no tell me there was nothing to be done but to wait and see so as to question him on this unexpected information which mrs had forced her husband to give slipped a sovereign into the woman s hand and walked to the door if you follow me again to knife me he remarked remember i have n revolver the negro pointed to his useless right arm i can do noting he said and his eyes flashed as he added i should like to mrs pushed past her husband no you can do nothing with that arm it has beaten me often enough she pointed a finger at him now i leave your house with my children this very moment i leave i shall never see you again you have nowhere to go you fool can tramp with the children to lee � a the sealed message a friend of can put me up for the night i ha ve this sovereign the young gentleman has given me and to morrow i take the train back to my mother think you are wise mrs called back and began his return journey to leaving the negro and his wife to settle their private as they best could but he felt certain that mrs meant what she said and would leave the maid at once she feared now that she was more sober and was gone lest she should again to the tyranny of the negro the next morning received a letter from saying that he was going with to a village on the hither side of and some ten miles distant wondered why his friend and the should go to such a secluded place probably had found some evidence which took him there for examination of the same but his letter was most as he gave no	12
and s which however had already been sent to the collect for more water there was a deal of clatter and confusion coupled with the certainty of destruction for no could throw the water the second story more than once the as rattled forward from the collect and the east river was totally while the flames gained new ground this latter was to the of the roads and the of the help at the supply end where since all thought to gaze upon the fire none were remaining to help the or the energetic when this last company of fire arrived with their and other for fighting a blaze the flames had gained that there was little to be done wasted half an hour discussing fire protection and then himself of his engagement i must be out of this he said to as they stood gazing upon the flames and the throng i am late as ic is the genial scarcely heard him at all so was he that his own luncheon mattered not at all quietly withdrew then and getting when the old century was new back into boston road and the himself toward the green and s that lady s mansion was to the west of ihe old looking out over lawn and lane to some space of water to be seen in the east river and a boat or two at anchor in the bay as he tapped upon the broad door with its brazen a servant opened to hint bowing profoundly in greeting will master give me his hat and gloves ah master remarked the hostess who now entered smiling i had almost doubted your though you have good reason whose house is it burning count s answered mentioning the french representative to our government i have sent a servant to discover it for me but he has not yet returned it must have fascinated him also we must sit to lunch at once sir as the hostess said this she turned about in her great now but recently like long trousers come into fashion and led the way her hair was done in the curls of the post revolution period three at each side about the ears and a tall that was almost a curl in itself with stately grace she led the way to the dining chamber and bowed him to his place a daughter and a friend entered almost at the same moment with them through another door at the head of the long table there were already standing the two black table servants of this dignified household splendid imported trained in virginia my lady s table was a gleam with much of the richest plate and old holland china in o when the old century was new the city an immense silver the and at every corner were separate gold sticks making a splendid show i have the greatest terror of fire anywhere in our city began the hostess even as young was bowing we have so little protection i have urged upon our the necessity of providing something better than we have � a water tower or something of the sort but so far nothing has come of it you were at the fire master inquired the handsome i came that way with several friends from the collect he answered why the collect asked the hostess who was now seated with the two towering above her there is a man there who has a boat which is to go without sail as i understand it providing his idea is correct it is to go by steam i believe only he did not succeed in making it se do to day at least not while i was there it may have gone though i could not wait to see oh exclaimed putting up a pair of pretty hands and really is it a boat that will travel so i cannot for that returned the youth gravely it was not going when we visited it the fire and my engagement took the entire audience of the away and he smiled i shall have no faith in any such trap as that until i see it observed madame fancy being on the water and no sail to you mercy i it will be some time before men will ven when the old century was new ture afar on any such craft returned the youth but it is a bit curious dangerous i should say suggested mistress no said not that i think my father has often told me that master predicted to him that men should harness the lightning before many years that is even more strange than this that may all be true said madame but it has not come to pass yet it will never be in our time i fear but did you hear of the case of jewels at s has he imported something new inquired the last ship brought a case of gems for him i hear continued the hostess that should be of interest to you master the youth flushed slightly at the involved his attentions to mistress were becoming a subject of pleasing social comment so it is he said gaily as he recovered his composure i shall look in upon this very afternoon and i should like to see what is new in france said the ruddy seriously i have not an or a pin in my collection that is not as old as the hills nor any the less valuable i venture answered with an impressive air i would give them for new ones believe me returned the girl upon this company the two waited with almost noiseless accuracy one serving at each when the old century was new in answer to silent looks and from the host watched them out of the corner of his the while in his new home he thought the fair lady consented there should be two her more tender	43
slipped away out of s presence and he smote the into the wall and and escaped that night the struggle was now passed the early tendency of the soul of the king to seek and to do good was finally subdued and he went forth to pursue the chosen of the lord as an open and enemy yet to justify himself by proving that t had first risen up against him he appeals to his servants and fully conscious that his cause would not stand the test of impartial examination he appeals to their interest and to their compassion rather than to their judgment hear now ye win the son of give every one of you fields and and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds that all of yon have against me and there r the poetry op life me that my with th� mn of and there ia none of yoa that ia for me or unto me that my hath my me to lie in wait aa at filled with and jealousy heightened by the rising fame and influence of david him to the wilderness of where we meet with a remarkable instance of forbearance on the part of a persecuted man with the skirt of the long s robe in his hand david shows him tiiat he had advanced so near his person as to have been able with the same facility to destroy his life but that he spared him from reverence for the lord s when struck at once with a sense of his own recent danger with the honourable dealing of one whom he believed to be an enemy with the sight of the man he had once loved � loved in the days when his heart was not as now with tlie worst of passions and perhaps touched more than all with the tones of the voice which in those happier days had been his music is this thy voice my son david and then he lifted up his voice md this burst of his heart is opened to express the full sense he had of david s superiority and the strong feeling ever present to his mind that he should one day be to resign the of government into his hands and he to art more than rewarded me food i rewarded thee e ril and now behold i know well that thou be king and that the kingdom of be in thine hand a second instance of a similar kind occurs in which appears to be struck though less forcibly with the generosity of david whom he still addresses as his son and of whom he again that he shall do great things and stiu but these transient of former feeling pass away the gathering influence of david and himself to seek consolation imder his falling fortunes from the last miserable and barren resource of the utterly destitute in soul samuel is dead and though the king had from the impulse of his better judgment put away all who had familiar spirits and out of the land he to disguise himself and to go at midnight to cast his forlorn hopes upon the of the witch of and he to the woman i pray thee me by a and bring ap him whom i name thee and the woman him behold then what hath done how he hath cat that hare and the oat of the land fore then a for my lift to me ta and aware to her by the lord aa the lord there no happen to thee for thia thing then the woman whom bring np and he bring me up and when the woman cried with a load and the woman to why for art and the king unto her be not for what thou and the woman i gods out of the earth and he unto her what form ia he ofl and a d an old man up and he ia with a mantle and that it waa and he with hia to the ground and t owed and said to why thou me to bring me np and i am for the make war me and god ia departed me and me no more neither by nor by therefore i have called thee that make known me what i do then samuel wherefore then thou ask of me seeing the lord is departed thee and ia thine enemy and the lord hath done to him aa he by me for the lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand and it to thy neighbour to thou not the of the lord hia fierce wrath upon therefore hath the lord done this thing unto thee this day the lord wiu also with thee into the hand of the and to morrow shall thou and thy be with me the lord the host of into the hand of the then all along on the earth aid was of the of and there waa no in him for he had eaten no b all the day nor an the night how is this picture of the abject state of a fallen king � fallen not so much from earthly honour as from ihe countenance and protection of the of kings even the envious of his successor becomes an object of compassion when he answers to the question of samuel why hast ll ou me because i am sore distressed and when it is s d that he stooped with his face to the and finally fed � all along upon the earth there can scarcely be a stronger description of total of soul under a deep sense of the overwhelming might of as well as of a melancholy of the entire of all that he had trusted and in yet trusted in for lie had greatly feared the thing which was about to come upon him and which the awful voice	41
by he l of the ambition of two t the to which the of approaching trial connected with of again on the first of the preceding of the leads in mark and to observation tin did not words of us and yet feared to ask them it may be that and i oil the subject among then association of caused the o introduce the for pre ence carried on in the of � tliis i not to of for there between the of the and the dispute of the of coin for by peter with the above for ri another anecdote is indirectly connected by of the child which is put forward on one of those children arc brought to lie may bless the wish to prevent it but us the su cr to unto me and adds only fur ji those who resemble is kingdom of heaven declined ix ff x at ff this narrative points of to that of the child placed ui the of the in pre s children as a model and declares that only those who resemble can r the of god in both the appear in the light of to children and i in both mark says that took the in his arms a if these points of bo adequate for the two to one the latter must beyond be as the to truth of je ts t tf r wliich from original form in all the ih the of � � � could have been uttered on other the sentences on as of tn in connection with the about rank might very well been uttered � n the above described in to previous about rank nevertheless this mi ht be the for up h � ng an a originally since it is at least evident that inserted the � ii n in both on account of the between the two scenes s of during bis first residence in according to john ff to the hu t suit ik ufe of ff of ike coin mo ii and them w� re separate n r difference there u the and in namely the former in relation lo the conduct of � merely in general terms of an iii iv john na made a of vm u it mi for again to e former he all the alike he appears according lo to make some distinction and to use tlie of more mildly moreover not tliat he dim o out the nt well the there also a as to the by on the oc in ihe ik s it is given the form of an exact old te in john ly a a free but above all is a difference as to the result in the fourth gospel ia called to account in tho wc read nothing of this and according to it ia not until the day li put to a question which to have to of temple xxi ff to which replies quite c than to the in the fourth i el to the repetition of such a tire it is the abuse ot likely lo on the and on e cry of it would i anew called on to jo tliat moreover temple in john ts indicated to be an earlier event than in the by tlie tliat the fourth ti represents na as being immediately called to account while in t e case appears a natural of heightened consideration which ite liad in tlie allowing lo full weight the a between the two wc have in ihe same abuse the same violent mode of it by out the ix and ing ai aa it tables nay ine same language in justification of this for in john as well as in the of contain � reference though not a precise one to vii these important of must at least such an n that of t ly two but alike were by the of the t w being to the bat thus seems dear know as little of an e event of this kind as in fact of an earlier of to and the fourth to i� s ed over the of temple after the u t entrance of into metropolis not be cause lie presumed it lo be known from other � ua lu � c l j s � f l t ef � c up but because lie believed tliat lie must an to the sole feet of tlie kind which lie acquainted it then each of the knew only of one of the temple wc arc not by the lit in the de of the event or hy the in its to suppose tliat were two since an hy no rate in aiid arc quite natural in writings oi origin it is foi o with justice tliat our modem have after the example of older declared in favour of the identity of two on lies the error v wa know bow the of the present day will decide on thi i in of the fourth according to the treatment of tiie different of the more to tlie old testament are f ie writer was an eye and car of tho while aa to it u well known that thi i t in no degree regarded by he t hut only by john whence according to to surrender narrative of the latter to that of the former would be to the certain for the a� to a we may than by a peculiar to mark ami would not man carry through the v which in the custom did not permit the court of the temple to be made a c t if this is put to the account of mark s ascertained for cm nt what us to similar artistic from the as proofs of bis having been an to appeal here to his of eye witness a� a ii l is too glaring a at in the point of view	14
she was placed in the care of a wise and patient teacher from whom she quickly learned to read and write and even to speak after some time she entered college at cambridge from which she among the highest in her class she was not quite eleven years old when she wrote the following letter to the poet boston december dear kind poet this is your birthday that was the first thought which came into my mind when i awoke this morning and it made me glad to think i could write you a letter and tell you how much your little friends love their sweet poet and his birthday this evening they are going to entertain their friends with music and from your poems i hope the swift winged messengers of love will be here to carry some of the sweet melody to you in your little study by the at first i was sorry when i found that the sun had hidden his shining face behind dull clouds but afterwards i thought why he did it and then i was happy the sun knows that you like to see the world covered with beautiful white snow and so he kept back all his brightness and let the form in the sky when they are ready they will softly fall and tenderly cover every object then the sun will appear in all his radiance and fill the world with light if i were with you to day i would give you kisses one for each year you have lived years seems a very long time to me does it seem long to you i wonder how many years there will be in eternity i am afraid i cannot think about so much time i received the letter which you wrote me last summer and i thank you for it i am staying in boston now at the institution for the blind and i have not commenced my studies yet because my dearest friend mr wants me to rest and play a great deal teacher is well and sends her kindest remembrance to you the happy christmas time is almost here i can hardly wait for the fun to begin i hope your christmas day will be a very happy one and that the new year will be full of brightness and joy for you and every one from your little friend a the poet s reply my dear young friend i was very glad to have such a pleasant letter on my i had two or three hundred others and thine was one of the moat welcome of all i must tell thee about how the day was passed at oak of course the sun did not shine but we had great open fires in the rooms which were very sweet with roses and other flowers that were sent me from distant friends and fruits of all kinds from and other places some relatives and dear old friends were with me through the day i do not wonder thee thinks john g eighty three years a long time but it seems but a very httle while ance i was a boy no older than thee playing on the old farm at i thank thee for thy good wishes and wish thee as many i am glad thee is at the institution it is an excellent place give my best regards to miss and with a great deal of love i am thy old friend john g of war time t i boot and saddle boot saddle to horse and away rescue my castle before the hot day to blue from its silvery gray chorus � boot saddle to horse and away ride past the asleep as you d say many s the friend there will listen and pray god s luck to that strike up the lay � chorus � boot saddle to horse and away forty miles off like a at bay castle the array who laughs good fellows ere this by my � chorus � boot saddle to horse and away who my wife that honest and gay laughs when you talk of nay i ve better what counsel they chorus � boot saddle to horse and away imagine a company of knights or armed men riding to the rescue of a castle think of the arms the horses the gallant men � then read the poem with spirit the whole class joining in the chorus by robert an english poet the and the it was a old and gray well and from siege and went in an army s wake along the of the village for days and nights the winding host had through the little place been marching and ever loud the cheered till every throat was hoarse and the squire and farmer maid and dame all took the sight s electric stirring and hats were waved and songs were sung and countless white were stirring they only saw a gallant show of heroes under and in the fierce heroic glow twas theirs to yield but wild the heard the shrill where he behind in step was keeping and glancing down beside the road he saw a little maiden weeping well how is this v he said a moment pausing to regard her � by robert henry an american writer why thou my little friend and then she only cried the harder and how is this my little dear the sturdy straight repeated when all the village cheers us on you here in tears apart are seated we march two hundred thousand strong and that s a sight my baby beauty to silence into song and the soldier s duty it s very very grand i know the little maid soft replying and father mother brother too all shout while i am crying but think � mr soldier think � how many little sisters brothers are going far away to fight and may be killed	23
a divinity student and as a natural consequence be had ceased to make himself remarkable by discussing no other topic than a religious one or to look upon the tendency of general conversation in a mixed company as a proof how much vital was disappearing from the world instead of never permitting the muscles of his face to beyond such a serious smile as was sufficient to a well brushed set of teeth and a horror of profane mirth he could now laugh out from the heart like a a record or thb or man he had given up the custom of discussing with pious old ladies and their daughters or the comparative merits of the most popular and of his own to the utter condemnation of all others the white hand the still handkerchief and the gilt bible well dog so as to the faithful text hunter were no longer with that grave air of sincerity which though real is on the other hand too frequently assumed under any circumstances this sober of seriousness in mixed company is to say the least of it offensive to good taste as well as to the interests of true religion which never hangs out a black flag to tell the world where she is to be found as well as the colours she is known by at all events the change that i have mentioned in was quite obvious to all who had known him he was now a stout fine looking young man with an open and handsome countenance tinged into the brown hues of robust health by activity and employment he also contracted what i may term a courteous of manner by which it was easy to see how readily the wealthy farmer and the man of education may meet in the same person and form a model of gentlemanly ease and independence which it would be well to see more frequently by the class to which he belonged it was very natural under these circumstances that a young man at s period of life should begin to feel the inconvenience of not having some person to manage the domestic arrangements of his house and to bestow that happiness which can never be in by a solitary heart added to this the natural of an affectionate disposition determined him with as little delay as possible to marry nor was it difficult for a highly educated j handsome young fellow as he and very independent besides in his circumstances to select a suitable companion from among classes even higher thb parents trial than that in which he moved with equal good sense and good feeling he paid his addresses in a quarter where both prudence and affection justified his choice jane was a lovely and accomplished girl somewhat in her manner as almost every girl possessing tender and profound feeling is she was not one of those who parade their accomplishments before society or who take delight in them upon the attention of both strangers and friends until their exhibition becomes not merely common place but painful on the contrary she might be passed by as one of those who appear to be bom only to fill a place in the crowd were it not that her beauty was by no means of that description which could be overlooked to a eye her silence and modesty instead of being the result of were soon discovered to proceed firom observation and reflection indeed the slightest opportunity of conversation disclosed the reluctant of a mind far beyond the common order and a taste equally cultivated and just she was the only daughter but not the only child of a captain who a long and not life had retired on full pay and an honourable some reluctance was certainly manifested by himself and his family against the proposed alliance but s manners good sense and circumstances were really so that it was deemed more advisable to unite them than to sacrifice miss s happiness to that parade and wealth could neither purchase nor restore it s union with her was indeed a happy one the residence to which he brought her was every way suitable both to their taste and education it was situated on the brow of a small hill which swept easily down to a very sweet lake that lay a few hundred below it and whose green margin contrasted beautifully with the summer of its waters behind it rose a sweep of fine old a of thb or timber by a and in every direction the eye was gratified by a rich in cultivation and luxuriant scenery about a quarter of a mile to the left from among the in which it was rose the spire of the parish church and a little to the right of that could be seen through a natural vista in the trees the white and modest house of the directly opposite a rustic bridge quite in character with the scenery a quiet stream whose waters as the light of the sun fell upon them from different quarters of the heavens altogether it would be difficult to find a summer landscape on which lay a spirit of greater tranquillity and beauty in this sweet spot with all of rational enjoyment which ufe can to persons of regulated and his wife passed for a few years a calm and serene existence three girls had blessed their and as the children were l it is almost unnecessary to say that their fond parents absolutely them now however commenced that secret yearning of the heart which under such is naturally felt from the absence of a son their attachment to each other was in no degree diminished but on the contrary softened into a of greater tenderness by the three beautiful of their love notwithstanding all this their affection tender as it unquestionably was gradually became by a latent melancholy which each endeavoured to conceal from the other many	50
poets went without their dinners either that they might buy paper and goose or because they could not get any thing to eat � antiquity out of its grave to see itself � while even posterity stood mute gazing in gaping ecstasy of on the field g conduct of the heathen the immortal who had seen service at the affair of � now mounted their feather bed clouds and sailed over the plain or mingled among the in different all to have a finger in the pie sent off his to a noted to have it up for the occasion swore by her she would the and in semblance of a the of fort accompanied by as a s widow of cracked reputation � the noted bully stuck two horse pistols into his belt shouldered a rusty and gallantly at their elbow as a drunken � while in their rear as a legged playing most out of tune on the other side the ox eyed who had gained a pair of black eyes over night in one of her curtain lectures with old displayed her haughty beauties on a baggage � as a gin tucked up her skirts her fists and swore most in exceeding bad dutch having but lately studied the language by way of keeping up the spirits of the soldiers while halted as a club footed blacksmith lately promoted to be a captain of all was silent horror or bustling preparation war reared his horrid front loud his iron and shook his crest of of the hosts and now the mighty out their hosts here stood stout firm as a thousand rocks � with and to the chin in mud his lined the breast work in grim array each having his fiercely and his hair back and so stiffly that he grinned above the like a death s head there came on the peter � his brows knit his teeth set his fists almost breathing forth volumes of smoke so fierce was the fire that raged within his bosom his faithful squire van at his heels with his trumpet with red and yellow the of his fair at the then came on the sturdy chivalry of the there were the van and the van and the ten � the van the van the van the van the van and the van � the van the van the van the van the van and the van there were the van homes the van hooks the van the van the van and the van the the hoofs the the the pools and the � there came the the the the the peter s address before the battle the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the ten and the tough with a host more of whose names are too to be written or if they could be written it would be impossible for man to utter � all fortified with a mighty dinner and to use the words of a great dutch poet � of wrath and for an instant the mighty peter paused in the midst of his career and mounting on a stump addressed his troops in eloquent low dutch them to fight like and assuring them that if they conquered they should get � if they should be allowed the satisfaction while dying of reflecting that it was in the service of their country � and after they were dead of seeing their names inscribed in the temple of renown and handed down in company with all the other great men of the year for the admiration of posterity � finally he swore to them on the word of a governor and they knew him too well to doubt it for a moment that if he caught any mother s son of them looking pale or playing he would his hide till terrific he made him run out of it like a snake in spring time � then out his he it three times over his head ordered van to sound a tremendous charge and shouting the word st and the v dashed forwards his warlike followers who had employed the interval in lighting their pipes instantly stuck them in their mouths gave a furious puff and charged gallantly under cover of the smoke the garrison ordered by the cunning not to fire until they could distinguish the of their eyes stood in horrid silence on the covert way until the eager had ascended the then did they pour into them such a tremendous that the very hills around and were terrified even unto an of water that certain springs burst forth from their sides which continue to run unto the present day not a but would have bitten the dust beneath that dreadful fire had not the protecting kindly taken care that the should one and all observe their usual custom of shutting their eyes and turning away their heads at the moment of discharge the followed up their fire by leaping the and falling tooth and nail upon the foe with furious and now might be seen of of which neither history nor song have ever recorded a parallel here was of beheld the sturdy his quarter staff like the terrible giant his oak tree for he scorned to carry any other weapon and a tune upon the heads of whole of there were the van posted at a distance like the of and it most with the long bow for which they were so justly renowned at another place were collected on a rising the men of sing sing who assisted in the fight by forth the great song of st but as to the of they were absent from the battle having been sent out on a party to lay waste the neighbouring water patches in a different part of the field might be seen the van of s nose but they	48
as had told him he was removed from the manners to a cell in block on the ground floor which was like all the others in size ten by sixteen but to which was attached the small yard of the same size that had been mentioned as possibly coming to him came up two days before he was transferred and had another short conversation with him through his cell door you ll be transferred on monday he said in his reserved slow way they ll give you a yard though it won t be much good to you � we only allow a half hour a day in it i ve told the about your business arrangements he ll treat you right in that matter just be careful not to take up too much time that way and things will work out i ve decided to let you learn chairs that be the best for you it s easy and it your mind the and some allied made a good out of this prison industry which was enforced t was really not hard labor � the tasks set were simple ind not oppressive but all that were made were sold and the profits it was good therefore x see all prisoners working and it did them good was glad of the chance to do something for he � did not care for books and his connection with and his old were not sufficient now ta his mind in a satisfactory way his hands the ing would be better he thought if he seemed strange now how much stranger he would seem then behind these narrow bars working at so commonplace a task as chairs he thanked for the sheets which had been permitted to be brought in and the toilet articles that s all right replied the latter pleasantly and softly it s no more than your due we know that there are men and men here the same as anywhere it a man knows how to use these things and wants to be clean i wouldn t be one to put anything in his way he went away and awaited his transfer with interest it would be better even though he liked old man so much to have a yard and a trade both would help him to pass the time and to think cf better days to come the new had been instructed to be considerate of him that would make a difference too he thought he was quite cheerful over the prospect he began to gather up his things on the day of his transfer for being an ordinary he had to transfer all his personal by hand to his new quarters and old man seeing him observed well you re goin to go now t well i ve done all i could for i ve taught the rules as best i know i ll see you down there maybe now and then t goin so far but what i kin find maybe if everything goes right you ll get out a little earlier than you expect i see one and another here go that way from time to time grasped the old man s hand you ve been very nice to me mr he said warmly i certainly appreciate your kindness and if i ever get out of here i shall not forget it was too old a man to expect an much from life in any form he was nevertheless flattered by the interest and good v of for the average character of his charges was not high the that s all right mr i never expect fur what i consider right i hope you out though fer i think very likely you deserve to you look that way to me youve had a taste o this place now and ye see what it is k i can ever do for you i ll be glad to who was actually moving at the time gathered up an of linen books and the like and went his way in his ill fitting semi cotton striped cheap suit and with his arms full of he looked anything but the who had been such a striking personage in third street the new with whom had to deal was a very different person from his name was walter and he was not more than years of age � a big sort of person with a mind whose principal object in life was to see whether this prison situation as he found it would not furnish him a better income than his normal salary provided a close study of would have seemed to indicate that he was a stool pigeon of but this was really not true except in a limited way because was shrewd and quick to see a point in his or anybody else s favor instinctively realized that he was the kind of man who could be trusted to be on order or suggestion that is if hai the least interest in a prisoner he need not say as much to he might merely suggest that this man was used to a different kind of life or that because of some past experience it might go hard with him if he were handled roughly and would strain himself to be pleasant the trouble was that to a shrewd man of any refinement his attentions were objectionable being obviously offered for a purpose and to a poor or ignorant man they were brutal and contemptuous he had a score of methods of making money out of the prisoners by selling them extra of things which the he secretly brought into the prison it was strictly against the rules in theory at least to bring in anything which was not sold in the store room � tobacco pens ink cigars or of any kind it is true that tobacco of inferior grade was provided and wretched pens ink and	43
this was the only point of relief in every other respect in looking around her or penetrating forward she saw more to distrust and to apprehend she was concerned for the disappointment and pain lady would be feeling for the which must be hanging over her father and sister and had all the distress of many evils without knowing how to any one of them she was most thankful for her own knowledge of him she had never considered herself as entitled to reward for not an old friend like mrs smith but here was a reward indeed springing from it mrs smith had been able to tell her what no one else could have done could the knowledge have been extended through her family but this was a vain idea she must talk to lady tell her consult with her and having done her best wait the event with as much composure as possible and after all her greatest want of composure would be in that quarter of the mind which could not be opened to lady in that flow of anxieties and fears which must be all to herself she on home that she had as she intended escaped seeing mr that he had called and paid them a long morning visit hut hardly had she herself and felt safe till to morrow when she heard that he was coming again in the evening i had not the smallest intention of asking him said with carelessness bat he gave so many hints so mrs clay says at least indeed i do say it i never saw any body in my life spell harder for an invitation poor man i was really in pain for him for your hard hearted sister miss anne seems bent on cruelty oh cried elizabeth i have been rather too much used to the game to be soon overcome by a gentleman s hints however when i found how excessively he was that he should miss my this morning i gave way immediately for i would never really omit an opportunity of bringing him and sir walter together they appear to so mu � advantage in company with each other each so pleasantly mr looking up with so much respect quite delightful cried mrs clay not daring however to turn her eyes towards anne exactly like father and son i dear miss may i not say father and son oh i lay no on any body s words if you will have such ideas but upon m v word i am scarcely sensible of his attentions being beyond those of other men my dear miss i exclaimed mrs clay lifting up her hands and eyes and sinking all the rest of her astonishment in a convenient silence my dear you need not be so alarmed about him i did invite him you know i sent him away with smiles when i found he was really going to his friends at park for the whole day to morrow i had compassion on him anne admired the good acting of the friend in being able to show such pleasure as she did in the expectation and in the actual arrival of the very person whose presence must really be interfering with her prime object it was impossible but that mrs clay must hate the sight of mr and yet she could assume a most obliging placid look and appear satisfied with the of only half as much to sir walter as i e would have done otherwise to anne herself it was most distressing to see mr enter the room and quite painful to have him approach and speak to her she had been used before to feel that he could not be always quite sincere but now e saw in every thing his attentive deference to her father contrasted with his former language was odious and when she thought of his cruel conduct towards mrs smith she could hardly bear the sight of his present smiles and or the sound of his artificial good sentiments she meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on his side it was a great object with her to escape all or but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be with their relationship and to as quietly as she could the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along she was accordingly more guarded and more cool than she had been the night before he wanted to her curiosity again as to how and where he could have heard her formerly praised wanted very much to be gratified by more but the charm was broken he found that the heat and animation of a public room were necessary to his modest cousin s vanity he found at least that it was not to be done now by any of those attempts which he could hazard among the too commanding claims of the others he only that it was a subject acting now exactly against interest bringing immediately into her thoughts all those parts of his conduct which were least she had some satisfaction in finding that he was really going out of bath the next morning going early and that he would be gone the greater part of two days he was invited again to place the very evening of his return but from thursday to saturday evening his absence was certain it was bad enough that a mrs clay should be always before her but that a deeper should be added to their party seemed the destruction of eveiy thing like peace and comfort it was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on her father and to the various sources of tion preparing for them mrs s selfishness was not so nor so as his and anne would have for the marriage at once with all it evils to be	26
apply them to repair victor s losses and i you not to suffer this fall of his to interfere with your designs respecting his journey this lesson will be a to him your forgiveness more effectual than any punishment and his removal from this dreadful place will separate him from his you do not speak ah mr you do not believe me a willing agent in all this the old man gazed upon her with the deepest a wreck compassion and as she arose from her chair and approached him in the ess of her pleading he rose also and taking her hand kindly and respectfully he said � my dear lady my poor child no one could believe such things of you you are right in your opinion of victor and i thank you for your kind judgment of him i will not change my arrangements he shall go next week as we intended as for this � he laid his hand on the jewel box � it is impossible do not pain me by urging it i can assure you we have not even temporary inconvenience let me tell you of victor s purposes as returned home from this visit she had made with such dread she felt that a new friend was raised up for her in victor s kind uncle she determined to withdraw at once from taking any part in the of that house on which she now looked with such horror and if possible to induce her husband to let her return to the north but she had many a wreck weary hours before her ere she could even attempt to carry out her wishes she did not see her husband sometimes for days together and on this occasion he did not enter her apartments until the afternoon fixed for her next reception she sat in her usual place by the window and the sound of her husband s step called an eager brightness to her eyes though the pale cheek was as as it had been since that fatal night as de s eyes fell on her he started and approached her with a sort of interest good evening you are ill p no i am well enough thank you k well why not at your toilet our friends will be here in an hour i cannot see any one to night she hesitated a moment then raising herself she looked in his face � will you send me home a wreck he looked sternly into her eyes and answered deliberately no pray when have you heard from home as you call it not for a year she sighed you have taken some time to grow for those who have so long forgotten you now i will call i can see no one to night she repeated faintly you must madame the careless command roused her and she sprang up i will not she repeated to night or ever again i know all now � how you live your with how you have degraded me in the eyes of the world and knowing all i will not be any longer a party to such i enter those rooms no more as hostess and if you compel me i will declare what you are and why i am brought there and confounded at this burst of indignation he stood silent for an instant then a wreck advanced fiercely towards her with what purpose he himself hardly knew she did not give way one step but confronted him pale and resolute with her burning eyes fixed on his a thousand thoughts flashed across his mind in a moment convictions of her sincerity of her indifference to consequences fears of her revenge and uncertainty of how much she knew mingled with his rage against her and his e for vengeance it was but a moment his habitual caution prevailed and uttering an he said � then these rooms are your prison till you die and left the room the door behind him when victor called two days after to bid her farewell he was told that she was very ill with brain fever and in a few weeks it was reported among her acquaintances that the fever had left her hopelessly though insane a few words of sympathy and regret and a wreck then the waves closed over lier and de rejoiced in his successful falsehood in his lingering revenge chapter xiv the fall of the leaf out of my last home dark and cold i shall pass to the city whose streets are gold from the silence that falls upon sin and pain to the j of the angels strain well shall be ended that ill begun out of the shadow into the mrs sat in the kitchen of the old house at � her hands busily employed in some coarse sewing her thoughts no less busy over the web of life that lay in all its hues in the still chamber of memory the years she had spent beneath this roof were painfully dark to her heart wearing but one gleam of brightness in the thought of her s brilliant marriage and even this was clouded by her unaccountable silence and the fear that in her splendor the fall of the leaf she had grown ashamed of the narrow circumstances of her family in mrs s mind there was a strange mingling of bitterness at this supposed forgetfulness or rather neglect and of apology for what she considered was scarcely to be wondered at and she glanced round her with the thought � this is indeed no place for the de yet she might have had with her for a while i counted on her aid in getting married how will that ever be shut up here as she is what can i do with her true wanted to have her visit new york but what would a marriage be in their set she	41
the company who had passed the night in a sheltered were already some crowding round the blazing fires and others or leaping over each other s backs for their limbs were chilled and the air biting here and there through the dense haze which surrounded them there loomed out huge and of rock while high above the sea of there up one gigantic peak with the pink glow of the early sunshine upon its head the ground was wet the rocks dripping the grass and sparkling with beads of moisture yet the camp was loud with laughter and merriment for a messenger had ridden in from the prince with words of heart stirring praise for what they had done and with orders that they should still bide in the of the army round one of the fires were clustered four or five of the leading men of the cleaning the from their weapons and glancing impatiently from time to time at a great pot which smoked over the blaze there was cross legged in his shirt while he away at his chain mail whistling loudly the while on one side of him sat old who was busy in the feathers of some arrows to his liking and on the other john who lay with his great limbs all and his balanced upon his uplifted foot black of crouched amid the rocks an ballad to himself i while he his sword upon a flat stone which lay his knees while beside him sat and the silent squire of sir holding out their chilled hands toward the cast on another john and stir the with thy sword growled looking anxiously for the twentieth time at the pot by my cried now that john hath come by this great he will scarce abide the fare of poor lads how say you when you see once more there will be no penny ale and fat bacon but and baked day of the seven i know not about that said john kicking his up into the air and catching it in his hand i do but know that whether the be ready or no i am about to dip this into it it and it cried pushing his hard lined face through the smoke in an instant the pot had been plucked from the blaze and its contents had been up in half a dozen steel head pieces which were balanced their owners knees while with spoon and with of bi they devoured their morning meal it is ill weather for bows remarked john at last when with a long sigh he had drained the la t drop from his my strings are as limp as a cow s tail this morning you should rub them with water you remember that it was than this on the morning of cr and yet i cannot call to mind that there was aught amiss w ith our strings it is in my thoughts said black still grinding his sword that we may have need of your strings ere i dreamed of the red cow last night and what is this red cow asked i know not young sir but i can only say that on the v of and on the eve of cr and on tbe eve of i dreamed of a red cow and now the dream ha come upon me again so i am now setting a very keen to my blade well said old war dog cried by my i pray that your dream may come true for the hath not set us out here to drink or to gather one more fight and i am ready to hang up my bow marry a wife and take to the fire comer but how now robin who is it that you seek f the lord your attendance in his tent aid a to the rose and proceeded to the where he nd the knight seated upon a cushion with his legs ip front of him and a broad ribbon of laid across his knees over which he was with frown ing brows and lips it came this morning by the prince s messenger said lie and was brought from england by sir john who is new come from what make you of this upon the outer side it is fairly and clearly written answered and it to sir knight of castle by the hand of the servant of god at the of so i read it said sir now i pray you to read what is set forth within turned to the letter and as his eyes rested upon it his face pale and a cry of surprise and grief burst from his lips what then asked the knight peering up at him anxiously there is amiss with the lady mary or with the i it is my brother � my poor unhappy brother cried with his hand to his brow he is dead by st paul i have never heard that he had shown go much love for you that you should mourn him so he was my brother � the only or kin that i bad upon earth he had cause to be bitter against me for his land was given to the abbey for my alas alas and i raised my staff against him when last we met i he has been slain � and slain i fear amidst crime and violence ha said sir read on i pray you god be with thee my honored lord and have thee in his holy keeping the lady hath asked me to set down in writing what hath befallen at and all that concerns the death of thy ill neighbor the of for when ye had left us this evil man gathered around him all and men until they were come to such a force that they and scattered the king s men who went against them then coming forth from the woods	4
shivered she knew too well that the woman spoke the truth but the began the queen who knows what powers there may be in the she laughed nervously glancing at look at her said the woman with quiet scorn she is a girl and naught else what could she do to the gates of life she has made my son whole therefore she is my sister said the queen she caused my man to speak to me before the death hour therefore i am her servant as well as thine said the other the prince looked up in his mother s face curiously she calls thee thou he said as though the woman did not exist that is not between a and a queen thee and thou we be both women little son stay still in my arms oh it is good to feel thee here again worthless one the heaven bom looks as frail as dried said the woman quickly a dried monkey rather returned the queen dropping her lips on the child s head both mothers spoke aloud and with emphasis that the a story of west and east gods jealous of human happiness might hear and take for truth the that deepest love little monkey is dead said the prince moving i need another one let me go into the palace and find another monkey he must not wander into the palace from this chamber said the queen passionately turning to thou art all too weak beloved oh miss he must not go she knew by experience that it was fruitless to cross her son s will it is my order said the prince without turning his head i will go stay with us beloved said she was wondering whether the hospital could be dragged together again after three months and whether it was possible she might have the danger to nick i go said the prince breaking from his mother s arms i am tired of this talk does the queen give leave asked the woman of the desert under her breath the queen nodded and the prince found himself caught between two brown arms against whose strength it was impossible to struggle let me go widow he shouted furiously it is not good for a to make light of a mother of my king was the unmoved the answer if the young steer does not obey the cow he obedience from the yoke the heaven bom is not strong he will fall among those passages and stairs he will stay when the rage has left his body he will be than before even now � the large bright eyes themselves on the face of the child � even now the calm voice continued the rage is going one moment more heaven bom and wilt be a prince no longer but only a little little child such as i have borne such as i shall never bear again with the last words the prince s head nodded forward on her shoulder the gust of passion had spent itself leaving him as she had foreseen weak to sleep shame � oh shame he muttered thickly indeed i do not wish to go let me sleep he is asleep she said at last what was the talk about his monkey miss it died said and herself to the lie i think it had eaten bad fruit in the garden in the garden said the queen quickly yes in the garden the woman of the desert turned her eyes from one woman to the other these were matters too high for her and she began timidly to rub the queen s feet a story of west and often die she observed i have seen as it were a among the monkey folk over there at in what fashion did it die insisted the queen i � i do not know stammered and there was another long silence as the hot afternoon wore on miss what do you think about my son whispered the queen is he well or is he not well he is not very well in time he will grow stronger but it would be better if he could go away for a while the queen bowed her head quietly i have thought of that also many times sitting here alone and it was the tearing out of my own heart from my breast yes it would be well if he were to go away but � she stretched out her hands toward the sunshine � what do i know of the world where he will go and how can i be sure that he will be safe here � even here she checked herself suddenly since you have come miss my heart has known a little comfort but i do not know when you will go away again i cannot guard the child against every evil replied covering her face with her hands the but send him away from this place as swiftly as may be in god s name let him go away such hai such hai it is the truth the truth i the queen turned from to the woman at her feet thou hast borne three she said yea three and one other that never drew breath they were all men children said the woman of the desert and the gods took them of one and fever the two others art thou certain that it was the gods i was with them always till the end thy man then was all thine own we were only two he and i among our villages the men are poor and one wife they are rich among the villages listen now if a co wife had sought the lives of those three of thine � i would have killed her what else the woman s nostrils dilated and her hand went swiftly to her bosom and if in place of three there had been one only	39
i m sure your brother might have waited a long while before he d have a wife that ud have let him have his say in every thing as i do it s nothing but law and now from when we first get up in the morning tiu we go to bed at night and i never contradict him i only say weu mr do as you like but you do don t go to law mrs as we have seen was not without influence over her husband no woman is she can always incline him to do either what she wishes or the reverse and on the impulses that were threatening to hurry mr into law mrs s monotonous pleading had doubtless its share of force it might even be to that feather which has the credit or of breaking the s back though on a strictly impartial view the blame ought rather to lie with the previous weight of feathers which had already placed the back m such imminent peril that an otherwise innocent feather could not settle on it without mischief not that mrs s feeble could have had this feather s weight in virtue of her single personality but whenever she departed from entire assent to her husband he saw in her the representative of the family and it was a guiding principle with mr to let the know that they were not to over or more that a male was far more than equal to four female even though one of them was mrs but not even a direct argument from that typical o mill on the female herself against his going to law could have heightened his disposition toward it so much as the mere thought of continually by the sight of the too able attorney on market days to his certain knowledge was speaking at the bottom of s had tried to make stand out and go to law about the dam it was unquestionably who had caused mr to lose the suit about the right of road and the bridge that made a of his land for every vagabond who preferred an opportunity of private property to walking like an honest man along the high road all lawyers were more or less but s was of that peculiarly kind which placed itself in opposition to that form of right embodied in mr s interests and opinions and as an extra touch of bitterness the injured miller had recently in the five hundred pounds been obliged to carry a little business to s on his own account a hook fellow as cool as a � always looking so sure of his game and it was that lawyer was not more like him but was a bald round man with bland manners and fat hands � a game cock that you would be rash to bet upon against was a sly fellow his weakness did not lie on the side of but the largest amount of however significant is not equivalent to seeing through a stone wall and confident as mr was in his that water was water and in the direct that had not a leg to stand on in this of he had an uncomfortable suspicion that had more law to show against this than could show for it but then if they went to law there was a chance for mr to employ on his side instead of having that admirable bully against him and the prospect of seeing a witness of s made to and become confounded as mr s witness had once been was to the love of justice much had mr on these subjects during his rides on the gray horse � much turning of the head from side to side as the scales dipped alternately but the probable result was still out of sight only to be reached through much hot argument and in domestic and social life that stage of the dispute which consisted in the of the case and the of mr s views concerning it throughout the entire circle of his connections would necessarily take time and at the beginning of february when tom was going to school again there were scarcely any thb mill on the fl s to be detected in his father s statement of the case against or any more specific indication of the measures he was bent on taking against that rash of the principle that water was water like is likely to heat instead of progress and mr s heat was certainly more and more palpable k there had been no new evidence on any other point there had been new evidence that was as thick as with father said tom one evening near the end of the holidays uncle says lawyer is going to send his son to mr stealing it isn t true what they said about his going to france ton won t like me to go to school with s son shall you it s no matter for that my boy said mr don t you learn any thing bad of him that s all the lad s a poor � ned and takes after his mother in the face i think there isn t much of his father in him it s a sign thinks high o mr as he sends his son to him and knows meal from mr in his heart was rather proud of the fact that his son was to have the same advantages as s but tom was not at all easy on the point it would have been much clearer if the lawyer s son had not been for then tom would have had the prospect of into him with all that freedom which is derived from a high moral sanction chapter m the new it was a cold wet january day on which tom went back to school � a day quite in keeping with this	14
bear i with and and i pray you my masters be merry in the s head as i understand is the dish in all this land which thus d with a gay let us c our steward hath provided this in honour of the king of bliss which on this day to be served is in c c c the christmas dinner the table was literally loaded with good cheer and presented an of country abundance in this season of overflowing a distinguished post was allotted to ancient as mine host termed it being as he added the standard of old english hospitality and a joint of goodly presence and full of expectation there were several dishes decorated and which had evidently something in their but about which as i did not like to appear over curious i asked no questions i could not however but notice a pie decorated with s feathers in imitation of the tail of that bird which a considerable tract of the table this the squire confessed with some little hesitation was a pie though a pie was certainly the most but there had been such a among the this season that he could not prevail upon himself to have one killed the was in great demand for stately sometimes it was made into a pie at one end of which the head appeared above the crust in all its with the richly gilt at the other end the tail was displayed such were served up at the solemn of chivalry when knights pledged themselves to undertake any perilous whence came the ancient oath used by justice shallow by cock and pie the was also an important dish for the christmas feast and in his city madam gives some idea of the t t ft it would be tedious to my t who not have that fondness odd had things to which i am ia little given were i to mention the other of this old t by which he i endeavouring to follow up though distance the customs of antiquity i was pleased however to see the respect shown to his by his en end relatives who indeed readily into the full spirit of and seemed all well in their parts having doubtless present at many a i was unused too at the air of profound gravity with which the butler and other servants executed the duties assigned them however they had an old look for the been brought ip in the household ud into keeping with the the of its lord aud probably looked upon all his as the i laws of honourable housekeeping when the cloth was removed the butler brought with which this as well as other dishes was prepared for the gorgeous of th times men their thirty pound d their les of e p � mis d the of three fat the christmas dinner in a huge silver of rare curious he placed before the squire its appearance was hailed with being the bowl bo renowned in christmas the contents had been prepared by ae squire himself for it was a in the skilful mixture of which he particularly himself that it too and complex for the comprehension of an ordinary servant it was a tion indeed that might well make the heart of a leap within him being composed of the richest and highly and with apples about the surface the old gentleman s whole countenance beamed with a serene look of delight as he stirred this mighty bowl having raised it to his lips with a hearty wish of a merry christmas to all the bowl was sometimes composed of ale instead of wine with sugar and in this way the nut brown is still prepared in some old and round the of substantial farmers at christmas it is also called lamb s wool and is celebrated by in his night next the full with gentle lamb s add sugar and with store of ale too and thus ye must to make the a � w i the christmas dinner present he sent it round the boards for every one to follow his example according to the primitive style it� the ancient fountain of good feeling where all hearts met together there was much laughing and as the honest emblem of christmas and was kissed rather by the ladies when it reached master he raised it in both hands and with the air of a boon companion struck up an old the brown the merry brown as it goes round about a fill stiu let tlie world say what it will and drink your fill all out a the deep the merry deep as thou dost freely a sing fling be as merry as a king and sound a laugh a � the custom of drinking out of the same cup gave place to each having his cup when the steward to the with the he was to cry three times and then the was to answer with a song l t from poor robin s the christmas dinner much of the conversation during dinner turned upon family topics to which i was a stranger there was however a great deal of of master about some gay widow with whom he was accused of having a this attack was commenced by the ladies but it was continued throughout the dinner by the fat headed old gentleman next the parson with the of a slow hound being one of those long wind who though rather dull at starting game are for their talents in hunting it down at every pause in the general conversation he renewed his in pretty much the same terms hard at me with both eyes whenever he gave master what he considered a home thrust the latter indeed seemed fond of being on the subject as old are apt to be and he took occasion to inform me in an under tone that the	48
cruel of him this is a summary of what was said when captain now the reverend john was enabled by circumstances to indulge his heart s desire of returning to the scene of his former exploits in the capacity of a minister of the gospel a low lying district of the town which at that date was crowded with was crying for a and mr generously offered himself as one willing to a changed man undertake labours that were certain to produce little result and no thanks credit or let the truth be told about him as a clergyman he proved to be anything but a brilliant success single minded deeply in earnest as all could see his delivery was his sermons were dull to listen to and alas too too long even the judges who sat by the hour in the bar parlour of the white � an standing at the dividing line between the poor quarter and the fashionable quarter of s former triumphs and hence affording a position of strict � agreed in substance with the young ladies to the westward though their views were somewhat more expressed surely god a mighty a good to make a bad pa son when he shifted cap n ma into a v the latter knew that such things were said but he pursued his daily labours in and out of the with serene it was about this time that the invalid in the became more than a mere bowing acquaintance of mrs s she had return to the town with her husband and was living with him in a little house in the centre of his circle of when by some means she became one of the d s visitors after a general conversation while sitting in his room with a friend of both an incident led up to the matter that still deeply in her soul her face was now paler and thinner than it had been even more attractive her disappointments having inscribed themselves as meek on a look that was once a little frivolous the two ladies had called to be allowed to use the windows for observing the departure of the who were leaving for much nearer to london the turned the comer of road into the top of high street headed by their band playing the girl i left behind me which was formerly al a changed man ways the tune for such times though it is now nearly they came and passed the where an or two looking up and discovering mrs saluted her whose eyes filled with tears as the notes of the band away before the little group had recovered from that sense of the romantic such spectacles impart mr came along the pavement he probably had his brethren in arms a farewell at the top of the for he walked from that direction in his rather clothes and with a basket on his arm which seemed to hold some s he had been making for his poorer unlike the soldiers he went along quite unconscious of his appearance or of the scene around the contrast was too much for with lips that now quivered she asked the invalid what he thought of the change that had come to her it was difficult to answer and with a that was too strong in her she repeated the question do you think she added that a woman s husband has a right to do such a thing even if he does feel a certain call to it her listener too largely with both of them to be anything but unsatisfactory in his reply gazed out of the window towards the thin dusty line of now towards the ridge i she said who should have been in their van on the way to london am doomed to in a hole on lane many events had passed and many had been current concerning her before the invalid saw her again after her leave taking that day v had known many military and civil many happy times and times less happy a changed man and now came the time of her the of had been laid on the suffering country and the low l ring of this ancient had more than their share of the lane in the quarter and in s parish was where the blow most heavily yet there was a certain mercy in its choice of a date for was the man for such an hour the spread of the was so rapid that the town and took lodgings in the villages and farms mr s house was close to the most street and he himself was mom noon and night in to stamp out the plague and in the sufferings of the victims so as a matter of ordinary precaution he decided to his wife somewhere away from him for a while she suggested a village by the sea near and lodgings were obtained for her at a spot divided from the valley by a high ridge that gave it quite another atmosphere though it lay no more than six miles off thither she went while she was in this place of safety and her husband was in the she struck up an acquaintance with a lieutenant in the � st foot a mr who was stationed with his regiment at the as frequently sat on the beach watching each thin wave slide up to her and hearing without its at the pebbles in its retreat he often took a walk that way the acquaintance grew and her situation her history her beauty her age � a year or two above his own � all tended to make an impression on the young man s heart and a reckless was soon in progress upon that lonely shore it was said by her afterwards that she had chosen her lodgings to be near this gentleman but there is reason to believe that she	45
and that he would be all the better when the reaction came he heard from the colonel that made his appearance regularly at his residence and often remained to supper spend s ing the evening in the sole company of the colonel had also noticed that did not seem in his usual health but ascribed it to physical causes it is nothing lasting he said a wedding journey would cure him young men are often struck that way i wish he would take the wedding journey replied john with a clouded brow i have talked with him and he says he cannot think of marrying until he can support his wife and himself he is proud and stubborn too in his quiet way the only method is to let him alone till he comes to his senses it is nearly the time he has set to return to is it not asked the colonel yes but the firm he is reading with are willing to give him all the he needs i don t want him to hurry when does go she concluded not to go at all was the reply she says it would be there without and i have let her do as she pleased she ll keep on with her music at home and have a french teacher come to the house cliff came to for a short visit and was more shocked at the condition in which he found than any of the rest not having seen him since they parted in the early summer when the bloom of health and the flush of happiness was on his cheek look here old boy was his first greeting you are looking like the devil i m not quite as well as i have been admitted but it will be all right in a little tom all right r echoed cliff all wrong you mean j why there ll be a funeral at your house in another month if you don t mend what is it something about our two friends eh i suspected as much tell me have you found which of them it is looked at the handsome face of his companion and groaned there is no change cliff he answered they make me the happiest and the most miserable fellow in the world as they used it has steadily grown worse to bear and i have had no one to confide in it does me good to see you for you at least understand my trouble little by little got out of him the situation of affairs as they drove to mr s house and when they were comfortably seated on the they continued the conversation for a the fathers of both of them became said they could not conceal their certainty that i was in each case destined for the position of their son in law they came with offers of financial assistance both to myself and father till it seemed as if i could stand it no longer i had rather have become a tramp and begged my dinners on the road than have endured it another month finally came to the as i have told you and bought the place saving us from being turned into the street and that gave him as he considered a first not only on the farm but on me thereupon got angry and ceased to bow when we met so i was relieved of that nuisance at least but the assurance of the other one has been doubled to make up for it between they were killing me now the r of the on s ft remaining is about as great as their combined weight before heard this with gravity did not know that your father was in any e of this sort he said if i had i should have offered to aid you myself i could have done it just as well as not that would if possible have been worse than the present said turn which way i could there was nothing but obligation to some one or what is called ruin i deliberately chose the latter as far as i was concerned i never asked the colonel to come over and buy the place nor did any one else he heard of the and drove there of his own notion it was very noble of him i think mused though considering you in the light of a future son in law it was a perfectly natural thing but he has no business to consider me as any of the kind broke out hotly caught eagerly at the straw of comfort then you no longer consider yourself a probable candidate for the hand of the fair miss drew a breath of despair i don t know if they would all let me alone for twenty four hours i might tell what i intend and what i don t it is a simple question after all said gravely do you love her no doubt of it then that replied the other a strange look does it i don t see it that way likes me thi like her it is not so easy as you think to part us rose and began to pace the room see here he said presently i think a great deal of you but this thing is getting where there must be something done to bring you to reason after what you have told me it is clear that you are going to marry miss all the logic of events points in that direction it forms a solution of all your troubles that being the case it is nothing less than wicked for you to lead miss to think otherwise if she cares for you it is all the more reason why she should know the truth as early as possible know what truth exclaimed that i can hardly live out of her sight that is the only truth	1
room the landlady had inquired what they would please to have and tea had been ordered rather with a view of putting a stop to her than because after that a ample meal at they stood in need of any food if your uncle were here said william henry not perhaps without some remembrance of the he had just received from the old gentleman and from which he was still he would be ordering sack or cakes and ale margaret glanced at him but said nothing she regretted that he took such little pains to bridge the breach that evidently existed between his father and himself and always discouraged his william henry hung his head if he did not find sympathy with his cousin he could he thought find it nowhere frank however came to his rescue he either did not look upon the lad as a real rival or he was very and how did you enjoy your trip to he inquired st mary s is a church is it not yes indeed i paid a visit to the b the talk of the town where the papers were stored to which had access and from which he drew the poems how interesting exclaimed margaret it was plain by her tone that she wanted to make amends to the young fellow are any of his people still at oh yes his sister lives there a mrs i had a great deal of talk with her she told me how angry he was with her on one occasion when she cut up some old deeds and other things he had brought home with him and which she had thought to make into thread papers he collected them together thread papers and all and them into his own room considering the use the poor young fellow made of them observed gravely she had better have burnt them still they did give him a certain immortality put in margaret the other was out of his reach surely my dear miss you cannot mean that remonstrated gently a at all events everybody was very hard upon him just because they were taken in argued margaret if he had acknowledged what they ed so much to have been his own they would have seen nothing in it to admire i think behaved like a brute that is very true admitted still the lad was a people are not starved to death as he was even for rejoined margaret his own people too did not care about him he had ho friends poor fellow listened to her with pleasure � though he thought her too because she took the side of the oppressed william henry was even more grateful because he secretly compared his own position with that of � for he too had written poems which nobody thought much of � and guessed that margaret had his own case in her eye amongst other things that mrs told me continued william henry was that her brother was very reserved and fond of seclusion on one occasion he was most thb talk op the town severely for having himself for half a day fix m home he did not shed a tear but only observed that it was hard indeed to be whipped for reading it was certainly most unfortunate admitted that the boy was amongst persons who did not understand him and who though they were his own flesh and blood treated him with contempt and cruelty added margaret with indignation did this sister of his never give him credit for possessing talent even she thought him odd as a child it seems answered william henry he preferred to be taught his letters from an old black letter bible rather than from any book of modern type he seems to have had a natural leaning for the line that he took in life in other words you think he was born with a turn for observed that is not a very high compliment to him nor indeed to providence either but how else could he have become celebrated argued the young man impatiently a is it necessary then my lad to become celebrated inquired smiling i don t say necessary but it must be very nice the same thing maybe said of most of our vices answered the other frank often spoke the words of wisdom but spoke them cut and dried like from a copy book he was an excellent fellow but not quite human enough for ordinary use margaret would have liked him better perhaps if he had been a trifle worse the tone in which he had spoken to her cousin and his use of the words my lad which as she argued to herself quite he know were very offensive to him irritated her a little she felt that william henry had been enough and wanted encouragement did you get any inspiration from the of st mary she inquired well yes he answered blushing and a blush very well became his handsome face i did some mischief i ll warrant exclaimed a the talk op the town harsh voice it was that of mr samuel who had entered the room unobserved and what was it you sir william henry looked abashed and annoyed margaret though she stood in no little fear of her uncle could hardly restrain her indignation frank as usual interposed with the oil can your son has perhaps only written a poem mr which in so young a man can hardly be considered a crime i don t know that if the poem � as it probably was � was a bad one if he has committed it � here the old gentleman s face softened as under the influence of the and home made joke the face will do � he has doubtless committed it to memory come sir let us have it now as of all the pleasant moments which this painful life there are	25
him so unusually and to let me with him if i could not hope to advise him before i had well concluded he began to laugh � at first but soon with returning gaiety tut it s nothing nothing he replied i told you at the inn in london i am heavy company for myself sometimes i have been a nightmare to myself just now � must have had one i think at odd dull times nursery tales come up into the memory for what they are i believe i have been myself with the bad boy who didn t care and became food for lions � a kind of going to the dogs i suppose what old women call the horrors have been creeping over me from head to foot i have been afraid of myself you are afraid of nothing else i think said i perhaps not and yet may have enough to be afraid of too he answered well so it goes by i am not about to be again david but i tell yon my good fellow once more that it would have been well for me and for more than me if i had had a steadfast and judicious father his face was always full of expression but i never saw it express such a dark kind of earnestness as when he said these words with his glance bent on the fire so much for that he said making as if he tossed something light into the air with his hand � why being gone i am a man again q the personal history and experience like and now for dinner if i have not like broken up the feast with most admired disorder but where are they all i wonder said i god knows said after strolling to the looking for you i strolled in here and found the place deserted that set me thinking and you found me thinking the advent of mrs with a basket explained how the house had happened to be empty she had hurried out to buy something that was needed against mr s return with the tide and had left the door open in the meanwhile lest ham and little em ly with whom it was an early night should come home while she was gone after very much improving mrs s spirits by a cheerful salutation and a embrace took my arm and hurried me away he had improved his own spirits no less than mrs s for they were again at their usual flow and he was full of conversation as we went along � and so he said gaily we abandon this life to morrow do we so we agreed i returned and our places by the coach are taken you know ay there s no help for it i suppose said i have almost forgotten that there is anything to do in the world but to go out tossing on the sea here i wish there was not as long as the novelty should last said i laughing like enough he returned though there s a sarcastic meaning in that observation for an amiable piece of innocence like my young friend well i dare say i am a capricious fellow david i know i am but while the iron is hot i can strike it vigorously too i could pass a reasonably good examination already as a pilot in these waters i think mr says you are a wonder i returned a phenomenon eh laughed indeed he does and you know how truly knowing how ardent you are in any pursuit you follow and how easily you can master it and that me most in you � that you should be contented with such fitful uses of your powers contented he answered merrily i am never contented except with your freshness my gentle as to i have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the of these days are turning round and round i missed it somehow in a bad and now don t care about it � you know i have bought a boat down here what an extraordinary fellow you are i exclaimed stopping � for this was the first i had heard of it when you may never care to come near the place again i don t know that he returned i have taken a fancy to the place at all events walking me briskly on i have bought a boat that was for sale � a mr says and so she is � and mr will be master of her in my absence now i understand you said i you pretend to have bought it for yourself but you have really done so to confer a benefit on him i might have known as much at first knowing you of david my dear kind how can i tell you what i think of your generosity he answered turning red the less said the better didn t i know cried i didn t i say that there was not a joy or sorrow or any emotion of such honest hearts that was indifferent to you aye aye he answered you told me all that there let it rest we have said enough afraid of offending him by pursuing the subject when he made so light of it i only pursued it in my thoughts as we went on at even a quicker pace than before she must be newly said and i shall leave behind to see it done that i may know she is quite complete did i tell you had come down no oh yes came down this morning with a letter from my mother as our looks met i observed that he was pale even to his lips though he looked very steadily at me i feared that some difference between him and his mother might have led to his	8
gentle she so his memory in a more the ov life literal of that phrase than usual that he soon became quite fresh and brisk how he under an apprehension not uncommon to persons in his degree to whom the use of pen and is an event that he couldn t his name to a document not of his own writing without committing himself in some shadowy manner or somehow away vague and enormous sums of money and how he approached the deeds under protest and by dint of the doctor s and insisted on pausing to look at them before writing the cramped hand to say nothing of the being so much chinese to him and also on turning them round to see whether there was anything underneath and how having signed his name he became desolate as one who had parted with his property and rights i want the time to tell also how the blue bag containing his signature afterwards had a mysterious interest for him and he couldn t leave it also how in an ecstasy of laughter at the idea of her own importance and dignity over the whole table with her two elbows like a spread eagle and her head upon her left arm as a preliminary to the formation of certain characters which required a deal of ink and imaginary the battle op life whereof she executed at the same time with her tongue also how having once tasted she thirsty in that regard as are said to he after another sort of and wanted to sign every thing and put her name in all kinds of places in the doctor was discharged of his trust and all its and alfred taking it on himself was fairly started on the journey of life britain said the doctor to the gate and watch for the coach time flies alfred yes sir yes returned the young man hurriedly dear grace a moment � so young and beautiful so winning and so much admired dear to my heart as nothing else in life is � remember i leave to you she has always been a sacred charge to me alfred she is doubly so now i will be faithful to my trust believe me i do believe it grace i know it well who could look upon your face and hear your earnest voice and not know it ah good grace if i had your well governed heart and tranquil mind how bravely i would leave this place to day would you she answered with a quiet smile the battle live and yet grace � sister seems the natural word use she said quickly am glad to hear it call me else and yet sister then said alfred aud i had better hare your true and qualities serving us here and making us both happier and better i wouldn t carry away to sustain myself if i could coach upon the hill top exclaimed britain time flies alfred said the doctor had stood apart with her eyes upon the ground but this warning being given her young lover brought her tenderly to where her sister stood and gave her into her embrace i have been telling grace dear he said that you are her charge my precious trust at parting and when i come back and you dearest and the bright prospect of our married life lies stretched before us it shall be one of our chief pleasures to consult how we can make grace happy how we can anticipate her wishes how we can show our gratitude and love to her how we can return her of the debt she will have heaped upon us the younger sister had one hand in his the other rested on her sister s neck she looked into that sister s the battle of eyes so calm serene and with a gaze in wliich affection admiration sorrow wonder almost veneration were blended she looked into that sister s face as if it were the face of some bright angel calm serene and it looked back on her and on her lover and when the time comes as it must one day said alfred � i wonder it has never come yet but grace knows best for grace is always right � when she will want a friend to open her whole heart to and to be to her something of what she has been to us � then how faithful we will prove and what delight to us to know that she our dear good sister loves and is loved again as we would have her still the younger sister looked into her eyes and turned not � even towards him and still those honest eyes looked back so calm serene and cheerful on herself and on her lover and when all tiiat is past and we are old and living as we most together � close together talking often of old times said alfred � these shall be our favourite times among them � this day most of all and telling each other what we thought and felt and the battle of life hoped and feared at parting and how we couldn t bear to say good bye coach coming through the wood britain yes i am ready � and how we met again so happily in spite of all we make this day the happiest in all the year and keep it as a birth ay shall we dear yes interposed the elder sister eagerly and with a radiant smile yes alfred don t linger there s no time say good bye to and heaven be with you he pressed the younger sister to his heart from his embrace she again clung to her sister and her eyes with the same blended look again sought those so calm serene and cheerful my boy said the doctor to talk about any serious correspondence or serious affections and engagements	8
� ye know the law look well o wolves and the anxious mothers would take up the call look � look well o wolves at last � and mother neck lifted as the time came � father wolf pushed the as they called him into the where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that in the moonlight never raised his head from his but went on with the monotonous cry look well a muffled roar came up from behind the rocks � the voice of crying the is mine give him to me what have the free people to do with a man s � never even his ears all he said was look well o wolves what have the free people to do with the orders of any save the free people � look well there was a chorus of deep and a young wolf tn his fourth year flung back s question to what have the free people to do with a man s the law of the lays down that if is any dispute as to the right of a to be d by the pack he must be spoken for by members of the pack who are not his for this said e people who speaks � there the book was no answer and mother wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight if things came to fighting then the only other creature who is allowed at the pack council � the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf the law of the old who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey � rose up on his hind quarters and the man s � the man s he said i speak for the man s there is no harm in a man s i have no gift of words but i speak the truth let him run with the pack and be entered with the others i myself will teach him we need yet another said has spoken and he is our teacher for the young who speaks besides a black shadow dropped down into the circle it was the black black all over but with the showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk everybody knew and nobody cared to cross his path for he was as cunning as as bold as the wild and as reckless as the wounded elephant but he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree and a skin softer than down o and ye the free people he i have no right in your assembly but the law s brothers of the says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new the life of that may be bought at a price and the law does not say who may or may not pay that price am i right good good said the young wolves who are always hungry i listen to the can be bought for a price it is the law knowing that i have no right to speak here i ask your leave speak then cried twenty voices to kill a naked is shame besides he may make better sport for you when he is grown has spoken in his behalf now to s word i will add one bull and a fat one newly killed not half a mile from here if ye will accept the man s according to the law is it difficult there was a of scores of voices saying t what matter he will die in the winter rains he will in the sun what harm can a naked do us � let him run with the pack where is the bull let him be accepted and then came s deep bay crying look well � look well o wolves was still playing with the pebbles and he did not notice when the wolves came and looked at him one by one at last they all went down the hill for the dead bull and only the book and s own wolves were left roared still in the night for he was very angry that had not been handed over to him ay roar well said under his whiskers for the time comes when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune or i know nothing of man it was well done said men and their are very wise he may be a help in time truly a help in time of need for none can hope to lead the pack forever said said nothing he was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets and till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up � to be killed in his turn take him away he said to father wolf and train him as one of the free people and that is how was entered into the wolf pack for the price of a bull and on s good word now you must be content to ten or eleven whole years and only guess at all the wonderful life that led among the wolves because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books he grew up with the though they � w � s brothers of course were grown wolves almost before he was a child and father wolf taught him his business and the meaning of things in the till every rustle in the grass every breath of the warm night air every note of the above his head every scratch of a bat s claws as it for a while in a tree and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of	39
with the latitude of the previous noon corrected by dead reckoning up to that moment proud well i was even with my next miracle i was going to turn in at nine o clock i worked out the problem self instructed and learned what star of the first magnitude would be passing the around half past eight this star proved to be i had never heard finding one s way about of the star before i looked it up on the star map it was one of the stars of the southern cross what thought i have we been sailing with the southern cross in the sky of nights and never known it that we are and i couldn t believe it i went over the problem again and it had the wheel from eight till ten that evening i told her to keep her eyes open and look due south for the southern cross and when the stars came out there shone the southern cross low on the horizon proud no medicine man nor high priest was ever with the prayer wheel i shot and from its worked out our latitude and still i shot the north star too and it agreed with what had been told me bv the southern cross proud why the language of the stars was mine and i listened and heard them telling me my way over the deep proud i was a of miracles i forgot how easily i had taught myself from the printed page i forgot that all the work and a tremendous work too had been done by the master minds before me the and who had discovered and the whole science of and made the tables in the i remembered only the everlasting miracle of it � that i had listened to the voices of the stars and been told my place upon the highway of the sea did not know martin did not know the cabin boy did not know but i told them i was god s messenger i stood between them and i translated the high celestial speech into terms of their ordinary the of the understanding we were heaven directed and it was i who could read the sign post of the sky � i i and now in a cooler moment i hasten to the whole simplicity of it to on and the other and the rest of the all for fear that i may become even as they and with self esteem and i want to say this now any young fellow with ordinary gray matter ordinary education and with the slightest trace of the student mind can get the books and and instruments and teach himself now i must not be misunderstood is an entirely different matter it is not learned in a day nor in many days it requires years also by dead reckoning requires long study and practice but by observations of the sun moon and stars thanks to the and is child s play any average young fellow can teach himself in a week and yet again i must not be misunderstood i do not mean to say that at the end of a week a young fellow could take charge of a fifteen thousand ton steamer driving twenty knots an hour through the racing from land to land fair weather and foul clear sky or cloudy by degrees on the compass card and making with most amazing precision but what i do mean is just this the average young fellow i have described can get into a sail boat and put out across the ocean without knowing anything about and at the end of the week he will know enough to know where he is on the he will be able to take a observation with fair accuracy and from that observation with ten minutes of work out his finding one s way about and and carrying neither freight nor passengers being under no press to reach his destination he can comfortably along and if at any time he doubts his own and fears an imminent he can heave to all night and proceed in the morning sailed around the world a few years our first ago in a thirty seven foot boat all by himself i shall never forget in his narrative of the voyage where he heartily the idea of young men in similar small boats making similar voyage i promptly his idea and so heartily that i took my wife along while it certainly makes a cook s tour look like thirty cents on top of that and on top of the fun and pleasure it is a splendid education for a young man � oh not a mere education in the things of the the of the world outside of lands and and but an education in the world inside an education in one s self a chance to learn one s own self to get on speaking terms with one s soul then there is the training and the of it first naturally the young fellow will learn his and next inevitably he will proceed to press back those and he cannot escape returning from such a voyage a bigger and better man and as for sport it is a king s sport taking one s self around the world doing it with one s own hands depending on no one but one s and at the end back at the starting point contemplating with inner vision the planet rushing through space and saying i did it with my own hands i did it i went clear around that whirling sphere and i can travel alone without any nurse of a sea captain to guide my steps across the seas i may not fly to other stars but of this star i myself am master as i write these lines i lift my eyes and look i am on the beach of on	21
about the repair of the ruined walls under the cannon of which the dead were buried friend and foe being laid side by side a hundred in every grave i c of john xi though still suffering from his wound was ordered to prepare for another duty � the of home who with a strong column of cavalry had blocked up a town on the eastern bank of the where colonel the count commanded five thousand imperial and twelve troops of horse leaving major general at and sir john to command the army selected three thousand two hundred eight hundred of horse and twelve pieces of cannon to be commanded by a famous colonel was so weak that he could scarcely sit on his horse and was compelled to ride slowly but he and these troops at grey daybreak on the th of april and saw that they were well furnished with and matches and he chose lieutenant colonel as his second and having reported to the king that all were in fighting order on as guide a blacksmith who had formerly resided in the command was given to march after a long and route of more than forty miles in two days they halted before having on the march an attack of the bold and hardy these irregular troops were usually ordered on every desperate service as their mode of fighting resembled that of the ferocious they wore short and of steel long white breeches and fur caps their arms were long with barrels and � plunder was their only pay and sole to war leading on the advanced guard them and their colonel they retreated towards in a wild mob keeping up an incessant fire and breaking down or blowing up all the bridges � a measure which the march of the troops and the of their cannon situated on the had long been famous for the manufacture of iron and had twice failed in his attempts to take it three years had l een spent by the imperial in it and all the for ten miles around had been forced into their service as and to it had long been a barrier as it secured the mark and formed the key to sir john took up a position on one side of the town with his column of while home had already occupied the other with his of sir john a strong or fortified with cannon and having a or wet ditch through which ran a rapid stream lay in front of the town the principal approach and before this lieutenant colonel ran his and got his troops with the loss of six men only by daybreak next morning this active had the twelve pieces of cannon mounted on a high platform from which they battered the but so thick was the bank and so solid its face of that who had passed the night at a neighbouring village was again compelled to have recourse to the blacksmith who to point out a private entrance if a floating bridge was constructed to cross the water which then covered all a deep that defended the town and the or in front of it lieutenant and the former with two hundred and fifty the latter with two hundred and fifty at nightfall crossed this dangerous place by a hastily constructed floating bridge which formed an uncertain and unsteady path that sunk and rose alternately among the water of the swamp and the heavier ranks of the mail clad made it and sink among the mud and water more deeply than the measured tread of the but under the blacksmith s guidance without losing a man the first column reached the skirts of the town in safety followed with the second which consisted of a thousand select as the king depended most on him all was still and silent in the dark streets of the town which bordered close on the swamp but the gleam of arms and the moving of a gloomy column of troops was soon visible bj the dim and with his fell briskly on them they proved to be three hundred about to make a sally imder the young colonel son of the governor a short but desperate conflict ensued cut off the and killed their leader losing only thirty of his own men who fell by the first fire hurrying on when he heard the din of this contest and saw the flashing of the that the darkened marched between the town and the which he thus assailed in rear and in three minutes making all within it prisoners these with their officers in the true spirit immediately offered to take service under � an offer which accepted in the name of his sudden capture of the on one side with the approaches of home on the other compelled the old count of to send a to to beg for terms his eyes were bound up with a and he was conducted to who required an immediate of the town at the same time he thanked and for their good service with large promises of reward and to colonel also for taking in of the at eight o clock next morning the count of leaving his gallant son lying shot in the streets behind him at the head of his soldiers marched out with the honours of war having all their baggage with them and life of c of john four field pieces with four balls and charges of powder for each they crossed the with all their drums beating and colours displayed the white standard with the black eagle on their march to great in and such was the state of morality among the that with this small garrison there came forth no less than two thousand female camp followers thus the was a goodly and a strong most given by a company of next day sunday sir john and ah the officers had	24
we re to go back to onr own farm ay an what s oh god of heaven bless � what s more the colonel is to stock it for us an to help ns an what is more sam is out they exclaimed well an sam oh father now behave i say ay and never to come in again but who do you think got hun out who � why god he knows who could get him out our son � onr son got him out an got ourselves hack to our i had it partly from the colonel s own lips an the remainder from mr that i met on my way home but there s more to come � sure has friends to the colonel himself an sure he s at a catholic d by the poor scholar s an in a time he ii be a priest in full we here draw a over the delight of the family questions upon questions replies upon replies and cross in rapid succession until all was that the worthy man had to simple scene followed which as an i write with when the joy of the family had somewhat subsided the father put his hand in his coat pocket pulled out several e of mutton all ch sail he the colonel me my dinner i ate j myself an pi ed these in my pocket for yon but the devil one o me knows kind o ft is an i got wine too oh � well they may talk but wine is the bring me the knife till i make a fair divide of it je what kind mate can it be for myself doesn t any sort bacon an a bit of an odd time they all ate it with an experienced air of sagacity that was rather amusing none however had ever tasted mutton before and con d by g the poor scholar the name of the meat on tliat occasion a profound secret to m and bis family it is true they supposed it to be mutton but not one of could pronounce it to be from any positive knowledge of peculiar flavor well said it s no wliat the name of it is in regard that it s good mate any way for them that of it with a fervent heart and streaming eyes did this vii family offer up their grateful � to that god whose laws they had not and to whose providence tbey owed bo was their benefactor forgotten the strength and energy of the language being that in the usually pray were well adapted to express the of their gratitude towards a man who had as they said himself to look into wants as if he was like one o for upwards of ten years tbey bad not gone to bed free from the of care or the wasting grasp of poverty their hearth d by the poor scholar was once more san by peace and contentment their were removed beat freely and the language of happiness again was heard under their humble roof even sleep could not repress the vivacity of enjoy men ts they of their brother � for ia the heart tlie domestic affections hold the first place � they of the farm to which affections had so long they trod it again as its legitimate its fields were brighter its com waved with softer murmurs to the breeze its were richer and the song of their harvest home more cheerful than before their delight was tumultuous but intense and when they arose in the morning to a sober of waking they again knelt in ship to god with hearts and again offered up their sincere prayers in behalf of the just man who had asserted their rights against the colonel b was a man who without having been aware of it possessed an excellent capacity for business the neglect of his property resulted not from want of feeling bnt merely from d by s the pi want of consideration had been no precedent for him to follow he had been no of rank ever bestow a moment s attention on his they had been for the most part like himself and felt satisfied if they succeeded in receiving their half yearly in due course without ever reflecting for a moment upon the tion of those from whom it was drawn what was more � he had not seen the resident gentry enter into the state and circumstances of who lived upon their property it was a mere accident that determined him to become acquainted with his tenants but no sooner he seen his duty and to the resolution of performing it than tiie ion of his character became apparent it is true that the last few years the irish have advanced in knowledge many of them have introduced more improved systems of and instructed their tenants in the best methods of applying them bnt daring the time of which we write an irish landlord only saw bis tenants when them for their and in d by them m and not reflecting that he was then teaching them to the arts of and fraud himself this was the late let h hope that it will be by a better one and that a landlord will think it a duty but neither a trouble nor a condescension to look into hit own affairs and keep an eye u on the morals and habits of his the colonel as he lad said remained more than a fortnight upon his estate and as he n declared since the recollections arising from the good which he performed during that brief period rendered it the portion of hia past hie upon which he look with most satisfaction he did not the country till he m and his family restored to their farm and once more independent � until he had every well founded complaints	50
muse and the books a a are you ready i am at your service sir replied that gentleman taking his usual seat on the usual settle and his wooden i under the table before it mr would you yourself useful and take a seat beside me sir for the of the candles t with the it was yet being given at him with his wooden leg to call his particular tion to mr standing musing before the fire in the space between the two settles hem i mr to attract his s attention would you wish to commence with an animal sir � from the no said mr no with that producing a little book from his breast pocket he handed it with great care to the literary gentlemen and inquired v hat do you call that sir replied his spectacles and referring to the title page is s lives and anecdotes of mr would you make yourself and draw the candles a little nearer sir this to haye a special of a stare upon his comrade em have in that lot asked mr can you find out easy sir replied turning to the table of contents and slowly fluttering the leaves of the book i should say they must be pretty well au here sir here s a lai sir my eye catches john sir john little sir dick john the mr jones of daniel give us said mr with another stare at his comrade sought and found the place page a hundred and nine mr chapter eight contents of chapter his birth and estate his garments and outward appearance miss and her feminine graces the s mansion the finding of a treasure the of the mutton a s idea of death bob the s cur and bis master how to turn a penny a substitute for a fire the advantages of keeping a the dies without a shirt the treasures of a eh what s that demanded mr the treasures sir repeated reading veiy distinctly of a mr sir would you the t this to secure attention to his adding with his lips only i mr drew an arm chair into the space where stood and said himself and rubbing his hands give us mr w pursued the biography of that eminent man through its mutual of and dirt da s death on a sick of cold and through mr s keeping rags together with a and his dinner by sitting upon it down to the incident of his dying in a sack after which he read on as follows � � the house or rather the heap of ruins in which mr lived and which at his death to the right of captain was a most miserable decayed building for it had not been repaired for more than half a century here mr eyed his comrade and the room in which they sat which had not been repaired for a long time but though poor in external the was yery rich in the interior it took many weeks to explore its whole contents and captain found it a very agreeable task to into the s secret here mr repeated secret and his comrade of mr s richest was found to be a in the a sum but little short of two thousand five hundred pounds was contained in this rich piece of and in an old carefully tied and strongly down to the in bank notes and gold were found five hundred pounds more here mr we s wooden leg started forward under the table and slowly elevated itself as he read on were discovered filled with guineas and and at different times on searching the comers of the house found various of bank notes some were crammed into the of the wall here mr looked at the wall � bundles were hid under the cushions and covers of the chairs here mr looked under himself on the settle some were at the back of the drawers and notes to six hundred pounds were fi und neatly doubled up in the inside of an old in the stable the captain found full of old and shillings the chimney was not left and paid very well for the trouble tor in nineteen different holes all filled were found various sums of money together to more than two hundred pounds on the way to this crisis mr we s wooden leg had gradually elevated its more and more and he had mr his opposite elbow and deeper until at length the preservation of his balance became with the two actions and he now dropped over upon that gentleman him against the settle s edge mr did either of the two for some few seconds make any to recover himself both remaining in a kind of pecuniary but the sight of mr sitting in the arm chair himself with his eyes upon the acted as a a to cover their movements mr with a � ho i pulled himself and mr up in a manner let s have some more said mr vol ir � cm � b ike � � r� is it your to take john mr let s did he did not appear to an bo off but an lady had gold and in a pot in a full of in a hole under her and a of k aa old rat the interest to her k to be a whose wealth up in little scrape of paper and old to hei another lady i by trade who had a of ten and hidden it here and there in and and under the to her a french g had crammed up chimney to the o� its powers a leather twenty � gold and a of as bj a his death by these steps mr at a concluding of the human many years ago there lived at a old of they had two sons ue was a et	8
and in a mysterious and guilty manner mr the s bench to pieces while miss held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder � for which indeed in her she was no figure the burning of the body previously reduced to pieces convenient for the purpose was commenced without delay in the kitchen fire and the tools shoes and leather were buried in the garden so wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds that mr and miss while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces almost felt and almost looked like in a horrible crime a tale op two cities chapter xx a plea when the newly married pair came home the first person who appeared to offer his congratulations was they had not been at home many hours when he presented himself he was not improved in habits or in looks or in manner but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity about him which was new to the observation of charles he watched his opportunity of taking aside into a window and of speaking to him when no one overheard mr said i wish we might be we are already friends i hope you are good enough to say so as a fashion of speech but i don t mean any fashion of speech indeed when i say i wish we might be friends i scarcely mean quite that either charles � as was natural � asked him in all good humor and good fellowship what he did mean upon my life said smiling find that easier to comprehend in my own mind than to convey to yours however let me try you remember a certain famous occasion when i was more drunk than � than usual a tale of two cities i remember a certain occasion when a forced me to confess that a had been drinking i remember it too the curse of those occasions is heavy upon me for i always remember them i hope it may be taken into account one day when all days are at an end for me � don t be alarmed i am not going to preach i am not at all alarmed earnestness in you is anything but alarming to me ah i said with a careless wave of his hand as if he waved that away on the drunken occasion in question one of a large number as you know i was about liking you and not liking you i wish you would forget it i forgot it long ago fashion of speech again but mr oblivion is not so easy to me as you represent it to be to you i have by no means forgotten it and a light answer does not help me to forget it if it was a light answer returned i beg your forgiveness for it i had no other object than to turn a slight thing which to my surprise seems to trouble you too much aside i declare to you on the faith of a gentleman that i have long dismissed it from my mind heaven what was there to dismiss have i had nothing more important to remember in the great service you rendered me that day as to the great service said i am bound to to you when you speak of it in that way that it was mere professional clap trap i don t know that i cared what became of you when i rendered it � mind i say when i rendered it i am speaking of the past a tale of two cities you make light of the obligation returned but i will not quarrel with your light answer genuine truth mr trust me i have gone aside from my purpose i was speaking about our being friends now you know me you know i am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men if you doubt it ask and he ll tell you so i prefer to form my own opinion without the aid of his well at any rate you know me as a dog who has never done any good and never will i don t know that you never will but i do and you must take my word for it well if you could endure to have such a worthless fellow and a fellow of such indifferent reputation coming and going at odd times i should ask that i might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here that i might be regarded as an useless and i would add if it were not for the resemblance i detected between you and me an piece of furniture for its old service and taken no notice of i doubt if i should abuse the permission it is a hundred to one if i should avail myself of it four times in a year it would satisfy me i dare say to know that i had it � wiu you try that is another way of saying that i am placed on the footing i have indicated i thank you i may use that freedom with your name i think so by this time they shook hands upon it and turned away within a minute afterwards he was to all outward appearance as as ever when he was gone and in the course of an evening a tale of two cities passed with miss the doctor and mr charles made some mention of this conversation in general terms and spoke of as a problem of carelessness and he spoke of him in short not bitterly or meaning to bear hard upon him but as anybody might who saw him as he showed himself he had no idea that this could dwell in the thoughts of his fair young wife but when he afterwards joined her in their own rooms he found her	8
come back to him let us make haste march g lads up park street and down s lane it was the best chance he could think of for saving s life and he succeeded the pleasure of seeing the helpless man tied up for the moment if there were any who had ferocity enough to count much on coming back to him nobody s imagination represented the certainty that some one out of the houses at hand would soon come and him when he was left alone and the pushed up park street a noisy stream with still in the midst of them though he was laboring hard to get his way to the front he wished to determine the course of the crowd along a by road called s lane which would have taken them to the other � the end of the town he urged several of the men i him one of whom was no less a person than the big our old acquaintance to get forward and be sure that all the fellows would go down the lane else they would spoil sport hitherto had been successful and he had gone along with an unbroken impulse but soon something occurred which brought with a terrible shock the sense that his plan might turn out to be as mad as all bold projects are seen to be when they have failed mingled with the more headlong and half drunken crowd there were some sharp men who loved the of for something else than its own sake and who at present were not so much the richer as they desired to be for the pains they had taken in coming to the election induced by certain gathered at on the day that there might be the conditions favorable to that confusion which was always a harvest time it was known to some of these sharp men that park street led out toward the grand house of which was as good � nay better for their purpose than the bank while was entertaining his ardent purpose these other sons of adam were entertaining another ardent purpose of their peculiar sort and the moment was come when they were to have their triumph from the front ranks backward toward there ran a new summons � a new invitation let us go to from that moment was powerless a new definite y suggestion his influence there was a determined rush past s lane and not down it was carried along too he did not know whether to wish the contrary once on the road out of the town with into fields and with the wide park at hand it would have been easy for him to himself from the crowd at first it seemed to him the better part to do this and to get back to the town as fast as he could in the hope of finding the military and getting a to come and save the but he reflected that the course of the mob had been sufficiently seen and that there were plenty of people in park street to carry the information faster than he could it seemed more necessary that he should secure the presence of some help for the family at the by going there himself the were not of the class he was wont to be anxious about but s conscience was alive to the accusation that any danger they might be in now was brought on by a deed of his in these moments of bitter vexation and disappointment it did occur to him that very unpleasant might be hanging over him of a kind quite nt from inward dissatisfaction but it was useless now to think of such consequences as be pressed along the radical with the multitude into park his very movement seemed to him only an image of the day s in which the small of small selfish ends really toward any larger result had issued in widely shared mischief that might yet be hideous the light was declining already the candles shone through many windows of the already the foremost part of the crowd had burst into the offices and men were busy in the right places to find plate after setting others to force the butler into the and had only just been able to force his way on to the front terrace with the hope of getting to the rooms where he would find the ladies of the household and comfort them with the assurance that rescue must soon come when the sound of horses feet convinced him that the rescue was nearer than he had expected just as he heard tha horses he had approached the large window of a room where a brilliant light suspended from the ceiling showed him a group of women clinging together in terror others of the crowd were pushing their way up the terrace steps and gravel slopes at various points hearing the horses he kept his post in front of the window and with his cried out to the on comers keep back i hear the soldiers coming some scrambled back some paused the louder and louder sound of the hoofs changed its pace and distribution halt fire bang bang bang came the ears of the men on the terrace before they had time or nerve to move there was a rushing sound closer to them � again fire a bullet and passed through s shoulder � the shoulder of the arm that held the naked weapon which shone in the light from the window fell the ran like terrified sheep some of the soldiers turning drove them along with the flat of their swords the greater difficulty was to clear the invaded offices the who with another magistrate and several other gentlemen on horseback had accompanied the soldiers now jumped on to the terrace and to the ladies of the family presently there was a group around had	14
the kind of air that sort of person something rather mysterious and perhaps just a shade just a shade although i admit mrs has as little of anything of that kind about her as you can expect and really is a lady well we were in the middle of � l most awfully nice ds it was i remember the was dressed with and a charming combination � and all of a sudden she said to me where is your husband lor my dear i replied safe tied to the end of a rod in scotland indeed he s nothing of the kind she replied your husband is on his way to london he s in the train this minute my husband i are you sure i m perfectly certain of it he started about an hour ago i made a rapid calculation in my mind mrs i said i ll send a message to the to get my things packed i must over by the the magic wheel day boat i shall be home before he is and i was and he came at the time she said he would come yes but i was saved i had had a very pleasant three days in so i didn t him for coming home unexpectedly as i might reasonably have done had i gone steadily oh the grind of the season of course it was touch and go whether my lord should find out but he didn t happen to and i got off that time i gave mrs one of my best diamond and i felt i was still under an obligation to her i got up and strolled away just as a young man of very fashionable aspect approached the pair and entered into an animated conversation with them i wondered where mrs lived i wondered whether mrs was as one lady had said even better as a than mrs had been how could i find out at last i me of the simple expedient of asking my hostess who the ladies were a little fair woman in pale blue she said no in answer to my question oh yes yes that is lady � of you know dear little woman she is and he s such a brute would you like to know her well i should rather like to know her she s so very pretty i felt myself a bit of a h but i was duly to lady who was very gracious and very charming and who professed herself delighted to know me as she had taken great pleasure in my books her companion proved to be a mrs st m and she was quite as charming as lady we talked of various matters such things as are usually called topics of general interest and then i edged the conversation round to the subject of i was astonished to find that both ladies rose easily to the bait ah you are interested too in mrs said lady now mrs st here has just been telling me about a perfectly new who is the most marvellous creature in the world lady violet power goes to her for everything how everything ill the magic wheel well if she wants to take a house for instance she wouldn t take it without going to see what mrs had to say about it if she wants to have a bit of a flutter on the she goes by what mrs says she s absolutely her guide then yes in everything most society women have a guide of that kind are you going to this mrs oh yes i shall go to morrow as soon as i am out of bed i believe in catching them when they are fresh they are always able to tell you so much more than when they are now one thing i never i never go near a at a party it is the fashion to have good ladies sitting in tents or otherwise telling your guests their fortunes and misfortunes and when i give a party of course i have two or three just to give them an advertisement poor but i never go near them myself i like to catch them in the morning when they are fresh then you get properly told i shall go to mrs to morrow morning what do you have i oh i never had a in my life i said quickly i � i have only just found out about such things but i am awfully interested oh you are well now you come and lunch with me to morrow quite my husband s gone off to salmon fishing he s mad on salmon fishing i believe salmon fishing is like charity � it covers a multitude of sins i have got my own coming little mrs isn t she a wonder mrs st � now isn t she oh perfectly awful she tells you everything that ever you did and everything that ever you wanted to do but charming cried lady oh yes quite charming then you ll come mrs i should like to come very much her bright eyes wandered towards the door and she gave a jump as if � well as if she had seen a ghost oh my dear she said suddenly turning round do you see who that is that has just come in no who is it said mrs st it s the german chapter xi louis i looked eagerly up although i really at that time did not know what a was in the doorway was a tall pale young man very very tall very very pale in complexion he was excessively fair probably as a baby he had been white he had curious blue eyes a pale blue and yet they were intense in colour he was dressed and had an in his button hole what does he do i asked lady turned round with a	30
not the hard men who had their knives drawn to fight for their financial lives put away the weapons and wished him god speed while half a dozen panic smitten tin pot roads up their heads and spoke of the wonderful things they would have done had not buried the it was a busy week end among the wires for now that their anxiety was removed men and cities hastened to accommodate los called to san and that the might know and be ready in their lonely round houses passed the word to the atlantic and pacific the captains courageous flung it the whole length of the and fe management even into an engine combination car with crew and the great and gilded private car were to be over those two thousand three hundred and fifty miles the train would take of one hundred and seventy seven others meeting and passing and of every one of those said trains must be sixteen sixteen and sixteen would be needed � each and every one the best available two and one half minutes would be allowed for changing engines three for watering and two for warn the men and arrange and accordingly for is in a hurry a hurry � a hurry sang the wires forty miles an hour will be expected and division will accompany this special over their respective divisions from san to sixteenth street let the magic carpet be laid down hurry oh hurry it will be hot said as they rolled out of san in the dawn of sunday we re going to hurry just as fast as ever we can but i really don t think there s any good of your putting on your bonnet and gloves yet you d much better lie down and take your medicine i d play you a game o but it s sunday captains courageous � � ril be good oh i will be good only � taking off my bonnet makes me feel as if we d never get there try to sleep a little and we ll be in before you know but it s boston father tell them to hurry the six foot drivers were their way to san and the but this was no grade for speed that would come later the heat of the desert followed the heat of the hills as they turned east to the needles and the river the car cracked in the utter and glare and they put crushed ice to mrs s neck and toiled up the long long past ash fork towards where the forests and are under the dry remote skies the needle of the speed and to and fro the rattled on the roof and a whirl of dust sucked after the whirling wheels the crew of the combination sat on their panting in their shirt sleeves and found himself among them shouting old old stories of the railroad that every knows above the roar of the car he told them about his son and how the sea had given up its dead and they nodded and and rejoiced with him asked after her back there and whether she could stand it if the engineer let her out a piece and thought she could accordingly the captains courageous great fire horse was let out from to till a division protested but mrs in the state room where the french maid sallow white with fear clung to the silver door handle only moaned a little and begged her husband to bid them hurry and so they dropped the dry sands and moon struck rocks of behind them and on till the crash of the and the of the told them they were at by the continental divide three bold and experienced men � cool confident and dry when they began white quivering and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels � swung her over the great lift from to and beyond up and up to the on the state line whence they dropped rocking into la had sight of the and tore down the long slope to city where took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead there was very little talk in the car the secretary and sat together on the stamped spanish leather cushions by the plate glass observation window at the rear end watching the and ripple of the ties crowded back behind them and it is believed making notes of the scenery moved nervously between his own captains courageous and the naked necessity of the combination an cigar in his teeth till the pitying forgot that he was their enemy and did their best to entertain him at night the lit up that palace of ail the luxuries and they swinging on through the of abject desolation now they heard the of a water and the voice of a the of that tested the steel wheels and the oath of a tramp chased off the rear platform now the solid crash of coal shot into the tender and now a beating back of noises as they flew past a waiting train now they looked out into great a beneath their tread or up to rocks that barred out half the stars now and changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon s edge and now broke into hills lower and lower till at last came the true plains at city an unknown hand threw in a copy of a paper containing some sort of an interview with who had evidently fallen in with an on from boston the joyful revealed that it was beyond question their boy and it soothed mrs for a while her one word hurry was conveyed by the to the at and where � � captains courageous the are easy and they brushed the behind them towns and villages were close together now and a man could feel here that he moved	39
once he beheld with dismay the entrance of one of his own upon his new place of business as he stood behind the high desk casting up a column of figures luckily there was an inner room to which he stealthily retreated with beating heart and listened there to the loud tones of the woman who was at home a most soft spoken and creature but this accident did not happen again a business man and he felt more and more secure in the companionship of his young partner it was surprising how his zest and ambition seemed for a time to return how pleased he was when an uncommonly good day s trade was reported he shook his head when the young folks asked him to come to their wedding but he slipped as large a as he dared into the bride s work little hand and stole away toward his own house it had made him desolate to see the rooms the lovers were to live in they had asked their benefactor to visit their new home in such a way that he could not refuse and they told him they never could have got on so well without his help little miss was not going to give up her sewing at present she would take care of their tiny housekeeping and earn all she could in the spare time just as she had always done they did not seem like city people at all they had the simple ways of country folks and john thought of them with deep affection as he sat at the head of his glittering dinner table that night and lifted a glass of his best wine in a shaking hand to drink secretly mr and mrs william s health and prosperity a business man at last there came a time late one spring when the old business man seemed much than he had ever before he hardly ever w nt down to the great office now and was even glad when the rare expedition was safely over with once or twice he took his seat at some assembly but he was an and was more annoyed than otherwise with the empty show of deference from his in office every day when it was possible however he paid an early visit to his young friends in east number street and on many a morning when there were few customers coming in he gave the ambitious proprietor and suggestions there was a young boy added to the force of this experiment a lad from whose bright face seemed to please the old gentleman and on one of the last visits sent him home with mr it caused a good deal of curiosity and interest when the adventure was for he had helped the guest up the high steps of one of the best avenue houses but the morning calls were nearly done mr only appeared once more and then when the owner of the little shop had � � r a business man gone down town he and liis young wife talked a great deal that night about their benefactor he s been the making of me said to himself sadly as the days went by after that and his friend did not come again for a long time mr s daughter had said proudly that her father was able to take an hour or two s walk early every morning in these late spring days she had fully that he used up all his strength in doing so much and that he was fit for nothing all the rest of the day at length john was taken away to his country place and before the summer was over he died the poor rich man had almost ceased to care anything for even the as he had often fondly called it though he was still grateful for the pleasure that came to him as he dreamed of and planned for the future fortune of the happy young people in east number street his wi was made some months before and was as just to his own family and to public needs as all his dealings had been there was one which surprised his family entirely � he left five thousand dollars to one william in east number street and among the a business man latest of his private papers was a note to this written in a trembling hand which con strangely with his former clear i have left something for you as a remembrance mr said i have no doubt that you will make your way in the world by its help and your own exertions and i owe you something for your kindness and respect to an old man remember that getting money may make you poor as it has me and can leave you at last a beggar for a little friendliness and sympathy and occupation there are other things which a man needs beside wealth to make him happy i am your grateful friend john the young man s eyes were strangely as he read heavens he said awed and astonished i used to think that he was n t the broken down old fellow we took him for at first but there he was all the time one of the richest men in the city how pleased he used to be some days to help behind the counter when two or three customers a business man came in together so that was old john perhaps our place made him think of old times when he was just beginning himself answered the little wife i remember the first time i saw him one windy morning when the dust blew in his face and he turned round and looked right in at the window he made me feel real bad he looked so and i never thought he was going to give us such a lot of money he s given	40
struck you that the way to catch that man was to find out where he got his food and so trace it to him he certainly seemed to be getting near the truth no doubt said i but how do you know that he is anywhere upon the i know it because i have seen with my own eyes the messenger who takes him his food my heart sank for it was a serious thing to be in the power of this old but his next remark took a weight from my mind the hound op the you ll be surprised to hear that his food is taken to him by a child i see him every day through my upon the roof he passes along the same path at the same hour and to whom should he be going except to the here was luck indeed and yet i suppressed all appearance of interest a child had said that our unknown was supplied by a boy was on his track and not upon the s had stumbled if i could get his edge it might save me a long and weary hunt incredulity and indifference were evidently strongest cards i should say that it was much more likely that it was the son of one of the taking out his father s dinner the least appearance of opposition struck fire out of the old his eyes looked at me and his grey whiskers like those o� an angry cat j indeed sir said he pointing out over wide stretching do you see that black tor over yonder well do you see the low hill beyond with the upon it it is the part of the whole is that a place where a shepherd would be likely to take his station your suggestion sir is a most absurd one i meekly answered that i had spoken without knowing all the acts my submission pleased and led him to further confidences the man on the tou you may be sure sir that i have very good grounds before i come to an opinion i have seen the boy again and again with his bundle every day and sometimes twice a day i have been able � but wait a moment dr do my eyes deceive me or is there at the present moment something moving upon that hill side it was several miles off but i could distinctly see a small dark dot against the dull green and grey come sir come cried rushing upstairs you will see with your own eyes and judge for yourself the a formidable instrument mounted upon a stood upon the flat leads of the house clapped his eye to it and gave a cry of satisfaction quick dr quick before he passes over the hill there he was sure enough a small with a little bundle upon his shoulder toiling slowly up the hill when he reached the crest i saw the ragged uncouth figure for an instant against the cold blue sky he looked round him with a and stealthy air as one who pursuit then he vanished over the hill well am i right certainly there is a boy who seems to have some secret errand and what the errand is even a county the hound op the b as k e r v i l i could guess but not one word shall they have from and i bind also dr l you to secrecy son not a word you understand just as you wish they have treated me � m en the facts come out in w i venture to think that a thrill of indignation will nm through the country nothing would induce me to help the police in any way for all they cared it might have been me instead of my which these burned at the stake surely you are not you will help me to empty the in honour of this great occasion ut i resisted all his and succeeded in him from his announced intention ol walking home with me i kept the road as long as his eye was on me and then i struck off across the and made for the stony hill over which the boy had disappeared everything was working in my favour and i swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that i should miss the chance which fortune had in my way ij the sun was already sinking when i reached summit of the hill and the long slopes beneath me were all golden green on one side and grey shadow on the other a haze lay low upon the farthest sky line out of which the fantastic shapes of and tor over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement one great the man on the tor i grey bird a or aloft in the blue heaven he and i seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it the barren scene the sense of loneliness and the mystery and of my task all struck a chill into my heart the boy was nowhere to be seen but down beneath me in a of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather my heart leaped within me as i saw il this must be the where the stranger at last my foot was on the threshold of his hiding place � his secret was within my grasp as i approached the hut walking as as do when with poised net he drew near the settled butterfly i satisfied myself that tht place had indeed been used as a habitation a vague pathway among the led to the opening which served as a door ab was silent within the	4
all the information that came to if a girl find a man p the and the only reason that neither of these gentlemen walked in upon the fugitive was because they did not deem it advisable to hasten things in the state of mind in which they believed him to be miss was soon told by her father that may bury had left new york and that he might not return for a long time the eyed his daughter to discover whether this information had any pronounced effect upon her but she was as placid as the on a s day she was getting ready at the time to take a ride over to the new mansion and her only response was a simple indeed uttered without stress of tone so very did she appear that the was moved to sound her a little in reference to the matter i m sorry he s gone off just now he said i shall be a trifle lonely until meets and i hoped to see a great deal of him is good company at any time bowed in acquiescence as she arranged her cap before a mirror don t you think he is a very pleasant young man continued the father as she seemed to have nothing further to say on the subject she looked up to study his face for one brief moment and then threw her gaze into space yes she said at the conclusion of her but there was nothing in it had he told her that one of the servants was going to leave she would he felt sure have shown equal interest young miss giddy would you like to go with me when opens pursued mr at this the girl shook her head with more decision you know papa she said i never liked washington mr is there he replied i do not see why that should make any the who had taken it for granted that his daughter entertained a feeling toward the absent one something stronger than this was betrayed into himself do you ever think he asked slowly that some day you will have to marry miss turned from the mirror where she was arranging a stray lock of hair and surveyed the speaker why papa are you tired of me she exclaimed certainly not he answered i only speak of the natural course of events it is not expected that a girl will allow herself to become an old maid if she has a fair share of good looks and especially if she has a decent fortune the girl turned back to the mirror and took a complete survey of her physical charms as far as they were revealed in its surface have i a fair share of good looks she asked with a trace of you are handsome and you know it very well you also know that more than one young gentleman of good family has applied for your hand miss eyed the hand for which the young gentlemen of good family had applied as if to discover what they found so very attractive in it k if a girl could find a and you have told me papa she said that most of them in your private opinion cared more for the money i am to inherit than for the face you are so kind as to call pretty quite true he admitted it is one of the misfortunes of wealth that it the daughter looked into the mirror and then at the richly furnished apartment if a girl could find a man who did not care for her money who would love her as the novels say for herself alone marriage would seem pleasanter to contemplate the was disconcerted by the of this assertion he wondered if she had been influenced by the story books she had read and had developed a romantic vein that had never been exposed to his view however it was not the first time that he had felt the force of her innocent nature an innocence to this man of the world there is a great deal to be said on that score he replied after a moment s consideration an absolutely man is seldom fitted to mate happily with a girl who has been brought up in their habits and tastes are unlikely to agree while wealth does not make one better in a certain sense it and the social capacity and makes its possessor to manage property that may fall to his care the girl nodded as if the matter was not of very great importance in her mind and resumed her position at the mirror her mr resumed the when he had observed her in silence for a short time has been accustomed to the highest society his family young miss is one of the best in the country i think his acquaintance a valuable one to cultivate this was much more than he had been in the habit of saying and his daughter could not the meaning of a single syllable i don t see how we can cultivate it at present she smiled now that he has taken the pains to leave us he will not be likely to remain away forever no resumed the look then suddenly she put the question to him has mr asked if he may marry me the and it was not often that he blushed my dear he answered i have no doubt that he how very young you are and does not wish to press us and he is such a thorough gentleman he may also have about proposing to a girl whose fortune is so much greater than his own again there was a heavy silence in the room interrupted at last by miss s maid who came to see if she was ready for her ride when the servant had been dismissed with the information that there would be yet	1
in the square of darkness formed by one of the open windows the effect being that of a portrait by or it was his assistant dare leaning on the of the as he smoked his and surveyed the gay groups beneath after holding a chattering conversation with some ladies from a neighbouring country seat who had known his father in years and handing them and till they were satisfied he found an opportunity of leaving the grounds wishing to learn a what progress dare had made in the survey of the castle dare was still in the when he entered informed the youth that there was no necessity for his working later that day unless to please himself and proceeded to inspect dare s achievements thus far to his vexation dare had not three dimensions during the previous two days this was not the first time that dare either from or had shown his as a house and mr dare said i fear you don t suit me well enough to make it necessary that you should stay after this week dare removed the from his lips and bowed if i don t suit the sooner i go the better why wait the week he said well that s as you like drew the towards him wrote out a for dare s services and handed it across the table i ll not trouble you to morrow said dare seeing that the pa included the week in advance very well replied please lock the door when you leave shaking hands with dare and wishing him well he left the room and descended to the lawn below there he contrived to get near miss power again and inquired of her for miss de oh did you not know said her father is and she preferred with him this afternoon i hoped he might have been here george oh no he never comes out of his house to any party of this sort it him and he must not be excited poor sir william murmured no said he is grand and historical that is hardly an notion for a said i am not a insisted ib q i t o t r r going in to the dining hall when had taken in two or three ladies to whom he had been presented and attended to their wants which occupied him three quarters of an hour he returned again to the large tent with a view to finding and taking his leave it was now brilliantly lighted up and the who during daylight had been invisible behind the ash tree were at one end with their and it reminded him that there was to be dancing the tent had in the mean time half filled with a new set of young people who had come expressly for that behind the girls gathered numbers of newly arrived young men with low shoulders and who were evidently prepared for once to sacrifice themselves as partners felt something of a thrill at the sight he was an and particularly unprepared for dancing at present but to dance once with power he would give a year of his life he looked round but she was nowhere to be seen the first set began old and middle aged people gathered from the different rooms to look on at the of their children but did not appear when o a other dance or two had and an increase in th average age of the dancers was making itself perceptible especially on the masculine side was aroused by a whisper at his elbow you dance i think miss is disengaged she has not been asked once this evening the speaker was looked at miss � a sallow lady with black twinkling eyes yellow costume and gay laugh who had been there all the afternoon � and said something about having thought of going home is that because i asked you to dance she murmured there � she is appropriated a young gentleman had at that moment approached the miss claimed her hand and led her off that s right said i ought to leave room for younger men you need not say so that bald headed gentleman is forty five he does not think of younger men have w a dance to spare for me her face grew stealthily in the candle light oh � i have no engagement at all � i have refused i hardly feel at liberty to dance it would be as well to leave that to my visitors why my father though he allowed me to be taught never liked the idea of my dancing did he make you promise anything on the point he said he was not in favour of such amusements � no more i think you are not bound by that on an occasion like the present she was silent george l l you will just once said he another silence if you like she answered at last closed the hand which was hanging by his side and somehow hers was in it the dance was nearly formed and he led her forward several persons looked at them significantly but he did not notice it then and plunged into the never had mr passed through such an experience before had he not felt her actual weight and warmth he might have fancied the whole episode a of the imagination it seemed as if those had thrown a double sweetness into their notes on seeing the mistress of the castle in the dance that a southern atmosphere had begun to the and that human beings were shaking themselves free of all inconvenient s feelings burst from his lips this is the happiest moment i have ever known he said do you know why i think i saw a flash of lightning through the opening of the tent said with he did not press for an answer within a few minutes a long	45
and of the � let them consider well what of man this was who felt himself to be only a hired day a that was worthy of his hire that has labored not as an eye but as one faithful neither was johnson in those days perhaps wholly a unique time was when for money you might have ware and needed not in all in that of the poem in that of the bottle to rest con tent with the persuasion that you had ware it was a happier time but as yet the seventh of had not been rent open � to whirl and grind as in a west indian all earthly trades and things into wreck and dust and � and tion be it quickly since it must be � that mercy can dwell only with is old sentiment or proposition which in johnson again receives few men on record have had a more s life of johnson tenderly affectionate nature old samuel he was called the bear and did indeed too often look and roar like one being forced to it in his own defence yet within that shaggy exterior of his there beat a heart warm as a mother s soft as a little child s nay generally his very roaring was but the anger of affection the rage of a bear if you will but of a bear of her touch his religion glance at the church of england or the divine right and he was upon you these things were his of all that was good and precious for men his very ark of the laid hand on tore asunder his heart of hearts not out of hatred to the opponent but of love to the thing opposed did johnson grow cruel fiercely contradictory this is an important tion never to be forgotten in our censure of his but observe also with what humanity what of love he can attach himself to all things to a blind old woman to a doctor to a cat his thoughts in the latter part of his life were frequently employed on his deceased friends he often muttered these or such like sentences poor man and then he died how he patiently his poor home into a for long years the contradiction of the miserable and unreasonable with him save that they had no other to yield them refuge old man worldly possession he has little yet of this he gives freely from his own hard earned shilling the half pence for the poor that waited his coming out are not withheld the poor waited the coming out of one not quite so poor i a can write on dead johnson has a rough voice but he finds the wretched daughter of vice fallen down in the streets carries her home on his own shoulders and like a good gives help to the help worthy or unworthy ought not charity � s miscellaneous writings even in that sense to cover a of sins na penny a week committee lady no manager of soup at charity balls was this rugged stern man but where in all england could there have been found another soul so full of pity a hand so as his the widow s we know was greater than all the other s perhaps it is this divine feeling of affection throughout manifested that principally us towards johnson a true brother of men is he and filial lover of the earth who with little bright spots of attachment where lives and works some loved one has rough earth into a peopled garden with its mostly dull and limited inhabitants is to the last one of the sunny for him or read those letters on his mother s death what a genuine solemn grief and pity lies recorded there a looking back into the past mournful tender and yet calm sublime for be must now act not look his mother has been taken from him but he must now write a to her again in this little incident recorded in his book of devotion are not the tones of sacred sorrow and greatness deeper than in many a blank verse tragedy � as indeed the fifth act of a tragedy though does lie in every death bed were it a peasant s and of straw sunday october yesterday at about ten in the morning i took my leave for ever of my dear old friend chambers who came to live with my mother about and been but little parted from us since she buried my my brother and my mother she is now fifty eight years i desired all to withdraw then told her that we were to past for ever that as christians we should part with prayer and that i would if she was willing say a short prayer beside her she s life of johnson expressed great desire to hear me and held up her poor hands she lay in with great while i prayed kneeling by her i then kissed her she told me that to part was the greatest pain she had ever felt and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place expressed witli swelled eyes and great emotion of tenderness the same hopes we kissed and parted i humbly hope to meet again and to part no more tears down the granite rock a soft well of pity springs within still more is this other scene johnson mentioned that he could not in general accuse himself of having been an son once indeed said he i was i refused to attend my father to market pride was the source of that l and the remembrance of it was painful a few years ago i desired to for this fault � but by what method � what method was now possible hear it the words are again given as his own though here evidently by a less capable 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idea she was so near the end she talked to me about you at first she and said you ought to have known better than to have acted so cross when she went to see you and then she grew very tender like and asked me to bring her that last will that made leaving the property to the i didn t know what to do then for i had burned it up as soon as it came home for fear anything should happen to me suddenly and i didn t mean that you should lose what belonged to you by right but i to hunt for it and at last i come back as she was getting uneasy and said i couldn t find it she was very low then and i got scared and asked her to let me go for help but she wouldn t i want you to promise me said she that you will destroy that will i wan to have the property when you are through too husband s friend with it and i want her to come here and live with you after i am gone i saw then for certain that she was really dying and i called out of the to one of the neighbors who was passing to send the nearest doctor as soon as he could when i got back to her she asked me again to promise and i told her what i had done when the new will come home you ought to have seen her smile she caught my hand and held it tight and when the doctor got there she was dead wept at the recital she had the satisfaction of knowing that the good will of her only relations was restored to her though one of them had left earth too soon to feel her gratitude the daring that her uncle had shown was a genuine surprise and it revealed a new side of his nature crushed as he had been by the superior strength of mind of his strong willed sister he had yet dared to prevent the injustice which she contemplated toward their brother s child saw more than the assurance of a comfort in the story of the old man she learned that he had a warmer place in his heart for her than she had ever dreamed of and that her aunt must have suffered something of the pangs that rent her own breast at the unfortunate circumstances which them heard his niece s story of her fears in regard to her dear ones across the seas and promptly advised her to take an early steamer for england where she would be in a position to get the first news of them when the siege of paris was ra ed he provided her with funds for this purpose and did everything that he could to her departure she took with her to leave the only child she could now claim even peace at last though there were great dangers in the journey she was about to undertake arriving at london she engaged a and several days after the end of the s struggle she found herself in paris was easily found by the the fame of the young surgeon had spread over the city and he was as easy to as one of the successful in two hours after he learned that was in paris he was by her side and more than that much more to her he had with him sitting in her little parlor at a hotel he told his story and told hers he had recently proved beyond doubt that and miss had perished in the manner related in the preceding chapter one of the soldiers who in the execution had recognized as a man whom he had seen talking once with and had taken pains to bring him the sad news told how had tried in every way to save her from the guards who her and her mother s heart was touched she freely forgave them both for the injury they had done to her and uttered a prayer that heaven would be merciful to their souls as for your husband i mean mr said in some confusion he is still in confinement his life was promised me by one of my friends among the officers who ordered him to be from the general fate of those taken with him but unfortunately the officer was killed the same day by the accidental explosion of a shell and was consequently unable to carry out his agreement the general in chief has strong ev against and so far my have been in vain her s i shall use every effort to have him released but i must tell you that a feeling of bitterness to all of the prisoners who held out the longest in official circles if you would like to see him i will obtain a permit said immediately that she would go as soon as the document could be obtained and went to get it citizen as he called himself said the governor of the prison is a very sick man he had three wounds of which he never spoke when he came here and the say he can live but a few days at the longest there will probably be no more for a week and by that time if i do not mistake he will have passed where another will judge his cause his wife wishes to see him you say certainly she shall have the privilege this paper will admit her as often as she desires when and mrs were shown into the cell occupied by the invalid they found him in a high fever the doctor who attended him told them that he was a little in that state where reason and struggle for the mastery threw herself upon his breast and kissed his pale lips with all the	1
a barbarous war i speak with some severity and yet i pick my terms tell myself continually that you are a woman and a voice reminds me of the children whose lives and limbs you have a woman he repeated solemnly � and children possibly madam when you are yourself a mother you will feel the bite of that possibly when you kneel at night beside a cradle a fear will fall upon you heavier than any shame and when your child lies in the pain and danger of disease you shall hesitate to kneel before your maker you look at the fault she said and not at the excuse has your own heart never leaped within you at some story of oppression but alas no for you were bom upon a throne i was bom of woman said the prince i came forth from my mother s agony helpless as a like other this which you forgot i have still faithfully remembered is it not one of your english poets that looked abroad upon the earth and saw vast of the cigar troops war ships at sea and a great dust of battles on shore and casting anxiously about for what should be the cause of so many and painful preparations at last in the of all a mother and her babe these madam are my politics and the verses which are by mr i have caused to be translated into the tongue yes these are my politics to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly by some generous and and for no word however nobly sounding and no cause however just and pious to the of these bonds there was a silence of a moment i fear madam resumed the prince that i but weary you my views are formal like myself and like myself they also begin to grow old but i must still trouble you for some reply i can say but one thing said mrs i love my husband it is a good answer returned the prince and you name a good influence but one that need not be with life i will not play at pride with such a man as yon she answered what do you ask of me not i am sure what i of the cigar shall i say i have done much that i can not defend and that i would not do again can i say more yes i can say this i never abused myself with the headed fairy tales of politics i was at least prepared to meet while i was war myself � or murder if you choose the term � i never accused my of i never felt or feigned a righteous horror when a price was put upon my life by those whom i attacked i never called the policeman a i may have been a criminal in short but never was a fool enough madam returned the prince more than enough your words are most to my spirits for in this age when even the is a there is no virtue greater in my eyes than intellectual me then to ask you to retire for by the signal of that bell i perceive my old friend your mother to be close at hand with her i promise you to do my utmost and as mrs returned to the the prince opening a door upon the other side admitted mrs madam and my very good friend said he s my face so much changed that you no longer recognize prince in mr to be sure she cried looking at him through her glasses i have always regarded of the cigar your as a perfect man and in your altered circumstances of which i have already heard with deep regret i will beg you to consider my respect increased instead of lessened i have found it so returned the prince with every class of my acquaintance but madam i pray you to be seated my business is of a delicate order and regards your daughter in that case said mrs you may save yourself the trouble of speaking for i have fully made up my mind to have nothing to do with her i will not hear one word in her but as i value nothing so particularly as the virtue of justice i think it my duty to explain to you the grounds of my complaint she deserted me her natural protector for years she has with the most persons and to fill the cup of her she has recently married i refuse to see her or the being to whom she has linked herself one hundred and twenty pounds a year i have always her i offer it again it is what i had myself when i was her age very well madam said the prince and be that so i but to touch ui on another what was the income of the of the cigar my father r asked the spirited old lady i believe he had seven hundred pounds in the year you were one i think of several pursued the prince of four was the reply we were four daughters and painful as the admission is to make a more detestable family could scarce be found in england dear me i said the prince and you madam have an income of eight thousand not more than five returned the old lady but where on earth are you conducting me to an allowance of one thousand pounds a year replied smiling for i must not you to take your father for a rule he was poor you are rich he had many calls upon his poverty there are none upon your wealth and indeed madam if you wiu let me touch this matter with a needle there is but one point in common to your two	38
the chest and while we were thus for the moment from action lifting his arms above his head like one about to he ran straight forward out of the here am i he kill me and spare the others his sudden appearance i suppose our hidden enemies for and i had time to recover to seize between us one by each arm and to rush forth to his assistance ere anything further had taken place but scarce had we passed the threshold when there came near a dozen reports and flashes from every direction among the hollows of the links mr staggered uttered a weird and cry threw up his arms over his head and fell backward on the turf cried the invisible and just then a part of the roof of the fell in so rapid was the progress of the fire a loud vague and horrible noise accompanied the and a vast volume of flame went soaring up to heaven it must have been visible at that moment from twenty miles out at sea from the shore at and far inland from the peak of the most eastern summit of the hills although god knows what were his had a fine at the moment of his death chapter ix tells how carried out his threat i should have the greatest difficulty to tell you what followed next after this tragic circumstance it is all to me as i look back upon it mixed and ineffectual like the struggles of a in a nightmare i remember uttered a broken sigh and would have fallen forward to earth had not and i supported her insensible body i do not think we were attacked i do not remember even to have seen an and i believe we deserted mr without a glance i only remember running like a man in a panic now carrying altogether in my own arms now sharing her weight with now for the possession of that dear burden why we should have made for my camp in the den or how we reached it are points lost for ever to my recollection the first moment at which i became definitely sure had been suffered to fall against the outside of my little tent and i were tumbling together on the ground and he with contained ferocity was striking for my head with the butt of his revolver he had already twice wounded me on the and it is to the consequent loss of blood that i am tempted to attribute the sudden clearness of my mind i caught him by the wrist i remember saying you can kill me afterwards let us first attend to he was at that moment uppermost scarcely had the words passed my lips when he had leaped to his feet and ran towards the tent and the next moment ne w nights he was straining to his heart and covering hei unconscious hands and face with his caresses shame i cried shame to you and giddy though i still was i struck him repeatedly upon the head and shoulders he his grasp and faced me in the broken moonlight i had you under and let you go said he and now you strike me coward � you are the coward i retorted did she wish your kisses while she was still sensible of what she wanted not she and now she may be dying and you waste this precious time and abuse her stand aside and let me help her he confronted me for a moment white and menacing then suddenly he stepped aside help her then said he i threw myself on my knees beside her and loosened as well as i was able her dress and but while i was thus engaged a grasp descended on my shoulder keep your hands off her said fiercely do you think i have no blood in my i cried if you will neither help her yourself nor let me do so do you know that i shall have to kill you that is better he cried let her die also where s the harm step aside from that girl and stand up to fight you will observe said i half rising that i have not kissed her yet i dare you to he cried i do not know what possessed me it was one of the things i am most ashamed of in my life though as my wife used to say i knew that my kisses would be always welcome were she dead or living down i fell again upon my knees parted the hair from her forehead and with the dearest respect laid my lips for a the on the links moment on that cold brow it was such a as a father might have given it was such a one as was not from a man soon to die to a woman already dead and now said i i am at your service mr north but i saw to my surprise that hfe had turned his back upon me do you hear i asked yes said he i do if you wish to fight i am ready if not go on and save all is one to me i did not wait to be twice but stooping again over continued my efforts to revive her she still lay white and lifeless i began to fear that her sweet spirit had indeed fled beyond recall and horror and a sense of utter desolation seized upon my heart i called her by name with the most i and beat her hands now i laid her head low now supported it against my knee but all seemed to be in vain and the still lay heavy on her eyes i said there is my hat for god s sake bring some water from the spring almost in a moment he was by my side with the water i have brought it in my	38
that day by day what i had learned and thought and delighted in and raised my fancy and my up by would pass away from me little by little never to be brought back any more cannot be written as often as went away in the course of that i mingled my tears with the water in which i was washing the bottles and sobbed as if there were a flaw in my own breast and it were in danger of bursting the counting house clock was at half past twelve and there was general preparation for going to dinner when mr tapped at the counting house window and beckoned to me to go in i went in and found there a middle aged person in a brown and black and shoes with no more hair upon his head which was a large one and very shining than there is upon an egg and with a very extensive face which he turned full upon me his clothes were shabby but he had an imposing shirt collar on he carried a sort of a stick with a large pair of rusty to it and a glass hung outside his coat � for ornament i afterwards found as he very seldom looked through it and couldn t see anything when he did this said mr in allusion to myself is he this said the stranger with a certain roll in his voice and a certain indescribable air of doing something genteel which impressed me very much is master i hope i see you well sir i said i was very well and hoped he was i was sufficiently ill at ease heaven knows but it was not in my nature to complain much at that time of my life so i said i was very well and hoped he was i am said the stranger thank heaven quite well i have received a letter from mr in which he that he would desire me to receive into an apartment in the rear of my house which is at present � and is in short to be let as a � in short said the stranger with a smile and in a burst of confidence as a bed room � the young whom i have now the pleasure to � and the stranger waved his hand and settled his chin in his shirt collar op david this is mr said mr to me said the stranger that is my name mr said mr is known to mr he takes orders for us on commission when he can get any he has been written to by mr on the subject of your lodgings and he will receive you as a my address said mr is terrace city i � in short said mr with the same genteel air and in another burst of confidences � i live there i made him a bow under the impression said mr that your in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the of the modern in the direction of the city road � in short said mr in another burst of confidence that you might lose yourself � i shall be happy to call this evening and you in the knowledge of the nearest way i thanked him with all my heart for it was friendly in him to offer that trouble at what hour said mr shall i � at about eight said mr at about eight said mr i beg to wish you good day mr i will intrude no longer so he put on his hat and went out with his cane under his arm very upright and humming a tune when he was clear of the counting house mr then formally engaged me to be as useful as i could in the of and at a salary i think of six shillings a week i am not clear whether it was six or seven i am inclined to believe from my uncertainty on this head that it was six at first and seven afterwards he paid me a week down from his own pocket i believe and i gave sixpence out of it to get my trunk carried to terrace at night it being too heavy for my strength small as it was i paid sixpence more for my dinner which was a meat pie and a turn at a neighbouring pump and passed the hour which was allowed for that meal in walking about the streets at the appointed time in the evening mr reappeared i washed my hands and face to do the greater honour to his and we walked to our house as i suppose i must now call it together mr the names of streets and the shapes of corner houses upon me as we went along that i might find my way back easily in the morning arrived at his house in terrace which i noticed was shabby like himself but also like himself made all the show it could he presented me to mrs a thin and faded lady not at all young who was sitting in the parlor the first floor was altogether and the blinds were kept down to the neighbours with a baby at her breast this baby was one of and i may remark here that i hardly ever in all my experience of the family saw both the detached from mrs at the same time one of them was always taking refreshment there were two other children master aged about four and miss aged about three these and a dark i the personal history and experience young woman with a habit of who was servant to the family and informed me before half an hour had expired that she was a and came from st s in the neighbourhood completed the establishment my room was at the top of the house at	8
woman knight and and shall though called a queen escape we call for judgment shouted another and there were sullen murmurs throughout the hall and rude voices cried will not the king pass sentence as the law demands slowly king arthur uncovered his face and so great was his woe that he seemed now an old man borne down by grief and the weight of years and as he spoke his voice was like the cry of some lone sea bird driven far from land in a winter s storm the law shall be obeyed he said for i sit here as king to be the judge of all whether high or low and no love of mine shall shield even those dearest to me from the strict course of justice so then it was that on the morrow at the rising of the sun the queen should be burned to death outside the walls of forthwith the king sent men to summon sir and sir and sir and other stories of the king trusted knights who were still hunting in the forest and knew naught of what had happened at the court these when they were found rode with all speed homeward and paused not till they drew rein at the castle gate if we had been here said this shameful thing would not have happened is forever evil no word of his can make me believe that the queen is guilty of wrong judgment has been given and sentence is passed said king arthur and there is no help i ask it of you my friend to be present to morrow at the burning and see that all things are done as has been but sir answered boldly sir king i will not be present at the death of my dear lady the queen evil men and false witnesses have persuaded you to consent to this dreadful deed and i will have no part in it and with that he departed angry and then the king spoke to sir and young sir the brothers of sir fair he said will you not for the love which you bear your king heed this request which i make of you to morrow at the sun s rising the queen will be led to her death outside the city walls will you not attend her and see that all things are the of sir done orderly and well according to law and the customs of the land the two knights hesitated and each looked at the other and then at the king at length sir answered sir king we will obey you in this as becomes our duty but it is sorely against our will we will be present as you desire but for the honor of our we will not appear in arms when our dear queen is led to her death then they sorrowfully mounted their horses and rode out of the king s castle early in the morning as had been queen was led to a place outside the walls and there she was bound to a tall stake driven in the ground many of her ladies who had followed at a distance stood by the gates and wept at the grievous sight and the best of king arthur s knights turned their backs upon the city and with uncovered heads rode away into the forest unwilling to remain where such a deed of cruelty was being done as for and his young brother they could not bear to look at the queen in her dire distress they had come to the place without arms and they stood there silently with their faces turned away and hidden in their but all around them there was a of rude and false knights who loved such cruel sights and these filled stories of the king the air with their and shouting and no one dared do aught in of the queen lest he also should be accused of treason men and boys ran to fetch dry to heap up around the victim fire was brought soon a cloud of smoke arose and little tongues of flame began to curl upward from among the the noisy cries of the were hushed and few hearts were not melted with pity at sight of the lovely face of the queen turned as though in prayer suddenly there was a great tumult � men shouting women screaming and the sound of horses galloping wildly through the assembled crowd sir sir cried some and then there was a swift vision of the knight and his riding furiously forward and with red swords cutting down all who were in their way right towards the stake and the flames rushed sir he severed the which bound the queen he lifted her into the saddle before him then quickly he wheeled his and with his followers galloped away soon they were safe again in the of joyous many were the knights who rejoiced when they learned that sir had so gallantly rescued the of sir the queen from death and even those who had cried out against her were glad in their hearts that she had escaped but when the news was carried into the city there was great dismay because of the blood that had been shed on that morning how it with my brothers sir and sir asked sir both were slain answered the messenger oh my brothers my brothers cried how came they to be slain they were standing by the roadside with their es of the king faces covered said the messenger and sir in his furious them both that cannot be true said sir for my brothers loved sir and there was nothing they would have refused him surely he would not harm them but they are both slain and by sir answered the messenger then sir and fell to the ground and for a long time he lay speechless from sheer grief	23
an actual by a rare accident which seemed to have been sent on purpose by his good genius for on the very evening when this catastrophe was to have been brought about he fell into a and then into a row and then into a deep sleep from which he awoke the next morning to find that he had not only forgotten his appointment but also his character as a man of sober the lady s ned hazard pride took alarm at the occurrence and ned very solemnly to to now and then the affairs of this bustling little community were with a single combat which was always regarded as a highly interesting incident and the questions of the were in held at midnight in which i learn the lore displayed by ned hazard was a matter of college renown engrossed thus like the states of the dark ages in the cares of love war and politics it is not to be wondered at that the arts and should have fallen into some this period of ned s hfe indeed resembled those times when fought for lady love � and swore by their saints � and frightened learning into the nests of the still however there was a generous love of fame lurking in his constitution which notwithstanding all the that his success showed itself in occasional fits of close and useful study it pains me to say that hazard s days of were but my as a me to even to the of my friend that before his course had run to its destined end he made of his fortunes and received from the faculty a that an from hall � the same being conferred in consideration of counsel afforded as a friend true and to a worthy who had answered the defiance of a gentleman of honor to a at utterance thus of his college ned crept quietly back to swallow bam where his return astounded the of the neighborhood for awhile he took to study like a � though i have heard that it did not last long � and in the lonely pursuits of this period he that secret love hazard of and picturesque incident that took him upon his celebrated expedition round the horn but it in no degree conquered his temper his mind is still a fairy land inhabited by pleasant and conceited images winged laughing and mellow of he is regarded in the family as the next heir to swallow bam but the of his sister and soon afterwards the of his ther disclosed the condition of the to which he had before been a stranger he has still however a comfortable and frank by arrangement taken possession of the inheritance together with the ned has ample liberty to pursue his own in regard to his future occupation in life frank holds the estate for the present under an honorable pledge to relieve it of its burdens by a gradual course of which he seems to be in a fair way of so that ned may be said still to have a profitable in the domain but he has grown in some degree necessary to and has therefore of late fixed his residence almost entirely at swallow bam chapter vi pursuits of a philosopher from the house at swallow barn there is to be seen at no great distance a of trees and in the midst of these an humble building is which seems to court the shade in which it is modestly it is an old structure built of logs its figure is a with a roof rising from all sides to a point and surmounted by a wooden which somewhat a fish and somewhat a fowl this little edifice is a rustic shrine devoted to and here the sacred rites of the are daily by some dozen and not above three feet high both in and this is one of the many temples that the surface of our republican empire where liberty receives her purest worship and where though in humble and lowly guise she secretly breathes her strength into the heart and of the nation here the is planted that through generations and produces its hundred fold at this altar the spark is kindled that its fire from breast to breast like the vast that light up and the of the west pursuits op a philosopher the school house has been an to swallow barn r since the infancy of the last generation frank has in his time extended its usefulness by opening it to the accommodation of his neighbors so that it is now a theatre whereon a of players are wont to the comic which belong to the first process of a troop of these little are seen every morning their way across the fields armed with tin in which are deposited their apple or other store for the day and which same are generally used at the decline of the day as drums or to their homeward march or as of the spoil from bushes against which these are prone to carry on a war throughout the day a continual is heard from this quarter even to the porch of the mansion house hazard and myself occasionally make them a visit and it is amusing to observe how as we approach the murmur becomes more distinct until reaching the door we find the whole swarm running over their long tough in a high concert pitch with their elbows upon the their hands covering ears and their naked heels beating time against the benches � as if every believed that a was a piece of discord invented to torment all ears but his own and high above this din the master s note is sounded in a key like the occasional touch of the horn in an this little empire is under the dominion of parson he is a plump rosy old gentleman rather short and thick set	29
and she was not at all surprised at the end of it to have their walking party joined by both the miss at mary s particular invitation ua chapter vi had not wanted this visit to to learn that a removal from one set of people to another though at a distance of only three miles will often a total change of conversation opinion and idea she had never been staying there before without being by it or without wishing that other could have her advantage in seeing how unknown or there were the which at hall were treated as of such general and interest yet with all this experience she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson in the art of knowing our own beyond our own circle was become necessary for her for certainly coming as she did with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in for many weeks she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remarks of mr and mrs so miss anne sir walter and your sister are gone what part of bath do you think they will settle in and this without much waiting for an answer or in the young ladies addition of i hope we shall be in bath in the winter but remember papa if we do go we must be in a good situation none of your queen squares for us or in the anxious from mary upon my word i shall be pretty well off when you are all gone away to be happy at bath she could only resolve to avoid such self delusion in future and think with heightened gratitude of the extraordinary blessing of having one such truly friend as lady the mr had their own game to guard and to destroy their own horses dogs and newspapers to engage them and the females were occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping neighbours dress dancing d music she acknowledged it to be very fitting that persuasion little social should dictate its own matters of discourse and hoped ere long to become a not member of the one she was now into with the prospect of spending at least two months at it was highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination her memory and all her ideas in as much of is possible she had no dread of these two months mary was not so repulsive and as elizabeth nor so inaccessible to ill influence of hers neither was there anything among the ther parts of the cottage to comfort she was always on friendly terms with her brother in law in the children who loved her nearly as well and respected her a great deal more than their mother she had an object of interest amusement and wholesome exertion charles was civil and agreeable in sense and temper he was undoubtedly superior to his wife but not of powers or conversation or grace to make the past as they were connected together at all a dangerous contemplation though at the same time anne could believe with lady that a more equal match might have greatly improved him and that a woman of real understanding might have given more consequence to his character and more usefulness and elegance to his habits and pursuits as it was he did nothing with much zeal but sport and his time was otherwise away without benefit from books or anything else he had very good spirits which never seemed much affected by his s occasional bore with her sometimes to anne s admiration and upon the whole though there was very often a little in which she had sometimes more share than she wished being appealed to by both parties they might pass for a happy couple they were always perfectly agreed in the want of more money and a strong inclination for a handsome present from his father but here as on most topics he had the superiority for while mary thought it a great shame that such a present was not made he always for persuasion his father s having many other uses for his money and a right to spend it as he liked as to the management of their children his theory was much better than his wife s and his practice not so bad i could manage them very well if it were not for mary s interference was what anne heard him say and had a good deal of faith in but when listening in turn to mary s reproach of charles spoils the children so that i cannot get them into any order she never had the smallest temptation to say very true one of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her being treated with too much confidence by all parties and being too much in the secret of the complaints of each house known to have some influence with her sister she was continually requested or at least receiving hints to exert it beyond what was practicable i wish you could persuade mary not to be always herself ill was charles s language and in an unhappy mood thus spoke mary i do believe if charles were to see me dying he would not think there was anything the matter me i am sure anne if you would you might persuade him that really am very ill � a great deal worse than i ever own mary s declaration was i hate sending the children to the great house though their is always wanting to see them for she and them to such a degree and gives them so much and sweet things that they are sure to come back sick and cross for the rest of the day and mrs took the first opportunity of being alone with anne to say oh miss anne i cannot help	26
her reach and after being at some pains to get a view of the house and observing that it was a sort of building which she could not look at but respect she added now where is the avenue the house fronts the east i perceive the avenue therefore most be at the back of it mr talked of the west front yes it is exactly behind the house begins at a little distance and for half a mile to the extremity of the grounds you may see something of it here � � of the more distant trees it is oak entirely park miss now speak with decided tion of what she had known nothing about when mr had asked her opinion and her spirits were in as happy a flutter as vanity and pride could furnish when they drove up to the spacious stone steps before the principal entrance chapter ix mr was at the door to receive his fair lady and the whole party were welcomed by him with due attention in the drawing room they were met with cordiality by the mother and miss had all the distinction with each that she could wish after the business of arriving was over it was first necessary to eat and the doors were thrown open to admit then through one or two rooms into the appointed dining parlour where a was prepared with abundance and elegance much was said and much was ate and all went well the particular object of the day was then considered how would mr like in what manner would he choose to take a survey of the grounds mr mentioned his mr suggested the greater of some cut which might convey more than two to be themselves of the advantage of other eyes and other judgments might be an evil even beyond the loss of present pleasure mrs proposed that the chaise should be taken also but this was scarcely received as an the young ladies neither smiled nor spoke her next proposition of the house to such of them as had not been there before was more acceptable for miss was pleased to have its size and all were glad to be doing something the whole party rose accordingly and under mrs guidance were shown through a number of park all and many large and amply in tbe taste of fifty years back with shining floors solid mahogany rich marble and carving each handsome in its way of pictures there were abundance and some few good but the larger part were family traits no longer any thing to any body but mrs who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach and was now almost equally well qualified to show the house on the present occasion she addressed herself chiefly to miss and but there was no comparison in the of their attention for miss who had seen scores of great houses and cared for none of them had only the appearance of listening while to whom every thing was almost as interesting as it was new attended with unaffected earnestness to all that mrs rush worth could relate of the family in former times its rise and grandeur visits and loyal efforts delighted to connect any thing with history already known or warm her imagination with scenes of the past the situation of the house excluded the possibility of much prospect from any of the rooms and while and some of the others were attending mrs henry was looking grave and shaking his head at the windows every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron and gates having visited many more rooms than could be supposed to be of any other use than to contribute to the window tax and find employment for now said mrs we are coming to the chapel which properly we ought to enter from above and look down upon but as we are quite among friends i will take you in this way if you will excuse me they entered s imagination had prepared her for something than a mere spacious room fitted up for the purpose of devotion � with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of family i am di � d m park she in a low to this is not my of a chapel there is nothing awful here nothing melancholy nothing grand here are no no arches no no no cousin to be by the night wind of heaven no signs that a monarch sleeps below you forget how lately all this has been built and for how confined a purpose compared with the old of castles and it was only for the private use of the family they have been buried i sup pose in the parish church there you must look for the the achievements it was foolish of me not to think of all that but i am disappointed mrs began her relation this chapel was fitted up as you see it in james the second s time before that period as i understand the were only and there is some reason to think that the and cushions of the pulpit and family seat were only purple cloth but this is not quite certain it is a handsome chapel and was formerly in constant use both morning and evening prayers were always read in it by the domestic within the memory of many but the late mr left it every generation has its improvements said miss with a smile to mrs was gone to repeat her lesson to mr and and miss remained in a cluster together it is a pity cried that the custom should have been it was a valuable part of former times there is something in a chapel and so much in character	26
heard a man say of his own work by word of mouth by word of mouth not though you die to night o sweet and a at my door shall mortal fear make love immortal fail � i shall but love you more who from death s house returning give me still one moment s comfort in my ill houses this tale may be explained by those who know how souls are made and where the bounds of the possible are put down i have lived long enough in this country to know that it is best to know nothing and can only write the story as it happened was our civil surgeon at and we called him because he was a round little sleepy little man he was a good doctor and never quarrelled with any one not even with our who had the manners of a and the tact of a horse he married a girl as round and as as she was a miss daughter of of the who married his chiefs daughter by mistake but that is another story a in india is seldom more than a week long but there is nothing to hinder a couple from extending it over two or three years this is a delightful country for married folk who are wrapped up in one another they can live absolutely alone and without interruption � just as the did these two little people retired from the world after their marriage and by word op mouth s were very happy they were forced of course to give occasional dinners but they made no friends and the station went its own way and forgot them only saying occasionally that was the best of good fellows though dull a civil surgeon who never quarrels is a appreciated as such few people can afford to play robinson anywhere � least of all in india where we are few in the land and very much dependent on each others kind offices was wrong in shutting himself from the world for a year and he discovered his mistake when an of broke out in the station in the heart of the cold weather and his wife went down he was a shy little man and five days were wasted before he realized that mrs was burning with something worse than simple fever and three days more passed before he ventured to call on mrs the s wife and timidly speak about his trouble nearly every household in india knows that doctors are very helpless in the battle must be fought out between death and the nurses minute by minute and degree by degree mrs almost s ears for what she called his criminal delay and went off at once to look after the poor girl we had seven cases of in the station that winter and as the average of death is about one in every five cases we felt certain that we should have to lose somebody but all did their best the women sat up nursing the women and he men turned to and tended the who were down and we with those cases for fifty six days and brought them through the valley of the shadow in triumph but just when we thought all was over and were going to g ve a dance to the victory little mrs got a j word of mouth and died in a week and the station went to the funeral broke down utterly at the brink of the grave and bad to be taken away after the death crept into his own house and refused to be comforted he did his duties perfectly but we all felt that he should go on leave and the other men of his own service told him so was very thankful for the suggestion � he was thankful for anything in those days � and went to on a walking tour is some twenty from in the heart of the hills and the scenery is good if you are in trouble you pass through big still forests and under big still and over big still grass downs swelling like a woman s breasts and the wind across the grass and the rain among the says � hush � hush � hush so little was packed off to to wear down his grief with a full plate and a rifle he took also a useless bearer because the man had been his wife s favorite servant he was idle and a but trusted everything to him on his way back from turned aside to through the forest reserve which is on the spur of mount some men who have travelled more than a little say that the march from to is one of the finest in creation it runs through dark wet forest and ends suddenly in bleak hill side and black rocks is open to all the winds and is bitterly cold few people go to perhaps that was the reason why went there he halted at seven in the evening and his bearer went down the to the village to engage for the next day s march the sun had set and the night winds were to among the rocks leaned on the of the waiting for his bearer to by word op mouth the man came back almost immediately after he had disappeared and at such a rate that � he must have crossed a bear he was running as hard as he could up the face of the hill but there was no bear to account for his terror he to the and fell down the blood from his nose and his face iron gray then he � i have seen i have seen i where said down there walking on the road to the village she was in a blue dress and she lifted the veil of her bonnet and said � ram give my to the and	39
seemed to him quite natural that all things should love joseph you see he continued the are screaming and dancing on their waiting for you to scratch their joseph complied and then dan wearied of the which were absorbing joseph s attention and drove them away you haven t told me that you re glad to be back in in front of that beautiful lake has its temple but god made the lake but you don t seem as pleased to be back as i d like father it is of thee i m thinking and not of temples or lakes joseph answered and for a moment dan could not speak so deep was his happiness and so intense overcome by it they walked a little way and joseph followed his father up the tall stairs on to the balcony and when they had drunk some and joseph had vowed he had not tasted any like it dan interposed suddenly but thou hast not told me joseph how thou earnest by thy beautiful horse he came from egypt joseph answered casually and was about to add that he was an egyptian horse but on second thoughts it seemed to him that it would be well not to speak the word egypt again to do so might put another question into his father s mouth he would not commit himself to a rank lie and to tell that he had gone to egypt could not do else than lead him into an intricate story which would his father to listen to s projects or at least dan s mind from a calm judgment of them so he resolved to omit all mention of and egypt and to begin his narrative with an account of his meeting with the driver but the driver seemed to be the last person that dan was interested in but he s my partner joseph exclaimed and it was he who sent me to i ll tell thee about the afterwards and the brook feeling that he had at last succeeded in fixing his father s attention on that part of the story which he wished to tell him joseph said an excellent governor one who is ready to listen to all schemes for the of commercial enterprise in he has the hills of the robbers and his account of the summer in the desert with the roman soldiers smoking out nest after nest and putting on crosses those that were taken alive interested the old man i wish he would start on dan mentioned casually and joseph replied and he will as soon as he is certain that he can rely on the help of men like thee s favour is worth winning father and it can be won i doubt thee not but wilt tell how it may be won my boy by falling in with his projects joseph answered and began his relation and when he had finished dan sat meditating casting up the account s good will is desirable he said but a large sum of money will have to be advanced but father the carrying trade has been a great success well let us go into figures joseph and they balanced the profits against the losses without doubt thou hast done well this last half year dan said and if business don t fall away but father joseph interrupted think of the profit my account would have shown if we had not lost two the loss has already been very nearly paid off there are no more robbers and the demand for is steady in much earlier say no more joseph my money is thy money and if fifty be wanted thou shalt have them tis the least i can do for thee for thou hast ever been a son joseph and art deserving of all i have so has heard of my and maybe that was why he met thee on such fair terms that has much to do with it joseph replied and he watched the look of satisfaction that came into his father s face but tell me joseph has all this long time been spent smoking out robbers tell me again of their well u the brook father the often opened on to and we had to lower the soldiers in baskets and the tale how one great was amused the old man till he was nigh to clapping his hands with delight and to reminding joseph of the time when he used to ask his grandmother to tell him stories were she here she d like to hear thee telling thy stories thou in her thoughts to the last and now we shall never see her any more however great our trouble may be and in the midst of a great silence they fell to thinking how the same black curtain would drop between them and the world she has gone away to joseph whence we came and whither i shall follow her we go forward a little way but to go back again but i can t talk of deaths and graves go on telling me about and the robbers for i ve been busy all day in the counting house adding up figures and to listen to a good tale is a rare distraction yet i wouldn t talk of them either joseph but of and thy horse that all the country will be talking about the day after tomorrow when thou lt ride him into the town and now say it joseph ye are a bit tired isn t that so nay father not a bit we have come but twenty miles from the last halt and as for the telling of my story maybe the loose ends which i ve forgotten for the moment will themselves while we re talking of fish � of the many extra barrels you ve sent out now father say how many at it joseph as before times	15
stay at home this time your father was a professional man certainly having spoken as a mother she sighed as a woman why do you sigh mother you are so and stiff about everything very we ll go oh no � i am not sure that we ought i did not promise and there will be no trouble in keeping away anne apparently did not feel certain of her own opinion and instead of supporting or looked thoughtfully down and brought the trumpet major her hands together on her bosom till her fingers met tip to tip as the day advanced the young woman and her mother became aware that great preparations were in progress in the miller s wing of the house the between the and the was not very thorough consisting in many cases of a simple up of the doors in the dividing walls and thus when the mill began any new performances they proclaimed themselves at once in the more private dwelling the smell of miller s pipe came down mrs s chimney of an evening with the greatest regularity every time that he his fire they knew from the vehemence or of the blows the precise state of his mind and when he wound his clock on sunday nights the of that reminded the widow to wind hers this of noises was most perfect where s mrs s and anne who was occupied for some time in the latter apartment enjoyed the privilege of hearing the visitors arrive and of catching stray sounds and words without the connecting phrases that made them entertaining to judge from the laughter they the passed through the house and went into the garden where they had tea in a large summer house an the trumpet major occasional of bright colour through the foliage being all that was visible of the assembly from mrs s windows when it grew dusk they all could be heard coming indoors to finish the evening in the parlour then there was an of the above mentioned signs of enjoyment and upstairs and down a of doors and a of cups and glasses till the adjoining tenant without friends on his own side of the might have been tempted to wish for entrance to that merry dwelling if only to know the cause of these of and to see if the guests were really so numerous and the observations so very amusing as they seemed the of life on the side of the party wall began to have a very gloomy effect by the contrast when about half past nine o clock one of these bursts of gaiety had for a longer time than usual anne said i believe mother that you are wishing you had gone i own to feeling that it would have been very cheerful if we had joined in said mrs in a tone i was rather too nice in listening to you and not going the parson never calls upon us except in his spiritual capacity old the trumpet major man is hardly genteel and there s nobody left to speak to lonely people must accept what company they can get or do without it altogether that s not natural anne and i am surprised to hear a young woman like you say such a thing nature will not be stifled in that way song and powerful chorus heard through i declare the room on the other side of the wall seems quite a paradise compared with this mother you are quite a girl said anne in slightly superior accents jo in and join them by all means oh no � not now said her mother shaking her head it is too late now we ought to have taken advantage of the invitation they would look hard at me as a poor mortal who had no real business there and the miller would say with his broad smile ah you be obliged to come round while the and mrs continued thus to pass the evening in two places her body in her own house and her mind in the miller s somebody knocked at the door and directly after the elder himself was admitted to the room he was dressed in a suit between grand and gay which he used for such occasions as the the trumpet major present and his blue coat yellow and red waistcoat with the three lower buttons steel shoes and stockings became him very well in mrs s eyes your servant ma am said the miller as a matter of propriety the raised standard of politeness required by his higher costume now begging your pardon i can t this tis unnatural that you two ladies should be here and we under the same making merry without ye your husband poor man � lovely that a would make to be sure � would have been in with us long ago if he had been in your place i can take no nay from ye upon my honour you and anne must come in if it be only for half an hour john and his friends have got passes till twelve o clock to night and saving a few of our own village folk the lowest visitor present is a very genteel german if you should any on the score of respectability ma am we ll pack off the ones into the back kitchen widow and anne looked yes at each other after this appeal we ll follow you in a few minutes said the elder smiling and she rose with anne to go upstairs the trumpet major no fu wait for ye said the miller or perhaps you ll alter your mind again while the mother and daughter were upstairs dressing and saying to each other well we go now as if they hadn t wished to go all the evening other steps were heard in the passage and the miller cried from below your pardon	45
conversed in the doorway of the sitting room which de now entered crossing it to s apartment he came out from the latter at a pensive pace she is doing well he said gently you have been very good to her was the chair i saw by her bed the one you have been sitting in all night i sometimes sat there sometimes here i wish i could have sat beside you and held your hand � i speak frankly to excess and why not i do not wish to hide from you any comer of my breast futile as may be just heaven for what reason is it ordered that courtship in which soldiers are usually so successful should be a failure with me your lack of foresight chiefly in indulging feelings that were not encouraged that and my uncle s permission to you to travel with us have our relations in a way that i could neither foresee nor avoid though of late i have had apprehensions that it might come to this you vex and disturb me by such words of regret not more than you vex and disturb me but you cannot hate the man who loves so i have said before i don t hate you i repeat that i am interested in your family and its associations because of its complete contrast with my own she might have added and i am ii a t now because my uncle has forbidden me to be but you don t care enough for me personally to save my happiness hesitated fix m the moment de confronted her she had felt that this conversation was to be a grave business the cathedral clock struck three i have thought once or twice she with a unusual in her that if i could be sure of giving peace and joy to your mind by becoming your wife i ought to endeavour to do so and make the best of it � merely as a charity but i believe that feeling is a mistake your discontent is constitutional and would go on just the same whether i accepted you or no my refusal of you is purely an imaginary grievance not if i think otherwise oh no she murmured with a sense that the place was very lonely and silent if you think it otherwise i suppose it is otherwise my darling my he said seizing her hand do promise me something you must indeed captain de she said trembling and turning away captain de she tried to withdraw her fingers then faced him exclaiming in a firm voice a third time captain de let go my hand for i tell you i will not marry you good god he cried dropping her hand what have i driven you to say in your anger it � oh it don t urge me further as you value my good opinion de and to lose you now is to lose you for ever come please answer i won t be compelled she interrupted with vehemence i am resolved not to be yours � not to give you an answer to night never never will i be reasoned out of my intention and i say i won t answer you to night i should never have let you be so much with me but for pity of you and now it is come to this she had sunk into a chair and now leaned upon her hand and buried her face in her handkerchief he had never caused her any such agitation as this before you me with your words continued de the experience i have had with you is without parallel it seems like a dream i won t be hurried by anybody that may mean anything he said with a perplexed passionate air well mine is a fallen family and we must abide would to heaven it was extinguished what was extinguished she murmured the de here am i a wanderer living on my pay in the next room lies she my sister a poor little fragile feverish invalid with no social position � and hardly a we two represent the de line and i wish we were behind the iron door of our old vault at sleeping green it can be seen by looking at us and our circumstances that we cry for the earth and oblivion captain de it is not like that i assure you s with damp i love f a too dearly for you to talk like that indeed i don t want to marry you exactly and yet i cannot bring myself to say i permanently reject you because i remember you are s brother and do not wish to be the cause of any feelings in you which would ruin your future prospects my dear life what is it you doubt in me your earnestness not to do me harm makes it all the harder for me to think of never being more than a friend well i have not positively refused she exclaimed in mixed tones of pity and distress let me think it over a little while it is not generous to urge so strongly before i can collect my thoughts and at this midnight time darling forgive it � there tu say no more he then offered to sit up in her place for the remainder of the night but declined assuring him that she meant to stay only another half hour after which nobody would be necessary he had already crossed the landing to ascend to his room when she stepped after him and asked if he had received his no said de nor have i heard of one explained that it was put in his room that he might see it the moment he came in it matters very little he replied since i shall see it now good night dearest good night he added tenderly she gravely shook	45
d it proceeds to state that large i of men being a body in continual liable to e in aw � ins be of gi lo t v � � i � � a � the of america i i i i i always � by hia interests � that an bar is two nations s x filling two � with other frequent from all which he with m t that it ih more natural for this country to unite with than with france from this which really appears to our limited to have little with our habits manners and character he � t� to state very candidly that great s of our ite is of origin and not made up originally of and and according to the vulgar but for this from so fowl a charge we thank john he then more to the evils of the slave and with horrible satisfaction the following originally published without reference to time place or in one of mo t contemptible little ever printed in this and to which respectable author ever before resorted for materials to a whole people wc will give it in mr � own to � how with what triumphant he tliis fable oi horror virginia it� on with which lis ate treated and ct in tlie first of rum here i a i of s for some put into all iron c to the br a tree and left to perish hy and the birds of pi to the bars of the cage stood at wide his sooner by t and into his in the mean the c� the aiid die upon the quivering flesh of the body hey at own the hi ti of the ancient dominion were gratified by knowing that air was by tlie loaded with the cries and of an man doomed to die by torture wc t ht ag such authority fur a charge as this and wc must tell mr plainly and without that his custom of thus bv a single fact of doubtful authority is in the true spirit of and the moat contemptible of our hy these loose he a and an abused people from him of rank and wilful in behalf of the nation we again challenge him to the proof and he shall prove it or stand in his true character of a secret tlie people under the l � of a fellow citizen our open enemies we arc prepared but the of false friends ought shall be carefully guarded against ha ing properly by a and against the whole of the southern states he enters upon the religion a favourite topic with mr bv m w i ft it bim to abuse the french and vo t to t vn � j of the state him but content vi s with out some pa i worthy of contempt the following will show t n for ii of the new legitimate system to write cover of religious zeal ii is a� l hy good in wet em slate exist built on the of in italy and ihe of ui d hem b it i root out every of so that in of a few wc arc in danger of being witli the and ba and here is another without any other proof than it asserted to justify w serious an it i� followed by a terrible attack on poor ix vn d brilliant all fathers or children of da citizen john never of and other were they too the of and france but wc will i further insult the majesty of by exposing the pr and with which writer comes to piety the overwhelming and of the of ii man of in religion unworthy of attention v arc thankful that we are generally quite so in our piety the before us and we hope that it will be long er people of the united states arc religious to become or on the subject of american character he again his real feelings and the real intent of his s arc tlie peculiar c ha r of can and were in more pre in the of washington x secretary of the that the stale � h l build their ships of the same rate of em but really greater of more speed and l n thai the dial they victory over an of c or nearly and i cape by sailing any very this was policy m it served to raise naval character of the try to lessen that of england and to put out of use service european compel nations to their i f cr the american model policy is still k in an i our are equal in e bulk guns ax to any hundred gun in the here under the guise of a compliment to american cl ter he sums up and admits in fullest extent all the alleged by his in excuse for their continue on the ocean during the late war we should not can in ll admission did not mr in the garb ui v tr l v u ah a tion of what c m� oi c � t ol w i � j� � j i i m of the t f e trust ourselves tn speak of conduct as it c� nor here rt at the facts which h been repeatedly b d to prove the alleged difference in american and british vessels of similar rate does not exist let hem the in england an they no doubt done and their silence is a full that our � our � mr so far from equal to any d gun ship in the h arc not larger of i t britain the if any other is required the dead of the h papers on subject of the ii dimensions shall be given by actual comparison if mr thinks proper again to the of his fellow william robert james we have noticed	48
etc we reluctantly concluded to start back on the home journey at once this was on friday and a fair wind was blowing but our crew who loved dearly to rest and eat in these big hospitable houses all said that monday would be for the starting day i insisted however on starting saturday morning and succeeded in getting away from our friends at ten o clock just as we were leaving the chief who had i the country of the entertained us so handsomely requested a written document to show that he had not killed us so in case we were lost on the way home he could not be held in any way for our death chapter xii the return to fort the day of our start for was bright and the the north wind strong we passed around the east side of the larger island which lies near the south extremity of the point of land between the and the channels and thence held a direct course down the east shore of the canal at sunset we in a small bay at the head of a beautiful harbor three or four miles south of s bay and the next day being sunday we remained in camp as usual though the wind was fair and it is not a sin to go home the indians spent most of the day in washing mending eating and singing hymns with mr young who also gave them a bible lesson while i wrote notes and made a and all the crew got good this is one of the most delightful little we have thus far enjoyed with tall trees whose branches almost meet and with views of mountains across the broad river like canal seeing smoke back in the dense woods we went ashore to seek it and discovered a in full blast the indians said that an old man a friend of theirs was about to die and they were making for his funeral our indians were already out of flesh which they regard as a necessity and in enormous i the return to fort quantities the bacon was nearly gone and they eagerly inquired for flesh at every camp we passed here we found of and a heap of wild mutton lying on the confused hut floor our cook boiled the in a big pot with a lot of potatoes we obtained at the same hut and although the potatoes were protected by their skins the awfully wild penetrating flavor found a way through the skins and them to the very heart bread and beans and dried fruit we had in abundance and none of these rank ever came nigh any meal of mine the indians eat the of wild roses entire like and i was laughed at for eating only the outside of this fruit and the seeds when we were approaching the village of the tribe venerable seemed to be unusually pensive as if weighed down by some melancholy thought this was so unusual that i waited attentively to find out the cause of his trouble when at last he broke silence it was to say mr young mr young � he usually repeated the name � i hope you will not stop at the village why asked mr young because they area bad lot and preaching to them can do no good said mr young have you forgotten what christ said to his when he charged them to go forth and preach the gospel to everybody and that we should love our enemies and do good to those who use us badly v travels in well replied if you preach to them you must not call on me to pray because i cannot pray for but the bible says we should pray for all men however bad they may be oh yes i know that mr young i know it very well but are not men good or bad � they are dogs it was now nearly dark and quite so ere we found a harbor not far from the fine which into the narrow channel that island from the two of the followed us to our camp after eight o clock and inquired into our object in visiting them that they might carry the news to their chief one of the chiefs houses is opposite our camp a mile or two distant and we concluded to call on him next morning i wanted to examine the in the morning but tried to be satisfied with a general view and sketch as we sailed around its wide fan shaped front it is one of the most beautiful of all the coast that are in the first stage of we called on the chief at daylight when he was yet in bed but he arose put on a shirt drew a blanket around his legs and comfortably seated himself beside a small fire that gave light enough to show his features and those of his children and the three women that one by one came out of the shadows all listened attentively to mr young s message of the chief was a serious sharp man sensible looking and with good the return to fort manners he was very sorry he said that his people had been drinking in his absence and had used us so ill he would like to hear us talk and would call his people together if we would return to the village this offer we had to decline we gave him good words and tobacco and bade him good bye the scenery all through the channel is magnificent something like valley in its lofty wall cliffs especially on the side which are so steep few trees can find footing the lower island side walls are mostly the trees are heavily draped with giving the woods a remarkably gray ancient look i noticed a good many two pines in spots the water was smooth	28
native city xiii he over the sea xiv iti ti ix into the country of whence however ihe miracle of he returns lo tiie western border xiv to northern extremity of on the of xv soon however the sea of v he takes ship lo ihe eastern side in the coast of v but again northward into the country of ea i xvi in the vicinity of among the lower of which is to be the mount of the xvii after in for some time longer with xvii once visiting v he leave e xix lo travel aa it is most probably through i t into a which according lo ix he seem lo have made xx he is on way lo v becomes through and xxi is in the neighbourhood of which v he thus according to tlie writers je from hi return � fr t� p c of the ufe of by to hi to never beyond the limits of north i au but the and of � v� the np cr in the of anti ms and philip touching on to the still less or the the of the and those limits to be more it ia the land west of the and the sea of and therefore the of in which ia especially active only three short on the eastern border of the and two scarcely longer on the northern of the being t e i of the of je su marked out in tlie el it is true that also ho his by john into to wedding at ii i and from to c i v bnt in a lay the aj ing over calls him to m v from he proceeds into the country of ia and after his he into v is of his agency in province but a � cure and immediately on thin a new summons him lo v i where he i as performing a cure being persecuted and di s until he himself vi i to the eastern shore of the sea of from thence lo v i he for time in vii but again it on occasion of the of for v to this tlie many of vii x and with it ho of his public at the feast of without noticing any journey out of ami x i this again into the country of where ho bad first been witli tlie l it x and there remains until death of him to near xi i whence be to i in the of wilderness of until ihe of the which he visited as bis last ft thus according to u as at in before final one n as once in and had been a fi r u time in and on journey ill w hy it be asked writers been this of in and f have tliey n matter as if before his last fatal to liad not the limits of and this the n writers and john was long in the and of late it been to deny its it been that at the commencement lays the scene in and and liis noticing � ny journey into until ihe but we � re not to il with i f in for ns witli list lie local interest nt to effort at on of many in the port of history wliich ho without indicating not hy to occurred m and in but alleged of interest in n nothing tn � � than a of h � hint proved t chap iv the and x the end of the almost re � of in the intervening must bo regarded as belonging to that residence unless the contrary bo and since is on the alert to notice short ol across lake and into the north of bt would hardly over in silence the more and prolonged to had hey been known or by hun thus much only is to be allowed that lu he more precise of us de of or neighbourhood in which je ins from lime to lime but in more of the and of i tho s of wliich iu exercised he is as os must therefore to ihe ai mission of a between the john and e who think it incumbent on them to the h s must lake care k t this i c found a contradiction can only be hy the not from a between the ideas of the as to the sphere of the of but from the difference of mental bias under which wrote suppose that being a saw the most interest in and hence his to them though aware of the i of at s what who hero into and beheld s there would confine his to what he had performed in hid the a native provincial tiie is would surely be quite others have preferred the sup tliat writing at purposely ted tho mass of and of with he was acquainted those of which was tho c they were ttie least known at and required than had happened ihe hearing and was in � i s f f s s t i n o t t t l o la s t us u j i lai i � i of tin of tie of in opposition to this it already lit u no proof of gospel for of and that even assuming tliis n to in reader s own l not be and lastly the like of n ry of to by mark and cannot lie fur since t obviously did not write for neither were � o this if equally against the st c and were not in bo a relation to as to have no access to independent information that might give a extended horizon it ia enough that those two attempts to solve the contradiction the writers and arc in same of mutual contradiction for if been silent on incidents in according to one on of	14
than to be the accompaniment of christian burial mr was not a bad specimen of his kind and with sensible dr to insist on moderation in his professional display of grief there was less to find fault with than usual but it was not to be expected � it would not be barely decent said the to perform the matter otherwise � that the brother of an earl should be taken to his last home without and feathers so that poor in addition to the natural horrors of the scene had to face that by which those who have been rich in this world s goods are wont as if in symbol of the terrors awaiting them to have their death made hideous she left the hotel leaning on good mrs s arm and stepped with her into the single mourning coach her presence though it was only indicated by an occasional pressure of the hand was an comfort to her and without it it seemed to the poor lonely girl that she could never survived the ordeal no words of the awful service for the dead escaped her yet somehow greatly to her distress it seemed to lack there had been little � to speak plainly there had nothing � in all the dead man s life to associate it with that which was to come no word had been dropped from his lips concerning it his thoughts had been of the world and of no future save her own to the very last what comfort she experienced arose from the beauty and solitude of the churchyard itself which impressed themselves upon her notwithstanding that her eyes were throughout upon that which she was to behold no more she was conscious however of a large of spectators who kept silence and of a bird that held its song throughout the closing scene and mingled its la t notes with the falling mould she noticed too that the coffin was covered with fresh flowers and on the journey home inquired of her companion who had sent them not that i need ask she said with trembling gratitude nay darling it was not i answered mrs they were sent from cottage mr and mr had been present as were all the guests of the hotel mrs informed her that was kind indeed said as such matters seemed to interest her and in order to divert her thoughts her companion went on to say and i think you have at least one friend i� a q � fe nt if not she must been a fl ax i� t q s declined with thanks never saw one more moved with pity for another it was some lady from the castle a miss they tell me i never heard of her said not but in that mechanical tone in which we speak when our thoughts are far from our words i am sure she must have heard of persisted mrs it was not i noticed upon your poor father s grave but upon yourself as you stood beside it that her eyes were fixed she a thick veil on yet i saw enough of her face to note it was a kind one of the sympathy it showed for you answered nothing she had sunk back in her seat and with closed eyes was recalling the beautiful spot in which her father had been laid it was a very home of rest and peace with grass and flowers and by elms save when the voice of prayer arose from it the silence was unbroken except for the dreamy of the or when the wind was from the south for the far off murmur of the sea it seemed to her that if she had still a wish in life it was to dwell there but save for the which half hidden in a of beside the church there was no other dwelling place near it with one exception the most would have been out of proportion to her humble fortunes and that exception was comparatively a palace the churchyard was shut in on every side save one where a vista had been cut through the trees castle i noticed continued mrs pursuing her well meant efforts to rouse s attention � and as it happened in with her present thought � that the flag on tne castle was high indeed sighed then i fear i have some not so it was lowered i am assured in respect for the occasion mr may be a but such an act shows at least he has some feelings nodded in wearisome assent if the incident had happened in the case of another it would undoubtedly have interested her but the sense of loss was too new and keen to admit of other i topics of thought j it seems so cruel dear mrs she whispered to leave him yes that is what one always feels for all that my darling you will better for getting away poor was not thinking of herself at all all her ideas � as happens to many of us under the same sad circumstances � were in a state of she was thinking of doing living service to him who had passed out of all such possibilities and forgetting the personal needs that were about to be so urgent reached the hotel and were in their � n� j a from a thorn mrs suddenly inquired of her when are you thinking of going to p as a matter of fact though had forgotten it the day for their departure had been fixed and at the time she had offered no objection well my dear we did say to morrow you know hesitated her kind companion but i am sure if you wish to stop on longer william will make other arrangements shook her head if she was to go � and it was clear it was to be � to	25
an outlook between high houses as out of an into the lying dark and several hundred feet below looked down and could discern a few tree tops waving and a single speck of brightness where the river ran across a the weather was clearing up and the sky had lightened so as to show the outline of the heavier clouds and the dark margin of the hills by the uncertain glimmer the house on his left hand should be a place of some pretensions it was surmounted by several and tops the round stern of a chapel with a fringe of flying projected boldly from the main block and the door was sheltered under a deep porch carved with figures and by two long the windows of the chapel gleamed through their intricate with a light as of many and threw out the and the roof in a more intense blackness against the sky it was plainly the hotel of some great family of the neighborhood and as it reminded of a town house t f his own at he stood for some time gazing up at it and mentally the skill of the and the consideration of the two families there seemed to be no issue to the terrace but the lane by which he had reached it he could only his steps but he had gained some notion of his whereabouts and hoped by this means to hit the main and speedily regain the inn he was reckoning without that chapter of accidents which was to make this night memorable above all others in his career for he had not gone back above a hundred yards before he saw a light coming to meet him and heard loud voices speaking together in the echoing of the lane it was a party of men at arms going the night round with assured himself that they had all been making free with the wine bowl and were in no mood to be particular about safe or the of war it was as like as not that would kill him like a dog and a e w nights leave him where he fell the situation was but nervous their own would conceal him from sight he reflected and he hoped that they would drown the noise of his footsteps with their own empty voices if he were but fleet and silent he might their notice altogether unfortunately as he turned to beat a retreat his foot rolled upon a he fell against the wall with an and his sword rang loudly on the stones two or three voices demanded who went there � some in french some in english but made no reply and ran the faster down the lane once upon the terrace he paused to look back they still kept calling after him and just then began to double the pace in pursuit with a considerable of and great tossing of the to and fro in the narrow jaws of the passage cast a look around and darted into the porch there he might escape observation or � if that were too much to expect � was in a capital posture whether for or defence so thinking he drew his sword and tried to set his back against the door to his surprise it yielded behind his weight and though he turned in a moment continued to swing back on and noiseless hinges until it stood wide open on a black interior when things fall out for the person concerned he is not apt to be critical about the how or why his own immediate personal convenience seeming a sufficient reason for the strangest and in our things and so without a moment s hesitation stepped within and partly closed the door behind him to conceal his place of refuge nothing was further from his thoughts than to close it altogether but for some inexplicable reason � perhaps by a spring or a weight � the ponderous mass of oak whipped itself out of his and to with a formidable and a noise like the falling of an bar the round at that very moment upon � v the de s door the terrace and proceeded to summon him with shouts and curses he heard them in the dark comers the stock of a lance even rattled along the outer surface of the door behind which he stood but these gentlemen were in too high a humor to be long delayed and soon made off down a pathway which had escaped s observation and passed out of sight and hearing along the of the town breathed again he gave them a few minutes grace for fear of accidents and then about for some means of opening the door and slipping forth again the inner surface was quite smooth not a handle not a not a of any sort he got his finger nails round the edges and pulled but the mass was immovable he shook it it was as firm as a rock de frowned and gave vent to a little noiseless whistle what the door he wondered why was it open how came it to shut so easily and so effectually after him there was something obscure and about all this that was little to the young man s fancy it looked like a and yet who could suppose a in such a quiet by street and in a house of so prosperous and even noble an exterior and yet � or no or here he was prettily and for the life of him he could see no way out of it again the darkness began to weigh upon him he gave ear all was silent without but within and close by he seemed to catch a faint sighing a faint sobbing rustle a little stealthy � as though many persons were at his side holding themselves quite still and governing even their with the extreme of the	38
self into the power of performance and could not but pity such feelings whatever their origin and could not but resolve never to expose them to her neighbour again at last jane began and though the first bars were feebly given the powers of the instrument were gradually done full justice to mrs had been delighted before and was delighted again joined her in all her praise and the with every proper was pronounced to be altogether of the highest promise whoever colonel might employ said frank with a smile at the person has not chosen ill i heard a good deal of colonel s taste at and the softness of the upper notes i am sure is exactly what he and all that party would particularly prize i dare say miss that he either gave his friend very minute directions or wrote to himself do not you think so r jane did not look round she was not obliged to hear mrs had been speaking to her at the same moment it is not fair said in a whisper mine was a random guess do not distress her he shook his head with a smile and looked as if he had very little doubt and very little mercy soon afterwards he began how much your friends in ireland must be enjoying your pleasure on this occasion miss i dare say they often think of you and wonder which will be the day the precise day of the instrument s coming to hand do you imagine colonel knows the business to be going forward just at this time do you imagine it to be the consequence of an immediate commission from him or that he may have sent only a general direction an order indefinite as to time to depend upon and he paused she could not but hear she could not avoid answering � till i have a letter from colonel said she in a voice of forced calmness i can imagine nothing with any confidence it must be all conjecture conjecture aye sometimes one conjectures right and sometimes one conjectures wrong i wish i could conjecture how soon i shall make this quite firm what nonsense one talks miss when hard at work if one talks at all your real workmen i suppose hold their tongues but we gentlemen if we get hold of a word � miss said something about there it is done i have the pleasure madam to mrs of restoring your spectacles healed for present he was very warmly thanked both by mother and daughter to escape a little from the latter he went to the and begged miss who was still sitting at it to play something more if you are very kind said he it will be one of the we danced last night let me live them over again you did not enjoy them as i did you appeared tired the whole time i believe you were glad we danced no longer but i would have given worlds � all the worlds one ever has to give � for another half hour she played what felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy if i mistake not that was danced at she looked up at him for a moment coloured deeply and played something else he took some music from a chair near the and turning to said � here is something quite new to me do you know it and here are a new set of irish that from such a quarter one might expect this was all sent with the very thoughtful of colonel was not it he knew miss could have no music here i honour that l art of the attention particularly it shows it to have been so thoroughly from the heart nothing hastily done nothing true affection only could have prompted il wished he would be less pointed yet could not help being amused and when on glancing her eye towards jane she caught the remains of a smile when she saw that with all the deep blush of consciousness there had been a smile of secret delight she had less scruple in the amusement and much less with respect to her this amiable upright perfect jane was apparently very feelings he brought all the music to her and they looked it over together took the opportunity of whispering � you speak too plain she must you i hope she does i would have her understand me i am not in the least ashamed of my meaning but really i am half ashamed and wish i had never taken up the idea i am very glad you did and that you communicated it to me i have now a key to all her odd looks and ways leave shame to her if she does wrong she ought to feel it she is not entirely without it i think i do not see much sign of it she is playing robin at this moment � ins favourite shortly afterwards miss passing near the window mr on horseback not far off mr i declare i must speak to him if possible just to thank him i will not open the window here it would give you all cold but i can go into my mother s room you know i dare say he will come in when he knows who is here quite delightful to have you all meet so our little room so honoured she was in the adjoining chamber while she still spoke and opening the there immediately called mr s attention and every of their conversation was as distinctly heard by the others as if it had passed within the same apartment how d ye do how d ye do very well i thank you so obliged to you for the carriage last night we were just in time my mother just ready for us pray come in do	26
ever come back to this neighbourhood ay he comes back said the landlord to his friends now and again and gives the cold to the man that made him what is that him that i speak of the landlord mr la he ungrateful to no one else no doubt be would be if he could returned the but he t and why because done everything for liim does say so say so replied the landlord he han t no call but does he say so it would turn a man s to white wine to hear him tell of it said the landlord i thought yet joe dear joe you never tell of it suffering and loving joe you never complain for you sweet tempered your appetite m been touched like by your said the landlord glancing at a t ii er coat try a to brood over the fire i can eat no it away i had been struck at so keenly fa thank to joe as through the brazen im the ho the truer joe he the nobler joe my heart was deeply and most as i mused over the fire for an hour or striking of the clock aroused me but not is or remorse and i got up and had my fastened round my neck and went out i sought in my pockets for the letter that i refer to it again but could not find it and was i to think that it have been dropped in the of the coach i knew very well however tha appointed place was the little by the on the and the hour nine i now went straight having no time to i chapter xxv it was a dark night though the full moon i the enclosed lands and passed out mai beyond their dark line there was a i of clear sky hardly broad enough to hold the red moon in a few minutes she had out o clear field in among the piled mountains of there was a melancholy wind and the were very dismal a stranger would have found and even to me they were bo that i half to o fi but i well and could liave t and had no excuse for returning being so having come there against my � cut on against it the direction that i took was not that in which old home lay nor that in which we had pursued my hack was turned towards the as i walked on and though i could see the old away on the of sand i saw them over my i knew the as well as i knew the battery but they were miles apart so that if a it had at each point that night there have been a long strip of the blank horizon be the two bright at first i had to shut some gates after me and i and then to stand still while the cattle that were ig in the up arose and n among the grass and but after a little i seemed to have the whole to myself it was another half hour before i drew to the j the lime was burning with a stifling ill but the fires were made np and left and no were visible hard by was a small it lay directly in my way and had been that day as i saw by the tools and t were lying about coming up again to the marsh level out of this � for the path lay through it � i � a light in the old house i quickened my e and knocked at the door with my hand some reply i looked about me noticing how was abandoned and broken and ta w se � of wood with a � � a � t the weather much ts a w � j even now tlie and were co ted lime and how the choking of the ere a ghostly way towards me still there was no an i knocked ko answer and i it rose under my hand and tlie door looking in i saw a lighted candle on a table a h and a on a as i above i called is there any one here bi voice answered then i looked at my watch finding that it was past nine called again le any one here there being still no answer i out at the door what to do it beginning to rain fast seeing nothing what i had seen already i turned back into the h and stood within the shelter of the doorway ing out into the night while i was considering some one must have been there lately and be coming back or the candle would not be it came into head to look if the i turned round to do so and had taken up the in my hand when it was extinguished by some vi shock and tbe next thing i comprehended was i had been caught a strong running th over head from behind tow said a suppressed voice with an oath got you what is this i cried struggling who i help help not only were my arms pulled close to my but the pressure on bad arm caused me pain sometimes a a ty and with a hi t always close to me l struggled in dark while i tight to the wall and now said the voice with another oath call oat again and make short work of finishing faint and sick with the pain of my by the and yet conscious how this threat could be put in execution i lad tried to ease arm were it ever bo t was bound too tight for that i felt as if having before it were now being boiled the sudden of the night and the of black darkness in its place warned me that ihe man had closed	8
him how ill i was not one of them have been near me it did not happen to suit the miss i suppose and they never put themselves out of their way you will see them yet perhaps before the morning is gone it is early i never want them i assure you they talk and laugh a great deal too much for me oh anne i am so very it was quite unkind of you not to come on thursday � my dear mary recollect what a comfortable account you sent me of yourself you wrote in the manner and said you were perfectly well and in no hurry for me and that being the case you must be aware that my wish would be to remain with lady to the last and besides what i felt on her account i have really been so busy have had so much to do that i could not very conveniently have left sooner dear me what can you possibly have to do a great many things i assure you more than i can recollect in a moment but i can tell you some i persuasion have been making a of the catalogue of my father s books and pictures i have been several times in the garden with trying to understand and make him understand which of elizabeth s plants are for lady i have had all my own little concerns to arrange books and music to divide and all my trunks to from not having understood in time what was intended as to the and one thing i have had to do mary of a more trying nature going to almost every house in the parish as a sort of i was told that they wished it but all these things took up a great deal of time oh well and after a moment s pause but you have never asked me one word about our dinner at the yesterday did you go then i have made no because i concluded you must have been obliged to give up the party oh yes i went i was very well yesterday nothing at all the matter with me till this morning it would have been strange if i had not gone i am very glad you were well enough and hope you had a pleasant party nothing remarkable one always knows beforehand what the dinner will be and who will be there and it is so very uncomfortable not having a carriage of one s own mr and mrs took me and we were so crowded they are both so very large and take up so much room and mr always sits forward so there was i crowded into the back seat with and and i think it very likely that my illness to day may be owing to it a little farther perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on anne s side produced nearly a cure on mary s she could soon sit upright on the sofa and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner persuasion time then forgetting to think of it she was at the other end of the room a then she ate her cold meat and then she was well enough to propose a little walk where shall we go said she when they were ready i suppose you will not like to call at the great house before they have been to see you i have not the smallest objection on that replied anne i should never think of standing on such ceremony with people i know so well as mrs and the miss oh but they ought to call upon you as soon as possible they ought to feel what is due to you as my sister however we may as well go and sit with them a little while and when we have got that over we can enjoy our walk anne had always thought such a style of intercourse highly but she had ceased to endeavour to check it from believing that though there were on each side continual subjects of offence neither family could now do without it to the great house accordingly they went to sit the full half hour in the old fashioned square parlour with a small carpet and shining floor to which the present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano and a harp flower stands and little tables placed in every direction oh could the of the portraits against the could the gentlemen in brown velvet and the ladies in blue satin have seen what was going on have been conscious of such an overthrow of all order and neatness the portraits themselves seemed to be staring in astonishment the like their houses were in a state of alteration perhaps of improvement the father and mother were in the old english style and the young people in the new mr and mrs were u persuasion very good sort of people friendly and hospitable not much educated and not at all elegant their children had more modem minds and manners there was a numerous family but the only two grown up ing charles were and young ladies of nineteen and twenty who had brought from a school at all the usual stock of accomplishments and were now like thousands of other young ladies living to be fashionable happy and merry their dress had every advantage their faces were rather pretty their spirits extremely good their manners and pleasant they were of consequence at home and abroad anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance but still saved as we all are by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange she would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect	26
we now conversed more he touched the coat and with interest felt of the quality of the cloth looked me up and down seemingly with admiration � more likely with amazement � shook his head and said some class i must say you re right there sport with the and walked off it was in this style that i my for my ordinary day s labor i wore other clothes but sometimes when stealing a march on my city editor saturday or sundays or evenings i had to perform a lightning change act in order to get into my finery pay my visit and still get back to the office between eleven and twelve or before in my ordinary clothes sometimes i changed as many as three times in one afternoon or evening my room being near here this a little later when i was more experienced i aided myself to this speed by wearing all but the coat and hat an array in which i never presumed to enter the office even my impressive suit and my shoes shirts and ties attracted attention mr my pet office boy at the republic once remarked to me as i entered in this array yon certainly a book about myself look as yon ought to own the paper i the don t look like yon the sporting editor the editor the dramatic editor all eyed me with evident ton certainly are laying it on thick these days remarked beaming on me with his one eye as for my lady love � i reached the place where i could hold her hand pat my arms her kiss her bnt never i induce her to sit upon my lap that was reserved for a later date chapter l ay love contain an element of the � i presume but to each how very important i pass mine over with what i have already said save this that each little in her costume however slight in her or the way she looked or amid new all seemed to re the perfection that i had discovered and was so as to possess she gave me her photograph which i framed in silver and hung in my room i begged for a lock of her hair and finding a bit of ribbon that i knew belonged to her that she not allow me to visit at where she taught being this new but nevertheless on several sundays when she was at her home up the state i visited this glorious region by her presence and tried to decide for just where she lived and tf � her sacred rooms i a little later an or state fair was held in the enormous building at and olive streets and here when the were first on and later when the gay began a sort of harvest rejoicing winding up with a great parade and ball i saw more o� her than ever before it was during this time in a letter that she confessed that she me before this however seeing that i made no progress in any other way being allowed no intimacy beyond an stolen kiss i had proposed to her and been accepted with a kind of morbid i had had to ask her in the most definite way and be formally accepted as her husband thereafter i my last cent to purchase a diamond ring at secured through a friend on the and then indeed i felt myself set ap in the world as one who was destined to tread the conventional and peaceful wi of the majority a about in spite of my profound i vas still able to � n beauty in other women and be moved by it the attractions and which draw oa away from one and to another are beginning to be more clearly understood in these days and to our more formal notions of and order bnt even at that time this in myself might have taught me to look with suspicion on my own emotions i i did imagine that i was a scoundrel in after other women when i waa so deeply involved with this one bat i told myself that i most be in this way that all men were not so that i myself and probably would hold myself in etc all of which merely proves how and non self can be the processes of the human mind not only do we fail to see ourselves as others see ns bnt we have not the faintest conception of as we really are an incident which might have proved to me how shallow was the depth of my supposed feeling and that it was nothing more than a strong sex desire was this one night twelve a message to the stated that on a branch extension of one of the car lines seven or eight miles from the city a had just been committed three entering a lone owl car which ran from the city to a small village had shot and killed the conductor and fired on the a young girl who had been on board the only passenger had escaped by the front door and had not since been heard of � or so the message stated ab i happened to be in the office at the time the story was assigned to me by good luck i managed to catch a twelve o clock car and arrived at the end of the line at twelve forty where i learned that the body of the dead man had been transferred to his home at some point farther out and that a of male of the region had already been oi and were now helping the police to search this country round for the n toes when i about the girl who had been on board one of the men at the bam exclaimed sore she s a a book about wonder t yon want	43
daughter even now are her bound to her feet ready to break trail for the dogs of the wolf nor do i speak for myself alone as i have done so has the bear he too had fain been the father of her children and many skins has he cured i speak for all the son of the wolf the young men who know not wives the wolves are ever hungry always do they take the choice meat at the killing to the are left the there is he cried pointing out one of the women who was a her legs are bent like the ribs of a she cannot gather wood nor carry the meat of the hunters did the wolves choose her ai ai his there is whose eyes are crossed by the evil spirit even the are a when they gaze upon her and it is said the bald face gives her the trail was she chosen again the cruel applause rang out and there sits she does not to my words never has she heard the cry of the chat the voice of her husband the of her child she lives in the white silence cared the wolves aught for her no theirs is the choice of the kill ours is the brothers it shall not be no more shall the wolves among our the time is come i the son of the wolf a great of fire the purple green and yellow shot across the horizon to horizon with head thrown back and arms extended he swayed to his climax behold the spirits of our fathers have arisen and great deeds are this night he stepped back and another young man somewhat came forward pushed on by his comrades he a full head above them his broad chest to the frost he swung from one foot to the other words halted upon his tongue and he was ill at ease his face was horrible to look upon for it had at one time been half torn away by some terrific blow at last he struck his breast with his clenched fist drawing sound as from a drum and his voice forth as the surf from an ocean i am the bear � the silver tip and the son of the silver tip when my voice was yet as a girl s i the the and the when it whistled like the from under a i crossed the mountains of the south and three of the white when it became as the son of the wolf the roar of the i met the but gave no trail at this he paused his hand significantly sweeping across his hideous i am not as the fox my tongue is frozen like the river i cannot make great talk my words are few the fox says great deeds are this night good talk flows from his tongue like the of the spring but he is of deeds this night shall i do battle with the wolf i shall him and shall sit by my fire the bear has spoken though raged about him held his ground aware how useless was the rifle at close quarters he slipped both to the fore ready for action and drew his till his hands were barely by the elbow he knew there was no hope in attack en j but true to his boast was prepared to die with teeth fast locked but the bear restrained his comrades beating back the more impetuous with his terrible fist as the tumult began to die away shot a glance in the direction of it was a superb picture she was leaning forward � the son of the wolf on her lips apart and nostrils quivering like a about to spring her great black eyes were fixed upon her in fear and in defiance so extreme the she had forgotten to breathe with one hand pressed against her breast and the other as tightly about the she was as turned to stone even as he looked relief came to her her muscles loosened with a heavy sigh she settled back giving him a look of more than love was trying to speak but his people drowned his voice then strode forward the fox opened mouth to a piercing yell but so savagely did whirl upon him that he shrank back his all a with suppressed sound his discomfiture was greeted with of laughter and served to soothe his fellows to a listening mood brothers the white man whom ye have chosen to call the wolf came among you with fair words he was not like the he spoke not lies he came as a friend as one who would be a brother but your men have had their say and the time the son of the wolf for soft words is past first i will tell you that the has an evil tongue and is a false prophet that the messages he are not those of the fire his ears are locked to the voice of the and out of his own head he cunning fancies and he has made fools of you he has no power when the dogs were killed and eaten and your were heavy with hide and of when the old men died and the old women died and the at the dry of the mothers died when the land was dark and ye perished as do the salmon in the fall ay when the famine was upon you did the bring reward to your hunters did the put meat in your again i say the is without power thus i spit upon his face though taken by the there was no uproar some of the women were even frightened but among the men there was an as though in preparation or anticipation of the miracle all eyes were turned upon the two central figures the priest realized the moment felt his	21
much said promptly she drew the dark cloak more closely about her shoulders do you mind walking with me a little way she asked after a moment s hesitation it is so cold standing still a test of friendship the colonel did not mind it in the least he was very much interested in miss pierce and in her he did not attempt to conceal that fact from himself why should he her father had been his friend philip had refused rather hotly it is true to co operate with her step mother the day before but then that was before all the facts of the case were before him no man is quite consistent even the most among us can find excellent reasons for following our own inclinations anyhow it happened that on that damp and sombre afternoon colonel had a little walk with the young lady which tended to make hun entertain a much more amiable opinion of and its surroundings i thought the other day i should like to talk to you she had said when they were fairly started on the road leading down through the i want to ask you several things i think you have influence with mamma perhaps you could speak to her it is so dull here i want to go away mamma says she requires retirement but i don t in the least require i was much happier at we went into society at and was at he has been strange lately he says all sorts of things he is very melancholy he sits and at me a sense of relief came over philip he could not have said ly why do you mind very much being stared at he inquired looking at the girl by his side and smiling it is very to be stared at by somebody who looks dismal and does not speak she answered quickly is fond of reading scientific books about the origin of all sorts of things he firmly believes that we are all descended from i am inclined to think it must be true too sometimes for his eyes are exactly like s when he sits and and says nothing it is not pleasant the girl gave a little shudder and then went on speaking again that peculiarly distinct and clear cut utterance i wish mamma would go back to england she says it is too expensive and that the climate does not suit her but i want to see it english girls have so much more liberty they have so many amusements i should like england colonel stopped this struck him as rather a happy idea stopped too and turned to him they were standing beneath one of the crooked fir trees th carriage road about down to the iron gates colonel en s wife ah you want to go to england he said briefly yes i want immensely to go we could settle down and know people here everybody whom we know goes away sooner or later only and mamma and i remain you want me to ask mrs pierce to take you home to england said philip ah do do cried the girl softly but fervently she clasped her pretty white hands in an imploring manner while her long cloak flying back in a sudden gust of wind revealed her slim graceful figure colonel s heart warmed sensibly towards this charming young lady she confided in him with such engaging frankness he felt more at home with her too out of doors in the gloom and wet than in the lofty rooms and amid the faded of the little red villa i ll talk to mrs pierce he said after a moment s reflection i believe it would be an excellent i dare say i could be of some use to you � find you rooms you know and that sort of thing then you might have a couple of months in london during the season and come down into afterwards your father he added gently was a man you would like to see his county wouldn t you whether it was the prospect of seeing poor beau pierce s native county or whether other and less floated before s eyes i cannot say but she certainly smiled upon her companion with a brilliant nd delighted smile ah i knew you would help me she said meanwhile philip went on we must try to make things a little more cheerful for you here let me see to day s thursday suppose you and mrs pierce come and dine with me at the grand hotel on saturday if it s fine there s a very nice opening out into the garden you know it wouldn t be exciting exactly but it would be a little change it would be delightful answered i like going out i like a i like the lights and the people moving about and the httle tables and the of the glasses and things philip smiled it touched him somehow there was a wonderful freshness and response in this young nature you have a great faculty for enjoyment he said with a certain tone of regret in his voice by contrast he felt very old at that moment the colonel who so far had accepted his increasing years with indifference and resignation was dimly conscious of entertaining a deepening grudge against them a test of friendship th rain is coming on again he continued after a minute s silence we d better walk back to the villa � i mustn t let you get wet one moment cried the girl about england � you must be a little careful how you approach mamma she may not like it you need not say that the suggestion came originally from me need you undoubtedly was very engaging just then her innocent flower of a face her sweet round mouth a little open her whole attitude questioning and eager you want	32
silent figures look to the brave squire for i fear that he will never see the rise again chapter of thb to it was a bright july after thai fatal fight in the spanish a heaven a green rolling plain below with and with sheep the sun was yet low in the heaven and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms the and gazing with great vacant eyes at two who were it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and beneath the flat hill marked the old town of of the one was young graceful and fair clad in plain and of blue doth which served to show his active and well knit figure a velvet cap was drawn forward to keep the glare from his eyes and he rode with lips compressed and anxious face as one who has much care upon his mind as he was and peaceful as was his dress the dainty golden spurs which upon his heels proclaimed his while a long upon his brow and a upon his temple gave a manly grace to bis refined and delicate countenance his comrade was a large red headed man upon a great black horse with a huge canvas bag from his which and with every movement of his his broad brown face was lighted up by a continual smile and he looked slowly from side to side with eyes which and shone with delight well might john rejoice for was he not back in his native had he not don s five thousand crowns against his knee and s all was he himself s ss now to sir the young of lately by the sword of the black prince himself and esteemed by the whole army as one of the most rising of the soldiers of england for the last stand of the company had been told throughout wherever a brave deed of arms was loved and honors had flowed in upon the few who had survived it for two months had wavered death and life with a broken and a shattered head yet youth and strength and a life were all his side and he awoke from his long delirium to find that the war was over that the and their had been crushed at and that the prince had himself heard the tale of his ride for and had come in person to his bedside to touch his shoulder with his sword and to that so brave and true a man should die if he could not live in the order of chivalry the instant that he could set foot to ground had started in search of his lord but no word could he hear of bim dead or alive and he had come home now sad hearted in the hope of raising money upon his estates and so start ing upon his quest once more landing at london he had hurried on with a mind full of care for he had heard no word from since the note which had announced bis brother s death by the cried john looking around him where have we seen since we left such noble cows such sheep grass so green or a man so drunk as yonder rogue who lies in the gap of the hedge ah john answered wearily it is well for you but i never thought that my home coming would be so a one my heart is heavy for my dear lord and for and i know not how i may break the news to the lady mary and to the lady if they have not yet ba of it john gave a groan which made the horses shy it is indeed a black business said he but be not sad for i sh l give half these crowns to my old mother and half m will i add to the money yoa have and so we shall buy that yellow wherein we sailed to and in it we shall go forth and seek sir smiled but shook his head were he alive we have had word of him ere now but what is this town before us why it is cried john see the tower of the old gray church and the long stretch of the but here sits a very holy man and i shall give him a crown for his prayers three large stones formed a rough cot by the roadside and beside it in the sun sat the with clay colored face dull eyes and long withered hands with crossed ankles and sunken head he sat as though all his life had passed out of him with the beads slipping slowly through his thin yellow fingers behind him lay the narrow cell clay and damp and sordid beyond it there lay amid the trees the and hut of a the door open and the single room exposed to the view the man ruddy and yellow haired stood leaning upon the wherewith he had been at work upon the garden patch from behind him came the ripple of a happy woman s laughter and two young darted forth from the hut bare legged and while the mother stepping out laid her hand upon her husband s arm and watched the of the children the frowned at the noise which broke upon his prayers but his brow relaxed as be looked upon the broad silver piece which john held out to him there lies the image of our past and of our future cried as they rode on upon their way now which is better to till god s earth to have happy faces round one s knee and to and be loved or to sit forever moaning over one s own soul like a mother over a sick babe i know not about that said john for it casts a great cloud over me when i	4
but now transformed into a kind of study where he found william b a awaiting him looked pale and his lips were hard set his employer nodded to him carelessly in passing and then sitting down at his unlocked a drawer took from thence his book and wrote out a sum that was more than s due as he handed it over the young man glanced at it and coloured hotly no thank you mr � he said � the exact sum please and not a over what exclaimed in a tone � a refuse an extra fee is this the age of miracles grew paler but kept himself quiet think what you like of mr he returned � they can get on without your good opinion i and certainly they need none of my defending i merely refuse to accept anything i have not honestly earned � there is no miracle in that i fancy it is as if i took my dismissal badly � on the contrary i should have dismissed myself if you had not me i will have no share in child murder if a had exploded in the little room mr could not have looked more thoroughly astounded he sprang from his chair and confronted the audacious speaker in such indignation as almost choked his utterance ch � ch � child murder he trembling all over in the excess of his sudden rage � d � d � did i hear you rightly sir child murder i repeat it mr � said his blue eyes now flashing and his lips quivering � child murder take the phrase and think it over you have only one child � a boy of a most and intelligent disposition quick � too quick by half � and you are killing him with your hard and fast rules and your system of intellectual training you deprive him of such and exercises as are necessary to his health and growth � you surround him with petty which make his young life a � you give him no companions of his own age and you are as i say him � slowly perhaps but none the less surely any physician with the merest superficial knowledge of his business would tell you what i tell you � that is any physician who preferred truth to white with passion mr snatched up the he had just written and tore it into fragments � then opening another drawer in his desk he took out a handful of notes and gold and counting them rapidly flung them upon the table hold your insolent tongue sir he said in hoarse accents of ill suppressed fury � there is your money � exact to a take it and go and before you presume to apply for another situation as to the son of a gentleman tn e you had better learn to know your place and put a check on your scotch conceit and impertinence not another word � go with a sudden proud lifting of his head eyed his late employer from heel to brow and from brow to heel again in the measuring manner known to fighting men � his eyes sparkled with anger � and his hands clenched then all at once evidently moved by some thought which restrained if it did not entirely overcome his wrath he swept up his lightly in one hand turned and left the room without either a thank you or when he had gone john burst into an angry laugh insolent young he muttered � how such fellows get university honours and is more than i can imagine and i suppose � like everything else an lazy if ever there was one � and the worst companion in the world for the boy has done nothing but idle away his time ever since he came fm very glad professor is able to accept a few weeks of holiday � he is expensive certainly � but he will remedy all the mischief � � � � has done and get on � he is a thoroughly man too on the religious question soothed by the prospect of the coming of professor mr cooled down and presently went to join his wife and sir charles in the drawing room he found that apartment empty however and on inquiry of one of the servants learnt that sir charles had been gone some minutes and that mrs was walking by herself in the garden mr thereupon went to one of the deep which stood open and the scented summer air the day s rain had certainly left the ground wet and he was not fond of strolling about under damp trees the moon was high and very beautiful in her clear but mr did not admire moonlight effects � he thought all that kind of thing the grave and silence of the night the landscape � mr disliked silence and he therefore loudly and with much unpleasant throat to disturb it throat gave just the necessary suggestion of prose to a picture which would otherwise have been purely romantic � a picture of and hill and silver cloud and purple sky in all of which mere humanity seemed blotted out and forgotten mr his ugly cough in order to get humanity into it � and as he finished the last little note of noise he wondered where his wife was the garden was a large and rambling one and had been long and greatly neglected though the owners of the place had arranged with mr when he had taken the house for three months that he should pay a gardener weekly wages to attend to it a decent but dull native of had been elected to this post and his exertions had certainly effected something in the way of clearing the paths and keeping them clean � but he was apparently incapable of dealing with the wild growth of and oak that had	33
with a wholesome pang of humiliation the book is worthless as literature � it is only tl e boom of a season she went on her eyes darkening with the intensity of her feeling you have not your pen with the common to many of the authors of the day i ask you do you think a girl can read the books that are now freely published and that her silly society friends tell her to read � because it is so dreadfully queer r � and yet remain and innocent books that go into the details of the lives of � that explain and the secret vices of men � that advocate almost as a sacred duty free love and universal � that see no shame in the sorrows of satan introducing into the circles of good wives and pure minded girls a heroine who boldly seeks out a man any man in order that she may have a child by him without the degradation of marrying him i have read all those books � and what can you expect of me not innocence surely i despise men � i despise my own sex � i myself for being a woman ij you wonder at my for � it is only because for a time her books give me back my self respect and make me see humanity in a nobler light � because she to me if only for an hour a kind of glimmering belief in god so that my mind feels refreshed and all the same you must not look upon me as an innocent young girl � a girl such as the great poets and sang of � i am a creature trained to perfection in the morals and literature of my day i looked at her in silence pained startled and with a sense of shock as though something pure and precious had into dust at my feet she rose and began pacing the room moving to and fro with a slow yet fierce grace that reminded me against my wish and will of the movement of some imprisoned and savage beast of prey you shall not be deceived in me she said pausing a moment and me if you marry me you must do so with a full of the choice you make for with such wealth as yours you can of course wed any woman you fancy i do not say you could find a girl better than i am i do not think you could in my set because we are all alike � all with the same brush and filled with the same merely and views of life and its as the admired of the society novels we read away in the provinces among the middle classes it is possible you might discover a really good girl of the purest blush rose innocence � but then you might also find her stupid and un entertaining and you would not care for that my chief recommendation is that i am the sorrows of satan beautiful � you can see that everybody can see that � and i am not so affected as to pretend to be unconscious of the fact there is no sham about my external appearance my hair is not a wig � my complexion is natural � my figure is not the result of the maker s art � my eyebrows and are oh yes � you can be sure that the beauty of my body is quite genuine � but it is not the outward expression of an equally beautiful soul and this is what i want you to understand i am passionate impetuous � frequently and inclined to and melancholy and i confess i have or unconsciously that complete contempt of life and in a god which is the chief theme of nearly all the social of the time she ceased � and i gazed at her with an odd sense of mingled worship and even as a might gaze at an idol whom he still loved but whom he could no longer believe in as divine yet what she said was in no way contrary to my own theories � how then could i complain i did not believe in a god � why should i feel regret that she shared my i had involuntarily clung to the old fashioned idea that religious faith was a sacred duty in womanhood i was not able to offer any reason for this notion unless it was the romantic fancy of having a good woman to pray for one if one had no time and less inclination to pray for one s self however it was evident was advanced enough to do without superstitious she would never pray for me � and if we had children she would never teach them to make their first tender appeals to heaven for my sake or hers i smothered a slight sigh and was about to speak when she came up to me and laid her two hands on my shoulders you look unhappy she said in accents be consoled � it is not too late for you to change your mind i met the questioning glance of her eyes � beautiful eyes as clear and pure as light itself the sorrows of satan i shall never change i answered i love you i shall always love you but i wish you would not yourself so � you have such strange ideas you think them strange she said you should not � in these new women days i believe that thanks to newspapers magazines and novels i am in all respects eminently fitted to be a wife and she laughed bitterly there is nothing in the of marriage that i do not know though i am not yet twenty i have been prepared for a long time to be sold to the highest and what few silly notions i had about	33
to be dearer to him than the lovely mrs and put that neatly prepared marriage with her out of the question it was among the usual of feeling that sir who had given his to against too much tenderness in his relations with the bride should now feel rather irritated against him by the suspicion that he had not fallen in love as he ought to have done of course all this on sir s part was eminently premature only a fortnight or so after s death but it is the trick of thinking to bo either premature or however he sent the note to s chambers and it found him there � � � � book � fruit chapter oh pore faith white handed hope thou with wings i did not obey s new summons some agitation not his vanity but bis keen made him susceptible to the danger that s heart might fed demands on him than he would be able to and it was no longer a matter of argument with him but of penetrating consciousness that s soul clung to his with a passionate need we do not the existence of the anger or the scorn that through us in a voice wc simply fed it and it admits of no felt this woman s destiny hanging on his over a precipice of despair any one knows liim can not wonder at bis inward confession that if all this had happened little more a year ago he would hardly have asked himself whether he loved her the impetuous impulse which would have moved him have been to save her from sorrow to shelter her life for from the dangers of loneliness and carry out to the last the rescue he had begun in that of the but now love and duty had thrown other bonds around him and that impulse could no longer his life still it was present in him as a compassionate yearning a painful quivering at the very imagination of having and again to meet the appeal of her eyes and words the very strength of the bond the certainty of the resolve that kept him asunder from her made him gaze at her lot apart with the more aching pity he awaited her coming in the back drawing room � part of that white and crimson space where they had sat together at the musical party where had said for the first time that her lot depended on his not her and her appeal had seemed to into the cry � per non bat tho melody had come from s dear voice walked about this room which ho had for years known by heart with a strange sense of in own life tho familiar objects around him from lady ma linger s gently smiling portrait to the also human and faces of the lions on tho of the chimney piece seemed almost to belong to a previous state of existence which he was in memory only not in reality so deep and had been tlie impressions he had lately experienced so new were tho conditions under which he found himself in the house ho had been accustomed to think of as a standing with his hat in his hand awaiting the entrance of a young creature life had also been a � a tragic toward a r result in which ho felt with that his own action was still bound up but was come in looking changed not only by her mourning dress but by a more satisfied of expression than he had seen in her face at her satisfaction was that was there but there was no smile between them as they met and clasped hands each was full of � full of anxious ho said it was good of you to come let us sit down immediately herself in the nearest chair he placed himself opposite to her i asked you to come because i want you to tell me what i ought to do she began at once don t be afraid of telling me what you think is right because it seems hard i have made up my mind to do it i was afraid once of being poor i could not bear to think of being under other people and that was why i did something � why i married i have borne worse things now i think i could bear to be poor if you think i ought do you know about my husband s will f yes sir told me said already tho question she had to ask ought i to take any thing ho has left me t i will tell you what i been thinking said with a more nervous eagerness perhaps you may not quite know that i n p ib vm m i i i m m book � i really did think a good deal about my mother when i married i was but i did love her and about her and what comforted mo moat at first when i was miserable was her being better off i had married the thing that would be hardest to me now would bo to see her in poverty again and i have been thinking that if i took enough to provide for her and no more � nothing for myself � it would not be wrong for i was very to my mother � and ho took mo from and ho � nd if sim had broke off she had been preparing herself for this interview by thinking of hardly any thing else than this question of right toward her mother but tho question had carried with it thoughts and reasons which it impossible for her to utter and these perilous between her words making her speech more and more agitated and tremulous she looked down helplessly at her hands now of all rings except her wedding ring do not hurt yourself	14
man and yet one who the true order of nature and the visible as proceeding from the invisible cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice there is an defect in the organ language statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the and undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought when he said i am god but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear and the world itself for the seeming by the good story about his shoe sow can i hope for better hap in my attempts to spiritual facts thus only as far as i share the of truth so far shall i be felt by every true person to say what is just the method of nature who could ever it that rushing stream will not stop to be observed we can never surprise nature in a corner never find the end of a thread never teu where to set the first stone the bird to lay her egg the egg to be a bird the we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution its is the of the pitch of the its is a perpetual every natural fact is an and that from which it is an also and from every is a new if anything could stand still it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted and if it were a mind would be as insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought and do not flow with the course of nature not the cause but an ever novel effect nature always from above it is unbroken obedience the beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a and eternal spring in all animal and vegetable forms the that no no can account for the facts but a mysterious principle of life most be assumed which not only the organ but makes the organ how silent how spacious what room for all yet without place to an � in in equal fulness in balanced beauty the dance of the hours goes forward still like an of incense hke a strain of music like a sleep it is and boundless it will not be nor nor shown away profane philosopher thou in nature the cause this to that and that to the next and the next to the third and everything thou must ask in another mood thou must feel it and love it thou must behold it in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists ere thou know the law known it will not be but gladly beloved and enjoyed the life throughout the whole body the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any but the steady degradation of each to the success of all allows the understanding no place to work nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end to a universe of ends and not to one � a work of ecstasy to be represented by a circular movement as intention might be signified by a straight of definite length each every other there is no revolt in all the from the no of an individual hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an of the world when we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit we do not reckon individuals nature knows neither palm nor oak but only vegetable ufe which into forests and the globe with a of grass and vines that no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby appears from this that if man himself be considered as the end and it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men we see that it has not succeeded read alternately in natural and in civil history a of for example with a volume of french pour when we have spent our wonder in this hospitality with which boon nature turns off new without end into her wide common as fast as the make coral � and hospitable to souls � and then the sight to look into this court of louis and see the game that is played there � duke and and madame � a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to your rival and ruin him with this solemn in wig and stars � the king one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous and if so whether the experiment have not failed and whether it be quite worth while to make more and the innocent space with so poor an article i think we feel not much otherwise if instead of beholding foolish nations we take the great and wise men the eminent souls and narrowly inspect their biography none of them seen by himself � and his performance compared with his promise or idea will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and person was at last procured is to questions of this sort nature replies i grow i grow all is infant when we are with the of the toiling to the length of her line the return of her curve we are by the perception that a great deal is doing that all seems just begun remote aims are in active accomplishment we can point nowhere to anything final but tendency appears on all hands planet system total nature is growing uke a field of in july is becoming somewhat else is in rapid the does not more strive to be man than yonder of we call a to be a ring a a globe and parent of new stars why should	37
associations to the altar of our domestic life if on the eve of such a departure you will accompany our mutual friend mr thomas to our present abode and there the wishes natural to the occasion you will confer a boon on one who is ever yours i was glad to find that mr had got rid of his dust and ashes and that something really had turned up at last learning from that the invitation referred to the evening then wearing away i expressed my readiness to do honour to it and we went off together to the lodging which mr occupied as mr and which was situated near the top of the gray s inn road the resources of this lodging were so limited that we found the now some eight or nine years old in a turn up in the family sitting room where mr had prepared in a wash hand stand what he called a of the agreeable for which he was famous i had the pleasure on this occasion of the acquaintance of master whom i found a promising boy of about twelve or thirteen very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not an phenomenon in youths of his age i also became once more known to his sister miss in whom as mr told us her mother renewed her youth like the my dear said mr yourself and mr find us on the brink of and will excuse any ts to that position glancing round as i made a suitable reply i observed that th� david family effects were already packed and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming i congratulated mrs ou the approaching change my dear mr said mrs of your friendly interest in all our affairs i am well assured my family may consider it if they please but i am a wife and mother and i never will desert mr appealed to by mrs s eye that said mrs that at least is my view my dear mr and mr of the obligation which i took upon myself when repeated the words i take thee i read the service o � er with a flat candle on the previous night and the conclusion i derived from it was that never could desert mr and said mrs though it is possible i may be mistaken in my view of the ceremony i never will my dear said mr a little i am not conscious that you are expected to do anything of the sort i am aware my dear mr pursued mrs that i am now about to cast my lot among strangers and i am also aware that the various members of my family to whom mr has written in the most gentlemanly terms announcing that fact have not taken the least notice of mr s communication indeed i may be superstitious said mrs but it appears to me that mr is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes i may from the silence of my family that they object to the resolution i have taken but i should not allow myself to be from the path of duty mr even by my papa and were they still living i expressed my opinion that this was going in right direction it may be a sacrifice said mrs to one s in a cathedral town but surely mr if it is a sacrifice in me it is much more a sacrifice in a man of mr s abilities oh you are going to a cathedral town said i david mr had been helping us all out of the stand replied to in fact my dear i have entered into arrangements by virtue of which i stand pledged and contracted to our friend to assist and serve him in the capacity of � and to be � his confidential clerk i stared at mr who greatly enjoyed my surprise i am bound to state to you he said with an official air that the business habits and the prudent suggestions of mrs have in a great measure to this result the to which mrs referred upon a former occasion being thrown down in the form of an advertisement was taken up by my friend and led to a mutual recognition of my friend said mr � who is a man of remarkable i desire to speak with all possible respect my friend has not fixed the positive at too high a figure but he has made a great deal in the way of from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties on the value of my services and on the value of those services i pin my faith such address and intelligence as i chance to possess said mr himself with the old genteel air will be devoted to my friend s service i have already some acquaintance with the law � as a on civil process � and i shall immediately apply myself to the of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our english i believe it is unnecessary to add that i allude to mr justice these observations and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening were interrupted by mrs s discovering that master was sitting on his boots or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose or accidentally kicking under the table or shuffling his feet over one another or thorn at distances from himself a outrageous to nature o� lying sideways with his hair among the wine glasses or developing lis restlessness of limb in some other form with the general interests of society and by master s those discoveries in a i sat the while amazed by mr s e and wondering what it meant until david resumed the thread of the discourse and claimed my attention what i particularly request mr to be	8
himself with telling me the fact he would not pain me by dwelling on it or to it nor has he ever done so since but has truly kept his word the man himself � asked martin he has had few opportunities of pursuing his suit i have never walked out alone or remained alone an instant in his presence dear martin i must tell you she continued that the kindness of your grandfather to me remains unchanged i am his companion still an indescribable tenderness and compassion seem to have mingled themselves with his old regard and if i were his only child i could not have a father what former fancy or old habit in this when his heart has turned so cold to you is a mystery i cannot penetrate but it has been and it is a happiness to me that i remained true to him that if he should wake from his delusion even at hie point of death i am here love to recall you to his thoughts martin looked with admiration on her glowing face and pressed his lips to hers i have sometimes heard and read she said that those whose powers had been long ago and whose lives had faded as it were into a dream have been known to rouse themselves before death and inquire for familiar faces once very dear to them but forgotten hated even in the meantime think if with his old impressions of this man he should suddenly resume his former self and find in him his only friend i would not urge you to abandon him dearest said martin though i could count the years we are to wear out asunder but the influence this fellow exercises over him has steadily increased i fear she could not help admitting that steadily life and adventures of and sorely until now it was and supreme she herself had none and yet he treated her with more affection than at any previous time martin thought the a part of his weakness and decay does the influence extend to fear said martin is he timid of asserting his own opinion in the presence of this i fancied so just now i have thought so often often when we are sitting alone almost aa we used to do and i have been reading a favourite book to him or he has been talking quite cheerfully i have observed that the entrance of mr has changed his whole he has broken off immediately and become what you have seen to day when we first came here he had his impetuous in which it was not easy for mr with his utmost to him but these have long since away he to him in everything and has no opinion upon any question but that which is forced upon him by this treacherous man such was the account rapidly furnished in whispers and interrupted brief as it was by many false of mr s return which martin received of his grandfather s decline and of that good gentleman s he heard of tom pinch too and too with not a little about himself into the bargain for though lovers are remarkable for leaving a great deal on all occasions and very properly desiring to come back and say it they are remarkable also for a wonderful power of and can in one way or other give utterance to more language � eloquent language � in any given short space of time than all the six hundred and fifty eight members in the house of parliament of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland who are strong lovers no doubt but of their country only which makes all the difference for in a passion of that kind which is not always returned it is the custom to use as many words as possible and express nothing whatever a caution from mr a hasty of and of something which the proverb says must not be told of afterwards a white hand held out to mr himself which he kissed with the devotion of a knight more more something else s a parting word from martin that he would write from london and would do great martin things there yet heaven knows what but he quite believed it and mark and he stood on the outside of the halls a short interview after such an absence said martin sorrowfully but we are well out of the house we might have placed ourselves in a false position by remaining there even so long mark i don t know about ourselves sir he returned but somebody else would have got into a false position if he had happened to come back again while we was there i had the door all ready sir if had showed his head or had only so much as listened behind it i would have caught him like a he s the sort of man added mr musing as would squeeze soft i know a person who was evidently going to mr s house passed them at this moment he raised his eyes at the mention of the s name and when he had gone on a few yards stopped and gazed at them mr also looked over his shoulder and so did martin for the stranger as he passed had looked very sharply at them who may that be i wonder said martin the face seems familiar to me but i don t know the man he seems to have a amiable desire that his face should be tolerable familiar to us said mr for he s a pretty hard he d better not waste his beauty for he got much to spare coming in sight of the they saw a travelling carriage at the door and a carriage eh said mr that s what he came in depend upon it what s in the wind now a new pupil i	8
to be a lawyer and take the cases of the poor for nothing and fi t the rich and i remember i said i was going to be one of the rich myself and buy paintings and live at i m sure you in us all i ve always aimed to be liberal was and proud and self conscious be tried to look like the boy he had been a quarter century ago and he shone iq on his old friend as be trouble with a lot of these even the live and some of em that think they re forward looking is th aren t broad minded and liberal now i always believe to giving the other fellow a chance and listening to his ideas n on � j v h that s fine tell yoa bow i figure it a little o is good for all of us so a especially if he s a business man and engaged in doing the work of the world ought to be liberal i always say a ou t to have vision and i guess some of the in my business think i m visionary ut i just let em think what they want to and go right on � same as you do by this b nice to have a chance to sit and visit and kind of you might say brush up on our but of we do rather get beaten doesn t it bother you not a bit nobody can dictate to me what i think i ou re the man i want to help me i want you to talk � to some of the business men and try to make than a little more liberal in their attitude toward poor but why he s this nut preacher that got kicked out of the church isn t be and free love and this was indeed the general of but he himself saw as a priest of the brotherhood of man of which was an so would keep bis acquaintances from and his forlorn little you call down any of the boys i hear getting funny about said affectionately to his dear friend warmed up and became he of student days in germany of i x sing tax in washington of labor he mentioned his friends lord colonel professor bad always supposed that associated only with the i w w but now he nodded as one knew lord es by the and he got ia two re n on � j v j � to sir he felt daring and and suddenly in his new spiritual grandeur he was sorry for and understood her as these ordinary fellows at the never could five hours after he had arrived in and told hia wife how hot it was in new york he went to call on he was with ideas and forgiveness he d get paul released he d do things vague but highly benevolent things for he d be as generous as bis friend he had not seen since paul had shot her and he still pictured her as high colored lively and a little as be drove up to h� boarding in a back street below the district he stopped in discomfort at an upper window leaning on elbow was a woman with the features of but she was and aged like a of old paper into wrinkles where had and this woman was dreadfully stiu he waited half an hour before she came into the fifty times he q the book of bs of the world s fair of fifty times be looked at the picture of the court of honor he was startled to find in the room she wore a black gown which she bad tried to tm with a of crimson ribbon the ribbon had been torn and patiently mended he noted this carefully because he did not wish to look at her shoulders one shoulder was lower than the other one arm she carried in fashion as though it were and behind a big collar of cheap lace acre was a in the neck whidi bad once and softly yes she said well old by it s good to see you he can send bis messages through a why rats i didn t come just because of him came as an old friend you waited long enough well you know how it is figured you wouldn t want to see a friend of his for quite some time and � sit down let s be sensible we ve all of us done a bunch of things that we hadn t ought to but maybe we can sort of start over again honest i d like to do something to make you both happy know what i thought to day mind you paul doesn t know a thing about this � doesn t know i was going to come see you i got to thinking s a fine hearted woman and shell that paul s had his lesson now why wouldn t it be a fine idea if you asked the governor to pardon him believe be would if it came from you just think good you d fed if yoa generous yes i wish to be generous she was sitting for that reason i wish to keep him in prison as an to evil i ve gotten religion george since the thing that man did to me sometimes i used to be unkind and i wished for worldly pleasures for and the but when i was in the the of the communion faith used to come to see me and he showed me right from the written in the word of god that the day of judgment is coming and all the members of the older churches are going straight to eternal because tb only do iq service and swallow the the flesh and the devil � for fifteen wild minutes she	42
or stupid or what is it he exclaimed merrily � it must be something yes � it is this � it is beyond me altogether and i spoke with some bitterness quite beyond me i could not write it now � i wonder i could write it then i i am talking foolishly � but it seems to me i must have been on some higher of thought when i wrote the book � a height from which i have since fallen i m sorry to hear this he answered with twinkling eyes � from what you say it appears to me you have been guilty of literary oh bad very bad nothing can be worse to write is a grievous sin and one which critics never forgive i m really grieved for you my friend � i never thought your case was quite so desperate i laughed in spite of my depression you are i said � but your cheerfulness is very all i wanted to explain to you is this � that my book expresses a certain tone of thought which to be is not me � in short i in my present self have no sympathy with it i must have changed very much since i wrote it changed why yes i should think so and laughed heartily � the possession of five millions is bound to change a man considerably for the better � or worse but you seem to be worrying yourself most about nothing not one author in many centuries writes from his own heart or as he truly feels � when he does he becomes well nigh immortal this planet is too limited to hold more than one the sorrows of satan one one shakespeare don t distress yourself � you are neither of these three you belong to the age tempest � it is a age and most things connected with it are and any era that is by the love of money only has a rotten core within it and must perish all history tells us so but no one the lesson of history observe the signs of the lime � art is made to the love of money � literature politics and religion the same � you cannot escape from the general disease the only thing to do is to make the best of it � no one can reform it � least of all you who have so much of the given to your share he paused � i was silent watching the bright fire glow and the dropping red what i am going to say now he proceeded in soft almost melancholy accents � will sound � still it has the perverse of truth about it it is this � in order to write with intense feelings you must first feel very likely when you wrote this book of yours you were almost a human hedge in the way of feeling every point of you was erect and to the touch of all influences pleasant or the reverse imaginative or this is a condition which some people envy and others would rather dispense with now that you as a hedge have no further need for either alarm indignation or self defence your are soothed into an agreeable and you partially cease to feel that is all the change you complain of is thus accounted for � you have nothing to feel about � hence you cannot comprehend how it was that you ever felt i was conscious of irritation at the calm conviction of his tone do you take me for such a creature as all that i exclaimed � you are mistaken in me i feel most keenly what do you feel he inquired fixing his eyes steadily � the sorrows of satan upon me � there are hundreds of starving wretches in this metropolis � men and women on the brink of suicide because they have no hope of anything in this world or the next and no sympathy from their kind � do you feel for them do their affect you you know they do not � you know you never think of them � why should you one of the chief advantages of wealth is the ability it gives us to shut out other people s miseries from our personal consideration i said nothing � for the first time my spirit at the truth of his words principally because they were true alas � if i had only known then what i know now yesterday he went on in the same quiet voice � a child was run over here just opposite this hotel it was only poor child � mark that only its mother ran shrieking out of some back street hard by in time to see the little bleeding body up in a heap she struck wildly with both hands at the men who were trying to lead her away and with a cry like that of some hurt savage animal fell face forward in the mud � dead she was only a poor woman � another only there were three lines in the paper about it headed sad incident the hotel porter here witnessed the scene from the door with as composed a as that of a at the play never the serene majesty of his attitude � but about ten minutes after the dead body of the woman had been carried out of sight he the imperial being became almost backed in his haste to run and open the door of your my dear as you drove up to the entrance this is a little of life as it is lived now a days � and yet the swear we are all equal in the sight of heaven we may be though it does not look much like it � and if we are it does not matter as we have ceased to care how heaven regards us i don	33
to them to a representative on the floor of this house that then had the right to make the call for admission and this admission when made was to be not on conditions that gentlemen might deem expedient not on conditions to future political views not on conditions that the constitution the people should form should contain a that would particularly open the door for from the north or from the south not on condition that the future population of the state should come from a or non state but according to the principles of the constitution and none other the people of were by solemn treaty when admitted to all the rights advantages and of citizens of the united states can any gentleman contend that laboring under the proposed the citizens of would have all the rights advantages and of other citizens of the union have not other new states in their admission and have not all the states in the union now and rights beyond what was contemplated to be allowed to the citizens of have not all other states in this government the right to alter and change their state having regard alone to a republican form and was there any existing law or any in the constitution that a total change from a to a state or from a non a state mr scott thought that if this provision was proper or within tne powers of they also had the right to say that the people of should not be admitted as a state unless they provided in the formation of their state constitution that slavery should be would not those conscientious gentlemen at this and exclaim what impose on those people slaves when they do not want them this would be said to be a direct attack on the state independence was it in the power of to the present condition mr scott deemed it equally within the scope of their authority to say what color the inhabitants of the proposed state should be what description of property other than slaves those people should or should not possess and the quantity of property each man should retain going upon the principle he would even go further and say that had an equal power to to what religion the people should that none other should be professed and to provide for the of all those who did not submit the people of were if admitted the union to come in on an equal footing with the original states that the people of the other states had the right to their own internal police to the rules of their own conduct and in the formation of their to say whether slavery was or was not he believed was a point by all how then were the citizens of placed on an equal footing with the other members of the union equal in some respects � a shameful in others a not by the constitution nor justified by the treaty of but founded on mistaken zeal or policy they were to be bound down by conditions and to which he knew they would not submit that people were brave and independent in spirit they were intelligent and knew their own rights they were competent to and willing to risk their own happiness and future prosperity on the legitimate exercise of their own judgment and free will mr scott protested against such a as was contemplated now to bo assumed over his the spirit of freedom burned in the of the of and if admitted into the national family they would be equal or not come in at all with what an anxious eye have they looked to the east since the commencement of this of for the good tidings that on them you had conferred the glorious privilege of self government and independence what seeds of discord will you sow when they read this suspicious shameful in their will they not compare it with the terms of the treaty of that bill of their rights emphatically their and will not the result of that comparison be a on the faith of this government it had been admitted by some gentlemen in debate that were the people of to form a constitution to this provision so soon as they were adopted into the union it would be competent for them to call a and alter their constitution on this subject why then he would ask gentlemen would they when could produce no permanent practical effect why expose the of the general government to tie up the hands of the state and induce the people to an act of which he knew from principle they to get clear of an odious on their rights mr scott had trusted that gentlemen who professed to be by motives of humanity and principle would not encourage a course of or by any vote of theirs render it necessary for the citizens of to act to obtain their rights he was unwilling to believe that political views alone led gentlemen on this or any other occasion but from the language of too the first struggle member from new york mr be was compelled to suspect had iii i upon bim that gentleman told ua that il ever he left hia present residence it would be fur j at events he wish i n send out bis brother and hia mr begged that gentleman to relieve bim from awful apprehension excited by the this accession of population he hoped the house would excuse him while he stated in did not desire that gentleman hia sons oi hia brothers in that land of brave noble and the member says that ihe latitude is too far north to admit of slavery tin e would the gentleman cast hia eye on ihe before bim he would there see that a part of virginia and were north as the northern boundary of mr scott gentleman if be would what	19
arms folded leaning against the side of the to away the time till your father comes he said � pray is there much and of about the water side now no said pleasant any � complaints of that sort are sometimes made about and and up that way but who knows how many are true to be sure and it don t seem necessary that s what i say observed pleasant where s the reason for it bless the sailors it ain t as if they ever could keep what they have without it you re right their money may be soon got out of them without violence said the man of course it may said pleasant and then they ship again and get more and the best thing for em too to ship again as soon as ever they can be brought to it they re never so well off as when they re afloat ill tell you why i ask pursued the visitor looking up from the fire i was once beset that way myself and left for dead no said pleasant where did it happen it happened returned the man with a air as he drew his right hand across his chin and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat it happened somewhere about here as i reckon i don t think it can have been a mile from here u were you drunk asked pleasant i was but not with fair drinking i had not been drinking you understand a did it pleasant with a grave look shook her head that she understood the process but decidedly fair trade is one thing said she but that s another no one has a right to carry on with jack in thai way td the sentiment does you credit retained the man with a grim smile and added in a the more so as i believe it s not father s � yes i had a bad time of it that time i lost everything and bad a sharp struggle for my life weak as i was did yon get the parties punished asked pleasant � a tremendous punishment followed said the man more seriously � but it was not of my bringing about u of whose then asked pleasant the man pointed upward with his forefinger and slowly recovering that hand settled his chin in it again as he looked at the fire bringing her inherited eye to bear upon him pleasant felt more and more uncomfortable his manner was so mysterious so stern so self possessed u said the i am glad punishment followed and i say so fair trade with men gets a bad name though deeds of violence i am as much against deeds of violence being done to men as men can be themselves i am of the same opinion as my mother was when she was living pair trade my mother used to say but no robbery and no blows hi the way of trade miss pleasant would have taken � and indeed did take when she could � as much as thirty shillings a week for board that would be dear at five and likewise conducted the leaving upon principles yet she had that tenderness of conscience and those feelings of humanity that the moment her ideas of trade were she became the seaman s champion even against her father whom she seldom otherwise resisted but she was here interrupted by her father s voice exclaiming angrily now and by her father s hat being heavily flung from his hand and striking her nice accustomed to such occasional of his sense of parental duty pleasant merely wiped her race on her hair which of course had tumbled down before she twisted it up this was another common on the part of f toe ladies of the hole when heated by verbal or m if i believe such a as you was ever learned to speak growled mr stooping to pick up his hat and making a at her with his head and right elbow for he took the delicate subject of in extraordinary and was out of humour too what are you at now ain t you nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a all night let her alone urged the man m she was only speaking to me let her alone too retorted mr him all over know she s my daughter u and don t you know that i won t have no on the part of my daughter no nor yet that i won t take no from no man and who may yon be and what may yo want how can i tell you until you are silent returned the other fiercely mutual well said mr a little i am willing to bo silent for the purpose of hearing but don t me are you thirsty you the man asked in the same fierce short way after returning his look why rally said mr ain t i always thirsty n indignant at the absurdity of the question what will you drink r demanded the man m wine returned mr in the same sharp tone if you re capable of it the man put his hand in his pocket took out half a sovereign and begged the favour of miss pleasant that she would fetch a bottle with the cork he added emphatically looking at her father take my alfred david muttered mr slowly into a dark smile that you know a move do i know you f n � n� no i don t know you the man replied no you don t know me and so they stood looking at one another enough until pleasant came back there s small glasses on the said to his daughter give me the one without a foot i gets my living by the sweat of my brow and it s good enough	8
this room except the cottage and that i have left to let i want to get a bed for this gentleman to night to save expense perhaps you can make up something here for myself anything will do it s only for to night we talk about this more to morrow i was roused from my amazement and concern for her � i am sure for her � by her falling on my neck for a moment and crying that she only grieved for me in another moment she suppressed this emotion and said with an aspect more triumphant than dejected we must meet boldly and not suffer them to frighten us my dear we must learn to act the play out we must live misfortune down trot op david chapter depression as soon as i could recover my presence of mind which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt s intelligence i proposed to mr dick to come round to the s shop and take possession of the bed which mr had lately the s shop being in market and market being a very different place in those days there was a low wooden before the door not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live in the old weather glass which pleased mr dick the glory of lodging over this structure would have him i dare say for many but as there were really few to bear beyond the compound of i have already mentioned and perhaps the want of a more elbow room he was perfectly charmed with his accommodation mrs had indignantly assured him that there wasn t room to swing a cat there but as mr dick justly observed to me sitting down on the foot of the bed nursing his leg you know i don t want to swing a cat i never do swing a cat therefore what does that signify to me i tried to ascertain whether mr dick had any understanding of the causes of this sudden and great change in my aunt s affairs as i might have expected he had none at all the only account he could give of it was that my aunt had said to him the day before yesterday now dick are you really and truly the philosopher i take you for that then he had said yes he hoped so that then my aunt had said dick i am ruined that then he had said oh indeed that then my aunt had praised him highly which he was very glad of and that then they had come to me and had had porter and on the road mr dick was so very complacent sitting on the foot of the bed nursing his leg and telling me this with his eyes wide open and a surprised smile that i am sorry to say i was provoked into explaining to him that ruin meant distress want and starvation but i was soon bitterly for this by seeing his face turn pale and tears course down his lengthened cheeks while he fixed upon me a look of such unutterable woe that it might have softened a far harder heart than mine i took infinitely greater pains to cheer him up again than i had taken to him and i soon understood as i ought to have known at first that he had been so confident merely because of his faith in the wisest and most wonderful of women and his unbounded reliance on my intellectual resources the latter i believe he considered a match for any kind of disaster not absolutely mortal what can we do said mr dick there s the memorial � the personal history and experience to be sure there is said i but all we can do just now mr dick is to keep a cheerful countenance and not let my aunt see that we are thinking about it he assented to this in the most earnest manner and implored me if i should see him wandering an inch out of the right course to him by some of those superior methods which were always at my command but regret to state that the fright i had given him proved too much for his best attempts at concealment all the evening his eyes wandered to my aunt s face with an expression of the most dismal apprehension as if he saw her growing thin on the spot he was conscious of this and put a upon his head but his keeping that immovable and sitting rolling his eyes like a piece of machinery did not mend the matter at all i saw him look at the loaf at supper which happened to be a small one as if nothing else stood between us and famine and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary i detected him in the act of fragments of his bread and cheese i have no doubt for the purpose of us with those when we should have reached an advanced stage of my aunt on the other hand was in a composed frame of mind which was a lesson to all of us � to me i am sure she was extremely gracious to except when i called her by that name and strange as i knew she felt in london appeared quite at home she was to have my bed and i was to be in the sitting room to keep guard over her she made a great point of being so near the river in case of a and i suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance trot my dear said my aunt when she saw me making preparations for her usual night draught no nothing aunt not wine my dear ale but there is wine here aunt and you always have it made of wine keep that in case of sickness	8
subtle with obvious truth � how they reason from assumed premises which being mistaken or lead to false and often absurd conclusions � how they contradict and confound each other and often from adam smith their down to and make which their whole fabric or confess themselves ignorant or in the dark on points the most vital to a correct of the great they s to have reduced to a science yet even adam smith himself e and the the grounds of protection whole system upon an attempt to apply it to the com laws and is but a free by and has never yet answered his own powerful arguments in behalf of protection on the other hand we point you to the long array of mighty names which have illustrated the annals of in modem times � to william and the great of to the whole array of memorable french including napoleon the first of them all to our own washington and to our two to say nothing of the eagle eyed and genial hearted living master spirit of our time the opinions and the arguments of all these are on record it is by to and their counsels that we shall be prepared to walk in the light of experience and look forward to a glorious national destiny my friends i i dare not detain you longer i commit to you the cause of the nation s independence of her and her prosperity guard it wisely and shield it well for it your own happiness and the enduring welfare of your countrymen � clay a day s ride in us three days had glided away and not very idly among th � days bright as italy mountains the still abundant the from the streets the in the beams of the nights were crisp and f ance of lighter in the street with which winter s mantle si surrounding country the ice nearly to fourteen miles ness of and vicinity in its tempting the to travel treacherous surface but on tu several preceding days was gradually of a coming which in the became quite and the roof of the house through t of a moist ride to was not however till tlie stage drew up at the door between six a � � in r tliat the fun of i a day s ride in there were six of lis passengers not forgetting the driver the beat of all whom no obstacle could and no and who protected in part by his rubber over all looked the day s driving wind and driven rain in the face with philosophy the six amused themselves when they could stay in the wagon by turning a part of the water from one to the other by means of four which would have been of some account had not the course of the descending been so greatly from the perpendicular by the sweeping gale and had there not been entirely too much of it even as it was the man in a red flannel shirt and glazed outer garments who occupied the most sheltered position of the and seemed to have been taught by some bird the secret of himself contrived to maintain a comparatively dry look to the end ten miles � mainly of mud � had slid and merrily behind us before we encountered the first formidable still occupying the road over which hundreds of had travelled securely for weeks but into which softened by the rain ours plunged in it the next moment the leaders were down in a tangled pile the off one rolled clear over the nigh one and was and got up on the near side the passengers the ie t having been thrown out rather suddenly as we came to a halt the wagon barely not walked ahead in quest of and shelter perhaps it did n t pour the wheel horses were also taken off and four oxen obtained to draw the wagon out of the drift and on to the changing place not far distant soon all were on board in � all as good as before except that the were wet on both sides and the seat had rather a feeling and we went on merrily as ever � meeting few decided obstacles for the next twelve miles � to the second changing place north so far we had made good time in spite of wind and weather and now said the driver you may expect to see some bad going the testimony was confirmed by others but we did not need their assurance two miles more were got over pretty well one bad place being avoided by letting down the fence and making a through the field but soon we were brought to a dead halt again the horses were in a rather profound drift the wagon was stuck and no resource remained but to beat up the neighborhood for oxen to draw it on while the passengers went ahead in quest of dinner the of the number weighing good two hundred who had already twice taken his own portrait by a flying leap into a snow drift and had received some severe and a hard in the later operation when he narrowly missed breaking a leg in clearing the wagon alone lingered behind to pick up some bits of rides between the worst snow of which i think there were a hundred within that next two yet the wagon was by six oxen got through or around them somehow in a little more than two hours � the horses following behind and coming through with a beaten and sorry look i had no idea it could be done so soon by an hour dinner at in a hurry and all aboard again and to we were enabled to take the rain sitting instead of walking for nearly all the time some had to be walked over of course some snow had	19
to along the streets vaguely abashed instead of walking erect among your fellow men in independent ease � this is the sort of poverty i mean this is the grinding curse that keeps down noble under a load of care this is the moral that eats into the heart of an otherwise well human creature and makes him envious and malignant and inclined to the use of when he sees the fat idle woman of society passing by in her luxurious carriage back lazily her face with the purple and red signs of superfluous eating � when he the and man of fashion smoking and away the hours in the park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so called upper classes � then the good blood in him turns to and his suffering spirit rises in fierce rebellion crying out � why in god s name should this injustice be why should a worthless have his pockets full of gold by the sorrows of satan mere chance and while i toiling wearily from till midnight afford myself a satisfying meal why indeed i why should the wicked flourish like a green bay tree i have often thought about it now however i believe i could help to solve the problem out of my own personal experience but such an experience who credit it who will believe that anything so strange and terrific ever chanced to the lot of a mortal man no one yet it is true � truer than much so called truth moreover i know that many men are living through many such incidents as have occurred to me under precisely the same influence conscious perhaps at times that they are in the of sin but too weak of will to break the net in which they have become voluntarily imprisoned will they be taught i wonder the lesson i have learned in the same bitter school under the same formidable will they realize as i have been forced to do � aye to the very of my in i perception � the vast individual active mind which behind all matter works though silently a very eternal and positive god if so then dark problems will become clear to them and what seems injustice in the world will prove pure but i do not write with any hope of either p ng or my fellow men i know their obstinacy too well r can it by my own my proud belief in myself was at one time not to be by any human on the face of the globe and i am aware that others are in similar case i merely intend to relate the various incidents of my career in due order exactly as they happened � leaving to more confident heads the business of and answering the of human existence as best they may f during a certain bitter winter long remembered for its severity when a great wave of intense cold spread influences not alone over the happy of britain but throughout all europe i tempest was alone in london and well nigh starving now a starving man seldom the sorrows of satan gets the sympathy he merits � so few can be persuaded to believe in him worthy folks who have just fed to are the most incredulous some of them being even moved to smile when told of existing hungry people much as if these were occasional invented for after dinner amusement or with that of attention which fashionable folk to such an extent that when asking a question they neither wait for the answer nor understand it when given the well dined groups hearing of some one starved to death will idly murmur how dreadful and at once turn to the discussion of the latest for killing time ere it takes to killing them with sheer the pronounced fact of being hungry sounds coarse and common and is not a topic for polite society which always eats more than sufficient for its needs at the period i am speaking of however i who have since been one of the most envied of men knew the cruel meaning of the word hunger too well � the pain the sick the deadly stupor the animal craving for mere food all of which sensations are frightful enough to those who are unhappily daily to them but which when they one who has been tenderly reared and brought up to consider himself a gentleman � god save the mark are perhaps still more painful to bear and i felt that i had not deserved to suffer the wretchedness in which i found myself i had worked hard from the time my father died leaving me to discover that every penny of the fortune i imagined he possessed was due to and that nothing of all our house and estate was left to me except a miniature of my mother who had lost her own life in giving me birth � from that time i say i had put my shoulder to the wheel and toiled late and early i had turned my university education to the only use for which it or i seemed fitted � literature i had sought for on almost every journal in london � refused by many taken on trial by some but getting steady pay from none whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is at the beginning i the sorrows of satan of such a career treated as a sort of social nobody wants him � everybody him his efforts are his are flung back to him and he is less cared for than the condemned murderer in the murderer is at least fed and clothed � a worthy clergyman visits him and his will occasionally condescend to play cards with him but a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of	33
blood run flame like under her skin but he promised not to speak she cried he hasn t � to me but such things make themselves known should you have been content to go on in that way forever she raised her head and her rested in his if you were she answered simply the fruit of the tree again she checked him with a motion please tell me just what has happened not now � there s too much else to say and nothing matters except that i m with you but mr he asks you to come you re to see tomorrow her lower lip trembled a little and a tear flowed over and hung on her lashes but what does all that matter now we re together after this horrible year he insisted she looked at him again but what is really changed everything � everything not changed i mean � just gone back to where we were before she whispered and he whispered back to where we were before there was a of chairs on the floor and with a sense of release saw that the in the window was over the two visitors gathering their about them moved slowly across the room still talking to the matron in excited through which as they the threshold the younger woman s in broke out the op the tree i you if she does go back to him be the f me between than oh i t say that the other then they moved toward the door and a moment later it had closed on them turned to his wife with outstretched arms say you forgive me she held back a uttle from his hands not but as if with a lost scruple for himself then a nothing left of the horror she asked below her breath to without you � that s the only you re sure f sure it s just the same to you just as it was before just the same it s not for myself but you then for me � never speak of it he implored because it s not the same from her because it s wiped out � because it s never been never that and under close under his lips was her face at last they kissed they beard the handle of turn and quickly her band lingering in his under the fold of her dress j the fruit of the tree a nurse looked in dressed in the white uniform and pointed cap of the hospital fancied that she smiled a little as she saw them miss � the doctor wants you to come right up and give the the door shut again as rose to her feet remained seated � he had made no motion to retain her hand as it slipped from him i m coming she called out to the retreating nurse then she turned slowly and saw her husband s face i must go she said in a low tone her eyes met his for a moment but he looked away again as he stood up and reached for his hat tomorrow then he said without attempting to detain her tomorrow you must come away from here � you must come home he repeated mechanically she made no answer and he held his hand out and took hers tomorrow he said drawing her toward him and their lips met again but not in the j again at � and s birthday the was to this year with opening of the old house at as a kind of the fruit of the tree pleasure � concert hall and museum � for the of the mill hands the idea had rat come to on the winter afternoon when had confessed her love for him under the snow laden trees of even then the sense that his personal happiness was enlarged and secured by its promise of happiness to others had made him wish that the scene associated with the opening of his new life should be made to a corresponding change in the fortunes of but when the control of the mills passed into his hands other and more necessary improvements pressed upon him and it was not till now that the financial condition of the company had permitted the execution of his plan on her return to had found the � work already in progress and had been told by her and that he carrying out a projected scheme of s she had felt a certain surprise but had concluded that the plan in question dated back to the early days of his first marriage when in his wife s eyes his connection with the mills still invested them with interest since had come back to her husband both had avoided all allusions to the past and the house at being as she di in some sort an offering to s plaintive mo the fruit of the tree shade she had purposely refrained from questioning about its progress and had simply approved the plans he submitted to her fourteen months had passed since her return and now as she sat beside her husband in the carriage which was conveying them to she said to herself that her life had at last fallen into what promised to be its final shape � that as things now were they would probably be to the end and outwardly at least they were what she and had always dreamed of their being under the new rule the seeds of life they had sown there were springing up in a promising growth of bodily health and mental activity and above all in a dawning social consciousness the mill hands were beginning to understand the meaning of their work in its relation to their own lives and to the larger economy and outwardly also the new growth was showing itself in the aspect of the place s young were tall enough	10
it was after the letting in of the that the part of s life began he had the good conscience that comes from paying debts all the was his friend and just a little afraid of him the things that he did and saw and heard when he was wandering from one people to another with or without his four companions would make many stories each as long as this one so you will never be told how he met the mad elephant of who killed two and twenty drawing eleven carts of silver to the government treasury and scattered the shiny in the dust how he fought the all one long night in the of the north and broke his knife on the brute s back plates how he found a new and longer knife round the neck of a man who had been killed by a wild and how he that and killed him as a fair price for the knife how he was caught up once in the great famine by the moving of the deer and nearly c� � � � � � � � � the book to death in the swaying hot herds how he saved the silent from being once more in a pit with a stake at the bottom and how next day he himself fell into a very cunning trap and how broke the thick wooden bars to pieces above him how he the wild in the swamp and how � but we must tell one tale at a time father and mother wolf died and rolled a big against the mouth of their cave and cried the death song over them grew very old and and even whose nerves were steel and whose muscles were iron was a shade slower on the kill than he had been turned from gray to white with pure age his ribs stuck out and he walked as though he had been made of wood and killed for him but the young wolves the children of the pack and increased and when there were about forty of them clean footed five year told them that they ought to gather themselves together and follow the law and run under one head as the free people this was not a question in which concerned himself for as he said he had eaten sour fruit and he knew the tree it hung from but when son of his father was the gray in the days of s red dog fought his way to the of the pack according to law and the old calls and songs began to ring under the stars once more came to the council rock for memory s sake when he chose to speak the pack waited till he had finished and he sat at s side on the rock above those were days of good hunting and good sleeping no stranger cared to break into the that belonged to s people as they called the pack and the young wolves grew rat and strong and there were many to bring to the looking over always attended a looking over remembering the night when a black bought a naked brown baby into the pack and the long call look look well o wolves made his heart flutter otherwise he would be far away in the with his four brothers touching seeing and feeling new things one twilight when he was trotting leisurely across the to give the half of a buck that he had killed while the four behind him a little and tumbling one another over for joy of being alive he heard a cry that had never been heard since the bad days of it was what they call in the the a hideous kind of shriek that the gives when he is hunting behind a tiger or when there is a big killing if you can imagine a mixture the book of hate triumph fear and despair with a kind of running through it you will get some notion of the that rose and sank and wavered and far away across the the four stopped at once and growling s hand went to his knife and he checked the blood in his face his eyebrows knotted there is no striped one dare kill here he said that is not the cry of the answered gray brother it is some great killing listen it broke out again half sobbing and half just as though the had soft human lips then drew deep breath and ran to the council rock on his way hurrying wolves of the pack and were on the rock together and below them every nerve strained sat the others the mothers and the were off to their for when the cries it is no time for weak things to be abroad they could hear nothing except the rushing and in the dark and the light evening winds among the tree tops till suddenly across the river a wolf called it was no wolf of the pack for they were all at the rock the note changed to a long despairing bay and it said they heard tired feet on the rocks and a gaunt red dog wolf with red on his his right fore useless and his jaws white with foam flung himself into the circle and lay gasping at s feet good hunting under whose � said gravely good hunting won am i was the answer he meant that he was a solitary wolf for himself his mate and his in some lonely as do many wolves in the south means an � one who lies out from any pack then he panted and they could see his heart beats shake him backward and forward what moves said for that is the question all the asks after the cries the the of the � red dog the they came north from the south saying the was empty and	39
he had seen poor in a shiny blue business suit being in a comer with three other failures he had gone over and been cordial why young i bear you re writing all the in now bully they recalled the good old days when used to write poetry embarrassed him by say i hate to think of how we been drifting apart i too wish you and mrs would come to dinner some night just let me know and the wife and i want to have you at the house he forgot it but unfortunately ed did not he to inviting him to dinner might as well go and get it over groaned to his wife but don t it simply you the way the poor fish doesn t know the first thing about social etiquette think of him me instead of his wife sitting down and writing us a regular well i guess we re stuck for it that s the trouble with all this class brother he accepted s next plaintive invitation for an evening two weeks off a dinner two weeks off even a family never seems so appalling till the two weeks have disappeared and one comes dismayed to the they had to change the date because of their own dinner to the but at last they gloomily drove out to the house in it was miserable from the beginning the had dinner at six thirty while the never dined before seven permitted himself to be ten minutes late let s make it as short as possible i think we ll duck out quick ill say i have to be at the of ce extra early to morrow he planned the house was it was the second story of a wooden two family dwelling a place of baby carriages old hats hung in the hall smell and a family bible on the parlor table ed and his wife were as awkward and as usual and the other guests were two dreadful families whose names never caught and never desired to catch but he was touched and disconcerted by the way in which praised him we re mighty proud to have old george here to of course you ve all read about his q and in the papers � and the boy s good looking too eh � but what i think of is back in college and what a great old he was and one of the best in the tried to be jovial he worked at it but he could find nothing to interest him in s the of the other guests or the drained stupidity of mrs with her spectacles skin and tight drawn hair he told his best irish story but it sank like cake most moment of all was when mrs peering out of her fog of nursing eight children and cooking and tried to be i suppose you go to and new york right along mr she i get to fairly often it must be awfully interesting i pose you take in all the well to ten the truth mrs thing that me best is a great big at a dutch in the tliey had nothing more to say was sorry but there was no hope the dinner was a at ten rousing out of the stupor of talk he said as as he could we got to be starting ed i ve got a fellow coming to see me early to morrow as helped him with his coat said nice to rub up on the old we must have lunch together p d q mrs sighed on their drive home it was pretty terrible but how mr does admire poor i seems to think i m a little tin and the best looking man in well you re certainly not that but � oh you don t suppose we have to invite them to dinner at our house now do we i hope see here now you didn t say about it to mr did you q honest i didn tl just made a bluff about having him to lunch some time ell oh dear i don t want to hurt their feelings but i don t see how i could stand another evening like this one and suppose somebody like dr and mrs came in when we had the there and thought they were friends of ours i for a week they worried we really ought to invite ed and his wife poor devils i but as they never saw the they forgot them and after a month or two they said that really was the best way just to let it slide it wouldn t be kind to them to have them here they d feel so out of place and hard up in our home they did not speak of the again chapter xvi thb certainty that he not going to be accepted by the made fed guilty and a little absurd but he went more regularly to the at a chamber of commerce luncheon he was regarding the of strikes and again he saw as a prominent citizen his clubs and were food comfortable to his spirit of a decent man in it was required that he to one two or three of the and prosperity lunch to the the or the to the odd red men knights of of and other secret orders by a high degree of sound morals and reverence for the constitution there were four reasons for joining these orders it was the thing to do it was good for business since lodge brothers frequently became customers it gave to americans unable to become or as high worthy and grand to add to the commonplace distinctions of colonel judge and professor and it permitted the american husband to stay away from home for one evening a week the lodge was his his pavement he could shoot pool and talk man talk and	42
you re right to speak out you re to choose for yourself you re as free a a little bird then i to him and i says i wish it could have been so but it can t but you can both be as you was and i say to you is be as you was with her like a man he says to me a shaking of my hand i will he says and he was � honorable and � for two year going on and we was just the same at home here as afore mr s face which had varied in its expression with the various stages of his narrative now resumed all its former triumphant delight as he laid a hand upon my knee and a hand upon s previously them both for the greater emphasis of the action and divided the following speech between us all of a sudden one evening � as it might be to night � comes little em ly from her work and him with her there ain t so much in that you say no because he takes care on her like a brother dark and indeed afore dark and at all times but this chap he takes hold of her hand and he cries out to me joyful look here this is to be my little wife and she says half bold and half shy and half a laughing and half a crying yes uncle if you please � if i please cried mr rolling his head in an at the idea lord as if i should do else � if you please i am now and i have thought better of it and i be as good a little wife as i can to him for he s a dear good fellow then she her hands like a play and you come in there the murder s out said mr � you come in it took place this here present hour and here s the man that marry her the minute she s out of her time ham staggered as well he might under the blow mr dealt him in his unbounded joy as a mark of confidence and friendship but feeling called upon to say something to us he said with much faltering and great difficulty of david she warn t no higher than you was r � when you first come � � when i thought what she d grow up to be i see her grow up � � like a flower i down my life for her � r oh most content and cheerful she s more to me � � than � she s all to me that ever i can want and more than ever i � than ever i could say i � her true there ain t a in all the land � nor yet sailing upon all the that can love his lady more than i love her though there s many a common man � would say better � what he meant i thought it affecting to see such a sturdy fellow as ham was now trembling in the strength of what he felt for the pretty little creature who had won his heart i thought the simple confidence in us by mr and by himself was in itself affecting i was affected by the story altogether how far my emotions were influenced by the recollections of my childhood i don t know whether i had come there with any lingering fancy that i was still to love little em ly i don t know i know that i was filled with pleasure by all this but at first with an sensitive pleasure that a very little would have changed to pain therefore if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing among them with any skill i should have made a poor hand of it but it depended upon and he did it with such address that in a few minutes we were all as easy and as happy as it was possible to be mr he said you are a thoroughly good fellow and deserve to be as happy as you are to night my hand upon it ham give you joy my boy my hand upon that too stir the fire and make it a brisk one and mr unless you can induce your gentle niece to come back for whom i this seat in the corner i shall go any gap at your fireside on such a night � such a gap least of all � i wouldn t make for the wealth of the indies so mr went into my old room to fetch little em ly at first little em ly didn t like to come and then went presently they brought her to the fireside very much confused and very shy � but she soon became more assured when she found how gently and respectfully spoke to her how he avoided anything that would her how he talked to mr of boats and ships and tides and fish how he referred to me about the time when he had seen mr at house how delighted he was with the boat and all belonging to it how lightly and easily he carried on until he brought us by degrees into a charmed circle and we were all talking away without any reserve em ly indeed said little all the evening but she looked and listened and her face got animated and she was charming told a story of a dismal which arose out of his talk with mr as if he saw it all before him � and little em ly s eyes were fastened on him all the time as if she saw it too he told us a merry adventure of his own as a relief to that with as much gaiety as if the narrative were as fresh	8

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